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25-953 Finesse Wireless LLC v. AT&T Mobility LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending credibility-determination expert-testimony federal-circuit judgment-as-matter-of-law jury-verdict patent-law Whether a purported inconsistency in the testimony of an expert witness is an issue of credibility for the jury to resolve or a basis for judgment as …
25-6764 Jerry Lee Flores v. Texas Texas 2026-02-10 Pending IFP criminal-procedure due-process jury-verdict misdemeanor-enhancement prior-conviction state-court Whether the state can replace a jury verdict without another jury trial; whether the petitioner was denied due process; whether state courts decided p…
25-6701 Eskender Getachew v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-presence jury-verdict sixth-amendment trial-court-duty Whether a trial court has a duty to inquire into a defendant's absence before proceeding with a jury verdict when constitutional and procedural rules …
25A854 Piper Partridge, Individually and as Mother and Next of Kin to Keagan Schweikle and as Special Administratrix of the Estate of Keagan Schweikle, et al. v. City of Benton, Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application constitutional-violation excessive-force jury-verdict municipal-liability section-1983 supervisory-liability Whether a municipality or supervisor can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the absence of an underlying constitutional violation by an individu…
25-624 Michael Clayton Woodruff v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-review clear-error ineffective-counsel jury-verdict mixed-question strickland-standard Whether a mixed question of law and fact under Strickland v. Washington is reviewed for clear error or de novo, and whether an appellate court can rel…
25-5823 Steven Nicholas Fulton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-verdict sixth-amendment Whether an appellate court may, consistent with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, reinstate a jury's guilty verdict where the judge did not find, and th…
25A394 Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-06 Presumed Complete dna-evidence giglio-error habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-verdict trial-evidence Whether a federal court may assess the harmlessness of a Giglio error by considering post-trial DNA evidence not presented to the original jury, rathe…
25-5659 Ohio, ex rel. Ricardo Dodson v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Ohio 2025-09-16 Denied IFP double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether a trial court can correct a jury verdict that announced the wrong name after jury discharge without violating due process or double jeopardy
25-5619 Michael Garrick Denson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Whether there was sufficient evidence to sustain the jury verdicts and whether the court erred in applying a two-level sentencing enhancement for poss…
25-5159 Laron Gregory v. Ohio Ohio 2025-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion jury-verdict motion-review Whether the Ohio Court of Appeals' denial of a motion to review judgment regarding defective jury verdict forms constitutes an abuse of discretion vio…
24-7252 Issa L. Lamizana, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-05-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict ramos-unanimity sixth-amendment Whether a non-unanimous verdict can be sustained under Ramos v. Louisiana when the record is silent on jury vote unanimity and what burden of proof ap…
24-1137 NexStep, Inc. v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC Federal Circuit 2025-05-06 Denied Response Waived doctrine-of-equivalents expert-testimony federal-circuit jury-verdict patent-infringement patent-law Whether a patentee must in every case present 'particularized testimony and linking argument' to establish infringement under the doctrine of equivale…
24-6966 Mick J. Careaga v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal criminal-procedure due-process jury-verdict lesser-included-offense trial-by-jury Whether the Due Process clause permits a court to ignore a jury's finding of Not Guilty on a lesser, necessarily included charge while accepting the s…
24-1048 Karen Read v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk County, et al. First Circuit 2025-04-03 Denied Response Waived acquittal constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy jury-verdict retrial Whether a final and unanimous, but unannounced, decision by a jury that the prosecution failed to prove a defendant guilty constitutes an acquittal pr…
24-902 Ruel M. Hamilton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-21 Denied appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy jury-verdict Must a defendant arguing double jeopardy preclusion prove to a virtual certainty that an issue was decided by the jury in the first trial?
