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25-6773 Devern Clemons, III v. Florida Florida 2026-02-10 Pending IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
25A855 Arvin Terrill Carmen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application continuing-criminal-enterprise effective-assistance jury-trial narcotics-violation sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict The question in this case centers on a determination of the proper application of 21 U.S.C. § 848(c)(2)(A) and what legal standards and facts are nece…
25-883 James Thomas Ford v. Florida Florida 2026-01-23 Pending Response Waived due-process fourteenth-amendment human-trafficking jury-trial prosecutorial-discretion vindictive-prosecution Does a prosecutor engage in vindictive prosecution in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment where she amends the criminal ch…
25-6623 Hamed Kian v. Florida Florida 2026-01-20 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
25-6607 Kevin Esaud Perez Rojas v. Florida Florida 2026-01-16 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
25-6571 Maxo Casseus v. Florida Florida 2026-01-13 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial serious-felony sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
25A803 Henry Wade v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-12 Application constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error Whether the Petition presents multiple preserved structural constitutional questions of exceptional national importance, including: constructive amend…
25-6479 Leontis Cornelius v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-01-05 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-recklessness felon-in-possession jury-trial self-defense sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment 1.When the government seeks to aggravate the sentence of a felon in possession of a firearm (18 USC § 922 [g]) contending that he violated a State c…
25-6457 Elijah Behringer v. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Response WaivedIFP covid-mandates jacobson-precedent jury-trial rational-basis-review sixth-amendment substantive-due-process (1) Whether this Court's decision in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905) provides authority for automatic dismissal of lawsuits challenging …
25-6412 Israel Navarro v. New York New York 2025-12-22 Pending Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments guarantee criminal defendants, like the petitioner Israel Navarro, the right to a jury trial on statutorily req…
25-739 Herbert Hirsch, et al. v. United States Tax Court Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-22 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived administrative-proceedings constitutional-rights jury-trial mandamus seventh-amendment tax-fraud 1. Whether the court of appeals must issue a writ of mandamus when a petitioner is erroneously denied a jury trial, without considering whether the ri…
25-6386 Gavin Michael Harold v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-16 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-punishment jury-trial mandatory-minimum restitution sixth-amendment In 2018, Congress enacted the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act, which established a mandatory minimum restitution amount o…
25A678 Thurmond McDonald v. Florida Florida 2025-12-09 Application constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habitual-offender jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury, rather than a judge, to determine a defendant's status as a habitual felony offender under Florida law
25-650 Raymon Walters v. United States Third Circuit 2025-12-04 Denied Response Waived counsel-strategy criminal-defense defendant-rights jury-trial legal-ethics sixth-amendment Whether defense counsel may concede an element of an offense over the defendant's objection, where the concession is reasonably designed to advance th…
25-6221 Hugo Chavez Valdivias v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights jury-nullification jury-trial sentencing-consequences sixth-amendment verdict-power Does the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial guarantee a jury informed of its power to return a verdict against the law and the facts? Does the Six…
25-6154 Karyn M. Kelley, Individually and as Trustee of The Karyn M. Kelley Revocable Trust Agreement of July 13, 2016 v. Mary Feeney, et al. New Hampshire 2025-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-bias jury-trial subject-matter-jurisdiction I-(a) Did the court of appeals err in holding that the lower court violated Article 20, Part First, of the New Hampshire Constitution, which the parti…
25A544 Herbert Hirsch, et al. v. United States Tax Court Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-12 Application administrative-proceedings constitutional-rights due-process fraud-penalties jury-trial seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment requires a jury trial for fraud penalties imposed by the IRS in administrative proceedings, consistent with the Supreme …
25A545 Harvey Birdman, et al. v. United States Tax Court Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-12 Application administrative-proceedings constitutional-rights due-process fraud-penalties jury-trial seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment requires a jury trial for fraud penalties imposed by the IRS in administrative proceedings, consistent with the Supreme …
25-6040 Gustavo Tijerina Sandoval v. Texas Texas 2025-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment state-law trial-counsel 1. May a state court that reaches and decides an asserted violation of the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial that has not been waived or forfeited u…
25-509 Jana Shepherd v. Helen Painter & Co., et al. Texas 2025-10-24 Denied breach-of-fiduciary-duty constitutional-rights due-process fraud jury-trial summary-judgment Did the Trial Court violate the Appellant's constitutional right to a jury trial by denying the request for a jury trial, despite the Appellant's time…
25-5895 Rickey Johnson, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Neil Dawn Defarren v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-15 Pending IFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment L. Whether the acknowledged violation of a federal criminal defendant's right to a jury of 12, under Fed. R. Crim. P. 23(b), can be harmless, a questi…
25-445 E&I Global Energy Services, Inc., et al. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company Eighth Circuit 2025-10-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure contract-assignment expert-testimony federal-rules jury-trial seventh-amendment 1. Whether the district court violated the Seventh Amendment and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 39(b) by denying petitioners' timely motion for a jur…
25-5819 Max Fontes v. Arizona Arizona 2025-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure jury-trial ramos-precedent sixth-amendment twelve-person-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony.
25-5732 Jeremy Baum v. Missouri Missouri 2025-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-precedent Whether affirming a criminal conviction on a different theory than what was presented to the jury conflicts with Supreme Court precedent and violates …
25-5716 Jesus Meraz-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure felony-conviction immigration-law jury-trial sentencing-enhancement Whether the existence of a pre-removal felony conviction under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) is an element of an enhanced offense that must be proven to a jury b…
25-5720 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial sentencing Whether the rights of due process and to a jury trial are violated when courts impose sentences that, but for a judge-found fact, would be higher than…
25A342 Amanda Norris, et vir v. Safeguard Properties, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-24 Presumed Complete appellate-review breach-of-contract invasion-of-privacy jury-trial pro-se trespass Whether pro se plaintiffs can challenge a district court judgment affirmed by an appellate court after a jury trial involving claims of breach of cont…
25-343 CashCall, Inc., et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Ninth Circuit 2025-09-23 Pending circuit-precedent constitutional-rights jury-trial legal-restitution seventh-amendment waiver Whether a claim for legal restitution triggers the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial and whether a litigant may validly waive a constitutional r…
25-334 Satyasheel S. Korpe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-09-22 Denied Response Waived article-iii driving-while-intoxicated jury-trial probation-conditions second-amendment-rights sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment and Article III, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution guarantee a defendant charged with Driving While Intoxicated the rig…
25-5663 Brahim Boumakh v. Michelle C. Reid, Superintendent, Fairfax County Public Schools, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-09-17 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations employment-discrimination jury-trial procedural-technicalities religious-accommodation Whether a United States District Court judge may dismiss a civil rights employment discrimination case on procedural technicalities without granting: …
25-5652 Federico Jose Maldonado-Aleman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court conspiracy drug-distribution jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit's decision that a defendant may be sentenced for drugs that he was not shown to have agreed to distribute violates the Court…
25-218 Brian Smith v. Florida Florida 2025-08-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure case-law florida-supreme-court jury-trial post-conviction-relief precedent Does case law from the Florida Supreme Court in 1999 take precedence over case law from the Florida 1st DCA in 1988, and what remedy exists when an ap…
25-5430 Ravon Lovowe Ramsey v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment expert-testimony jury-trial medical-malpractice Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in denying the plaintiff's motion for a new trial based on alleged Eighth Amendment rights violations…
25-5398 Ricky L. Miller, Jr. v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-19 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals violate Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment precedents by upholding Pennsylvania's Rule 590(c) regarding j…
25-5389 Steven Pitts v. New York New York 2025-08-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing factual-findings jury-trial prior-incarceration sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial applies to factual findings regarding the length of a defendant's prior incarceration and the date o…
25-5365 Omar Alonso Pazos-Montes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process felony-conviction immigration-law jury-trial sentencing-enhancement Whether the existence of a pre-removal felony conviction under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) is an element of an enhanced offense that must be proven to a jury b…
25-5282 Jackson Daniel Bowers v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial applies to supervised release revocation proceedings
25-5224 Kelechi Collins Umeh v. United States First Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction defendant-rights jury-trial structural-error trial-court waiver Is it structural error for a trial court to enter a conviction against a defendant who did not expressly waive his right to a jury trial?
25-102 Jayne Swinford v. Officer Joshua Santos, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process jury-trial procedural-rules qualified-immunity seventh-amendment Whether the lower courts violated the Seventh Amendment's guarantee of a jury trial and the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause by dismissing Petitio…
25-5180 Sherrod Anthony Wright v. Florida Florida 2025-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights jury-trial sixth-amendment state-court waiver Whether the ancient right enshrined in the Sixth Amendment to trial by a twelve-member jury applies to a state court trial for major felonies where th…
25A95 Larry Jordan v. Stephen Bates, Sr. Third Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete civil-case dismissal factual-matters jury-trial right-to-trial seventh-amendment Question not identified.
25-70 William Kelly v. Graphic Packaging International, LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-07-21 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act compensatory-damages jury-trial punitive-damages retaliation seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1981a(c)(1) guarantee a jury trial when a plaintiff seeks compensatory or punitive damages for retaliati…
25-5100 David Joseph Peterson v. Black Body Corporation, dba Antec, Incorporated, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right credibility-determination due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the lower court erred in making credibility determinations in allowing Respondent's Motion for Summary Judgment thereby denying Petitioner his…
25-5093 Hector Manuel Nunez-Cardenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony-conviction immigration-law jury-trial sentencing-enhancement Whether the existence of a pre-removal felony conviction under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) is an element of an enhanced offense that must be proven to a jury b…
25A46 CashCall, Inc., et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Ninth Circuit 2025-07-11 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights consumer-lending equitable-remedy jury-trial legal-restitution seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment requires a jury trial for legal restitution claims that exceed a defendant's net profits, notwithstanding the Ninth Circ…
25A49 Karyn M. Kelley, Individually and as Trustee of The Karyn M. Kelley Revocable Trust Agreement of July 13, 2016 v. Mary Feeney, et al. New Hampshire 2025-07-11 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial probate-court subject-matter-jurisdiction title-dispute Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections require a jury trial in state probate court proceedings involving title disputes when funda…
25-18 Cirrus Design Corporation v. Great Western Air, LLC, dba Cirrus Aviation Services, LLC Ninth Circuit 2025-07-07 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived circuit-split jury-trial lanham-act monetary-relief seventh-amendment trademark-infringement Whether the Seventh Amendment jury-trial right applies in actions seeking monetary relief in the form of the infringer's profits
25A16 Thomas Bradley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-07 Presumed Complete armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error harmless-error-review jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial is violated when a sentencing enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act is determine…
25-12 Arrin Farrar, et ux. v. Textron Aviation, Inc., et al. Kansas 2025-07-03 Denied airworthiness circuit-split due-process general-aviation-revitalization-act jury-trial statutory-interpretation Whether various State and Federal Courts have inconsistently applied the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994 by denying litigants a jury trial…
24-1320 Centerline Logistics Corporation, et al. v. Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific, et al. California 2025-06-27 Denied Response Waived actual-malice anti-SLAPP defamation due-process first-amendment jury-trial Whether the Supreme Court should overturn the actual malice standard from New York Times v. Sullivan and whether anti-SLAPP statutes violate the Seven…
24-7486 Bruce Stroud v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-sentencing fact-finding fifth-amendment jury-trial restitution-order sixth-amendment Whether a restitution order imposed as part of a federal criminal sentence and based on fact-findings made by the district court, rather than the jury…
24-7432 Eleazar Diaz-Balleza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process felony-conviction immigration-law jury-trial sentencing-enhancement Whether the existence of a pre-removal felony conviction under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b) is an element of an enhanced offense that must be proven to a jury b…
24A1227 Victor Everette Silvers v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-06-12 Presumed Complete beyond-reasonable-doubt criminal-jurisdiction judicial-notice jury-trial sixth-amendment special-maritime-jurisdiction Whether a court may conclusively determine through judicial notice that the government has satisfied its burden to prove an essential jurisdictional e…
24A1216 Kelechi Collins Umeh v. United States First Circuit 2025-06-10 Presumed Complete bank-fraud criminal-procedure guilty-plea jury-trial plea-colloquy structural-error Whether the failure to inform a defendant of his right to a jury trial during a guilty plea colloquy constitutes structural error requiring automatic …
24-1243 Tri-Corp Housing, Inc. v. Robert Bauman Wisconsin 2025-06-05 Denied Response Waived actual-malice defamation jury-trial legal-standard public-figure wisconsin-supreme-court When is a claimant an 'involuntary public figure' within the meaning of Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., and must the question of whether a party claiming…
24-7354 Seth Stewart v. City of American Fork, Utah Utah 2025-06-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial stare-decisis Whether stare decisis can be invoked to undermine constitutional guarantees when interpreting the Constitution
24A1181 Mark William Sain v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-06-02 Presumed Complete armed-career-criminal-act double-jeopardy harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error Whether a district court's failure to charge and have a jury find the 'occasions different' fact under the Armed Career Criminal Act constitutes struc…
24-1180 Corrine Morgan Thomas, et al. v. Humboldt County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights common-law fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in suits at common law is incorporated against the States by the Fourteenth Amendment.
24-7155 John Fitzgerald Gayles v. Arizona Arizona 2025-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-rules-of-evidence fraudulent-evidence jury-trial state-evidence testimonial-statements trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court abused its discretion when it erroneously allowed the State of Arizona to admit testimonial state-ments and fraudulent evidenc…
24-7145 Jeffery Day Rieber v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-06 Denied IFP capital-sentencing ineffective-assistance intent intoxication jury-trial sixth-amendment Did trial counsel render ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to pursue a theory of lack of intent due to intoxication and by not developing m…
24-1075 Lecram Omari Sanders v. Virginia Virginia 2025-04-14 Denied Response Waived after-discovered-evidence due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in affirming the judgment of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, which denied the defendant's motion for a n…
24-6968 Willie Rodriquez Jones v. Texas Texas 2025-04-10 Denied IFP due-process jury-trial professional-misconduct structural-error trial-counsel trial-jurisdiction Whether the trial court lacked jurisdiction due to structural error when it failed to address professional misconduct of trial counsel before or durin…
24-6799 James Garfield Charles v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-intent drug-trafficking evidence-tampering firearm-usage jury-trial QP: Whether the government failed to prove a drug trafficking conspiracy and firearm usage in furtherance of the conspiracy
24-6752 Adonis Batista v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial methamphetamine-quantity sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Were Petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process rights and Sixth Amendment rights to jury trial violated when the jury found him accountable for less th…
24-6710 Robert Klein v. Brookhaven Health Care Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial pro-se-litigant seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment guarantees a pro se litigant's right to a jury trial in civil cases under federal law despite lower court rulings
24-6684 Andrew Rick Lopez v. Correctional Officer D. C. Thomas Ninth Circuit 2025-03-03 Denied IFP administrative-exhaustion constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial prison-grievance summary-judgment Whether lower courts deprive inmate plaintiffs of their right to jury trial by granting summary judgment for prison officials when prison officials mi…
24-873 Angela W. DeBose v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied Response Waived jury-trial preliminary-injunction rule-12b6 rule-65 temporary-restraining-order vexatious-litigant Whether the rules of Rule 65 for preliminary injunctions or temporary restraining orders require a hearing and whether the preservation of an adverse …
24-857 Brian Estrada v. Jacob Smart Tenth Circuit 2025-02-11 Denied administrative-exhaustion civil-rights excessive-force jury-trial section-1983 seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment's right to a trial by jury extends to issues of fact related to the exhaustion of administrative remedies
24-6520 Lalako Jonathan Jose v. Arizona Arizona 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure jury-trial ramos-precedent sixth-amendment twelve-person-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony
24-6488 Jordy Ezequiel Ochoa, aka Jordy Ezequil Ochoa-Cordova v. Robert Luna, Sheriff, Los Angeles County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas-corpus jury-trial mistrial probation-violation Is it a violation of clearly established federal law under the Double Jeopardy clause to allow a court to declare a mistrial based on a hung jury, hol…
24-6468 Leonard W. Houston v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-02-04 Denied IFP camp-lejeune-justice-act constitutional-rights federal-civil-procedure jury-trial pro-se seventh-amendment Whether the Plaintiff has a right to a jury trial under the Camp Lejeune Justice Act and the Seventh Amendment
24A747 Corrine Morgan Thomas, et al. v. County of Humboldt, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-30 Presumed Complete civil-penalties due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation jury-trial seventh-amendment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Seventh Amendment's right to a jury trial against the states in civil proceedings involving substant…
24-6268 Ramon Moreno-Cuevas v. Town Sports International, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied IFP article-iii bankruptcy-court due-process jury-trial non-core-proceeding seventh-amendment Whether a litigant in a non-core bankruptcy case loses Seventh Amendment rights to a jury trial by not objecting to a bankruptcy Plan, and whether suc…
24-6235 Joseph Furey Lusk v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights jury-trial predicate-offense proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing sex-offender-registration Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant committed a felony offense involving an ac…
24A665 Pedro Ortiz Romero v. Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, et al. First Circuit 2025-01-03 Presumed Complete age-discrimination circuit-split constitutional-rights disparate-impact employment-act jury-trial Whether the Age Discrimination in Employment Act permits disparate impact claims beyond the traditional protected class of employees aged 40 and over,…
24-706 Andrew Thomas Cowhy v. Michigan Michigan 2025-01-02 Denied constitutional-law criminal-procedure judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Court should reexamine its holding in Oregon v. Ice regarding the Sixth Amendment jury requirement for consecutive sentencing
24A624 Molly Vogt, as Trustee for the Heirs and Next of Kin of Joshua Vogt, Deceased v. CO Robert Anderson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-26 Presumed Complete adverse-inference civil-rights jury-trial section-1983 spoliation summary-judgment Whether a district court may grant summary judgment after imposing an adverse-inference sanction for intentional spoliation of evidence, thereby effec…
24-654 David Lesh v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-17 Denied Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) article-iii constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution jury-trial petty-offense sixth-amendment Whether the Constitution's dual guarantee of trial by jury contains an unstated exception for 'petty offenses'
24-636 Jessie J. Barnes v. Donald Uhler, Superintendent, Upstate Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2024-12-11 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial physical-restraints Whether the Deck test allows a trial judge to require a litigant to wear physical restraints during a jury trial without stating specific case-related…
24-6083 Joshua Flores v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution jury-trial misdemeanor sixth-amendment Whether Article III and the Sixth Amendment guarantee a jury trial for petty misdemeanors
24-6062 Efe Clinton Osaghae v. Kansas Kansas 2024-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-precedent blakely-rule criminal-procedure jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Does Blakely v. Washington establish an 'unpled but admitted facts' exception to Apprendi v. New Jersey's Sixth Amendment interpretation regarding jur…
24A541 Laura Smith, as Duly Appointed Representative and Independent Administrator of the Estate of Andrea Manfredi, Deceased v. The Boeing Company, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-12-04 Presumed Complete admiralty-jurisdiction death-on-high-seas-act federal-jurisdiction jury-trial maritime-law seventh-amendment Whether federal admiralty jurisdiction under the Death on the High Seas Act (DOHSA) is concurrent or exclusive, and whether such jurisdiction preclude…
24-600 Quiotis C., Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) batson-challenge constitutional-rights jury-trial juvenile-justice prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment Whether juveniles are guaranteed a Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial in juvenile court proceedings when prosecutors can unilaterally deny such a r…
24A508 Steve Wynn v. The Associated Press, et al. Nevada 2024-11-22 Presumed Complete actual-malice anti-slapp defamation first-amendment jury-trial new-york-times-v-sullivan Whether the First Amendment's actual malice standard under New York Times v. Sullivan improperly limits a public figure's right to a civil jury trial …
24-6016 Santiago Parks Howard-Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial statutory-maximum Whether all facts that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either admitted by the defendant or proven to a …
24-6003 Sydni Frazier v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defendant first-degree-murder jury-trial predicate-offense sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether a criminal defendant's right to a jury trial under the Sixth Amendment is violated when the trial judge does not instruct the jury that it mus…
24-558 Jeremy Ray Morris, et ux. v. West Hayden Estates First Addition Homeowners Association, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied fair-housing-act hostile-environment jury-trial religious-discrimination rule-50b seventh-amendment Whether the 9th Circuit erred in overturning a jury verdict in a Fair Housing Act case involving religious discrimination by a homeowners' association
24-5968 Brian Adkison v. Kelly Morriss, Acting Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-11-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance jury-trial plain-error strickland-standard Whether the Strickland standard for ineffective assistance of counsel violates a defendant's right to a jury trial and requires clarification of preju…
24-5862 Ismael Hernandez-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction statutory-maximum Whether all facts that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt
24-459 Gordon Alexander Clark v. Santander Bank, N.A. Connecticut 2024-10-23 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-trial pro-se-litigation state-constitution Whether the 7th, 5th, and 14th Amendments and Connecticut state constitutional provisions remain in effect for pro se litigants, specifically regardin…
24A394 Brian Estrada v. Jacob Smart Tenth Circuit 2024-10-23 Presumed Complete administrative-exhaustion jury-trial merits-of-claim prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights procedural-exhaustion Whether prisoners have a right to a jury trial concerning administrative exhaustion under the Prison Litigation Reform Act where disputed facts regard…
24A387 Andrew Thomas Cowhy v. Michigan Michigan 2024-10-22 Presumed Complete alleyne-precedent criminal-sexual-conduct judicial-factfinding jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether judicial fact-finding that increases a criminal sentence beyond the concurrent sentencing guidelines violates the Sixth Amendment right to a j…
24-5784 Samreen Riaz v. Superior Court of California, Tulare County, et al. California 2024-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias jury-trial motion-to-vacate writ-of-mandate Did the California Supreme Court and lower courts err in denying petitioner's writs and motions, potentially violating constitutional rights under the…
24-5704 Lori M. Moody v. Edward W. Horan Florida 2024-10-04 Denied IFP absolute-privilege defamation-per-se due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment Does the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial extend to a state court defamation per se action, and does absolute privilege protect a lawyer who fa…
24-374 Richard P. Homrighausen v. Ohio Ohio 2024-10-02 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process jury-trial logical-inconsistency verdict-review Whether a criminal defendant is denied due process when convicted of two crimes where a guilty verdict on one count logically excludes a finding of gu…
24-358 Faresha Sims v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure federal-rules jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether federal district courts have discretion to grant summary judgment when material facts are disputed or when grounds not raised by the movant ar…
24-5684 Raunel Garcia-Suarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial statutory-maximum Whether all facts that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either admitted by the defendant or proven to a …
24-5647 David Rashaun Hamil, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2024-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment social-science Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12 person jury when the defendant is charged w…
24-323 Thanquarious R. Calhoun v. Warden, Baldwin State Prison, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) de-novo-review fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-trial sixth-amendment Does a federal court's unconditional deference to a state supreme court's purported findings on an essential element of a crime violate a habeas petit…
24-5594 Seldrick Carpenter v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-procedure jury-trial sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether the Sixth Amendment and Article III create a jury right for federal supervised release revocation proceedings when new crimes are alleged
24A270 David Lesh v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-09-17 Presumed Complete blanton-precedent constitutional-right criminal-prosecution jury-trial petty-offense sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury trial for petty offenses carrying six months or less imprisonment
24-5431 Jacob Valle v. Florida Florida 2024-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment social-science unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
24A207 ParkerVision, Inc. v. TCL Industries Holdings Co., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete administrative-adjudication inter-partes-review jury-trial patent-validity public-rights seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment requires patent validity challenges to be adjudicated by a jury rather than an administrative agency under the public ri…
24A208 ParkerVision, Inc. v. TCL Industries Holdings Co., et al. Federal Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete administrative-adjudication inter-partes-review jury-trial patent-validity public-rights seventh-amendment Whether the Seventh Amendment requires patent validity challenges to be adjudicated by a jury rather than an administrative agency under the public ri…
24-5342 In Re Richard J. Ramsey 2024-08-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights court-martial due-process jury-trial sixth-amendment waiver-of-rights Whether waiving jury trial is constitutional under the 6th Amendment when the amendment did not secure trial by jury as an absolute right
24-112 Millia Promotional Services, et al. v. Arizona, Acting Through Arizona Department of Economic Security, Division of Employment and Rehabilitation Services Ninth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response Waived circumstantial-evidence civil-rights contract-rights contractual-rights discrimination federal-law jury-trial racial-discrimination section-1981 statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Whether district courts may make factual and credibility determinations, weigh the evidence, and refuse to credit circumstantial evidence of discrimin…
24-5160 Duane Leo Ehmer, Darryl William Thorn, and Jake Ryan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution ex-parte jury-selection jury-trial petty-offenses presley-v-georgia sixth-amendment structural-error sua-sponte Whether the district court's sua sponte, ex parte, and case-specific excusal of trial jurors for cause constituted reversible structural error?
