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25-6702 Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process nichols-precedent plain-error sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation Did the lower courts commit plain error by reinterpreting the elements of 18 U.S.C. § 2250 to criminalize a law-abiding modus operandi of moving betwe…
25-6354 Osric Tyrone Daise v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure plain-error punishment revocation sentencing supervised-release Whether the district court committed plain error in revoking Mr. Daise's supervised release when the court's expressed purpose was to punish Mr. Daise
25-6300 Anthony Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-violations criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance plain-error structural-defects Whether structural constitutional defects in indictments should be reviewed under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52's plain error standard or Rule…
25-6241 Vincent Gerald Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-procedure jury-unanimity plain-error sixth-amendment vicar-prosecution Whether a district court commits plain error and violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a unanimous jury verdict when it fails to give a spec…
25-5998 Shadon Demetric Edwards v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP firearms-offense guilty-plea harmless-error plain-error statutory-interpretation structural-error Whether errors under Erlinger v. United States are structural errors or subject to harmless/plain error review, and if plain error review applies, how…
25-5963 Cesar Edgardo Castillo-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui…
25-5791 Raymond White v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review charging-instrument criminal-procedure plain-error plea-review presentence-report Whether, in conducting plain-error prejudice review of a plea taken in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, an appellate court may rely…
25A379 Edin Anael Solis-Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-02 Presumed Complete circuit-split guilty-plea plain-error plea-colloquy rule-11 substantial-rights Whether courts may consider a defendant's failure to object to a Rule 11 plea colloquy error when determining if that error affected the defendant's s…
25A204 Jairo Arnaldo Jacome v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-20 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure fourth-circuit jury-instructions plain-error rico-conspiracy substantial-rights Whether a variance between oral and written jury instructions constitutes reversible error when the parties were aware of the discrepancy but did not …
25-5383 Oscar Barrios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-discretion plain-error Whether the absence of a binding, on-point decision of either this Court, or of the reviewing court of appeals, is enough to preclude the potential fo…
25-5342 Raymond Arthur Verrill v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard Whether appellate courts should accept sentencing judges' routine assertions that they would have imposed the same sentence despite Sentencing Guideli…
25-5117 George P. Naum, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances jury-instructions medical-purpose mens-rea plain-error subjective-intent Whether the Fourth Circuit unconstitutionally applied the plain error standard to affirm a physician's conviction where jury instructions misstated th…
25-5013 Tawhyne M. Patterson, Sr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review firearms-conspiracy jury-instruction plain-error predicate-offense substantial-rights Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in determining two alleged predicate offenses were 'so inextricably intertwined' that no rational juror could have fo…
24-7247 Tamika Seay v. Department of Justice, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error probable-cause substantive-rights Whether the United States Government violated Petitioner's Substantive Rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment, and …
24-7109 Justin Miles Ness v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence-standard judicial-discretion jury-instruction plain-error temporal-scope Whether a district court's response of 'You have all the evidence you need to render your verdict' constitutes a plainly improper jury instruction whe…
24-7081 Michael Galluzzo v. Robin K. Edwards, Champaign County Treasurer Ohio 2025-04-28 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement judicial-authority jurisdiction oath-of-office plain-error standing Whether the court committed plain error by failing to adhere to constitutional requirements for judicial appointments and oaths of office
24-7011 Donald Turner v. United States First Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review de-novo-review plain-error rule-12 second-amendment sentencing-proceeding Whether the standard for appellate review of a Second Amendment claim raised before a sentencing proceeding and decided on the merits by the district …
24-6823 Thomas Caves v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute plain-error second-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by applying its plain error standard to affirm a judgment of conviction for fe…
24-6615 Gregory P. Damm v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-sentencing hearsay plain-error revocation-proceeding supervised-release Can a federal supervised release defendant can ever obtain relief on plain error for the erroneous admission of hearsay in a revocation proceeding?
24-6572 Victor Rivera v. United States Second Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review breach-of-agreement plain-error plea-agreement second-circuit sentencing Did the Second Circuit err by requiring Petitioner to object with specificity at sentencing and identify a particular provision of the plea agreement …
24-6242 Kent Booher v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-review criminal-procedure ex-post-facto plain-error substantial-rights Did the Court of Appeals err in its plain error review when it held that appellant had not suffered an effect on his substantial rights that may have …
24-6052 Terius Thomas, aka Terius Brown, aka Terry Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict judicial-review plain-error prejudice-standard sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights Whether the Eleventh Circuit has created a new exception to Molina-Martinez's plain error prejudice standard which conflicts with the general rule tha…
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…
24-5951 Manuel Moya v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge felon-ban firearm-possession plain-error second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a lifetime ban on firearm possession for felons under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional given the lack of a historical analog…
24-5947 Ismail Salaam v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-11-08 Denied IFP courtroom-closure judicial-review plain-error sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure Whether a structural error during trial automatically warrants reversal even without a contemporaneous objection under plain error review
24-5819 Oscar Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure plain-error plea-agreement sentencing substantial-rights Whether a criminal defendant meets the substantial rights prong of plain error review when sentence differences on separate counts would change absent…
24-58 Lisa Gindi v. New York City Department of Education Second Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) ada ada-violation civil-rights eeoc eeoc-retaliation employment-discrimination plain-error retaliation state-law timeliness whistleblower-protection workers-compensation workplace-harassment wrongful-termination Question not identified
24-5047 Pedro Terrazas v. Illinois Illinois 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-prejudice jury-selection plain-error rule-431b trial-court-error was-defendant-prejudiced-and-denied-his-constitutional-right-to-the-effective-assistance-of-appellate-counsel
24-5030 Lani Lucas Limane, aka Lukasz Chad Limane v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-identity-theft criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error identity-theft indictment indictment-variance plain-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy predicate-offense rule-11 Was it plain error for a district court to convict petitioner on his plea of guilty to a crime never charged in the governing indictment?
23-7819 LaShonda O'Neill v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion alleyne-v-united-states drug-quantities fifth-amendment harmless-error judicial-fact-finding plain-error sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its review of the District Court's fact-finding and sentencing enhancements
23-7682 Daniel Loyola, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearms plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bruen Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(0)
23-7670 James Edward Young v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1)
23-7565 Juan Aguiera-Guzman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-reasoning mitigation-arguments plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion silent-record Whether the holding in Molina-Martinez applies to sentencing-errors, such as the clear Rule 32 violation here
23-7430 Timothy Edward Peterson v. James Salmonsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights due-process fairness judicial-fairness plain-error procedural-integrity summary-judgment willful-blindness Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment to the defendant based on its application of the 'willful blindness' doctrine and abuse …
23-7419 Warren Ledominique Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1)
23-7421 Demarcus Deon Staples v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1)
23-7277 Benny Stewart v. Tom Green, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights fairness judicial-fairness judicial-integrity plain-error summary-judgment willful-blindness Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's grant of summary judgment to the defendant on the plaintiff's claims of civil rig…
23A941 Rafael Cardona, Sr. v. United States First Circuit 2024-04-19 Presumed Complete circuit-split criminal-procedure forfeiture plain-error rule-12b8 waiver Whether a failure to raise a Rule 12(b)(8) issue in the district court results in waiver or forfeiture, and thus whether the issue is unreviewable or …
23-7204 Sean L. Hagins v. United States Third Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation court-discretion criminal-procedure defense-counsel-ineffectiveness habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plain-error-review pro-se pro-se-litigation sentencing Did the lower court have the obligation to correct an illegal sentence, brought to its attention, regardless of the passage of time?
23-7174 Richard Lee David Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-09 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure defense-instruction drug-convictions due-process evidence jury-instructions plain-error prior-convictions propensity-evidence Whether the admission of prior drug convictions constitutes impermissible propensity
23-7100 Robert Merritt v. United States Third Circuit 2024-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-review criminal-law due-process life-sentence plain-error RICO rico-statute sentencing Whether Merritt's life sentence under RICO statutes violated Apprendi, and is plain-error reverse warranted
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?
23-6674 Terry Eugene Hambrick v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-proceedings plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review standards-of-review supervisory-power Whether the district court has departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings in expanding the criteria for plain error review on appeal
23-6680 Mark Mayo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error rule-52(b) structural-error Does a clear or obvious structural error always, or at least ordinarily, require relief under the plain-error standard of Federal Rule of Criminal Pro…
23-6596 Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2024-01-26 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP board-of-immigration-appeals child-status-protection-act criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review fair-sentencing-act immigration-law plain-error priority-date retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it refused to apply the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 to Kenneth Roshaun Qedens
23-6441 Marc Hernandez v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure integrity-of-courts judicial-integrity plain-error structural-error substantial-rights Should this Court's decision in United States v. Olano be overruled in part?
23A579 Deonte Marques Curry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-22 Presumed Complete appellate-review final-judgment plain-error preservation-of-error rule-52b sua-sponte Whether the exception to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) applies to a district court's sua sponte amendment of a final judgment when a defend…
23-6130 Sylvia Hofstetter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-standard ruan-v-united-states sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling on the plain error standard is contrary to Supreme Court precedents, including Ruan and Henderson
23-6116 Cynthia Clemons v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-v-united-states sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling on the plain error standard is contrary to Supreme Court precedents, including Ruan and Henderson
23-6120 Demecia Shontres Washington v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP character-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony jury-bias plain-error profile-evidence Whether the district court plainly erred by admitting expert testimony about the common characteristics of a particular type of offender, also known a…
23-6122 Courtney Newman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-v-united-states Did the Sixth Circuit commit error by substituting the generic term 'illegally' for the language mandated in Ruan?
