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25-6563 Gary Craig Stephens v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP court-of-appeals plain-error-review procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range supervised-release Whether a court of appeals may affirm a sentence when the district court never calculated or identified the applicable Sentencing Guidelines range and…
25-6368 Luis Garza-Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament firearm-possession plain-error-review second-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s permanent disarmament of felons violate the Second Amendment?
25A203 Derrick Lorenzo Casey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-08-20 Presumed Complete armed-career-criminal drug-offense fifth-amendment plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a district court's determination of an armed career criminal status based on prior drug convictions arising from a single arrest and plea on t…
24-7304 Eric Alonzo Windham v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure judicial-participation plain-error-review plea-negotiations safety-valve-eligibility Whether the Eleventh Circuit's plain error review properly considered the full record under United States v. Davila when rejecting Mr. Windham's claim…
24-7053 Valente Brito, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition fifth-circuit firearms-conviction plain-error-review second-amendment supreme-court-precedent Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment under plain erro…
24-6740 Royel Page v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-03-11 Denied IFP buyer-seller-relationship circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy party-presentation plain-error-review QP1: Whether evidence of repeat, distribution-sized drug transactions alone is sufficient to prove a drug conspiracy, as opposed to a mere buyer-selle…
24-6061 Chadwick Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure fifth-circuit-review firearms-conviction plain-error-review second-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that petitioner's argument challenging his federal firearms-related conviction under the Second Amendment c…
24-5714 Gerardo Farias-Contreras v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP circuit-court-variation criminal-procedure government-breach plain-error-review plea-agreement sentencing-recommendation Does plain-error review of a government's plea agreement breach focus on the scope of commitments to determine if the breach constitutes a 'plain' err…
24-5028 Rafael Cardona, Sr. v. United States First Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure forfeiture good-cause motion-timeliness multiplicity plain-error-review rule-12 waiver Whether Fed. R. Crim. P. 12, as amended in 2014, mandates a forfeiture or waiver of a multiplicity claim not timely raised in the district court, and …
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)
23-7419 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)
23-7204 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?
23-6674 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
23-6648 Anthony Christopher Mendonca v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment jury-selection plain-error-review public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment structural-error Does the plainly erroneous exclusion of the public from jury selection in a criminal trial seriously affect the fairness, integrity, and public reputa…
23-6025 Deunta Finch v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure guidelines plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit Has the Sixth Circuit erred by creating a novel doctrine that says, to avoid plain-error review, a criminal defendant must object after the sentencing…
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…
23-5788 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…
23-5762 Isaiah Whitefox Redbird v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP where context made the basis of his objection to criminal-procedure evidence-preservation federal-rules-of-evidence plain-error-review preservation-requirement propensity-evidence tenth-circuit Did the Tenth Circuit incorrectly hold that Mr. Redbird's claim was not preserved, where context made the basis of his objection to exclude the prosec…
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?
23-5116 Jeremy David Adams v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP bond-motion continuance continuance-exclusion party-presentation-principle plain-error-review pretrial-detention pretrial-release sixth-circuit-rule speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Question not identified
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…
22-6704 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 …
22-5599 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. …
22-5540 David Villegas Pereznegron v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings plain-error-review right-to-allocution sentencing sentencing-allocution substantial-rights Whether the plain and prejudicial denial of the right to allocution is an error that ordinarily warrants correction under the fourth prong of plain-er…
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
22-5400 Maurice D. Bell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error-review preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-procedure Whether an appellate court errs under Fed. R. Crim. P. 51 by applying plain error review to a claim of procedural error brought to the sentencing judg…
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…
21-8109 Eric Ray Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP or whether the court of appeals should first cons ambiguity contract-interpretation cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure government-as-drafter judicial-construction plain-error-review plea-agreement statutory-interpretation Whether a reasonable ambiguity in a cooperation or plea agreement necessarily defeats a defendant's claim of breach on plain error review, or whether …
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)
21-1352 Vivian Tat, aka Vivian Lnu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fundamental-rights jury-instructions plain-error-review rogers-error rogers-v-united-states standard-of-review Does plain error review govern claims of Rogers error on appeal, as the Ninth Circuit held below, or are such claims reviewed for harmlessness beyond …
21-7126 Quincy Deshan Butler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aggravated-offense constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions plain-error-review procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-enhancement texas-law Whether Cortificate of APPEALABILETY SHOULD HAVE BREA GeenTen?
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…
21-5641 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
21-5530 Luis Gomez-Castro v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process judicial-findings obstruction-of-justice perjury plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines When a defendant objects to a sentencing enhancement for obstruction of justice based on perjury, must the court make specific findings on the element…
21-5230 Maurice Stewart v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split felon-in-possession knowledge-of-status plain-error-review protective-sweep rehaif-v-united-states Whether a circuit court of appeals errs in relying on a petitioner's stipulation of prior felony conviction to infer the petitioner had knowledge of h…
20-8200 Brandon Dante Brooks-Davis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court criminal-procedure fairness-integrity-public-reputation intervening-supreme-court-decision judicial-review plain-error-review 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…
20-1522 United States v. Malik Nasir Third Circuit 2021-04-30 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession plain-error-review statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction following a trial for possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U…
20-1523 Rolando Cruz, Jr., Marc Hernandez, and Roscoe Villega v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-30 Denied constitutional-rights drug-conspiracy integrity-of-courts jury-selection plain-error-review public-interest sentencing structural-error substantial-rights Whether a structural error that is both obvious and affects substantial rights can be excused on plain error review due to the potential costs of retr…
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…
20-7871 Jemone Lawrence Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure criminal-indictment fairness-integrity-public-reputation federal-jurisdiction intervening-supreme-court-decision plain-error-review subject-matter-jurisdiction substantial-rights trial-record Whether the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction
20-7800 Jacqueline Moore v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness-standard federal-criminal-law indictment mens-rea plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states supreme-court-decision trial-record Whether an appellate court may consider information outside the trial record to determine if a Rehaif error affected the fairness, integrity, or publi…
20-7708 Jose Noe Castro Orellana v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process fact-finding plain-error-review procedural-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied Rita v. United States and Gall v. United States by elevating the presumption of reasonableness over a reliance on…
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
20-1295 United States v. Timothy Zachary Green Fourth Circuit 2021-03-17 GVR Relisted (2) circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession plain-error-review prejudice-standard statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction for possessing a firearm following a felony conviction, in violation of 18 …
20-1167 Jose Susumo Azano Matsura v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied firearm-possession guilty-knowledge plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment-rights statutory-exceptions unconstitutionally-vague visa-holder Should the Court grant review to clarify the guilty knowledge element under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(B)
20-7194 Lamar Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error-review 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…
20-7072 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…
20-7038 David Paul Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied IFP 18-usc-921-a-33 criminal-law criminal-statute domestic-violence firearms firearms-possession mens-rea misdemeanor-domestic-violence plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent Whether Mr. Martinez's convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) must be reversed
20-6975 Cortez Maurice Crumble v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-court-conflict criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea outside-trial-record plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights trial-error Whether prejudice should be presumed under the 'substantial rights' prong of plain-error review for Rehaif-derived trial errors
20-6854 Jose Armando Bazan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-sentencing fact-question plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a defendant's claim for a minor or mitigating role downward adjustment under the Sentencing Guidelines…
20-6811 Jesus Eder Moreno Ornelas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attempted-murder due-process felon-in-possession firearms jury plain-error-review rehaif-standard sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether a sentence may be enhanced for an offense tried to but not found by the jury
20-6738 Lisa Yvette Coffman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-law embezzlement federal-statute fifth-circuit fraud plain-error-review statutory-interpretation substantial-rights Does the first paragraph of 18 U.S.C. § 641 set out separate offenses or different means of committing one offense?
20-6702 Tomas Moreno-Turrubiates v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 appellate-review mitigation-arguments plain-error-review procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentence-explanation sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights whether-district-court-must-address-mitigation-arguments
20-6662 Ian D. Goolsby v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP specifically allowing review beyond the trial rec circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process element-of-offense jury-instruction plain-error-review presentence-report rehaif-v-united-states scope-of-review supreme-court-decision Whether plainerror-review-for-failure-to-instruct-on-an-element-of-the-offense-based-upon-an-intervening-U.S.-Supreme-Court-decision-allows-a-federal-…
20-6572 Deshawn Legrier v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-consideration felon-in-possession judicial-proceedings jury-instructions plain-error-review rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence trial-record Whether an appellate court can consider evidence outside the trial record to conclude that a Rehaif-based error did not seriously affect the fairness,…
20-6460 Reginald Hollie v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-offense interstate-commerce jury-trial plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement Whether courts of appeals may rely on information not proven to the jury to affirm a conviction on plain-error review
20-6212 Carlos Miguel Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant's conviction for felon-in-possession can be affirmed despite failure to prove knowledge of prohibited status
20-6227 Cameron Battiste v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury plain-error-review sixth-amendment Whether a defective indictment that omits an element of the charged offense deprives the defendant of Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights
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?
20-6098 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 …
20-5939 Kadeem Burden v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Relisted (4)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession jury-instructions plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment Whether a reviewing court may affirm a conviction under plain error review based on speculation about the defendant's knowledge of his prohibited stat…
20-5747 Ryan Nicholas Haynes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Relisted (4)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement passenger-rights passenger-search plain-error-review search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether a traffic stop of a bus for a minor traffic violation allows law enforcement to order all passengers off the bus to be searched?
20-5711 David Smith-Garcia, fka David Garwood Atwood, II v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release Whether the district court erred by ordering two terms of imprisonment to run consecutive in the subject third supervised release revocation proceedin…
20-5645 Virgil Nickens v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-courts criminal-law federal-courts federal-courts-of-appeals jury-instructions jury-verdict plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states united-states-v-olano Can the appellate courts' divergent approaches to plain error review of pre-Rehaif jury verdicts be reconciled with one another?
