aiding-and-abetting
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6839 | Eric Fru Nji, Wilson Nuyila Tita, and Wilson Che Fonguh v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof firearms-trafficking jury-instructions pinkerton-liability willful-blindness | Whether the district court and Fourth Circuit erred by allowing the jury to be instructed under a Pinkerton standard, a willful blindness instruction,… |
| 25-6330 | Jose M. Rojas-Tapia v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting appellate-review crime-of-violence mail-offense modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement | I. Does aiding and abetting a mail offense pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2114(a) constitute a crime of violence for purposes of serving as a predicate offen… |
| 25-6135 | Sonya Fuller v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting criminal-conviction due-process felony-murder jackson-standard sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a conviction for felony murder is permissible under Jackson where the prosecution presented no evidence that the defendant planned, knew about… |
| 25-5680 | David Petersen v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actus-reus aiding-and-abetting circuit-split constitutional-rights mens-rea specific-intent | 1. Whether the mens rea and actus reus requirements for aiding and abetting liability under 18 U.S.C. § 2 demand proof of specific intent and affirma… |
| 25-5063 | John Armstrong, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | aiding-and-abetting bank-robbery crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) and United States v. Taylor, 596 U.S. 845 (2022), is a conviction for federal bank robbery under Section 2113(a) categoric… |
| 24-7032 | Miguel Angel Vargas Velez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting common-law criminal-offense drug-conspiracy intent statutory-interpretation | Whether it was possible for Petitioner to be convicted of aiding and abetting a drug conspiracy in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 and 18 U.S.C. § 2 when… |
| 24-6544 | Lemack Bellot v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting attempt-crime criminal-conduct ninth-circuit reverse-sting statutory-interpretation | Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision that "aiding and abetting an attempt" and "attempting to aid and abet" are equivalent permits wholly fictitious c… |
| 24-856 | Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. v. Doe I, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Granted | CVSGAmici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute mens-rea private-right-of-action statutory-interpretation torture-victim-protection-act | 1. Whether the Alien Tort Statute ("ATS"), 28 U.S.C. § 1350, allows a judicially-implied private right of action for aiding and abetting. 2. Whether,… |
| 24-6141 | Martin Garcia v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting categorical-analysis criminal-procedure force-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation | The first question presented is whether Circuits have failed to apply categorical analysis to aiding and abetting's distinct elements, which do not me… |
| 24-6143 | Gustavo Navaro v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting carjacking categorical-analysis criminal-procedure force-clause statutory-elements | The first question presented is whether Circuits have failed to apply categorical analysis to aiding and abetting's distinct elements, which do not me… |
| 24-5963 | Cameron Davon Wright v. James R. Schiebner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting brecht-standard constitutional-error jury-verdict sufficiency-of-evidence trial-procedure | I. DID THE LOWER - COURT CLEARLY MISAPPLY UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT IN A MANNER THAT DENIED FUNDAMENTAL JUSTICE, WHEN IT USED A SUFFICIE… |
| 24A450 | Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. v. Doe I, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-05 | Presumed Complete | aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute corporate-liability extraterritorial-application human-rights international-law | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5834 | Geovani Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aiding-and-abetting appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict criminal-law federal-procedure | 1. COA Standard. The COA inquiry requires courts to, among other things, conduct a general assessment of a defendant's claims. In his COA Brief to the… |
| 24-5683 | Ronald Champney v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach crime-of-violence hobbs-act section-924c third-circuit-court | In light of the holding in United States v. Taylor that attempted Hobbs Act robbery does not qualify as a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)… |
| 24-5154 | Joel Jacobo Sanchez v. Brandon Kelly | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-murder aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intent-standard jury-instruction natural-probable-consequences post-conviction-relief | Was petitioner's post-conviction counsel ineffective for not arguing that petitioner's trial counsel failed object to a "natural and probable conseque… |
| 24-5050 | Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor | Following this Court's decision in United States v. Taylor, 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2020) does aiding and abetting a completed robbery constitute a crime of … |
| 23-7797 | Nicholas Brodigan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c3a aiding-and-abetting categorical-analysis criminal-liability force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-elements | The Circuits have confused the categorical analysis—which examines only statutory elements—with the contextually distinct rule that an aider and abett… |
| 23-7547 | Branden Tyler v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2 5th-amendment aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interstate-commerce person principal statutory-interpretation | WHETHER UNDER THE FIFTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION CAN A DEFENDANT BE CHARGED WITH AIDING AND ABETTING UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 2 WHEN THE A… |
| 23-7319 | Yudith Reynoso-Hiciano v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof closing-argument criminal-procedure jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence reasonable-doubt | Whether repeatedly arguing in closing that the defendant 'needed the jury to believe' certain things impermissibly shifted the burden of proof and evi… |
| 23-1141 | Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., et al. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos | First Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Judgment Issued | Amici (45) | aiding-and-abetting drug-cartel-violence drug-cartels firearms-industry firearms-trafficking international-tort legal-causation plcaa proximate-cause trafficking | The production and sale of firearms in the United States is the "proximate cause" of alleged injuries to the Mexican government stemming from violence… |
| 23-7014 | Stanley Ford v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act mandatory-minimum physical-force statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act robbery and aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), are categorically crimes of violence under the elements clau… |
| 23-6949 | Jose Salomon Madrid-Paz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach criminal-law federal-crime federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether aiding and abetting is a means of committing a Hobbs Act violation under the categorical approach. 2. Whether conspiracy and attempt are m… |
| 23-6692 | Mustafa Deville Reynolds v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Denied | IFP | aiding-and-abetting chain-of-distribution controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-distribution criminal-law due-process enhanced-penalty pinkerton-liability sentencing-enhancement | I. Whether the prosecution must prove aiding and abetting or Pinkerton coconspirator liability before a remote seller in a chain of distribution may b… |
| 23A726 | Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Presumed Complete | aiding-and-abetting appellate-review circuit-split crime-of-violence robbery sentencing-enhancement | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6652 | Don Meeker v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting carjacking criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-statutes intent rosemond-standard rosemond-v-us | 1. The government failed to prove by sufficient evidence as to the petitioner that the petitioner-appellant possessed the requisite intent to commit t… |
| 23A504 | Fernando Diaz Rodriguez v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-12-04 | Presumed Complete | aiding-and-abetting criminal-statute hobbs-act section-924(c) supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6039 | Selbourne Waite v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery, which may be completed without the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force, see 18 U.… |
| 23-5796 | Jose Folch-Colon v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law mens-rea racketeering VICAR violent-crime | If by procuring and paying for the commission of murder, Petitioner aided and abetted a crime of violence in aid of racketeering (VICAR) as defined in… |
| 23-5591 | Patrick Andrew Groves v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting attempted-distribution attempted-transfer controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law drug-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation surplusage | For certain recidivist guideline enhancements, "[t]he term 'controlled substance offense' means an offense under federal or state law, punishable by i… |
| 23-208 | Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, et al. v. Education for a Just Peace in the Middle East | District of Columbia | 2023-09-06 | Denied | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | aiding-and-abetting civil-rights due-process facial-plausibility foreign-policy foreign-terrorist-organizations jurisdiction pro-palestinian-organizations standing statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorism-liability | 1. Whether "facial plausibility" of a complaint filed by a victim of international terrorism committed in Israel may be judged by a different standard… |
| 23A106 | Patrick Andrew Groves v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-07 | Presumed Complete | aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach controlled-substances drug-distribution predicate-offense statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5055 | Erick De Jesus-Torres v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting appellate-review downward-variance gall-v-united-states kimbrough-v-united-states meaningful-explanation policy-considerations sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines | Whether a sentencing court must provide a reasonable explanation, on the record, as to why it is not considering a sentencing factor, particularly an … |
| 23-18 | Dana Marie Bernhardt, Personally and as the Administratrix of the Estate of Jeremy Wise, et al. v. HSBC Holdings PLC, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-07-06 | Denied | aiding-and-abetting anti-terrorism-act banking-services financial-system international-terrorism justice-against-sponsors-of-terrorism-act personal-jurisdiction terrorism-financing | Under Section 2333 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, as amended by the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act ("JASTA"), U.S. nationals injured or killed … | |
| 23-9 | AstraZeneca UK Limited, et al. v. Joshua Atchley, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-07-05 | GVR | CVSGAmici (2)Relisted (2) | aiding-and-abetting anti-terrorism-act direct-liability foreign-government-agency foreign-terrorist-organization proximate-causation specific-attack terrorist-organization transacting-with-government-agency | 1. Whether, in light of Taamneh, the Court should grant, vacate, and remand for further proceedings. 2. Whether plaintiffs plead proximate causation … |
| 22-1172 | Dejuan Andre Worthen v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-06-05 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting attempted-hobbs-act-robbery crime-of-violence elements-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor | Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under the elements clause. |
| 22-6680 | Michael Stapleton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | aiding-and-abetting alien-smuggling circuit-split defective-indictment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction pro-se-rights sixth-amendment | No: 1 )Was the Court of Appeals wrong for failing to dismiss the defective indictment that created a split in circuits where the the Fifth and Ninth… |
| 22-6340 | Ramon Simpson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability custodial-interrogation death-penalty fifth-amendment jury-instructions kidnapping miranda-rights | 1. Does a conviction for aiding and abetting kidnapping resulting in death, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1201(a)(1) and 2, require proof that the aide… |
| 22-6194 | Jordan Huff v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery pinkerton-liability predicate-offense statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force | 1. Where 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is a double-barreled crime that, at least in the context of aiding and abetting, requires proof both of a defendant's acti… |
| 22-5550 | Corey Bailey v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting confrontation-clause confrontation-rights fair-trial jury-impartiality racketeering-enterprise rico-conspiracy vicar-convictions warrant-exception | I. A. Did the government prove beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of a racketeering enterprise, a necessary element for all of the charges, when … |
| 22-5242 | Tavaras Etone Warren v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-indictment due-process firearm-possession ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-exclusion statutory-interpretation | In an indictment for violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), where the underlying conviction is for possession, use or carrying a firearm during and in… |
| 22-5225 | Craig Anthony Ross v. Ron Bloomfield, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-29 | Denied | IFP | aider-and-abettor aiding-and-abetting cabana-v-bullock death-penalty enmund-v-florida habeas-corpus intent-to-kill jury-instructions murder-first-degree ninth-circuit-review shared-intent | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err under Title 28, United States Code, Section 2254(d)(1) in affirming that the jury instructions given by the California Su… |
| 22-5170 | Cristian Serrano-Delgado v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting conspiracy crime-of-violence davis-v-united-states hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery jury-instructions pinkerton-doctrine pinkerton-liability section-924c | A jury convicted Cristian Serrano-Delgado of 18 U.S.C. §§ 924(c) and (j) based on instructions providing various possible crime-of-violence predicates… |
| 22-5042 | Phillip Shiel v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor | Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery is a "crime of violence" under the elements clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), following this Court's d… |
| 21-8199 | Yuri Chachanko, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery predicate-crime predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vacatur | Whether the Defendants' convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) must be vacated because Hobbs Act robbery based on an aiding and abetting t… |
| 21-1496 | Twitter, Inc. v. Mehier Taamneh, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-31 | Judgment Issued | Amici (19) | aiding-and-abetting anti-terrorism-act foreign-terrorist-organization generic-services international-terrorism justice-against-sponsors-of-terrorism-act knowingly-provided knowingly-providing-substantial-assistance substantial-assistance terrorist-use-of-services | Under Section 2333 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, as amended by the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, U.S. nationals injured by "an act of intern… |
| 21-7739 | Kendall Whitaker v. Patricia A. Coyne-Fague, Warden | First Circuit | 2022-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment aiding-and-abetting civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment | I. The Petitioner seeks review of the denial of a certificate of appealability by the First Circuit which review of the decision of U.S. District Cour… |
| 21-7133 | Francis P. Salemme v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accessorial-liability accessory-after-the-fact aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-precedent middleton-v-mcneil | Whether the jury instruction regarding accessorial liability that fails to distinguish between aiding and abetting liability and accessory after the f… |
