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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A895 | Charles Kakembo Sessanga v. City of DeSoto Police Department, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Application | civil-rights criminal-prosecution malicious-prosecution pro-se-plaintiff probable-cause section-1983 | Question not identified. The provided text is an Application for Extension of Time to File Petition for a Writ of Certiorari and includes the Fifth C… | |
| 25A853 | Joseph Sullivan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-30 | Application | criminal-prosecution data-security jury-instruction nexus-requirement obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6644 | James Daniel Arbaugh v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-22 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-limits criminal-prosecution foreign-commerce-clause international-law territorial-jurisdiction treaty-power | Has America become so great that it need not consider due process, comity among nations, follow international law, or fulfill its treaty obligations? … |
| 25-6320 | Dean Spencer v. Utah | Utah | 2025-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | blood-alcohol-concentration criminal-prosecution measurement-error per-se-threshold reasonable-doubt toxicological-evidence | 1. In an alcohol DUI prosecution where the only question was if Mr. Spencer's BAC was above Utah's then-applicable per se threshold of 0.08, two toxic… |
| 25-6314 | Jose Fernando Lopez-Anchundia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-power criminal-prosecution drug-enforcement extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law maritime-law | 1. Does Congress's power "[t]o define and punish . . . Felonies committed on the high Seas," authorize the United States to impose its laws upon forei… |
| 25-6270 | Jhon Henry Alvarado-Valencia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | congressional-power criminal-prosecution drug-enforcement extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-waters maritime-law | Article I, Section 8, Clause 10 of the United States Constitution empowers Congress "[t]o define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the hig… |
| 25-576 | Stephen Buyer v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | constitutional-limitations criminal-prosecution insider-trading prosecutorial-discretion stock-exchange venue | The question presented is whether a stock trading on an exchange whose physical headquarters is located in Manhattan suffices to establish venue in th… |
| 25-6077 | In Re Brian William Schumaker | 2025-11-10 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution district-court federal-jurisdiction newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-discretion | I. Unless and until, notice of acceptance of jurisdiction is given WHETHER federal courts are without jurisdiction to punish under criminal lews of th… | |
| 25-5967 | Lynell Guyton v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | analogue-act constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-prosecution drug-enforcement due-process | 1. Did Congress violate the Necessary and Proper Clause of the Constitution when it authorized the Drug Enforcement Administration to schedule control… |
| 25-396 | Hernan Lopez v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-10-03 | GVR | criminal-prosecution foreign-commercial-bribery honest-services-statute judicial-interpretation second-circuit statutory-vagueness | 1. Whether the honest-services statute criminalizes foreign commercial bribery. 2. Whether the honest-services statute is unconstitutionally vague. | |
| 25-5759 | In Re Anthony Geno Martinson | 2025-09-30 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution custody-conditions extradition-law fugitive-status warrant-validity | 1. Is a Criminal prosecution for a civil breach of contract for ASN~ Payment cons diongh 2 ac? 2. Is a Criminal prosecution for debt constr dione? 3… | |
| 25-275 | Clifford James Frost, Jr. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-10 | Denied | Response Waived | bad-faith-prosecution constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution election-law pre-emption younger-abstention | Does the "bad faith" exception to Younger preemption require the plaintiff to show that he or she has been subject to multiple criminal prosecutions a… |
| 25-171 | Dimetri Alexander Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-prosecution enterprise-structure legal-distinction procedural-requirement racketeering statutory-interpretation | In a prosecution for racketeering related offenses, does the enterprise structure need to be distinct from that inherent in the racketeering activity … |
| 25-5302 | Cameron Edwards v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-prosecution firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the government's prosecution of petitioner under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) based on his prior convictions violates the Second Amendment. 2. Wh… |
| 25-5228 | Geber Soto v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution firearms-regulation legal-standing second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the government's prosecution of petitioner under 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(1)(A) violates the Second Amendment on its face. 2. Whether the govern… |
| 25A99 | Carlos Daniel Canario-Vilomar v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-24 | Presumed Complete | criminal-prosecution drug-conspiracy eleventh-circuit maritime-drug-law plea-agreement vessel-jurisdiction | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5052 | Veronica Aquino-Dolores v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arlington-heights-framework civil-rights-law criminal-prosecution 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… |
| 24-7339 | Jonathan Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | 1. Whether the government may deprive citizens of their Second Amendment rights because they were previously convicted of a non-violent crime. 2. Whe… |
| 24-7106 | Feifei Gu v. Leticia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. | New York | 2025-05-01 | Denied | IFP | attorney-general conspiracy criminal-prosecution judicial-misconduct legal-duty malfeasance | 1. Has Letitia James, as Attorney General of NY, neglected her duty when she refused to intervene in the fake criminal prosecution of CR-001793-24/KN … |
| 24-6601 | Gabriela Bautista-Perez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arlington-heights-framework civil-rights-law criminal-prosecution 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… |
| 24-875 | Lucas Sirois v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-02-14 | Denied | Response Waived | appropriations-law compliance-standard criminal-prosecution federal-enforcement medical-marijuana state-authorization | Since December 2014, Congressional appropriations for the Department of Justice have included the following provision: None of the funds made availab… |
| 24-828 | Ricky Durham v. Richard Adams, Warden | Missouri | 2025-02-04 | Denied | Response Waived | congressional-intent criminal-prosecution federal-preemption habeas-corpus postal-worker-protection supremacy-clause | Whether the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution preempted the State of Missouri from the prosecution of a criminal defendant for the ki… |
