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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A843 | Harold Edward Spencer, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-23 | Application | circumstantial-evidence conspiracy criminal-attempt firearm-possession hobbs-act substantial-step | Question not identified. | |
| 25-837 | Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-15 | Denied | Response Waived | conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud pyramid-scheme securities-fraud sixth-circuit | 1. Whether by establishing a pyramid scheme, the Government can shortcut its burden of proving the necessary elements of conspiracy to commit mail fra… |
| 25A781 | Joquetta Riley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-06 | Application | conspiracy joint-and-several-liability mail-fraud mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution vicarious-liability | Does the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) of 1996 — as codified within 18 U.S.C. § 3663A — allow courts to confer vicarious restitution liabil… | |
| 25-6471 | Marcia Vazquez Rijos v. United States | First Circuit | 2026-01-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure conspiracy criminal-procedure indicative-ruling jurisdiction sixth-amendment | Rule 37 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure allows a party to seek an indicative ruling from the district court while an appeal is pending. Whi… |
| 25-6397 | Mark Dyer v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof conspiracy criminal-intent drug-distribution statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. § 846 predicated on the § 841 unlawful distribution offense requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt t… |
| 25A623 | Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-26 | Application | conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud mens-rea multi-level-marketing securities-fraud | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6241 | Vincent Gerald Garcia v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-procedure jury-unanimity plain-error sixth-amendment vicar-prosecution | Whether a district court commits plain error and violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a unanimous jury verdict when it fails to give a spec… |
| 25-6192 | Carl N. Merkle v. Johnny W. Thomas, Chapter 7 Trustee | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Denied | IFP | article-iii bankruptcy civil-rights conspiracy organized-crime sanctions | Is Merkle's surviving Chapter 11 bankruptcy case (in hidden 5thC 20-50025) now a ripe Article III of the US Constitution bankruptcy case ready to proc… |
| 25-5908 | Jean-Claude Okongo Landji v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-17 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances extraterritorial-prosecution sixth-amendment | 1. May the offense of conspiracy to distribute or possess with intent to distribute controlled substances while on a United States aircraft, pursuant … |
| 25-326 | Real Estate Exchange, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Zillow Group, Inc., a Washington Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-18 | Denied | Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) | antitrust business-association circuit-split conspiracy optional-rule sherman-act | Whether a business association that publishes a rule for its members can immunize the rule, and members' adherence to it, from being considered a cons… |
| 25-5652 | Federico Jose Maldonado-Aleman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court conspiracy drug-distribution jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth Circuit's decision that a defendant may be sentenced for drugs that he was not shown to have agreed to distribute violates the Court… |
| 25-306 | Thomas F. Spellissy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery conspiracy government-position honest-services-fraud official-act private-contractor | Whether a private contractor who holds no formal government position and lacks inherent governmental responsibility, can be convicted of conspiracy to… |
| 25-293 | General Dynamics Corporation, et al. v. Susan Scharpf | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-15 | Pending | CVSGAmici (2) | antitrust-claims conspiracy fraudulent-concealment sherman-act statute-of-limitations tolling-doctrine | Whether plaintiffs adequately plead that defendants engaged in fraudulent concealment, for purposes of tolling the Section 15b statute of limitations,… |
| 24-7131 | Kevin Michael Cardwell v. Paul David Bojrab, M.D., et al. | Indiana | 2025-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-USC-1985 attorney-appointment cognitive-impairment conspiracy constitutional-violation sex-offender-rights | 1.] Should individuals convicted of sex offenses be considered a protected class under U.S.C 1985 (3), given that their constitutional rights are ofte… |
| 24-7106 | Feifei Gu v. Leticia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. | New York | 2025-05-01 | Denied | IFP | attorney-general conspiracy criminal-prosecution judicial-misconduct legal-duty malfeasance | 1. Has Letitia James, as Attorney General of NY, neglected her duty when she refused to intervene in the fake criminal prosecution of CR-001793-24/KN … |
| 24-7070 | In Re Shawn Michael Chalifoux | 2025-04-24 | Denied | IFP | conspiracy controlled-substance false-testimony grand-jury prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution | 1) Does an Assistant U.S. Attorney have the authority to present perjurious testimony and/or false declarations before a grand jury and/or district co… | |
| 24-7022 | Darrell Lamar Marshall v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights color-of-law conspiracy constitutional-violations fraud statute-of-limitations | In cases of fraud, conspiracy and constitutional violations against a minor under the age of thirteen, committed by City, County, State and Federal of… |
| 24-1059 | Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-04-09 | Denied | Response Waived | bureau-of-investigations civil-rights conspiracy federal-government human-rights judicial-interference | Can the Federal Government Judicial influence and the Courts interference to disregard all the rules of the Courts to protect the Federal Bureau of In… |
| 24-1053 | In Re Sara Ann Edmondson | 2025-04-07 | Denied | Relisted (2) | article-iii color-of-law conspiracy mandamus third-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether this Court will exercise the power enumerated and entitled in Insurance Company v. Comstock to issue a writ of mandamus on the Third Circuit t… | |
| 24-6862 | Brandon Durell Hardison v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-link murder-case witness-testimony | Question not identified. |
| 24-6799 | James Garfield Charles v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-intent drug-trafficking evidence-tampering firearm-usage jury-trial | Question not identified. |
| 24-6650 | Abdullah Sall v. Sarah Fair George, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conspiracy defamation discrimination statute-of-limitations summary-judgment | According to established legal precedent, the deadline for submitting an appeal carries substantial legal implications for both litigants and defendan… |
| 24-900 | Parvez Anjum Qureshi v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-20 | Denied | Response Waived | conspiracy constitutional-rights controlled-substances due-process jury-instructions mens-rea | Where the district court misinforms and errone ously instructs the jury as to the mens rea requirement for Title 21 U.S.C. § 841( a), in violation of … |
| 24A766 | Aghee William Smith, II v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Presumed Complete | conspiracy criminal-conviction fourth-circuit mail-fraud sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6264 | Suresh Munshani v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-conviction due-process merger-doctrine money-laundering wire-fraud | 1. The following question is presented here. Does the merger of Petitioner's money laundering conspiracy conviction with Petitioner's wire fraud consp… |
| 24-5902 | Demetrius D. Bibbs v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy convicted-felon firearm-possession heroin-distribution insufficient-evidence manifest-weight | I. Whether there is insufficient evidence for a rational trier of fact to convict Mr. Bibbs of conspiracy to distribute heroin and possession of a fir… |
| 24-389 | Jean Coulter v. James P. Coulter, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights conspiracy due-process judicial-misconduct police-interference privacy-violation | 1. Do facts require that this matter be transferred to a different circuit? The co-conspirators used their "connections" to affect actions taken by ci… |
| 24-5500 | Terris Chanley Baker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-procedure evidence-standard federal-rule-of-evidence probative-knowledge whether-character-evidence | I. Whether character evidence dated after the conclusion of a conspiracy is probative of knowledge under Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b)? II. What pr… |
| 24-263 | In Re Joyce Beggs, et vir | 2024-09-09 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-rights conspiracy due-process extraordinary-writ federal-jurisdiction insurance-fraud | Whether Third Party insurance Agents and Adjustors from three different Court Systems Conspired against Petitioners under Title 18, U.S.C., Sect 241 a… | |
| 24-125 | Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | brady-disclosure brady-obligations conspiracy criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality-jurisdiction federal-agencies federal-agency improvised-explosive-devices statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. 844(f) and (n) apply extraterritorially to offenses committed abroad by non-U.S. persons, despite the statute's lack of any affir… | |
| 24-5172 | Hassan Abbas v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-charges criminal-prosecution first-circuit money-laundering overt-acts venue venue-constitutional-protection wire-fraud | Has the First Circuit impermissibly narrowed the constitutional protections as to venue when it comes to wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy pr… |
| 24-5105 | Heclouis Nieves-Diaz v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines | The United States Sentencing Guidelines define a "controlled substance offense" to include "the offense[] of conspiring to commit such offenses." The … |
| 23-7784 | Cornell Smith v. Nicholas Sanchez | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-power civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment ministerial-acts retaliation | Whether the 3 Wardens ' had a, meeting of the minds decided the fate of the Petitioner's issued retaliatory ordered .to their entire WCI Department a… |
| 23-7584 | Quentin M. Salmond v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2024-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-claim conspiracy criminal-law due-process newly-discovered-evidence pcra-time-bar retroactivity sentencing third-degree-murder | 1. Is Conspiracy to Commit Third Degree Murder a Non-Cognizable Offense? 2. Can a defendnat be convicted of Conspiracy to commit third degree murder … |
| 23-7541 | Tommy Duane Barnes v. Roberto Felix, Jr., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-22 | GVR | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-to-murder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct jurisdiction pro-se-representation standing texas-jurisdiction tyranny | 1) Was Ashtian actually MUR"ERE" as part of a plan ? 2) Was the petittioner(TOMMY BARNES) Constitutional Rights violated by The United States "istri… |
| 23A1013 | Jean Coulter v. James P. Coulter, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-05-15 | Presumed Complete | administrative-judge conspiracy due-process judicial-immunity property-rights section-1983 | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7481 | Maurice Owen Wiley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-conspiracy double-jeopardy fifth-amendment firearms firearms-possession hobbs-act | DOES THE IMPOSITION OF CONSECUTIVE PUNISHMENTS FOR CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT HOBBS ACT ROBBERY IN VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a) and CONSPIRACY TO POSSES… |
| 23-7459 | Alan Troy Houser v. Stephen Buzas, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1983 accomplice-liability civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-law criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process failure-to-intervene standing | Question not identified. |
