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25-5499 Timothy Alexander v. New York New York 2025-08-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment inevitable-discovery interrogation police-misconduct 1. Can inevitable discovery, as set forth by This Court in Nix V. Williams, be proven through the testimony of a detective not actively involved in …
24-7519 Frederick S. Koger v. Charles E. Kleidon, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP dismissal judicial-procedure mental-health perjury police-misconduct statute-of-limitations I. DID MY POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER MENTAL CONDITION PLAY A ROLL IN GETTING MY CASE DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE, ALONG WITH THE JUDICIARY FAILING TO…
24A1283 Demetric Simon v. Officer Keith Gladstone, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-06-25 Presumed Complete civil-rights equitable-tolling fraudulent-concealment inquiry-notice police-misconduct statute-of-limitations Issue One: Whether the trial Court's grant of a Motion to Dismiss under Statute of Limitations, was legally correct and proper, based on the initial i…
24-7388 Adeoye O. Adebowale v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-record due-process evidence-fabrication law-enforcement police-misconduct Given that the documentary evidence in this case appears to indisputably confirm that the said Criminal Arrest Record appears to have been fabricated …
24-7184 Tricia Liu v. Louie Angel David Feria California 2025-05-12 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment police-misconduct restraining-order warrantless-entry 1. Whether the warrantless entry by El Monte Police Department officers into Petitioner's property, without exigent circumstances or valid legal justi…
24-962 Autumn Adams v. Kevin Gugliano, Individually and in His Official Capacity as an Officer of the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-03-07 Denied bodily-injury civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment official-immunity police-misconduct 1. Where officers pull a citizen to the ground who is not resisting and is compliant with the officers, causing citizen serious injury, does the citiz…
24-892 Alejandro Martinez v. City of Rosenberg, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment injury-threshold police-misconduct Is an otherwise unreasonable use of excessive force permitted under the Fourth Amendment so long as it results in no, or only minor, injuries?
24-198 Michigan v. Floyd Russell Galloway, Jr. Michigan 2024-08-22 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) deterrence-doctrine evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception police-misconduct prosecutorial-responsibility 1. Is exclusion of reliable, probative evidence of guilt warranted to deter a n outside officer's misconduct where there are other deterrents that do …
24-176 Richard William Douglas, Jr., et al. v. William Joseph Kalanta, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-19 Denied court-procedure death-investigation organized-crime police-misconduct rico-violations statutory-standing 1. Whether Modesto Police can ignore witnesses in a very suspicious death investigation and lose crucial evidence of the murder in the first degree wh…
24-5056 Tyrone Stafford v. Arnold S. Zwicke, Executive Sheriff, Guadalupe County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force Does sitting with hands on steering wheel constitute the use of force that allows for officers to grab your neck and choke you in 2022, when the arres…
23-1299 Ade Olumide v. Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2024-06-12 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process mandatory-decertification open-court open-government police-misconduct press-freedom risk-of-harm transparency Article IV s4, Article VI s2, 1st, 4th, 5th, 14th Amendments refer to the U.S. Constitution. Question 1: Do incite harm tests for the US Supreme Cour…
23-7098 Jeffrey Rivard v. Town of Brattleboro, Vermont Vermont 2024-03-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure consolidation joinder negligence police-misconduct standing supreme-court-review The first question is toward a Rules of Civil Procedure of Vermonts own ▼ r rt \T m W7-+ m /I h S' ittiI Iy i/iic ixcyviaixc vv xuuiiaiii uuuxi njivu …
23-6810 Larry D. Mosley v. Phillip A. White, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-02-23 Denied IFP Abuse-of-Discretion Equal-Protection Fourteenth-Amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Police-Misconduct Prosecutorial-Misconduct Sixth-Amendment trial-court-discretion 1. Did the federalcourt's ruling on Mosley's Ineffective equal protectionAssistance of Counsel claim deny Mosley where the court had before itan evid…
23-6356 Mohammad Sharifi v. Alabama Alabama 2023-12-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocent armed-evidence constitutional-search criminal-procedure direct-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility forensic-evidence fourth-amendment police-misconduct reasonable-doubt trial-judge Question not identified.
23-6270 Tony French v. Washington Washington 2023-12-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence police-misconduct property-rights search-and-seizure self-defense state-action vehicle-destruction vehicle-seizure Question not identified.
23-636 Atif Ahmad Rafay v. Eric Jackson Ninth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process false-confession false-confessions habeas-corpus police-coercion police-misconduct undercover-operation wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions Should this Court summarily reverse the Ninth Circuit for failing to address petitioner's preserved claim that his conviction was premised on a confes…
23-611 Adrian Martinez v. Sean Jenneiahn, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment use-of-force 1. Whether the Court should reverse or recalibrate the doctrine of qualified immunity. 2. Whether the Tenth Circuit correctly decided that the office…
23-5953 Michael Muthee Munywe v. Julie Dier, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Question not identified.
23-426 Ralph Lisby, as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Ashlynn Lisby, Deceased v. Jonathan Henderson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-23 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-claim discovery discovery-rights judgment-on-pleadings pleadings police-misconduct procedural-posture section-1983 summary-judgment 1. Whether, in light of the procedural posture of this case, the Court should convert Respondents' Motion for Partial Judgment on the Pleadings to a M…
23-335 Kansas v. Jeremy A. Cline Kansas 2023-09-29 Denied 4th-amendment adequate-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force exclusionary-rule lawful-seizure police-misconduct remedies Does the exclusionary rule apply to suppress evidence where a court has found the use of excessive force in the execution of an otherwise lawful seizu…
23-5475 Elmer Wayne Zahn v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP color-of-authority exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment gross-negligence police-misconduct probable-cause reckless-disregard warrant-database warrant-system When police threaten individual liberty of the citizens whom they serve, lack responsibility to maintain simply . the integrity of their warrant syst…
23-5372 Larry David Davis v. Amy Jackson Douglas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-08-16 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-jurisdiction police-misconduct statutory-interpretation trial-procedure Question not identified.
23-5371 Judith Tompson v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP body-camera-evidence due-process fair-trial harmless-error legal-licensing police-misconduct police-prosecution privacy-rights rsa-105-d:2 statutory-violation 1. Whether theNH Supreme Court should allow a NH district court judge to prosecute cases from, the bench; as a former Conway prosecutor, while using …
23-5204 Larry David Davis v. Anna Catherine Cargile, Prosecutor, Pulaski County Prosecutor's Office, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-07-26 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-filing criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-document petition police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure statutory-provisions Question not identified.
23-5196 James Calvin Massey v. Texas Texas 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP attenuation-doctrine court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-act criminal-law due-process intervening-circumstance legal-standard police-misconduct texas-criminal-procedure utah-v-strieff 1. Was the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals correct in holding that any new criminal act —even one that is petty , predictable , and uncharged —is alwa…
23-5040 Brala Beverly v. Newport Beach Police Department, et al. California 2023-07-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights demurrer due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay police-misconduct police-report state-court-procedure 1. Is it a violation of due process under the fourteenth amendment of the U.S. Constitution for courts to dismiss a civil rights lawsuit by demurrer b…
22-7787 Noel K. Bango v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights discovery-violation dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rights police-misconduct police-reports sexual-battery speedy-trial tainted-evidence trial-procedure 1. IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL 'S DNA BUCCAL SWABS TAKEN IN NEW JERSEY, FEBRUARY 15, 2019, FEDERAL EXPRESSED TO FLORIDA, AND FLORIDA, RECEI…
22-7602 James Franklin Snyder v. Idaho Idaho 2023-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process judicial-review police-misconduct property-seizure qualified-immunity standing state-court-jurisdiction Question not identified.
22-7474 Quinton Markis Cuthbertson, aka Quinton Marquis Cuthbertson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied IFP due-process fourth-amendment police-misconduct police-provocation spoliation subterfuge suppression-hearing unreasonable-seizure 1. Do police violate a person's Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable seizure when they provoke, through subterfuge and intimidation, a person …
22-7411 Mario Sims v. Pete Buttigieg, et al. Indiana 2023-04-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights deliberate-framing due-process evidence-planting federalism law-enforcement-misconduct police-misconduct state-constitutional-rights state-court-review wrongful-conviction Can the Indiana Supreme Court, in violation of both the United States Constitutions, Illinois State Supreme court, and cases decided by this Court, ma…
22-1003 Mucio Ramirez v. Christopher Martin Fifth Circuit 2023-04-14 Denied civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-standard graham-v-connor police-brutality police-misconduct qualified-immunity reasonable-force use-of-force No dispute exists that Petitioner was intoxicated when Respondent assaulted him, but the police tried to stop Petitioner for a broken taillight. Petit…
22-7275 Matthew Jones v. Delaware Delaware 2023-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hate-crime judicial-branch law-enforcement police-misconduct standing takings 1. Are you aware that I am the victim of the longest ongoing most violent hate crime and murder attempt in all of North America's millions of years of…
22-7159 Denzel Simmons v. Mike Walczak, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fraud-on-court free-speech ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct sixth-circuit 1) Musk MESimamens conchors fer assaul voitn intenb te ou Ader and LAorions. assaull le vacated because ray, are nck supported. by soPhiciend eindence…
22-933 Jean Henderson, as Next Friend and Guardian of Christopher Henderson v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 unreasonable-force Does qualified immunity shield an officer who uses unreasonable force against a fleeing misdemeanor suspect who complies with an officer's order to st…
22-6991 Samuel Dickerson v. Ken Scarlett, Chief, Springfield Police Department, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection police-misconduct standing Does it violate the Federal Constitution under the I4th Amendment Due Process and Egual Protection rights described by the Plaintiff in United States …
22-6802 Luis Miguel Sierra-Ayala v. United States First Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consensual-search consent exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-seizure police-misconduct reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure A police officer cannot touch a person's body or possessions without consent or legally sufficient basis. Likewise, an officer cannot force himself up…
22-6360 Tyrell Hart v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process false-confessions habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial • Tie lower federal and state courts unreasonably applied tiis Court's ioldings finding tiat Hart was sot da?ted affective assistance of counsel regar…
22-6197 Albert Bautista Guzman v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-tactics police-misconduct search-and-seizure self-incrimination Detectives that investigate cases should practice in tegrity under the Due process clause of the 6th and 14th amendment under the equal protection cla…
22-510 Jody Lombardo, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detainee-death due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-misconduct police-restraint qualified-immunity When officers put a handcuffed and shackled person face-down on the floor and push into his back until he dies, are they entitled to qualified immunit…
22-5749 Justin Jamal Warner v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-10-04 Dismissed IFP criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification in-camera-hearing law-enforcement-procedure out-of-court-identification police-misconduct reliability-standard surveillance-video unreliable-evidence video-identification Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to an in camera hearing pursuant to Neil v. Biggers, 408 U.S. 188 (1972) on the reliability of an out-of-cour…
22-293 Anthony Novak v. City of Parma, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Amici (5) circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement parody parody-speech police-misconduct qualified-immunity Petitioner Anthony Novak created a parody Facebook page to mock his local police department in Parma, Ohio. Novak published six posts on the page, der…
22-128 Michelle Herczeg v. City of Dallas, Texas Texas 2022-08-10 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection police-misconduct retaliation sexual-harassment Is it repugnant to the Constitution and laws of the United States when th e rights of a decorated police offer, who was a victim of sexual assault and…
22-116 Connecticut State Police Union v. James Rovella, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection Second Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining contracts-clause freedom-of-information police-accountability police-misconduct public-accountability public-sector retroactive-legislation Whether Connecticut Public Act 20-1, "An Act Concerning Police Accountability," violates the Contracts Clause, Article I, Section 10, of the United St…
21-8283 Sushila Gaur v. Maryland Maryland 2022-06-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity Question not identified.
21-1540 Nita Gordon, Personal Representative of the Estate of Antonio Gordon v. Keith Bierenga Sixth Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation excessive-force fourth-amendment police-misconduct police-use-of-force precedent qualified-immunity section-1983 1. Does qualified immunity protect government officials so long as no prior precedent exists recognizing the unconstitutionality of a fact pattern exa…
21-7991 Mario Mandell Moore v. Michigan Michigan 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection identification-procedure identification-procedures police-misconduct show-up-identification show-up-identifications writ-of-certiorari WHETHER PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO A WRIT OF CERTIORARI WHERE MICHIGAN HAS DENIED HIM DUE PROCESS, EQUAL PROTECTION AND IGNORED THE DICTATES OF THIS CO…
21-7964 Estevan Saucedo v. California California 2022-05-24 Denied IFP coerced-confession confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule law-enforcement-conduct miranda-rights police-misconduct police-tactics APPellovrV's Cov^feSSiov^ Adw*:i<iUle 5\v\ce H WcxS boAed illegal po^ce "tcxc+iCS?Ur\ ^ Wouj<J £>. d>ff e^ev-rf V^vdiCrf hir-e^cloed^ ln<X(l "fRe j|…
21-7780 Selvin Orlando Carranza v. California California 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 8th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct third-party-culpability Should an innocent man setting forth allegations of his actual innocence, a deprivation of due process rights guaranteed by the U.S. Federal Constitut…
21-7753 Levi Miller v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit affidavit-sufficiency circuit-split franks-standard franks-v-delaware judicial-review material-omissions police-misconduct probable-cause remedy search-warrant Under Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154, 171-72 (1978), when the police deliberately mislead by omitting material information from an application for a…
21-7508 Draven Greene v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment caretaker-exception constitutional-rights criminal-evidence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution extends to occupied vehicles in non-emergency caretaker searches and whether such searches shoul…
21-7412 Martin Robinson v. Shirley Strickland Saffold, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Cuyahoga County, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-misconduct police-misconduct standing Question not identified.
21-7313 Domonick Deshay Wright v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Question not identified.
21-7281 Kevin Debnam v. Javier Salazar, Sheriff, Bexar County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process police-misconduct probable-cause unlawful-arrest Question not identified.
21-1104 John Davis v. City of Andrews, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-statements law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity The Fifth Circuit ignored its own precedent and the controlling standards of law arriving at a decision upholding the doctrine of qualified immunity a…
21-6990 Roger D. Roberts v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process evidence-standard habeas-corpus informant-credibility police-misconduct search-and-seizure state-court-review How did the prosecutor use evidence of a drug sell allegedly by Mr. Roberts an informant where there was no Us.nq 2 were purchased from Mr. Robert's t…
21-6841 Ada Maria Benson v. Hemet Police Department Ninth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-of-law due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-misconduct probable-cause Whether the 42 USC 1983 (4th, 14th Amendment) can protect a law abiding educated senior disable that has been abducted (arrested) after physical assau…
21-6683 David M. Vines v. City of Black Diamond, Washington, et al. Washington 2021-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-without-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment free-speech police-misconduct warrantless-arrest warrantless-search whistleblower whistleblower-protection Whether the State of Washington, and the police, have decided an important question of Federal law, namely the Fourth Amendment, e.g. arrest without a…
21-6563 Hector Sanchez-Torres v. Florida Florida 2021-12-09 Denied IFP coerced-confessions coercive-police-activity colorado-v-connelly confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement-threats motivating-cause police-misconduct probable-cause quid-pro-quo voluntariness 1. Whether the appropriate interpretation of Colorado v. Connelly's "essential link" between coercive police activity and a suspect's confession is a …
21-5968 Timothy Stemen v. Florida Florida 2021-10-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel police-misconduct search-and-seizure self-incrimination Did law enforcement violate the petitioners due process rights under the 14th Amendment regarding the recordings. Did law enforcement violate the pet…
21-5733 Eric Westry v. Victor Leon Second Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-violation civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment 1. How is it proper and legal for the court to state there were undisputed facts of physical assault, threatening behavior, and physical resistance of…
21-5734 Tony Lamar Vann v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process police-misconduct racial-discrimination standing A fOUCt of ft ctd C»qiU UbGftlLy piANT Q81M& ori &LmK MM, am r/% ewers p/s&cM# /ul ut6AL ptfcAP/^ (j\m wow peoof.)
