rule-29
11 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6344 | Ralph Kevin Tovar v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-11 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | commerce-clause de-novo-review internet-crime jurisdictional-element rule-29 sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a general challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence preserves for de novo review the full range of sufficiency challenges, and whether intr… |
| 25-5981 | Erick Pizarro-Mercado v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-rules procedural-error rule-29 sentencing | Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P. and whether the district court committed rever… |
| 25-5922 | Victor M. Hernandez-Carrasquillo v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-sufficiency rule-29 sentencing | Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P. and whether the district court committed rever… |
| 23-483 | Mauricio Gonzalez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-07 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit predicate-offense rule-29 rule-29-motion standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | Whether the District Court applied the proper standard of review to find guilt and issue their judgment on Petitioner's Rule 29 motion |
| 23-5966 | Jonathan Ericksen v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal rule-29 standard-of-review | Whether the Court should overrule its decision in Jackson v. Virginia, which rejected the 'reasonable hypothesis' test for motions for a judgment of a… |
| 23-5030 | Nygel Dejon Freeman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal constitutional-provisions court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-evidence reasonable-doubt rule-29 statutory-provisions sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the District Court and Court of Appeals erred in denying Mr. Freeman's Rule 29 motion due to insufficient evidence to prove guilt beyond a rea… |
| 22-6521 | William Randall Brannan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | challenge circuit-split civil-procedure preservation-of-issues rule-29 venue | Whether a general motion under Rule 29 preserves a challenge to venue |
| 21-7403 | James Calvin Breeden v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession jury-instructions mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states rule-29 rule-29-motion | Whether the district court erred under Rehaif v. United States by denying requested jury instructions and a Rule 29 motion for acquittal on the felon-… |
| 21-5720 | Mark Eldon Wilson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest-warrant criminal-complaint evidence federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-29 judgment-of-acquittal rule-29 sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-rights united-states-v-marion | Whether a criminal complaint triggers a defendant's Sixth Amendment speedy trial rights |
| 20-6526 | Kendesia Juinize May v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buy-sell-defense buy-sell-transactions conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-procedure judgment-of-acquittal jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error rule-29 | Whether the trial court committed plain error in refusing to grant a 'buy-sell' defense jury instruction |
| 20-5692 | Johnathon Nico Wise v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure error-preservation federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judgment-of-acquittal legal-motion preservation-of-error rule-29 standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether specific grounds must be identified in a Rule 29 motion for judgment of acquittal to preserve error? |