| 23-1191 | Dru Choker, et al. v. National Veterinary Associates, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-03 | Denied | Response Waived | antitrust antitrust-standing civil-procedure conspiracy damage-relief damages impending-injury monopolistic-behavior monopoly sherman-act standing | Whether a party injured by antitrust behavior leading to a monopolistic end has standing for damage relief under the Sherman Act's 15 U.S.C. §§ 1, 2, … |
| 23-7284 | Neal Merrell Walker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent due-process ex-post-facto money-laundering sentencing sentencing-enhancement | (1).Does the fatal Variance from the indictment violate Mr.Walkers' Due process rights, v ;i*. i when he is convicted of and imprisonment for "Contro… |
| 23-7097 | Travis C. Crosby v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidence fraud fraud-charges ppp-loans relevant-conduct rule-404b sentencing | (1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in finding that the district court did not abuse its discretion by admitting Rule 404 (b) evidence of fraudulen… |
| 23A825 | Larry Muldrow v. Arkansas | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-07 | Denied | civil-rights conspiracy due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6827 | Victor Leon-Moya v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-importation drug-trafficking enhancement-factors importation jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | 1) Whether a defendant's suggestion for a codefendant to pay a supplier what the codefendant owed said supplier constitutes "directing" per USSG § 3… |
| 23-6679 | Quaysean Tikii Williams v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2024-02-06 | Denied | IFP | conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence firearm jackson-v-virginia robbery sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the evidence was sufficient under Jackson v. Virginia, 99 S.Ct. 2781 (1979), to support petitioner's conviction for conspiracy to commit robbe… |
| 23-6588 | Aaron Ramirez Espinoza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-conspirator conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law due-process evidence government-informant sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-testimony | Whether a government informant and co-conspirators testimony of another's involvement in the conspiracy is sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction… |
| 23-6577 | Vahe Dadyan and Artur Ayvazyan, aka Arthur Ayvazyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-restitution proportional-punishment reasonably-foreseeable restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3663A (Mandatory restitution to victims of certain crimes) which imposes restitution for losses "directly and proximately" caused … |
| 23-6568 | Bouazza Ouaziz v. City of Jersey City, New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law conspiracy discovery-rule due-process rico-act sexual-assault statute-of-limitations | 1. Whether the court of appeal third circuit erred in affirming the district court dismissing plaintiff sexual assault under color of law on December … |
| 23-6552 | In Re Vincent Pisciotta | 2024-01-24 | Denied | IFP | arson circuit-split conspiracy criminal-law double-jeopardy federal-felony statutory-interpretation | Can a conviction for "using fire to commit a federal felony", under 18 U.S.C. § 844(h)(1), be predicated upon the conspiracy conduct element of a "con… | |
| 23-6533 | James O. Bradley v. Roy Cooper, Governor of North Carolina, et al. | North Carolina | 2024-01-23 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-power access-to-courts administrative-appeal administrative-procedure administrative-remedy civil-rights conspiracy corrections-department due-process incarcerated-rights judicial-review | Did the Columbus County District Court err in its initial ruling? Did the NC Court of Appeals err in taking no action on this appeal? Did the DHJ/NC… |
| 23-6498 | Kevin Clayton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial murder racketeering racketeering-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the Jury Trial guarantees contained in the Sixth Amendment were violated when the District … |
| 23-6495 | Peter Burno v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-law controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking drug-transfer due-process intent-to-distribute ninth-circuit sentencing | Is the mere transfer of drugs from one person to another sufficient to prove a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substanc… |
| 23-6460 | Richard C. Duerson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice newly-discovered-evidence pro-se rule-33 sixth-amendment supervisory-power | 1. Given that Rule 33 of the Federal Criminal Rules of Procedure allows a court discretion to grant a new trial if the interest of justice require, … |
| 23-6455 | Darrel R. Fisher v. United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights trespass warrantless-search | 1) first: 4:99-01.2-BCW; When wasLibfie Federal Government allowed to "open" a [case] against me in 1999, and when was any indictment fitst made publi… |
| 23-6416 | Carla Slater v. Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conspiracy employment-discrimination first-amendment fraud government-agencies religious-discrimination retaliation statute-of-limitations title-vii | 1. Whether Title VII violations and retaliation claims are isolated events confined to the date they occurred when they are part of a conspiracy and f… |
| 23-6400 | Michael Hewitt v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-01-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-law double-jeopardy drug-distribution evidence jury-instructions | Should the trial court have acquitted Petitioner of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine where (1) the evidence at best showed a conspiracy to dis… |
| 23-6399 | Michael Salinas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the government must pr… |
| 23-638 | Kenneth Wendell Ravenell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | Amici (2) | burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure federal-prosecution jury-instructions money-laundering non-overt-act-conspiracy statute-of-limitations | Whether, to comply with 18 U.S.C. § 3282(a) in a prosecution for a non-overt act conspiracy, the government bears the burden of proving to a jury that… |
| 23-6071 | Christopher L. Takhvar v. Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief standing state-court-procedure | Question not identified. |
| 23-442 | Anthony Prescott v. K. Johnson, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-27 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment food-contamination food-service fourth-amendment intentional-tort official-capacity-claim prisoner-rights public-entity use-of-force | Question: Does involuntary exposure to any non-medically necessary medication, steroid, chemical cleaning compound, schedule II drugs, toxin or any un… | |
| 23-5856 | Dmt MacTruong, aka Mac Truong v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abortion civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights copyright copyright-law federal-jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice standing texas-heartbeat-act | Does Petitioner, Dmt MacTruong, a U.S. citizen living in New Jersey, have standing to sue in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas… |
| 23-5703 | Festus Okwudili Ohan v. ABN AMRO, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-liberties civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure legal-interpretation property property-rights takings tax-assessment | Question not identified. |
| 23-5683 | Mary Louise Smith, et al. v. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 14th-amendment child-removal civil-rights conspiracy due-process equal-protection race racial-discrimination state-immunity | 1. Did a conspiracy exist among the appointed State employees, the Osceola School District, the Osceola Police Department, and Families, Inc. to deny … |
| 23-5623 | Patrick Medearis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law overt-act sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 | I. Does conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 qualify as a "controlled substance offense" under USSG § 4B1.2… |
| 23-262 | Vinodh Raghubir v. Bonnie Jean Parrish, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-18 | Denied | 1985 1986 civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy conspiracy government-official-liability immunity judicial-immunity section-1985 section-1986 sovereign-immunity | 1. Do immunity statutes ,whether state or federal ,protect , a state who has waived sovereign immunity, judiciary ,officers of the court ,or any other… | |
| 23-232 | BASF Metals Limited, et al. v. KPFF Investment, Inc., et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-09-13 | Denied | Amici (3) | civil-procedure co-conspirator conspiracy due-process forum-contacts jurisdictional-requirements personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction | Whether due process permits a court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a defendant based on the forum contacts of an alleged co-conspirat… |
| 23-120 | United States Soccer Federation, Inc. v. Relevent Sports, LLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-08-08 | Denied | CVSGAmici (3)Relisted (2) | antitrust antitrust-law circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-pleading membership-association pleading sherman-act trade-restraint | Whether allegations that members of an association agreed to adhere to the association's rules, without more, are sufficient to plead the element of c… |
| 23-5292 | Carlos Arturo Patino Restrepo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-instructions prosecutorial-discretion | Where an indictment alleges a conspiracy involving a specific group, does a district court's conspiracy instructions which removes any mention of the … |
| 23-73 | Colleen Huber v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response Waived | censorship civil-rights conspiracy first-amendment free-speech pleading-stage pleading-standards social-media-regulation state-action twombly-iqbal | Petitioner Dr. Colleen Huber sued President Biden (in his official capacity) and Twitter for censoring Dr. Huber's speech on Twitter critical of the B… |
| 23-5178 | Bobby Dean Robey v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-crimes evidence sentencing | I.WHETHER THERE WAS INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE THAT MR. ROBEY WAS INVOLVED IN THE "IMPORTATION" OF METHAMPHETAMINE? II.WHETHER MR. ROBEY'S CRIMINAL HISTOR… |
| 23-5042 | Daniel Robinson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-rule-of-evidence fifth-amendment grand-jury law-enforcement-testimony opinion-evidence prosecutorial-overreach | 1. Whether this Court's guidance on constructive amendments in conspiracy cases is necessary to protect criminal defendants' Fifth Amendment rights. … |
| 23-2 | Gerald Spruell v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-06-30 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantities evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's verdict and drug quantities attributed to the … |
| 22-7892 | Sherri Jefferson v. State Bar of Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights claim-preclusion conspiracy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdictional-bar racial-discrimination standing state-court statutory-interpretation | dd 0\ier IMd CQSS5 of >gtn radon oojans J prooP oP a conspiracy Subj ecV fc\acX lasers "Vo discipline and cl S^ecxf .ccxmpaiQn do d^screib *n FKrrl … |
| 22-7869 | Kendall Demarko Wysinger, aka Demarko, aka D v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-law drug-statute human-trafficking life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation | L. Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Refusing To Reverse Wysinger's Conviction On Count One For Conspiracy To Violate 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)(1) (Lawy… |
| 22-7694 | Karl Ray Masek v. Rob Isonta, Attorney General of California, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-06-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conspiracy due-process federal-procedure law-enforcement mail-fraud racketeering retaliation rico-complaint standing | Petitioner contends California defendant officers, and agents engaged in conspiracy cover-up of corruption in promoting themselves, intimidation, stal… |
| 22-1117 | Charlotte Freeman, et al. v. HSBC Holdings PLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-05-16 | Denied | civil-conspiracy civil-rights conspiracy deferred-prosecution-agreements due-process foreign-terrorist-organizations jasta material-support sanctions terrorism terrorism-sanctions | 1. Whether a JASTA claim for civil conspiracy requires only that acts of international terrorism be a foreseeable consequence of the terrorism sanctio… | |