| 21-7129 | Erik Quiroz Razo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-law inchoate-crimes incomplete-crimes mens-rea | 1. Whether a defendant can be convicted of conspiring to aid and abet a crime when the underlying crime is never completed? 2. Whether, to conspire t… |
| 21-7088 | Selbourne Waite v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-02-09 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-procedure eighth-amendment hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement | Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery, which may be completed through an attempted threat alone, see 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), and aiding and abetting a Hobb… |
| 21-6834 | In Re Hosea Jackson | 2022-01-13 | Denied | IFP | acquittal aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability double-jeopardy fifth-amendment hobbs-act insufficient-evidence jeopardy judicial-precedent | 1. Whether judicial precedent concerning double jeopardy defines an acquittal to encompass any ruling that the prosecutions proof is insufficient to e… | |
| 21-6452 | Donnell Murray v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting conviction count-one criminal-procedure davis insufficient-evidence jury-instruction predicate-acts racketeering trial-errors | 1. Whether Murray's conviction on Count One should be reversed because there is insufficient evidence after Davis that the jury found two or more pred… |
| 21-6434 | Robert Alan Fratta v. Texas | Texas | 2021-11-29 | Denied | IFP | aiding-and-abetting constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indictment jury-charge jury-instructions law-of-parties | 1) CAN A LAW OF PARTIES (OR AIDING AND ABETTING) BE ADDED TO A JURY CHARGE WHEN A PERSON IS INDICTED AS THE ONLY ACTOR TO COMMIT AN OFFENSE? 2) IS U.… |
| 21-6234 | Edward Stain v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting conviction crimes-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents statutory-interpretation | 1. Petitioner Stain asks this Court to address whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is unconstitutional when the Shepard documents do not cle… |
| 21-6254 | Deante Blackman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting circuit-precedent crime-of-violence habeas-corpus overruling-precedent procedural-default witness-murder | 1. Whether cause exists to excuse a habeas petitioner's procedural default when near-unanimous circuit precedent foreclosed the petitioner's claim or … |
| 21-5644 | Michael Hall v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c3a actus-reus aiding-and-abetting categorical-analysis criminal-statute force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing-enhancement violent-physical-force | Aiding and Abetting Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1951(a) and 2, does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violen… |
| 21-382 | Moses Strauss, et al. v. Credit Lyonnais, S.A. | Second Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | CVSGRelisted (2) | aiding-and-abetting civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process foreign-terrorist-organization free-speech justice-against-sponsors-of-terrorism-act standing substantial-funds terrorism terrorist-organization | Whether a person who knowingly transfers substantial funds to a designated foreign terrorist organization aids and abets that organization's terrorist… |
| 21-192 | Gregory S. Simpson v. United States | Armed Forces | 2021-08-11 | Denied | Response Waived | aiding-and-abetting contraband criminal-liability due-process guilty-plea mens-rea statutory-construction | 1. Is it a constitutional due process violation for Petitioner's guilty plea to distribution of indecent images to be accepted based on a theory that … |
| 20-8256 | Terry Alonzo Wilson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act | Question not identified. |
| 20-7322 | Kelsey Videl Coffee v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process hobbs-act jury-instructions | 1) Whether Petitioner Is Actually Innocent Of Counts 48, Based On Conspiracy To Hobbs Act Robbery And Aiding And Abetting Hobbs Act Robbery (Davis v. … |
| 20-7122 | Adam Lloyd Cooper v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms intent mens-rea rosemond-v-united-states | Whether Sec. 924(c) contains a specific mens rea requirement that requires one to know more than that firearms are "tools of the trade" for drug traff… |
| 20-7126 | Dominic Anthony Davis, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery circuit-split fact-based-harmless-error-review harmless-error jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents | I. Where an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction rests on more than one possible predicate offense, the Shepard documents must conclusively establish that a … |
| 20-995 | Anthony Vetri v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment aiding-and-abetting cellphone-data cellphone-privacy criminal-procedure digital-privacy evidence-search fourth-amendment particularity probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirements | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires more stringent privacy considerations in authorizing a warrant for the seizure of a cellphone and the manner … |
| 20-6418 | Michael A. Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting brandishing brandishing-firearm conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentence-reduction sentencing supreme-court-precedent | Whether the petitioner is entitled to a sentence reduction after pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Hobbs Act Robbery and aiding and abetting bra… |
