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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6911 | Gregory W. Pheasant v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-25 | Pending | IFP | administrative-law criminal-law executive-power intelligible-principle nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers | Whether § 1733(a) violates the nondelegation doctrine by giving the Executive near-unfettered power to define what conduct is subject to criminal puni… |
| 25-971 | Robert Wayne Hutton v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | child-sexual-abuse-material circuit-conflict criminal-law fourth-amendment privacy-rights statutory-interpretation | Whether, as a matter of law, secretly recording a minor's ordinary and routine nonsexual activity falls outside the scope of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a)? | |
| 25-6796 | Carlos Martinez v. California | California | 2026-02-12 | Pending | IFP | california-law constitutional-rights criminal-law judicial-interpretation resentencing sentencing-discretion | Whether or not vwsf te * j w heVh tr net f Ae s'^.rioi/s h>w <JC A v ^5 'A. jjirvK^, f cdM^cdVon fh<ff Q&pofe$ F&l'* bi&Trt&r i~o a. ter-rn <?r b bt … |
| 25-6730 | Daniel Carlos-Ramos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-05 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation criminal-law judicial-precedent precedent-overruling recidivism supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 25-6702 | Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process nichols-precedent plain-error sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation | Did the lower courts commit plain error requiring summary reversal by reinterpreting the elements of 18 U.S.C. § 2250, (construed by the unanimous Sup… |
| 25-6714 | Ivan Granillo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | IFP | criminal-law federal-crime immigration-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation transportation | What mens rea is required for the element that the defendant transport or move the noncitizen "in furtherance " of a violation of law ? |
| 25-6704 | Horacio Baca-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | case-precedent criminal-law judicial-review legal-standard statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Should Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), be overruled? |
| 25-6682 | Fidel Aramboles v. United States | Second Circuit | 2026-01-30 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | bruen-precedent constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-possession firearms-regulation second-amendment | 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) imposes a lifelong prohibition, punishable by up to 15 years' imprisonment, on the possession of any firearm or ammunition, for … |
| 25-6663 | Richard Kirkland Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure firearm-possession knowledge-inference temporary-occupancy | Whether the mere presence of a firearm s in a bag on a shelf in a residence is sufficient to presume a defendant's knowledge and constructive possessi… |
| 25-6622 | Alante Martel Nelson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. To determine a controlled substance offense under USSG § 4B1.2(b) using the categorical approach, do courts compare the elements of the prior convi… |
| 25-6594 | William James Forbis v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-validity criminal-law felony-conviction firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutionally valid as applied to an individual whose only prior charged felony convictions are non-violent offens… |
| 25-6597 | Daniel Duane Smith, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-validity criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is constitutionally valid as applied to an individual whose only prior charged felony convictions are non-violent offens… |
| 25-6566 | William Dahl v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | IFP | child-pornography criminal-law factfinder-standard federal-statute judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 2252A criminalizes the receipt of child pornography. A depiction counts as child pornography if its "production . . . involves the use of … |
| 25-817 | Charles W. Christopher v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law judicial-ambiguity legal-interpretation rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-standards | What degree of statutory ambiguity triggers the rule of lenity? |
| 25-6514 | Epifanio Leos-Morales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres criminal-law notice-clause prior-conviction recidivism sixth-amendment | Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p… |
| 25-6492 | Arthur Fayne v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law intent misrepresentation property-obtainment sixth-circuit wire-fraud | 1. KNOWING AND INTENTIONAL MISREPRESENTATION (Kousisis). Whether the Sixth Circuit 's affirmance of wire-fraud convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 1343 conf… |
| 25-6468 | Derrick Hahn v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment when applied to an individual based on his past conviction for a non-violent offense. … |
| 25-6473 | Clover McGregor v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-restriction firearms-possession gun-control second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits felons from possessing firearms or ammunition, violates the Second Amendment. |
| 25-6459 | Oscar Dillon, III v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | In Fischer, 144 S. Ct. at 2185, this Supreme Court focused on what conduct was prohibited by the "otherwise" clause in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) and emph… |
| 25-6462 | Jamaur Lewis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether, in light of United States v. Taylor, 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), and United States v. Jackson, 36 F.4th 1294 (11th Cir. 2022), Hobbs Act robbery … |
| 25-6433 | Avis Coward v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-review criminal-law criminal-procedure role-enhancement second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that 18 U.S.C §922(g) is constitutional on… |
| 25-747 | Matthew Cline v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | co-conspirator criminal-law forfeiture property-transfer statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether under 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C) a defendant may be ordered to forfeit property to the government that he transferred to a co-conspirator merely… |
| 25-6407 | Bryan Everal Pittman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Do convicted felons have a Second Amendment right, or do only law-abiding persons enjoy this right? 2. Does 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) w… |
| 25A702 | Mark Alan Deakins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | circuit-split criminal-law federal-appellate sentencing-enhancement sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6329 | Tommie Slack v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-possession control criminal-law dominion firearm-possession intent | Whether establishing constructive possession of a location is sufficient to establish constructive possession of contraband found in the location occu… |
| 25-6309 | Melquan Thawney v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s categorial ban on the possession of firearms by felons is unconstitutional. |
| 25-6266 | George Ugochukwu Egwumba v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent criminal-law identity-theft means-of-identification possession-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the government must prove a defendant possessed a means of identification without the consent of its owner – that is, stole the identity – to … |
| 25A607 | Alexander Jon Ogilvie v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Application | constitutional-challenge criminal-law federal-public-defender firearms-regulation statutory-vagueness tenth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6187 | Maurice Wilson, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment? |
| 25-6137 | Devon Chance v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor | In light of United States v. Taylor , 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), is Hobbs Act robbery categorically a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A),… |
| 25-6122 | Joshua Corbin Granger v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-scrutiny criminal-law due-process felons-rights firearm-possession second-amendment | 1. Do convicted felons have a Second Amendment right, or do only law-abiding persons enjoy this right? 2. Does 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) w… |
| 25-6126 | Nathaniel Durham v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca criminal-law multi-factor-analysis prior-offenses sentencing-enhancement structural-error | This case presents two important repeatedly occurring criminal-law questions that affect many defendants and have divided judges within the same circu… |
| 25-6062 | Carl Morgan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment when applied to individuals based on their past conviction for a non-violent offense. … |
| 25-6041 | Kaleb Layne Nix v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifi… |
| 25-6028 | Elizabeth Mora Leyva v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-conspirator criminal-law fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement sentencing-guidelines substantive-due-process | Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by adding an enhancement … |
| 25-5999 | Eric Dennard Parker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Do convicted felons have a Second Amendment right, or do only law-abiding persons enjoy this right? 2. Does 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) w… |
| 25-5985 | Anne M. Lynch v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud jury-instruction prosecutorial-discretion statutory-vagueness | Whether petitioner's payment violated the honest-services fraud statute? Whether the district court's erroneous fiduciary duty jury instruction requi… |
| 25-5944 | Chockie Lee Hightower v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law federal-statute firearms-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 25-5946 | Antonio Montrail Anderson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. When does a record show "that the district court thought the sentence it chose was appropriate irrespective of the guidelines" within the meaning o… |
| 25-5938 | Manuel Santiago-Cruz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arlington-heights-framework civil-rights criminal-law discriminatory-purpose legislative-intent racist-origins | Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 25-5924 | Lennard Rashard Monroe v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure participant-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission | Whether a customer can be counted as a participant for purposes of U.S.S.G. §3B1.1(b)? |
| 25-5802 | Tommy Phonthalangsy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment? |
| 25-5790 | Kyle Davey v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-law federal-statute firearm-possession statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether a person can be convicted of possessing a firearm by an "unlawful user" of a controlled substance under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) even if no law p… |
| 25-383 | Mark Van Epern v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-01 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography criminal-law federal-statute minor-protection sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether a defendant "uses" a minor to engage in "sexually explicit conduct" under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) by surreptitiously recording the minor nude … |
| 25-5762 | Muhammad Masood v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law government-conduct intimidation-coercion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism-enhancement | Whether the application of the "terrorism enhancement" under USSG § 3A1.4 requires the government to prove that a defendant's actions were "calculated… |
| 25-5724 | Arnulfo Martinez-Fajardo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-review certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-5710 | Philip Alejandro Powers, III v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense criminal-act criminal-law greater-evil justification-doctrine necessity-defense | Should a person who is compelled to commit a criminal act in order to avert a greater evil be denied the protection of the necessity defense if he cou… |
| 25-333 | Tangtang Zhao v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-09-22 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law federal-circuits government-property property-value statutory-interpretation third-party-distribution | What standard do juries apply to determine whether property is a "thing of value of the United States" once distributed to a private, non-government, … |
| 25-5678 | Thomas Jarrell Shoffner v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law district-court-procedure firearms-regulation motion-to-dismiss statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the District Court Erred in Denying Appellant's Motion to Dismiss the Indictment on the Constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1). |
| 25-5656 | Kara Sternquist, aka Cara Sandiego, aka Kara Withersea v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | administrative-law agency-deference criminal-law gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Petitioner Kara Sternquist's prior convictions are old and nonviolent. She has no history of being dangerous, but was herself a victim of violent c… |
| 25-5600 | In Re Lonnie W. Hubbard | 2025-09-10 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-indictment jury-instructions mens-rea | I. Whether the jury instructions informed the jury, as a matter of law, of the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea of the 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) coun… | |
| 25-5590 | Jorge Enrique Barragan-Gutierrez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruen-decision constitutional-rights criminal-law retroactivity second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether this Court's decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), recognized a new right that is retroactivel… |
| 25-5514 | Joseph Lee Betancourt v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-02 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the federal statute that prohibits a person from possessing a firearm if he has been convicted of "a crime punishable by… |
| 25-5493 | Joshua Devon Barrow v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law first-step-act revocation sentencing statutory-maximum supervised-release | When determining the statutory maximum sentence on revocation, should courts consult current law or only the law at the time of the underlying offense… |
| 25-5482 | Brandon Allen Haynes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-27 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation | Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 25-5454 | Marquis Luis Rosado v. Florida | Florida | 2025-08-22 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-violation controlled-substance criminal-law fentanyl-distribution jury-instruction trial-court | WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT VIOLATED TO UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY DEVIATING FROM FLORIDA 'S STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTION ON DEATH BY UNLAWFUL DISTRIBUTIO… |
| 25-5423 | Davonta Dashune Turner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-law facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment? |
| 25-5415 | Roberto Antwan Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession predicate-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied when the predicate convictions which make the person ineligible to possess a firearm were… |
| 25A201 | Michael Donell Glover v. Texas | Texas | 2025-08-20 | Presumed Complete | criminal-law deadly-weapon pocketknife serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5388 | Kevin Paul Cantu v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-18 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearms-possession statutory-interpretation | Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 25-5377 | Vincent Deritis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-exploitation criminal-law minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct video-voyeurism visual-depiction | Does a video voyeur produce visual depictions of a minor engaged in "sexually explicit conduct" when he records images showing the minor engaged in on… |
| 25-5381 | Shameika Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-821 criminal-law judicial-discretion retroactive-application sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines | Whether the lower courts erred by refusing to grant Ms. Johnson a sentence reduction under retroactively applicable Amendment 821 – Part A to the Unit… |
| 25-5357 | Jessie Dejuan Sullivan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-14 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-law facial-challenge second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | First, whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment? Second, some sentencing judges assert that they would have selected the … |
| 25-5334 | Billy Joe Russell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law modified-categorical-approach prior-conviction statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the categorical or modified categorical approaches must produce actual state court deci… |
| 25-161 | Surgery Center Management, LLC v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | asset-seizure criminal-law forfeiture proceeds property-rights statutory-interpretation | Whether in a forfeiture action seeking "proceeds," defined in 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(2)(A) as "property of any kind obtained directly or indirectly, as th… |
| 25-150 | Anton Joseph Lazzaro v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-07 | Denied | Response Waived | age-of-consent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation | Does a person who engages in otherwise lawful, consensual sex with a 16 or 17-year-old dating partner commit "sex-trafficking" if the person gives unc… |
| 25-5299 | Alfred Lamar Shavers v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felony-prohibition firearm-possession second-amendment | WHETHER THE CRIME OF POSSESSION OF A FIREARM BY A CONVICTED FELON PASSES CONSTITUTIONAL MUSTER UNDER THE SECOND AMENDMENT WHERE THERE IS A BLANKET PRO… |
| 25-146 | Mohammad Nauman Chaudhri, Mohammad Rehan Chaudhri, & Zahida Aman v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law federalism legislative-intent plain-meaning state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation | When applying the plain language of a broadly worded federal criminal statue would intrude on an area historically left to the states, must a court ap… |
| 25-5276 | David Leroy Earls v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment rule-of-lenity sexual-abuse-statute statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the failure of the Tenth Circuit to apply the rule of lenity to 18 U.S.C. § 2242(2)(A) resulted in an interpretation of ambiguous language … |
| 25-5250 | Edgardo Antonio Romero-Rosales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-review criminal-law judicial-precedent precedent-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 25-5226 | Nashaun Drake v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | When defining a controlled substance offense under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) do courts look to the substances that were controlled on the date of the prior … |
| 25-5178 | Pablo Martinez-Lara v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-law criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 25-5170 | Mark Richard Walters v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law felony-possession firearms-restriction second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comport with the Second Amendment as applied to a defendant whose most serious prior felony convictions involve fraud? |
| 25-61 | Mark Murphy and Jennifer Murphy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-17 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions statutory-interpretation | Whether, in a § 846 prosecution for conspiracy to violate § 841, a trial court errs if it fails to correctly instruct the jury on the elements of the … |
| 25-5072 | Khaled Miah v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-07-10 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law first-amendment interstate-communication social-media statutory-interpretation terroristic-threat | Can an online social media post that at most forewarns of a possible future terroristic attack violate 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), if the post does not identi… |
| 25-5067 | Kira Kristina Zielinski v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-09 | GVR | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | affirmative-defense child-protection criminal-law domestic-violence parental-kidnapping statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant is "fleeing an incidence or pattern of domestic violence" under § 1204(c)(2) if she is fleeing domestic violence against her child… |
| 25-5009 | Joshua Willis v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Willis, in light of New York State R… |
| 25-5027 | Gregory Stevens v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law felon-in-possession gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Section 922(g)(1) of Title 18 of the United States Code makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to possess a firearm at any time thereafte… |
| 25-8 | Matthew Clark v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process honest-services statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness | I. Whether the undefined statutory language, "intangible right of honest services," in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 is unconstitutionally vague. II. Whether th… |
| 24-7528 | John A. Sam v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-ban second-amendment | Does the application of Section 922(g)(1) to Sam plainly violate the Second Amendment? |
| 24-7501 | Jacob Allen Judd v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law firearms-prohibition nonviolent-offense prior-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to an individual whose prior convictions for "crime[s] punishable by imprisonme… |
| 24A1266 | Kyle Syphax v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Presumed Complete | application-note circuit-split criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 24-7471 | Quintin T. Ferguson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arson-statute criminal-law interstate-commerce overbreadth-doctrine sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The Seventh Circuit decided Quintin Ferguson's 18 U.S.C. § 844(i) arson conviction was a crime of violence that subjected him to United States Sentenc… |
| 24-7435 | Antonio Nathaniel Davenport, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | criminal-law jury-instruction murder-statute north-carolina-law statutory-interpretation trial-procedure | Whether the Trial Court Erred by Failing to Give A Properly Requested Jury Instruction as to the North Carolina Crime of Murder in Violation of N.C. G… |
| 24-7398 | Dionte Dorun Matlock v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law facial-challenge gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment? |
| 24-7402 | Braddic Deshaun Rollerson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Circuit courts of appeals applying Heller, Bruen, and Rahimi have adopted markedly different approaches to testing 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s constitu… |
| 24-7379 | Andra G. Green v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law firearms-offense hobbs-act jurisdictional-elements sentencing statutory-interpretation | Green is serving a life sentence for pleading to a single count of murder with all the facts in relation to a crime of violence, under 18 U.S.C § 924(… |
| 24-7340 | Jerrell Anthony Bazile v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Circuit courts of appeals applying Heller, Bruen, and Rahimi have adopted markedly different approaches to testing 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s constitu… |
| 24-7318 | Wesley Eron Swick v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Circuit courts of appeals applying Heller, Bruen, and Rahimi have adopted different approaches to testing 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), but each has overl… |
| 24-7323 | Jody D. Owens v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-controlled-substances-act sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses united-states-sentencing-commission | Whether the definition of a 'controlled substance offense' in United States Sentencing Guideline ("U.S.S.G.") U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) only covers offenses… |
| 24-1203 | Bernhard Jakits v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law federal-criminal-statute jury-instructions minor-protection sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the district court's instructions to the jury regarding the statutory terms "sexually explicit conduct" and "lascivious exhibition" were … |
| 24-7290 | Paul Curry, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-error armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law harmless-error second-amendment sentencing-procedure | First, whether as several courts of appeal have held, all Apprendi errors including Erlinger violations should be treated as trial errors subject to t… |
| 24-7271 | Cristian Javier Chevez-Solano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit precedent supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-7261 | Adrian Hermosillo-Lujan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-review supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-7188 | Xzavier Justin Lee Clark v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-13 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law firearm-possession marijuana-users second-amendment statutory-interpretation | A. Whether Petitioner's conviction for being an unlawful user of marijuana in possession of a firearm, under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), must be vacated be… |
| 24-7168 | Raymond Charles, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits anyone who has been convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exce… |
| 24-7161 | Todd Sheffler v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-investigation fowler-standard post-offense-evidence statutory-interpretation | First, in Fowler v. United States , 563 U.S. 668 (2011), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. § 1512(a) required the government to prove a "reasonable likel… |
| 24-7115 | Elroy Wilkerson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-law minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Does a voyeur produce or possess visual depictions of a minor engaged in "sexually explicit conduct" when the images recorded the minor engaged in onl… |
| 24-7071 | Raul Palacios-De Paz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-overruling criminal-law judicial-review legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-7072 | Du Truong Nguyen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split concealment criminal-law federal-statute money-laundering statutory-interpretation | What is required to prove concealment money laundering? |
| 24-7057 | Earl B. Penn v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-04-22 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge criminal-law judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment either facially, or as applied to individuals who have not been convicted of a vi… |
| 24-7013 | Richard Schorovsky v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law fifth-circuit sentencing-enhancement texas-burglary-statute united-states-v-stitt | 1. In light of United States v. Stitt , 586 U.S. 27 (2018), can the Texas burglary statute – which the Fifth Circuit has held to be indivisible – prop… |
| 24-6994 | Dwayne W. Sherman v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute knowledge-requirement money-laundering statutory-interpretation | To sustain a conviction for money laundering under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(2)(B)(i), there must be proof, among other things, that a defendant knew that t… |
| 24-6981 | Luis Alfredo Felix-Vargas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-overruling criminal-law judicial-review legal-precedent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-1066 | Sam Sarkis Solakyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-09 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute honest-services-fraud property-harm statutory-interpretation | In Black v. United States, 561 U.S. 465 (2010), the Court granted certiorari to resolve a circuit split on this question: "Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1346 ap… | |
| 24-6924 | John Gabriel Trevino v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1), and post-conviction supervised release restrictions prohibiting possession of a firearm on any supervisee regardless of … |
| 24-6898 | Avery Jamal Edwards v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-03-31 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether an offense must have involved a substance that was controlled under federal law to be considered a "controlled substance offense" as that term… |
| 24-6826 | Timothy W. Wright v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | active-interaction child-pornography criminal-law dubin-precedent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | In accordance with the method of statutory interpretation set forth in Dubin v. United States, 599 U.S. 110 (2023), should the term "uses" be interpre… |
| 24-6818 | Matthew Ryan Hunt v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-03-20 | Denied | IFP | as-applied-challenge circuit-split criminal-law firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether defendants are precluded from asserting as-applied challenges to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) under the Second Amendment, as the Fourth, Eighth, a… |
| 24-6789 | Johnell Lavell Barber, II v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-18 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S.… |
| 24-6782 | Aaron Christopher Lindsey v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-03-17 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law eighth-circuit felon-rights firearms-possession statutory-interpretation | Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 24-6755 | Xavier Armon Parker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-12 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether there is an obvious and irreconcilable clash between § 922(g)(1) and the rights protected by the Second Amendment. |
| 24-6757 | Caed Brawner v. Florida | Florida | 2025-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole | Whether a sentence of mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a teenager violates the prohibition of cruel and unusual punish… |
| 24-6759 | Paul Corey Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-12 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether there is an obvious and irreconcilable clash between § 922(g)(1) and the rights protected by the Second Amendment. |
| 24-972 | Frank Bell, Tyson Rhame, and James Shaw v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-11 | Denied | criminal-law false-statement government-investigation mail-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | 1. Whether a misrepresentation that does not concern the price or fundamental characteristics of property can give rise to a violation of the federal … | |
| 24-6713 | Elmer Alexis Montano Fuentes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce state-jurisdiction | I. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into the def… |
| 24-6693 | Sean Wayne Thompson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-04 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-interpretation criminal-law fifth-circuit firearms-conviction second-amendment supreme-court-precedent | Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment, even after rece… |
| 24-6695 | Edward Deloach v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-1521 appellate-review criminal-law document-fraud false-document sentencing-guidelines | If a defendant is convicted for attempting and conspiring to file a false lien under 18 U.S.C. §1521, but the document he submitted to a federal agenc… |
| 24-6686 | Deonta Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law hobbs-act interstate-commerce substantial-effect | In order to convict a defendant of robbery of a local business establishment under the Hobbs Act, must the prosecution prove beyond a reasonable doubt… |
| 24-6638 | Raquel Delgado Chavez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | causal-connection criminal-law depraved-heart federal-murder second-degree-murder sentencing | 1. Does the "depraved heart" theory of federal second-degree murder require a causal connection between the defendant's "depraved" conduct and the vic… |
| 24-6627 | Anthony Washington v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction gun-ownership individual-liberty second-amendment | Whether a person who was previously convicted of a felony is categorically excluded from the protections of the Second Amendment. |
| 24-6606 | Willie McCoy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights convicted-felons criminal-law district-of-columbia-v-heller second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Do convicted felons have Second Amendment rights, in light of this Court's interpretation of "the people" in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.… |
| 24-6583 | Gilberto Aguilar-Gutierrez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari criminal-law fifth-circuit judicial-procedure precedent-review supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-6560 | Tamaz Pasternak, aka Tomas Pasternak v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-02-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law federal-statute fraud-scheme property-deception statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | Whether a scheme to induce a transaction in property through deception, but which contemplates no harm to any property interest, constitutes a scheme … |
| 24-6506 | Carlton Martin Volz, III v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights convicted-felons criminal-law district-of-columbia-v-heller second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Do convicted felons have Second Amendment rights, in light of this Court's interpretation of "the people" in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.… |
| 24-843 | Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-07 | Denied | Response Waived | actus-reus criminal-law federal-criminal-statute purpose-requirement statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) provides that "Any person who employs, uses, persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any minor to engage in . . . any sexually exp… |
| 24-6482 | In Re Petera Micale Carlton | 2025-02-05 | Denied | IFP | career-offender criminal-law fourth-circuit sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is Petitioner still a career offender based upon the Decision of the Fourth Circuit in United States v. Simmons, 649 F.3d 247 (4th Cir. 2011?I. | |
| 24-6487 | Kareem Reaves v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-05 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction gun-ownership individual-liberty second-amendment | Whether a person who was previously convicted of a felony is categorically excluded from the protections of the Second Amendment. |
| 24-6459 | Kyle Anthony Shephard v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review consent-review criminal-law due-process judicial-procedure standard-of-review | Due to a lack of guidance from the Supreme Court, lower courts apply a variety of standards of review to the issue of whether an individual's consent … |
| 24-6408 | Clinton Folkes v. South Carolina, et al. | South Carolina | 2025-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-preservation retroactivity state-court | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection is violated when a state court conditions the retroactivity of a new rule of criminal… |
| 24-6398 | Filemon Corona-Galindo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-review criminal-law judicial-precedent precedent-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 24-6326 | Mark Allen Hayden v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether Floyd v. State, __ S.W.3d___, 2024 WL 4757855 (Tex. Crim. App. November 13, 2024) — issued by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals after the de… |
| 24-6312 | Tisheem Rich v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-15 | Denied | IFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor | Whether "Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence under § 924(c)(3)(A), a question left open after" United States v. Taylor , 596 U.S. 845 (… |
| 24-6301 | Deion Shawn Hester v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction gun-ownership individual-liberty second-amendment | Whether a person who was previously convicted of a felony is categorically excluded from the protections of the Second Amendment. |
| 24-6224 | Armando Mena-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-review criminal-law judicial-precedent precedent-overruling statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 24-6211 | Roderick Wayne Bell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Circuit Courts of Appeals applying Heller, Bruen, and Rahimi have adopted different approaches to testing 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) against Second Amen… |
| 24-6190 | Jacobie Travinski Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-interference criminal-law judicial-procedure perjury sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does the three-level adjustment in U.S.S.G. §2J1.3(b)(2) require more than the initial perjury to constitute a "substantial interference with the admi… |
| 24-6136 | Zachary Barker Coughlin v. California | California | 2024-12-13 | Denied | IFP | bodily-autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process lawrence-v-texas sexual-consent | 1. can caliofnria make it illegal for a woman to provide advance consentto intoxicatswd or inconscious intercoursej sspecielly after SCOTUS's decisio… |
| 24-6123 | Michael Ray Senn v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status penalty-enhancement sexual-assault | Does a penalty provision of the Texa s sexual assault statute, which provides for an increased penalty if the offender was married at the time of the … |
| 24-6103 | Christopher Gonzales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law felony-prohibition firearms-possession second-amendment | 1. Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on the possession of firearms by all felons violate the Second Amendment on its face and as applied to Go… |
| 24-6077 | Christian Ricardo Carrillo Topete v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation | Chapter 110 of the U.S. Code provides for a statutory sentencing enhancement for any defendant convicted of a child pornography offense after a "prior… |
| 24A540 | Timothy R. Brown v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2024-12-04 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-resentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactive-rule | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to apply to the resentencing of a criminal defendant, a rule of law defining an… | |
| 24-571 | Elizabeth Peters Young v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-21 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | co-conspirator criminal-law forfeiture honeycutt-precedent property-transfer statutory-interpretation | Under Honeycutt, can a defendant be ordered to forfeit property that was intended for and ultimately acquired by her co-conspirator, merely because th… |
| 24-550 | Tahawwur Hussain Rana v. W. Z. Jenkins, II | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-15 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-law double-jeopardy extradition-treaty international-law treaty-interpretation | Whether the term "offense" in the double jeopardy provision of the United States-India extradition treaty and many other extradition treaties refers t… | |
| 24-522 | Eghbal Saffarinia, aka Eddie Saffarinia v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-11-07 | Denied | Amici (4)Response Waived | administrative-procedure agency-review criminal-law false-statement obstruction statutory-interpretation | Whether a false statement or omission allegedly intended to obstruct routine procedures, such as ordinary-course agency review of annual disclosure fo… |
| 24-5880 | Eric Schmidt v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the presumption of mens rea only applies to elements that criminalize otherwise innocent conduct or instead also applies to elements that i… |
| 24-5834 | Geovani Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aiding-and-abetting appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict criminal-law federal-procedure | 1. COA Standard. The COA inquiry requires courts to, among other things, conduct a general assessment of a defendant's claims. In his COA Brief to the… |
| 24-5795 | Carl Langston v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the Petitioner's conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment where th… |
| 24A353 | Ladonta A. Tucker v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-law firearm-statute sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation weapon-possession | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5581 | In Re Joe Nathan Pyatt, Jr. | 2024-09-19 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law fbi-jurisdiction federal-statute legal-definition statutory-interpretation vawa-interpretation | 1. Whether the term "members" as stated in the language of the indictment is sufficient to allege the essential element of a natural and specific "per… | |
| 24-5507 | Taylor Hildreth v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the statute that prohibits firearm possession by any person who was previously convicted of "a crime punishable by impri… |
| 24-260 | Anthony Pandrella v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-09-09 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act interstate-commerce loansharking robbery | Whether the robbery of a loanshark could have an effect on interstate commerce sufficient to establish federal jurisdiction under the Hobbs Act (18 U.… |
| 24-5465 | William Orren Dawes v. California | California | 2024-09-05 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process evidence judicial-process legal-procedure | 1) When is a Superior Court permitted to overrule 2) When is a person not entitled to a speedy trial? 3) If in civil courts a person is not entitled… |
| 24-5446 | Jeremy Nicholas Mynes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law definitional-element sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2) (A)(v) DEFINES THE TERM "LASCIVIOUS" AS PART OF 18 U.S.C. CONDUCT" ELEMENT AND IS A DEFINITION AND NOT.AN ELEMENT ITSELF. THERE … |
| 24-5391 | Zavien Lenoy Canada v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-26 | GVR | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits firearm possession by anyone convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one … |
| 24-5393 | Taddius Tyrone Woods v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law federal-statute firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? |
| 24-5375 | Michael Antrantrino Lee v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-law due-process retroactive-application sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-interpretation | 0. Is the decision in U.S. v. K 3d 232, 235-3.^ (11th Cir. I retroactively applicable? 2). Does mitigation arguments list be warranted guidelines Vio… |
| 24A181 | Eghbal Saffarinia v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-08-19 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-law document-review obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5315 | Kevin Deane Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-13 | GVR | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term ex… |
| 24-5316 | Kifano Jordan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-08-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law federal-criminal-code pastore-precedent second-circuit-review sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Petitioner's conviction on Count Two depends on whether the attempted violation of New York's second-degree murder statute, N.Y.P.L. § 125.25(1), qual… |
| 24-5286 | Kenneth Rose v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | congressional-amendment criminal-law double-jeopardy judicial-review precedent-application statutory-interpretation | In Simpson v. U-S. (435 U..S. 6), the Supreme Court held that a defendant convicted of an aggravated bank robbery under 10 U'-S.C.A., § 2113(d) could … |
| 24-142 | Brian Benjamin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-08-08 | Denied | Amici (2) | bribery campaign-contributions criminal-law explicit-agreement first-amendment quid-pro-quo | Where the government charges an elected official with bribery for accepting campaign contributions in exchange for lawful constituent services, McCorm… |
| 24-137 | Ronald Stuart Lubetsky v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-07 | Denied | commerce-clause controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process medical-practice standard-of-care statutory-interpretation | Whether the phrase to measure authorization under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) can be applied in the disjunctive. If the phrase is applied in the disjunctive, … | |
| 24-5255 | Benjamin Burciaga-Herrera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-5258 | Lance James Talbot v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-07 | GVR | IFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-firearms-law gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Talbot, in light of New York State R… |
| 24-5264 | Delgen Foye v. Scott S. Harris, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-07 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-law federal-procedure fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines | \Adun <x W^\ucV c^ci 4te orkkj w&k<*j4-^ ?ro?P^r ^>sWi4-?6r\ k tie alW) a a**. 4o frtc&J Os^l ct\\.tOz (Mins In^ V^r Case (\&n-Um 4r +ke offeah CDorV… |
| 24-124 | Brent Brewbaker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | 5th-amendment-6th-amendment'\n\n'Did the court of antitrust-law appellate-review article-1 constitutional-challenge constitutional-error criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error jury-instructions presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness | 1. Section 1 of the Sherman Act criminalizes "[e]very contract ...in restraint of trade." 15 U.S.C. § 1. This prohibition cannot be applied literally … | |
| 24-125 | Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | brady-disclosure brady-obligations conspiracy criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality-jurisdiction federal-agencies federal-agency improvised-explosive-devices statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. 844(f) and (n) apply extraterritorially to offenses committed abroad by non-U.S. persons, despite the statute's lack of any affir… | |
| 24-5224 | Michael Paul Gianfrancesco v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-proceedings criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | Question not identified. |
| 24-5229 | Justin Levar Taylor v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the statute that prohibits firearm possession by any person who was previously convicted of "a crime punishable by i… |
| 24-126 | Benjamin Galecki, and Charles Burton Ritchie v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | chemical-structure continuing-criminal-enterprise controlled-substances criminal-law jury-instruction void-for-vagueness | 1. Whether the Controlled Substance Analogue Enforcement Act of 1986 is void for vagueness as applied to the substance XLR-11? 2. Whether a co-defend… | |
| 24-119 | Alan Safahi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-02 | Denied | civil-procedure contract-breach contract-law criminal-fraud criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-fraud federal-fraud fraudulent-inducement statutory-interpretation | Whether, in the absence of fraudulent inducement, a party who subsequently breaches the contract can be guilty of federal criminal fraud. | |
| 24A123 | James H. Roane v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-02 | Presumed Complete | borden-standard circuit-split criminal-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation vicar-offense | Whether an 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) (VICAR) offense constitutes the "crime of violence" predicate necessary to support a § 924(c) conviction following this… | |
| 24-5176 | Antonio Santonastaso v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1001 criminal-law false-statements federal-prosecution judicial-review jurisdiction maslenjak-v-united-states materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation | Section 1001(a)(2) of title 18 only criminalizes the making of material false statements in a matter within the jurisdiction of the United States gove… |
| 24-87 | Robert Sylvester Kelly v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | Response Waived | child-protection criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law retroactive-legislation sex-offenses statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation | Consistent with the presumption against retroactive legislation, whether the 2003 amendment to 18 U.S.C. § 3283, which extended the statute of limitat… |
| 24-5156 | Rosalio Meledez-Rojas, Francisco Melendez-Perez, Abel Romero-Melendez, and Jose Osvaldo Melendez-Rojas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent child-exploitation criminal-law federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction intent-requirement mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Must the government prove that a defendant knew that the victim was less than 18 years old to support a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2423? |
| 24A85 | David Vargas v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-07-23 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-law enhancement physical-restraint sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5105 | Heclouis Nieves-Diaz v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines | The United States Sentencing Guidelines define a "controlled substance offense" to include "the offense[] of conspiring to commit such offenses." The … |
| 24-5109 | Clinton Mark Lewis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2252 child-pornography circuit-split circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence-standard federal-statute image-specific ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | 1. Is the charge of possession or accessing child pornography under 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) "image specific" in that it requires proof that the defe… |
| 24-5098 | Gerald Smith v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-07-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | actus-reus crime-of-violence criminal-law mens-rea rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation | I. Whether this Court should grant a writ of certiorari to determine whether 21 U.S.C. § 848(e)(1)(A) represents a qualifying "crime of violence" unde… |
| 24-5082 | Adam Sprenger v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | change-in-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute legal-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation | [Brief explanation of question] A defendant who him or herself alone engages in sexually explicit conduct without a minor's engagement is indicted … |
| 24-5087 | Travis Wayne Lovings v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law federalism firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment | 1. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into defenda… |
| 24A48 | Kristin K. Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona v. Dennis McGrane, County Attorney of Yavapai County, Arizona, et al. | Arizona | 2024-07-16 | Presumed Complete | abortion-statute criminal-law individual-autonomy medical-procedure reproductive-rights state-constitution | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5065 | Damon John Broussard v. Lousiana | Louisiana | 2024-07-12 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing | Does Petitioner's, harsh and unprecendented, sentence of fourty years, without benefits, constitute cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of th… |
| 24-5050 | Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor | Following this Court's decision in United States v. Taylor, 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2020) does aiding and abetting a completed robbery constitute a crime of … |
| 24-5027 | Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-v-united-states causation-of-harm criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution evidentiary-hearing federal-statute heroin-distribution jury-instruction jury-instructions overdose sentencing-enhancement | 1. Did the trial court err when it refused to instruct the jury that the heroin distributed by the defendant was the same heroin that caused the vict… |
| 24-5013 | Jonathan Feliz v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | actus-reus bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea omission physical-force use-of-force violent-crime | Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us… |
| 24-5007 | David Jimenez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? |
| 24-5008 | Glynzo Clark v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burglary circuit-split criminal-law generic-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states trespass | I. Whether Texas burglary, defined to include a trespass followed by the commission of a reckless crime, constitutes generic "burglary" under 18 U.S.C… |
| 24-5012 | Miguel Angel Ibarra-Mora v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7836 | Thomas Joseph Brewer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law force-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether federal voluntary manslaughter in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1112(a) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 23-7839 | Martin William Luther Hamilton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis criminal-law deference-to-state-courts legal-interpretation state-crime state-criminal-law supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor violent-crime | Where a state's highest court endorses two versions of the elements of a state crime and neither version has been overruled or abrogated, whether a co… |
| 23-7788 | Francisco Valtierra-Zuniga v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7776 | Joshua Willis v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-06-21 | GVR | IFP | 2nd-amendment criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce standing | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Willis, in light of New York Stat… |
| 23-7767 | In Re Jogaak Jogaak | 2024-06-20 | Denied | IFP | bodily-injury civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law north-dakota-law sentencing-enhancement serious-bodily-injury standing statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Is a Wif\ire ~Rcof +Ke c\ 'ocTious bodily injury as defined m c?0i>fh DaKofa (2drft ed Low 2-TrL-7_(^)? Does 12 0o£)°C' ^>l2>6b Qex^O Ujba-V i<b A Se… | |
| 23-7747 | Keith Hager v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rule-60b6 conviction conviction-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process judicial-correction legal-procedure sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Does Federal Civil Rule 60(b)(6) empower the judiciary to correct a conviction and ensuing sentence for conduct not criminalized by the statute in … |
| 23-7728 | Jonathan Alexander Morales-Lopez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness unlawful-user vagueness | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), prohibiting an unlawful user from possessing a firearm, is unconstitutionally vague. |
| 23-1310 | Dean Gross v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-06-14 | Denied | Amici (1) | criminal-custody criminal-law criminal-procedure custody federal-courts federal-escape-statute federal-statutes halfway-house statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether or under what circumstances a criminal defendant released to a halfway house is in "custody" and therefore can commit the crime of escape. |
| 23-7691 | Robert A. Espinoza v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c 924c-offense attempt-offense attempt-offenses crime-of-violence criminal-law predicate-crimes statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent taylor-decision taylor-v-united-states | Illinois' Attempt offenses have two elements: an intent to commit a specific offense and a substantial step towards commission of the offense. Neither… |
| 23-7696 | Rit Tran v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 23-7682 | Daniel Loyola, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearms plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bruen | I. Mr. Loyola pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(o), which criminalizes the transfer or possession of a machinegun. On appeal, Mr. Loyola att… |
| 23-7688 | Chaves Hodges v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23-1290 | Michael Binday v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-06-11 | Denied | Response Waived | 598 U.S. 306 (2023) requires retroactive effect constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fraud habeas-corpus retroactive-effect retroactivity section-2255 standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court's decision in Ciminelli v. United States, 598 U.S. 306 (2023), was a constitutional determination that placed particular conduct or… |
| 23-1293 | United States, ex rel. Adam Hart, et al. v. McKesson Corporation, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-06-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | anti-kickback-statute circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-health-care-program health-care-fraud mens-rea statutory-interpretation willful-conduct | To act "willfully" within the meaning of the Anti-Kickback Statute, must a defendant know that its conduct violates the law? |
| 23-7660 | Michael Steven Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federalism firearm-possession interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-7662 | Felix Olivas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-power felony-restriction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause.… |
| 23-7668 | Roylee Richardson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | IFP | arthur-andersen-llp-v-united-states criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute foreseeability official-proceeding statutory-interpretation subjective-intent witness-tampering | This Court has held that the federal witness tampering statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1512, requires proof that the defendant "contemplate [d] a[] particular of… |
| 23-7670 | James Edward Young v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation | I. Mr. Young pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922( g)(1), which criminalizes the possession of a firearm by anyone previously convicted for a f… |
| 23-7653 | Tayron Deshawn Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-7654 | Tildren Sherron Hunter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-standard criminal-evidence criminal-law drug-crimes evidence fourth-circuit-review intent intent-to-distribute jury-verdict methamphetamine-possession standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly upheld Mr. Hunter's conviction of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine where the Government fail… |
| 23-7632 | Cordero Passley v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute deliberate-intent deliberation first-degree-murder malicious-conduct mens-rea premeditation second-degree-murder willful-killing | Whether, for a defendant to commit a "willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing" that constitutes first degree murder (as opposed to se… |
| 23-7608 | Carney Turner v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion life-sentence sentencing standard-of-review | Whether, in federal criminal cases where the district court has imposed a discretionary life sentence, the courts of appeal should employ a de novo st… |
| 23-7584 | Quentin M. Salmond v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2024-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-claim conspiracy criminal-law due-process newly-discovered-evidence pcra-time-bar retroactivity sentencing third-degree-murder | 1. Is Conspiracy to Commit Third Degree Murder a Non-Cognizable Offense? 2. Can a defendnat be convicted of Conspiracy to commit third degree murder … |
| 23-7554 | Rawtavious Moore v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process exceptional-importance federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23-7520 | Toran Peterson v. Esmaeili Emami, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-21 | Denied | IFP | administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment exhaustion juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence mental-health prison | Question not identified. |
| 23A1037 | Joshua Willis v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-05-21 | Presumed Complete | criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-prohibition second-amendment statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7494 | Ohio, ex rel. Soleiman Mobarak v. Jeffrey M. Brown, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Franklin County, et al. | Ohio | 2024-05-17 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto retrospective-legislation subject-matter-jurisdiction void-for-vagueness | 1. Is it repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States to convict and incarcerate a United States citizen, and deprive him of… |
| 23-7501 | Maurice Farris v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-05-17 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-922 bruen-standard constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law gun-rights new-york-state-rifle-pistol-association-v-bruen second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether Mr. Farris's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is un constitutional under the Second Amendment in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol … |
| 23-7473 | Cody Ray Leveke, aka Cody Meyer, aka Cody Ray Meyers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions subjective-intent supreme-court supreme-court-precedent threat-standard | Whether jury instructions based on Elonis v. United States (2015) sufficiently encompass the requirement of "subjective intent to threaten," as articu… |
| 23-7461 | Shane A. Fox v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-law drug-conspiracy due-process evidentiary-hearing inchoate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-penalty | I. WHETHER THE INCHOATE OFFENSE OF ENGAGING IN A ILLEGAL DRUG CONSPIRACY CONSTITUTES A SERIOUS DRUG OFFENSE FOR PURPOSES OF INCREASING A DEFENDANT"… |
| 23-7451 | Hector Patricio Galvan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment congressional-power criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process enumerated-powers firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment on its face or as applied in this case? 2. Does the mere movement of a firearm from one st… |
| 23-7432 | Torrieo Monte Johnson, aka Torrieo Corker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights corporate-fraud criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge land-use multi-defendant-case ninth-circuit-interpretation state-jurisdiction | What is the Acceptance and Recordation Date For which the Federal Government Accepted Concurrent Legislative Jurisdiction From the STATE OF Georgia ov… |
| 23-7439 | Basil Loud Hawk v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute federal-crimes federal-criminal-law force-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime violent-crimes | Whether federal second-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(… |
| 23-7411 | Larry Elwood Steptoe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt career-criminal controlled-substances criminal-attempt criminal-law federal-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-guidelines | Whether a violation of 21 U.S-C. § 841 of the U. S Criminal Code which incorporates "Attempt" crimes qualifies as a predicate offense for the Career C… |
| 23-7419 | Warren Ledominique Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation | Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1). |
| 23-7421 | Demarcus Deon Staples v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation | I. Mr. Staples pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922( g)(1), which criminalizes the possession of a firearm by anyone previously convicted for a… |
| 23-7402 | Dequon Reon Stovall v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-possession due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-7382 | In Re Arthur Jones | 2024-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-discretion judicial-overreach jurisdiction mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the appellant court abused its discretion when it failed to issue the writ of mandamus to the district judge directing the district judge to v… | |
| 23-7386 | Jose Caban v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-05-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-law inaction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the circuits on the question of whether a crime that can be committed by compl… |
| 23-7388 | Michael Andrew Taylor v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder… |
| 23A985 | Jonathan Alexander Morales-Lopez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-05-03 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process facial-challenge statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7357 | Jesus Robledo Aguilar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drugs firearms safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | Does simultaneous constructive possession of drugs and firearms disqualify a defendant for safety valve relief? |
| 23-7327 | Zachariah Jay Histed v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a defendant who plea ds guilty, admits the substantive elements of the criminal charge, and spares the government the time and expense of a tr… |
| 23-7317 | Michael A. Maggio v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute nunc-pro-tunc plea-bargaining plea-modification post-conviction-relief property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-limitation supreme-court-ruling | Should Michael A. Maggio benefit from subsequent rulings of the United States Supreme Court that 18 U.S.C § 666(a)(1)(B) was limited to property right… |
| 23-7304 | Michael Anthony Granado v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-possession music-videos relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit uncharged-offenses | The United States Sentencing Guidelines directs courts to use uncharged offenses in its calculation of a defendant's guideline range if the uncharged… |
| 23-7305 | Ronald Jerome Davis, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 23-7293 | Shawn Thomas Borne v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-04-23 | GVR | IFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(¢)(1) is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, both facially and as applied to Mr. Borne, in light of New York State… |
| 23-7288 | Jorge Bartolomei v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felony-conviction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the statute prohibiting the possession of a firearm by any person who was previously convicted of "a crime punishable by imprisonment for a te… |
| 23-7240 | In Re Patrick Christian | 2024-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | asylum-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection hate-crimes statutory-interpretation systemic-racism | 1. When did raping, kidnapping, and murdering an American Voters family for being a Heterosexual become Law, and how can Constitutional Officers sanct… | |
| 23-7241 | Michael Allen v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-17 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment aider-and-abettor constitutional-law criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation | (1) Does California Penal Code Section 117.95(a)(l)-(3) statute violates The United States Constitution 14th AmendmentEqual Protection of the law by … |
| 23-7222 | Evaristo Contreras Silva v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-firearm-possession criminal-law firearms immigration immigration-status intent-element mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether, in prosecutions under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5), the Government must–in order to separate wrongful acts from innocent acts–offer direct evidence … |
| 23-7229 | Fredarius D. Jackson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23-7235 | Troy Dontae Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-7217 | Julio Ruiz Chuta v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-penalties de-minimis de-minimis-exception family-friend financial-gain human-smuggling immigration immigration-law sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether a prosecution under the enhanced penalties of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2)(B)(ii) can be sustained where the "private financial gain" involved is a d… |
| 23-7166 | Charles Edward Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-09 | GVR | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist-enhancement residual-clause retroactivity second-successive-motion sentencing three-strikes-statute vagueness | Whether a constitutional challenge to 18 U.S.C. §3559(c)'s residual clause predicated on Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), is cognizable … |
| 23-7173 | John Lee Barlow v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law felony-classification georgia-law mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court | Did the Court of Appeals err when it categorically ruled that Mr. Barlow's two 2013 counts of conviction for Georgia aggravated assault constituted "c… |
| 23-7179 | Xavier Lamarr Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-7181 | Austin Drake Day v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-1095 | Patrick D. Thompson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2) | circuit-split criminal-law false-statement federal-agencies financial-institutions materiality misleading-statement statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1014, which prohibits making a "false statement" for the purpose of influencing certain financial institutions and federal agencie… |
