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25-6487 Derrick S. Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-determination sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments are violated when a sentencing judge, rather than a jury, finds facts that otherwise alter the minimum and/o…
25-5817 Kyle Krill v. Ohio Ohio 2025-10-07 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights fifth-amendment jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment When a factual finding that multiple counts arose out of "separate acts or transactions" is necessary to authorize an increase in punishment, must thi…
25-5344 Elliot Maurice Browning v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-determination sentencing-enhancement DOES THE COURT'S DECISION IN ERLINGER V. UNITED STATES , 602 U.S. 821 144 S.CT. 1840 _ L.ED.2D_(2024) REQUIRING THAT A JURY PASS ON THE THREE SEPARATE…
25-5267 Antonio B. Nascimento-Depina v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process forensic-evidence harmless-error jury-determination Whether, after a state supreme court expressly acknowledging that admitting surrogate DNA-analyst testimony violated the Sixth Amendment Confrontation…
24-7197 Darrin Alonzo Miller v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP content-analysis evidence-scope first-amendment jury-determination miller-test obscenity Whether a jury, when determining whether a letter is 'obscene,' applying the Miller test, can consider evidence beyond the letter itself
24-6553 Ramon Caldwell v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process jury-determination prior-convictions recidivism sentence-enhancement Whether a sentence enhancement based on prior convictions violates a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by not being submitted to a jur…
24-6474 Leonard Morrison v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure jury-determination predicate-offense Does the Supreme Court ruling in Erlinger v. United States render unconstitutional ACCA enhancements when predicate charges were not proven beyond a r…
24-6276 Robert Anthony Zaccaro v. Florida Florida 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights judicial-discretion jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sentencing-facts Whether there are any exceptions to a Defendant's right to a jury determination of any fact which raises his minimum or maximum sentence?
24-5837 Ruben Aguilera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure jury-determination section-2255 May a petitioner in his initial § 2255 stage who has preserved the claim that a jury must decide the 'occasions' clause of the Armed Career Criminal A…
24-5366 Marquise Thomas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-22 Denied IFP child-exploitation criminal-punishment jury-determination mandatory-minimum restitution-order sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment require a jury to find the facts needed to justify a restitution order meeting or exceeding the $3,000 mandatory minimum for …
24-5287 John Phillip Bender v. Texas Texas 2024-08-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP acquittal double-jeopardy federal-law jury-determination legal-proceedings record-review Whether the Supreme Court must review the record truth of a federal double jeopardy acquittal from 2009 in light of subsequent proceedings
24-25 Mrugeshkumar Kumar Shah v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) apprendi-rule constitutional-rights criminal-fines criminal-penalty criminal-restitution hester-v-united-states jury-determination sixth-amendment southern-union-co-v-united-states Whether the Sixth Amendment reserves to juries the determination of any fact underlying a criminal restitution order
23-7841 Richard Schorovsky v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-01 GVR IFP armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute fifth-circuit-interpretation jury-determination robbery-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement separate-occasions shepard-documents Was Petitioner Schorovsky properly sentenced as an armed-career-criminal
23-7783 Joseph James Conkling v. Kansas Kansas 2024-06-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi-precedent apprendi-rule blakely-rule blakely-v-washington criminal-sentencing fact-finding jury-determination jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment unpled-facts Does this Court's decision in Blakely v. Washington establish an 'unpled but admitted facts' exception to the rule set forth in Apprendi v. New Jersey…
23A1146 Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Texas Texas 2024-06-24 Denied capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness jury-determination Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit executing a capital defendant who may not meet state-law eligibility criteria for the death pena…
23-7791 Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Texas Texas 2024-06-24 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-punishment-eligibility death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness jury-determination post-conviction-review Can a state refuse to recognize challenges to the accuracy of a jury's determination of 'future dangerousness' as cognizable grounds for postconvictio…
23A1057 Mrugeshkumar Kumar Shah v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-28 Presumed Complete anti-kickback-statute constitutional-fact-finding criminal-restitution healthcare-conspiracy jury-determination sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury to find facts supporting the amount of criminal restitution beyond a reasonable doubt
23-7182 Jonathan Wray v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi apprendi-rule civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination predicate-act rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement Does this Court's decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey require that the Government prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury that there is a nexus betwe…
23-6849 Juan Salazar-Grimaldo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-procedure criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
23-6829 Edward Joseph Parson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-abuse child-sexual-abuse credibility evidence-rule-702 expert-testimony jury-determination jury-role prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-evidence witness-credibility Whether expert testimony that an alleged child victim's inconsistent reporting of abuse is consistent with truthfulness is admissible under Federal Ru…
