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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6186 Rashawn Lesley Grant v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process evidence-sufficiency eyewitness-testimony trial-record Whether the State of North Carolina's conviction of Petitioner Grant for murder and the resulting life sentence violated the Due Process Clause of the…
25A341 Maxwell A. Matthew v. United States Armed Forces 2025-09-24 Presumed Complete appellate-review courts-martial double-jeopardy fifth-amendment military-justice trial-record Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits a military court from retrying a service member for the same offenses after a defe…
24-5736 James Ray Pendergraft v. Texas Texas 2024-10-10 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-appeals ineffective-assistance lesser-included-offense procedural-error trial-record Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals improperly denied a lesser included offense instruction and found counsel not ineffective, and whether the…
23-1335 Harley Marine Financing, LLC v. Tug Construction, LLC Ninth Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-review bareboat-charter clearly-erroneous contract-breach evidentiary-support findings-of-fact maritime-law trial-record vessel-condition Whether the Ninth Circuit violated the fundamental principle of appellate review that a finding of fact is clearly erroneous if there is no evidentiar…
23-35 City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. v. Ivana Kirola, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied civil-procedure class-action injunctive-relief legal-injury standing trial-record unnamed-class-members unnamed-plaintiffs Whether a court may order injunctive relief in a case where the sole named plaintiff failed to prove she suffered any legal injury at trial but the tr…
21-6458 David A. Callison v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-circuit civil-procedure due-process law-enforcement proof-of-insurance rodriguez-analysis traffic-stop trial-record Whether the 8th Circuit erred by refusing to perform a Rodriguez analysis
20-8200 Brandon Dante Brooks-Davis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court criminal-procedure fairness-integrity-public-reputation intervening-supreme-court-decision judicial-review plain-error-review substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters…
20-7928 Brandon Robinson v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-proceedings brady-violation discovery-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-claim martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-record Was counsel ineffective under Strickland, and did the ineffectiveness present a Martinez claim in the petitioner's appellate proceedings?
20-7871 Jemone Lawrence Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure criminal-indictment fairness-integrity-public-reputation federal-jurisdiction intervening-supreme-court-decision plain-error-review subject-matter-jurisdiction substantial-rights trial-record Whether the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction
20-7800 Jacqueline Moore v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness-standard federal-criminal-law indictment mens-rea plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states supreme-court-decision trial-record Whether an appellate court may consider information outside the trial record to determine if a Rehaif error affected the fairness, integrity, or publi…
20-7686 Lonnie Alonzo Howard v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied IFP appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency felon-in-possession plain-error sufficiency-of-evidence trial-record Whether this case should be held pending Greer v. United States
20-7414 James Innocent v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied IFP circuit-court criminal-procedure greer-v-united-states judicial-review plain-error rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters…
20-7194 Lamar Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters…
20-7072 Jean Denis Paul v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-court double-jeopardy fairness-integrity felon-in-possession plain-error plain-error-review rehaif revocation substantial-rights supervised-release supreme-court-decision trial-record Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters…
20-6665 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedy standing trial-record Whether the Supreme Court should grant a writ of certiorari
20-6572 Deshawn Legrier v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-consideration felon-in-possession judicial-proceedings jury-instructions plain-error-review rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence trial-record Whether an appellate court can consider evidence outside the trial record to conclude that a Rehaif-based error did not seriously affect the fairness,…
20-6569 Quincey Frye v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review felon-in-possession judicial-proceedings jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit trial-record Should the Court of Appeals have looked beyond the trial record to Frye's presentence investigation report to decide that there was no plain error tha…
20-6098 Lamont Owens v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure fairness-integrity-public-reputation intervening-supreme-court-decision judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error plain-error-review substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record Whether plain-error review for failure to instruct on an element of the offense, based upon an intervening U.S. Supreme Court decision, allows courts …
20-6080 David Russell Posey v. Florida Florida 2020-10-20 Denied IFP ada-accommodations civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection florida-bar fraud obstruction-of-justice trial-record Whether prosecutors' names should be struck from the trial record for violating due process and equal protection by committing obstruction of justice …
20-5037 Bruce Zachary Pugh v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP criminal-procedure fairness-integrity judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error public-reputation substantial-rights supreme-court-precedent trial-record Whether plain-error review allows courts to review beyond the trial record
19-8886 Jon Edward Erickson v. Thomas E. Collins, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Cochise County, et al. Arizona 2020-07-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process trial-record trial-records Did the trial court err in violating the Petitioner's 5th and 6th Amendment rights, by failing to provide/produce the records and transcripts of the f…
19-8787 Wayne A. G. James v. United States Third Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-objection circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admission forfeiture plain-error trial-record waiver Whether an otherwise silent trial record showing only that an attorney declined to object to the admission of evidence establishes forfeiture or waive…
19-8709 Gregory Greer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-15 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP circuit-court-of-appeals circuit-court-review criminal-procedure fairness-integrity-public-reputation judicial-fairness plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters…
19-8451 Michael Skinner v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process factual-determination habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default state-court-decision state-court-review trial-record Is a State Court Decision an Unreasonable Determination of the facts When it Determines That a Claim Was not Sufficiently Developed in the Record for …
19-7630 Paris Hollingshed v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fairness-integrity judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error public-reputation substantial-rights supreme-court-precedent trial-record Whether plain-error review for failure to instruct on an element of the offense allows courts to review beyond the trial record
19-6668 Andrew J. J. Wolf, et al. v. Idaho Board of Correction, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure completeness-doctrine federal-rules-of-evidence motion-to-stay ninth-circuit rule-106 summary-judgment trial-record Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to rule on whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner's Motion to Stay the Second Sum…
19-5336 John S. Benchick v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-reporting due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct mandatory-victims-restitution-act prosecutorial-misconduct restitution right-to-appeal trial-record trial-transcript unbiased-prosecutor witness-testimony Does the Defendant have a right to a true and correct record of his trial
18-8681 Jamal James Carmouche v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fifth-circuit-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review malicious-prosecution standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel trial-record Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Carmouche of a crime?
18-8641 Willie Houston, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel objective-record plea-bargaining postconviction-proceedings probation probation-eligibility record-of-trial trial-record unintelligent-waiver waiver-of-rights Whether the court must give greater weight to the objective record of trial over counsel's affidavit in an ineffective assistance of counsel claim
18-1194 Shane Crutchfield v. Jeff Dennison, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response Waived due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review martinez-trevino-exception post-conviction-review procedural-default state-court-proceedings trial-counsel trial-record Whether the exception to procedural default established in Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), and Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2018), is categor…