23-6058 Liberty Anne Walden v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony judicial-error misconduct plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion trial-procedure witness-credibility Did the trial court plainly error by allowing Dr. Mohr to testify outside the realm of her expertise thereby providing testimony to the ultimate issue…
23-6062 Holli Womack v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses jury-instructions plain-error ruan-standard sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Is the Sixth Circuit's draconian view of the plain-error standard contrary to this Court's precedents, including Henderson-v-United-States?
23-6002 Justin Del Rio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review plain-error statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's imposition of a $5,000 fine under 18 U.S.C. § 3014 despite the petitioner's argument…
23-6005 Ehab Sadeek v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process plain-error procedural-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-wooden Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the petitioner's sentence based on a pattern-of-activity enhancement and a cross-reference enhancement
23-5925 Isaac Johnson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 21-u.s.c.-§-851(c)(2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review predicate-offense prior-conviction rule-52(b) rule-52b sentencing-enhancement waiver Does a criminal defendant waive Rule 52(b) plain error review pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851(c)(2) by failing to argue before the trial court that a cons…
23-5927 Katerin Martinez-Alberto v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure cross-examination defendant-rights due-process evidence jury-instructions plain-error self-incrimination testimonial-evidence testimony Does display of a defendant's body part (a foot) to the jury constitute testimony that subjects the defendant to cross-examination?
23A391 Bernard Gadson v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-31 Presumed Complete administrative-law circuit-split kisor-deference loss-calculation plain-error sentencing-guidelines Whether the Sentencing Guidelines' commentary defining 'loss' as intended loss, rather than actual loss, impermissibly conflicts with the plain text o…
23-5896 Frank Richardson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP §2255-motion 924(c) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process indictment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction Did the courts violate the petitioner's constitutional rights by denying his motion to vacate, set aside, or correct sentence despite errors, governme…
23-5788 Roberto Buendia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review davis fifth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review rosales-mireles sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent Whether the standard the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals applied for determining if the sentencing Guidelines' error in Buendia's case was 'plain' conf…
23-5776 Andrea Lamont Medlock v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-authority imprisonment-review judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness revocation sentencing-review sentencing-standards standard-of-review supervised-release Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness?
23-5779 Donovan Romo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,…
23-5734 Lawrence Flack v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waivers constitutional-rights double-jeopardy guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel plain-error plea-agreement Whether Appellant counsel's Anders brief was inadequate where evidence exists that Appellant's Constitutional rights were violated, including double j…
23-5666 Jeremy Aswegan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure government-objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review Whether plain error review applies when a defendant opposes a government objection to a sentencing enhancement?
23-5627 Ronald Rene Deleon, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum plain-error revocation sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release Whether application of a mandatory minimum term of supervised release following a revocation amounts to plain error?
23-5629 Rene Rigoberto Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-indictment fifth-circuit plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(n)
23-5177 Kenneth Ragan-Armstrong v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release Whether the district court plainly erred in imposing special conditions of supervision without explaining why such conditions were necessary or approp…
23-5172 Jose Antonio Deleon-Juarez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split plain-error plain-error-review plea-agreement prosecutor-breach prosecutorial-breach sentencing substantial-rights Does a prosecutor's breach of a plea agreement affect a defendant's substantial rights under plain error review?
23-5095 Marland Maynor v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-statute plain-error second-amendment standing Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional under the Second Amendment
22-7847 Colum Patrick Moran v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence judicial-precedent plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a conviction predicated on insufficient evidence can meet the plain error standard in the absence of explicit statutory language or on-point, …
22-7660 Damon L. Buford v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act fifth-amendment judicial-factfinding occasions-clause plain-error predicate-offenses sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's Armed Career Criminal Act sentence may be affirmed when the lower court fails to properly apply this Court's occasions clause te…
22-7531 Chykeetra Maltbia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP briefing circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-error mens-rea miscarriage-of-justice plain-error prejudice regulatory-provisions Whether the Circuit Court erred in finding that the defendant had not established prejudice due to an omitted mens rea element
22-1097 Don Fitzgerald Hancock v. United States District of Columbia 2023-05-10 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error religious-freedom religious-garment sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine witnesses was violated by allowing the sole witness to testify in a niqab
22-7500 Safara Echo Shortman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuing-offense controlled-substances-act criminal-charging distribution drug-distribution plain-error plea-bargaining possession-with-intent possession-with-intent-to-distribute statutory-interpretation Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) permits the government to charge a continuing offense of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance bas…
22-7352 Samuel Jesus Avila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rule plain-error precedent second-amendment standing Is an error 'plain' within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) only if controlling precedent has recognized the exact same error i…
22-7272 Christopher Ernest Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure elements-of-crime factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining rule-11 sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-supreme-court Whether the district court's error in accepting the guilty plea under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(8) is 'plain' where the record identif…
22-7235 Adam Chism v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-04-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence interest-of-justice plain-error sentencing trial-court Whether Chism was denied due process of law when plain error was committed by the trial court in imposing an illegal sentence as a matter of law and/o…
22-7186 Daniel Ray Mann v. Doug Clark, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct vouching Whether the state court's admission of 'vouching' testimony from a police officer expert witness violated the defendant's due process rights under the…
22-6982 Diogenes De Jesus Sierra v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender-statute circuit-split first-impression first-step-act inchoate-conspiracy mandamus-review plain-error plain-error-standard Whether mandamus review on issue of first impression should have been applied to claim that was created by way of intervening change of First Step Act…
22-6846 Christopher L. Corn v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure invited-error judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Can an appellate court use the invited error doctrine to preclude review of a plainly erroneous sentence that exceeds the statutory maximum sentence a…
22-6704 Angel Vazquez-Figueroa v. United States First Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure individualized-assessment judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review plea-agreement section-3553a-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion Whether the district court erred in imposing a sentence that was 1.5 years longer than the highest sentence recommended by the parties under the plea …
22-6547 Kashai Jones v. Illinois Illinois 2023-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process illinois-supreme-court judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-selection legal-principles plain-error trial-court wainwright-v-witt Whether the Illinois Supreme Court's rule requiring trial courts to ensure that each juror understands the principles of People v. Zehr, 103 Ill. 2d 4…
22-6359 Leonid Gershman v. United States Second Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review collateral-consequence conspiracy-charges criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy merger plain-error sentencing sentencing-multiplicity Isn't it plain error for a court to impose multiple punishments for multiple counts of conviction that for double jeopardy purposes amount to the same…
22-6348 Douglas James Schneider v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error procedural-violation rule-11 substantial-rights waiver Whether the court of appeals erred in holding the failure to object to the violation of Rule 11(c)(1) provides dispositive evidence that the violation…
22-530 Daniel A. Bench v. United States Armed Forces 2022-12-08 Denied Response Waived child-witness confrontation confrontation-right court-martial plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct remote-testimony sixth-amendment Does a prosecutor's in-court lie to secure a witness's testimony constitute misconduct that materially prejudices an accused's' Sixth Amendment right …
22-6192 Dennis Dean Neff v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review different-outcome judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instruction-error plain-error prejudice reasonable-probability trial trial-procedure unpreserved-claims Whether an appellant must show a 'reasonable probability' of a different outcome at trial to demonstrate prejudice from unpreserved claims of jury ins…
22-6013 Damian Robert Guthary v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922g criminal-law criminal-procedure guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error rehaif rehaif-error statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner satisfies Greer's plain error standard for relief from Rehaif error
22-6017 Reginald Eugene Grimes, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-08 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit false-testimony perjury plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-hearing Did the Eleventh Circuit commit error in denying a COA for government misconduct, perjured testimony, and sentencing violations?
22-5657 Dawud Wilson v. Leon Hill, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP and thus warrants Petitioner overcoming a state p appellate-analysis constitutional-issue constitutional-review federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure merits-review plain-error plain-error-analysis state-appeals-court state-procedural-bar Whether the state appeals court's plain-error analysis amounted to a review of the merits, and thus warrants Petitioner overcoming a state procedural …
22-5638 Hector Martinez-Robos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mandatory-minimum-sentences mens-rea plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation whether-instructional-error-is-plain
22-5599 Denzell Russell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Is the Sixth Circuit's application of plain-error-review under Fed.-R.-Crim.-P.-52(b) in conflict with this Court's decisions?