20-5489 Rodney Lavalais v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 2k2.1(b)(4)(a) appellate-review due-process guilty-plea plain-error-review plea-voluntariness prejudice sentencing-guidelines stolen structural-error When a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made, is automatic reversal required?
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
19-8783 Alfredo Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 dimaya-v-sessions due-process felony-drug-offense first-step-act johnson-v-united-states jury-selection plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness Whether the definition of 'felony drug offense' for the purposes of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vagueness
19-8709 Gregory Greer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-15 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP circuit-court-of-appeals circuit-court-review criminal-procedure fairness-integrity-public-reputation judicial-fairness plain-error-review 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…
19-8681 Sung Hong, et ux. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP affinity-fraud aggravating-factors civil-rights constitutional-law due-process establishment-clause free-exercise holguin-hernandez-v-united-states plain-error-review religious-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines whether-courts-can-consider-religion-as-aggravating-factor-in-sentencing
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…
19-7839 Christopher Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure deterrence due-process imprisonment plain-error-review policy-statement policy-statement-range sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines Is a single-sentence explanation of 'I believe this addresses the issues of adequate deterrence and protection of the public' procedurally reasonable …
19-7705 Michael Roman Burghardt v. United States First Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-waiver direct-appeal element-of-offense elements-of-offense indictment plain-error-review plea-colloquy rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent waiver Whether a criminal defendant has waived a claim that the indictment failed to charge an element of the offense
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?
19-7268 Acharayya Rupak v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP continuance criminal-procedure due-process plain-error-review plea-bargaining retained-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's request to substitute retained counsel
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?
19-6747 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?
19-6525 Sean Trent Barnes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plain-error-review plea-bargaining pro-se-representation self-representation sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether Mr. Sean Trent Barnes' decision to waive counsel and represent himself was made voluntarily, knowingly, and intelligently
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…
19-6113 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…
19-5962 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…
19-330 Harshad Shah v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bribery-trial civil-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury plain-error-review racial-animus sixth-amendment structural-error trial-by-jury Is the use of racial animus by the government in a bribery trial a structural error and a denial of the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury?
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
19-5563 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…
19-5465 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
19-5421 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?
19-5351 Johnny Lee Johnson v. William Sperfslage Eighth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error-review shackling sixth-amendment Whether the due process provisions of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments require a plain error review when a defendant is shackled in view of a jury or if…
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…
19-5202 Doroteo Zambrano-Ruiz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-authority circuit-split federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of plain-error review in Molina-Martinez v. United States when…
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…
18-8842 Michael Demon Nixon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law-922g firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea plain-error-review plea-agreement statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no …
18-8810 Pedro Martinez-Negrete v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guideline-range clear-error criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-appellant government-response plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines Where a criminal defendant shows that the district court made a clear legal error when applying the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, but the government res…
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 …
18-8366 Anthony Eudean Woollis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-sanctions due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce 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 once crossed state lines at an unspecified …
18-8292 Julius Greer v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied IFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure forfeiture judicial-review motion-to-dismiss plain-error-review speedy-trial-act standard-of-review waiver Speedy-Trial-Act-violation
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…
18-7440 Christopher Whitman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure conflict-of-interest disqualification due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion juror-bribery plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines standing Should the appeals court have appointed an attorney who did not have a conflict of interest?
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…
18-6853 Noe Garcia-Lima v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-52(b) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights Whether an appellate court should presume that a district court's error in calculating the applicable Sentencing Guidelines range affected the defenda…
18-6754 Domonic McCarns v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure harmless-error indictment plain-error-review speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether Cryptic Letter, Number Codes are Sufficient to Satisfy the Speedy Trial Act Requirement that Reasons Justifying Delay of a Criminal Trial Must…
18-6666 Oscar Sosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process expert-testimony plain-error-review prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-credibility Whether a federal agent's testimony about an out-of-court agent's report of drug trafficking by an unindicted coconspirator violates the Confrontation…
18-6316 Willie Gene Wilks, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2018-10-15 Denied IFP burden-of-proof due-process false-testimony grand-jury indictment jury-instructions plain-error-review prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error Is a defendant denied due process when a prosecutor presents and relies upon false testimony in order to secure an indictment in grand jury proceeding…
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?
18-6237 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…
18-6173 Carlos Tiznado-Valenzuela v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing-guidelines Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review in Molina-Martine…
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-…
18-5969 Carlos Alberto Fuentes-Canales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burglary burglary-offense crime-of-violence criminal-history plain-error-review sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities Did the Fifth Circuit err—to the point of warranting summary reversal—when it denied Petitioner relief under the fourth prong of plain-error review ba…
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
18-5304 Raymond Sanchez Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process interstate-commerce plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana Whether 18 U.S.C. §2252A(5)(B) authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspec…