| 25-6354 |
Osric Tyrone Daise v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure plain-error punishment revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the district court committed plain error in revoking Mr. Daise's supervised release when the court's expressed purpose was to punish Mr. Daise |
| 25-5168 |
John E. Jackson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process punishment sentencing |
Does the Double Jeopardy Clause prevent a defendant who has fully completed his sentence from being sentenced again to additional punishment for the s… |
| 24-395 |
William Edward Neilly v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2024-10-09 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (8) |
constitutional-law criminal-sentencing ex-post-facto legal-interpretation punishment restitution |
Whether restitution ordered as part of a criminal sentence constitutes punishment under the Ex Post Facto Clause |
| 23-7714 |
Derek Gerrish v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail bail-conditions circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion law-enforcement-searches punishment search-and-seizure |
Does a bail condition that allows searches by law enforcement officers without probable cause or reasonable suspicion qualify as punishment for purpos… |
| 23-5753 |
Ben J. Latham v. Alaska |
Alaska |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment punishment punitive-law retroactivity right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the retroactive application of a punitive ex post facto law is prohibited under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 22-5994 |
Kevin Leon Lucien v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure duty-to-investigate ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mitigating-evidence punishment standard-of-review trial-counsel voluntary-intoxication |
Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to investigate and present evidence of voluntary intoxication as mitigating evidence at punishment? |
| 21-1401 |
John Doe v. Colonel Gary T. Settle, Superintendent, Virginia Department of State Police |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment punishment punishment-analysis sex-offender-registry smith-v-doe state-restrictions |
Whether a state sex offender registry that imposes restrictions on individuals beyond mere registration with state or local law enforcement constitute… |
| 20-7902 |
John Laponte v. California |
California |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-punishment incarceration plea-agreement plea-bargaining punishment sentencing |
Is petitioner entitled to enforce the terms of his plea agreement |
| 20-5941 |
Charles Victor Thompson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
28-U.S.C-2254(e)(2) aedpa-deference capital-punishment constitutional-claim federal-habeas habeas-corpus Massiah-claims punishment Sixth-Amendment state-court-review Williams-v-Taylor |
Did the circuit court err in holding that a federal habeas court may never hold a hearing on a punishment issue without first considering 28-U.S.C-225… |
| 20-5491 |
M. C. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment delinquent-acts due-process eighth-amendment imprisonment juvenile-detention juvenile-justice punishment |
Is a child imprisoned for delinquent acts 'punished' within the meaning of the Eighth Amendment? |
| 20-5122 |
Maximo Flores-Lezama v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-punishment due-process precedents punishment revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether a supervised release revocation sentence may be imposed to punish a defendant for his underlying criminal conduct, or whether a punitive revoc… |
| 19-8258 |
Denver Maxwell Goree, Jr. v. Michigan Parole Board |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commutation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto parole parole-board punishment |
Whether Petitioner's parole process was unconstitutional |
| 19-7843 |
Tony Buck v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review punishment punishment-clause sentencing |
Whether the Judgment of Conviction should be vacated as a violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause |
| 19-7801 |
James Benjamin Barstad v. Washington Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights constitutional-violation contract contract-breach due-process equal-protection inmate-rights punishment sandin-v-conner state-sanctions |
When does the repeated imposition of 'temporary' restrictions become unconstitutional? |
| 19-7049 |
In Re Antwoyn Spencer |
|
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance personal-liberty pro-se-petition punishment standing strickland-standard undue-delay |
Whether petitioner is being deprived of his civil rights due to undue delay in appellate ruling |
| 19-6721 |
Christopher Ray Parrish v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-6552 |
Darrell Tykwan Atkinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-6269 |
Eduardo Romero Martinez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-5558 |
Frank Stephon Johnson v. Correct Care Solutions, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-conditions punishment |
Whether the defendants' deliberate indifference to the petitioner's serious medical needs violated the Eighth Amendment |
| 18-542 |
John E. Hamilton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
charging criminal-procedure defendant-standing due-process extradition extradition-treaty international-law punishment rule-of-specialty sentencing standing treaty treaty-interpretation |
Whether an individual defendant has standing to assert a rule of specialty violation |
| 18-39 |
Jason Lee Boyd v. Washington |
Washington |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-convictions criminal-registration due-process ex-post-facto in-person-appearance offender-registration punishment punitive-law registration-statutes retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the requirement of frequent, in-person reporting renders an offender-registration law punitive, such that applying the law retroactively viola… |