22-5567 Lamar Harris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-waiver waiver Whether sentencing issue is waived where the Defendant raises, but drops an issue as part of a sentencing or subject to plain error review under Fed. …
22-5490 Nicholas Wukoson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure clisby-v-jones davis-v-us federal-civil-procedure judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-review remand Whether the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the 11th Circuit departed from its accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
22-5365 David Steve Elias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum plain-error retroactivity rule-11 sentencing Was the District Court's admonishment that the 25-year mandatory minimum sentence applies to Count 4 a Rule 11(b)(1) error that rises to the level of …
22-5326 Juan Samuel Rodriguez-Huitron v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-review limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantial-rights Whether a limited remand to assess the impact of a plain error on a defendant's substantial rights extends to miscalculations of the statutory maximum
22-5212 Jonita Desirrae Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonableness reasonableness sentencing supervised-release Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness or merely to see if…
22-5204 Ramon Belducea-Mancinas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-drug-conviction fifth-circuit plain-error sentencing-guidelines Is it obvious error to find a prior federal drug trafficking conviction is a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines when the s…
22-5125 Mark A. Hill v. Ohio Ohio 2022-07-19 Denied IFP 26(B)-application appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense plain-error post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process transcript Whether the 26(B) application for reopening proceeding was adequate and fundamentally fair
22-5137 Clifford Raymond Salas v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process factual-errors plain-error prosecutorial-argument sentencing sentencing-variance tenth-circuit-review Did the Tenth Circuit wrongly hold that the district court did not plainly err, where (a) the prosecutor argued that a factually untrue reason support…
22-5035 Irving Lisboa-Cupely v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice plain-error Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court denied due process of the law under the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by failing to issue a certificate of…
21-8274 Melvin Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining plea-hearing virtual-proceedings Whether the 'reasonable probability of prejudice' showing required for plain error review of plea hearing defects was met where the petitioner informe…
21-8196 Cody Andrew Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonable reasonableness sentencing supervised-release Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness or merely to see if…
21-8098 Rocky Christian v. Florida Florida 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP anders-review appellate-procedure appellate-review fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction plain-error self-defense self-defense-instruction sixth-amendment Did the Fifth District Court of Appeal for the State of Florida conduct an adequate review of the record pursuant to Anders v. California 386 U.S. 738…
21-8090 Angelo C. Pearson, II v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim constitutional-claims equitable-remedies equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus merits-review plain-error procedural-default state-prisoner Whether 'extraordinary circumstances' are present when a state prisoner's record shows a constitutional error that meets the federal 'plain error' sta…
21-8033 Jesus Francisco Fernandez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-cause plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions When a defendant raises a derivative theory on appeal that was not raised in a timely suppression motion in district court
21-8030 Andre Marcus Buchanan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a career-offender criminal-procedure due-process plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness sentencing Whether Mr. Buchanan's sentence is unreasonable because it is greater than necessary to accomplish the goals of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)
21-7997 Benjamin Green Robinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion cocaine-trafficking criminal-procedure evidence judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion motion-in-limine motion-to-suppress plain-error prior-conviction Whether the lower courts abused their discretion in admitting prior conviction evidence
21-7944 Linda A. Petralia v. American Express National Bank New Hampshire 2022-05-23 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion breach-of-contract civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process plain-error res-judicata superior-court Is the N.H. Superior Court's allowance of a second, same-named breach of contract claim against the Rule of Law, Res Judicata, a plain error that viol…
21-7927 Lamar Reese v. Richard Bowen, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied IFP citizenship-misrepresentation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence fair-trial plain-error polygraph polygraph-evidence Whether the failure to object to the admission of a polygraph examination that contained obvious errors deprived the defendant of a fair trial
21-7876 Matthew Alexander, III v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure motion-to-suppress plain-error suppression-motion waiver When a defendant files a motion to suppress, then raises a new argument to support suppression in the court of appeals, is the new argument waived abs…
21-7725 Jeffrey Ndungi Sila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings plain-error plain-error-standard pro-se-motion summary-affirmance waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit proceedings in petitioner's case so departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for this …
21-7693 Kenneth R. Heddlesten v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus plain-error rule-60b4 timeliness Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' policy of reviewing plain error only prevents appellate counsel from raising all claims of error in a …
21-7701 Francisco Rosales Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court extraordinary-compelling-reasons judicial-discretion molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit plain-error remand remand 21-7700" rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider nonretroacti When should a case be remanded for resentencing under the plain-error standard of review if the district court failed to announce its calculation of t…
21-7645 Alimamy Barrie v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-appeals federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review plain-error procedural-default re-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines successive-filing Whether an error should be corrected in a motion under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 35(a) when the conditions of U.S. v. Olano are met, ev…
21-7632 Carlos Gotay-Guzman v. United States First Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP application-note criminal-history criminal-history-points federal-jurisdiction first-circuit-decision plain-error plain-error-standard puerto-rico puerto-rico-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the First Circuit err when it held Mr. Gotay-Guzman could not establish plain-error regarding the assessment of 2 criminal-history points for his …
21-7625 Jonathan Scott May v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court enhancement federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines Did the district court plainly err when applying an enhancement under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2G2.2(b)(5)?
21-7351 Miguel Angel Cruz-Polanco, aka Luis Hernandez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure federal-sentencing plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines Whether the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Mandate a Plea of Guilty and Guarantee a Point Reduction on Acceptance of Responsibility
21-7327 Tina Carol Ortega v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error probation probation-officer sentencing separation-of-powers Did the district court plainly err when it delegated to a probation officer the authority to determine the duration of a residential treatment program…
21-7236 Joseph Crocco v. United States First Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP career-offender categorical-approach circuit-conflict circuit-split controlled-substance-offense plain-error sentencing-guidelines unsettled-law Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it held that the district court's erroneous determination that Petitioner was a career offender, based on Peti…
21-7157 Richard Lucas v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split cocaine cocaine-definition controlled-substances criminal-arrest criminal-procedure plain-error probable-cause statutory-interpretation Whether a state statute's definition of 'cocaine' differs from the federal definition based on the plain, unambiguous language of the statutes
21-6860 Lanny Jay Lyerla, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law court-correction due-process harmless-error judicial-error manifest-injustice plain-error procedural-fairness witness-testimony When an action of the court causes a harmless error to become plain error, is there due process for the defendant to apply to the court?
21-6542 Juan Trujillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-discretion limited-remand plain-error remand-standard sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum substantial-rights Whether a limited remand to assess the impact of a plain error on a defendant's substantial rights extends to miscalculations of the statutory maximum
21-816 Melvyn Gear v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied appellate-procedure burden-of-proof criminal-law due-process firearms greer-v-united-states legal-status plain-error rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether other subdivisions of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) require knowledge of collateral law
21-6382 Askia Mustafa Raheem v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP brain-damage cause-and-prejudice criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus incompetency plain-error seizure-disorder Whether the lower courts violated this Court's incompetency and 'right to evidentiary hearing' habeas law
21-6390 Marcial Carrillo-Serna v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-error guidelines-calculation molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights When the district court fails to calculate the guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh…
21-6347 Justin Dwight Sholley-Gonzalez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process intimate-partner-violence plain-error rehaif-error restraining-order second-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether a new trial based on plain Rehaif v. United States error is required
21-6323 D'Arde Lee Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure escape halfway-house plain-error sentencing u.s.s.g.-2p1.1 Whether the court of appeals failed to properly apply the plain error analysis to the question of whether the sentencing court erred by failing to gra…
21-690 Rodney Earl Cannady, aka Camp Earl v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied career-offender cocaine-base-offense criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act plain-error retroactive-amendment retroactivity sentencing-reduction Did the district court err by denying defendant Cannady relief pursuant to the retroactive First Step Act of 2018 and Fair Sentencing Act of 2010
21-470 Eric Lee Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rule-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-standard plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation whether-error-can-be-plain
21-5801 Carlos Benitez Penalosa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice plain-error plea-agreement sentencing-error Did the Ninth Circuit err when it failed to find that a sentencing error can amount to a 'miscarriage of justice' allowing appellate review even if th…
21-5804 Kenneth Randale Door v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency judgment-of-acquittal jurisdiction plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states Is review of a claim that the evidence was insufficient to establish the knowledge of status required by Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (201…
21-5723 Juan Manuel Pardo-Oseguera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure plain-error presentence-report safety-valve sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-minimum weapons-enhancement Whether the failure to include a safety-valve reduction is a plain error that should be corrected by the district court and appellate court
21-5687 Darrell Hochhalter v. Jason Clendenion, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process false-evidence impeachment plain-error recent-fabrication witness-impeachment Does 'recent fabrication' rise to the same significance as 'false evidence' in influencing the fairness of a trial per the 14th Amendment
21-5641 Conoly Freddie Franklin, III, and Andre Anthony Franklin, aka Tommy Martin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review sufficiency Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(8) bar reviewing the sufficiency of a charging document absent a showing of good cause
21-5615 Carlos Mora v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-preservation criminal-justice due-process importation mens-rea methamphetamine-importation plain-error plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines whether-defendant-failed-to-preserve-argument-by-not-raising-it-at-sentencing-hearing
21-5620 Raymond L. Crum v. United States Second Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split plain-error prison-term rehabilitation rehabilitation-consideration sentencing-reform-act tapia-precedent tapia-v-united-states Whether a district court commits plain error by relying to any extent on a defendant's rehabilitative needs in imposing a prison term
21-5548 Brent Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-counting firearm-possession plain-error reckless-endangerment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines vehicular-flight Did the district court plainly err when it applied a 2-level enhancement for 'reckless endangerment during flight' after already applying a 4-level 'i…
21-5543 Louis Matthews v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-charge federal-law indictment judgment-acquittal ninth-circuit plain-error Did the Ninth Circuit err in upholding a conviction for a conspiracy other than the conspiracy charged in the indictment?