| 20-6428 | Ronald Herron v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting criminal-conviction due-process firearm-conduct firearm-related-conduct jury-instruction residual-clause section-924c unconstitutional | Did the second circuit err by affirming petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) convictions – either under § 924(c)(3)(b), which has been declared unconstitut… |
| 20-6122 | Jerome Capelton v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-liability first-circuit joint-venture mens-rea realistic-probability sentencing | 1. Whether the First Circuit's application of the "realistic probability" standard in Mr. Capelton's case, where the elements of Massachusetts "joint … |
| 20-5403 | Dimarzio Swade Sanchez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder jury-instruction jury-instructions mandatory-life-imprisonment sixth-amendment | The government convicted Dimarzio Swade Sanchez of aiding and abetting in first degree murder, and he was sentenced to a mandatory life imprisonment. … |
| 20-5144 | Rykeith Andre Levatte v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act elements-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement violent-felony | Whether, categorically, aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery is a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) elements clause, 18 U… |
| 20-5035 | Octavius McLendon and Henry Lee Bryant v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting brady-violation constitutional-infirmity joint-trial new-trial-relief principal-conviction | Where a Brady violation has rendered constitutionally infirm the conviction of a defendant who was alleged to be the principal in the commission of an… |
| 20-5057 | Ledinson Chavez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advance-knowledge aggravated-identity-theft aiding-and-abetting criminal-law identity-theft jury-instruction knowledge-requirement rosemond-v-united-states sixth-circuit supreme-court-mandate | Did the trial court's jury instruction on aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft comply with this Court's mandate in Rosemond v. United States,… |
| 19-8899 | Michael Wayne Blanche v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law jury-finding jury-instructions sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether aiding and abetting armed bank robbery is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A). Whether the verdict and 7-year sentence on the … |
| 19-8737 | James Steiner v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness johnson-claim judicial-review meaningful-review rosemond-claim section-2255 | I. In Rosemond v. United States , this Court held that the government establishes that a defendant aided and abetted a n 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offense on… |
| 19-1197 | GwanJun Kim v. City of Ionia, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-04 | Denied | Response Waived | aiding-and-abetting civil-procedure collateral-review exclusive-possession false-claims-act federal-cause-of-action legal-standards pleading-standards retroactivity rule-9b section-10b securities-fraud | In this case THE PETITION for that "a United States court of appeals has entered a decision in conflict with the decision of' "Complaint in this actio… |
| 19-8053 | Daniel Rodriguez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence economic-harm federal-criminal-law hobbs-act property-rights sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (b) is categorically a "crime of violence" as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 924 (c)(3)(A) , if the plain … |
| 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 … |
| 19-7811 | Marcus Scott Crum v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting attempt conspiracy controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u-s-sentencing-commission | Whether the Sentencing Commission's commentary to its definition of "controlled substance offense" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) to include inchoate offenses… |
| 19-7718 | Denny Reyes v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2a 8-usc-1324a aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent immigration-law mens-rea recklessness rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether the intent element of 18 U.S.C. § 2(a) can, consistent with this Court's decision in Rosemond v. United States, 572 U.S. 65 (2014), be satisfi… |
| 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… |
| 19-7288 | John Kelsey Gammell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-14 | Denied | IFP | aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute categorical-approach generic-definition statutory-elements | In determining whether a burglary conviction based on an aiding and abetting theory qualifies as an enumerated burglary under the ACCA, does the categ… |
| 19-7131 | Eric Hanna v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 aiding-and-abetting certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act-robbery second-or-successive-motion statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the decision below, and remand (GVR) this case with directions that the Eleventh Circuit grant Pe… |
| 19-6748 | Steven A. Adams v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting ambiguity attempt conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference deference-doctrine sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-4b1.2b statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the term "controlled substance offense" defined by UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES MANUAL § 4B1.2(b) to mean "an offense under federal … |
| 19-6703 | Shondor Janell Arceneaux v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2113(a) 924(c) aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting bank-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense generic-crime-definition generic-definition remand sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. If §924(c) applies to predicate crimes, 1 whose Elements are no Broader than a Federal Generic Definition of that crime , is... remand required i… |