24A719 Todd White v. ACell, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2025-01-22 Presumed Complete evidentiary-ruling false-claims-act jury-verdict pro-se-plaintiff retaliation-claim summary-judgment Whether a pro se plaintiff can challenge a jury verdict in a False Claims Act retaliation case without first moving for judgment as a matter of law or…
24-723 Provisur Technologies, Inc. v. Weber, Inc. Federal Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Response Waived federal-circuit judgment-as-a-matter-of-law jury-verdict patent-infringement seventh-amendment standard-of-review Whether the Federal Circuit applied an incorrect standard of review for appeals of a Judgment as a Matter of Law (JMOL) and improperly overturned a ju…
24-6079 Lance Hullum v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard judicial-review jury-verdict legal-prejudice Whether a jury's verdict can be overturned when critical evidence is deemed erroneous and potentially prejudicial against the petitioner
24-5963 Cameron Davon Wright v. James R. Schiebner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting brecht-standard constitutional-error jury-verdict sufficiency-of-evidence trial-procedure Whether the lower court misapplied Brecht v. Abrahamson standard by using an incorrect sufficiency of evidence test that denied fundamental justice in…
24A475 Ruel M. Hamilton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-13 Presumed Complete ashe-standard double-jeopardy fifth-amendment issue-preclusion jury-verdict preponderance-of-evidence Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment precludes retrial of a defendant on a bribery charge after a jury's initial rejection of tha…
24-5905 Huosheng Xian v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure jury-verdict mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing Whether a sentencing judge can make safety-valve findings when a defendant's statements are inconsistent with the jury's verdict
24A252 Sylvia E. Crane v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-10 Presumed Complete disability-discrimination eeoc-complaint employment-accommodation jury-verdict protected-activity rehabilitation-act Whether the Rehabilitation Act requires a finding of disability when an employee alleges failure to accommodate and retaliation by a federal employer
24-5408 George Hall v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-procedure investigative-process judicial-review jury-verdict legislative-pay south-dakota Whether a federal judge of South Dakota can review a jury's verdict and allow counselor legislative pay to be set by a jury in the investigative proce…
24-5326 Thomas E. Knuff, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2024-08-15 Denied IFP capital-defendant criminal-acts due-process improper-joinder jury-verdict prosecutorial-misconduct Does the admission of improper and prejudicial evidence of other criminal acts by way of improper joinder violate a capital defendant's right to due p…
24-5241 Jason Gatlin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment judicial-interference jury-verdict Whether a jury has rendered a final verdict and jeopardy terminates under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment where the jury has indicat…
24-5139 Lamar McKay v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights directed-verdict due-process first-degree-murder insufficient-evidence jury-verdict murder premeditation reasonable-doubt Does due process require reversal where the trial court denied petitioner's motion for a directed verdict on first-degree murder due to insufficient e…
23A1133 Jason Gatlin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure double-jeopardy eleventh-circuit finality jury-verdict sex-trafficking Whether a jury's verdict becomes final for double jeopardy purposes when the verdict is announced in open court, is unanimous, and no juror has regist…
23-7654 Tildren Sherron Hunter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard criminal-evidence criminal-law drug-crimes evidence fourth-circuit-review intent intent-to-distribute jury-verdict methamphetamine-possession standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly upheld Mr. Hunter's conviction of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine
23-7537 Mike Austin Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process judicial-procedure jury-instructions jury-verdict motion-to-revoke recusal-motion standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the district court erred by finding that the prosecution produced sufficient evidence at trial for a reasonable jury to return a guilty verdic…
23-1224 Laila N. Hirjee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-deference appellate-review deference evidentiary-standard inferences jury-verdict medical-decision prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-review weak-evidence weak-inference What level of deference from an appellate court is appropriate to a jury's verdict, when the verdict is based entirely on weak inferences to be drawn …
23-7242 Juan Avendano v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-verdict statutory-interpretation statutory-offense Whether a defendant's rights under the Double Jeopardy Clause are violated by multiple, factually identical counts of the same statutory offense using…
23-6900 Bryan Reshad Hill v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rules fifth-circuit jury-verdict plain-error presentence-report rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines Does a sentence twice that authorized by the jury's verdict constitute plain error?