| 24-6427 | Jose Paz Medina-Cantu v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution gun-rights historical-analysis second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether courts must conduct a historical analysis to decide a Second Amendment challenge to a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5). 2. Whether … |
| 24A738 | Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. aka Halkbank v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-27 | Presumed Complete | criminal-prosecution executive-power foreign-sovereign-instrumentality international-law separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity | Question not identified. | |
| 24A712 | Steven Aiello, et al. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-21 | Denied | criminal-prosecution federal-fraud-statute honest-services-fraud right-to-control second-circuit wire-fraud | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6318 | Marcus Crowder v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-01-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | acquittal constitutional-law criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment malice-murder | Whether the state of Georgia violates the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution's Double Jeopardy Clause when it indicts in multiplicity o… |
| 24-6244 | Darrell Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | asset-forfeiture constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process legal-representation representative-counsel | The questions presented here concern whether '"'Rowland v. California Men's Colony II" should be modified, clarified, or further addressed to answer t… |
| 24A666 | Donald J. Trump v. New York, et al. | New York | 2025-01-08 | Denied | Amici (2) | criminal-prosecution executive-power presidential-immunity state-court transition-period trump-v-united-states | Whether President Trump is entitled to an automatic stay of criminal proceedings against him in state court while his claims of Presidential immunity … |
| 24A619 | Tonia Scott v. Pennsylvania | Third Circuit | 2024-12-20 | Presumed Complete | criminal-prosecution due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction native-american tribal-sovereignty | Question not identified. | |
| 24A615 | Keeba Scott Harris v. Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-12-20 | Presumed Complete | criminal-prosecution habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge native-american sepric-reservation tribal-jurisdiction | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6158 | Elden Don Brannan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-prosecution destructive-device firearms-regulation military-ordinance statutory-interpretation weapon-design | Whether the Act's instruction that the term destructive device "shall not include any device which is neither designed nor redesigned for use as a wea… |
| 24-654 | David Lesh v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-12-17 | Denied | Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | article-iii constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution jury-trial petty-offense sixth-amendment | Whether the Constitution's dual guarantee of trial by jury contains an unstated exception for "petty offenses." |
| 24-6101 | Halim Khan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-prosecution due-process interpreter-testimony sixth-amendment testimonial-statements | Whether translated out-of-court testimonial statements may be admitted by the Government as evidence against a defendant without providing the defenda… |
| 24-6083 | Joshua Flores v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution jury-trial misdemeanor sixth-amendment | Whether Article III 's guarantee of the right to a jury trial for "all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment," and the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of… |
| 24-6039 | Charles Derryberry v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-prosecution informant-tip law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure weapon-possession | Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 218 (1983) established the "totality of the circumstances analysis" for determining if an informant's tip provided suffici… |
| 24-525 | John L. Stanton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-08 | Denied | Relisted (2) | commerce-clause controlled-substances criminal-prosecution 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, … |
| 24-5913 | Lili Zhang Tydingco v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | alien-harboring-act confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution cross-examination testimonial-statements | 1. Whether translated out-of-court testimonial statements may be admitted by the Government as evidence against a defendant without providing the defe… |
| 24-5853 | Chad William Reed v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2024-10-29 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process procedural-protections second-amendment self-defense | i, Is if Mu thUihiL of cTujku ftOf q PfoSeciAthf h Prtvulty/y Cwmi)' \ 1Ziolihon It) fkny (X Citizen th'j StconJ /hmrtitHwf fijhf of Seif* htftnfi ■ … |
| 24-5623 | Tahjair Dorsey v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution firearm-disqualification non-violent-felony second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Petitioner Tahjair Dorsey pleaded guilty to felon-with-a-firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). His disqualifying prior felony conviction: un… |
| 24A270 | David Lesh v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-09-17 | Presumed Complete | blanton-precedent constitutional-right criminal-prosecution jury-trial petty-offense sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5450 | Anthony H. Warnick v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2024-09-04 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution mcgirt-decision state-law tribal-jurisdiction tribal-lands | IcLC-k 5 jUf'' 5cl i c_+i ooorrbr^) Can Oklahoma Incarcesochs- ar\ ZL.nd\ar\ pi/rsuarrf "h> a- jpd^rnerff rf dejJo\A q-P lur'isi'icJ-ion ~H>on ~l~o p… |
| 24-5394 | Nathan Brooks Manuelito v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-prosecution dual-purpose-statements evidence-reliability federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-exception medical-treatment | Whether statements made, in part, to provide evidence for a criminal prosecution can satisfy the hearsay exception in Federal Rule of Evidence 803(4) … |
| 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, … | |
| 24-5172 | Hassan Abbas v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-charges criminal-prosecution first-circuit money-laundering overt-acts venue venue-constitutional-protection wire-fraud | Has the First Circuit impermissibly narrowed the constitutional protections as to venue when it comes to wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy pr… |
| 24-5160 | Duane Leo Ehmer, Darryl William Thorn, and Jake Ryan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution ex-parte jury-selection jury-trial petty-offenses presley-v-georgia sixth-amendment structural-error sua-sponte | (1) Whether the district court's sua sponte, ex parte, and case-specific excusal of trial jurors for cause constituted reversible structural error? (… |
| 24-5029 | Jurgen Marku v. Florida | Florida | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Bruton-v-United-States Codefendant confrontation-clause criminal-prosecution Cross-Examination Due-Process felony-murder fourteenth-amendment Guilty-Plea sixth-amendment | Whether it is a violation of a criminal defendant's Confrontation Clause and Due Process Clause rights to allow the prosecution to inform the jury tha… |
