bail-reform-act
18 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A798 | Gavin Blake Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Application | bail-reform-act constitutional-rights due-process presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention sixth-amendment | Is the timely and proper movement before the trial court for production and inspection of grand jury proceedings available for interlocutory appellate… | |
| 25-5107 | Markos Pappas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bail-reform-act constitutional-challenge detention-conditions due-process federal-courts pretrial-detention | 1. Whether the Bail Reform Act of 1984 ("BRA ") is facially unconstitutional, and/or unconstitutional as-applied to Petitioner in this case based (ind… |
| 24-7315 | Kenyon Lamonte Watson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bail-reform-act criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury pretrial-detention res-judicata | Both the Constitution and the Bail Reform Act presume pretrial release. This petition presents the question of whether, under the Fifth Amendment and … |
| 24A514 | Jesus Perez-Garcia and John Thomas Fencl v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-26 | Presumed Complete | bail-reform-act dangerous-persons firearm-restrictions law-abiding-citizens pretrial-release second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7365 | Cory Jermaine White v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3142 bail-reform-act flight-risk judicial-finding judicial-hearing pretrial-detention release-conditions serious-flight-risk statutory-interpretation | Under the Bail Reform Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3142, must a judicial finding of serious flight risk, §3142(f)(2)(A), precede imposition of release conditions … |
| 22-5113 | Jerald Francis Gray v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review bail bail-reform-act bail-review circuit-split detention-standard liberty-interest standard-of-review | What standard of review should courts of appeals apply when reviewing district court bail decisions, given the important liberty interest at stake and… |
| 21-7664 | Luis Alonso Sam-Pena v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-20 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | bail-reform-act danger defendant-rights due-process flight-risk judicial-discretion pretrial-detention pretrial-services release-conditions | Under the Bail Reform Act of 1984, a judicial officer may order pretrial detention only if, after a hearing, the judicial officer finds that no condit… |
| 21-400 | Melecia Baltazar-Sebastian v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-14 | Denied | Response Waived | article-iii-court bail-reform-act civil-detention executive-branch executive-branch-authority immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-detention separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether it violates the separation of powers for executive branch officials to keep a person in civil detention on the basis of factual findings th… |
| 21-5109 | Everett Jerome Tripodis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal appellate-review bail-reform-act dangerousness due-process non-dangerous-offense pretrial-detention prolonged-detention statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a Court of Appeals was required to answer or resolve the legal questions presented to it, or if it may instead "overlook " or "evade " the … |
| 20-8008 | Eric Christopher Conn v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bail-reform-act conspiracy-to-escape criminal-conspiracy custody escape-statute federal-corrections federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus home-confinement jurisdictional-review parole-violation prisoner-rights | Whether an individual released on bond under the Bail Reform Act is in "custody" so as to trigger conspiracy to escape for a "walk away." |
| 20-7659 | Ilma Alexandra Soriano Nunez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bail-reform-act civil-detention criminal-defendant homeland-security pretrial-release statutory-interpretation statutory-time-period | Whether section 3142 (d)(2) of the Bail Reform Act (BRA), 18 U.S.C. § 3141 et seq. prevents the United States Department of Homeland Security from civ… |
| 20-689 | Michael Lee Foster v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-18 | Denied | Response Waived | bail-reform-act covid-19 covid-19-pandemic due-process excessive-bail internet-offenses internet-related-offenses presumption-of-detention pretrial-detention | This Court has not assessed the Bail Reform Act of 1984, 18 U.S.C. §§ 3141–3150, governing pretrial release for persons accused of federal crimes, sin… |
| 20-5913 | Bradley M. Cox v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bail-reform-act constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards factors-for-detention presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention release-conditions witness-testimony | 1. When the rebuttable presumption of detention exists how much or what quality of evidence is sufficient to rebut it? 2. Is the presumption of innoc… |
| 19-7726 | Larry Watkins, Sr. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bail bail-reform-act constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence moot-question mootness pretrial-bail residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness | Whether the judgment below should be vacated for deciding a moot question. |
| 19-5487 | Martin Anthony Nino v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-07 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | violate due-process|civil-rights|8th-amendment|ba without an individualized determination of necess bail-reform-act civil-rights competency-restoration confinement due-process eighth-amendment mental-health | (1) Does automatic confinement for competency restoration, without an individualized determination of whether confinement is necessary, violate due pr… |
| 18-8599 | Antwon D. Jenkins v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bail bail-reform-act due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-verdict-bail resentencing sentencing stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-rights | DOES A PETITIONER, AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY BY A JURY, HAVE A STATUTORY DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO POST-VERDICT BAIL, AND TO BE TREATED AS A DEFENDANT BEING… |
| 18-396 | Brittan Holland, et al. v. Kelly Rosen, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-09-28 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | bail bail-reform-act criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment monetary-bail new-jersey pretrial-detention pretrial-liberty restrictive-conditions | Whether New Jersey, which authorizes monetary bail, but affirmatively requires courts to exhaust more restrictive non-monetary conditions before even … |
| 18-5155 | Omar Qazi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bail-reform bail-reform-act constitutional-rights dangerousness due-process pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention sentencing-guidelines speedy-trial speedy-trial-act | Question not identified. |