rule-29-motion
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5892 | Daniel Jacob Werk v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court federal-rule judgment-of-acquittal ninth-circuit rule-29-motion | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in upholding the district court's denial of Petitioner's Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 29 motion for judgment of … |
| 24-7060 | Mauricio Gonzalez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment herring-standard judgment-of-acquittal rule-29-motion | Whether a district court's denial of a renewed Rule 29 motion for judgment of acquittal can be equated with a verdict of guilt beyond a reasonable dou… |
| 24-1057 | Jerry Peoples v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-04-08 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure drug-dealing hobbs-act interstate-commerce motion-for-acquittal rule-29-motion | Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by affirming the district court's denial of a Rule 29 Motion for Acquittal where the Government failed to prove the … |
| 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 |
| 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-… |
| 21-5140 | Gabriel Elijah Kane Arkinson, aka Daniel Elijahkane Arkinson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-testimony acquittal-standard criminal-procedure due-process evidence motion-for-acquittal ninth-circuit-review rule-29-motion witness-credibility witness-identification | Whether the presumptive force of the rule that the testimony of an accomplice is sufficient to convict is a lawful substitute for this Court's rules g… |
| 19-5403 | Randy Charriez-Rolon v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-ineffectiveness criminal-procedure defendant-silence due-process due-process,self-incrimination,plain-error,ineffec first-circuit-review free-speech plain-error prosecutorial-commentary rule-29-motion silence | Whether the First Circuit's op/order affirming Petitioner's sentence and conviction finding no plain error when the United States commented on Petitio… |
| 18-6910 | Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fraud-allegations judicial-discretion jury-instructions motion-for-acquittal prosecutorial-misconduct rule-29-motion sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the district court improperly denied Musa's Rule 29 motion |