| 22-7548 | Vickie Leavitt Duran v. Nevada Division of Parole and Probation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence conspiracy due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-protections wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions | 1) Is Due Process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, under Section 1.5.1 (Overview of Procedural Due Process) considere… |
| 22-7204 | Eriston Wilson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-charges evidence-admissibility extrinsic-evidence intent intent-standard not-guilty rule-404(b) rule-404b | Each Court of Appeals has instituted its own multi-pronged test for determining the admissibility of extrinsic evidence under Fed. R. Evid. 404(b), cr… |
| 22-7167 | Quentin Truley v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining probable-cause sentencing | (1) Under categorical approach, is 18 USC § 924(c)'s residual clause held as unconstitutionally vague, and predicated by Conspiracy to Commit Hobbs Ac… |
| 22-6997 | John B. Freitas v. Noel Wise, Judge, Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-13 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conspiracy domestic-terrorism due-process first-amendment free-speech government-corruption judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct real-estate-fraud sedition | 1. No one is above the law. Local, State and Federal judges are not above the law. Federal judges who assume that they are above the law should realiz… |
| 22-853 | Donald V. Watkins, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response Waived | accredited-investors conspiracy corporate-governance intent-to-defraud ongoing-business risk-disclosure statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred, as a matter of law, in sustaining a conviction for wire fraud conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. §1349 (in Count One of… |
| 22-6926 | Jesse Davenport, aka Draco John Flama v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-conviction due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury multi-count-indictment petit-jury | Whether a court violates a defendant's Fifth Amendment Grand Jury rights when it instructs a petit jury that it can convict him for a conspiracy consi… |
| 22-6875 | Yvonne Jiang v. Helen Xu, et al. | California | 2023-02-28 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-power civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-conspiracy judicial-misconduct vexatious-litigant | 1. California Constitution and its Rules of Court confer too much power to its Chief Justice that when the Chief Justice conspires with the people who… |
| 22-6839 | Michael O. Brown v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-court-precedent conspiracy conspiracy-conviction criminal-career-offender prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit state-convictions | Whether the court erred in failing to grant appellant relief from his sentence enhancement based upon his prior state convictions after Mathis and whe… |
| 22-779 | Jeffrey Wills Lusk, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Dorothy Jean Ross Lusk, Deceased v. Alsata Salimatu Lamin, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-17 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1985-3 civil-rights class-based-animus congressional-power conspiracy constitutional-law discrimination discriminatory-intent federal-jurisdiction state-action statutory-interpretation | Should a conspiracy motivated by invidiously discrim inatory intent other than racial bias be actionable un der 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3), the possibility o… |
| 22-6790 | Alexis Jaimez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process gang-membership guilt-by-association money-laundering | Whether the Ninth Circuit's holding that a defendant is guilty of money laundering conspiracy because he was a "foot soldier" in a gang and therefore … |
| 22-6398 | Deon Lewis Duke v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-12-27 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-rights conspiracy corruption criminal-record delusion due-process law-enforcement property-rights standing telecommunications | Question not identified. |
| 22-6307 | John Homer Legros, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "Conspiracy" to Commit a Crime is a Controlled Substance Offense as defined under the United States Sentencing Guide lines Section §4B1.2I. W… |
| 22-6211 | In Re Patricia Ann Solomon | 2022-12-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-charge controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution heck-v-humphrey legitimate-purpose medical-prescription prescribing-authority prescription-drugs | As per Honorable Justice Breyer's opinion in the new United States Supreme Court ruling XIULU RUAN v. UNITED STATES No. 20-1410. Argued March 1, 2022 … | |
| 22-508 | John O. Green v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-30 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-371 conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud criminal-law criminal-prosecution defraud-the-united-states federal-agency internal-revenue-service jury-instructions statutory-interpretation | In a series of decisions from this Court, the reach and scope of conspiracies to defraud the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 were define… |
| 22-6114 | Phillip Scott Grigalanz v. Kristi Lynn Grigalanz | Indiana | 2022-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy due-process felony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing | SHOULD RESPONDENT BENEFIT FROM A CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A FELONY CRIME? DOES THE CONDUCT OF THE INDIANA COURTS VIOLATE PETITIONER'S FIFTH AND FOURTEENT… |
| 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 … |
| 22-5816 | Tony Lam v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 career-offender conspiracy conspiracy-offense controlled-substance ineffective-assistance legislative-authority legislative-delegation sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines | Did trial counsel provide ineffective assistance to his client upon his failure to research, investigate, and object to his client's career offender c… |
| 22-330 | Eric Weller v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-10-07 | Denied | Response Waived | conspiracy fiduciary-duty insider-trading knowledge material-nonpublic-information personal-benefit remote-tippee tippee tippee-liability | Liability for insider trading arises when someone acts on material nonpublic information. Dirks v. SEC, 463 U.S. 646, 653 (1983). That person may be a… |
| 22-5779 | James Michael Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions money-laundering standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by finding that the evidence was sufficient to convict Mr. Johnson of wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money l… |
| 22-5689 | Michael G. Peters v. Lee H. Rosenthal | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-28 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1985 civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy due-process standing | Whether it is permissible for one co-worker to cover-up for another co-worker when both are involved in the same criminal conspiracy to cover-up corpo… |
| 22-5576 | Thoucharin Ruttanamongkongul v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-work sexual-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime | When state values v. evidence, to show that petitioner fired (unclear handwriting) to the United States to court completely e.g. a six footers; and th… |
| 22-5522 | Fernando Cazares v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal certificate-of-appealability conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict pinkerton-conspiracy section-241 section-245 sentencing violent-crime | Did the court of appeals err in failing to grant a certificate of appealability where the application presented three debatable questions: First, the … |
| 22-5421 | Henry Wilke Eilders v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-history drug-conspiracy drug-offenses federal-sentencing-guidelines methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether Petitioner's prior methamphetamine related convictions occurring within two years of the conspiracy for distributing methamphetamine should… |
| 22-5378 | Robert Collazo, Lino Delgado-Vidaca, Julio Rodriguez, and Steven Amador v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-penalties drug-distribution due-process mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing | Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the Government must sh… |
| 22-87 | Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-29 | Denied | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment standing | Whether respondents Milton F. Fitch, Jr., Ownes Chads, E., Calvin Woodard, Jr., Robert A. Evans, Roland Loftin, Donald W. Stephen, Colon Willoughby, C… | |
| 22-5202 | In Re Tavon Dameon Davis | 2022-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct mandamus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-tampering | Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the court of appeals (Fourth Circuit) to remand this case to the district court without delay to hol… | |
| 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… |
| 21-8089 | Darrell E. Gillespie v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | §924(c)-offense 924c categorical-approach civil-rights conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-precedent due-process force-elements-clause pinkerton-liability | The question presented is whether, after Davis, the invocation of Pinkerton theory of liability by the government, without more, obviates the governme… |
| 21-1503 | Lloyds Banking Group plc, et al. v. The Berkshire Bank, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-06-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure co-conspirator conspiracy defendant-actions due-process forum jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction | Whether a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant merely because the defendant's alleged co-conspirator took foreseeable actions in … |
| 21-7957 | Samuel Morales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-crimes elements-of-crime reasonable-doubt | Whether the government fails to prove the elements of a drug conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt when it has only circumstantial evidence and that ev… |
| 21-7795 | Michael G. Peters v. Tony Duckworth, aka Anthony, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-06 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy due-process standing takings | Question not identified. |
| 21-1407 | Symon Mandawala v. Northeast Baptist Hospital, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-02 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-rights conflict-of-interest conspiracy due-process judge judicial-bias lawyer section-1983 sixth-amendment | The Petitioner was a student at the school owned by the Baptist churches in San Antonio named Baptist School of Health Professions run by TENET and wa… |
| 21-7736 | Bertha Montes de Oca v. Park Way Baptist Church | Florida | 2022-04-28 | Denied | IFP | baptist-church civil-rights complots conspiracy constitutional-violation criminal-justice discrimination due-process government-agencies legal-proceedings murder-case | Question not identified. |
| 21-7720 | Matthew William Wheeler, aka Matthew Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-intent mail-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct scheme-to-deceive scheme-to-defraud wire-fraud | 1. Whether the Government Must Prove an Intent to Harm as an Element in Establishing a Defendant's Participation in a "Scheme to Defraud" in Any Prose… |
| 21-1382 | Audubon Imports, LLC, dba Mercedes Benz of Baton Rouge, et al. v. Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft (BMW AG), et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response Waived | antitrust civil-procedure conspiracy conspiracy-inference district-court lawful-conduct plausibility-standard pleading pleading-burden sherman-act | To determine whether plaintiffs have met their burden to plead a plausible claim under § 1 of the Sherman Act, may the district court weigh whether an… |
| 21-1237 | Lloyds Banking Group PLC, et al. v. Schwab Short-Term Bond Market Fund, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6) | civil-procedure co-conspirator conspiracy defendant due-process forum forum-contacts jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction | Whether a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant merely because the defendant's alleged co-conspirator took foreseeable actions in … |
