| 25A609 |
Aita Gurung v. Vermont |
Vermont |
2025-11-24 |
Application |
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certiorari constitutional-review criminal-case judicial-review state-court supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6112 |
Luke Masood Arabzadegan v. Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law circuit-court-discretion criminal-case filing-fee judicial-procedure prison-litigation-reform-act |
1. HAS THE 05TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ALLEGEDLY ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION, BY DEMANDING PETITIONER PAY THE PRISON LITIGATION REFORM ACT'S FILING FEE,… |
| 25A441 |
Eric Tyrell Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-20 |
Presumed Complete |
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certiorari constitutional-error criminal-case fourth-circuit legal-standard supreme-court-review |
Whether police conduct a Fourth Amendment search of a home (thus requiring consent or a warrant) when they use a drug-detection canine to sniff the do… |
| 24A555 |
Gerardo Gamez-Reyes v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-12-06 |
Presumed Complete |
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criminal-case extension-of-time federal-public-defender supreme-court-rule tenth-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1018 |
Luis Marin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-16 |
Presumed Complete |
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criminal-case legal-standard ninth-circuit procedural-error time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether 46 U.S.C. § 70502(d)(1)(C) of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act exceeds Congress's power under the Define and Punish Clause by defining a … |
| 23-5999 |
Anson Chi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process extension-of-time petition-for-rehearing petition-for-rehearing-en-banc restitution |
Question not identified. |
| 23-121 |
Patrick Shin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
coram-nobis criminal-case criminal-procedure defendant-decision-making ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining post-hoc-assertion prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington writ-of-error |
1. Whether a district court may require
an additional showing of prejudice to grant a writ of
coram nobis in a criminal case, and, if so, whether
the … |
| 22-1205 |
Brian D. Skattum v. Devan Collomy |
Maine |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
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14th-amendment 5th-amendment child-custody civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure divorce-proceeding due-process family-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination |
Question I:
Can the Maine courts penalize a father in a
divorce and child custody proceeding, while he is also
a defendant in a Criminal case, for e… |
| 22-7457 |
Bruce Allen Buckner v. Daniel Porter, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights civil-stay constitutional-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias obstruction-of-justice stay |
1. Does a Stay in one civil proceeding pending the outcome of a Criminal case extend to all other civil proceeding stemming from the same Criminal cas… |
| 22-6712 |
Ramone L. Wright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguous-sentence correction-of-record court-transcript criminal-case due-process judicial-confidence judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice oral-sentence rule-36-correction sentencing sentencing-ambiguity |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6466 |
Derrick Anthony Stewart v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-case criminal-case eighth-circuit-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
Whether trial counsel's failure to utilize existing precedent to challenge the
application of a sentencing enhancement pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851 con… |
| 22-5389 |
Antonio Molina-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8058 |
Alejandro Pascual-Miguel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-252 |
Oklahoma v. Shannon James Kepler |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-case criminal-law federal-indian-law legal-precedent mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-jurisdiction stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452
(2020), should be overruled. |
| 20-8218 |
George Verkler, aka Kenneth P. Goff, aka Neal T. Pearson, aka Neil T. Pearson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-case double-jeopardy plea-bargain presumption-of-innocence right-to-counsel unconstitutional-decision |
Does the presumption of innocence mean that if a judge will not read everything a defendant in a criminal case submits to the court that the judge mus… |
| 20-867 |
Shalini Ahmed v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction bond-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights cohen-doctrine criminal-case criminal-law due-process surety-intervention |
Is a bond forfeiture proceeding sufficiently civil in nature such that it falls under certain rules governing civil actions and should be treated as a… |
| 19-8588 |
Robert Donelson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
404(b) circuit-split criminal-case criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidence-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-evidence prior-act-evidence propensity-evidence propensity-free-link |
Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b)'s prohibition against prior act evidence requires the government to demonstrate a propensity-free link between… |
| 19-8576 |
Franklin Mackensie Robinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-record court-of-appeals criminal-case criminal-procedure federal-grand-jury federal-jurisdiction grand-jury jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge statutory-compliance title-40-usc-s-255 |
Is the Petitioner, Mr. Franklin Robinson, entitled to review The Administrative Record in his criminal case used by The United States of America in or… |
| 19-5054 |
Jason Hendershott v. Kelly Strong, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuit-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mental-illness post-conviction |
(1) Should Hendershott have been barred under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 when he turned his docs over to prison Authorities to mail Feb. 2014 months before his … |
| 18-9451 |
Denzel Pittman v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process illinois-law judicial-mandate juvenile-justice mental-health petition-for-leave-to-appeal second-amendment self-regulation standing supreme-court takings |
A defendant, whose age falls on the Adult side of the Miller height line, is entitled under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution to … |
| 18A1226 |
Thomas Lewis, Kurt J. Myrie, and Derrick Young v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Presumed Complete |
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criminal-case federal-public-defender final-order ninth-circuit supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9154 |
Jeffrey William Smith v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure-criminal constitutional-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instructions life-imprisonment life-sentence mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
ATEPTED CAPITAL CASE
THE INSTRUCTON ANO GIVE IT IN THE PROPER FORM; CITEDIN) "WHALEY V. COMMONDEALh, 214 VA.353 (1973) AND IN " FI5hBACK v. COMMONWEG… |
| 18-7575 |
Alexis Valdes Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP |
criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-process mandatory-form panel-decision preclusive-effect prior-panel-precedent strict-deadline writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Due Process Clause permits the Eleventh Circuit to afford
preclusive effect in a criminal case to a prior panel decision that was: based o… |
| 18-226 |
Eric G. Zahnd v. Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Supreme Court of Missouri |
Missouri |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
attorney-discipline attorney-ethics criminal-case due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech government-transparency professional-conduct prosecutorial-speech public-record public-records |
After the conclusion of a child sexual abuse criminal case, the Prosecuting Attorney of Platte County, Missouri, Eric G. Zahnd, issued a news release … |