criminal-charges
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24A1120 | Anita Louise Jackson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-20 | Presumed Complete | criminal-charges criminal-conviction first-impression fourth-circuit medical-instrument physician-liability | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6614 | Benjamin Dale Marshall v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-charges defendant-rights due-process government-prosecution sentencing-prejudice timing-of-charges | I. Does due process require the government to bring charges for crimes committed close in time so that the timing of the charges does not prejudice th… |
| 24A759 | Roman Storm v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | Second Circuit | 2025-02-05 | Denied | blockchain criminal-charges cryptocurrency digital-assets financial-regulation securities-law | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7585 | Wilfred H. v. Josh Ward, Interim Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex | West Virginia | 2024-05-29 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process factual-allegations legal-procedure multiple-convictions multiple-counts | Does a state violate due process or double jeopardy principles when it charges and convicts a defendant on multiple, identical counts, with none conne… |
| 23-6298 | Chet Smith v. Cook County, Illinois | Seventh Circuit | 2023-12-18 | Denied | IFP | criminal-charges federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment government-non-compliance grand-jury oath-requirement panel-defendant procedural-due-process rule-3 void-complaint void-indictment | _YV\e re^urfi of a<\ \ ndi'cFrnecvV | w i-hhou-b c\ Whefhec ids -deems do bill, \/ioU-Ves dhe Fi^-^rb cjCani dur^ of inoA Procedure,\, VJheFVieC VO-V… |
| 23-5382 | Julie A. Graham v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Third Circuit | 2023-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-charges due-process employee-suspension employment employment-law hearing-requirements | Where employer suspends employee indefinitely for waiver of prelimin ary hearing on a variety of criminal charges, but affords employee no kind of he… |
| 23-50 | Jascha Chiaverini, et al. v. City of Napoleon, Ohio, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-20 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9)Relisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 any-crime-rule charge-specific-rule circuit-split criminal-charges fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause section-1983 | To make out a Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, a plaintiff must show that legal process was instituted without pro… |
| 22-953 | Pablo Calderon v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-03-30 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation substantive-law | Does a federal district court have habeas corpus jurisdiction when a substantive element of the criminal charges was not found under the law mandated … |
| 22-6721 | Jeffery T. Crystal v. Florida | Florida | 2023-02-07 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto jury-determination jury-trial sixth-amendment supremacy-clause trial-procedure verdict-form | Did the "verdict form " agreed upon by the jury failure to specify I. "GUILTY " as to Count 1 violate 6th Amendment right to a jury determination of G… |
| 22-6691 | Hugues-Denver Akassy v. Michael Kirkpatrick, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2023-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-charges criminal-indictment due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant judicial-procedure rape-case standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Can a court with lack of subject matter jurisdiction permit trumped-up criminal charges and indigent defendant to stand trial on charges not made in i… |
| 22-5040 | Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 2022-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure due-process extradition indictment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | 1. Does a criminal defendant have the right to an Attorney Immediaetely once criminal charges are presented in an Indicment? 2. If criminal defendan… |
| 21-973 | John Colangelo, et al. v. Nicole Chase | Second Circuit | 2022-01-06 | Dismissed | Response Requested | civil-rights criminal-charges due-process false-statement malicious-prosecution police-investigation procedural-grounds qualified-immunity section-1983 | Canton police officers investigated a complaint of alleged sexual misconduct wherein the complainant provided various versions of the incident and, af… |
| 21-793 | Pennsylvania v. William Henry Cosby, Jr. | Pennsylvania | 2021-11-30 | Denied | 14th-amendment criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity immunity-promise press-release prosecutorial-discretion | When a prosecutor publicly announces that he will not file criminal charges based on lack of evidence, does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth A… | |
| 21-6277 | Jordan Adonis Rawls v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2021-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-charges criminal-prosecution custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-warnings patterson-v-illinois police-disclosure sixth-amendment | WHETHER POLICE, TO PROTECT A PERSON'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS, MUST DO MORE THAN ADMINISTER MIRANDA WARNINGS WHEN THE INDIVIDUAL IS SUBJECT TO POLICE C… |
| 21-211 | Valueland Auto Sales, Inc., and Ron Benit v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-13 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-charges criminal-procedure district-court expungement judicial-procedure jurisdiction record-expungement | When the district court dismisses all criminal charges against a defendant, does that court have jurisdiction over a motion to expunge the records rel… | |
| 20-6669 | Brian Zellner v. Georgia | Georgia | 2020-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment constitutional-provision criminal-charges criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment first-offender-statute state-prosecution substantive-criminal-charges | Does the Double Jeopardy Clause of the 5th Amendment bar state prosecution of a defendant on substantive criminal charges based on the same conduct wh… |
| 20-6338 | James H. Smith v. Brian Cook, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa-deference confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-charges deficient-performance federal-claim ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-misconstrue trial-court | 1). Can an attorney demonstrate deficient performance in representing a client while also facing serious criminal charges in the same court. 2). Shou… |
| 20-6315 | Darris Altony Newsome v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | IFP | criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause sixth-amendment victim-testimony witness-testimony | 1. Did the Courts erred in the opinion that petitioners DELEON WAS dismissed Muary unauthorized And successive, And denied relief oof ACEGABAL qpeuids… |
| 20-5943 | Lamar A. Williams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights complaint-filing constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment legal-procedure retaliation standing | Whether or not the criminal charges were retaliatory in response to my May 8, 2018 complaint, the follow up complaint on May 24, 2018 and a 200-page s… |
| 19-6629 | Jacqueline M. King v. District of Columbia, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-charges driver's-license drivers-license due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement parking-tickets suspension | Whether the District of Columbia violated Petitioners due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution by suspend… |
| 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… |
| 19-407 | Alexander Christian Miles v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-09-26 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-the-writ abuse-of-writ aedpa contract-law criminal-charges criminal-procedure plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief | 1. Whether the abuse of the writ doctrine or the AEDPA precludes a successive petition for post conviction relief when the government, years after a d… |
| 18-9731 | Youval Geringer-Ganor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-conduct judicial-review outrageous-government-conduct sting-operation sting-operations | Whether this Court should decide the important but unsettled question as to whether government sting operations may constitute outrageous government c… |
| 18-7486 | Frank Monte v. Cyrus R. Vance, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-challenge criminal-charges due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct standing state-actors | Constitutionality, of the entire docket vanishing from the public records of the Supreme Court of New York, New York County. Shortly after filing the … |
| 18-7130 | Matthew G. Alden, Jr. v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-charges criminal-charges-text-messages criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt reasonable-doubt right-to-acquittal structural-error text-message-evidence text-messages | When the government brings criminal charges based on an allegation that the defendant sent a series of text messages, does it violate the defendant's … |