| 23-7156 | Robert Shields v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chain-of-custody chemical-identity constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process evidence evidence-standard | (1) Does the Constitutional right to due process of law require some evidence that a drug that resulted in death was chemically identical to the drug … |
| 23-7158 | Russell Dean Alford v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-04-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth political-expression protected-speech secret-service statutory-interpretation vagueness | In § 1752(a)(2)'s and § 5104(e)(2)(D)'s prohibitions against "disorderly or disruptive" conduct, do "disorderly" and "disruptive" narrow the types of … |
| 23-7147 | Margarito Cruz-Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7125 | Alberto Jimenez Pastrana v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause.… |
| 23-7100 | Robert Merritt v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-review criminal-law due-process life-sentence plain-error RICO rico-statute sentencing | Whether Merritt's life sentence under RICO statutes violated Apprendi, and is plain-error reverse warranted. |
| 23-7109 | Edgar Garcia-Heredia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7096 | Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law medical-practice medical-practitioner prescription-standards professional-practice professional-standards ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Fifth Circuit's gas failed to follow this Court's decision in Ruan v. United States , 142 S. Ct. 2370 (2022) by holding that a registered m… |
| 23-7099 | Keatron Walls v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent variance-argument | 1.) Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(1) is not an unconstitutional expansion of the Commerce Clause in lig… |
| 23-7056 | Allen Brooks, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law legislative-power liberty-interests non-delegation non-delegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration | 1. Did Congress's delegation to Attorneys General the retroactive reach of SORNA to offenders convicted of sex crimes before its enactment violate U.S… |
| 23-7060 | Marcus D. Ford v. David Buss, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-22 | Denied | IFP | congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure indian-civil-rights-act indian-territory oklahoma organic-act state-law tribal-sovereignty | Did Congress pass the Organic act for Oklahoma on May 31, 1890 (25 U.S.C. § 30-31; 26 Stat. 81, 83-84, 87) to establish State laws, or did Congress pa… |
| 23-7061 | Cody Dillon Hogan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 8th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum restitution statutory-interpretation | 1. Proximate causation. This Court has opined that holding possessors of illegal pornography liable for the conduct of many other independent actors m… |
| 23-7046 | Pamela Kathryn Conley v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-identity-theft bank-fraud circuit-court concurring-opinion criminal-law criminal-procedure loan-documentation signature-forgery statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant's forging of a signature of a bank employee on a lien release, used as supporting documentation for a bank loan in the defendant's… |
| 23-6969 | James Paul Antonio v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether an assault with a dangerous weapon, with intent to do bodily harm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3), categorically qualifies as a predica… |
| 23A835 | Alif Jan Adil v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-12 | Presumed Complete | age-of-consent criminal-law federal-criminal-statute jurisdictional-element sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1002 | Tony R. Hewitt v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-12 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split criminal-law first-step-act judicial-vacatur mandatory-minimum post-enactment-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the FSA's enactment when that original s… |
| 23-6934 | Calvin C. Freeman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process minor-protection minors prosecutorial-discretion sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation vagueness | 1.) Whether Congress intended the Alternative sex trafficking of, children "OR®' by force, fraud, or coercion as Alternative Elements or Alternative M… |
| 23-6949 | Jose Salomon Madrid-Paz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach criminal-law federal-crime federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether aiding and abetting is a means of committing a Hobbs Act violation under the categorical approach. 2. Whether conspiracy and attempt are m… |
| 23-6951 | Jesus Barron-Bautista v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6903 | Glenn Albright v. Will Roberts, Volusia County Tax Collector, et al. | Florida | 2024-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto financial-penalty former-offenders judicial-review statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement takings trial-court | Whether the trial court erred by finding that a statutory requirement that former offenders must pay $31.25 did not constitute an ex post facto violat… |
| 23-6895 | Bradley Lane Croft v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law fraud identity-theft qualifications statutory-interpretation united-states-v-dubin | Whether aggravated identity theft convictions must be reversed when the real "crux" of the fraud turns, not on any person's name, but on their qualifi… |
| 23-959 | Colin Montague v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-03-04 | GVR | Amici (4) | circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-charging criminal-law drug-statute due-process federal-procedure indictment indictment-sufficiency statutory-interpretation | The question presented, over which there is an open split between the Second and Third Circuits, is whether an indictment charging a violation of 21 U… |
| 23-6873 | Darrin Lynn Pickens v. David Buss, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-01 | Denied | IFP | arkansas-law civil-rights-act congressional-authority criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-lands indian-territory oklahoma organic-act tribal-sovereignty | loress passiheOraonicac+tbroKlahoma on establish Slate laws, or did Congress eneral lauJS of Arkansas on ITIaY Z,I2% providina fine provis ► entHTea T… |
| 23-6881 | Miguel Salinas, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms interstate-travel second-amendment standing | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6850 | Eric Michael Lujan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-6824 | Jeremiah James Lynch v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment parole proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Is it a Constitutional Violation to a grade A, naoUTk>iT\ f^ccx lOO? w*W T^^rmorc. /AovavT, ^cawsq A w^e, T,\m<l \a\£> oc\AW a\■6<^ v0^ c^- ('^ YAoa't… |
| 23-918 | Ranito Allen v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-26 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 18-usc-924 actus-reus criminal-law federal-criminal-statute mens-rea omission-liability physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether an offense that can be committed through omission or inaction can "ha[ve] as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical … |
| 23-6803 | Eduardo Garcia Briseno v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law historical-record notice notice-clause prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-text supreme-court-precedent | Whether, in light of the historical record, Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled? |
| 23-6786 | Carl Ray McNeil, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-21 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | The Armed Career Criminal Act imposes heightened statutory penalties if a defendant convicted of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) has three prior c… |
| 23-6793 | Timothy Burks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6797 | Mark Steven Domingo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law due-process entrapment inducement predisposition similar-crimes | 1. When a defendant raises an entrapment defense, must the government disprove entrapment by establishing predisposition or a lack of inducement as to… |
| 23-6770 | Juan Carlos Burns v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing second-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Does second-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1 categorically qualify as a "crime of violence" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)? |
| 23-6750 | Patrick Aboite v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the federal statute that prohibits a person from possessing a firearm if he has been convicted of "a crime punishable b… |
| 23-6751 | Delon Joseph Adams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute firearm-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c)(1)(D)(ii) precludes a sentencing court from imposing a sentence for a Section 924(c) firearm offense partially concur… |
| 23-859 | Zachary S. Spiegel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-09 | Denied | Response Waived | attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute free-speech mandatory-sentencing obscene-speech obscenity sentencing statutory-interpretation substantial-step | Does speech alone (even obscene speech or "explicit sex talk") constitute the "substantial step" for a charge of attempted enticement of a minor to en… |
| 23-6702 | Nardino Colotti, et al. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-02-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility modified-categorical-approach racketeering-activity rico rico-statute state-law-offenses | 1. Does § 1961(1)(A) of RICO incorporate—and thereby require the Government to plead and prove beyond a reasonable doubt—the elements of specific stat… |
| 23-6687 | Darius James Francis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6692 | Mustafa Deville Reynolds v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Denied | IFP | aiding-and-abetting chain-of-distribution controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-distribution criminal-law due-process enhanced-penalty pinkerton-liability sentencing-enhancement | I. Whether the prosecution must prove aiding and abetting or Pinkerton coconspirator liability before a remote seller in a chain of distribution may b… |
| 23-6665 | Ole Hougen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | badges-of-slavery bodily-injury civil-rights congressional-power criminal-law federal-criminal-law federalism hate-crimes race-discrimination thirteenth-amendment | Whether Congress's power to enforce the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition on slavery and involuntary servitude authorizes Congress to criminalize ass… |
| 23-6652 | Don Meeker v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting carjacking criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-statutes intent rosemond-standard rosemond-v-us | 1. The government failed to prove by sufficient evidence as to the petitioner that the petitioner-appellant possessed the requisite intent to commit t… |
| 23-6656 | Robert Kevin Boddie v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor | Whether Hobbs Act robbery, as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of … |
| 23-6662 | Gregory A. Rollins v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-law digital-files due-process statutory-interpretation vagueness | Whether the portion of the Illinois child pornography statute allowing for the termination of possession, 720 ILLS 5/11-20.1(b)(5) (2016), is unconsti… |
| 23-6643 | Michael Joseph Pepe v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction improper-purpose interstate-travel jurisdiction round-trip-doctrine stare-decisis travel | When a statute makes it a crime to travel in commerce or across state lines with an improper purpose or intent, can the government manufacture federal… |
| 23-6647 | Davaudrick Antron EtchisonBrown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-01 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce precedent second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6635 | Leslie Fulwiler v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022)? |
| 23-825 | Salvatore Delligatti v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-01-31 | Judgment Issued | Amici (5)Relisted (2) | bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law inaction statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us… |
| 23-6624 | In Re Johnny Jones | 2024-01-30 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-law due-process florida-statutes jurisdiction legislative-process legislative-validity statutory-interpretation statutory-revision subject-matter-jurisdiction | DOES THE LAW AS ENACTED BY THE 1974, LEGISLATURE IN CHAPTER 74-121 APPEAR IN THE 1974 SUPPLEMENT TO FLORIDA STATES 1973? Does Statute 794.011(2) exis… | |
| 23-6612 | Cornelius R. Caple v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-precedent career-offender case-law criminal-law due-process jackson-case sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Lower Court's erred in declaring the Petitioner a career offender in violation of Borden -v- United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021); Jackso… |
| 23-6588 | Aaron Ramirez Espinoza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-conspirator conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law due-process evidence government-informant sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-testimony | Whether a government informant and co-conspirators testimony of another's involvement in the conspiracy is sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction… |
| 23-6577 | Vahe Dadyan and Artur Ayvazyan, aka Arthur Ayvazyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-restitution proportional-punishment reasonably-foreseeable restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3663A (Mandatory restitution to victims of certain crimes) which imposes restitution for losses "directly and proximately" caused … |
| 23-6552 | In Re Vincent Pisciotta | 2024-01-24 | Denied | IFP | arson circuit-split conspiracy criminal-law double-jeopardy federal-felony statutory-interpretation | Can a conviction for "using fire to commit a federal felony", under 18 U.S.C. § 844(h)(1), be predicated upon the conspiracy conduct element of a "con… | |
| 23-6555 | Luis Aceves-Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses enhancement importation knowledge-requirement mens-rea methamphetamine sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the two-level enhancement in U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(5) for a drug offense that involves imported methamphetamine requires that the defendant knew… |
| 23-6541 | In Re Ronald Freeman | 2024-01-23 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-policy due-process federal-detention habeas-corpus marijuana-offense | 1. Whether being in federal "detention, " "custody " is a substantial denial of Ronald Freeman 's constitutional right of liberty, without "sufficient… | |
| 23-6514 | Tiffany Janis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1 18-usc-924 criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law federal-murder-statute force-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether federal second-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(… |
| 23-6492 | Delondo Henderson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complicity complicity-law controlled-substances criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 | Does the State of Kentucky's complicity law state an inchoate offense, such that a conviction for complicity cannot constitute a "controlled substance… |
| 23-6493 | Shannon Wilson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | application-note application-note-9 criminal-law drug-quantity judicial-interpretation methamphetamine pill-form sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the plain language of Application Note 9 to sentencing guidelines §2D1.1(c) requires a sentencing court to calculate the amount of pill-form m… |
| 23-6495 | Peter Burno v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-law controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking drug-transfer due-process intent-to-distribute ninth-circuit sentencing | Is the mere transfer of drugs from one person to another sufficient to prove a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substanc… |
| 23-6477 | Jamaile L. Huey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit mens-rea robbery robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime | Whether a state robbery conviction, sustained under a statute without a specified mens rea for the element of violence or threat of violence, but with… |
| 23-6481 | Ashley Nichole Kolhoff v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-law due-process fair-trial intent lascivious-exhibition statutory-interpretation | Did this impermissible expansion of the scope of the federal child pornography statutes, in direct contravention of both the holdings of this Court an… |
| 23-6432 | Carlos Martinez v. California | California | 2024-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto first-step-act prior-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation takings | Question not identified. |
| 23-6433 | Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-08 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-finding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty | The Armed Career Criminal Act imposes heightened statutory penalties if a defendant convicted of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) has three prior c… |
| 23-6400 | Michael Hewitt v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-01-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-law double-jeopardy drug-distribution evidence jury-instructions | Should the trial court have acquitted Petitioner of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine where (1) the evidence at best showed a conspiracy to dis… |
| 23-6396 | Eleuterio Covarrubias-Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 23-6397 | Jaime Rivera v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute force physical-force physical-inaction statutory-interpretation | Whether a crime of physical inaction ever "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or propert… |
| 23-6399 | Michael Salinas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the government must pr… |
| 23-6382 | Francisco Batista-Reyes v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process equal-protection first-time-offenders mdlea-offenses safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation | Do the MDLEA first time offenders charged for the violation of both the MDLEA as well as §§ 960 (b) and 963 statutes have a right to safety valve reli… |
| 23-6394 | Andrew Tablack v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-statute indictment indictment-defect scheduling statutory-interpretation | Is there a legal element in 21 U.S.C. §811(2)(G) that requires the "drug named" in the indictment to be listed as the controlled substance analogues? … |
| 23-693 | Yi-Chi Shih, aka Yugi Shi, aka Yichi Shih v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-27 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law agency-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure deference export-controls regulatory-interpretation skidmore-deference technical-regulations | The question presented is whether district courts may, under Skidmore, give deference to an agency's interpretation of its own technical regulations w… |
| 23-685 | Devaughn Dorsey v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-1512 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause firearm-use firearms sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation witness-tampering | A. Whether Petitioner's conviction for using a firearm during a crime of violence must be vacated because the predicate conviction for witness tamperi… |
| 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… |
| 23-6314 | Dana Jahmal Stevenson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review attempt attempt-offense controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the court of appeal s erred in ruling that a prior sentence for a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841 (a)(1) qualified as a "controlled substance … |
| 23-6285 | Kenneth Paiva v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation legislative-power statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed s Congress's power under the Commerce Clause . |
| 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… |
| 23-6278 | Devontae Nykel Racliff v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6244 | Edmond Carl Warrington v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction federal-offense judicial-review sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation | Whether the $5,000 additional special assessment imposed under 18 U.S.C. § 3014, which applies upon conviction of certain enumerated federal offenses,… |
| 23-6218 | Shaquille Dewayne Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession interstate-commerce new-york-state-rifle-pistol-association-v-bruen second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6221 | Gustavo Carrillo-Lopez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration legislative-intent mass-incarceration race-discrimination racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation | Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 23-6170 | Edell Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-12-06 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), the statute prohibiting possession of firearms by persons convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term ex… |
| 23-6161 | Norman Javier Herrera Pastran v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech internet-access sex-offender supervised-release | 1. Whether the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730 (2017)—which recognized a First Amendment right to access the I… |
| 23-6135 | Charles Kevin Agerton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-jurisdiction legal-interpretation offense-matching sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 23-6121 | Jemare Ray McNair, aka Head v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appeal-waivers career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement | WHETHER CAREER OFFENDER STATUS SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO APPEAL WAIVERS IN PLEA AGREEMENTS WHERE A DEFENDANT HAS A LEGITIMATE ARGUMENT THAT HE WAS NOT A CA… |
| 23-556 | Ramey & Schwaller, L.L.P. v. Zions Bancorporation NA, dba Amegy Bank | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response Waived | arrest criminal-law due-process formal-charge indictment united-states-v-marion | 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit misconstrues Texas criminal law by equating an arrest without indictment as a formal charge for a felony regardless that … |
| 23-6074 | Sylvester Onyejiaka, Jr. v. Missouri | Missouri | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-law double-jeopardy fifth-amendment missouri-opinion possession-of-controlled-substance sentencing unlawful-use-of-weapon weapon-possession | Is a defendant's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy violated when a conviction and sentence is entered and imposed for unlawful use of a we… |
| 23-6092 | Joe Lawrence Gallegos v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-enterprise criminal-law federal-courts gang-status gang-violence purpose-doctrine self-defense self-preservation statutory-interpretation vicar-murder | Whether acting on the immediate instinct for self-preservation constitutes acting for the purpose of "maintaining or increasing position in an enterpr… |
| 23-6100 | Joseph Eugene Dix v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce interstate-travel statutory-interpretation | (1) Federal law makes it a crime for a person with a prior felony conviction to "possess ... affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition." 18 U.S.C.… |
| 23-6103 | Alvin Celius Andre v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof constructive-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation | I. Does a constructive amendment occur when the government substitutes Congress's intended object of the actus reus of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b), "any indiv… |
| 23-6069 | Jeremie Saintvil v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | bank-fraud constitutional-law constitutional-permissibility criminal-charging criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-constitutional-rights statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights | 1. Whether the two bank fraud subsections of 18 U.S.C. § 1344 are separate and distinct offenses that require charging in separate counts? 2. Whether… |
| 23-6062 | Holli Womack v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses jury-instructions plain-error ruan-standard sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent | On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated Petitioner Womack's conviction in light of Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370, 213 L. Ed. 2d 706 (2022) an… |
| 23-6039 | Selbourne Waite v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery, which may be completed without the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force, see 18 U.… |
| 23-6041 | Luis Alberto Hernandez-Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6042 | Joel Flores v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses due-process fair-warning firearm-possession firearms statutory-ambiguity statutory-interpretation vagueness | Whether 18 U.S.C.§924(c) provides fair warning of what constitutes possession of a firearm "in furtherance of" a drug offense as opposed to possession… |
| 23-6048 | Elvis Redzepagic v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing material-support offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorist-organizations | Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the circuit split regarding the correct offense level that is to be used in sentencing violation… |
| 23-6000 | Tyler Catlin Borg v. California | California | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-due-process criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder intent jury-instructions lying-in-wait murder-intent | 1. Can a person be guilty of 1st degree murder without intent to kill or injure? 2. Does CALCRIM 521 unconstitutionally omit the intent element of fi… |
| 23-6004 | Reginald C. Scott v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-11-14 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-prohibition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense pennsylvania-law same-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether Robbery and Second Degree Murder, a greater and lesser included offense under Pennsylvania law, constitute the "same offense" under the Double… |
| 23-5960 | Brandon Keith Wright v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 23-5962 | Leon Curtis Eckford v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-crimes federal-predicate-statute generic-crimes generic-federal-crime predicate-offenses realistic-probability-test statutory-interpretation | Whether the realistic probability test first set forth in Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez, 549 U.S. 183 (2007), applies when comparing a federal predicate … |
| 23-5939 | Brett Northington v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach chapter-reference circuit-split criminal-law legal-definition minor-protection minor-victim sexual-contact statutory-interpretation | Should the definition of "aggravated sexual contact involving a minor or ward?" be imported into Chapter 110 from Chapter 109A or should a generic mea… |
| 23-5942 | Christopher Rayquaz Singletary v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1951(a) 18-usc-924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor | Whether Hobbs Act robbery, as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), in light of … |
| 23-5933 | Samuel Lee Lynch v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-battery constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness violent-felony | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3559(¢)(1)'s residual clause is unconstitutional in light of This Court's opinions in Dimaya and Johnson? 2. Whether Florida's… |
| 23-5934 | Walter Leonard Jenkins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-5917 | Salvador Diaz-Diaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5919 | Wilkinson Oloyede Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals criminal-law drug-enforcement federal-courts sentencing standard-of-review | Petitioner, WILKINSON OLOYEDE THOMAS, submits the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ("Fifth Circuit") failed to use the standard of review for pill mill … |
| 23-5907 | Brian Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-law federal-statute fifth-circuit-interpretation force-and-violence intent intent-requirement serious-harm-or-kill taking-a-vehicle vehicle-theft | Does a conviction for carjacking by "force and violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 2119 require that the force and violence be employed, with the requisite in… |
| 23-5908 | Michael James Choulat v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-30 | Denied | IFP | which expands the application of § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) agency-deference criminal-law drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Kisor's limits on courts' deference to an agency's interpretation of its own regulation permitted deference to Comment 14(B), which expands th… |
| 23-5876 | Christian Lamar Porter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-5882 | Walter Lee Merritte v. Circuit Court of Illinois, LaSalle County | Illinois | 2023-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | case-number civil-procedure criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-authority order-validity procedural-challenge standing trial-court | Whether The State Trial Court's October 29, 1990 Order Was Issued Without Authority And Is Void For Want Of Jurisdiction? |
| 23-5859 | Matthew Steven Hackney v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 and § 2252(a)(5)(B) authorize convictions upon proof that materials used to produce or possess child pornography once crossed… |
| 23-5845 | In Re Kennedy Wright | 2023-10-20 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction sentencing supreme-court | Question not identified. | |
| 23A359 | Amanda Lyn Walker v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-20 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari criminal-law federal-appeal tenth-circuit united-states-v-walker | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5796 | Jose Folch-Colon v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law mens-rea racketeering VICAR violent-crime | If by procuring and paying for the commission of murder, Petitioner aided and abetted a crime of violence in aid of racketeering (VICAR) as defined in… |
| 23-5812 | Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process mens-rea proximate-causation racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | After this Court's decision in Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), the Circuit Courts have accepted that "death results" in 21 U.S.C. 841(b… |
| 23-5815 | Emily Claire Hari v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute free-exercise jurisdictional-element non-economic | Whether the "jurisdictional element" contained within 18 U.S.C. § 247, standing alone, serves to authorize congressional enactment of a criminal statu… |
| 23-5780 | Denis Chavez v. Florida | Florida | 2023-10-12 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief sexual-offense | 1) Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, under which Petitioner was charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and incarcerated, are co… |
| 23-5781 | Troy George Skinner v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-exploitation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct interstate-commerce sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | One of the statutes addressing the sexual exploitation of children, 18 U.S.C. § 2251, prohibits (a) the employment, enticement, or coercion of a minor… |
| 23-5749 | Mark Anthony Thompson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus selective-adjudication selective-prosecution standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | I. DOES THIS SUPREME COURT FINDS THE FIFTH CIRCUIT 'S SELECTIVE ADJUDICATION AND UNDERMINING THE LAW OF THIS COURT ACCEPTABLE WHEN IT AFFIRMED THE D… |
| 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… |
| 23-376 | United States v. Patrick Darnell Daniels, Jr. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-10 | GVR | Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-law drug-user due-process firearm-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), which prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substanc… |
| 23-5735 | Michael James French v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview | Third Circuit | 2023-10-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | aggravated-assault constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining plea-deal probable-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury wrongful-conviction | (1) What ; "Definitive Actions Committed" , [Constitutes] the violent felony of the first degree ; ("Aggravated Assault With Serious Bodily Injury") -… |
| 23-5742 | Joseph Michael Easton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 23-301 | James E. Workman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-intent criminal-law disability-benefits due-process fraud government-funds mens-rea reporting-obligation social-security social-security-fraud wire-fraud | 1. The criminal charges of wire fraud, theft of government funds, and social security fraud each required proof that Workman engaged in fraudulent act… |
| 23-5649 | Jonathan Monson v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element minor-protection sexual-exploitation visual-depiction | Section 22 51(a) of Title 18 criminalizes the use o f a minor to engage in any sexually explicit conduc t "for the pu rpose o f producing an y visual … |
| 23-5640 | Blake Taylor v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-2113(d) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) attempted-armed-bank-robbery attempted-bank-robbery attempted-crime bank-robbery criminal-law force-requirement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether attempted bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), and attempted armed bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d), are "crimes of violence" as defined in 18 … |
| 23-5641 | Marvin Joe Randall v. Oregon | Oregon | 2023-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-prosecution internet-activity interstate-conduct personal-jurisdiction prostitution-regulation state-jurisdiction state-regulation website-communication | No evidence indicated that the petitioner was in Oregon at the times relevant to this case. Can the State of Oregon regulate the conduct of an individ… |
| 23-5631 | Jason M. Moriarty v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure imprisonment maximum-sentence revocation-of-release sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release | When revoking multiple terms of supervised release and requiring a defendant "to serve in prison all or part of the term of supervised release," may t… |
| 23-5632 | Mario Rolando Cadenas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5619 | Jordan Winczuk v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-09-20 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity sentencing sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | The federal criminal statute entitled Sexual Exploitation of Children provides a series of mandatory-minimum penalties. 18 U.S.C. §2251(e). The penalt… |
| 23-5621 | Amado Alvarez-Alvarado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5629 | Rene Rigoberto Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-20 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-indictment fifth-circuit plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi | Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(n). |
| 23-5591 | Patrick Andrew Groves v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting attempted-distribution attempted-transfer controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law drug-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation surplusage | For certain recidivist guideline enhancements, "[t]he term 'controlled substance offense' means an offense under federal or state law, punishable by i… |
| 23-5602 | Curtis Morris Hartsfield, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attempted-crime attempted-distribution attempted-transfer circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution drug-trafficking drug-transfer federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation | Whether an "attempted transfer" of drugs under 21 U.S.C. § 802(8) includes any conduct that would also constitute an "attempted distribution" of drugs… |
| 23-5581 | Matthew R. Osuba v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-09-14 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography criminal-law federal-statute lower-court-split minor minor-protection production sexual-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Section 2251(a) of Title 18 to the U.S. Code, known as the production of child pornography statute, makes it a crime punishable by at least fifteen ye… |
| 23-5587 | Daniel Carrington v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof causation controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law death-causation due-process proximate-cause reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THIS COURT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. BURRAGE, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), CREATED A BRIGHT LINE RULE ESTABLISHING A RIGHT OF THE DEFENDANT TO PR… |
| 23-5588 | Roger A. Libby v. Robert Legran, Warden, et al. | Nevada | 2023-09-14 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-cases criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-law substantive-due-process substantive-rule | L(^V\e. VVe>r We dc>a ^Woceoi> of VVa. ^"oosrVeevxVV A^e^iw^e>v\! \fevvievr /)6\/a,la 5iaVa Iq,(jS 5V x,Vo V&o cxacova »s Vv Vj V-vqv^ci \ * <5V q^V^V… |
| 23-238 | Roger Dale Anderson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-09-12 | Denied | comport with the Supreme Court's holding in Ruan which did not explicitly reference the Controlled controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions medical-practice medical-professional-liability mens-rea statutory-interpretation | In Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370 (2022), this Court held that a physician may be convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), of the Controlled Sub… | |
| 23-219 | Sherman Moore v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-08 | Denied | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether, for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e), a state offense relates to the "sexual exploitation of children" only when it relates to child pornograp… | |
| 23-5546 | Richard Sansbury v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abduction circuit-split criminal-law definitional-analysis location-change robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation victim-movement | The meaning of "abducted" as used in United States Sentencing Guideline § 2B3.1(b)(4) and elsewhere throughout the Sentencing Guidelines is the subjec… |
| 23-5506 | Alisbey Santillon Gata v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-powers criminal-law criminal-offense interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element statutory-interpretation | Whether a jurisdictional element satisfied by a de minimis connection to interstate commerce, such as 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)'s requirement that a prohibit… |
| 23-5511 | Jay F. Elhage v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process enumerated-powers federal-prosecution federalism legislative-authority state-prosecution | Whether, despite years of Commerce Clause jurisprudence, the Court should now hold that Congress has no authority to criminally punish under the Comme… |
| 23-5512 | Robinson Mendoza-Gomez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure double-counting due-process enhancement-application federal-sentencing governmental-officer obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines | Whether the guidelines' enhancement for obstruction of justice requires some conduct above and beyond the conduct comprising the offense of conviction… |
| 23-5487 | Jose Humberto Hernandez-Mendez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 23-5466 | Toddell Alexander v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment non-physical-harm prisoner-treatment sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court | I, XS Ob 'c>$ 'Ocwevhc Violence, &Mutd £c*t*9^ ic^fy t\ Jh c.,fkr of S^mcul TcH/j^i x/,Ufiz,Tis> s>rARi \sS' %.cr. Wl }Uo-Os. Qc,S);AIK Tte ow* jr* *O… |
| 23-5450 | Hermenegildo Garcia-Gutierrez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-law constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5451 | Raul Omar Rios-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5426 | Christopher Robertson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-robbery constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act jury-instructions misstatement-of-law residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court | 1) CAN A DEFENDANT BE CONVICTED OF A 4(c) OFFENSE IF DEFENDANT WAS CONVICTED OF ATTEMPTED HOBBS ACT ROBBERY? 2) CAN A DEFENDANT BE CONVICTED OF A OFF… |
| 23-5403 | Luis Alfredo Moreira Bravo v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-law due-process federal-statute federal-transportation-of-a-minor interstate-transportation mens-rea minor-age sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape | Whether an individual may be convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a) for transportation of a minor, without regard to whether the defendant knew of the in… |
| 23-5392 | Angelo Joseph Fernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law domestic-violence mens-rea prior-conviction recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court | 1. Does the petitioner's prior conviction for corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant under California Penal Code § 273.5(a) qualify as a crime of v… |
| 23-5369 | Dallas Terrell Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-16 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law false-statement false-statements firearms firearms-transaction jury-instructions materiality statutory-interpretation | In the Eleventh Circuit, in a prosecution for making a false statement in connection with the acquisition of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922… |
| 23-5358 | Devin Jerrod Long v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-15 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-conviction drug-offense federal-judge prior-felony prior-felony-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | The United States Sentencing Guidelines significantly increase the recommended sentencing range for a defendant who has at least two prior felony conv… |
| 23-5338 | Keith A. Penn v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-11 | Denied | IFP | attempt circuit-split criminal-law distribution distribution-definition drug-offense elements-test sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the legal test announced in Shular v. United States — a state "serious drug offense" is an offense with elements that "necessarily entail one … |
| 23-5309 | Jerome Stanley Carlos, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-clause habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. By denying Petitioner's defacto motion to expand the Certificate of Appealability, did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in holding that 18 U.… |
| 23-5314 | Joe Crawford v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency felony-conviction jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-doubt rehaif-standard réhaif-v-united-states | WHETHER IN LIGHT OF Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 204 L.Ed.2d (2019), WAS THE EVIDENCE INSUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION WHEN THE GOVERN… |
| 23-5290 | Littleton William Clark v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law district-court double-jeopardy due-process felony-offense firearms guideline-application sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the District Court erred in interpreting Note 14(c) of §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) when it applied a four-level enhancement pursuant to §2K2.1(b)(6)(B) fo… |
| 23-108 | James E. Snyder v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-08-03 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9) | 18-usc-666 circuit-split corruption criminal-law federal-bribery federal-crime government-business official-corruption quid-pro-quo state-local-official statutory-interpretation | Whether section 666 criminalizes gratuities, i.e., payments in recognition of actions the official has already taken or committed to take, without any… |
| 23-5266 | Mantell Alabi Stevens v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-distribution due-process jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Can a court send a case to the jury when the evidence is only sufficient to give them a choice between probabilities instead of being sufficient to… |
| 23-5254 | David Serrano-Munoz v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process legal-definition sentence-enhancement sentencing sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness | Should certiorari be should granted to determine whether the sentence enhancement provided by 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e) is void for vagueness for lack of de… |
| 23-5265 | Mark Alan Miller v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 23-94 | Garret Miller v. United States | District of Columbia | 2023-08-01 | GVR | Relisted (3) | congressional-proceedings criminal-law criminal-statute electoral-certification electoral-college intent-element mens-rea obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation | Whether the obstruction-of-justice offenses in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) cover only acts that affect the integrity or availability of evidence, or whether t… |
| 23-5221 | Gilberto Betero-Carrillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 23-5188 | Mark Anthony Roy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-prohibition second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the Second Amendment forbids application of 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) to persons who have no conviction for violent conduct, nor any offense more s… |
| 23-5194 | Andra Green v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act predicate-crime sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Mr. Green is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to a single count of using a firearm during a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). H… |
| 23-5196 | James Calvin Massey v. Texas | Texas | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attenuation-doctrine court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-act criminal-law due-process intervening-circumstance legal-standard police-misconduct texas-criminal-procedure utah-v-strieff | 1. Was the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals correct in holding that any new criminal act —even one that is petty , predictable , and uncharged —is alwa… |
| 23-5201 | Andrew Valenzuela v. Roberto A. Arias, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process duress-defense habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings jury-instructions | On November 6, 2009, nineteen-year-old Andrew Valenzuela—along with David Padilla and Jessica Garcia—got in a car with a 32-year-old serial killer who… |
| 23-64 | Bennie Charles Phillips, Jr. v. United States, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-24 | Denied | Response Waived | attempted-robbery criminal-attempt criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act mens-rea mere-preparation substantial-step uniform-test | 1. What particularized standard should be adopted to create a uniform test for when conduct surpasses "mere preparation" and constitutes a "substantia… |
| 23-5168 | Isaac Silversmith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 8-usc-1 certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law ninth-circuit second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation violent-crime | 1. By denying Petitioner's Petition For Certificate of Appealability, did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in holding that Second-degree Murder,… |
| 23-5170 | Peter Robert Jordan, aka Richard Mercer v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggregate-sentence covered-counts criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion non-covered-counts sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 404(b) of the First Step Act authorizes the lower courts to impose a reduced aggregate sentence on both covered and non-covered counts… |
| 23-5139 | Jacinto Alvarez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law intent-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Does the "attempted use of force" clause in the crime of violence definition at 18 U.S.C. § 16(a) require an "intent" to use force against another? |
| 23-5107 | Malcolm A. Jordan v. Jordan Fly | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-14 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-agency federal-jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari | 1)15 \fl u, s,c. ja L)l s MU M-+0+0 ?£)f 4Ue b/O \ 4eA 5-f^f^S .«■ t/vJ-+^s>+ 6-f W+hc( 4 \S 'VUe. \ S ■\9 0,£,c,4- | 5 Ml 3 | c^Mol T 3^ V/^ 4* ^ -*5… |
| 23-5095 | Marland Maynor v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-statute plain-error second-amendment standing | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. First subsidiary question: Whether the plain-error standard … |
| 23-5099 | Dustin Jolly v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing deportation immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | The Sixth Circuit has declined to apply the Supreme Court's decisions in Lopez v. Gonzales, 549 U.S. 47 (2006), Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, 560 U.S. … |
| 23-32 | Edward Jacob Lang v. United States | District of Columbia | 2023-07-11 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | criminal-law criminal-prosecution evidence-tampering official-proceedings police-violence public-demonstrations riot-context statutory-interpretation van-buren-v-united-states | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding that application of 18 U.S.C. Section 1512(c)(2), a statute crafted to prevent tampering with evidenc… |
| 23-5075 | Derek J. Petty v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-offense criminal-procedure due-process essential-element federal-felony federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-defect judicial-review structural-error | Whether the omission of an essential element of a criminal offense from a federal felony indictment constitutes structural error. |
| 23-5076 | David Linehan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-use circuit-split criminal-law criminal-solicitation elements-clause federal-felony interstate-commerce mens-rea physical-force | Whether "attempted use" in the elements clause means taking a substantial step toward the use of physical force plus the specific intent to use such f… |
| 23-17 | Wisam R. Rizk v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery conflict-of-interest constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-jurisdiction honest-services statutory-interpretation undisclosed-self-dealing vagueness | 1. This court has ruled that "conflict of interest " and "undisclosed self-dealing " by a private individual is not in the preview of §1346 (Percoco… |
| 23-5036 | Brandon Mason v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | federal firearm sentencing federal sentencing or prior state drug offense armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing jackson-v-united-states prior-state-drug-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules … |
| 22-7894 | Frankie Shearry v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the "serious drug offense " definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug sc… |
| 22-7896 | Marcelino Mendoza-Najera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7900 | David Wright, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-range prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines state-statutes statutory-interpretation | Whether the District Court erred by counting a prior conviction for violation of a state statute that had been changed to make the conduct not a crime… |
| 22-7904 | Andrew Ryan Demont v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-convictions federal-guidelines federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enha… |
| 22-7869 | Kendall Demarko Wysinger, aka Demarko, aka D v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-law drug-statute human-trafficking life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation | L. Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Refusing To Reverse Wysinger's Conviction On Count One For Conspiracy To Violate 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)(1) (Lawy… |
| 22-7851 | George Poulo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-23 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process free-speech minor-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Section 2251(a) of Title 18 to the U.S. Code, known as the production of child pornography statute, makes it a crime punishable by at least fifteen ye… |
| 22-7855 | Edgar Dawson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-23 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law free-speech minor-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Section 2251(a) of Title 18 to the U.S. Code, known as the production of child pornography statute, makes it a crime punishable by at least fifteen ye… |
| 22-7836 | Tony Michael Julien v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2023-06-21 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure court-authority criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process ignorance-of-law jurisdiction legal-maxim procedural-law retroactive time-limitation | 1. Can the passage of time retroactively confer jurisdiction on a court that did not and does not otherwise have jurisdiction? 2. Does the legal maxi… |
| 22-7814 | Joshua E. Preece v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chapter-four criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines recidivism recidivist-enhancement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission | Do the relevant conduct principles of USSG § 1B1.3 govern application of Chapter Four recidivist enhancements? |
| 22-1203 | Alan Patrick Fowler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-13 | Denied | confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea mental-health sentencing specific-intent | 1) Could reasonable jurists disagree on whether there is insufficient evidence of specific intent to commit murder where Fowler never shot at a person… | |
| 22-7760 | Todji Kijuan Martin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt-crime attempt-crimes criminal-interpretation criminal-law force-definition statutory-construction statutory-interpretation substantive-crime supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-taylor use-of-force | I. Whether this Court's 2022 opinion in United States v. Taylor , is applicable to all attempt crimes particularly when the crime in question may be c… |
| 22-7763 | Michael Aaron Stuker v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1512 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation threat-of-force witness-tampering | Whether witness tampering under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(a)(2)(A) is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where no eleme… |
| 22-7736 | Brandon Ross Williams v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-06-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing | Whether, under the categorical approach established by this Court for determining whether a previous state conviction can qualify as a predicate "seri… |
| 22-7716 | Minnela Moore v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-06 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-offense sentencing-guidelines state-drug-offenses statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the term "controlled substance," from the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), is limited to substances that … |
| 22-7714 | George M. Lecco v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction first-step-act individual-rights state-sovereignty | 1. for fedeval priseners, did thi First step Act of 2o1 open the door to Challenge the jurisdiction over the subject-matter of the sntercing Court and… |
| 22-7690 | Rodney Raphael Fluckes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder… |
| 22-7684 | Christopher Darnell Douglas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 22-7635 | Deandre Hykeem Jackson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility federal-courts federal-law precedent precedent-interpretation statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §1951(a) is divisible into attempted and completed robberies for the purposes of the categorical approach? |
| 22-7636 | Jose Luis Manriquez-Gutierrez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7638 | Jesus Mendez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause firearm-enhancement hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor | Whether Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), qualifies as a "crime of violence" capable of sustaining a conviction under 18 U.S.C. … |
| 22-7644 | Mark Anthony Reyna v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-25 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 22-7588 | Eric Lee Coleman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense categorical-approach criminal-law due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether a court must consider the availability (or non-availability) of an affirmative defense in the categorical approach. |
| 22-7582 | Rodolfo A. Cuellar, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-law drug-convictions federal-prisoner first-step-act resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | MoTioN For Reduction Pursuan To 404 Senience of OF thE First ACT And Pre-Booker Issues. Stop Drug CORRECDION OF IDCORLOCT CAlCUlATION f CORRECTiON ofa… |
| 22-7527 | Adam Garcia v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction force-clause predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | I. The definition of "crime of violence" for 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) requires immediacy and physical force. Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)(1), requ… |
| 22-7458 | Roger Wayne Battle v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process murder-by-omission physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the crime of murder by omission, such as letting one's child starve to death, "has as an element the use . . . of physical force" such that it… |
| 22-7464 | Montez Hall v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process murder-by-omission physical-force statutory-interpretation | Whether the crime of murder by omission, such as letting one's child starve to death, "has as an element the use . . . of physical force" such that it… |
| 22-7452 | Lashawna Lashae Stewart v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute divisible-offense double-jeopardy federal-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-administration united-states-code | In Prince v. United States, 352 U.S. 322 (1957), this Court construed the first and second paragraphs of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) —bank robbery and entry i… |
| 22-7422 | Darrell Gunn v. New York | New York | 2023-05-02 | Denied | IFP | conflicting-precedent criminal-law due-process equal-protection home-invasion legal-ambiguity murder-statute new-york-penal-law statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE COURT OR LEGISLATURE DID NOT EXPRESSLY SWEEP WITHIN NEW UNLAWFULLY YORK PENAL LAW § 125.27 ALL KILLINGS IN WHICH THE MURDERER ENTERED THE … |
| 22-7359 | Devin Baker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-convictions drug-offense federal-sentencing prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The United States Sentencing Guidelines significantly increase the recommended sentencing range for a defendant who has at least two prior felony conv… |
| 22-7316 | Hugo Perez-Mendoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-19 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-7284 | Herbert Bernard Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure harmless-error indictment indictment-amendment interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation structural-error | I. Should this Court grant the Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to resolve whether the statutory language of 18 U.S.C. §2252A(a)(5)(B)'s alternative … |
| 22-7237 | Eric Grzywinski v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | age-of-consent circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-enhancement criminal-law esquivel-quintana-v-sessions minor-protection sexual-abuse sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation statutory-rape | Whether a statutory rape offense that criminalizes sexual activity solely on the basis of the ages of the parties requires a 16-year-old age of consen… |
| 22-7240 | Cole Lusby v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process facial-vagueness mens-rea sex-offender-registration vagueness-challenge | 1) Whether this Court's decisions in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) and its progeny enable defendants to raise facial vagueness chal… |
| 22-971 | Glenn Henderson v. Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., et al. | North Carolina | 2023-04-07 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process employment-dispute first-amendment free-speech legal-threat pro-se-litigation self-defense threat | Is it legal to say you will attempt to defend yourself if attacked? Does it make a difference if the persons warned committed several or many felonie… | |
| 22-7220 | Geronimo Juarez-Medellin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-05 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7218 | Jaime Tomas-Antonio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-05 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7155 | Kalid Koron Ocean-Avent v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-errors fair-trial firearm firearm-possession jury reasonable-doubt | I. Whether the Government proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Ocean-Avent possessed a firearm. II. right to a fair trial. |
| 22-7157 | Andreqio Stevens v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-30 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-transportation jurisdictional-element prohibited-persons statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) criminalizes three different offenses relating to a firearm for "prohibited persons": transporting a firearm, possessing a firearm,… |
| 22-7114 | Miguel Ortiz-Castillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-27 | Denied | IFP | alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-7066 | Bonnie Pfluger v. Wendy Nicholas, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Muncy, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-03-23 | Denied | IFP | bill-of-attainder constitutional-law constitutional-restriction criminal-law due-process firearm-possession parole parole-violation statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE DEFENDANT CAN BE FOUND GUILTY FOR A PAROLE VIOLATION AND A CRIMINAL VIOLATION FOR ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF A FIREARM IF IT IS ILLEGAL TO TRAN… |
| 22-7061 | Lorenzo Elias Mendez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment minor-exploitation sentencing-guidelines sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the statutory term "lascivious exhibition " refers to the defendant 's act of exhibiting a minor 's genitals on film, or, in other words, t… |
| 22-7065 | Ahmed Abu Khatallah v. United States | District of Columbia | 2023-03-22 | Denied | IFP | acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | i. Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) apply extraterritorially? ii. Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a court from basing a criminal defendant's senten… |
| 22-7045 | John Leendert Oskam v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actus-reus bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute intimidation mens-rea physical-force supreme-court-precedent | Under the Court's recent decisions in United States v. Taylor, 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), and Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), does the e… |
| 22-7041 | Deandre Markee King v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence collateral-attack-waiver constitutional-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus plea-bargaining retroactivity | The vast majority of federal criminal cases end in a guilty plea. And in many of those pleas, the defendant promises not to file a future 28 U.S.C. § … |
| 22-7024 | In Re Kevin Ogden | 2023-03-16 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process insufficient-evidence jury-instructions legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation | There was insufficient evidence to convict. The N.M. Embezzlement Statute clearly says the owner's name must be used in the Criminal Complaint and Inf… | |
| 22-7010 | Jeffrey Jay York v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-enticement criminal-law enticement entrapment evidence government-agents interstate-facilities interstate-transmission jury-evidence minor minor-solicitation | WHETHER THE GOVERMENT PRESENTED SUFFICENT EVIDENCE TO CONVICT YORK/ I. OF ENTICEMENT OF A MINOR A. WHETHER THE GOVERMENT PRESENTED SUFFICIENT EVIDENC… |
| 22-6998 | David Arroyo-Ramon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-13 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent legal-standard precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-6969 | Christopher Ashley Shetskie v. Colorado | Colorado | 2023-03-08 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment mens-rea mental-state murder murder-statute sixth-amendment | Question I: Whether the Sixth Amendment ' jury-trial guarantee, taken together with the Fourteenth Amendments ' right to due process require that the … |
| 22-849 | Rickie Foy v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bank-theft criminal-intent criminal-law felony-bank-theft mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-element valuation-requirement | Whether a conviction for conspiring to commit felony bank theft, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 and 2113(b), requires the government to prove that t… |
| 22-6953 | Curtis Bradley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing substantive-reasonableness | Was the sentence imposed on Petitioner substantively reasonable? |
| 22-6902 | Roger Bryant Harbin v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-03-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | controlled-substances criminal-law decontrol drug-convictions drug-policy due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-6881 | James Clark, III v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-28 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substances criminal-law drug-convictions drug-policy due-process federal-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-6869 | Daniel Earl Genson, III v. Kansas | Kansas | 2023-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-principles criminal-law criminal-punishment due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights mens-rea strict-liability | Whether the absence of mens rea from a felony offense that criminalizes passive, otherwise innocent conduct without proof of notice while subjecting i… |
| 22-6853 | Joshua Seekins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-possession due-process federalism harmless-error interstate-commerce jurisdictional-issue second-amendment sentencing-guidelines | (1) Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of ammunition solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into the d… |
| 22-6854 | Xavier Sims v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce precedential-authority scarborough-v-united-states second-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez | Whether—in light of intervening authority in United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995)—Congress may rely on Scarborough v. United States, 431 U.S. 5… |
| 22-6829 | Quinton Birdinground, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law mens-rea recklessness second-degree-murder sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crimes | In Borden v. United States, 141 S.Ct. 1817, 1825 (2021), this Court held that, in order to qualify as a crime of violence, an offense must require pro… |
| 22-6825 | Richie Lee Edmonds, III v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-history criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-sentencing federalism sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a prior state conviction for drug distribution qualifies as a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), when the state statute… |
| 22-6790 | Alexis Jaimez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process gang-membership guilt-by-association money-laundering | Whether the Ninth Circuit's holding that a defendant is guilty of money laundering conspiracy because he was a "foot soldier" in a gang and therefore … |
| 22-6793 | Robert Loya, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking evidence felon-in-possession gang-affiliation intent-to-distribute sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence | I. Is there insufficient evidence to warrant a finding of guilty for Count 1: possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine over 50 grams and C… |
| 22-6756 | Wissam Taysir Hammoud v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process ninth-circuit-interpretation physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-taylor | Whether, in light of this Court's recent decision in United States v. Taylor, 145 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)'s "crime of violence" d… |
| 22-6730 | Pabeel Narvaez-Gomez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-08 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres U. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6717 | Vontez Scales, aka Tez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-law delivery-definition due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The battle lines are clearly drawn, with the circuits split and without this court's intervention the debate regarding inchoate offenses are controlle… |
| 22-6724 | In Re Christopher Cobb | 2023-02-07 | Denied | IFP | collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus precedent retroactivity supreme-court-precedent | 1) Whether Hemphill v New York, 595 US be declared retroactive to cases on collateral review., 142 S.Ct. 681, 211 L Ed. 2d 534 (2022) should | |
