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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A485 Matthew Borges v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-10-28 Application certiorari co-defendant criminal-procedure due-process extension-of-time petition Question not identified.
24-5452 Dustin Sierra, aka Dustin Sierro v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit kidnapping severance I. Whether or not the defendant's case shoul d have been severed from that of hi s co-defendant brother. II. Whether or not the government proved that…
23A1001 Amadi Sosa v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-05-09 Presumed Complete co-defendant confrontation-rights due-process perjury severance trial-procedure Question not identified.
23-5459 Maurice Turner v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause criminal-procedure douglas-v-alabama due-process harmless-error pretrial-statements sixth-amendment testimony WHETHER THE VIOLATION OF THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE AS EXPLICATED IN DOUGLAS V. ALABAMA, 380 U.S. 415, 85 S.CT. 1074, 13 L.ED.2D 934 (1965) WAS HARMLESS…
22-7905 Tikisha Upshaw v. California California 2023-06-29 Denied IFP cell-phone-location co-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility expert-witness fair-trial jury-instructions police-testimony scientific-reliability witness-testimony Question not identified.
22-7026 Erin F. Graham, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-offense criminal-procedure domestic-incident hearsay hearsay-statements law-enforcement ongoing-criminal-offense 1) Whether the introduction of a co-defendant's inculpatory hearsay statements about her alleged co-conspirator, made to law enforcement following a d…
21-6089 Edward N. Daniels v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-precedent bruton-v-united-states co-conspirator co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-admissibility precedent DID THE LOWER COURT ERR WHEN THEY REFUSED TO APPLY THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT IN BRUTON V. UNITED STATES, 391 U.S. 123 (1968) WHEN THE CO-CONSPIRATOR / C…
21-491 William T. Schmitt, et al. v. Craig M. Stephens, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response Waived appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights co-defendant due-process final-judgment preclusion preclusive-effect res-judicata 1. Whether the successful appeal of a final judgment by a "closely interwoven" co-defendant equitably relieves a non-appealing defendant of the preclu…
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…
21-5039 Gavin Wayne Wright v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied IFP co-conspirator-statements co-defendant criminal-conspiracy due-process entrapment false-statements federal-rules-of-evidence government-agent jury-instruction materiality testimony I. Petitioner pointed to the Government agent's testimony about his "recruitment" role and activities for co-defendant Patrick Stein, and admitted tes…
20-7114 Aesha Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant confrontation-clause constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence invited-error plea-agreement I. Does the admission into evidence of a non-testifying co-defendant's plea agreement which includes a statement implicating the defendant on trial as…
19-7827 Terry O'Nell Hall v. Texas Texas 2020-03-02 Denied IFP co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-trial cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process evidentiary-inconsistency fundamental-fairness inconsistent-testimony right-to-fair-trial sentencing-disparity victim-testimony witness-testimony DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN DECIDE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TD DUE P WAS NOT VIOLATED, WHERE THE VICTIM TESTIFIED ONE WAY DURING HIS TRIAL AND THEN TEST…
19-7069 Lee Alvin Vincent v. Brian E. Williams, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment actual-bias co-defendant due-process evidence-presentation fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-jury implied-bias juror-bias jury-bias sexual-infatuation Whether a juror's love for an adverse party (co-defendant) constitutes actual or implied bias and thus violates the defendant's right to an impartial …
19-5667 John J. Blodgett v. Erin Gaffney, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center First Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence brady-issue brady-violation certificate-of-appealability co-defendant co-defendant-statements co-defendant-testimony confrontation-clause due-process first-circuit-court habeas-corpus Did the First Circuit err by refusing to entertain Blodgett's two meritorious issues, and shut out the possibility of certificate of appealability; WH…
19-5528 Robert Anthony Chester v. West Virginia West Virginia 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant co-defendants constitutional-proportionality criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disparate-sentencing disproportionate-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection first-degree-robbery sentencing sentencing-disparity Was Petitioner's One Hundred Eighty Year Sentence For His Conviction Of Two Counts Of First Degree Robbery Disparate To The Twenty Year Sentence Impos…
19-5167 Christian Don'tae Hood v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP cellular-phone co-defendant compelled-testimony compulsory-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights jury-instruction post-arrest-interview search-and-seizure self-incrimination sixth-amendment I. IT WAS ERROR FOR THE TRIAL COURT TO ADMIT THE APPELLANT'S POST-ARREST INTERVIEW WHEN THE GOVERNMENT VIOLATED HIS FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS BY FORCIBLY…
19-5069 Chapel Thompson v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation buck-v-davis civil-procedure co-defendant court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus incriminating-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard procedural-analysis standing WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOLLOWED THE DICTATES OF THIS COURT'S DECISION IN BUCK V. DAVIS, EXPLAINING THAT THE COA STAGE IS NOT COEXTENSIVE WITH A …
18-8514 Jonathan Leroy Homedew v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion co-defendant co-defendants criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion plea-arrangement plea-bargaining procedural-rights right-to-be-present speedy-trial waiver Whether Petitioner waived Speedy Trial Rights based on Co-defendants Plea arrangements Whether Petitioner had rights to be present at all tribunal pr…
18-7568 Richard Earl Shere, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-01-25 Denied IFP co-defendant constitutional-review death-penalty equal-protection equal-protection,death-penalty,sentencing,retroact hurst-v-florida mccloud-v-state retroactivity ring-v-arizona sentencing-disparity 1. Whether Mr. Shere's case is no longer one of the most aggravated and least mitigated following Hurst v. Florida and he should have been convicted o…
18-6995 Ashley Owens v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant co-defendant-disparity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection loss-calculation plea-agreement sentencing 1. Did the Lower Courts violate the Due Process Clause when they sentenced Owens based on an unproven and inflated loss? 2. Did the Lower Courts viol…
18-6909 Albert Andrew Lucero v. Kim Holland, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-rule bruton-v-united-states co-defendant confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-rights crawford-analysis crawford-v-washington harmless-error joint-trial sixth-amendment testimonial-statement Was the California Court of Appeal's decision contrary to, or an unreasonable application of, this Court's jurisprudence holding that the Sixth Amendm…
18-421 Jose Luis Cepeda-Cortes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived co-defendant criminal-procedure extraneous-criminal-acts federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure joint-trial jury-reliability prejudice rule-14a severance spill-over-effect zafiro-v-united-states Does a fair and consistent application of Rule 14(a) require this Court to re-examine its decision in Zafiro and clarify the factors to be considered …
18-5281 Vincent Craig Mosley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-conspiracy due-process evidence evidence-admission plea-agreement plea-bargaining witness-testimony The question presented is: Whether a criminal defendant in a drug conspiracy trial is entitled to see the plea agreements of non-testifying co-defenda…