| 21-7323 | Russell Hampton v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review conspiracy jury-instructions juvenile-delinquency juvenile-delinquency-act post-majority-misconduct presentence-report presumption-of-retaliation sentencing-guidelines | Whether, to comply with the Juvenile Delinquency Act, a jury must be instructed that it cannot convict unless it finds that the defendant 'ratified' h… |
| 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… |
| 21-7083 | Michael Kenneth Rich v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-02-09 | Denied | IFP | conspiracy criminal-sentencing due-process due-process-of-law future-tense-instruction individualized-responsibility individualized-sentencing panel-decision rico-conspiracy rico-enterprise | 1. Ifa RICO enterprise exists for legitimate associational as well as illegitimate purposes, does it violate due process and the obligation to individ… |
| 21-1063 | Elaine Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-01 | Denied | Response Waived | conspiracy criminal-acquittal due-process fifth-amendment health-care-fraud presumption-of-innocence statutory-interpretation unjust-compensation unjust-conviction-and-imprisonment | 1. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2513's requirement that a defendant acquitted because of insufficient evidence must affirmatively disprove the factual allegati… |
| 21-6952 | Sunrise Lee v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-01-25 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-court judgment-of-acquittal legal-sufficiency physician prescription-drugs | 1. Whether a non-physician may be convicted of conspiring with a physician to prescribe controlled substances outside of the course of professional pr… |
| 21-6936 | Charles Roland Cheatham, aka Chi-Chi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-investigation criminal-investigation evidence-derivation law-enforcement-procedure material-misstatement necessity probable-cause transfer wiretap wiretap-authorization | 1. May the government obtain a wiretap to investigate whether an individual is a member of an alleged conspiracy, by relying in part upon evidence fro… |
| 21-994 | John Kapoor v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-01-13 | Denied | Relisted (2) | conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-law due-process evidence-standard judgment-of-acquittal medical-prescription physician-liability professional-practice sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Whether a non-physician may be convicted of conspiring with a physician to prescribe controlled substances outside the course of professional pract… |
| 21-6775 | Temne Adah Hardaway v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure financial-transactions money-laundering sixth-amendment specified-unlawful-activity venue venue-jurisdiction | In United States v. Cabrales, 524 U.S. 1, 2 (1998) this Court and the Eighth Circuit held in a substantive money laundering charge that venue is impro… |
| 21-6710 | Prince Charles Nana Yaw Owusu Boateng v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy count-of-conviction court-of-appeals criminal-restitution loss-calculation mandatory-victims-restitution-act pattern-of-criminal-activity restitution scheme sentencing | Under the Mandatory Victim s Restitution Act, when an offense does not involve as an element a scheme, conspiracy, or pattern of criminal activity, … |
| 21-6668 | Shane Patrick Sprague v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | animal-welfare-act conspiracy due-process eleventh-circuit evidence-sufficiency insufficient-evidence jury-deliberation jury-deliberations supervisory-jurisdiction | Whether in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the United States Courts, this Court should correct the correctable injustice that occurr… |
| 21-6679 | Juan Jarmon v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-law crack-cocaine criminal-law evidence evidentiary-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review united-states-v-pressler | Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision in conflict with the decision of United States v. Pressler where the evidence presented … |
| 21-6601 | Austin Woods v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c co-conspirator conspiracy crime-of-violence pinkerton-liability statutory-interpretation substantive-offense | In 1946, this Court enunciated the Pinkerton theory of liability, which permits a defendant to be held liable for a substantive offense committed by a… |
| 21-845 | David Pitlor v. TD Ameritrade, Inc., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-07 | Denied | arbitration arbitration-agreement cause-of-action civil-procedure complaint-dismissal conspiracy due-process federal-arbitration-act pleading-supplement res-judicata | QUESTION #1: Does res judicata preclude a cause of action for conspiracy that arises after a Complaint was filed, but prior to that initial claim's di… | |
| 21-6299 | Daryl Cook v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-11-16 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights collusion conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution constitutional-rights due-process legislative-immunity political-association prosecutorial-discretion standing | Whether the procedure due process violations described in Petitioner's federal Complaint caused the settlement in the state court to be void AB INITIO… |
| 21-6265 | Jonathan Barrett v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buyer-seller buyer-seller-instruction circuit-conflict conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-law drug drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions | Is a defendant's constitutional right to present an effective legally acceptable defense violated when the district court wrongfully declines to give … |
| 21-6233 | Joe Lenard Rodriguez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-trial methamphetamine | 1. Did the courts below err when they determined that there was sufficient evidence to convict the Petitioner of Conspiracy to Distribute Methampheta… |
| 21-6090 | Olry Maurival v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy crawford-confrontation criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency false-tax-return false-tax-returns hearsay-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence tax-fraud | I. WHETHER THE VERDICT OF GUILT WAS SUPPORTED BY SUFFCIENT EVIDENCE TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION, AND THE EVIDENCE, VIEWED IN A LIGHT MOST FAVORABLE TO THE… |
| 21-593 | Priscilla Everette-Oates v. Beth Wood, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-22 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights civil-rights-action conspiracy due-process evidence-concealment immunity municipal-immunity municipal-liability prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment | In a claim alleging conspiracy to conceal evidence against a public official who was falsely charged with embezzlement, can multiple municipal defenda… |
| 21-6051 | Travis L. Watson v. Dennis Daniels, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment fraud habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice | and Fraudulent imprisonment under a falsified document? The state imprisoned mr. Watson past the l25 month maximum sentence ordered in the zoo5 Origi… |
| 21-6014 | Yina Maria Castaneda Benavidez, aka La Reina, aka Ingeniera v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-standard knowledge-element sentencing sentencing-disparity | This petition arises from the affirm ance of a judgment of conviction and sentence to a term of 22 ½ years ' incarceration following a jury trial for … |
| 21-496 | Martez L. Smith v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | categorical-approach conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure guideline-interpretation overt-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the categorical approach for generic offenses applies to the offense of conspiring under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 Application Note 1 and requires a… |
| 21-5744 | Joseph George v. United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation criminal-conspiracy due-process federal-law law-enforcement prisoner-rights public-officials standing | DoeS AlONg RUNNiNg GOVERNMEN/ ANd ORgANiZEd CRIMiNAL CoNspiRAcy taRgeting ANd fRaming pelitioNeR toe batteRy caSES Meet the PLRA 3-striKes exceptiorof… |
| 21-5727 | Frank Cisneros v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-defense criminal-procedure federal-law ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement statute-of-limitations withdrawal | (1) Whether an attorney's admitted failure to investigate or present a defendant's affirmative withdrawal from a conspiracy beyond the applicable st… |
| 21-5560 | Gary Lamar Henry v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-law pinkerton-liability sentencing supreme-court violent-crimes | 1. Whether Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946) liability, which only requires that a conspirator reasonably foresee the substantive crimes… |
| 21-5543 | Louis Matthews v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-charge federal-law indictment judgment-acquittal ninth-circuit plain-error | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in upholding a conviction for a conspiracy other than the conspiracy charged in the indictment, on a theory raised for th… |
| 21-5484 | Sylvia Diaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-law due-process equal-protection firearms licensed-dealer mens-rea selective-prosecution straw-purchase | Petitioner plead guilty to one count of conspiring to commit straw purchases of firearms (as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(6)) in violation of 18 U… |
| 21-5485 | Yamilet Diaz v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anti-kickback conspiracy criminal-liability due-process federal-health-care government-burden-of-proof intended-victim jury-instructions medicare-fraud | I. Whether jury instructions, which require that the government prove a defendant knew the crimes were against the United States and involved a federa… |
| 21-5431 | Jereme Eugene Mackey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel pre-trial-custody sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation | I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN FINDING THE APPELLANT JEREME EUGENE MACKEY GUILTY INASMUCH AS THE GOVERNMENT FAILED TO PROVE AT THE TIME OF ARR… |
| 21-5436 | William D. Dickerson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-analysis civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-review court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-standard legal-procedure procedural-error sentencing statutory-interpretation | The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header … |
| 21-5400 | Maria Gonzalez Maldonado v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking federal-sentencing methamphetamine-possession minor-participant sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Did Maria Gonzalez Maldonado conspire to possess and/or actually and knowingly possess between 5kg-15kg kilograms of methamphetamine pursuant to U.… |
| 21-183 | Gas Pipe, Inc., et al. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-09 | Denied | appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud constitutional-error criminal-law defraud-clause government-function harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 371's defraud clause, which in relevant part prohibits conspiracies "to defraud the United States," reaches any conspiracy whos… | |
| 21-143 | Raymond Rodriguez-Rivera v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines | The United States Sentencing Guidelines define a "controlled substance offense" as one that includes "the offense[] of * * * conspiring * * * to commi… |
| 21-5235 | Vincent Holton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conviction criminal-procedure due-process entrapment jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing | 1. Whether t he District Court Wrongly Denied Petitioner's Request for a Jury Instruction on Entrapment ? 2. Whether t he Court Erred by Allowing the… |
| 20-8475 | Plutarco Angulo-Aguirre v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure conspiracy criminal-law due-process jurisdiction standing | Question not identified. |
| 20-8429 | Christopher Forman v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2021-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment burglary conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing | 1. Did the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania defy the due process clause of the Fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution by permitting a conv… |
| 20-8362 | Damion Sleugh v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment judge-made-law Pinkerton-liability substantive-offense substantive-offenses | 1. May a defendant be found guilty of a substantive offense based on Pinkerton liability where that offense was not an object of the alleged conspirac… |