21-5660 Kevin McBride v. Florida Florida 2021-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process evidence-suppression false-conviction police-misconduct presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct suppression-of-evidence wrongful-conviction When fraudulent police reports deceive the lower court into a false conviction, shouldn't the fraud precede the false conviction and be overturned imm…
21-5534 Omolara Makini, fka Mahogany J. Mignon, fka Timika Janelle Williams v. Michigan, et al. Michigan 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech police-misconduct standing Should the Michigan Court of Appeals and the Sixth Circuit Court be persuaded by the facts and questions presented to grant the Appellant-Plaintiff re…
21-5259 James Plas Sams v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied IFP class-of-one contracts-clause due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination habeas-corpus plea-agreement police-misconduct 1. The State may not selectively deny its protective services to certain minorities without violating the Equal Protection Clause. Petitioner's wife a…
21-5038 Donnell Bledsoe v. Stockton Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 The lower court(s) ruled that a federal criminal statute that enforces constitutional limits on conduct by law enforcement officers, provided in relev…
20-8390 Gary L. Workman v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct prosecutor-misconduct right-to-counsel witness-subpoena Was Petitioner denied his right to compel witnesses when counsel failed to subpoena an expert that had found exculpatory evidence and this evidence w…
20-8318 Jason C. Youker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment informant-distribution law-enforcement narcotics police-misconduct standing takings 1. DO POLICE VIOLATE THE FIFTH AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION Ynformants RtoVbeEdistributed Ion u^sCcItizens without OanyDrecovery 2. sagaMi spssmmmM …
20-8244 Abdul S. Aziz v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19-impact due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel perjured-testimony plea-negotiations police-misconduct pro-se-brief 1) Was error Committed by the Appellate Division when it neglected to consider Appellant 's Pro- Se Supplemental Brief, or to file said brief conside…
20-1667 City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Arnold Black Ohio 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights discovery-sanctions due-process exemplary-damages municipal-liability police-misconduct section-1983 vicarious-liability The case below conflicts with the precedents of the Sixth Circuit, other circuits, fellow state supreme courts as well as is violative of constitution…
20-1629 George Wingate v. Scott Fulford, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied civil-rights constitutional-arrest due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing 1. Whether the Court should permit the qualified immunity defense to extend to a court-invented, hypothetical and demonstrably counter-factual justifi…
20-8061 Jermaine Davis v. Illinois Illinois 2021-05-19 Denied IFP 5th-amendment administrative-law agency-adjudication civil-rights constitutional-interpretation custodial-interrogation due-process federal-jurisdiction miranda-rights police-misconduct property-rights In acustedial myicrragod POLY oohed reling SC case) peers a distinguishes the proper pro cade real saleguarce Vig gare OY & request to remain 83 levy …
20-7827 Glen D. Plourde v. Stephen C. Bellavia Maine 2021-04-22 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-bias police-misconduct torture 1. Opposing Counsel in this case was the law firm of Jabar, Laliberty, and Dubord, LLC, and lead counsel for that law firm is George Jabar, son of Jus…
20-7651 Gonzalo Curiel v. California California 2021-04-02 Denied IFP exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-rule police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search 1. In order the apply the "inevitable discovery rule" to uphold an otherwise illegal search and seizure is it necessary for the prosecution to prove t…
20-7490 Martin Stanley Ivie v. Washington Washington 2021-03-18 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights commerce-clause due-process excessive-force false-charges interstate-commerce medical-cannabis police-misconduct qualified-immunity regulatory-burden state-licensing Question not identified.
