Fifth-Circuit

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25-7112 Rashon Jermaine Harris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-03-25 Pending IFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit plea-agreement waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Parker's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement.
25-6928 Pablo Garcia-Zamora v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres appellate-review criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25A957 Nicholas Paul Godsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-27 Application 28-u-s-c-section-2255 certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus motion-to-vacate substantial-question-of-law-or-fact Question not identified.
25-6821 Hugo Almeida-Ponce v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit sentencing-enhancement writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25A894 George Jimenez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-06 Application appellate-review fifth-circuit ineffective-counsel legal-claims pro-se procedural-deficiency Question not identified.
25-6719 Rolando Heriberto Sanches-Raudales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-6716 Ramon Manuel Ortega-Borunda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-6710 Jose Ramon Castillo-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending IFP appellate-waiver federal-sentencing fifth-circuit guilty-plea plea-agreement withdrawal-of-plea 1. Based on his plea agreement's boilerplate waiver of most appellate rights, the Fifth Circuit dismissed Petitioner's challenge to his federal senten…
25A819 Ashton J. Ryan, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-14 Denied attorney-client-privilege certiorari criminal-procedure fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Question not identified.
25-6582 Demonya Marquise Swarn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2026-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence fifth-circuit guidelines mens-rea robbery-definition I. Texas robbery may be committed by a reckless use of force merely incidental to the taking of property. Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categoric…
25A816 Wilhemena J. Beary, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Joshua J. Johnson v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2026-01-14 Application en-banc fifth-circuit judicial-procedure petition-review time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25-6463 Luis Antonio Talamantes-Romero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-6424 Sherrod Goodspeed v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-violence fifth-circuit guidelines mens-rea robbery-definition I. Texas robbery may be committed by a reckless use of force merely incidental to the taking of property. Did the Fifth Circuit misapply the categoric…
25-6343 Sharard Collier v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment QUESTON NUMBER ONE: Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to conduct an Evidentiary Hearing regarding Ground One pre-trial ine…
25-6278 David Andrew Diehl v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-argument ex-post-facto fifth-circuit peugh-v-united-states subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-booker Did the fifth Circuit have subject matter jurisdiction on direct appeal to consider an ex post facto constitutional argument that was never raised. D…
25A605 OCA - Greater Houston, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-21 Presumed Complete certiorari election-law fifth-circuit injunction senate-bill-1 voting-rights Question not identified.
25A602 Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-21 Presumed Complete election-regulations fifth-circuit minority-voting texas-law voter-assistance voting-rights Question not identified.
25-6175 Luis Fernando Puente v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied IFP appellate-counsel fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance reasonable-expectation-privacy state-law supreme-court-precedent 1. THE FIFTH CIRCUIT AND THE U.S.D.C'S DECISION THAT A MANDATORY REQUIRED PIECE OF THE REPORTER'S RECORD THAT IS MISSING IS AN ISSUE OF STATE LAW AND …
25-6188 Abel Vargas-Maldonado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25A583 Ikechukwu Okorie v. University Mall, L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-18 Denied access-to-courts all-writs-act due-process fifth-circuit monetary-sanctions pre-filing-injunction 1. Whether an order imposing circuit- and state-wide pre-filing injunctions conditioned on purging monetary sanctions exceeds the All Writs Act, viola…
25-6152 Melvin Alberto-Velasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25A556 La Union del Pueblo Entero, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-11-13 Presumed Complete equal-protection fifth-circuit redistricting texas-law voter-assistance voting-rights Question not identified.
25-6009 Jorge Armando Varela-Angel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-5905 Antonio Valle-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-465 Timothy Barton v. Securities and Exchange Commission Fifth Circuit 2025-10-16 Denied Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) asset-seizure constitutional-limits due-process equitable-relief fifth-circuit securities-law The United States Government brought parallel crim-inal and civil enforcement actions against Petitioner Tim-othy Barton, alleging violations of the s…
25-403 Kenneth D. Anderson, et al. v. Crystal Estrada, Deputy, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-03 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violation excessive-force fifth-circuit graham-factors qualified-immunity rule-12b6 The Fourth Amendment requires courts to evaluate excessive force claims based on the totality of the circumstances by sloshing through a "factbound mo…
25-392 Jake Ellis Daughtry, et al. v. Silver Fern Chemical, Inc., et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied Response Waived evidence-fabrication fifth-circuit first-party-reliance fraud-claim government-agency third-party-misrepresentation 1. Whether Bridge v. Phoenix Bond & Indemnity Co. permits a fraud claim based on misrepresentations to a third-party government agency that cause inju…
25-5724 Arnulfo Martinez-Fajardo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-5558 Matthew Andrew Garces v. Cindy Hernandez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP claim-preclusion default-judgment due-process fifth-circuit jurisdictional-limit pro-se-litigant 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a default judgment, entered against a pro se litigant who was incapacitated and hospitalized during…
25A202 Kevin Frymier v. Dianne Curvey, Judge, in Her Individual and Official Capacity, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-08-20 Presumed Complete civil-rights dismissal-as-frivolous fifth-circuit first-amendment judicial-immunity pro-se Question not identified.
25-5391 Jose Guadalupe Marquez-Floriano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-5384 Christopher Kines v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice Fifth Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-violations court-procedure evidence-standard fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings 1. Is it the common practise of the Fifth Circuit to disregard facts in the record and ignore evidence the court itself agreed to consider? 2. Did …
25-5363 Edras Reyes-Salinas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
25-5178 Pablo Martinez-Lara v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24A1293 Bart Wade Reagor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-06-30 Presumed Complete fifth-circuit jurisdiction petition supreme-court time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
24A1278 Stewart A. Feldman, et al. v. Scott Sullivan, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-24 Presumed Complete appellate-review commercial-litigation fifth-circuit motion-for-judgment standard-of-review summary-judgment Question not identified.
24-7307 Eblin Omar Ardon-Amaya v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari criminal-appeal fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-7300 Jorge Arturo Nanez-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-law certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-7283 James Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-05-23 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-default If reasonable jurists from {-this Court 'Jackson v. Indiana '- -the Fifth Circuit 'Benham v. Edwards '- -Texas Federal Courts 'Reynolds v Neill, Hitt …
24-7271 Cristian Javier Chevez-Solano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit precedent supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-7261 Adrian Hermosillo-Lujan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-review supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24A1092 David Nicholson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-14 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-circuit supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
24-7053 Valente Brito, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition fifth-circuit firearms-conviction plain-error-review second-amendment supreme-court-precedent Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment under plain erro…
24-7013 Richard Schorovsky v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law fifth-circuit sentencing-enhancement texas-burglary-statute united-states-v-stitt 1. In light of United States v. Stitt , 586 U.S. 27 (2018), can the Texas burglary statute – which the Fifth Circuit has held to be indivisible – prop…
24-7000 Avery B. Crawford v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus self-representation Whether the Fifth Circuit failed or abandoned it's Constitutional duty to review Mr. Crawford's Certificate of Appea ;ability (COA) process, because h…
24-6888 Russell Wayne Driver v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing-claim Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by denying…
24A937 J.A. Masters Investments, et al. v. Eduardo Beltramini Fifth Circuit 2025-03-28 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-discretion supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
24-6693 Sean Wayne Thompson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-law fifth-circuit firearms-conviction second-amendment supreme-court-precedent Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment, even after rece…
24-925 Gregory Lala, Chairman, Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission, et al. v. Tesla, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) adjudication due-process fifth-circuit industry-participant pecuniary-interest regulatory-board Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand with instructions to the Fifth Circuit to identify any alleged substantial pecuniary interest held …
24-915 In Re Bart Wade Reagor 2025-02-25 Dismissed Response Waived appellate-procedure court-of-appeals fifth-circuit judicial-delay mandamus writ-of-mandamus Petitioner submitted an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit challenging his conviction in the district court. Petitione…
24-6583 Gilberto Aguilar-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-procedure precedent-review supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-6567 Longino Lopez Flores, IV v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeal drug-offense fifth-circuit firearm-possession sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the four level enhancement to petitioner's sentencing range for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which…
24-6407 Samuel Tanel Crittenden v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit jury-instruction sufficiency-of-evidence Should a conviction be reversed and remanded for a new trial where the district court erroneously fails to give a lesser-included offense instruction,…
24A686 Ruel M. Hamilton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-13 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certiorari extension-of-time fifth-circuit judicial-discretion supreme-court Question not identified.
24A669 Dajuan Martin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-08 Presumed Complete criminal-statute fifth-circuit firearm-possession plea-agreement prohibited-person sentencing Question not identified.
24-6225 Dennis Mischler v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit deprived Mischler of Due Process of Law by failing to afford an evidentiary hearing on disputed facts when Mischler never re…
24-6198 Martin Diaz-Nunez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-precedent case-law certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-review supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
24-6160 Benjamin Escobedo v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-12-18 Denied IFP appeal-review constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err by misapplication of the Strickland standard of review? 2. Did the Fifth Circuit err by denying Escobedo a COA? 3. Did …
24-618 Erin Wade, et al. v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied civil-rights fifth-circuit first-amendment mass-arrests pleading-standards qualified-immunity 1. Whether this Court should correct the Fifth Circuit's departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by selectively eliminati…
24-573 Coleman County, Texas v. Patsy K. Cope, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied Response Waived bell-v-wolfish detainee-suicide fifth-circuit monell-standard municipal-liability qualified-immunity 1. Does a Bell v. Wolfish conditions-of-confinement claim for detainee suicide allow a plaintiff to bypass the traditional Monell test for imposing li…
24A484 Pamela Anai Carrillo v. Texas Juvenile Justice Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete civil-rights constructive-dismissal fifth-circuit pro-se procedural-dismissal retaliation Question not identified.
24A480 Randal M. Hall v. Travis Trochessett, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-13 Presumed Complete arrest-warrant fifth-circuit first-amendment interference-with-public-duties probable-cause speech-exception Question not identified.
24-491 Bernice Rutland v. Robinson Property Group, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied Relisted (2) conclusory-allegations evidentiary-standard federal-civil-procedure fifth-circuit stare-decisis summary-judgment 1. Whether the Fifth Circuits ruling conflicts with this Court's ruling on case law and Summary Judgement, F.R.C.P. 56(a). 2. Whether a District Cour…
24A424 National Federation of the Blind of Texas, Incorporated, et al. v. City of Arlington, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Presumed Complete charitable-services constitutional-rights fifth-circuit municipal-ordinance nonprofit-rights public-spaces Question not identified.
24-477 Thomas John Boukamp v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-standard mental-capacity I. In Dusky v. United States, 362 U.S. 402 (1960), this Court the Dusky standard require that the defendant be II. Does a defendant have a rational u…
24A305 RSBCO v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-30 Presumed Complete certiorari-petition counsel-representation fifth-circuit legal-procedure supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
24-5624 Omar Jorge Valle Estrada v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-procedure federal-appeals fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation The circuits are split on whether a request for a lower sentence preserves for review a claim that the district court has not adequately explained a s…
24A250 Thomas John Boukamp v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-10 Presumed Complete criminal-statute cyber-stalking federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit sentencing sexual-enticement Question not identified.
24A230 Aaron Christopher Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-03 Presumed Complete anders-procedure criminal-appeal direct-appeal fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance pro-se-litigation Question not identified.
24A187 Aisha Wright v. Transportation Communication Union/IAM Fifth Circuit 2024-08-20 Presumed Complete dismissal-with-prejudice district-court fifth-circuit ineffective-counsel pro-se res-judicata Question not identified.
24-5144 Richard Villareal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2d1.1(b)(1) criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade-presumption Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio…
24A71 Travis Adam Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-22 Presumed Complete ammunition-charge criminal-conviction felon-in-possession fifth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing Question not identified.
