| 24-7429 |
Randy Torres v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-standard circuit-split constructive-amendment racketeering-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement special-sentencing-factor |
Whether the district court's final jury instruction for the Special Sentencing Factor violated Apprendi v. New Jersey and constructively amended the i… |
| 24-5664 |
Christian Pabon v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction due-process enterprise-membership legal-sufficiency murder-in-aid racketeering-conspiracy |
Whether the evidence was legally insufficient to establish enterprise membership and whether a rational fact finder could have found the petitioner gu… |
| 23-6498 |
Kevin Clayton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial murder racketeering racketeering-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the Jury Trial guarantees contained in the Sixth Amendment were violated |
| 23-5997 |
James Baxton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-enterprise ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interdependence jury-instructions predicate-acts racketeering-conspiracy |
Whether the district court and Fourth Circuit erred in applying the harmless error review under Brecht v. Abrahamson |
| 20-8018 |
Deshaun Tisdale v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault assault-with-dangerous-weapon common-law-self-defense criminal-law firearms-offense jury-instruction michigan-common-law michigan-law racketeering racketeering-conspiracy self-defense use-of-firearm |
Whether the Petitioner should have been permitted a common law self-defense jury instruction in a racketeering conspiracy case involving convictions f… |
| 19-7720 |
Lamont Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-circuit-court abuse-of-discretion co-conspirator-hearsay co-conspirator-hearsay-exception criminal-association criminal-history district-court-conviction hearsay-exception mental-health racketeering-conspiracy racketeering-conspiracy-18-usc-1962(d) sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-mental-health-treatment sufficient-evidence uncorroborated-confession |
Did the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in upholding the District Court's conviction? |
| 18-7802 |
Michael Hopson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aid-of-racketeering attempted-murder constitutional-claims criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit insufficient-evidence murder pattern-of-racketeering racketeering-conspiracy |
Whether the evidence was insufficient to convict the petitioner of racketeering conspiracy and murder/attempted murder in aid of racketeering |
| 18-892 |
Mark N. Kirsch v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights coercion due-process extortion extortion-statute property-transfer racketeering-act racketeering-conspiracy scheidler-precedent scheidler-v-now sekhar-precedent transferable-property union-contract |
Whether pressuring a construction contractor to enter into a union contract meets the definition of generic extortion such that a racketeering act pre… |