| 24-1183 |
Antonio Lamont Lightfoot v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement three-strikes-law |
Whether a categorical mismatch occurs when the elements of a predicate state offense criminalize conduct outside the enumerated offense under the thre… |
| 24-5730 |
In Re Carlos Martinez |
|
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review three-strikes-law |
Whether the California Three Strikes Law's sentencing provisions violate due process when applied to a defendant with prior convictions that may be co… |
| 23-6512 |
Douglas Wayne Sokell v. David Pedro, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review life-sentence prisoner-detention recidivism sentencing three-strikes-law |
Was it constitutional to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole or release, using recidivism (3 strikes) as a main fact, whe… |
| 23-5442 |
Wayne Jerome Johnson v. California |
California |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual double-jeopardy due-process felony-misdemeanor penal-code-interpretation three-strikes three-strikes-law vagueness |
Whether it is unconstitutional to impose two separate strikes on Petitioner for the same act under two separate statutes |
| 20-79 |
Cedric L. Daniels v. Dave Davey, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confrontation-clause due-process evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment hearsay impeachment-evidence jury-instructions sixth-amendment three-strikes-law |
Denial of Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses and Fourteenth Amendment due process |
| 20-5176 |
Nicholas Harris v. California |
California |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment penal-consequences resentencing serious-felony three-strikes-law witness-dissuasion |
Does California's Three Strikes Reform Act of 2012 violate the Ex Post Facto Clause and/or the Due Process Clause? |
| 19-7374 |
In Re John Wallace |
|
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-authority judicial-discretion mandamus procedural-error sanctions standing three-strikes three-strikes-law three-strikes-statute |
whether-magistrate-judge-exceeded-authority-in-issuing-strike |
| 19-5367 |
Ralph Arthur Duarte v. California |
California |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus hicks-v-oklahoma liberty-interest people-v-vargas retroactive-application retroactivity three-strikes three-strikes-law |
whether-petitioner-was-denied-due-process-of-law |
| 19-5087 |
Willie Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3559 categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing enumerated-list-of-offenses enumerated-offenses essential-nature federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federal-three-strikes-law prior-state-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-law |
Whether the categorical approach permits a court to compare 'the essence' of a prior state crime of conviction to the 'essential nature' of a specific… |
| 18-9394 |
Ward T. Evans v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutionality-of-statute criminal-law criminal-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process in-forma-pauperis indictment indictment-counts statutory-interpretation three-strike-rule three-strikes-law |
Whether Delaware's 11 Del. Crim. C. sec. 773(2) defines three distinct criminal offenses |
| 18-5559 |
Travis Michael Easter v. Brigitte Amsberry, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement due-process factual-innocence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel legal-innocence miscarriage-of-justice recidivism recidivist-enhancement recidivist-statute sentencing-error three-strikes three-strikes-law |
Whether the state of Oregon's imposition of a true life sentence under a three strikes sentencing recidivist enhancement statute is a miscarriage of j… |
| 18-5496 |
Alfredo Perez, Jr. v. California |
California |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-findings jury-trial resentencing sentencing sixth-amendment three-strikes-law |
Does the federal constitution, as construed in Apprendi v. New Jersey, permit a court to find a defendant ineligible for resentencing based on judicia… |