criminal-penalty
13 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-619 | Zhe Zhang, aka Zack v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-12-01 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-penalty disjunctive-language federal-criminal-law murder-for-hire sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether the disjunctive language at 18 U.S.C. § 1958(a) providing "if death results, [the offender] shall be punished by death or life imprisonment, o… |
| 24-25 | Mrugeshkumar Kumar Shah v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | apprendi-rule constitutional-rights criminal-fines criminal-penalty criminal-restitution hester-v-united-states jury-determination sixth-amendment southern-union-co-v-united-states | Whether the Sixth Amendment reserves to juries the determination of any fact underlying a criminal restitution order. |
| 23-7643 | Thomas Antonio Stuart v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alien-smuggling criminal-penalty criminal-procedure legislative-history mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation textualism | Whether the five-year mandatory minimum penalty of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2), which applies to a defendant's third "violation" of subsection (a)(2)(B)(Gi)… |
| 23-1146 | Jade Joseph Nickels v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension | Minnesota | 2024-04-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-penalty criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause liberty-interest personal-information-disclosure sex-offender-registration stigma | Whether a registration scheme that requires a person to provide detailed information about every aspect of his life, where failing to provide the info… |
| 23-949 | In Re David Erlanson, Sr. | 2024-02-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 9th-circuit administrative-law civil-procedure civil-proceeding civil-rights criminal-penalty criminal-procedure due-process judicial-duty judicial-process mandamus separation-of-powers | Can the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals indefinitely prolong or avoid its judicial duty when a judicial process in the lower district court resulted obvi… | |
| 23-5868 | Nicky S. Keo v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2023-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-penalty due-process felony firearm-licensing licensing mandatory-minimum second-amendment self-defense | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts requires its citizens to get permission from their local police departments before they can exercise their right to … |
| 20-5059 | Christopher Goodin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-protection constitutional-rights criminal-penalty criminal-punishment jury jury-trial mandatory-restitution mandatory-statute restitution sexual-exploitation sixth-amendment | Does the Constitution's guarantee of trial by jury extend to awards of restitution under the Mandatory Restitution For Sexual Exploitation of Children… |
| 19-7057 | Johnny L. Shelton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 21-usc-846 conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-penalty drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking fifth-amendment inchoate-crime sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the "death results" enhanced penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §841(b)(1)(C) apply to a prosecution for the inchoate crime of conspiracy to comm… |
| 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… |
| 19-6616 | Alberino Magi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-procedure criminal-fines criminal-penalty criminal-restitution due-process jury-finding jury-findings jury-trial sentencing southern-union southern-union-v-united-states | In Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 490 (2000), the Court held that "[o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the pen… |
| 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… |
| 18-386 | 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 … |
| 18-5541 | Darren Kyle Stepp-Zafft v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power criminal-penalty due-process firearms-regulation national-firearms-act nfa-firearms right-to-bear-arms second-amendment tax taxation united-states-constitution | Is 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d) a valid exercise of Congress's power to tax? |