24A100 Brennaris Marquis Johnson v. Washington Washington 2024-07-29 Presumed Complete aggravating-factors criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether a judge's finding of 'substantial and compelling reasons' to impose a sentence above the statutory presumptive range violates a defendant's Si…
24-5167 John Stancu v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. Texas 2024-07-29 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment sovereign-immunity standing state-power texas Did the State of Texas Courts involved in this case wrongly denied Petitioner Stancu's Seventh Amendment right to the United States Constitution by ma…
24A84 Troy L. Fields v. Colorado Colorado 2024-07-26 Presumed Complete criminal-episodes habitual-offender jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury, rather than a judge, to determine whether a defendant's prior convictions arose from separate criminal ep…
24-5117 Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 21-usc-841 acquitted-conduct due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to argue that the statutory sentence be based on marijuana under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(D) and that the sen…
24A66 Austin Kyle Lee v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-19 Presumed Complete apprendi-error drug-felony harmless-error jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether an Alleyne or Apprendi error involving a sentencing enhancement should be reviewed under the harmless error standard of Neder or the more stri…
24-5113 Steven Alexander Mantecon v. Florida Florida 2024-07-18 Denied IFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense
24A10 Kieran Ravi Bhattacharya v. James B. Murray, Jr., in His Official Capacity as Rector of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-08 Presumed Complete due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-trial summary-judgment university-discipline Whether a public university violates a medical student's First Amendment free speech rights by expelling him based on the content of his protected spe…
24-5009 Samuel T. Whatley, et al. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Fourth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied IFP antitrust antitrust-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process financial-fraud financial-services fraud judicial-oversight jury-trial Question not identified
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…
23-7788 Francisco Valtierra-Zuniga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7778 Davonte Williams-Dorsey v. United States Second Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-jury-trial-evidence due-process duress-defense fifth-amendment judicial-precedent jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure united-states-v-contento-pancho united-states-v-paul Did the lower courts err in precluding petitioner's duress defense at trial?
23-1324 Thomas Perttu v. Kyle Brandon Richards Sixth Circuit 2024-06-20 Judgment Issued Amici (7) administrative-exhaustion administrative-law civil-procedure exhaustion-of-remedies jury-trial merits-of-claim prison-litigation-reform-act prisoner-rights procedural-merits prisoner-rights
23-1328 Yuval Golan v. Daily News, L.P., et al. New York 2024-06-20 Denied Response Waived anti-slapp constitutional-rights defamation first-amendment jury-trial public-figure public-figures seventh-amendment Is the New York anti-SLAPP statute unconstitutional?
23-1303 Craig Malin v. Lee Enterprises, Inc., et al. Iowa 2024-06-13 Denied actual-malice civil-rights defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-trial publication-law summary-judgment Does grant of summary judgment to Respondent Lee Enterprises conflict with requirements for a jury trial per Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S.…
23-7703 Walter Taylor, III v. Vermont Vermont 2024-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP defense-theory due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment voluntary-intoxication Is a criminal defendant denied his right to a jury trial under the Sixth Amendment and due process under the Fourteenth Amendment when the trial court…
23-7685 Edwin K. Davis v. Florida Florida 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment williams-v-florida Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w…
23-7664 Julian R. Ash v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-circuit administrative-review agency-decision appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure judicial-procedure jury-trial mandamus pending-motions remand Question not identified.
23-7646 Rogaciano Demetrio-Jimenez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7594 Felipe Matias-Miguel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7588 Ruben Mendezsales v. Florida Florida 2024-05-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial overrule sixth-amendment williams-v-florida Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7589 Yuri I. Lee, aka Yuri Imuta v. U.S. Bank National Association, Successor Trustee to Bank of America, National Association, Successor in Interest to Lasalle Bank National Association California 2024-05-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure common-law constitutional-rights due-process equity-value jury-trial scheiding-v-dinwiddie summary-judgment trial-by-jury Whether the Seventh Amendment right to a trial by jury must be preserved in suits at common law where the equity value in controversy exceeds twenty d…
23-7521 Keith Lamar Rodgers v. Florida Florida 2024-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7504 Sergio Antonio Hood v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-20 GVR IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing Whether the Sixth Amendment, other than the Negatively Absolute Prohibition, allows for any fact that increases a reasonable doubt to a power before a…
23-7493 Lisa Marie Perez, fka Lisa Marie Belyew v. Captain Duch, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-17 Dismissed IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions genuine-issues-of-fact judicial-review jury-trial legal-interpretation precedent standing statutory-construction summary-judgment Whether summary judgment for the defendant was proper where genuine issues of material fact existed and a jury trial was warranted
23-7503 Christopher Michael Bullins Croce v. Florida Florida 2024-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment stalking-statute Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7472 Torrie Chermaine Austin v. Florida Florida 2024-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7478 Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-14 GVR IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach constitutional-indictment criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-finding jury-trial prior-felony-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the Constitution requires an indictment to allege, and a jury to find (or a defendant to admit), the extra facts necessary to impose an ACCA s…
23-7458 In Re Michael David Hower 2024-05-13 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP acquitted-charge acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jury-trial section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Did the courts below commit reversible error in denying petitioner's 2255 motion without an evidentiary hearing?
23-7423 Glenn Francis v. Thomas Scarantino, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights immunity immunity-doctrine jury-trial probable-cause punitive-damages writ-of-certiorari wrongful-incarceration Can you deny me a jury trial for civil rights violations and wrongful incarceration and punitive damages based only on immunity of defendants
23-1196 Christopher Ryan Martin v. Tom Lawson, Chief, Nevada Division of Parole and Probation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied apprendi certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim habeas-corpus jones judicial-enhancement jury-trial ninth-circuit prior-conviction prior-convictions Whether Petitioner is entitled to a Certificate of Appealability (COA)
23-7366 Carlos Enrique Navarro-Trevino v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7343 Dalevonte D. Hearn v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-30 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial mistrial sentencing trial-rights Can an American citizen be punished for exercising the right to a jury trial?
23-7345 James Joseph Bryant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-30 GVR IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation jury-trial prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement Whether the elements of a prior conviction can be determined using current judicial interpretations
23-7307 Silvano Marroquin-Bravo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7272 Matthew Michael Albritton v. Florida Florida 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7279 Charles K. Wallace v. Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2024-04-19 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP authentication civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-filings fraud habeas-corpus jury-trial standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the U.S. Department of Justice under a duty to enforce accurate federal court filings therein federal district courts to comply with 18 U.S.C. §102…
23-7244 Clarence F. Stephenson v. Florida Florida 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial life-felony sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a life felony?
23-7245 Dustin Jay Harpel v. Florida Florida 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7246 Harold Stewart v. Florida Florida 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7248 Hector Negron-Espada v. Florida Florida 2024-04-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7239 Bertrand Laidler, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2024-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7162 James Hodge v. Florida Florida 2024-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7146 Antonio Ochoa-Leyva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
23-7147 Margarito Cruz-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7143 Armando Ordonez-Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
23-7124 Naftali Dominguez Zenon v. Florida Florida 2024-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial life-felony life-without-parole sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a life felony?
23-7109 Edgar Garcia-Heredia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7094 Tyshawn Shepard v. Ohio Ohio 2024-03-28 Denied IFP administrative-agency administrative-extension criminal-sentencing due-process incarceration incarceration-findings jury-trial post-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a right to trial by jury allow prison administrators to use their own post-conviction factual findings as the …
23-7088 Brian T. Hill v. Josie Gastelo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied IFP constitutional-right counsel due-process equal-protection jury-trial ninth-circuit parole parole-hearing quorum Does a two-judge panel constitute a quorum?
23-7050 David Phillip Ryan v. Florida Florida 2024-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment standing Whether the jury guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments is a 12-person jury?
23-7027 John Stancu v. Hyatt Corporation/Hyatt Regency Dallas Fifth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights district-court due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-procedure seventh-amendment standing Did the district court and the 5th Circuit usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's right to a jury…
23-6983 Christopher James Michelotti v. Austin Knudsen, Attorney General of Montana Ninth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment Were Christopher Mh cheloth's 5th amendment constitutional rights violated?
23-6999 Ronald Monique Best v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-effectiveness criminal-procedure defendant-representation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy Is it permissible for counsel to unilaterally concede the actual charge act of the offense when guilt and punishment is the sole issue for the jury?
23-6978 Jose Salome Gallardo Granados v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
23-6963 James Deon Bryant, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2024-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6966 Alison Lee Gendreau v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-restitution fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-right jury-trial proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt reasonable-doubt restitution sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Amendment grand jury right and the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial on proof beyond a reasonable doubt apply to restitution in a …
23-6968 Raymond Vincent v. Florida Florida 2024-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6951 Jesus Barron-Bautista v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6931 Darrell Tillery v. Tim Hooper, Warden Louisiana 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-rape constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-jury sexual-battery sixth-amendment Whether non-unanimous jury verdicts violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
23-6936 Jose Eulalio Aguillen-Servin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
23-6937 Mahmoud Almuhtaseb v. Florida Florida 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6941 Ricardo Fortino Martinez-Munoz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation due-process jury-trial legal-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Can Almendarez-Torres be squared with the history undergirding the Sixth Amendment; and if not, should this Court overrule Almendarez-Torres?
23-6925 Sadat El-Amin v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-03-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection forcible-rape fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment Whether non-unanimous jury verdicts for felony convictions violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
23-6912 Samuel Fields v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-03-06 Rehearing Relisted (10)IFP aedpa clearly-established-law constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-evidence habeas-corpus jury-experiment jury-trial verdict-standards Whether a jury's consideration and reliance on extrinsic evidence as part of a jury experiment violates the clearly established federal law requiring …
23-6901 Joshua Lane Tansil v. Florida Florida 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6886 Paul Francisco Torres, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trials pandemic pandemic-restrictions sixth-amendment speedy-trial Did prolonged jury-trial bans during the pandemic violate the Sixth Amendment's Speedy Trial Clause, especially as to those accused who were jailed du…
23-6878 Jose Luis Avalos-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6870 Ariel Perez-Lainez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial 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 …
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 …
23-6768 Vidal Garza-Morin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
23-6722 Jeffrey Holland v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing due-process fair-trial first-step-act jury-trial sentence-enhancement sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancements trial-transcript Whether a district court can refuse to review intervening changes in facts that contradict and undermine presentence report findings used to apply a s…
23-6723 Brandon Keith Owensby v. Florida Florida 2024-02-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6714 Ramon Umberto Cortez-Rodriguez, aka Ramon Humberto Cortez-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-review jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-858 Merrilee Stewart v. Sentinel Insurance Company Ltd., et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights corporate-fraud due-process fraud judicial-procedure jury-trial seventh-amendment standing Does the dismissal of a case violate the Seventh Amendment when the judge decides issues reserved for a jury, grants favoritism to a corporation, and …
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 …
23-6663 Emmanuel Gil v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt 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 …
23-6631 Jeremy Dale Robinson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-31 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-requirements due-process jury-trial prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement Whether the U.S. Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were 'committed o…
23-6616 Fan Yang v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP complete-defense criminal-defendant criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion federal-rules-of-evidence jury-trial right-to-present-defense rule-403 Whether a court may exclude evidence under Fed. R. Evid. 403, where doing so would preclude a criminal defendant from presenting a complete defense to…
23-6622 Miguel Jaimes-Luviano v. Florida Florida 2024-01-30 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial felony fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-size jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6604 Nicole Johnson v. Massachusetts Department of Children and Families Massachusetts 2024-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment best-interests child-custody due-process jury-trial massachusetts-rule-38 parental-rights sua-sponte termination termination-of-parental-rights Whether the petitioner's right to due process and 7th amendment right and Massachusetts rule 38 Jury Trial of Right was violated
23-6594 Noemy Ramirez-Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6597 Abraham Fagot Mejia v. Florida Florida 2024-01-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6558 Freddie Quinn v. Florida Florida 2024-01-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6547 Billy J. Seabolt v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-instructions jury-trial legal-interpretation prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial speedy-trial Is it a fair trial when the jury is clearly in a distressed situation during a long trial and they contradict themselves on finding guilty and not gui…
23A665 Tyshawn Shepard v. Ohio Ohio 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing factual-findings indeterminate-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether Ohio's indeterminate sentencing scheme violates the Sixth Amendment by permitting judicial factual findings that increase a defendant's impris…
23-776 Jeffrey B. Israelitt v. Enterprise Services LLC Fourth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied ada-retaliation americans-with-disabilities-act anti-retaliation-provision circuit-split civil-rights damages due-process federal-law jury-trial standing Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act provides for damages (and therefore a trial by jury) in cases alleging that an employer has violated the A…
23-6484 Miguel Angel Sanchez-Delgado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
23-6488 Juan Garcia-Bertadillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
23-6498 Kevin Clayton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial murder racketeering racketeering-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the Jury Trial guarantees contained in the Sixth Amendment were violated
23-6458 Mario Astudillo-Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6418 Harvey Holland v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-sentencing-act first-step-act jury-trial murder-cross-reference sentencing-discretion Whether the district court ruled directly contrary to the Court's direction in Concepcion by finding that Petitioner was eligible for relief but refus…
23-6410 Pedro Pena-Talamantes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment 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 …
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 …
23-6412 Jose Eugenio Pavon-Rivera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment 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 …
23-6402 Vidal Orellana-Sibrian v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
23-6385 Alfonso Garcia-Vela v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment 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 …
23-6386 Michael Andrew King, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review credibility-determination criminal-procedure due-process due-process-rights evidence jury-instructions jury-trial mask-obstruction witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether an appellate court's traditional deference to credibility determinations made by jurors in returning a guilty verdict should give way where th…
23-6340 Christopher Stowell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial occasions-clause prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement Whether the U.S. Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were 'committed o…
23-6320 Santiago Salazar-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
23-6307 Veronica McCluskey v. William Hendricks, et al. California 2023-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure cross-examination due-process fair-hearing jury-trial legal-conduct reversible-error standing trial-court witness-testimony whether-the-trial-court-committed-reversible-error-in-not-granting-respondent-a-jury-trial
23-6304 Onterrious V. Tillman v. Florida Florida 2023-12-19 Denied Relisted (5)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-6279 Ismael Robles-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6262 Raymond Clyde Robideau v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-12-14 Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-discretion jury-trial jury-trial-waiver remand state-remand waiver Is a court required to obtain a renewed jury-trial waiver when the State amends its Aggravating Factor[s] after remand from State's Highest Court, and…
23A547 Eric Lavell Minter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-12-14 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure fact-finding jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a district court's fact-finding at sentencing that lacks explicit reasoning for selecting among competing inferences violates a defendant's Si…
23-6242 Francisco Mora-Carrillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-overturning sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6252 Juan Antonio Guerrero-Lazaro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6240 Jesus Salvador Gonzalez-Lunar v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation covered-vessel criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-determination jury-trial maritime-law proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, or an adequate factual basis during a guilty plea, to find that a …
23-6176 Faustino Garcia-Sanchez, aka Miguel Garcia-Sanchez, aka Miguel Zamora-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
23-6081 Jacobo Fuentes-Salgado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
23-6049 Jimmie Jerome Manning, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2023-11-17 Denied Relisted (8)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial felony fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-size jury-trial sixth-amendment williams-v-florida Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23A447 Constance Eileen Caswell v. Colorado Colorado 2023-11-17 Presumed Complete apprendi-rule elements-of-offense jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing-factors sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt that a prior misdemeanor conviction can be used to elevate a subsequent …
23A442 Jeffrey B. Israelitt v. Enterprise Services, LLC Fourth Circuit 2023-11-16 Presumed Complete ada-retaliation disability-accommodations employment-discrimination jury-trial monetary-damages statutory-interpretation Whether monetary damages and jury trials are available to plaintiffs alleging employment retaliation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
23-5980 Edgar Arellano v. California California 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial senate-bill-567 sentencing sentencing-disposition sixth-amendment Whether the California courts were correct in stating that the petitioner's case was final, because the California Senate Bill 1393 resentencing dispo…
23-5979 Daniel Vargas-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sixth-amendment Whether the prior-conviction exception to the Apprendi rule can be squared with the historical practices codified in the Sixth Amendment, and if not, …
23-482 Catherine Craig-Myers, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert Meyers, Deceased v. Otis Elevator Company, et al. Florida 2023-11-07 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process elevator-safety jury-trial osha osha-safety-laws preemption wrongful-death Do Florida courts violate constitutional rights to jury trial and due process by refusing to admit evidence of culpable negligence violating preemptiv…
23-5965 Cody Enrriquez v. Florida Florida 2023-11-07 Denied Relisted (9)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5968 Richard Langston v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-11-07 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States prohibit a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentenc…
23-5936 Hector Francisco Santos-Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment 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 …
23A396 Robert E. Harrison v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rule-404b jury-trial prior-conviction propensity-evidence Whether the admission of a defendant's prior conviction under Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) violates due process when the prosecution introduces the…
23-457 Terrance Nelson Cates v. Zeltiq Aesthetics, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jury-trial medical-evidence summary-judgment Whether a circuit court must review evidence considered on a motion for reconsideration when reviewing a grant of summary judgment
23-445 Christy Williams v. American Honda Motor Company, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment jury-trial product-liability seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether Petitioner has been deprived of the right of trial by jury as protected by the Seventh Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment
23-5880 Jose Fernando Martinez-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
23-5794 Joseph Aiken v. Florida Florida 2023-10-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5758 Jimmy Jay Strayhorn, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial pepper-v-united-states resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation unconstitutional Whether a defendant is entitled to a resentencing hearing when a count in their indictment is later found unconstitutional
23-5760 Mattie T. Lomax v. United States Federal Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-definition seventh-amendment Whether the State violated the Due Process clause where without a jury trial incorrect legal definition of 'knowingly' relieved the state of its requi…
23-370 Paul Erlinger v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-10-06 Judgment Issued Amici (4)Relisted (2) armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were 'committed on occ…
23-5731 Rebekah Panzlau v. Adams County Housing Authority, dba Maiker Housing Partners Colorado 2023-10-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias jury-trial relocation-act seventh-amendment uniform-relocation-act Did Ms. Panzlau receive a fair and unbiased trial free from even the appearance of Impropriety in her case?
