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25-6814 Tony Minh Le v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending IFP continuance district-court fourth-circuit judicial-review procedural-fairness speedy-trial-act Whether the district court and Fourth Circuit made a fair and lawful Speedy Trial Act ruling denying relief, without properly assessing the timing of …
25-6440 Juan Guajardo-Martinez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-law-enforcement immigration-authorities indictment-delay speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether this Court should recognize the "ruse exception" to the Speedy Trial Act when federal law enforcement and immigration authorities work togethe…
25-6293 Melvin Leon Myrick v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-procedure judicial-timing pretrial-hearing speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether a final ruling at a pretrial hearing stops the Speedy Trial Act clock from running, consistent with the dictates of 18 U.S.C. § 3161.
25A644 Markhel D'John Harris-Franklin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-02 Application circuit-split continuance criminal-procedure ends-of-justice reasonableness speedy-trial-act Whether ends-of-justice continuances granted under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7), may be open-ended.
25-6259 Sam Boyd v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuance criminal-procedure judicial-discretion speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-court-procedure When a trial court grants an "ends of justice" continuance pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), is it required to make specific factual findings bey…
25-6156 Thomas J. Zajac v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure speedy-trial-act trial-continuance Speedy Trial Act A. In contradiction of Supreme Court Rule 10, was the appellate court's avoidance of, through modifications to appellant's facts and…
25-6119 Charvez Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure ends-of-justice judicial-continuance speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether the Speedy Trial Act's "ends of justice" provision, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), permits open-ended continuances that lack a definite terminatio…
25-262 Aleksandr Pikus v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-review legislative-compromise presumptive-prejudice prosecutorial-neglect sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory power to correct the Second Circuit's failure "to ensure that the purposes of the [Speedy Trial] Ac…
24A1083 Thomas J. Zajac v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-05-08 Presumed Complete 70-day-period judicial-discretion mistrial speedy-trial-act time-exclusion trial-delay Whether the Speedy Trial Act permits a district court to exclude time from the 70-day trial calculation without making explicit on-the-record findings…
24-6796 Steven Nicholson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP covid-19-test district-court ninth-circuit sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act summary-reversal Whether the Supreme Court should summarily reverse the Ninth Circuit's decision that relied solely on a COVID-19 test for analyzing the Speedy Trial A…
24-6634 Robert Andrew Wolter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split competency-evaluation criminal-procedure speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation transportation-delay Whether time spent transporting a criminal defendant to a competency evaluation facility counts toward or is excluded from the 70-day Speedy Trial Act…
24-5691 Antoine Edwards v. Bradley Scott, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-02 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act What is the appropriate remedy for a Speedy Trial Act violation under 18 U.S.C.A § 3161 and the Sixth Amendment's constitutional protections?
24-5678 Reginald L. Hopkins v. United States Third Circuit 2024-10-01 Denied IFP federal-prosecution ruse-exception speedy-trial-act state-arrest statutory-interpretation third-circuit Whether the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred in rejecting a 'Ruse Exception' to the Speedy Trial Act for state arrests leading to federal …
24-5204 Gavin Blake Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act Appealability-of-18-U.S.C.-§-3164-Motion-for-Pretrial-Release
24-5088 In Re Gavin B. Davis 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-split circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Appealability-of-18-U.S.C.-§-3164-motion-for-pretrial-release
24-5085 Philip Layfield, aka Philip Samuel Pesin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3161 70-day-trial-clock custodial-defendant out-of-district-arrest speedy-trial-act statutory-remedy transportation-delay trial-clock Whether the Speedy Trial Act provides a remedy for a custodial defendant arrested out-of-district and ordered removed, but whose transportation back t…
23-7709 Percy Leroy Jacobs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP bradshaw-v-stumpf criminal-penalties due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act trial-counsel von-moltke-v-gillies waiver whether-defendant-must-understand-elements-of-charged-offenses
23-7492 Trezith Rashad Smart v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP federal-rules-of-evidence findings fourth-circuit-court judicial-error motion-to-dismiss prior-inconsistent-statement speedy-trial-act witness-impeachment zedner-v-united-states whether-the-fourth-circuit-appellate-court-commit-clear-or-plain-error
23-7496 In Re Olamide O. Bello 2024-05-16 Denied IFP access-to-court access-to-courts constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act standing Whether the failure of the counsel to pursue an appeal or motion the petitioner would have otherwise pursued violate the Sixth Amendment prejudice the…
23A993 Gavin Blake Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-07 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split interlocutory-appeal pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether a district court's denial of a pretrial release motion under 18 U.S.C. § 3164 is immediately appealable as an interlocutory order when circuit…
23-6965 Armando Orozco-Barron v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP covid-19-pandemic criminal-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice due-process ends-of-justice individual-assessment judicial-discretion pandemic speedy-trial-act Whether a court may extend the Speedy Trial Act's deadlines by general order, without individually evaluating defendants' interests in a speedy trial
23-6716 Tommy Lee Walker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment criminal-procedure due-process firearm-interstate-commerce interstate-commerce jury-instruction jury-instructions sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act standing Where the firearm at issue was manufactured in California and found in a home in California, did the district court err by refusing to give a requeste…
23-6434 Pascal Gedeon v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment judicial-discretion mandamus pretrial-motions speedy-trial-act vagueness Whether delays resulting from pretrial motions can be excluded under the Speedy Trial Act
23-6083 Chalmer Detling, II, aka Chuck Detling v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review due-process judicial-procedure notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard speedy-trial-act sua-sponte summary-reversal supervisory-power Was the panel's decision proper in light of Day v. McDonough?