23-934 Areli Escobar v. Texas Texas 2024-02-27 Denied Amici (4)Relisted (4) capital-murder capital-punishment criminal-conviction dna-evidence due-process false-evidence habeas-corpus jury-verdict misleading-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct unreliable-evidence Whether due process requires reversal of a capital conviction infected with errors the State no longer defends
23-6592 Bernardito Carvajal, aka Christian Mendez-Acevedo v. United States First Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-verdict sentencing sentencing-discretion unreasonable-sentence Whether a sentencing judge may disregard a jury's acquittal and use rejected facts to justify a dramatic increase in the defendant's sentence
23-6446 William Riley Gaul v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-relief jury-instructions jury-verdict logical-inconsistency multiple-count-presentment mutually-exclusive-verdicts powell-v-texas sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a jury's positive finding of guilt in one count of a multiple count presentment is mutually exclusive from its illogical, but positive finding…
23-5810 Christopher L. Laureano-Perez v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-verdict procedural-error section-2255-motion Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if the First Circuit of Appeals erred in not granting a certificate of appealability?
23A172 Bradley Wayne Berry v. Kirt Guerin, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-08-25 Presumed Complete collateral-review constitutional-right jury-verdict retroactive-application sixth-amendment unanimous-jury Whether the Sixth Amendment requires retroactive application of the Ramos v. Louisiana unanimous jury verdict rule to state criminal convictions on co…
23-2 Gerald Spruell v. United States Third Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response Waived appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantities evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's verdict and drug quantities attributed to the con…
22-966 Cavanta McLilly v. Adam Douglas, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response Waived alleyne-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error jury-instructions jury-verdict police-testimony sentencing-review standard-of-review surveillance-video Whether police testimony identifying Mr. McLilly as the perpetrator seen on a surveillance video from the crime scene had a substantial and injurious …
22-823 Alicia Thompson v. Janelle Henderson Washington 2023-03-01 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) burden-of-proof due-process equal-protection evidence-standard implicit-bias jury-verdict prima-facie racial-bias Whether the Washington Supreme Court's novel standard addressing implicit bias violates the Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause
22-721 Damian McElrath v. Georgia Georgia 2023-02-02 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (7) acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-verdict prosecution repugnant-verdict repugnant-verdicts Does the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibit a second prosecution for a crime of which a defendant was previously acquitted?
22-6555 Steven Charles Hill v. Texas Texas 2023-01-18 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict life-sentence proportionality sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence Was the evidence sufficient to sustain the jury's guilty verdict?
22-6185 Brent William Bogseth v. James R. Schiebner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jury-verdict sixth-circuit unreasonable-evidence Was the District Court's order denying petitioner's §2254 petition legal?
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
22-6016 Sheila Gray v. City of Detroit, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-discretion judicial-error jury-verdict overturning-verdict standard-of-review substantial-evidence trial-evidence trial-procedure weight-of-evidence witness-testimony Whether Appellant presents substantial evidence that the unanimous jury verdict goes against the great weight of the evidence presented at trial and s…
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
21-8002 Daniel Taylor v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process griffin-v-illinois innocence judicial-integrity jury-verdict miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction prosecutorial-conduct trial-transcript whether-the-failure-to-provide-a-trial-transcript-violates-due-process
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?
21-1319 Mark Nordlicht and David Levy v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Amici (1) credibility criminal-procedure discretion district-court-discretion evidence-weighing federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jury-verdict new-trial new-trial-motion rule-33 standard-of-review witness-credibility Whether district courts have discretion to weigh the evidence, including the credibility of witnesses, when deciding to grant a new trial under Rule 3…
21-7459 Robbie Catchings, aka Robert Brown, aka Robbie Catching v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-law firearm-possession firearms jury-instructions jury-verdict knowingly-possessed statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether sufficient evidence supported the jury's verdict that petitioner knowingly possessed a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)
21-7384 Joseph Valchez Laue v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence constitutional-sufficiency criminal-evidence due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-verdict legal-standard lsa-r.s.-15-438 rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt state-burden-of-proof trier-of-fact Sufficiency-of-the-evidence
21-7320 Devin Marques Carter v. Iowa Iowa 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard federal-rights irrational jury-verdict privileges-and-immunities reasonable-doubt Did the state of Iowa violate petitioner's federal privileges and immunities and due process rights when it upheld an irrational jury verdict?