23-357 Jacob Hilbert v. Missouri Missouri 2023-10-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-trial jury-trial-waiver split-of-authority trial-court-discretion waiver must a trial court obtain some personal acknowledgement from a criminal defendant that the defendant has waived the defendant's right to a jury trial …
23-5687 Isaac Brunson v. DeKalb County Schools Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination civil-rights employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jury-trial pro-se-litigation seventh-amendment summary-judgment Will the Supreme Court continue to allow federal district and appellate courts to pervert the original intention of the summary judgement device and t…
23-5692 Jose Ramon Andino-Morales v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
23-331 James Doe v. Gladys Pisani, et al. Second Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied abuse-of-discretion disputed-facts interlocutory-appeal jury-trial material-facts probable-cause qualified-immunity summary-judgment Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that 'arguable probable cause' can support a claim for qualified-immunity,summary-judgment,interlocut…
23-5632 Mario Rolando Cadenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5614 Ellison O. Jordan v. The Pennsylvania State University, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-09-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process duty-of-care jury-trial negligence special-relationship standing student-athlete Was the Petitioner's constitutional right to jury trial denied or violated?
23-5606 Samuel Valencia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-18 GVR Relisted (3)IFP alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation fifth-amendment indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments require facts to prove a defendant's prior convictions were for offenses committed on 'occasions different from one …
23-242 Jonathan M. Martinez v. United States Armed Forces 2023-09-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-unanimity military-conviction military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict uniform-code-military-justice Whether military convictions for serious offenses must be unanimous
23-5579 Fitzroy C. Morton v. Florida Florida 2023-09-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5564 Trent Steven Griffin, Sr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion jury-trial motion-to-dismiss procedural-misconduct standing Whether a judge had the power or authority to take certain actions in a civil rights case
23-5567 Carlos Gilbert Arellano-Ramirez v. Florida Florida 2023-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5570 Scottie Andrea Jackson v. Florida Florida 2023-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5571 Deon Jefferson Johnson v. Mike Brown, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus habitual-offender jury-trial sentencing-guidelines Whether the petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to a fair and impartial jury trial, due process of law, and to be free from cruel and unus…
23-5575 Andrew Sposato v. Florida Florida 2023-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5555 Alfredo Garcia-Aleman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5540 Michael Rinaldi v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial ratio-decidendi sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the use of acquitted conduct sentencing violates the Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial
23-5517 Kamar Laquan Cox v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
23-5455 John A. Crane v. Florida Florida 2023-08-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5457 Deangelus Thomas v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-08-28 GVR Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof constitutional-fact-finding criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-penalty Whether the district court judge may find the uncharged, non-elemental fact that a person committed three prior offenses 'on occasions different from …
23-5450 Hermenegildo Garcia-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5451 Raul Omar Rios-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
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…
23-5411 Thomas DeMartino v. Roger Alderin, et al. Oregon 2023-08-22 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment alarming-contact civil-damages civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jury-trial oregon-appellate-court reckless-driving stalking stalking-statute standing Whether the Oregon Appellate court erred in denying separate alarming contacts of live gunfire within 100' of Plaintiff under Oregon's Stalking statut…
23-5361 Andrew Slabon v. Angelo R. Sanchez, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-trial procedural-rules seventh-amendment standing state-action trial-by-jury Whether the Seventh Amendment's fundamental right to a trial by jury is violated when meritorious complaints are dismissed based on monetary policies …
23A135 Richard Langston v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-08-15 Presumed Complete acquitted-conduct-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether a state sentencing judge's explicit consideration of conduct for which a defendant was acquitted violates the defendant's rights under the Six…
23A110 Taylor J. Matson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-08 Presumed Complete attempted-child-enticement circuit-split evidentiary-standards expert-testimony jury-trial law-enforcement-agents Whether the scope of permissible expert testimony by law enforcement agents regarding the interpretation of evidence and communications is limited by …
23-5298 Edgar Sandoval Catarino v. California California 2023-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments confer a right to a jury trial with respect to a fact that has the dual effect of (1) increasing the mandatory …
23-5261 Everado Joe Flores-Salcido v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5264 Julio Cesar De La Rosa-De La Cerda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
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…
23-5245 Juan Leonardo Aparicio-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5229 Rodolfo Hernandez Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5210 Andres Zapata-Reyes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5192 Phiet The Doan v. California California 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection excessive-fine fourteenth-amendment jury-trial restitution sixth-amendment victim-restitution Did Mr. Doan have a Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to a jury trial on whether he owed almost $64,000 in victim restitution?
23-5181 Rudy Alexander Ventura-Recinos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-standard sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5173 Jose Luis Guzman v. Florida Florida 2023-07-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
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
23-5141 Alejandro Holguin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5079 Genaro Perchez-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5096 Kim Davis v. Gene R. Mariano, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-trial property-rights v-amendment Whether Petitioner was deprived of her V Amendment due process right to property?
23-5081 Ronnie R. Lovell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Can a district court judge determine that an individual's prior offenses occurred 'on occasions different,' as required by the Armed Career Criminal A…
23-5085 Andre Rene Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial non-elemental-facts preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial Whether the Constitution permits a sentencing judge to find non-elemental facts by a preponderance of the evidence and then rely on those facts to imp…
23-5062 Alfredo Martinez-Rubio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment 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 …
23-5058 Gabriel Simental-Murillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5035 Miguel Lux-Tum v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-doctrine precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5027 Gabriel Gonzalez Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7852 Juan Victor Quezada-Lara v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
22-7882 Sergio Delgado-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment 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 …
22-7863 Osvaldo Castelan-Saucedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-review sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7854 Edgar Ivan Armenta-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law-review certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-overruling sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-1217 Akiel McKnight v. Pickens Police Department, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) bostock-decision civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination jury-trial seventh-amendment sexual-orientation title-vii Whether the Petitioner has a claim under Title VII for termination based on sexual orientation
22-7772 Stanley Jackson, III v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process jury-factfinding jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Constitution requires an indictment, jury trial, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find a defendant's prior convictions were 'committ…
22-7775 David Elijah Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violated the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
22-1195 Phillip Robinson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response Waived acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
22-7673 James Michael Wells v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymous-jury apprendi-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection jury-trial public-trial restitution-order sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant has a Sixth Amendment right to a public jury
22-7647 Nicasio Nevarez-Zamudio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7634 Alan Headman v. Camille Headman, aka Camille Bromley Utah 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 13th-amendment alimony alimony-servitude civil-rights court-coercion due-process involuntary-servitude jury-trial pre-nuptial-agreement thirteenth-amendment Whether the Supreme Court should order the use of a 'Headman Deference' doctrine for alimony-related servitude
22-7636 Jose Luis Manriquez-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7642 Julio Angel Torrez, Jr. v. California California 2023-05-25 Denied Relisted (3)IFP doyle-v-ohio due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence-admission fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial people-v-medina right-to-silence sixth-amendment Whether the rule of Doyle v. Ohio applies to private conversations and selective silence
22-7617 David Anthony Battle v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-factors constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-delay dismissal-with-prejudice due-process jury-trial pretrial-incarceration sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the district court failed to make proper ends of justice findings to justify a sixteen month delay in the trial
22-7479 Mario Rodolfo Chairez-Avila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied IFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7485 Daniel Isaiah Thody v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release united-states-v-haymond Whether the current implementation of Supervised Release, (18 U.S.C. §3583), as a 'separate sentence' in addition to the 'sentence of imprisonment', i…
22-7460 Carlos Darnell Dixon v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-05-04 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence firearm-possession jury-inference jury-trial second-amendment To what extent may the State violate a citizen's right to bear arms as secured by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution against him/h…
22-7420 Jose Angel Morquecho-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied IFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7423 Gilberto Marquez-Calzadilla v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied IFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7400 Maurice Morrison v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-protection jury-deliberations jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-evidence Whether a juror's communication to the jury during deliberations of highly prejudicial specialized factual information that was based on his professio…
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…
22-7377 Jose Isabel Mora-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
22-1030 Gary Lewis v. United Automobile Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism insurance-law insurance-regulation judicial-procedure jury-trial rule-of-law Whether the constitutional right to a jury trial can be usurped by the trial court and appellate court interfering with the jury's fact finding role
22-7319 Jose Manuel Salazar-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied IFP case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7285 Susan Lloyd v. Thomas Pokorny, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct jury-trial sanctions standing trial-procedure Are the orders from the 6th Circuit void, should Lloyd's motion for reconsideration be denied?
22-7257 Santos Cuevas v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied IFP constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-law judicial-discretion jury-trial sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment Has Oregon's Judiciary and legislature failed to incorporate landmark cases relevant for how and when to enhance a sentence, and to comport with the r…
22-7259 Jose Manuel Cejudo-Mancinas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied IFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7239 Edward Knight v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process felony hobbs-act in-person jury-trial public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error Whether allowing a seated juror to appear virtually via Zoom in a federal felony trial is structural error violating the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rig…
22-7233 Justin Heath Thomas v. California California 2023-04-06 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona statutory-maximum Whether California's death penalty scheme violates the constitutional requirement that any fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increas…
22-7220 Geronimo Juarez-Medellin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied IFP appellate-procedure Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7205 Miguel Valdivia-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7209 Dylan Brando Ervey Macias-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7179 Andres Ajualip-Pablo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7183 Manuel Camilo Ordonez-Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7184 Darrell Kelly Middlekauff v. Sue Washburn, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Oregon 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-sentencing death-penalty fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial jury-trial-waiver post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Is trial counsel ineffective for failing to advise client of death penalty factors prior to waiving jury?
22-947 Tyler G. Williams v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response Waived armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-requirements criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement Whether the Constitution requires an indictment, jury trial, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were 'co…
22-7133 Ryan Stancu v. Southern Methodist University Texas 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract civil-procedure constitutional-provisions discovery discovery-rights due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment Did the lower courts and the Supreme Court of Texas usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's right …
22-7051 William Todd Lewallen v. Scott Crow Tenth Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-testimony due-process evidence jury-trial right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas sentencing sentencing-procedure state-evidence-law Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' rule that deems the accused's version of events irrelevant as a matter of law during sentencing procee…
22-7016 Guadalupe Onate-Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
22-7009 Davion Smith v. California California 2023-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP adult-sentence criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-adjudication juvenile-delinquent sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Does a state violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it denies the right to a jury trial to a juvenile delinquent on the groun…
22-6983 Bernardino Berrun-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment 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 …
22-6986 Paulo Bernal-Ceto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied IFP case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6930 Robert Earl Hackney v. Michigan Michigan 2023-03-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct jury-trial standing writ-of-certiorari Whether a petitioner can pass through the Court's Writ of Certiorari gateway and argue the merits of an underlying constitutional claim when the petit…
22-6940 Leon Little v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (9)IFP criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentencing on uncharged conduct
22-6873 Jesus Ivan Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-27 Denied IFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6826 Marcos Juan Martin-Andres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied IFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-review recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
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?
22-6815 David E. Merry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Relisted (7)IFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing (enhancing) a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury ha…
22-6817 Carline Curry v. City of Mansfield, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights-violation due-process employment-discrimination jury-trial jury-trial-denial retaliation statutory-interpretation summary-judgment Why wasn't plaintiff Curry given an opportunity to become a plant Operator?
22-6808 Erich Deolax Riker v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding federal-sentencing jury-finding jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness Whether a factual finding that is necessary to render a federal sentence substantively reasonable must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt
22-771 Renè Joseph Foley Bey, et ux. v. Steve Prator, Sheriff, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights common-law constitution damages due-process jury-trial legal-rights Does the Constitution guarantee the right to a jury trial in suits at common law exceeding $20?
22-6736 Justin D. Martin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied Relisted (8)IFP acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
22-750 Nathan D. Crisp v. Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process first-offender forgery jury-trial perjury void-judgment Can the State of Georgia use a perjury and forgery guilty plea and perjury First Offender to bypass Petitioner Sgt. Crisp's jury trial and due process…
22-6716 Conrado Olivo-Duron v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
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?
22-6708 Arturo Villalobos-Franco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6682 Ricky Douglas Haynes, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-occasions due-process jury-trial mandatory-minimum non-elemental-facts sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony Whether a sentencing judge may rely on non-elemental facts to impose a mandatory-minimum under ACCA
22-6566 Rodney R. Ellis v. Florida Florida 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure jury-clause jury-trial prior-record-exception sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a sentencing court violates the Sixth Amendment's Jury Clause when the sentencing court—rather than the jury—finds that the defendant committe…
22-6447 In Re David A. Avery 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitrariness civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion jury-trial state-constitution state-rules-of-civil-procedure trial-by-jury Whether the petitioner is entitled to the provisions set forth in the Bill of Rights, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Tennessee Constitution…
22-6450 Dedrevionus C. Williams v. Florida Florida 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Does Florida's Statute §775.082(9) Prison Releasee Reoffender sentence violate a defendant's U.S. Constitutional rights per this Court's holdings in A…
22-6460 Davonte DeJean v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights court-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-trial right-to-jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Was counsel ineffective for not enforcing the 6th Amendment right to a jury trial in the sentencing proceeding and is the court also responsible?
22-6413 Rajul Ruhbayan v. Rebecca Beach Smith, Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP christopher-v-harbury civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit jury-trial sentencing-finality sixth-amendment supervisory-powers Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and four Defendant judges' ongoing 17 years' cover up or violations of Petitioner's prospective denial of …
22-6412 Nicholas Conlan v. Costco Wholesale Corporation Ninth Circuit 2022-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act disability-accommodation employment-discrimination interactive-process jury-trial pretext reasonable-accommodation service-animal service-dog workplace-accommodation Did Costco violate the Americans with Disabilities Amendment Act by terminating the interactive process with ambiguities they had and not directly eng…
22-6394 Van Raymond Brollini v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflicting-evidence credibility-of-witnesses evidence-preclusion harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial tax-prosecution willfulness Whether the Ninth Circuit's harmless-error analysis is consistent with Supreme Court precedent
22-6372 Jose Felipe Cardenas-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
22-557 Peter Kleidman v. RFF Family Partnership, LP California 2022-12-19 Denied attorney-fees civil-procedure contract-law contractual-claims due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial summary-adjudication Does California's legal framework for adjudicating prevailing parties' claims for contractual attorney's fees violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal…
22-6329 Phosavan Khamnivong v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment bodily-injury due-process fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment is violated when courts impose sentences that, but for a judge-found fact, would be reversed for substantive unreasonablen…
22-6309 Uriel Mora-Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-jurisdiction constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6302 Selvin Omar Canales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
22-6261 Damar D. Ruffin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether a special verdict is required to have confidence that the jury has made the finding of drug quantity that allows a sentence beyond the default…
22-6244 LeeAnn Morgan v. Regents of the University of California, et al. California 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fraud-concealment jury-trial medical-battery private-party seventh-amendment state-funded-medical-institution writ-of-error-coram-nobis Does the 7th Amendment provide for a jury trial in civil private matters between a private party and a state-funded medical institution?
22-6247 Denis Amilcar Munguia-Portales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6193 Marie Assa'ad-Faltas v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-12-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-power contempt-powers due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial prison-overcrowding Whether incarceration for up to six months for alleged indirect contempt without trial by jury is always per se cruel and unusual
22-6180 Alvaro Noe Mendoza-Valencia v. Oregon Oregon 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-relationship criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance jury-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substitution-counsel Can a state trial court deny a criminal defendant's request for substitution counsel without any reasonable inquiry into trial counsel's performance, …
22-6088 Tupoutoe Mataele v. California California 2022-11-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment aggravating-circumstances constitutional-requirements criminal-sentencing death-penalty jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement that every fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increase the statutory m…
22-6066 Brent Stephens v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 appeal appeal'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appeals f appeal'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District Court Magist appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appea federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-deference jury-trial jury-verdict magistrate-bar procedural-bar sentencing standard-of-review standard-of-review'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District trial-court-authority Whether the Trial Court had the authority to supplant the verdict of the jury on punishment
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…
22-462 Ruby J. Watts v. John Stewart, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied civil-rights court-appointed-counsel directed-verdict discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-pay-act jury-trial prima-facie-case Did the lower court err in issuing a directed verdict when a prima facie case of discrimination was established?
22-5989 Michael Edward Bowman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process jury-trial ninth-circuit religious-freedom-restoration-act tax-return Did the Ninth Circuit impermissibly ignore the express language of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and deny Mr. Bowman his right to a jury trial…
22-5977 Bonerge Benitez-Marquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment 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 …
22-5956 Charles Wallace v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-11-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitution state-jurisdiction Whether non-unanimous jury instructions are constitutional
22-5936 Demetrius Troy Bradley v. Michigan Michigan 2022-10-31 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-rights sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment Do the jury-trial and due process guarantees of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit judges from considering, at sentencing in a criminal case…
22-5949 Oswaldo Omar Ramirez-Ortiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5950 Antonio Ramirez-Juan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-review sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5927 Jonathan Lee Oliver v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment judicial-procedure jury-trial non-jury-proceeding preponderance-of-evidence sixth-amendment supervised-release Did the district court's unindicted, non-jury, preponderance of the evidence fact-finding that Mr. Oliver committed a new federal offense to conclude …
22-386 Andy A. Weimer v. Washington Washington 2022-10-25 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment admiralty-law amendment-eight amendment-seven civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-supremacy due-process jury-trial law-enforcement-conduct Whether state and county governments can violate constitutional rights by invoking admiralty/maritime law and denying a jury trial under the 7th Amend…
22-5810 Martin Perez-Barrios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment 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 …
22-5801 Steven Nelson Murray v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial jury-trial-waiver procedural-default sixth-amendment When a criminal defendant must make a personal decision whether to waive a fundamental constitutional right, does an attorney provide deficient perfor…
22-336 Jason Reed v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-10-11 Denied Amici (1) armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-requirements criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement Whether the Constitution requires an indictment, jury trial, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant's prior convictions were 'co…
22-5791 Erin Carter v. St. Tammany Parish School Board, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure employer-discretion employment-discrimination fmla-rights incomplete-discovery incomplete-record judicial-review jury-trial prejudice-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment What is the appropriate standard of review when a trial court grants a motion for summary judgment, dismissing an entire cause of action designated fo…
22-5695 Christopher Eric Poore v. California California 2022-09-28 Denied IFP 5th-6th-14th-amendments aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement that every fact that increases the statutory maximum penalty must be found by a jury be…
22-5613 Kennrith L. Foster v. Illinois Illinois 2022-09-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-interpretation notice plea-bargaining prisoner-rights state-court waiver Did the trial court violate the petitioner's constitutional rights to a jury trial when it accepted a plea without providing adequate notice of the na…
22-5593 Richard Anthony Rodriguez v. California California 2022-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-right juvenile-adjudication prior-conviction-exception prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment Whether juvenile adjudications obtained without a trial by jury can be used to enhance a defendant's sentence in a later proceeding
22-230 The Golden 1 Credit Union v. Dwaine Burgardt California 2022-09-13 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived discriminates against arbitration and is contrary when such modifications are permitted under ordin arbitration-agreement contract-law contract-modification federal-arbitration-act jury-trial jury-trial-waiver kindred-nursing mutual-assent state-common-law state-law Whether a special rule that prohibits parties from adding an arbitration provision to a contract by mutual assent manifested by conduct, when such mod…
22-215 Heslin Gallagher v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment absolute-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jury-trial quasi-governmental-immunity securities-exchange-commission self-regulatory-organization seventh-amendment standing Whether clarification is needed to resolve the conflicts among the various circuits when a Self-Regulatory Organization registered with the Securities…
22-5546 Jhon Albert Carrizales Pretell v. Florida Florida 2022-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense
22-5488 Thomas James Dorn v. Verna Carpenter, Judge, District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process human-trafficking judicial-misconduct jury-trial protection-orders restraining-order standing Should an appearance be required for a loss of rights, and should the right to trial by jury be explained to the respondent going forward in the unite…
22-5480 Manuel Ralios-Chajal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt?
22-5432 Terence Valentine v. Florida Florida 2022-08-23 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-development habeas-corpus jury-trial jury-verdict state-courts Whether a state court must allow evidentiary development of actual innocence claims and assess the totality of the case
22-5422 Vohn Robert Cooper v. Florida Florida 2022-08-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether the sentencing judge violated Cooper's Sixth Amendment right to have a jury determine any fact that increased the statutory maximum in his cas…
22-156 David Douglas Fennell v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response Waived anti-SLAPP-law civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection federal-preemption free-speech jury-trial jury-trial-rights political-assembly right-to-assemble Is California's anti-SLAPP law constitutional?
22-5337 Carlos Vazquez-Tellez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment 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 …
22-118 Marquis Shaw v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Relisted (12) acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process issue-preclusion jury-trial sentencing united-states-v-watts Whether the use of acquitted conduct at sentencing violates the Jury Clauses or Due Process Clause
22-5234 Victor Manuel Duarte-Munoz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5241 Silvino Vasquez-Jacinto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5210 Travis Louis Shaw v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial reasonable-doubt strickland-v-washington us-constitution Whether Petitioner should be granted a Certificate of Appealability
22-5147 Ortavious Devon Wilson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure jury-trial mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing prison-releasee-reoffender sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's sentence violated his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial
22-5106 Kalvin Lamar Washington v. Michigan Michigan 2022-07-14 Denied IFP acquittal court-forms criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus indigent-petitioner jury-trial state-prosecution statutory-provisions Can the state of Michigan violate the protection against a second prosecution for the same offense after an acquittal by repeatedly the acquittal refe…
22-5084 Luciano Felipe-Pascual v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5088 Norman Blake McKenzie v. Florida Florida 2022-07-13 Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Whether the failure to require the jury, and the jury alone, to find that the aggravating factors outweighed the mitigating factors, beyond and to the…
22-5059 Rodolfo Oliva-Santos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5053 Jesus Perez-Solis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
22-5033 Curtis Chewning v. Florida Florida 2022-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-information court-fraud due-process fraud jury jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing unlawful-seizure Whether due process is violated by sentence increase based on facts not proven to jury
22-5004 Eduardo Pena-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8271 Raul Garcia-Salazar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
21-8276 Isidoro Reyes-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
21-8281 Jose Carreon-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
21-8286 Thomas Richie McBride v. Texas Texas 2022-06-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process judicial-proceedings jury-trial repeat-offender sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the trial court proceedings constituted a mistrial that voided the 1984 judgment and sentence
21-8231 Fidel Torres-Villanueva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
21-1586 Cheryl Romano, et vir v. Jazz Casino Company, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-review findings-of-fact inferences judicial-procedure jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the lower courts violated the standards set in Tolan v. Cotton, Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, and Eastman Kodak v. Image Technical Services when …
21-8214 Miguel Andres-Tomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8225 Luis Adrian Carchi-Fernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1553 Ramin Khorrami v. Arizona Arizona 2022-06-10 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (5) 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process felony fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-trial original-public-meaning precedent sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony
21-8100 Luis Antonio Molina-Rivas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8101 Marco Antonio Marin-Maldonado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8108 Daniel Gallegos-Quirino v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8071 Brala Beverly v. Riverside County Public Administrator, et al. California 2022-06-07 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial probate-court property-seizure seventh-amendment standing Did the California Riverside County Superior Court and Fourth Appellate District Division Two in California violate the seventh amendment of the U.S. …
21-8072 Erik Daniel Salgado-Castellano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8059 Jesus Morales-Agustin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8052 Rene Sanchez-Quintero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8053 Ron Delano Kuntz v. United States Third Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-representation conflict-of-interest crime-of-violence critical-stages cuyler-v-sullivan district-court jury-trial sentence-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a conflict arises when trial counsel's concurrent representation ends prior to trial
21-8042 Etheria Verdell Jackson v. Florida Florida 2022-06-02 Denied IFP aggravating-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-recommendation jury-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right Whether a jury's advisory recommendation of death which does not identify the specific aggravators found, nor whether the aggravators were found unani…
21-8000 Elijah Johnson v. California California 2022-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure general-verdict inconsistent-verdicts jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Whether a reviewing court may uphold a general verdict by relying on a specific fact the jury rejected as not proved beyond a reasonable doubt, in lig…
21-7960 Jesus Antonio Montoya-Balderrama v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7916 James Fetzer v. Leonard Pozner Wisconsin 2022-05-19 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection equal-rights jury-trial summary-judgment wisconsin May rules of summary judgment vary throughout the states allowing the Wisconsin Judiciary to conduct and affirm a non-jury trial under the pretense of…
21-1456 Christy Poon-Atkins v. Sammy M. Sappington, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process evidence evidence-omission jury-trial procedural-rules standing Should the Defendants' documented admissions to speeding be reviewed by a jury, per Constitution Amendment VII, and due process?
21-7807 In Re Rafael Cezar Danam 2022-05-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment jury-trial mandamus-writ redress-of-grievances supremacy-clause Writ of Mandamus to Correct Constitutional Violations
21-7782 William Larry Foley v. Texas Texas 2022-05-05 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-verdict standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Is the evidence sufficient to sustain the jury's guilty verdict?
21-7786 Ignacio Trevizo-Cortez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7648 Luis Fernando Ceja, aka Chako v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure foreign-citizen foreign-defendant jury-trial jury-trial-waiver oral-colloquy rule-23 waiver Whether courts may decline to enforce the plain language of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 23(a) requiring that a waiver of jury trial be in writi…
21-7621 Jose Miguel Perez-Vides v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7612 Jose Luis Aldaba-Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7560 Martin Andres-Tomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7537 Leonardo Gutierrez v. Texas Texas 2022-04-05 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process extraneous-evidence facial-challenge judicial-jurisdiction jury-trial penal-code ramos-v-louisiana Whether Texas Penal Code §21.02 is unconstitutional on its face
21-7548 Sergey Genadievich Novitskiy v. Colorado Colorado 2022-04-05 Denied IFP bench-trial burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial standard-of-proof waiver Whether a defendant's choice to proceed to a bench trial in a criminal case lowers the prosecution's burden of proof
21-1317 Rafi Wali McCall v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) acquittal constitutional-prohibition criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-finding jury-trial supervised-release Does the United States Constitution prohibit a judge from revoking supervised release pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3583 based on a judicial finding that th…
21-7473 Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process first-step-act habeas-corpus jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether Weer Poltoner is being deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial
21-1282 Christopher Ryan Martin v. Nevada Nevada 2022-03-23 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment apprendi-doctrine civil-rights criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-factors sixth-amendment Whether this Court should overrule AlmendarezTorres in light of Apprendi and its progeny
21-7448 Edgar Garza-Limones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure indictment 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 …
21-7404 Jose Antonio Barahona-Paz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
21-7352 Pedro Intzin-Guzman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
21-1230 Dakota Territory Tours, ACC v. Sedona-Oak Creek Airport Authority, Inc. Arizona 2022-03-10 Denied civil-actions civil-rights constitutional-law due-process incorporation jury-trial seventh-amendment state-courts Does the Seventh Amendment apply to state governments and protect the right to a jury trial in civil actions in state courts?
21-7293 Jose Rodriguez-Vasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment 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 …
21-7295 Miguel Lerma-Reyes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
21-1205 Eric E. v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services California 2022-03-03 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law jury-trial mootness-doctrine parental-rights standing state-action Whether a parent has a constitutional right to a jury trial in a child custody proceeding initiated by the state
21-7252 Terrance Stinson, aka T-Rock v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-guarantee jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether sentencing based on acquitted conduct violates the Sixth Amendment jury guarantee and the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause
21-7256 Clemente Rosales-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7258 Fernando Contreras-Rojas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
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
21-7227 Daniel Isaiah Thody v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the current implementation of Supervised Release, (18 U.S.C. §3583), as a 'separate sentence' in addition to the 'sentence of imprisonment', i…
21-7191 Rosa Leija-Peralta v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure indictment 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 …
21-7196 Luis Alonso Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7168 Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-02-22 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP care-and-protection civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law judicial-procedure jury-trial parental-rights standing Whether right to parent of biological parents' can be terminated by a single judge and statutorily transferred to foster parents when a parent raises …
21-7149 Pedro Romero-Sandoval v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
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…
21-7128 Cornelius Riley v. United States Third Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Should the reasoning of Apprendi, Alleyne, and Peugh be extended to cases where a defendant's sentencing guideline range increases significantly due t…
21-7094 Gustavo Guillermo Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7081 Marko Stasiv v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion jury-coercion jury-trial motion-for-new-trial Was the Defendant entitled to a hearing on jury coercion?
21-7060 Christopher N. Bilynsky v. Maine Maine 2022-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial self-incrimination sentencing-exposure stipulation waiver Do the Due Process Clauses and Boykin v. Alabama mandate a colloquy before accepting stipulations to offense elements that increase sentencing exposur…
21-1053 Randall Hepp, Warden v. Danny L. Wilber Seventh Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied aedpa-review criminal-procedure deck-v-missouri due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-restraint jury-trial shackling state-conviction state-court-deference Whether the Seventh Circuit's invalidation of Wilber's conviction comports with the limits on federal authority to overturn State convictions under th…
21-6944 Juan Coreno-Garay v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
21-6920 Perry Cousins, aka Pzo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process jury-trial sentencing Whether the Sentencing provision of Statute 1963 violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments by denying the right to a Trial by Jury
21-6905 Ramon Diaz-Quintana v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6882 Alexi Lenin Argueta-Urbina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6887 Sergio Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6866 Richard R. Lawless v. Kat Mulder, et al. District of Columbia 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-slapp anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure civil-rights court-discovery discovery due-process jury-trial prejudice-dismissal seventh-amendment state-appellate-court Can a State court deny access to a jury trial and court discovery through the inappropriate application on an AntiSLAPP statute?
21-6805 Louis Roy Chapman v. Phyllis Smith, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal jury-trial procedural-error recusal standing summary-judgment Whether the district court judge erred in not recusing himself
21-971 Nahed Abdulnabi v. Fatma Adel Sekik Tennessee 2022-01-06 Denied civil-procedure consolidation divorce divorce-action due-process jury-trial marital-assets procedural-rights tort tort-consolidation valuation Whether the trial court's orders consolidating a tort case into a divorce action violated the petitioner's due-process rights
21-6746 Adan Ramirez-Rubio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing 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 …
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…
21-917 Abel Diaz v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Bennettsville Fourth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response Waived drug-offense drug-offenses habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-trial savings-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether the district court had jurisdiction under the savings clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) to adjudicate the merits of petitioner Diaz's § 2241 petit…
21-6631 Jorge Ivan Vazquez-Medrano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure indictment 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 …
21-882 Esteban Gaspar-Felipe v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived 5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether acquitted-conduct sentencing violates the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause or the Sixth Amendment's right to jury trial
21-6570 Bo Jack Kelley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt?
21-6572 Jose Luis Ramos-Ramos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6573 Michael Roy Sharpe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-guarantees criminal-law due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial maximum-sentence sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release trial-by-jury Does § 3583(e)(8) as applied here violate the Fifth and Sixth Amendments by authorizing punishment beyond the maximum for a conviction, based solely o…
21-6582 Genaro Alberto Nunez-Ugarte v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6568 Manuel Nunez-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process 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 …
21-852 Christopher D. Lischewski v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) antitrust constitutional-principle criminal-antitrust criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial per-se-rule reasonable-doubt separation-of-powers sherman-act Whether the operation of the per se rule in criminal antitrust cases violates the constitutional principle that every element of an offense must be su…
21-6512 Jason Kiger v. Tim Hooper, Warden Louisiana 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-offense constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial legislative-amendment legislative-power sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation unanimous-verdict Can Louisiana's 1997 and 1998 legislative amendments to La. 14:42 (C) and (D) qualify, absent a constitutional amendment, as the attendant provision n…
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…
21-6489 Edward F. Swanson v. Texas Texas 2021-12-02 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment judicial-discretion jury-trial preponderance-standard sentencing statutory-scheme Does the trial judge have the authority to make the charge a first degree felony?
21-6419 Roberto Aguilar-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process 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 …
21-6366 Juan Alberto Ceron-Ortiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial recidivism sentencing Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)
21-6321 Fernando Rodriguez-Macedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing 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 …
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
21-6308 Iona Sanders v. Christwood Fifth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP amendment-seven civil-rights covid-19 due-process jury-trial medical-records-privacy pandemic-jury-trial race-discrimination recusal-motion standing summary-judgment Whether a pandemic overrides Amendment VII
21-6322 Gustavo Trejo-Ramos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing 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 …
21-6289 Norris Deshon Andrews v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-trial-rights predicate-crimes predicate-crimes-of-violence sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the sentencing court violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment jury trial rights
21-6297 Henry Cervantes and Jaime Cervantes v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-statute jury-trial obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the federal obstruction of justice statute, 18 U.S.C. §1512(c)(2) (obstruction of an official proceeding), can be applied to street level crim…
21-6233 Joe Lenard Rodriguez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-trial methamphetamine Did the courts below err in convicting the Petitioner of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine?
21-6253 Baltazar Aguirre-Rivera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment special-interrogatory When a jury's answer to a special interrogatory negates an element of the charged offense, must a district court enter a judgment of acquittal when th…
21-6255 Ofelio Arvizu-Loredo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing 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 …
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?
21-6201 Reginald Kindle v. Florida Florida 2021-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether a sentencing court violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial when it finds by a preponderance of the evidence that he commi…
21-684 Beverly Zylstra, et vir v. DRV, LLC Seventh Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied Response Waived breach-of-warranty circuit-split consumer-protection cure-opportunity federal-law judicial-uniformity jury-trial magnuson-moss-warranty-act repair-attempts warranty-claims What constitutes a 'reasonable opportunity to cure' under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act?
21-662 Michael Bright-Asante v. Saks & Company, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied civil-rights due-process human-rights-law jury-trial section-1981 seventh-amendment standard-of-review summary-judgment Did the Second Circuit apply the correct standard of review?
21-6145 Omar Sanchez-Barrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6146 Keenan Rollerson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether a sentencing judge increasing a criminal defendant's punishment for acts charged but acquitted by the jury violates the jury trial guarantee o…
21-6155 Jose Burciaga-Alcantar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6124 Saul Contreras-Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6131 Jose Alfredo Gonzalez-Mares v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-604 Stephen Kantos v. Leonard Major, et al. Michigan 2021-10-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-right court-of-appeals dismissal-with-prejudice due-process jury-trial legal-sanction sanctions standing vicencio-v-ramirez Did the court of appeals err in denying plaintiff's right to a jury trial
21-6059 Terry Jonathan Phillips v. Florida Florida 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense
21-579 Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied accomplice-liability burden-of-proof capital-sentencing constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment specific-intent Under Waddington v. Sarausad, does a general jury instruction on accomplice liability relieve the State of its burden to prove specific intent beyond …
21-555 Benjamin A. Appleby v. Kansas Kansas 2021-10-15 Denied Response Waived alleyne due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial legislative-directive liberty-interest procedural-due-process resentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of procedural due process is violated
21-5948 In Re Henryk S. Borecki 2021-10-13 Denied IFP citizen-privilege civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-travel due-process freedom-of-movement habeas-corpus jury-trial standard-of-review supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether the final and conclusive determination of the right of a United States citizen to his unfettered privilege of domestic travel shall be determi…
21-5929 Jean Lynn Lillie v. Iowa Iowa 2021-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech jury-trial repeat-offender sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standing takings Can a state violate the Constitution of the United States and arbitrarily trample on the constitutional rights of individual innocent American citizen…
21-5936 Allen Fong v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-forfeiture in-personam-forfeiture jury-trial reasonable-doubt statutory-authority Whether the Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to a jury finding beyond a reasonable doubt any fact necessary to the imposition of a mandatory crimi…
21-5847 Arthur Lee Lewis v. California California 2021-10-01 Denied IFP due-process jury-trial presumption-of-innocence proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment statutory-sentencing statutory-sentencing-range Whether a sentence within the prescribed statutory range but inconsistent with the jury's verdict complies with the Sixth Amendment jury trial guarant…
21-438 Olaf Sööt Design, LLC v. Daktronics, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review claim-construction infringement jury-trial jury-verdict patent patent-law seventh-amendment sua-sponte Whether the Seventh Amendment allows the Federal Circuit to reverse a jury verdict based on a sua sponte new claim construction
21-5738 Daniel Jose Gomez v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-trial statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state court denied his request for a jury trial in his criminal case
21-424 KD, et ux., as Parents, Natural Guardians, and Next Friends of Minor LD v. Douglas County School District No. 001, aka Omaha Public Schools, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response Waived civil-damages civil-procedure civil-rights damages default-judgment due-process jury-trial victim-rights willful-blindness Whether a convicted rapist sued by the victim may deprive the victim of trial by jury to determine damages by defaulting and declining to respond to t…
21-5693 Eleno Guillen-Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-403 Bruce H. Zitka, et ux. v. Michigan Michigan 2021-09-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-order criminal-procedure due-process entrapment-by-estoppel government-liability governmental-officials jury-trial legal-defense res-judicata Were the Zitkas denied the right to present evidence to show the jury a prior court order authorized their conduct and to show they acted as they did …
21-5672 Wayne C. Doty v. Florida Florida 2021-09-14 Denied IFP aggravating-factors alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing due-process jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona Whether the Due Process Clause and right to a jury trial require additional determinations under Florida's capital sentencing scheme to be made beyond…
21-5574 Walter Manuel Marques-Mejia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment 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 …
21-329 Rosemary Garity v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Ninth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial make-whole-remedy pro-se sanctions standing summary-judgment Did the Ninth Circuit err in upholding sanctions against pro se, denial of damages and right to a jury trial, when admitting not supported by the reco…
21-5486 Scott Sanford v. Virginia Virginia 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights intelligent-waiver jury-trial knowing-waiver sixth-amendment voluntary-waiver waiver Minimum requirements for waiving jury trial right
21-228 Michael Murphy v. Richard Sarta, et al. Tennessee 2021-08-17 Denied access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge jury-trial state-court-procedure WHETHER THE TENNESSEE STATE TRIAL AND APPELLATE COURTS ARE USING A CONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE STATUTE TO DENY CITIZENS SIMILARLY SITUATED HEREIN AN OPPORT…
21-232 Veena Sharma v. Domenic S. Terranova, et al. First Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure dismissal-without-hearing due-process first-circuit hearing judicial-review jury-trial pro-se-petition procedural-due-process standing statute-of-limitations summons Whether the District Court and U.S. Appeals Court for the First Circuit decision of dismissing Petitioner's claim without issuing summons to Responden…
21-5349 Chris Allen Miller v. Jason R. Ravnsborg, Attorney General of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-trial prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the state court erred in denying the petitioner's due-process, civil-rights, criminal-procedure, jury-trial, double-jeopardy, prosecutorial-mi…
21-5372 Jessica Graulau v. Credit One Bank, N.A. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied IFP arbitration arbitration-dispute civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection jury-trial subject-matter-jurisdiction telephone-consumer-protection-act Did the Circuit Court of Appeal violate the U.S. Constitution and federal laws by depriving the petitioner of a jury trial, due process, and equal pro…
21-5373 Bernard Hollomond v. Tracy Ray, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied IFP confusion constitutional-rights due-process evidence-consideration jury-trial knowing-and-intelligent sentencing trial-procedure voluntariness waiver Whether the defendant's statements show that he knowingly and voluntarily waived his right to a jury trial
21-5358 Leonel Rodriguez-Caraveo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing 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 …
21-5333 Michael E. Harris v. Anthony Akidi Ninth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals discretionary-dismissal jury-demand jury-trial personal-injury prima-facie Did the United States court of appeals error and abuse its discretion, in dismissing the petitioner's prima facie personal injury, civil rights compla…
21-5392 Jose Raymundo Rodriguez-Yanez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5327 Mark Anthony Gonzalez v. Texas Texas 2021-08-09 Denied IFP criminal-procedure juror-substitution jury-deliberation jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure unanimous-verdict Whether a trial court's failure to instruct a reconstituted jury to deliberate anew after a juror substitution violates the Sixth Amendment right to a…
21-179 Nehemiah Rolle, Jr. v. Norman St. George Second Circuit 2021-08-06 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process equity equity-lawsuit federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jury-trial section-1983 Whether the petitioner's equity lawsuit under 42 USC § 1983 seeking declaratory judgment against the respondent is barred by statute
21-156 American Contractors Supply, LLC v. HD Supply Construction Supply, Ltd. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied antitrust antitrust-law civil-procedure evidence-weighing federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jury-trial material-fact summary-judgment Does Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56 permit the court to weigh competing evidence of a material fact from the moving party to grant summary judgmen…
21-5284 Albert Lamont Hector v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct due-process federal-appeals-courts fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment state-high-courts Whether sentences based on acquitted conduct violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause or Sixth Amendment's jury-trial guarantee
21-5232 Duane Allen Short v. Ohio Ohio 2021-07-29 Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-decency due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency jury-recommendation jury-trial sixth-amendment Is Ohio's capital sentencing scheme, which permits telling the jury that their decision is only a mere recommendation, unconstitutional under Hurst v.…
21-5248 Davion L. Jefferson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment crime-of-violence directed-verdict due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Did the district court violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's Jury Trial Clause
21-115 Ivan Rosario v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment judicial-factfinding jury jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's right to trial by jury protect criminal defendants from being sentenced bas…
21-5240 Carlos Elias Cruz-Bermudez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment 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 …
21-5241 Jose Lazaro Venancio Mendoza-Batres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-110 GMAG, LLC, et al. v. Ralph S. Janvey, as Receiver for the Stanford International Bank Limited, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process factual-dispute jury-trial jury-verdict legal-ruling ponzi-scheme seventh-amendment transferee-liability Whether the Seventh Amendment and due process permit a court of appeals to reverse a jury verdict based on the court's own independent examination of …
21-5189 Gary Hatter v. Gloria Williams, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure disability-discrimination due-process housing-authority hud jury-trial pro-se procedural-due-process seventh-amendment summary-judgment 7th-amendment-right-to-jury-trial
21-5175 Alfredo Jesus Chavez-Portillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5096 Jaime Martinez-Rojas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-22 Bo Peng v. F.M. Tarbell Co. California 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud-on-the-court judicial-bias judicial-corruption judicial-independence jury-trial legal-misconduct rule-of-law standing Judicial corruption
21-5053 Hernando Javier Vergara v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-challenge constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial retroactive-application retroactivity supervised-release Should the Haymond ruling be considered retroactive?
