plain-error-standard

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6431 Edin Anael Solis-Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-12-23 Pending Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error-standard rule-11 sentencing Does a defendant's failure to object to a Rule 11(b)(1)(H)-(I) error count against him twice by subjecting him to the plain-error standard and weighin…
23-7762 Christopher McPherson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure-appeal drug-trafficking felon-in-possession firearm-possession fourth-circuit-review plain-error-standard rehaif-test sentencing sentencing-discretion sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in upholding the convictions on Count V and Count IV
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…
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 …
21-7632 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 …
21-5977 In Re Rigoberto Melero Aguirre 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constructive-denial counsel-rights criminal-procedure due-process fraud-on-the-court fraud-upon-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings miscarriage-of-justice plain-error-standard standard-of-review Whether the constructive denial of counsel during Melero Aguirre's judicial proceedings, coupled with the wholesale adoption by the Fifth Circuit, of …
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?
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…
18-7986 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
18-6695 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…