21-1184 Joyce D. Hutton, et al. v. Hyundai Motor America, et al. Mississippi 2022-02-28 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict standard-of-review state-court-review supreme-court trial-court Did the Mississippi Supreme Court violate the due process rights of the Petitioners under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United S…
21-6902 Daliyl Raaid Muhammad v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-prejudice-standards harmless-error jury-verdict jury-verdicts supreme-court-precedent Whether the Third Circuit erred in holding that United States v. Powell precludes consideration of the jury's other verdicts when conducting harmless …
21-876 John G. Williams, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied Response Waived criminal-liability due-process general-verdict jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-sufficiency wire-fraud yates-rule Whether a general guilty verdict on charges of wire fraud must be set aside on Due Process grounds if the jury could have or might have found guilt ba…
21-6534 Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict harmless-error jury-verdict residual-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether a general verdict that was obtained in reliance on the unconstitutionally vague residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) may be sustained b…
21-482 Hassan Sharif Ali, aka Big Hassan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied Response Waived categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-code united-states-v-davis Whether a court must apply the modified categorical approach to determine whether a verdict of conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) necessarily rests o…
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
21-408 Gertrude Parker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived conspiracy-charge criminal-intent criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel general-verdict insufficient-evidence jury-verdict medicare medicare-statutes reasonable-interpretation sixth-amendment Whether Parker was denied effective assistance of counsel
21-138 Luz González-Bermúdez v. Abbott Laboratories P.R. Inc., et al. First Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied adverse-employment-action age-discrimination comparator-evidence employer-defense employment employment-discrimination jury-inference jury-verdict pretext retaliation retaliation-claim Whether comparator evidence can support an inference of discrimination if the plaintiff and comparators do not share the same position, duties, and su…
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 …
21-5138 In Re Willie S. Smith 2021-07-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP acquittal aedpa-review exceptional-circumstances finality-of-verdict habeas-corpus innocence-claim judicial-review jury-verdict non-capital-case statutory-interpretation Whether transfer to the District Court for a hearing pursuant to this Court's original habeas jurisdiction is warranted in this exceptional non-capita…
21-60 Logan Brooks Drinkard v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy greater-offense jury-verdict lesser-included-offense Whether constitutional double jeopardy principles prohibit a conviction on a greater offense when the jury found the defendant not guilty of a lesser …
20-8310 Kenrick Brathwaite v. United States Second Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing sentencing-exposure statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties What is the statutory maximum sentence for a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. §§ 963 or 846, where the jury has declined to make any specific fin…
20-1644 Devon Archer v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Amici (1) appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-weighing federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure jury-discretion jury-verdict miscarriage-of-justice new-trial new-trial-motion second-circuit Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33(a) afford district courts discretion to reweigh the evidence when evaluating a new trial motion
20-7592 Alan Eugene Miller v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied IFP aggravating-factor aggravating-factors caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment jury-instructions jury-verdict sixth-amendment Whether the Eighth Amendment allows a jury's non-unanimous advisory verdict to serve as the predicate for a death sentence, when the jurors were told …
20-7311 Juan Matthews v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-03-03 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection jury-verdict racial-discrimination ramos-v-louisiana standing supreme-court-precedent Whether Louisiana's jury verdict scheme that convicted the petitioner violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
20-7225 Derek Michael Rigsby v. Colorado Colorado 2021-02-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-remedy mutually-exclusive-verdicts sixth-amendment Whether the Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment require that a defendant receive a new trial where a jury returns mutually exclusive guilty ver…
20-7126 Dominic Anthony Davis, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery circuit-split fact-based-harmless-error-review harmless-error jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents Where an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction rests on more than one possible predicate offense, the Shepard documents must conclusively establish that a jur…
20-1025 Juan Francisco Vega v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process florida-constitution florida-rules-of-court florida-statutes involuntary-commitment jury jury-verdict mental-abnormality Whether the jury's verdict must be reinstated based on the United States Constitution, Florida Constitution, Florida Statutes, and Florida Rules of Co…
20-6927 Anthony Freeney v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a audio-recordings criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jail-phone-calls jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Was the evidence insufficient to sustain the jury's guilty verdict?