24-6 Stacy Williams, on Behalf of Her Minor Grandson, J. J. v. Andrew Williams, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights deshaney-v-winnebago due-process federal-circuit-split fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation legal-doctrine standing state-created-danger Whether the Court should end the Fifth Circuit's decades-long refusal to rule on the viability of the "state-created-danger" doctrine by recognizing t…
24-5012 Miguel Angel Ibarra-Mora v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-1367 Pamela Quinlan v. Joseph P. Lopinto, III, Sheriff, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied civil-rights due-process fair-warning fifth-circuit malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity section-1983 thompson-v-clark Whether the United States Fifth Circuit cases of Guerra v. Castillo, 22-40196 (5th Cir. Sep 7, 2023) and Wallace v. Taylor, 22-20342 (5th Cir. Apr 24,…
23-7725 Jimmie Lee Walton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion allen-charge coercion court-of-appeals criminal-procedure Did the Court of Appeals abuse it's discretion in Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in a directed-verdict double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion jury-instructions mistrial motion-for-acquittal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Did Walton receive effective assistance of counsel? Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in affirming the District Courts denial of the moti…
23-7682 Daniel Loyola, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearms plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bruen I. Mr. Loyola pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(o), which criminalizes the transfer or possession of a machinegun. On appeal, Mr. Loyola att…
23-7670 James Edward Young v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation I. Mr. Young pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922( g)(1), which criminalizes the possession of a firearm by anyone previously convicted for a f…
23A1091 Jackson Peter Chiwanga v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General Fifth Circuit 2024-06-06 Denied aggravated-felony domestic-assault federal-interpretation fifth-circuit immigration-law state-criminal-law Whether federal authorities can ignore a State classification of its own law when determining whether a conviction constitutes an aggravated felony un…
23-7646 Rogaciano Demetrio-Jimenez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-1258 Royce Wade Lander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-to-vacate standard-of-review threshold-showing This Court has held a certificate of appealability ("COA") should issue where the petitioner has made a threshold showing that jurists of reason could…
23A1076 Jason Wade Grant v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Presumed Complete anders-review appellate-procedure criminal-appeal fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance pro-se-defendant Question not identified.
23-7592 Ynedra Diggs v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-rule bruton-v-united-states co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fifth-circuit testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements unavailable-witnesses WAS MS. DIGGS'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO CONFRONTATION VIOLATED WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT ADMITTED RECORDED STATEMENTS OF UNAVAILABLE CODEFENDANTS INTO E…
23-7594 Felipe Matias-Miguel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-7437 Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied IFP appellate-process certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-precedent procedural-review sanctions standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit utterly failed or abandoned its duty to engage in the GOA process with respect to four remaining COA issues: Issues One, Two…
23-7419 Warren Ledominique Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1).
23-7421 Demarcus Deon Staples v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation I. Mr. Staples pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922( g)(1), which criminalizes the possession of a firearm by anyone previously convicted for a…
23-7307 Silvano Marroquin-Bravo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-1157 Robert W. Remmert v. Briar Capital Working Fund Capital, L.L.C., as Assignee of South Coast Supply Company Fifth Circuit 2024-04-24 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-547 avoidance-action avoidance-powers bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-preference bankruptcy-sale estate-standing fifth-circuit res-nova standing statutory-powers Whether an avoidance action can be sold and, if so, whether the sale will confer standing on the purchaser to prosecute the avoidance action even thou…
23-7192 In Re Lionel Davis 2024-04-10 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C.-§-2254 28-usc-2254 due-process federal-appellate-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review successive-petition Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals failed to apply the proper standard of review in denying his motion for authorization to file a successive …
23-7147 Margarito Cruz-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-1078 Gregory Jamal Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-03 Denied Response Waived direct-appeal fifth-circuit gun-enhancement importation-guideline leadership-role methamphetamine-distinction sentencing-guidelines united-states-district-court united-states-sentencing-guidelines Whether the lower court should have remanded for the recalculation of sentencing in light of changes in the United States Supreme Court and the Fifth …
23A880 Dylan Gregory Kerstetter v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-04-02 Presumed Complete certiorari criminal-procedure deadline-extension fifth-circuit jurisdictional-requirements supreme-court-rules Question not identified.
23-7108 Efren Derma-Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravating-role application-note application-note-2 criminal-organization criminal-role fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines supervision upward-departure Does an aggravating role adjustment under U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 3B1.1 apply, as Application Note 2 says, only if the defendant organized or supe…
23-7109 Edgar Garcia-Heredia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23A857 Vinicio J. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-21 Presumed Complete appeal-dismissal fifth-circuit filing-fee pro-se procedural-due-process want-of-prosecution Question not identified.
23-7027 John Stancu v. Hyatt Corporation/Hyatt Regency Dallas Fifth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights district-court due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-procedure seventh-amendment standing 1. Did the district court and the 5th Circuit usurped the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by wrongly denying Stancu's right to a j…
23-1004 Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process federal-court fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-adjudication section-2254 state-court 1. Whether a federal claim is "adjudicated on the merits" in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) so long as the state court resolves the claim on su…
23-6974 Bartolo Damaso-Sixtos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overruling precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6951 Jesus Barron-Bautista v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-972 Angela Germaine Spencer, By and Through Next Friend and Mother of A. S., a Minor v. Harrison County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) children-in-court civil-procedure civil-rights detainee-rights detainees due-process fifth-circuit nonjury-proceedings shackling Whether the indiscriminate shackling of detainees, particularly children, in nonjury proceedings violates the Due Process Clause.
23-974 Sammy Jay Riddle v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied aedpa criminal-procedure deferred-adjudication fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judgment judgment-of-conviction statute-of-limitations Whether the Court should apply the rule in Burton v. Stewart, 549 U.S. 147 (2007)—that a final judgment in a criminal case means the sentence—and hold…
23-6900 Bryan Reshad Hill v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rules fifth-circuit jury-verdict plain-error presentence-report rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines Does a sentence twice that authorized by the jury's verdict constitute plain error? This Court's decision in Rosales-Mireles suggests so, but recent F…
23-6845 Milton Martin Biester-Villeda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6855 William B. Hungerford, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-deference administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-prosecution due-process EB-5-investment-program fifth-circuit regulatory-interpretation regulatory-scheme standing In recent years, this Court and commentators alike have expressed increasing alarm over the unbridled deference afforded to agency bureaucrats' interp…
23A790 John Doe 1, et al. v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete cause-of-action certiorari fifth-circuit judicial-review procedural-dismissal time-extension Whether the Fifth Circuit's summary disposition affirming the dismissal of Petitioners claims pursuant to a motion presented to the district court for…
23-6594 Noemy Ramirez-Gomez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6279 Ismael Robles-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6242 Francisco Mora-Carrillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-overturning sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6245 Donato Lopez-Arellano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-6166 Moses Moreira v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP application-notes criminal-activity criminal-assets fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-precedent manager-status participant-supervision sentencing-enhancement subordinate-participant supervision u-s-sentencing-guidelines U.S.S.G. § 3B1.1 provides a sentencing enhancement for a defendant's status as a "manager or supervisor" of certain criminal activity. Under the Appli…
23-6147 Brett Alexander Jones v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus state-courts Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is required to issue a COA if a state high court has found a substantial showing of a denial of a constitut…
23-6082 Cuedell Javon Henry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP borden-precedent categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit reckless-mental-state sentencing-guidelines taylor-descamps texas-robbery Whether the Fifth Circuit has continued to misapply Taylor and Descamps by ignoring Borden and expanding "robbery" (as enumerated as a "crime of viole…
23A443 Brent Hebert, et al. v. FMC Technologies, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2023-11-16 Presumed Complete federal-courts fifth-circuit litigation-workload tenth-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
23A434 Ernesto L. Natividad v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-15 Presumed Complete certiorari extension-of-time fifth-circuit incarcerated-petitioner pro-se writ-of-habeas-corpus Question not identified.
23-6002 Justin Del Rio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review plain-error statutory-interpretation This appeal concerns a challenge to the enforceability of a $5,000 fine under 18 U.S.C. § 3014. Petitioner, JUSTIN DEL RIO, submits the Fifth Circuit …
23-447 Jeremy Johnson v. Andre D. Boyd Fifth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-precedent civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights fifth-circuit legal-standard qualified-immunity split-second-use-of-force use-of-force I. Whether circuit court precedent can clearly establish the law for the purpose of qualified immunity analysis, and, if so, under what circumstances …
23-5848 In Re Naser A. Abdallah 2023-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights district-court due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit identity-theft standing writ-of-prohibition WHETHER BY REASON OF AN ABUSE OF DISCRETION COMMITTED BY THE DISTRICT COURT, IN REFUSING TO GRANT RELIEF PURSUANT TO PHASER ABDALLAH'S AGGRAVATED IDEN…
23-5788 Roberto Buendia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review davis fifth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review rosales-mireles sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent Whether the standard the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals applied for determining if the sentencing Guidelines' error in Buendia's case was "plain" conf…
23-5756 David Davalos, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-forfeiture criminal-law due-process Fifth-Circuit forfeiture Honeycutt-v-United-States property-rights property-seizure statutory-interpretation tainted-property Whether Honeycutt v. United States, 581 U.S. 443 (2017) and its progeny require the Fifth Circuit to limit forfeiture to tainted property the defendan…
23-5739 Daniel Ray Metsinger v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Metsinger's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement.
23-364 Nima Nazerzadeh v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Response Waived due-process fifth-circuit plain-reading rule-of-last-antecedent sex-offender-registration statutory-construction statutory-interpretation surplusage-canon tier-classification 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's reversal of the district court's order terminating petitioner's sex offender reg…
23-5621 Amado Alvarez-Alvarado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5629 Rene Rigoberto Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-indictment fifth-circuit plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(n).
23A246 Rowland J. Martin, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-09-15 Denied federal-circuit fifth-circuit judicial-review marbury-v-madison patent-applications subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified.
23-5555 Alfredo Garcia-Aleman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5522 Javier Guerra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantities fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Given the case's specifics, was the defense counsel ineffective according to the Strickland v. Washington 466 U.S. 668 (1984) precedent when failing t…
23-5450 Hermenegildo Garcia-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5435 Marques Webb v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-default waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Webb's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement.
23-5340 Lewis Gilmore Hurst v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-errors statutory-interpretation 1. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT MAY PROHIBIT CONSIDERATION OF SENTENCING ERRORS UNDER 18 USC §3582 (c)(1)(A).
23-5320 Curtis Lavon Magee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Magee's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement.
23-5273 Cory Joe Barton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit procedural-due-process rule-32 sentencing statutory-construction Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the determination of Mr. Barton's sentence did not violate his procedural due process rights?
23-5261 Everado Joe Flores-Salcido v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5245 Juan Leonardo Aparicio-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5229 Rodolfo Hernandez Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5210 Andres Zapata-Reyes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5187 Juan Sepulveda-Arreola v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit minor-participant sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to the district court's erroneous refusal to de…
23-5181 Rudy Alexander Ventura-Recinos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-standard sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5149 Javier Escalera, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-history fifth-circuit mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Pursuant to the "safety-valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute, a defendant convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes can obtain relief …
23-5141 Alejandro Holguin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5120 Clim Eugene Murphy Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-encounter consent-search due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-encounter racial-profiling totality-of-circumstances WHETHER THE UNITED STATE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IMPROPERLY APPLIED ITS TOTALITY OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ANALYSIS OF PETITIONER'S CHALLENGE TO THE…
23-5079 Genaro Perchez-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5089 Garland Bernell Harper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied IFP batson batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability equal-protection fifth-circuit habeas ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination This case arises from the State's peremptory challenge to a Black juror which Mr. Harper challenged as purposefully discriminatory. At trial, the Bats…
23-5101 Christopher Wade v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states harmless-error judicial-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-guzman-rendon I. Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of harmless error doctrine pursuant to United States v. Guzman-Rendon, 864 F.3d 409 (5th Cir. 2017) violate…
23-5058 Gabriel Simental-Murillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
23-5016 Jonathan Limbrick v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure fair-and-just-reason fifth-circuit guilty-plea kercheval-v-united-states plea-withdrawal rule-11 DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR BY FINDING THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION TO DENY MR. LIMBRI CK'S MOTION TO WITHDRAW HIS GUILTY PLEA DID NOT CONSTITUTE …
23-5004 Gregory L. Randle v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-waiver right-to-appeal waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Randle's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement.
22-7896 Marcelino Mendoza-Najera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7899 Enrique Lopez-Cristobal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7875 J Reyes-Carrillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7863 Osvaldo Castelan-Saucedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-review sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7840 Cordelro Desean Shoulders v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Shoulders' appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement.
22-7796 Jose Alfredo Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-specific-facts criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance upward-variance Whether a district court's mere recitation of the sentencing statute absent any application of case-specific facts is sufficient to support a five-yea…
22-7713 Javier Giovanni Araujo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process federal-custody fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion section-2255-motion Whether the Fifth Circuit Erred in Denying Araujo's Motion for Certificate of Appealability ("COA") Because He Did Reprise His Grounds from His Motion…
22-7647 Nicasio Nevarez-Zamudio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7653 Jose Carlos Gallegos-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7636 Jose Luis Manriquez-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7587 John Wayne Spell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review plea-agreement procedural-error waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Spell's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement.
22-1105 Carlo Giuseppe Civelli, et al. v. JPMorgan Chase Securities, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure fifth-circuit notice notice-requirement preservation sua-sponte summary-judgment trial-court For decades preceding 2010, this Court and several circuit courts held it was improper for a trial court to sua sponte grant summary judgment, without…
22-7479 Mario Rodolfo Chairez-Avila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied IFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7459 Joseph Church v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea involuntary-plea notice plea-withdrawal sentencing I. Whether it is harmless error when a guilty plea is obtained in violation of due process of law when a judgment of conviction is entered without pro…
22-1061 Jonathan B. Andry v. Lawyer Disciplinary Committee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response Waived appellate-review attorney-discipline disciplinary-proceedings district-court due-process fifth-circuit legal-rationale quasi-criminal quasicriminal-proceedings Does an appellate court violate an attorney's right to due process of law when it upholds a disciplinary violation in a quasicriminal proceeding on gr…
22-7444 Julio Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice base-offense-level cocaine-possession criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing culpability culpability-assessment drug-quantity fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to the district courts erroneous decision to…
22-7420 Jose Angel Morquecho-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied IFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7423 Gilberto Marquez-Calzadilla v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied IFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7427 Travis Blank v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-costs civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit inmate-rights medical-care special-housing-unit standing 1) DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR IN DENYING PLAINTIFF'S APPEAL FOR COMPELLING HIM TO PAY THE BILL OF COSTS THE FIFTH CIRCUIT FOUND THAT PLAINTIFF WAS IN D…
22-1036 Ronda L. Cormier v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Fifth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit meaningful-access pro-se pro-se-appeal summary-judgment willis-v-cleco This case presents an intractable conflict between the rights of appellants in the Fifth Circuit to enjoy equal protection under the law and meaningfu…
22-7349 Thomas J. M. Goodin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit clearly exceeded its authority by failing to consider Mr. Goodin's Motion to Supplement in support of his claim that tria…
22-7319 Jose Manuel Salazar-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-19 Denied IFP case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7301 Arturo Daniel Aranda v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP fact-finding fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus miranda-waiver pre-aedpa presumption-of-correctness state-court-process townsend-standard townsend-v-sain 1. On findings of fact, does a federal court (applying the pre-AEDPA statute) presume a finding's correctness whenever the state-court record supports…
22-7259 Jose Manuel Cejudo-Mancinas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied IFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7260 Luis Alberto Escobedo-Duenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied IFP almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7218 Jaime Tomas-Antonio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7224 Trinidad Walter Encarnacion-Pascual v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied IFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7209 Dylan Brando Ervey Macias-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-04 Denied IFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7183 Manuel Camilo Ordonez-Mendoza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-7074 Christopher White v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent Did the Fifth Circuit's denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) in this case conflict with Supreme Court precedent, warranting correction by th…
22-7020 Tiwian Laquinn Skief v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review misrepresentation procedural-error standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit misrepresent facts in this case that caused them to deny Petitioner's COA?
22-6927 Derrick Deshon Collins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-presumption appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging the substan…
22-6908 Eduardo Guadalupe Melendrez-Soberanes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof case-agent-testimony criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-trafficking due-process evidence fifth-circuit photographic-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's Due Process …
22-6894 Hiking Dupre v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari civil-procedure concepcion-case due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction precedent remand supreme-court Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the Fifth Circuit's judgment, and remand for reconsideration in light of this Court's recent decisi…
22-6873 Jesus Ivan Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-27 Denied IFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-799 Marie Pfau v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury Fifth Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process employment employment-law federal-court fifth-circuit reasonable-jury sex-discrimination summary-judgment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a reasonable jury could not hold that the Petitioner experienced discrimination based on sex.
22-6823 Abraham Conde-Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied IFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6826 Marcos Juan Martin-Andres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied IFP case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-review recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6750 Pascual Agustin-Basilio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-756 Lannette Linthicum, et al. v. Robin Wayne Smith Fifth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit medical-needs qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment summary-reversal 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit manifestly departed from this Court's precedent by holding that authority that postdates the defendant's alleged acts can…
22-6708 Arturo Villalobos-Franco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6668 Aaron Lyons v. Brian Ladner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standing 1. Petitionee has presented that key state witness 10:45 using cellphone while testifying against petitioner at trial. Petitioner was convicted solely…
22-6637 Roberto Francisco-Francisco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6493 Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit preponderance-of-evidence sentencing supervised-release trial-by-jury Section 3583(g) of United States Code Title 18 requires a district court to revoke a defendant's term of supervised release and impose a term of impri…
22-6317 Normando Eligio Esquivel-Ontiveros v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6309 Uriel Mora-Mendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-jurisdiction constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6303 Steven Riad Jalloul v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation This Court should grant this petition to address the degree of specificity re-quired for the language in a defendant's plea agreement to be construed a…
22-6289 Kevin Singleton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-history waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Singleton's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreements.
22-6247 Denis Amilcar Munguia-Portales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-6122 Danny Wayne Alcoser v. Kathryne Ford, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-discretion rule-15 standing sua-sponte supervisory-power For this court to determine if the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with the decision of the United Sta…
22-6125 Carlos Bladimir Rodriguez-Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-474 Laddie Huffman, et al. v. Rachel Harris Fifth Circuit 2022-11-18 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-rights constitutional-duties criminal-procedure detention due-process fifth-circuit mental-health qualified-immunity schizophrenic-inmate section-1983 In a Section 1983 action against county sheriffs arising from the detention of an incompetent criminal defendant, a court must grant qualified immunit…
22-6063 Naomi Michelle Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-circuit criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement presumption sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio…
22-6066 Brent Stephens v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 appeal appeal'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appeals f appeal'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District Court Magist appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appea federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-deference jury-trial jury-verdict magistrate-bar procedural-bar sentencing standard-of-review standard-of-review'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District trial-court-authority QUESTION A: Whether the Trial Court had the authority to supplant the verdict of the jury on punishment? QUESTION B: Whether the U.S. District Court …
22-6054 Stephen Barbee v. Bryan Collier, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied IFP capital-punishment execution-chamber fifth-circuit first-amendment free-exercise prison-litigation-reform-act prison-policy religious-rights rluipa spiritual-advisor 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in vacating as an abuse of discretion the injunction requiring TDCJ to publish a clear policy where the district co…
22-5983 Cordavia Daniels v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) age-consideration criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness I. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's consideration of Cordavia's age and mitigating factors. II. Whether the Fifth Ci…
22-5949 Oswaldo Omar Ramirez-Ortiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5950 Antonio Ramirez-Juan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-review sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5940 Hugo Villarreal-Solis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion sentencing WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT TO DENY SOLIS' MOTION FOR COMPASSIONATE RELEASE?
22-5879 Eugene Thurman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review controlled-substance criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it deferred to the United States Sentencing Commission's use of commentary in its Guidelines Manual to…
22-370 Percy Utley v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied Response Waived 5th-circuit burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review pleading-standard probable-cause 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual application of the pleading standard as to require this Court's correctio…
22-5826 Alonzo Peters v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fifth-circuit kyles-v-whitley suppressed-evidence witness-testimony L. Whether a defendant's convictions for conspiracy and drug trafficking conspiracy must be vacated where the defendant had no commercial association …
22-5827 Jasmine Perry and Evans Lewis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland cooperating-witness due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit kyles-v-whitley materiality rico-indictment suppressed-evidence 1) Can the constitutional right to due process be protected when federal courts regularly apply inconsistent and erroneous standards to determining th…
22-5833 Carlos Alejandro Zuniga-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-law fifth-circuit leader-organizer-role leader-role preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the Eifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a four-level increase in sentencing point…
22-5647 Jose Antonio Guerrero-Yanez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit first-amendment rule-60b-motion standing (1) Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit misapply 28 U.S.C. §2253 by requiring Petitioner to be granted a Certificate of Appea…
22-5606 Jesus Guadalupe Amparano-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-challenge sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5597 Bernardino Adrian Venzor-Ortega v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5485 Juan Daniel Cano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas, Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure diligence district-court due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances fifth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review Did thh Fifth Circuit erred in adapting to the district court finding that petitioner failed to show both that he pursued habeas relief diligently and…
22-5467 Antonio B. Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied IFP 6th-amendment amendment-violation appellate-record civil-procedure constitutional-rights fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-warrant Did the Chief Deputy District Clerk ERR in excepting the search warrant and return without a prior stamp file on its face and then file it into the ap…
22-5445 Ereby Lujan-Madrid v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5446 Jose Francisco Maldonado-Rosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Maldonado waived the right to appeal his sentence because of the Waiver of Appeal provision in his …
22-5411 Darnay Thibodaux v. Jon Reeves, District Administrator, Jefferson Parish District, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Department of Probation and Parole, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-provisions (1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit properly denied Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability ("COA") as t…
22-5418 Miguel Jesus Rodriguez-Villanueva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretionary-decision downward-departure fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had appellate jurisdiction to review the district court's discretionary decision not to depart below the ad…
22-153 Wanda Bowling v. Lester John Dahlheimer, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-circuit gubernatorial-liability immunity-invocation judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct jurisdictional-overreach prosecutorial-immunity res-judicata standing 1. Did the Fifth Circuit Court error by issuing a boiler plate opinion omitting any language addressing Petitioner's caselaw nullifying immunity invoc…
22-5387 Ulises Ervey Islas-Macias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5389 Antonio Molina-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5353 Ricardo Salazar-Munoz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-127 Abraham Moses Fisch v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1515(c) appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fifth-circuit impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct Abraham Fisch's case raises a pressing issue for this court's consideration: Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit so far depar…
22-5234 Victor Manuel Duarte-Munoz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5241 Silvino Vasquez-Jacinto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5212 Jonita Desirrae Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonableness reasonableness sentencing supervised-release Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness, as United States v…
22-5204 Ramon Belducea-Mancinas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-drug-conviction fifth-circuit plain-error sentencing-guidelines Ramon Belducea-Mancinas was sentenced as a career offender based on pre-2018 federal convictions for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. In December 2…
22-5168 Rodney Mesquias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-error jurisdiction legal-standard sentencing standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming Mesquias' convictions and sentences.