23A441 Trent Drexel Howard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights detention government-delay pro-se-petition sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act Whether the Sixth Amendment and Speedy Trial Act permit a court to deny a motion to dismiss an indictment when the government deliberately delayed the…
23-5322 Tommie Doward Weathers, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fault-determination pretrial-confinement pretrial-detention release-from-confinement speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Meaning of 'fault' in 18 U.S.C. § 3164(c)
23-5116 Jeremy David Adams v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP bond-motion continuance continuance-exclusion party-presentation-principle plain-error-review pretrial-detention pretrial-release sixth-circuit-rule speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Question not identified
22-7333 David Jah, Sr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process interstate-commerce jury-instruction jury-instructions pro-se-representation sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act government-fabricated-evidence
22-944 Lois Yankah v. Sgt. Moore, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure filing-deadline fugitive-disentitlement fugitive-disentitlement-doctrine speedy-trial speedy-trial-act Whether an appellate court may dismiss an appeal filed after the filing deadline but before the 3-day extension for notices sent by mail
22-7138 Muzammil Ali v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure downward-variance due-process fifth-amendment jail-phone-calls motion-for-continuance sentencing sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming that Ali's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights were not violated under the Speedy Trial Act
22-7100 Felipe Nevarez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process objection-timing speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit trial-delay waiver Does the Speedy Trial Act require the accused to object to lack of speedy trial only after the time has lapsed, or can the accused assert this right p…
22-6331 Lance Green v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-confrontation confrontation-clause daubert dna-evidence due-process firearm-possession sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act 6th-amendment-confrontation,due-process,speedy-trial-act,6th-amendment,daubert,dna-evidence
22-419 Cedric Chanu v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied circuit-split commodities-exchange criminal-procedure ends-of-justice financial-misrepresentation financial-transaction implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act wire-fraud Whether the federal wire fraud statute criminalizes any 'implied misrepresentation' that induces another to enter into a financial transaction, even w…
22-402 James Vorley v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court ends-of-justice implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Whether a 'scheme or artifice to defraud' under the wire fraud statute encompasses an 'implied misrepresentation'
22-5316 Antwan Criswell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3161 18-usc-3262 court-congestion dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-delay speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether the presumption of prejudice in a Speedy Trial Violation under 18 U.S.C. §3262 requires dismissal with prejudice, despite the court's claim of…
21-8076 Siva K. Durbesula v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure enhanced-punishment enhanced-punishments judicial-fact-finding jury sixth-amendment special-assessment speedy-trial-act supervised-release Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury rather than a judge to determine facts which are used to apply enhanced punishments including the period o…
21-1336 Jeffrey Olsen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-07 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived covid-pandemic criminal-procedure district-court district-court-authority due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial-suspension jury-trials pandemic prosecutorial-delay speedy-trial-act Whether a District Court may dismiss an indictment under the Speedy-Trial-Act where the District Court finds that it is possible to hold a jury trial …
21-7557 Maria Andrea Gonzalez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3161 criminal-procedure due-process ends-of-justice federal-district-court findings-of-fact speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-continuance Does the Speedy Trial Act require specific findings of fact when excluding days from a criminal defendant's speedy trial clock?
21-1313 Martin Gottesfeld v. United States First Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal procedural-due-process speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether a different judge can make the requisite 'ends of justice' findings to support a continuance under the Speedy Trial Act
21-6960 Jonathan C. Roush v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3161 18-usc-3164 court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court-order griggs-v-provident-consumer-discount-co retroactive-exclusion speedy-trial speedy-trial-act time-calculation zedner-v-united-states Whether a district court may enter a post-appeal order to place findings and calculations on the record of a case to explain an earlier oral ruling de…
21-6460 Truman Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-discretion prejudice remand sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's refusal to accurately compute the extent of a Speedy-Trial-Act violation and to consider the government's district-wide i…
21-6360 Qian Williams v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-procedure factual-findings federal-court federal-custody federal-jurisdiction grand-jury-indictment judicial-discretion search-warrant speedy-trial-act Did the court of appeals properly affirm the trial court's decisions?
