criminal-activity
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-7158 | Ramoine White v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights convicted-felon criminal-activity evidence-standard firearm-possession second-amendment | 1. Whether the evidence established articulable facts that the Petitioner was involved in criminal activity? 2. Whether this prosecution and convicti… |
| 24-6753 | John Martin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity joint-enterprise reasonably-foreseeable relevant-conduct second-circuit sentencing-guidelines | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit incorrectly interpreted the Sentencing Guidelines' relevant conduct provisions for j… |
| 24-6298 | Reyes Espinoza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | criminal-activity criminal-leadership participant-threshold sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines upward-adjustment | United States Sentencing Guidelines § 3Bl.l(a), provides: "If the defendant was an organizer or leader of a criminal activity that involved five or mo… |
| 24-6068 | Marlon Maurice Winborn v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity fourth-amendment informant-tip law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-inference | Does the Fourth Amendment require that even a reliable informant provide police with sufficient information to allow an officer to reasonably infer th… |
| 24-407 | Bonnie Burkhardt v. Penney Azcarate, Chief Judge, Fairfax County Circuit Court | Virginia | 2024-10-11 | Denied | Response Waived | common-law constitutional-rights criminal-activity grand-jury official-misconduct public-safety | Does a citizen have a Constitutional and Common Law right to report evidence of felonious activity to the grand jury, especially when public safety of… |
| 24A9 | Nathan Cooper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-08 | Presumed Complete | armed-and-dangerous criminal-activity fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion stop-and-frisk terry-stop | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6177 | Sylvia Olivas, aka Sylvia Lee Gavaldon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-06 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure expert-testimony expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence mens-rea mental-state trier-of-fact | Rule 704(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence provides: In a criminal case, an expert witness must not state an opinion about whether the defendant did… |
| 23-6166 | Moses Moreira v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | application-notes criminal-activity criminal-assets fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-precedent manager-status participant-supervision sentencing-enhancement subordinate-participant supervision u-s-sentencing-guidelines | U.S.S.G. § 3B1.1 provides a sentencing enhancement for a defendant's status as a "manager or supervisor" of certain criminal activity. Under the Appli… |
| 23-6096 | Thomas Oliver v. Joseph Leonard Michaud, et al. | First Circuit | 2023-11-22 | Denied | IFP | civil-litigation civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law judicial-misconduct legal-ethics standing | Can a party to civil litigation in the United States —no matter who the party is—commit crimes in order to win its case, all the while have judges at … |
| 23-499 | Jesus Leonardo Esquivel-Carrizales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment companion-suspicion criminal-activity drug-crime fourth-amendment investigative-stop law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | While out shopping five days before Christmas, Petitioner had a brief interaction in the public parking lot of a shopping center with a man agents sus… |
| 22-1152 | Najam Azmat v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 28-usc-535 criminal-activity criminal-liability department-of-justice equal-justice immunity misprision-of-felony official-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct | 1. Does the Department of Justice have an obligation to charge the prosecutors and Federal Agents if they engage in criminal activity during the cours… |
| 22-7227 | Jared B. Goudy v. Jennifer E. Caluori | Florida | 2023-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-action civil-immunity constitutional-rights criminal-activity driving-under-the-influence due-process immunity self-defense stand-your-ground statutory-interpretation | Florida's Second District Court of Appeal affirmed the Twelfth Judicial Circuit's dismissal of Petitioner's case. Following an evidentiary hearing, th… |
| 22-6286 | John Yang v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-activity fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-seizure | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment, U.S. Const. Amend. IV, permits a police officer to seize a vehicle and its occupants when the officer only knows that… |
| 21-532 | Jacob Matthew Johnson v. Texas | Texas | 2021-10-12 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | calls-for-service criminal-activity fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion warrantless-search | Can three or four unadorned "calls for service" to an area (1) constitute a specific and articulable fact significantly associating said area with cri… |
| 21-5680 | Heather Matthews v. California State University | Nevada | 2021-09-15 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-activity due-process first-amendment sovereign-immunity state-jurisdiction | Does a large public entity or state university or government agency have the right to claim sovereign immunity when committing criminal activities aft… |
| 21-5352 | Vernon D. Nelson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-12 | Denied | IFP | border-patrol circuit-split criminal-activity drug-offense fourth-amendment immigration-enforcement law-enforcement-authority search-and-seizure seizure | Whether a Fourth Amendment violation occurs when Border Patrol agents seize a person solely on suspicion of a drug-related offense, with no suspicion … |
| 20-8352 | David Alexandre v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant supreme-court | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erroneously hold the government was not required to establish probable cause to the belie… |
| 20-7003 | Justin Anthony Kudla v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2021-02-01 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-intrusion reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio traffic-stop | Did the district court error by denying the suppression motion where a police officer violated a rule announced in Terry v. Ohio, under the Fourth Ame… |
| 20-6439 | Sidney Patterson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity due-process legislative-intent racketeering rico rico-statute sufficiency-of-evidence unsophisticated-crime vague-statute | A conviction based on less than sufficient evidence is a due process violation. 1. Does the application of a vaguely written racketeering statute to … |
| 20-5614 | Derrick Anthony Felton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity defendant-status due-process judicial-determination leadership-role legal-error plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-court vagueness | Did the Trial Court error in finding that Mr. Felton was an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of the criminal activity? |
| 19-8014 | Michael Artis v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest criminal-activity criminal-conspiracy evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution requires that evidence be suppressed where agents lacked probable cause to arrest two p… |
| 19-7557 | Lance Yarbough v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy jointly-undertaken-criminal-activity relevant-conduct sentencing statutory-minimum substantive-offenses successive-prosecution | 1. Where a prosecution for drug conspiracy under 21 U.S.C. §846 is successive to separate sentences for substantive offenses that are included in the … |
| 19-7370 | Mario Alberto Buenrostro-Lopez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment anonymous-tip border-patrol border-security civil-rights criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment investigatory-stop reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop | Whether an individual's telephone call to law enforcement, in which he stated that a person was picked up by vehicle in an area known for alien smug g… |
| 19-6797 | Hal Mark Kreitman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | business-expenses business-services criminal-activity criminal-liability criminal-offense criminal-procedure employee-liability employee-services employment federal-jurisdiction legal-culpability money-laundering payment-structure | Does an employee's facilitation of a criminal offense, by providing services to a business engaged in criminal activity, make the employee guilty not … |
| 19-6694 | Tim Sundy v. Martha C. Christian, Judge, et al. | Georgia | 2019-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | access-to-court civil-rights constitutional-rights court-officer criminal-activity due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants property-rights state-court-officers takings | Whether pro se litigants are immune from criminal activity, undue interference and/or transgressional acts by State of Georgia court officers, with th… |
| 19-5782 | Tyrone Dexter Christian v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-the-circumstances vague-affidavit vague-and-conclusory | I. Whether the lower court erred in finding probable cause to search petitioner's home when the court viewed the search warrant affidavit as a whole a… |
| 18-9433 | Timothy J. Stubbs v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-activity financial-records financial-transparency fraud fraud-or-deceit kawashima-v-holder sentencing-enhancement sophisticated-means tax-assessment tax-evasion | Does the Government meet its burden of proof in a tax evasion case (as opposed to failure to file) where the financial records of the accused are trut… |
| 18-8885 | Jose Roman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense fifth-circuit-interpretation firearm-enhancement firearms foreseeability presumption presumption-of-use sentencing-guidelines tools-of-the-trade | WHETHER THE GUIDELINES ARE MISAPPLIED LINER 2D1.1 (b)(1) BY MAKING A GENERAL PRESUMPTION THAT FIREARMS ARE "TOOLS OF THE TRADE" AND THAT ALWAYS IS FOR… |
| 18-8665 | Michael Benanti v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit criminal-activity fed-evid-r-403 fed-evid-rule-403 fourth-amendment harmless-error nexus nexus-requirement place-to-be-searched search-warrant substantial-rights | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires the affidavit supporting a search warrant to show a nexus between the criminal activity at issue and the plac… |
| 18-863 | Tralvis Edmond v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant temporal-evidence | Whether a complaint for search warrant that is silent as to the date on which alleged criminal activity occurred and recounts only a single drug purch… |
| 18-7241 | Mary-Ann Bernadette Kerrigan v. QBE Insurance Corporation | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bad-faith-investigation breach-of-contract civil-rights consumer-protection criminal-activity criminal-damages criminal-law due-process insurance insurance-coverage insurance-investigation insurance-regulations procedural-error property-damage property-rights statute-of-limitations | Can this court determine it is "extremely unusual and extraordinary circumstances" for QBE insurance and their adjusters to deny coverage by attributi… |
| 18-7195 | Eduardo Gomez v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence criminal-activity firearm-possession investigatory-seizure police-powers reasonable-suspicion | Does suspected possession of a firearm, on its own, provide a police officer with reasonable suspicion of criminal activity to justify an investigator… |
| 18-5423 | Seungjin Kim v. United States Customs and Border Protection | District of Columbia | 2018-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | asylum asylum-seekers border-entry constitutional-law criminal-activity detention detention-conditions due-process equal-protection immigration-detention immigration-law presidential-authority presidential-powers visa-restrictions | Whether under 8 U.S.C. §1225(b)(1)(B)(ii), inadmissible aliens who are Asylum Seekers include immigrant victim who is not an applicant for, or is not … |
| 18-5097 | Antonio Torres v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity defendant-role mitigating-role paid-tasks proprietary-interest rebuttable-presumption sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction | 1. Whether U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2 now contains a rebuttable presumption that a mitigating role reduction should be granted upon a showing by the defendant t… |