criminal-defendants
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5462 | Deandre Wilson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-courts constitutional-rights criminal-defendants due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence | Are the divided federal appellate courts applying too stringent a standard when evaluating the admissibility of evidence under Federal Rule of Evidenc… |
| 24-6720 | Leroy Harold White, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-defendants deportation extraneous-offenses fifth-amendment sixth-amendment | DO THE FIFTH AND SIXTH AMENDMENTS TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AFFORD CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS AT LEAST THE SAME BURDEN OF PROOF FOR EXTRANEOUS OFFENS… |
| 23-5835 | Sean Christopher Finnell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-10-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-defendants first-amendment internet-access packingham-v-north-carolina sex-offenders sixth-amendment supervised-release | 1. In Packingham v. North Carolina, 582 U.S. 98 (2017), the Court held that a North Carolina statute prohibiting registered sex offenders from accessi… |
| 23-307 | Kyran Javon Vaughn v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-conviction criminal-defendants direct-review due-process griffith griffith-precedent non-unanimous-jury ramos ramos-decision retroactive-application retroactivity | Whether the rights afforded criminal defendants in Ramos apply retroactively to a case on direct review of the sentence only, given Griffith's holding… |
| 22-7823 | Weston Ray Kubbe v. Utah | Utah | 2023-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment criminal-defendants criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause | L \AJV\iy\ <4c> deJ* <4^xa4-$ 'a Wxv/^. V© A* <^( jo_1 pro^ec^oA C^\t^v\tA^\ cd^P^v\c^A4' ,S ^ |
| 22-5985 | Islam Yaser-Abdel Said v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-defendants criminal-procedure facial-attacks facial-vagueness first-amendment johnson-v-united-states sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-review unconstitutionally-vague | 1. Whether criminal defendants challenging a statute as unconstitutionally vague may raise facial attacks in cases not involving the First Amendment? … |
| 21-6252 | Ryder Shane Altman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure collateral-appeal collateral-review criminal-defendants criminal-procedure fact-finding ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se | Whether federal criminal defendants presenting substantial claims of ineffective assistance of counsel should receive the benefit of additional fact-f… |
| 20-7968 | Charles Ahumada v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-05-10 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-defendants direct-appeal en-banc-review panel-rehearing petition-for-writ-of-certiorari right-to-counsel statutory-provisions | 1. It is settled that criminal defendants have the constitutional right to counsel on direct appeal as of right, up to the point at which an appellate… |
| 20-6057 | David Lee Emmert, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-defendants criminal-enhancement due-process equal-protection immigration liberty-interest sentencing-disparity sexual-abuse-minor statutory-interpretation | As of right now, immigration cases use the Esquivel-Quintana standard exposure to statutory penalty for "any 1' prior felony of "sexual abuse of a min… |
| 19-1214 | Marty Friend v. Indiana | Indiana | 2020-04-14 | Denied | Amici (1) | criminal-defendants criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence medical-records privilege privileged-records psychotherapist-patient psychotherapist-privilege sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Whether, and under what circumstances, criminal defendants' Sixth Amendment and Due Process rights entitle them to obtain witnesses' privileged treatm… |
| 18-9559 | Aracelis N. Ayala v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-iii-judges civil-rights criminal-defendants criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-amendment individualized-determination judicial-tenure presumption revised-organic-act shackling shackling-policy virgin-islands-court | The first question presented is: whether a blanket policy of shackling criminal defendants without an individualized determination of need violates du… |