| 25-6805 |
Antonio Prophet v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-13 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-conspiracy federal-question fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus procedural-default |
1. When a federal criminal conspiracy initiated in the State court is then carried over into 2254 federal habeas corpus proceedings by a State Respond… |
| 25-6477 |
Warren Harold Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-conspiracy double-jeopardy hobbs-act judicial-precedent sentencing |
Whether Callanan v. United States, 364 U.S. 587 (1961), should be overruled or limited as violative of the Double Jeopardy Clause where petitioner was… |
| 25A294 |
Vincent Gerald Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
conspiracy-to-commit criminal-conspiracy racketeering rico-conspiracy specific-intent statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-2 |
Deon Reese v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-conspiracy due-process judicial-precedent pinkerton-doctrine statutory-interpretation vicarious-liability |
Whether this Court should overrule Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946). |
| 24-1196 |
Dwaine Collymore v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-05-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
consecutive-sentencing criminal-attempt criminal-conspiracy hobbs-act inchoate-crimes sentencing-principles |
Whether a district court may impose consecutive
terms of imprisonment for convictions of attempt and conspiracy under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951… |
| 24-1172 |
Robert Sylvester Kelly v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-05-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-conspiracy enterprise-definition federal-criminal-law racketeering rico-statute statutory-interpretation |
Should this Court grant certiorari to make explicit that under 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c), the members of an "enterprise" must share a common illegal or frau… |
| 24-284 |
Andre Ricardo Briscoe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
criminal-conspiracy federal-prosecution overt-act statute-of-limitations substantive-offense tolling-doctrine |
Prosecutors, judges, and defense lawyers know that the statute of limitations for almost all federal crimes is five years. 18 U.S.C. § 3282(a). Yet th… |
| 23-7481 |
Maurice Owen Wiley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-conspiracy double-jeopardy fifth-amendment firearms firearms-possession hobbs-act |
DOES THE IMPOSITION OF CONSECUTIVE PUNISHMENTS FOR CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT HOBBS ACT ROBBERY IN VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a) and CONSPIRACY TO POSSES… |
| 23-7144 |
Dricko Dashon Huskey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conspiracy criminal-enterprise due-process jury-finding jury-findings racketeering racketeering-activity rico-act rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
A conspiracy to violate The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d), is punishable by a maximum of 20 years, but… |
| 23-638 |
Kenneth Wendell Ravenell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure federal-prosecution jury-instructions money-laundering non-overt-act-conspiracy statute-of-limitations |
Whether, to comply with 18 U.S.C. § 3282(a) in a prosecution for a non-overt act conspiracy, the government bears the burden of proving to a jury that… |
| 23-5282 |
Clarence Leonard Hearns, Jr. v. Andrew Whisnand, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
absolute-immunity access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conspiracy due-process first-amendment standing state-attorney-general |
1. WHETHER A STATE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FROM SUIT FOR INITIATING CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY?
2. WHETHER ALL ACTORS IN A CRIMINAL CO… |
| 22-876 |
Daniel L. Pohle v. Michael Pence, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy due-process international-treaty presidential-powers supremacy-clause treaty-violation united-nations-convention |
1. Whether the President of the United States is bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to seek injunction against a Governor… |
| 22-6837 |
James Randolph Sherman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-fairness criminal-conspiracy drug-offense due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-speculation loose-practice non-incriminating-evidence unfairness-to-defendant |
Does the U.S. Constitution embrace a criminal conspiracy conviction when the government presents non-incriminating evidence of innocent conduct regard… |
| 22-6791 |
Jerome Simmons v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-conspiracy elements-clause fifth-amendment hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment vagueness-doctrine |
Whether a sentence predicated upon a finding that Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence under the elements clause in 18 U.S.C § 924 (c) violates th… |
| 22-486 |
Texas v. John Wesley Baldwin |
Texas |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-conspiracy fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates organized-crime probable-cause riley-standard riley-v-california search-warrant warrant-requirements |
In Illinois v. Gates, this Court held that a warrant's issuance "cannot be a mere ratification of the bare conclusions of others," but also that "warr… |
| 22-6114 |
Phillip Scott Grigalanz v. Kristi Lynn Grigalanz |
Indiana |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy due-process felony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing |
SHOULD RESPONDENT BENEFIT FROM A CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A FELONY CRIME?