21-5463 Christopher Jonell Tyler v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process fourth-circuit government-breach judicial-review plain-error plea-agreement sentencing Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the 'interests of justice' and this Court's ruling in Puckett v. United States
21-243 James Warner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied bribery-statute constructive-amendment criminal-procedure indictment indictment-modification jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error substantial-rights Whether the constructive amendment of an indictment by an erroneous jury instruction, stating that conspiracy counts alleged agreements to violate a d…
21-5410 Joydeth Robinson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure court-discretion district-court judicial-remand legal-procedure limited-remand plain-error substantial-rights Whether courts of appeals should order a limited remand to determine whether a plain error has affected a party's substantial rights
21-222 Ferrell Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-3583(k) constitutional-provision double-jeopardy fifth-amendment plain-error sentencing Whether the defendant's right not to be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense was violated
21-5202 Esteban Figueroa-Larrea v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP contested-element criminal-procedure district-court jury-charge jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-scope plain-error standard-of-review trial-court-error trial-procedure Whether the district court plainly erred by misadvising the jury about the legal scope of the sole contested element at trial
21-5149 Leobardo Barraza v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-amendment irreparable-corruption juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama plain-error sentencing-guidelines Whether a federal court commits plain error by anchoring a sentence for a juvenile's crime resulting in death to a Sentencing Guidelines that recommen…
21-5141 Terrance Tyrell Edwards v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP commercial-sex-trafficking conclusive-presumption criminal-procedure due-process interstate-commerce jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error Is evidence that establishes only the use of cellular-telephones, internet, hotels sufficient to find the interstate-commerce element for commercial-s…
21-5062 Ricardo Burgos v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights-restoration criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing felon-in-possession plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states Whether the district court erred in refusing to grant an evidentiary hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 where the defendant asserted he did not know he wa…
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
21-5045 Colvis Jerrod Higgins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP alcohol-prohibition criminal-procedure drug-treatment due-process judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-conditions special-conditions substance-abuse supervised-release Did the district court plainly err when it imposed a special condition of supervised release requiring Mr. Higgins to abstain from alcohol and to atte…
21-5049 Yancey J. Myers, aka Yam v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fatal-variance judicial-integrity plain-error reversible-error standard-of-review When the as facto elauee is nic hed ae Ee eit 2 '5 obviously plain, does this error, reguire a reversal of Seog! criminal Conv aha
21-5014 John Bruce Fifield, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-history criminal-procedure judicial-notice plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether a court of appeals may consider judicially noticeable facts presented for the first time on appeal in deciding whether an error is plain?
20-8439 Francisco Coto-Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-review guideline-range judicial-discretion objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range,…
20-8369 Clarence Clark v. United States Second Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI as well as this Court's precedent
20-8103 Sayda Powery Orellana and Manuel Porras Salas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure forfeiture jury-instructions plain-error procedural-default waiver Whether agreement to a set of joint jury instructions is a waiver or forfeiture
20-8063 Darius Theriot v. Bob Vashaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP case-by-case-review constitutional-error federal-constitutional-error federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus merits-review plain-error state-court-ruling unpreserved-claim Whether a state court's ruling that an unpreserved claim of federal constitutional error does not meet the requirements of the 'plain error' standard …
20-8036 Antonio Kevin McKoy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuing-criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure drug-penalties fourth-circuit-review jury-instructions plain-error sentencing-enhancements special-verdict Whether the jury should be required to return a special verdict form addressing all essential elements of continuing criminal enterprise (CCE), in tha…
20-8002 Jason Andrew Cavazos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-sentencing plain-error relevant-conduct sex-offense u.s.s.g.-§2g1.3(b)(4) Whether the court of appeals failed to properly apply the plain error analysis to the question of whether the sentencing court erred by including a tw…
20-7889 Anthony Sistrunk v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied IFP plain-error plain-error-review public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment structural-error sua-sponte-closure voir-dire waller-v-georgia Whether the violation of the public trial provisions of the Sixth Amendment constitutes a structural error requiring automatic reversal under the plai…
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…
20-7837 Sam Bradford v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence miss-code-ann-47-314 murder plain-error sentencing trial-court Whether Petitioner's (Sam Bradford) due process rights were violated when the trial court committed plain error in imposing a natural life sentence fo…
20-1461 Jairo Acosta, Police Officer for the City of Los Banos v. Tan Lam, as Successor-in-Interest to Decedent Sonny Lam, aka Son Tung Lam Ninth Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process evidence officer-credibility plain-error police-use-of-force ptsd ptsd-evidence qualified-immunity reasonable-officer threat-assessment use-of-force Is it plain error to admit evidence of a police officer's remote PTSD diagnosis to challenge the officer's credibility and prove he was more likely to…
20-7673 Atticus Sliter-Matias v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law fifth-amendment plain-error self-incrimination Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's judgment of conviction and sentence by failing to find that the dis…
20-7686 Lonnie Alonzo Howard v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied IFP appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency felon-in-possession plain-error sufficiency-of-evidence trial-record Whether this case should be held pending Greer v. United States
20-7604 Christopher Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea indictment mens-rea plain-error rehaif Whether the appellate court may assume the indictment alleges a federal offense and consider material outside the trial record to adjudicate the defen…
20-1369 Mohammed Jabateh v. United States Third Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-criminal-rule federal-criminal-rule-52(b) plain-error plain-error-rule sentencing statutory-construction Does the plain error rule permit affirmance of a federal criminal conviction and sentence based on conduct that concededly does not violate the charge…
20-7580 Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing individualized-circumstances judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether formal objection to sentencing is necessary to invoke plain error review of the reasonableness of a sentence
20-7549 Shane Arnold v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure defense district-court due-process evidence evidence-introduction knowledge-of-status plain-error rehaif-standard Rehaif-v-United-States trial-error Whether a defendant satisfies the final two prongs of plain-error review for a Rehaif-v-United-States trial error
20-1319 Victor Manuel Solorzano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-review plain-error search-and-seizure unreasonable-search whether-the-fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals-erred-in-its-plain-error-analysis
20-7486 Carlos Guzman-Merced v. United States First Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2106 appellate-remedy appellate-review criminal-procedure indictment indictment-dismissal judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review remedial-authority statutory-interpretation Whether a Court of Appeals can order an indictment dismissed as part of the appellate remedy
20-7473 Ivan Dario Obregon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines Are unforeseeable sentencing mistakes beyond the scope of federal appeal waivers?
20-7408 Trystan Keun Napper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-interpretation plain-error standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) permits courts of appeals to grant appellate relief in the absence of error shown by binding preceden…
20-7410 Edward McCain v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-remand certiorari concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-judgment jones-v-mississippi judicial-review juvenile-offenders plain-error sentencing supreme-court-procedure Whether an invalid conviction affects a criminal defendant's substantial rights and must be vacated on plain error review
20-7405 Jorge Rangel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP direct-appeal drug-cases first-step-act mandatory-minimum plain-error rehaif Does the First-Step-Act apply to defendants on direct-appeal?
20-7414 James Innocent v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied IFP circuit-court criminal-procedure greer-v-united-states judicial-review plain-error rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters…
20-7372 Terry Lee Ockert, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error rule-12 rule-52 suppression-motion Whether the court of appeals should review an untimely suppression argument for plain error under Rule 52 or require a showing of good cause
20-7360 Emmanuel Feaster v. United States Second Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the district court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that the evidence must establish both that petitioner Emmanuel Feaste…
20-7300 Robbull Bryant v. United States Second Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plain-error rehaif rehaif-error second-circuit standing Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Bryant's constitutional challenges to his guilty plea to a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g…
20-7250 Eunice Husband v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plain-error supervised-release united-states-constitution Whether the district court and appellate court erred in their handling of the defendant's claims of plain error, judicial bias, ineffective assistance…
20-7197 Roberto Elias Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court due-process maximum-term plain-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-maximum Whether plain error resulted from the district court erroneously advising the client during plea colloquy
20-7183 Shameke Walker v. United States Second Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery identification-evidence jury-instruction plain-error violent-crime Whether Hobbs Act robbery constitutes a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
20-7145 Rasheik Amond Harris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-offense jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error Whether a defendant who was found guilty after a jury trial to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g), is automatically ent…
20-7120 Alfred Montgomery,III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-statute-interpretation felon-in-possession generic-burglary plain-error rehaif sentencing-enhancement state-burglary-offense Whether a state burglary offense is categorically broader than generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act
20-7072 Jean Denis Paul v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-court double-jeopardy fairness-integrity felon-in-possession plain-error plain-error-review rehaif revocation substantial-rights supervised-release supreme-court-decision trial-record Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters…
20-7036 Emmanuel Ravell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP automatic-relief circuit-split criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-possession guilty-plea plain-error rehaif structural-error Whether a guilty plea to possessing a firearm as a felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) and 924(a) that was entered before Rehaif v. United State…
20-7019 Kourtney Williams v. United States First Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury jury-finding mens-rea petit-jury plain-error Does Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) grant an appellate court discretion to independently find an essential element of an offense for which the defendant was n…
20-6966 Charles Eloys Johnson, aka Adam White v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c appellate-review conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-procedure hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error substantial-rights Whether an acknowledged instructional error requires reversal where a reviewing court cannot determine if the jury based its verdict on the legally er…
20-6942 Juan Jose Camarena v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment gang-affiliation liberty plain-error sentencing-conditions supervised-release vagueness Is this condition of supervised release a violation of the Fifth Amendment due process right against vague conditions of release and/or a greater depr…
20-6862 Montecarlos Gant v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-error due-process guilty-plea plain-error prejudice reversal substantial-rights Whether automatic reversal is required when a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause
20-6817 Jerry Lee Quinn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split codefendant codefendant-testimony evidence-admission fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-statement plain-error prior-consistent-statements prosecutorial-misconduct tome Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied the plain error doctrine to bar review of the defendant's claim that the prosecution wrongly relied on a hearsay …
20-6743 Neil Dussard v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether the Supreme Court should correct the Second Circuit's split from other Circuit Courts in addressing the recurring question of the validity of …
20-6714 Jevonne Martell Coleman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-error due-process guilty-plea plain-error prejudice reversal substantial-rights When a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made, is automatic reversal required?
