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25-999 Brandon Z. Miller v. United States Armed Forces 2026-02-23 Pending court-martial military-rule-of-evidence-412 public-trial-clause sexual-assault sixth-amendment waller-v-georgia Whether the Public Trial Clause of the Sixth Amendment requires case-specific determinations of necessity and narrow tailoring before an M.R.E. 412 he…
25A879 Anton Soloshenko, Luis A. Torres Gonzalez, and Dominic C. Haymond, II v. United States Armed Forces 2026-02-04 Application constitutional-rights court-martial criminal-conviction military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Question not identified.
25-913 Keegan L. Lovell v. United States Armed Forces 2026-02-03 Pending Response Waived court-martial criminal-solicitation criminal-statute military-justice statutory-interpretation ucmj-jurisdiction The relevant federal criminal statute requires that "[a]ny person subject to the [Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)] who solicits or advises ano…
25-6668 Matthew Evan Davis, Sr. v. Douglas Curtis, Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth Tenth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending Response WaivedIFP court-martial habeas-corpus judicial-bias jurisdictional-review military-justice suspensions-clause WHETHER, IN THE UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE, THE CLAIMS OF JUDICIAL BIAS AND IMPROPER REFERRAL OF CHARGES ARE JURISDICTIONAL IN NATURE. WHETHER …
25A784 William M. Hilton v. United States Armed Forces 2026-01-07 Application appellate-review constitutional-rights court-martial military-counsel military-justice speedy-trial Question not identified.
25A721 Adam J. Sherman v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-18 Application appellate-review court-martial ineffective-assistance military-justice rape-of-a-child trial-defense-counsel Question not identified.
25-695 Maxwell A. Matthew v. United States Armed Forces 2025-12-15 Denied Response Waived convening-authority court-martial criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment military-justice Staff Sergeant (SSgt) Maxwell A. Matthew's Convening Authority ordered his court-martial conviction expunged. He then ordered SSgt Matthew to again fa…
25-617 Jakalien J. Cook v. United States Armed Forces 2025-11-26 Denied Response Waived court-martial due-process military-justice punishment-calculation sentencing-range uniform-code-military-justice For almost all non-capital offenses from the timeframe of Petitioner's convictions, criminal defendants in courts-martial are sentenced in accordance …
25A610 Keegan L. Lovell v. United States Armed Forces 2025-11-24 Application child-pornography court-martial due-process guilty-plea military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice Question not identified.
25-599 James P. Baumgartner v. United States Armed Forces 2025-11-21 Denied Response Waived court-martial discretionary-review gender-discrimination panel-selection prima-facie race-discrimination Since at least 1988, race- and gender-based discrimination was permissible when selecting court martial panel members, the functional equivalent of ju…
25A596 Eric W. Singleton v. United States Armed Forces 2025-11-20 Application appellate-review constitutional-right court-martial criminal-procedure military-justice unanimous-verdict Question not identified.
25A566 Jakalien J. Cook v. United States Armed Forces 2025-11-14 Application court-martial maximum-punishment military-justice sentencing-calculation uniform-code-military-justice waiver Question not identified.
25A536 Adrienne L. Clark v. United States Armed Forces 2025-11-07 Application appellate-review child-pornography court-martial military-justice sexual-abuse ucmj Question not identified.
25A426 Mark A. Pulley v. United States Armed Forces 2025-10-14 Presumed Complete court-martial first-amendment free-speech indecent-conduct military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice Question not identified.
25A425 Zhuo H. Zhong v. United States Armed Forces 2025-10-14 Presumed Complete appellate-review court-martial factual-sufficiency firearm-prohibition jurisdiction military-justice Question not identified.
25-422 Deshawn M. Dawson v. United States Armed Forces 2025-10-08 Denied Response Waived court-martial criminal-conviction due-process-clause military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Does the Constitution preclude a court-martial panel of lay members from convicting a defendant of a criminal offense by a non-unanimous vote?
25A388 Dennis A. George, Jr. v. United States Armed Forces 2025-10-03 Presumed Complete appellate-review court-martial due-process military-justice sexual-assault uniform-code-military-justice Question not identified.
25A387 Robert D. Schneider, et al. v. United States Armed Forces 2025-10-03 Presumed Complete 18-usc-922 appellate-jurisdiction court-martial criminal-appeals firearm-prohibition military-justice Question not identified.
25A340 Jennesis V. Dominguez-Garcia v. United States Armed Forces 2025-09-24 Presumed Complete court-martial firearms-prohibition military-justice nonviolent-conviction right-to-bear-arms second-amendment Question not identified.
25A339 Devin W. Johnson v. United States Armed Forces 2025-09-24 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-challenge court-martial general-verdict military-justice sexual-misconduct Question not identified.