| 22-6708 | Arturo Villalobos-Franco v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6697 | Ervin Harris v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence aggravated-assault borden-precedent borden-v-united-states criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process forcible-assault sentencing-review supreme-court | Whether Petitioner is actually innocent of his aggravated and forcible assault offense, in light of Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021)? |
| 22-6698 | Robert Hadley Gross v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law first-impression frivolity ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-merit non-frivolous-appeal rational-defendant roe-v-flores-ortega totality-of-circumstances | This is a criminal case, which involves issues regarding ineffective assistance of counsel, frivolity, and first impression. 1. Is the Roe v. Flore… |
| 22-718 | Louisiana v. Jamaal Edwards | Louisiana | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Amici (2) | civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law dangerous-individual due-process judicial-precedent mental-health mental-health-law precedent public-safety sanity-acquittee | Whether this Court's plurality opinion in Foucha v. Louisiana, 504 U.S. 71 (1992), which prevents States from continuing to hold in sanity acquittees … |
| 22-6666 | Leonel Ruiz-Lopez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute hughey-v-united-states legal-definition restitution sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation title-18 victim-and-witness-protection-act victim-restitution | The Victim and Witness Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3663 ("VWPA"), permits a district court to order restitution to victims of an offense under Title 1… |
| 22-6653 | Jayson Montgomery v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-27 | Denied | IFP | anti-kickback-statute circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law due-process healthcare-fraud intent ruan-v-united-states subjective-intent | To convict a defendant of violating the anti-kickback statute, is the government required to establish that the accused intended to engage in unlawful… |
| 22-6616 | Brian Cota v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process notice plea-bargaining plea-negotiation sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Mr. Cota can be subject to a life time of supervised release, and thereby a lifetime of revocati… |
| 22-6600 | Eric Banks v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-23 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prison jurisdictional-requirements statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction | Several federal criminal statutes only apply within the United States's "special maritime and territorial jurisdiction," including the assault statute… |
| 22-6603 | Miguel Angel Valencia-Sandoval v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 22-6587 | Vernon White v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-20 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-113 40-usc-3112 circuit-split criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-prison maritime-jurisdiction special-maritime-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction | Whether proof that a crime occurred at a federal prison is sufficient to establish the existence of "special maritime or territorial jurisdiction of t… |
| 22-6568 | Duraid Hussein v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection procedural-due-process rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation | 1. In Rehaif v. United States , 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court clarified that the word knowingly under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) applies to both defendan… |
| 22-6569 | Charles Heard v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 9th-circuit california-law categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause implied-malice ninth-circuit second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation | 1. Does a VICAR murder conviction, which is in turn based upon a second-degree murder under California law, constitute a categorical crime of violence… |
| 22-6540 | Brandon Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-13 | Denied | IFP | actual-case-requirement categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez precedent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | When the underlying state statute is plainly broader than the generic definition of a criminal sentencing enhancement provision, must the defendant al… |
| 22-6541 | Garrett Statler v. Florida | Florida | 2023-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment mens-rea sexual-battery state-court-conflict statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Florida's sexual battery statute for acts applicable to adults with no physical force or violence violates the Fourteenth Amendment because… |
| 22-6497 | Timothy Martin Kendrick v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law due-process johnson-ruling residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1) Does the struckdown 18 USc. g924 (e)(2)(B)(ii) residual under Johnson(2015) as applied to "ACCA equally apply to Mandatory Guideline USSGj4B1.2(a) … |
| 22-6468 | Herbert Isaac Perkins v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-classification hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Question not identified. |
| 22-614 | Troy Chrisman, et al. v. Estate of Seth Michael Zakora, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | civil-rights constitutional-protection corrections corrections-liability criminal-law drug-contraband due-process eighth-amendment institutional-supervision prisoner-rights | 1. Whether a prisoner's criminal act of voluntarily ingesting an illegal drug banned within the prison can give rise to that prisoner's federal consti… |
| 22-6444 | Stephen Duane Burgess v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing federal-statute second-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether a conviction for federal "second degree murder" under 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) is a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3). |
| 22-6418 | Christopher Brian Cosimano v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing first-degree-murder omission-liability statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by finding that Florida's First-Degree Premeditated Murder Statute is categorically a crime of violence for purpose… |
| 22-6420 | Rodney Deangelo Jordan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power felon-possession firearms-regulation police-power statutory-interpretation | Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-6422 | Richard Bernard Nichols v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute felon-rights firearm-possession | Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-6423 | Michael Deshawn Homer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-authority criminal-law felon-in-possession firearms police-power | Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-582 | United States v. Jose Felipe Hernandez-Calvillo, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2022-12-22 | GVR | Relisted (2) | constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-prohibition first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law overbreadth-doctrine statutory-interpretation | Whether the federal criminal prohibition against conspiring to encourage or induce unlawful immigration, in violation of 8 U.S.C. 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) an… |
| 22-6334 | Joey Faught v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law detainer due-process federal-custody interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers notice prisoner-rights sixth-circuit | Was Petitioner's letter to the U.S. District Court Clerk, while he was a State of Tennessee prisoner, asking to be transferred to federal custody to a… |
| 22-558 | Pedro Lance Soto v. Texas | Texas | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine | 1. Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct? 2. Is a law t… |
| 22-6318 | Eduardo Ocegueda-Ruiz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Does a person possess a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), when the person receives a… |
| 22-6323 | Luis R. Figueroa-Gonzalez v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circumstantial-evidence criminal-law evidence firearm-alteration firearms knowledge-inference machine-gun mens-rea statutory-definition statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Whether the presence of a visible alteration in a seized firearm is sufficient to satisfy the government's burden to prove that the defendant knew of … |
| 22-6307 | John Homer Legros, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "Conspiracy" to Commit a Crime is a Controlled Substance Offense as defined under the United States Sentencing Guide lines Section §4B1.2I. W… |
| 22-6314 | Ramiro Leal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation | Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-6315 | Iklas Richard Davis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federalism felon-in-possession rehaif-v-united-states scienter supreme-court-precedent | 1. In United States v. Rehaif, _ U.S. ___, 189 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court acknowledged the presumption in favor of scienter — that criminal statute… |
| 22-6256 | Robert Gospodareck v. Alabama | Alabama | 2022-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alabama-law assisted-suicide constitutional-law criminal-law murder-for-hire retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation | I. When Alabama first enacted Assisted Suicide legislation in 2017 which specifically provided that it amended existing law and also created a new cri… |
| 22-6267 | Mack Doak v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-requirements interstate-commerce interstate-travel sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | Petitioner was convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2241(c), which criminalizes "cross[ing]a state line with intent to engage in a sexual act with a person who… |
| 22-6247 | Denis Amilcar Munguia-Portales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6225 | Jerome Kieffer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-procedure criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment imprisonment-rights religious-land-use rluipa sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | (1) Does the Unconstitutionally Vague language, Struck down by the Court in 18USC 10), apply to 18USC 722(c)(G)? (2) May a Stipulation Suffice To Con… |
| 22-6231 | William Dustin Poole v. Florida | Florida | 2022-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment life-without-parole non-homicide-offense sentencing | Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on an eighteen-year-old defendant convicted of a non-homicide offense violat… |
| 22-6218 | Carlos Brito-Brito v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 22-6220 | Martin Robert Moncada-Aguirre v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6211 | In Re Patricia Ann Solomon | 2022-12-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-charge controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution heck-v-humphrey legitimate-purpose medical-prescription prescribing-authority prescription-drugs | As per Honorable Justice Breyer's opinion in the new United States Supreme Court ruling XIULU RUAN v. UNITED STATES No. 20-1410. Argued March 1, 2022 … | |
| 22-508 | John O. Green v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-30 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-371 conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud criminal-law criminal-prosecution defraud-the-united-states federal-agency internal-revenue-service jury-instructions statutory-interpretation | In a series of decisions from this Court, the reach and scope of conspiracies to defraud the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 were define… |
| 22-6168 | Jose Santos Perez-Gonzalez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-review precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-497 | Jasper Robin Chen v. Texas | Texas | 2022-11-28 | Dismissed | Response RequestedResponse Waived | communications criminal-law criminal-statute electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech harassment-law intent overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine | 1. Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from any First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct? 2. Is a l… |
| 22-6151 | Demon Reese v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-statute felon-in-possession felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation | Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-6132 | Michael Dominick Mencher v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing first-degree-murder sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Florida's First-Degree Premeditated Murder Statute is categorically a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C.§ 924(C)? |
| 22-6117 | Tracy Lamont Miles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-question sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the term "controlled substance," from the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), is limited to substances that are … |
| 22-6109 | Dustin Wayne Randall v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process non-indigent-defendant special-assessment statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether 18 U.S.C. § 3014, once triggered by a qualifying conviction, requires a non-indigent defendant to pay a single addit… |
| 22-6110 | Luis David Huerta-Carranza v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process immigration-court immigration-proceedings jurisdiction notice-to-appear removal-order statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a defective notice to appear that omits the statutorily required time-and-place information fails to confer jurisdiction on the immigration… |
| 22-6072 | Randy Belcher v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony | without the use, attempted use or threatened use of physical force against the person of another |
| 22-6047 | Juan Teran v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-statute felon-in-possession felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation | Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-6039 | Jonathan Francis Kimbrell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-solicitation due-process entrapment entrapment-defense federal-criminal-law internet-crimes law-enforcement-conduct predisposition sexual-offense sexual-offenses undercover-operations | Two FBI agents, posing as two parents and their unrealistically precocious 11-year-old child, convinced Kimbrell that the child was desperately wantin… |
| 22-6043 | Jose Rene Cante-Dondiego v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration sentencing supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-434 | Slade Alan Moore v. Texas | Texas | 2022-11-09 | Denied | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech harassment intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine | A Texas statute criminalizes sending repeated electronic communications with the intent and likely result of "harassing, annoying, alarming, abusing, … | |
| 22-430 | Charles Barton v. Texas | Texas | 2022-11-08 | Denied | Amici (7) | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication electronic-communications expressive-speech first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine public-concern | In Snyder v. Phelps, this Court held that speech on matters of public concern cannot be punished "simply because it is upsetting or arouses contempt,"… |
| 22-6013 | Damian Robert Guthary v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922g criminal-law criminal-procedure guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error rehaif rehaif-error statutory-interpretation | Whether Petitioner satisfies Greer's plain error standard for relief from Rehaif error arising from his guilty plea under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) where the… |
| 22-6022 | Shimar Jamal Dean Thompkins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure diversionary-disposition due-process federal-charging federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant's prior diversionary disposition in a felony case can be considered both an indictment and a conviction for federal charging and s… |
| 22-5982 | Richard Allen Jackson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-03 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility divisibility-analysis federal-statutes felony-murder first-degree-murder schad-v-arizona statutory-interpretation violent-crime | 1. Is federal first-degree murder, 18 U.S.C. § 1(a), which includes felony murder, a crime of violence within the meaning of the force clause of 18 U.… |
| 22-413 | Robert M. Atwell v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2022-11-02 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto public-school school-premises-restriction sex-offender-registration tennessee-law | 1. Was the Petitioner's arrest and conviction under the TSORA a violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. CONST., art. 1, sec. 10, cl. 1? |
| 22-5948 | Brett W. Cormier v. Florida | Florida | 2022-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law contract-clause contract-impairment contracts-clause criminal-law due-process grand-theft impairment-of-contracts state-action state-prosecution | DID THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATE ART. I, SECT. 10 OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WHEN IT IMPAIRED THE OBLIGATION OF PETITIONER'S CONTRACTS BY CHARG… |
| 22-398 | Marcos F. Santiago v. J. C. Streeval | Seventh Circuit | 2022-10-28 | Denied | Relisted (2) | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-status knowledge-requirement post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-relief | Whether a felon who has spent less than a year in custody is entitled to a presumption that he lacked knowledge of his felon status and therefore, abs… |
| 22-5942 | David G. Wiggins v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process felony-murder fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | As reasonable jurors would have disagreed that the Felony Murder Statute as applied to this Petitioner is unconstitutional, denying this Petitioner hi… |
| 22-5912 | William Gonzalez-Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5918 | Tommy Allen Dickenson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights congressional-authority constitutional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute felon-rights firearm-possession statutory-interpretation | Whether, when enacting the Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18 U.S.C. § 922(g)), Congress exceeded its authority to act? |
| 22-5881 | Trencie V. Oliver v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing | Whether Trencie Oliver's sentence imposed as to his offenses is disproportionate to the offense and violates due process or the Eighth Amendment of th… |
| 22-5879 | Eugene Thurman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-20 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law appellate-review controlled-substance criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it deferred to the United States Sentencing Commission's use of commentary in its Guidelines Manual to… |
| 22-5869 | Carlos Ivan Chavira-Montanez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-construction supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5826 | Alonzo Peters v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-materiality brady-v-maryland conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fifth-circuit kyles-v-whitley suppressed-evidence witness-testimony | L. Whether a defendant's convictions for conspiracy and drug trafficking conspiracy must be vacated where the defendant had no commercial association … |
| 22-331 | Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Fernando Cordero-Garcia, aka Fernando Cordero | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-07 | Judgment Issued | Relisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation witness-dissuasion | Whether dissuading a witness from reporting a crime, in violation of California law, is "an offense relating to obstruction of justice," 8 U.S.C. 1101… |
| 22-5751 | Mark Ryan Shipley, aka Marc R. Shipley, aka Marc Ryan Shipley v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif statutory-interpretation | DOES THE KNOWINGLY ELEMENT APPLY TO U.S.C. $921 (a)(20)? DOES A STIPULATION AT THE TIME OF TRIAL THAT A DEFENDANT HAD AT SOME POINT IN THE PAST CQMIT… |
| 22-5740 | Rony Alexander Granados-Ortez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5693 | Rosa Isela Acuna v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-importation due-process mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether, under 21 U.S.C. § 960, a defendant who know ingly imports a controlled substance can be convicted and subjected to an enhanced punishment o… |
| 22-5677 | Michael Louis McCarron v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law due-process enticement-statute first-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness | Whether the Ninth Circuit decision that "purely hypothetical" emails can support a conviction for violation of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b) (attempted enticemen… |
| 22-5665 | Geoffrie Dill v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does "controlled substance offense", as that term is used in U.S.S.G. §4B1.1 and defined by U.S.S.G. §4B1.2(b), refer only to those controlled substan… |
| 22-5637 | Dwayne Stone v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute force physical-force physical-inaction statutory-interpretation | Whether crimes of physical inaction have "as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of … |
| 22-5621 | Cody Ray Leveke, aka Cody Meyer, aka Cody Ray Meyers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-communication criminal-law first-amendment free-speech jury-instruction statutory-interpretation subjective-intent true-threat | Whether, to establish that a statement is a "true threat" unprotected by the First Amendment, the government must show that the speaker subjectively k… |
| 22-5626 | James Earl Jones v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2022-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault case-law criminal-law criminal-statute jurisdiction legal-procedure murder remand sexual-assault statutory-interpretation | 1: (A) WHETHER THE TERM "ON ANOTHER" AS UTILIZED IN N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2(a)(3) APPLY or (B) WHETHER N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2(a)(6) CONTROL IN PETITIONER 'S CASE… |
| 22-5634 | Nelson Jean Dion v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bail bail-condition criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law interstate-travel protection-order statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a state bail order/condition of release is a protection order under 18 U.S.C. § 2266(5) for purposes of violating 18 U.S.C. § 2262, which c… |
| 22-5603 | Faustino Sanchez-Lugo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5610 | Andre Thompson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process elements-clause physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation | i) 14I approach od \% US. Cf fcj U) CA) Courts allowed or retired b look to the J wlort it ordinarily invo Jicab crime ad i/ioknce fpplymj jit Catz^ … |
| 22-5598 | Ramiro Montoya-De La Cruz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 22-5589 | Carrie Helen Fine v. Florida | Florida | 2022-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-challenge appeals constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment drug-statutes due-process evidence judgment-of-acquittal state-law | I. Whether the affirmation of the Appellant Court (that it was proper for trial court to deny Fine's Motions for judgment of Acquittal) was correct. … |
| 22-5591 | Robert Lopez-Parker v. Texas | Texas | 2022-09-15 | Denied | IFP | americans-with-disabilities-act criminal-enhancement criminal-law disability disability-classification due-process equal-protection federal-standard fourteenth-amendment state-law | When is an individual regarded as having or percieved to have, impairment within the meaning of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"). 42 U.S.C.… |
| 22-5580 | Derrick Dion Ingram v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-enhancement firearms guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Where U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) directs a four-level increase in offense level when a defendant possesses a firearm "in connection with another felony… |
| 22-5568 | Douglas Gordon v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | copyright-infringement criminal-conviction criminal-law evidence fair-use first-circuit jury-instructions orphan-works sufficiency-of-evidence willful-conduct | Whether the First Circuit correctly determined that the sufficiency of the evidence supported the jury's finding that Mr. Gordon acted willfully for t… |
| 22-5551 | Jose Carmen Barajas-Salvador v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5521 | Jesus Jesse Gonzalez v. Texas | Texas | 2022-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment criminal-law dangerousness due-process intentional-offense mens-rea mental-capacity mental-health sexual-predator texas-law | Can a person be unable to control his dangerousness, thus rendering him eligible for civil commitment as a sexual predator, but simultaneously be able… |
| 22-5532 | Johnny Jasper Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split common-law common-law-offense criminal-classification criminal-law due-process generic-robbery legal-definition precedent statutory-interpretation | Whether "generic robbery" is equivalent to the common law form of the offense, or whether, instead, it carries a broader definition? |
| 22-5511 | Edmundo Portillo-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5491 | John Michael Ward v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute federal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel overbreadth statutory-interpretation vagueness | Was the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) vague and overbroad, and did Petitioner's at… |
| 22-5445 | Ereby Lujan-Madrid v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5437 | Justin Cornelius Harris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process force-intimidation generic-robbery judicial-interpretation property-rights property-taking robbery statutory-interpretation | Whether generic robbery requires the taking of property from another person or from the immediate presence of another person by force or by intimidati… |
| 22-5441 | Felipe Mata-Benavidez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 22-163 | Lenair Moses v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-23 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-law agency-deference auer-deference criminal-law judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie precedential-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | In Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), this Court held that Seminole Rock deference, now generally known as Auer deference, applies to inter… |
| 22-5417 | Charles E. Williams v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-law drug-transactions occasions-different personal-use-amounts sentencing-enhancement undercover-law-enforcement undercover-officer | Are sequential drug transactions over a short time frame "committed on occasions different from one another" for the purpose of the Armed Career Crimi… |
| 22-5394 | Eric Christopher Falkowski v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance-act controlled-substances criminal-law due-process enhancement-clause overbreadth sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness | Whether USSG § lBl.l 's serious-bodily-injury enhancement clause —as relative here to the Controlled Substance Act, 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq—is imperm… |
| 22-5404 | Charles Anthony Walker, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-19 | Denied | IFP | abduction abduction-definition circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit hobbs-act robbery sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines | (1) Whether movement of an employee within the confines of a store qualifies as abduction under U.S.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(A) |
| 22-5406 | Daniel Edward Gonzalez v. California | California | 2022-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute drug-possession due-process felony-enhancement firearm-possession firearms second-amendment | California Health and Safety Code section 11370.1 makes possessing certain drugs while armed a felony. Because mere misdemeanor drug possession is a n… |
| 22-5378 | Robert Collazo, Lino Delgado-Vidaca, Julio Rodriguez, and Steven Amador v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-penalties drug-distribution due-process mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing | Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the Government must sh… |
| 22-5355 | Carlocito Slim, aka Carlocito Ponce Slim v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process entrapment law-enforcement-conduct mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation victim-age | I. Whether a defendant can be convicted under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2422(b) or 1591(a)(1) on the basis of inconsistent ages of a single non-existent victim giv… |
| 22-5336 | Brian Scott Berryman v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2022-08-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-decisions criminal-law due-process federalism judicial-law legislative-intent public-interests standing statutory-construction | 1. A STATE COURT hAS dECidEd aN ImportANt fEDeRAl quEstiON iN AWAY that Conflicts with relEvANt decisions of this CouRt AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF… |
| 22-5338 | Chikosi Legins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1001 apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence false-statement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum sufficiency | I. Whether the evidence was sufficient to support the conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1001. II. Whether the defendant was improperly subjected to an enhan… |
| 22-5318 | Samuel Francis White Horse v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process evidence jury-instructions obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation | 1) Does a conviction for Tampering with Evidence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(1) require a jury to find that the natural and probable effect of… |
| 22-5303 | George Daniel McGavitt v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing minor-sexual-conduct minors sentencing-guidelines sexual-offense-definition sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation | Whether self-penetration by a minor (not prepubescent) using a benign household item is "sadistic or masochistic" under USSG § 2G2.1(b)(4)(A). |
| 22-110 | Julian D. Schmidt v. United States | Armed Forces | 2022-08-03 | Denied | Response Waived | child-endangerment child-protection criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea physical-proximity proximity-definition sensory-awareness statutory-interpretation | 1. Does the ambiguous phrase "in the presence of a child" require the child to be aware of the conduct through a sensory connection, regardless of phy… |
| 22-5278 | Jordan Jenkins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-conflict circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process force force-or-intimidation intimidation property-rights property-taking robbery statutory-interpretation | Whether generic robbery requires the taking of property from another person or from the immediate presence of an-other person by force or by intimidat… |
| 22-5237 | Heather Marie Newhouse v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law controlled-substance-offense criminal-law guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate offenses to the definition of "controlled substance offe… |
| 22-5239 | Edward Bishop v. Jonathan R. Hemingway, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment legal-interpretation offense-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether § 924(c) criminalizes two seperate roffenses to determine if the Petitioner was convicted of an offense § 924(c) does not criminalize? |
| 22-5226 | Oyeyemi Olatunji Owagboriaye, aka Prince v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1343 accomplice-liability circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law procedural-history scheme-to-defraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | The wire fraud statute—18 U.S.C. § 1343—criminalizes the use of a wire "for the purpose of executing" a scheme to defraud. This Court has interpreted … |
| 22-5231 | Daniel J. Zulawski v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-evidence-rule fourth-amendment-search overbreadth sexual-activity sixth-circuit-analysis statutory-interpretation vagueness | Is 18 U.S.C. 2422(b) unconstitutionally vague and/or overbroad due to the statute's use of the phrase "any sexual activity for which any person can be… |
| 22-86 | Charles Chavez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-07-29 | Denied | atm bank-robbery criminal-law custody customer federal-statute force-and-coercion property property-theft statutory-interpretation | Whether a person violates this provision by forcing a bank customer to withdraw the customer's money from an ATM in order to take the money from the c… | |
| 22-84 | Saad Sakkal v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-28 | GVR | controlled-substances-act conviction-appeal criminal-law due-process jury-instruction physician-conviction ruan-standard ruan-v-united-states scienter statutory-interpretation | Whether this Court should grant, vacate, and remand a judgment sustaining the conviction of a physician under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) where the jury was… | |
| 22-5214 | Martin Rios-Galicia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-5196 | Malik Holloway v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process federal-courthouse federal-courts mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness weapon-possession | Isn't 18 U.S.C. §930(e)(1) which criminalizes the mere possession in a federal courthouse of practically any item unconstitutionally vague? |
| 22-76 | Keith L. Carnes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-07-26 | Denied | Amici (2) | 2nd-amendment circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-use due-process firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation unlawful-user | Whether the government, to establish that the defendant is an "unlawful user" of a controlled substance, must show the defendant's regular or habitual… |
| 22-49 | Efrain Lora v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-07-19 | Judgment Issued | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(D)(ii), which provides that "no term of imprisonment imposed … under this subsection shall run concurrently with any oth… |
| 22-5119 | Christopher Paul Hasson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-defendant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness | Whether, to prevail on a facial void-for-vagueness challenge, a criminal defendant must show that the statute under which he is prosecuted is vague as… |
| 22-5111 | Robert Doyle Harper v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-law defendant-rights due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice waiver | Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice? |
| 22-5075 | Courtney Newman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-12 | GVR | IFP | controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law health-care jury-instruction medical-practice prescription-drugs prescription-law ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | 21 U.S.C. §856(a)(1), the "crack house statute", requires the Government to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant, "except as authorized by… |
| 22-5076 | Holli Womack v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-12 | GVR | IFP | constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-liability due-process health-care health-care-professional professional-liability ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness | Because this Court's recent pronouncement in Ruan v. United States, 20-1410 applies to 21 U.S.C. § 856(a)(1) prosecutions involving health care profes… |
| 22-5062 | Zachary Chambers v. R. Thompson, Warden | Third Circuit | 2022-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus retroactivity safety-valve-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), renders invalid the imposition of Petitioner's sentencing enhancement for possession of a … |
| 22-5042 | Phillip Shiel v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation united-states-v-taylor | Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery is a "crime of violence" under the elements clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), following this Court's d… |
| 22-5043 | Romeo Valentin Sanchez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-law enhanced-sentencing indecent-acts mandatory-minimum military-justice sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation uniform-code-of-military-justice | Article 120 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (10 U.S.C. § 920) was broadened in 2006 to include crimes of "indecent acts." Article 120 was ream… |
| 22-10 | David Fox Dubin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (4) | circuit-split criminal-law due-process identity-theft lawful-authority means-of-identification mens-rea predicate-offense statutory-interpretation | The federal aggravated identity theft statute provides: "Whoever, during and in relation to any felony violation enumerated [elsewhere in the statute]… |
| 22-5003 | Ernesto Villalobos-Marquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8268 | Roger Acosta v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution indictment indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-standard structural-error | Petitioners were each convicted of possessing a firearm as a prohibited person. After their convictions became final, this Court held in Rehaif v. Uni… |
| 21-8272 | Robert Edward Guerra v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 21-8273 | Jesus Fernando Fierro-Renteria v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-8247 | Johnathan Carter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abduction abduction-enhancement bank-robbery circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The four-level abduction enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 2B 1.3(b)(4)(A) was applied to Appellant's bank robbery conviction based on moving victims… |
| 21-1592 | Shapour Motamedi, Shayan Motamedi, and Heriberto Moises Lopez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-27 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law article-i constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-rulemaking delegation-of-authority delegation-of-power due-process health-and-human-services legislative-authority rulemaking-authority separation-of-powers | 1. Whether Congress, in crafting 42 U.S.C. § 1230a7b(b) and related provisions, violated Article I, § 1 of the United States Constitution by improperl… |
| 21-8229 | Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split collateral-estoppel criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation | Section 1326(b)(2) of Title 8 provides an elevated penalty for illegally re-entering the country following an "aggravated felony." Does a district cou… |
| 21-8230 | David Matthews v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. In Texas, a thief is guilty of robbery if he "intentionally or knowingly threatens or places another in fear of imminent bodily injury or death." T… |
| 21-8233 | Barkley Gardner v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-1959 criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law punishment-alternatives racketeering sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether a court may punish a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) by a fine instead of death or life imprisonment. |
| 21-8214 | Miguel Andres-Tomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8217 | Herbert Bernard Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-code federal-criminal-law mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion sexual-activity sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-language | Should this Court grant the petition for writ of certiorari to resolve whether the statutory language of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b)'s "any sexual activity for… |
| 21-8221 | Isiah Paul Mendez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering criminal-law north-carolina north-carolina-criminal-law predicate-offense statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states united-states-supreme-court united-states-v-johnson | WHETHER OR NOT THE NORTH CAROLINA CRIME OF BREAKING AND ENTERING (N.C. GEN STAT. §14-54), AS DEFINED BY THE NORTH CAROLINA SUPRME COURT, CAN BE UTILIZ… |
| 21-8199 | Yuri Chachanko, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery predicate-crime predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vacatur | Whether the Defendants' convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) must be vacated because Hobbs Act robbery based on an aiding and abetting t… |
| 21-8189 | Serge Francois v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law ex-post-facto fraud managed-care network-application pharmacist-fraud pharmacy utilization-review | Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory power over the Courts of the United States where the Eleventh Circuit reversibly erred in affirming… |
| 21-8170 | Samuel Gaines, Jr. v. Brooks L. Benton, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-17 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights court-fraud criminal-law due-process federal-procedure fraud-on-the-court judicial-interference legal-obstruction obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct standing state-procedure | 1. It's A WillFul disrerpect oF vuited states Dirtrict Court Chiet Jude I. Rndal Hall's order,"For Not Considering the herits of hay crJE. 2. It'5 A … |
| 21-8162 | Darnell Pearson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution mens-rea reasonable-foreseeability serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation | Whether a charge of drug distribution resulting in "death or serious bodily injury" under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and (b)(4)(c) requires the government… |
| 21-8148 | Frank H. Bynes Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-15 | GVR | IFP | controlled-substances criminal-law due-process medical-practice prescription-drugs professional-ethics | May a Physician Alledged to have Prescribed controlled substances outside the Usual Course of Professional Practice be convicted of Unlawful distribut… |
| 21-8129 | Radu Miclaus v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review application-note-2 circuit-split criminal-law identification-trafficking means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trafficking transferring | Did the Sixth Circuit err in holding that "trafficking" a means of identification does not also constitute "transferring" such identification under Se… |
| 21-8130 | Monica Ruiz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation substantive-element wire-fraud | IS THE INTERSTATE NEXUS REQUIRED IN § 1343 A SUBSTANTIVE ELEMENT OF THE CRIME OF WIRE FRAUD ? WAS THE FACTUAL BASIS SUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT MS. RUIZ'S … |
| 21-8116 | Demarco Tempo v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | but-for-causation causation criminal-law death-enhancement drug-statute due-process jury-instructions pinkerton-liability proximate-cause sentencing statutory-interpretation | I. Should the government be required to prove proximate cause in addition to but-for causation for the "death results" enhancement in 21 U.S.C. § 841?… |
| 21-8097 | Thomas Randall Ainsworth v. Robert Powell, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2022-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-laws due-process equal-protection sentencing statutory-interpretation utah | WHETHER THE TENTH CIRCUIT'S CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) ANALYSIS CONFLICTS WITH THE FIFTH CIRCUIT'S COA ANALYSIS. WHETHER THE DIFFERING PENALT… |
| 21-8099 | Darnell McConnell, II v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede… |
| 21-8101 | Marco Antonio Marin-Maldonado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8102 | Rodrigo Jimenez-Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8103 | Ernest Armando Andujo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-law firearm-silencer first-sixth-seventh-circuits intent-requirement intent-to-use ninth-circuit objective-characteristics statutory-interpretation | Federal law defines a firearm silencer as "any device for silencing, muffling, or diminishing the report of a portable firearm." Does the word "for" … |
| 21-8087 | Zachary S. Keeter v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | addiction criminal-defense criminal-law due-process expert-testimony improperly-prescribed-medication involuntary-intoxication judicial-discretion medication-addiction mental-health psychosis-claim | 1. Should a person whose addiction is the result of improperly prescribed medication be allowed an involuntary intoxication defense? 2. Petitioner d… |
| 21-8075 | Ricky Bagola v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-801 advisory-range controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2(b) | Is the term "controlled substance" in § 4B1.2(b) limited to those substances defined and regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S… |
| 21-8059 | Jesus Morales-Agustin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8051 | Michael Rivera Delgado v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether the Ninth Circuit's rule in Villavicencio-Burruel, which requires that a prior conviction under California Penal Code § 245(a)(1) constitute a… |
| 21-8035 | Charlie John Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) conviction-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis | Whether Petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. section 924 (c) remains valid under the Supreme Court's holding in United States v. Davis. 139 S. Ct. … |
| 21-8025 | Christopher Thieme, aka John Thieme v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3664 all-writs-act criminal-law criminal-procedure illegal legal-relief restitution restitution-order sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation writ-of-audita-querela | 1.) Does 18 U.S.C. §3664(k) and (0). which allows a sentencing court to consider motions to "adjust" a restitution order without anv time limits. perm… |
| 21-7992 | Reginald Andre Molette v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether North Carolina breaking and entering categorically qualifies as generic burglary under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii)? |
| 21-7994 | Vincent James Sanchez, aka Vincent Sanches, aka Enrique Sanchez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause mens-rea reckless-crimes specific-intent statutory-interpretation | Does Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), mean that the elements clause requires the specific intent to use, attempt to use, or threaten t… |
| 21-1491 | City of Kent, Washington v. Adrian Jacobo-Hernandez | Washington | 2022-05-27 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process excessive-fines felony felony-instrumentality forfeiture livelihood-preservation property-forfeiture | Whether the Excessive Fines Clause provides a livelihood preservation protection which can prevent the forfeiture of the instrumentality of a felony? |
| 21-7957 | Samuel Morales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-crimes elements-of-crime reasonable-doubt | Whether the government fails to prove the elements of a drug conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt when it has only circumstantial evidence and that ev… |
| 21-7958 | Oscar Luna-Aquino v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-offense criminal-intent criminal-law drug-importation mens-rea sentencing-factors statutory-elements statutory-sentencing | Whether a mens rea applies to the drug-type-and-quantity elements of an aggravated drug importation offense, where those elements substantially increa… |
| 21-7960 | Jesus Antonio Montoya-Balderrama v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7915 | Amado Rodriguez-Navarrete v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7880 | Robert Andrew Riley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction | 1. Because child pornography is not one of the federal crimes enumerated by the constitution, the trial court erred by failing to declare unconstituti… |
| 21-7857 | Richard Dwayne Blalock v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2022-05-12 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-case native-american-rights procedural-rule retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), is a Substantive ruling or a Procedural ruling. |
| 21-7835 | Michael Perryman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process firearm-statute firearms legal-interpretation precedent precedential-reasoning sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the mere possession reasoning in Bailey and Bousley retain precedential value in regard to "use" of a firearm under the amended Section 924(c)… |
| 21-7841 | Danny Jewell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process importation-enhancement knowledge-requirement sentencing-guidelines strict-liability | The United States Sentencing Guidelines provide for an enhanced sentence for a person who commits an offense involving the importation of amphetamine … |
| 21-7821 | Mandrail Jamar Woodberry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining probable-cause sentencing unreasonable-search warrantless-search | Question not identified. |
| 21-7832 | Daniel Casamayor v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-indictment criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-statute indictment knowledge-element rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | 1. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), if Casamayor 's indictment charg… |
| 21-7813 | Hector Cervantes-Resendiz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-1414 | Barton Ray Crandall v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-05-04 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-3582(c)(1)(A) 18-usc-924(c) criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-1392 | Abigail Simon v. Jeremy Howard, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-29 | Denied | Response Waived | actus-reus certiorari-review criminal-law criminal-sexual-conduct due-process jury-instructions legal-error sexual-assault standard-of-review trial-court | Whether this court should grant certiorari because the state trial court judge gave erroneous jury instructions on the critical actus reus element of … |
| 21-7738 | Guillermo Mata-Valerio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7721 | Juan Francisco Cruz-Mora v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7638 | Carlos Jimenez v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defendant criminal-law drug-offenses drug-quantity mandatory-minimums mens-rea scienter sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the government can subject a criminal defendant to the escalating mandatory minimums and maximums under 18 U.S.C. § 841(b), without proving th… |
| 21-7643 | Daniel Trejo v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-18 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process duress fourth-district-court jury-instructions penal-code statutory-interpretation | Mr. Treso was convicted in large Part vPON evidence made up bu the victim mother and manipulated by her Mr. Treso respectfully petitions this court Fo… |
| 21-7630 | Mickey Roy Anderson, Sr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-split criminal-law deliberation first-degree-murder mens-rea premeditation | I. Whether this Court should resolve the split in the courts of appeal as to whether a mere matter of seconds suffice as premeditation for first degre… |
| 21-7622 | Alejandro Medina-Rios v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7623 | Mary Ann Lara v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Section 841 burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-quantity drug-trafficking federal-prosecution mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether, in prosecutions brought under Title 21, Section 841, the Government must prove a defendant's knowledge of drug type and quantity? |
| 21-7624 | Wilfredo Lee Lopez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-enticement criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment indictment predicate-offense statutory-interpretation | 1. Does 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b), which criminalizes the attempted enticement of a minor to engage in "sexual activity for which any person can be charged … |
| 21-7612 | Jose Luis Aldaba-Roman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7586 | Jaako Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing generic-offense robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-crime | Whether Texas robbery, a crime defined differently than similarly named crimes in a majority of states, is a crime of violence under the United States… |
| 21-7569 | Miguel Scott Arnold v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute human-trafficking jury-instructions rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation third-circuit-court third-circuit-court-of-appeals unit-of-prosecution | What is the allowable unit of prosecution for violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)? 2. Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals err by not remanding to th… |
| 21-7529 | Jesse Dean Mince v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 21-7495 | Terrol Debaun Travis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-sentencing delivery-definition drug-offense statutory-interpretation texas texas-controlled-substances united-states-supreme-court | I. Does the definition of "delivery" in the Texas controlled substances statute, which includes mere offers to sell, include conduct that does not qua… |
| 21-7459 | Robbie Catchings, aka Robert Brown, aka Robbie Catching v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-law firearm-possession firearms jury-instructions jury-verdict knowingly-possessed statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether sufficient evidence supported the jury's verdict that petitioner knowingly possessed a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). |
| 21-7432 | Magdaly Suleydy Perez-Velasquez and Jenifer Miladis Alvarado-Diaz v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | IFP | border-security criminal-law due-process immigration statutory-interpretation surveillance | Whether entry under 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a) requires freedom from official restraint; and Whether continuous surveillance by means of visual observation c… |
| 21-7433 | Donnell Parker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-travel precedent-tension standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-7444 | Fnu John Sadiqullah v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure entrapment entrapment-defense government-agent-conduct inducement jury-instructions predisposition | When a defendant requests a jury instruction on the affirmative defense of entrapment, what must be proven by the defendant to be entitled to such ins… |
| 21-7450 | Nicholas Andrew Waldman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-regulation interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) permits conviction for the receipt of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, and,… |
| 21-7403 | James Calvin Breeden v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession jury-instructions mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states rule-29 rule-29-motion | Whether the district court erred under Rehaif v. United States by denying requested jury instructions and a Rule 29 motion for acquittal on the felon-… |
| 21-7405 | Joshua Guity-Nunez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-section-1594 appeal base-offense-level criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I, Whether Petitioner, who was convicted of 18 U.S.C. § 1594(c), is subject to a Base Offense Level of 34 or 14? |
| 21-7406 | Marek Kozubal v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2022-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fair-notice lenity lenity-rule mandated-reporter statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Would a person of ordinary intelligence have had fair notice that he was subject to the aggravated penalties for mandated reporters? |
| 21-7398 | Ricardo Rizo-Rizo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-law immigration immigration-law mens-rea ninth-circuit presumption-of-mens-rea public-welfare-exception public-welfare-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a)(1) fits under the public-welfare/regulatory exception to the presumption of mens rea when the statute does not involve "dan… |
| 21-7340 | Joseph Louis Hall v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process judicial-review legislative-intent patent sentencing standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation | 1. WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT CAN RELY SOLELY ON A DEFENDANT'S ORIGINAL SENTENCING FACTORS SET FORTH IN 18 U.S.C.3553(A) AND WHETHER A DEFENDANT'S POST-… |
| 21-7330 | Japher Yosuf Rajab v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute law-enforcement mens-rea non-existent-victim statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422 (b) authorizes a conviction based on an imaginary, non-existent victim. Whether a defendant can be convicted under 18 U.S.C.… |
| 21-1215 | Gun Owners of America, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment administrative-law agency-interpretation bump-stocks chevron-deference criminal-law criminal-statute firearms machinegun-definition rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the definition of "machinegun" found in 26 U.S.C. §5845(b) is clear and unambiguous, and whether bump stocks meet that definition? 2. Whet… |
| 21-7291 | Bonifacio Eduardo Trujillo-Gutierrez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7268 | Ross Anthony Farca v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-restitution false-statement mental-health military-recruitment property-damage restitution statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether petitioner's offense of making a false statement about his mental health history resulted in "damage to or loss or d… |
| 21-1193 | Oklahoma v. Robert Eric Wadkins | Oklahoma | 2022-03-02 | Denied | Relisted (6) | criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law indian-status major-crimes-act statutory-interpretation tribal-membership | What requirements must a criminal defendant satisfy to qualify as an "Indian" under the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1153? |
| 21-7222 | Hugo Valencia Mendoza v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines vagueness-doctrine | 1. Is the term "involved" under Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines Unconstitutional under the Vagueness Doctrine through t… |
| 21-7226 | Christopher Ronald Martin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing generic-robbery mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | () Whether generic robbery, as used in federal sentencing enhancement provisions, encompasses robbery offenses that only require a mens rea of mere re… |
| 21-7207 | Robert Brewer v. New York | New York | 2022-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity precedent state-courts supreme-court-precedent | This Court should grant certiorari to decide whether or how Schad v Arizona, 501 U.S. 624 (1991), continues to apply following the decisions in Ramos … |
| 21-7196 | Luis Alonso Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7197 | Dennis Lee Shaffer v. Kansas | Kansas | 2022-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-law ex-post-facto kansas-offender-registration-act punishment-clause retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe | Do the cumulative burdens of the Kansas Offender Registration Act constitute punishment under the test set out in Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84 (2003), su… |
| 21-7176 | Leandra Marrio Chisholm, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-offense jurisdictional-clause robbery statutory-interpretation vagueness | I. Is an Interference of Commerce by Robbery conviction for the robbery of a single retail store beyond the scope of the Commerce Clause of the United… |
| 21-1158 | Joseph Percoco v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-02-22 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (2) | civil-rights criminal-law due-process fiduciary-duty government-decisionmaking honest-services-fraud political-influence public-corruption | Does a private citizen who holds no elected office or government employment, but has informal political or other influence over governmental decisionm… |
| 21-7156 | Floyd Allen Hawkins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause criminal-law due-process interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 21-7158 | Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law divisibility elements-means elements-versus-means federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-text | I. What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach? II. Is the Texas statute prohibiting the of… |
| 21-7147 | Sergio Alberto Arzate-Gameroz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7151 | Quentin Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea predicate-offense reasonable-person sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation threat-of-force | QUESTION ONE: The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his cond… |
| 21-7137 | Lonnel Porter v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-law custody custody-escape eighth-circuit escape homelessness residential-reentry-center sentencing statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT MISCONSTRUED 18 U.S.C. § 751(a) TO FIND THAT AN ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY IMPOSED "BY VIRTUE OF . . . CONVICTION" INCLUDES PLACEM… |
| 21-7115 | Robert Stahlnecker v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | communications-law constitutional-challenge criminal-law first-amendment free-speech political-speech statutory-interpretation telecommunications | Does 47 U.S.C. § 223(a)(1)(C) violate the First Amendment when applied to political speech, as it was in this case? |
| 21-7116 | Victor Armando Acevedo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-15 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure notice sentencing supervised-release | Whether, under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 43(a)(3), a district court can lawfully impose the thirteen "standard" supervised-release conditions… |
| 21-7129 | Erik Quiroz Razo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-law inchoate-crimes incomplete-crimes mens-rea | 1. Whether a defendant can be convicted of conspiring to aid and abet a crime when the underlying crime is never completed? 2. Whether, to conspire t… |
| 21-7110 | Jorge Alberto Funez-Zapata v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-7102 | Elmer Josue Rivas-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-1118 | Duianete Moore v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-11 | Denied | Response Waived | career-offender criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines juvenile-conviction juvenile-offenses predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Is a conviction committed 24 years ago, when Petitioner was 16 years old, a proper predicate offense for classification of Career Offender status purs… |
| 21-7094 | Gustavo Guillermo Gutierrez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7079 | Reginald Glenn v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law generic-offense mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 | To be a "crime of violence" under the enumerated clause of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2(a)(2), an offense must have elements that match or are narrower than the el… |
| 21-7086 | William L. Whitefield v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c compassionate-release criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons mandatory-minimum sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-7093 | Jameson LaForest, Robert Wesley Johnson, and Keith Marvel Walton v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c criminal-law due-process hobbs-act pinkerton-liability reconsider-pinkerton | 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… |
| 21-7069 | Javar Dinsdale Clarke v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | May Bank robbery apply as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. 924(c) when Bank robbery does not match the elements of section 924(c)(3)(A). |
| 21-7023 | Toni Marie Rambo v. Texas | Texas | 2022-02-01 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing | DOES THE SENTENCE IMPOSED ON MRS. RAMBO CONSTITUTE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT IN VIOLATION OF HIS EIGHTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS? |
| 21-1058 | Oklahoma v. Marquise Petey White | Oklahoma | 2022-02-01 | GVR | Relisted (2) | criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process equal-protection indian-country non-indian-defendants public-safety state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty | Whether a State has authority to prosecute non Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. |
| 21-7013 | Michael John Wolfe v. Oregon | Oregon | 2022-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | capital-crime constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto legislative-amendment retroactivity | The ex post facto prohibition in Article I, section 10, of the United States Constitution prevents a change in law from being applied retroactively wh… |
| 21-6993 | Damon Willis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions prohibited-status rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment sovereign-citizen | Does Rehaif v. United States preclude a jury instruction that the federal government must prove a defendant knew his prohibited status made it illegal… |
| 21-6946 | Gregory Lozado v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-decision circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-menacing force-clause general-intent guidelines guidelines-interpretation sentencing | Colorado felony menacing is a general intent crime that does not require proof that the defendant intended to harm a specific person. To qualify as a … |
| 21-6942 | Alison Gu v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1542 circuit-court-split criminal-law false-statements oath-requirement passport-application statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether making false statements on a passport application form as to which the mandatory oath was never administered, the statements were never sworn … |
| 21-6915 | Maxwell Gaffney v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking federal-law foreseeability judicial-review jury-instructions proximate-cause sentencing | Kyle Rodriguez died after voluntarily using heroin. The government proved to a jury he bought it from Petitioner Maxwell Gaffney. The Government also … |
| 21-6921 | Sedale Pervis v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court family-impact judicial-discretion mitigating-factor procedural-background respect-for-law respect-for-the-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The touchstone statu te for criminal sentencing, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), provides that a sentence must promote respect for the law. However, "respect for… |
| 21-6926 | Willie Wilcher v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-provisions criminal-law due-process firearms judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard procedural-requirements rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions | Wlu4er He Low<tf Courh fai j urtsAicfan fa tJWn decJ? fa CAtej i*Sed P-eh<if \js 2/<?/ faoli), An^ fa gownm^ Few fro^ por veriifW- Hef Pekb^,%/fav he… |
| 21-6929 | Rozelle Summerise v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-crime sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Can reasonable jurists debate whether Hobbs Act robbery, see 18 U.S.C. § 1951, is a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) … |
| 21-1009 | Oklahoma v. Robert Taylor Bragg | Oklahoma | 2022-01-18 | GVR | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process indian-country indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-defendants state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty | 1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. 2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.C… |
| 21-1001 | Hakim Bey v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-01-14 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt | Whether a jury instruction is unconstitutional if there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury understood it to allow conviction without proof beyon… |
| 21-994 | John Kapoor v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-01-13 | Denied | Relisted (2) | conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-law due-process evidence-standard judgment-of-acquittal medical-prescription physician-liability professional-practice sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Whether a non-physician may be convicted of conspiring with a physician to prescribe controlled substances outside the course of professional pract… |
| 21-6825 | Diana Bustamante v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law modified-categorical-approach predicate-offenses sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Do statutes criminalizing simulated controlled substances count as predicate "controlled substance offenses" for applicability of the career offender … |
| 21-6826 | Todd Stands Alone v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-01-12 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | assault circuit-split common-law-assault conviction criminal-law due-process federal-law federal-statute statutory-interpretation | Is common-law simple assault an essential element of § 111(b)? |
| 21-6816 | N'Neka L. Crews v. Colorado | Colorado | 2022-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accident-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment mens-rea public-welfare-offense strict-liability | I. Whether the Colorado Supreme Court's interpretation, that a criminal leaving the scene of an accident law without a stated mens rea meant that it w… |
| 21-985 | Oklahoma v. Gage Christopher J. Shriver | Oklahoma | 2022-01-11 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-6785 | Jarvis Thomas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence government-witness hypothetical-question hypothetical-questions rule-704b | Whether Fed. R. Evid. 704(b) precludes a government expert in a criminal case from opining that the defendant knowingly participated in the charged cr… |