22-5126 Davis Lamar Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-commitment conditional-release due-process fifth-circuit haldol-injection involuntary-medication involuntary-treatment mental-health preponderance-of-evidence standard-of-review 1) Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's denial of Mr. Brooks' Motion for Unconditional Release. 2) Whether the Fifth Cir…
22-5084 Luciano Felipe-Pascual v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5059 Rodolfo Oliva-Santos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5015 Devoris Lamont Jackson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-circuit supreme-court-precedent texas-aggravated-robbery texas-burglary violent-felony 1. Whether Jackson received due process, i.e., fair warning that his burglary convictions would count as prior convictions under the Armed Career Crim…
22-5018 Michael Allen Long v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error standard-of-review waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by finding that Mr. Long's appeal should be dismissed based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement.
22-5003 Ernesto Villalobos-Marquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
22-5004 Eduardo Pena-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8214 Miguel Andres-Tomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8196 Cody Andrew Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonable reasonableness sentencing supervised-release Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness, as United States v…
21-8149 Jesus Rodriguez-Castro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit overruling-precedent rodriguez-castro statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8158 Larry Jose Torrez-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1555 Derek Allen, et al. v. Vertafore, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights disclosure driver-privacy-protection-act driver's-privacy-protection-act due-process fifth-circuit motor-vehicle-record personal-information public-records standing statutory-interpretation The Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994 makes it "unlawful for any person knowingly to obtain or disclose personal information, from a motor vehic…
21-1558 John Curtis Dewberry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Divisions Fifth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied aedpa certificate-of-appealability death-penalty district-court evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor-sentencing Whether the United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Texas erred in denying Petitioner Dewberry a Certificate of Appealability when it…
21-8100 Luis Antonio Molina-Rivas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8101 Marco Antonio Marin-Maldonado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8102 Rodrigo Jimenez-Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8072 Erik Daniel Salgado-Castellano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8055 In Re Shane Jeansonne 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-petition rules-of-interpretation section-2255 standing pul -f-U nrCO(sh SfalcQi of H,V CH&S /* f%VA*Sh M \t> P^{*- H-€ O <\ pztP^<il S-j-PPZ 0/? q^yq/'i^G Unfif °l i $ fOM>\d '\-0 , T^i(\ n\(AcU [v^y-lirp^…
21-8058 Alejandro Pascual-Miguel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-8059 Jesus Morales-Agustin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1517 Bridgette Jacobs v. Walgreen Company Fifth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response Waived and the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act ("TMF civil-procedure false-claims-act fifth-circuit materiality medicaid-fraud pleading-requirements pleading-standards rule-9(b) statutory-interpretation texas-medicaid-fraud-prevention-act Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s pleading requirements as applied to The False Claims Act, 31 U.…
21-8017 Stephen Scott Meals, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure district-court due-process exclusionary-rule federal-law fifth-circuit judicial-review motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure standing Whether the Government's warrantless review of Mr. Meals's private written communications on Facebook's Messenger application constitutes a physical i…
21-8024 Demarcus Antonio Taylor v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-bar standing [QUESTION ONE] Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the Court to justify the denial of a Ce…
21-7995 Joseph Kurz v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto fifth-circuit fourteenth-amendment reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment (1) Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana properly conclude …
21-7974 Omero Rojas-Leal, aka Belarmino Lopez-Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7960 Jesus Antonio Montoya-Balderrama v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7962 Jimmie Spratt v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure direct-appeal district-court due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review lozada-precedent lozada-v-deeds The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that a certificate of appealability is not warranted is in irreconcilable conflict with this Court's decis…
21-7915 Amado Rodriguez-Navarrete v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7918 Jaime Gonzalo Castiblanco Cabalcante v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error jury-deliberations jury-instructions knowledge-element 1. In Connecticut v. Johnson , 460 U.S. 73, 88 (1983) (plurality opinion), the court held that instructions 1"permitt[ing] the jury to convict [a def…
21-1460 Cynthia Sue Mary, et al. v. QEP Energy Company, fka Questar Exploration & Production Company Fifth Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied continuing-trespass disgorgement-of-profits federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fifth-circuit louisiana-law oil-and-gas-pipelines summary-judgment trespassing-pipelines 1. Did the Fifth Circuit erroneously fail to determine and apply the substantive law of Louisiana with respect to "disgorgement of profits" from tresp…
21-1442 In Re Adriano Kruel Budri 2022-05-16 Denied appellate-procedure brief-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigation timely-filing Did the Panel of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit ") err by dismissing for want to prosecution a pending Appellant 's …
21-1439 Jairus Collins v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit mississippi speedy-trial statutory-construction supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability to the following issue: Whether Miss.…
21-7852 Fernando Salazar-Figueroa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted mitigating role adjustment un…
21-7837 Cedric D. Burns v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-process buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process extension-of-time fifth-circuit judicial-procedure motion-for-rehearing standing 1) Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court to justify the denial of a certificate of …
21-7813 Hector Cervantes-Resendiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7786 Ignacio Trevizo-Cortez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7721 Juan Francisco Cruz-Mora v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7723 Freddie Galan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargaining rule-11 supreme-court-review Whether Mr. Galan's guilty plea to facts which do not constitute a conspiracy offense as a matter of law is an invalid and unintelligent guilty plea w…
21-7725 Jeffrey Ndungi Sila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings plain-error plain-error-standard pro-se-motion summary-affirmance waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit proceedings in petitioner's case "so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings," Sup. Ct. R. 1…
21-7702 Marvin Lewis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process fifth-circuit presentence-investigation-report sentencing-enhancement supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit" or "Appellate Court")–which affirmed the decision of…
21-7706 Irving Ernesto Arias v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining sentencing DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR BY FINDING THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION TO DENY MR. ARIAS'S MOTION TO WITHDRAW HIS GUILTY PLEA DID NOT CONSTITUTE AN A…
21-7621 Jose Miguel Perez-Vides v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7622 Alejandro Medina-Rios v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7612 Jose Luis Aldaba-Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7598 Irvin Garces v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense exceptional-importance federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted two-level adjustment under U.…
21-7503 Lucas Victorino-Tista v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1280 In Re J. Cory Cordova 2022-03-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-authority fifth-circuit full-faith-and-credit improper-removal judicial-removal procedural-fairness removal subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit exceeded its constitutional and appellate authority when it failed to review Petitioner's repeated objections to the subj…
21-7291 Bonifacio Eduardo Trujillo-Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7256 Clemente Rosales-Sanchez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7258 Fernando Contreras-Rojas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7196 Luis Alonso Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7174 Inocencio Gamboa-Rivera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7147 Sergio Alberto Arzate-Gameroz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7149 Pedro Romero-Sandoval v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-1115 In Re Wanda Bowling 2022-02-11 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-mandate due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction mandamus petition-for-review Is the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal's deliberate refusal to adjudicate appealed issues, willfully denying a second request, a failure to execute its …
21-7094 Gustavo Guillermo Gutierrez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-7074 Benny Dennis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining standing supreme-court-precedent 1) Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court to justify the denial of a certificate of a…
21-7032 Adrian Hunt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2d1.1(b)(1) 5th-circuit criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade tools-of-the-trade-presumption Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of applying a tools-of-the-trade presumption to the firearm enhancement of sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(b)(1) vio…
21-6951 Jacob Allen Adair v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-analysis categorical-matching civil-procedure descamps-ruling due-process fifth-circuit generic-offense generic-offenses state-offenses taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-descamps Whether —in contravention of this Court's precedent and every other circuit —the Fifth Circuit's approach allowing for variations between a given offe…
21-6947 Rayshawn J. Christmas, aka Rayshaun J. Christmas v. Jeff Jackson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law fifth-circuit jurisdiction mandamus qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing 1) Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying die appellants writ of mandamus. 2) Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in dismissing…
21-6918 Robert Rodriguez Trevino v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-circuit inmate-rights liberty-interest medical-condition medical-supervision parole parole-review tex-gov-code-508.146 texas-criminal-procedure texas-department-of-criminal-justice Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for exercise of t…
21-6887 Sergio Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6901 Wilbert Mathes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-quantity-enhancement evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel leadership-enhancement sentencing sentencing-errors Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by conclud…
21-6846 Juan Jose Reynoso v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-circuit supervisory-power tenth-circuit trial-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit has "so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, ... as to call for an exercise of this Cour…
21-6833 Jason Lee Sarabia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence-standard fifth-circuit jury-conviction jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses multiplicity Do convictions of greater and lesser-included offenses violate the Double Jeopardy Clause when the prosecution uses the same evidence to obtain both c…
21-6812 Manuel Gerardo Velasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court-hearing due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Lafler-v-Cooper life-sentence Did the Fifth Circuit court of appeals err when it refused to grant a certificate of appealability, when the record clearly showed that Velasquez had …
21-6762 Karina Lizett Juarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines I. Whether the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the facts related to a warranted mitigating adjustment under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 violated federal law in…
21-962 In Re Whole Woman's Health, et al. 2022-01-04 Denied abortion civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure mandamus remand standing texas writ-of-certiorari When this case was before the Court on a writ of certiorari before judgment, this Court "effectively [stood] in the shoes of the Court of Appeals" and…
21-950 Ker'Sean Olajuwa Ramey v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied 28-usc-2254 batson-claim batson-v-kentucky certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance martinez-trevino peremptory-strike racial-bias 1. In rejecting Ramey's claim for relief under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) ("Batson Claim") and ignoring Ramey's argument that 28 U.S.C. § …
21-6732 Julio Cesar Cardenas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP castro-v-united-states civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mandates nonfrivolous-claims notice-and-opportunity procedural-rule slack-v-mcdaniel supreme-court supreme-court-mandate 1. HAS THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS EFFECTIVELY ESTABLISHED A PROCEDURAL RULE TO EFFACE yMUli ABRIDGE . OR ABROGATE THE SUPREME COURT*S • MANDAT…
21-6703 Joshua Cumberland v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus statutory-provisions timeliness (1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit properly denied petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability ("COA") as t…
21-6670 Eric Beverly v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice bank-robbery beyond-reasonable-doubt criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jury-conviction standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence I. On Appeal ERIC BEVERLY nged the sufficiency of the evidence for the following jury convictions: (1) four counts of aiding and abetting bank robbery…
21-6572 Jose Luis Ramos-Ramos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6582 Genaro Alberto Nunez-Ugarte v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6454 Kyle Leroy Myers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP conversion criminal-sentencing fifth-circuit guidelines narcotics supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the District Court's decision to inc…
21-6480 Francisco C. Martinez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied IFP circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation ninth-circuit prisoner-rights sandin-v-conner WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT MISAPPLIED THE SUPREME COURT'S DECISION OF SANDIN V. CONNER, 515 U.S. 472 (…
21-6403 Garland Guillory v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied IFP application-note commentary controlled-substance-offense district-court-discretion fifth-circuit inchoate-offenses kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines u.s.-sentencing-commission (1) Under what circumstances may a district court rely on commentary in the U.S. Sentencing Commission's Guidelines Manual to determine a defendant's …
21-6374 Howard Paul Guidry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights exculpatory-evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default racial-discrimination Whether the Fifth Circuit, in this appeal of the denial of a certificate of appealability, improperly addressed the merits of the habeas claims rather…
21-6295 Jmarreon Mack v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-review attempt controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference fifth-circuit judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it deferred to the United States Sentencing Commission's use of commentary in its Guidelines Manual to…
21-6145 Omar Sanchez-Barrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6155 Jose Burciaga-Alcantar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6124 Saul Contreras-Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-6131 Jose Alfredo Gonzalez-Mares v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5957 Manuela Villa de Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-v-kentucky civil-rights fifth-circuit jury-selection racial-discrimination supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the decision of the United States Ma…
21-5907 In Re Matthew James Leachman 2021-10-06 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights court-of-appeals discrimination due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-conduct judicial-ethics legal-review procedural-compliance The Honorable Priscilla R. Owen, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, failed to comply with the mandatory provisio…
21-5848 Zackie Thomas Reed, IV v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP black-v-romano criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit narcotics narcotics-violation preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-standard revocation supervised-release Whether the preponderance of the evidence standard utilized by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in a supervised release revoca…
21-444 Andre Lee Thomas v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (22) aedpa-deference capital-punishment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias racial-bias schizophrenia supreme-court-precedent voir-dire Under this Court's clearly established precedent, was Petitioner Andre Thomas —an African American man who, during a schizophrenic episode, killed his…
21-5715 Ronald George Whitehouse v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof co-defendant criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process fifth-circuit probation-officer reversible-error sentencing 1. THE PETITIONER OBJECTED TO THE PROBATION OFFICER'S CONCLUSION THAT THIS DEFENDANT WAS RESPONSIBLE TO 10 KILOS OF METHAMPHETAMINE AS A RESULT OF GIV…
21-5735 Juan Manuel Lira-Salinas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process fifth-circuit sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's Due Process …
21-366 Michael Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response Waived criminal-intent criminal-prosecution due-process expert-testimony fifth-circuit fraud medicare-fraud medicare-regulations sufficiency-of-evidence Petitioners Michael Jones hereby adopts the Petitions for Writ of Certiorari filed by Dr. Henry Evans and Dr. Shelton Barnes and the Questions Present…
21-367 Paula Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response Waived criminal-intent due-process expert-testimony fifth-circuit medicare-fraud medicare-rules prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence Petitioner Paula Jones hereby adopts the Petitions for Writ of Certiorari filed by Dr. Henry Evans and Dr. Shelton Barnes and the Questions Presented …
21-345 Manpreet Singh v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived collateral-attack counsel due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy restitution writ-of-error-coram-nobis Is there no avenue for a collateral attack on a restitution award that was the result of ineffective assistance of counsel?
