reversible-error

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7230 Armani Davis-Malone v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP defendant-rehabilitation district-court judicial-discretion reversible-error sentence-reduction stipulation Whether a district court commits reversible error by denying a stipulated sentence reduction without acknowledging the stipulation or and evidence of …
24-5497 Michael Scott Hoover v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-review reversible-error Whether a state court's failure to provide a substantive evidentiary hearing violates a criminal defendant's due process rights and constitutes revers…
23-7398 Jamaal Parker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion new-trial new-trial-standard preservation-of-error reversible-error sentencing sentencing-explanation Whether a new criminal trial requires trial error that would have been reversible on appeal
23-6307 Veronica McCluskey v. William Hendricks, et al. California 2023-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure cross-examination due-process fair-hearing jury-trial legal-conduct reversible-error standing trial-court witness-testimony whether-the-trial-court-committed-reversible-error-in-not-granting-respondent-a-jury-trial
23-5644 Robert Timothy Blake v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP coa-mandate constitutional-rights due-process government-witness ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargain record-evidence reversible-error strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
22-7722 Félix Vega-La Torres v. United States First Circuit 2023-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP ancestry constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing Does the State Court Decision to deny Petitioner's due-process economic-status equal-justice equal-protection 22-7721" ethnicity federal-prosecution federal-questions guidelines-interpretation judicial-bias national-origin petition-for-appeal puerto-rico-defendants race reversible-error sentencing-discrimination state-court-decision Does a federal judge's increased sentence targeting a Puerto Rico defendant for higher punishment violate constitutional, statutory, and guidelines pr…
22-7721 William Whittman v. Prime Autotech, Inc., et al. Virginia 2023-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-procedure due-process equal-justice equal-protection federal-questions petition-for-appeal reversible-error state-court state-court-decision Does the State Court Decision to deny Petitioner's Petition for Appeal on 2/27/23 on grounds that no reversible error occurred in the lower court viol…
22-829 Marla Faith Crawford v. Richmond City School Board Virginia 2023-03-01 Denied Response Waived circuit-court civil-procedure due-process idea-regulations jurisdiction pretrial-motion reversible-error sovereign-immunity standard-of-review subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-of-virginia Did the Supreme Court of Va. error in determining that the Circuit Court for Richmond City nonruling on a pretrial motion filed on April 2, 2019 wasn'…
22-6688 Danny Richard Rivers v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied IFP 2254(e)(2) due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exceptions pinholster procedural-default reversible-error Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals violate due process and/or commit reversable error when it applied PINHOLSTER to bar evidentiary hearing?
22-6606 Henry Zabala-Zorilla v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction reversible-error supplemental-instruction Does the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection laws require a state judge be found to commit reversible error to give a supplemental charge or an 'All…
22-6210 Aaron Michael Crick v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance fourth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-discretion motion-denial reversible-error sentencing Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Mr. Crick's meritorious argument that the district court committed reversible error by de…
22-5094 Garfield D. Campbell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit marijuana-use reversible-error sentencing supervised-release Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Mr. Campbell's meritorious argument that the district court committed reversible error by…
21-7674 Jamie Allen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit reversible-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by refusing to hear Mr. Allen's meritorious claims that the district court committed reversible erro…
21-7581 Ice Tee Hudson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit reversible-error state-prosecution Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Mr. Hudson's meritorious argument that the district court committed reversible error by i…
21-5715 Ronald George Whitehouse v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof co-defendant criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process fifth-circuit probation-officer reversible-error sentencing Whether the district court committed reversible error in holding the petitioner responsible for 10 kilos of methamphetamine based on the probation off…
21-5049 Yancey J. Myers, aka Yam v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fatal-variance judicial-integrity plain-error reversible-error standard-of-review When the as facto elauee is nic hed ae Ee eit 2 '5 obviously plain, does this error, reguire a reversal of Seog! criminal Conv aha
20-1186 Dynasty Group, Inc. v. Stephen Smith, Trustee for Bankruptcy Estate of Heritage Real Estate Investment Corporation Alabama 2021-02-25 Denied criminal-procedure jury-selection prejudicial-statements reversible-error trial-judge voir-dire Whether the Trial Judge Committed Reversible Error When He Refused to Strike the Jury Venire Due to the Taint of Prejudicial Statements Made During Vo…
20-6861 Justin Lee Sanders v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eighth-circuit factual-disputes federal-jurisdiction federal-writ habeas-corpus reversible-error Whether the district court and court of appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability to review the denial of the petitioner's federal habea…
20-443 United States v. Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev First Circuit 2020-10-06 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Relisted (7) capital-sentences district-court penalty-phase pretrial-media-coverage reversible-error voir-dire Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that respondent's capital sentences must be vacated
20-5804 Bobby Burghart v. Sarah Beyer Fourth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights counsel discovery district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-standard reversible-error standing Did the District Court err, and did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals compound the errors, when petitioner's request for counsel was denied, because…
19-8389 Edward Yarbrough, Jr. v. J. Sullivan, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-error federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct remarks-authentication reversible-error trial-court Whether a prosecutor's uninvited inflammatory remarks made in summation, absent a timely explicit curative instruction, so infected the trial with unf…
19-7957 Damar D. Ruffin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law jury-instruction jury-trial reversible-error sentencing standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals committed reversible error in determining the amount of a controlled substance
19-6515 Andre Verlin Anderson v. Vicki Janssen, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-eyewitness-identifi criminal-procedure-habeas-corpus-certificate-of-ap Did the district court commit reversible error whe Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eig due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus motion-to-suppress photographic-lineup reversible-error Did the district court commit reversible error by denying Petitioner's motion to suppress the unduly suggestive photographic lineup?
19-6232 Jason James Neiheisel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure demeanor due-process jury-verdict prosecutorial-questioning reversible-error substantive-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Eleventh Circuit, on review for sufficiency of evidence, can affirm a conviction citing the verdict itself; on the supposition the jury co…
18-9442 Donald Loston v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-efficiency judicial-integrity reversible-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether a state trial court denial of counsel of choice is reversible error when no threat against the interest of judicial integrity and efficiency w…
18-8944 Timmy W. Doucet v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-deliberation jury-deliberations louisiana-criminal-code reasonable-doubt reversible-error sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence Whether reasonable jurists determine that it was reversible error for the district court to permit the jury, over defense counsel's objections, to vie…
18-8657 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Maricopa Commissioners Arizona 2019-04-01 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure dismissal evidentiary-ruling judgment judgment-of-dismissal jurisdiction reversible-error rule-38.1(n) special-commissioner Whether the Special Commissioner committed reversible error in the judgment of dismissal
18-7356 Jack Gossett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial-procedure defendant-rights due-process expert-testimony government-agent-testimony jury-influence prejudice reasonable-doubt reversible-error substantial-rights untendered-expert-testimony Did the testimony of a government agent, not tendered as an expert, influence the jury's decision on guilt beyond a reasonable doubt?
18-6497 Dexter Watson v. Raymond Byrd, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing factual-disputes intent reversible-error Did the court reasonably infer petitioner's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt?