| 25-5771 |
Jared Wade Hinman, Sr. v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process sufficiency-of-evidence trier-of-fact |
1. Did the blanket refusal, by the Appellate Court of Illinois, to 'substitute their judgement for that of the Trier of Fact ', deny an affirmative de… |
| 23-6177 |
Sylvia Olivas, aka Sylvia Lee Gavaldon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure expert-testimony expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence mens-rea mental-state trier-of-fact |
Does Rule 704(b) permit a government expert witness to testify about certain roles in criminal activity, that people in those roles are knowing partic… |
| 22-6818 |
Jessica Page Weber v. Cigna, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-standing social-security standing trier-of-fact |
Was Petitioner's constitutional rights to due-process, as a United States citizen, beneficiary under the Social Security Administration, and former Pa… |
| 21-7384 |
Joseph Valchez Laue v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circumstantial-evidence constitutional-sufficiency criminal-evidence due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-verdict legal-standard lsa-r.s.-15-438 rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt state-burden-of-proof trier-of-fact |
Sufficiency-of-the-evidence |
| 19-5933 |
Julian Alejandro Mendez v. California |
California |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-amendments criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment trier-of-fact |
Whether the California death penalty scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by permitting the trier of fact to impose a sentence o… |
| 19-33 |
Kevin Wallace v. Andeavor Corporation |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights employee-protection federal-prohibitions matter-of-law objective-reasonableness sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act trier-of-fact whistleblower whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation |
Should the determination under § 1514A(a) as to whether an employee's belief was objectively reasonable be made by the trier of fact, so long as reaso… |
| 18-369 |
Fidencio Valdez v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
|
circumstantial-evidence constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence false-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct tacit-agreement timely-objection trier-of-fact void-for-vagueness witness-testimony |
Whether a defendant must timely object to a prosecutor's use of false or perjured evidence |