plain-error-doctrine

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-5397 Emanuel Beach v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules plain-error-doctrine rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the federal drug schedules in effect at the time of the federal offense or the prior state offense should be used to define a 'serious drug of…
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
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 …
18-5875 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…