| 25-5515 |
Jessie Smith, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-disclosure constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure due-process revocation-hearing supervised-release |
Does the Due Process Clause require that district courts apply the constitutional safeguards of Brady v. Maryland when a defendant faces a revocation … |
| 25-5217 |
William R. Jackson v. Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-safeguards due-process extradition-clause illegal-confinement state-proceedings warrant-requirements |
Under-the Extradition Clause of the Constitution Art. TV, §2, cl, 2
and 13 tkS.L §3182 providing procedural safeguards of UCEA does not
Subjects a p… |
| 24-740 |
Jonel H. Guihama v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confession-corroboration constitutional-safeguards false-confession interrogation-tactics military-evidence psychological-coercion |
Whether courts must consider the circumstances under which a confession was obtained—including extensive psychological pressure and coercive interroga… |
| 23-664 |
Ralph Harrison Benning v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-U.S.C.-§-1983 civil-rights constitutional-safeguards correspondence correspondence-interception due-process email prisoner-rights qualified-immunity |
1. Where the Supreme Court has required that a prisoner is entitled to procedural safeguards if their "correspondence" is intercepted, are respondents… |
| 21-8177 |
Marlin Larice Joseph v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-safeguards cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment geographic-arbitrariness sixth-amendment standards-of-decency |
Does the death penalty in and of itself violate the Eighth Amendment in light of contemporary standards of decency and the geographic and other arbitr… |
| 20-1766 |
In Re John H. Todd |
|
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights confession constitutional-safeguards criminal-investigation due-process evidence evidence-exclusion police-conduct search-warrant |
Does Oregon's conflicting statutes on search warrants that exist between ORS 133.545(5) which requires a fully trained police officer and ORS 167.345 … |
| 20-944 |
Pamela D. Stark v. Joe Edward Stark |
Tennessee |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-safeguards contempt contempt-of-court legislative-safeguards mootness mootness-doctrine prior-restraint right-to-petition |
1. Whether a state trial court can create a hybrid form of contempt which avoids traditional constitutional and legislative safeguards and prevents ap… |
| 19-8078 |
Brandon L. Banks v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-safeguards counsel due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment impartial-jury sixth-amendment |
Was Petitioner denied Due Process of law for trial by an impartial jury and for equal protection of the law when the Appellate Court applied an unreas… |
| 19-7754 |
Erik Leonardus Peeters v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-safeguards extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause jurisdictional-limits non-commercial-conduct non-economic-conduct police-power united-states-v-al-maliki united-states-v-lopez united-states-v-morrison |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2423(c)'s regulation of noncommercial, non-economic conduct of American citizens outside the United States exceed Congress's Foreign … |
| 19-7486 |
Michael Lindsay v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2423c commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-safeguards due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-regulation foreign-commerce foreign-commerce-clause non-commercial-conduct police-power united-states-v-lopez united-states-v-morrison |
This Court has well-settled that the Commerce Clause gives Congress no general police power over non-commercial, non-economic conduct. See United Stat… |
| 19-5277 |
Robert M. Kowalski v. Executive Committee of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-action bankruptcy constitutional-safeguards contempt-proceeding criminal-contempt due-process ex-parte judicial-review u.s-trustee us-trustee |
Whether the Order of the Executive Committee for the Northern District of Illinois declaring that an attorney is "loud and disruptive" and ordering hi… |
| 18-9617 |
Randolph Harris Austin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cocaine cocaine-base constitutional-rights constitutional-safeguards democratic-constraints due-process grand-jury grand-jury-indictment indictment jury-instructions procedural-rights procedural-safeguards |
Whe re the grand jury alleged c ocaine base and the jury was instructed
that it didn't matter whether it was c ocaine b ase or cocaine and the judgme… |
| 18-8638 |
Michael Bennefield v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial guilt-determination jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect plea-bargaining plea-proceedings procedural-validity standing structural-defects |
When Structural Jurisdictional defects prevent a fair proceeding, can any reliable determination of guilt or innocence be deemed fair?
When the Plea … |
| 18-7888 |
Furn-Lee Salomon v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel passport-fraud pre-trial-investigation prejudicial-testimony pretrial-investigation strategic-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel witness-testimony |
WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO CONDUCT ANY PRETRIAL INVESTIGATIONS TO AT LEAST INTERVIEW POTENTIAL WITNESSES THAT COULD HAVE SUPPORTED P… |
| 18-6283 |
Brent Douglas Cole v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-safeguards fifth-amendment grand-jury individual-rights liberty prosecutorial-interference prosecutorial-misconduct separation-of-powers structural-error structural-protections |
Whether the indictment in this case should have been dismissed because the structural protections of the grand jury designed to safeguard individual r… |
| 18-53 |
Lance Dillard, aka Double v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial internet-access internet-publicity judicial-controls juror-misconduct jury-instructions prejudicial-publicity sixth-amendment |
Whether the judicial controls utilized in a criminal trial were so constitutionally inadequate to deter or prevent jurors from accessing prejudicial p… |