20-7254 Juan Valenzuela v. L. Small, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit brady-violation criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit-review police-misconduct writ-of-certiorari Whether, in affirming a district court's denial of federal habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d), the Ninth Circuit unreasonably applied this Court'…
20-7098 Herminio Nicolas Reyes v. Georgia Georgia 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule inevitable-discovery police-misconduct search-and-seizure Whether, in conflict with the holdings of the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fifth, Eighth, Eleventh and D.C. Circuits and several State court…
20-7110 David Falcon v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa alibi-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miranda-hearing miranda-rights police-misconduct police-testimony right-to-counsel strickland-standard David Falcon was convicted of murder based on an incident where two men approached and shot a stranger in a public park. Falcon's counsel raised an al…
20-6814 Rodney Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2021-01-08 Denied IFP 4th-amendment family-home fourth-amendment parolee-search parolees police-misconduct privacy-rights samson-precedent search suspicionless-search warrantless-search Whether Illinois has lowered the bar of reasonableness for the search of parolees beyond this Court's holding in Samson v. California, 547 U.S. 843 (2…
20-876 Jeanine Liberti, et vir v. City of Scottsdale, Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process legal-doctrine police-liability police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 1. For 42 U.S.C. § 1983 cases, this Court has created a qualified-immunity doctrine. It lacks support in the common law, in this Court's pre-1974 case…
20-877 Trinell King v. Ricky Pridmore, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force hope-v-peltzer police-misconduct qualified-immunity racial-bias summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton Respondents Ricky Pridmore, Corey Archer, and Andrew Hill are White police officers who treated Petitioner Trinell King, a young Black citizen, as a t…
20-715 Jibriil A. Hersi v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-authorization jury-trial police-conduct police-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel trial-records 1) Whether I am entitled to get the missing records from my trial in Medina County, Ohio for statements made by the judge outside the hearing of the j…
20-476 Rafael Martinez, et al. v. Bryheim Jamar Baskin New Jersey 2020-10-13 Denied 42-u.s.c.a.-§-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process law-enforcement municipal-liability police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 Is the petitioner/Police Detective Rafael Martinez protected by "qualified immunity" in this action brought under the jurisprudence of 42 U.S.C.A. § 1…
20-5918 Leonard F. Locke, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights defense-counsel due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search /.s fine. Supreme CoorY c/lse \Aud J aIonj wiil) Me /4ppeA/MM Covrfs cASc Iauj 2c ~hhe d/sfricf Courts cASe UtJ, fAM rS -from MeSAme c/MricM j- Appa…
20-391 Jody Lombardo, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (21) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity reasonable-jury Whether a reasonable jury could find that officers used excessive force when they put a handcuffed and shackled person face-down on the ground and pre…
20-392 Fatmata Kamara v. New Jersey, Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of State Police New Jersey 2020-09-25 Denied administrative-law civil-rights collective-bargaining conscientious-employee-protection-act due-process employment-discrimination employment-law law-against-discrimination police-misconduct state-police-procedure time-bar A rule was violated because No Statement was Obtained From Me For the Preliminary Hearing and Yet I was Terminated. State Police Counsel used Law Agai…
20-5789 Gerard Nguedi v. Brian Caulfield, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity Are police officers entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law—even if they use substantial force against non-threatening suspected misdemeanan…
20-263 Nanette Blanchard-Daigle, Representative of the Estate of Lyle Blanchard v. Shane Geers, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by overlooking precedent in determining whether an officer enjoys qualified immunity after applying deadly excessiv…
20-21 Billy Duane Card Fleshner v. Matthew Tiedt, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-accountability police-misconduct qualified-immunity Can Peace Officers use excessive force when the force is objectively unreasonable and it violates well established case law and department policies? …
20-5048 Josh L. Bowman v. Bert Boyd, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment batson-challenge confession confession-suppression constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection police-misconduct police-threats suppression 1. Whether Mr. Bowman's confession should have been suppressed due to treats by police? 2. Whether Mr. Bowman's federal constitutional rights under B…
19-1416 Mateusz Fijalkowski v. M. Wheeler, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-doctrine law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing takings western-political-theory Whether the Court should revisit its qualified immunity doctrine, which stands in derogation of over three hundred years of Western political theory a…
19-8642 Christopher Davis v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency false-evidence grand-jury police-misconduct robbery-identification standing suppression-hearing 1) Why was denied the Right to subpoeng Indianapalis Metro Dectective's to trfal thart falsified my criminal recond to the Grand Jury: Stating thart I…
19-8601 William Cornell Walker v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination civil-rights due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence false-testimony jury jury-composition peer-selection police-misconduct racial-bias 1. Whether jurors twice your age can be considered your peers, the jury of 12 were not my peers except for one or two 11 has nothing to do with being …
19-8362 Henry M. Mitchell, Jr. v. California California 2020-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-destruction police-misconduct WHETHER THE POLICE MAY RELY OF UNSUBSTANTIATED EVIDENCE TO ABSOLVE THEM OF BAD FAITH INTENTIONAL DESTRUCTION OF POTENTIALLY USEFUL EVIDENCE? WHETHE…
19-8279 Jeffrey LaGasse v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP amendment-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto plea-bargaining police-misconduct severance Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals by-pass the petitioner's 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment rights by denying his petition for Certificate of Appealabi…
19-8208 Jerald Harris v. Richard Jennings, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification identification-evidence police-misconduct reliability reliability-standard suggestive-circumstances When a witness in a criminal case identifies a suspect out-of-court, under suggestive circumstances which give rise to a substantial likelihood of lat…
19-8069 Eric S. Newton, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2020-03-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment jurisdiction law-enforcement-misconduct police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant 1. Was the Ohio Supreme Court in error when it refused to accept jurisdiction over a matter that, like the instant petition, involves a substantial Co…
19-7983 Eric S. Newton, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2020-03-13 Denied IFP 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights law-enforcement-misconduct misidentification police-misconduct probable-cause reckless-disregard search-and-seizure search-warrant standing 1. Was the Ohio Supreme Court in error when it refused to accept jurisdiction over a matter that, like the instant petition, involves a substantial Co…
19-7906 Angello A. D. Osborne v. Peter Georgiades Fourth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution police-misconduct stet unlawful-seizure Where a police officer has fabricated evidence against a wrongfully accused criminal defendant, does the entry of a "STET" in the criminal prosecution…
19-7768 Jibriil A. Hersi v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency judicial-misconduct jury-trial police-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal transcript trial-irregularities 1) Whether I am entitled to get the missing records from my trial in Medina County, Ohio for statements made by the judge outside the hearing of the j…
19-7790 Brenda Mason, Individually and on Behalf of Quamaine Dwayne Mason, et vir v. Martin Faul Fifth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Relisted (6)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit objective-reasonableness police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing use-of-force This case involves the use of excessive force by a police officer that was determined by a jury to be "objectively unreasonable" but nonetheless resul…
19-1021 Micah Jessop, et al. v. City of Fresno, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct property-rights property-seizure qualified-immunity search-and-seizure search-warrant seizure Whether it is clearly established that the Fourth Amendment prohibits police officers from stealing property listed in a search warrant.