21-6034 Clifton James Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-conduct criminal-procedure discovery-violations federal-jurisdiction government-agencies indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states speedy-trial-act Whether an indictment defect can strip federal courts of jurisdiction
20-7608 Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3161 diligent-preparation due-process government-motion speedy-trial-act trial-continuance Whether the district court violated the Speedy Trial Act
20-7207 Manuel de Jesus Gordillo-Escandon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied IFP criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process interstate-agreement-detainers interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-timing Did the district court err in failing to dismiss the indictment under the Speedy Trial Act and the Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act?
20-7015 Sabina Leigh Burton v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure discovery-violations fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion rule-37 rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b speedy-trial-act Whether discovery violations can constitute fraud on the court
20-6394 Michael A. Hagar v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-judicial-power criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction protective-order sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act venue venue-limitations Question not identified
19-8898 Angelo Peter Efthimiatos v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-circuit-split calendar criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion jury-selection presentation-of-evidence speedy-trial-act trial-delay uniformity Whether the Speedy Trial Act permits district courts to conduct jury selection within the time limits of the speedy trial clock but delay presentation…
19-8000 James Robert Peterson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied IFP courts-of-appeals-split criminal-procedure detainer-act federal-state-courts interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act motion-tolling speedy-trial-act time-to-trial tolling Does a pending motion automatically toll the IADA's time-to-trial clock?
19-1020 Florence Bikundi v. United States District of Columbia 2020-02-14 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof continuance district-court-discretion due-process ends-of-justice ends-of-justice-continuance forfeiture fraud fraud-conduct restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines speedy-trial-act Whether a district court granting an ends-of-justice continuance under the Speedy Trial Act violates the requirement to set forth reasons
19-7238 Jerry Reginald Burkes v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dismissal due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis indictment-dismissal mandatory-language money-laundering speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation tennessee-local-rule-10.03 tennessee-rules-of-criminal-procedure tennessee-rules-of-evidence trial-rights Whether the trial court's denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment for a violation of the Speedy Trial Act's 70-day time limit is subject to harmle…
19-612 Hassan Abpikar v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-conflict circuit-split conflict-with-other-circuits criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process original-indictment sentence-increase sentencing sentencing-enhancement speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation superseding-indictment Whether the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling on petitioner's claim to his Rights under the Speedy Trial Act is IN CONFLICT WITH OTHER CIRCUITS
19-587 Jimmie Eugene White, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied continuance criminal-procedure district-court-discretion ends-of-justice on-the-record-findings speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation stipulation time-exclusion Whether a district court may exclude time pursuant to a stipulation between the parties without making on-the-record findings under the Speedy Trial A…
19-5722 Moses Shepard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 30-70-day-clock circuit-split constructive-amendment due-process grand-jury-clause indictment-clause plain-error speedy-trial-act subsequent-indictment superseding-indictment Whether a 'subsequent replacement indictment' restarts the Speedy Trial Act clock or if 'superseding' indictments are automatically excluded
19-5697 Felipe Vinagre-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure detention detention-motion federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure indictment judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-timing pretrial-motion speedy-trial-act Whether a motion for detention filed before an indictment or information charging a person has been obtained is a pretrial motion within the meaning o…
18-9292 Timothy B. Fredrickson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal bail bail-appeal constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion mandamus pre-trial-detention pre-trial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation What recourse is available to a defendant, when an appeal and mandamus enforcement of the ministerial and self-executing release on bail provision of …
18-9150 Peter Victor Ayika v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-speedy-trial effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act statutory-rights statutory-speedy-trial whether a certificate of Appealability (COA) should issue to pursue the Sixth Amendment claim on appeal
18-8292 Julius Greer v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied IFP circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure forfeiture judicial-review motion-to-dismiss plain-error-review speedy-trial-act standard-of-review waiver Speedy-Trial-Act-violation
18-7678 Alfonso Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP client-attorney-relationship client-autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel sixth-circuit speedy-trial-act trial-counsel Can a defense lawyer, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, contravene his client's wishes to object to a violation of the Speedy Trial Act?
18-6806 Eliana Sarmiento v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-speedy-trial-act dismissal harmless-error indictment-dismissal judicial-discretion prejudice speedy-trial-act statute-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether a district court's denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment for a violation of the Speedy Trial Act's 70 day time limit for bringing a defe…
18-6754 Domonic McCarns v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure harmless-error indictment plain-error-review speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether Cryptic Letter, Number Codes are Sufficient to Satisfy the Speedy Trial Act Requirement that Reasons Justifying Delay of a Criminal Trial Must…
18-6285 Mady Chan, aka Maddy, aka Mandy, aka Manny v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right constitutional-rights counsel-advice criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-precedent padilla-v-kentucky sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act Should the holding in Padilla v. Kentucky extend to the attorney's failure to advise a client that under Speedy Trial Act a violation cannot be waived…
18-5155 Omar Qazi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-reform bail-reform-act constitutional-rights dangerousness due-process pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention sentencing-guidelines speedy-trial speedy-trial-act Whether the excessive prolonged detention of the petitioner has become punitive in violation of the Due Process Clause