21-5546 Fernando Rodriguez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest counsel-switching due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-ethics state-court state-legislature Mr. Rodriguez alleged that his appointed counsel for the offense in which he is currently incarceratedswitched sides and worked for the prosecution fo…
21-5514 Diandra Marie Harvey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3553(f) constructive-possession discretionary-review fifth-circuit firearm supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the decision of the District Court t…
21-5411 Jerome Skee Smith v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa due-process equitable-tolling fifth-circuit habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations successive-petition 1. Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it dismissed Jerome Smith's successive §2254 petition as untimely without considering his McQuiggin…
21-5234 Melquiades Galvez-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5241 Jose Lazaro Venancio Mendoza-Batres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5219 Bryan James Collins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence federal-statute fifth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit wrongly affirmed Collins's conviction where it determined that the evidence was sufficient to establish that Collins violate…
21-5172 Mayra Vanessa Gandara Escarcega v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5174 Domingo Cruz-Miguel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5175 Alfredo Jesus Chavez-Portillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5158 Miguel Angel Berdeja-Medina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5096 Jaime Martinez-Rojas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5072 Roque Saenz-Quintela v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-19 Christopher Sullivan v. Texas A&M University System Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response Waived eleventh-amendment federal-funding federal-funds fifth-circuit human-rights-act sovereign-immunity state-entity state-immunity texas-commission-on-human-rights-act texas-labor-code-chapter-21 waiver-of-immunity Whether the Fifth Circuit correctly interpreted that a State Entity who receives Federal funds waives its Eleventh Amendment Immunity from the Texas C…
21-5043 Carlos Amador Saragoza-Botello v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
21-5019 Noe Perez v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question fifth-circuit judicial-disagreement nevada-supreme-court ninth-circuit reasonable-jurists seventh-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit clearly err when it denied Mr. Perez's request for a COA even though three reasonable jurists on Nevada's highest court already …
21-5029 Antonio Domingo-Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-1777 Willard Hall v. Edward Bickham, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied 6th-amendment community-representation due-process effective-assistance fair-cross-section fair-trial fifth-circuit impartial-jury jury-composition probable-cause (1) Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana properly concluded…
20-8325 Francisco Javier Bermudez-Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-1681 Shelton Barnes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response Waived criminal-intent due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit medicare-billing obstruction obstruction-statute rule-of-lenity sufficiency-of-evidence (1) Does the Panel Decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, rendered October 28, 2020 (979 F.3d 283 (5th Cir. 2020), WL 6…
20-8197 Samuel Earl Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-role fifth-circuit leader-organizer leadership-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines The Fifth Circuit's holding in finding that Mr. Smith was a leader or organizer under the United States Sentencing Guidelines evidences a circuit spli…
20-8033 Ivan Ignacio Minjarez-Molina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7983 Thomas Lam v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-plea criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus henderson-v-morgan judicial-error jury-instructions plea-bargaining standard-of-review voir-dire The trial judge relied on a discussion with the jury, during voir dire as satisfaction to a constitutional guilty plea that he informed Petitioner of …
20-7931 Oscar Segura-Resendez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-due-process due-process ex-post-facto fifth-circuit guidelines harmless-error post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-retroactivity Is vidlation of the ex past Lacte clause of the 0.5, _ | Constitukion harm ess if the sogefic definition of 2x | DoS CackO Was done by the Coote
20-7884 Roel Gilberto Melendez-Davila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7829 Edmundo Bustamante-Muniz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7788 Alexander Olivieri v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-bar trevino-v-thaler Is The Fifth Circuit effectivly overturning The Supreme Court, and it's own rulings in not granting Olivieri a Certificate of Appealability to conside…
20-7731 Rodney Bernard Allen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury certificate-of-appealability elements-clause fifth-circuit johnson-rule reckless-conduct successive-habeas-petition successive-motion texas-penal-code texas-robbery 1. In Texas, a defendant commits simple robbery if, during the course of a theft, he recklessly causes someone else to suffer bodily injury or knowing…
20-7678 Roshawn Deon Joiner, aka Shon Joiner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-08 GVR IFP 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-statute fifth-circuit mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force-clause Does the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of mere rec…
20-7690 Jon Terrance Winzer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-review section-2254 standing Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal err in allowing the Western District Court to deny his 28U.S.C. Sec. 2254 petition as being improperly filed? D…
20-7646 Kennis Earl Gatson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-bar schlup-exception schlup-v-delo standard-of-review DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR IN DEFERRING TO THE DISTRICT COURT FINDING THAT PETITION ER ' SSCHLUP V DELO, "EXCEPTION" TO OVER COME THE PROCEDURAL BAR,…
20-7596 Olen Ware, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-03-29 Denied IFP amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance motion-to-amend motion-to-suppress 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in finding that jurists of reason could not have found it debatable that the district court erred by dismissing Petitione…
20-7472 David Maurice Milner v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction reconsideration rule-59-motion section-2255 successive-motions Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court ruled it lacked jurisdiction to consider Mr. Milner's R…
20-7255 Samuel Zubia-Olivas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing Supreme-Court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7128 Teodoro Reynosa-Denova v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-7112 Hector Miguel Martinez-Carrillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-1037 Wanda Bowling v. John Roach Fifth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights court-conflict due-process fifth-circuit judicial-immunity judicial-precedent legal-remedy prefiling-injunction standing vexatious-litigant 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit 's panel 's opinion is in direct conflict with its own previous decisions, other U.S. Court of Appeals, and with the U.S…
20-6973 Tommy Demond Fannin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court due-process fifth-circuit firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines I. Did the district court err when it imposed a cross-reference under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2K2.1(c)(1) without a connection between the…
20-6917 Frank McAfee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure counsel-performance fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance insufficient-record legal-standard procedural-dismissal sixth-amendment specific-objection strategic-reasons I. DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT FAIL TO FOLLOW ITS OWN LAW AND THAT OF OTHER CIRCUITS WHEN IT DISMISSED MR. MCAFEE'S APPEAL ALLEGING INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE B…
20-6921 Elier Isai Marquez-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit illegal-reentry presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines Whether a presumption of reasonableness on appeal does not apply to a sentence produced by the illegal reentry guideline, §2L1.2, because that guideli…
20-6789 Lilia Abril Olmedo-Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted two-level adjustment under U.S.S…
20-6786 Erica Yvonne Sheppard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection mitigation-evidence section-2254 wilson-v-sellers 1. Does the Fifth Circuit's application of § 2254(d) —which explicitly requires deference to unreasonable state court opinions if the federal court ca…
20-6768 Quentin Watson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-evaluation petition-review standing Whether the United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals mis-applied clearly established law in eval…
20-6738 Lisa Yvette Coffman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-law embezzlement federal-statute fifth-circuit fraud plain-error-review statutory-interpretation substantial-rights I. Does the first paragraph of 18 U.S.C. § 641 – which makes it illegal to embezzle, steal, purloin, or knowingly convert to one's own or another's us…
20-852 Shaquere Myleshia Gray, Co-Administratrix of the Estate of Gregory Tremaine Miller, et al. v. Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company Fifth Circuit 2020-12-28 Denied Response Waived civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process employer-liability federal-courts fela fifth-circuit labor-law legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has deviated from established Supreme Court precedent under the Federal Employers Liability Act ("…
20-6687 William James Jonas, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-counsel due-process fifth-circuit pro-se right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment substitute-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the district court did not violate Petitioner William James Jonas, III's right to cou…
20-6699 Juan David Pineda-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6692 Juan Manuel Lopez-Canales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6656 Jose Armando Bazan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fifth-circuit plain-error role-adjustment sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit properly applied the plain error standard of review in determining that petitioner failed to establish plain error regarding…
20-6658 Michael Brent Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied IFP death-penalty district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-petition fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights procedural-grounds statute-of-limitations Petirénep wishes te challeuge the ARisiows of the united States Court of Ampenls far the Fifth circuit m caus€ no. 19-4o72XO And the united sty tes pi…
20-6631 Aaron Sebastian Redmond v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-sentencing constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing fifth-circuit guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines The Fifth Circuit agreed with Mr. Redmond that the district court erred when it applied the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, which resulted in a higher adv…
20-6609 Salvador Moreno Cervantes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-745 Ismael Lechuga v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion circuit-split due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit impartiality judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review I. Whether a federal circuit court reviews the denial of a motion to recuse a district judge under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) de novo or for an abuse of discr…
20-744 Michael Wigginton, Jr. v. The University of Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fifth-circuit hope-v-pelzer qualified-immunity state-actors supreme-court-precedent Whether the Fifth Circuit's grant of qualified immunity to the state actors named in the instant matter was violative of Supreme Court precedent estab…
20-6463 Alex Murillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-6452 Michael Deshawn Homer v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu case-remand certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha…
20-6424 Deloyd Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict common-purpose criminal-enterprise drug-distribution fifth-circuit legal-interpretation rico rico-statute shared-profits statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Is concerted criminal activity by individuals within a group sufficient to establish an "enterprise" under RICO even if there is no evidence of shared…
20-6399 Duwayne Jones v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eleventh-circuit fifth-circuit florida-statute-§-893.13 mens-rea second-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2(b) Is a post-2002 conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver or sell, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a "controlled substance offen…
20-6327 Terry Charles Carroll v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-bargaining standard-of-review supervisory-powers supreme-court Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which held plain error would be the standard of rev…
20-6230 Ulis Howard Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP corpus-delicti criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-error punishment-phase sentencing Did the Fi fth Ci rcuit err i n hol ding that the concept of corpus del icti shoul d not apply in the puni shment phase?
20-558 Jon D. Adams v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Response Waived 26-usc-6404e case-law fifth-circuit interest-abatement judicial-review lee-v-commissioner statutory-interpretation tax-abatement tax-law tax-procedure The Appellant (hereinafter referred to as "the Taxpayer") is seeking abatement of interest assessed by the Appellee (hereinafter referred to as "the C…
20-6042 Barry Lynn Bailey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha…
20-6047 Ramada Tajedeen Shabazz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
20-6004 Jconcepcion Alonso-Tobar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-5998 Kevin Ray Prentice v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-analysis civil-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit least-culpable-act mellouli-v-lynch predicate state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit ignored this Court's authority and misapplied the categorical analysis by failing to consider the least-culpable act covered…
20-5940 Sabrina Alexander Weightman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond writ-of-certiorari I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha…
20-5906 Demetrius Barber v. James Burke, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-filing direct-appeal due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-procedure procedural-error standing Under 28 U.S.C.A. F.R.A.P. Rule 4 CC) and Rule 4 (d)..S. circuit court of 5th Apperl's circuit clerk, cause error by wot fownrding Petitioner first Di…
20-5851 John Christopher Badgett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha…
20-5853 Ubaldo Gabriel Acosta-Leyva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-guidelines drug-offense due-process empirical-basis fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentence produced by the drug guideline, §2D1.1, is not entitled to a presumption of reasonableness on appeal.
20-5750 Chester Alan Staples v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review Did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT err in denying my motion (Staples) for a Certificate of Appealability?
20-5738 Willie Hugh Washington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu 139-S-Ct-2369 certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing united-states-v-haymond L. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha…
20-5711 David Smith-Garcia, fka David Garwood Atwood, II v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release 1. Whether the district court erred by ordering two terms of imprisonment to run consecutive in the subject third supervised release revocation procee…
20-5712 Marcus Vernell Coleman v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance new-trial prejudice right-of-confrontation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Did the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal "apply " the correct legal standard in accordance to Strickland's prejudicial prong when petitioners)…
20-5692 Johnathon Nico Wise v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure error-preservation federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judgment-of-acquittal legal-motion preservation-of-error rule-29 standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether specific grounds must be identified in a Rule 29 motion for judgment of acquittal to preserve error?
20-5609 In Re Gary Wayne Barnes 2020-09-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights dna-evidence due-process federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief state-court-conviction can the claim of Actual innocence be reviwed under a petition for HABEAS CORPUS ON PETITION FOR EXTRAORDANATY WRIT pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 ans 22…
20-5590 Manuel Chacon-Lara v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fast-track fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-proceedings pre-trial-stage sentence-reduction sentencing Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining there was no "Substantial Showing of Denial of a Constitutional Right" - When Chacon-Lara ar…
20-263 Nanette Blanchard-Daigle, Representative of the Estate of Lyle Blanchard v. Shane Geers, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by overlooking precedent in determining whether an officer enjoys qualified immunity after applying deadly excessiv…
20-5543 Javier Galindo-Caballero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-5516 Joseph Peter Garbarini v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-disagreement procedural-bar Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability on a double jeopardy claim reasoning that I am procedurally barred when a debate e…
20-5470 German Milla-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overturning precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-5423 Edwin Jassiel Peralta-Castro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-proceedings pre-trial-stage sentencing-exposure Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining there was no "Substantial Showing of Denial of a Constitutional Right " - Failure to Explain…
20-5432 Michael James Barnes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief post-conviction-waiver section-2255-petition sentencing Whether the district court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by finding that the post-conviction waiver in Mr. Barnes' Plea Agreement bars …
20-5437 Wendell Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-waiver section-2255-petition sentencing Whether the district court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by finding that the post-conviction waiver in Mr. Taylor's Plea Agreement bars…
20-5376 Alfredo Estrada-Eugenio, aka Alfredo Erasto Estrada-Eugenio, aka Juan Eugenio Medina, aka Alfredo Estarada, aka Alfredo Eugenio-Estrada, aka Alfredo Estrada, aka Gerardo Amezquita v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
20-5319 Juan Carlos Avila-Gonzalez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights compelled-speech competence-to-waive counsel-investigation due-process fifth-circuit free-exercise free-speech ineffective-assistance medical-history public-accommodations WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT APPLIED THE CORRECT LEGAL STANDARD WHEN DENIED AVILA'S COA IN THE CLAIM THAT HE RECEIVED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL B…
20-5292 Ashvinbhai Chaudhari v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-plea criminal-procedure downward-departure fifth-circuit involuntary-plea judicial-procedure plea-bargain plea-bargaining restitution supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal…
20-5250 Oscar Armando Avila-Jaimes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 andrus-precedent evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Should a writ of certiorari be granted since the Fifth Circuit 's decision in not remanding to the lower court was contrary to precedent of this co…
20-5219 Binh Nguyen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review remand sentence-vacatur sentencing united-states-v-haymond L. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha…
20-5227 Jesus Hernandez-Medrano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process empirical-basis fifth-circuit illegal-reentry presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing-guidelines Whether a presumption of reasonableness on appeal does not apply to a sentence produced by the illegal reentry guideline, §2L1.2, because that guideli…
20-5191 Joshua Edwards v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process elements-of-crime elements-of-offense fifth-circuit jury-instructions trial-defense Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err when it held that the district court's failure to instruct the jury on the elements o…
20-5056 George Cortez, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
20-5019 Raul Barrera-Velasquez, aka Raul V. Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez-Barrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement equal-protection fifth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-enhancement u.s.s.g-2l1.2 Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Barrera's claim that the District Court's sentence violated constitutional principles of…
19-8790 Christina Ann Whichard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
19-8655 Milton Barrios-Alvarado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial overrule petition sentencing supreme-court writ Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-8523 Christian James v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split due-process fifth-circuit government-promise obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-justice united-states-sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion rejecting James's claim that the Government made an implied promise that any obstruction of just…
19-8503 Darieus Malik Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP administration-of-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court fact-intensive-inquiry federal-criminal-cases fifth-circuit prostitution-enhancement review-standard sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review On Appeal DARIEUS MALIK WILLIAMS challenged the district court's finding that he unduly influenced a minor to engage in prohibited sexual conduct such…
19-8428 Marc Wyatt v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-05-08 Denied IFP appointment-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-market-value fifth-circuit legal-counsel replacement-cost right-to-self-representation self-representation QUESTION ONE: IF THE RECORD IS VOID OF MARC TRACE WYATT BEING LEGALLY APPOINTED COUNSEL, DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR IN DETERMINING THAT HIS CODE OF C…
19-8280 Jesus Jaime Jimenez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction lack-of-jurisdiction statutory-window 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in not allowing Petitioner his rights to bring his complaint of 'Lack of Jurisdiction', under a §2254 Writ of Habeas Corp…
19-8255 Emilio Medina-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)?
19-8171 Carolyn R. Dawson v. Bank of New York Mellon, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split claim-preclusion constitutional-due-process due-process fifth-circuit issue-preclusion jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute In litigation between two parties, time-tested principles of claim preclusion and issue preclusion govern when parties may —and may not—litigate issue…
19-8128 Bobby Joe Buckner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit implied-bias standard-of-review 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in it's application of the implied bias doctrine by stating that this case is outside the "extreme genre of cases" to w…
19-8129 Charles Ben Bounds v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal bounds-case court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation (1) Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the application of Obstruction-of-Justice Sentence Enhancement in United States of A…
19-8103 Ramiro Rubi Ibarra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied IFP capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence federal-judicial-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-review sixth-amendment texas-law 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to ensure meaningful federal judicial review of a substantial Sixth Amendment claim. 2. Whether the Fifth Circuit…
19-8019 Efrain Sifuentes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP resulting in an unreasonable sentence appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines unreasonable-sentence 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly condone the District Court's error in applying the United States Sentencing…
19-8020 Walter Freeman Jordan, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure evidence-admission federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence standard-of-review I. On Appeal WALTER JORDAN argued that the erroneous admission of hearsay evidence that he was the brother of one of the co-defendants caught leaving …
19-1121 Guadalupe A. Welsh v. Fort Bend Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-code adverse-action adverse-employment-action civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment-discrimination fifth-circuit retaliation teacher-discipline texas-education-code title-vii 1. Is the Fifth Circuit restrictive doctrine "ultimate adverse employment action ", in conflict with the protections and provisions intended by Cong…
19-7914 Lucas James Moss v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 Dismissed IFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha…
19-7931 Nancy Arlene Lopez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeal criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit government-misconduct methamphetamine-conspiracy miranda-rights sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance supreme-court unconstitutional-motive Petitioner, NANCY ARLENE LOPEZ, appealed her ten-year statutory minimum sentence imposed after she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import 500 or more …
19-7903 Alfred Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-09 Dismissed IFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha…
19-1087 Charles M. Hallinan v. United States Third Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure criminal-intent fifth-circuit mens-rea rico rico-act-1962-c rico-statute scienter second-circuit second-fifth-eleventh-circuits third-circuit unlawful-debt wire-fraud 1. Whether a person violates 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c) by simply knowing an enterprise is collecting a debt that is separately determined to be unlawful, as…
19-1093 Aleashia Clarkston, et al. v. John White Fifth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit government-officials legal-standard qualified-immunity section-1983 standing takings Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that there is a second type of qualified immunity—that government officials are also entitled to qualified immuni…
19-7771 Christopher Benjamin Blanton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo…
19-7790 Brenda Mason, Individually and on Behalf of Quamaine Dwayne Mason, et vir v. Martin Faul Fifth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Relisted (6)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit objective-reasonableness police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing use-of-force This case involves the use of excessive force by a police officer that was determined by a jury to be "objectively unreasonable" but nonetheless resul…
19-1042 Euince J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer v. Kaufman County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement qualified-immunity 1. According to the Fifth Circuit, a reasonable juror could conclude that it was clearly unreasonable for a law-enforcement officer to fire multiple b…
19-7684 Jeremy Glenn Powell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit physical-force reckless reckless-offenses statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-felony 1. Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery, Penal Code § 29.02(a), "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force …
19-7596 Julia L. McDuffy-Johnson v. Daniel A. Lane, III Fifth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied IFP amendment-violations Amendments-I-IV-VIII-XIII-XIV appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-question fifth-circuit judicial-procedure sexual-assault standing Supervisory-power-of-SCOTUS I Julia Louise McDuffy Johnson, Appellant believe The United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit has entered a decision which is in conflict the fe…
19-7568 Theodore Michael Brewster v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-interpretation discretionary-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers supreme-court-precedent united-states-court-of-appeals Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal…
19-7549 Gerard Cliston Ellis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct state-law (1) Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach…
19-7516 Mary Mosley v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines 1) DID THE PANEL ERR BY UPHOLDING THE APPLICATION OF AN ENHANCEMENT FOR BRANDISHING OR POSSESSING A FIREARM WHEN MISS MOSLEY WAS ACQUITTED BY A JURY O…
19-7454 Kenneth James Barfield v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32 due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states guidelines preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts According to Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007), every federal criminal sentencing must begin with a correctly calculated Guidelines range. Sen…
19-7437 Tony Sparks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fifth-circuit juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in concluding that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), which was made retroac…
19-7446 Enrique A. Echeverria-Benitez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-circuit illegal-reentry plain-error retribution sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release On direct appeal, Mr. Echeverria-Benitez argued his twenty-seven month sentence for illegal reentry after removal was unreasonable. Mr. Echeverria-Ben…
19-7345 Roberto Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP circuit-precedent civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-status judicial-conflict legal-interpretation precedent prejudice prejudicial-evidence procedural-review DID THE FIFTH CIRUIT*S OPINION CONFLICT WITH IT'S OWN PRECEDENT IN ROJAS V. RICHARDSON REGARDING THE PREJUDICICAL NATURE OF A PARTY'S IMMIGRATION STAT…
19-907 Dejenay Beckwith, et al. v. City of Houston, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-questions due-process fifth-circuit government-conspiracy motion-to-dismiss standing statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming a statute of limitations defense on a motion to dismiss. 2. Whether this Court should clarify erratic…
19-882 Shannon Dale Dukes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses punishment-exposure sixth-amendment I. Whether petitioner's trial counsel was ineffective at the guilt-innocence stage, in violation of the Sixth Amendment, in failing to request jury in…
19-889 Kaufman County, Texas, et al. v. Eunice J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force 1. Did the Fifth Circuit panel majority err in reversing Kaufman County's summary judgment after concluding Officer Hinds did not violate clearly esta…
19-7164 Dominic Howard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-circuit fourth-amendment in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review pro-se probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
19-7051 Adan Reyes-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Reyes-Martinez waived the right to appeal his sentence because of the Waiver of Appeal provision in…
19-7044 Darmarcus Fisher v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-assault appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness Whether the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence and erred by imposing a 4-level enhancement for aggravated assault.
19-6932 Dustin Larmon McDonald v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-13 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-objection reasonableness sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond I. Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate "reasonableness" objection in district court? II. Whethe…
19-6934 Dexter Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied IFP buck-doctrine buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit gonzalez-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b)(6) successive-petition successive-petitions 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit has misinterpreted Buck by requiring Mr. Johnson to plead a meritorious claim for habeas relief in his Rule 60(b)(6) moti…
19-6935 Rickie James King v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-procedure united-states-v-haymond I. Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate "reasonableness" objection in district court? II. Whethe…
19-6862 Dalton Betsinger v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation (1) Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach…
19-6687 Demetrius Marcellus Green v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP categorical-approach controlled-substances-act criminal-law eighth-circuit felony-drug-offense fifth-circuit legal-uncertainty state-conviction statutory-interpretation (1) Whether the categorical approach is required to determine if a State conviction qualifies as a "felony drug offense" under the Controlled Substanc…
19-6688 Robert Joseph Fisher v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP categorical-approach circuit-split eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law statutory-interpretation Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an…
19-6620 John Kevin Waldrip v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments statutory-interpretation supervised-release I. In a consolidated Appeal JOHN KEVIN WALDRIP argued that the district court erroneously applied 18 U.S.C. § 3014 when it imposed a total of $15,000 …
19-6511 Roberto Trinidad Del Carpio Frescas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fifth-circuit mandatory-victims-restitution-act preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence reliable-evidence restitution restitution-standard sentencing Whether this Court should clarify what "reliable evidence" means for establishing, by a preponderance of the evidence, the amount of restitution under…
19-6503 Pedro Jorge Moreno-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause deportation fifth-amendment fifth-circuit immigration supreme-court testimonial-hearsay warrant-of-removal Is an immigration officer's signature on a warrant of removal attesting that he witnessed the alien depart the United States testimonial hearsay subje…
19-6488 Javier Yebra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-04 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit continue to impose an improper Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard that contraven…
19-6414 Miguel Angel Vega-Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-conflict due-process eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit fourth-amendment immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops?
19-6298 John Steven Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability federal-court-review federal-habeas-proceedings fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard state-court-deference state-habeas strickland-v-washington wilson-v-sellers In Wilson v. Sellers, this Court instructed that a federal court should train its attention on the particular legal and factual reasons of the state-c…
19-6106 Alexander William Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review summary-denial summary-order Whether a 1½-page order that su mmarily denies a certificate of appealability without any analysis of the facts and the law in a murder case satisfies…
19-6070 Malcom McClenon v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review sufficiency-of-evidence 1. IS RELIEF DUE. TO AN CONVICTION I DEVOIN OF THE RUDIMENTARY DEMANDS OF FAIR PROCEDURE ? 2. DOES BATSON" DEFY A HARMLESS-ERROR ANALYSIS? BJ DOES A…
19-403 Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas v. Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Amici (2) agency-interpretation federal-indian-law fifth-circuit gaming gaming-prohibition gaming-regulation indian-gaming indian-gaming-regulatory-act multi-circuit-conflict national-indian-gaming-commission statutory-interpretation tribal-lands tribal-sovereignty trust-lands trust-statutes Whether IGRA authorizes gaming on tribal lands previously governed by trust statutes that prohibited gaming, as the National Indian Gaming Commission,…
19-6021 Ricardo Valles De La Rosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP braxton-precedent braxton-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit nelson-v-colorado plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS' AFFIRMANCE OF THE PETITIONER'S GUILTY-PLEA SENTENCE VIOLATED PETITIONER'S DUE PROCESS RIGHTS UNDER, AND TH…
19-5953 Jose Juan Vallejo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP border-patrol constitutional-seizure eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops?
19-336 Keith Chester Hill v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response Waived capital-sentencing discretionary-sentencing fifth-circuit glover-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-probability sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that, to demonstrate that counsel was ineffective at a state, non-capital, discretionary sentencing proc…
19-5862 Jorge Alberto Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied IFP circuit-court deference-to-state-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-habeas-relief federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-v-washington In state habeas proceedings, Ramirez alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate for, develop and present evidence in su…
19-249 Kevin Lampkin, et al. v. UBS Financial Services, Incorporated, fka UBS Painewebber, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Response Waived cendant-cases civil-procedure employee-compensation employee-stock-options fifth-circuit sale-definition sale-of-securities securities securities-act securities-act-of-1933 securities-regulation standing stock-option supervisory-powers Is the grant of an employee stock option a "sale" of a security under the Securities Act of 1933?
19-231 Wes Perkins v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied 5th-amendment 5th-circuit actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process electronic-filing fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-procedure parties-to-proceeding pro-se-petition standing state-respondent 1. Was DAVIS improperly included? (5th.Cir.) 2. Was PAXTON improperly dismissed? (W.D.Tex.) 3. Did PITMAN abuse discretion in disallowing Perkins's …
19-5574 Anthony Ray Welch v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law drug-importation drug-offenses fifth-circuit listed-chemicals mens-rea methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense scienter scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involved the importation of ... methamphetamine or …
19-5538 Timothy Jamaras Burns v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining section-2255 waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Burns § 2255 claims are barred by the Waiver of Appeal provision in his Plea Agreement.
19-149 Fort Bend Mechanical, Limited, et al. v. Gil Ramirez Group, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-31 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-review federal-rules-civil-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error rule-50 sufficiency-challenge sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to follow its own precedent when declining to conduct a plain error review of the sufficiency challenge due to inc…
19-5374 Benson Coriolant v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandoned-claims actual-appeal actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-rules I. WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT'S HOLDING THAT THE PRO SE LITIGANT HAS ABANDONED ANY CLAIM(S) NOT RAISED IN AN APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPEAL…
19-5272 Pereneal Kizzee v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-appeals criminal-procedure-error-correction criminal-sentencing federal-appeals federal-law felony-offense fifth-circuit firearm-possession guidelines-enhancement judicial-discretion judicial-integrity plain-error plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it refused to exercise its discretion to correct the forfeited error that seriously affected the f…
19-5185 William Eric Taylor v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure denial-of-certificate due-process factual-predicates fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-premises legal-reasoning procedural-due-process standing uncontested-application Should the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a certificate of appealability based the uncontested application submitted by the petitioner? Alter…
19-58 Xitronix Corporation v. KLA-Tencor Corporation, dba KLA-Tencor, Inc. Federal Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied antitrust-law appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-circuit fifth-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-fraud summary-judgment walker-process Does appellate jurisdiction over Walker Process claims lie in the regional circuits, or in the Federal Circuit?
19-5083 Aaron Clayton McVea v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-vs-second-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline –a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiri…
19-5072 Troy Lee Bridges v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel peremptory-strikes prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review voir-dire Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the Federal court finding that Mr. Bridges was not prejudiced by his findings and the prosecutors conduct du…
19-5073 In Re Elvis Rivera Cruz 2019-07-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-procedure federal-statutory-law-jurisdiction fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review obstruction-of-justice statutory-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals, For The fifth Circuit, lack federal statutory law jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §2244 (b),(3),(D), when more…
19-5022 Brian K. Banks v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b)-evidence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-error louisiana-supreme-court prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review I. Did the Louisiana Supreme Court Error, when it allowed the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to contradict its own prior rulings by overruling the Dis…
18A1357 Anthony Ray Welch v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-25 Presumed Complete certiorari counsel-mistake criminal-conviction extension-of-time fifth-circuit procedural-error Question not identified.
18A1359 Louisiana Health Service & Indemnity Company, dba Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana v. Encompass Office Solutions, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-06-25 Presumed Complete benefits-plan certiorari erisa federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit health-insurance Question not identified.
18-1540 VHT, Inc. v. Zillow Group, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response Waived automated-systems circuit-split copyright-infringement direct-liability exclusive-rights fifth-circuit fourth-circuit proximate-causation statutory-construction third-circuit volitional-conduct The owner of a copyright holds the exclusive rights of reproduction, distribution, public display, and adaptation in his or her work. 17 U.S.C. § 106.…
18-9597 Jose Berrum, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. May This Court Grant Certificate Of Appealability Or Overturn Conviction Miere The Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals Sanctioned District Court's Misap…
18-9540 Clifton D. Harvin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence actual-innocence-exception aedpa district-court due-process federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations When a Petitioner relies upon the McQuiggin V Perkins 133 S.Ct. 1924 miscarriage of justice actual innoccence exception to overcome the AEDPA one year…
18-9510 Rasaq Aderoju Raheem v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure conviction criminal-procedure defendant-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming Defendant's Raheem conviction.
18-9453 Vincent Pisciotta v. D. J. Harmon, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review buck-v-davis due-process due-process,equal-protection,habeas-corpus,buck-v- equal-protection federal-prisoners fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals state-prisoners Did the Fifth Circuit Court of appeals err when it denied Mr. Pisciottas appeal in violation of The Supreme Court decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct.…
18-9273 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied IFP adequate-state-ground adequate-state-procedural-ground capital-case capital-habeas capital-habeas-case-appeal certificate-of-appealability due-process-right-to-present-evidence federal-habeas fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-correctness state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings state-procedural-ground texas-court-of-criminal-appeals 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has again violated the standard for determining whether a Certificate of Appealabi…
18-1370 Joanna Burke, et vir v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company Fifth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response Waived appellate-review assignment clear-error due-process fifth-circuit impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-error law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine lender-income-fraud manifest-injustice nominee published-opinion Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit correctly applied the well-established exception to the law-of-the-case doctrine for appellate deci…
18-9051 Quintonius B. Golston v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-conflict conflict criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression federal-question fifth-circuit important-question prosecutorial-misconduct WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FIFTH CIRCUIT HAS DECIDED AN IMPORTANT FEDERAL QUESTION THAT CONFLICTS WITH THIS COURT IN BRADY V. MARYLAND…
18-8910 Norris Lynn Fisher v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism fifth-circuit judicial-accountability judicial-review rule-60b6 standing supreme-court-precedent QUESTION ONE: WHY DO THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURTS CONTINUE TO IGNORE THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S AUTHORITATIVE PRECEDENT? QUESTION TWO: WHY DO THE …
18-1323 June Medical Services L.L.C., et al. v. Stephen Russo, Interim Secretary, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Fifth Circuit 2019-04-19 Judgment Issued Amici (20) abortion abortion-rights admitting-privileges constitutional-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent undue-burden whole-woman's-health whole-womans-health womens-health Whether the Fifth Circuit's decision upholding Louisiana's law requiring physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hosp…
18-8795 Luis Alberto Armendariz-Chavez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-law removal testimonial testimonial-evidence warrant warrant-of-removal Whether an immigration officer's warrant of removal is testimonial for purposes of the Confrontation Clause?
18-8775 Samuel William Maines v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remand summary-denial Should the Fifth Circuit's unreasoned summary denial of a Certificate of Appealability be remanded for further consideration? Can an implied waiver o…
18-8603 Gralyn Leon White v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting brandishing consecutive-sentences criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit first-step-act hobbs-act united-states-v-lewis Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Err by Failing to Apply the Holdings of United States v. Lewis, 907 F.3d 891, 894-95 (5th Cir. 2018). to Hobb's…
18-8589 Demetrius S. Rankin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-law court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance legal-ethics legal-standards procedural-review right-to-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied and ignored the procedural pronouncements made in Anders v. California, 386 US 738(1967)? Wheth…
18-8280 Darrell J. Williams v. Cecilia Reynolds, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP blakely-v-washington circumstantial-evidence due-process fifth-circuit jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence Question not identified.
18-8159 Phillip Camillo-Amisano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-crisis constitutional-violation due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice strickland-standard supreme-court Did the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly deny a Certificate of Appealability (COA), violating due process in a manner that conflicts …
18-1107 Charles Chandler v. Vermont, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lackawanna ninth-circuit strickland-standard tenth-circuit 1. Is the Exception for Habeas Corpus Custody under Lackawanna valid law as affirmed by the Ninth, Tenth, and Fifth Circuits? 2. Has Petitioner satis…
18-8094 Eric Gros v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights comity comity-principle due-process exhaustion-of-remedies exhaustion-of-state-remedies fifth-circuit finality habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition judicial-review magistrate-judge report-and-recommendation state-remedies Whether the Magistrate Judge for the U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana erred when he issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that the p…
18-8049 Ramon Montero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit harmless-error harmlessness-standard molina-martinez molina-martinez-precedent molina-martinez-v-united-states preserved-error preserved-errors rule-52a sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Is the Fifth Circuit correctly conducting its harmlessness inquiry when reviewing preserved Guidelines-calculation errors arising under Rule 52(a) of …
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.
18-7977 James Mowery v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit first-amendment free-speech internet-access internet-restrictions packingham-precedent packingham-v-north-carolina social-media-access standing supervised-release I. In Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730 (2017), this Court found unconstitutional a criminal statute prohibiting sex offenders from access…
18-7921 James Howard Looman, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process F.R.A.P.-Rule-22(b) federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation Did the Fifth Circuit err when it refused to apply 28 U.S.C. §2253(c) and F.R.A.P. Rule 22(b) and follow this Court's commands regarding review of app…
18-7445 Lennis A. George v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-manslaughter constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence procedural-history standard-of-review Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Lennis George of attempted manslaughter? Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the state court f…
18-7447 Christopher E. Lemon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional constitutional-provision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement waiver-of-appeal Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Lemon's Plea Agreement.
18-7410 Walter A. Kott, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent petitioner-claim precedent standing supreme-court Whether the United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana and Filth Circuit Court of Appeals mis-applied clearly established Supreme Cou…
18-7374 David Mejia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa counsel-performance fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-hoc-rationalization sixth-amendment strickland-test strickland-v-washington wiggins-v-smith Has the Fifth Circuit erred in holding, that in an ineffective assistance of counsel claim under AEDPA, a court may indulge "post hoc rationalization"…
18-902 Paul Poupart v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Response Waived antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act clearly-established-federal-law custodial-interrogation federal-review fifth-amendment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus miranda-rights unreasonable-application An application for a writ of habeas corpus should be granted with respect to any claim that was adjudicated on the merits in State court proceedings t…
18-7304 Juan Rodriguez-Mantos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-circuit judicial-review reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervisory-power Whether the impositi on of an outside Guideli nes sentence is reasonabl e when the district court more than triples the already enhanced Guideli nes s…
18-7252 Eddie Ray Wiese, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner fifth-circuit johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful substantive basis to enhance his sentenc…
18-7274 Reginald L. Spears, aka RLS Ar Abdul Aziz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure bias certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit impartial-judge judicial-bias procedural-error strawman-argument WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS INTRODUCED AND ATTACKED A STRAWMAN ARGUMENT[ARGUMENT NOT RAISED BY APPELLANT] IN IT'S ORDER/OPINION AS A BA…
18-7201 Mark Isaac Snarr v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied IFP 18-usc-3599 ake-v-oklahoma appellate-review ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-defendant circuit-split due-process expert-services federal-funding fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the Fifth Circuit disregarded this Court's precedent when it required petitioner to show that an expert was "critical" to his case before fund…
18-7140 Tommy Ray Hull, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied IFP chavez-meza-precedent chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion due-process fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-standard mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review I. This Court should grant certiorari to resolve the apparent conflict between the Fifth Circuit and this Court's decision in Chavez-Meza v. United St…
18-7111 Johnny Joe Guerra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1291 constitutional-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-constitution fifth-amendment fifth-circuit injustice jurisdictional-review mandate-recall unadjudicated-claims Whether the Fifth Circuit erred when it did not recall the mandate in order to prevent an injustice relative to two unadjudicated claims in the distri…
18-7045 Chris G. Gilkers v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-proceedings fifth-circuit gonzalez-v-crosby habeas habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-habeas successive-habeas-petition This petition concerns the proper standard for evaluating whether a Rule 60(b) motion "alleges" a proper claim for relief from a habeas judgment, and …
18-6984 Benjamin Tillman v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 collateral-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcfadden-case mcfadden-v-us retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation WHETHER PETITIONER WAS ENTITLED TO FILE AN APPLI-' CATION FOR HABEAS CORPUS UNDER 28 U.S.C. §2241 AND/OR 28 U..S.C. 2255(e) IN LIGHT OF McFADDEN v. U.…
18-6911 Adrian Pineda-Orozco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility affirmative-defense criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure duress-defense family-member fifth-circuit miscarriage-of-justice sentencing 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion permitting Pineda-Orasco's conviction to stand resulted in a miscarriage of justice given the lo…
18-6904 Oree Roberson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof chavez-meza chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-conflict due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review mitigation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review I. Whether the defendant bears the burden to establish that objected to information in the Presentence Report is materially untrue, or whether, instea…
18-668 Peggy Berg v. Social Security Administration Seventh Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response Waived absolute-debt bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-553(b) circuit-split creditor-rights debt-setoff fifth-circuit mutual-debt setoff seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation third-circuit Under Bankruptcy Code Section 553(b), regarding when "a creditor offsets a mutual debt owing" and "the date of such setoff," does this require that th…
18-633 Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court district-court-summary-denial due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant standing summary-denial Should a Certificate of Appeal ability (COA) be denied to a pro se litigant thus denying an appeal when the issue has been extensively researched and …
18-6600 Ringo Recto Labrador v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline–a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric…
18-6524 Brian Thomas, aka O'Brian A. Thomas, aka Thomas A. O'Brian v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard berger-standard berger-v-united-states berger-v-us due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-review jury-bias jury-misconduct procedural-violation prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURTS VIOLATED BERGER V !JS AFTER IT CONCEDED THAT THE VIOLATIONS HAD OCCURED BUT DECIDING THAT IT WAS "IMPLAUSIBLE THAT IT…
18-6435 John Rogers v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-right-to-counsel direct-appeal due-process extraordinary-circumstances fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Whether the State of Louisiana stripped John Rogers of his Constitutional Right to Representation by counsel on his claim of "ineffective assistance o…
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.
18-408 Kohn Law Group, Inc. v. Auto Parts Manufacturing Mississippi, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Amici (2) appellate-review appellate-review-standard armour-standard armour-v-united-states civil-contempt civil-contempt-standard consent-decree district-court-discretion federal-circuit fifth-circuit injunction-interpretation interpleader legal-standard mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper-co non-consent-order 1. What is the standard for judging allegations of civil contempt of an injunction or other disputed order, as distinct from a consent de cree? Is it …
18-373 Floyd Rose v. United States Second Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied atm atm-robbery circuit-split commerce-clause commerce-element criminal-law federal-criminal-law fifth-circuit hobbs-act interstate-commerce robbery second-circuit Whether the Second Circuit erred by holding, in direct conflict with the Fifth Circuit, that a robbery in which an individual victim is forced to with…
18-6066 Melvin Noel Vasquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure de-novo-review downward-adjustment due-process federal-sentencing fifth-circuit minimal-role mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 standard-of-review I Whether the Fifth Circuits cursory, review rather than the proper de novo review resulted in a misapplication of the provision of U.S.S.G. s 3Bl.2 d…
18-6061 Rogelio Ortiz-Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP change-in-law criminal-appeal divisible-statute fifth-circuit intervening-change-in-law judicial-proceedings mandate mandate-rule recall-of-mandate rehearing-petition sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines texas-burglary-statute I. In a direct criminal appeal, is it a serious departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when a federal court of appeals r…
18-5913 Alfonso Escobedo Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-review second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline–a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric…
18-5775 William Christopher Hogan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conflict-of-circuits criminal-history fifth-circuit ninth-circuit sentencing shop-lifting shoplifting texas-state texas-state-law u.s.-supreme-court-rule-10 Whether the District Court erred in sentencing Petitioner by adding one point to his criminal history score based on a Texas State shop lifting convic…
18-5716 Richard Blake Ray v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP 5th-circuit buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit habeas-corpus reasonable-legal-argument supreme-court-law Ray had a claim that was "reasonably debatable" by "jurists of reason Sineee a reasonable legal argument could have been made. The district court and …
18-5649 Charles Richardson v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied IFP criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-counsel venue Whether the prosecutor's improper arguments resulted in an unfair trial and a guilty verdict of murder instead of a lesser charge thereto? Did the Fi…
18-5629 Jermaine Dewitt Chaney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealibility civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 standard-of-review standards Question No. 1: Dud the fifth Circuit Court of appeals err by reaching the merits of the case and denying certificate of appealibility ? Question No.…
18-5533 Brandon Maurice Shannon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-remand plain-error post-conviction-relief retroactivity rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light 2018), an authority that post-dated the opinion below?
18-5516 Isaiah Galbreath v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-sentencing empirical-basis fifth-circuit judicial-review methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines Is a sentence imposed under the methamphetamine sentencing guideline–a guideline crafted without benefit of Sentencing Commission expertise or empiric…
18-5494 Blaine Keith Milam v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability judicial-review mitigating-evidence procedural-default right-to-counsel Did the Fifth Circuit err in not granting a certificate of appealability on the claims presented in violation of the holding of Buck v. Davis, 137 S. …
18-5324 Anastasio N. Laoutaris v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1030 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process evidence fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal malicious-code perjury perjury-standard reasonable-doubt sentencing strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence Has the Fifth Circuit erred and its decision is in conflict with this Court's holding in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d …
18-5280 Patrick Lanier v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings judicial-review manifest-miscarriage plain-error plain-error-review restitution rule-52b sentencing sentencing-error 1. In Puckett v. United States, 556 US 129, 135 (2009) this Court held that under the fourth prong of plain error review, "[t]he Court of Appeals shou…
18-95 Kyrt M. Wentzell, et al. v. BP America, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal deepwater-horizon dismissal due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion mdl-procedure multidistrict-litigation oil-spill procedural-compliance standing timeliness Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the petitioners appeal to the Fifth Circuit was not timely filed.
18-5236 In Re Ferlando Esco 2018-07-13 Denied IFP ' 'certificate-of-appealability" ' 'due-process" ' 'habeas-corpus" ' 'ineffective-assistance-of-counsel" ' 'mandamus" ' 'sentencing' appellate-review certificate-of-appealability designated-issues extraordinary-relief fifth-circuit fully-briefed judicial-procedure merits-decision writ-of-mandamus Should a writ of mandamus issue directing the Respondents, and/or Judges, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, to decide the m…
18-5135 Mark Francis Honish v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limitation tolling WAS HONISH'S FIRST STATE HABEAS WRIT "APPLICATION" PROPERLY FILED WITHIN THE MEANING OF 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(2), AND REQUIRED TO BE TOLLED? DID THE FIF…
24A239 Gavin Blake Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit Denied bail-pending-appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit pro-se-petition Question not identified.