rico-conspiracy
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6094 | Chimene Hamilton Onyeri v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing law-enforcement-testimony rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment trial-strategy | I. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether a defendant is denied his Sixth Amendment right to conflict-free counsel where trial co… |
| 25-6006 | Jerry W. Green, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure indictment-charging rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | Whether, pursuant to Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99, 133 S.Ct 2151, 186 L.Ed.2d 314 (2013) and Apprendi v New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct 23… |
| 25-5904 | Lawrence Ray v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actus-reus criminal-statute enterprise-definition knowledge-requirement rico-conspiracy sex-trafficking | 1. Whether, in a RICO conspiracy prosecution, 18 U.S.C. §1962(d), the government must prove the existence of a de facto enterprise that affects commer… |
| 25-5847 | Charlie Green v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure indictment-sufficiency penalty-provision rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the failure of the Indictment to include a reference to the penalty provision, 18 U.S.C. § 1963(a), applicable to the offense of RICO consp… |
| 25A294 | Vincent Gerald Garcia v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-15 | Presumed Complete | conspiracy-to-commit criminal-conspiracy racketeering rico-conspiracy specific-intent statutory-interpretation | Whether a nonspecific RICO conspiracy without specific intent to commit the target crime can constitute a substantive criminal offense | |
| 25A204 | Jairo Arnaldo Jacome v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure fourth-circuit jury-instructions plain-error rico-conspiracy substantial-rights | Whether a variance between oral and written jury instructions constitutes reversible error when the parties were aware of the discrepancy but did not … | |
| 24-7451 | Walston Owen v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-statute jury-finding racketeering-act rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement substantive-crime | Whether a defendant convicted of RICO conspiracy under 18 USC § 1962(d) is subject to enhanced sentencing under § 1963(a) based on a jury finding of a… |
| 24-6348 | Christopher Howard v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-validity criminal-procedure inter-circuit-split jury-instructions rico-conspiracy vicar-statute | Whether the Second Circuit's decisions overturning the District Court's acquittal on VICAR and 924(c) counts created an inter-circuit split regarding … |
| 23-7404 | William Maxwell v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process firearm-transfer money-laundering obstruction-of-justice rico-conspiracy wire-fraud | Whether this case should be granted certiorari for full briefing on issues already decided in Maxwell's favor by this Court or whether a G.V.R. would … |
| 23-7182 | Jonathan Wray v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi apprendi-rule civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination predicate-act rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Does this Court's decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey require that the Government prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury that there is a nexus betwe… |
| 23-7144 | Dricko Dashon Huskey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conspiracy criminal-enterprise due-process jury-finding jury-findings racketeering racketeering-activity rico-act rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court can sentence a defendant to life imprisonment for a RICO conspiracy conviction when the jury found the defendant did not agre… |
| 23-6820 | Marvin Carcamo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure gang-membership harmless-error ninth-circuit procedural-error racketeering rico-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines | Did the Ninth Circuit incorrectly affirm the district court's procedural error determining racketeering conduct was reasonably foreseeable under the U… |
| 23A687 | Danilo Arturo Velasquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Presumed Complete | criminal-appeal federal-sentencing ninth-circuit rico-conspiracy sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation | Whether a federal court's sentencing decision that creates an alleged sentencing disparity violates the proportionality requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 35… | |
| 22-6553 | Esau Ferdinand v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1962(d) criminal-procedure enterprise-affairs enterprise-liability federal-rule-criminal-procedure-14(a) joint-trial personal-participation prosecutorial-discretion rico-conspiracy severance | For RICO conspiracy liability, must the defendant agree to personally further the enterprise's affairs? |
| 22-6288 | Mangwiro Sadiki-Yisrael v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level first-degree-murder guilty-plea mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states rico-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-max | Whether the government must prove a defendant's mens rea and knowledge of first-degree murder to establish the statutory max and base offense level un… |
| 22-6135 | Monzell Harding v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence extrinsic-evidence rico rico-conspiracy rule-404(b) rule-404b trial-error uncharged-crimes | Was the district court required by JHuddleston v. United States, 485 U.S. 681 (1988) and Rule 404(b) to cure the reversible trial error that resulted … |
| 22-5733 | Robert Brown, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial evidence fair-trial jury jury-bias perjury perjury-evidence rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment | Whether the District Court's denial of admission of evidence regarding a Government cooperating witness committing perjury was error and affected the … |
| 22-5550 | Corey Bailey v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting confrontation-clause confrontation-rights fair-trial jury-impartiality racketeering-enterprise rico-conspiracy vicar-convictions warrant-exception | Did the government prove the existence of a racketeering enterprise? |
| 21-7119 | Victor Carlos Castano v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-02-15 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure enterprise fifth-amendment grand-jury jury-instructions proffer-agreement rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether the government was impermissibly relieved of its burden to prove each element of RICO Conspiracy |
| 21-7095 | Paul Anthony Darrah v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-02-10 | Denied | IFP | enterprise enterprise-existence first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech jury-instruction jury-instructions necessity-requirement rico-conspiracy title-iii-wiretap wiretap-authorization | Should the jury have been allowed to convict on the hypothetical existence of a RICO enterprise? |
| 21-7083 | Michael Kenneth Rich v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-02-09 | Denied | IFP | conspiracy criminal-sentencing due-process due-process-of-law future-tense-instruction individualized-responsibility individualized-sentencing panel-decision rico-conspiracy rico-enterprise | Whether a RICO enterprise with legitimate and illegitimate purposes violates due process and individualized sentencing |