| 23-7780 | Mario Gonzalez-Godinez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | asylum-process asylum-seekers criminal-prosecution custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warnings self-incrimination | Is a person's Fifth Amendment right to remain silent violated when they are subjected to custodial interrogation and advised that the interrogation ma… |
| 23-7517 | Christopher L. Wilson v. Hawaii | Hawaii | 2024-05-21 | Denied | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-test civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process licensing-scheme second-amendment self-defense standing supremacy-clause | Whether the Bruen test determines when a State's criminal prosecution for carrying a handgun without a license violates the Second Amendment? |
| 23-7376 | Rajesh P. Budhabhatti v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1346 collateral-order-doctrine criminal-prosecution honest-services-fraud interlocutory-appeal judicial-resources judicial-review public-official self-dealing statutory-interpretation | 1. Skilling v. United States , 561 U.S. 358 (2010), holds that fraudulent self-dealing by a public official is not honest services fraud under 18 U.S.… |
| 23-7019 | Quindell Montrae Kirby v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence fair-trial jurisdiction venue | I. Why was "the Circuit Court of the County of Chesterfield Commonwealth of Virginia allowed to prosecute this case? where precedent supports Petition… |
| 23-6971 | Steven Antonius, aka Sealed Defendant 1, Shervington Lovell, aka Sealed Defendant 1, and Argemiro Zapata-Castro, aka Sealed Defendant 1 v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-i-section-8-clause-10 criminal-prosecution due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction fifth-amendment-due-process maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act originalism protective-principle universal-jurisdiction | 1. Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. §§ 70503(a)(1) and 70506, expands federal criminal jurisdiction beyond what would have bee… |
| 23-6855 | William B. Hungerford, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-deference administrative-law agency-deference agency-interpretation criminal-prosecution due-process EB-5-investment-program fifth-circuit regulatory-interpretation regulatory-scheme standing | In recent years, this Court and commentators alike have expressed increasing alarm over the unbridled deference afforded to agency bureaucrats' interp… |
| 23-6745 | Raymond Wilson, III v. Fairhaven Police Department, et al. | First Circuit | 2024-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection interstate-crime jurisdictional-issues legal-elements malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment | Why some cases can be successful and prosecute, whereas others cannot, having the same elements yet to be interpreted, and whereas a bias of a certain… |
| 23A745 | Donald J. Trump v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-02-12 | Granted | Amici (10) | criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy impeachment-clause official-acts presidential-immunity separation-of-powers | L Whether the doctrine of absolute presidential immunity includes immunity from criminal prosecution for a President's official acts, i.e., those perf… |
| 23-6532 | Zerak Brown v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment assistance-of-counsel certiorari criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Did the Framers intend that, in a criminal prosecution, a defendant is entitled assistance of counsel, under the 6th Amendment, for "all criminal pros… |
| 23A589 | Rian Waters v. Aidan Kearney | Massachusetts | 2023-12-27 | Presumed Complete | article-iii-standing constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution fair-trial first-amendment witness-intimidation | Whether I have standing to appeal the court's unintelligible refusal to issue a criminal complaint, when the crime is against justice, and my safety, … | |
| 23-624 | United States v. Donald J. Trump | District of Columbia | 2023-12-11 | Granted | Amici (2) | constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-prosecution due-process executive-immunity executive-privilege impeachment impeachment-clause presidential-immunity presidential-powers | Whether a former President is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office or is constitutionally protected from fe… |
| 23-437 | Anthony A. Anderson v. United States | Armed Forces | 2023-10-26 | Denied | constitutional-law court-martial criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection liberty-interests property-interests sixth-amendment | Does the United States Constitution require that a general court-martial guilty verdict be unanimous? | |
| 23-5626 | Arun Dhavamani v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-finding federal-jurisdiction manufactured-jurisdiction sentencing | Whether a defendant's right to due process is violated when a Court of Appeals remands a case for additional factfinding after the district court has … |
| 23-5111 | Jacob Webster, et al. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. | California | 2023-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-analysis criminal-prosecution facial-challenge firearm-regulation new-york-state-rifle-and-pistol-association-v-brue overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine second-amendment united-states-v-stevens | 1. For facial challenges to a state prosecution on Second Amendment grounds, must a criminal defendant prove that no set of circumstances exist under … |
| 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… |
| 22-7880 | Maylesha S. Lewis v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2023-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | blockburger blockburger-test criminal-prosecution diaz-exception diaz-v-united-states double-jeopardy driving-under-the-influence fifth-amendment motor-vehicle-homicide | IL Is Diaz v. United States, 223 U.S. 442 (1912) an exception to the double jeopardy rule announced in Blockburger v. United States, 284 U.S. 299 (193… |
| 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… |
| 22-1055 | Lee Elbaz, aka Lena Green v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-01 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-prosecution domestic-application domestic-transmission extraterritoriality foreign-conduct interstate-commerce wire-fraud | The wire-fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, prohibits fraudulent schemes that use wire, radio, or television communications in interstate or foreign com… | |
| 22-939 | Robert Frese v. John M. Formella, Attorney General of New Hampshire | First Circuit | 2023-03-28 | Denied | Amici (3) | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-prosecution defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech public-official standing vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. Whether the First Amendment tolerates criminal prosecution for alleged defamation of a public official. 2. Whether New Hampshire's common law of c… |
| 22-7091 | David Lee Hering v. Iowa | Iowa | 2023-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-authority personal-jurisdiction speedy-trial void-judgement | 1. Whether a criminal prosecution and judgement therefrom is void where the trial court lost personal jurisdiction over the defendant prior to the sta… |