| 19-6466 | Eric Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-31 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Does aiding and abetting armed bank robbery —which can be accomplished without the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force —qualify as… |
| 19-6444 | Jermaine D. Harris v. Stephen T. Moyer, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aiding-and-abetting appeal cell-phone-technology cell-tower-testimony criminal-procedure cumulative-effect due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-privilege habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legally-inconsistent-verdicts sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington | 1) Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability on Petitioner 's claim that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffec… |
| 19-6262 | Liddon Young v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof criminal-intent federal-firearms-law felon-possession firearm-disposal firearms-transfer knowledge-requirement mens-rea prohibited-persons prosecution-burden prosecution-strategy statutory-interpretation | 1. Since the Supreme Court has now held, in Rehaif v. United States , that in a prosecution under §922(g) and §924(a)(2), the Government must prove b… |
| 19-6229 | John Joseph Douglas v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-09 | Denied | IFP | acca aggravated-robbery aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law overbreadth-doctrine predicate-offense sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation stokeling sudden-snatching | I. IF A STATES AIDING AND ABETTING STATUTE IS BROADER THAN THE FEDERAL GENERIC DEFINITION; DOES AIDING AND ABETTING AGGRAVATED ROBBERY QUALIFY AS A … |
| 19-453 | Cargill, Inc. v. John Doe I, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-04 | Judgment Issued | CVSGResponse RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute corporate-liability extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality forced-labor foreign-operations human-rights international-law | 1. Whether the presumption against extraterritorial application of the Alien Tort Statute is displaced by allegations that a U.S. company generally co… |
| 19-6144 | Tom Smith, III v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting alternative-elements career-offender conspiracy controlled-substance-offense criminal-attempt divisible-statute sentencing-commission sentencing-commission-mandate sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate | I. whether the Sentencing Commission via commentary exceeded its statutory mandate under § 994(h) by includiiig/aiding and abetting, conspiracy, and a… |
| 19-6149 | Desmond Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting civil-procedure civil-rights commentary conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legal-analysis legal-citation legal-issues legal-research legal-terminology legal-writing sentencing-commission standing | Whether the Sentencing Commission violated the separation-of-powers doctrine when it added the offenses of conspiring, aiding and abetting, and attemp… |
| 19-6108 | Corey Kidd v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting controlled-substances crime-of-violence criminal-law physical-force robbery statutory-interpretation | I. Did the court below err in finding that the offense of aiding and abetting robbery of controlled substances qualifies as a crime of violence under … |
| 19-416 | Nestlé USA, Inc. v. John Doe I, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-27 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | aiding-and-abetting alien-tort-statute civil-procedure corporate-activity corporate-liability domestic-corporation extraterritoriality foreign-actors foreign-investment international-law jurisdiction | 1. Whether an aiding and abetting claim against a domestic corporation brought under the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350, may overcome the extrat… |
| 19-340 | Carey D. Ebert v. John Paul DeJoria, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-16 | Denied | Response Waived | aiding-and-abetting article-iii article-iii-standing bankruptcy bankruptcy-trustee breach-of-fiduciary-duty corporate-debt debtor-corporation fiduciary-duty judicial-proceedings standing trustee unpaid-debt | Whether a bankruptcy trustee who proved at trial, without objection, that defendants' tortious conduct (breach of fiduciary duty and aiding and abetti… |
| 19-5647 | Kenneth Randale Door v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting crimes-of-violence criminal-statutory-provisions force-clause sentencing-guidelines state-criminal-offenses statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions substantive-criminal-offenses washington | Whether a state aiding and abetting statute that is broader than generic aiding and abetting and incorporated within the state's substantive criminal … |
| 19-5631 | Joe Fernandez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c aider-and-abettor aider-and-abettor-liability aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error-analysis harmless-error jury-instruction rosemond-standard rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Whether the failure to give an instruction on aider and abetter liability for a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) that comported with this Court's de… |
| 19-176 | R. David Weisskopf v. Jewish Agency for Israel, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response Waived | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting anti-filing-injunction circuit-split civil-rights domestic-injury extortion extraterritorial hobbs-act mail-fraud rico rico-act | Whether the appellate court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of this Court, and in a three-way split with the Third Circuit and … |