20-6688 Arthur Tyrone Lee, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the defendant's stipulation at trial was plain error warranting relief on the sufficiency of the evidence
20-6656 Jose Armando Bazan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fifth-circuit plain-error role-adjustment sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in refusing to review an unpreserved factual argument for plain error
20-6657 Ezer Rosembel Barrientos-Osorio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutes plain error affecting substantial rig for a defendant likely to be deported criminal-procedure deportation plain-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release Where a district court commits plain error by failing to follow Section 5D1.1(c) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines by imposing, without expla…
20-6569 Quincey Frye v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review felon-in-possession judicial-proceedings jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit trial-record Should the Court of Appeals have looked beyond the trial record to Frye's presentence investigation report to decide that there was no plain error tha…
20-6526 Kendesia Juinize May v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP buy-sell-defense buy-sell-transactions conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-procedure judgment-of-acquittal jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error rule-29 Whether the trial court committed plain error in refusing to grant a 'buy-sell' defense jury instruction
20-6510 Lawrence W. Ford v. Anita L. Budde Nevada 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process judicial-discretion judicial-integrity judicial-review plain-error pro-se Whether the appellate court abused its discretion in mischaracterizing the trial court record and relying on erroneous facts
20-6388 Joel Latrent Fletcher v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States, 1…
20-6372 Willie E. Ashe, Jr. v. United States District of Columbia 2020-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-assistance geders-precedent geders-v-united-states plain-error presumptive-prejudice right-to-counsel sequestration sequestration-order sixth-amendment trial-interruption Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals erred in failing to reverse petitioner's convictions pursuant to the Sixth Amendment to the United S…
20-6373 Cordarrius Bonds v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession knowledge-of-status plain-error plea-bargaining sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-precedent structural-error Whether a defendant who pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm is entitled to automatic plain-error reversal when the plea was neithe…
20-6347 Christopher Mikelinich v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-possession knowing-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-agreement plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-elements Where a defendant claims his plea was not knowing and intelligent because he was unaware of all the elements of the offense, does it matter whether he…
20-6363 Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence appellate-review civil-procedure due-process magistrate magistrate-recommendation plain-error plea-agreement report-and-recommendation statutory-interpretation Whether a district court commits plain error by not waiting the fourteen days allotted by 28 U.S.C. § 636 prior to adopting a magistrate's Report and …
20-6305 Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea plain-error sentencing sentencing-error Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon is automatically entitled to plain error relief if the district court did no…
20-6291 Christopher Stacy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon is automatically entitled to plain error relief if the district court did no…
20-6213 J. Santos Mondragon-Benitez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-authority imprisonment-revocation plain-error reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness?
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…
20-6188 Joshua Chiazor Ezeka v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona miranda-warning plain-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's custodial statements should be suppressed due to lack of Miranda warning
20-6192 Jamal Aikeem Hutchinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearms guilty-plea henderson-v-morgan plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation Can the appellate courts' divergent approaches to plain error review of pre-Rehaif guilty pleas be reconciled with one another?
20-6129 Matthew R. Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review due-process jury-instructions plain-error Whether a conviction after (a) an incomplete indictment, (b) incorrect jury instructions, (c) failure of the petit jury to make a finding on an essent…
20-6098 Lamont Owens v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure fairness-integrity-public-reputation intervening-supreme-court-decision judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error plain-error-review substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record Whether plain-error review for failure to instruct on an element of the offense, based upon an intervening U.S. Supreme Court decision, allows courts …
20-5958 Jimmy Kit Fields v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP alcohol-abuse criminal-sentencing due-process liberty-deprivation plain-error statutory-reasonableness supervised-release Whether a court can impose a condition of supervised release to abstain from alcohol without explanation
20-5959 Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Relisted (3)IFP circuit-split commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether error under Rehaif v. United States constitutes plain error
20-444 United States v. Michael Andrew Gary Fourth Circuit 2020-10-07 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea plain-error plain-error-rule plea-bargaining plea-colloquy substantial-rights Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon is automatically entitled to plain-error relief if the district court did no…
20-5854 Trumaine Muller v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses intervening-act jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error proximate-cause Whether the trial court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that the government had to prove mens rea as to each drug offense and th…
20-401 Devan Pierson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights What test should be used to determine prejudice from a constructive amendment under Rule 52(b)?
20-5816 Jose Antonio Acevedo-Lemus v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error probable-cause search-warrant suppression-motion waiver Whether a new theory raised on appeal in support of a suppression motion is reviewable for plain error or under Rule 12's good-cause standard
20-5742 David Tachay Heard v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure cross-racial-identification due-process eyewitness-identification federal-standard jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error standard-of-review Should federal district courts be required to give a cautionary jury instruction, upon a defendant's request, to guide the jury's evaluation of eyewit…
20-5639 TJ Cain, aka Thomas J. Cain v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure involuntary-confession miranda-rights plain-error pretrial-motion suppression-of-evidence When a criminal defendant does not timely file a pretrial motion raising a claim covered by Federal-Rule-of-Criminal-Procedure-12(b)(8), is his claim …
20-5558 Anthony Smith v. United States Second Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Relisted (3)IFP criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions knowledge-element mens-rea plain-error prohibited-possession Whether the district court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that the evidence must establish both that appellant Anthony Smith kn…
20-5407 Dominique Mack v. United States Second Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Relisted (4)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process evidence jailhouse-informant mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing plain-error sentencing statements-against-interest Whether the district court's admission of jailhouse informant testimony violated this Court's jurisprudence on statements against interest
20-5346 Jerry Lee Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing substance-abuse-treatment supervised-release Does a district court commit reversible plain error when it imposes a condition of supervised release requiring the defendant to participate in and pa…
20-5326 Jose Alonso Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines Were Mr. Garcia's Due Process Rights violated under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment
20-5300 Victor Santana-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2020-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure Does plain error apply to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 32(i)(4)(a)(ii) when the error is caused by the sentencing court
20-5238 Wilbert Hayes v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court circuit-court-of-appeals criminal-procedure extra-record-material extrarecord-material olano-analysis olano-standard plain-error post-rehaif Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals should consider extrarecord material in its assessment of the fourth prong of the Olano plain-error analysis
20-5216 Brent Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fact-review federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure gvr judicial-procedure plain-error questions-of-fact standard-of-review Are questions of fact cognizable on plain error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b)?
20-5037 Bruce Zachary Pugh v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP criminal-procedure fairness-integrity judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error public-reputation substantial-rights supreme-court-precedent trial-record Whether plain-error review allows courts to review beyond the trial record
20-1 Nicholas E. Davis v. United States Armed Forces 2020-07-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-review court-martial criminal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error supreme-court-precedent waiver Whether the failure to object to a pattern jury instruction erroneously describing the elements of the offense constitutes affirmative waiver such tha…
19-8911 Lee Montez Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states district-court due-process habeas-corpus plain-error pleading-defendant reasonable-probability rehaif-v-united-states sentencing Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of…
19-1443 S. O., Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Son, B. O. v. Hinds County School District, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit-review judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-review standing supreme-court-precedent unpreserved-argument unpreserved-arguments Whether Fifth Circuit has again refused to follow the United States Supreme Court Per Curiam as found in Charles Earl Davis v. United States
19-8787 Wayne A. G. James v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-objection circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admission forfeiture plain-error trial-record waiver Whether an otherwise silent trial record showing only that an attorney declined to object to the admission of evidence establishes forfeiture or waive…
19-1362 Jason Laut v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights What test should be used to determine whether a constructive amendment impacted a defendant's substantial rights?
19-8562 Alexander Rosenblatt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court paroline-analysis plain-error restitution total-loss victim-loss Whether a district court's failure to determine the total loss to the victims and its failure to conduct a Paroline analysis before entering an order …
19-8566 John Charles Thompson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggregate-imprisonment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process imprisonment plain-error revocation sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Was it plain error for the Western District of North Carolina to not aggregate Mr. Thompson's multiple revocation active imprisonment sentences then r…
19-8502 David Beverly v. Illinois Illinois 2020-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility criminal-procedure facebook facebook-evidence fair-trial other-crimes-evidence plain-error plain-error-doctrine prior-bad-acts prior-conviction rap-lyrics Whether petitioner was denied a fair trial
19-8412 Lenroy McLean v. United States Second Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review forfeiture plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights Should the Second Circuit Court of Appeals exercise its discretion to correct the forfeited error of Petitioner's miscalculated guideline sentence tha…
19-8389 Edward Yarbrough, Jr. v. J. Sullivan, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-error federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct remarks-authentication reversible-error trial-court Whether a prosecutor's uninvited inflammatory remarks made in summation, absent a timely explicit curative instruction, so infected the trial with unf…
19-8376 Carlos M. Guerrero-Castro v. United States First Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure enterprise essential-element judicial-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error RICO rico-conspiracy Whether a district court commits plain error by refusing to properly instruct the jury that the existence of an actual enterprise is always an essenti…
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…
19-8237 Fernando Romero-Salgado v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error plain-error-review sixth-amendment substantial-rights Does Rehaif error per se affect a defendant's substantial rights under the third prong of plain-error review?