| 21-6786 | Semaji Warren v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-3582(c) 18-usc-3582c1a1 18-USC-924(c) 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6787 | Rondale Young v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | IFP | but-for-causation but-for-cause circuit-split criminal-law ninth-circuit-interpretation purpose-element racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vicar-statute violent-crime violent-crimes | Whether the purpose element of the VICAR offense, 18 U.S.C. § 1959, requires the government to prove that the racketeering-enterprise motive was a but… |
| 21-6781 | Matthew James Dury v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing document-fraud due-process evidence-tampering federal-procedure fraud immigration judicial-misconduct release-conditions standing | ONLY Lsswize #Q of USCAY 420-7897 (Appenclix D) Tadge has the Authonty to der Ne United States Feclere. adge Nas 7 / a petendent to V's late. Uni teo… |
| 21-6768 | Emanuel E. Goines, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-06 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | (1) Federal law makes it a crime for a person with a prior felony conviction to "possess . . . affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition." 18 U.S.… |
| 21-6758 | Cameron Taevon Jones v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law | does the term "controlled substance offense" as defined in the Guidelines include offenses under state law that are not categorical matches under fede… |
| 21-6760 | Deandre Spencer Cotton v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-court-certification federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-criminal-statute statutory-interpretation | I. If a state criminal statute's divisibility is ambiguous when the defendant is convicted in state court, may a federal court later certify its divis… |
| 21-6748 | Jose Luis Wong v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-30 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts habeas-corpus hobbs-act procedural-default vagueness-doctrine | 1. Whether a certificate of appealability is warranted on the question of whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence, where this Court… |
| 21-961 | Oklahoma v. Patrick Wayne Olive | Oklahoma | 2021-12-30 | Denied | criminal-law criminal-procedure federalism jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. | |
| 21-6692 | Alex D. Ramos v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6679 | Juan Jarmon v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-law crack-cocaine criminal-law evidence evidentiary-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review united-states-v-pressler | Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision in conflict with the decision of United States v. Pressler where the evidence presented … |
| 21-905 | Nathaniel Rimpson, III, Charles Scott, and Carl Buggs v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-12-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-6642 | Tre Reshawn Tate v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | application-note criminal-law dangerous-weapon judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie possession robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is the application note defining "dangerous weapon" overly broad under Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019) by defining "possession" of a "dangerou… |
| 21-6646 | Pedro Alvarado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-111 18-usc-924 borden-v-united-states consent-search criminal-conviction criminal-law fourth-amendment ruse-search statutory-interpretation violent-crime | I. WHETHER, IN LIGHT OF THE COURT'S RULING IN BORDEN V. UNITED STATES, 593 U.S. _ (2021), ALVARADO'S CONVICTION UNDER 18 U.S.C. §111(a) AND (b) QUALIF… |
| 21-6614 | Mario Martell Spencer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law fifth-amendment hobbs-act interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-enhancement witness-tampering | 1. For intrastate robberies that do not otherwise affect "commerce over which the United States has jurisdiction," 18 U.S.C. §1951(b)(3), does the Hob… |
| 21-6625 | Derrick Harrell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b) is a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), i.e., one that "has as an elem… |
| 21-6579 | Cesar Hidrogo-Marin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 21-6589 | Lamont Guinyard v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes a defendant's possession of a firearm or ammunition, is unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's … |
| 21-6592 | Donald Stanley v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums mens-rea ninth-circuit-precedent rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether the knowingly mens rea in 21 U.S.C. § 841 applies to the elements of drug type and quantity that establish mandatory minimum and enhanced maxi… |
| 21-6605 | Jermaine Jackson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-12-14 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of "crime of violence" excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a). |
| 21-877 | Ross Thacker v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | 18-usc-3582c1a 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-procedure first-step-act sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … | |
| 21-6573 | Michael Roy Sharpe v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-guarantees criminal-law due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial maximum-sentence sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release trial-by-jury | When Congress created the novel system of supervised release for federal criminal defendants, it authorized district judges to act as factfinders and … |
| 21-6581 | Derek Jerome Moore v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-power firearms interstate-commerce | 1. Whether Congress exceed its Commerce Clause power when it enacted 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)? 2. Whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), evidence that a … |
| 21-6524 | Joshua James Mjoness v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-language crime-of-violence criminal-law mathis-precedent modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whet her, when applying the modified categorical approach under Mathis v. United States , 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) , a court may place determinative wei… |
| 21-6532 | Mary Noel Kruppe v. California | California | 2021-12-06 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process homicide malice murder-prosecution recklessness retroactive-law | An People v. Watson(1481)30 Cal. 3d 240,4he Appellate covurt IAvamatically exoanded du law of homicides a dafendait Whost Joonductwould once hove WC n… |
| 21-834 | Libertarian Party of Minnesota, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-06 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process election-law elections first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-rights political-parties political-party | Whether a government during the election process, without violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments, can threaten criminal prosecution against vot… |
| 21-829 | Timothy Scott Hardin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-03 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | 18-usc-2252 18-usc-2252a age-of-consent categorical-approach criminal-law federal-sentencing minor sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements state-statutes statutory-interpretation | Under federal law, the Model Penal Code, and the laws of 39 states and the District of Columbia, consensual sex between a 21-year-old and a 17-year-ol… |
| 21-6491 | Lucas Montagne v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure exception illegal-sentence invited-error judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing | 1. Should an exception to the doctrine of invited error be recognized in a case in which an illegal sentence is imposed? 2. Should an exception to th… |
| 21-816 | Melvyn Gear v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | appellate-procedure burden-of-proof criminal-law due-process firearms greer-v-united-states legal-status plain-error rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | This case presents two questions for review. 1. In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court held in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. §… | |
| 21-6439 | John Joseph Rushinsky, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice strickland-standard | 1. May the state, consistent with Due Process, sweepingly criminalize a broad range of conduct embracing both innocent and culpable behavior and assig… |
| 21-6448 | Joseph D. Brown v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | acca career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure occasions-different occasions-test sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation temporal-analysis | 1. Should the courts employ a purely temporal approach or a "totality of the circumstances" test when interpreting the Career Criminal Act's phrase, "… |
| 21-6457 | Ervin Anibar Lopez-Ordonez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-798 | Oklahoma v. Stephen Tanner Vineyard | Oklahoma | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Amici (1) | criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-6406 | Damoni Owens v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-772 | Oklahoma v. Stewart Wayne Coffman | Oklahoma | 2021-11-24 | GVR | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process indian-country indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-crimes state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty | 1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. 2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.C… |
| 21-773 | Oklahoma v. Harold Denton McCurtain | Oklahoma | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Amici (1) | criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-767 | Clinton Williams v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | Amici (1) | 18-usc-3582(c)(1)(a) 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-729 | Shirene Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-17 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-circuits fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud ninth-circuit-precedent skilling-standard skilling-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | The Court avoided a "vagueness shoal" in Skilling by holding that 18 U.S.C. § 1346's prohibition on schemes targeting "the intangible right of honest … |
| 21-6265 | Jonathan Barrett v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buyer-seller buyer-seller-instruction circuit-conflict conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-law drug drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions | Is a defendant's constitutional right to present an effective legally acceptable defense violated when the district court wrongfully declines to give … |
| 21-704 | Oklahoma v. Samantha Ann Perales | Oklahoma | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law oklahoma-sovereignty overruling-precedent precedent-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-6233 | Joe Lenard Rodriguez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-trial methamphetamine | 1. Did the courts below err when they determined that there was sufficient evidence to convict the Petitioner of Conspiracy to Distribute Methampheta… |
| 21-6234 | Edward Stain v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting conviction crimes-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents statutory-interpretation | 1. Petitioner Stain asks this Court to address whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) is unconstitutional when the Shepard documents do not cle… |
| 21-6249 | Daniel Rosa v. Bruce Gelb, Superintendent, Souza Baranowski Correctional Center | First Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application statutory-interpretation | Whether a Court of Appeal's decision that failed to provide a reasoned justification for denying a Certificate of Appealability, but rather stated onl… |
| 21-6200 | Jesus Ruiz v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-conviction harmless-error non-concurrent-sentence sentencing | 1. Whether a conviction carrying a non-concurrent prison sentence for an act the law does not make criminal can ever be considered harmless. 2. Wheth… |
| 21-6178 | Henry Baird v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law drug-cases entrapment federal-drug-cases federal-sentencing judicial-doctrine manipulation sentencing sentencing-entrapment | WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD RESOLVE THE CIRCUIT SPLIT ON RECOGNIZING SENTENCING ENTRAPMENT AND SENTENCING MANIPULATION DOCTRINES AS VIABLE DEFENSES AT SE… |
| 21-6218 | Matthew Manuel Barnett v. Colorado | Colorado | 2021-11-08 | Denied | IFP | certiorari civil-rights criminal-law due-process influence-statute private-corporation public-servant state-law statutory-interpretation | In this case of first impression, Colorado Supreme Court denied certiorari affirmed a conviction upheld by the Court of Appeals stating that an employ… |
| 21-6166 | Ángel De la Cruz v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process first-step-act maritime-drug-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states | The Pre-First Step Act Safety Valve was widely applied to the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA), a statute whose punishment criteria and eleme… |
| 21-658 | Rodolfo Canales, Jr. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. | Texas | 2021-11-03 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | constitutional-standard criminal-law due-process facial-challenge felony-offense indefinite-financial-support statutory-interpretation texas-supreme-court vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether a statute with no definitions, explicit standards, reasonably clear guidelines, or objective criteria that allows a court to order indefinite … |
| 21-6145 | Omar Sanchez-Barrera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-review certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-644 | Oklahoma v. Floyd Joseph Ball, Jr. | Oklahoma | 2021-11-02 | Denied | Amici (1) | criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-state-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma , 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) , should be over ruled. |
| 21-645 | Oklahoma v. Chandler Kyle Ned | Oklahoma | 2021-11-02 | Denied | Amici (1) | appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-6111 | Jonas Ross, III v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-standard burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation causation circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution eighth-circuit evidence | WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT'S CONCLUSION THAT MR. ROSS DISTRIBUTED THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE THAT RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF K.P. IS IN CONFLICT WITH THIS… |
| 21-6112 | Manuel DeJesus Rosas v. California | California | 2021-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-street-gang discovery due-process fourteenth-amendment informant-activities lanzetta-v-new-jersey street-gang vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. The California criminal street gang laws contained in section 186.22 of the California Penal Code are unconstitutional for being vague, indefinite … |
| 21-6118 | Kevin Folse v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-battery bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law new-mexico sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unlawful-force violent-crime | New Mexico courts have held that the state's aggravated battery statute can be violated by unlawful touching alone. Unlawful touch that results in bod… |
| 21-6119 | Roger Edward Picard v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states scienter sorna SORNA-registration supervised-release | I. Did the First Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 588 U.S. ___ (2019), with respect to the presumption in favor o… |
| 21-6071 | Aldridge Robinson, et al. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act section-1951 section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Hobbs Act Robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a "crime of violence" as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3). |
| 21-608 | Oklahoma v. Laurie Jean Martin | Oklahoma | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-6087 | Maria Vargas-Luna v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy fact-finding judicial-fact-finding jury-trial-right reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Petitioner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance. She admitted to the district court that approxima… |
| 21-6044 | Kenneth Jay Still v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit firearm-possession firearms justification justification-defense police-contact prohibited-person self-defense | Several circuits have held that justification is a cognizable affirmative defense to the charge of being a prohibited person in possession of a firear… |
| 21-6056 | Terrance V. Frelix v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-6049 | Aaron Christopher Pena v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offenses importation knowledge-standard mens-rea methamphetamine offense-level-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Whether an offense level enhancement under the Sentencing Guidelines that applies when "the offense involved the importation of amphetamine or methamp… |
| 21-6020 | Said Azzam Mohamad Rahim v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process sentencing-guidelines specific-intent statutory-interpretation terrorism-enhancement | Question 1: This Court should resolve the circuit split that has developed by finding that the twelve-level terrorism enhancement under U.S.S.G. §3A1.… |
| 21-6028 | Johnny Jasper Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-20 | GVR | IFP | borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing intervening-development sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-robbery ussg-4b1.2 | Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery by injury, Tex. Penal Code §29.02(a)(1) constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 21-568 | Jason Jarvis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Amici (1) | criminal-law criminal-procedure extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-law federal-law-change judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 21-6014 | Yina Maria Castaneda Benavidez, aka La Reina, aka Ingeniera v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-standard knowledge-element sentencing sentencing-disparity | This petition arises from the affirm ance of a judgment of conviction and sentence to a term of 22 ½ years ' incarceration following a jury trial for … |
| 21-5993 | Michael Lee Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce | 1. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm and ammunition on the sole basis that the firearm and ammunition once moved, be… |
| 21-5973 | Jesus Lopez-Mejia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | I. Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable? |
| 21-551 | John J. Watford v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-10-14 | Denied | Amici (2) | 18-usc-3582(c)(1)(a) 18-usc-924(c) 18-USC-924c circuit-split criminal-law extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court may consider the 2018 amendment to the sentences mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) in determining whether a defendant has shown … |
| 21-5958 | Aaron Christopher Pleasant v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-firearms-regulation federal-power firearms statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause. |
| 21-5960 | Alexander Davis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-10-13 | Denied | IFP | actus-reus attempt attempt-offense criminal-law criminal-statute entrapment overt-act predisposition substantial-step | 1. Whether the requirement of a "substantial step" can be satisfied by conduct occurring after the alleged attempt has ended. 2. Whether a defendant'… |
| 21-5908 | Miguel Martinez v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-10-06 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-law due-process evidence public-trial right-to-counsel | Question not identified. |
| 21-5916 | Ramiro Medina-Oliden v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-5891 | Archie Ned Williams v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process hobbs-act-robbery physical-force pinkerton-liability section-924c statutory-interpretation | 1. Must the "use of physical force" required to establish a predicate crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) be personal to the defendant co… |
| 21-502 | Oklahoma v. Terrance Lucas Cottingham | Oklahoma | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-496 | Martez L. Smith v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | categorical-approach conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure guideline-interpretation overt-act sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the categorical approach for generic offenses applies to the offense of conspiring under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 Application Note 1 and requires a… |
| 21-486 | Oklahoma v. Dakota James Alleyn Shriver | Oklahoma | 2021-10-01 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-jurisdiction native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-law oklahoma-sovereignty precedent-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-487 | Oklahoma v. David Deval Martin | Oklahoma | 2021-10-01 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdictional-boundaries native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-law overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tribal-sovereignty | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-488 | Oklahoma v. Dakota Shay Fox | Oklahoma | 2021-10-01 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled appellate-review criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty oklahoma-statehood stare-decisis tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-5843 | Brandon Lamar Pruitt v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction mens-rea sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation | 1. The federal sex trafficking statute requires that the government prove the defendant knew his/her own actions would cause the victim to engage in a… |
| 21-5827 | Jerry Ray Craine v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession government-prosecution mens-rea second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the government must prove, as an element of a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), that defendant knew his constitutionally protected cond… |
| 21-5822 | Tahji Antonio Eley, et al. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act-robbery section-924(c) sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act Robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a "crime of violence" as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3). |
| 21-5804 | Kenneth Randale Door v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency judgment-of-acquittal jurisdiction plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states | Is review of a claim that the evidence was insufficient to establish the knowledge of status required by Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (201… |
| 21-5731 | Sheridan Sisk v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The Guideline applicable to a felon in possession, U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, increase s a defendant's base offense level if a defendant has prior "controlled … |
| 21-427 | William Frederick Lamoureux v. Montana | Montana | 2021-09-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-law content-based-restriction criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine speech-regulation | Whether a statute that criminalizes speech intended to annoy or offend is unconstitutionally overbroad under the First Amendment. |
| 21-429 | Oklahoma v. Victor Manuel Castro-Huerta | Oklahoma | 2021-09-21 | Judgment Issued | Amici (22)Relisted (3) | civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process indian-country indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-crimes state-prosecution tribal-jurisdiction | 1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. 2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. … |
| 21-5717 | Brandon Demon Blackmon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-assault criminal-law guidelines sentencing statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 | Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 21-5673 | Timothy Brandon Fredrickson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | child-pornography consensual-transmission constitutional-law constitutional-overbreadth criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech image-production statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 18 USC 2251(a) is overbroad in that it provides punishment for constitutionally protected activity in the inducement of consensual pro… |
| 21-5661 | Raymond Moya v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | causation causation-of-death criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution evidence evidence-suppression expert-testimony motion-in-limine motion-to-dismiss | PROPOSITION ONE: Whether the District Court erred in denying Moya's Motion to Dismiss Count 2 in that there was insufficient evidence that the heroin … |
| 21-5664 | Maurice L. Ross v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-09-14 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c appellate-review attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 24(c), since the elements of Hobbs Act robbery, especially atte… |
| 21-5650 | Carl Richard Samson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-13 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), is a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), meaning that it "ha… |
| 21-5657 | Chris Eugene Cosner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery career-offender categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing statutory-interpretation | This petition presents a straightforward case for certiorari review. The question presented is whether, under the categorical approach of the elements… |
| 21-5659 | Willie Powell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms united-states-v-lopez | WHETHER THE "MINIM AL NEXUS" TEST EMPLOYED BY THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT TO AFFIRM MR. POWELL'S CONVICTION UNDER 18 U.S.C. §922(G) AS A FELON IN POSSESSION … |
| 21-5633 | Roland J. McLain v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | IFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law due-process federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Does the phrase "controlled substance" in U.S.S.G. § 4Bl.2(b) , including as it is incorporated into U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, include substances that are … |
| 21-5610 | Willie M. Hardy, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender confession crime-of-violence criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions malicious-wounding sentencing sentencing-factor sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Whether Virginia Code 18.2-51, malicious wounding, is a a crime of violence. 2. Whether acquitted conduct is a proper sentencing factor. 3. Wheth… |
| 21-5627 | William Brinson Ball v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction international-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) extends to conduct occurring outside the United States. |
| 21-5631 | Elton Vallare v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Dismissed | IFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution | What is the unit of prosecution under § 2252A(a)(5)(B)? |
| 21-5632 | Eliseo Carrillo, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons criminal-law district-court due-process liberty liberty-interest mental-health sentencing supervised-release upward-departure | Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by upward departing in re-sentencing Peti… |
| 21-5595 | Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-standard burrage-v-united-states causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-crimes drug-distribution due-process overdose proximate-cause sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1.) WHETHER, FOR PURPOSES OF TITLE 21 U.S.C. §841(A)(1) AND (B)(1) (C)'S ENHANCED PENALTY "IF DEATH RESULTS " FROM THE USE OF A SUBSTANCE, REQUIRES P… |
| 21-370 | Oklahoma v. Travis Dray Stewart | Oklahoma | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-371 | Oklahoma v. Jeffery Arch Jones | Oklahoma | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federalism judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-372 | Oklahoma v. Charles Michael Cooper | Oklahoma | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-373 | Oklahoma v. Joses Ric-E Beck | Oklahoma | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-5586 | Tyrone Simmons v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-07 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act motion-to-vacate sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery meets the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(A). |
| 21-5560 | Gary Lamar Henry v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-law pinkerton-liability sentencing supreme-court violent-crimes | 1. Whether Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946) liability, which only requires that a conspirator reasonably foresee the substantive crimes… |
| 21-5551 | Floyd Flugence v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process intent jury-evidence louisiana second-degree-murder specific-intent sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Whether the evidence was sufficient to support, the finding of guilt, in accordance with La. R.S. 14:30.1 (Second Degree Murder) where there was no… |
| 21-319 | Oklahoma v. Nacole Ryan Bain | Oklahoma | 2021-09-01 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-law stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-321 | Oklahoma v. Ryan Cortlan Johnson | Oklahoma | 2021-09-01 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law overruling-precedent stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-322 | Oklahoma v. Joseph Harjo | Oklahoma | 2021-09-01 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-324 | Oklahoma v. Kadetrix Devon Grayson | Oklahoma | 2021-09-01 | Denied | Relisted (3) | criminal-appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-sovereignty oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-325 | Oklahoma v. Matthew Steven Janson | Oklahoma | 2021-09-01 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | criminal-appellate-procedure criminal-law due-process federalism mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-326 | Oklahoma v. Devin Warren Sizemore | Oklahoma | 2021-09-01 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdictional-challenge McGirt-precedent native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-334 | In Re Jody Tremayne Wafer | 2021-09-01 | Denied | article-iii constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process liberty liberty-interest marijuana-laws political-question standing | Federal marijuana laws are constitutional because marijuana is not a fundamental right. Judicial review of these criminal laws has been rational basis… | ||
| 21-5511 | Jose Cesar Sanchez, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | IFP | alleyne circuit-split criminal-law drug-conspiracy foreseeability rehaif scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Like most other circuits, the Ninth Circuit has long held that an individual coconspirator convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 846 is liable only for the type… |
| 21-5523 | Amos Kiprop Koech v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof cell-phone-evidence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-statutes interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element jury-instruction reasonable-doubt | I. Does the jurisdictional element "in or affecting interstate commerce" in federal criminal statutes require an actual effect on interstate commerce … |
| 21-5494 | In Re Eric W. Poirier | 2021-08-26 | Denied | IFP | attempted-homicide court-of-appeals criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process indigent-counsel predicate-offenses sentencing | Should this Court decide what crimes are predicate Attempted First Degree Intentional Homicide because the Law is not settled yet, nor has this Court … | |
| 21-5503 | Eric Henry Woodberry and Bradford Marselas Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-length firearms mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums mens-rea prosecutorial-burden sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(B)(i) requires the government to prove that a defendant knew of the length of the firearm carried during the commission … |
| 21-274 | Oklahoma v. Johnny Edward Mize, II | Oklahoma | 2021-08-25 | GVR | Amici (1)Relisted (4) | criminal-law due-process federal-indian-law indian-law jurisdiction mcgirt-v-oklahoma | 1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. 2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. … |
| 21-5477 | Clifford Senter v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack criminal-law due-process federal-procedure federal-sentencing non-existent-offense sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-law | Where state law holds that a particular offense is non-existent, but a defendant has a conviction for the non-existent offense, and a federal sentenci… |
| 21-5478 | Ulises Alvarado v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conditions-of-release COVID-19 covid-19-test criminal-law due-process federal-law federal-procedure revocation supervised-release | Is it a violation of due process for a defendant to have his supervised release revoked for declining to take a COVID-19 test that was not clearly a c… |
| 21-5484 | Sylvia Diaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-law due-process equal-protection firearms licensed-dealer mens-rea selective-prosecution straw-purchase | Petitioner plead guilty to one count of conspiring to commit straw purchases of firearms (as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(6)) in violation of 18 U… |
| 21-5455 | Emmanuel Granados v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power firearms firearms-regulation statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a fire arm by a convicted felon, exceed s Congress's power under the Commerce Clause. |
| 21-5457 | Brian Fierro v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-24 | Denied | IFP | actus-reus circuit-interpretation criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force plain-language robbery robbery-statute statutory-construction statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force | By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. The plai… |
| 21-259 | Oklahoma v. Arnold Dean Howell | Oklahoma | 2021-08-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law judicial-review McGirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-252 | Oklahoma v. Shannon James Kepler | Oklahoma | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-case criminal-law federal-indian-law legal-precedent mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-jurisdiction stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-sovereignty | Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled. |
| 21-5418 | Sergio Bucio v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-role money-laundering role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 | I. Whether the district court erred in calculating the amount of laundered funds attributable to Mr. Bucio. II. Whether the district court erred by f… |
| 21-5432 | Deangelo Lenard Johnson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute domestic-violence firearm-possession firearms knowledge-of-status mens-rea misdemeanor-conviction rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether, to support Rehaif's knowledge-of-status element in a prosecution for unlawful possession of a firearm by a person convicted of a misdemeanor … |
| 21-5397 | Jesse Carey v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law enumerated-offense generic-robbery legal-interpretation robbery-definition sentencing-guidelines third-circuit third-degree-robbery | Whether the Third Circuit misapplied the law and rendered a decision in conflict with other federal courts of appeals by holding that Petitioner's thi… |
| 21-5400 | Maria Gonzalez Maldonado v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking federal-sentencing methamphetamine-possession minor-participant sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Did Maria Gonzalez Maldonado conspire to possess and/or actually and knowingly possess between 5kg-15kg kilograms of methamphetamine pursuant to U.… |
| 21-5332 | Efrain Hidalgo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-08-11 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery certiorari circuit-conflict circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the circuits on the question of whether attempted Hobbs Act Robbery constitute… |
| 21-5346 | Genard Alonzo Toney v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-law due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 21-183 | Gas Pipe, Inc., et al. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-09 | Denied | appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud constitutional-error criminal-law defraud-clause government-function harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 371's defraud clause, which in relevant part prohibits conspiracies "to defraud the United States," reaches any conspiracy whos… | |
| 21-5326 | Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-09 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 attempted-crime attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of "crime of violence" excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a). |
| 21-169 | James Gatto, et al. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-08-05 | Denied | Amici (1) | 18-usc-1843 criminal-law federal-statute incidental-harms jury-instructions property-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-text united-states-v-kelly wire-fraud | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1343—the federal wire fraud statute—requires the Government to prove, consistent with section 1343's statutory text, that the "… |
| 21-171 | Joel Zupnik v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | ' 'entice ' 'induce ' or 'coerce' in 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require more circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-state-balance federalism interstate-commerce mens-rea minor-protection sentencing sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | Title 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) prohibits using a facility or means of interstate commerce to "persuad[e], induc[e], entic[e], or coerc[e]" a minor to engag… |
| 21-159 | W. Clark Aposhian v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-08-04 | Denied | Amici (7)Relisted (21) | administrative-law agency-interpretation agency-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-concerns criminal-law rule-of-lenity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Since this Court's 1984 decision in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), federal courts have deferred… |
| 21-143 | Raymond Rodriguez-Rivera v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | agreement circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law overt-act sentencing-guidelines | The United States Sentencing Guidelines define a "controlled substance offense" as one that includes "the offense[] of * * * conspiring * * * to commi… |
| 21-5219 | Bryan James Collins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence federal-statute fifth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the Fifth Circuit wrongly affirmed Collins's conviction where it determined that the evidence was sufficient to establish that Collins violate… |
| 21-5174 | Domingo Cruz-Miguel v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-review constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5154 | Dakota Stewart v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-travel prosecutorial-discretion sex-offender-registration venue venue-jurisdiction | In a prosecution for failing to update sex offender registration under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a), does venue lie in the district where the offender resided … |
| 21-5157 | Gary Simmonds v. Territory of the Virgin Islands | Third Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process judicial-power jurisdiction lesser-included-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Is the appeals court correct? Does 28 U.S.C. § 2106 or any federal statute authorize "a lesser included offense" of an unconstitutional statute, taken… |
| 21-5147 | Firas Ayoubi v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-07-20 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law descamps-v-united-states divisible-statutes due-process equal-protection jury-selection mathis-v-united-states peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation united-states-v-cardena | held in United State v. Cardena 842 F.3d997 h Ci. 2016) Soastomae ts Sections [a(), a), a(3 Seprate Crimes with their Own elemerts? #2: was the jury … |
| 21-5132 | Michael Curtis Reynolds v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | arson-statute constitutional-law constitutional-voidness covid-19-risk criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-statutes predicate-offense statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | (1) Did Davis render 18 U.S.C. §2332b(a)(l)(B) equal to 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B)-, and thus equally make void and Unconstitutional both statute subsect… |
| 21-69 | John Allison Huckabay v. Idaho | Idaho | 2021-07-19 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felonies felony-prosecution public-welfare-offenses scienter scienter-requirement | Without any requirement or proof of scienter, Petitioner was convicted of unlawful possession of a moose carcass out of season, a felony under Idaho l… |
| 21-5128 | Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split common-law-fraud criminal-law mail-fraud materiality statutory-interpretation transaction-essence wire-fraud | Under the mail fraud and wire fraud statutes, does an actionable scheme to defraud require, as an aspect of materiality, a falsehood which goes to the… |
| 21-5097 | Johann Brito v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-15 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation | A conviction for a completed offense, say Hobbs Act robbery, is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause whe… |
| 21-5112 | David Starks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-15 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c attempted-crime circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation | A conviction for a completed offense, say Hobbs Act robbery, is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause whe… |
| 21-54 | In Re Chad Anthony Ray | 2021-07-15 | Denied | constitutional-rights controlled-substances criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus liberty liberty-rights marijuana-criminalization political-question search-and-seizure | Whether "liberty" in the due process clause still means freedom from physical restraint by government police power? Whether the operation and effects… | ||
| 21-56 | Timothy Muir v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response Waived | creditor-status criminal-law criminal-rico knowledge-of-law legal-element predicate-offense rico scienter statutory-definition truth-in-lending usury | The Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Practices Act ("RICO") does not impose an explicit scienter requirement beyond that of a corresponding predicate o… |
| 21-5101 | Giuseppe Viola, aka Joseph John Viola v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | cares-act conditions-of-confinement criminal-law eighth-amendment federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus restitution section-2241 supervised-release | 1) Whether jurisdiction exists for presentation of grounds for relief from all custody under § 2241, challenging conditions of confinement, where conc… |
| 21-5105 | Cedric Antonio Wright v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-harm carjacking criminal-intent criminal-law driver-cooperation intent intent-interpretation mens-rea statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether this Court correctly ruled in Holloway v. United States, 526 U.S. 1 (1999) that during a carjacking, a person's intent to seriously harm or ki… |
| 21-5077 | Herbert Jonathan Castillo Juarez and Paola Valenzuela Arevalo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-type knowledge-requirement mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-2d1.1 | Whether the government is required to prove a defendant's mens rea and knowledge with respect to the requisite drug type for penalties under Title 21 … |
| 21-5086 | Frank Craig Purpera, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-law good-faith jury-instructions lawful-practice medical-malpractice medical-practice professional-ethics professional-standard subjective-intent subjective-standard | Whether a physician alleged to have acted outside the "lawful course of professional practice" is entitled to a good faith instruction defining good f… |
| 21-5057 | Lance Lamont Lavert v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-09 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act property-rights robbery statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Should this Court mend the circuit split about whether a Hobbs Act robbery is necessarily violent as the Ninth and eight other circuits have held, or … |
| 21-5065 | Blake Taylor v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-09 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute divisible-offense double-jeopardy sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | 1. In Prince v. United States, 352 U.S. 322 (1957), this Court construed the first and second paragraphs of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a)—bank robbery and entry… |
| 21-5046 | Ira Lee Wilkins v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | GVR | IFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law reckless-conduct reckless-force sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review tenth-circuit violent-crime | Should this Court grant this petition, vacate the judgment below, and remand in order to allow the Tenth Circuit to determine in the first instance wh… |
| 21-5028 | David Copes, aka David Henderson-Copes v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-07-07 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a predicate crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). |
| 21-5011 | Anthony Farmer v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 abuse-of-discretion criminal-justice criminal-law federal-sentencing judicial-discretion public-confidence racial-disparities racial-disparity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6), a district court can or should consider the need to avoid unwarranted racial disparities in sentencing among de… |
| 21-5013 | Arnold Council v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-07-06 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) accomplice-liability crime-of-violence criminal-law direct-liability elements-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the elements clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) as to either direct or accomplice l… |
| 21-5016 | Salvador Acosta v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-06 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-knowledge criminal-law drug-statutes evidence harmless-error mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement testimony | 1. Whether a federal court of appeals can reject a defendant's testimony denying the requisite criminal knowledge as implausible in determining that a… |
| 21-5017 | Angel Mondragon Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-06 | GVR | IFP | aggravated-felony borden-decision certiorari crime-of-violence criminal-law immigration mens-rea sentencing statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below and remand for further consideration in light of this Court's recent decision in … |
| 21-5021 | Michael Ray Senn v. Texas | Texas | 2021-07-06 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Does a criminal law which provides for increased punishment based solely on an offender's status as married violate his or her right to equal protecti… |
| 21-5001 | Ronald D. Smith v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-07-02 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-proportionality criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement firearms illinois-constitution legislative-revival sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the legislature revived the firearm enhancement in Section 720 ILCS 5/8-4 (B-D) (West 2000) amended by Public Act 91-404 that was declared unc… |
| 21-5002 | Jalil Lemason Robinson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process entrapment jury-instruction predisposition sex-trafficking undercover-operation undercover-operations | An undercover officer created a fake social media profile for a fictitious 18-year-old woman on a website where a user must expressly represent her ag… |
| 20-8466 | Paul Anthony Ashby v. United States | District of Columbia | 2021-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-conspirator-liability constitutional-limitations criminal-law dc-charter district-of-columbia inherent-power judicial-power legislative-authority pinkerton-doctrine separation-of-powers | As both the United States and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals recognized in this case, the Pinkerton doctrine of co-conspirator liability is… |
| 20-8475 | Plutarco Angulo-Aguirre v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure conspiracy criminal-law due-process jurisdiction standing | Question not identified. |
| 20-8421 | Braulio Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-25 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 911-call armed-career-criminal body-camera body-camera-footage constitutional-rights'\n'Issue 4 criminal-history criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 2 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 3 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 4 enhancement evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment firearm fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statements statutory-interpretation witness witness-testimony | 1. Whether Mr. Perez's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when his motion to suppress the firearm was denied? 2. Whether Mr. Perez's Fifth Amendme… |
| 20-8361 | Josh Small and Joni Amber Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element kidnapping kidnapping-statute statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 1201 (the federal kidnapping statute) requires, as an element, a nexus between the kidnapping and interstate commerce, Does a purely local… |
| 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… |
| 20-8370 | Loranzo Thomas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether, in light of Borden v. United States, -- U.S. --, -- S. Ct. -, 2021 WL 2367312 (U.S. June 10, 2021), aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery by … |
| 20-8330 | Ilmane Charone Campas Strong v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms judicial-fact-finding mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment supervised-release | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 20-8306 | Donnie Joe Phillips v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-15 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-inducement law-enforcement unwitting-agent | Whether the "government inducement" element of the entrapment defense can be met through the actions of an unwitting government agent. |
| 20-8310 | Kenrick Brathwaite v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing sentencing-exposure statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties | 1. What is the statutory maximum sentence for a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. §§ 963 or 846, where the jury has declined to make any specific … |
| 20-8295 | Jose Antonio Martinez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law rico rico-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether substantive RICO is a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)? |
| 20-8275 | Paul Xavier Espinoza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actus-reus circuit-split criminal-law hobbs-act plain-language robbery robbery-definition statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force | By its plain language, Hobbs Act robbery does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violent physical force. The plai… |
| 20-1713 | Symon B. Mandawala v. Era Living, LLC, et al. | Washington | 2021-06-10 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 14th-amendment 42-usc-1985 attorney-client-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection motion-to-dismiss service-of-process | As of Matter of Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment right of the U.S constitution^ (1)(a) while racially civil rights action is pending, wi… |
| 20-8257 | Oscar Daniel Rios Benitez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-09 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-16a bodily-injury borden-v-united-states criminal-law federal-statute legal-definition recklessness statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §16(a) includes offenses that may be committed by the reckless infliction of bodily injury? |
| 20-1702 | Jimmy Cobb v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-deal sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation undercover-operation | 1. Does a District Court have the have Jurisdiction to punish and convict conduct that does not fall within a Federal Statute of 18 U.S.C 2422(b) and … |
| 20-8238 | Martavis Hollis Samuel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca controlled-substance-offense criminal-law elonis florida-drug-statute mcfadden mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of marijuana or cocaine or for possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "con… |
| 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… |
| 20-8201 | Andres Abelino Ayon-Brito, aka Hugo Ayon-Brito, aka Joel Diaz Garcia v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law reentry reentry-violation statutory-interpretation | Does a "found in" violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326 occur when an alien reenters the country, as the Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits have held, … |
| 20-8215 | Aaron Walton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eighth-circuit guidelines inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that an inchoate offense such as an attempt is included in the definition of a "controll… |
| 20-8202 | Otis Hill v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law eighth-circuit inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.2 | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that inchoate offenses such as attempts and conspiracy are included in the definition of… |
| 20-8186 | Michael James Young, Jr. and Vance Edward Volious, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law explosives first-amendment fourth-circuit law-enforcement mail-fraud non-mailable-matter postal-service statutory-interpretation | DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERR BY RULING THAT 18 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1716 PROHIBTS AS NON-MAILABLE AN INERT … |
| 20-8143 | Merwin Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution evidence evidence-rule-404b federal-prosecution federal-rules-of-evidence gun-possession prior-convictions propensity-evidence rule-404(b) | Are prior gun possession convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to prove knowing or intentional gun possession on a later date when the government c… |
| 20-1635 | Michael Anthony Casillas v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2021-05-24 | Denied | civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea nonconsensual-dissemination obscenity protected-speech strict-scrutiny | Does the First Amendment allow a state to criminalize protected speech by means of a statute aimed at prohibiting the nonconsensual dissemination of s… | |
| 20-8084 | Gregory Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-courts federal-procedure mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether 28 U.S.C. § 994(h)(2)(B) and the definition of a "controlled substance offense" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) require that a defendant's prior offens… |
| 20-8094 | Corey L. Johnson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | covered-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy federal-sentencing first-step-act multi-object-conspiracy rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Where there is ambiguity as to which penalty applies in a multi-object conspiracy that is a "covered offense" pursuant to the First Step Act of 2018, … |
| 20-8071 | Delson Marc v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms mens-rea rehaif-standard statutory-interpretation | In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191, 2194 (2019), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. Sections 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require that the government prov… |
| 20-8072 | Byron Montijo-Maysonet v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause criminal-law due-process equal-protection internet-crimes internet-enticement minors statutory-interpretation | 1. The enticement of minors over the internet is criminalized under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b). The First Circuit upheld the § 2422(b) conviction below based… |
| 20-8077 | Kavoris Clayton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-1614 | John D. Leontaritis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-determination jury-finding jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-proof | This criminal case's questions concern the impact of jury findings on sentencing. Both recur frequently, especially in cases about drugs. Both are the… |
| 20-1593 | Devon E. Sanders v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-05-18 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography criminal-law disaggregation double-jeopardy federal-sentencing paroline-v-united-states restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Petitioner pleaded guilty to two counts under federal statutes relating to possession of child pornography. One count charged knowing receipt of th… |
| 20-8064 | Derrick Grant v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault assault-statute criminal-law federal-agency federal-officer-employee federal-state-balance prison-employee statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Section 111 of Title 18 of the United States Code prohibits assaulting any person "designated in section 1114 of this title." Section § 1114 designate… |
| 20-8066 | James Hill v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law due-process federal-prosecution federalism firearm-possession interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation | The federal government has committed petitioner James Hill to prison for a term of years based on testimony he briefly possessed a handgun on the fron… |
| 20-8039 | Matthew J. O'Neal v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | child-pornography criminal-law eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation | Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by expanding the scope of the "relating to" language in 18 U.S.C. §2252A(b)(2) to include conduct under a state statut… |
| 20-8047 | Cornelius R. Caple v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | IFP | acca assault career-offender controlled-substance criminal-law elements-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit… |
| 20-7998 | Tuan Ngoc Luong v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commercial-transaction craigslist criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act interstate-commerce local-robbery | The federal Hobbs Act "makes it a crime for a person to affect commerce, or attempt to do so, by robbery." Taylor v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2074, 2… |
| 20-8018 | Deshaun Tisdale v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault assault-with-dangerous-weapon common-law-self-defense criminal-law firearms-offense jury-instruction michigan-common-law michigan-law racketeering racketeering-conspiracy self-defense use-of-firearm | In a racketeering conspiracy case involving convictions for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon in Aid of Racketeering and Use of a Firearm During a Crime… |
| 20-8019 | Roberto Torner v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process equal-protection new-jersey-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a New Jersey conviction for Aggravated Assault, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1(b)(1), is a crime of violence for sentencing guideline purposes. |
| 20-7950 | Antonio Serrano-Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process felony-offense illegal-reentry immigration-law prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court | The default penalty range for ill egal reentry in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) is a sentence of "n ot more than 2 years" in prison. Petitioner was … |
| 20-1547 | Broidy Capital Management, LLC, et al. v. State of Qatar | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-06 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights civil-rights-violations criminal-law criminal-violations discretionary-act-exclusion foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunities-act international-law jurisdiction | Whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's discretionary act exclusion bars the exercise of jurisdiction over claims by a U.S. citizen against a f… |
| 20-7909 | Juan Pablo Price v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-04 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea ninth-circuit sexual-assault sexual-contact statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the knowledge requirement in 18 U.S.C. § 2244(b) applies to all elements of the offense, such that the government must prove both that the def… |
| 20-7912 | Jorge Gomez-Gomez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Petitioner's 99-month sentence was substantively reasonable. |
| 20-1522 | United States v. Malik Nasir | Third Circuit | 2021-04-30 | GVR | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession plain-error-review statutory-interpretation | Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction following a trial for possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U… |
| 20-7890 | Antwoyn Terrell Spencer and Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act resentencing standing | Whether Petitioners are being deprived of their right to due process of law against law (without due process of law) in violation of the Fifth Amendme… |
| 20-7855 | James Ayers v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-27 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Question not identified. |
| 20-7866 | Paul Demetrius Lamar Gray v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause physical-force pinkerton-conspiracy pinkerton-liability postal-robbery residual-clause statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Before United States U. Johnson, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), the federal courts routinely relied on the residual clause to hold that convictions sustained un… |
| 20-7867 | Howard Allen Groffel v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-04-27 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession firearms protective-order protective-orders status-crime status-crimes | Groffel was convicted five times for transporting one firearm in violation of five separate protective orders. This case poses a clear question of law… |
| 20-7790 | Rolando Villarreal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-16 | GVR | IFP | assault-statute criminal-law force-against-person mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force violent-felony | I. Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless … |
| 20-1459 | United States v. Justin Eugene Taylor | Fourth Circuit | 2021-04-16 | Judgment Issued | Amici (5)Relisted (2) | attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(¢)(3)(A)'s definition of "crime of violence" excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a). |
| 20-7778 | Gerald Scott v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-04-15 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-sentencing physical-force physical-inaction rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Does a crime of physical inaction, in which the inaction is deemed the cause of injury or death, have as an element the "use of physical force against… |
| 20-7746 | Miguel Angel Mendoza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process fair-trial mens-rea sentencing | 1. Whether 21 U.S.C. § 960, which carries a ten-year mandatory-minimum sentence for "knowingly" importing a controlled substance if that substance is … |
| 20-1427 | Levian dela Car Pacheco Pacheco, aka Levian D. Pacheco v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-12 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law criminal-law deportation due-process immigration immigration-law sexual-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Congress has made it a crime to engage in certain sexual acts with detainees who are "pending deportation." 18 U.S.C. §§ 2243(b), 2244(a)(4), 2246(5)(… |
| 20-7701 | Samuel Alex Gann v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute sentencing specific-intent statutory-interpretation trespass | An essential element of generic "burglary" is that the person formed the specific intent to commit a crime at some point during the commission of the … |
| 20-7663 | Andre Watson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-hook murder-for-hire tenth-amendment | Did the United States, under our federal-state jurisdiction as set out in our Constitution, fail to establish Watson was properly guilty of Use of Int… |
| 20-7629 | Robert Earl Martin v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states legal-precedent residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether application of Johnson to the virtually identical residual clause in § 3559(c) does not require a new rule of constitutional law, but merely r… |
| 20-7632 | Shannon D. Hixon v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | causation criminal-law criminal-statute death-results drug-overdose drug-trafficking due-process foreseeable-result jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing | WHETHER A DEFENDANT MAY BE CONVICTED UNDER THE "DEATH RESULTS" PROVISION OF 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) WITHOUT INSTRUCTING THE JURY THAT IT MUST DECIDE … |
| 20-7609 | Raynal King and Howard R. Ross, III v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-31 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c3a criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause force-clause mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a crime that requires a resulting death categorically includes, as an element, "the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force ag… |
| 20-7593 | Fernando Clarke v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2252 child-pornography criminal-law file-sharing government-action peer-to-peer peer-to-peer-network statutory-interpretation transportation-statute | Fernando Clarke was charged with, inter alia, two counts of transporting child pornography. At trial, the government witnesses testified that Mr. Clar… |
| 20-7547 | Saloman Martinez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion kentucky-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-proof supreme-court-precedent | "VVvc G?ccoA * DecetuVi-er 11, Z02 -0 •\Vv£. uvu-V^A sAaFtS C^sAcnIcA' GoOfAr Qa^ senA-e/vc-e\A} WArWfC q^aOoa. roVi»Mj -\ o cx^<^■c \W, £ajz>\rec<\ O… |
| 20-1335 | A. P. v. Vermont | Vermont | 2021-03-24 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fourteenth-amendment sexual-conduct split-of-authority state-statute | 1. Whether Vermont's criminalization of lewd and lascivious conduct violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States C… |
| 20-7496 | Maurice Spriggs v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-law due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Question not identified. |
| 20-7497 | Kevin Reid v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-18 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act negligence predicate-offense statutory-interpretation surplusage | 1. Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, qualifies as a "crime of violence," meaning that it "has as an element the use, at… |
| 20-7473 | Ivan Dario Obregon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines | Are unforeseeable sentencing mistakes beyond the scope of federal appeal waivers? |
| 20-1295 | United States v. Timothy Zachary Green | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | GVR | Relisted (2) | circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession plain-error-review prejudice-standard statutory-interpretation | Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction for possessing a firearm following a felony conviction, in violation of 18 … |
| 20-7447 | Elijah Hasan Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-15 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force use-of-force-clause | Whether the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of reckl… |
| 20-7417 | Allen Pace, III v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encompas… |
| 20-7426 | Rubin L. Williams v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-03-11 | Denied | IFP | burrage-causation burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation criminal-law drug-related-death involuntary-manslaughter mixed-drug-overdose state-cases | Can a conviction of involuntary manslaughter stand, when cause of death is a Mixed drug overdose and the accused is charged with only one of the contr… |
| 20-7430 | Carlos Torres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act predicate-offense robbery-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether a completed Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 categorically qualifies as a predicate "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)… |
| 20-7412 | Anthony W. Gardner v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-statutes force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-crimes statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encompas… |
| 20-7413 | Zelos Fields v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 'bank-robbery' 'crime-of-violence' 'force-clause' 'hobbs-act' 'sentencing-enhancement' 'statutory-interpretation' criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime | 1. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encom… |
| 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… |
| 20-7382 | Calvin Thomas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 'bank-robbery' 'crime-of-violence' 'force-clause' 'hobbs-act' 'sentencing-enhancement' 'statutory-interpretation' criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime | 1. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encom… |
| 20-7393 | Edward Coleman, aka Keith, aka Tiny Keith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-rights statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a crime of violence under the force clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the offense encompas… |
| 20-7359 | Karen Gagarin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-08 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split consent criminal-law criminal-sentencing felony-violation identity-theft means-of-identification statutory-interpretation supreme-court | The aggravated identity theft statute imposes a mandatory consecutive sentence of minimum two years for "[w]hoever, during and in relation to any felo… |
| 20-7360 | Emmanuel Feaster v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1), "[i]t shall be unlawful" for certain individuals to possess firearms that have traveled in interstate… |
| 20-7327 | Timothy A. Ward v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | IFP | career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-guidelines federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-schedules state-law | Under the provisions of the career offender enhancement in the United States Sentencing Guidelines, guideline ranges are dramatically increased for pe… |
| 20-7314 | Willard Lee Moss, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law domestic-violence due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit legal-error mens-rea rehaif rehaif-error | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed Moss's conviction for possession of a firearm by a domestic violence offender, where the evidence in… |
| 20-7315 | Ursula Owens v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation criminal-law due-process felony-murder jury-determination mens-rea merger-doctrine reckless-homicide strict-liability | Under the common law felony-murder rule, if a person kills another while committing or attempting to commit a felony, the killing is murder. The rule … |
| 20-7322 | Kelsey Videl Coffee v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence aiding-and-abetting conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process hobbs-act jury-instructions | 1) Whether Petitioner Is Actually Innocent Of Counts 48, Based On Conspiracy To Hobbs Act Robbery And Aiding And Abetting Hobbs Act Robbery (Davis v. … |
| 20-7301 | Bernandino Gawala Bolatete v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment article-i congress-power-to-tax congressional-power criminal-law criminal-punishment firearms-regulation national-firearms-act suppressor-registration taxation-clause tenth-amendment | Petitioner was convicted under 26 U.S.C. §§ 5861(d) and 5871, sections of the National Firearms Act that impose criminal penalties of up to 10 years' … |
| 20-7282 | Earl Malloy v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922g criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearms-offense guilty-plea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether this petition should be held pending the decision in United States v. Gary, No. 20-444, given that both this petition and Gary present the sam… |
| 20-7285 | Cedric Durand Collins v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-7286 | Kashus Davis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition in 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of th… |
| 20-7287 | Viguens Cius v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offense due-process knowledge-requirement mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the drug conduct in the "controlled substance offense" definition in U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2(b) requires knowledge of the illicit na… |
| 20-7243 | David Linehan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce interstate-communication statutory-interpretation threat-transmission | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), which criminalizes "transmit[ting] in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to . . . inju… |
| 20-7244 | Melvin Landry, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 appellate-review crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Hobbs Act robbery as defined by Title 18 U.S.C. §1951(b)(1) is a "crime of violence" within the meaning of Title 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(a). |
| 20-7247 | Walter Eugene Powell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 20-7253 | Nancy Cole v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statutes due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability | 1. Whether the knowingly mens rea in the federal drug statutes, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841, 960, applies to the elements of drug type and quantity that establis… |
| 20-7235 | Michael Alvarez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation | The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his conduct would be p… |
| 20-7215 | Sunni Askari Newell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment eighth-circuit federal-sentencing firearms firearms-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT HAS MISCONSTRUED U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B), CONTRARY TO EVERY OTHER CIRCUIT, RESULTING IN DEFENDANTS CONVICTED OF FIREARMS … |
| 20-7217 | Felix Cisneros, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-intent criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing statutory-elements statutory-interpretation waiver-doctrine | 1. Can a person be convicted of conspiracy to violate a statute containing an element increasing the offense's severity, where that element is not act… |
| 20-7204 | Shane Faithful v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-distribution criminal-law federal-sentencing medical-care medical-prescription prescription-drugs sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a physician who prescribes a controlled substance to a patient for reasons other than medical care has unlawfully "dispensed" the substance… |
| 20-7183 | Shameke Walker v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery identification-evidence jury-instruction plain-error violent-crime | 1. Should the Court grant certiorari to review whether Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b), categorically fails to constitute "a crime of violence"… |
| 20-7167 | Elin Robinson Mejia Romero v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-distribution due-process mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether, under 21 U.S.C. § 841, a defendant who knowingly possesses or distributes a controlled substance can be convicted and subjected to an enhance… |
| 20-7140 | Cesar Raul Aceves v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure immigration immigration-law mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states status-elements statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rehaif unlawful-reentry | 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) prohibits individuals falling into particular status categories from possessing firearms or ammunition. Rehaif v. United States, 58… |
| 20-7145 | Rasheik Amond Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-12 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-offense jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error | Whether a defendant who was found guilty after a jury trial to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g), is automatically ent… |
| 20-7146 | Frank Ray Gallardo v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant charged with an offense under 18 USC § 2244 is entitled to a specific intent instruction and there is a conflict among Circuits. |
| 20-7113 | Troy X. Kelley v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure contract-rights contractual-obligation criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process imprisonment-for-debt property-rights stolen-property | 1. Whether a contractual right to paymen t constitutes ownership of money, such that a defendant can properly be convic ted under a federal statute cr… |
| 20-7122 | Adam Lloyd Cooper v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms intent mens-rea rosemond-v-united-states | Whether Sec. 924(c) contains a specific mens rea requirement that requires one to know more than that firearms are "tools of the trade" for drug traff… |
| 20-7090 | Michael David Omondi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | authorized-entry civil-rights common-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute jurisdictional-boundary military-installation section-1382 trespass | In United States v. Apel, 571 U.S. 359, 373 (2014), this Court held that the term "military installation" in 18 U.S.C. § 1382 includes all areas under… |
| 20-7087 | Brian James Holland v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2241 conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency force-definition statutory-interpretation witness-credibility | i) What is the definition of the term force Under Statute 18. USCS. 2241? What is the proper Criminal law and procedure used to determine sufficient e… |
| 20-7038 | David Paul Martinez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-05 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-921-a-33 criminal-law criminal-statute domestic-violence firearms firearms-possession mens-rea misdemeanor-domestic-violence plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether Mr. Martinez's convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), possession of a firearm after a conviction for a "misdemeanor crime of dome… |
| 20-7036 | Emmanuel Ravell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-04 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | automatic-relief circuit-split criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-possession guilty-plea plain-error rehaif structural-error | Petitioner asks this Court to grant review to determine whether a guilty plea to possessing a firearm as a felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) a… |
| 20-7043 | Kevin Hall v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-decision criminal-law due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-dominguez | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that Hobbs Act robbery is a "crime of violence" under United States v. Dominguez, 954 F.3d 1251 (9th Cir. 2020… |
| 20-7020 | Richie Wheeler v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute deadly-weapon intent jury-finding law-enforcement reckless-driving sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether to be guilty of a violation of 18 U.S.C. §111(b), which requires the use of a deadly weapon while forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing,… |
| 20-7021 | Martel Valencia-Cortez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault assault-charge criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation weapon-definition weapons | Whether a "deadly or dangerous weapon" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) includes a natural object that was not designed to be a weapon, such as a ro… |
| 20-6964 | Dallas Ray Morales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ammunition-possession commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction firearms firearms-regulation interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any ammunition that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 20-6975 | Cortez Maurice Crumble v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-court-conflict criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea outside-trial-record plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights trial-error | When evaluating Rehaif-derived trial errors under Rule 52(b) plain-error review, should prejudice under the "substantial rights" prong be presumed? 2… |
| 20-6978 | Chaka LeChar Castro v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process ethnic-targeting evidence evidence-sufficiency hate-crime hate-crimes religious-discrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Whether sufficient evidence supported Petitioner's convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for counts three, five, seven and nine of the Second Supers… |
| 20-1017 | Lawrence Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-rights common-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession law-enforcement statutory-interpretation | In Dixon v. United States, 548 U.S. 1 (2006), this Court held that every "long-established common-law" affirmative defense is incorporated into the fe… |
| 20-6918 | Richard Moseley, Sr. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conflict-of-law confrontation-clause criminal-law due-process fair-warning overfederalization-of-criminal-law rico rico-statute testimonial-statements unlawful-debt | I. Whether the Court should decide an important question involving the overfederalization of criminal law: namely, whether a defendant is provided fai… |
| 20-6932 | Jorge Armando Jamaica-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 20-6938 | Muhammad E. Milhouse v. Camba Inc. Staff Members, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-statute freedom-of-religion freedom-of-speech prosecutorial-discretion sex-trafficking standing statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 20-6948 | Beau Brandon Croghan v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | IFP | 8th-circuit child-pornography criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-retention knowingly-receives mens-rea statutory-interpretation website-viewing | Whether the Eighth Circuit erred by holding that a defendant knowingly receives child pornography by viewing it on a website, even without any evidenc… |
| 20-6949 | Neally Cunningham v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | cocaine-base criminal-law criminal-resentencing drug-offenses federal-drug-offense first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation | Whether Appellant's offense of conviction, a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) occurring before August 3, 2010, and involving cocaine base, is a "… |
| 20-992 | John Vigna v. Maryland | Maryland | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review character-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process fair-trial harmless-error | In this criminal case, the Maryland court, in a trial for sexual abuse of a child, excluded evidence of the petitioner's character trait of appropriat… |
| 20-986 | Michael Gregory Hubbard v. Alabama | Alabama | 2021-01-25 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law criminal-statutes due-process fair-notice first-impression-law legal-interpretation official-actions official-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-theory statutory-interpretation | Did the Supreme Court of Alabama deprive Petitioner of due process of law, when it affirmed his conviction based on (a) first-impression interpretatio… |
| 20-6909 | Brian Gale v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law district-court due-process elements-clause hobbs-act residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | "WHETHER HOBBS ACT ROBBERY QUALIFIES AS A "CRIME OF VIOLENCE"?, WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO ADVANCE ANY THEORY (i.e. "residual clause, force c… |
| 20-6874 | Jacob Earl Murphy v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-14 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process government-fraud standing | 33 14" ££o'kA (L{ 3Vu^ (^2*j- >-5r of i^j>3u Ccool 43 r| Cc^ptn^c^ 3<^ %/Ureffes |
| 20-6878 | Edward Joseph Curran, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute firearm-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 20-6867 | Noel Romero-Espinal v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | continuing-offense criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-code | Whether illegally reentering the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. §1326 is a continuing offense. |
| 20-6840 | Frederick D. Darrington, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-12 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause intimidation mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation | Whether a crime that requires proof of "intimidation" of the victim satisfies the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), when the offense does n… |
| 20-6787 | Matthew Lee Pryor v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal direct-review first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation | Does Congress' express "Clarification of Section 924(c) of Title 18, United States Code" in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to a defendant con… |
| 20-6788 | Brian Gene McCoy v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c criminal-law federal-crime-of-violence felony-definition firearm-statute person-of-another prenatal-conduct reckless-conduct statutory-interpretation voluntary-manslaughter | 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) prohibits the use of a firearm during and in relation to a federal "crime of violence." "Crime of violence" is defined in § 9… |
| 20-6791 | Alvin Christopher Penn v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | IFP | affirmative-defense commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law felon-in-possession interstate-commerce minimal-nexus united-states-v-bailey united-states-v-lopez united-states-v-scarborough | 1. Whether United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995), compels overruling Scarborough v. United States, 431 U.S. 563 (1977), which requires only a mi… |
| 20-6776 | Charod Becton v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial pinkerton-doctrine sixth-amendment | Should this Court abrogate the judicially established Pinkerton doctrine, announced in Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946), holding that a… |
| 20-6777 | James Baxton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the Government produced sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Petitioner's actions were part of a Rico Conspiracy… |
| 20-6754 | Alford Donta Tarpley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | IFP | borden-v-united-states burris-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing precedent robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines texas-law ussg-4b1.2 | Whether the Texas offense of robbery by injury constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 20-6755 | Alejandro Tovar-Regalado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 20-6756 | David Ray Wallace v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing successive-motion texas-robbery violent-crime | 1. Whether Texas robbery—an offense that can be committed by recklessly causing injury or by placing the victim in fear of injury—has "the use of phys… |
| 20-6761 | Wayne Wells, Jr. v. Terrie Wallace, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rules sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure witness-testimony | Does Module Code Ann. § 16-3-1055 (B)(c) has a constitutional requirement that a trial court must rule on the defendant's motion to suppress evidence … |
| 20-6730 | Jose Lupe Corrall v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process federal-scheduling guilty-plea knowledge-standard mens-rea plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation | 1. Under McFadden v. United States, ---U.S.---, 135 S.Ct. 2298 (2015), when a defendant pleads guilty to "knowingly" distributing a controlled substan… |
| 20-6738 | Lisa Yvette Coffman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-law embezzlement federal-statute fifth-circuit fraud plain-error-review statutory-interpretation substantial-rights | I. Does the first paragraph of 18 U.S.C. § 641 – which makes it illegal to embezzle, steal, purloin, or knowingly convert to one's own or another's us… |
| 20-6742 | Edward Davis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis violent-crime | WHETHER PETITIONER'S ARGUMENT UNDER UNITED STATES V. DAVIS, 139 S.Ct. 2319 (2019), DESERVES CLOSER SCRUTINY, WHERE APPLYING THE SAME STANDARDS IN DAVI… |
| 20-6720 | Terek Harper v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consideration contract-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law plea-agreement plea-bargaining void-agreement void-for-lack-of-consideration | Whether A Federal Criminal Plea Agreement is Void and Unenforceable When it Lacks Consideration. |
| 20-867 | Shalini Ahmed v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-jurisdiction bond-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights cohen-doctrine criminal-case criminal-law due-process surety-intervention | Is a bond forfeiture proceeding sufficiently civil in nature such that it falls under certain rules governing civil actions and should be treated as a… |
| 20-6713 | Danielle Devona Jones v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment firearm-offense grand-jury-indictment indictment section-924c statutory-interpretation | IS THERE AN ACKNOWLEDGED CONFLICT AMONG THE SISTER CIRCUITS AS TO WHETHER SECTION 924(c) CRIMINALIZES TWO SEPARATE OFFENSES (1) "CARRY OR USE" A FIREA… |
| 20-6710 | Marlon Iron Crow v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1 criminal-law criminal-statute jury-instruction jury-instructions malice-aforethought mens-rea second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation | Whether the "reckless" mens rea should be included in the jury instruction for "malice aforethought" for second degree murder under 18 U.S.C. § 1. |
| 20-6688 | Arthur Tyrone Lee, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-23 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether, on plain error review and following this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), a defendant's stipulation at tr… |
| 20-6690 | Randolph Burleson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment indictment jurisdiction mens-rea sixth-amendment | 1. Circuit courts are split on whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential mens rea … |
| 20-6671 | Sarah Melisa Cox, aka Sarah Cox, aka Sarah Cunningham v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | print or publish the distribution of child pornog child-pornography circuit-split communication communication-standard criminal-law federal-criminal-law notice notice-requirement statutory-interpretation | Whether a communication between just two individuals is sufficient contact to satisfy the requirement of giving notice to make, print or publish the d… |
| 20-6660 | Shusta Traverse Gumbs v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deadly-weapon intent jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense united-states-v-feola | I. Whether the district court erred in giving only the first sentence of Mr. Gumbs' request to charge on use of a deadly weapon in light of the Circui… |
| 20-6640 | James David Perryman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce sentencing-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 20-6641 | Jose Angel Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(a) is unconstitutional by exceeding the scope of the commerce claus… |
| 20-6622 | Devon Mitchell v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-15 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-robbery bank-robbery crimes-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation violent-crime | 1. By denying Petitioner's Petition For Certificate of Appealability, did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in implicitly holding that Bank Robbe… |
| 20-6609 | Salvador Moreno Cervantes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6594 | Juan Fredy Hernandez-Zozaya v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-law human-trafficking interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prostitution prostitution-statute statutory-interpretation transportation-across-state-lines | WHETHER IT IS A VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 2421(a), WHICH MAKES IT ILLEGAL TO TRANSPORT A PERSON ACROSS STATE LINES WITH THE INTENT FOR THAT PERSON TO E… |
| 20-6585 | Bernard Moore v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Dismissed | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession fifth-amendment jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights | One and Two In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant kn… |
| 20-6552 | Ignacio Arreola-Mendoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-08 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 20-6557 | Richard Cruz v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process felony-drug-offense fifth-amendment jury-verdict mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine | I. Whether the definition of "felony drug offense" for the pur poses of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vaguene ss after Johnson, Dimaya, and Da vis. II. … |
| 20-782 | Raymond Holloway, Jr. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-12-08 | Denied | Amici (5) | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process firearms-prohibition gun-ownership individual-liberty misdemeanor-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Does a lifetime firearms prohibition based on a nonviolent misdemeanor conviction violate the Second Amendment? |
| 20-6541 | Alejandro Pineda-Campuzano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-07 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 20-6539 | Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-04 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law physical-force reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether a statute has as an element the use of physical force against the person or property of another, for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 16(a), when a con… |
| 20-6540 | Joshua N. Wright v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abduction acquitted-conduct constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-courts jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-enhancement upward-variance | 1. Whether the district court erred in its "crime of violence" instruction to the jury. 2. Whether the district court erred in assessing an enhanceme… |
| 20-6524 | Joshua D. Myers v. Georgia | Georgia | 2020-12-03 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof consent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sexual-assault sexual-battery standard-of-proof trial-court-discretion trial-procedure | Whether the State proved the essential element of "without the consent" beyond a reasonable doubt. Whether the trial court's refusal to charge the le… |
| 20-6529 | Wesley Wayne Wakeford v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2d1.1(b)(5) circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses methamphetamine-importation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | This Court should grant this petition to interpret Sentencing Guide-lines section 2D1.1(b)(5). What an "offense that involved the importa-tion" of met… |
| 20-6508 | Jesse Harris v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United State s Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involve d the importation of ... metham phetam ine… |
| 20-761 | Austin Joseph Campbell v. Missouri | Missouri | 2020-12-02 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof consent criminal-law due-process jury-instructions sexual-assault | 1. Is evidence that a complainant does not remember giving consent, and states that she awoke from sleep during the sexual encounter, legally sufficie… |
| 20-6469 | Hector Valentine v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-innocence criminal-law double-jeopardy judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation third-circuit | Whether the Third Circuit's Erred in not addressingconduct has been rendered non-criminal byanintervening Whether the Third Cirauit's Erred in not ad… |
| 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… |
| 20-6459 | David Lee Garrett v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-27 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(e) civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure sentencing-enhancement simple-robbery statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-code texas-offense violent-felony | I. Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery constitutes a "violent felony" under 18 U.S.C. §924(e)? II. Whether the Texas offense of burglary cons… |
| 20-6450 | Lee Yerkes v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary categorical-approach criminal-law entry generic-burglary georgia-criminal-statute sentencing-enhancement taylor-v-united-states united-states-v-stitt | Does Georgia burglary qualify as "generic burglary" under the ACCA? |
| 20-719 | Don Arthur Webster, Jr. v. United States District Court for the District of Alaska | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process international-treaty judicial-bias marginalized-communities marginalized-populations racial-discrimination treaty-interpretation | (1) Does RACIAL BIAS DISPROPORTIONALLY AFFECT THE FEDERAL COURTS TREATMENT OF MARGINALIZED PEOPLE OF COLOR, WHEN ADDRESSING THE INTERNATIONAL TREATY A… | |
| 20-731 | Paul Winfield v. United States Probation & Pretrial Services, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-USC-201 18-USC-666 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-bribery McDonnell-v-US overbreadth statutory-interpretation statutory-overbreadth supreme-court-precedent vagueness | Since 18 U.S.C.A. § 666 is even broader than other federal bribery statutes, does it suffer from the same constitutional infirmities of vagueness and … |
| 20-6414 | Daniel Ray v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-7 adams-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction maritime-jurisdiction prison-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction | In an 18 U.S.C. § 113 prosecution, does the Ninth Circuit's rule that prison personnel testimony that they "work at a United States prison" contravene… |
| 20-6418 | Michael A. Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting brandishing brandishing-firearm conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentence-reduction sentencing supreme-court-precedent | Whether the petitioner is entitled to a sentence reduction after pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Hobbs Act Robbery and aiding and abetting bra… |
| 20-6420 | Oscar Urias Espinoza, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-restriction firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 20-6427 | Marquis Wilson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, which is expressly titled a "clarification" of the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) (1)(… |
| 20-6405 | Joshua Cato v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process federal-scheduling guilty-plea knowledge-standard mens-rea plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation | 1. Under McFadden v. United States, --U.S.---, 135 S.Ct. 2298 (2015), when a defendant pleads guilty to "knowingly" distributing a controlled substanc… |
| 20-6388 | Joel Latrent Fletcher v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-19 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | I. Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States… |
| 20-6374 | Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-law drug-conspiracy fourth-circuit harmless-error sentencing united-states-v-harchulik | WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLIED THE HARMLESS ERROR DOCTRINE ANNOUNCED IN UNITED STATES v. HARDING WHEN IT AFFIRMED DEFENDANT'S SENTENCE FOR DR… |
| 20-6347 | Christopher Mikelinich v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-17 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-possession knowing-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-agreement plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-elements | Where a defendant claims his plea was not knowing and intelligent because he was unaware of all the elements of the offense, does it matter whether he… |
| 20-6356 | Ryan Dennis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-17 | Denied | IFP | acca criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-injury residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1. Whether an offense that can be committed by recklessly causing serious injury has "the use of physical force against the person of another" as an e… |
| 20-6337 | Tramaine Standberry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct crime-of-violence criminal-law district-court-discretion due-process guidelines-interpretation jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional upward-variance | 1. Did the jury convict Mr. Standberry for a crime of violence that this Court has held is unconstitutional? 2. Was the district court's upward varia… |
| 20-6305 | Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea plain-error sentencing sentencing-error | Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitle… |
| 20-6311 | Russell Davis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability co-conspirator-liability controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution due-process enhanced-penalty pinkerton-liability sentencing | I. Whether the government must satisfy the evidentiary requirements for accomplice liability under 18 U.S.C. §2 or co-conspirator liability under Pink… |
| 20-6277 | Percy Allen Stucks v. Florida | Florida | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | castle-doctrine civil-rights criminal-law domestic-violence due-process florida-law imminent-danger residential-defense self-defense stand-your-ground | 1. Does a resident have the right to stand their ground in their residential property in Florida? 2. Is a resident required to leave their residentia… |
| 20-6281 | Kevin Lamar Ratliff v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-782 career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure discretion federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Lower Courts have discretion to reduce Whether the Petitioner's sentence under U.S.S. Guideline Amendment 782, regardless of Petitioner's career offen… |
| 20-6291 | Christopher Stacy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitle… |
| 20-6272 | Domonic Devarrise Usher v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-10 | Rehearing | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act robbery, which can be committed by putting another in fear of future injury to himself, his property, or even his intangible propert… |
| 20-6249 | Thomas F. Kuzma v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment administrative-law criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process federal-statute firearms machinegun-definition statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness | 1. Is the definition of a machinegun in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b) void for vagueness as applied here to a receiver (frame for a firearm) used to make a shop… |
| 20-6197 | Gregory C. Raymore v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law due-process firearms indictment jury-instructions mens-rea | A. Whether Petitioner's conviction must be vacated because (1) the indictment failed to alleg e an essential element of the offense–that Petitioner kn… |
| 20-579 | Zimmian Tabb v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-02 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | administrative-law agency-deference criminal-law guidelines-commentary judicial-interpretation regulatory-ambiguity sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether courts may defer to Sentencing Guidelines commentary without first determining that the underlying Guideline is genuinely ambiguous. 2. Wh… |
| 20-6192 | Jamal Aikeem Hutchinson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearms guilty-plea henderson-v-morgan plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation | In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that "in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and § 924(a)(2), the Government must prove both that the d… |
| 20-572 | James R. Young v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-review criminal-law criminal-penalties felon-in-possession felony-possession firearm-statute firearms habeas-corpus interstate-commerce retroactivity | (1) - Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) provides for Criminal penalties to felons who possess firearms in interstate Commerce, absent proof that they knew… |
| 20-575 | Royal Truck & Trailer Sales and Service, Inc. v. Mike Kraft, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | authorized-access circuit-split computer-fraud-and-abuse-act criminal-law federal-statute improper-purpose standing statutory-interpretation unauthorized-access | Whether a person who is authorized to access information on a computer for certain purposes violates Section 1030(a)(2) of the Computer Fraud and Abus… |
| 20-551 | Jack Witt Voris v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | 18-usc-111 assault assault-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-use multiple-offenses rule-of-lenity sentencing-interpretation statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether firing multiple gunshots in a single assaultive act can be construed as multiple, distinct offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 111 as the Ninth Circ… | |
| 20-6143 | Saul Mangual-Corchado v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carjacking-statute civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process force-clause johnson-standard residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | THE COURT SHOULD ISSUE A W.O.C. AND ADDRESS WHETHER THE FEDERAL CARJACKING OFFENSE DOES CONSTITUTE A "CRIME OF VIOLENCE" WITHIN THE MEANING OF 18 U.S.… |
| 20-6153 | Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-statute drug-trafficking proximate-causation proximate-cause rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the "death enhancement" of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) requires proximate causation when the statute's language is ambiguous - triggering the rul… |
| 20-555 | Kyle Stephen Thompson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-27 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law federal-statute mens-rea minor-protection minors purpose-element sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Whether the "for the purpose of" element of § 2251(a) means the defendant's prevailing or most influential purpose for the sexually explicit conduct w… |
| 20-6130 | Desmond Howard Greer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-26 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-offense elements-of-crime force legal-interpretation mens-rea personal-injury reckless-injury recklessness sentencing use-of-force violent-crime | Whether an offense has as an element the use of force against the person of another if it may be committed by recklessly inflicting injury? |
| 20-6122 | Jerome Capelton v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-liability first-circuit joint-venture mens-rea realistic-probability sentencing | 1. Whether the First Circuit's application of the "realistic probability" standard in Mr. Capelton's case, where the elements of Massachusetts "joint … |
| 20-6108 | Antoine Washington v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 burrage-precedent burrage-v-united-states but-for but-for-causation causation causation-standard criminal-law drug-sentencing forensic-pathology statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the "special rule" exception to but-for causation mentioned in dicta in Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014) is inapplicable to an… |
| 20-6109 | Rashawn D. Watson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-22 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession guilty-plea indictment indictment-sufficiency knowledge-element mens-rea plea-bargaining rehaif-decision rehaif-v-united-states | A. Whether the decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) requires that Petitioner's guilty plea and conviction be vacated when (1) t… |
| 20-6099 | Malcolm Moore v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-review due-process first-step-act judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, which is expressly titled a "clarification" of the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), … |
| 20-6027 | Michael Moore v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing gvr mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | 1. Petitioner questions wehether even if §924(e)(2)(A)(ii) does not call for a generic-offense-matching analysis, does it require knowledge of the sub… |
| 20-5994 | Mongkhon Leekomon v. Georgia | Georgia | 2020-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure georgia-court-of-appeals indictment legal-procedure statute-of-limitation statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tolling tolling-exception | Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred in concluding that the indictment alleged a statutory tolling exception to extend the seven-year statute of… |
| 20-5998 | Kevin Ray Prentice v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-analysis civil-rights criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit least-culpable-act mellouli-v-lynch predicate state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether the Fifth Circuit ignored this Court's authority and misapplied the categorical analysis by failing to consider the least-culpable act covered… |
| 20-5948 | Christopher Michael Sevier v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault borden-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court texas-law violent-crime | Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? Subsidiary question: whether the decis… |
| 20-5949 | Timmy Scott v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | criminal-indictment criminal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession indictment jury-instructions mens-rea prohibited-status rehaif rehaif-challenge | 1) Whether Rehaif's mens rea requirement is limited to whether or not the defendant knew he was a convicted felon alone, or whether it requires him to… |
| 20-5959 | Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-split commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | I. Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States… |
| 20-5969 | Robert Dinkins v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif vacate the judgement below certiorari criminal-law criminal-participation due-process gun-buy-program illegal-guns non-profit-organization police-department public-announcement rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court should grant Certiorari, vacate the judgement below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Cti. … |
| 20-444 | United States v. Michael Andrew Gary | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-07 | Judgment Issued | Amici (5) | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea plain-error plain-error-rule plea-bargaining plea-colloquy substantial-rights | Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitled t… |
| 20-437 | United States v. Refugio Palomar-Santiago | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (6) | administrative-law administrative-remedies criminal-law due-process fundamental-unfairness immigration-law judicial-review removal-order statutory-interpretation unlawful-reentry | Under 8 U.S.C. 1326(d), a defendant charged with unlawful reentry into the United States following removal may assert the invalidity of the original r… |
| 20-5917 | Eric Malmstrom v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-10-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure competency criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process embassy-communication judicial-discretion mental-competency mental-disease mental-disease-or-defect standing sua-sponte | Whether the district court abused its discretion when it failed to sua sponte order a competency evaluation. The facts of Petitioner's crime, standing… |
| 20-5912 | Adam Alan Henry v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2256 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-statute first-amendment overbreadth sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation vagueness | 1. Whether in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(2)(A)(v ) the definition of "sexually explicit conduct" defined as the lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic … |
| 20-5871 | Derrick Lenard Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 attempt bodily-injury borden-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(A) includes all offenses that require an attempt to inflict bodily injury? |
| 20-5891 | Mauricio Alvarez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment mens-rea negligence seaman's-manslaughter-statute statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness subjective-interpretation void-for-vagueness | Whether the Seaman's Manslaughter Statute, 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1115, which uses the terms "misconduct, negligence and inattention to his duties" does not p… |
| 20-5868 | Manuel Acosta-Lopez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | in a run-of-the-mill drug smuggling case between is a participant who had a managerial role in the criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-smuggling drug-trafficking managerial-role mexico-united-states-border mexico-us-relations minor-role participant-classification role-adjustment role-in-offense sentencing-guidelines | Whether, in a run-of-the-mill drug smuggling case between Mexico and the United States, is a participant who had a managerial role in the offense excl… |
| 20-5869 | Michael Robert Everett v. Florida | Florida | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-law federal-preemption judgment-rendition reclassification sentencing state-law | DURING THE CHARGE IS RECLASSIFIED FROM ONE VARYING DEGREE OFFENSE TO ANOTHER, DOES THIS FINDING RENEW THE BURTON V. STEWART, FERREIRA V. SEC'Y DEP'T O… |
| 20-5877 | Demetrius Cherilus Morancy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3013 criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute legal-procedure offenses-against-the-united-states sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation | Whether the special assessment required by 18 U.S.C. Section 3013 for "an offense against the United States" is required to be imposed for all offense… |
| 20-5879 | Michael Matthew Phillips v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence felon-in-possession firearm-evidence rule-404b rules-of-evidence witness-testimony | 1. Whether evidence that a defendant walked with a person to a public place where the other person retrieved a firearm is sufficient to show that the … |
| 20-5854 | Trumaine Muller v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses intervening-act jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error proximate-cause | I. THE TRIAL COURT COMMITTED PLAIN ERROR IN FAILING TO INSTRUCT THE JURY THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD TO PROVE MENS REA AS TO EACH DRUG OFFENSE AND THE RES… |
| 20-5861 | Alijah Jaquez Mitchell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime weapons-offense | IS A HOBBS ACT ROBBERY A CRIME OF VIOLENCE FOR PURPOSES OF 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)? |
| 20-403 | Jose Edward Valentin, et al. v. California | California | 2020-09-28 | Denied | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment municipal-code vagueness zoning zoning-ordinance | 1. Whether Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.51.020 (A)(1)(e), which prohibits Group Residential use, is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Four… | |
| 20-5772 | Michael Portanova v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the "categorical approach," which this Court has repeatedly held must be applied in assessing whether a prior state conviction qualifies as a … |
| 20-5799 | Lorenzo Davis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a criminal defendant's sentence should be based upon acquitted conduct. |
| 20-5751 | Pedro Fernandez-de Campa v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-law certiorari-petition criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration precedent precedent-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled. |
| 20-5757 | Jerrieus Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process firearms-offense plea-agreement plea-bargaining residual-clause sentencing void-for-vagueness | Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 1951(a), aiding and abetting interference with commerce by robbery, falls under the residual clause found at 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 20-347 | Charles Malcolm Spivey, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process forum-shopping interstate-commerce registration-requirement sorna venue | Whether venue for a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a) for failing to update a registration under SORNA after traveling in interstate commerce can … | |
| 20-348 | Gregory Shawn Mercer v. E. A. Vega | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process guarantee-clause jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment supreme-clause | SCOTUS Rule 10(a) - Whether or not a Circuit Split has arisen between the Fourth Circuit and other Circuits over the interpretation of whether crimes … |
| 20-5658 | Martin Racioppi v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisible-statute mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states robbery-statute state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation third-circuit | Whether the Third Circuit's approach, in United States v. McCants, 952 F.3d 416 (3d Cir. 2020), to determining that New Jersey's second-degree robbery… |
| 20-5670 | Henry Horace Givins v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender-enhancement circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eleventh-circuit mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession with intent to sell cocaine, in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13, a "controlled substance … |
| 20-5672 | David Kareem Turpin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c3a crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts force-clause hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Hobbs Act robbery, which can be committed by putting another in fear of future injury to himself, his property, or even his intangible propert… |
| 20-5640 | Michael Wayne Northcutt v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process intentional-conduct mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Where the circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his conduct woul… |
| 20-5645 | Virgil Nickens v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-courts criminal-law federal-courts federal-courts-of-appeals jury-instructions jury-verdict plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states united-states-v-olano | In Rehaif, v. United States, this Court held that the government establishes that a defendant aided and abetted an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offense only if … |
| 20-5650 | Carlos Cruz-Rivera v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure firearms firearms-conviction first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), which as clarified and as amended by the First Step Act of 2018, precludes aggravated punishment for second firearms… |
| 20-5595 | Joshua Glen Box v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-circuit categorical-approach child-pornography criminal-law eighth-circuit federal-criminal-law predicate-offense predicate-offenses sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred when it failed to properly apply the categorical approach to determine whether Mr. Box's pri… |
| 20-5597 | Rory Swenson v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law first-amendment free-speech intent intent-standard listener-perception speech-protection true-threat true-threats virginia-v-black | May speech that does not contain any expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence be criminalized as a "true threat" unprotected by t… |
| 20-5585 | Denis Nikolla v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute duenas-alvarez federal-criminal-statute federal-definition generic-definition generic-offense predicate-offense realistic-probability realistic-probability-test | In Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez, 549 U.S. 183 (2007), an immigration case, this Court held that when a federal court applies the categorical approach to… |
| 20-5558 | Anthony Smith v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions knowledge-element mens-rea plain-error prohibited-possession | 1. Whether the district court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that the evidence must establish both that appellant Anthony Smith… |
| 20-240 | Kentucky v. Larry Lamont White | Kentucky | 2020-08-28 | Denied | Amici (1) | atkins-v-virginia atkins-waiver capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standing supreme-court-precedent | Whether a capital defendant can waive a claim of intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), and its progeny. |
| 20-5457 | Dennis A. Smith v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-law drug-statute first-step-act predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court of Appeals incorrectly determined that the Ohio Revised Code §2925.03(A)(2) dealing with preparation for shipment or preparation for… |
| 20-5470 | German Milla-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overturning precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5430 | Anthony G. Meyers v. Cathy Jess, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2020-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law duty-to-retreat first-degree-reckless-homicide homicide ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense utter-disregard | 1. Was there sufficient evidence of utter "utter disregard for human life" to support a first degree reckless homicide conviction? 2. Should addition… |
| 20-5408 | Robert Richard Jodoin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing military-veteran non-violent-offense reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines veteran-status | WHETHER A ONE HUNDRED THIRTY MONTH PRISON SENTENCE FOR A NON-VIOLENT, DRUG DEALING, FIFTY (50) YEAR OLD, MILITARY VETERAN IS UNREASONABLE. |
| 20-5409 | Johnathan Scott Keen v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law drug-offenses due-process felony-enhancement mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether, as preserved, the District Court erred as a matter of (Constitutional) Law in finding Mr. Keen's prior Florida drug convictions qualified as … |
| 20-5421 | Doved Ben Downer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-document criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process information-charging legal-sufficiency racketeering statutory-interpretation | 1. IS SIMPLE POSSESSION UNDER F.S. 893.13(6)(A). A LEGALLY PERMISSIBLE RACKETEERING PREDICATE INCIDENT UNDER F.S. § 895.02(l)(a), § 895.02(l)(b)? 2. … |
| 20-5347 | Bakari McCant v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 attempt crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute hobbs-act statutory-interpretation violent-force | Whether an attempt to commit an offense that has as an element of the use of physical, violent force categorically qualifies itself as "a crime of vio… |
| 20-5348 | Chazdin Miller v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law ploseny-case sentencing sentencing-guidelines taylor-decision | Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 20-146 | Mark Henry Benavides v. Texas | Texas | 2020-08-13 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking overbreadth penal-code statutory-interpretation vagueness | WHETHER SECTION 20A.03 OF THE TEXAS PENAL CODE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. |
| 20-5336 | Matthew Jones v. Captain Alice Brumbley | Delaware | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-liability civil-procedure civil-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-liability due-process government-immunity immunity legal-accountability official-misconduct | 1. Do government employees enjoy immunity from committed crimes and civil prosecution? 2. Must a plaintiff prove the facts of the Case in the Complai… |
| 20-5302 | Edwin Daniel Gongora-Baltan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-interpretation criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-application judicial-construction rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation | In the interpretation of a sentencing guideline enhancement pro vision to determine whether it applies to extraterritorial or merely domestic criminal… |
| 20-136 | Tremayne T. Dozier v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-08-07 | Denied | circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-law felony-definition prior-felony-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing-scheme | The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) imposes sentencing enhancements based on an offender's prior felony convictions. 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A). A "felo… | |
| 20-5284 | Tony Lam v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law constitutional-authority controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does the U.S. Sentencing Commission's use of the Sentencing Guideline commentary in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 to capture drug conspiracy offenses within the me… |
| 20-5252 | Garry Grace v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process firearm-offense knowingly-element mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states status-elements statutory-interpretation | Whether Mr. Grace was illegally charged with, and unknowingly convicted of, a crime that was not an offense against the United States, in light of the… |
| 20-5245 | Victor John Walker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act attempt attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether an attempt to commit an offense that has as an element the use of physical, violent force categorically qualifies itself as "a crime of violen… |
| 20-87 | George Lee Nobles v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2020-07-29 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-law indian-status jury-determination jury-instructions major-crimes-act statutory-interpretation | I. How does one determine whether a defendant is an Indian? II. Is Indian status a jury question? |
| 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)? |
| 20-60 | Sheldon Silver v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-07-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | appeals-court bribery criminal-law due-process extortion harmless-error hobbs-act public-official | (1) Can a public official be convicted of bribery absent proof of an agreed exchange with the alleged bribe payor, based solely on his unexpressed, un… |
| 20-5132 | Antwan R. Cray v. Warden, FCI Coleman - Medium | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-21 | Denied | IFP | criminal-innocence criminal-law due-process factual-innocence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-innocence rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent | Whether Petitioner Is actually, Factually, Legally, and Lawfully Innocent of his Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) recently decided by T… |
| 20-5076 | Jorge Aaron Ceja-Valdez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1101 california-penal-code categorical-approach criminal-law deportation-grounds immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense | Does a conviction under California Penal Code § 211 categorically qualify as a generic "theft" offense for purposes of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(G)? |
| 20-5079 | Charles Monroe Finchum v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 20-5080 | Christopher George Wiggin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | with no evidence of defendants' conduct causing s criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 20-5055 | Juan Carlos Castellanos Muratella v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance controlled-substances counterfeit-controlled-substances criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process imitation-controlled-substances simulated-substance statutory-interpretation | Is a statute that includes simulated controlled substances, imitation controlled substances, and counterfeit controlled substances categorically a con… |
| 20-5057 | Ledinson Chavez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advance-knowledge aggravated-identity-theft aiding-and-abetting criminal-law identity-theft jury-instruction knowledge-requirement rosemond-v-united-states sixth-circuit supreme-court-mandate | Did the trial court's jury instruction on aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft comply with this Court's mandate in Rosemond v. United States,… |
| 20-5026 | James Daniel Arbaugh v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-prosecution extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct foreign-relations sovereignty statutory-construction | Does the "power to regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations", in accordance with the United States Constitution art 1, § 8 cl. 3, include the prosecutio… |
| 20-5016 | Ashton Charles Butler v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery criminal-law divisible-offense double-jeopardy federal-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-administration-of-justice united-states-code | In Prince v. United States, 352 U.S. 322 (1957), this Court construed the first and second paragraphs of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a)—bank robbery and entry in… |
| 20-5002 | Gilberto Ayun-Flores v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-law general-intent intent-element mens-rea mental-disease mental-health | Whether a defendant charged with a general intent offense may present evidence of mental disease to challenge the government's proof of the mens rea e… |
| 20-5008 | Emilio Garza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-law due-process federal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 19-8914 | Bobby W. Ferguson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-law criminal-liability defendant-conduct due-process economic-loss extortion fear-definition hobbs-act statutory-construction statutory-interpretation victim-state-of-mind | Principle of strict statutory construction requires that term "fear" should not be construed broadly to include any non-violent acts of "economic loss… |
| 19-8929 | Tedarel Leshun Preston v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony | I. Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" under the elements clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 … |
| 19-8884 | Samuel Gray v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3559 categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elemental-analysis georgia-robbery prior-convictions recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. THERE IS A LACK OF CLARITY AND UNANIMITY AMONG LOWER COURTS OF WHETHER A PRIOR GEORGIA ROBBERY CONVICTION CONSTITUTES A "CRIME OF VIOLENCE" FOR ENH… |
| 19-8890 | Richard Antonio Hodge, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-sentencing first-step-act resentencing retroactivity rule-of-lenity sentence-enhancement sentencing-provisions statutory-interpretation | Whether the ameliorative sentencing provisions of the First Step Act apply to defendants who were initially sentenced pre-First Step Act, but whose se… |
| 19-8878 | Frank Richardson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c criminal-law first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation | On December 21, 2018, President Trump signed into law the First Step Act of 2018 which dramatically changes the penalties imposed for gun-related crim… |
| 19-8828 | Michael Jerald Leggett v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-crimes attempted-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause hobbs-act specific-intent statutory-interpretation substantial-step violent-crimes | The courts of appeals have universally held that a conviction for a completed offense is categorically a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)… |
| 19-8799 | James Johnman, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-06-25 | Denied | IFP | appeals circuit-split criminal-assessment criminal-law judicial-review sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation victims-rights victims-trafficking-act | Whether the "additional special assessment" in the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3014, imposes a per-offender or per-count asses… |
| 19-8810 | Jonathan Monterio Davidson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering criminal-law criminal-sentencing felonious-breaking-and-entering north-carolina north-carolina-law statutory-interpretation violent-felony | 1. DOES NORTH CAROLINA'S OFFENSE OF FELONIOUS BREAKING AND/OR ENTERING QUALIFY AS A VIOLENT FELONY UNDER THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT? |
| 19-1390 | Martin Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-18 | Denied | Response Waived | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause fair-notice sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness | Whether the "elements clause" of the Armed Career Criminal Act (18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i)) is void for vagueness. |
| 19-8731 | Edson Gelin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buyer-seller criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence-law fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions theory-of-defense | WHETHER THE DEFENSE IS ENTITLED TO A BUYER-SELLER JURY INSTRUCTION WHEN THE INSTRUCTION IS PART OF THE THEORY OF DEFENSE AND OTHERWISE NECESSARY FOR A… |
| 19-8733 | Petrona Gaspar-Miguel v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-06-17 | Denied | IFP | border-crossing criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process immigration-law law-enforcement-surveillance official-restraint statutory-interpretation | The issue presented in this Petition is whether constant surveillance by a law enforcement agent is "official restraint" that prevents an "entry" and … |
| 19-8720 | Ankit Puri v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law firearms immigration jury-instructions rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence | 1) Whether, in light of this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), the indictment and jury instructions omitted an essen… |
| 19-8710 | William Frazier v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-15 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit is correct that—contrary to every other circuit's application of the plain statutory language—the VICAR statute, 18 U.S.C… |
| 19-8688 | Richard Dale Ingram, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arkansas-law categorical-approach criminal-law divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states statutory-interpretation terroristic-threatening | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly applied the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016… |
| 19-8669 | William M. Tyson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-06-11 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-law due-process first-amendment mistake-of-age-defense statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred in ruling that a mistake-of-age defense need not be read into 18 U.S.C. §2251 (… |
| 19-8679 | Dan Reed v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states status-knowledge statutory-interpretation substantial-rights united-states-v-reed | In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant knew he possess… |
| 19-8662 | Jason Paris Scott v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 19-8637 | Robert Reeves v. Cathleen Stoddard, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-08 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment legislative-override punishment-limitation statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court should overrule the " legislative override " exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause. |
| 19-8612 | Edward Ronald Stamper v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent criminal-intent criminal-law due-process indian-reservation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea sexual-abuse sexual-assault | The government convicted Edward Ronald Stamper of sexual abuse in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2242(2)(B) based on a jury instruction which provided: In … |
| 19-8617 | Homar Perez Chavez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres case-review criminal-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent | Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled? |
| 19-8583 | Joseph Emanuel Hechavarria v. William P. Barr, Attorney General | Second Circuit | 2020-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process immigration immigration-law physical-force removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation | Petitioner Joseph Hechavarria, an immigrant, has been ordered removed from the United States for having committed a crime of violence as defined by 18… |
| 19-8586 | Roy Ramirez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (b) to include the inchoa… |
| 19-1324 | Center for Immigration Studies v. Richard Cohen, et al. | District of Columbia | 2020-06-01 | Denied | civil-procedure closed-pattern criminal-enterprise criminal-law open-pattern pattern-of-activity prosecutorial-standard racketeering rico rico-act standing statutory-interpretation | Does the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO")* require a plaintiff or prose-cutor claiming an "open pattern" of racketeering to… | |
| 19-8559 | Christopher Scott Jepsen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review child-pornography criminal-law due-process federal-conviction prior-judgment sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-judgment | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred by concluding that Mr. Jepsen was subject to an enhanced sentence for his fede… |
| 19-8563 | Michael Lee v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-review due-process first-time-offender life-sentence sentencing sentencing-review sex-crimes | 1. Should certiorari be granted to address whether a circuit court is presented with a substantial question, hence warranting full appellate review, r… |
| 19-8551 | Londro Emanuel Patterson, III v. Kansas | Kansas | 2020-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-sentence parole sentencing | Does a Life sentence., without right to parole, upon a Ninteen year old for killing committed by another cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of… |
| 19-1303 | Earnest Cassell Woods, II v. California | California | 2020-05-20 | Denied | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process mens-rea murder-conviction natural-probable-consequences resentencing retroactive retroactivity self-defense senate-bill-1437 sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. DOES SENATE BILL 1437 ADDED SECTION 1170.95, WHICH PERMITS PERSONS CONVICTED OF MURDER UNDER THE NATURAL AND PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES THEORY TO PETITI… | |
| 19-8493 | Mark Stinson v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2020-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | conspiracy criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction jury-trial ptsd | Can husband and wife be charged with conspiracy, even though the husband (The Petitioner), had been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder [PTS… |
| 19-8466 | Branch William Niehouse v. Brigitte Amsberry | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law evidence force legal-sufficiency lost-and-found property-rights robbery robbery-evidence speculative-testimony trespass trespassing use-of-force | Would reasonable jurists debate whether the evidence of robbery was legally sufficient when the only evidence that Mr. Niehouse's threatened use of fo… |
