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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-5975 Caesar Mark Capistrano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation jury-instruction mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion reversal statutory-construction supreme-court-precedent Are inferior courts allowed unrestricted freedom to interpret the Supreme Court's holding in Ruan v United States?
23-5538 Noel Brown v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset Pennsylvania 2023-09-07 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-doctrine dismissal due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief reversal structural-error warden writ-of-certiorari Whether the Supreme Court's holding in Weaver v. Massachusetts clarified the Constitutional Doctrine of Structural Error
22-6436 Timothy D. Robertson v. Illinois Illinois 2022-12-30 Denied IFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-petition prior-conviction reversal sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when the trial court failed to conduct a hearing on the…
22-5612 Luis F. Gomez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct reversal statutory-interpretation witness-credibility Does a prosecutor's improper vouching for a witness unduly prejudice the defendant and require reversal under the 6th Amendment?
21-1611 Robert Koger v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest criminal-defense criminal-investigation defense-counsel disclosure due-process reversal sixth-amendment witness witness-testimony Whether a criminal defendant establishes an actual unwaiveable conflict of interest that adversely affects counsel's representation
21-8132 James E. Sanicki, Jr. v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review biased-juror constitutional-review due-process judicial-procedure jury-selection legal-standard peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes reversal standard-of-review Whether errors in jury selection resulted in seating a biased juror, or deprivation of the mandated number of peremptory challenges should have been r…
20-6862 Montecarlos Gant v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-error due-process guilty-plea plain-error prejudice reversal substantial-rights Whether automatic reversal is required when a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause
20-6714 Jevonne Martell Coleman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-error due-process guilty-plea plain-error prejudice reversal substantial-rights When a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made, is automatic reversal required?
20-5222 Travon Nikeith Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-remand court-review criminal-procedure exceptions Holguin-Hernandez judicial-interpretation legal-precedent procedural-analysis remand reversal sentencing supreme-court-citation Whether the court below overlooked or disregarded Holguin-Hernandez v. United States
20-5050 Ezra Leslie v. New York New York 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct reversal sixth-amendment structural-error Whether the defendant was denied his Sixth Amendment right to choose his own defense and his due process right to a fair trial due to trial counsel's …
19-6995 Richard Alan King v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice magistrate pro-se-pleading procedural-default remand reversal standard-of-review standing supreme-court-precedent Was the presiding magistrate's analysis so flawed as to warrant this court to reverse and remand so that a correct legal standard may be applied?
19-709 Mako One Corporation, et al. v. Cedar Rapids Bank and Trust Company Eighth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-remedy remand reversal structural-error When a Circuit Court finds opposing counsel has an actual and serious conflict of interest in a civil case, should the Court view the conflict as a 's…
18-9447 QuintIn Irving Brown v. Virginia Virginia 2019-05-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-boundaries jurisdiction jurisdictional-overreach procedural-error reversal state-law territorial-jurisdiction venue When a conviction occurs in any state of the United States where a county's jurisdiction occurs over 2,200 yards beyond its 300-yard permissible juris…
18-9194 Noah Espada v. Texas Texas 2019-05-08 Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-law criminal-procedure death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process federal-law perjury reversal Whether a Brady violation, that results in the reversal of a death sentence because of perjury stemming from the Brady violation, implicates the Doubl…
18-1282 David Lee Sanders v. Alabama Alabama 2019-04-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process illegal-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation reversal sentencing speedy-trial Whether a criminal defendant who pleads guilty pursuant to an illegal plea agreement is entitled to include the time from his original arrest until re…
18-7290 Muhamet Ajvazi v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence judicial-review prior-conviction prior-convictions remand reversal sentencing Whether the court should reverse and remand due to the admission of evidence of prior conviction used as enhancement that was not fulfilled
18-6305 Igor Polshyn v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence reversal right-to-testify structural-error testimony Whether preventing a defendant from testifying on the sole disputed element of an offense, his subjective intent, amounts to structural constitutional…