19-8097 Jay Eugene Reed v. United States Third Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-rule-52(b) criminal-rule-52b evidence-rule-103 expert-testimony forfeiture plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-procedure Whether the Court of Appeals erred in treating the evidentiary issue as forfeited and subject to only plain error review under Evidence Rule 103 and C…
19-8056 Brian Alan Matalka v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutes fifth-circuit-review indigency indigent-status plain-error plain-error-review special-assessment standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the district court record reached the wrong conclusion that Matalka was not indigent under the standard pros…
19-7943 J. H. v. E. R. S. Colorado 2020-03-11 Denied IFP appellate-review child-custody constitutional-facts constitutional-liberty de-novo-review due-process equal-protection parental-rights plain-error structural-error termination termination-of-parental-rights Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses require application of the plain error doctrine and independent de novo review of constitutional …
19-7942 Daniel Dale Parsons v. R. Blades, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-witness co-defendant-guilty-plea co-defendant-statement compulsory-process compulsory-process-clause confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination harmless-error plain-error waiver Has the accused's right of confrontation been converted from the prosecutor's duty under Confrontation Clause into the accused's privilege under the C…
19-7879 Luis D. Rivera-Carrasquillo, et al. v. United States First Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 categorical-approach crime-of-violence first-degree-murder penal-code plain-error puerto-rico-penal-code racketeering sentencing-enhancement violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering Is first degree murder under the 2004 Puerto Rico Penal Code a 'crime of violence' for the purpose of 18 U.S.C. § 924(j)?
19-7854 Howronda Overstreet v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure Did Ms. Overstreet's waiver of appeal unenforceabl Did the district court commit plain error when it due-process guidelines guidelines-calculation plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver Did Ms. Overstreet preserve her right to appeal the district court's inapplicable guidelines calculation?
19-7817 Maria de Lourdes Acosta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court judicial-procedure plain-error pre-sentence-report prejudice procedural-error sentencing When the district court fails to either order a Pre-Sentence Report or make explicit on-the-record findings as to why a Pre-Sentence Report is unneces…
19-7663 Ryan Douglas LaSalle v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review categorical-analysis congressional-definition criminal-procedure federal-regulations guidelines guidelines-miscalculation plain-error regulatory-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-categorical-analysis taylor-v-united-states Can a court of appeals successfully avoid undertaking plain error review of a Guidelines miscalculation by relying on a federal regulatory definition …
19-7685 Dominic Lindsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 GVR IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-errors federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error plain-error-review precedent sentencing standard-of-review Does plain-error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) include factual errors?
19-7675 Alonzo Lamar Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus incarcerated incarcerated-petitioner plain-error pro-se pro-se-litigant section-2255-motion standing Whether the US Court of Appeals for the Third circuit improperly denied Petitioner's request for a Certificate of Appealability
19-7630 Paris Hollingshed v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fairness-integrity judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error public-reputation substantial-rights supreme-court-precedent trial-record Whether plain-error review for failure to instruct on an element of the offense allows courts to review beyond the trial record
19-7446 Enrique A. Echeverria-Benitez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-circuit illegal-reentry plain-error retribution sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release Whether the imposition of consecutive sentences for illegal reentry and revocation of supervised release was unreasonable and constituted reversible e…
19-7173 Kenneth Rose v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP address-discrepancy affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-fact plain-error search-warrant suppression Whether appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to raise a plain error of fact material to Leon's third exception, which would have not permitte…
19-7112 Gabriel Galindo-Serrano v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied IFP confession confession-suppression court-of-appeals criminal-procedure delay magistrate-judge motion-to-suppress plain-error standard-of-review waiver Whether the standard of review on appeal of an untimely motion to suppress a confession, based upon the failure to bring the defendant before a magist…
19-7116 Eddie Estuardo Galindo-Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
19-7059 John Kenneth Schiefer v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning plain-error procedural-error respect-for-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure Did the district court plainly procedurally err when it selected and imposed sentence based on its desire to promote the defendant's respect for the l…
19-6972 Tarsis Guillermo Sanchez-Mora v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice plain-error rico-conspiracy statutory-interpretation Should this Court grant certiorari to correct a miscarriage of justice and provide needed clarification of the RICO law?
19-6825 Jorge Guerrero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error pretrial-motions rule-12 rule-52 suppression-motion Whether Rule 12's good-cause standard displaces the plain-error standard in Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b)
19-6747 Josue Emmanuel Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-25 Denied IFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default sentencing Whether allocution error is subject to plain error review in the absence of objection?
19-6554 Brandon Gregory Leal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP apportionment criminal-procedure judicial-procedure paroline-analysis paroline-v-united-states plain-error proximate-cause restitution victim-compensation Whether failure to conduct a proximate cause and apportionment analysis as required by this Court's decision in Paroline v. United States, 572 U.S. 43…
19-6527 Ruben Patrick Valdes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim criminal-history evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sentencing-guidelines was-trial-counsel-constitutionally-ineffective
19-6534 Saad Bahoda v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure Bunkley-v-Florida conflict-of-interest effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing forged-affidavits ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions michigan-law People-v-Triplett plain-error self-defense sixth-amendment witness-conflict Whether petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel at trial
19-6431 Jose Armando Bazan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-29 GVR Relisted (4)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure fact-question guidelines plain-error role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a district court's failure to apply a minor or mitigating role adjustment under the Sentencing Guideli…
19-6318 Damon Tracy Locke v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-statute drug-statutes mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Is the Eighth Circuit interpretation and application of drug statutes as qualifying offenses for career offender status in opposition to Mathis v. Uni…
19-6320 Nalen Pierre Williams v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied IFP 18-usc-922g1 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession legal-status mens-rea plain-error reasonable-doubt rehaif-precedent rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2…
19-6177 Valerie Flores v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court government-admission government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing seventh-circuit supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the Seventh Circuit errantly disregarded the government's failure to brief a waiver argument and disallowed relief for a supervised release co…
19-433 Patrick Emanuel Sutherland v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied 18-usc-1512 false-statements grand-jury nexus-requirement obstruction-of-justice obstruction-of-justice-18-usc-1512-c-2 plain-error plain-error-review prosecutorial-misconduct When does the 'nexus' requirement for obstruction of an official proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) apply when false statements are made to a U.S…
19-6127 Steven Justin Villalona v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest counsel-concession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings law-of-the-case mootness plain-error presumption-of-prejudice substantial-rights What effect does a concession on ineffective assistance of counsel have on the court's ability to adjudicate the merits?
19-6099 Khalil Stafford v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-10-01 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error time-barred Whether the courts erred in failing to grant the defendant a partial evidentiary hearing on challenges to the fourth and fifth convictions, particular…
19-6113 Jose Armando Bazan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-01 GVR Relisted (4)IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review cocaine-conspiracy criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing downward-adjustment fact-question guidelines plain-error plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a defendant's claim for a minor or mitigating role downward adjustment under the Sentencing Guidelines…
19-6079 Guillermo Vega-Botello v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-procedure limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing statutory-maximum substantial-rights Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand …
19-6073 Glen T. Jones, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-interpretation plain-error structural-error Whether the state court's harmlessness determination is subject to habeas corpus review under Brecht v. Abrahamson
19-6034 Tomas Liriano Castillo v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointments-clause attorney-general-succession-act civil-procedure federal-government federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-vacancies-reform-act notice plain-error procedural-forfeiture rule-52b social-media social-media-notice Can announcements made via the President's personal social media be sufficient to put litigants against the Federal Government on notice so that litig…
19-6050 Jose Vizcarrondo-Casanova v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c)(3)(a) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent plain-error puerto-rico-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis Whether murder under Puerto Rico law categorical approach fails to qualify as a 'crime of violence' under remaining force clause of 924(C)(3)(A), unde…
19-5959 Loretta Fergerson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals clear-error clear-error-standard federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-to-vacate plain-error plain-error-standard post-conviction-relief standard-of-review Did the Appeals Court err in applying clear error rather than plain error standard when deciding District Court's denial of Petitioner's 2255?
19-5962 David Tjader v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the Seventh Circuit errantly disregarded the government's waiver of a waiver argument and disallowed relief for a supervised release condition…
19-5963 Jesus Yugopicio-Rojas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-consistency criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-review molina-martinez non-calculation plain-error sentencing-guidelines Does failure to calculate the applicable Sentencing Guidelines attract the same protocol for plain error as set out in Molina-Martinez v. United State…
19-5949 Marcelino Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining plea-negotiations rule-11 substantial-rights when-district-court-violates-rule-11(c)(1)-of-federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure
19-5767 Virgil Lee Bailey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea harmless-error judicial-standard plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency sullivan-v-louisiana Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review
19-5722 Moses Shepard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 30-70-day-clock circuit-split constructive-amendment due-process grand-jury-clause indictment-clause plain-error speedy-trial-act subsequent-indictment superseding-indictment Whether a 'subsequent replacement indictment' restarts the Speedy Trial Act clock or if 'superseding' indictments are automatically excluded
19-5597 Randall B. Lord v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law agency-deference agency-discretion agency-regulation bitcoin-exchange chevron-deference civil-procedure due-process money-transmission plain-error regulatory-deference statutory-interpretation Is it a plain error for the District Court to defer to an agency's regulation before identifying ambiguity in the plain meaning of a statute?
19-5563 Ian Alexander Bowline v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions timeliness waiver Whether an appellate court can review a defense, objection, or request that is not timely made under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12 for plain e…
19-5545 Todd Allen Wheeler v. Michigan Michigan 2019-08-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error severance sixth-amendment trial-joinder Whether Mr. Wheeler was denied his constitutional right to due process and effective assistance of counsel
19-5465 Isela Alejandra Campos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to show prejudice under plain error review
19-149 Fort Bend Mechanical, Limited, et al. v. Gil Ramirez Group, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-review federal-rules-civil-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error rule-50 sufficiency-challenge sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to follow its own precedent when declining to conduct a plain error review of the sufficiency challenge due to incons…
19-5403 Randy Charriez-Rolon v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-ineffectiveness criminal-procedure defendant-silence due-process due-process,self-incrimination,plain-error,ineffec first-circuit-review free-speech plain-error prosecutorial-commentary rule-29-motion silence Whether the First Circuit's op/order affirming Petitioner's sentence and conviction finding no plain error when the United States commented on Petitio…
19-5411 Kirk Patrick Keshler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency standard-of-review sullivan-v-louisiana Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review, or whether, under Sullivan v. Louisiana, 50…
19-5420 Kendrick Terrell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error prior-charges sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights were violated
19-5421 Charles Earl Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-standard legal-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review procedural-review standard-of-review Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
19-138 First State Community Action Agency v. Tamra N. Robinson Third Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure invited-error jury-instructions plain-error trial-court waiver Whether a party that first raises an issue on appeal has per se waived plain error review
19-5272 Pereneal Kizzee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeals criminal-procedure-error-correction criminal-sentencing federal-appeals federal-law felony-offense fifth-circuit firearm-possession guidelines-enhancement judicial-discretion judicial-integrity plain-error plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it refused to exercise its discretion to correct the forfeited error that seriously affected the f…
19-5232 Ricky Ray Malone v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied IFP chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis federal-law harmless-error harmlessness-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-component Where plain error review includes a built-in prejudice component, is subjecting an acknowledged plain error to a second round of harmlessness review p…
19-5216 Nicholas Pagliuca v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining rule-11 vonn-v-united-states Whether the plain error standard of Vonn/Dominguez Benitez applies in the context of violations of Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(b)(1)(N), where the defendant rais…
19-5182 Geovanny Antonio Loyola-Villegas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied IFP appellate-review empirical-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente…
19-5159 Quinetta Grant v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP should this Court vacate and remand for reconside was Ms Grant denied her rights under U.S.S.G. § 1 binding-authority criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-sentencing-right-to criminal-procedure-supervisory-power-conviction-se due-process judicial-discretion mail-fraud plain-error right-to-be-present sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-relevant-conduct-scope-of-cr sentencing-procedure Where Ms Grant's sentence was enhanced by attribut Where multiple additional errors affected petition Whether the Court of Appeals erred in failing to consider binding authority on a defendant's right to be present at a material sentencing proceeding
19-5162 Frederick Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review plain-error plainly-unreasonable post-revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard supervised-release What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release?
19-5138 Jesus Alonso Gonzalez Gonzalez, aka Jesus Gonzalez, aka Jesus Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Roberto Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error procedural-review rule-51b sentencing Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 51(…
19-5077 Carlton P. Cabot v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-findings olano plain-error rule-52(b) sentencing-variance standard-of-review Does plain error review apply to unobjected to factual determinations?
18-9776 Irineo Ponce-Recendiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 51(…
18-9790 Alexander Monzoni v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-calculation guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review for Guideline error as set ou…
18-9703 Milton Terry Kelton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Whether the Honorable Judge Brian C. Wimes and the U.S. Attorney James Bohling utilized two inapplicable statutory enhancements enacted after the offe…
18-9691 Dwayne Lee Stallings v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32-violations criminal-rule false-statement false-statements federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure obstruction-of-justice plain-error plain-error-analysis sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review structural-error Whether the Court's plain error analysis is properly applied to violations of Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(1)(A), and, if so, whether such violations are st…
18-9692 Jody Lanardo White v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review Whether challenges to the reasonableness of a sentence must be preserved by specific objection?
18-9608 Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-interpretation plain-error procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review Does the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with decisions of the Supreme Court and was the decision incorrect when it stated that Garc…
18-9365 Jose Antonio Ramirez-Jaramillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation statutory-range substantial-rights Whether an error in selecting the defendant's statutory range of imprisonment affects his or her substantial rights within the meaning of Federal Rule…
18-9291 Adrian Green v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment career-offender criminal-history due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plea-agreement prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-error Was defense counsel ineffective or deficient in their representation of the defendant?
18-9233 Michael Perales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process plain-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error?
18-1383 James M. Hale v. United States Armed Forces 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived 10-usc-802 court-martial court-martial-jurisdiction general-verdict judicial-deference jurisdictional-defects jurisdictional-limits legal-sufficiency military-discipline military-discipline-jurisdiction military-law overt-acts plain-error rostker-v-goldberg sufficiency-of-evidence weiss-v-united-states Whether the court-martial had jurisdiction over the charged conduct
18-9134 Joe Clopton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amending-indictment brady-violation burden-of-proof child-support cps-records criminal-procedure defense-strategy double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence false-allegations grand-jury ineffective-assistance lesser-included-offense medical-records nolo-contendere plain-error sixth-amendment social-worker-testimony Whether the medical records were improperly excluded from evidence
18-9026 Arrez Meliton-Salto v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guidelines-range molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error prejudice record-silence sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to show prejudice under plain error review when the record is silent as to what the…
18-8996 Zack Zafer Dyab v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP amount-of-loss appellate-review court-discretion criminal-sentencing illegal-sentence judicial-discretion legal-error loss-calculation plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-limitation statutory-limitations Does the miscalculation of the amount of loss as applied to the sentencing guidelines represent an illegal sentence, and plain error that the Court sh…
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…
18-8769 Hilton Rios-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-questions constitutional-review due-process first-impression plain-error plain-error-standard standard-of-review Whether the Supreme Court should review and reverse the First Circuit's holding that an appellant is without recourse under the plain error standard o…
18-1283 Joseph Montano v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response Waived consent consent-requirement cross-examination double-jeopardy fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-privilege judicial-discretion mistrial oregon-v-kennedy plain-error united-states-v-olano Whether the underlying reason for a sua sponte declaration of mistrial was plain error that overrides the consent requirement of Oregon v. Kennedy, an…
18-8632 Marcos Lopez-Guzman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion plain-error retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-reduction,18-usc-3582,amendm sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether the United States Court of Appeals committed a clear error in denying Appellant's two-level reduction pursuant to § 3582(C)(2) and Amendment 7…
18-8558 Jorge Edwin Rivera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release Whether a district court's imposition of a term of supervised release double the Guidelines range without first calculating the range or providing an …
18-8512 DaRen Kareem Gadsden v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-integrity judicial-proceedings multiplicitous-sentence plain-error remand rosales-mireles-standard sentencing sentencing-review substantial-rights Whether a multiplicitous sentence issue can be raised at any time
18-8349 Daverne Michael Foy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-proceedings plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights waiver Whether the trial court's consideration of non-charged offenses with significantly higher sentencing guidelines constitutes plain error affecting the …
18-8331 Jeffrey Bowers v. Frank Lawrence, Acting Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-separation plain-error Whether a conflict exists between the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Appellate Court in case at bar where jury separation after deliberations ha…
18-8314 Jose Nino-Carreon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion guidelines plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain Guideline error should ordinarily find an effect on the defendant's substantial rights if the district c…
18-8185 Anthony Alexander Ferrari v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-overbreadth fourth-amendment liberty-deprivation overbreadth overbroad plain-error probation-officer statutory-reasonableness supervised-release vague vagueness Whether it is plain error to require as a condition of supervised release that a defendant permit a probation officer to visit the probation officer a…
18-8161 Kali Lord v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP above-guidelines-sentence appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error?
18-8132 Anthony D. Phillips v. Bonita Hoffner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adjudication-on-the-merits AEDPA aedpa-standards constitutional-error due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia plain-error plain-error-review sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a constitutional error reviewed under plain error standards is an adjudication on the merits; and whether AEDPA deferential standards of revie…
18-8075 Godwin Oriakhi v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining pro-se-filing strickland-v-washington Whether Lafler v. Cooper is violated when trial counsel advises a defendant to enter a guilty plea to an indictment that, on its face, violates the Fi…
18-8044 Lois Brooks v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure government-rights judicial-integrity judicial-proceedings mandatory-minimum plain-error sentencing sentencing-error substantial-rights Does the government have 'substantial rights' such that actions taken in derogation of them may constitute 'plain error' under Fed. R. Crim. Pro. 52(b…
18-8033 Luis Alberto Montalvo Borgos v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-dealer due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure miscarriage-of-justice plain-error Prosecutor-elicited-testimony-about-witness-fear,c Prosecutor-stated-petitioner-was-known-drug-dealer prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Was the identification of the petitioner unreasonably suggestive?