19-7534 Ricky Lee Scott v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights coram-nobis disclosure-violations due-process evidence-disclosure evidence-suppression judicial-jurisdiction kyles-v-whitley police-misconduct WHETHER THE ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT'S REFUSAL TO REINVEST JURISDICTION IN THE TRIAL COURT T TO CONSIDER PETITIONER SCOTT'S PETITION FOR WRIT OF ERROR C…
19-7474 Rodney Banks v. California California 2020-01-29 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights deliberation due-process evidence jurisdiction police-misconduct standing ARRESTING OFFICER DId NOT ReAd Me My MIRANDA RIGHTS. AUd THE JURY GOT THE WRonG eviden ce FOR DelibeRATiON.
19-7340 Junior Vazquez-Suarez v. Florida Florida 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process fourteenth-amendment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance police-misconduct Whether police officer's failure to disclose impeachment evidence to the defense prior to trial violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause u…
19-7125 Shane R. Dodge, et ux. v. Bonners Ferry Police Department, et al. Idaho 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process idaho-supreme-court jurisdiction police-misconduct standing statutory-provisions Question not identified.
19-768 Sherard Martin v. Davis Marinez, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response Waived attorneys-fees civil-damages civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process economic-loss exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-search illegal-stop incarceration police-misconduct standing Whether a plaintiff whose fourth amendment rights have been violated may be automatically denied damages for subsequent incarceration, attorneys fees,…
19-6776 William Dawson v. Bryan K. Wells Fourth Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force good-faith habeas-corpus jurisdiction police-misconduct qualified-immunity sentencing voluntary-manslaughter writ IF XKWESTX&AT OF^ XMTEMTXQMRLLV X MV ES TX & ft TBS, LO^AUUhl T/\1HERE. FLElEiM& VX&TXAA XLQLLAPAt/SSS ft klh &ZB£ AS dRSMBL SEEM EL - XAlST EA b QF…
19-682 Melanie Kelsay v. Matt Ernst Eighth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment non-compliance police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force Are police officers entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law—even if they use substantial force against non-threatening suspected misdemeanan…
19-6732 Martin Stanley Ivie v. Washington Washington 2019-11-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process evidence-tampering false-arrest false-evidence perjury police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct state-misconduct wrongful-conviction I. QUESTIONS OF LAW 1. Is it legally pormisaible for State officials to use spurious evidence that is proven unenimously by professionel forensic ena…
19-6585 Gelu Topa v. Almonte Kerbs, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied IFP arrest arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement-conduct miranda-rights police-misconduct probable-cause public-defender subpoena video-evidence Why in ARREST/NOTICE TO APPEAR page nr. 1 they do not have a video with me if I committed an offense on location Fowler/Colonial Ave Ft. Myers, FL 33…
19-527 Paul Huskisson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied direct-appeal exclusionary-rule first-step-act fourth-amendment independent-source independent-source-doctrine police-misconduct retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform 1. Does the independent source exception to the exclusionary rule, like all other exclusionary rule exceptions, take into account the flagrancy and de…
19-485 Juan Perez, et al. v. City of Sweetwater, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 city-of-canton-v-harris civil-procedure civil-rights due-process municipal-liability police-misconduct reeves-v-sanderson reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing section-1983 seventh-amendment single-occurrence-rule I) Whether the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment rights were violated when the trial court weighed evidence and drew inferences against Petitioner in set…
19-5998 Eric Matthew Frein v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-09-19 Denied IFP criminal-procedure harmless-error police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-integrity When the Sixth Amendment right to counsel has attached, do efforts by police and prosecutors -- the victims of one or more of the defendant's charges …
19-326 Melinda Mitchell, et al. v. City of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights fourth-amendment malice material-facts objective-reasonableness perjury police-misconduct qualified-immunity trespass wrongful-seizure 1. Did the Second Circuit err in applying District of Columbia v. Wesby, 138 S. Ct. 577 (2018), to grant qualified immunity to the police defendants w…
19-5879 Timothy L. Joe v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment cross-examination due-process evidence evidentiary-law impeachment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel opioid-addiction police-misconduct sixth-amendment Can Florida's evidentiary laws constitutionally preclude impeachment evidence of opioid-addicted police officers?
19-5736 Khalida Jalaly Ahadzadah v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County California 2019-08-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech police-conduct police-misconduct standing unlawful-arrest Why The Con Cord police Dept Did not provide pou I rop the Camera Luv me ProoF mentioned? all the things the o officer us citizen & we have rights am …
19-5525 Erika Jacobs v. Atlanta Police Department, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-offense cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment homeless-rights judicial-conspiracy malice police-misconduct standing state-law Is this case presenting issues of importance beyond the particuler falts and parties inudved? well does a case of judicia consinyad malie o overt Hhe …
19-5475 Mitchell Taebel v. Maricopa County Attorney's Office, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing unreasonable-seizure Whether a Defendant has a primary Right of Self Representation and to Disclosure, by ithe Sat also Farottav California, Usi975) whther plainif ha all…
19-5426 Leonard Stansberry v. Texas Texas 2019-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-review due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure police-misconduct racial-discrimination standing statutory-provisions takings writ wrongful-death Whether a Medical Examiner's Opinion as to the cause and manner of death is admissible in a criminal trial when the Opinion given is information obtai…
19-5284 Salvatore J. Moretti v. Bergen County Prosecutor's Office New Jersey 2019-07-24 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process innocent-owner-defense jurisdictional-challenge opra police-misconduct political-corruption property-rights prosecutorial-misconduct standing Has Appellant Proven Liability in the Respondents, Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, Given the High-Profile Case Which Was Briefed by Deborah Poritz,…
19-75 James Joseph Garner v. Colorado Colorado 2019-07-15 Denied Amici (2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification police-misconduct standing suggestive-identification suggestive-setting trial-procedure witness-testimony Whether the Due Process Clause imposes any check on an eyewitness's identification of a criminal defendant in the typically suggestive setting of tria…
19-5153 Christopher B. Ramirez v. Washington Washington 2019-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravating-circumstance criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure jury-instructions notice photographic-array police-misconduct sixth-amendment suggestive-circumstances suggestive-identification Whether the trial court should have excluded Carlton Hritsco's identification of Christopher Ramirez
19-5119 Johana Cabantac Arucan v. Cambridge East Healthcare Center, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-07-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP age-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection fourth-amendment police-misconduct summary-judgment title-vii Whether a court can properly grant summary judgment by accepting an employer's disputed claim that a long-term, older female employee was a poor perfo…
19-5065 Chester Ray Crank v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alibi-defense confrontation confrontation-clause conviction criminal-procedure due-process illegal-recordings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence intoxication police-misconduct prejudicial-evidence Is a petitioner provided due process of law when he is convicted on evidence insufficient to sustain a conviction when said evidence was wholly based …
19-5034 Leland Dudley v. Illinois Illinois 2019-07-02 Denied IFP ' 'civil-rights" ' 'criminal-procedure" ' 'due-process" ' 'police-misconduct" ' 'post-conviction' ' 'sentencing" civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review grand-jury judicial-review police-misconduct post-conviction-relief sentencing wrongful-conviction Was the petition (by) the state's attorney's office denied by the lower court, and did the lower court err in denying the petition to vacate the convi…
18A1284 Ameer Xenos Flippin v. DC Metropolitan Police Department, et al. District of Columbia 2019-06-07 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights judicial-review police-misconduct section-1983 Whether a municipality can dismiss a civil rights complaint alleging police misconduct and constitutional rights violations without providing substant…
18-9032 Michael Slager v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights credibility-of-witness criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony legal-standard officer-involved-shooting police-misconduct police-use-of-force second-degree-murder use-of-force voluntary-manslaughter Did the district court deny Petitioner's right to due process when it found that the underlying conduct at issue here—Officer Michael Slager's shootin…
18-8770 Martin Rugamba v. Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of New York Second Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights custom-law due-process free-speech misconduct police-misconduct retaliation standing Whether the municipal police in General, and other Security agencies violate Constitutional rights in retaliation for reporting their misconduct to FB…
18-1287 Alexander L. Baxter v. Brad Bracey, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (11) 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity search-and-seizure seizure Whether the use of a police dog to apprehend a suspect who has surrendered by sitting on the ground with his hands up violates the Fourth Amendment
18-1268 Paras Jhokke v. City of Los Angeles, California California 2019-04-03 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-violation domestic-violence due-process equal-protection gender-bias gender-discrimination hate-crime police-misconduct section-1983 Whether States, Cities or its Police Officers knowingly or unknowingly Commit Hate Crime Acts motivated by Gender Bias while Enforcing Domestic Violen…
18-7889 Ramon Romero v. Illinois Illinois 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity Whether the police officers' use of force against the petitioner was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment
18-7611 Terrance E. Everett v. Delaware Delaware 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-issues court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence legal-interpretation officer-discretion police-misconduct public-policy standing suspect-authority Whether the lower Court and the Delaware Supreme Court erred, and abused their discretion, with regards to the lower Court's denial of a mistrial and …
18-856 Serge Antonin v. Baltimore Police Department Maryland 2019-01-04 Denied Response Waived accardi-v-shaughnessy administrative-hearing administrative-law constitutional-law due-process evidence law-enforcement police-misconduct prejudice procedural-rights state-agency state-agency-regulations Whether United States ex rel. Accardi v. Shaughnessy, 347 U.S. 260 (1954) is constitutional law binding upon the State of Maryland?
