criminal-forfeiture
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24A554 | Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Presumed Complete | criminal-forfeiture cryptocurrency digital-property indigent-prisoner pro-se rule-41g | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5756 | David Davalos, Sr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-forfeiture criminal-law due-process Fifth-Circuit forfeiture Honeycutt-v-United-States property-rights property-seizure statutory-interpretation tainted-property | Whether Honeycutt v. United States, 581 U.S. 443 (2017) and its progeny require the Fifth Circuit to limit forfeiture to tainted property the defendan… |
| 23-160 | Francisco Dario Mora v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-18 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 28-usc-2461 criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process government-seizure property-rights statutory-interpretation substitute-property temporary-possession | Whether the Government may require criminal defendants under 28 U.S.C. § 2461 to forfeit their own property as a substitute for objects they temporari… |
| 22-7386 | Louis McIntosh, aka Lou D v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-04-27 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2)IFP | appellate-courts commerce-clause criminal-forfeiture federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federalism interstate-commerce jurisdiction rule-32.2 sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a district court may enter a criminal forfeiture order outside the time limitations set forth in Rule 32.2, Fed.R.Crim.P.? 2. Is the theft… |
| 22-652 | Pavel Ivanovich Lazarenko v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-forfeiture procedural-safeguards statutory-interpretation substitute-property tainted-property untainted-property | Whether property can be forfeited as substitute property under § 853(p) without first determining whether it is tainted or untainted. Whether untaint… |
| 22-5534 | Glenn A. Chin v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-forfeiture criminal-sentencing due-process mens-rea reckless-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tax-withholding u.s.s.g.-2b1.1 | 1. Did the District Court clearly err in finding that the defendant's conduct involved a reckless risk of death or serious bodily injury, triggering a… |
| 22-56 | 101 Houseco, LLC v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-20 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-forfeiture due-process parklane-hosiery property-rights standing third-party-claimant | This Court has declared that "[i]t is a violation of due process for a judgment to be binding on a litigant who was not a party or a privy and therefo… |
| 22-17 | Vaxima, Inc., et al. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-06 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2461 breach-of-contract criminal-conviction criminal-forfeiture honeycutt-decision honeycutt-v-united-states indictment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a criminal forfeiture judgment against Petitioners Vaxima, Inc. and GenPhar, Inc. (collectively "Petitioners") under 28 U.S.C. § 2461(c), i… |
| 21-1600 | Jian-Yun Dong, aka John Dong v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-28 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2461c asset-seizure breach-of-contract contract-breach criminal-forfeiture federal-criminal-law honeycutt-precedent honeycutt-v-united-states ownership-interest personal-gain statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a criminal forfeiture judgment against Petitioner Jian-Yun Dong ("Petitioner") under 28 U.S.C. § 2461(c), is permitted under this Court's d… |
| 21-8121 | Leila Varetta Hector, aka Leila Varretta Hector, aka Leila Varetta Hector-Dykes, aka Rita Hector v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-853 circuit-court-decision constitutional-law criminal-forfeiture forfeiture forfeiture-award honeycutt-precedent honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability statutory-interpretation | Whether the imposition of joint and several liability on a forfeiture award under 21 U.S.C. § 853(a) violates the Court's holding in Honeycutt v. Unit… |
| 21-7673 | Dimitar Petlechkov v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-853 circuit-split criminal-forfeiture forfeiture-law money-judgment personal-money-judgment statutory-interpretation substitute-assets | Can a district court order forfeiture of substitute assets far in excess of the personal money judgment balance owed? 21 U.S.C. § 853(p) authorizes f… |
| 21-5936 | Allen Fong v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment criminal-forfeiture in-personam-forfeiture jury-trial reasonable-doubt statutory-authority | 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to a jury finding beyond a reasonable doubt any fact necessary to the imposition of a mandatory cr… |
| 21-5064 | Brandi Channon and Matthew Channon v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-981 criminal-forfeiture forfeiture in-personam in-personam-order joint-and-several-liability joint-liability money-judgment rewards-fraud statutory-forfeiture statutory-interpretation | 1) Does § 981(a)(1)(C) permit the entry of an in personam money judgment in lieu of tainted property? 2) Does § 981(a)(1)(C) permit joint and several… |
| 20-7940 | Khaled Elbeblawy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-forfeiture due-process fact-finding forfeiture jury-trial restitution sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution requires a jury trial on the forfeiture, and whether the Sixth Amendment forbids a trial… |
| 20-1370 | Nidal Ahmed Waked Hatum v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-31 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | concealment-money-laundering criminal-forfeiture forfeiture-money-judgment honeycutt-limitation honeycutt-v-united-states mirror-image-transactions money-laundering no-loss-to-bank return-of-tainted-property statutory-interpretation substitute-property tainted-property | Whether a criminal defendant's legitimate, untainted property is subject to an extra-statutory forfeiture money judgment or substitute property forfei… |
| 20-7198 | Benjamin Edward Henry Bradley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi apprendi-doctrine criminal-forfeiture honeycutt honeycutt-precedent in-personam-judgment in-personam-money-judgments judge-found-facts jury-finding sixth-amendment | 1. Whether, under Apprendi and its progeny, a court violates the Sixth Amendment's jury-finding requirements by ordering forfeiture, over the defendan… |
