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24-5215 Patrick Wayne Baker v. Texas Texas 2024-08-02 Denied IFP constitutional-law due-process executive-power judicial-branch judicial-power legislative-authority separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation texas-government unconstitutional Whether Tex. Gov't Code 508.283(b)(c) violates due process and should be declared unconstitutional?
24-5034 Ralph Loren Barenz, II v. Alaska Alaska 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bill-of-attainder constitutional-challenge due-process irrebuttable-presumption irrebuttable-presumptions judicial-review legislative-sentencing sentencing sexual-offender sexual-offenders unconstitutional Has the Alaskan Legislature created an Unconstitutional Bill of Attainder when it raised the presumptive sentencing ranges for sexual offenders for pa…
23-1177 Eric Fisher v. Virginia Virginia 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process expungement non-conviction procedural-review statutory-interpretation unconstitutional virginia-law Whether two non-convictions are expungable as 'otherwise dismissed' per Virginia's relevant operative statute or its certain statutory provision appli…
23-6627 In Re Reginald Bernard Hatton 2024-01-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing time-served unconstitutional Whether the petitioner has been deprived of his constitutional rights under the 8th and 14th Amendment
23-6470 Richard L. Gathercole v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-motion jurisdiction section-2255 sentencing unconstitutional Whether the South Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia have jurisdiction to hear and decide the Petiti…
23-6097 Montrez Duncan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-vindictiveness conviction criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing unconstitutional Is a court constitutionally vindictive in violation of due process when, after it vacates the conviction and sentence on a count that was deemed uncon…
23-5992 In Re John Bailey 2023-11-13 Denied Relisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habitual-offender judicial-discretion jury-selection legal-interpretation sentencing state-law trial-procedure unconstitutional Question not identified
23-5758 Jimmy Jay Strayhorn, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3553(a)-factors constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial pepper-v-united-states resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation unconstitutional Whether a defendant is entitled to a resentencing hearing when a count in their indictment is later found unconstitutional
22-5720 Mark Julian Edmonds v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge procedural-standard residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional Whether Mr. Edmonds was required to prove that it is 'more likely than not' that the sentencing judge 'actually relied on' the ACCA's unconstitutional…
21-8198 Ruben Cabrera Saucedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure davis-precedent district-court-discretion double-jeopardy motion-to-vacate sentence-modification sentencing unconstitutional unconstitutional-conviction united-states-v-davis Whether, after a motion to vacate sentence is granted on a conviction that is unconstitutional under United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), a…
21-7635 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-orders content-and-viewpoint-discrimination court-jurisdiction covid-19 covid-19-continuance due-process fraud-on-the-court judicial-authority public-debate unconstitutional viewpoint-discrimination Are the administrative internal court operation orders in response to the covid-19 pandemic an act that lacks authority, jurisdiction, due-process, a …
21-7424 Ismael Ruiz v. Wyoming Wyoming 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process federalism state-sovereignty supremacy-clause unconstitutional Can a State within the United States choose which federal laws and Constitutional provisions it wants to honor and which ones it does not want to comp…
21-6216 Robert J. Kulick v. Leisure Village Association, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-stirling-act due-process freedom-of-speech freedom-of-the-press homeowners-association quasi-government unconstitutional Question not identified
20-7786 Obidiah McCaskill v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2021-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fair-hearing fifth-amendment florida-statutes liberty sixth-amendment supervised-release unconstitutional Whether Florida Statutes and case law have deprived the petitioner of his liberty and a fair hearing, in violation of the 14th Amendment
20-7613 Carl Womack v. Merrimon Oxley North Carolina 2021-03-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process gatekeeper-order judicial-conflict record-falsification standing supreme-court unconstitutional Is the gatekeeper order a matter of significance to the united states
20-1320 Wael Lasheen v. Supreme Court of Ohio Ohio 2021-03-23 Denied administrative-judge administrative-jurisdiction disqualification due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-procedure jurisdiction ohio-revised-code opportunity-to-be-heard state-court-review unconstitutional Can a case proceed if the petitioner argues that the administrative judge lacked jurisdiction?
20-7451 David K. Jenner v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Colorado 2021-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP colorado-revised-statute colorado-statute constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-us unconstitutional Is Colorado Revised Statute § 17-22.5-403(2)-(3.5) unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment due process protections?
20-7347 Warren Tarver v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-felony constitutional-standards death-penalty due-process federalism state-law state-laws unconstitutional Whether it is a violation of due process to detain a person under a statute that classifies an offense as a capital felony where the death penalty is …
20-6635 Daion J. Williams v. Michele Wilhelm, Warden, et al. Nebraska 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-attack constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error jurisdiction statutory-interpretation unconstitutional writ-of-review Did the district court judge error in denying the petitioner's habeas corpus petition?
20-6428 Ronald Herron v. United States Second Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting criminal-conviction due-process firearm-conduct firearm-related-conduct jury-instruction residual-clause section-924c unconstitutional Did the second circuit err by affirming petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) convictions
20-6337 Tramaine Standberry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct crime-of-violence criminal-law district-court-discretion due-process guidelines-interpretation jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional upward-variance Did the jury convict Mr. Standberry for a crime of violence that this Court has held is unconstitutional?