23-831 Constance Eileen Caswell v. Colorado Colorado 2024-02-02 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) almendarez-torres apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process felony-enhancement jury-determination jury-trial misdemeanor-elevation prior-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment Whether a prior misdemeanor conviction that elevates a subsequent offense from a misdemeanor to a felony is an element of the subsequent offense that …
23-6411 Gilberto Salvador Cortez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-determination jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
23-5881 In Re David Jah, Sr. 2023-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-purpose conviction-standard due-process jury-determination legal-interpretation local-ordinance property-use standing takings zoning Whether a conviction can stand on a jury's determination that the subject property was used for a commercial purpose, despite the local ordinance requ…
23-5434 Lamar Victor Moncrieffe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a district court violates a defendant's Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment rights by basing a substantial four-level sentencing enhancement o…
23-92 James Edwin Hoganson v. Colorado Colorado 2023-08-01 Denied aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires the existence of 'extraordinary aggravating circumstances' to be submitted to the jury and found beyond a reasona…
23-5140 Ralph Castillo v. Richard Martinez, Warden, et al. New Mexico 2023-07-19 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances criminal-rights due-process jury-determination jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Was it proper for the state to intentionally mislead the court
22-7516 Adam Dean Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-injury controlled-substance criminal-intent drug-offense due-process felony-statute jury-determination prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the term 'knowingly or intentionally' requires the Government to prove that the defendant knew what substance he or she was distributing to ob…
22-7397 Daniel Kim v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-speech due-process fighting-words first-amendment free-speech jury-determination jury-instructions speech-protection state-court true-threats Whether a state court is prohibited from unilaterally determining whether a defendant's written speech on his blog is protected or criminal, without h…
22-7373 Victor M. Miranda-Guerrero v. California California 2023-04-26 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-procedure Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth and Fourte…
22-6879 Bobby O. Williams v. Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District Illinois 2023-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravating-factors due-process fair-warning judicial-expansion jury-determination jury-findings retroactivity sentencing-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the court's resolution represents an unforeseeable and retroactive judicial expansion of narrow and precise statutory language that denied pet…
22-6813 Joshua Glowacki v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial probable-cause restitution restitution-order search-warrant sentencing victim-rights Does the defendant in a criminal case have the right to have a jury determine facts to support a restitution order?
22-6721 Jeffery T. Crystal v. Florida Florida 2023-02-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto jury-determination jury-trial sixth-amendment supremacy-clause trial-procedure verdict-form Did the verdict form agreed upon by the jury failure to specify 'GUILTY' as to Count 1 violate 6th Amendment right to a jury determination of Guilt?
22-6514 Santiago Pineda v. California California 2023-01-11 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty jury-determination jury-fact-finding mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing-procedure Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourt…
22-6434 Elvis Harold Reyes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-restitution fifth-amendment jury-determination restitution sentencing-fact sixth-amendment southern-union-co-v-united-states Whether the Sixth and Fifth Amendments are violated by the imposition of restitution based on the sentencing judge's determination of a fact (other th…
22-6071 Manuel Bracamontes v. California California 2022-11-16 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth and Fourte…
22-6049 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2022-11-14 Denied IFP capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination jury-override state-federal-practice Does executing a condemned person contrary to a capital sentencing jury's determination that he should be sentenced to life imprisonment without the p…
22-5341 Ted Amparan v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied IFP alleyene-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-sentencing due-process exhaustion habeas-corpus jury jury-determination sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Should CERTIORARI be granted to review the issues of whether the State violated Supreme Court precedent by having a sentencing judge, not the jury, ma…
22-5102 Nathaniel Louis Daniels v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 6th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge judicial-discretion jury jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Amendment requires that a jury, rather than a judge, resolve whether prior crimes were 'committed on occasions different from one an…
21-1445 Ellen T. Thatcher v. Department of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights due-process jury-determination materiality perjury summary-judgment veterans-administration Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals make a clear error when they termed perjury 'meritless,' failed to consider the materiality of Thatcher's perjur…
21-7223 Angel DeLara v. California California 2022-02-28 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-trial penal-code sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
21-1126 Taylor Arnett, et al. v. Kansas Kansas 2022-02-15 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-punishment criminal-restitution due-process jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing-facts sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to have a jury determine beyond a reasonable doubt every fact necessary to support criminal punishment applies not o…
21-6974 Alfredo Gonzalez v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP accessory-liability burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement firearms jury-determination manslaughter sentencing Does Connecticut's statutory scheme of accessory to manslaughter in the first degree with a firearm violate Due Process?
21-6669 Robert Walter Scully v. California California 2021-12-21 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances beyond-reasonable-doubt constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances statutory-maximum Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se…
21-6530 Tyreese Thompson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial precedent-review reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum Whether any facts that increase the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum need to be submitted to a jury and proved beyond a rea…
21-6510 Luis Solis-Vasquez v. United States First Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense federal-statute jury-determination jury-instructions mandatory-victim-restitution RICO rico-offense state-law state-law-predicates Whether state law RICO predicates are elements of a RICO offense that must be found by the jury
21-6450 Steven Zinnel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure gall-v-united-states jury-determination sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness Whether any fact that increases the penalty to which a defendant is exposed constitutes an element of a crime that must be found by a jury, not a judg…
21-6286 Patrick Lawrence Henderson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum Whether Henderson's revocation sentence violates Apprendi and its progeny
21-6256 Macario Andrew Gomez, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt?
21-5302 Roosevelt Rico Dahda v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states criminal-sentencing drug-quantity jury-determination mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sixth-amendment statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-sentence Whether a finding on the issue of drug quantity that increases the statutory maximum sentence requires the jury to make an individualized determinatio…
21-5233 Abel Guillermo Godoy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process elements-of-crime jury-determination legal-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-factors sixth-amendment Should the Court finally overrule Almendarez-Torres?
21-5114 Mario Daniels v. Florida Florida 2021-07-16 Denied IFP aggravated-assault criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination separation-of-powers sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-rights Whether the First District Court of Appeals unauthorized abrogation of an Essential Element of the statutory offense of Aggravated Assault deprived Da…
21-5082 Benjamin Michael Dubay v. Stephen King, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggregation-of-traits character-protection character-traits comic-book-characters constitutional-rights copyright-infringement copyright-law copyright-protection expert-testimony fact-question jury-determination Whether comic book characters are protected independently from the copyrighted work due to their original and consistent aggregation of traits
20-8460 Marcus Snipes v. Florida Florida 2021-06-30 Denied IFP Apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether the state can avoid Apprendi's reach by writing its penal statutes so that a fact that increases the penalty for a crime instead becomes a fac…
20-1642 Brian Doty v. Tappan Zee Constructors, LLC Second Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied circuit-court circuit-court-split construction-site jones-act jury-determination maritime-worker seaman-status supreme-court-precedent vessel-navigation Whether the injured worker was entitled to a jury determination of his status as a Jones Act seaman
20-7961 Antonio Olmeda v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-determination jury-trial multiplicitous-conviction sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a Judgment and Conviction on two counts, under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1.(a), for unlawful 'receipt' of a firearm and 'Possession' of that firearm is m…
20-7591 Herminio Perales-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
20-1257 Aaron Jensen v. West Jordan City, Utah Tenth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied civil-rights damages-apportionment equitable-relief jury-determination multiple-claims pecuniary-losses pension-benefits statutory-caps statutory-damages-caps title-vii Whether damages should be apportioned among multiple claims for the same damages, and whether pension benefits awarded for a Title VII violation are s…
20-7315 Ursula Owens v. Ohio Ohio 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-law due-process felony-murder jury-determination mens-rea merger-doctrine reckless-homicide strict-liability Is Ohio's felony murder statute, and Petitioner's conviction and 15-years-to-life sentence thereunder, unconstitutional in violation of the Fifth, Six…
20-860 Ryan Randall Gilbertson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-restitution due-process jury jury-determination procedural-due-process reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment prohibits a court from imposing criminal restitution on a defendant based on facts not found by the jury beyond a reasonab…
20-6709 Lance Hundley v. Ohio Ohio 2020-12-28 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-sentencing constitutional-review death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mental-health self-representation sixth-amendment Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid a trial court from allowing a capital defendant with questionable mental health to represent himself?