25A324 Juston D. Beyer v. United States Armed Forces 2025-09-19 Presumed Complete court-martial due-process evidence-rule ineffective-assistance military-justice sexual-assault Question not identified.
25A323 Colin R. Covitz v. United States Armed Forces 2025-09-19 Presumed Complete court-martial due-process military-justice post-trial-delay sentencing-relief uniform-code-military-justice Question not identified.
25A247 Logan A. McLeod v. United States Armed Forces 2025-08-29 Presumed Complete appellate-review attempted-crimes court-martial factual-sufficiency military-justice ucmj Question not identified.
25-137 Jaden T. Floyd v. United States Armed Forces 2025-08-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review court-martial due-process military-justice pre-docketing-delay speedy-review Whether, in evaluating a claim for a pre-docketing due process violation, a court can effectively require an appellant to assert the right to speedy a…
24A780 Thomas M. Adams v. United States Armed Forces 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete appellate-review court-martial jurisdictional-challenge military-justice service-member-rights supreme-court-procedure Question not identified.
24-678 Thomas L. Wheeler v. United States Armed Forces 2024-12-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) court-martial due-process fifth-amendment military-justice panel-trial servicemember-rights Whether Congress violated the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause when it deprived servicemembers facing criminal prosecutions of the right to be tri…
24A566 Ladonies P. Strong v. United States Armed Forces 2024-12-11 Presumed Complete court-martial digital-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment military-justice probable-cause Question not identified.
24A436 Jonel H. Guihama v. United States Armed Forces 2024-11-01 Presumed Complete article-120 court-martial due-process military-justice sexual-abuse ucmj Question not identified.
24-386 B. M. v. United States, et al. Armed Forces 2024-10-07 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (3) article-iii-standing congressional-power court-martial judicial-review military-privilege victim-rights 1. Whether the CAAF may prudentially apply Article III limits on judicial power despite its obligation to review cases in accordance with a law enacte…
24A288 Matthew P. Leipart v. United States Armed Forces 2024-09-23 Presumed Complete burden-of-proof court-martial ineffective-assistance military-justice prosecutorial-misconduct uniform-code-of-military-justice Question not identified.
24-5342 In Re Richard J. Ramsey 2024-08-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights court-martial due-process jury-trial sixth-amendment waiver-of-rights WHETHER WAIVING JURY TRIAL IS CONSTITUIONAL UNDER THE 6™ AMENDMENT, WHEN THE 6™ AMENDMENT DID NOT SECURE TRIAL BY JURY AS A RIGHT, WHICH CONSEQUENTLY …
23A1043 Nidal M. Hasan v. United States Armed Forces 2024-05-22 Presumed Complete appellate-review capital-case court-martial military-justice service-member-rights supreme-court-jurisdiction Question not identified.
23-666 James T. Cunningham v. United States Armed Forces 2023-12-20 Denied court-martial criminal-procedure due-process military-justice non-unanimous-verdict prejudice-test sentencing unanimous-verdict victim-impact-statement I. Whether Senior Airman James T. Cunningham was entitled to a unanimous verdict in his court-martial when the Government convicted him of murder—a se…
23-5958 David J. Rudometkin v. Kevin Payne, Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP councilman-abstention court-martial due-process habeas-corpus military-courts military-discharge military-jurisdiction servicemember-status statutory-discharge Whether the Councilman abstention applies to former servicemembers who were statutorily discharged prior to court-martial charges and proceedings
23-437 Anthony A. Anderson v. United States Armed Forces 2023-10-26 Denied constitutional-law court-martial criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection liberty-interests property-interests sixth-amendment Does the United States Constitution require that a general court-martial guilty verdict be unanimous?
23A178 Andrew P. Witt v. United States Armed Forces 2023-08-25 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing court-martial death-penalty ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct uniform-code-of-military-justice Question not identified.
22-1082 Steven M. Larrabee v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. District of Columbia 2023-05-08 Denied Amici (1) active-duty civilian-status constitutional-review court-martial due-process founding-era-practices military-jurisdiction retired-servicemembers ucmj Whether the Constitution permits military retirees to be tried by court-martial for offenses committed after they have left active duty?
22-636 S. S. v. United States, et al. Armed Forces 2023-01-09 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) court-martial criminal-appeal evidentiary-review in-camera-review intervention-rights jaffee-v-redmond m.r.e.-513 military-evidence military-rule-of-evidence psychotherapist-patient-privilege psychotherapist-privilege upjohn-co-v-united-states 1. Whether diagnoses and treatments are privileged under the military's psychotherapist-patient privilege; and 2. Whether a privilege holder has the …
22-530 Daniel A. Bench v. United States Armed Forces 2022-12-08 Denied Response Waived child-witness confrontation confrontation-right court-martial plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct remote-testimony sixth-amendment Does a prosecutor's in-court lie to secure a witness's testimony constitute misconduct that materially prejudices an accused's Sixth Amendment right t…
21-7373 Steven M. Chapman v. Warden, FCC Coleman - USP II Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis court-martial due-process legal-representation military-justice post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing writ-of-coram-nobis 1. Whether or not Petitioner received full and fair consideration in the military justice system when his post-conviction efforts were summarily denie…
21-430 Luke T. West v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-09-21 Denied Response Waived collateral-estoppel court-martial due-process federal-claims first-amendment judicial-review military-justice privacy-act statutory-construction united-states-constitution 1) As a matter of statutory construction and application, is petitioner entitled to the exercise of the authority of the United States Federal Court o…
21-335 Stephen A. Begani v. United States Armed Forces 2021-09-02 Denied active-duty article-iii-courts civilian-crimes constitutional-limits court-martial due-process military-jurisdiction retired-servicemembers When, if ever, does the Constitution permit the court-martial of retired servicemembers for offenses committed after their discharge from active duty?
21-5525 Thomas Richardson v. Nevada Nevada 2021-08-31 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstance court-martial death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief rompilla-standard rompilla-v-beard Whether the Nevada Supreme Court misapplied the law by failing to examine or analyze the failure of counsel to investigate readily available informati…
20-6368 In Re Richard J. Ramsey 2020-11-18 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights court-martial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial military-justice plea-bargain separation-of-powers sixth-amendment ucmj I. Whether military plea-bargains procedures are unconstitutional creating a lack of jurisdiction over petitioners court-martial therefore, making unl…
20-528 Nicholas S. Baas v. United States Armed Forces 2020-10-20 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause court-martial daubert-standard due-process scientific-evidence sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict 1. In light of this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, does it violate a military servicemember's Sixth Amendment and due process rights to allow…
20-489 Pedro M. Bess v. United States Armed Forces 2020-10-15 Denied convening-authority court-martial due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment military-justice racial-discrimination standing 1. Whether 10 U.S.C. § 825, as applied in Petitioner's case, violates the Fifth Amendment. 2. Whether the lower court erred in declining to remand Pe…
20-301 Timothy B. Hennis v. United States Armed Forces 2020-09-09 Denied Amici (1) capital-punishment constitutional-provisions court-martial double-jeopardy due-process military-justice military-law state-court-acquittal state-jurisdiction 1. Whether the offenses for which Petitioner was tried and acquitted in state court constituted offenses "for which [he] cannot be tried in the courts…
20-1 Nicholas E. Davis v. United States Armed Forces 2020-07-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-review court-martial criminal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error supreme-court-precedent waiver Whether the failure to object to a pattern jury instruction erroneously describing the elements of the offense constitutes affirmative waiver such tha…
19-1011 Eric F. Kelly v. United States Armed Forces 2020-02-13 Denied Response Waived appellate-review court-martial court-of-appeals-for-the-armed-forces court-of-criminal-appeals courts-martial criminal-appeals due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction military-court military-courts remand Whether a military Court of Criminal Appeals must review the results of a court-martial anew when the court previously reviewed the case but its judgm…
19-557 Cedric L. McDonald v. United States Armed Forces 2019-10-29 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bodily-harm consent court-martial criminal-law due-process mens-rea military-justice sexual-assault Whether Congress's omission of a mens rea for the offense of sexual assault by bodily harm means mere negligence as to the lack of consent suffices.
18-1383 James M. Hale v. United States Armed Forces 2019-05-03 Denied Response Waived 10-usc-802 court-martial court-martial-jurisdiction general-verdict judicial-deference jurisdictional-defects jurisdictional-limits legal-sufficiency military-discipline military-discipline-jurisdiction military-law overt-acts plain-error rostker-v-goldberg sufficiency-of-evidence weiss-v-united-states 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in relying on factual sufficiency of the evidence to resolve a question of plain error, where the alleged error …
18-454 Derek L. Dinger v. United States Armed Forces 2018-10-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived bouie-v-city-of-columbia court-martial due-process ex-post-facto military-justice precedent-overruling retired-personnel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-rules After petitioner's offenses, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces overruled two precedents without fair warning and held that a court-martial can…
18-306 Steven M. Larrabee v. United States Armed Forces 2018-09-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) active-duty civil-rights civilian-status court-martial due-process military-jurisdiction retired-status separation-of-powers 1. Whether the Constitution permits the court-martial of a retired military servicemember. 2. Whether, if so, the Constitution limits the jurisdictio…