| 18A1344 | Saquawn Harris v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-06-20 | Presumed Complete | accomplice-liability aiding-and-abetting appellate-review criminal-law jury-instructions mens-rea | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9529 | Anibal Del Valle-Hiraldo v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining rosemond-v-united-states sixth-amendment | Whether an attorney's advice to a defendant to plead guilty to aiding and abetting the carry, use and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crim… |
| 18-9465 | Beth Galloway v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-sufficiency financial-transaction financial-transactions insurance-fraud judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial new-trial | I. WHETHER A JUDGMENT OF ACQUITTAL SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED ON COUNTS 1 AND 2 BECAUSE THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT MS. GALLOWAY KNEW THAT THE MARTELLE H… |
| 18-9352 | Donald C. Ridley v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting Bullcoming-v-New-Mexico confrontation-clause Crawford-v-Washington due-process griffin-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions rosemond-v-united-states strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington yates-v-united-states | Does a lower Court's admission that a aiding and abetting jury instruction was erroneous in light of this Court decision in Rosemond v. United States,… |
| 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… |
| 18-8312 | Dayomashell David Aguilar v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-procedure first-degree-murder jury-instructions mens-rea miscarriage-of-justice | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability on Aguilar's claim that the jury instructions relieved the State of the b… |
| 18-7612 | Nathaniel Bowens v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking-crime firearm firearm-use mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court of Appeals' decision below contravenes this Court's holding in Rosemond v. United States, 572 U.S. 65, 78 (2014) that in order to ai… |
| 18-7303 | Joel Rivera v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advance-knowledge aiding-and-abetting armed-robbery credibility-of-witness credible-witness criminal-intent due-process evidence firearm-use new-trial prosecutorial-discretion seventh-circuit witness-credibility | WHETHER ROSEMOND V. UNITED STATES, 134 S.Ct. 1240 (2014), WAS WRONGLY INTERPRETED AND APPLIED BY THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS WHEN IT UPHELD M… |
| 18-7036 | Frank Richardson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-14 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | In Sessions v. Dimaya , 138 S. Ct. 1204, 1223 (2018) this Court recently struck down as unconstitutionally vague the Immigration and Nationality Act's… |
| 18-6865 | Adony Nina v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-statute due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-element prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation united-states | Whether Title 18 U.S.C. § 2 (Aiding and Abetting) Requires the Prosecution to prove Beyond A Reasonable Doubt The Jurisdictional Element By Establishi… |
| 18-6672 | Marciano Millan Vasquez, aka Chano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aiding-and-abetting drug-conspiracy due-process kingpin-statute murder | Whether the extraterritorial application of 21 U.S.C. § 848(e)(1)(A) to murders occurring wholly outside the United States violates the presumption ag… |
| 18-6424 | Walter Lee Deiter v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(e) aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery criminal-sentencing force mens-rea violent-felony | 1) whether aiding and abetting an unarmed bank robbery, which can be committed with a negligent or reckless mens rea, qualifies as a "violent felony''… |
| 18-210 | BATS Global Markets, Inc., et al. v. City of Providence, Rhode Island, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response Waived | aiding-and-abetting independent-choice market-manipulation primary-violator rigged-prices securities-fraud securities-fraud-claim third-party-liability trading-activity wash-sales | In Central Bank of Denver, N.A. v. First Interstate Bank of Denver, N.A., 511 U.S. 164 (1994), this Court held that the Securities Exchange Act does n… |
| 18-5482 | Jose Guadalupe Zepeda-Ramirez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment marijuana-distribution motion-for-acquittal possession-with-intent-to-distribute presumption-of-innocence sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Whether the Presumption of Innocence and Fifth Amendment's Right to Due Process are violated when the district court denies a motion for acquittal … |
| 18-5123 | Eric Glenn Parker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court jurisdiction murder murder-charge rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment venue venue-proof | 1. Was Venue Proven To Convict Eric Glenn Parker Of Conspiracy To Commit RICO- In The Northern District Of Mississippi? 2. Was Venue Proven To Convic… |
| 18-5079 | Michelle Lyn Michaud v. California | California | 2018-07-03 | Denied | IFP | aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process factfinding-function fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial jury-trial-guarantees reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment | 1. Did the trial court's incorrect instruction on aiding and abetting liability violate the constitutional jury trial guarantees of the Fifth, Sixth, … |