18-7223 Jesse Lloyd Hall v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 barefoot-standard coerced-confession due-process federal-review habeas-corpus police-misconduct recantation state-writ-petition victim-recantation victim-rights witness-intimidation Whether federal courts must take the allegations of a state writ petition as true when weighing if the state's denial was objectively unreasonable
18-825 Peggy Shumpert, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Antwun Shumpert, Sr., et al. v. City of Tupelo, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response Waived canine-force civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process federal-appeals-conflict police-misconduct qualified-immunity state-created-danger use-of-force whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-concluding-t whether-the-court-of-appeals-erred-in-finding-that Whether the state-created danger doctrine is clearly established law
18-7194 Brandon Lee Colbert v. California California 2018-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson batson-challenge impartial-jury jury-selection peremptory-challenge police-misconduct race-neutral race-neutral-reason sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury permit the reviewing court, at Batson's first stage, to conclude that a minority venire member's n…
18-6970 Jose Antonio Jimenez v. Florida Florida 2018-12-10 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland credibility due-process eighth-amendment exculpatory-evidence giglio-v-united-states giglio-violation lethal-injection materiality police-misconduct strategic-choices Whether a defendant's personal knowledge of an exculpatory or favorable fact relieves the State of its duty to disclose evidence
18-698 Clement Reynolds v. Maryland Maryland 2018-11-28 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment impeachment miranda miranda-rights police-interrogation police-misconduct self-incrimination Was Petitioner denied Due Process and protections against self-incrimination?
18-6814 Patricia Ann Gerald, et al. v. Virginia Virginia 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence free-speech police-misconduct standing Whether the officer's actions in refusing to allow the petitioners to view the video recording of the incident and denying their request for legal cou…
18-6752 David McGuire v. Ohio Ohio 2018-11-20 Denied IFP brady-violation brady-violations criminal-procedure discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process evidence-disclosure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct remedies When a discovery violation is discovered mid-trial, does a remedy that fails to order the disclosure of the withheld evidence violate the Due Process …
18-645 Marcella Winn v. Susan Mellen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-19 Dismissed Response Waived 42-U.S.C-1983 42-usc-1983 bad-faith brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 Do claims against a police officer under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failure to disclose material evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) requir…
18-576 Robert H. Wright, Jr. v. Jerald Watson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution police-misconduct probable-cause standing Is a malicious prosecution claim under the Fourth Amendment and Manuel v. City of Joliet the proper civil remedy for an 'overcharge' prosecution?
18-6422 Larry Norton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment mistake-of-law perjury police-misconduct pretext pretextual-stop search search-and-seizure traffic-stop Does a mistake of law by police in the stopping of a vehicle render the subsequent search violative of the Fourth Amendment?
18-6392 Mohsen Khoshmood v. Eastern Market Management District of Columbia 2018-10-19 Denied IFP civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights damages disability-discrimination due-process false-arrest free-speech government-misconduct law-enforcement police-misconduct standing Whether the petitioner is entitled to $100 million in damages for violations of their constitutional rights, including due process, equal protection, …
18-6318 Jeffrey Allen Ware v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-violation exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Is the exclusionary rule properly limited solely to the purpose of deterring police misconduct or can/should it be used to enforce a clear constitutio…
18-5564 Travis Colby Curry v. Oregon Oregon 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct self-defense surveillance-video Whether the police act in bad faith in contravenes of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment if they fail to collect and preserve surveill…
18-99 Johnny Barnes v. Joseph Gerhart, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3) civil-rights confidential-informant drug-surveillance due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-action police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure unreasonable-search Did the Fifth Circuit wrongly hold that Officer Barnes' mistake was 'unreasonable' under the Fourth Amendment?
18-67 James Thomas Hurst, II v. James Caldwell, et al. Kentucky 2018-07-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act deshaney deshaney-doctrine due-process government-liability police-misconduct section-1983 special-relationship special-relationship-rule state-actor-liability state-created-danger Does the special relationship rule articulated by this Court in DeShaney apply to shield a state actor from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when the …
18-5053 Andres A. Lopez-Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-right criminal-procedure defense-presentation due-process harmless-error judicial-review police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense structural-error Whether the denial of a defendant's constitutional right to present a defense should be considered structural error that is not subject to harmless er…