21-5029 Antonio Domingo-Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
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…
20-8461 In Re Richard Charles Lussy 2021-06-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights civil-torts due-process federal-questions jury-trial mandamus ministerial-mandamus oath-of-office public-charge standing Whether the petitioner has a clear legal duty for the Chief Justice to perform a ministerial mandamus act, despite the respondents' alleged errors and…
20-1820 Stephane J. Wantou Siantou v. CVS RX Services, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 7th-amendment amendment-rights bench-conference dismissal due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial motion-dismissal postponement Can a District Court judge invite the parties counsel to a bench conference for the specific goal of preventing the plaintiff from listening to the di…
20-8384 Pedro Rodriguez-Calderon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing 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 …
20-8300 Lonnie Norton v. Utah Utah 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness Whether Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000) and Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99 (2013) require that when a single statute creates a tier…
20-8308 Wilhelmina Montgomery v. NBC Television, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure copyright-infringement due-process fair-use jury-trial pro-se-litigation procedural-due-process service-of-process summary-dismissal summary-judgment visual-evidence As, I, the pro se Plaintiff-Appellant pointed out in my First Amended Complaint (Doc. 9) and in my Second Amended Complaint (Doc. 51) two (2) differen…
20-8266 Eric Lucas v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's Constitutional Rights Under The 5th, 6th And 14th Amendments Were Violated
20-8254 Demario M. Peterson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-variance sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness Whether the Sixth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, and this Court's jurisprudence on the procedural and substantive reasonableness of sentences are implica…
20-8211 Christian M. Allmendinger v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment witte-v-united-states Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments forbid sentencing guidelines from enhancing the presumed reasonable punishment for an offense, unless the facts…
20-8214 Warren D. Tisdale v. CASA Partners V, L.P. The Park at Winterset, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights discovery discovery-rights due-process interrogatories jury-trial magistrate-referral settlement sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial was violated
20-8192 Jorge Ramon Newball-May v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure jurisdiction jury-trial maritime-drug-law maritime-law pre-trial-hearing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. 70501 et. seq., is unconstitutional on its face and in violation of the Sixth Amendment right…
20-8152 Miguel Martinez-Figueroa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing 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 …
20-8119 Peter Anthony Ciraulo v. Oregon Oregon 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error unanimous-verdict Whether a trial court commits structural error for purposes of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, when the trial court instructs a…
20-8126 Charles Wesley Kincheloe v. Oregon Oregon 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error unanimous-verdict Does a trial court commit structural error for purposes of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, when the trial court instructs a jur…
20-8101 Joseph Weldon Smith v. Perry Russell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied IFP brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson capital-sentencing harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment stromberg-error stromberg-v-california Whether a federal court may disregard the prejudice resulting from Stromberg error and instead ask only what a hypothetical jury instructed on a valid…
20-8013 Jesus Manuel Anchondo-Quezada v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing 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 …
20-7981 Stephen Nivens v. J. Phillip Morgan, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document constitutional-rights double-jeopardy duplicitous duplicitous-charging fifth-amendment jury jury-trial multiplicitous multiplicitous-charging Whether the Petitioner has a right to be free from Double Jeopardy
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…
20-7940 Khaled Elbeblawy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-forfeiture due-process fact-finding forfeiture jury-trial restitution sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury trial on forfeiture, and whether the Sixth Amendment forbids a judge from finding facts that increase fine…
20-7884 Roel Gilberto Melendez-Davila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7859 Denver Lee v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP 6th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-sufficiency due-process felon-in-possession jury-finding jury-trial knowledge-of-status old-chief-stipulation plain-error rehaif substantial-rights Whether, when applying plain-error review based on the Court's intervening decision in Rehaif, a circuit court of appeals errs in relying on a petitio…
20-7874 Ted A. McCracken v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment causation-evidence civil-rights expert-testimony jury-trial pro-se-plaintiff pulmonologist-analysis seventh-amendment summary-judgment tobacco-litigation Was it not a denial of petitioner's 7th Amendment right to jury trial
20-1496 Ali Mohamed Elatrache v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response Waived capital-murder constitutional-rights due-process first-degree-murder jury-instructions jury-trial lesser-included-offenses procedural-default trial-by-jury whether-petitioner-was-deprived-of-due-process-and-jury-trial
20-7825 Carlon McGinn v. Kansas Kansas 2021-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-vagueness criminal-history criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the subsection-specific definition of 'PERSON FELONY' in Kansas Statutes is unconstitutionally vague
20-7793 Edgar Ivan Lira Estrada v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
20-1446 Patricia LaCourse, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Lt. Colonel Matthew LaCourse v. PAE Worldwide Incorporated, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied Response Waived boyle-v-united-technologies civil-procedure death-on-high-seas-act death-on-the-high-seas-act discretion-in-contract-performance government-contractor-defense jury-trial maritime-law summary-judgment Did the Court of Appeals err in extending the federal common law 'government contractor defense' to a government maintenance contract?
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 …
20-1355 David M. Johnson v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury Seventh Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-employment-opportunity jury-trial mandamus-writ seventh-amendment standing Whether a plaintiff is guaranteed the right to a jury trial by the 7th Amendment
20-1298 Demetreus A. Keahey v. Dave Marquis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 6th-amendment clearly established federal law regarding a defen criminal-procedure jury-trial or is an unreasonable application of self-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-trial self-defense sixth-amendment Whether the failure to give a self-defense jury instruction contradicts
20-7456 Rafael Ayala-Solorio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
20-7361 Robert Eugene Ayers v. Virginia Virginia 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial mental-health seventh-amendment sexual-predator sexually-violent-predator Was Petitioner entitled by the Incorporation of the Seventh Amendment's Jury Trial Clause into the Fourteenth Amendment to Trial By Jury in a State Ci…
20-7369 Antonia Janai Hickmon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt?
20-7299 Michael Dean Adkisson v. Nevada Nevada 2021-03-02 Denied IFP consecutive-sentence criminal-sentencing custody due-process jury-trial jury-trial-rights prison-custody separate-offense separate-statute statutory-interpretation Whether state prison officials violate an inmate's due process and jury trial rights when they hold an inmate in custody pursuant to an additional con…
20-7255 Samuel Zubia-Olivas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing Supreme-Court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-1177 National Medical Imaging, LLC, et al. v. U.S. Bank, N.A., et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bad-faith bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-petition compensatory-damages involuntary-bankruptcy jury-trial punitive-damages seventh-amendment Whether punitive damages are to be awarded when an involuntary bankruptcy petition was filed in bad faith
20-7232 Raul Almanza-Portillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
20-7220 Antonio Diaz-Agurcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
20-1136 Peter Capote v. Alabama Alabama 2021-02-19 Denied 6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment death-penalty judicial-fact-finding judicial-weighing jury-trial mitigating-circumstances sentencing-scheme sixth-amendment Whether the Alabama death penalty sentencing scheme violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial
20-1129 Scott Phillip Flynn v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied Amici (1) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea irs jury-trial klein-conspiracy restitution seventh-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the due process clause requires discussion of the elements of an 18 U.S.C. § 371 conspiracy to defraud the IRS before accepting a guilty plea
20-7128 Teodoro Reynosa-Denova v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7111 Carlos Lopez-Vanegas v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-02-11 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence-presentation judicial-interpretation jurisdiction jury-trial state-court Should the 'Speedy Process' globally regarded as a 'Miracle Appeal' be properly adjudicated?
20-7121 Georges Michel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey drug-quantity due-process jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's drug-quantity determination that exceeded the statutory-maximum based solely on t…
20-7070 Jeremy S. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-inquiry jury-polling jury-trial trial-court-procedure verdict-review Does the new syllabus point issued by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia permitting a trial court judge to make further inquiry of a juror …
20-6954 Brenda Yadira Gamez-Castaneda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-smuggling criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judge-found-facts judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-trial-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's sentence violates the Sixth Amendment because its reasonableness depends upon facts found by the court that was not admitted by t…
20-6925 Leonidas Iraheta and Eduardo Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judge-found-facts judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit severe increases to the sentences of criminal defendants using judge-found facts rejected by the jury
20-6883 Christopher Brent Garner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-authority jury-trial legal-error sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release trial-by-jury Whether 18 U.S.C. §3583(g) unconstitutionally deprives federal supervised releasees of the right to trial by jury?
20-6884 Luis Alberto Andrade-Salas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
20-6864 Brian David Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment supervised-release trial-by-jury Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner without a jury trial and by a preponderance of the evidence
20-945 Samuel T. Russell v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied 11th-amendment bill-of-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction jury-trial right-to-petition search-and-seizure sovereign-immunity When the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said they reviewed 'an Eleventh Amendment immunity determination de novo,' did they fail…
20-6823 Robert Buttery v. Ohio Ohio 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-rights juvenile-adjudication sex-offender-registration Whether an adult felony conviction under Ohio's failure to register statute violates due process and jury trial rights
20-6775 Dantazias Raines v. Georgia Georgia 2021-01-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole montgomery-v-louisiana permanent-incorrigibility sixth-amendment Does a juvenile have a Sixth Amendment right to have a jury decide whether he is permanently incorrigible, and thus eligible to be sentenced to life w…
20-6776 Charod Becton v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial pinkerton-doctrine sixth-amendment Should this Court abrogate the judicially established Pinkerton doctrine
20-6762 James W. Knipfer v. Reed A. Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jury jury-trial procedural-due-process Can there be a 'perpetual jury', 'phantom jury', 'forever jury' or a 'jury on a judge's whim' in the United States?
20-6735 Frank A. McClung, Jr., et ux. v. Elia E. Estevez Florida 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jury-trial service-of-process seventh-amendment standing Seventh Amendment right to jury trial
20-873 Herman Miller, Inc. v. Blumenthal Distributing, Inc., dba Office Star Ninth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied civil-procedure household-name jury-trial standard-of-review trade-dress trademark Whether the appellate court improperly substituted its own factual findings in place of a jury verdict
20-6699 Juan David Pineda-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6692 Juan Manuel Lopez-Canales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6661 Brian Keith Figge v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied IFP criminal-defendant criminal-procedure deliberation-process due-process judicial-misconduct juror-dismissal jury-deliberations jury-selection jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Does a trial court violate a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury when it dismisses a defense holdout juror on the third day of…
20-6645 Joe Cervantes, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations constitutional-violation due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jury-trial notice-of-charges void-for-vagueness void-statutes Does AEDPA deprive federal courts of the power and obligation to review claims not previously known and could not have been known through reasonable d…
20-6633 Eduardo David Vargas v. California California 2020-12-15 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior c…
20-814 James Nalder, et al. v. United Automobile Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure damages-review diversity federal-courts judicial-procedure jury-trial standing standing-doctrine substantive-law Whether a federal appeals court may be divested of jurisdiction by evaluating facts of an alleged post-judgment reduction in the amount of damages and…
20-797 Leonard Patti v. George C. Peck, Jr. Third Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 7th-amendment affidavit-of-merit civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process informed-consent jury-trial medical-malpractice standing Why was I denied my right to a trial by jury, or even a hearing on the case?
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 …
20-6513 Calvin Teko Coston v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-imprisonment revocation sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment supervised-release united-states-v-haymond Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
20-6460 Reginald Hollie v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-offense interstate-commerce jury-trial plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement Whether courts of appeals may rely on information not proven to the jury to affirm a conviction on plain-error review
20-6434 Julian Madero-Diaz, aka Hector Ramon Castillo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 constitutional-punishment fifth-amendment jury-trial punishment-scheme sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether a judge's decision to revoke a person's supervised release and send him to prison subjects him to an unconstitutional punishment scheme under …
20-715 Jibriil A. Hersi v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-authorization jury-trial police-conduct police-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel trial-records whether-i-am-entitled-to-get-the-missing-records
20-6403 Casey Mattingly v. Duval County Jail, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-trial summary-judgment Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court erred in dismissing the Plaintiff's appeal, demonstrating a violation of the Plaintiff's constitutional rights unde…
20-6408 Jose Hilario Fernandez-Vargas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment 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 …
20-6389 Tomas Martinez-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
20-6368 In Re Richard J. Ramsey 2020-11-18 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights court-martial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial military-justice plea-bargain separation-of-powers sixth-amendment ucmj Whether military plea-bargains procedures are unconstitutional
20-6344 Phyllis Marie Knight v. John C. Chatelain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law bill-of-rights civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship due-process interstate-commerce jury-trial seventh-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Is the state or federal court the proper forum for this dispute?
20-6337 Tramaine Standberry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct crime-of-violence criminal-law district-court-discretion due-process guidelines-interpretation jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional upward-variance Did the jury convict Mr. Standberry for a crime of violence that this Court has held is unconstitutional?
20-6211 Michael Anthony Robbins v. California California 2020-11-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process investigation juror-bias jury-trial racial-bias sixth-amendment What constitutes juror bias for purposes of removing a sitting juror during deliberations?
20-6128 Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-10-26 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law jury-trial parental-rights patent-claims state-procedure Does CL have a right to a jury trial when the state seeks to terminate parental rights?
20-6112 Oscar Pena Trujillo v. Arizona Arizona 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment alleyne apprendi apprendi-rule due-process ex-post-facto-clause fact-finding jury-trial sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment southern-union Does the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial require submitting to the jury questions of fact that mandate sex offender registration?
20-6100 Carlos Meza-Cruz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6084 Laron J. Wainwright v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act judicial-records jury-trial modified-categorical-approach prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment permits a sentencing court to find that a defendant's prior convictions were committed on different occasions based on non…
20-5966 Keven A. Morgan v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment attorney-general authorization-order criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial law-enforcement wire-tapping wiretapping Whether law enforcement and the district attorney failed to attach the United States Attorney General's special designated authorization order and aut…
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 …
20-5848 Richard Bridgeman Gustafson v. Oregon Oregon 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment state-trial-procedure Whether a criminal trial in the State of Oregon that did not guarantee a unanimous verdict, leading the defendant to choose a bench trial, was unconst…
20-5867 Jerome Ceasar Alverto v. Bryan Dwain Cline Ninth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process jury-trial standing state-court takings Whether the petitioner's due-process rights were violated by the state court's denial of his request for a jury trial
20-5882 Omero Nino-Guerrero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
20-5813 Glenn Young v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment jury-conviction jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Is the State's evidence sufficient to sustain Young's nonunanimous conviction?
20-5773 William C. McGee v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Relisted (4)IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure essential-element judicial-determination jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error Whether omitting an essential element of the crime in both the indictment and jury instructions may be reviewed for harmlessness
20-5734 Alfred Flores, III v. California California 2020-09-17 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-requirements criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-findings jury-trial reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona sentencing whether-california's-death-penalty-scheme-violates-the-constitutional-requirement-that-any-fact-that-increases-the-penalty-for-a-crime-must-be-found-b…
20-5741 Juan Gabriel Sanchez-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States?
20-5720 Martin Garcia-Moreno v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense immigration-law jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing-factors sixth-amendment Should the Court finally overrule Almendarez-Torres?
20-5728 Derrick A. Dotson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP batson-challenge collateral-review criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection jury-trial ramos-retroactivity retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-standard Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on state collateral review
20-348 Gregory Shawn Mercer v. E. A. Vega Fourth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process guarantee-clause jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment supreme-clause Whether a Circuit Split has arisen over the interpretation of 18 U.S.C. §924(e)(1) regarding simultaneous crimes
20-5709 Rickey Cole v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP and proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? placed in the indictment burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grand-jury indictment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be found by a grand jury, placed in the indictment, and proven to a …
20-5710 Jaime E. Coca-Ortiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment 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 …
20-5669 Christopher Paul George v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-procedure criminal-restitution equity-practice fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-verdict seventh-amendment sixth-amendment Whether Apprendi applies to a mandatory criminal restitution order, and whether the Seventh Amendment requires a restitution order to comply with trad…
20-5653 Hermenegildo Margarito Espinoza Espinoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment 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 …
20-5608 Michael Jonathon Besoyan v. Jimmy Yee, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-access jury-trial pro-se-litigant void-orders Whether any court or tribunal should be allowed to deny or deprive any citizen of basic rights listed in the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment
20-5528 Miguel Romero v. California California 2020-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourteenth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-adjudication prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude a trial court from using a prior juvenile adjudication to increase a defendant's maximum sentence…
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 …
20-206 Wanda Albritten v. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, et al. California 2020-08-21 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-jury-trial civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Is the Seventh Amendment right to a civil jury trial incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment?
