| 24-7070 |
In Re Shawn Michael Chalifoux |
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2025-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
conspiracy controlled-substance false-testimony grand-jury prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution |
Does an Assistant U.S. Attorney have the authority to present perjurious testimony and/or false declarations before a grand jury and/or district court… |
| 23-1228 |
Mason Murphy v. Michael Schmitt |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech nieves-exception probable-cause retaliatory-arrest selective-enforcement selective-prosecution |
Whether the Nieves probable-cause exception allows courts to consider allegations that no one else has been arrested for the same crime |
| 23-6075 |
William Phillip Neidinger v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-remedy constitutional-interpretation due-process effective-counsel identity-rights judicial-defect judicial-review jury-selection mandamus presumption-of-innocence selective-prosecution |
Is not having actual availability of effective counsel and actual presumption of innocence, particularly in cases deriving from previous judicial defe… |
| 23-5749 |
Mark Anthony Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus selective-adjudication selective-prosecution standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Does the Fifth Circuit's selective adjudication and undermining the law of this Court's ruling on conduct outside the statutory definition of a crime … |
| 23-5074 |
Juan Carlos Valles, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons federal-prosecution fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment selective-enforcement selective-prosecution statutory-obligations |
Is the Federal Bureau of Prisons a statutory corporation governed by federal laws, and are federal prosecutors obligated to prosecute all federal inma… |
| 22-7581 |
Michael D. Beiter, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-records chilling-effect court-precedent due-process government-action grand-jury legal-relief legal-rights penalization procedural-limitation prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution |
Whether a person is precluded from doing what the law plainly allows them to do, as the government pursues a course of action to penalize a person's r… |
| 22-7468 |
Donatus O. Mbanefo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection minority-rights selective-prosecution sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Whether the lower courts erred by lending themselves to a prosecution that intentionally selected minority physicians for prosecution in violation of … |
| 22-7381 |
Larry Anthony Ladson, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing procedural-due-process selective-prosecution standing |
Whether Petitioner was a victim of Selective-Prosecution |
| 22-6341 |
Angela Schmid v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution vindictive-prosecution |
Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment on the grounds of selective prosecution and vindictive pr… |
| 22-5687 |
Michael G. Peters v. Mital K. Brammbatt |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-28 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
anti-slapp civil-rights cruel-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-conspiracy prison-mail-misappropriations racketeering rico rico-anti-slapp selective-prosecution standing |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging a decade-long cover-up of political, judicial, and corporate racketeering cr… |
| 21-5484 |
Sylvia Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law due-process equal-protection firearms licensed-dealer mens-rea selective-prosecution straw-purchase |
Whether the 'straw purchase' offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(6) requires the defendant to have known the seller was a 'Licensed Dealer' |
| 20-7696 |
Hamid Reza Ardaneh v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discriminatory-arrest due-process equal-protection false-arrest false-indictment forced-medication human-rights malicious-prosecution selective-prosecution |
Why were the defendant discriminated against and illegally arrested? |
| 19-8275 |
Robert L. Swinton v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
automatic-exclusion complex-motion due-process pretrial-detention prior-conviction selective-prosecution sixth-amendment speedy-trial structural-error |
Was there error in the U.S. Sixth Amendment Speedy Trial and Speedy Trial Act assessment of this case? |
| 19-6378 |
Raymond Gentile v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 21-usc-846 criminal-justice-system due-process equal-protection federal-statute geographic-classification geographic-disparity geographic-location marijuana-legalization marijuana-offenses prima-facie prima-facie-claim prosecutorial-discretion selective-prosecution |
Is geographic location an arbitrary classification in the application of prosecutorial decisions for marijuana-related offenses under 21 U.S.C §§ 841 … |
| 19-5808 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-anti-injunction-act retaliation retaliatory-prosecution second-amendment selective-prosecution standing takings |
Whether the actions described in the email are protected by the US Second Amendment |
| 18-731 |
Stefany Vega Duron, a Minor, et al. v. Ron Johnson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-remedy constitutional-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment iirira immigration immigration-law judicial-review selective-prosecution |
Is there an administrative remedy in the immigration courts to decide American citizens' claims of a violation of their First and Fifth Amendment cons… |
| 18-6610 |
Mark Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence actual-perpetrator coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusion-of-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution successive-petition |
Whether the petitioner should be allowed to present newly discovered evidence of actual innocence in a successive post-conviction petition, despite th… |
| 18-5799 |
In Re Robert N. Smithback |
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2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining selective-prosecution subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-by-jury |
Whether Smithback is being deprived of his liberty without due process of law |