| 21-1089 | Jeff Garvin Smith, Cary Dale Vandiver, Patrick Michael McKeoun, David Randy Drozdowski, and Vincent John Witort v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-02-07 | Denied | Criminal-Procedure Due-Process First-Amendment Free-Speech hypothetical-elements jury-instruction Jury-Instructions RICO-Conspiracy sixth-circuit-precedent | Should the jury have been allowed to convict the defendants on the hypothetical existence of all of the elements of a RICO Conspiracy? | |
| 21-6225 | Edwin Guzman and Herzzon Sandoval v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accessory-after-fact accessory-after-the-fact circuit-split equipoise expert-testimony gatekeeping-function general-understanding mens-rea RICO-conspiracy RICO-predicate-offenses specific-understanding | Whether the First Circuit misapplied RICO-conspiracy, RICO-predicate-offenses, general-understanding, specific-understanding, equipoise, accessory-aft… |
| 21-6122 | Malek Lassiter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rico rico-conspiracy sentencing standard-of-review | Whether the court of appeals erred by affirming the district court's denial of Lassiter's motion for judgment of acquittal on the RICO conspiracy char… |
| 21-6098 | Hector Enamorado, aka Vida Loca v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-10-27 | Denied | IFP | bruton-doctrine bruton-v-united-states codefendant-confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence multi-defendant-trial multi-defendant-trials rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment | Whether a confession by codefendant's counsel on behalf of his client during a multi-defendant trial is subject to Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 1… |
| 20-7903 | Jerry W. Green, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy-objective criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-finding jury-findings predicate-acts RICO-conspiracy | Whether sufficient evidence exists to sustain a RICO conspiracy conviction when the Government charges specific predicate acts in the indictment, the … |
| 20-7868 | Douglas Kelly v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | IFP | alleyne-precedent automatic-reversal direct-appeal drug-conspiracy jury-selection prejudice public-trial rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement structural-error | Whether, in the context of a structural error involving a public trial violation during jury selection where no trial objection was made but the error… |
| 20-1460 | Rolando Cruz, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-16 | Dismissed | Response Waived | appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure evidence evidence-standard indictment indictment-variance rico-conspiracy third-circuit united-states-v-rowe | Whether the Third Circuit erred in affirming RICO conspiracy convictions based on evidence of a different conspiracy than was charged |
| 20-6777 | James Baxton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Government produced sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Petitioner's actions were part of a Rico Conspiracy |
| 20-6433 | Byron Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault-with-dangerous-weapon criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy evidence-admission fifth-circuit-court jury-instructions murder-in-aid-of-racketeering pattern-of-racketeering rico-conspiracy rico-enterprise witness-intimidation | Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in finding Byron Jones guilty of a RICO conspiracy? |
| 20-6381 | Domenico Anastasio v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court indictment rico-conspiracy second-circuit standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United … |
| 20-5394 | Eugene Mona, aka Gino v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-782 criminal-sentencing district-court drug-guidelines drug-sentencing-guidelines first-degree-murder motion-denial motion-for-sentence-reduction rico-conspiracy sentence-reduction | Whether the District Court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion For Sentence Reduction |
| 20-5064 | Tony Brown v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | due-process exculpatory-evidence Landgraf-v-USI-Film-Prods preindictment-delay prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity rico-conspiracy statute-of-limitations witness-evidence | Should the Ninth Circuit's interpretation of Lovasco be addressed? |
| 19-8376 | Carlos M. Guerrero-Castro v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure enterprise essential-element judicial-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error RICO rico-conspiracy | Whether a district court commits plain error by refusing to properly instruct the jury that the existence of an actual enterprise is always an essenti… |
| 19-8049 | Kenneth Marquise Ruff v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1962d 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment rico rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of procedural due process is violated where the Petitioner receives a sentencing enhancement in a Racketeer In… |
| 19-1127 | Wheeler K. Neff v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | business-ownership civil-lawsuit mail-fraud money-or-property rico-conspiracy settlement-negotiations tribal-sovereign-immunity unlawful-debt wire-fraud | Does a misrepresentation about the true identity of the owner of a business during settlement negotiations constitute mail/wire fraud? |
| 19-6972 | Tarsis Guillermo Sanchez-Mora v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice plain-error rico-conspiracy statutory-interpretation | Should this Court grant certiorari to correct a miscarriage of justice and provide needed clarification of the RICO law? |
| 19-6820 | Rafael Leoner-Aguirre v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction first-circuit jury-instructions predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-conspiracy salinas-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court united-states-code | Whether the jury must find the specific predicate acts committed under the RICO conspiracy statute |
| 19-5486 | Jarrell Williams v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-defendant constitutional-provisions criminal-prosecution district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-juvenile-delinquency-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction juvenile juvenile-delinquency juvenile-offenders rico rico-conspiracy | Did the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act divest the district court of jurisdiction over the petitioner's prosecution? |
| 18-8218 | Nathaniel Hoskins v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression materiality prosecutorial-misconduct rico-conspiracy suppression | Whether the prosecution's pretrial evidentiary suppression of various law enforcement reports, interviews and statements favorable to the Petitioner v… |
| 18-7778 | Mikhail Zemlyansky v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence-reintroduction health-care-fraud jury-acquittal jury-trial prosecutorial-strategy RICO rico-conspiracy | Whether the district court violated the collateral estoppel component of the double-jeopardy clause by allowing the government to reintroduce its enti… |
| 18-5123 | Eric Glenn Parker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court jurisdiction murder murder-charge rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment venue venue-proof | Was venue proven to convict Eric Glenn Parker of conspiracy to commit RICO and aiding and abetting murder in the Northern District of Mississippi? |