| 23-6774 |
Tremayne Silas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguity appeal-waiver circuit-court criminal-appeal guilty-plea involuntary involuntary-plea legal-ambiguity summary-reversal |
Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's dismissal of Silas's appeal when the appeal waiver is ambiguous as to whether it appl… |
| 22-7422 |
Darrell Gunn v. New York |
New York |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
conflicting-precedent criminal-law due-process equal-protection home-invasion legal-ambiguity murder-statute new-york-penal-law statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT OR LEGISLATURE DID NOT EXPRESSLY SWEEP WITHIN NEW
UNLAWFULLY YORK PENAL LAW § 125.27 ALL KILLINGS IN WHICH THE MURDERER
ENTERED THE … |
| 21-7329 |
Von Lester Taylor v. Robert Powell, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
certification comity federal-court federalism judicial-certification legal-ambiguity state-law state-law-interpretation tenth-amendment |
Does a federal court violate principles of federalism and comity enshrined in the Tenth Amendment by selecting one possible interpretation of an ambig… |
| 20-8297 |
Michael Doyle Ruggles v. David Y. Ige, Governor of Hawaii, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-responsibility due-process equal-protection legal-ambiguity medical-cannabis patient-rights state-law state-responsibility vague-laws |
Does the State of Hawaii have a constitutional responsibility to draft laws that do not stand silent and create ambiguities? Hawaii's medical cannabis… |
| 19-8132 |
Antoine T. Chest v. Michael P. Bald, Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Stephenson County |
Illinois |
2020-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
bodily-harm consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion legal-ambiguity sentence-enhancement sentencing-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
THE HONORABLE JUDGE MICHAEL BALD IMPROPERLY IMPOSED CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES WHEN CONCURRENT SENTENCES ARE MANDATED BY THE STATUTE, PETITIONER WAS FOUND … |
| 18-5997 |
Francisco Burciaga v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-classification drug-policy due-process heroin-hydrochloride innocence legal-ambiguity pharmaceutical-industry prosecutorial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
What is the legal status of heroin hydrochloride? |