| 20-714 | Stephen A. Saccoccia v. United States, et al. | First Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-law gross-disproportionality joint-and-several-liability joint-liability statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether the courts of appeal may create exceptions to this Court's finding in Honeycutt v. United States that there exists no statutory authority for … |
| 20-51 | Pedro Pete Benevides v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-22 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-forfeiture eighth-amendment excessive-fine forfeiture ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines | 1. Does the forfeiture of over $44 million constitute an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment, where the forfeiture amount is more than 44 times … |
| 19-1344 | Lahkwinder Singh v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-05 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-forfeiture deprivation-of-livelihood eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause livelihood-deprivation proportionality-analysis sentencing | Whether this Court should resolve the conflict between the circuits regarding whether the 'deprivation of livelihood' should be included in the prop… |
| 19-8218 | Angel Paz-Alvarez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-853 appeals controlled-substances criminal-forfeiture drug-trafficking due-process standing statutory-interpretation third-party third-party-interest | This petition asks an important question: whether modern criminl- forfeiture statutes can be squared with the Due Process Clause and and whether petit… |
| 19-7836 | Tajuddin Salahuddin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute property property-rights property-seizure restitution restitution-lien seizure third-party third-party-rights | 1) When the United States of America seizes innocent third-party property and cash; applies 21 U.S.C 853 to forfeit the property but applies a separat… |
| 19-7259 | John Afriyie v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-forfeiture due-process insider-trading jury-trial libretti-v-united-states sixth-amendment | In this insider trading case, the court of appeals affirmed a sweeping criminal forfeiture judgment encompassing all potential trades combined in a si… |
| 19-6486 | Eduard Bangiyev v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1963 21-usc-853 co-conspirator-liability conspiracy criminal-forfeiture federal-statute personal-possession-or-use proceeds-of-crime property-forfeiture statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-honeycutt | Whether the elements that availed the Supreme court decision in United States v. Honeycutt, also apply more broadly to the 18 U.S.C.S. 1963 statute. |
| 19-6085 | Frank Amodeo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-iii civil-procedure civil-procedure-standing constitutional-standing criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process federal-court-procedure federal-courts jurisdiction jurisdictional-hierarchy non-merits-questions standing standing-requirement | 1. This Court's jurisdictional-sequencing decisions establish that a federal court may resolve a case on any non-merits question. This Court holds tha… |
| 19-6062 | Priscilla Daydee Valdez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924d 21-usc-853 28-usc-2461 28-usc-2461c ammunition civil-forfeiture criminal-forfeiture firearms firearms-offense procedural-law statutory-interpretation substitute-assets | (1) May a defendant be required to forfeit substitute property in lieu of the firearms and ammunition subject to forfeiture under 18 U.S.C. § 924(d)? … |
| 19-16 | Allen E. Peithman, Jr., et al. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-01 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (5) | 18-usc-981 circuit-split co-conspirator-liability criminal-forfeiture honeycutt-v-united-states joint-and-several-liability statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C) authorize forfeiture imposed jointly and severally among co-conspirators, as the Sixth and Eighth Circuits have held, or… |
| 18-1336 | Walter P. Reed v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-24 | Denied | Response Waived | campaign-finance criminal-forfeiture criminal-forfeiture,statute-of-limitations,mail-fr criminal-prosecution custom-and-practice custom-and-practice,federal-mail-fraud,state-law,s due-process federal-law mail-fraud notice state-law statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | 1. Whether Petitioner was denied due process by the "lack of notice" of (1) the federal prosecutors' hindsight interpretation of the phrase "unrelated… |
| 18-8672 | Jack Holden v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-forfeiture criminal-liability due-process mail-fraud scheme-to-defraud separation-of-powers When Congress prescribed the mechanisms available wire-fraud | 1. When Congress defined the offenses of mail and wire fraud narrowly to punish only those who devise or intend to devise a scheme to defraud, do cour… |
| 18-7960 | Andracos Marshall v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-forfeiture due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment honeycutt-v-united-states luis-v-united-states pretrial-restraint pretrial-seizure right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substitute-assets | I. This court has previously addressed the constitutionality of pretrial restraints and seizures of untainted substitute assets, holding that the unta… |
| 18-5311 | Jack Reid v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure drug-forfeiture drug-offenses due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines property-rights property-seizure sentencing standing substantial-connection | Under 21 U.S.C. §853 (a)(2), a person convicted of violating a federal drug law must forfeit to the government "any of the person's property used, or … |
| 18-5111 | Lynette Gregory v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-forfeiture drug-case due-process illegal-sentence money-judgment plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-waiver statutory-authorization statutory-maximum | 1. Is a question of the legality of a federal criminal sentence subject to waiver by plea agreement? In avoidance of this question, should an agreemen… |
| 18-5017 | Glenn Lee Selden v. Elizabeth A. Kovachevich, Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-contract constitutional-provisions criminal-forfeiture due-process false-name-registration government-authority legal-counsel military-appeal national-security standing takings | WILL COURT ENFORCE A COMMERCIAL CONTRACT? THE UNITED STATES IS UNDER NUCLEAR ASSULT AND THE PUBLIC IS IN GRAVE DANGER WILL COURT GRANT MILITARY APPE… |