20-605 Kiernan Wholean, et al. v. CSEA SEIU Local 2001, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights damages-liability good-faith-defense qualified-immunity unconstitutional Is there a 'good faith defense' to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that shields a defendant from damages liability for depriving citizens of their constitutional rig…
19-8665 Anthony Jackson v. Supreme Court of Illinois Illinois 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-continuance constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ends-of-justice judicial-supervisory-authority speedy-trial speedy-trial-rights supervisory-authority trial-tolling unconstitutional void-ab-initio Whether a court's supervisory authority empowers the court to toll the speedy-trial terms in cases not before the court
19-1018 Dana Gallop v. Adult Correctional Institutions, et al. Rhode Island 2020-02-14 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-death-statute civil-rights constitutional-law political-disenfranchisement prisoner-rights racial-discrimination supremacy-clause unconstitutional Does Rhode Island's Civil Death Statute violate the Supremacy Clause and 42 U.S.C. 1983 by denying a prisoner the right to file a civil claim, where t…
19-6910 Alfred T. Moliere v. Texas Texas 2019-12-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey article-42.013 constitutional-rights criminal-penalties criminal-penalty family-violence firearm-possession jury-determination jury-trial right-to-bear-arms unconstitutional Whether Article 42.013 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure contravenes Apprendi v. New Jersey by requiring judges, not juries, to make family-viol…
19-6109 James Abraham Mata v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 district-court-judgment federal-prisoner federal-statutory-provisions habeas-corpus record-silence retroactive-decision second-or-successive-motion statutory-provision successive-motion unconstitutional unconstitutional-provision unconstitutional-statute When seeking relief under a retroactive decision invalidating a federal statutory provision as unconstitutional, what must a federal prisoner show in …
19-5771 Eric Allen Haensgen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2252a age-of-consent child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation unconstitutional Whether amendments to the child pornography law set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2)(A) have rendered the current version of the statute unconstitutio…
19-5770 Danny Lee Banks v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-precedent residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment unconstitutional unconstitutional-sentencing Did the appeals court and district court violate bank's fifth, sixth and fourteenth amendment rights by upholding a sentence that was based on the unc…
19-5413 John Thomas Rooney v. Georgia Georgia 2019-08-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-jurisdiction unconstitutional unconstitutional-conviction Can convictions and sentences imposed by a State Trial Court without Constitutional or statutory subject-matter jurisdiction be used to enhance a 24-y…
18-9682 Andre Forbes v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review motion-denial standing unconstitutional Whether 'rubber stamping' defendant's motion with a order of 'Denied' by an Court of Appeals are unconstitutional when Appeals Courts have not reviewe…
18-9415 Michael Don Neely v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation illegal-sentence johnson-v-united-states judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional Whether a district court can vacate an illegal sentence enhanced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) if it finds that the record established th…
18-9389 Antonia Shields v. Juda Klein Second Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-action civil-rights constitutional-review court-fees due-process fees-and-costs fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-access standing unconstitutional Is 28 U.S.C. § 1915 unconstitutional, discriminatory, based on a person's ability to pay fees and costs and/or to give security for fees and costs for…
18-8835 Sabrina D. Davis v. Kia Motors America, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-interpretation discriminatory-ruling discriminatory-rulings due-process federal-law fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion judiciary-act judiciary-act-of-1925 poverty standing statutory-construction unconstitutional Are the lower courts abusing the Judiciary Act of 1925 to ignore fraud on the court?
18-8760 James Bernard Jones, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP acca career-offender career-offender-enhancement constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process florida-battery-on-law-enforcement habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states non-violent-felony sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya unconstitutional violent-felony Whether a sentence as a career offender (ACCA) is valid when a prior violent offense conviction (Florida battery on law enforcement), deemed unconstit…
18-8042 Aaron Maurice Blaylock, aka Stephan Blaylock v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-U.S.C-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states motion-to-vacate residual-clause unconstitutional Should a certificate of appealability have issued after the district court denied as untimely a 28-U.S.C-2255-motion
18-7997 Samuel Gregg Allen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement unconstitutional waiver waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Allen's Plea Agreement
18-7680 Hector Cirino v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c3b armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)?
18-7660 LaBarrion Harris v. James Deal, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law custody-violation due-process federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus state-courts statute-of-limitations time-limitation unconstitutional void-judgment Whether the 1-year limitation period under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A) and (D) can be tolled under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) and (c)(1), and whether the tim…
18-7158 Tony Knox v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-question federal-questions judicial-review legal-standard novel-claim procedural-default statutory-vagueness unconstitutional vague-statute Did The State Court Decide Important Federal Questions In A Way That Conflicts With Relevant Decisions Of This Court, such as: (1) A Vague Statute Was…
18-6947 Lisa J. Gillard v. Illinois Illinois 2018-12-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP battery battery-conviction constitutional-violation conviction due-process final-judgment illinois-supreme-court judicial-review unconstitutional Whether the Illinois Supreme Court acted unconstitutional by depriving petitioner due process on a final judgment of a conviction of a battery?
18-6445 Tracy Lebron Vick v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-bargaining public-interest sentencing sentencing-procedure unconstitutional Whether the provisions of Rule 36.1 of the Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure, Tennessee Code Annotated § 29-21-101, and Tennessee law are unconsti…
18-6204 Jermaine Franklin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining unconstitutional waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Franklin's Plea Agreement
18-5594 Cory Devon Washington v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional Whether a district court can vacate an illegal sentence enhanced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) if it finds that the record established th…