20-6559 Jesus Villarreal-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
20-6060 Benjamin Davis Smiley, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-10-19 Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mitigating-circumstances sentencing Does the decision of the Florida Supreme Court in Smiley v. State, 295 So.3d 156 (2020), violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishm…
20-5872 Jesus Sanchez-Chacon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
20-5562 Jeffrey Hessler v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-09-03 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-amendments death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-panel jury-determination post-conviction-relief ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as Ring and Hurst, are violated when eligibility for the death penalty is asserted to be …
20-5479 Santos Mondragon Benitez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
20-87 George Lee Nobles v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-07-29 Denied Response Waived criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-law indian-status jury-determination jury-instructions major-crimes-act statutory-interpretation Whether Indian status under the Major Crimes Act is a jury question
20-5161 Roberto Gonzalez-Gatica v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
19-1358 Michigan v. William Larenzo Shoulders Michigan 2020-06-11 Denied Response Waived alleyne-v-us criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing indeterminate-sentencing jury-determination jury-trial michigan-law michigan-supreme-court parole parole-eligibility sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a state to impanel a jury to determine the offense-related facts which establish a criminal defendant's earliest …
19-8561 Jesus Julian Corona-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-05-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP crime-of-violence criminal-procedure indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
19-8478 John King v. United States District of Columbia 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure fact-finding judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-fact-finding mcmillan-v-pennsylvania preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts Can a judge rely on facts not found by a jury to enhance a sentence after this Court's decision in United States v. Alleyne, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), where…
19-8239 Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Nevada 2020-04-10 Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-procedure Did the Nevada Supreme Court violate Ybarra's constitutional rights by holding that the outweighing determination—a finding that exposed Ybarra to a g…
19-7864 Derek Crosby v. Illinois Illinois 2020-03-03 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process indictment jury jury-determination legislative-power sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-maximum Whether The Legislature Can Remove The Facts From The Jury That Increase The Statutory Maximum?
19-7707 Elijah Loren Arthur v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-fines criminal-restitution due-process jury-determination jury-trial sentencing-guidelines southern-union-co-v-united-states statutory-maximum Should the Court extend the rule of Apprendi to the award of criminal restitution?
19-967 Craig M. Wood v. Missouri Missouri 2020-02-03 Denied Relisted (2) capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Constitution requires that a jury, rather than a judge, weigh the aggravating and mitigating circumstances to determine whether a defendan…
19-7481 Patrick Henry Murphy v. Texas Texas 2020-01-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 capital-murder capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty due-process enmund-v-florida federal-habeas jury-determination jury-trial sentencing tison-v-arizona Does Ring dictate that a jury determine whether a capital murder defendant is eligible for a sentence of death under Enmund and Tison, and, if so, is …
19-7429 Louis Mitchell, Jr. v. California California 2020-01-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances aggravating-mitigating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se…
19-7452 Jeffrey R. Golin, et ux. v. San Andreas Regional Center, et al. California 2020-01-28 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-violation developmental-disability due-process government-officials governmental-duties governmental-immunity harmless-error jury-determination qualified-immunity standing Whether persons who are not government officials and not performing governmental duties can claim qualified immunity from suit in a civil rights actio…
19-7453 Nancy Delaney v. San Andreas Regional Center, et al. California 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-violation developmental-disability due-process government-officials governmental-duties harmless-error involuntary-confinement jury-determination qualified-immunity standing Whether persons who are not government officials and not performing governmental duties can claim qualified immunity
19-7242 Bryan Whitehead v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 5th-amendment conviction conviction-and-sentence crime-of-violence due-process fifth-amendment jury-determination residual-clause sentence sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether the Petitioner was denied his Fifth Amendment right to due process of law by virtue of his conviction and sentence under the residual clause o…
19-6906 Datanya Damon Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States
19-6910 Alfred T. Moliere v. Texas Texas 2019-12-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey article-42.013 constitutional-rights criminal-penalties criminal-penalty family-violence firearm-possession jury-determination jury-trial right-to-bear-arms unconstitutional Whether Article 42.013 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure contravenes Apprendi v. New Jersey by requiring judges, not juries, to make family-viol…
19-6896 Jeffrey Antonio v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP congressional-action criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-element jury-determination land-claims preliminary-finding pueblo-lands pueblo-lands-act statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence Whether the federal criminal jurisdiction over the Pueblo of Sandia lands was terminated by the 2005 Pueblo Lands Act Amendment
19-6800 Rodney Dewayne Mitchell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act jury-determination maximum-punishment prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement standing texas-criminal-law violent-felony whether-the-texas-offense-of-aggravated-robbery-is-a-violent-felony-under-the-armed-career-criminal-act
