| 25-5375 |
Arturs Spila v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent eleventh-circuit evidence-standard felony-proceeds money-laundering statutory-interpretation |
1. Was there "insufficient evidence" presented by the United States to convict Spila of money laundering conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)(B)(i)… |
| 24A1182 |
Ayana Saunders v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-06-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constructive-variance criminal-justice-act money-laundering sixth-circuit venue wire-fraud |
Whether a constructive variance or improper venue can serve as grounds for overturning a federal criminal conviction for wire fraud and money launderi… |
| 24-7072 |
Du Truong Nguyen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split concealment criminal-law federal-statute money-laundering statutory-interpretation |
What is required to prove concealment money laundering? |
| 24-6994 |
Dwayne W. Sherman v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute knowledge-requirement money-laundering statutory-interpretation |
Whether a circuit split exists regarding the interpretation of the money laundering statute's knowledge requirement under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(2)(B)(i) |
| 24-6264 |
Suresh Munshani v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-conviction due-process merger-doctrine money-laundering wire-fraud |
Whether the merger of a money laundering conspiracy conviction with a wire fraud conspiracy conviction requires dismissal of the money laundering char… |
| 24-5172 |
Hassan Abbas v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-charges criminal-prosecution first-circuit money-laundering overt-acts venue venue-constitutional-protection wire-fraud |
venue-requirements |
| 23-7404 |
William Maxwell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process firearm-transfer money-laundering obstruction-of-justice rico-conspiracy wire-fraud |
Whether this case should be granted certiorari for full briefing on issues already decided in Maxwell's favor by this Court or whether a G.V.R. would … |
| 23-7284 |
Neal Merrell Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent due-process ex-post-facto money-laundering sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Due-process-violation |
| 23-6794 |
Isaac Cardona v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent double-jeopardy due-process merger-problem money-laundering specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
whether-the-promotional-money-laundering-provision-violates-due-process |
| 23-638 |
Kenneth Wendell Ravenell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure federal-prosecution jury-instructions money-laundering non-overt-act-conspiracy statute-of-limitations |
Whether the government bears the burden of proving to a jury that a non-overt-act conspiracy existed within the limitations period |
| 22-7797 |
Anurag Dass v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the 5th Circuit erred in affirming the district court's decision that allowed to convict Petitioner of money laundering based on transactions … |
| 22-7476 |
Michael D'Antonio v. Borough of Allendale, New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-housing foreclosure money-laundering municipal-misconduct racketeering sheriff-sale |
Absence of decision on Fair Housing Act compliance |
| 22-945 |
Jonathan Dean Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-procedure criminal-statute misrepresentation money-laundering restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-loss wire-fraud |
Is proof of misrepresentations sufficient to establish wire fraud or money laundering? |
| 22-6790 |
Alexis Jaimez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process gang-membership guilt-by-association money-laundering |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's holding that a defendant is guilty of money laundering conspiracy because he was a 'foot soldier' in a gang and therefore … |
| 22-6343 |
Rossen Iossifov v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bitcoin-exchange criminal-venue due-process extradition extraterritorial-jurisdiction money-laundering racketeering venue wire-fraud |
Jurisdictional-grounds-for-SCOTUS-review |
| 22-6108 |
Jose Luis Ramirez, Jr., aka Zachary Matthew Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-conviction criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-agreement plea-bargaining securities-fraud |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's meritorious appeal of his conviction of securit… |
| 22-5779 |
James Michael Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions money-laundering standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud |
Whether the evidence at trial was insufficient to convict the petitioner of wire fraud and money laundering |
| 22-5460 |
Bradley Lane Croft v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-identity-theft circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-question identity-theft money-laundering sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud |
Whether an accused commits aggravated-identity-theft by merely uttering-someone's-name |
| 21-6775 |
Temne Adah Hardaway v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure financial-transactions money-laundering sixth-amendment specified-unlawful-activity venue venue-jurisdiction |
whether-a-person-who-obtains-proceeds-and-makes-a-separate-and-distinct-agreement-from-the-anterior-criminal-conduct,-to-engage-in-a-financial-transac… |
| 21-6383 |
Harinder Singh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split concealment criminal-conviction drug-proceeds federal-statute insufficient-evidence money-laundering regalado-cuellar statutory-interpretation |
Where the evidence at trial was insufficient was insufficient to prove that the design or purpose of the cash transmittals was to 'conceal or disguise… |
| 21-6142 |
John Gregory Alexander Herrin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-theft criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-indictment indictment interstate-transportation jurisdiction money-laundering statute-of-limitations |
Whether the government was entitled to establish petitioner's guilt at trial for federal offenses it did indict by trial proof on a federal offense it… |
| 21-5879 |
Dheadry Powell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act guidelines justification money-laundering resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Under the First Step Act, did the district court fail to provide a sufficiently compelling justification that thoroughly explains its above the guidel… |
| 21-5418 |
Sergio Bucio v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-role money-laundering role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 |
Whether the district court erred in calculating the amount of laundered funds attributable to Mr. Bucio |
| 21-5098 |
Hal Herring Brown, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-agreement plea-bargaining securities-fraud |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's meritorious appeal of his conviction for securi… |
| 21-5042 |
John Shields v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substance criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence guilty-plea money-laundering plain-error waiver waiver-doctrine |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's blanket policy of relying on the waiver doctrine conflicts with this Court's plain-error-jurisprudence |
| 20-1671 |
Chi Ping Patrick Ho v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure federal-courts foreign-corrupt-practices-act indictment money-laundering prosecution-exemption reference-canon statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal court may decline to apply the reference canon to the money laundering statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1956, which makes specific reference to … |
| 20-1370 |
Nidal Ahmed Waked Hatum v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
concealment-money-laundering criminal-forfeiture forfeiture-money-judgment honeycutt-limitation honeycutt-v-united-states mirror-image-transactions money-laundering no-loss-to-bank return-of-tainted-property statutory-interpretation substitute-property tainted-property |
Whether a criminal defendant's legitimate, untainted property is subject to an extra-statutory forfeiture money judgment or substitute property forfei… |
| 20-6651 |
Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2020-12-18 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights contempt-of-writ court-securities CUSIP cusip-number due-process human-trafficking money-laundering standing subpoena-compliance tort-claims |
Whether courts have become vehicles for pedophiles, MS13, sex and human traffickers, and drug cartels to launder money using various ruses, including … |
| 20-6410 |
Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2020-11-24 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights conspiracy due-process judicial-misconduct legal-conspiracy mental-competency money-laundering national-security power-of-attorney standing |
Whether lower courts should continue to allow international drug cartels, pedophiles, sex and human traffickers, and MS13 gangsters to use people's ho… |
| 19-8399 |
Reshon Tolliver v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute drug-payment drug-trafficking evidence federal-law money-laundering statutory-interpretation |
Whether mere payment for drugs constitutes sufficient evidence for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1956? |
| 19-7757 |
Babatunde Popoola v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-fraud consent criminal-law criminal-procedure financial-crimes identity-theft money-laundering predicate-crime statutory-interpretation |
Whether a person who with the consent of a bank account holder provides identifying information to a third party to deposit funds into the account whe… |
| 19-1000 |
Heon-Cheol Chi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
|
bribery corrupt-intent criminal-intent foreign-bribery intent-to-influence mcdonnell-v-united-states money-laundering official-act public-official statutory-interpretation |
Whether 'an offense against a foreign nation involving .. . bribery of a public official' under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(c)(7)(B) requires generic bribery of … |
| 19-7364 |
Ernest William Singleton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-schedules drug-scheduling general-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-pain-clinic money-laundering surveillance-footage |
Whether the jury relied on an invalid conviction for distributing Ultram in finding the defendant guilty of money laundering |
| 19-7238 |
Jerry Reginald Burkes v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure dismissal due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis indictment-dismissal mandatory-language money-laundering speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation tennessee-local-rule-10.03 tennessee-rules-of-criminal-procedure tennessee-rules-of-evidence trial-rights |
Whether the trial court's denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment for a violation of the Speedy Trial Act's 70-day time limit is subject to harmle… |
| 19-6990 |
King Bush v. Kannika Say |
Michigan |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
benefits civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-procedure due-process false-documents fourth-amendment fraud green-card immigration immigration-fraud law-enforcement marriage money-laundering probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether the marriage based on immigration fraud should be voided |
| 19-6899 |
Jose Luis Meza-Lopez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concealment constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cuellar-v-united-states due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel money-laundering transportation |
Does the Court's holding in Cuellar v. United States require more than a finding of concealing something for transportation to show money laundering? |
| 19-6797 |
Hal Mark Kreitman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
business-expenses business-services criminal-activity criminal-liability criminal-offense criminal-procedure employee-liability employee-services employment federal-jurisdiction legal-culpability money-laundering payment-structure |
Does an employee's facilitation of a criminal offense, by providing services to a business engaged in criminal activity, make the employee guilty not … |
| 19-6606 |
Ryan T. Root v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-errors double-prosecution due-process ineffective-counsel law-and-fact merger-doctrine miscarriage-of-justice money-laundering plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether cumulative errors led to a miscarriage of justice |
| 19-5466 |
James Michael Farrell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-defense criminal-defense-lawyer criminal-prosecution drug-distribution-organization due-process money-laundering willful-blindness |
Whether the use of a willful blindness instruction in place of actual knowledge improperly lowers the government's burden of proof to a level that inf… |
| 18-1585 |
Kassim M. Nagi v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-06-27 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
8th-amendment controlled-substances cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender lockyer-v-andrade money-laundering proportionality proportionality-test racketeering sentencing solem-v-helm |
Whether a 90-year consecutive sentence for a 33-year-old first-time offender violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishme… |
| 18-9001 |
Steven P. Reed v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
campaign-finance due-process fair-notice federal-power federal-prosecution mcdonnell-v-united-states money-laundering state-campaign-finance-law state-regulation wire-fraud |
Can the federal government convict a politician for complying with a state's ambiguous campaign finance law? |
| 18-8824 |
Darren Gonzales v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis money-laundering plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing |
Does a defendant who merely parrots the language of the concealment money laundering statute satisfy a district court's obligation under Rule 11 to es… |
| 18-7579 |
David L. Price v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-enterprise drug-conspiracy drug-distribution due-process felon-in-possession heroin-conspiracy money-laundering restitution sentencing straw-purchaser |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner to a 37-year sentence for a non-violent drug conspiracy and related offenses |
| 18-7247 |
In Re Dennis Roger Bolze |
|
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review money-laundering plea-bargain plea-bargaining |
Whether the district court erred in denying Bolze's 28 U.S.C. §2255 motion for relief from counsel's ineffective assistance in advising him to plead g… |
| 18-7231 |
Mark J. Avery v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial good-faith good-faith-defense money-laundering specific-intent trust trustee-liability wire-fraud |
Where the defendant, trustee of a private trust charged with wire fraud and money laundering based on his non-disclosure and misspending involving tru… |
| 18-7143 |
Derian Eidson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1956 18-usc-1956-a-3 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution government-sting money-laundering proceeds-definition specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the criminal prohibitions against money laundering contained in 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1) based on financial transactions that 'in fact involvel]… |
| 18-6772 |
Donovan Grant v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process financial-transaction guilty-plea money-laundering plain-error plain-error-doctrine specified-unlawful-activity trial-court |
Whether the plain-error doctrine permits an appeals court to affirm a conviction based on a potential crime that it identifies in the record that was … |
| 18-5877 |
Levi Lapp Stoltzfoos v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cash-deposit civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-mens-rea due-process financial-institution financial-institutions mens-rea money-laundering overbreadth overbroad-statute statutory-interpretation |
Is 18 Pa. C.S. § 5111(a)(8) unconstitutionally overbroad? |
| 18-5157 |
In Re Jose Luis Arevalo |
|
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice cause-and-prejudice-doctrine certificate-of-appealability drug-crimes due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment jurisdiction money-laundering reasonable-doubt |
Whether the due process clause was violated by failure to prove every element of money laundering beyond a reasonable doubt |