20-5429 Derrick T. Neville, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne apprendi criminal-procedure jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether a court can consistently apply the Sixth Amendment and the Court's holdings in Apprendi and Alleyne to require a jury to find facts that incre…
20-5436 Christy Santiago v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment's right to a jury trial prohibit courts from using acquitted conduct to vary significantly upward from a Sentencing Guideline…
20-5363 Reginald Jones v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-08-14 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-conviction firearm jury-trial jury-unanimity obstruction-of-justice ramos-precedent ramos-v-louisiana Whether the Petitioner is entitled to be released from prison due to the State's failure to prove guilt by a unanimous jury verdict as required by Ram…
20-5254 Quintin I. Brown v. Virginia Virginia 2020-08-04 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-law felony jury-trial misdemeanor Did the Commonwealth of Virginia trial court deny Mr. Brown his constitutional right to jury trial on the misdemeanor charges of receiving stolen prop…
20-5226 Jose Flores-Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment 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 …
20-85 Shirley Dimps v. Taconic Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 7th-amendment administrative-exhaustion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial sovereign-immunity standing Whether petitioner was denied the right to a jury trial, procedural due process, and the opportunity to call witnesses
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 …
20-5173 Juan Domingo Velazquez v. Texas Texas 2020-07-24 Denied IFP court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial plea-of-not-guilty right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error Was it structural error that violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment autonomy rights when Petitioner's court-appointed counsel conceded his client's gui…
20-5156 Manuel Contreras Saucedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding federal-sentencing jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt?
20-52 Yeitza Marie Aponte-Bermudez v. Eligio Colón, et al. First Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process expert-testimony federal-courts judgment-as-a-matter-of-law jury-evaluation jury-trial law-of-the-case rule-50 May a federal district court consistent with the law-of-the-case doctrine grant judgment as a matter of law under Fed. R. Civ. P. 50(a) to respondents…
20-5059 Christopher Goodin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-protection constitutional-rights criminal-penalty criminal-punishment jury jury-trial mandatory-restitution mandatory-statute restitution sexual-exploitation sixth-amendment Does the Constitution's guarantee of trial by jury extend to awards of restitution under the Mandatory Restitution For Sexual Exploitation of Children…
20-5028 Richard Charles Lussy v. Wade J. Dahood Montana 2020-07-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process free-speech jury-trial legal-procedure ministerial-oath oath-of-office standing stare-decisis Whether to apply Federal Constitution: [A] bad speech to impeach hearsay-stare decisis with particularized legislated Montana Code Annotated
20-5003 Richard B. Woods v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-07-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict remand sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
19-1465 Robert Marcelis v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-07-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-defendant criminal-procedure increased-sentence jury-finding jury-trial prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Does the sixth amendment require a jury finding beyond a reasonable doubt that a criminal defendant has one or more prior convictions before an increa…
19-8874 Robert Warren Scully v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing fact-finding fifth-amendment jury-trial restitution restitution-order sixth-amendment Whether a restitution order imposed as part of a federal criminal sentence and based on fact-findings made by the district court, rather than the jury…
19-8875 David Gerard Jones v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-07-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict remand sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
19-8845 Charles Grover Brant v. Florida Florida 2020-06-29 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fact-finding fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-waiver Whether a waiver to an advisory, non-unanimous jury verdict lacking in any fact finding requirement under a death penalty scheme later determined to b…
19-8832 Stefan Van Der End v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial maritime-law nationality sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments are violated by the provision of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70504(a), precluding jury c…
19-1418 Zoie H. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-06-25 Denied Amici (1) 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment collateral-consequence constitutional-rights due-process firearm-rights jury-trial juvenile-court second-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the Second and Sixth Amendments permit a state to deprive an individual of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms based on the commi…
19-8791 Jose Angel Vasquez-Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial 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 …
19-8755 Levi West v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Is the different-occasions requirement an element for the jury to decide, or for the sentencing judge to decide?
19-8738 Charles Clark v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2020-06-18 Denied IFP competent-jurisdiction constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment state-trial-court subject-matter-jurisdiction venue Is the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Due Process Clause violated where the State court was without subject-matter-jurisdiction to pronounc…
19-8740 Anthony J. Williams v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-06-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
19-8702 Billy Edward Sedberry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-quantity judicial-fact-finding jury-trial methamphetamine sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the district court procedurally erred in miscalculating Sedberry's drug quantity base offense level
19-8711 Willie Dunn v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-06-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment state-courts Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
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 …
19-8655 Milton Barrios-Alvarado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial overrule petition sentencing supreme-court writ Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-8675 Issac Oral Chandler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt revocation sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release Should this Court grant review to determine whether the mandatory provision for revocation of supervised release set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) viol…
19-8659 Steven Adam Segovia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding federal-sentencing jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt?
19-1338 Briley W. Piper v. Darrin Young, Warden South Dakota 2020-06-04 Denied criminal-procedure cumulative-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial jury-trial-waiver plea-bargaining pre-plea-advisory prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-jury-trial waiver-of-jury-sentencing waiver-of-jury-trial Whether the faulty pre-plea advising applies to both the waiver of jury trial and waiver of jury sentencing, requiring a remand to allow Piper to make…
19-1320 Veronica M. Johnson v. Rock Solid Janitorial, Inc., et al. Virginia 2020-05-29 Denied appeal civil-case civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation de-novo-review due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial motion-to-dismiss remand standing Whether the second Judge who presided in Plaintiffs civil case violated the Constitution by denying Plaintiff's demand for a jury trial, again, after …
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 …
19-8544 Hubert Carter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Does the judicial determination of crimes 'committed on occasions different from one another' at sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.…
19-8493 Mark Stinson v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conspiracy criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction jury-trial ptsd Can husband and wife be charged with conspiracy despite the husband's PTSD diagnosis?
19-8440 Katherine O'Neal v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-error evidence-admission harmless-error jury-trial overwhelming-evidence sixth-amendment Whether a constitutional error in the admission of evidence is harmless based on the strength of the untainted proof or the error's contribution to th…
19-8425 Chayce Aaron Anderson v. Colorado Colorado 2020-05-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process fair-trial jailhouse-informant jury-trial prejudicial-evidence Whether the district court erred in limiting the scope of cross-examination of a jailhouse informant, denying the defendant's constitutional right to …
19-1268 Jeanetta Springer, et vir v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-06 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law due-process judicial-bias judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct jury-trial pro-se-litigation recusal standing Can a court force a pro se litigant to a bench trial despite demand for jury trial?
19-1269 TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. v. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, et al. Federal Circuit 2020-05-06 Denied Amici (5) antitrust equitable-relief frand frand-commitment jury-trial patent patent-infringement patent-licensing seventh-amendment specific-performance standard-essential-patents standard-setting-organizations Whether a patent owner required to license its standard-essential patents on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms has a Seventh Amendment ri…
19-8374 In Re Sha'Ron A. Sims 2020-04-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-law chapter-13 civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial property-rights Do debtors have a right to jury trial in Chapter 13 bankruptcy disputes over primary residence claims?
19-8342 Dearieus Duheart v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit the use of acquitted conduct to enhance a defendant's sentence?
19-8338 Charles P. Mayeux, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-04-22 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Whether a conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
19-8289 Jose Yeyille v. Cecilia M. Altonaga, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure dismissal district-court-review due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis jury-trial seventh-amendment standing Whether the district court appropriately resolved genuine issues of disputed facts; correctly applied legal conclusions; and provided any statement ex…
19-8271 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska Alaska 2020-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP equal-protection impartial-jury juror-bias jury-trial jury-trial-right no-impeachment-rule racial-bias sixth-amendment Whether a no-impeachment rule constitutionally may bar evidence of juror bias when offered to prove a violation of the Sixth Amendment to an impartial…
19-1218 Marcus Lee Robinson v. Colorado Colorado 2020-04-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-trial plain-error prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-prejudice Whether a prosecutor's blatant appeals to racial prejudice constitute plain error, even if the defendant cannot show that they altered the jury's verd…
19-8255 Emilio Medina-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
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…
19-1202 Thomas Taffe, et al. v. First National Bank of Alaska Alaska 2020-04-08 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-trial legal-standards pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants standing summary-judgment systemic-bias Did a systemic bias against pro se litigants lead to the unconstitutional denial of Petitioners' right to a jury trial in this case?
19-8192 John Bejarano v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Nevada 2020-04-06 Denied IFP aggravating-factors appellate-reweighing apprendi clemons-v-mississippi constitutional-rights death-penalty jury-trial reweighing sixth-amendment Whether the Nevada Supreme Court's reweighing of aggravating and mitigating factors to uphold a death sentence violates the Sixth Amendment right to a…
19-8156 John Stancu v. Hyatt Corporation Fifth Circuit 2020-04-01 Denied IFP 7th-amendment age-discrimination civil-rights discovery-rights due-process employment-law jury-trial seventh-amendment standing Did the district court and the 5th Circuit usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's right to a jury…
19-8062 Troy Anthony LeBouef v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Was LeBouef entitled to a unanimous jury verdict under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
19-8039 Jeffrey Clark v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-03-18 Denied IFP counsel-conflict criminal-trial death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment faretta-waiver jury-trial right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation self-representation sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's waiver of counsel is not knowing, intelligent and voluntary when the defendant's only other option was to proceed to trial with …
19-7984 Danny Pereda v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process government-discretion government-procedures jury-trial sentencing-guidelines Whether it is unconstitutional to provide such discretion to courts to deny defendants their Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial and instead impose …
19-7957 Damar D. Ruffin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law jury-instruction jury-trial reversible-error sentencing standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals committed reversible error in determining the amount of a controlled substance
19-7968 Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment standing takings Does the Fourth Amendment protect the right of the people to be secure therein?
19-7936 James Zavaglia v. Boston University School of Medicine First Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP administrative-law but-for-causation causation-standard chevron-deference civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination family-medical-leave-act fmla-interference jury-trial medical-leave motivating-factor reeves-v-sanderson retaliation standing summary-judgment Whether the lower courts are correct to apply Nassar to FMLA cases
19-7950 Daejerron L. Valentine v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment ambiguity automobile-exception conjunctive consistency criminal-procedure Did the removal of 'or' create ambiguity? disjunctive fourth-amendment Is a defendant entitled to consistent jury instruc jury-instructions jury-trial legislative-history possession probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard scope-of-search search search-and-seizure search-scope statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement warrantless-search Did the warrantless search of an automobile exceed the scope of the automobile exception?
19-7833 Inocente Rodriguez-Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
19-7834 Travis Soto v. Ohio Ohio 2020-03-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure federal-courts fifth-amendment finality plea-bargaining constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-courts fifth-amendment finality jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause attaches to charges dismissed during a negotiated plea agreement
19-7768 Jibriil A. Hersi v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency judicial-misconduct jury-trial police-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal transcript trial-irregularities Whether I am entitled to get the missing records from my trial in Medina County, Ohio for statements made by the judge outside the hearing of the jury…
19-7779 Freddy Garcia v. Texas Texas 2020-02-26 Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-erro harmless-error indictment indictment-variance jury-conviction jury-trial standard-of-review When a defendant is convicted of an offense for which he was not indicted, and has preserved the issues of constitutional error, what factors should a…
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?
19-1028 Alina Korsunska v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response Waived credibility employment-discrimination evidence-law intent-and-motivation intent-motivation jury-trial material-dispute retaliation summary-judgment title-vii Should summary judgment be avoided in employment discrimination and retaliation cases where outcome depends on credibility determination?
19-7649 Socorro Susan Caro v. California California 2020-02-12 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior c…
19-7608 Juan Perez-Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
19-967 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…
19-7480 David Paul Lynch v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-error eleventh-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-statements jury-trial precedent sixth-amendment weight-of-evidence Did the Eleventh Circuit violate this Court's precedent on harmless error
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 …
19-7484 Jose Candelario Perez-Cruz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute jury-trial maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law mdlea pretrial-hearing stateless-vessel trial-procedure Whether the Court of Appeals clearly erred in upholding the District Court's conclusion that jurisdiction in a stateless vessel case under the MDLEA i…
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…
19-7431 Brandon J. Lofland v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus identification-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia jury-trial miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default state-procedural-rules sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a 'mere modicum' of evidence is sufficient to sustain a conviction
19-7379 Lee Samuel Capers v. California California 2020-01-22 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether California's death penalty scheme violates the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior…
19-915 Donald Henderson Scott, et ux. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court jurisdiction jury-trial standing supreme-court Whether the United States Court of Appeal for the Eighth Circuit misapprehended its jurisdiction in a way that conflicts with decisions of the U.S. Su…
19-7322 Gerardo Sanchez-Miranda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment 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 eit…
19-7333 Eduardo Luis Martinez-Paz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
19-7289 Willis Shane Gordon v. Sam Cline, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation brady-evidence Brady-Violation burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy doyle-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial kansas-sentencing-guidelines post-arrest-silence prior-convictions procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines Issues being raised
19-7294 Mohammed Kwaning v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence fair-trial hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-error jury-trial material-evidence preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the Government officials conduct violated Petitioner's constitutional rights?
19-7298 James Lee Bell v. Florida Florida 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-precedent blakely-rule criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury jury-trial mandatory-minimum recidivism recidivist-treatment sentencing sentencing-enhancement Was the limitation of Almendarez-Torres and the dictates of Apprendi and Blakely violated?
19-7254 John Garrett Smith v. Washington Washington 2020-01-13 Dismissed IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-trial martial-law military-justice sixth-amendment Whether the absence of a grand jury indictment violates due process and the right to a jury trial under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments
19-7259 John Afriyie v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-forfeiture due-process insider-trading jury-trial libretti-v-united-states sixth-amendment Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming a criminal forfeiture judgment encompassing all potential trades despite a general jury verdict and th…
19-7251 William McNeal v. Florida Florida 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi apprendi-standard apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure degree-classification due-process essential-element essential-elements jury-trial reclassification sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether Florida's interpretation of 'essential element' is contrary to Apprendi v. New Jersey
19-7220 Francisco Guerrero-Saucedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt 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 …
19-7202 Terence C. Powell v. Lab Corporation, et al. Second Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment chain-conspiracy civil-procedure civil-rights civil-trial due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-right jury-trial privileges-and-immunities seventh-amendment Whether the Court of Appeals correctly affirmed the District Court's granting the defendant's Motions to Dismiss violates the protections of the Seven…
19-7215 Jerry Jabbari Rhodes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied IFP acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-sentencing jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment watts-decision Is it reasonable and constitutional to sentence a defendant on facts for which a jury found the same defendant not guilty?
19-7142 General P. Haymon v. Michael Johnson California 2020-01-06 Denied IFP 7th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights dred-scott due-process equal-protection jury-trial race racial-discrimination seventh-amendment standing Whether a state can deprive a descendant of enslaved people the right to a jury trial
19-7181 Anna Bell v. Oregon Health & Science University Oregon 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-trial pro-se-representation right-to-counsel right-to-jury-trial self-representation Does denying a pro se individual or public a proper course of justice by a Court violate prior U.S. Supreme Court rulings and The Ninth Amendment to t…
19-7120 Gilbert Sanchez v. Texas Texas 2019-12-31 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus in-re-winship jury-trial right-to-trial-by-jury sixth-amendment texas-constitution Is the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution violated when the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denies an Applicant habeas relief base…
19-7088 Marcos Cortez-Rogel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
19-7104 Julio Cesar Pacheco-Astrudillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
19-7063 Leeton Jahwanza Thomas v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-12-26 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Were Petitioner's rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution violated by a Pennsylvania statutory sch…
19-799 Streambend Properties II, LLC, et al. v. Ivy Tower Minneapolis, LLC, et al. Minnesota 2019-12-23 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal-with-prejudice due-process equal-protection failure-to-state-claim jury-trial jury-trial-rights pleadings standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing with prejudice Petitioners' claims for failing to state a claim for which relief may be granted
19-7040 Dalia A. Dippolito v. Florida Florida 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-law criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process entrapment factual-disputes jury-trial objective-entrapment state-law trial-by-jury trial-court-proceedings Where state law recognizes objective entrapment as a complete defense to criminal liability, and that defense turns on disputed issues of fact, does r…
19-776 James Wesley Amonett, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2019-12-18 Denied Response Waived contract-enforcement contract-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-contract-enforcement due-process jury-trial law-enforcement plea-bargaining police-authority police-promises right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the police can promise someone who they have arrested a specific benefit in exchange for the arrestee's cooperation and whether that contract …
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…
19-6901 Alonso Barrera-Montes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure department-of-state due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay hearsay-rule jurisdiction jury-trial Whether the court of appeals erred in upholding the admission of evidence that violated the hearsay rule and the defendant's confrontation rights
19-6876 Mauricio Aguirre, aka Mauricio Aguirre-Orcutt, aka Peter Holston-Aguirre, aka Peter Holston, aka Miller Aguirre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-modification sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether a federal defendant may suffer additional imprisonment on the basis of facts that have never been placed in an indictment, nor proven to a jur…
19-6783 Virgil Lamont Jarvis v. David Allison, Sheriff, Pearl River County, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-review appeal-rights appeals civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies in-forma-pauperis jury-trial legal-procedure prison-litigation-reform-act standing summary-judgment Whether officials can refuse to process inmate grievances and then dismiss a subsequent civil rights lawsuit for failure to exhaust administrative rem…
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 …
19-6796 Valentin Castanon-Renteria v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
19-6781 Donato Luna-Quintero v. Indiana Indiana 2019-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel foreign-defendant jury-trial language-barrier language-barriers limited-english-proficiency right-to-counsel waiver Whether the defendant's constitutional right to a jury trial was properly waived, and whether counsel provided effective assistance, when the defendan…
19-6773 Edgar Ortega-Limones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
19-6679 Horatio Johnson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-11-19 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment state-court state-criminal-procedure Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a state-court crimi…
19-6662 Shane E. Jones v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right statutory-interpretation Does the judicial determination of crimes 'committed on occasions different from one another' at sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.…
19-625 Rita Guerrero, Individually and as the Special Administrator of the Estate of Celso N. Guerrero v. BNSF Railway Company Seventh Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response Waived federal-employers-liability-act interstate-commerce interstate-rail-service jury-trial negligence scope-of-employment seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the decision by the Seventh Circuit panel conflicts with provisions of the Federal Employers' Liability Act, and the uniform precedents of thi…
19-6616 Alberino Magi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-procedure criminal-fines criminal-penalty criminal-restitution due-process jury-finding jury-findings jury-trial sentencing southern-union southern-union-v-united-states Should the rule of Apprendi apply to the imposition of criminal restitution?
19-6582 Roberto Carlos Martinez-Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
19-6500 Horacio Dominguez-Villalobos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
19-6390 Edward L. Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial miranda-rights self-incrimination sixth-amendment Was the Petitioner's right to due process and freedom from self-incrimination violated?
19-6284 Jose L. Cabrera-Cosme v. United States First Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquitted-conduct due-process jury-trial mcmillin-v-pennsylvania sentencing sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct united-states-v-watts Whether a reasonable jurist could find debatable Petitioner's Sixth Amendment was violated
19-6290 Servando Pineda-Castellanos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
19-6265 Alex Knight v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and/or Sixth Amendments are violated when a district court increases a criminal defendant's sentence based upon conduct for which a …
19-6276 Robert Wayne Wilson, Jr. v. California California 2019-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-sexual-abuse constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-allegations jury-trial presumption-of-innocence trial-by-jury Does testimony that only four percent of child sexual abuse allegations are false violate the defendant's rights to trial by jury, to the presumption …
19-6235 Scott Thomas Erskine v. California California 2019-10-10 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection jury-trial jury-unanimity narrowing-requirement sentencing Does California's death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments?
