| 24-7490 |
Clint Robert Schram v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-evidence due-process minor-exploitation sentencing-standards uncharged-misconduct |
I. Given the increasing ease of creating of artificial images, is the government required to present evidence that the images it contends are of minor… |
| 23-7126 |
Alberto Perez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-sentences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offenses due-process judicial-discretion methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards |
Does the district court's blind reliance upon United States Sentencing Guideline § 2D1.1(c)(1)'s draconian base offense level of 38 for distribution o… |
| 23-5776 |
Andrea Lamont Medlock v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-authority imprisonment-review judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness revocation sentencing-review sentencing-standards standard-of-review supervised-release |
Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness? |
| 22-6209 |
Mayeli Molina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial dual-role-witnesses due-process expert-testimony jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-standards substantial-rights witness-testimony |
1. Whether Molina's substantial rights were affected when two-thirds of the Government's witnesses testified in dual roles as experts and fact witness… |
| 22-5895 |
Quinton Deairre Gardner v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravating-facts armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-criminal-law maximum-term maximum-term-of-imprisonment presumptive-sentencing-standards sentencing-standards statutory-interpretation statutory-limits |
Where a state structured-sentencing regime sets mandatory legal limits on courts' sentencing power, is the upper limit of the structured-sentencing ra… |
| 19-1453 |
Michigan v. Gerald Raynard Fuller |
Michigan |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
|
acquittal acquittal-consideration acquitted-conduct conflict-of-authority criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuits judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards state-courts |
The federal circuit courts have uniformly held that a sentencing judge may consider conduct for which the defendant has been acquitted, and this Court… |
| 19-8842 |
Angel Prado v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction search-and-seizure sentencing-standards speedy-trial |
The ticket was Printed 9:56 the WArNiNg An sva CCourt Distriet The Middle recorded stop 9:58AM. Was MHX agree Lindsay D Trooper IN for ISoue the Momen… |
| 19-7348 |
Raymond Alston, aka Raymond Austin v. New York |
New York |
2020-01-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury indictment judicial-discretion malicious-prosecution sentencing-standards standing |
WAS APPELLANT DENIED DUE PROCESS BY THE COURTS SUA SPONTE DECISION, PURSUANT TO CPL DIVISION TO CONSIDER THE ERROR INCLUDED CHARGE OF BURGLARY IN THE … |
| 19-6817 |
Anthony Wheeler v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process expungement ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
I. Did the Seventh Circuit err under Miller-El v. Cockrell , 537 U.S. 322, 336–38
(2003) and Buck v. Davis , 137 S. Ct. 759, 773–74 (2017), when it de… |
| 19-5394 |
Michael Leon Bell v. California |
California |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment constitutional-procedure death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-fact-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt (1) th… |
| 18-6833 |
Jose Ramon Zuniga, aka Josue Ararel Zuniga-Zaragoza, aka Jose Ramon Zuniga-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discretion due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion offense-level residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a Guideline which incorporates by reference § 16(b)'s residual clause may serve as the basis for increasing the defendant's offense level u… |
| 18-6849 |
Steven James v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitutional-rights jdb-v-north-carolina jury-instructions juvenile-brain-science juvenile-homicide juvenile-justice juvenile-rights miller-retroactivity miller-v-alabama retroactivity sentencing-standards |
This case presents two questions of national importance concerning the federal constitutional rights of juvenile homicide defendants (like Steven Jame… |