| 22-6810 | Jason Jarvis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution defendant-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-rules fourth-amendment legal-standing prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure suppressed-evidence | 1) Whether suppressed evidence or evidence not belonging to the defendant can be used against the defendant to prosecute him? |
| 22-721 | Damian McElrath v. Georgia | Georgia | 2023-02-02 | Judgment Issued | Amici (5)Relisted (7) | acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-verdict prosecution repugnant-verdict repugnant-verdicts | The Georgia Supreme Court held that a jury's verdict of acquittal on one criminal charge and its verdict of guilty on a different criminal charge aris… |
| 22-6382 | James A. Warren v. Florida | Florida | 2022-12-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | capital-crime capitol-crime constitutional-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment florida-constitution grand-jury indictment presentment | 1. Does Article I Section 15(a) of the Florida Constitution prohibit any person from being tried for a capitol crime without presentment or indictment… |
| 22-6274 | John C. Killingbeck v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights content-provider criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process free-speech habeas-corpus internet-immunity internet-service-provider-liability section-230 standing | What is the correct way for the Government to correct its prosecution and answer as in etc. Are the Government and courts acting within their Questi… |
| 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… |
| 22-6110 | 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… |
| 22-6020 | John M. Esposito v. Florida | Florida | 2022-11-08 | Denied | IFP | citizens-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federalism legal-challenge preemption statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-statute | IS THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATING THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY PROSECUTING AND CONVICTING U.S. CITIZENS UNDER § 794.011, FLORIDA STATUTES, A VOID… |
| 22-5739 | LaTausha Simmons v. Michigan | Michigan | 2022-10-03 | Denied | IFP | acquittal appeal circuit-court constitutional-protection criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy insufficient-evidence jurisdiction michigan-supreme-court reconsideration | I. WHETHER THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT ERRED IN CONCLUDING THAT THE PROHIBITION AGAINST DOUBLE JEOPARDY (see US Const, Am V and Const 1963, art 18 15… |
| 22-119 | Christian Action League of Minnesota, et al., v. Mike Freeman, in His Official Capacity as Hennepin County Attorney | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-09 | Denied | civil-action civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution due-process enforcement-authority free-speech pre-enforcement-challenge standing | If a law authorizes both private and public enforcement, and a credible threat of private enforcement exists, may a plaintiff bring a pre-enforcement … | |
| 22-5295 | Nizar Trabelsi, aka Nizar Ben Abdelaziz Trabelsi, aka Abu Qa'Qa v. United States | District of Columbia | 2022-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-prosecution due-process extradition-treaty foreign-court-rulings judicial-deference ministerial-determination prior-prosecution willful-blindness | 1. Whether a trial court considering a request for dismissal of an indictment based on the violation of an extradition treat y's prohibition on prior … |
| 22-5078 | Karen E. Ramm v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-fraud business-loan cover-up cover-up-efforts criminal-prosecution disbursal-of-funds funds-disbursal scheme-to-defraud statute-of-limitations | Whether, in a bank fraud prosecution, the execution of a scheme to defraud is complete upon disbursal of funds, thereby starting the clock for statute… |
| 22-5057 | Wade Lawrence Duchaine v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922(g) commerce-clause criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element minimal-nexus scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation substantial-nexus | I. In a prosecution for possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), the government must prove that the possession was in or affected interstate … |
| 21-8161 | Onofre Tommy Serrano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1443 civil-rights civil-rights-removal criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection federal-defense federal-jurisdiction federal-removal jurisdiction removal statutory-interpretation | 1. Does berg derled equol civl Rights on the basis fOR REMOU pRSANt tO 28 USC & 1443(1)? 2. CaN A CRimIrAl stote cASE be RemovEd puRsJANt tO 28 USC &… |
| 21-1450 | Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S., aka Halkbank v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-05-17 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9) | 18-usc-3231 28-usc-1330 28-usc-1602-1611 criminal-prosecution district-court-jurisdiction foreign-sovereign-immunities foreign-sovereign-immunity sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether U.S. district courts may exercise subject-matter jurisdiction over criminal prosecutions against foreign sovereigns and their instrumentalitie… |
| 21-7659 | John Doe v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-04-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review business-records criminal-prosecution hearsay-exception interrogation-statements miranda-rights outsider-source standard-of-review trustworthiness | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's error of admitting the 795-SSA form through the business records exception to … |
| 21-1297 | Clare Therese Grady, Carmen Trotta, and Martha Hennessy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-25 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-prosecution free-exercise government-burden government-burden-of-proof least-restrictive-means prosecution religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act rfra sincerely-held-beliefs | Petitioners, Catholic anti-nuclear activists, engaged in "symbolic disarmament" by damaging and spray painting facilities on a nuclear submarine base,… | |
| 21-6769 | Luke Joseph Burning Breast v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-921(a)(20) 18-usc-922(g) civil-rights-restoration criminal-prosecution felon-in-possession firearm firearm-components interstate-commerce rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Can the government establish the interstate commerce element in a § 922(g) prosecution by showing that a single interchangeable part of a firearm trav… |
| 21-6754 | Chad Mink v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-prosecution eighth-circuit false-statement felon-in-possession procedural-jurisdiction venue waiver-rule | For purposes of venue for a criminal prosecution, if it were a crime to make false statement to another in connection with another offense (and the ot… |
| 21-914 | Oklahoma v. Richard Ray Roth | Oklahoma | 2021-12-21 | GVR | Relisted (2) | criminal-jurisdiction criminal-prosecution due-process indian-country mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian non-indian-defendants state-jurisdiction 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… |
| 21-6621 | Valentine Okonkwo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment administrative-search criminal-prosecution dea dea-inspection due-process forfeiture-judgment prescription-fraud warrant writ-of-audita-querela | 1. Did the lower court err for ruling that an administrative search, without a warrant, ostensibly conducted by a DEA Diversionary inspector was lawfu… |