19-6199 Emeterio Espino Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
19-6230 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…
19-419 Antonio L. Saulsberry v. Randy Lee, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-trial precedent retrial sixth-amendment verdict Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars retrial of a defendant on a charge that was submitted to a jury at a prior trial but as to which that jury did…
19-6094 Andres Herrera-Segovia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment 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 …
19-6042 Gerardo Tajonar Cortes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
19-390 William James, et al. v. Barbara Hunt, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rico collateral-estoppel constitutional-amendments due-process federal-procedure final-judgment-act first-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court interlocutory-appeal jury-trial obstruction-of-justice Whether district court orders denied petitioner's Civil RICO rights,
19-6049 Lawrence T. Tyler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-consequences coram-nobis criminal-sentencing deportation fact-finding fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fact-finding jury-trial loss-amount reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Whether a Certificate-Of-Appealability should be granted
19-6017 Randy Matthew Cordero v. Nick A. Guzman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-instruction jury-trial personal-injury standing trial-fairness issue being raised
19-5973 Wilfred Warren Sheppard v. Texas Texas 2019-09-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-trial sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent united-states-constitution Whether the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals has ruled in a manner which conflicts with the Fifth and Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
19-5989 Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-09-18 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provision direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitutional-law thirteenth-amendment verdict-retroactivity Whether it denies defendant's Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendment Rights while on direct review not to retroactively vacate a non-unanimous jury verdi…
19-5961 Mark Whitehead v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-due-process constitutional-law criminal-contempt due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal jury-trial recusal trial-procedure Whether a trial judge that has had a significant hand in the accusatory process of a criminal contempt jury trial should be recused from presiding ove…
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…
19-5907 Luis Castaneda-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
19-5889 Jonathan Torres-Arroyo v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-09-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure judicial-findings jury-trial mandatory-minimum ring-v-arizona sentencing sentencing-court state-v-kiriakakis Did the New Jersey Courts make an invalid distinction from Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), in holding that the defendant's right to a ju…
19-5865 Pablo Sauste Balderas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
19-315 Endre Glenn v. Brennan H. Moss, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights docketing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether U.S. District Court violated client's right to jury trial under U.S. Const. Amend VII, and XIV due process, equal protection of the laws
19-5829 Yoni Castro-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt 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 …
19-5807 Thedrick Edwards v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Judgment Issued Amici (20)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment state-law Whether Louisiana's non-unanimous jury requirement for crimes requiring life sentences violates the Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the Un…
19-5817 Kendrick Taylor v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent unanimous-verdict Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requirement be required in state…
19-280 Judy Long v. Alameda Unified School District Ninth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial motion-dismissal standard-of-review standing summary-judgment What is the appropriate standard of review when a trial court improperly grants a motion for summary judgment dismissing the right to a jury trial?
19-5785 Raul Zapata-Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment home-search indictment jury-trial liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision statutory-maximum statutory-reasonableness supervised-release supervision vagueness Whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit him at any time at home or elsewhere is unreasonabl…
19-250 Oklahoma v. Jesse Allen Johnson Oklahoma 2019-08-26 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment jury-factfinding jury-trial juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment require that the individualized sentencing proceeding necessary to impose a life-without-parole sentence upon a juvenile homi…
19-5693 Harlow Hutchinson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-08-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
19-5541 Quianna S. Canada v. Texas Mutual Insurance Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law jury-trial retaliation seventh-amendment summary-judgment title-vii Can federal courts use summary judgment motions to divest the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial?
19-5455 Jesus Rios-Garza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
19-5442 Shanta G. Phillips-Berry v. Kenner Police Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process due-process evidentiary-requirements fair-trial judicial-discretion jury jury-trial legal-standards standing trial-procedure What if district court abused its discretion by not relying on the erroneous legal premise that a citizen(s) of the state of Louisiana and this great …
19-5394 Michael Leon Bell v. California California 2019-07-30 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment constitutional-procedure death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-fact-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement that every fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increase the statutory m…
19-5301 Aaron Orlando Richards v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-07-25 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection first-degree-murder jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-verdict legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict prosecutorial-discretion unanimous-verdict Did the appellate court err in its interpretation of Apodaca and Bertrand?
19-5346 Jose Martinez v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP acquitted-conduct burden-of-proof buyer-seller-defense criminal-conviction cross-examination drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether this Court's decisions to allow district courts to use acquitted conduct in imposing sentence violate the Constitution
19-5247 Charles Michael Hedlund v. Arizona Arizona 2019-07-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eddings-v-oklahoma habeas-corpus jury-trial sentencing Whether the correction of error under Eddings v. Oklahoma requires resentencing
19-5259 Edgar Armand Hernandez-Castillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-minimum Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the statutory minimum is 'not greater than necessary' to achieve…
19-97 Mitchell Jay Stein v. Securities and Exchange Commission Ninth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-estoppel jury-trial offensive-collateral-estoppel securities-fraud seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether offensive collateral estoppel may be used to enter summary judgment on an alternative theory that was never presented to the trier of fact in …
19-101 Imperium IP Holdings (Cayman), Ltd. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof credibility-determinations credibility-of-witnesses expert-testimony jury-trial jury-trial-rights jury-verdict patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-validity seventh-amendment standard-of-review Whether an appellate court may reverse a jury verdict based on its own view that expert testimony was credible, 'unrebutted,' and 'uncontradicted,' or…
19-5174 William C. Lewis, Sr., et al. v. Estate of Robert A. Lewis, et al. District of Columbia 2019-07-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment asset-transfer civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment standing takings Whether the decision affirming the denial of a trial by jury on Petitioners' claims violated their 7th Amendment to the US Constitution
19-5022 Brian K. Banks v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b)-evidence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-error louisiana-supreme-court prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err in allowing the Fifth Circuit to contradict its own prior rulings by overruling the District Court's decision to n…
19-5 Luis Arnaldo Baez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extraneous-evidence jury-instruction jury-trial limiting-instruction propensity-evidence Whether a jury instruction that permits conviction on proof of extraneous and propensity evidence, rather than on proof of all of the elements of a ch…
18-9821 Robert Lee Heard, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-27 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP Apodaca-v-Oregon criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-jury-verdict nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment allow a state-court criminal conviction to stand on a nonunanimous jury verdict?
18-9787 Jace Crehan v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-25 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
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…
18-9732 Bejan David Etemad v. North Dakota North Dakota 2019-06-19 Denied IFP appeals certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause federal-certiorari federal-jurisdiction jury-trial jury-verdict state-court state-courts state-supreme-court Can any State Court of last resort or specifically the North Dakota Supreme Court completely abrogate due process to the point that no process existed…
18A1342 Javier Sanchez, Gregory Casorso and Michael Marr v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-19 Presumed Complete bid-rigging criminal-liability due-process jury-trial per-se-rule sherman-antitrust Whether the per se rule in criminal Sherman Antitrust Act prosecutions violates defendants' Fifth and Sixth Amendment due process and jury trial right…
18-9693 Kevin Sheppard v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-17 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
18-9616 Rocky Riojas-Ordaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt 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 …
18-9659 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…
18-9664 Lilron Ravon Jones v. California California 2019-06-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi apprendi-rule Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-procedure Descamps due-process jury-trial jury-trial-right juvenile-adjudication Mathis prior-conviction-exception sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether it is constitutionally permissible to use a prior juvenile adjudication to enhance a sentence regardless of whether the juvenile had a right t…
18-9594 Brian L. Davis v. 7-Eleven, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury jury-trial standing How can a jury not determine if a defendant is guilty of a crime and still deny due process?
18-1508 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation v. Apple Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied claim-construction de-novo-review due-process JMOL jury-fact-finding jury-fact-findings jury-findings jury-trial patent-infringement procedural-due-process remand seventh-amendment standard-of-review teva-v-sandoz Whether the Federal Circuit can construe a claim limitation de novo, disregarding the jury's implicit fact findings on the plain and ordinary meaning …
18-9587 Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-06-07 Denied IFP 5th-amendment administrative-suspension attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial legal-ethics professional-conduct property-rights we-the-people Can license to practice law be suspended only on the basis of remaining silent without considering the merits of alleged violation?
18-9563 Cody Shane Sorrels v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the statutory minimum is 'not greater than necessary' to achieve…
18-9567 Daniel De Leon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process indictment jury-trial reasonable-doubt supervised-release Whether violations of supervised release require proof to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt
18-9573 Ernesto Betancourt-Carrillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment 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 eit…
18-1497 In Re Minor L. McNeil 2019-05-31 Denied administrative-commission article-iii article-iii-judicial-issue article-iv article-iv-court due-process hayburns-case judicial-proceeding jury-trial mandamus war-crime Whether Mandamus shall issue to an Article IV Court to close its judicial side, and open an Administrative Commission to supervise a jury trial procee…
18-1499 Umesh Kaushal v. Indiana Indiana 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea immigration-consequences jury-trial plea-bargaining reasonable-probability resident-alien sixth-amendment When a resident alien pleads guilty to a crime while ignorant of the immigration consequences, then demands a trial before sentencing, does his demand…
18-9502 Christian Vazquez Capistran v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
18-9460 Quentin Perry v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness Does the judicial determination of crimes 'committed on occasions different from one another' under the Armed Career Criminal Act violate the Sixth Am…
18-9463 Michael Joseph Brooks, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-05-29 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
18-9464 Charles William Finney v. Florida Florida 2019-05-29 Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-murder capital-sentencing death-penalty florida-constitution jury-trial jury-unanimity mitigating-circumstances sixth-amendment Whether Florida's capital sentencing scheme violates the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial by requiring the jury to find only aggravating factors …
18-9410 Morris Sanders v. Walmart Stores East, L.P. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility-determination employment-discrimination evidence-weighing jury-trial retaliation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination Where the federal courts below decided for themselves every triable fact issue crucial to petitioner's workplace discrimination and retaliation claims…
18-9321 Jesus Cornelio Dolmo-Alvarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt 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 eit…
18-9325 Davion L. Jefferson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-17 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c constitutional-rights crime-of-violence directed-verdict due-process jury-trial jury-trial-clause sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the district court violated the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's Jury Trial Clause by directing a verdict on 18 …
18-1439 Shanker Patel v. California California 2019-05-16 Denied Response Waived accomplice-testimony cautionary-instruction circumstantial-evidence corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-rights Whether a trial court violates the jury trial guarantees of the Sixth Amendment and U.S. Const. art. III, § 2, cl. 3 by refusing to grant a defendant'…
18-9298 Anthony Barry and Brian Cahill v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-information fundamental-fairness jury-trial post-conviction-evidence witness-testimony Whether intentional pre-trial withholding of exculpatory information violates the Confrontation Clause
18-1426 Samantha L. Coleman v. Schneider Electric USA, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility-determinations employment-discrimination jury-trial McDonnell-Douglas mcdonnell-douglas-framework race-discrimination retaliation-claim summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination Has the McDonnell Douglas framework been fatally undermined and petitioner's right to a jury trial denied?
18-9267 John Loveman Reese v. Florida Florida 2019-05-14 Denied IFP capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits…
18-9243 Chima Edozie Aligwekwe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial restitution sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the right to a jury trial as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment is violated when a district court increases the defendant's prison sentence and…
18-9236 Amy Gonzalez and David Thomas Matusiewicz v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2261a,overbreadth,free-speech,first-amendme 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-unanimity,criminal-procedure,jury-in 6th-amendment,5th-amendment,sentencing,jury-trial, actus-reus criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,evidence,character-evidence,pre criminal-procedure,evidence,polygraph,crane-v-kent criminal-procedure,jury-instructions,causation,act criminal-verdict due-process jury-instruction jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2261A is unconstitutionally ov Whether a person can be convicted for stalking res Whether Crane v. Kentucky 476 U.S. 683 690 (1986 Whether sentencing courts may continue to violate Whether the admissibility of a civil judicial opin Whether juries must unanimously agree on the actus reus element of offenses
18-9212 Vincent McCrudden v. United States, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP bivens-claim civil-procedure civil-rights credibility-determination de-minimis-force due-process federal-tort-claims-act jury-trial standing summary-judgment Can Courts systemically deny access to a jury trial in meritorious FTCA and Bivens Claims by making credibility determinations at the summary judgment…
18-9189 Vernell Conley v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-offense due-process evidence hicks-v-oklahoma jury jury-trial sentencing Did the refusal to order re-sentencing on the remaining conviction, limited to evidence supporting that conviction, violate Conley's right to due proc…
18-9100 Corry Mency v. Florida Florida 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington blakey-v-washington constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum trial-judge Whether the First District erred in deferring to the Circuit Court's finding that section 775.084 is not unconstitutional as applied to the facts of M…
18-9120 Russell Frey v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault cumulative-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-issues fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial prejudice right-to-counsel Whether the defendant's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to counsel's overall health and performance
18-1375 Douglas Walter Greene v. Independent Pilots Association, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fraud free-speech freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct jury-trial rule-of-law Whether federal district and appellate courts may render decisions abridging First Amendment rights based on overwhelming fraud in the record, while a…
18-9117 Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2019-05-02 Denied IFP death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona sentencing sixth-amendment Does a death sentence imposed by a judge who made fact-findings not made unanimously by the jury who recommended a death sentence comport with Hurst a…
18-9062 Derek Ray King v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process indictment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing supervised-release whether-violations-of-supervised-release-require-jury-proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt
18-1355 Edward Kramer v. Antonio Vitti, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights factual-dispute jury-trial malicious-prosecution material-dispute material-facts seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury determination of the material disputed facts in his case was violated when the Court of App…
18-1359 William Shannon Gresham v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-04-29 Denied Response Waived acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a trial court may use acquitted conduct by a jury that rejected the State's proof on a particular issue in order to enhance a defendant's sent…
18-9025 Phillip Newton v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apodaca-v-oregon criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requirement be required in state…
18-8992 Charles Lorraine v. Ohio Ohio 2019-04-25 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-verdict sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
18-8934 Teresa Miller v. Phillip Douglas Gaujot, Judge, Monongalia County Circuit Court, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evading-review habeas-corpus judicial-review jury-trial petition-dismissal review standing Why was a civil petition dismissed without review because the defendant was no longer in states custody it was not a heabas petition it was a civil pr…
18-8897 Corlious C. Dyson, aka Corlious Corall Dyson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-18 GVR Relisted (2)IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a criminal convicti…
18-8900 Juan Garcia Herrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the enhanced-penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b) and 851 that require judicial factfinding about a prior conviction to increase the mand…
18-8869 Jesse Davenport, aka Draco John Flama v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial plain-error shackling sufficiency-of-evidence Is shackling a defendant during his or her jury trial for no asserted or actual reason proper, and thus not even an 'error' under the plain error test…
18-1306 Fred Anderson, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-04-16 Denied Amici (3) advisory-jury capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty florida-supreme-court harmless-error hurst-v-florida judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error Whether a judge-imposed death sentence that violates Hurst is a structural error requiring reversal of the sentence
18-8819 Jorge Rogelio Reveles-Santana v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment 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 eit…
18-1303 Sonja Colbert v. Cleveland Mitchell California 2019-04-15 Denied appeals appellate-review bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process filing-fees housing-authority judicial-procedure jury-trial landlord-tenant lower-court rent-control section-8-housing standing Whether a single court of appeals justice can dismiss an appeal after the appellant has shown that all notices of appeal were timely filed and fees pa…
18-8807 Francisco Quintero-Corral v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey aprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process illegal-reentry indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Whether all facts- including the facts of a prior conviction- that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eith…
18-1295 Dale De Steno, et al. v. Kelly Services, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response Waived appellate-review attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-issue constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-trial precedent seventh-amendment sixth-circuit standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred by denying the Petitioners' request for a jury trial pursuant to the Seventh Am…
18-8771 Timothy Barr v. Rebecca Pearson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights due-process due-process-rights judicial-authority jury-trial prisoner-civil-rights prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation standing supreme-court-precedent Does the 8th circuit federal court of appeals have the authority to supersede the standards and precedent set by the United States Supreme Court in pr…
18-8781 Kerri L. Kaley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-fines criminal-procedure criminal-restitution due-process jury-finding jury-findings jury-trial sentencing southern-union-co-v-united-states Should the rule of Apprendi apply to the imposition of criminal restitution?
18-8782 Cesar Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
18-8738 Noe Machado-Erazo and Jose Martinez-Amaya v. United States District of Columbia 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-trial physical-force sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether an act of omission can constitute the 'use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force' under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(8)(A)
18-8761 Arthur Jones v. California California 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing Whether the California Penal Code §1192.7(c) that removes assessment of fact from the jury used to increase punishment is unconstitutional under the A…
18-8763 Terry Walker v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-finding jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining recharaterization sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Can a sentencing court consistent with the Sixth Amendment recharacterize a defendant's conviction into conduct that was neither found by a jury or ju…
18-8719 Ciaran Paul Redmond v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-conflict criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice jurisdictional-element jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing standards-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether, after a jury trial, a federal court of appeals can take judicial notice of evidence submitted by the government for the first time on appeal …
18-8714 Kenneth Whigham, Jr., aka Kenneth Pringle v. United States First Circuit 2019-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jury-submission jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent Whether this Court's decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which held that the allegation of a prior conviction need no…
18-8684 Robert E. Young v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Seventh Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment administrative-law burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights due-process jury-trial mixed-cases pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation rules-of-evidence standing summary-judgment Did the 7th District Court and the 7th Circuit Court deny the Appellant the protection and benefits granted by the 5th and 7th Amendments?
18-8670 Demetrius Terrence Frazier v. Alabama Alabama 2019-04-02 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-fact-finding jury-fact-finding jury-sentencing jury-trial retroactive-rule retroactivity sixth-amendment Does Alabama's capital sentencing statute violate Hurst v. Florida?
18-8660 Tyree Mansell v. United States Third Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the use of acquitted conduct to increase Mr. Mansell's Sentencing guideline range violated his Fifth Amendment right to due process and his Si…
18-1229 In Re Carolyn Fjord, et al. 2019-03-21 Denied Response Waived 7th-amendment antitrust antitrust-law bankruptcy bankruptcy-court beacon-theaters civil-procedure civil-rights clayton-act due-process jury-trial mandamus seventh-amendment Does the decision of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York denying Petitioners the right to a jury trial for damage…
18-8436 David Fehr Harder v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure indictment 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 eit…
18-8415 John L. Lotter v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-03-13 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Does Nebraska's capital sentencing scheme requiring a three-judge panel, rather than a jury, to impose a sentence of death violate the Eighth Amendmen…
18-8317 Robert Gering v. Florida Florida 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-right due-process florida-constitution florida-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial liberty-interest trial-by-jury Whether the constitutional right to a trial by jury in a civil commitment case can be circumvented by a Florida rule of civil procedure nullifying the…
18-8150 Ilya Liviz, Sr. v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts care-and-protection child-custody constitutional-rights due-process federally-protected-rights jury-trial parental-rights question-of-law state-court Is Dad being denied his federally protected due process right to petition for redress and access to a meaningful hearing resulting from state's refusa…
18-8085 Steven Clayton Thomason v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-trust antitrust beacon-theatres beacon-theatres-inc.-v.-westover civil-procedure constitutional-procedure due-process jury-trial restraint-of-trade rooker-feldman standing whether-the-right-to-a-jury-trial-wherein-anti-trust-issues-are-before-the-court-in-a-restraint-of-trade-conflict-with-u.s.-supreme-court-holding-in-b…
18-8046 Stephen L. Paulmier v. Hawaii Hawaii 2019-02-21 Denied IFP bench-trial constitutional-rights due-process family-court family-court-procedure hawaii-family-court-rules jury-trial jury-trial-waiver trial-continuance Whether the ICA gravely erred in failing to recognize Stephen Paulmier's constitutional rights to due-process,jury-trial
18-8055 Kevin Ventura v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process jury-consideration jury-instructions jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Is Mr. Ventura is serving two life sentences imposed in violation of Apprendi v. New Jersey?