18-7986 Maurin Chacon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 794 amendment-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law judicial-review plain-error plain-error-standard rosales-mireles rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-olan Does a amendment violation of 794 warrant a plain error review under Rosales-Mireles
18-7717 Byrion Demeco Ferguson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1B1.3 amendment appellate-review constitutional criminal-procedure evidence judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-commission u.s.-sentencing-commission Whether the trial court committed plain error by admitting insufficient evidence applied by the pre-amendment 1B1.3 version of the U.S. Sentencing Gui…
18-7679 Jeriton Lavar Curry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) appeal-waiver appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction unconstitutional-sentence Did the Appeals Court err by granting the Government's motion to enforce an invalid appeal waiver, after determining that Currys' issue was non-frivol…
18-7385 Cheng Le v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP biological-weapons biological-weapons-act commerce-clause constitutional-law-commerce-clause-treaty-power-bi criminal-law-biological-weapons-anti-terrorism-act criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-standard-of-review-plain-error- federalism plain-error standard-of-review treaty-power Whether federalism principles preclude holding Le Whether the Biological Weapons Act 18 U.S.C. §175 Whether a less demanding standard of review than plain error should be applied
18-7358 Aaron Ford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255,ineffective-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error presentence-investigation-report section-2255-motion sentencing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying to issue a certificate of appealability to review Petitioner's denied motion under 28 U…
18-7122 Jeffrey Thomas Gola v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP ability-to-pay Ability-to-pay-restitution BOP-jurisdiction-over-payment-plan bureau-of-prisons Consideration-of-18-USC-3664-factors constitutional-liberties Delegation-of-authority-to-BOP financial-responsibility mandatory-victims-restitution-act payment-schedule plain-error Plain-error-in-restitution-order restitution restitution-payment Is the BOP's Financial Responsibility Program voluntary when constitutional liberties are taken for non-participation?
18-7077 JC Christopher Pulham v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court legal-standard plain-error plain-error-review presumption presumption-of-correctness presumption-of-knowledge sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review When a district court does not articulate the legal standard it is applying, may an appellate court presume that the district court knew and correctly…
18-7087 Daniel Lopez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plain-error plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the District Court committed plain error by allowing the prosecutor to commit prosecutorial misconduct by breaching the plea agreement
18-7067 Derrick Christopher Johnson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-law divisible-statute drug-offense modified-categorical-approach plain-error prior-state-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether petitioner's prior state drug offenses qualified as enumerated offenses under the career criminal provision of the United States Sentencing Gu…
18-7004 Miguel Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand …
18-6862 John Thomas v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states plain-error standard-of-review time-of-appeal time-of-law unsettled-law When the governing law is unsettled at the time of trial but settled-in defendant's favor by the time of appeals, should an appellate court reviewing …
18-6800 Robert Ryan Powell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment double-jeopardy fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-instructions jury-unanimity plain-error sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Where jury instructions lack the dates and timeframes specified in the indictment, do the jury instructions constructively amend the indictment, and t…
18-6829 Jimmy Walter Fuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand …
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 …
18-6695 Zafar Mehmood v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-interpreters-act due-process judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-standard right-to-interpreter sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-procedures waiver waiver-of-right-to-interpreter Whether the plain error standard applies to appellate review of a claim that the district court's acceptance of a waiver by defense counsel of his cli…
18-616 Roger Nepal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response Waived criminal-law criminal-procedure de-novo-review direct-appeal Griffith-v-Kentucky plain-error retroactivity standard-of-review substantive-law Where the Supreme Court has changed the substantive law governing a criminal case that is on direct appeal, must Griffith v. Kentucky be applied to th…
18-6473 Jeremy Bernard Harrison v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 51(…
18-6391 Matthew Vaughn Hawks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-disability plain-error sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-reasonableness substantial-rights united-states-v-olano whether-the-eleventh-circuit-misapplied-fed-r-crim-p-52(b)-and-united-states-v-olano
18-6358 Alj Hilton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP and Are Plain and Affect Petitioner's Substantial -and-Are-Plain-and-Affect-Petitioner's-Substantial 18-usc-3661 5th-amendment appeal-waiver appeal-waiver,sentencing-guidelines,criminal-histo criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum plain-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights trial-court-error Whether the mandatory five-year minimum sentence u Whether Petitioner's Appeal Waiver Is Inapplicable to Issues of Trial Court Error in Applying Sentencing Guidelines' Enhancements or in Calculating Cr…
18-6356 Earl Reyes v. Dale Artus Second Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure-appeal court-of-appeals federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure final-decision frap-rule-24 in-forma-pauperis indigent-appellant indigent-rights motion-to-vacate plain-error standing Whether the court of appeals abused its discretion Whether the court of appeals was correct to requir Whether it was plain error for a court of appeals to deny in forma pauperis relief to an indigent appellant
18-6307 Lorenzo Micquell Latimer v. Jeff Macomber, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-record due-process evidence evidence-code harmless-error ineffective-assistance plain-error prior-criminal-record When unacceptable insufficient evidence is portrayed upon the Defendant within a criminal case, by way of prior criminal record; does 'harmless error'…
18-6271 Sonny Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness-challenge reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-booker When—if at all—must a defendant object to the reasonableness of a sentence to preserve that argument for appellate review?
18-6273 Antoine Davis v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fair-trial fifth-amendment government-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sixth-amendment Whether the Lower Court Misapprehended its Abuse of discretion when the lower court excluded evidence of the Government witness, which evidence was pu…
18-6237 Jacob L. Smith v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3553 appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process gall-v-united-states plain-error plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-variance In order to preserve a § 3553(c) challenge to the adequacy of the district court's sentencing explanation, must a party, who is given no opportunity t…
18-6230 Harvey L. Shoate v. Jason Lewis, Warden Eighth Circuit 2018-10-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plea-agreement post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing sua-sponte Can a post-conviction court find plain error in the movant's guilty plea or sentence record and 'sua sponte' order relief when the movant never raised…
18-6222 Donte Timothy Bacon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP as-applied-challenges class-v-united-states commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure de-novo district-of-colombia-v-heller federal-criminalization federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-regulation guilty-plea interstate-commerce intrastate-firearm-possession intrastate-firearm-sale plain-error second-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unconditional-guilty-plea united-states-v-lopez Whether as-applied constitutional challenges to statutes of conviction are waived by an unconditional guilty plea, and the standard of review
18-6092 Robert Dion Ables v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-review empirical-analysis empirical-foundation-of-guidelines guideline-2g2.2 judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-of-sentences Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
18-5978 John Robert Register, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plain-error prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the court commit a plain error by applying a career offender enhancement to petitioner, even though his prior convictions neither of which had the…
18-6006 Gerson Gonzalez Tovar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions criminal-statute due-process interstate-commerce plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child-pornography crossed state-lines at an unspecified-prior-…
18-5957 Raul Arcila v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-841 criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process evidentiary-issues jury-evidence jury-instructions plain-error proximate-cause sentencing-factor unfair-prejudice Whether the District Court committed plain error by allowing the government to convert a sentencing factor into a proximate cause element
18-5875 John Vivo, III v. Connecticut Connecticut 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure plain-error plain-error-doctrine state-court-review statement-of-the-case statutory-exception statutory-interpretation Whether the state court of last resort erred by declining to review the petitioner's request for review under the plain-error doctrine and the applica…
18-5847 Jaime Shakur Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition chavez-meza circuit-split criminal-procedure en-banc en-banc-review plain-error reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-reasonableness Should this Court hold this Petition until the court below renders its forthcoming en banc decision in United States v. Reyes-Contreras?
18-5831 Willie Riley Curry v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-circuit age-of-victim byrd-v-united-states carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gvr plain-error scienter search-and-seizure sixth-circuit-review statutory-interpretation Does Carpenter and Byrd require a GVR in this case?
18-5787 Danyale Sharron Tubbs v. Michigan Michigan 2018-08-28 Denied IFP competency competency-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency mental-illness plain-error procedural-default sentencing sentencing-error strickland-standard Was Michigan's application of Strickland v. Washington unreasonable?
18-5797 Carlos Gutierrez-Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-review Whether a defendant must re-object to the district court's explanation of its sentencing rationale to preserve the arguments for appeal
18-5682 Landon Trevor Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment harmless-error plain-error reasonable-suspicion supervised-release supervised-release-conditions Must searches conducted as conditions of federal supervised release be supported by at least reasonable suspicion?
18-5618 Tae H. Chon v. Barack H. Obama, former President of the United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness integrity judicial-proceedings plain-error preservation-of-error remand substantial-rights tenth-circuit Whether a plain error affects the petitioner's substantial rights and implicates the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings…
18-5533 Brandon Maurice Shannon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-remand plain-error post-conviction-relief retroactivity rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light of Rosales-Mireles v. United States
18-5397 Alejandro Parra-Ramos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-prejudice due-process government-misconduct judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement plea-agreement-breach prejudice prosecutorial-breach sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-recommendation sentencing-variance upward-variance whether a defendant suffers prejudice when the government breaches a plea agreement by calling its agreed-upon recommendation irrational, and the cour…
18-5280 Patrick Lanier v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings judicial-review manifest-miscarriage plain-error plain-error-review restitution rule-52b sentencing sentencing-error Whether the plain error standard requires a 'manifest miscarriage of justice' to correct a forfeited error affecting substantial rights
18-5188 James Wilks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) abuse-of-discretion district-court judicial-discretion plain-error plainly-unreasonable revocation revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors supervised-release unreasonable-sentence Whether the district court imposed a plainly unreasonable revocation sentence by failing to properly balance the sentencing factors under 18 U.S.C. § …
18-5161 Marvin Waddleton, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa burden-of-proof constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard plain-error pro-se right-to-counsel state-court-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the state court's application of the Jackson standard of review in evaluating the sufficiency of the evidence violated clearly established fed…
18-5014 Marcus Allen v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process due-process,equal-protection,brady-violation,2255- equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity petition-for-rehearing plain-error Did lower court violate petitioner's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment of Equal Protection under the law, when petitioner provided evidence the Go…