| 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… |
| 21-6386 | Antjuan Sydnor v. California | California | 2021-11-23 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights counsel-absence criminal-prosecution critical-stage jury-deliberations right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error | 1. In a criminal prosecution, if a trial court permits the prosecutor and counsel for a codefendant to present supplemental arguments to the jury duri… |
| 21-762 | Lena Lasher v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-11-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | brady-violation criminal-prosecution good-faith-defense medical-practitioner medical-practitioners misbranding pharmacist prescription prescription-validity scope-of-practice | 1. Where the government prosecutes a licensed pharmacist under "Misbranding ", 18 usc§ 371, 21 USC§§ 331(a) and 333(a)(2), for dispensing "invalid " p… |
| 21-6277 | Jordan Adonis Rawls v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2021-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-charges criminal-prosecution custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-warnings patterson-v-illinois police-disclosure sixth-amendment | WHETHER POLICE, TO PROTECT A PERSON'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS, MUST DO MORE THAN ADMINISTER MIRANDA WARNINGS WHEN THE INDIVIDUAL IS SUBJECT TO POLICE C… |
| 21-6114 | Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Florida | Florida | 2021-11-01 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment racial-discrimination standing systematic-exclusion | Question not identified. |
| 21-543 | Mark Anthony Spell v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2021-10-13 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process misdemeanor sixth-amendment speeding-ticket statute-of-limitations | 1. Does the Sixth Amendment permit the prosecution of a misdemeanor speeding ticket after the lapse of more than twenty years if there is no evidence … |
| 21-485 | Oklahoma v. Shawn Lee McDaniel | Oklahoma | 2021-10-01 | GVR | Amici (1)Relisted (4) | criminal-jurisdiction criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection indian-country mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-defendants state-jurisdiction 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… |
| 21-366 | Michael Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-intent criminal-prosecution due-process expert-testimony fifth-circuit fraud medicare-fraud medicare-regulations sufficiency-of-evidence | Petitioners Michael Jones hereby adopts the Petitions for Writ of Certiorari filed by Dr. Henry Evans and Dr. Shelton Barnes and the Questions Present… |
| 21-5233 | Abel Guillermo Godoy v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process elements-of-crime jury-determination legal-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-factors sixth-amendment | In Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), the Court held that in a prosecution for 8 U.S.C. § 1326, the fact of a prior conviction n… |
| 21-5203 | Ibrahim Akasha Abdalla, aka Ibrahim Akasha v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreign-national personal-jurisdiction | What level of contact with the United States must a foreign national who never entered this country and committed the offense conduct solely outside o… |
| 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… |
| 20-1694 | Gregory Molden v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-08 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment health-care-fraud medicare medicare-regulations regulatory-compliance | Petitioner in district court appeared in a jury trial with multiple co-defendants three of which like Petitioner were licensed physicians. All of the … |
| 20-1692 | Henry Evans v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-07 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution expert-testimony health-care-fraud healthcare-fraud medicaid medicare medicare-regulations statutory-interpretation | 1.) Are the Medicare rules, regulations, and policies "controlling" in a criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1347; i.e. is evidence of compliance o… |
| 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… |
| 20-7867 | 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… |
| 20-1480 | George P. Naum, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-04-22 | GVR | Relisted (6) | 21-cfr-1306-04 21-usc-841 controlled-substances criminal-prosecution medical-practice opioid-prescription professional-standards statutory-interpretation united-states-v-moore | Can the elements of 21 U.S.C. §841(a)(l) as defined in United States v. Moore, 423 U.S. 122 (1975) requiring the Government to prove unlawful distribu… |
| 20-7622 | Merle Denezpi v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-03-31 | Judgment Issued | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | constitutional-provisions court-of-indian-offenses criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy federal-agency indian-law jurisdictional-issue procedural-history tribal-court ute-mountain-ute-agency | Is the Court of Indian Offenses of Ute Mountain Ute Agency a federal agency such that Merle Denezpi's conviction in that court barred his subsequent p… |
| 20-7404 | De Andre Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act individual-victim interstate-commerce intra-state-robbery mandatory-sentencing robbery software-purchase | Whether the intra-state robbery of an individual satisfies the interstate commerce nexus sufficient for a Hobbs Act prosecution merely because the ind… |
| 20-1241 | Michael Paul Miselis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Amici (1) | anti-riot-act civil-rights constitutional-validity criminal-prosecution due-process federal-prosecution first-amendment free-speech overbreadth protest-rights standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2101, the Anti-Riot Act, is facially invalid under the First Amendment. 2. If so, are the constitutionally infirm provisions o… |
| 20-7377 | Benjamin Drake Daley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | IFP | anti-riot-act civil-rights civil-unrest criminal-prosecution due-process facial-constitutionality federal-statute first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce overbreadth standing | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2101, the Anti-Riot Act, is facially invalid under the First Amendment. 2. If so, are the constitutionally infirm provisions o… |
| 20-937 | Robert Andrews v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2021-01-13 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution evidence-discovery fifth-amendment foregone-conclusion passcode-disclosure password-disclosure self-incrimination state-supreme-court testimonial-compulsion | Does the Self-Incrimination Clause of the Fifth Amendment protect an individual from being compelled to recall and truthfully disclose a memorized pas… |
| 20-6669 | Brian Zellner v. Georgia | Georgia | 2020-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment constitutional-provision criminal-charges criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment first-offender-statute state-prosecution substantive-criminal-charges | Does the Double Jeopardy Clause of the 5th Amendment bar state prosecution of a defendant on substantive criminal charges based on the same conduct wh… |
| 20-824 | Edward F. Taupier v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2020-12-17 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech free-speech-protection intent intent-standard reckless-speech recklessness true-threats virginia-v-black | Whether the First Amendment prohibits a State from criminalizing threats to commit violence communicated in reckless disregard of the risk of placing … |
| 20-6514 | Jimmy Ray Weatherholt, Jr. v. Virginia | Virginia | 2020-12-03 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process fair-trial judicial-conduct recusal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel | The Sixth Amendment provides that "[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right . . . to have the assistance of counsel for his d… |
| 20-6484 | Willie Tyler v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-12-01 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-1512 communication-prevention criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federal-witness-tampering fowler-v-united-states reasonable-likelihood specific-intent witness-tampering | The federal witness tampering statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1512, permits conviction of any individual who "prevent [s] the communication by any person to a [F… |
| 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… |
| 20-6357 | Paul Cook v. Appellate Division of the Superior Court of California, Los Angeles | California | 2020-11-17 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment for-profit-law-firm fourteenth-amendment impartiality private-law-firm prosecutorial-impartiality | 1. Can a for-profit law firm, without supervision from the public prosecutor, be contracted out to criminally prosecute someone and still be impartial… |
| 20-570 | Daniel Cvijanovich v. United States Secret Service | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law civil-rights criminal-prosecution foia-exemptions freedom-of-information-act judicial-review law-enforcement-exemption law-enforcement-monitoring secret-service-records standard-of-review | 1. Does FOIA exemption (b)(7)(A) apply to the Secret Service's monitoring of an individual, absent the existence of any actual enforcement proceeding … |
| 20-5947 | Craig Martin Shults v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-115 criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process evidence-admissibility federal-judge federal-rules-of-evidence federal-statute federal-threat subsequent-act-evidence | Whether, in an 18 U.S.C. § 115(a)(1)(B) prosecution for threatening a federal judge, subsequent act evidence of additional threats made months after t… |
| 20-5897 | Demetrice Williams v. Sandy McCain, Warden, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-02 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability COA criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution denial effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection federal-district-court fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment | A. WHETHER THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT SHOULD NOT HAVE DENIED COA BASED ON THE SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DENIAL OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT GUARANTEES OF T… |
| 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 … | |
| 20-326 | Mitchell J. Stein v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-11 | Denied | Amici (2) | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence false-testimony government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the Due Process Clause excuses the government's knowing use of false testimony in a criminal prosecution so long as the government divulged ev… |
| 20-5579 | Israel Torres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment standing | May an individual charged with violating a law barring the possession of firearms by felons bring an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to his pros… |
| 20-5341 | Erik Becerra v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-13 | Denied | IFP | affirmative-defense criminal-justice criminal-prosecution federal-law firearm-possession judicial-development lower-court-conflict statutory-interpretation | In a criminal prosecution for unlawful possession of a firearm or ammunition, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), does federal law permit the judicial development of … |
| 20-5120 | Giovanni Cotto, aka Monte v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution federal-statute mens-rea official-proceeding statutory-interpretation witness-retaliation | Whether, in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1513(b)(1), the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knew the witness agains… |
| 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… |
| 19-8883 | Nathan E. Gundy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial judicial-discretion standing trial-rights | 1. Whether The 6X Amendment of The United States Constitution Bids are Guaranteed TO O Farr Thlah TA alk erimwale ProsecahAs or Gust wheal a Sudge dee… |
| 19-8661 | Justo Jonah Santos v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-prosecution immigration immigration-law naturalization sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-evidence | The lower court in this case admitted into evidence an immigration officer's handwritten notes and checkmarks on a naturalization application, made du… |
| 19-8568 | James Stephen Thorpe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-prosecution due-process hobbs-act home-invasion interstate-commerce private-residence robbery targeting-rule | Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly held that there exists an interstate commerce connection for a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 an… |
| 19-8449 | Gregory Harris, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-prosecution evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence helpfulness law-enforcement-witnesses lay-opinion-testimony personal-perception usurping-jury-role | The Third Circuit panel majority, deepening a mature circuit split regarding the foundational requirements of Federal Rule of Evidence 701, ruled that… |
| 19-1163 | Bernard Rottschaefer v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response Waived | appeals collateral-estoppel court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy drug-distribution due-process judicial-deference judicial-review jurisdiction medical-professional precedent standard-of-review substantial-question | On March 3rd, 2006, the Court of Appeals for the 3rd District ruled that sex-for-drugs played no part in Dr. Rottschaefer's convictions and that Dr. R… |
| 19-1145 | Ng Lap Seng v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | bribery bribery-of-foreign-officials criminal-prosecution foreign-corrupt-practices-act international-organizations mcdonnell-v-united-states official-act quasi-sovereign-public-international-entities statutory-interpretation united-nations | 1. Whether the generic term "organization" in §666 should be construed to include quasi-sovereign public international entities like the United Nation… | |
| 19-999 | Lewis Alan Dugan v. Wyoming | Wyoming | 2020-02-10 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instruction obscenity overbreadth speech-conduct stalking-statute | 1. Whether, in a prosecution for writing obscene letters, a trial court should instruct a jury regarding the legal definition of the term "obscene" as… |
| 19-7433 | Anthony Russell Wilson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3583 criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy federal-sentencing fifth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release united-states-v-haymond | The question presented to this Court is whether Petitioner, Wilson, who suffered a criminal prosecution by way of a supervised release revocation hear… |