DOES THE CONDUCT OF THE INDIANA COURTS VIOLATE PETITIONER'S FIFTH AND FOURTEENT… |
| 22-5672 |
Luan Van Nguyen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
and whether the ineffective assistance of counsel 4th-amendment carjacking civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy exclusionary-rule ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment standing |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Erred in denied Nguyen Clearly his Constitutional claims are Correct when the Fifth Circuit had … |
| 21-5744 |
Joseph George v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation criminal-conspiracy due-process federal-law law-enforcement prisoner-rights public-officials standing |
DoeS AlONg RUNNiNg GOVERNMEN/ ANd ORgANiZEd CRIMiNAL
CoNspiRAcy taRgeting ANd fRaming pelitioNeR toe batteRy caSES
Meet the PLRA 3-striKes exceptiorof… |
| 21-125 |
Constantino Basile v. The Los Angeles Film School, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights copyright criminal-conspiracy due-process racketeering rico |
Whether a Petitioner is entitled to a conservative summary judgement of 1 Billion dollars awarded after instructions on remand or another amount order… |
| 21-5039 |
Gavin Wayne Wright v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
co-conspirator-statements co-defendant criminal-conspiracy due-process entrapment false-statements federal-rules-of-evidence government-agent jury-instruction materiality testimony |
I. Petitioner pointed to the Government agent's testimony about his "recruitment"
role and activities for co-defendant Patrick Stein, and admitted tes… |
| 20-8362 |
Damion Sleugh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment judge-made-law Pinkerton-liability substantive-offense substantive-offenses |
1. May a defendant be found guilty of a substantive offense based on Pinkerton liability where that offense was not an object of the alleged conspirac… |
| 20-8231 |
Kevin Thomas Seigler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-courts single-transaction |
1. Is evidence of a single sale of illegal drugs, from one seller to one buyer, sufficient to support a conviction for conspiracy to distribute illega… |
| 20-8008 |
Eric Christopher Conn v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail-reform-act conspiracy-to-escape criminal-conspiracy custody escape-statute federal-corrections federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus home-confinement jurisdictional-review parole-violation prisoner-rights |
Whether an individual released on bond under the Bail Reform Act is in "custody" so as to trigger conspiracy to escape for a "walk away." |
| 20-7379 |
Miguel Angel Corujo Mercado v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
conspiracy constitutional-protection continuous-act criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment multiple-charges |
CAN A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT BE CHARGED AND CONVICTED WITH MULTIPLE CONSPIRACIES FOR A SINGLE CONTINUOUS CONSPIRACY ACT WITHOUT VIOLATING RIGHT TO BE FREE… |
| 20-6481 |
Luis Francisco Murillo Morfin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coercion conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deliberate-ignorance due-process intent-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea |
The questions presented are whether, in a criminal case, the government may rely on a deliberate ignorance theory of the knowledge mens rea:
(1) to e… |
| 20-6367 |
Kissinger St. Fleur v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review buyer-seller-transaction cocaine-distribution conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions |
Did the district court and the Eleventh Circuit deny Mr. St. Fleur a fair trial when it failed to give buyer-seller instructions to the jury? |
| 20-5656 |
Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure district-prosecution due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge overt-act venue venue-requirement |
In a criminal conspiracy case, does proof of venue require that at least one defendant charged in the case have participated in an overt act in furthe… |
| 20-5153 |
Jamiell Sims v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1594 conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute force-fraud-coercion offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking |
What is the base offense level for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1594(c)? |
| 19-8397 |
Domenico Alexander Lockhart v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights cole-v-arkansas constitutional-law criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-narcotic-offenses due-process judicial-review overt-act procedural-and-substantive-rights statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8160 |
Eddie Vincent Rutledge v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment issue-preclusion solicitation |
DID THE FLORIDA TRIAL COURT VIOLATE THE FIFTH AMENDMENT'S GUARANTEE AGAINST DOUBLE JEOPARDY WHEN IT REFUSED TO APPLY THE DOCTRINE OF ISSUE PRECLUSION … |
| 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… |
| 19-7479 |
Brian Price v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant's constitutional rights are abridged when a district court bases its sentence solely on acquitted conduct.