| 19-8448 | Lamont Dantzler v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-law de-facto-life-sentence due-process juvenile-justice proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing | I. In an action in which the sole claim is whether,in a case in which an 18-year-old defendant who received a de facto life sentence does that sente… |
| 19-1275 | Angel Luis Thomas, Sr. v. Tyree C. Blocker, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-05-08 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-mandate federal-state-relations fourteenth-amendment sex-offender-registration state-jurisdiction | 1. Does the Commerce Clause empower Congress to impose "Registry requirements for sex offenders," 34 U.S.C. § 20918, directly upon an individual convi… |
| 19-8399 | Reshon Tolliver v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute drug-payment drug-trafficking evidence federal-law money-laundering statutory-interpretation | To resolve a circuit split, whether mere payment for drugs constitutes sufficient evidence for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1956? |
| 19-8340 | Christopher Scruggs v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law distribution distribution-intent file-sharing knowledge knowledge-standard mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines | The Sentencing Commission promulgated Amendment 801, amending to only apply when a defendant 2G2.2(b) (3) (F) enhancement "knowingly engaged in distri… |
| 19-8282 | In Re Robbie Gene Watson, Jr. | 2020-04-17 | Denied | IFP | arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-law discriminatory-enforcement due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review penal-code sufficiency-of-evidence vagueness | Did reasonable jurist debate whether Penal Code section 206 is Constitutionally void for purported vagueness because it is capable of arbitrary and di… | |
| 19-8263 | Larry Wesley Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking felony-enhancement guidelines gun-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")-which held Mr. Brown was involved with drug traffic… |
| 19-8221 | Feuu Fagatele v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-04-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process risk-of-injury sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a statute that criminalizes creating a risk of injury categorically satisfies the definition of a crime of violence? |
| 19-8187 | Kahwahnas Nucumbhi Potts v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1028a circuit-split consecutive-sentencing criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court federal-procedure inter-circuit-conflict sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to resolve inter-Circuit disharmony regarding a District Court's consideration of consecutive sen… |
| 19-8195 | Alens Charles v. Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-04-06 | Denied | IFP | assault civil-rights-act-of-1991 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritoriality federal-government federal-officers general-intent specific-intent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. §111 criminalizes "assaulting, or impeding certain victim or" of the federal government. As ED CARNES explained below (and the US District C… |
| 19-8183 | Jose Nogales v. California | California | 2020-04-03 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-justice retroactive-legislation retroactivity sentencing | The State of California recently passed legislation (Senate Bill No. 1391) that effectively eliminated the practice of prosecuting 14 and 15 year ol… |
| 19-8132 | Antoine T. Chest v. Michael P. Bald, Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Stephenson County | Illinois | 2020-03-31 | Denied | IFP | bodily-harm consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion legal-ambiguity sentence-enhancement sentencing-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | THE HONORABLE JUDGE MICHAEL BALD IMPROPERLY IMPOSED CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES WHEN CONCURRENT SENTENCES ARE MANDATED BY THE STATUTE, PETITIONER WAS FOUND … |
| 19-8133 | Jorge A. Martinez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | but-for-causation causation constitutional-rights conviction-notice criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process health-care-fraud judicial-notice statutory-interpretation | 1. WHETHER THE 'BUT-FOR' TEST OF GENERAL CAUSATION IS SYNONYMOUS TO THE STATUTORIAL ELEMENT OF ACTUAL CAUSATION IN THOSE STATUTES LIKE 18 USCS § 1347H… |
| 19-8106 | Salvador Arteaga Aragon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency judicial-review petitioner standard-of-review | Whether the court of appeals erred in finding sufficient evidence to sustain petitioner's conspiracy conviction. |
| 19-8071 | Curtis Dion Earley v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stolen-firearm | Does the commentary at U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, Application Note 8, which does not require a mens rea to impose the stolen firearm enhancement at U.S.S.G. § … |
| 19-8048 | Collyer Goodman v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-court circuit-court-split conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process narcotics narcotics-conspiracy sentencing shared-objective supreme-court | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United … |
| 19-1151 | Rohit Kumar v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-03-20 | Denied | Response Waived | appeals-court civil-rights court-misconduct criminal-law due-process federal-judges judicial-misconduct judicial-safety judicial-threats legal-proceeding petition-language procedural-irregularity threat-of-violence threats violence | Will W now order killing of Federal Judges and Appeals court Judges under the direct nose of this honorable court?? |
| 19-8044 | Brian Vidrine v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 924(c) career-offender criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-enhancement section-924c sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Are Vidrine's § 924(c) convictions invalid in light of this Court's decision in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and its progeny? … |
| 19-8026 | In Re Jonathan A. Hampton | 2020-03-18 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-speedy-trial-habeas-corpus-d criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jury-instructions personal-recognizance speedy-trial | 1. DOES THE PETITIONER IN A HABEAS PROCEEDING HAVE AN INHERENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO BE ENLARGED UPON HIS PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE IN THE INTEREST OF H… | |
| 19-8038 | Jermaine James v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt circuit-split commentary conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Sentencing Commission has properly defined a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 (b) to include the inchoa… |
| 19-8043 | Christopher Lamont Steward v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 924(c)-conviction categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act predicate-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime | I. Whether Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), is categorically a "crime of violence" that may serve as a predicate offense under 18 U.S.C. § 924(… |
| 19-7984 | Danny Pereda v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process government-discretion government-procedures jury-trial sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. |
| 19-7981 | Marcos Robert Castaneda v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines timeliness void-for-vagueness | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre Booker … |
| 19-7961 | Randall Duane Throneberry v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2020-03-11 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment oklahoma-law oklahoma-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether under the clear language of Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 1123, Petitioner's enhanced sentence under Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 51.1A is i… |
| 19-7965 | Cedric Edney v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fifth-circuit-interpretation mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states u-s-s-g-section-4b1-2-b | Did the Fifth Circuit Err in deciding as an issue of first impression, that Texas offenses of Distribution of controlled substances and possession wit… |
| 19-7930 | Roderick Pearson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-procedure criminal-justice-reform criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process finality first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether certiorari should be granted in order to vacate the decision below and remand to the Eleventh Circuit to consider whether § 403 of the First S… |
| 19-7949 | Kenneth Richard Devore v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-public-trust criminal-law criminal-law,evidence,sentencing,fraud,public-trus evidence jurisdiction sentencing sophisticated-means | I. Does sufficient evidence exist to support Mr. Devore's convictions for mail fraud, theft of public money, and wire fraud. II. Did the trial court … |
| 19-7952 | Michael Deon Thompson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking proximate-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation strict-liability | 1. Whether the language "death or serious bodily injury results from" in 21 U.S.C. § 841 creates a strict liability crime, without a foreseeability or… |
| 19-7889 | Walter Rosario-Colon v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence insufficient-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-jurist second-degree-murder self-defense | 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Walter Rosario-Colon acted in self-defense when he struck Antonio Aguado. In the alternative, there was Ins… |
| 19-7896 | Nicholas Hughes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute mens-rea sexual-abuse sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | Title 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) requires the government to prove that the defendant engaged in sexually explicit conduct with a minor "for the purpose of" p… |
| 19-7878 | Joseph Ramon Santillan v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conviction-classification criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing felony-conviction mandatory-minimum misdemeanor-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-federal-interaction state-federal-law statutory-interpretation | Did defendant's State of California marijuana conviction constitute a "prior conviction for a felony drug offense," increasing defendant's mandatory m… |
| 19-7883 | Tyrone Harris, Sr. v. Arkansas | Eighth Circuit | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-sentencing criminal-statute-conflict due-process habitual-offender judicial-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing statutory-interpretation | Mr. Harris alleges an obvious conflict between the criminal 16-93-609(b), and the habitual offender statute 5-4-501(d)(2), that prohibits the two from… |
| 19-1084 | Dayton Michael Cramer v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | 18-usc-2422 child-exploitation circuit-split criminal-law due-process intent-element intermediary-communication mens-rea minor-protection sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether - pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) - communications with an adult intermediary to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a minor are punishable on… | |
| 19-7838 | Anthony Shockey v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | addiction-treatment criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-addiction drug-test due-process parole probation sentencing-guidelines supervised-release violation-classification | 1.When an addict on supervised release fails a drug test should the failure be treated as crime, a grade B violation under Sentencing Guideline § 7B1.… |
| 19-7797 | Lonnie W. Hubbard v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process medical-necessity medical-practice medical-purpose prescription-dispensing prescription-drugs professional-practice statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY HOLDING A JURY COULD RATIONALLY CONCLUDE THAT DEFENDANT PHARMACIST ABDICATED HIS DUTY UNDER §§ 1306.04(a) & 841(… |
| 19-7778 | James William Hill, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-26 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | bias-motivated-assault civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-jurisdiction hate-crimes hate-crimes-act hate-crimes-prevention-act jurisdictional-prong statutory-interpretation | The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, 18 U.S.C. § 249, criminalizes, among other things, assaults based on the … |
| 19-7781 | John Charles Fortner v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-crimes felony-offense minor minor-involvement minors sentencing sentencing-enhancement sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 2260A is a penalty provision which provides for an additional 10 year consecutive sentence if the defendant is: (1) required to register u… |
| 19-7757 | Babatunde Popoola v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-fraud consent criminal-law criminal-procedure financial-crimes identity-theft money-laundering predicate-crime statutory-interpretation | WHETHER A PERSON WHO WITH THE CONSENT OF A BANK ACCOUNT HOLDER PROVIDES IDENTIFYING INFORMATION TO A THIRD PARTY TO DEPOSIT FUNDS INTO THE ACCOUNT W… |
| 19-1051 | Kansas v. Timothy C. Boettger | Kansas | 2020-02-24 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (3) | civil-rights constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-threats due-process first-amendment free-speech reckless-disregard standing state-law threat | Does the First Amendment prohibit a State from criminalizing threats to commit violence communicated in reckless disregard of the risk of placing anot… |
| 19-7732 | Jerad Hanks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | bank-robbery circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-split constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-statutes firearm-use rule-of-lenity use-of-force vagueness-doctrine | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), which criminalizes the use of a firearm during a "crime of violence," in this case, the federal bank robbery statute… |
| 19-7646 | Davion Fitzgerald v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law due-deference federalism federalism-principles judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-subjectivity sentencing-guidelines state-court-deference state-courts state-criminal-statutes state-statute statutory-interpretation | May a federal court dismiss state precedent interpreting the state's own criminal statute as an "odd hypothetical" based on "legal imagination" to sub… |
| 19-7706 | Tommy Adams, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-descamps-mathis-precedent taylor-v-united-states | DID THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS INCORRECTLY APPLY THE LINE OF AUTHORITY FROM THIS COURT BEGINNING WITH TAYLOR V. UNITED STATES, 495 U.S. 575 (… |
| 19-7664 | Yervin Keith Barnett v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute categorical-approach criminal-law entry entry-element generic generic-statute predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation tennessee-law | Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of "e… |
| 19-7633 | Anthony Allen v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment intent-element jury-instruction jury-instructions presumption-of-intent reasonable-doubt | I. In an action in which the sole claim is whether,in a case in which intent is an element of the crime convicted of,the jury instruction, "the law … |
| 19-7635 | Timothy Courtney v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | 1. Whether the holding in Almendarez-Torres creating an exception for not having to prove the existence of prior convictions when used to enhance a de… |
| 19-7637 | Pedro Anthony Romero Cruz v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | which can be committed through mere omission 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) attempted-murder circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute omission-liability statutory-interpretation use-of-force virginia-law | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s definition of a "crime of violence," under which an offense must have "as an element the use, attempted use, or … |
| 19-7620 | Bradley Campbell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce judgment-of-acquittal kidnapping motion-for-acquittal motion-to-dismiss | Where there was no evidence that Petitioner used an instrumentality of interstate commerce in furtherance of a kidnapping, whether Petitioner's motion… |
| 19-7587 | Lannon Lavar Burdunice v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquittal batson bias character-evidence circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process evidence incomplete-jury-verdict insufficient-evidence intent-to-kill judicial-error judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-verdict prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-be-present right-to-present-defense second-degree-murder weight-of-evidence | 1. MUST MV CONVICTION FOR SECOND DEGREE INTENTIONAL MURDER BE VACATED AND A JUDGEMENT OF ACQUITTAL ENTERED INSTEAD WHERE THE JURY'S GUILTY VERDICT GOE… |
| 19-7595 | Rickey Todd Major v. Renee Baker, Warden | Nevada | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-constitution retroactivity state-courts substantive-function supreme-court-precedent welch-v-united-states | Following Welch , does the federal Constitution require state courts to apply retroactively decisions that narrow the scope of criminal laws? |
| 19-7553 | Gerald Humbert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | IFP | 11th-circuit acca armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation summary-remand | 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit should have granted COA as to whether Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug off… |
| 19-7567 | Richard Ben v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2111 18-usc-924 2nd-amendment crime-of-violence criminal-law dimaya-decision dimaya-vs-sessions due-process firearm-brandishing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states johnson-vs-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether, under Supreme Court precedent established in Johnson and Dimaya, Mr. Ben's conviction for brandishing a firearm in relation to a crime of vio… |
| 19-7544 | Robert M. Waggy v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-04 | Denied | Amici (2)IFP | constitutional-law content-based content-based-restrictions criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech public-concern speech-regulation telephone-harassment | Whether a statute that prohibits telephone harassment may, consistent with the First Amendment, prohibit speech on matters of public concern or impose… |
| 19-7526 | Gregorio Segura-Resendiz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overrule precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-7531 | Joey D. Wiseman, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-03 | Denied | IFP | criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether the First Step Act Must be Applied To Cases Pending on Direct Appeal? 2) Whether there is An Inherent Disparity In Congress Amending the R… |
| 19-7504 | Verdell Marcel Brooks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-31 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness can qualify as a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 19-7520 | Edward Steven Feeney, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit judicial-precedent lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-7497 | Richard Silvestri v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law extraterritorial-conduct federal-punishment kentucky-resolutions state-power thomas-jefferson united-states-constitution void-and-no-force | In the second resolution in the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, Thomas Jefferson and the State of Kentucky construed the United States Constitution insi… |
| 19-7458 | Kaleb Jermaine Myers v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-law hobbs-act legal-standard statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the lower federal courts and decide the important legal question of wheth… |
| 19-939 | Stephen Gustus v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-law diminished-capacity due-process intent-standard mens-rea postal-service-employee statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §111 is a specific-intent or general-intent offense. | |
| 19-7423 | Adam Lee Hamilton v. Eileen Ramey, Warden | Missouri | 2020-01-27 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law federal-jurisdiction government-property preemption property-theft robbery state-prosecution statutory-interpretation theft united-states-government | Do the provisions of 18 U.S.C. §2112, 28 U.S.C. §2114, 28 U.S.C. §8 and 7 U.S.C. §2024(D) reserve jurisdiction for the prosecution of such a criminal… |
| 19-7434 | Andrea Zambrano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3b carjacking-statute crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | 1. Whether United States v. Davis , 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B). 2. Whether "in… |
| 19-7409 | Melvin Pryor v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm firearm-display physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Do criminal statutes that prohibit angry or threatening firearm displays not targeted at a specific victim qualify as a "violent felony" having as an … |
| 19-7382 | Tyrone Jemane Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-assault criminal-law federal-jurisdiction force-clause mens-rea sentencing-guidelines uniformity | I. Whether a generic aggravated assault as defined in United States Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2 requires a mens rea greater than mere recklessness, … |
| 19-7323 | Leo Stoller v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bankruptcy chapter-13 civil-procedure criminal-law due-process false-statement fifth-amendment perjury seventh-circuit | Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals unconstitutionally affirmed the district court's denial of the petitioner's request for relief from the l… |
| 19-7308 | Jerry Lynn McGavitt v. Texas | Texas | 2020-01-17 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment criminal-law criminal-mental-state due-process jury-charge jury-instructions law-of-parties mens-rea murder murder-prosecution | 1.) Whether the failure to limit the definitions, in the abstract portion of the jury charge, of "Intentionally" and "Knowingly" to the nature of th… |
| 19-7320 | Jurden Rogers v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3a armed-career-criminal-act bank-robbery bank-robbery-18-usc-2113 circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause intimidation physical-force statutory-interpretation | I. Whether bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) which may be committed by unintentionally intimidating a victim or by presenting a teller with a demand not… |
| 19-7335 | Chad Prodoehl v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-law drug-conspiracy drug-crimes drug-trafficking due-process inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses overt-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation | As statutorily defined, violating 21 U.S.C. § 846 is an inchoate offense, as it requires no overt act, but is complete upon the agreement. Because of … |
| 19-7337 | Kinney Lee Palmer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-assault assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-law threat | 1. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat is a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B 1.2? |
| 19-7341 | Joey D. Wiseman, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | congressional-intent criminal-law drug-crimes drug-felonies drug-policy drug-trafficking due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether this Honorable Court should re-evaluate the inherent inequity in Congress changing the level of the enhancement for prior drug felonies for 21… |
| 19-7343 | Anthony Tawon Williams v. Hilton Hall, Warden | Georgia | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process felony-murder homicide homicide-rule sentencing underlying-felony voluntary-manslaughter | CAN VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER OR ANY OTHER HOMICIDE BE USED AS AN UNDERLYING FELONY TO SUPPORT FELONY MURDER? IS THE HIGHEST STATE COURT OBLIGATED TO HO… |
| 19-7313 | Dalton Crutchfield v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statutes categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute entry entry-element entry-requirement generic-crimes generic-statutes predicate-offense sentencing state-conviction tennessee-law | Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of "e… |
| 19-7251 | William McNeal v. Florida | Florida | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Apprendi apprendi-standard apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure degree-classification due-process essential-element essential-elements jury-trial reclassification sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether, when determining if a defendant's offense can be reclassified to the next highest degree, Florida's interpretation of "essential element" as … |
| 19-7234 | Denzel Chisholm, aka Den, aka Din v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anti-drug-abuse-act anti-drug-abuse-act-1986 anti-drug-abuse-act-of-1986 congressional-intent criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense proportionality retail-level-manager sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness | Whether a 342-month sentence for a retail-level manager is substantively reasonable where it far exceeds a sentence that properly accounts for Congres… |
| 19-7217 | Rickey Thompson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause firearms johnson-davis-doctrine johnson-v-united-states mandatory-minimum second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine | L. Whether the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8) is unconstitutionally vague pursuant to Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and … |
| 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… |
| 19-7195 | Matthew Davonn Weatherspoon v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-01-07 | Denied | IFP | cell-phone-tracking civil-rights colorado-statute criminal-law due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure sex-trafficking standing statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement | Question not identified. |
| 19-7148 | Jimmy Lee Boston v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | 28-usc-2244 acca acca-elements-clause armed-robbery criminal-law due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus second-or-successive-motion second-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether, categorically, a Florida conviction for principal to armed robbery, in violation of Fla. Stat. §§ 777.011 and 812.13, is a "violent felony" u… |
| 19-7113 | Raynard Gray v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) bank-robbery categorical-analysis crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law intent sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-force | Whether bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2113(a), qualifies as a "crime of violence" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), the so cal… |
| 19-7115 | Alexander Faulkner v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca burglary burglary-definition categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Generic burglary must be committed in a building or structure. For non buildings like vehicles to qualify as a structure, this Court has required that… |
| 19-7076 | Cedrick Ponder v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-offense elements-clause mens-rea reckless-mens-rea statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether this Court should resolve the split of authority over whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea qualifies as a "violent felony" unde… |
| 19-7103 | Edward Merritt v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference guideline-commentary inchoate-offenses judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Is the definition of "controlled substance offense" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) genuinely ambiguous such that the guideline commentary can be used to re… |
| 19-7071 | Joseph A. Williams v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act certification criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-certification sentencing serious-drug-offense state-convictions statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition is limited to only those state convictions that are the same or narrower … |
| 19-7072 | Tyrone Walker v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) actual-or-threatened-force crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act physical-force property-crime property-rights sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states | 1. Whether the substantive offense of Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a "crime of violence" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A). 2. Whether H… |
| 19-7078 | Braun Nathan Thompson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 aggravated-robbery armed-robbery-statute criminal-law criminal-procedure elements-clause federal-sentencing firearms-offense minnesota-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether aggravated robbery under Minnesota law is a violent felony within the scope of the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(e)(2)(b)(i). |
| 19-809 | Michael Bonin v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law due-process false-identity federal-jurisdiction federal-statute first-amendment impersonation standing statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant violates 18 U.S.C. § 912's prohibition on "falsely assum[ing] or pretend[ing] to be an officer or employee acting under the author… |
| 19-7059 | John Kenneth Schiefer v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning plain-error procedural-error respect-for-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure | Did the district court plainly procedurally err when it selected and imposed sentence based on its desire to promote the defendant's respect for the l… |
| 19-7062 | Florentino Villanueva, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act common-law common-law-principles criminal-law criminal-sentencing force force-element predicate-conviction robbery robbery-statute statutory-interpretation | Does a robbery statute qualify as a predicate conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act when the force can be employed after the taking of the pr… |
| 19-7049 | In Re Antwoyn Spencer | 2019-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance personal-liberty pro-se-petition punishment standing strickland-standard undue-delay | 1. Whether Appellant is being deprived of his civil right of personal liberty against law contrary to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. | |
| 19-7040 | Dalia A. Dippolito v. Florida | Florida | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defense criminal-law criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process entrapment factual-disputes jury-trial objective-entrapment state-law trial-by-jury trial-court-proceedings | Where state law recognizes objective entrapment as a complete defense to criminal liability, and that defense turns on disputed issues of fact, does r… |
| 19-7042 | Christian Rosado v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-law guidelines judicial-interpretation judicial-opinions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-law state-law-offense statutory-interpretation use-of-force | The question presented is whether, as the court of appeals in this case held, a state-law offense qualifies as a "crime of violence" for purposes of t… |
| 19-786 | Willie Kipyego Butia v. Virginia | Virginia | 2019-12-19 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-discretion jury jury-instructions statutory-interpretation | Is due process violated where the trial judge instructs the jury using words not found in the statute and in such a way that clearly expands the statu… |
| 19-6979 | Joassaint Josiah Aristil v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) carjacking categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute force intent intimidation physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether carjacking in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2119, which may be committed by intimidation, requires an element "the use, attempted use, or threatene… |
| 19-6965 | Vondale Lamar Kincaide v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-17 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-sentencing gvr-order sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina… |
| 19-6975 | Jason Lee Bennett v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process | Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's co… |
| 19-6941 | Michael Collins v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process first-circuit massachusetts-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rulings violent-felony | 1. Whether the First Circuit holding that assault with a dangerous weapon as defined by Massachusetts law is a violent felony under the Armed Career C… |
| 19-6942 | Savon Germain Carter v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | IFP | buyer-seller-rule circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process end-user jury-instruction jury-instructions methamphetamine-distribution | A federal jury convicted Savon Carter and Christina Eichler of the sole count charged against them, conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mi… |
| 19-6902 | Samir Benamor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antique-firearm burden-of-proof criminal-intent criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms mens-rea statutory-definition statutory-interpretation | Whether, in a 922(g)(1) prosecution, the Government bears the burden of proving that the defendant knew the charged firearm has the characteristics th… |
| 19-6904 | Afries Sandonicaes Maham v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute federalism sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering, which criminalizes the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed to house or secure within… |
| 19-6908 | Margarito Olvera-Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-11 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-6891 | Ahmad Khan Rahimi v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2332a attempted-use attempted-use-of-weapon-of-mass-destruction criminal-law criminal-statute-interpretation detonation explosive-device explosives federal-criminal-code possession-of-weapon public-safety statutory-construction statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorism-law weapon-of-mass-destruction weapons | Whether a defendant's attempted "use" of a weapon of mass destruction, an element of 18 U.S.C. § 2332a, includes conduct besides detonation such as co… |
| 19-6899 | Jose Luis Meza-Lopez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concealment constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cuellar-v-united-states due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel money-laundering transportation | Does the Court's holding in Cuellar v. United States, Require more than a finding of concealing something for transportation to show money laundering;… |
| 19-6885 | Antonio Escobar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states fourth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation traffic-stop | 1. Whether, in light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), and Alleyne v. United … |
| 19-6862 | Dalton Betsinger v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-05 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach… |
| 19-6865 | Delante L. Lunn v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | but-for-causation but-for-test causation criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-offenses drug-overdose mandatory-minimum overdose-causation sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether this Honorable Court should re-evaluate the but-for test established by Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014) for mixed drug overdoses… |
| 19-6872 | James Ray Clark v. UNC Hospitals, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-05 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights cover-up criminal-act criminal-law due-process healthcare-liability institutional-cover-up medical-malpractice medical-misconduct medical-negligence negligence patient-rights | IF A DOCTOR PERFORMS EMERGENCY SURGERY ON A PETITIONER IN A COMA AND MAKES AN INCISION AT AN INCORRECT LOCATION, THEN STITCHES UP THE WOUND AND MAKES … |
| 19-6840 | Manuel Antonio Severino v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution legal-duty mens-rea statutory-interpretation tax-fraud willfulness | Whether, in a prosecution for aiding and assisting in the preparation or filing of false tax returns under 26 U.S.C. § 7206(2), the government is requ… |
| 19-6849 | Cedric Sharrod Williams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review controlled-substance criminal-law drug-crimes due-process firearm-proximity firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the fourth circuit court of appeals erred in concluding that, despite the controlled substance [heroin] in this matter having been locked in a… |
| 19-6850 | Ledell Tyler v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-definition hobbs-act home-invasion interstate-commerce jurisdiction non-violent-conduct statutory-interpretation violent-conduct | 1. Whether The Meaning of The Word "Force" Under The Hobbs Act Provision Encompassass Both Violent and Non-Violent Conduct: 2. Whether The Hobbs Act … |
| 19-6814 | Issac Efren Jimenez v. California | California | 2019-12-03 | Denied | IFP | attorney-client-privilege attorney-ethics attorney-representation conflict-of-interest criminal-law criminal-procedure ethics former-client legal-ethics leniency prosecutorial-discretion witness-testimony | Whether an attorney in a criminal case may subsequently represent a client who seeks leniency in exchange for testimony in a pending case against that… |
| 19-6818 | John D. Ward v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness | Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, USSG § 4B1.2(a)(2)? II. Whethe… |
| 19-6820 | Rafael Leoner-Aguirre v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction first-circuit jury-instructions predicate-acts racketeering rico rico-conspiracy salinas-v-united-states statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court united-states-code | In Salinas v. United States, 522 U.S. 52 (1997), this Court held that the RICO conspiracy does not require proof that a defendant himself committed or… |
| 19-6826 | Jennifer Castro v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defenses age-of-consent criminal-law criminal-statute human-trafficking mens-rea minor minor-victims prostitution prostitution-law reasonable-belief sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Is 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a), which bars employing a minor to engage in prostitution, a strict liability offense requiring no proof of the defendant's knowl… |
| 19-6832 | James Henry Lacy, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines timeliness | 1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-6793 | Quentin Herndon v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-court federal-courts physical-force sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts statutory-interpretation USSG-4B1.2(a) | Whether a federal court must defer to a state court's interpretation of the elements of a state criminal statute to determine if that offense requires… |
| 19-6784 | Jermaine Whyte v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-victim criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mens-rea reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591(c) creates a self-standing strict liability offense with regard to the age of the victim that removes the mens rea element in… |
| 19-6791 | Bryan Lamon Burnett v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-circuit 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines | SHOULD THE COURT GRANT CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEAL IN THE APPLICATION OF UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINE SE… |
| 19-667 | Michael Baker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | circuit-split common-law-definition criminal-code criminal-law fraud fraud-statutes honeycutt-v-united-states obtain-property property-rights sekhar-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | The federal fraud statutes define the offense of fraud as a scheme to "obtain[ ] money or property" by deceptive means. 18 U.S.C. § 1343; see also 18 … | |
| 19-6748 | Steven A. Adams v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting ambiguity attempt conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law deference deference-doctrine sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-manual-4b1.2b statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the term "controlled substance offense" defined by UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES MANUAL § 4B1.2(b) to mean "an offense under federal … |
| 19-6757 | Jamal Bowens v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms mens-rea reasonable-doubt rehaif-interpretation statutory-interpretation supreme-court | 1. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct… |
| 19-6722 | Robin Leach, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-25 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922 constitutional-rights criminal-law firearm-possession firearms legal-status mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | (1) Did the Petitionee 1 know that finding mens-rea of knowing in a gun or fifeafm statute, 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1). Rehaif v. See ,e .g. United States , … |
| 19-6747 | Josue Emmanuel Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-25 | Denied | IFP | allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default sentencing | 1. Whether allocution error is subject to plain error review in the absence of objection? |
| 19-6720 | James Dwayne Myers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-22 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation | May a court properly apply the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016), without considering the question o… |
| 19-6707 | Ricky Lee Tyndall v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process element-of-force federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-force property-damage property-rights sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness | 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s FORCE CLAUSE requires the use of "physical force" (i.e: "violence force" meaning "force capable of causing PHYsICAL in Dima… |
| 19-6711 | Luciano Diaz-Contreras v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-power felon-in-possession firearms firearms-possession statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 19-6687 | Demetrius Marcellus Green v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach controlled-substances-act criminal-law eighth-circuit felony-drug-offense fifth-circuit legal-uncertainty state-conviction statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the categorical approach is required to determine if a State conviction qualifies as a "felony drug offense" under the Controlled Substanc… |
| 19-6706 | Ramsin Jonathan Malek v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crimes federal-criminal-procedure force-clause ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether this Court should grant certiorari to review the Ninth Circuit's decision because armed robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d) does not categorical… |
| 19-6677 | Justin Scott Vasey v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment eighth-circuit legal-interpretation lowest-level-of-conduct state-law statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6678 | Joseph Van Sach v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca circuit-split criminal-law illinois-armed-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony | Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6682 | Zhaopeng Chen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circumstantial-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance due-process evidence farmer-v-brennan jury-instructions knowledge-element legal-standard mens-rea | Whether the rule of Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994), should be extended to criminal cases, in which the defendant's knowledge of a certain fact… |
| 19-6653 | Quinton Omar Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statutes federal-criminal-law force force-and-violence intimidation legislative-intent mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation violence | Whether Congress intended the phrase "by force and violence, or by intimidation," that appears in multiple federal criminal statutes to include the us… |
| 19-6652 | Douglas Akira Hirano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-15 | Denied | IFP | booker-decision circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure johnson-doctrine johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | The Seventh Circuit holds that the void-for-vagueness doctrine and Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), apply to the mandatory, pre-United… |
| 19-6609 | Chad Michael Stoner v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-875c 18-usc-876c criminal-law due-process federal-crime first-amendment-speech free-speech internet interstate-threat interstate-transmission private-correspondence statutory-interpretation threat video-reposting | The question presented is whether, as the court of appeals in this case held, a person may be convicted of the federal crime of interstate transmissio… |
| 19-6621 | Jaquan Walters v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 9th-circuit criminal-law deadly-force due-process federal-common-law imperfect-self-defense manslaughter murder murder-mitigation self-defense unreasonable-belief voluntary-manslaughter | Does "imperfect self-defense," which mitigates murder to voluntary manslaughter where the defendant "intend[ed] to use deadly force in the unreasonabl… |
| 19-6623 | Mario Denane Fultz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | intentional physical force or by intimidation' to include the use of violent criminal-law criminal-statutes federal-crimes federal-criminal-statutes federal-robbery-statutes force force-clause force-definition intentional-force legislative-intent physical-force statutory-construction statutory-interpretation violence violent-crime | Whether Congress intended the phrase "by force and violence, or by intimidation," that appears in multiple federal criminal statutes to include the us… |
| 19-6626 | Allen Dodson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 34-usc-20913(d) administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration-and-notification-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon… |
| 19-6569 | Keyon W. Carraway v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether there is a reasonable probability that the court of appeals would conclud e that Rehaif v. United States , __U.S.__, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (June 2… |
| 19-6538 | Levi Jermaine Griffin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof child-pornography criminal-indictment criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea possession-of-child-pornography reasonable-doubt statutory-elements | WHETHER THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE GOVERNMENT'S BURDEN TO PROVE THE ELEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AS TO THE POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY C… |
| 19-6504 | Franklin Roosevelt McGee v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-offense mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether a criminal offense that can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness qualifies as a "violent felony" for purposes of the Armed Career Crim… |
| 19-6510 | Timothy L. Douglas v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2255f3 career-offender criminal-law criminal-sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1-4b1.2 due-process guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness | I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6517 | Lynden Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922g 2nd-amendment bond-v-united-states commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-statute firearm firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea nfib-v-sebelius rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is … |
| 19-6496 | David Elijah Smith v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-05 | GVR | IFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-statute haymond-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | (1) DID THE PETITIONER'S SENTENCE FOR 18 U.S.C. 922(g) VIOLATE THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM IN VIOLATION OF BLAKELY V. WASHINGTON, 542 U.S. 296, 304; APPREND… |
| 19-6489 | Clifford Gene Wallace v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines texas-criminal-law texas-law threat ussg-4b1.2 | 1. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat is a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? 2. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated r… |
| 19-6466 | Eric Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-31 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(A) aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Does aiding and abetting armed bank robbery —which can be accomplished without the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force —qualify as… |
| 19-6420 | Christopher Mark Heath v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | The mere presence of a firearm at the scene of a drug trafficking offense constitutes possession of the firearm "in furtherance of" the conspiracy for… |
| 19-568 | Jose Susumo Azano Matsura v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-30 | GVR | 18-usc-922 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process firearm-regulation mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness | 1. Should the Court grant review, vacate the judgment below, and remand to the Ninth Circuit based on this Court's holding in Rehaif v. United States,… | |
| 19-557 | Cedric L. McDonald v. United States | Armed Forces | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bodily-harm consent court-martial criminal-law due-process mens-rea military-justice sexual-assault | Whether Congress's omission of a mens rea for the offense of sexual assault by bodily harm means mere negligence as to the lack of consent suffices. |
| 19-6423 | Halisi Uhuru v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-investigation federal-jurisdiction incarceration legal-proceeding mens-rea obstruction-of-justice rico rico-organization | 1. The Appellant was improperly convicted of participating in a RICO organization, 18 U.S.C. §1962(d), because he was incarcerated during the vast maj… |
| 19-6424 | Anthony Darnell Stokes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review conviction court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-statute obstruction-of-justice sentencing statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLIED 18 U.S.C.S. § 1512(c)(1) (LAWYERS EDITION 2008) WHEN IT AFFIRMED STOKES'S CONVICTIONS FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTI… |
| 19-6383 | Nelli Kesoyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Did the Court of Appeals adopt an erroneous interpretation of U.S.S.G. § 2J1.3(b)(3)? |
| 19-6391 | Robert Chin v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-intent criminal-law due-process homicide malicious-act mens-rea third-degree-murder unintended-consequence unintentional-act | 1. Is the due process clause offended where a criminal defendant is found guilty of conspiracy to commit third degree murder, which is a homicide that… |
| 19-6397 | Jose Gomez-Aguilar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction immigration immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense | Did the court of appeals err in holding that robbery in violation of D.C. Code § 22-2801 categorically qualifies as an aggravated felony theft offense… |
| 19-6372 | Kelby Germaine Parson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms mandatory-minimum statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness | I. Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and his conviction under 18 U.S.C. … |
| 19-6370 | Troy Bennett v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense elements-clause florida-statute-843.01 florida-statutes resisting-with-violence violent-felony | I. Whether this Court should resolve the circuit split concerning whether a Florida conviction for resisting with violence under Florida Statutes § 84… |
| 19-6353 | Bekir Buluc, aka Celebi Buluc, aka Bekir Celibi v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-penalties deportation due-process immigration immigration-law residual-clause rule-of-lenity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether the general, residual phrase "takes any other action" in 8 U.S.C. § 1253(a)(1)(C) must be interpreted to embrace only actions like those in th… |
| 19-6334 | Ignacio Arellano-Banuelos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction illegal-entry immigration-law jurisdiction removal-proceedings statutory-interpretation | Whether an alien may be "found" within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. §1326 before immigration authorities achieve actual knowledge of his or her actual pres… |
| 19-6336 | Eddie Jennings v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-10-22 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-law johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch , retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally va… |
| 19-6320 | Nalen Pierre Williams v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922g1 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession legal-status mens-rea plain-error reasonable-doubt rehaif-precedent rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-6306 | Jonathan Mota v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-18 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act interstate-commerce ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly held—in conflict with the decisions of several other circuits—that to violate the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951… |
| 19-6307 | Andrew Oreckinto v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-659 circuit-split criminal-law federal-jurisdiction statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-reach | Whether the Second Circuit erred in adopting a reading of 18 U.S.C. § 659 unsupported by any relevant canon of statutory construction or relevant prec… |
| 19-6279 | Fernando Sanchez, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law due-process physical-force united-states-v-castleman violent-felony | Whether the causation of physical injury or death necessarily requires the use of violent force. |
| 19-6282 | Aldo Salazar-Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | IFP | alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-offenses drug-statute due-process federal-criminal-code flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Whether, in light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), and Alleyne v. United Sta… |
| 19-6289 | Brian Thomas Mohr v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure case-review circuit-court-case criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration jury-instructions legal-probability rehaif-v-united-states remand standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether there is a reasonable probability of different result if the court below is directed to reconsider its judgment in light of Rehaif v. Unite… |
| 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… |
| 19-6297 | Aleisha O. Gray v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alien-transportation conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence immigration immigration-law obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence | I. Is there insufficient evidence to warrant a finding of guilty for conspiracy to transport undocumented aliens and for transporting undocumented ali… |
| 19-6264 | Orane Nelson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-10-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Petitioner was convicted of three 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offenses in a single proceeding and was sentenced to enhanced minimum penalties under § 924(c)(1)… |
| 19-6236 | Christina Marie Eichler v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-10-10 | Denied | IFP | buyer-seller-rule circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute criminal-law distribution drug-sales due-process end-users evidence-admissibility jury-instruction | 1. Is evidence of drug sales admissible to prove a conspiracy to distribute when the person charged with the conspiracy only sold drugs to end users a… |
| 19-6229 | John Joseph Douglas v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-09 | Denied | IFP | acca aggravated-robbery aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law overbreadth-doctrine predicate-offense sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation stokeling sudden-snatching | I. IF A STATES AIDING AND ABETTING STATUTE IS BROADER THAN THE FEDERAL GENERIC DEFINITION; DOES AIDING AND ABETTING AGGRAVATED ROBBERY QUALIFY AS A … |
| 19-6176 | Christopher Harris v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process evidence murder pecuniary-gain rico rico-enterprise sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation vcar vcar-offense | I. Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue Because the Sixth Circuit Ignored the Uncontroverted Evidence and its own Analysis of the VCAR Motives to Conclud… |
| 19-6178 | Jose Bryan Gonzalez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is no … |
| 19-6155 | Deounte Ussury v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process jury-instructions racketeering statutory-interpretation unanimity verdict-form violent-crimes | I. Whether conviction under the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering statute § 18 U.S.C. 1959(a), also known as VICAR, requires a special verdict for… |
| 19-6131 | Derrick Estell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 bodily-harm crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-offense due-process federal-criminal-law negligence sentencing statutory-interpretation threat-of-bodily-harm unintentional | Can a criminal offense that involves as an element an unintentionally or negligently communicated threat of bodily harm qualify as a "crime of violenc… |
| 19-6107 | Robert B. Ledbetter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-charges criminal-law criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment insufficient-evidence murder murder-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Where the evidence is insufficient to convict on conspiracy and murder charges, can the defendant be convicted on those charges? And 2. Whether a… |
| 19-6108 | Corey Kidd v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting controlled-substances crime-of-violence criminal-law physical-force robbery statutory-interpretation | I. Did the court below err in finding that the offense of aiding and abetting robbery of controlled substances qualifies as a crime of violence under … |
| 19-6120 | Raul Rodriguez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process gvr sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-ruling third-circuit vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether this petition should be granted, the judgment of the Third Circuit vacated, and the case remanded (GVR) to the court of appeals for a determin… |
| 19-6072 | Thomas Joseph Eppelsheimer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-27 | Denied | IFP | age-of-consent criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea sexual-assault statutory-rape strickland-v-washington | Is Texas Penal Code §§ 21.11(a)(1), Indecency with a Child, and 22.011(a)(2), Sexual Assault of a Child, two statutory rape offenses that criminalize … |
| 19-6078 | Terreall McDaniel v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-09-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c appeal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Does Section 403 of the First Step Act , which dramatically clarifies the applicable penalties for which a defendant may be sentenced for gun rela… |
| 19-6055 | Edwin Ricardo Flores v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-felony chevron-deference circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto immigration immigration-law separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation theft-offense | I. Does a "theft offense (including receipt of stolen property)" under § 1101(a)(43)(G) require a taking of property without consent? II. May courts … |
| 19-6025 | Javier Segovia-Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-24 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing force force-against-person immigration-law mens-rea mental-state reckless-conduct reckless-mental-state recklessness statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-6039 | Camilo Andres Landazuri Vargas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | IFP | congress-powers-limits congressional-power criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment foreign-national international-law international-waters jurisdiction jurisdictional-element maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution | WHETHER THE PROSECUTION OF MR. VARGAS - AN ECUADORIAN NATIONAL WITH NO TIES TO THE UNITED STATES — FOR TRAFFICKING CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES IN INTERNATIO… |
| 19-6050 | Jose Vizcarrondo-Casanova v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c)(3)(a) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent plain-error puerto-rico-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | 1) Whether' murder under Puerto Rico law categorical approach fails to qualify as a "crime of violence" under remaining force clause of 924(C)(3)(A)… |
| 19-374 | Floyd Hamilton Byrns, Jr. v. Maryland | Maryland | 2019-09-23 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law criminal-record due-process ex-post-facto expungement forgery legal-remedy plea-bargaining post-facto-punishment retroactivity sentencing | Should a person who pled guilty to forgery of a check less than $100.00 in 1987, be punished Post Facto and denied due process for an expungement 32 y… |
| 19-6015 | Roque Arias-De Jesus v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-6018 | Joey Little v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-authority congressional-oversight criminal-law judicial-review magazine-based-enhancement regulatory-interpretation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2k2.1 statutory-construction statutory-interpretation u.s-sentencing-commission unlawful-exercise | Whether Application Note 2 of the commentary to U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 2K2.1 represents an unlawful exercise of agency authority by the U.S. Sent… |
| 19-5983 | Alejandro Llamas-Delgado v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking due-process statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent | Whether the lower court's decision conflicts with Supreme Court and other circuit precedent concerning the government's burden to prove the evidence w… |
| 19-5994 | Benjamin Justin Brownlee v. California | California | 2019-09-18 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-code-section-352 jury-instructions prior-acts-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial robbery-charges sixth-amendment standing | True the felony had to be independest of the illing,was Prejudicial and sequses Reversal of The Special. C'rcunstance Finding Code Section 1los stad … |
| 19-5946 | Anthony Carl Spence v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritoriality federal-sentencing foreign-conduct guidelines offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether, absent a clear indication of extraterritoriality, a federal sentencing court is permitted to enhance a defendant's offense level under the se… |
| 19-5956 | Adrian Apodaca v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-jurisdiction crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federalism interstate-action jurisdiction sentencing | I. Whether the Defendent, Mr. Apodaca and sentence can not be upheld' under the definition of "crime of violence" for count five of the indictment o… |
| 19-5975 | Juan Jose Tull-Abreu v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-identity-theft compulsory-process confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment health-care-fraud identity-theft sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the petitioner participated in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud , in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349 . Count One of the Indictment. … |
| 19-5976 | Marquise Travon Dedmon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 19-5929 | Abisai Ramirez-Anguiano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-16 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses mens-rea methamphetamine scienter sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involved the importation of ... methamphetamine or … |
| 19-5928 | Marcos Santiago v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Congress decision to not make its recent clarification of 924(c) fully retroactive, creates a significant risk that thousands of prisoners sta… |
| 19-5908 | Howard Leon Combs v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-11 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | acca-elements-clause armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law elements-clause physical-force reckless-offense reckless-offenses shular-v-united-states statutory-interpretation texas-aggravated-assault violent-crime | 1. A person is guilty of Texas aggravated assault if his reckless driving causes another person to suffer injury; if he transmits a virus to an unwitt… |
| 19-5882 | Rome Richard Chacon v. Nevada | Nevada | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states | 1. Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court… |
| 19-5891 | Donte Island v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment release-conditions split-circuit statutory-interpretation supervised-release tolling | Whether a term of supervised release may be tolled for periods of noncompliance with release conditions (as the Third Circuit, joining one side in a m… |
| 19-5893 | Melissa Pfeiffer v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2019-09-10 | Denied | IFP | conscious-disregard-for-risk criminal-law felony-murder inherent-dangerousness inherently-dangerous inherently-dangerous-felony judicial-determination judicial-fact-finding jury-instructions malice-aforethought massachusetts-law presumption-of-malice sentencing | Is it unconstitutional for the courts, as a matter of common law, to withdraw the third element of felony murder from the jury's consideration by labe… |
| 19-5869 | Jaime Enriquez-Hernandez, aka Jaime Enriques-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5870 | Shakeem Heratio Crawford v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto first-step-act parole retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Did the Judge Abuse his Discrection under He sth Amendment Due procecc clause by Cotegorically Dening all career orfenders when he stated that career … |
| 19-5875 | Alfredo Gonzalez-Terrazas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5852 | Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-06 | GVR | IFP | case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-5835 | Josue Martinez-Hernandez and Oscar Carcamo-Soto v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1101 california-penal-code categorical-approach criminal-law deportation-grounds immigration-law statutory-interpretation theft-offense | Does a conviction under California Penal Code § 211 categorically qualify as a generic "theft" offense for purposes of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(G)? |
| 19-288 | Javier Sanchez, Gregory Casorso, and Michael Marr v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | antitrust antitrust-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions per-se-rule presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment | The question presented is whether the operation of the per se rule in criminal antitrust cases violates the constitutional prohibition —grounded in th… |
| 19-296 | Damien Guedes, et al. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Amici (7)Relisted (5) | administrative-law chevron-deference criminal-law deference due-process judicial-review overrule rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation waiver | 1. Whether Chevron deference, rather than the rule of lenity, takes precedence in the interpretation of statutory language defining an element of vari… |
| 19-5804 | Jesse Lewis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-04 | GVR | IFP | appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine | In United States v. Davis , 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), which defines "crime of violence," is unconstitut i… |
| 19-5812 | Mitchum Pastor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Because 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) defines bank robbery in a way that does not require intentional intimidation, does § 2113(a) bank robbery fail to qualify … |
| 19-5813 | Alejandro Plaza-Montecillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-16 aggravated-robbery appellate-review crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-code federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-law violent-crime | Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. §16? |
| 19-5777 | Donielle Rashi Ross v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law domestic-violence legal-precedent mens-rea misdemeanor-crime physical-force recklessness recklessness-standard second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation use-of-force voisine-v-united-states | Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v. United States, __U.S.__, 136 S.Ct. 2272 (2016), that recklessness is consistent with the "use of physical f… |
| 19-5788 | James Nunley, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-law ussg-4b1.2 violent-crime | Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 19-5793 | Anton Jevon Alexander v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c bank-robbery constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness supreme-court-precedent underlying-crime vagueness vagueness-doctrine | In United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), this Court held that the residual clause contained in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(b) is unconstitutionall… |
| 19-5763 | Jose Lara-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-30 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-5771 | Eric Allen Haensgen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2252a age-of-consent child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation unconstitutional | Whether amendments to the child pornography law set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2)(A) have rendered the current version of the statute unconstitutio… |
