| 25-6465 |
Ledale Deanthony Sawyer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus legal-argument sentencing-error |
1. Whether a defendant's appeal waiver bars appellate review of a clear sentencing error when the defendant preserved the exact legal argument below a… |
| 24-6810 |
Faouzi Jaber v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
claim-dismissal constitutional-rights court-ruling judicial-procedure legal-argument procedural-due-process |
Whether the petitioner was denied procedural due process when the lower courts entered a ruling dismissing his claim without providing an opportunity … |
| 23-5662 |
Charles Keith Wampler v. Alicia Handwerk, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-laws due-process interpretation judicial-interpretation judicial-writing legal-argument legal-interpretation legislative-drafting legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-laws word-definition |
Can an individual, in any capacity, be allowed to alter the definition of a word, or words, within a law so that the law better suits the argument the… |
| 22-5668 |
Thomas Guerriero v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-review legal-argument precedent prior-precedent-rule stare-decisis |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's prior precedent rule should be overturned |
| 22-5602 |
Edward Ellis, III v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-standard ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-argument missouri-law prejudice reasonable-strategy sixth-amendment trial-counsel witness-testimony |
Whether trial counsel can be held to have an objectively reasonable strategy in not making a legal argument when he never considered that legal argume… |
| 20-5107 |
Vernon Montgomery v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-review court-review due-process judicial-duty legal-argument perjury probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Does a State's appellate court have to address the contentions of its appellant in its opinion? |
| 19-7377 |
Gerald Adger v. New York |
New York |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-argument procedural-error right-to-counsel trial-counsel weight-of-evidence |
Was the appellate attorney ineffective assistance of counsel? |
| 18-6813 |
Rash B. Ghosh v. City of Berkeley, California |
California |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process final-determination judicial-review legal-argument relitigation standing vexatious-litigant |
Was petitioner deprived of due process of law when the appellate court based its decision on an argument that had never been raised in the trial court… |
| 18-5141 |
Taylor Don Frederiksen v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure collateral-consequences court-standards criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-argument prejudice procedural-rules right-to-appeal right-to-counsel state-court-procedures state-court-rules |
Whether Mr. Frederiksen should continue to suffer prejudice and collateral legal consequences from his uncounseled conviction when the lower state cou… |