Whether a criminal con… |
| 19-7027 |
Patrick T. Hughes v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability confrontation-clause criminal-conspiracy criminal-homicide due-process eighth-amendment evidence reasonable-doubt |
I. Whether the evidence was sufficient to [sustain] a conviction of criminal homicide, criminal conspiracy to commit homicide where the Commonwealth f… |
| 19-6844 |
Fabian Santiago v. Arthur F. Hill, Associate Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County |
Illinois |
2019-12-05 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-adjudication ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-representation right-to-counsel |
A.) The Petitioner presents the inquiry into the U.S.Ct, whether the refusal of the legftl rep
resentative (sic) of the ftetitioner durirg arraignment… |
| 19-6293 |
Dwight Knowles v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-jurisprudence congressional-intent conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-conspiracy extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-offenses extraterritoriality federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-application |
Whether federal conspiracy statutes apply extraterritorially when the object of the conspiracy is an extraterritorial offense but there is no clear in… |
| 19-5296 |
Ozzie Davis v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruton-v-us criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial-rights jackson-v-virginia prosecutorial-misconduct state-trial sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent third-degree-murder |
WHETHER THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPERIOR COURT'S DENIAL ON DIRECT
REVIEW OF THE CHALLENGE TO THE SUFFICIENCY OF THE EVIDENCE IN
SUPPORT OF PETITIONER'S CON… |
| 19-5061 |
Akeem Young v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-law-procedure fifth-amendment hobbs-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the least culpable means of committing a violation under 18 U.S.C. 1951: conspiring to commit a Hobbs Act robbery, qualify as a "crime of viol… |
| 18-9806 |
Karlynn Romeo Tones, Donta Lyvoid Blackmon, and Arvin Terrill Carmen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment indictment-specificity jury-instructions jury-unanimity trial-evidence unanimity |
Do federal criminal defendants have a constitutional right to a specific unanimity instruction requiring the jury to unanimously define the duration a… |
| 18-9757 |
Shanta G. Phillips-Berry v. Patricia Blackwell Scurlock, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fraud kidnapping technology-abuse civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process human-rights implant-technology justice-system kidnapping standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9512 |
Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conspiracy criminal-culpability double-jeopardy dry-conspiracy due-process guilt indictment jury reasonable-foreseeability subject-matter-jurisdiction |
What is the Jury to finding in order to establish guilty Criminal Culpability in all Drug Conspiracy crimes? Answer! is the drug quantity to each defe… |
| 18-8847 |
Javier Bocanegra, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chain-of-custody cocaine-conspiracy conspiracy controlled-substances cooperating-witnesses credibility criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deferred-adjudication drug-offense-enhancement evidence full-faith-and-credit reasonable-doubt |
I. Is there insufficient evidence for a conspiracy to transport
cocaine conviction based upon the testimony of cooperating
witnesses who are not credi… |
| 18-8584 |
Antwan Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy constitutional-challenge criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction mens-rea statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness title-21-usc-846 vagueness |
I. Count 1 Conspiracy Indictment is insufficient on its face because it omitted essential element(s) that the Government had to prove.
(a). Is Title … |
| 18-8494 |
Alberto Sostre-Cintron v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-371 18-usc-641 conspiracy conspiracy-18-usc-371 criminal-conspiracy criminal-law district-court-proceedings morissette-standard morissette-v-united-states parties-to-the-proceedings statutory-provisions sufficiency-of-evidence theft-of-government-property theft-of-government-property-18-usc-641 |
Whether there was sufficient evidence to support Alberto Sostre-Cintron's conviction of conspiracy pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §371.
Whether there was suff… |
| 18-7399 |
Gene Donta Carter v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-conspiracy drug-delivery drug-offenses due-process non-violent-crime offense-gravity offense-gravity-scores sentence-proportionality sentencing sentencing-error |
THE SENTENCING CURT ERRED IN APPLYING INCORRECT OFFENSE GRAVITY SCORES IN VIOLATION OF APPELLANT'S DUE PROCESS RIGHTS BASED UPON THE UNPROVEN WEIGHT O… |
| 18-7302 |
Angel Bartlett v. Stephen Gorsalitz, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights court-misconduct criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process false-allegations hate-crime judicial-abuse peonage retaliation witness-tampering |
Was it illegal or wrongful for Stephen Gorsalitz and the Kalamazoo Courts to frame, Set up and destroy Angel Bartlett when she first had her kids? 18 … |
| 18-635 |
Brian M. Burmaster v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-general criminal-conspiracy federal-court-judges federal-judges immunity international-criminal-court international-law judicial-immunity jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction u.s.-attorney-general |
The primary federal question which has never been asked nor answered in American judicial history: Are U.S. Federal Court Judges (U.S. District, Appel… |
| 18-5948 |
Patrick Henry Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
conspiracy criminal-conspiracy death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida-tison-v-arizona felony felony-murder jury-findings sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth or Eighth Amendment require that before a party may be sentenced to death as a conspirator (rather than a trigger-person), the jury mus… |