criminal-judgment
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6837 | Katie Garding v. Montana Department of Corrections | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction criminal-judgment custody-challenge federal-relief habeas-corpus state-court | Whether a federal appellate court has jurisdiction to consider an appeal from a grant of federal habeas relief after a state court's vacatur of the un… |
| 24-6647 | Oscar Stilley v. Cole Jester, Arkansas Secretary of State, et al. | Arkansas | 2025-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment assistance-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-judgment peaceful-petition voting-registration | 1. Is a void criminal judgment, taken contrary to the 6th Amendment right to assistance of counsel, nevertheless legally sufficient to criminally pun… |
| 24-594 | Arthur Seale v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability criminal-judgment post-conviction-relief resentencing section-2255 | Can 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) bar courts of appeals from exercising jurisdiction over cases like Dr. Seale's? | |
| 24-5615 | Merl Simpson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-judgment federal-procedure limitations-period restitution-obligations | Where a criminal judgment is amended to impose restitution obligations that were generically imposed but left undetermined in the original judgment, d… |
| 22-485 | Kenneth Charles McNeil v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-22 | Denied | Response Waived | all-writs-act coram-nobis courts-of-equity criminal-judgment criminal-procedure equity evidentiary-hearing federal-courts habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation | Whether federal courts of equity had jurisdiction to correct criminal judgments after completion of the sentence, and, if so, whether federal courts v… |
| 20-927 | United States v. Dustin John Higgs | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-11 | Judgment Issued | alternate-state-designation criminal-judgment death-sentence-implementation federal-death-penalty-act federal-death-sentence federal-jurisdiction state-death-penalty state-law-repeal | Whether the district court erred in holding that it lacked authority after the sentence became final to designate an alternate State under 18 U.S.C. 3… | |
| 19-979 | Patrick S. Crick v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | abandonment abandonment-doctrine aedpa criminal-judgment due-process fabricated-evidence finality negligence post-conviction-counsel procedural-negligence state-finality | 1. This Court has well settled that use of "fabricated evidence" by a State "virtually" voids a criminal judgment ab initio. But what effect does th… |