venue-challenge

8 cases — ← All topics

Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A386 Trendell Walker v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-02 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defects structural-error venue-challenge warrant-forgery Whether a criminal prosecution must be dismissed when jurisdictional defects are alleged, including forged warrants and improper venue establishment
25A262 Vincent Cannady v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-04 Presumed Complete due-process judicial-bias settlement-negotiations sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction venue-challenge Whether a federal district court lacks subject matter jurisdiction to prosecute settlement negotiations that occurred in another jurisdiction and do n…
23-7847 Matthew Gatrel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-crime criminal-procedure improper-venue insufficient-evidence jury-instruction jury-instruction-error protected-computers sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error sophisticated-means-enhancement venue-challenge Whether petitioner Matthew Gatrel's convictions should be reversed due to insufficient evidence
23-7445 Lloyd Kidd v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process electronic-evidence jurisdiction motion-to-suppress sufficiency-of-evidence summary-charts venue venue-challenge Was there legally insufficient evidence to establish that venue was proper in the Southern District of New York for each count of conviction?
20-1098 Tod Houthoofd v. Les Parish, Warden Michigan 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-error trial-jurisdiction venue venue-challenge Does Petitioner's convictions violate the U.S. Constitution and prior decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court?
20-6044 Luidgi Benjamin v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP character-evidence character-testimony criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process enticement evidentiary-admission judicial-discretion jury-instructions venue venue-challenge Should venue be proper where no elements of the crime occurred?
19-6524 Franklin Elliott Benson v. Aimee Smith, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actus-reus civil-rights constitutional-rights corpus-delicti criminal-murder criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions standing venue venue-challenge Whether the element of 'causing the death' is an essential element of malice murder in Georgia under O.C.G.A. 16-5-1(a), and whether the burden was on…
18-9834 Carlos Alberto Ochoa-Orozco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error cumulative-error due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct rule-18 sentencing sixth-amendment venue venue-challenge Whether the district court violated Appellant's right to due process and his Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial