criminal-penalties
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-7709 | Percy Leroy Jacobs v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bradshaw-v-stumpf criminal-penalties due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act trial-counsel von-moltke-v-gillies waiver | I. Whether, for a waiver of the Sixth Amendment right to trial counsel to be effective, a defendant must understand the elements of the charged offens… |
| 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… |
| 23A762 | Jade Joseph Nickels v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension | Minnesota | 2024-02-21 | Presumed Complete | criminal-penalties due-process liberty-interest personal-disclosure predatory-offender sex-offender-registration | This case concerns whether a predatory offender registration scheme that requires the submission of detailed personal information about every aspect o… | |
| 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… |
| 22-5306 | Micky Rife v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | article-i article-i-powers congress congressional-power constitution constitutional-interpretation criminal-penalties necessary-and-proper-clause treaty treaty-enforcement | Does the Necessary and Proper Clause contained within Article I of the Constitution provide an independent basis for Congress to create criminal penal… |
| 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… |
| 20-572 | 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… |
| 20-5197 | Lamar Moore, aka Kane v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender-status criminal-penalties due-process factual-findings ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-commerce plea-waiver second-amendment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements | 1) Shouldn't Moore's Plea and conviction under Count one be Vackted in light of Rehaif V.united states, 139 s.ct.2191 (2o1), Where the indictment fail… |
| 19-1070 | Jeffrey Alan Olson v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment Birchfield-v-North-Dakota blood-draw constitutional-rights criminal-penalties criminal-procedure due-process retroactivity substantive-law supreme-court-precedent warrantless-blood-draw warrantless-search | Whether this Court's holding that states may not impose criminal penalties on the refusal to submit to a warrantless blood draw, Birchfield v. North D… |
| 19-6910 | Alfred T. Moliere v. Texas | Texas | 2019-12-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey article-42.013 constitutional-rights criminal-penalties criminal-penalty family-violence firearm-possession jury-determination jury-trial right-to-bear-arms unconstitutional | Generally, Apprendi v. New Jersey requires that any fact serving to increase a criminal penalty be found by a jury. Article 42.013, Texas Code of Crim… |
| 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… |
| 19-5601 | 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… |
| 18-9589 | Nicholas Bradley Gilbert v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-07 | GVR | IFP | appellate-review criminal-penalties criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion felon-possession interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness | 1. Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to "substantively second guess" the district court and/or to "r… |
| 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… |
| 18-1122 | 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… |
| 18-6162 | Lyanne Lemeunier-Fitzgerald v. Maine | Maine | 2018-10-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment blood-test civil-rights consent-coercion criminal-penalties due-process implied-consent mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search | Does a motorist voluntarily consent to a warrantless blood draw if she has been warned that refusal to submit will result in a mandatory minimum perio… |