20-6557 Richard Cruz v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process felony-drug-offense fifth-amendment jury-verdict mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the definition of 'felony drug offense' for the purposes of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vagueness after Johnson, Dimaya, and Davis
20-6519 Julian Mondragon-Hernandez, aka David Rojas, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-elements conviction criminal-procedure factual-findings judicial-fact-finding judicial-review jury-instructions jury-verdict mandatory-minimum-sentences mandatory-minimums sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence When a jury verdict allows for alternative elements of conviction, may courts review the evidence and make factual findings to uphold the conviction a…
20-6226 Carlos Maez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings jury-instructions jury-verdict olano-standard plain-error plain-error-test sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether a conviction following incorrect jury instructions, failure of the petit jury to make a finding on an essential element of a crime, and an app…
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…
20-5645 Virgil Nickens v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-courts criminal-law federal-courts federal-courts-of-appeals jury-instructions jury-verdict plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states united-states-v-olano Can the appellate courts' divergent approaches to plain error review of pre-Rehaif jury verdicts be reconciled with one another?
20-5240 Cynthia Gilmore v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP ambiguity ambiguous-verdict conspiracy criminal-procedure jury-instructions jury-verdict predicate-acts reasonable-doubt sentencing Whether the sentencing court is required to use the reasonable doubt standard to determine the predicate acts where the jury's verdict was purposefull…
20-5029 Richard Charles Lussy v. Henry Paumie Lussy Montana 2020-07-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-constitution free-speech hearsay-impeachment jury-verdict ministerial-oath standing stare-decisis Whether to apply Federal Constitution: [A] bad speech to impeach hearsay-stare decisis with particularized legislated Montana Code Annotated (MCA) in-…
19-8885 Juan Leonardo Cadenas-Urena v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-manufacturing due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict premises-liability sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence Did the panel err by holding that the evidence is sufficient to sustain the jury's guilty verdict?
19-8337 Jermaine Ruffin v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-04-22 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-verdict non-unanimous-jury sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments
19-7917 Isaac Feldman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP antisemitic-reference antisemitism appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause jury-verdict prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct Where a jury returns a final verdict on a charge of conspiracy, finding a defendant guilty of only one of multiple charged offense objects, is the gov…
19-7587 Lannon Lavar Burdunice v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal batson bias character-evidence circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process evidence incomplete-jury-verdict insufficient-evidence intent-to-kill judicial-error judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-verdict prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-be-present right-to-present-defense second-degree-murder weight-of-evidence Must my conviction for second degree intentional murder be vacated and a judgement of acquittal entered
19-7516 Mary Mosley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Did the panel err by upholding the application of an enhancement for brandishing or possessing a firearm when Miss Mosley was acquitted by a jury of t…
19-7005 Johnnie Lewis Wood v. Virginia Virginia 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment-due-process 6th-amendment-rights conviction fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment indictment jury-verdict material-misrepresentation sixth-amendment Was Petitioner's Sixth-Amendment-rights,Fourteenth-Amendment-rights,false-testimony,fair-trial,jury-verdict,conviction violated
19-6810 Duane Gregley v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-specification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict res-judicata sentencing sixth-amendment Whether there is pretense that the statutes and laws of the state under which Mr. Gregley is convicted of, are repugnant to the Constitution and laws …
19-605 Arizona v. Philip John Martin Arizona 2019-11-12 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appeal criminal-appeal double-jeopardy first-degree-murder greater-offense hung-jury hung-jury-rule jury-instructions jury-verdict lesser-offense richardson-v-united-states second-degree-murder When a jury expressly states it is 'unable to agree' on a defendant's guilt for a greater offense and convicts the defendant of a lesser offense, and …