18-8060 Glenn S. Solberg v. First National Bank and Trust Co. of Williston, et al. North Dakota 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 7th-amendment amendment-violation civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discrimination jury-trial standing Whether I should have been granted a jury trial after petitioning the ND Supreme Court three times abiding by the law in the 7th amendment
18-8067 Arthur Nop Lew v. California California 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions jury-trial self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-by-jury Whether upholding a criminal conviction based on a jury instruction and legal standard that are more favorable to the prosecution than what was actual…
18-8016 James Goff v. Ohio Ohio 2019-02-19 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty hurst-v-florida judicial-fact-finding jury-trial mitigation-evidence resentencing sentencing sixth-amendment Is a trial judge's independent weighing of new mitigation evidence and imposition of the death penalty at a resentencing hearing unconstitutional unde…
18-1064 In Re Octavious DeMont Williams 2019-02-13 Denied 21-usc-841 burden-of-proof constitutional-due-process constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-crime fifth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury jury-finding jury-trial Octavious Demont Williams petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, arguing that his constitutional due process was violated when he was deprived of the…
18-7948 Cesar Carapia Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
18-7818 Marcos Castaneda v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-finding jury-trial mandatory-minimum preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a district court commits procedural error by basing its sentencing guideline calculation on a discretionary judicial finding by a preponderanc…
18-7795 Markus D. Lanieux v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP Blakely Blakely-v-Washington Booker Booker-v-United-States criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender habitual-offender-law jury-trial mandatory-minimum-sentence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the sentencing scheme under Louisiana's Habitual Offender Law is subject to the jury requirements of the Sixth Amendment
18-7778 Mikhail Zemlyansky v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence-reintroduction health-care-fraud jury-acquittal jury-trial prosecutorial-strategy RICO rico-conspiracy Whether the district court violated the collateral estoppel component of the double-jeopardy clause by allowing the government to reintroduce its enti…
18-1008 In Re Veronica Hollowell and Vivian Epps 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-rule due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction incarceration jurisdiction jury-trial mental-fitness single-parent standing statute-of-limitations Whether the State Court lacked jurisdiction of the child since the unwed, single-parent mother's case was not jury adjudicated (the ex-boyfriend/fathe…
18-7665 Robert Tommy Garrett v. California California 2019-01-30 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-provision double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-interpretation lesser-included-offense multiple-convictions multiple-punishments procedural-issue statutory-provision Whether the trial court's erroneous failure to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of law and the defendant's right to a jury trial viola…
18-7668 Patricio Paladin v. United States First Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-element criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-guarantee prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements Whether the contested fact of prior conviction entering into the sentence to increase a defendant's penalty for the instant offense, must be treated a…
18-7651 Eric Steve Anderson v. California California 2019-01-29 Denied IFP antagonistic-defenses conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fair-trial jury jury-trial severance severance-motion Did this trial court's denial of petitioner's severance motion as to co-defendant and its subsequent acquittal of co-defendant on the conspiracy charg…
18-965 Donald Sullivan v. Robert Wayne Pugh, et ux. North Carolina 2019-01-25 Denied Relisted (2) appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct jury-trial north-carolina oath-of-office summary-judgment Whether the lower court judges violated their oaths by denying the petitioner's demanded constitutional trial by jury
18-967 Marisol Micheo-Acevedo v. Stericycle of Puerto Rico, Inc. First Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination first-circuit jury-trial retaliation retaliation-claim summary-judgment supervisory-power Whether the First Circuit deprived Petitioner of her constitutional right to a jury trial
18-7529 Andre Almond Dennison v. Arizona Arizona 2019-01-23 Denied IFP 6th-amendment apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights dangerous-crimes dangerous-crimes-against-children due-process enhancement fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing Does Arizona's Sentencing Scheme Violate Due Process Clause, & Amendment, And Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348 (2000) When Petitio…
18-7516 Joseph Adam Mora v. California California 2019-01-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-sentencing death-penalty jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt statutory-maximum Does the California death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that any fact, other than a prior co…
18-7488 Billy R. Lewis v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-01-18 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-jury nonunanimous-verdict ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a criminal convicti…
18-7478 Lloyd Michael Blair v. Michigan Michigan 2019-01-17 Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect jury-trial post-conviction-relief relief resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Are the sentencing proceedings that were found to be unconstitutional made to be invalid?
18-7427 Abdirahman Yasin Daud v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment specific-intent Whether the Court of Appeals' application of 'harmless error' analysis to an erroneous jury instruction violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right…
18-7402 Robert Shapiro v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial public-trial right-to-counsel speedy-trial What is the meaning of the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of the right to a criminal prosecution, including the right to a speedy and public trial, by an…
18-7297 Donnie Howard v. California California 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure jury-instructions jury-trial reasonable-doubt burden-of-proof due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Did the trial court's statements during jury selection equating being convinced beyond a reasonable doubt with being 'sure' or 'positive' of guilt vio…
18-7353 Nathaniel Jackson v. Ohio Ohio 2019-01-10 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
18-7307 Yoni Rayo-Espinoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
18-848 Courtney Valle Bisbee v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing on her ineffective assistance of counsel claim
18-7217 C. G., a Minor v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-01-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial juvenile-justice state-law Does a state law that completely bans jury trials for juveniles charged with crimes violate the federal constitutional rights to a jury trial, due pro…
18-7101 John Samuel Ghobrial v. California California 2018-12-19 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to increa…
18-7049 Joel Marvin Munt v. Nanette Larson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights dismissal due-process eighth-amendment expert-evaluation jury-trial medical-care mootness prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment Was Petitioner unconstitutionally denied his right to have a jury determine the facts of his case?
18-7068 Nelson Figueroa v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-protections due-process due-process-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines jury-trial prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the rule of Apprendi must apply to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines to comport with the constitutional protections of due process and jury tr…
18-7029 Jorge Ruelas-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
18-739 Trevor Wallace v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived appellate-review case-revival constitutional-compliance dismissal-with-prejudice double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury jury-trial lee-v-us res-judicata May a state appellate court revive a case that was dismissed with prejudice after a jury was sworn?
18-6884 Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-11-30 Denied IFP aggravating-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-trial mitigating-circumstances ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment prohibits a state appellate court from reweighing aggravating and mitigating circumstances and determining that death is t…
18-701 Clayton Prince Tanksley v. Lee Daniels, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Relisted (2) 7th-amendment access amendment copyright copyright-infringement jury-trial lay-observer-test pleading-stage prima-facie-claim probative-similarity similarity substantial-similarity Whether the trial court should engage in a substantive analysis and determination regarding substantial similarity as a matter of law at the pleading …
18-6867 Alberto Jorge Silva-Ibarra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment 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 …
18-6817 Michael Albert Focia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process judge-vs-jury judicial-fact-finding jury-instructions jury-trial obstruction-of-justice pro-se sentence-enhancement sentencing separation-of-powers sixth-amendment Whether the court's instructions to the jury violated the Separation of Powers doctrine
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…
18-686 Lazina King, et al. v. Caliber Home Loans, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Relisted (2) dodd-frank-act dual-tracking foreclosure-law jury-trial private-right-of-action real-estate-settlement-procedures-act regulation-x respa-regulation seventh-amendment statutory-damages Is the RESPA Regulation X Section 6(f) which was promulgated by Dodd-Frank Act remedial in nature which provides a private right of action to an injur…
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 …
18-6776 Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida Florida 2018-11-21 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity state-court Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits…
18-650 Miguel Cabrera-Rangel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Amici (5)Response Waived acquittal-impact acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibits a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on a charge for which the jury a…
18-6708 Clifford D. Williams v. Ohio Ohio 2018-11-15 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sentencing-phase sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
18-6709 Lawrence Alfred Landrum v. Ohio Ohio 2018-11-15 Denied IFP capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
18-6637 Harold E. Grist, Jr. v. Terema Carlin, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause credibility due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel juror-misconduct jury-trial self-incrimination truthfulness Whether the Petitioner had a constitutional right to confront his accusers at trial and impeach them before a jury to challenge their credibility and …
18-573 Colony Cove Properties, LLC v. City of Carson, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Amici (3) appellate-review character-of-regulatory-action city-of-monterey-v-del-monte-dunes economic-impact investment-backed-expectations investment-expectations jury-trial jury-trial-7th-amendment penn-central penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-takings seventh-amendment standard-of-review takings-clause-5th-amendment Whether a regulation that causes a property temporary but substantial cash losses is immune as a matter law from regulatory takings scrutiny if these …
18-6512 Jabril Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appeals cell-phone-privacy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule false-imprisonment Fourth-Amendment jurisdiction jury-trial probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest sentencing standing warrantless-search Whether petitioners were arrested without probable cause
18-6532 Austin Myers v. Ohio Ohio 2018-11-01 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-statute eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida Did Hurst v. Florida render Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional?
18-6472 James Gibson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres criminal-procedure drug-offenses jury-trial mandatory-minimum prior-convictions reasonable-doubt recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's sentence violated his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial
18-6390 Valiant White v. Michigan Michigan 2018-10-19 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree impeachment-of-jury-verdict independent-finding-of-guilt ineffective-counsel jury-acquitted-conduct jury-trial jury-trial-right reasonable-suspicion Whether the trial court, Michigan Court of Appeals, and Michigan Supreme Court arbitrarily denied petitioner's right to a jury trial, used inappropria…
18-6327 Rolando Humphrey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-determination judicial-discretion jury-role jury-trial sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-minimum Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the statutory minimum is 'not greater than necessary' to achieve…
18-6324 Akinlabi Coleman v. Colorado Colorado 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP bench-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habitual-criminal habitual-offender jury-trial sixth-amendment Were Mr. Coleman's Sixth Amendment rights to a jury determination of every element of an offense violated when he was only allowed a bench trial to de…
18-456 Michael J. Persico v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response Waived apprendi due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness Whether Petitioner's sentence, which would have been deemed substantively unreasonable in the absence of the district court's factual findings, violat…
18-6293 Alfredo Martinez-Rey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt 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 …
18-412 Jael Watts v. Michael Allen, et al. Virginia 2018-10-02 Denied access-to-courts court-access due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment state-law tort-immunity Whether the Virginia Supreme Court's dismissal of the Petitioner's appeal without reaching the merits of the case violates the Petitioner's fundamenta…
18-6165 Paul E. Rinehart v. Ohio Ohio 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Can a trial court enhance a defendant's sentence(s) to more than the minimum sentence upon judicial fact finding from a judge rather than the findings…
18-399 John W. Fink v. J. Philip Kirchner, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-error jury-trial standing summary-judgment trial-by-jury Whether the court of appeals abdicated its responsibility to conduct a plenary review and thereby improperly denied the petitioner of his constitution…
18-403 Bruce A. Shear v. MAZ Partners, LP, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated First Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights disgorgement disgorgement-order district-court-power diversity-jurisdiction due-process equitable-power equitable-remedy erie-doctrine federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion jury-trial jury-verdict When a jury finds in favor of defendant on the sole claim asserted against him, may a district court affirm the verdict but then use 'equitable power'…
18-6072 Cristian Gamez Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment 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 eit…
18-6056 Harley Blevins, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2018-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment-code due-process jury-trial jury-verdict prior-conviction sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether Florida's Prison Releasee Reoffender Act is unconstitutional and a violation of the Sixth Amendment in light of Hurst v. Florida, Alleyne v. U…
18-6059 Cedric Carter v. Ohio Ohio 2018-09-20 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sentencing-phase sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
18-6042 Ronald Eric Ary v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deferred-adjudication due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Whether a Texas deferred adjudication qualifies as a prior conviction for sentencing enhancement
18-5999 Joe Litton Bailey v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-09-14 Denied IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence habitual-offender jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence Was the evidence presented to the jury sufficient to convict Bailey beyond a reasonable doubt?
18-330 Douglas Walter Greene v. Frost Brown Todd, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) amendment-violations constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering judicial-misconduct jury-trial perjured-witnesses perjury public-policy rule-of-law May the Federal District & Appellate Courts knowingly & purposely render a Decision based on overwhelming fraud in the record
18-5921 Jeffrey Allen Stevens v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-unrest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-trial law-enforcement-misconduct standing Are Predictions of Civil Unrest or Violent Revolt Protected Speech under the First Amendment?
18-5892 Andre Jackson v. Ohio Ohio 2018-09-06 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
18-5783 Robert A. Cotton v. County of San Bernardino, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP brady-evidence brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process issue-preclusion judicial-immunity jury-trial manuel-v-city-of-joliet ninth-circuit preliminary-hearing qualified-immunity self-defense Was the Ninth Circuit's affirmance of the dismissal based on issue preclusion in violation of Manuel v. City of Joliet?
18-5793 Ray Lamar Johnston v. Florida Florida 2018-08-28 Denied Relisted (4)IFP caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment capital-punishment-system death-penalty due-process equal-protection florida harmless-error hurst-relief hurst-v-florida jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether Florida's application of harmless error review to a unanimous jury recommendation of death violates the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial as…
18-5799 In Re Robert N. Smithback 2018-08-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining selective-prosecution subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-by-jury Whether Smithback is being deprived of his liberty without due process of law
18-246 Mary L. Doherty, et al. v. Allstate Indemnity Company Third Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied anderson-v-liberty-lobby due-process expert-witness expert-witness-reports expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence insurance-contract jury-trial mend-the-hold mend-the-hold-doctrine seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the affirmed Rule 56 summary judgment decision is inconsistent with the standard set forth in Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., and violative o…
18-5745 Miguel Anthony Molina v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 841(a)(1) 922(g)(1) 924(e) criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Did the judge violate the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial?
18-231 New West, L.P., et al. v. City of Joliet, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response Waived beacon-theatres civil-rights civil-rights-act collateral-estoppel due-process equitable-claims fair-housing-act jury-trial parklane-hosiery When a single district court Judge has control over all legal and equitable claims before it in a single proceeding, even though the proceeding involv…
18-5702 Miguel Angel Mejia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP article-iii article-three drug-enforcement executive-power jury-trial maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the MDLEA violate Article III and the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial by giving dispositive weight to the Executive Branch's assertion that…
18-5712 Jerome A. Christmon v. B&B Airparts, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process errata-sheets evidence jury-trial procedural-error summary-judgement summary-judgment uncertified-deposition whether-summary-judgement-based-on-uncertified-deposition-is-admissible
18-5681 Dexter Leemon Johnson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-08-21 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-error jury-instructions jury-trial jury-verdict reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum trial-error Whether the petitioner was denied the right to a jury verdict of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt
18-5603 In Re Mark Kilmartin 2018-08-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-trial sentencing structural-error Whether a criminal defendant can be convicted and sentenced to life for a separate, new and distinct crime without a jury trial
18-199 Ken Liang v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure doj-investigation due-process government-misconduct jury-trial jury-trial-waiver material-witness obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct reverse-sting Whether an individual can be convicted of obstructing justice when the underlying alleged crime being investigated was not a crime, and the DOJ used o…
18-5553 Christopher Williams v. Texas Texas 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-murder corpus-delicti criminal-procedure due-process extrajudicial-confession fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Did the trial court's failure to submit any instruction to the jury regarding Texas' corpus delicti rule and the subsequent endorsement of that failur…
18-5572 John E. Wells, Sr. v. David Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus illegal-sentence judicial-power jury-trial res-judicata state-court-record void-judgment Does a Federal Court of Appeals deny Due Process by refusing to issue a Certificate of Appealability
18-5501 Donald Jones v. Bank of America, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection florida-law foreclosure jury-trial property-rights state-law viamendment Whether the petitioner received the same equality decision from Florida state law 702.1 as he would have from a jury trial under the 7th Amendment
18-5534 Juan Carrasquilla-Lombada, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied IFP confrontation-clause jurisdiction jury-trial maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act pre-trial-hearing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation testimonial-evidence Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act violates the Sixth Amendment by precluding the jury from determining jurisdiction and allowing the gover…
18-5474 Heriberto Garcia-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment 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 eit…
18-5496 Alfredo Perez, Jr. v. California California 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-findings jury-trial resentencing sentencing sixth-amendment three-strikes-law Does the federal constitution, as construed in Apprendi v. New Jersey, permit a court to find a defendant ineligible for resentencing based on judicia…
18-5457 Michael Allyn Kennedy v. Texas Texas 2018-08-03 Denied IFP appeal conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indictment jury-trial notice sixth-amendment trial Whether the trial court erred in imposing a conviction without a reading of the indictment, thereby depriving the petitioner of due process and notice…
18-5437 Gary Richard Whitton v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied IFP advisory-jury capital-sentencing capricious due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-clause jury-trial jury-trial-rights retroactivity Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits…
18-5405 Fortino Pimentel-Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment 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 eit…
18-133 Teddy Moore v. Christopher Bramwell, et al. New York 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial false-arrest impartial-judiciary judicial-misconduct jury-trial malicious-prosecution state-court-jurisdiction state-court-review Whether the State Supreme Court of King County NY, The Supreme court appellate division second NY, and the Court of Appeal of the state of New York, v…
18-5415 Louis B. Gaskin v. Florida Florida 2018-07-31 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity unconventional-rules Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits…
18-5375 Christopher Henriquez v. California California 2018-07-27 Denied IFP aggravating-factors burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process equal-protection jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt Whether the California death penalty scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-5378 Alejandro Chavez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt 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 …
18-113 Jeremiah Rodgers v. Florida Florida 2018-07-25 Denied Amici (1) constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process hurst-v-florida jury-trial jury-waiver retroactivity sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment waiver Does waiving a state-law right to have a jury make an advisory sentencing recommendation constitute a knowing and intelligent waiver of the federal co…
18-5326 Mario Howard Lloyd v. Scott Moats, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights counsel counsel-recruitment district-court-discretion due-process eighth-amendment fundamental-error intercircuit-conflict jury-trial medical-care standing summary-judgment Whether the District Court's 'persuasive authority' test order this case to be trial by a jury trial on February 27, 2017, and than less then two mont…
18-5328 Muffin Anderson v. Susan A. Larsen Washington 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing jury-trial mental-capacity mental-disability physical-capacity procedural-fairness stare-decisis summary-judgment Did the trial court violate the Americans with Disabilities Act and the plaintiff's constitutional rights when it denied the plaintiff's request for a…
18-5331 Ralph Simon Jeremias v. Nevada Nevada 2018-07-24 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances confrontation-clause constitutional-standard death-penalty due-process hurst-v-florida jury-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances ring-v-arizona Whether the Constitution requires that the finding that mitigating circumstances do not outweigh aggravating circumstances to impose death be made bey…
18-5317 Jose Villanueva-Cardenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-conviction-enhancement 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 eit…
18-5318 Makandi L. Terry v. Donnie Stonebreaker, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea jury-trial Whether Appellant Terry Should Have Been Denied a Certificate of Appealability as Evidence Exists in the Record That His Trial Attorney Was Clearly In…
18-5301 Cahlan Clay v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination defendant-rights defense-strategy due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-trial trial-procedure witness-examination Whether a court may dictate the manner by which a defendant presents his case to the jury by forcing defense counsel to rely exclusively on the cross-…
18-5247 James McCray v. S. L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial minimum-sentence plea-bargaining reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Circuit decision is objectively unreasonable as a matter of due process, because McCray's sentencing guidelines offense variable(s) …
18-82 Tamara Cotman and Angela Williamson v. Georgia Georgia 2018-07-17 Denied Response Waived acquittal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment sixth-amendment,criminal-procedure,jury,due-proces unanimous-verdict Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Am Whether it is a Violation of the Sixth Amendment for a jury in a criminal case to return a nonunanimous verdict
18-5235 Antrone Arness Thomas v. David Chandran Fourth Circuit 2018-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial legal-remedy procedural-due-process standing state-criminal-conviction Ought I have right to a jury trial? Also a civil action due to my State criminal conviction being reversed?
18-5179 Ronnie Johnson v. Florida Florida 2018-07-09 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection hurst-v-florida jury-trial retroactivity ring-v-arizona Whether the retroactive application of Hurst v. Florida was unconstitutionally limited
18-5079 Michelle Lyn Michaud v. California California 2018-07-03 Denied IFP aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process factfinding-function fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial jury-trial-guarantees reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Whether the trial court's incorrect instruction on aiding and abetting liability violated the constitutional jury trial guarantees of the Fifth, Sixth…
18-5109 Reggie Rankins v. Illinois Illinois 2018-07-03 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction jury-trial sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation Did the State of Illinois properly disrnim a conviction based upon the evidence of J.P. testimony, and in accordance with statute 720 ILCS 5/11-1.30(A…
18-5029 Stephen Patrick Black v. Texas Texas 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights directed-verdict directed-verdicts due-process fundamental-error jury-trial liberty reasonable-doubt Are directed verdicts constitutional in civil trials relating to indefinite civil commitment?
24A948 Michael Tanzi v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied constitutional-law death-penalty federal-review jury-trial procedural-bar sixth-amendment Whether a state supreme court's procedural bar on a death row inmate's federal constitutional claim violates the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial…
25A246 Consuelo Saldana, et al. v. William Campana California Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-proceeding due-process execution-stay jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial was improperly denied in a criminal proceeding in violation of constitutional due process