| 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. |
| 20-8231 | Kevin Thomas Seigler v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-04 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-courts single-transaction | 1. Is evidence of a single sale of illegal drugs, from one seller to one buyer, sufficient to support a conviction for conspiracy to distribute illega… |
| 20-8138 | Eddy Pena v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-846 conspiracy conspiracy-liability controlled-substances pinkerton-doctrine reasonable-foreseeability sentencing statutory-interpretation | Should the Court grant certiorari in order to determine whether under 21 U.S.C. § 846 (conspiracy to distribute controlled substances) it is proper to… |
| 20-1586 | Artavis Desmond McGowan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-14 | Denied | Response Waived | conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-conviction evidence first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-relief wiretap wiretap-evidence | I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERR IN DENYING McGOWAN'S MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL BASED ON CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT OF THE INDICTMENT WHEN IT ALLOWED THE GOVE… |
| 20-7991 | Bulmaro Contreras-Figueroa, aka Israel Contreras v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury sentencing statutory-interpretation | Is the Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury violated when a defendant enters a guilty plea to an indictment that alleges a conspiracy to commit an of… |
| 20-1551 | Arthur O. Armstrong v. North Carolina, et al. | North Carolina | 2021-05-10 | Denied | civil-rights conspiracy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment land-encroachment land-use property-rights takings | 1. Whether respondents transgressed the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States when appellees on or about December … | |
| 20-7866 | Paul Demetrius Lamar Gray v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause physical-force pinkerton-conspiracy pinkerton-liability postal-robbery residual-clause statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Before United States U. Johnson, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), the federal courts routinely relied on the residual clause to hold that convictions sustained un… |
| 20-7838 | Edward M. Vargas, Sr. v. Craig Koenig, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-charge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process fair-notice indictment jury-conviction jury-instructions ninth-circuit | Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's precedents in ruling that Petitioner was not denied fair notice of the charges against him despite t… |
| 20-1460 | Rolando Cruz, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-16 | Dismissed | Response Waived | appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure evidence evidence-standard indictment indictment-variance rico-conspiracy third-circuit united-states-v-rowe | I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT TO JUSTIFY AFFIRMANCE OF THE RICO CONSPIRACY CONVICTIONS ON THE BASIS OF EVIDENCE PROVING SOMETHING QUIT… |
| 20-1406 | Arthur O. Armstrong v. North Carolina, et al. | North Carolina | 2021-04-07 | Denied | civil-rights conspiracy due-process gross-negligence land-dispute negligence official-discrimination property property-rights will-interpretation | 1. Whether respondent, Charles Farris, acted with gross negligence to deprive appellant of his 8468 Orchard Road farm house and % acre of land when ap… | |
| 20-1358 | Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-26 | Denied | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation deprivation-of-liberty detention due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment | 1. Whether appellees acted in a conspiracy to deprive appellant of liberty or property without due process of law in violation of the Fourth and Fourt… | |
| 20-7578 | Valentin Spataru v. Rick Ramsay, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-26 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment detention-conditions due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-dismissal official-conspiracy standing | 1. Whether the Courts may or may not dismiss an Appeal and Motion to Proceed In Forma Pauperis on Appeal when the Appellant has not paid the docket fe… |
| 20-7379 | Miguel Angel Corujo Mercado v. Florida | Florida | 2021-03-09 | Denied | IFP | conspiracy constitutional-protection continuous-act criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment multiple-charges | CAN A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT BE CHARGED AND CONVICTED WITH MULTIPLE CONSPIRACIES FOR A SINGLE CONTINUOUS CONSPIRACY ACT WITHOUT VIOLATING RIGHT TO BE FREE… |
| 20-7363 | Lerone Bernard Butler v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-offenses due-process law-enforcement-misconduct possession-with-intent sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence | WHETHER THE VERDICT OF GUILT WAS SUPPORTED BY SUFFCIENT EVIDENCE TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION, AND THE EVIDENCE, VIEWED IN A LIGHT MOST FAVORABLE TO THE GO… |
| 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. … |
| 20-7217 | Felix Cisneros, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-intent criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing statutory-elements statutory-interpretation waiver-doctrine | 1. Can a person be convicted of conspiracy to violate a statute containing an element increasing the offense's severity, where that element is not act… |
| 20-1146 | Pamela Smith v. PacerMonitor, LLC, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act conspiracy deprivation-of-rights due-process emotional-distress res-judicata rule-60 standing | 1. Whether the process petitioner received in this case is sufficient to satisfy the substantive and procedural due process standard. 2. Whether "R… | |
| 20-7068 | Jerry Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure discretionary-sentencing drug-convictions drug-crimes due-process first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether the 4thCircuit Court of Appeals created a Cirauit split by affiomingthe District Courts reuson to ceny his motion for a sentence reduction und… |
| 20-6966 | Charles Eloys Johnson, aka Adam White v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c appellate-review conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-procedure hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error substantial-rights | Charles Johnson was convicted of two counts of possessing a firearm during a crime of violence. 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). The district court instructed the … |
| 20-6792 | Edgar Rene Mier-Garces v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process tenth-circuit | The Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits successive conspiracy prosecutions when the conspiracy underpinning a subsequent prosecution is part of the same … |
| 20-6776 | Charod Becton v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial pinkerton-doctrine sixth-amendment | Should this Court abrogate the judicially established Pinkerton doctrine, announced in Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946), holding that a… |
| 20-6777 | James Baxton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Government produced sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Petitioner's actions were part of a Rico Conspiracy… |
| 20-6590 | Jimmy Pike v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review clear-error conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines | A district court's guidelines calculatio ns are reviewed for clear error. Did the court of appeals err in holding that the district court's guidelines… |
| 20-6526 | Kendesia Juinize May v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buy-sell-defense buy-sell-transactions conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-procedure judgment-of-acquittal jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error rule-29 | 1. Whether the trial court committed plain error in refusing to grant a "buy-sell" defense jury instruction when the government's evidence of a conspi… |
| 20-6536 | In Re Vinodh Raghubir | 2020-12-04 | Denied | IFP | appeal civil-rights conspiracy court-integrity due-process federal-proceedings habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct legal-procedure malicious-prosecution predetermination | Question not identified. | |
| 20-6481 | Luis Francisco Murillo Morfin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coercion conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deliberate-ignorance due-process intent-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea | The questions presented are whether, in a criminal case, the government may rely on a deliberate ignorance theory of the knowledge mens rea: (1) to e… |
| 20-6410 | Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, et al. | California | 2020-11-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conspiracy due-process judicial-misconduct legal-conspiracy mental-competency money-laundering national-security power-of-attorney standing | 1) whether this court should continue to allow lower courts to be used by international drug cartels, pedophiles, sex and human traffickers and MS 13 … |
| 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… |
| 20-6367 | Kissinger St. Fleur v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-18 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review buyer-seller-transaction cocaine-distribution conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions | Did the district court and the Eleventh Circuit deny Mr. St. Fleur a fair trial when it failed to give buyer-seller instructions to the jury? |
| 20-629 | In Re James Beggs, et ux. | 2020-11-10 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy conspiracy domestic-terrorism due-process executive-orders mental-health military military-medical-records parental-alienation title-18-conspiracy veterans-rights | Whether Females Officers of the Court, deprived a Veteran of continued Mental Health Care from a War Zone under President Obama & Trump Executive Orde… | |
| 20-610 | Linda L. Howland v. Michael Kelly, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | bank-fraud bankruptcy civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud due-process false-claims financial-crisis fraud mortgage-fraud racketeer-influenced-organizations wire-fraud | 1. Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals prematurely dismiss the case without viewing the facts proving violations to Federal Statutes that shows a … | |
| 20-6168 | Christopher J. Rahaim v. Florida | Florida | 2020-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fraud free-speech government-misconduct standing | Question not identified. |
| 20-6154 | Roderick Perez-Gonzalez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process plea-bargaining prosecution united-states-constitution | Whether Subsequent Prosecution of Conspiracies Violate the Double Jeopardy Clause of the United States Constitution when Both Conspiracies Operate Und… |
| 20-6133 | Theodore David Newcomb v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach conspiracy conspiracy-elements controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense eighth-circuit inchoate-offense sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate and precursor offenses to the definition of "controlled … |
| 20-433 | Mark Anthony Jenkins v. Timothy O'Rourke, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | child-custody-dispute civil-rights conspiracy de-novo-review due-process judicial-conspiracy res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983-lawsuit subject-matter-jurisdiction void-ab-initio | The federal district and circuit courts failed to conduct a de novo review and incorrectly denied jurisdiction to this 42 U.S.C.* sec. 1983 lawsuit. I… |
| 20-5620 | Ivan Soto-Barraza and Jesus Lionel Sanchez-Meza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure extortion hobbs-act jury-instructions robbery | The Hobbs Act defines extortion, in relevant part, as requiring the wrongful use of violence or fear in order to induce a person to consent to part wi… |
| 20-5576 | Sarina Ann Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split congressional-intent conspiracy federal-law sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking | Whether the crime of Conspiracy to Engage in Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, and Coercion, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1594(c), carries a base offens… |
| 20-5513 | Timothy Allen McWilliams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance due-process methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines | Whether the courts must give deference to the commentary to United States Sentencing Guidelines (U.S.S.G.) § 4B1.1(b)(2) in determining whether a defe… |
| 20-5240 | Cynthia Gilmore v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ambiguity ambiguous-verdict conspiracy criminal-procedure jury-instructions jury-verdict predicate-acts reasonable-doubt sentencing | Whether the sentencing court is required to use the reasonable doubt standard to determine the predicate acts where the jury's verdict was purposefull… |
| 20-5153 | Jamiell Sims v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1594 conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute force-fraud-coercion offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking | What is the base offense level for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1594(c)? |
| 19-1472 | Phillip Antonio Davis v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections | Tenth Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | character-evidence conspiracy conspiracy-theory criminal-defense criminal-procedure-evidence-admissibility due-process evidence-exclusion excessive-force jackson-v-virginia judicial-review relevance right-to-present-defense standard-of-review trial-procedure | 1. Whether the exclusion of evidence deemed necessary by Petitioner to present a complete defense and to combat the State's theory of guilt could be r… | |
| 19-8687 | Hamidreza Ghazavi v. Virginia | Virginia | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fraud-upon-the-court judicial-misconduct miscarriage-of-justice speedy-trial trespass-statute | The circuit court& upper courts: 1/ followed CORRUPT federal agents to make a CONSPIRACY case& violate my entire US& YA Constitutional Rights& destro… |
| 19-8692 | Robert Lee Shields v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buyer-seller buyer-seller-relationship conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-distribution jury-instructions narcotics-law pinkerton-liability substantive-drug-charges | I. When the evidence in a drug distribution case demonstrates only two sales, what additional factors support an inference of a drug distribution cons… |
| 19-8586 | Roy Ramirez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (b) to include the inchoa… |
| 19-8568 | James Stephen Thorpe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-prosecution due-process hobbs-act home-invasion interstate-commerce private-residence robbery targeting-rule | Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly held that there exists an interstate commerce connection for a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 an… |
| 19-8493 | Mark Stinson v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2020-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | conspiracy criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction jury-trial ptsd | Can husband and wife be charged with conspiracy, even though the husband (The Petitioner), had been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder [PTS… |
| 19-8376 | Carlos M. Guerrero-Castro v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure enterprise essential-element judicial-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error RICO rico-conspiracy | Whether a district court commits plain error by refusing to properly instruct the jury that the existence of an actual enterprise is always an essenti… |
| 19-1213 | Buck Leon Hammers v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-04-14 | Denied | Response Waived | conspiracy conspiracy-conviction-inferences-executive-positio criminal-conviction evidence evidence-standard exculpatory-evidence executive-position hearsay hearsay-exculpatory-evidence-chambers-v-mississipp inference judicial-review tenth-circuit | 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit improperly found, failing to apply this Court's authority and contrary to other courts of appeals and other of its own pr… |
| 19-8160 | Eddie Vincent Rutledge v. Florida | Florida | 2020-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment issue-preclusion solicitation | DID THE FLORIDA TRIAL COURT VIOLATE THE FIFTH AMENDMENT'S GUARANTEE AGAINST DOUBLE JEOPARDY WHEN IT REFUSED TO APPLY THE DOCTRINE OF ISSUE PRECLUSION … |
| 19-8106 | Salvador Arteaga Aragon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency judicial-review petitioner standard-of-review | Whether the court of appeals erred in finding sufficient evidence to sustain petitioner's conspiracy conviction. |
| 19-8048 | Collyer Goodman v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-court circuit-court-split conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process narcotics narcotics-conspiracy sentencing shared-objective supreme-court | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United … |
| 19-8038 | Jermaine James v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt circuit-split commentary conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (b) to include the inchoa… |
| 19-7986 | Wesley Scott Hamm v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-injury conspiracy cooperation criminal-law-bodily-injury criminal-law-conspiracy criminal-law-cooperation criminal-law-sentencing criminal-law-withdrawal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquittal drug-distribution due-process evidence judgment-of-acquittal law-enforcement-cooperation sentencing withdrawal | Question I . Shouldn't a judgment of acquittal have been granted where the government failed to prove that Hamm, arrested on August 25, 2016, in jail… |
| 19-7973 | Quincy Chisolm v. Maryland | Maryland | 2020-03-12 | Denied | IFP | appeal civil-rights conspiracy conviction criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder judicial-discretion mitigating-circumstances murder sentencing trial-court-error | in s4/'6'cx-f -fAc_ -fhoAaf £&n 5p*ro-ci>j -fo nouirMr ^ 6>/n/nf4- murder ir\ */Ae fiirs^ deyrc-e, ' cm^Un -b •lUyJ WWe./* -/-Ac- dnio.1 ^oo>rt err //… |
| 19-7917 | Isaac Feldman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antisemitic-reference antisemitism appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause jury-verdict prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct | 1. Where a jury returns a final verdict on a charge of conspiracy, finding a defendant guilty of only one of multiple charged offense objects, is the … |
| 19-1095 | James Beggs, et ux. v. Beverly Story, et al. | Virginia | 2020-03-06 | Denied | civil-rights conspiracy court-fraud domestic-terrorism due-process mental-health military-power-of-attorney national-defense-authorization-act standing title-18-usc-241-242 veterans-affairs veterans-rights | Was a Veteran deprived of continued Mental Health Care from a War Zone under President Obama Executive Order 13625 by Conspiracy Under Title 18, U.S.C… | |
| 19-7820 | Marcus Derby v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-involvement criminal-procedure drug-trafficking essential-participant minor-participant minor-role reduction sentencing-guidelines supplier | In 2015, the United States Sentencing Guidelines were amended to clarify that defendants are entitled to the "minor role" reduction, even if they are … |
| 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… |
| 19-7760 | Jeremy Achey v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-analogue criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy due-process federal-drug-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties | 1. Whether, in cases where a drug conspiracy allegedly involves multiple substances, the government must prove that the defendant conspired to distrib… |
| 19-7376 | Alice C. Trappler v. New York | New York | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture hearsay hearsay-exception legal-insufficiency sixth-amendment waiver | 1. Upon trial counsel's failure to move to dismiss on legal insufficiency grounds at trail, is the uninformed automatic waiver and silently imposed pe… |
| 19-900 | Jessica Vennie v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-21 | Denied | Response Waived | conspiracy criminal-joinder criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure joinder legal-enterprise racketeering rico rico-act | Whether charging two defendants with participating in the conduct of a single legal enterprise that has many legal purposes is sufficient to permit jo… |
| 19-7335 | Chad Prodoehl v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-law drug-conspiracy drug-crimes drug-trafficking due-process inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses overt-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation | As statutorily defined, violating 21 U.S.C. § 846 is an inchoate offense, as it requires no overt act, but is complete upon the agreement. Because of … |
| 19-7057 | Johnny L. Shelton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-penalty drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking fifth-amendment inchoate-crime sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the "death results" enhanced penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(C) apply to a prosecution for the inchoate crime of conspiracy to comm… |
| 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 … |
| 19-6486 | Eduard Bangiyev v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1963 21-usc-853 co-conspirator-liability conspiracy criminal-forfeiture federal-statute personal-possession-or-use proceeds-of-crime property-forfeiture statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-honeycutt | Whether the elements that availed the Supreme court decision in United States v. Honeycutt, also apply more broadly to the 18 U.S.C.S. 1963 statute. |
| 19-6420 | Christopher Mark Heath v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | The mere presence of a firearm at the scene of a drug trafficking offense constitutes possession of the firearm "in furtherance of" the conspiracy for… |
| 19-6391 | Robert Chin v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-intent criminal-law due-process homicide malicious-act mens-rea third-degree-murder unintended-consequence unintentional-act | 1. Is the due process clause offended where a criminal defendant is found guilty of conspiracy to commit third degree murder, which is a homicide that… |
| 19-6293 | Dwight Knowles v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-jurisprudence congressional-intent conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-conspiracy extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-offenses extraterritoriality federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-application | Whether federal conspiracy statutes apply extraterritorially when the object of the conspiracy is an extraterritorial offense but there is no clear in… |
| 19-6297 | Aleisha O. Gray v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alien-transportation conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence | I. Is there insufficient evidence to warrant a finding of guilty for conspiracy to transport undocumented aliens and for transporting undocumented ali… |
| 19-489 | Lawrence G. Hutchins, III v. United States | Armed Forces | 2019-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | acquittal collateral-estoppel conspiracy criminal-charge criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy issue-preclusion military-justice retrial | Whether the right under the Double Jeopardy Clause to the issue preclusive effect of an acquittal applies where precluded and un-precluded facts are a… |
| 19-6228 | Anson Chi v. Andrew Stover, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus judicial-review medical-records post-conviction-review procedural-default torture | 1. Was the US. Court of Appeals unfair for intentionally delaying the mailing of its December 19, 2013, opinion/memorandum, then mailing it 20 days be… |
| 19-6236 | Christina Marie Eichler v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-10-10 | Denied | IFP | buyer-seller-rule circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute criminal-law distribution drug-sales due-process end-users evidence-admissibility jury-instruction | 1. Is evidence of drug sales admissible to prove a conspiracy to distribute when the person charged with the conspiracy only sold drugs to end users a… |
| 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… |
| 19-6107 | Robert B. Ledbetter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-charges criminal-law criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment insufficient-evidence murder murder-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Where the evidence is insufficient to convict on conspiracy and murder charges, can the defendant be convicted on those charges? And 2. Whether a… |
| 19-6003 | Patrick Christian v. William H. Dadmun, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-law due-process legal-procedure pro-se-litigation property-deprivation property-rights standing | In accordance to Constitutional Law any Property Deprivation is a violation; therefore, why was this complaint dismissed and affirmed? What constitut… |
| 19-5983 | Alejandro Llamas-Delgado v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking due-process statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent | Whether the lower court's decision conflicts with Supreme Court and other circuit precedent concerning the government's burden to prove the evidence w… |
| 19-5975 | Juan Jose Tull-Abreu v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-identity-theft compulsory-process confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment health-care-fraud identity-theft sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the petitioner participated in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud , in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349 . Count One of the Indictment. … |
| 19-5979 | Rodrigo Pablo Lozano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey conspiracy conspiracy-offense criminal-restitution deliberate-avoidance due-process hester-v-united-states mental-state ninth-circuit sentencing sixth-amendment | 1. Whether Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000) applies to the imposition of criminal restitution, as suggested in Hester v. United States, 139… |
| 19-5897 | Carlos German Lema Nogales v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 4th-circuit-precedent 6th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-violations criminal-informant due-process eavesdrop effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance multiple-conspiracies search-and-seizure warrant warrant-reliability | WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL BECAUSE TRIAL COUNSEL FAILED TO ARGUE 4th CIRCUIT PRECEDENT REGARDING THE MEANING OF C… |
| 19-5886 | Arthur O. Armstrong v. North Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty probable-cause property rule-60 | Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60 (b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Whether petitioner was deprived of libe… |
| 19-5887 | Arthur O. Armstrong v. John Doe | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 conspiracy constitutional-rights disclosure-of-corporate-affiliation due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty probable-cause property rule-60 standing | Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60 (b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Whether petitioner was deprived of libe… |
| 19-5757 | Fulvio Flete-Garcia v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-identity-theft conspiracy conversion-of-government-property evidentiary-hearing government-as-victim government-property identity-theft loss-calculation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement tax-fraud tax-fraud-conspiracy victim-enhancement | 1. Whether, in determining the sentence for a tax-fraud conspiracy where the defendant is charged with conversion of government property and aggravate… |
| 19-5691 | Roxanne Marie Carpenter v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-client-privilege conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rules duress-defense ninth-circuit-rule pinkerton-instruction pinkerton-liability pre-trial-disclosure work-product work-product-doctrine work-product-privilege | I. The Ninth Circuit has a "Vasquez-Landaver1" rule requiring a criminal defendant to lay out, in detail, her defense before the Government even calls… |
| 19-5669 | Matthew Davis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions | Petitioner is serving a 360-month sentence for a charge of Conspiracy to Distribute 1000 grams or more of heroin and same amount of cocaine, in violat… |
| 19-5016 | Michael A. Salazar v. HEB Grocery Company, LP, et al. | Texas | 2019-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fraud judicial-procedure petition-clause right-to-petition right-to-sue standing | In this case the Texas Supreme Court did not reject, but accepted the decision of the Fourth Court of Appeals in affirming the judgement of the Judge … |
| 18-9792 | Charles Mensah v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | character-evidence conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment severance witness-bolstering | 1) Does the trial court's refusal to grant a conspiracy defendant severance violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when the Government'… |
| 18-9806 | Karlynn Romeo Tones, Donta Lyvoid Blackmon, and Arvin Terrill Carmen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment indictment-specificity jury-instructions jury-unanimity trial-evidence unanimity | Do federal criminal defendants have a constitutional right to a specific unanimity instruction requiring the jury to unanimously define the duration a… |
| 18-9813 | Levar Brown v. California | California | 2019-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy discovery due-process forma-pauperis free-speech indigency legal-correspondence patent petition standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Question not identified. |
| 18-9778 | Xue Jie He v. Office of the New York City Comptroller | Second Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1985 civil-rights conspiracy discrimination due-process equal-protection immigration national-origin-discrimination racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-act | 1. US visa: 0187, legal short-term stay , Personal Injury , can Petitioner get The Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment to the United S… |
| 18-9779 | Xue Jie He v. Trinity Church, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy defamation discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment personal-injury racial-discrimination standing visa-status | 1. US visa : 0187, legal short-term stay , Personal Injury , can Petitioner get The Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment to the United … |
| 18-1559 | Velma Brooks v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office, et al. | Colorado | 2019-06-20 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof civil-rights conspiracy due-process evidence falsification judicial-oversight judicial-review legal-conspiracy medical-evidence worker's-compensation workers-compensation | Colorado refuse to seek the truth in my case, by overlooking the evident and documents presented to them. This case was consisted with numerous of err… |
| 18-9727 | Shanta G. Phillips-Berry v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conspiracy due-process government-overreach medical-implants privacy standing technology | Question not identified. |
| 18-9712 | Noe Juarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance due-process evidence evidence-404(b) evidence-rule-404b jury-instructions new-trial propensity propensity-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct | (1) What is the proper framework for determining whether a prosecutor's improper propensity-based arguments related to 404(b) evidence warrant a new t… |
| 18-1533 | William Henry Starrett, Jr. v. City of Richardson, Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 civil-rights-42-usc-1985 civil-rights-statute conspiracy conspiracy-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction municipal-liability pleading-standards pleading-sufficiency pleadings section-1983 texas-tort-claims-act | Whether, in an initiating pleading or complaint, allegations are sufficient in the absence of explicit facts as to the one or more official policies o… | |
| 18-9574 | Fayez Abu-Aish v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent distribution drug-distribution mcfadden-precedent specific-knowledge statutory-interpretation | Whether the Government must prove that a defendant had specific knowledge of a controlled substance identified as XLR-11 in order to convict the defen… |
| 18-9558 | Oladimeji Ayelotan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jury-selection sentencing shackling | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by allowing Petitioner to be shackled in the courtroom during his trial; allowi… |
| 18-9244 | Danny Herrera v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-13 | GVR | IFP | and whether a conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robb 18-usc-924 conspiracy constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-vagueness vagueness | Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague in light of Sessions v. Dimaya, 138 S. Ct. 1204 (2018)? If a cond… |
| 18-9202 | Edilberto Maso Diaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-statements jury-instructions standard-of-review trial-procedure | 1) Did the Fifth Circuit err by affirming the district court admission of hearsay statements made by an unindicted co-conspirator over the objection o… |
| 18-8948 | Angel Morales De-Jesus v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment conspiracy due-process leadership-enhancement mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment | 1. At Sentencingthe District Court calculated a higher oftense tevel than the plea to the united states Constitution? 2. Angel morates-De Jesus agree… |
| 18-8869 | Jesse Davenport, aka Draco John Flama v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial plain-error shackling sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Is shackling a defendant during his or her jury trial for no asserted or actual reason proper, and thus not even an "error" under the plain error t… |
| 18-8847 | Javier Bocanegra, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chain-of-custody cocaine-conspiracy conspiracy controlled-substances cooperating-witnesses credibility criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deferred-adjudication drug-offense-enhancement evidence full-faith-and-credit reasonable-doubt | I. Is there insufficient evidence for a conspiracy to transport cocaine conviction based upon the testimony of cooperating witnesses who are not credi… |
| 18-8757 | Jason Lee Tincher v. Tim Berners-Lee | Colorado | 2019-04-09 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy due-process evidence judicial-misconduct judicial-review standing | fk d dc LiL d;n & o1; +k t Somc OF 5/1eS cicv1 cci1, 2 3.ijA ccvidi c '' 1UP4'1CC5 ce brl I Ii fCi jI.t 'I(1eT. c e 1 p,ir Le 6 rc>Ac |
| 18-8584 | Antwan Jones v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy constitutional-challenge criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction mens-rea statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness title-21-usc-846 vagueness | I. Count 1 Conspiracy Indictment is insufficient on its face because it omitted essential element(s) that the Government had to prove. (a). Is Title … |
| 18-8494 | Alberto Sostre-Cintron v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-371 18-usc-641 conspiracy conspiracy-18-usc-371 criminal-conspiracy criminal-law district-court-proceedings morissette-standard morissette-v-united-states parties-to-the-proceedings statutory-provisions sufficiency-of-evidence theft-of-government-property theft-of-government-property-18-usc-641 | Whether there was sufficient evidence to support Alberto Sostre-Cintron's conviction of conspiracy pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §371. Whether there was suff… |
| 18-8383 | Jeremy C. Southgate v. United States, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antitrust antitrust-conspiracy business-damage civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy court-procedure inherent-authority legal-representation racketeering standing trademark trademark-property | First, Is there arguable merit to the claim that Respondents engaged in an unlawful antitrust and/or racketeering conspiracy, intending by a pattern o… |
| 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… |
| 18-8205 | Elamin Bashir v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process individualized-jury-finding jury-finding jury-instructions mandatory-minimum sentencing | I. WHETHER THE MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE WAS IMPROPERLY IMPOSED FOR DRUG-TRAFFICKING CONSPIRACY, BECAUSE INDIVIDUALIZED JURY FINDING AS TO QUANTITY O… |
| 18-8069 | Eric Gonzalez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-241 18-usc-242 agreement civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law due-process enhanced-penalties federal-statute proximate-cause spontaneous-event statutory-interpretation | Whether conspiracy liability under 18 U.S.C. § 241 may be premised on unsubstantiated inferences of an agreement or mere participation in a spontaneou… |
| 18-7964 | Rafael Santos v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-sentencing drug-trafficking federal-officer firearms motion-for-reduction-of-sentence sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S SECTION 3582(c)(2) MOTION? |
| 18-7878 | John Timothy Cannon, aka Mr. JT v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit jurisprudence | WHETHER the interpretation of conspiracy in the FourthCircuit is overbroad, violating the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment departing from t… |
| 18-1034 | Jefferson A. McGee v. City of Sacramento, California | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-08 | Denied | appeal appellate-review civil-rights conspiracy discrimination discrimination-claims due-process equal-protection federal-financial-assistance racial-discrimination standing | Whether the appeal in this action is so insubstantial as not to warrant further review and should not be permitted to proceed? | |
| 18-7701 | Christopher D. Schneider v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | conspiracy courthouse-access discrimination due-process falsification first-amendment seventh-amendment structural-error transcript trial | Is it a denial of fundamental due process, petitioner's First and Seventh Amendment rights, and a "structural error"—requiring inter alia a new trial—… |
| 18-7651 | Eric Steve Anderson v. California | California | 2019-01-29 | Denied | IFP | antagonistic-defenses conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fair-trial jury jury-trial severance severance-motion | Did this trial court's denial of petitioner's severance motion as to co-defendant Randy Lee and its subsequent acquittal of Lee on the conspiracy char… |
| 18-7595 | Gabriel Robles v. Brookwood Terrace Apartments | Kansas | 2019-01-28 | Denied | IFP | administrative-error civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy court-procedure due-process fraud housing-rights judicial-misconduct legal-conspiracy property-rights standing | Did lower court personnel in this matter give the Petitioner erroneous instructions knowing beforehand that the higher courts of this State would not … |
| 18-7076 | Evelyn Person v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process inconsistent-verdicts jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-conflict narcotics narcotics-conspiracy special-interrogatories | Whether the Second Circuit's failure to vacate the verdict of guilt rendered against Petitioner in the narcotics conspiracy count based upon an irreco… |
| 18-7027 | Crystal Nicole Kuri v. Addictive Behavioral Change Health Group, et al. | Kansas | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy defamation due-process emotional-distress slander standing | 1. Has the Statute of imitation expired on all 13 of my claims? accusations, defumation of Character Wrongful termination, 3 5 6 LOSS of personal prop… |
| 18-6917 | Rodolfo Portela v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal competency-hearing conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking evidence-suppression firearm-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Whether The District Court, Erred When It Found That There was Sufficient Evidence That the Appellant had Committed the Acts Alleged in Count I, Co… |
| 18-6881 | Jason Alston v. Mississippi Department of Employment Security | Mississippi | 2018-11-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | administrative-law civil-rights conspiracy due-process employment-security fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-proceedings jurisdiction state-government unemployment-benefits | Whether the Mississippi Department of Employment Security and/ or Mississippi Department of Transportation violated petitioner due process rights unde… |
| 18-6779 | Guy Heffington v. Pamela Puleo, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment 7th-amendment amendment-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process judicial-conspiracy legal-representation property-rights | Whether Guy Heffington, the son of Joan Farr f/k/a Joan Heffington, was denied due process of law under the Fifth Amendment, the right to an attorney … |
| 18-6780 | Joan E. Farr v. Daryl Davis, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech homeowners-association retaliation section-1983 | Whether the Huckleberry Homeowners Association and its individual members denied Joan Farr her rights under 42 Usc 1983 and retaliated against her to … |
| 18-638 | Greg Anderson v. Gary Herbert, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-11-16 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy contract-law contractual-interpretation due-process judicial-misconduct jurisdictional-challenge property-rights standing state-court-procedure void-judgment | Is a judgment void on its face, when a State Court steals a paid-for home at the motion to dismiss stage of the proceedings, under the guise that the … |
| 18-614 | In Re George Houston | 2018-11-09 | Denied | alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey collateral-review conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-quantity jurisdictional-error mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether it is the individualized drug quantity that is a fact that increases the mandatory minimum sentence or whether the amount of drugs attributabl… | ||
| 18-6597 | Jazsmine Arielle Joseph v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof child-trafficking confrontation-clause confrontation-rights conspiracy conspiracy-charge domestic-violence expert-testimony sex-trafficking | DID THE LOWER COURT ERR IN ITS DECISION, AS IT RELATES TO WHAT IS REQUIRED TO PROVE A CONSPIRACY CHARGE IN THE SEX TRAFFICKING OF A CHILD COUNT AND §2… |
| 18-591 | Gary Dressler v. Bradford Rice, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response Waived | 2nd-amendment civil-rights conspiracy fourth-amendment open-carry probable-cause qualified-immunity second-amendment | Question I – Is an individual's Second Amendment right to bear arms violated when he is told by a security guard he cannot open carry in a store and i… |
| 18-6399 | Marcos Perez-Trevino v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | berger-v-united-states circuit-split closed-container closed-containers conspiracy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-due-process florida-v-wells fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure indictment inventory-search law-enforcement-policy material-variance probable-cause shared-interest Whether a material variance exists where the gover written-policy | 1. IN THIS CASE, THE OFFICER CONDUCTED INVENTORY SEARCH OF A CLOSED CONTAINER WITHOUT A WRITTEN POLICY GOVERNING THE SEARCH OF SUCH CONTAINERS. WHETHE… |
| 18-6389 | Anthony Lomax v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder buyer-seller career-offender conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-history drug-quantity heroin-attribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. Despite the dismissal of Anthony Lomax's conspiracy charge, during sentencing the district court assigned 16.8 kilograms of heroin to him. While a … |
| 18-6392 | Mohsen Khoshmood v. Eastern Market Management | District of Columbia | 2018-10-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights damages disability-discrimination due-process false-arrest free-speech government-misconduct law-enforcement police-misconduct standing | I'm seeking for this case $100 Million dollars damages with explanation of: Part I of General Assembly 9 Dec. 1975 res. .3452 (XXX), Article 1, Artic… |
| 18-6169 | Tracy L. Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c)-statute conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process firearm-possession informant-testimony law-enforcement-conduct mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether a defendant should be subject to a mandatory 25 year consecutive 924(c) sentence for the same drug Conspiracy based on the facts that in a two… |
| 18-6151 | Claude Thelemaque v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof cocaine-distribution conspiracy criminal-law criminal-law-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-admissibility jurisdiction standard-of-proof witness-testimony | Whether the government failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Thelemaque conspired to distribute cocaine with knowledge that it would be impor… |
| 18-6016 | Fabian Sandoval-Ramos v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process enhancement-factor mandatory-minimum-sentence mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation | In order to trigger a mandatory minimum sentence, must the government allege and prove that an enhancement factor was the object of the conspiracy, or… |
| 18-347 | West Congress Street Partners, LLC v. Rivertown Development, LLC, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1985 42-usc-1986 civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-claims discrimination due-process elliott-larsen-civil-rights-act federal-statute gentrification minority-protection real-estate real-estate-discrimination | 1. Is the plausibility standard attached to federal conspiracy claims pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1985 and 42 U.S.C. § 1986 sufficient to protect minoriti… |
| 18-5979 | Malik Derry v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment law-of-case right-to-be-present right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence | A. Whether the Fifth or Sixth Amendments, or Rules 43 and 44 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, are violated when neither a criminal defendan… |
| 18-5948 | Patrick Henry Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | IFP | conspiracy criminal-conspiracy death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida-tison-v-arizona felony felony-murder jury-findings sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment | Does the Sixth or Eighth Amendment require that before a party may be sentenced to death as a conspirator (rather than a trigger-person), the jury mus… |
| 18-5916 | Juan Flores v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | admissibility casual-conversation co-conspirator co-conspirator-statement co-conspirator-statements conspiracy conspiracy-evidence criminal-procedure evidence evidentiary-standard federal-rule-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence furtherance-of-conspiracy hearsay-exception | Whether the District Court and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it ruled that a statement made during a casual conversation between co-consp… |
| 18-5896 | Beverly Allen Baker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-conspiracies sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. Should BAS cov exercise YS Super visecy authority to reverse Nig Bakers cangpiracy comvichon ® By the end th trial, the government concluded that … |
| 18-5695 | Robert Wayne Annabel, II v. Michigan Department of Corrections, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ada amendment-opportunity civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy deliberate-indifference due-process plra plra-dismissal prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights rehabilitation-act res-judicata retaliation sua-sponte | I. "The Sixth Circuit is alone in its PLRA interpretation that a sua sponte dismissal for failure to state a claim at screening no longer affords a "f… |
| 18-5478 | Ryan Jennings v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. | Missouri | 2018-08-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy conspiracy criminal-law due-process due-process-violation foreclosure fraud mortgage-assignment obstruction-of-justice real-estate-fraud witness-tampering | Dees this case involve one or more parties that have premeditated the act of intentially violating the appélants civil rights, due process of law and … |
| 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 … |
| 18-143 | Sandra Lee Bart v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-conviction due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial government-witness juror-misconduct jury-misconduct precedent sixth-amendment substantial-evidence | 1. Did the Eighth Circuit fail to follow its own precedent, and rule contrary to other Appellate Circuits and the United States Supreme Court when it … |
| 18-5254 | Matthew Young v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. | Oregon | 2018-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing | Is it an important issue of Law and Fact For the Purpose of Review at court when the highest court failed to uphold its own prior precedent case Law d… |
| 18-5178 | Kimberly Baltimore v. Frank Stephen Buck | Alabama | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure-abuse-of-discretion-reversal-judgm civil-rights conspiracy district-court due-process fraud fraud-allegation judicial-misconduct legal-ethics procedural-irregularity standing unsworn-testimony | Whether this court continue to let the appellee, Frank S. Buck hereinafter Buck, (or the defense) continue the "Because I said so" defense even with e… |
| 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… |