| 19-5727 | Trayvon Smith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-interpretation state-law | 1) Whether, when determining whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence, a federal court is bound by the decision of the state's highest… |
| 19-5749 | Juan Manuel Perez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether, when determining whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence, a federal court is bound by the decision of the state's highest… |
| 19-5750 | Felix A. Okafor v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment firearms-offense first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation | WHETHER PETITIONER'S 3167 MONTH SENTENCE IMPOSED AS A RESULT OF THIS COURT'S MISINTERPRETATION OF THE STACKING PROVISIONS OF 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(1)(A)(i)… |
| 19-5732 | Joel Luque-Rodriguez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law federal-offense generic-offense gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez prosecutions realistic-probability state-statute statutory-interpretation | To establish that a "realistic probability" exists that a state statute applies to conduct not covered by a generic, federal offense for purposes of t… |
| 19-5699 | Robert Gray v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 19-213 | Charles Fischer v. Texas | Texas | 2019-08-19 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review character-evidence constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process propensity-evidence propensity-inference statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-appeals texas-statute | Whether the Due Process Clause is offended by a statute that authorizes criminal convictions on the basis of character conformity and propensity. |
| 19-5601 | Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-16 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process felony felony-status firearms firearms-possession indictment-requirements interstate-commerce knowledge mens-rea prior-conviction statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(a) provides for criminal penalties for felons who possess firearms in interstate commerce absent proof that they knew of th… |
| 19-5571 | Carlos Eloy Garcia-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law administrative-procedure burden-of-proof criminal-law deportation due-process federal-criminal-law illegal-reentry immigration-law jurisdiction statutory-interpretation | Whether an alien may be "found" within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. §1326 before immigration authorities achieve actual knowledge of his or her actual pres… |
| 19-5565 | Carlos Miguel Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-13 | GVR | IFP | criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-possession rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent | Mr. Perez respectfully requests that his 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) conviction be reversed and remanded in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (J… |
| 19-5574 | Anthony Ray Welch v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law drug-importation drug-offenses fifth-circuit listed-chemicals mens-rea methamphetamine methamphetamine-offense scienter scienter-requirement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Section 2D1.1(b)(5) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines provides that "[i]f (A) the offense involved the importation of ... methamphetamine or … |
| 19-5575 | Antwaine Enta Yarbrough v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, U.S._, _S.Ct. —, 2019 WL 2649851 (June 28, 2019)? |
| 19-5578 | Preston Shands, Jr. v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2019-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-analysis civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process notice notice-requirement overbreadth overbroad statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness | As applied to Preston Shands, Jr., is South Carolina's kidnapping statute, S.C. Code Ann. § 16-3-910, vague and overbroad, in violation of due process… |
| 19-179 | Naora Ben-Dov v. Shoshana Zelda Sragow, aka Stacy Suzanna Sragow, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal continuous-accrual court-discretion criminal-law criminal-offenses dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-review pleadings procedural-violation statute-of-limitations | 1. Should an action based on multiple civil and criminal offenses be considered from the first instance? The last known instance of a transgression? O… |
| 19-5460 | Jose Ortega v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-07 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure grant-vacate-remand residual-clause section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand Mr. Ortega's case in light of United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), after the Court of Ap… |
| 19-5489 | Azibo Aquart v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-07 | Denied | IFP | criminal-intent criminal-law enterprise enterprise-protection intent position racketeering racketeering-statute second-circuit-interpretation statutory-construction vicar-statute violent-crimes violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering | 1. Whether a defendant acts for the "purpose of. . . maintaining or increasing [his] position in an enterprise" within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 1959… |
| 19-5480 | Andrew Dorsey v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | acca cocaine criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses florida florida-statute possession sentencing statutory-interpretation | I. Whether a Florida conviction for selling cocaine, delivering cocaine, or possessing cocaine with the intent to sell or deliver it, in violation of … |
| 19-5456 | Ibrahim McCants v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-08-05 | GVR | IFP | anonymous-tip categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility-of-state-statutes domestic-violence due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms fourth-amendment mathis-v-united-states mens-rea police-stop-and-frisk reasonable-suspicion rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation stop-and-frisk supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court-of-appeals | 1. In light of this Court's recent decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgmen… |
| 19-151 | United States v. Dominic Ladale Walton | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-01 | GVR | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition criminal-law criminal-statute due-process dwelling-offense intent-to-commit-crime statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states unlawful-entry | Whether a state offense that criminalizes continued unpermitted presence in a dwelling following the formation of intent to commit a crime has "the ba… |
| 19-5383 | Christopher Stacy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-31 | GVR | IFP | case-law certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-review mens-rea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent vacatur | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-5401 | Thomas Lewis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-371 18-usc-924c ambiguous-record circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure-retroactivity due-process federal-conspiracy mandatory-sentencing retroactive-invalidation retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | 1. Does this Court's ruling in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), striking as unconstitutionally vague the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 19-5370 | Pedro Medina Castillon v. California | California | 2019-07-29 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction harmless-error heat-of-passion jury-instructions penal-code preemption standing state-law-claim subject-matter-jurisdiction vagueness | presentedquestion (s)IV.this Honorable from theand/or petition sCastillon wishesPetitioner Pedro Medina review this Stateand in distinguishing and/or … |
| 19-5358 | Victor Manuel Collazo-Gonzalez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5308 | Oscar Minaya v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-25 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c civil-rights conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentence sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis void-for-vagueness | 1. Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness, a question that the Court has now answered in United States v. Davis… |
| 19-5325 | Alan Victor Gomez Gomez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-25 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure force-element immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing sentencing-law statutory-interpretation | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-5303 | Mario Benitez-Pineda v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-law controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-law penalty-provision sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841 et. seq., is unconstitutional because it contains no penalty provision ? |
| 19-5307 | James D. Brigman v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness | I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-5311 | Ivaylo Dodev v. Bank of New York Mellon | Arizona | 2019-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review arizona-court-of-appeals arizona-rules-of-civil-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure,eviction,dismissal,arizona-rules-o criminal-law due-process eviction eviction-proceedings federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act judicial-discretion rule-41 second-amendment united-states-v-davis voluntary-dismissal Whether Mr. Burke's § 924(c) conviction is invalid | 1. Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One abused its discretion by not ruling on the applicability of Rule 41(a)(1) of the Arizona Rules o… |
| 19-5312 | Kenneth H. Burke, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-24 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms-offense hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review violent-crime | Mr. Burke was convicted of knowingly carrying a firearm during and in relation to a "crime of violence," in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). The "crim… |
| 19-5269 | Reginald Christopher Gilbert v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction objection reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review | Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 19-5278 | Duryane Lewis Chaney v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | acca categorical-approach criminal-law davis drug-offense sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony | WHETHER THE DETERMINATION OF A SERIOUS DRUG OFFENSE UNDER THE ACCA REQUIRES THE SAME CATEGORICAL APPROACH USED IN THE DETERMINATION OF A VIOLENT FELON… |
| 19-5236 | Seab Nolen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprehension-of-physical-injury armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute immediate-physical-injury physical-force possession-of-weapon sentencing-enhancement violent-felony weapon-possession | Is a prior conviction that includes as an element the possession of a weapon categorically a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.… |
| 19-5243 | Larry Marvel v. Delaware | Delaware | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-offense double-jeopardy double-punishment due-process legislative-definition multiple-punishments sentencing state-prosecution statutory-interpretation | Where the State General Assembly legislatively defined in two separate statutes the same identical "conduct" for two criminal offenses mandating the s… |
| 19-5198 | Robert Rang v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-coercion attempted-enticement criminal-law due-process enticement-of-a-minor federal-criminal-statute interpersonal-physical-contact mens-rea minor-protection minors sexual-activity sexual-offense sexual-offenses statutory-interpretation | Does a "substantial step" under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) [attempted coercion and enticement of a minor] require evidence of intended "interpersonal physica… |
| 19-5194 | Edward Hector v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 19-5176 | Ernest L. Chambliss v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence felon-in-possession firearm-possession jury-instructions standing | Whether a defendant who has been charged with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon is entitled to an entrapment instruction when the evidence dem… |
| 19-5196 | Malcolm Omar Robinson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-15 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary criminal-law fourth-amendment fourth-circuit rehaif-v-united-states remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering, which criminalizes, among other things, the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed t… |
| 19-5166 | Henry Vazquez Valois v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power congressional-powers criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process enumerated-powers extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-national international-law international-waters maritime-law | Whether the prosecution of Mr. Vazquez Valois — a Colombian national with no ties to the United States — for trafficking cocaine in international wate… |
| 19-67 | United States v. Evelyn Sineneng-Smith | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-12 | Judgment Issued | Amici (11) | civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute facial-challenge financial-gain first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation | Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in vi… |
| 19-5150 | Irvin Junior Phillips v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924e apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process indictment-requirements prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | 1. Whether the Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of … |
| 19-5096 | Nicholas Rivera v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law federal-law pennsylvania-law predicate-offense sentencing-guidelines | Does the categorical approach apply in determining whether an offense qualifies as a predicate for the career-offender enhancement under the Sentencin… |
| 19-5124 | Arthur Durham v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process economic-harm federal-sentencing force-clause hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states retroactivity statutory-interpretation violent-crime welch-v-united-states | 1. In three circuits, pattern jury instructions extend Hobbs Act robbery (18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)) to an offense committed by causing fear of harm to inta… |
| 19-5098 | Ronald F. White, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-intent criminal-law evidence-requirement firearm-registration mens-rea national-firearms-act staples-v-united-states | In Staples v. United States, the Court held that to obtain a conviction under 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d), the government was required to prove that the defen… |
| 19-5100 | Matthew Karahalios v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 28-usc-2255 armed-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation | 1. Does unarmed bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) serve asa predicate offense for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) of using … |
| 19-5102 | Dan Pizaro v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent | Whether the life sentence imposed on 21 U.S.C. § 846 and § 841(a)(1) pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A) and § 851 must be reduced to twenty-five (25… |
| 19-5087 | Willie Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3559 categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing enumerated-list-of-offenses enumerated-offenses essential-nature federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federal-three-strikes-law prior-state-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-law | 1. Whether the categorical approach permits a court to compare "the essence" of a prior state crime of conviction to the "essential nature" of a speci… |
| 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… |
| 19-5063 | Jose Thomas Barriera-Vera v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery attempted-armed-robbery attempted-crime criminal-law criminal-statute person-or-property physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether attempted armed bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) has as an element "the use . . . of physical force against the person or property of another,"… |
| 19-5070 | Carlos Lamar Mitchell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c3a bank-robbery bank-robbery-18-usc-2113 criminal-law criminal-statute demand-note intimidation physical-force physical-force-18-usc-924c3a sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113), which may be committed by unintentionally intimidating a victim or by presenting a teller with a demand note,… |
| 19-5025 | Isaac Thomas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-01 | GVR | IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute firearm-possession firearms rehaif rehaif-v-united-states remand statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez | 1. Whether the Court should grant the petition, vacate the judgment, and remand for further proceedings on Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) convicti… |
| 19-5026 | Melvin Lewis Andrews v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court crime-of-violence criminal-law guidelines johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-powers | 1. Should this Court exercise its supervisory powers where a circuit court of appeals continues to allow trial courts to apply "crime of violence" ana… |
| 19-5030 | Michael D. Mathew v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-07-01 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing | Whether the twenty-one year sentence imposed by the state trial court violated the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishments? |
| 18-9793 | Timothy Dale Gould v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c categorical-approach criminal-law divisibility statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Is 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) is divisible for purposes of categorical analysis? |
| 18-9812 | Chavez Spotted Horse v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault bodily-harm bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law dangerous-weapon statutory-interpretation weapon | In 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3), Congress has proscribed assault with a dangerous weapon. But this statute does not define "dangerous weapon," so the courts … |
| 18-1589 | James Doyle Collins, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2019-06-27 | Denied | contraband contraband-possession criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-possession criminal-procedure destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction intent intentional-possession mens-rea possession possession-law statutory-interpretation | Whether the act of an accused to delete or destroy contraband constitutes a "knowing or intentional possession" of the contraband. | |
| 18-9805 | Keith Wayne Carver, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-device circuit-split criminal-law legislative-intent loss-amount sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation usability | 1. Whether the statutory phrase "can be used" contained in the definition of "access device" at 29 U.S.C. § 1029(e)(1) requires the Government prove u… |
| 18-9808 | Manuel Reyes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-26 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute statutory-vagueness vagueness | 1. Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and his conviction under 18 U.S.C. … |
| 18-9772 | William Jerome Howard, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 21-usc-841 cocaine-possession controlled-substance-offense criminal-law drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-drug-offense florida florida-drug-law mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 | Drug offenses in Florida are unlike most states insofar as in Florida, the prosecution does not have to prove a defendant knew the illicit nature of a… |
| 18A1344 | Saquawn Harris v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-06-20 | Presumed Complete | accomplice-liability aiding-and-abetting appellate-review criminal-law jury-instructions mens-rea | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9725 | Jose Munoz v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-rule hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement vagueness | Whether the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague. Whether a Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a… |
| 18A1336 | Robert Rang v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-law physical-contact rule-of-lenity sexual-activity statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 18-1552 | Henry P. Alfano and William Hird v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federalism mail-fraud property property-rights statutory-interpretation traffic-tickets unadjudicated-charges unadjudicated-tickets wire-fraud | Does the potential for collection of fines and costs which may become due to the state from unadjudicated traffic tickets, on which there has yet been… |
| 18-9696 | Jerry Louis Hughes v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9699 | Jose Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability | I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |
| 18-9687 | Candelario Lucio-Garza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | IFP | attempted-crime attempted-reentry circuit-conflict criminal-law federal-jurisdiction immigration mens-rea specific-intent united-states-v-resendiz-ponce | Does the crime of attempted illegal reentry incorporate the common-law mens rea of a specific intent to commit the completed offense? |
| 18-9673 | George Djura Jakubec v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split courts-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-bank-robbery hobbs-act legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-9684 | David Prien-Pinto v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federal-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stolen-firearm | Does the commentary at U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1, Application Note 8, which does not require a mens rea to impose the stolen firearm enhancement at U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9620 | Christopher J. Miller v. Joel Martinez, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-abuse civil-rights criminal-law due-process emotional-harm legal-precedent mental-health non-sexual-touch prosecutorial-misconduct restitution | Like unknown numbers of American citizens, petitioner is unfortunately a pedophile. Seizing upon that fact, the prosecutor vilified the defendant for … |
| 18A1302 | Mahmoud Aldissi, et ux. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-law government-funding loss-calculation right-to-control wire-fraud | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9641 | Clifford Brigham v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness | Whether the imposition of the statutory maximum, 60-month term was substantively unreasonable. |
| 18-9643 | Herichie Paul v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), where the text and legislative history demand the categorical approach, is unconstitutionally… |
| 18-9610 | Keith Wromas, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2019-06-11 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law data-protection due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech privacy standing | i) Dos the Stake have unlimited absoluk discseton to dery a petrtoner a enoval f petihoner qualifies inder florida and federal Statutes? 21f Florida … |
| 18-9575 | In Re Phillip Love | 2019-06-06 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-power federalism interstate-commerce jurisdiction necessary-and-proper-clause statutory-interpretation | 1. Can the federal government punish felonious crimes under the constitutional Interstate Commerce Clause within the 50 compact states of the Union? … | |
| 18-9541 | Darius Leigh Gilkey v. DeWayne Burton, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment adequate-provocation attorney-client-relations attorney-client-relationship consensual-sex criminal-law due-process felony-murder homicide provocation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Should this Court grant Certiorari to determine if consensual sex that later turned into a homicide, resulting from adequate provocation amounts to fe… |
| 18-9483 | Brian Alford v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-30 | Denied | IFP | burglary burglary-allegation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder legal-sufficiency probable-cause prosecution-standard sufficiency-of-evidence | WHETHER IT IS PERMISSIBLE FOR A STATE CRIMINAL COURT TO PREDICATE FELONY MURDER LIABILITY ON AN ALLEGATION OF BURGLARY THAT LACKS SUFFICIENT BASES IN … |
| 18-9432 | Joseph Frank Rowe v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-9465 | Beth Galloway v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-sufficiency financial-transaction financial-transactions insurance-fraud judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial new-trial | I. WHETHER A JUDGMENT OF ACQUITTAL SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED ON COUNTS 1 AND 2 BECAUSE THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT MS. GALLOWAY KNEW THAT THE MARTELLE H… |
| 18-9466 | Paulito Govea-San Roman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law disability senior-victim sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2l1.2 statutory-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states texas-robbery ussg-2l1.2 | Whether, after Stokeling v. United States, _U.S._, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2019), the Texas offense of robbery by inflicting injury against a senior or disable… |
| 18-9467 | Koran McKinley Allen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-2113a-d 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3a bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery physical-force sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G.… |
| 18-9444 | Gregory Greer v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-28 | GVR | IFP | 922(g) 924(a)(2) commerce-clause congressional-authority criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez | 1. Whether—in light of intervening authority in United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995)—Congress may rely on Scarborough v. United States, 431 U.S… |
| 18-9420 | Le'Ardrus Burris v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility divisibility-analysis felonious-assault mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states ohio-law ohio-revised-code-2903a sixth-circuit state-v-harris statutory-interpretation | Whether the Sixth Circuit's divisibility analysis ignores this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States, 579 U.S. __, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) and Oh… |
| 18-9424 | Lamar Eady, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 appellate-review criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-statute felon-in-possession knowingly legal-elements mens-rea possession rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment status statutory-interpretation | 1. Does the "knowingly" provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2) apply to both the possession and status elements of a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) crime ? The Court … |
| 18-9425 | Kevin Contreras v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-24 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-924(a) aggravated-assault criminal-law criminal-liability due-process equal-protection generic-offense interstate-movement physical-force recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-physical-force vagueness voisine-v-united-states | I. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault is equivalent to the "generic" form of that offense? II. Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v… |
| 18-9394 | Ward T. Evans v. Delaware | Delaware | 2019-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge constitutionality-of-statute criminal-law criminal-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process in-forma-pauperis indictment indictment-counts statutory-interpretation three-strike-rule three-strikes-law | Whether Delaware's 11 Del. Crim. C. sec. 773(2) as it was written when Petitioner was charged and convicted, define three distinct and separate crimin… |
| 18-9354 | Donald Reddick v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2113(a) alamendarez-torres-apprendi apprendi categorical-approach constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery mathis mathis-doctrine prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines | Is federal bank robbery as defined in 18 U.S.C. §2113(a) categorically a crime of violence, where the statute does not require an intentional use, att… |
| 18-9360 | Lazaro Veliz v. John V. Flournoy, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court void-for-vagueness | 1. Whether the residual clause in 18 u.s.c. $924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness in light of this Court's decisions in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.… |
| 18-9350 | Russell Rafael Whitehead v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-20 | Denied | IFP | assault-battery constitutional-review court-procedure criminal-law deadly-weapon ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-charge jury-instructions legal-standard standard-of-review use-of-force | Can a fist a fist be considered a deadly weapon in and of itself? Is it considered proper procedure for the Court to add dialogue not supported by th… |
| 18-9320 | Domenick James Howard v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-state-relations lockhart-v-united-states mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states ninth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty | WHETHER A PRIOR SEXUAL ASSAULT CONVICTION SHOULD BE USED TO INCREASE THE STATUTORY PENALTY WHERE THE PRIOR STATE CONVICTION IS OVER-INCLUSIVE VIS-A… |
| 18-9322 | Edward Ray Crosby v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law disability judicial-review senior-victim sentencing sentencing-guidelines stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states united-states-sentencing-commission ussg-4b1.2 | Whether, after Stokeling v. United States , __U.S .__, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2019), the Texas offense of aggravated robbery by inflicting injury against a se… |
| 18-9323 | Donald Duhart v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-17 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Is the residual clause definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-9301 | Skip Earnest Ralph Lomax v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-enhancement criminal-law felon-possession firearms firearms-trafficking intent knowledge mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-use | Did the court below err in finding that the firearms-trafficking enhancement applied when Mr. Lomax did not know that that confidential informant purc… |
| 18-9302 | Xing Lin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-05-16 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-924 appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | 1. Is the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) void for vagueness? 2. Should this Court hold petitioner's case for a ruling in United States v… |
| 18-9290 | Albert J. Hamilton v. Jurban, RN, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-15 | Denied | IFP | amendment-interpretation civil-rights constitutional-conflict criminal-law disability due-process equal-protection legal-classification rational-basis sentencing standing state-interest takings | 1. Does the State of California create a ton Flav. Under the US. Const. 5th and 14th Amend. By not Providing a Rational Relationship Between a leatti … |
| 18-1434 | United States v. Pablo Lovo and Joel Sorto | District of Columbia | 2019-05-15 | Denied | 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… | |
| 18-9258 | Bernard Roosevelt Shaw v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge | "Whether the lower court(s) erred in its interpretation as to the "vagueness challenge" of Section §924(c)(3)(B), and the meaning as to what is consid… |
| 18-9263 | Luis Felipe Valencia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process international-law jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-law minimum-contacts stateless-vessel vagueness void-for-vagueness | Petitioner was onboard a boat in international waters in the Eastern Pacific Ocean when the United States Coast Guard ("USCG") detained him for cocain… |
| 18-9266 | Daniel Rodriguez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-05-14 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) categorical-approach conduct-based-approach constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | Petitioners were convicted of conspiring to commit Hobbs Act robbery and conspiring to possess a firearm in furtherance of crimes of violence. The dis… |
| 18-9244 | Danny Herrera v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-13 | GVR | IFP | and whether a conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robb 18-usc-924 conspiracy constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-vagueness vagueness | Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague in light of Sessions v. Dimaya, 138 S. Ct. 1204 (2018)? If a cond… |
| 18-9234 | Rudy Mendoza v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-05-10 | GVR | IFP | constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-procedure jury-determination second-amendment section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-davis vagueness | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague. (This question is presently before the Court in United States v. Davis, No. 18-431.) … |
| 18-9210 | Curtis Solomon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-09 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach collateral-review constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity successive-petition vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. If Davis holds § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague, is that ruling retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review? 2. If Davis rein… |
| 18-9185 | Bobby Martin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-08 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-16 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent void-for-vagueness | I. Whether reasonable jurors could debate whether Sessions v. Dimaya 188 S. Ct. 1204 (2018) and Johnson v United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015) invalid… |
| 18-9206 | Mitchell Felix Brooks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-compliance rule-11 sentencing supervisory-powers supervisory-powers-of-lower-courts | (1) Whether the District Court Judge abused its discretion in violation pursuant to Rule 11, United States v. McCarthy "62 interrogation questions" ma… |
| 18-9161 | Robert Leonard Wood v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states criminal-law johnson johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness | Whether the Court should resolve the question left open by Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886 (2017), that continues to divide the courts of app… |
| 18-9182 | Aziz Mateen-El v. W. Robert Bell, Judge, Superior Court of North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-law due-process fraud government-benefits immunity social-security | Do defendant's in this case while under Suspension, meaning not in a De jure State Immunity do this not suspened their And using security bu plaintiff… |
| 18-9139 | Calvin Lyndale Gaddy v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process standing unpublished-opinions | WAS it NOt ERRoR: FOR UNitEd SHatE distRiCt: COURt: MagistRAtE: dismissEd potition ORiginal Complaint: AS FRiOloUS -ANd. without ISSUANCE AND SERVICE … |
| 18-1396 | Dereck Pelletier v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. | Arkansas | 2019-05-06 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment multiplicity retroactivity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution | A citizen of another state received a three-hundred-year sentence for sending, in one transaction, a single computer file containing thirty (30) image… |
| 18-9105 | Samuel Eugene Geddie v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-crimes alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states court-of-appeals criminal-classification criminal-law due-process north-carolina north-carolina-law sentencing statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE NORTH CAROLINA COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY HOLDING THERE ARE "NO AGGRAVATED CRIMES", SUCH AS AGGRAVATED COMMON LAW ROBBERY, IN NORTH CAROLIN… |
| 18-9060 | Bruce Wayne Harrison v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-599 criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto higher-sentence judicial-discretion pre-2011-sentence retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-1b1.10 | This Court provides that the Ex Post Facto Clause applies to any change in the law that creates a significant risk of a higher sentence, including cha… |
| 18-9071 | Jason Moody v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-01 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process felon-in-possession felon-possession firearm-law firearms interstate-commerce knowledge-requirement mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §924(a) provides for criminal penalties to felons who possess firearms in interstate commerce absent proof that they knew of thei… |
| 18-9049 | Jackie Madore v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-waivers contract-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity | I. Whether the Supreme Court of the United States should review appellate waivers in criminal cases under principles of contract law. A concatenation … |
| 18-9019 | Lony Tap Gatwas v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-29 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-identity-theft circuit-split criminal-law felony mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in interpreting 18 U.S.C. § 1028A's prohibition on the "use" of another's identity without lawful authority as unambi… |
| 18-1347 | Charles G. Kinney v. Michele Renee Clark | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-29 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-law civil-rights creditor-misconduct criminal-concealment criminal-law discharge-injunction discharge-violation due-process federal-enforcement fraud judicial-misconduct statutory-immunity | The removal was because of crimes (e.g. fraud) and judicial accessories-after-the-fact. Crimes are being committed not only by listed creditors, a con… |
| 18-1349 | Charles G. Kinney v. Michele Renee Clark | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 11-usc-524 attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-crimes bankruptcy-fraud bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights creditor-misconduct criminal-concealment criminal-law discharge-injunction discharge-violation discharged-debtor due-process fraud judicial-misconduct statutory-interpretation | The motion to re-open was because of crimes (e.g. fraud) and judicial accessories-after-the-fact. Crimes are being committed not only by listed credit… |
| 18-8999 | Mark Richard Hillstrom v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-threat due-process elonis-standard elonis-v-united-states grand-jury harmless-error indictment intent mens-rea mental-state statutory-interpretation | Whether, in light of this Court's holding in Elonis v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2001 (2015), that, to obtain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), t… |
| 18-8983 | Patrick Edwards v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-04-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 18-8965 | Olusola Olla v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-knowledge criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference federal-courts investigative-standard jury-instructions mens-rea prosecutorial-evidence statutory-interpretation willful-blindness | 1. Whether, in a criminal case where a statute requires proof of knowledge, the government may establish the requisite knowledge with evidence of a fa… |
| 18-8911 | Gerald Humbert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-22 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 11th-circuit acca acca-serious-drug-offense armed-career-criminal-act certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense eleventh-circuit florida-statute florida-statute-893-13 mens-rea serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-smith | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit should have granted COA as to whether petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug offens… |
| 18-8931 | Tajie Coleman v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause new-york-state-law physical-force robbery statutory-interpretation | Whether the New York State offense of robbery "has, as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of an… |
| 18-8913 | Esteban Aguilera-Alvarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court | Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 18-8892 | Carlos Hernandez Machin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-18 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mandatory-minimum residual-clause samuel-johnson sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability is in conflict with this Court's precedent when reasonable jurists are current… |
| 18-8898 | Melinda J. Campbell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-prosecution economic-harm hobbs-act hobbs-act,economic-harm,criminal-law,mens-rea,prec mens-rea precedent sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent wrongful-conduct | Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals disregarded this Court's established precedent set forth in United States v. Enmons, 410 U.S. 396 (1973), a… |
| 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… |
| 18-8824 | Darren Gonzales v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis money-laundering plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing | After the Court's decision in Cuellar v. United States, does a defendant who merely parrots the language of the concealment money laundering statute s… |
| 18-8830 | Julio Cesar De La Rosa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process firearms mens-rea misdemeanor-crime-of-violence physical-force statutory-interpretation voisine-v-united-states | I. Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v. United States, __U.S.__,136 S.Ct. 2272 (2016), that recklessness is consistent with the "use of physical… |
| 18-1304 | Richard Ashbaugh v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response Waived | burrage-decision burrage-v-united-states collateral-review criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-rule | In 2006, Petitioner Richard Ashbaugh pleaded guilty to distributing heroin, which, because of the "resulting-in-death" sentence enhancement contained … |
| 18-8792 | Mario Devant Cheers v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-robbery career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-precedent mandatory-guidelines mandatory-minimum residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine | In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) this Court initiated a twisting journey by holding unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.… |
| 18-8799 | Robert Gordon Lockwood v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery bank-robbery-statute categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law descamps-ruling due-process firearms johnson-ruling mathis-ruling ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent violent-crime | Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Johnson, Mathis, Descamps, and Dimaya Supreme Court rulings because Prince confirmed that the Bank … |
| 18-8752 | Kulwant Singh Sandhu v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law circuit-split criminal-law criminal-speech first-amendment free-speech harassment public-policy statutory-interpretation telecommunications telephone-harassment | (1) Does 47 U.S.C. subsection 223(a)(1)(D) prohibit only the harassment caused by repeatedly ringing a telephone or does it also prohibit repeated ver… |
| 18-8755 | Matthew Ryan Murdoch v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-restrictions due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech liberty liberty-interest sentencing sex-offender statutory-interpretation | Whether a lifetime prohibition on going to "locations where any form of pornography, sexually stimulating performances, or sexually oriented material,… |
| 18-8737 | Mario Bachiller v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-09 | GVR | IFP | categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit johnson-retroactivity mandatory-minimum residual-clause retroactivity section-924c vagueness vagueness-doctrine | I. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), applies retroactively to a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion attacking a conviction and sentence im… |
| 18-8738 | Noe Machado-Erazo and Jose Martinez-Amaya v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-trial physical-force sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Whether a state statute can be said to require the "use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of anoth… |
| 18-8725 | Saiydin Abdullan Muhammad v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender common-law-robbery criminal-law north-carolina north-carolina-law predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether North Carolina common law robbery qualifies as a predicate offense to support a designation of career offender |
| 18-8726 | In Re Stetory Calhoun | 2019-04-08 | Denied | IFP | alabama capital-offenses constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law death-penalty due-process gang-related-murder legislative-intent legislative-process statutory-interpretation | I. WHETHER ACT NO. 92-601, AS ENROLLED, AND APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, (CODIFIED AS SUBSECTIONS (15), (16), (17), AND (18), OF … | |
| 18-8729 | Alan Kenneth Thompson, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction united-states-v-peter | In light of United States v Peter, 310 F.3d 709 (11th C ir 2002), does the ambiguousness of the nature of the term "material" within Title 18 USC 2252… |
| 18-8662 | Howard Lawson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history-classification criminal-law due-process florida-criminal-law predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent | Whether Petitioner's prior aggravated assault under Fla. Stat. § 784.021 and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon pursuant to Fla. Stat. 784.045 qu… |
| 18-8619 | In Re Derrell L. Gilchrist | 2019-03-29 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process first-step-act habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation | CAN PETITIONER SEEK RELIEF PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C § 2241 TO ADDRESS CLARIFICATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C) IN THE FIRST STEP ACT OF 2O18. | |
| 18-8625 | Jennifer N. Nere v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation constitutional-rights contributing-cause controlled-substances criminal-law drug-induced-homicide due-process illinois-supreme-court precedent reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation | Whether the defendant may be convicted under the Illinois drug induced homicide Statute when the use of the controlled substance was a "contributing c… |
| 18-8603 | Gralyn Leon White v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting brandishing consecutive-sentences criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit first-step-act hobbs-act united-states-v-lewis | Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Err by Failing to Apply the Holdings of United States v. Lewis, 907 F.3d 891, 894-95 (5th Cir. 2018). to Hobb's… |
| 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 … |
| 18-8489 | Danny R. Moore v. Gene Beasley, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2019-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-precedent mathis-decision retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) should apply. Whether the Saving Clause Of § 2255 Applies to claim |
| 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… |
| 18-8445 | Tommy McAdoo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-bank-robbery federal-statute intimidation physical-force sentencing violent-physical-force | The Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits broadly interpret "intimidation" as used in the federal bank robbery statute for sufficiency purposes,… |
| 18-8455 | Marc Shiroma v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery constitutional crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-bank-robbery ussg-4b1.2 void-for-vagueness | 1. Is a threatened use of physical force against the person of another an element of federal bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. §2113(a), so as to make it a crim… |
| 18-8469 | Edwin Oland Andrus v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2422(b) age-of-consent coercion consensual-sexual-activity criminal-attempt criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process enticement entrapment federal-criminal-law mens-rea minor sexual-activity statutory-interpretation | The plain language of the crime of attempted enticement or coercion, pursuant to 18 U.S.C § 2422(b), requires that a person under the age of 18 must b… |
| 18-8417 | Robert Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-13 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-287 circuit-split criminal-law false-claim false-claims false-claims-act good-faith-defense knowledge mens-rea statutory-interpretation willfulness | I. In a prosecution for filing a false claim against the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 287, does the mens rea element require a showing of… |
| 18-8391 | Nam Nhat Ngo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8393 | Irma Ovalles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine | Whether the residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), where the text and legislative history demand the categorical approach, is unconstitutionally… |
| 18-8394 | Asim Shakir Daniels v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process equal-protection federal-crime federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-1182 | Scott Ogle v. Texas | Texas | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights content-based-regulation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication electronic-communications first-amendment free-speech intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine | Does a statute criminalizing electronically communicated speech that is both intended and reasonably likely to annoy, alarm, or embarrass another pers… |
| 18-8359 | Jarrett Terrell Edwards v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.1 u.s.s.g.-4b1.1(a) | Whether the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed error by sentencing the Petitioner as a career offender pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 4B1… |
| 18-8360 | Fernando Castillo-Quintanilla v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif sentencing strict-liability | I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |
| 18-8333 | Jorge Sosa v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 criminal-law due-process racketeering racketeering-enterprise statutory-interpretation vagueness violent-crime violent-crime-in-aid-of-racketeering | I. Whether a VICAR conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) can be sustained when a gang member commits a violent act that is unrelated to the racketeerin… |
| 18-8339 | Joshua E. Shepherd v. Jeffrey E. Krueger, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca-prior-conviction acca-purposes constitutional-interpretation constitutional-issue criminal-law due-process federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts prior-conviction sentencing state-case-law state-courts state-statute state-statute-analysis statutory-interpretation | Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is "generic" for ACCA purposes based solely on another federal co… |
| 18-8355 | Mario Chester Tabron v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burglary burglary-element criminal-enhancement criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Did the Fourth Circuit and the Middle district Of North Carolina (Greensboro) err in affirming the USSG 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) 4-Level enhancement without … |
| 18-8324 | Johnny Madison Williams, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime | 1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)? 2. C… |
| 18-8327 | Robert Nathan Alm v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-interpretation specific-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8329 | Aristides Duartez, Jr., aka Aristedes Duartez, Jr. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the elements cause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(A). |
| 18-8302 | Dominique Dontae Lasker v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach courts-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-definition specific-intent statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8311 | Ademolla Wahhed Adeyemi, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-bank-robbery general-intent-crime sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) or U.S.S.G. § … |
| 18-8313 | John Allen Newton v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause general-intent intent intimidation statutory-interpretation violent-physical-force | Is federal carjacking by intimidation not a crime of violence offense fails to require any intentional use, attempted use, or threatened use of violen… |
| 18-8267 | Vincent Green v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ACCA acca-offender armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure enumerated-offense o.c.g.a.-16-7-1 sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation | PETITIONER'S SENTENCE AS AN ACCA OFFENDER MUST BE SET ASIDE, WHEREAS O.C.G.A. § 16-7-1 IS NOT A VIABLE ENUMERATED OFFENSE PREDICATE, BASED UPON THIS C… |
| 18-8281 | Michael Torres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924c bank-robbery carter-v-united-states circuit-split crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-intent criminal-law intimidation-statute leocal-v-ashcroft reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation | Did, as the First, Fourth, Sixth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits seemed to believe, this Court in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255 (2000), add an addit… |
| 18-8294 | Demetrius Fitzgerald v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law deadly-weapon federal-sentencing-guidelines florida-law florida-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime violent-felony | I. Whether the Florida offense of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in violation of Fla. Stat. § 784.045, is a violent felony as defined by the … |
| 18-1141 | Sandra Brown v. New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medicine | New Hampshire | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-agency controlled-drug-act controlled-substances criminal-law enforcement-authority jurisdiction pharmacy-board regulatory-inspection separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction. Whether the New Hampshire Supreme Court erred in failing to find that the New Hampshire Board of Veterinary Medic… |
| 18-8256 | Mustafa Ahmad Naushad v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach courts-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery judicial-discretion legal-definition specific-intent statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence violent-physical-force | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8266 | Tamim Abdul-Samad, aka Tamin Abdul-Samad, aka Brandon Harris v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c 924(c) bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach courts-of-appeals criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-definition statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8211 | Russell Berger v. James Gibson, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-03-01 | Denied | IFP | ada civil-rights criminal-law disability discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-statute judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-safeguards standing statutory-interpretation | 1) Can a persons height be a disability under Tithe II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42U.s.C.8 12102(1)(A)-(C)? 2) Can a "Strike" be access… |
| 18-8200 | Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-law due-process legislative-intent official-discretion parole punishment-proportionality sentencing-discretion standing statutory-interpretation takings | Assuming the Circuit Courts Application oF The June 15, 1989-Amended PArole Statute in Texas, By The 71 sT Legislature, strategicly Dismantling The SA… |
| 18-8205 | Elamin Bashir v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process individualized-jury-finding jury-finding jury-instructions mandatory-minimum sentencing | I. WHETHER THE MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE WAS IMPROPERLY IMPOSED FOR DRUG-TRAFFICKING CONSPIRACY, BECAUSE INDIVIDUALIZED JURY FINDING AS TO QUANTITY O… |
| 18-1126 | Mufasa Wilson Sejour v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response Waived | commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution hobbs-act interstate-commerce jurisdictional-reach local-business robbery sentencing | In today's world, there is no such thing as a purely local business. All businesses use credit card machines, access the internet, and purchase out-of… |
| 18-1122 | Alpenglow Botanicals, LLC, et al. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 26-usc-280e administrative-determination administrative-determinations administrative-law civil-rights criminal-culpability criminal-law criminal-penalties drug-crimes drug-trafficking due-process irs irs-investigation section-280e standing tax tax-deductions tax-law | 1) Did Congress, under 26 U.S.C. §280E, empower the IRS and its civil auditors to investigate federal drug law crimes and administratively determine w… |
| 18-8063 | Shaun Mark Lawler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-25 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-assault constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon due-process equal-protection family-violence guilty-plea heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder sentencing statutory-punishment | In Texas, a person who commits aggravated assault - family violence by causing serious bodily injury to his girlfriend with a deadly weapon is subject… |
| 18-8076 | Elijah Loren Arthur, Sr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1 18-usc-16 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) define only one crime, as held by the Seventh and Ninth Circuits, or two crimes, as held by the Sixth and Eighth Circuits? … |
| 18-8093 | John Ferreira v. Georgia | Georgia | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legislative-amendment legislative-deference statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Did The State of Georgia err, and law violate the Fourteenth Amendment and Eighth Amendment by upholding Libel and Slander and Concludes that 'the Sta… |
| 18-8059 | Christopher David Simmons v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922g1 alderman-v-united-states bond-v-united-states commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power federal-statute felon-in-possession gun-control national-federation-of-independent-business-v-sebe police-power second-amendment | In light of Bond v. United States, Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Bus. v. United States; does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possession of a Firearm statute (18… |
| 18-8064 | Fernando Luviano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute document-falsification evidence federal-investigation obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-standard statutory-interpretation | Should this Court grant the petition for writ of certiorari to resolve the circuit split of whether 18 U.S.C. § 1519 requires the government to prove … |
| 18-8068 | Frankie Hill, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c) bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crime intimidation legal-interpretation specific-intent statutory-construction sufficiency-of-the-evidence | Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8069 | Eric Gonzalez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-241 18-usc-242 agreement civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law due-process enhanced-penalties federal-statute proximate-cause spontaneous-event statutory-interpretation | Whether conspiracy liability under 18 U.S.C. § 241 may be premised on unsubstantiated inferences of an agreement or mere participation in a spontaneou… |
| 18-8025 | Michael St. Hubert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation unconstitutionally-vague vagueness | 1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstit utionally vague, given the Court's holding in… |
| 18-7993 | Ronald Bedford v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-111 18-usc-1114 contractor criminal-law employee-status federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction government-contracts obstruction-of-justice official-duties postal-service statutory-interpretation trucking-contractor | Whether an employee of a private trucking contractor that maintains a contract with the United States Postal Service ("USPS") to haul mail is a person… |
| 18-7994 | Daniel H. King v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure custody-transfer district-of-columbia due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether someone serving a sentence imposed by the District of Columbia whose physical custody was transferred to the Bureau of Prisons is "in the cust… |
| 18-7973 | Jaime Villa v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery burden-of-proof crime-of-violence criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence | I. Whether There Was Insufficient Evidence To Prove Villa Guilty Beyond A Reasonable Doubt? II. Whether Armed Bank Robbery Constitutes A Crime Of Vio… |
| 18-7979 | Eric K. Watkins v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness | Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3) (B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal c… |
| 18-7984 | James Scott Ervin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit north-carolina statutory-interpretation violent-felony | I. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Petitioner's rights to due process by not following this Court's prior holdings, when it determ… |
| 18-7936 | Jaquan Henderson v. Greg Skipper, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure duress legal-justification murder statutory-interpretation | WHETHER DURESS IS AN AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE PRIOR TO AN OCCURRE NCE OF MURDER? |
| 18-7950 | Marquette Walker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law premises-liability search-and-seizure | DOES NONEXCLUSIVE POSSESSION OF A PREMISES SERVE TO ESTABLISH CONSTRUCTIVE POSSESSION OF ITEMS FOUND WITHIN THE PREMISES. |
| 18-7878 | John Timothy Cannon, aka Mr. JT v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment fourth-circuit jurisprudence | WHETHER the interpretation of conspiracy in the FourthCircuit is overbroad, violating the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment departing from t… |
| 18-7883 | Daniel Arthur Carter v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c) armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause general-intent intent intimidation retroactivity sentencing | 1. Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) … |
| 18-7836 | Michael Travis Moore v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 18-usc-924c3a armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-crimes general-intent intimidation specific-intent statutory-interpretation | Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) is … |
| 18-7779 | Kenneth William Kirkland v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law destructive-device federal-courts federal-courts-split federal-statute firearm firearm-regulation firearms parts-possession statutory-interpretation unregistered-firearm | Whether a combination of parts designed or intended for use as a bomb can qualify as a "destructive device" under 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(4) and 26 U.S.C. … |
| 18-7784 | Liston David, aka Liston Oswanio David, aka Smiley, aka Seal A. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 bank-robbery categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-criminal-law statutory-interpretation | Can federal bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) be a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), where the off… |
| 18-7773 | Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alien-smuggling appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review guidelines-interpretation immigration risk-assessment sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation | Petitioner, Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza, pleaded guilty to, and was convicted of, the federal offense of conspiring to harbor undocumented aliens. The… |
| 18-7735 | Michael Kenta Davis v. Justin Andrews, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Question One: WHETHER THE S. C.. CODE ANN 44-53-370 IS OVERLYBROD AND INDIVISBLE AND NO LONGER QUALIFIES IN LIGHT OF BOTH MATHIS V US AND DESCAMPS? … |
| 18-7744 | Corey Clark v. Alabama | Alabama | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto retroactivity | 1- DOES THE STATE OF ALABAMAS ACT 2OIY-IGS VIOLATE THE EX POST FACTO CLAUSE OF THE TEVO PURPOSE'S. 2) DOES THE STATE OF ALABAMA'S ACT 2OIY-I6S THAT R… |
| 18-7712 | Andre Mims v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act-robbery johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-vagueness vagueness | 1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague, given the Court's holding in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138… |
| 18-7720 | Howard Webber v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split consent consent-defense criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute identity-theft mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Can a defendant commit aggravated identity theft in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028A by using another person's identifying information with that person'… |
| 18-7722 | Rodrigo Escobedo-Coronado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-offense federal-sentencing mens-rea model-penal-code state-survey statutory-interpretation | Does the federal generic aggravated assault offense require more than a merely reckless mens rea, as determined by the Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Circuit… |
| 18-7726 | Carlton Williams v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law federal-criminal-law pattern-of-racketeering predicate-crime racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Is a sentencing court limited to applying a categorical approach when determining whether a conviction for violating the Federal Racketeer Influence a… |
| 18-7621 | Jacoby Burns v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-law elements-clause physical-force sentencing sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I. Does a conviction under Georgia's felony obstruction-of-an-officer statute, OCGA § 16-10-24(b), qualify as either a "crime of violence" under the e… |
| 18-7680 | Hector Cirino v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c3b armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional | 1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)? 2. C… |
| 18-7692 | Byron Anthony Horn v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining pleading reasonable-doubt reasonable-sentence sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether facts that alter the range of "reasonable" federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-7700 | Luther Gene Ray v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process federal-statute force-requirement human-trafficking interstate-commerce mens-rea sentencing sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction resulting in a fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 1591 requires, as the statute says, that force "was used… |
| 18-7669 | Bertulio Moreno-Alvarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment firearms second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | L. Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5) violates the Second and Fifth Amendments? |
| 18-7649 | Sergeyi Bazar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | caminetti-v-united-states criminal-law federal-law mann-act mann-act-18-usc-2422 prostitution sex-trafficking sexual-conduct sexual-intercourse statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-bitty | 1. When Congress amended the Mann Act (18 U.S.C. § 2422) in 1986, did it overrule this Court's decisions in United States v. Bitty, 208 U.S. 393 (1908… |
| 18-7652 | Brian Anderson v. Colorado | Colorado | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights colorado-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Does Colorado Revised Statutes 18-3-302 Supersede Nelson V. Colorado 137 S.CT. 1249 (2017). |
| 18-989 | United States v. Marvin Lewis | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (3) | 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-offense firearms statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-7602 | Percy Elwayne Demerson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922g1 alderman-v-united-states bond-v-united-states commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law felon-in-possession national-federation-of-independent-business-v-sebe police-power statutory-interpretation | In light of Bond v. United States, Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Bus. v. United States, and United States v. Lopez, does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possess… |
| 18-7572 | Vernon Montrell Webster v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-25 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | alternative-means armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process generic-burglary generic-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the locations under Wisconsin's burglary statute are alternative means——a question pending resolution from the Wisconsin Supreme Court—mak… |
| 18-7490 | Dan Reed v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-24 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 8th-amendment criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the "knowingly" provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2) applies to both the possession and status elements of a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) crime? This C… |