19-6795 Abraham Conde-Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
19-6693 Chris Rayvon Starks v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge-finding jury jury-decision jury-determination predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-penalty Is the fact that the defendant committed three predicate offenses 'on occasions different from one another' an element of the ACCA for the jury to dec…
19-6230 Claudius L. Fincher v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process factual-question jury-determination jury-trial mandatory-minimum safety-valve safetyvalve-statute sentencing sixth-amendment Does the district court's resolution of a contested factual question under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f) (safety-valve statute) for the purpose of determining w…
19-6104 Freya D. Pearson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-1001 district-court due-process duty-to-speak false-statement government-knowledge government-misconduct jury-determination jury-instruction jury-instructions materiality prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Can a conviction stand under 18 U.S.C. 1001 (2) without a 'Materiality' determination, and should that Determination come from the District Court or f…
19-5913 Sammie Lee Smith, IV v. Florida Florida 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-crime aggravated-offense alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-charging criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sexual-felony Whether the facts triggering a mandatory minimum sentence under Florida's Dangerous Sexual Felony Offender Act, § 794.0115, Fla. Stat. (2016), togethe…
18-9762 Kwame A. Insaidoo v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied IFP 18-usc-666 5th-amendment 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-benefit jury-determination jury-trial second-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI, when it held that the government need not prove to a jury the…
18-9659 In Re Quisi Bryan 2019-06-13 Denied IFP constitutional-law death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus hurst-claim hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-trial retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Whether the Ohio Supreme Court's merits denial of Bryan's Hurst claim was erroneous insofar as appellate reweighing cannot cure the errors that affect…
18-9234 Rudy Mendoza v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-10 GVR IFP constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-procedure jury-determination second-amendment section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-davis vagueness Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-8570 Damien Preston v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-decisions confrontation-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-violation harmless-error ineffective-assistance jury-determination prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Third Circuit's precedential decision created a conflict among its conflicting decision in Bey v. Superintendent Greene, SCI 856 F3d 230; …
18-7826 Curtis R. Leachman v. Thomas Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-determination jury-instruction jury-instructions michigan-self-defense-act psychological-expert self-defense self-defense-statute Was petitioner denied the right to compulsory process when the trial court failed to grant funds for a psychological expert to aide the jury in determ…
18-7745 Alrick A. Evans v. Connecticut Connecticut 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense alleyne-precedent criminal-statute element jury-determination mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment united-states-v-alleyne Whether a state court may interpret a criminal statute so that a fact that triggers a mandatory minimum is termed an 'affirmative defenses' rather tha…
18-952 Christopher Anthony Mountjoy, Jr. v. Colorado Colorado 2019-01-24 Denied Amici (1) apprendi-precedent apprendi-v-new-jersey colorado-sentencing colorado-sentencing-system constitutional-interpretation jury-determination legal-elements sentencing-factors sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-precedent united-states-v-gaudin Whether the rule of United States v. Gaudin applies to sentencing factors covered by Apprendi v. New Jersey
18-7496 Nemiah Allan v. Connecticut Connecticut 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense alleyne-precedent criminal-statute element jury-determination mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment united-states-v-alleyne Whether a state court may interpret a criminal statute so that a fact that triggers a mandatory minimum is termed an 'affirmative defenses' rather tha…
18-6818 Ruben Rangel v. California California 2018-11-26 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing Does California's death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments by failing to meaningfully narrow the class of dea…
18-6770 David Nino-Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …
18-6777 Kenya Ali Hyatt v. Michigan Michigan 2018-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination juvenile-life-without-parole juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-statute sixth-amendment Whether Michigan's Miller statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt
18-6782 Tia Marie-Mitchell Skinner v. Michigan Michigan 2018-11-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination juvenile-life-without-parole juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-statute sixth-amendment Whether Michigan's Miller v. Alabama sentencing statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, under the Sixth and Fourtee…
18-6668 Michael Tory, Jr. v. Whited, RNB, et al. Virginia 2018-11-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure common-knowledge due-process jury-determination jury-selection legal-standard medical-malpractice procedural-rights state-authority state-regulation Can the State of Virginia in all medical malpractice cases determine the common knowledge and experience of a jury?
18-5037 Richard Eugene Hamilton v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentence capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination retroactivity supremacy-clause Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision limiting the retroactivity of Hurst v. Florida violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-5040 Henry Perry Sireci v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment,four eighth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,death-penalt fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision that limits the class of death-sentenced individuals entitled to a jury determinati…
18-5042 Jack Sliney v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity ring-v-arizona Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments