criminal-conduct
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6697 | Adedayo Abioye v. Mojisola Braimoh, et al. | California | 2026-02-03 | Pending | IFP | criminal-conduct false-statement federal-statute fiduciary-duty mortgage-loan victim-damages | Federal statute of the United States Code - 18 U.S.C. § 1014, prohibits making a (misleading or) "false statement " for the purpose of influencing cer… |
| 25-5853 | Clarence Santiago v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-conduct federal-procedure sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | In assessing whether two defendants are similarly situated for purposes of § 3553(a)(6), are courts required to consider their actual offense conduct? |
| 24-6544 | Lemack Bellot v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting attempt-crime criminal-conduct ninth-circuit reverse-sting statutory-interpretation | Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision that "aiding and abetting an attempt" and "attempting to aid and abet" are equivalent permits wholly fictitious c… |
| 24-6518 | Martin Vera-Rivas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-patrol border-proximity corpus-delicti criminal-conduct illegal-entry suspicion-of-crime | Does mere proximity to the border corroborate the criminal conduct at the core of illegal entry, thereby defeating a corpus delicti defense? |
| 23-720 | Omar Ahmed Khadr v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-01-04 | Denied | Amici (1) | appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-conduct direct-appeal judicial-decision plea-agreement statutory-interpretation | Plea agreements often include a general waiver of the right to appeal. Circuits are divided over whether the inclusion of such a term bars a defendant… |
| 23-6331 | Hannibal Moore v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense burden-of-proof criminal-conduct criminal-law disqualifying-element imminent-threat justification-defense legal-alternative proximate-cause | The question presented is whether the courts should also take a narrow view in considering the disqualifying element of the justification defense, and… |
| 23-6297 | Kevin Hewlett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 cellphone-evidence child-pornography commerce-clause criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-procedure interstate-commerce jury-instruction mens-rea | 1) Whether the use of an internationally-manufactured cellphone in criminal conduct is, by itself, a sufficient nexus to interstate commerce to satisf… |
| 23-6269 | Yavonne Hand v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-rights criminal-conduct declaratory-judgment due-process ethics-violation government-misconduct public-officials standing | IN AN ACTION IN WHICH THE SOLE CLAIM TO BE TRIED IS A CLAIM UNDER THE DECLARA TORY JUDGMENT ACT RESULTING TO VIOLATION OF ETHICS AND CRIMINAL CONDUCT… |
| 23-5601 | In Re Michael Kenny Carter | 2023-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-statute circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-jurisdiction interstate-activity jurisdiction jurisdictional-scope sexual-activity statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5310 | Joseph Tyshawn Darren Favorite v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-conduct criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards judicial-discretion police-report sentencing-enhancement uncorroborated-accusation | May the Court rely on an uncorroborated accusation of criminal conduct in a police report to enhance a defendant's sentence when the report is not par… |
| 23-5240 | Alden Brent Cooper v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Section 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(1) can be violated by either knowingly receiving or distributing child pornography. A defendant accused of a violation of… |
| 22-963 | John Doe v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Second Circuit | 2023-04-04 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-action criminal-conduct criminal-violation dodd-frank enforcement-action judicial-action pleaded-guilty sec-interpretation sentencing whistleblower whistleblower-award | In denying a whistleblower award to Petitioner, the SEC interpreted key provisions of the statutory whistleblower program created by Congress in the D… |
| 22-6872 | Gustavo Guzman v. California | California | 2023-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conduct fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence government-informant home-surveillance reasonable-suspicion warrantless-entry | 1. Whether or under what circumstances the Fourth Amendment permits a government informant's warrantless entry into a person's home to monitor, transm… |
| 22-5820 | S. Patrick Mendel v. Liane Randolph, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights congressional-preemption criminal-conduct due-process federal-courts federal-enforcement preemption pro-se-petition public-safety transportation transportation-law | Congress regulates transportation throughout the United States and preempts by law State interference, to insure a competitive marketplace; and import… |
| 21-7600 | Christopher Hibshman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-3583 18-USC-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-sentencing reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-standards supervised-release | 1. For violation of supervised release is the imposition of a 24 month sentence consecutive to a 2 year Indiana prison term unreasonable and at odds w… |
| 21-1008 | Andres Mencia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-20 | GVR | Relisted (2) | criminal-conduct criminal-intent criminal-liability due-process expert-testimony good-faith-defense medical-practice medical-standard-of-care mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-care | For more than a decade, the civil standard of care established for the practice of medicine has been utilized by federal prosecutors in criminal prose… |
| 21-6449 | Pizarro Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-conduct criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct police-policy reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-seizure | QUESTION 1 : WAS THERE "REASONABLE SUSPICION" JUSTIFYING PETITIONER'S STOP AND FRISK UNDER TERRY WHEN THE OFFICERS EFFECTING THE "STOP " DID NOT OBSER… |
| 21-6273 | Nathan R. Rollins, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-sentencing-guidelines booker-standard criminal-conduct criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-booker | Mr. Rollins plead guilty to single charge of possessing a firearm after conviction of a felony. The offense of conviction resulted in an advisory sent… |
| 21-6034 | Clifton James Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-conduct criminal-procedure discovery-violations federal-jurisdiction government-agencies indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states speedy-trial-act | 1. After Jackson was charged with and convicted of unlawful firearm possession, this Court overturned near-unanimous circuit authority by holding the … |
| 20-7586 | Phillip Blough v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-conduct due-process judicial-error jury jury-instructions legal-prejudice right-to-fair-trial trial-by-jury trial-procedure | A common-sense extension of the right to a trial by jury is the right to a jury informed of relevant and non-confusing jury instructions. Here, the tr… |
| 20-589 | Reed Kirk McDonald v. Eagle County, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-11-03 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees case-conclusion civil-procedure criminal-conduct federal-jurisdiction federal-removal-law judicial-misconduct magistrate-jurisdiction removal state-court state-court-procedure | Did the Magistrate for the District of Colorado error in determining that the Bellco and Eagle cases had concluded? Can a state-judge refuse to obey … |
| 20-5122 | Maximo Flores-Lezama v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-punishment due-process precedents punishment revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Whether a supervised release revocation sentence may be imposed to punish a defendant for his underlying criminal conduct, or whether a punitive revoc… |
| 19-851 | Manuel Lopez-Castro v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-innocence constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-default | Does the actual innocence gateway to review of procedurally defaulted habeas claims apply only where new evidence shows the defendant did not commit t… |
| 19-7075 | Matthew Rouse v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent child-pornography criminal-conduct first-amendment privacy sexual-conduct | Whether the child pornography exception to the First Amendment, which is grounded in the long-standing exemption for speech integral to criminal condu… |
| 19-6721 | Christopher Ray Parrish v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-6552 | Darrell Tykwan Atkinson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-6269 | Eduardo Romero Martinez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-5036 | Craig Alan Toaz v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentencing criminal-conduct criminal-procedure federal-convictions habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-review procedural-grounds sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-5g1.3 | I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT AND CIRCUIT COURTS ERRONEOUSLY DISMISSED PETITIONER'S HABEAS PETITION UNDER PROCEDURAL GROUNDS, AND IF SO THEN; II. WHETHER T… |
| 18-927 | Emmanuel I. Mekowulu v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-17 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-vagueness criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process ex-post-facto expert-testimony procedural-default standard-of-care vagueness | 1. Whether the government's expert's afterthe-fact opinion of the applicable standard of care of Florida Pharmacists is an ex post facto interpretatio… |