| 18-7515 | Jafaria Deforrest Newton v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-penalty due-process equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment presumption religious-worship statutory-presumption | 1. Whether the presumption in § 407(b)(2) —that structures with traditional characteristics associated with churches or synagogues are places used pri… |
| 18-7542 | Pamela Suzanne Harnden v. St. Clair County, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process implied-private-right implied-private-right-of-action kidnapping statute-of-limitations tolling | Do the 5th and 14th Amendments justify the tolling of a civil action during the course of a criminal action? As kidnapping does not have a federal st… |
| 18-7543 | Rodney Landingham v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-24 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime void-for-vagueness | 1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)? 2. C… |
| 18-7500 | Clay O'Brien Mann v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-22 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-113 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act assault crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause firearm-discharge mens-rea recklessness violent-crime | Whether a felony offense with a recklessness mens rea, such as reckless driving while intoxicated, satisfies the requirements of the elements clauses … |
| 18-7485 | Marcus Noel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction hostage-taking international-law jurisdictional-elements mens-rea nationality necessary-and-proper-clause treaty-power | 1. When the United States prosecutes a foreign national for kidnapping a United States citizen in a foreign country, must the government prove that th… |
| 18-7470 | Carl Lee Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-17 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2119 18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c carjacking categorical-approach crimes-of-violence criminal-law federal-carjacking intimidation physical-force residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. Is federal carjacking by way of intimidation a crime of violence as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s force clause? 2. In light of this Court'… |
| 18-7473 | William Dale Albright v. Kansas | Kansas | 2019-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne alleyne-decision alleyne-v-united-states apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent | QUESTION 1: DOES THIS COURT'S DECISION IN ALLEYNE V. UNITED STATES, 570 US 99 (2013) ANNOUNCE A NEW RULE OR WAS IT DICTATED BY APPRENDI V. NEW JERSEY,… |
| 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… |
| 18-7417 | Omari Robinson v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process illinois illinois-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-vagueness vagueness weapon-enhancement | 1. Is the mandatory 25-year-to-life weapon enhancement imposed by Illinois courts unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-7445 | Lennis A. George v. Jason Kent, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-manslaughter constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence procedural-history standard-of-review | Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Lennis George of attempted manslaughter? Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the state court f… |
| 18-7453 | Corey Kirkpatrick Sterling v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness sentencing-review vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2)'s residual clause is void for vagueness vis-à-vis defendants sentenced under the pre-Booker mandatory Guidelines. Whet… |
| 18-7432 | Cornell W. Barber v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute curtis-johnson-v-united-states mens-rea reckless reckless-conduct reckless-mens-rea united-states-v-castleman violent-felony | I. Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea -- in this case, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon under D.C. Code § 22402, which can be violated… |
| 18-7387 | James Dennis Lenihan, III v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3a carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-offense force-clause statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether the federal offense of carjacking, as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 2119, categorically qualifies as a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(… |
| 18-7306 | Michael Martin Steele v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-mental-state due-process immigration immigration-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability united-states-v-x-citement-video | Did the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits misconstrue the mens-rea requirements of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(B), when they created an aggravated felony for "il… |
| 18-7323 | Robert Willis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum violent-felony | GROUND (I) WHETHER PETITIONER WILLIS'S 'B&E OCCUPIED' IS A VIOLENT FELONY UNDER ACCA? GROUND (II) WHETHER PETITIONER WILLIS'S DRUG TRAFFICKING CONVIC… |
| 18-7331 | Ishmael Douglas v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-01-09 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | categorical-analysis circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine | Whether the residual clause of 18 U. S. C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague. |
| 18-7340 | Eric Dillon v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process federal-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-battle | SINCE 18 U.S.C. 924(j) Is A DISCRETE OFFENSE THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN A MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE OR REQUIRE A CONSECUTIVE S,DID THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT APP… |
| 18-7287 | Lamont LaPrade v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c appeal collateral-attack crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process firearm-offense predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1) To Charge with 924c) (crime of violence) must sustain Conviction with connection, with Predicate Offense. 2) That, if on Collateral Attack (2255),… |
| 18-7291 | Dillon Wade Thompson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberation digital-cameras due-process evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion jury jury-deliberations lewd-exhibition prosecutorial-misconduct trial | Is it a violation of a defendant's Due Process rights if, while deliberating, the fact-finder viewed evidence that was not shown at trial, even if sai… |
| 18-7292 | Marco Whitley, Sr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-client-privilege attorney-client-relationship crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit prejudice second-degree-robbery sentencing sixth-amendment violent-crime | Did the Eighth Circuit err by holding Missouri's Second Degree Robbery is always considered to necessarily be a crime of violence? Did the Eighth Cir… |
| 18-858 | James McCullars v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response Waived | advertisement advertising-statute communication-privacy criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-interpretation notice notice-and-advertisement private-communications statutory-interpretation trial-evidence | Whether the proof at trial which established that petitioner was only engaged in private, closed communications - either one-to-one, or among a small … |
| 18-7241 | Mary-Ann Bernadette Kerrigan v. QBE Insurance Corporation | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bad-faith-investigation breach-of-contract civil-rights consumer-protection criminal-activity criminal-damages criminal-law due-process insurance insurance-coverage insurance-investigation insurance-regulations procedural-error property-damage property-rights statute-of-limitations | Can this court determine it is "extremely unusual and extraordinary circumstances" for QBE insurance and their adjusters to deny coverage by attributi… |
| 18-7183 | Christopher Jude Martin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consequential-damages criminal-law criminal-valuation damages enhancements evidence legal-damages property-damage restitution restitution-order sufficiency-of-evidence valuation | A. Whether there was sufficient evidence that the value of the items at the time that Mr. Martin damaged them was over $1,000? B. Whether Mr. Martin … |
| 18-7185 | Santos Orlando Diaz-Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review | Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which holds that a prior conviction that increases the maxi… |
| 18-7143 | Derian Eidson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1956 18-usc-1956-a-3 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution government-sting money-laundering proceeds-definition specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation | Whether the criminal prohibitions against money laundering contained in 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1) based on financial transactions that "in fact involvel]… |
| 18-7141 | Luis Rey Gonzalez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overruling precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Should this Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)? |
| 18-7166 | Gerard Mann v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-21 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine | Whether the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague in light of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct.… |
| 18-7133 | Paul Burks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-tax due-process elements federal-courts federal-prosecution indictment indictment-elements pretrial-motion statutory-interpretation substantive-law tax-law uncertainty | Contrary to the rule in James v. United States, 366 U.S. 213 (1961), is the substantial existence of uncertainty in the governing substantive tax law … |
| 18-7152 | Yosnel Bonet v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-power federal-prosecution firearm-possession firearms intrastate intrastate-commerce legal-authority possession second-amendment standing supreme-court-review | Question not identified. |
| 18-7154 | John Visconti v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | boulware-precedent boulware-v-united-states corporate-fraud corporate-governance corporate-stock criminal-law criminal-procedure distribution-interpretation legal-classification return-of-capital securities-law shareholder-rights statutory-interpretation stock-distribution tax-evasion unlawful-diversion | Whether an unlawful diversion may be deemed a "distribution . . . with respect to [a corporation's] stock," the question expressly left open in Boulwa… |
| 18-7103 | Rene Garcia-Montejo, aka Bibian Garcia-Montejo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-law due-process found-in-doctrine illegal-entry immigration-authorities immigration-law official-restraint official-restraint-doctrine statutory-interpretation surveillance | 1. Whether the "official restraint" doctrine precludes the possibility that that a defendant can be illegally "found in" the United States, for purpos… |
| 18-7109 | Tshombe Miller v. Ohio | Ohio | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-charging criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process juror-consensus jury-consensus ohio-constitution rape-allegations united-states-constitution | Is "carbon copy" charging of multiple allegations of rape violative of due process and/or double jeopardy pursuant to the United States and Ohio Const… |
| 18-7114 | Earle D. Williams v. California | California | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-kidnapping asportation constitutional-vagueness criminal-law dimaya-precedent due-process kidnapping penal-code sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether California Penal Code Section 209(b) is unconstitutionally vague under Sessions v. Dimaya, 584 U.S. ___, 138 S.Ct. 1204 (2018), as applied to … |
| 18-7123 | Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-19 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | criminal-defendant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession firearms legal-knowledge mens-rea second-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-offense | Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924 require the government to prove a criminal defendant's mens rea as to each substantive element of the enumerated s… |
| 18-7126 | Ishmael Abdullah v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-criminal-statute state-statute statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's holding that New Jersey Statute §2C:12-1(b)(2), one of the subsections of New … |
| 18-7075 | Patrick Martinez v. Texas | Texas | 2018-12-18 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Lafler-v-Cooper parole parole-eligibility plea-bargaining reasonable-probability sixth-amendment | Texas courts found no ineffective assistance of counsel in this criminal case where the Petitioner, Sergeant Patrick Martinez, rejected a pretrial ple… |
| 18-7088 | Oscar Raul Mora v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearms second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause. |
| 18-7067 | Derrick Christopher Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-law divisible-statute drug-offense modified-categorical-approach plain-error prior-state-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER PETITIONER'S "PRIOR STATE DRUG OFFENSES" QUALIFIED AS ENUMERATED OFFENSES UNDER THE "CAREER CRIMINAM" PROVISION OF THE UNITED STATES SENTENCIN… |
| 18-7032 | Reginald L. Lomax v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-law drug-offense federal-drug-law federal-preemption mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences state-criminal-law statutory-interpretation | The question presented in this case is whether, as the circuit court held, a state statute criminalizing possession of "counterfeit" controlled substa… |
| 18-7036 | Frank Richardson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-14 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery modified-categorical-approach statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | In Sessions v. Dimaya , 138 S. Ct. 1204, 1223 (2018) this Court recently struck down as unconstitutionally vague the Immigration and Nationality Act's… |
| 18-7037 | Gerald L. Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b-6 criminal-law district-court due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ii johnson-v-united-states judicial-procedure retroactivity rule-60b sentencing welch-v-united-states | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND EIGHTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER'S TRUE RULE 60(B) (6), WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO ADDRESS PETITIONER'… |
| 18-7056 | David Leonard Johnson v. California | California | 2018-12-14 | Denied | IFP | california-law criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-lesser-included-offense descamps-standard due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense prejudicial-error prior-convictions receiving-stolen-property robbery | I. IS THE CRIME OF RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY A LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE OF ROBBERY, AND IF SO, WAS THE TRIAL COURT'S FAILURE. TO INSTRUCT ON RECEIV… |
| 18-7000 | Luis Rolando Bueno Jimenez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-12 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-3553(f) circuit-split criminal-law drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minimum senten… |
| 18-7005 | Denis Aviles Salguero v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment sentencing | Whether Petitioner's convictions for receipt and possession of child pornography violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment. |
| 18-752 | Edward Taupier v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2018-12-12 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure criminal-law free-speech mens-rea negligence objective-standard recklessness scienter speech-act state-of-mind true-threats | The first question presented is: Whether in a prosecution for speech under the "true threats" doctrine an objective standard of mere recklessness is s… |
| 18-6972 | Manuel Pereira-Gomez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause physical-force robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the New York State offense of robbery is a "crime of violence," that is, an offense that "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threate… |
| 18-6981 | Dexter Leon Surratt v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto north-carolina punitive-restrictions retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe | The first generation of sex offender registration statutes required only that offenders register with the government and that information about the of… |
| 18-6985 | Dwayne Barrett, aka Sealed Defendant 3, aka Tall Man v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-12-11 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness, a question that evenly divides six Courts of Appeals. |
| 18-6991 | Julius King Rambo, III v. Kansas | Tenth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights corpus-delecti corpus-delicti criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence falsification-of-evidence perjury statutory-interpretation | Whether it is legal, lawful, and constitutional for states to manipulate distinctly explained statutes in order to present charges. Consequently, char… |
| 18-6993 | Jamie Todd Bjerke v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | court-of-appeals criminal-law force-clause gvr-order light-resistance petition-for-writ-of-certiorari predicate-conviction predicate-offense procedural-thesis robbery sentencing-determinations sentencing-guidelines state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation substantive-thesis united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Whether a state robbery offense that permits a conviction for use of force sufficient to overcome light resistance qualifies as a predicate conviction… |
| 18-6977 | James Edward Mitchell v. California | California | 2018-12-10 | Denied | IFP | california california-law constitution constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process inhabitance-standard jury-instruction jury-instructions residential-burglary statutory-interpretation | DOES THE STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTION FOR RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY IN CALIFORNIA VIOLATE THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WHERE IT FAILS TO CONVEY THAT THE "DI… |
| 18-6937 | Steven Arthur Morrill v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit jury-instructions mens-rea sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | It is a crime for a person to induce or attempt to induce a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity. 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b). The statute criminalizes … |
| 18-6956 | Jason Dirk Walton v. Florida, et al. | Florida | 2018-12-07 | Denied | IFP | capital-murder criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-unanimity resentencing retrospective-application retrospective-law sentencing-elements substantive-criminal-law | 1. When changes in a state's substantive criminal set out the elements of capital murder which the prosecution must prove to the satisfaction of a una… |
| 18-6900 | Jacob Scott Watters v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law predicate-offense relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-law visual-depictions | As written, and by the actual language used in the Statute, is 18 U.S.C. §2251(a) in excess of Congress' Powers under the Commerce Clause to. regulate… |
| 18-6914 | Daniel Rojas v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law force hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states physical-force section-2255 section-924c sentencing violent-crime | I. What amount of force satisfies this Court's definition of "physical force," that is, force capable of causing physical pain or injury to another pe… |
| 18-6920 | Clyde Retiz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining reasonable-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether facts that alter the range of "reasonable" federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-6911 | Adrian Pineda-Orozco v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility affirmative-defense criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure duress-defense family-member fifth-circuit miscarriage-of-justice sentencing | 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion permitting Pineda-Orasco's conviction to stand resulted in a miscarriage of justice given the lo… |
| 18-6912 | Bryant Lamar Monie v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-conviction persistent-felony-offender sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Defendant's Kentucky Drug trafficking conviction, which carries a maximum sentence of five (5) years and was enhanced by Kentucky's Per… |
| 18-6858 | Micah G. Pritchett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law distribution drug-distribution federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation virginia virginia-law | Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 18-6859 | James Myers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-sentencing divisibility enumerated-offenses force-clause mathis-principles mathis-v-united-states statutory-divisibility statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Do the principles regarding a statute's divisibility announced in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016), apply both to offenses analyzed und… |
| 18-6865 | Adony Nina v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-statute due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-element prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation united-states | Whether Title 18 U.S.C. § 2 (Aiding and Abetting) Requires the Prosecution to prove Beyond A Reasonable Doubt The Jurisdictional Element By Establishi… |
| 18-6870 | James Frederick v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | acca-elements-clause bodily-harm categorical-approach causation-of-harm circuit-split criminal-law curtis-johnson duenas-alvarez florida-battery-statute statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-force | In Curtis Johnson v. United States, 559 U.S. 133, 140 (2010), the Court defined the term "physical force" in the ACCA's elements clause to mean "viole… |
| 18-6852 | Arnold Bennett Caldwell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Relisted (7)IFP | 34-usc-20913 administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-law constitutional-nondelegation criminal-law due-process nondelegation-doctrine notification-act separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation | Whether the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act's delegation to the Attorney General in 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) (formerly 42 U.S.C. § 16913(d)… |
| 18-6801 | Van McDuffy v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accidental-killing bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute felony-murder intent mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation | What intent, if any, beyond the intent to commit bank robbery, is required to sustain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e), which imposes a mandator… |
| 18-6809 | Desmond Camp v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c categorical-analysis constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act Hobbs-Act-robbery physical-violence residual-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness | 1. May Hobbs Act robbery serve as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C.§ 924(c) when Hobbs Act robbery does not match the elements clause of S… |
| 18-682 | Manuel Enrique Santana v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | aggravated-identity-theft appellate-conflict circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federalism identity-theft means-of-identification name statutory-interpretation | Whether the use of a name, without more, constitutes the use of a "means of identification of another person" under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A. | |
| 18-6830 | Francisco Heredia-Silva v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | california-penal-code circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing due-process federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorist-threats violent-crime | Should this court resolve the split between the Fifth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit about whether California terrorist threats convictions under Calif… |
| 18-6798 | Elvin Hill v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act-robbery intangible-property physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-force | 1. Under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), an offense qualifies as a "crime of violence" -- required for conviction under § 924(c)(1), … |
| 18-6748 | Malachi M. Glass v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense federal-law federal-sentencing pennsylvania pennsylvania-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. WHETHER THE BROADER PENNSYLVANIA DELIVERY OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE STATUTE, 35 PA. C.S.A. § 780-113(A)(30), QUALIFIES AS A "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE O… |
| 18-6757 | Ronald Ray Norman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law descamps-v-united-states divisibility divisibility-analysis federal-sentencing means-versus-elements sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-text violent-felony | I. What role does the text of a statute play in the divisibility analysis under the categorical approach of the Armed Career Criminal Act? II. Is the… |
| 18-6768 | Michael Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines mens-rea resisting-arrest state-criminal-law statutory-interpretation violence violent-crime | 1. Whether the quantum of force required by the elements of the Florida offense of resisting with violence, Fla. Stat. § 843.01, is sufficient to qual… |
| 18-6771 | Johny Gardner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearms firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause. |
| 18-6774 | Jimmy L. Thompson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession firearm-charges predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-statute | Whether a conviction based on a statute that has been held void ab initio can be used to increase punishment as a predicate felony pursuant to 18 U.S.… |
| 18-6751 | Patrick McIntosh v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-4243 civil-commitment criminal-law due-process mental-disease mental-disease-or-defect mental-health-law personality-disorder statutory-interpretation | Does a severe personality disorder constitute a mental disease or defect under 18 U.S.C. § 4243(c)(d) civil commitment provision? |
| 18-6737 | Jose Lopez-Castillo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | booker booker-decision constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-21 | Whether the mandatory-sentencing regime of Title 21 has been abrogated by United States v. Booker and its progeny. |
| 18-6714 | Maikel Suarez Plasencia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion judicial-procedure sentencing trial-procedure | Question not identified. |
| 18-6706 | Jeremiah Davis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-15 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-law criminal-law enhanced-penalties predicate-offense reckless-driving sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a Tennessee aggravated assault conviction, which does not require proof that the defendant caused serious bodily injury or used or displayed a… |
| 18-6707 | Alberto Jair Proa-Dominguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offenses drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea statutory-interpretation strict-liability | L In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally' mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) a… |
| 18-6712 | Bryan Marque Gilstrap v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism preemption state-rights state-sovereignty | Whether the case should be held in light of any case establishing limitations on Congressional power to criminalize areas of traditional state respons… |
| 18-6665 | Maurice T. Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-analysis categorical-approach criminal-law drug-offenses drug-trafficking due-process felony-drug-offense recidivism recidivist-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1). Whether it was the intent of congress to restrict the application of § 841 recidivist enhancement to previous drug trafficking crimes which are te… |
| 18-616 | Roger Nepal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law criminal-procedure de-novo-review direct-appeal Griffith-v-Kentucky plain-error retroactivity standard-of-review substantive-law | Where the Supreme Court has changed the substantive law governing a criminal case that is on direct appeal, must Griffith v. Kentucky be applied to th… |
| 18-6671 | Jimmy David Malone v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | acca constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federalism generic-conviction state-courts state-statute statutory-interpretation | Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is "generic" for ACCA purposes based on an independent interpreta… |
| 18-614 | In Re George Houston | 2018-11-09 | Denied | alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey collateral-review conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-quantity jurisdictional-error mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether it is the individualized drug quantity that is a fact that increases the mandatory minimum sentence or whether the amount of drugs attributabl… | ||
| 18-606 | Dimitrios N. Kesari, aka Dimitri Kesari v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-11-08 | Denied | campaign-finance criminal-law disbursement-disclosure disclosure-requirements false-reporting federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission purpose-statements reporting-requirements | The Federal Election Campaign Act ("FECA") requires that candidates for federal elected office report certain disbursements to the Federal Election Co… | |
| 18-601 | John Frederick Tate, aka John M. Tate v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-11-07 | Denied | Amici (3) | agency-jurisdiction circuit-split criminal-law false-statements federal-election-commission jurisdiction materiality obstruction obstruction-of-justice obstruction-statute remand | 1. Does an agency's receipt of information over which it has no authority to act implicate a "matter within" the agency's "jurisdiction" under 18 U.S.… |
| 18-6563 | Jesus R. Gonzalez-Negron v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process factual-basis firearm-possession firearms guilty-plea machine-gun-possession plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation | Is evidence of a loaded machine gun and drugs within a person's residence an adequate factual basis to support a guilty plea to possession of a firear… |
| 18-6564 | Cephus Hollis v. United States | District of Columbia | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process due-process,criminal-law,statutory-interpretation, sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation unauthorized-vehicle-use vehicle-theft | Whether the DC Court of Appeals' erroneous statutory interpretation of the DC statute criminalizing unauthorized taking, use or operating a vehicle "t… |
| 18-6566 | Jara Meotta Ishon Flowers v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | bribery case-overturning civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extortion judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-precedent precedent racketeering stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | In Ocasio v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1423 (2016), separate opinions by Justice Thomas and Justice Breyer questioned whether Euans v. United States, … |
| 18-6581 | Larry Hailey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-enhancement crimes-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines virginia-prior-convictions | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Appeal from Denial of His Motion Under 28 US.C. § 2255 Wherein Petitioner… |
| 18-6583 | Dionysius Fiumano v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1343 criminal-law due-process due-process-notice federal-communications-commission fifth-amendment fraud johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines skilling-v-united-states statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine welch-v-united-states | DOES THE UNDEFINED ELEMENT "SCHEME TO DEFRAUD" IN 18 U.S.C. § 1343 SATISFY FIFTH AMENDMENT DUE PROCESS NOTICE REQUIREMENTS IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT'S DE… |
| 18-6589 | Liddon Young v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court criminal-law criminal-procedure false-statement false-statements materiality obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-enhancement stipulation | 1. When a defendant admits to all the elements of an offense/enhancement, does a prevarication on details not effecting the question of guilt render t… |
| 18-6569 | Mark Lee Murray v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-consecutive-sentence residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B). 2. Whether ge… |
| 18-6545 | Frankie Calanche Lopez v. California | California | 2018-11-02 | Denied | IFP | appeal criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process intent intent-element mens-rea opportunistic-crime robbery robbery-intent statutory-interpretation | Does it matter. Appeal's Court Judge States It Consequently, whether defendant intended to commit robbery from the moment he first approached or punce… |
| 18-6468 | Bernabe Lugo-Santiago v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm firearm-regulation firearms indictment interstate-commerce jury-finding jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden | This case presents 3 narrow and discrete questions for this Court to consider, viz. - what happens when (a) the Government fails to allege in an indic… |
| 18-6482 | Roger Alfred Anchundia-Espinoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-3553(f) criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-safety-valve united-states-v-mosquera-murillo | Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim… |
| 18-6461 | Gerren K. Love v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines causation-element circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-classification criminal-law force-definition sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-crime violent-force | If a statute has a causation-of-harm element, does it also necessarily have an element of violent force for purposes of classifying the crime as a vio… |
| 18-6408 | Tiffany A. Prince v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offenses drug-overdose federal-courts federal-law physical-injury sentencing-guidelines significant-physical-injury sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation | Whether a non-fatal drug overdose is a "significant physical injury" under U.S.S.G. § 5K2.2. |
| 18-6413 | Joshua Jackson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 21-usc-841 controlled-substances conviction criminal-adjudication criminal-law due-process federal-statute recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation youthful-offender | Is an Alabama youthful-offender adjudication a "conviction" for purposes of sentencing enhancement under 21 U.S.C § 841(b)(1)(A)? |
| 18-6360 | Jocelyn Faurisma v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 armed-bank-robbery constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law johnson-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation violent-crime | After Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. __ , 135 S. Ct. 2551 and Sessions v. Dimaya, 138 S. Ct. 1204 (2018), can reasonable jurists debate whether ar… |
| 18-6379 | Ramess Nakhleh v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech postal-regulations public-forum vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Is a regulation criminalizing the creation of a "loud and unusual noise" unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-6387 | Spencer Bowens v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) 28 U.S.C. §2255(£)(3) 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(3) extend to pre-Booker mandatory career-offender gu that has been newly recognized by the United Stat career-offender career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,retroactivity,collat Johnson-right johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines Supreme-Court-precedent | Whether the right in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), that has been newly recognized by the United States Supreme Court and made retr… |
| 18-6363 | Calvin Bernhardt v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1512 arthur-andersen circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding statutory-interpretation vagueness witness-tampering | 1. A person can be guilty under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b) if he "corruptly persuades" someone else to withhold testimony or an object from an official proce… |
| 18-6342 | Jaime Rene Lopez-Vaal v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit-review sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | Whether Section 1326(b), which does not define "misdemeanors involving drugs or violence against the person," "felony," or "aggravated felony," is unc… |
| 18-6343 | Roberto Llerenas, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process human-trafficking ninth-circuit reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591 is unconstitutionally vague. |
| 18-6348 | Eric M. Pence v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-prosecution criminal-statute disorderly-conduct due-process electronic-communication fighting-words first-amendment free-speech true-threat true-threats | This case presents an important question involving the application of the First Amendment to the Constitution to state disorderly conduct statutes pro… |
| 18-6322 | Gabino Medina Osorio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1101 criminal-law due-process illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Can a statute that this Court has held to be unconstitutionally void for vagueness nevertheless still be applied when incorporated by reference into t… |
| 18-6303 | Jeffrey Joseph Pendleton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment force-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | Is the Force Clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) invalid under the Fifth Amendment void-for-vagueness doctrine? |
| 18-6311 | Winston Ray Walters v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2018-10-12 | Denied | IFP | congress congressional-disestablishment criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-prosecution disestablishment federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus indian-reservation tribal-jurisdiction tribal-member tribal-membership | Whether Congress has disestablished the reservation of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Nation in Oklahoma. |
| 18-6313 | Lacoya Washington v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal conviction criminal-evidence criminal-law due-process evidence judicial-discretion sentencing sex-trafficking trial trial-severance | Whether there was sufficient evidence presented at trial to convict Lacoya Washington of the sex trafficking crime. Whether the Honorable Trial Court… |
| 18-6277 | Glover A. Yawn, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ACCA armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law elements-clause felony-battery great-bodily-harm possession-of-firearm sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum violent-felony | The broad question presented by this case is whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously affirmed Mr. Yawn's sentence under the Armed Ca… |
| 18-445 | Tanya Ramirez v. Texas | Texas | 2018-10-10 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process equal-protection fundamental-right fundamental-rights intimacy legal-infringement privacy procreation sexual-conduct sexual-relationship texas-penal-code | Is TEXAS PENAL CODE §21.12, which criminalizes an otherwise legal sexual relationship, unconstitutional in its infringement upon a constitutionally-pr… | |
| 18-6282 | Iseal Dixon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-firearms-law firearm-possession intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-6241 | Edward Jewell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | class-precedent constitutional-challenge controlled-substance-offense criminal-law direct-appeal due-process mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission | Does this Court's holding in Mathis v. United States apply to determinations under the United States Sentencing Guidelines of Whether a prior convicti… |
| 18-6198 | Carlos Rafael Acosta-Joaquin v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-408(a)(7)(B) criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process false-representation federal-criminal-law identity-theft social-security-fraud social-security-number statutory-interpretation | Is a defendant guilty of social security fraud pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 408(a)(7)(B) – which prohibits "falsely represent[ing] a number to be the socia… |
| 18-6169 | Tracy L. Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c)-statute conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process firearm-possession informant-testimony law-enforcement-conduct mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether a defendant should be subject to a mandatory 25 year consecutive 924(c) sentence for the same drug Conspiracy based on the facts that in a two… |
| 18-6175 | Victor Tony Jones v. Florida | Florida | 2018-10-02 | Denied | IFP | 1981-homicide 1990-homicide capital-murder criminal-law death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing,hurst-v-state,jury-unanim hurst-v-state jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-criminal-law | 1. Given that the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State are being applied in a prosecution for a 1981 h… |
| 18-6150 | Noel Aquino-Florenciani v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion child-pornography criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process internet-access internet-access-ban sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Whether the court's imposition of a total ban of internet access as a condition of supervised release is an overly broad and restrictive and without a… |
| 18-6151 | Claude Thelemaque v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof cocaine-distribution conspiracy criminal-law criminal-law-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-admissibility jurisdiction standard-of-proof witness-testimony | Whether the government failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Thelemaque conspired to distribute cocaine with knowledge that it would be impor… |
| 18-6156 | Hector Medina v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender career-offender-guidelines criminal-classification criminal-law dangerous-instrument first-degree-robbery new-york-penal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | SHOULD FIRST DEGREE ROBBERY WITH USE OF A DANGEROUS INSTRUMENT UNDER NEW YORK PENAL LAW § 160.15(3) QUALIFY AS A CRIME OF VIOLENCE FOR PURPOSES OF THE… |
| 18-6135 | James K. Kahler v. Kansas | Kansas | 2018-09-28 | Judgment Issued | Amici (12)Relisted (7)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense legal-history mens-rea mental-health | Do the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state to abolish the insanity defense? |
| 18-6121 | Benjamin Vega-Garcia, aka Carlos Moreno Molina v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari-standard constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review | Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which holds that a prior conviction qualifying an enhanced … |
| 18-6104 | Wayne Thomas, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law federal-jurisdiction johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court supreme-court-review use-of-force violent-crime | 1) Does the Florida Robbery 812.13 "meet use of force" as defined in Johnson v. United States U.S. (2010)? Petitioner requests a GVR in light of Stoke… |
| 18-386 | Joshua Vasquez, et al. v. Kimberly Foxx, State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois | Seventh Circuit | 2018-09-25 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-due-process criminal-law criminal-penalty due-process ex-post-facto geographic-limitation home-occupation prior-conviction residency-restriction residency-restrictions substantive-due-process takings | Whether, as the court below held, the constitutionality of laws that impose criminal penalties for blameless action or inaction—such as maintaining a … |
| 18-6100 | Hugo Pliego-Hernandez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-16 administrative-law attempted-robbery circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction guideline-commentary sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit stare-decisis statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states | The district court enhanced Pliego-Hernandez' sentencing guideline range on the strength of a prior conviction for attempted robbery. Nothing in the t… |
| 18-373 | Floyd Rose v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | atm atm-robbery circuit-split commerce-clause commerce-element criminal-law federal-criminal-law fifth-circuit hobbs-act interstate-commerce robbery second-circuit | Whether the Second Circuit erred by holding, in direct conflict with the Fifth Circuit, that a robbery in which an individual victim is forced to with… | |
| 18-374 | Wuilson Estuardo Lemus Castillo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | 18-usc-3553(f) 21-usc-960 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim… | |
| 18-6073 | Tramain Deon Price v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce legislative-history mens-rea police-power statutory-interpretation | I. This Court should use this case to answer the reoccurring, important question whether, when enacting the Unlawful Possession of a Firearm statute (… |
| 18-361 | Lael J. Alleyne v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-09-19 | Denied | appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions manslaughter self-defense supreme-court-pennsylvania trial-court-error voluntary-manslaughter | Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania erred in denying a Petition for Allowance of Appeal despite the trial court's improper exclusion of voluntar… | |
| 18-6042 | Ronald Eric Ary v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deferred-adjudication due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | I. Whether this Court should grant review to determine whether a Texas deferred adjudication can qualify as a "prior conviction" for the purposes of t… |
| 18-6004 | Matthew Jones v. Superior Court of Connecticut, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-prosecution civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-liability criminal-prosecution due-process government-employee government-immunity hiv-disclosure immunity statutory-interpretation yale-university | civil prosecution? 2. Is having sex without divulging an infected partner's HIV status considered attempted murder? 3.Is Yale University considered a … |
| 18-6006 | Gerson Gonzalez Tovar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions criminal-statute due-process interstate-commerce plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materia ls used to produce child pornog raphy once crosse d state lines at an unspeci… |
| 18-5993 | Douglas Roy Burns v. Connie Horton, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea specific-intent | WHETHER A STATE COURT MUST CONSTITUTIONALLY RECOGNIZE AND ALLOW A DEFENSE IN THE FORM OF TESTIMONY AND OR OTHER RELEVANT EVIDENCE WHICH DISPROVES THE … |
| 18-5997 | Francisco Burciaga v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-classification drug-policy due-process heroin-hydrochloride innocence legal-ambiguity pharmaceutical-industry prosecutorial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness | All University Englh Dictionaries define/describe as follows: heroin— a derivative of morphine morphine— a derivative of opium What is heroin hydro… |
| 18-5965 | Rayburn Scott Harmon v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | IFP | bodily-injury castleman-standard civil-rights criminal-law due-process felony-force-clause misdemeanor-force-clause statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-castleman violent-act violent-felonies violent-felony violent-force violent-physical-force | Whether the mere causation of bodily injury necessarily includes the use of violent, physical force. |
| 18-5967 | Matthew Wade Howard v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-law federal-guideline guideline-application sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit and other circuits have broadened the application of U.S.S.G. 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) beyond the plain language of the guideline's te… |
| 18-308 | Anthony Rayshon Bethea v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2018-09-11 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto punitive-restrictions retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe | The first generation of sex offender registration statutes required only that offenders register with the government and that information about the of… |
| 18-5923 | Brent Eugene Sanchez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-11 | Denied | IFP | bodily-injury castleman-standard civil-rights criminal-law due-process felony-force felony-force-clause misdemeanor-force misdemeanor-force-clause precedent standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-act violent-force violent-physical-force | Whether the mere causation of bodily injury necessarily includes the use of violent, physical force. |
| 18-5934 | Deborah M. Wagner v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal civil-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process mandatory-victim-restitution-act mvra plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in granting the Government's Motion to Dismiss the Petitioner's Appeal? |
| 18-5935 | Julio Cesar Velasquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability | I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |
| 18-5844 | Rocco Tinoco v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-875 civil-rights criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation | whether a mental state of recklessness - absent Subjective intent to threaten - in conveying a threat is sufficient to support a conviction under 18 U… |
| 18-5890 | Mark D. Whitfield v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law force hobbs-act property robbery statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force violent-crime | Whether jurists of reason could debate whether robbery under the Hobbs Act possesses the use, attempted use, or threatened use of force against the pe… |
| 18-5904 | Donavan Cross v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constructive-delivery constructive-possession controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-delivery due-process intent sentencing sentencing-guidelines testimonial-evidence | (1) Whether a statute that criminalizes a constructive delivery of drugs without bona fide intent to transfer possession is a felony "controlled subst… |
| 18-5879 | Emory Dickson Eneh v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power federal-statute felon-in-possession gun-control police-power second-amendment | In light of Bond v. United States, Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Bus. v. United States; and United States v. Lopez, does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possess… |
| 18-5882 | Daniel Vela v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-power felon-in-possession gun-control police-power second-amendment statutory-interpretation | In light of Bond v. United States, Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Bus. v. United States, and United States v. Lopez, does the federal Unlawful Felon in Possess… |
| 18-5900 | Juan Carlos Martinez-Barrientos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 18-5866 | Nathan Mosley v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act physical-force sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. In accord with the categorical approach, rather than the Third Circuit's outlier contemporaneous act approach, should a conviction under the Hobbs … |
| 18-5877 | Levi Lapp Stoltzfoos v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | cash-deposit civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-mens-rea due-process financial-institution financial-institutions mens-rea money-laundering overbreadth overbroad-statute statutory-interpretation | Is 18 Pa. C.S. § 5111(a)(8) unconstitutionally overbroad where the statute criminalizes the depositing of lawfully acquired cash into financial instit… |
| 18-5840 | George Stoney v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c3a categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | 1. Under the categorical approach, rather than the Third Circuit's outlier contemporaneous act approach, does a conviction under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S… |
| 18-5861 | Danny Lopez Chavez v. Joel Martinez, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing | (1) Whether appellant's sentence is grossly disproportionate to the crimes of conviction in violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cr… |
| 18-5839 | James Frederick Rebmann v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-classification plain-reading possession-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation | The Federal Sentencing Guidelines require a base offense level of 43 if the defendant is "convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A), (b)(1)(B), or (b)(… |
| 18-5809 | Robert Carl Sharp v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | analogue-drugs controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-statute drug-testing knowledge-requirement knowledge-standard mens-rea willful-blindness | Can recklessness or negligence amount to willful blindness? Can a defendant be found to be willfully blind because he failed to test a drug when test… |
| 18-5812 | In Re Richard DeCaro | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure doctrinal-underpinnings double-jeopardy due-process gamble-v-united-states innocence original-meaning re-adjudication separate-sovereigns separate-sovereigns-exception | Whether the Court should overrule the "separate sovereigns" exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause. | |
| 18-5746 | Kenneth Eugene Nix v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arbitrary-enforcement criminal-law discriminatory-enforcement due-process florida-statute statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | IS FLORIDA. STATUTE 784.045 IMPERMISSIBLY VAGUE AND/OR DOES IT ENCOURAGE ARBITRARY AND DISCRIMINATORY ENFORCEMENT? |
| 18-5739 | Terril Kinchen v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-fraud civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether the trial court plainly erred when it accepted the defendant's guilty plea to Conspiracy to commit robbery and two 924(c) charges where the… |
| 18-5762 | Pedro Garcia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process facial-challenge federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms intrastate-possession second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, and is unconstitutional … |
| 18-5686 | Dwight Mundle v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-875-c awareness-of-threat criminal-intent criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency intent jury prejudicial-effect prior-conduct statutory-interpretation threatening-communication uncharged-conduct witness-testimony | Was their enough or even any evidence to prove the conviction of transmitting a threatening communication. in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875 (c), was th… |
| 18-5700 | Jerry Docaj v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions manslaughter miranda-rights passion-provocation sixth-amendment | Mr. Docaj seeks leave to appeal the following issues: 1) Whether the jury instruction on passion/provocation manslaughter misstated the law, unconsti… |
| 18-5678 | Lee Andrew Paul v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-circuit burrage-causation burrage-v-united-states causation commerce-clause commerce-clause-authority commercial-sex-trafficking constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute-construction eighth-circuit-interpretation statutory-elements statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Eight Circuit's decision conflicts with the Supreme Court's opinion in Burrage v. United States, 134 S.Ct. 881 (2014), which held that … |
| 18-5685 | Clifton Patterson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law due-process johnson-v-united-states sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague following the Supreme Court's holdings in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2… |
| 18-216 | Judith Ann Paixao and Kevin A. Lombard v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-666(b) criminal-law federal-assistance federal-assistance-program fraud judicial-review justice-thomas-dissent lower-court-interpretation reconsideration-of-precedent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent veterans-affairs vocational-rehabilitation | Whether the Court should reconsider Fischer v. United States, 529 U.S. 667, 686 (2000), because, as Justice Thomas's dissent predicted, the lower cour… |
| 18-5654 | Willie Lee Daniels v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 collateral-review constitutional-challenge controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether Mathis v. United States, is retroactive to cases on collateral review, where the principles set forth in Motgomery v. Louisiana, dictate that … |
| 18-5655 | Cory D. Foster v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | IFP | a question that has split the circuits 10-1 18-usc-924c categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-provision federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation | Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense is a "crime of violence" supporting conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), a … |
| 18-5620 | Mario Zuniga v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2244(b) 28-usc-2255(h) attempted-murder criminal-law habeas-corpus mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states second-or-successive-2255-motion second-or-successive-motion section-2255 section-924e sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime | I. Did the Seventh Circuit error in sentencing the Petitioner Mario Zuniga as a career criminal under 18 U.S.C. §924(e), without considering Mathis v.… |
| 18-5632 | Juan L. Leonor v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services | Nebraska | 2018-08-17 | Denied | IFP | collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process final-conviction habeas-corpus procedural-rule retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule vagueness | Is the decision announced in State v. Ronald-Smith, a new susbtantive rule of law that the Federal Constitution requires to be applied retroactively t… |
| 18-5637 | Afelix Desir v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-17 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process fundamental-error information-charging jury-instructions minor minor-protection sexual-activity sexual-offense | Does a trial court commit fundamental error when it instructs a jury regarding both "Penile/Vaginal intercourse" unlawful sexual activity with specifi… |
| 18-194 | Craig Robert Nunn v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. | Tennessee | 2018-08-14 | Denied | community-supervision-for-life constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto parole-conditions retroactive-application retroactive-punishment sex-offender-directives sex-offender-registration | Does the retroactive application of the Sex Offender Directives to Mr. Nunn violate the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution? | |
| 18-5577 | In Re Adam D. Boylen | 2018-08-13 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights clean-water-act commerce-clause criminal-law due-process environmental-law owner-or-operator person source standing statutory-interpretation | 1.) Whether petitioner, as a truck driver for an independent "person" Congress exclusively defined in the Clean Water Act to only mean any "source" an… | |
| 18-5478 | Ryan Jennings v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. | Missouri | 2018-08-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy conspiracy criminal-law due-process due-process-violation foreclosure fraud mortgage-assignment obstruction-of-justice real-estate-fraud witness-tampering | Dees this case involve one or more parties that have premeditated the act of intentially violating the appélants civil rights, due process of law and … |
| 18-5426 | Gabriel Rivero v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process export-controls federal-law mens-rea munitions munitions-export smuggling statutory-interpretation | Whether the Government may obtain a conviction for smuggling goods from the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 554 charged in conjunction with … |
| 18-5444 | Kenyan Deon Buchanan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause commerce-clause-limits commerce-clause-limits,criminal-law,federal-power, constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-power felon-in-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez | I. This Court and individual Justices have increasingly explained that Congress's power under the Commerce Clause to criminalize conduct otherwise fal… |
| 18-5408 | Norberto Serna v. California | California | 2018-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-harm criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection extortion kidnapping sentencing sentencing-disparity | I. Whether California violates the Equal Protection Clause by imposing a harsher maximum sentence on kidnapper-extortionists—who harm their victims an… |
| 18-5393 | Shane McMahan v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-07-30 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act causation-element causation-of-bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-law element-of-violent-force kansas-aggravated-battery statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-felony | Whether a prior Kansas aggravated-battery conviction under KSA § 21-3414(a)(1)(C) qualifies as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)'s element-… |
| 18-5363 | Reynaldo Rendon, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce interstate-commerce-clause state-lines | Whether the Interstate Commerce Clause authorizes Congress to criminalize the possession of every firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any tim… |
| 18-5385 | Lee Curtis Bell, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law enumerated-powers federalism judicial-review preemption state-responsibility state-rights | I. Whether the case should be held in light of any case establishing limitations on Congressional power to criminalize areas of traditional state resp… |
| 18-5314 | Shannon Dale Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing criminal-statute firearm firearm-possession firearms intent mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) increases the sentence of "any person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence . . . uses or carries a firearm, o… |
| 18-5329 | Mario Donate Lockhart v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law drug-offense elements-clause florida-criminal-law florida-statute florida-statute-843.01 mens-rea resisting-arrest statutory-interpretation violent-felony | 1. Whether the Florida crime of resisting an officer with violence, in violation of Fla. Stat. §843.01, is a "violent felony" under the Armed Career C… |
| 18-5298 | Reuben Stewart v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-23 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922g 18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bii 8th-amendment aggravated-assault criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states means-rea mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Does a prior conviction predicated on a means rea of recklessness qualify as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. section 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in light of Joh… |
| 18-5321 | Salvador Ortiz-Uresti v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split colorado-drug-statute criminal-law divisibility drug-statute federal-predicate federal-sentencing immigration-consequences nationwide-impact sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | When deciding whether a conviction under Colorado's primary drug statute qualifies as a federal predicate for an increased sentence, should a court tr… |
| 18-5304 | Raymond Sanchez Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process interstate-commerce plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2252A(5)(B) authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an uns… |
| 18-5269 | Michael St. Hubert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-16(b) 18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. Is the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague, given the Court's holding in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138… |
| 18-5245 | Jesus M. Rios-Ramos v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness | Whether this Court should address the application and contours of the residual clause of the Career Offender guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, in light of … |
| 18-5251 | Sarjo Dambelly v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-07-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberate-avoidance global-tech intent jury-instructions knowledge-standard mens-rea second-circuit willful-blindness | Whether, in light of Global —Tech, the Second Circuit errs by holding, contrary to at least six other circuits, that willful blindness in a criminal c… |
| 18-5238 | Hassanh Bey Wright, aka Hassanh Bay Wright v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-history criminal-law culpable-negligence force-clause intent mens-rea residual-clause sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Whether a crime with a mens rea of culpable negligence meets the definition of a "crime of violence" under either the force clause or the residual cla… |
| 18-5234 | Marcos Rodriguez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-07-13 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-924c3b co-defendant-motions criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure legal-joinder second-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | Whether the 'risk of force' clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness. Whether the granting of a request to join in motions of a co-def… |
| 18-5221 | Aquilino Guizamano-Cortes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law rational-basis safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction | The exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcemen Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection, because there i… |
| 18-5210 | Robert A. Espinoza v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) attempt-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation | Illinois attempt offenses have two elements: an intent to commit an offense and a substantial step towards commission of the offense. The substantial … |
| 18-5177 | Herman Majors v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concurrent-sentence criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process foreseeable-drug-quantity ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-prejudice sixth-amendment | I. Whether a defendant in a drug conspiracy case suffers prejudice when his attorney fails to argue at sentencing that foreseeable drug quantity is li… |
| 18-5194 | Teofil Brank v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-875d criminal-law extortion hobbs-act reputation reputational-harm rule-of-lenity scheidler-v-now statutory-interpretation | Does Hobbs Act extortion encompass threats to reputation, as opposed to threats of physical injury or economic harm, as suggested strongly by the stat… |
| 18-5195 | Steven Anthony Alvarez v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment california-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process evidence great-bodily-injury jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct testimony vagueness | 1. WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS OF LAW, WHEN PROSECUTOR MISSTATED LAW, MISSTATED TESTIMONY, AND MISSTATED EVIDENCE TO THE JURY? 2. WHETH… |
| 18-5107 | Willard Quinn v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-injury crime-of-violence criminal-law force-clause injury sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement violent-force | Whether the force clause of the Sentencing Guidelines' definition of "crime of violence" can be satisfied by a statutory requirement that a defendant'… |
| 18-5164 | George Adrien Brooks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2422(b) attempted-inducement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law intent intent-requirement mens-rea minor minor-protection minors sexual-abuse sexual-activity sexual-inducement statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 2242(b) criminalizes, among other things, the attempted inducement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. The question presented by this… |
| 18-5036 | Jerome Aristedes Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law general-intent illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | In the United States v. Resendiz-Ponce, 549 U.S. 102 (2007), the Supreme Court made it clear, in dicta, that attempted illegal reentry is a specific i… |
| 18-5041 | Louis Robinson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine | I. Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States , 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) a… |
| 18-5061 | Travis Horne v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process force-definition johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime | Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Samu… |
| 18-5001 | John Theodore Hancock v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-standard but-for-causation causation criminal-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-resulting due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing statutory-interpretation | Does a jury instruction that submits the question of whe- ther a death was the result of the accused's offense by simply tracking the statutory lang… |
| 18-5028 | Carolyn J. Edlind v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1512 corrupt-persuasion criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-administration-of-justice due-process obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding statutory-interpretation subversion-of-justice sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-tampering | Appellant was indicted for witness tampering under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)(1), which states someone is guilty if they "knowingly use intimidation, threate… |