| 24-5847 |
Albert Anderson v. Winston Salem Police Department, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-standard case-precedent court-decision judicial-discretion legal-reasoning procedural-review |
Under an abuse of discretion standard is reversal appropriate? To correct as lie: were the decision is unreasoned especially iden to several cases? wh… |
| 23-7654 |
Tildren Sherron Hunter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-standard criminal-evidence criminal-law drug-crimes evidence fourth-circuit-review intent intent-to-distribute jury-verdict methamphetamine-possession standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly upheld Mr. Hunter's conviction of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine where the Government fail… |
| 23-6106 |
Damion Edward Cruz-Benavente v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-standard constitutional-error criminal-procedure criminal-trial cumulative-error cumulative-errors due-process harmless-error judicial-review procedural-fairness standard-of-review verdict-influence |
To determine whether a criminal trial was unfair because of cumulative errors, does a court review whether the aggregate errors—both preserved and for… |
| 23-5276 |
German Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 22-7262 |
Alfred Coppage v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion standing |
Whether trial Court abused discretion by hearing a motion for Substitution of Judge of Counsel.
Whether Appellate Court overlooked the Correct Standa… |
| 22-6807 |
Antonio McGhee v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-standard civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juvenile-justice post-conviction prejudicial-error retroactivity sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6782 |
Richard Leon Wilbern v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment appellate-standard constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment standard-of-review witness-identification wrongful-convictions |
Witness misidentifications are a leading cause of wrongful convictions. The Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause thus requires trial courts to exclude… |
| 22-6659 |
Armando Lopez-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard concurrent-sentence gall-precedent gall-v-united-states individualized-assessment intellectual-disability judicial-explanation sentencing-courts sentencing-explanation sentencing-review |
Whether a sentencing court must provide a reasonable explanation, on the record, as to why it is not considering a sentencing factor advanced by a def… |
| 21-7097 |
Sinmyah Amera Ceasar v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553(a) appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states sentencing-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness terrorism terrorism-cases |
In Gall v. United States, 128 S. Ct. 586 (2007), this Court held that appellate courts must review the substantive reasonableness of all sentences und… |
| 20-6053 |
Dieter Riechmann v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-standard circuit-split evidence evidence-review federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standard-of-review state-court-determination statutory-interpretation |
Is a state court's conclusion that evidence not presented at trial was cumulative of other evidence before the jury a "determination of the facts" tha… |
| 20-5007 |
Anthony Ray Foley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split due-process federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release |
1. Is the "reasonableness" standard, under United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), the proper standard for appellate review of a sentence impose… |
| 19-7470 |
Agustin Martinez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing,appellate-review,18-usc-3553(a federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
L When conducting their substantive-reasonableness review of sentences, can appellate courts reweigh the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), as… |
| 19-7391 |
Larry David Davis v. Larry Tegley, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law appellate-standard civil-procedure civil-rights due-process insufficient-evidence judicial-review legal-sufficiency patent record-review standing takings trial-court |
THE EVIDENCE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT THE JUDGMENT OF MY TRIAL?
WHETHER RIGHT TO A SPEEDY TRIAL HAVE BEEN VIOLATED?
WHETHER A AFFIDAVIT IS NEEDED … |
| 19-6758 |
Michael Tryance Anderson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing sentencing-review standing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's substantive reasonableness review satisfies the standards set forth in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), Gall… |
| 19-6210 |
Marcus Jackson v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-standard case-by-case case-by-case-analysis circuit-split civil-procedure factual-circumstances federal-procedure judicial-review reasonable-time rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 |
WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD ISSUE A WRIT OF CERTIORARI IN ORDER TO RESOLVE
A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE SIXTH, FIFTH AND NINTH CIRCUITS ON WHAT IS THE
APPRO… |
| 18-9329 |
Sean M. Barnhill v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-standard certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition section-2255 sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review standard-of-review |
Did the Sixth Circuit err by exceeding the scope of the COA analysis when it re-adjudicated the merits of pro se petitioner's § 2255, and then denied … |
| 18-7655 |
Michael R. Spengler v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment appellate-standard civil-rights coercion constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process miranda-warnings police-lineup undercover-operations witness-identification |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 18-6459 |
Cliserio Balmes-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
In contrast with the Ninth Circuit, at least seven other circuits apply a standard which requires a sentencing judge provide some express treatment to… |
| 18-6271 |
Sonny Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness-challenge reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-booker |
(1) When—if at all—must a defendant object to the reasonableness of a sentence to preserve that argument for appellate review?
(2) What is the proper… |
| 18-144 |
Keith Byron Baranski v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-standard brady-giglio coram-nobis due-process materiality prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-suppression second-or-successive-motions second-successive-motions sentencing-reduction suppressed-evidence suppression-of-evidence witness-credibility |
After being released from custody following a conspiracy conviction, Keith Baranski challenged his conviction by filing a petition for writ of error c… |