19-6528 Royce C. Gouveia v. Nolan Espinda, Director, Hawaii Department of Public Safety, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied IFP acquittal constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,criminal-procedure,jury,verdict,ac jury jury-verdict retrial verdict Does a jury's execution of a verdict form acquitting the defendant, and announcement that it has reached a verdict, suffice to erect a double jeopardy…
19-6413 Ricky Langley v. Howard Prince, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquittal ashe-v-swenson collateral-estoppel constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-verdict Whether a jury's failure to return a verdict has collateral estoppel effect
19-6292 Malcolm Muhammad v. Y. Taylor, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-conviction district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit good-time-credit hearing-rights jury-verdict liberty-interest parole retaliation standing Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in deferring to the District Court's findings
19-6232 Jason James Neiheisel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure demeanor due-process jury-verdict prosecutorial-questioning reversible-error substantive-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Eleventh Circuit, on review for sufficiency of evidence, can affirm a conviction citing the verdict itself; on the supposition the jury co…
19-450 Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., et al. v. Perrigo Company, et al. Federal Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review budinich-v-becton-dickinson compensatory-damages enhanced-damages exceptional-case jury-verdict merits-ruling patent-infringement punitive-enhancement reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing Whether the punitive enhancement under 35 U.S.C. § 284 is collateral to, and therefore not a merits ruling necessary for final judgment
19-5904 Travis Dennis v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Mr. Dennis' conviction was obtained with insufficient evidence
19-237 James R. LaFrieda, et ux. v. Nancy A. Gilbert Nevada 2019-08-22 Denied civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-50-b judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-verdict professional-negligence proximate-cause punitive-damages standard-of-care statutory-interpretation trial-court-fact-finding Whether the Nevada Supreme Court erred in disregarding past Supreme Court decisions and declaring a state procedural rule ambiguous
19-5660 Alfonso Sanchez v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-08-21 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-verdict mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct reversal-of-conviction Does the Double Jeopardy Clause bar retrial when a prosecutor's misconduct, committed for the purposes of diminishing a defendant's chance of acquitta…
19-109 Giovanni Montijo-Dominguez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Amici (2) 18-usc-3553 circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking fact-finding judicial-discretion jury-findings jury-verdict mandatory-minimum preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-discretion standard-of-proof Whether a district court's findings of fact under 18 U.S.C. 3553(f) are constrained by the findings of fact implied by the jury's verdict
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?
19-101 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…
19-50 John DeRaffele v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals fair-housing-act federal-district-court federal-question judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings jury-verdict pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing tenant-standing writ-of-certiorari Does a Pro Se litigant have the right to request a Writ of Certiorari when the Court of Appeals has upheld a lower Court ruling on an important Federa…
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…
18-9579 James D. Tench v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-07 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty' 'When a reviewing court independen due-process evidence-admission guilty-verdict hurst-v-florida jury jury-verdict mitigating-factors prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment Does the admission of improper and prejudicial evidence violate a capital defendant's right to due process?
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?
18-1306 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
18-8853 Cameron Brown v. California California 2019-04-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-proceedings double-jeopardy due-process jury-instructions jury-verdict lesser-included-offenses mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct trial-transcript Is the defendant convicted due to double jeopardy violation?
18-8453 Dusty Ray Spencer v. Florida Florida 2019-03-19 Denied IFP binding-precedent capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process federal-constitutional-rights jury-instructions jury-responsibility jury-verdict sentencing-process structural-error unanimous-verdict Whether structural error occurs when the jury fails to return a verdict as to multiple critical elements necessary to impose the death penalty
18-8437 Garceia Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District I Wisconsin 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights conviction-standards criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction jury-verdict standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-writ Whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court's failure to grant a Wis. Stat. § 809.71 supervisory writ has jurisdiction to change the jurisdiction of cases
18-1009 United States, ex rel. Muge Cody v. ManTech International Corporation Fourth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circumstantial-evidence defense-contractor-whistleblower-protection-act false-claims-act federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-50(b) judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law jury-verdict reeves-v-sanderson reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing rule-50 whistleblower-protection Whether the appellate court erred in not applying the Reeves standards in a case brought under the False Claims Act and the Defense Contractor Whistle…
18-7327 Trevor Johnson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-rape Batson-Violation constitutional-rights daubert-standard Denial-of-Motion-to-Suppress expert-testimony first-fourth-fourteenth-amendments fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence jury-verdict Non-Unanimous-Verdict reasonable-doubt Unreliable-'Expert'-Testimony unreliable-expert-testimony Violation-of-Telecommunications-Act whether-reasonable-jurists-would-debate-that-the-t whether-reasonable-jurists-would-find-that-the-tri Whether reasonable jurist would find that the State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, every essential dement of the offense that Mr. Johnson …
18-7210 Gordon Prailow v. Maryland Maryland 2019-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP automatic-reversal collateral-review constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions jury-verdict reasonable-doubt retroactivity sixth-amendment watershed-rule Whether state collateral review courts must retroactively apply the watershed/bedrock procedural rule of automatic reversal to jury findings that are …
18-7076 Evelyn Person v. United States Second Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process inconsistent-verdicts jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-conflict narcotics narcotics-conspiracy special-interrogatories Whether the Second Circuit's failure to vacate the verdict of guilt rendered against Petitioner in the narcotics conspiracy count based upon an irreco…
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?
18-6532 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?
18-403 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'…
18-378 Merck & Co., Inc., et al. v. Gilead Sciences, Inc. Federal Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Amici (2) civil-procedure damages equitable-defense jury-verdict legal-relief patent separation-of-powers seventh-amendment unclean-hands Whether the equitable defense of unclean hands precludes legal relief in the form of damages
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?
18-5837 David Lee Roberts v. Alabama Alabama 2018-08-30 Denied IFP capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty federal-law hurst-v-florida judicial-findings jury-sentencing jury-verdict retroactivity ring-v-arizona Did Hurst invalidate Alabama's capital sentencing scheme?
18-5734 Robert Dennis Martin v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-08-24 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,4th-amendment,stand fourth-amendment jury-verdict police-stop reasonable-doubt standing Can Oklahoma adopt a rule of law regarding the waiver of a fundamental constitutional right that does not meet the minimum criteria for such waivers s…
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
18-200 Michigan v. Charles Damon Jones Michigan 2018-08-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process inconsistent-verdicts judicial-discretion jury-confusion jury-instructions jury-nullification jury-verdict jury-verdicts legal-standard new-trial sufficiency-of-evidence trial-procedure verdict-inconsistency Whether the Michigan Court of Appeals erred in granting a new trial based on an inconsistent jury verdict, even though irreconcilable jury verdicts ar…
18-5273 Davian Wilson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP authentication criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sufficiency-of-evidence criminal-trial evidence-authentication federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction guilty-verdict jury-verdict native-american reasonable-jury sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the district court erred in finding sufficient evidence for a guilty verdict against Mr. Wilson
18-5121 Leslie Dominic Musgrove v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquitted-conduct drug-quantity due-process jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-amendment whether-it-is-a-sixth-amendment-and-due-process-violation-for-a-judge-at-sentencing-to-attribute-acquitted-and-relevant-conduct-by-a-preponderance-of-…
18-5128 In Re Gigi Fairchild-Littlefield 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process due-process,fair-trial,false-evidence,directed-ver equal-protection fair-trial false-evidence judicial-misconduct jury-verdict prosecutorial-misconduct trial-manipulation Is the deliberate manufacturing of false evidence and manipulation of trial transcripts, and court documents, including the jury verdicts, to support …