| 19-795 | Paul D. Voorhees v. United States | Armed Forces | 2019-12-20 | Denied | conduct-unbecoming-an-officer criminal-prosecution criminal-statute due-process mens-rea military-justice negligence negligence-standard rehaif-v-united-states scienter sixth-amendment uniform-code-military-justice uniform-code-of-military-justice | Does this mens rea or scienter principle apply to criminal prosecutions under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, where the underlying statute at is… | |
| 19-782 | Vahan Kelerchian v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-18 | Denied | carpenter criminal-prosecution mail-fraud mcnally property regulatory-authority right-to-control statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | 1. Does the "right to control" constitute "property" for purposes of wire and mail fraud in light of this Court's holding in McNally, Carpenter, Cleve… | |
| 19-741 | Estate of Esther Klieman, By and Through Its Administrator, Aaron Kesner, et al. v. Palestinian Authority, aka Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-12-11 | GVR | anti-terrorism-act civil-liability civil-litigation congress-power congressional-intent criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment foreign-sovereign | 1. Whether the PA-PLO has the right to raise a Due Process defense under the Fifth Amendment—a defense the Court has ruled unavailable to U.S. state s… | |
| 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… |
| 19-6806 | Anthony J. Stokes v. Florida | Florida | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felony jurisdictional-conflict military-law predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trial-modification | I. WHETHER A CONVICTION ON A CHARGE CONTAINING AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT NOT CHARGED IN THE INFORMATION IS A "DUE PROCESS" VIOLATION. II. WHETHER THE DOUB… |
| 19-6684 | Rakeem Asaad Davis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-19 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-922g 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-right-to-jury-trial charged-theories-of-prosecution criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felon-in-possession jury-unanimity knowledge-element rehaif-v-united-states richardson-standard richardson-v-united-states sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict uncharged-theories-of-prosecution | Petitioner was charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). The indictment charged po… |
| 19-594 | Mahmoud Thiam v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response Waived | american-constitutional-limitations american-court constitutional-limitations criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process foreign-statute official-act predicate-offense predicate-prosecution vagueness-doctrine | 1. Where a foreign statute is used as a predicate to prosecution in a United States court, including but not limited to the vagueness doctrine, are th… |
| 19-538 | Albert S. N. Hee v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court-precedent constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process fabricated-evidence habeas-corpus stare-decisis substantive-constitutional-rights | It is fundamental that the constitutional right of due process is violated when the Principal Government Agent lies by fabricating evidence in order t… |
| 19-498 | Raymond L. Rogers v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-10-18 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution fifth-amendment habeas-corpus immediate-release sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether or not the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals [erred], when denying (1). your Petitioner, a certificate of appealability (COA) pursuant to 28 U.S.… |
| 19-6220 | Nerses Nick Bronsozian v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-09 | GVR | IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution due-process firearms firearms-regulation national-firearms-act registration statutory-construction taxation taxation-power | When the National Firearms Act ("NFA") was passed in 1934, the sole constitutional authority for the law was Congress's power to tax under U.S. Const.… |
| 19-5744 | Johnny Ellery Smith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assimilative-crimes-act criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction indian-country indian-law major-crimes-act state-law tribal-sovereignty | Did the federal government's prosecution of an Indian for violation of state law in Indian country violate federal statutes and tribal sovereignty ret… |
| 19-5735 | Yolanda M. Williams v. Shawna L. Reagin | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-28 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution demand-letter deprivation-claim due-process immunity judgment judgment-enforcement procedural-process sovereign-immunity standing | Whether the defendant forfeited her immunity: failed to comply with elementary principles of procedural process and rendered an in just judgment enfor… |
| 19-5556 | Regina Lewis v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-magistrate federal-state-balance procedural-violation rule-of-lenity standing statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-115 | Did United States Magistrate Gabriel Gorenstein violate the Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 4 (b) Did my arrest and prosecution violate the narrow federal-state… |
| 19-5466 | James Michael Farrell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-defense criminal-defense-lawyer criminal-prosecution drug-distribution-organization due-process money-laundering willful-blindness | In the context of a criminal prosecution of a criminal defense lawyer who was charged with functioning as the "consiglieri" of a drug distribution org… |
| 19-5486 | Jarrell Williams v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-defendant constitutional-provisions criminal-prosecution district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-juvenile-delinquency-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction juvenile juvenile-delinquency juvenile-offenders rico rico-conspiracy | 1.) Did the Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act ("JDA"), 18 U.S.C. §§ 5031-42, divested the district court of jurisdiction over Petitioner's prosecution … |
| 19-5422 | Michael A. Webb v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adam-walsh-act adam-walsh-child-protection-and-safety-act constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Was petitioner, Michael A. Webb, subjective to ineffective assistance of counsel or deficient representation by defense counsel in a prosecution? Was… |
| 18-9762 | Kwame A. Insaidoo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-666 5th-amendment 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-benefit jury-determination jury-trial second-circuit statutory-interpretation | Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI, when it held that the government need not prove to a jury the… |
| 18-1566 | Charles D. Scoville v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Tenth Circuit | 2019-06-21 | Denied | Amici (1) | civil-procedure criminal-prosecution dodd-frank-act due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-reach extraterritoriality federal-jurisdiction sec-enforcement securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-law securities-regulation statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether Section 929P(b)'s jurisdictional amendments conferred substantive extraterritorial reach upon Sections 10(b) and 17(a) in SEC enforcement acti… |
| 18A1257 | United States v. Richard D. Collins | Armed Forces | 2019-06-04 | Presumed Complete | criminal-prosecution eighth-amendment military-justice rape retroactive-application statute-of-limitations | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9490 | Daniel George Brown v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 6th-amendment criminal-prosecution deportation illegal-reentry immigration-law right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether an alien's Sixth Amendment right to counsel is violated in a criminal prosecution for illegal reentry following deportation, where the United … |
| 18-9427 | Willie Anthony Saxby, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution dual-sovereignty due-process fair-notice federal-jurisdiction federal-state-jurisdiction pending-charges state-jurisdiction supervised-release | Did the Federal Government violate the "Doctrines of Dual Sovergeinship" which exist between Federal and State jurisdictions for prosecuting an "alleg… |
| 18-1336 | Walter P. Reed v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-24 | Denied | Response Waived | campaign-finance criminal-forfeiture criminal-forfeiture,statute-of-limitations,mail-fr criminal-prosecution custom-and-practice custom-and-practice,federal-mail-fraud,state-law,s due-process federal-law mail-fraud notice state-law statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | 1. Whether Petitioner was denied due process by the "lack of notice" of (1) the federal prosecutors' hindsight interpretation of the phrase "unrelated… |
| 18-8871 | Roy L. Rambo v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act asset-freezing counsel-of-choice criminal-prosecution due-process personal-assets sixth-amendment state-court-ruling | 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice was violated when a state court issued an order which froze the defendant's lawfully acquire… |
| 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… |
| 18-1054 | Jason Allen Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | admissibility circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution drug-crimes drug-possession due-process evidence evidence-admissibility knowledge-intent prior-conviction prior-convictions | Whether the mere fact of a prior drug possession conviction is admissible to show knowledge and intent in a subsequent drug distribution prosecution. | |
| 18-7926 | Hubert Babb v. Clara Smith, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | IFP | appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution determinative-motive due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination sentencing | WHETHER INOIGENT ANO/OR PRO SE DEFENDANTS IN CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS HAVE OR ARE ENTITLED TO CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION FROM THE PRESENCE OP SOCIOLECONOM… |
| 18-1001 | Casey Brandon Sibley v. Arizona | Arizona | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-law criminal-prosecution first-amendment free-speech overbreadth-vagueness strict-scrutiny subjective-intent true-threat | Whether the First Amendment requires proof of a speaker's subjective wrongful intent in order for speech to be deemed a "true threat" subject to crimi… |
| 18-7638 | John Todd Williams v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-violation civil-violations consumer-protection criminal-prosecution debt-collection deceptive-tactics fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa federal-law misrepresentations | Whether the courts below erroneously held that Mr. Williams and his companies could be prosecuted criminally, for acts his employees committed that ha… |
| 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… |
| 18-7329 | Phillip Dale Selfa v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty due-process federal-state-jurisdiction presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vindictiveness | Does the prophylactic presumption of prosecutorial vindictiveness (North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711 (1982)) apply when two different sovereigns … |
| 18-7286 | Johnathan Masters v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution criminal-statute first-amendment free-speech good-order-and-discipline school-speech vagueness void-for-vagueness | One area where free speech is under significant attack is within this country's school system, where perhaps the most vulnerable class of individuals … |
| 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 … |
| 18-6945 | William Nathaniel Washington v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence false-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-misconduct miranda-waiver | If there exist authentic uncontradicted testimonial evidence in the record of a criminal proceedings that proves that a member of a law enforcement ag… |
| 18-669 | Shane M. Gates v. Walter Reed, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process hobbs-act insurance-interference malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct substantive-due-process | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred by failing to recognize that a District Attorney, who in his private law practice represented, and received hund… |
| 18-6674 | Octavious Lamar Rhymes v. Texas | Texas | 2018-11-09 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process judicial-vindictiveness jurisdiction prosecutorial-vindictiveness same-criminal-episode venue-transfer | Where Rhymes' due process rights violated by prosecutorial and judicial vindictiveness. When after being prosecuted in one county, and receiving a sho… |
| 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… |
| 18-6311 | 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. |
| 18-444 | Montana v. Ronald Dwight Tipton | Montana | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | calder-v-bull criminal-prosecution dna-evidence ex-post-facto sex-crimes statute-of-limitations stogner-v-california | In Stogner v. California, 539 U.S. 607 (2003), this Court held that a California statute that revived timebarred prosecutions for sex-related child ab… |
| 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 … |
| 18-6011 | Irek Ilgiz Hamidullin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-conflict article-iii-court battlefield-conduct combatant-detention common-law-defense criminal-prosecution foreign-soldiers international-law military-law war-crimes | (1) Whether Army Regulation 190-8 requires, as a necessary prerequisite to criminal prosecution of combatants under domestic law based on determinatio… |
| 18-5966 | Joseph Faulkner v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment law-of-case-doctrine law-of-the-case prosecution sentencing sentencing-enhancement uncharged-conduct witte-v-united-states | (1) Whether the use of uncharged conduct to increase a sentence means the conduct was used to punish, and a subsequent prosecution for the same conduc… |
| 18-192 | J. B. R. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-14 | Denied | age-of-criminal-responsibility constitutional-limits constitutional-punishment criminal-prosecution death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder juvenile-justice juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders life-imprisonment prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation statutory-punishment | Whether the Due Process Clause forbids the Government from prosecuting an individual who was a juvenile at the time of the crime under a statute that … |