premeditation

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Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
25-5157	Juan T. Tyler v. Luis Martinez, Warden	Ninth Circuit	2025-07-21	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	attempted-murder due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions premeditation prosecutorial-misconduct	Whether the prosecution proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the shooter premeditated and deliberated an attempted murder, and whether the trial cour…
24-6047	Rodney Tyrone Henry v. United States	Eighth Circuit	2024-11-27	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	18-usc-3553a accomplice-liability circuit-court-review criminal-procedure premeditation sentencing	Whether the Eighth Circuit misapplied precedent regarding premeditation and accomplice liability in sentencing a defendant under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)
24-5139	Lamar McKay v. Jeff Tanner, Warden	Sixth Circuit	2024-07-25	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-rights directed-verdict due-process first-degree-murder insufficient-evidence jury-verdict murder premeditation reasonable-doubt	Does due process require reversal where the trial court denied petitioner's motion for a directed verdict on first-degree murder due to insufficient e…
23-7632	Cordero Passley v. United States	Second Circuit	2024-06-04	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	criminal-law criminal-statute deliberate-intent deliberation first-degree-murder malicious-conduct mens-rea premeditation second-degree-murder willful-killing	Whether the defendant committed a 'willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing' under 18 U.S.C. § 1(a)
22-7826	Ronell Watson v. United States	Second Circuit	2023-06-21	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	5th-amendment 6th-amendment attempted-murder constitutional-rights fifth-amendment jury-instructions premeditation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum	Is premeditation an element of attempted murder under the federal system?
22-5867	Monica McCarrick v. Janelle Espinoza, Warden	Ninth Circuit	2022-10-18	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence first-degree-murder meaningful-defense mental-health paranoid-delusions premeditation trial-court-evidence	Does an objectively unreasonable violation of the Constitutional right to present a meaningful defense occur when a trial court prevents a defendant f…
21-7630	Mickey Roy Anderson, Sr. v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2022-04-15	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-procedure appellate-split criminal-law deliberation first-degree-murder mens-rea premeditation	Whether a mere matter of seconds suffice as premeditation for first degree murder
20-7380	Michael Eugene Wyatt v. John Sutton, Warden	Ninth Circuit	2021-03-09	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	criminal-elements deliberation first-degree-murder habeas-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-precedent precedent premeditation premeditation-and-deliberation state-law sufficiency-of-evidence	Did the Ninth Circuit improperly disregard and/or overlook United State Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit precedent that required it to defer to Califor…
20-7200	Michael Burciaga v. Raymond Madden, Warden	Ninth Circuit	2021-02-22	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	aedpa criminal-procedure due-process gang-evidence habeas-corpus jackson-v-virginia ninth-circuit premeditation standard-of-review	Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in upholding the state court's finding of premeditation under Jackson v. Virginia
19-7750	Russell Patrick Brown v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden	Sixth Circuit	2020-02-24	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	1st-degree-murder constitutional-due-process constitutional-violation conviction criminal-conviction due-process insufficient-evidence jackson-v-virginia jury-instruction premeditation self-defense supreme-court-precedent	Whether it's a U.S. constituion Due Process violation proscribed by this court in Jackson v. Virginia, for Mr. Brown's 1st degree murder conviction to…
19-7167	Harshadkumar Nanjibhai Jadav v. Virginia	Virginia	2020-01-03	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-review circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency first-degree-murder identity-of-defendant identity-of-perpetrator jury-instructions possession-of-weapon premeditation sufficiency-of-evidence	Whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia unreasonably affirmed the Petitioner's conviction on the charge of First-Degree Murder
19-5832	Daniel G. Durain v. Florida	Florida	2019-09-05	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	administrative-law criminal-procedure due-process endangered-species-act environmental-regulation evidence federal-agency-discretion habitat-conservation judicial-interpretation jury-instructions mens-rea premeditation reasonable-doubt	Can motive be used to establish premeditation?
19-5404	Steven Hoff v. California	California	2019-07-30	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	attempted-first-degree-murder due-process due-process-clause evidence-code general-intent intent jury-instructions mistake-or-accident premeditation uncharged-misconduct uncharged-offense	Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when a jury is instructed to consider evidence of an uncharged, general intent offense in determining guilt…
18-9810	Erik Ward v. California	California	2019-06-27	Denied	IFP	attempted-murder civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offense physical-evidence premeditation standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel	Whether trial counsel failed to provide effective assistance of counsel by not properly performing procedural and due process requirements, and not in…
18-7834	Brent William Bogseth v. Michigan	Michigan	2019-02-07	Denied	IFP	14th-amendment 5th-amendment closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deliberation due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment murder premeditation prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination	Whether the lack of evidence to show the defendant actually committed the offense of murder means premeditation and deliberation cannot exist, or if t…