criminal-punishment
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6386 | Gavin Michael Harold v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-16 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-punishment jury-trial mandatory-minimum restitution sixth-amendment | In 2018, Congress enacted the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act, which established a mandatory minimum restitution amount o… |
| 25A642 | Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Application | constitutional-challenge criminal-punishment ex-post-facto lifetime-reporting sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6010 | Karl Patrick Kluge v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-31 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | child-exploitation criminal-punishment jury-finding mandatory-minimum restitution sixth-amendment | In 2018, Congress enacted the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act, which established a mandatory minimum restitution amount o… |
| 24-1252 | Real Property commonly known as: 11475 NW Pike Road, Yamhill, Oregon, Yamhill County and any residence, buildings, or storage facilities thereon, et al. v. Yamhill County, Oregon and forfeiting agency, on behalf of the YCINT seizing agency | Oregon | 2025-06-06 | Denied | civil-forfeiture constitutional-interpretation criminal-punishment double-jeopardy in-rem-proceeding property-rights | 1. Under Oregon law, in a contested civil forfeiture trial, property may be forfeited only if a jury finds that a person was convicted of a crime, tha… | |
| 24-5420 | Jerry E. Russell, Sr. v. Indiana | Indiana | 2024-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | atkins-v-virginia criminal-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole sentencing | Should the Eighth Amendment prohibition, against sentencing intellectually disabled individuals to death, announced in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 30… |
| 24-5366 | Marquise Thomas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-22 | Denied | IFP | child-exploitation criminal-punishment jury-determination mandatory-minimum restitution-order sixth-amendment | Does the Sixth Amendment require a jury to find the facts needed to justify a restitution order meeting or exceeding § 2259(b)(2)(B)'s $3,000 mandator… |
| 23-7525 | Stanley Waldron v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-05-21 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment due-process equal-protection hard-labor involuntary-servitude state-liability thirteenth-amendment | IS THE STATE OF LOUISIANA BARRED BY THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION FROM THE PUNISHMENT OF INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE AT HARD LA… |
| 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… |
| 22-5589 | 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. … |
| 22-5073 | Leroy McGill v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-12 | Denied | IFP | arizona constitutional-law criminal-punishment criminal-sentencing death-penalty ex-post-facto ninth-circuit retroactive-increase retroactive-law | The Ex Post Facto Clause prohibits retroactive increases in criminal punishment. When Mr. McGill committed the crime for which he was convicted, Arizo… |
| 21-1126 | Taylor Arnett, et al. v. Kansas | Kansas | 2022-02-15 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-punishment criminal-restitution due-process jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing-facts sixth-amendment | In a series of decisions beginning with Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), the Court has held that the Sixth Amendment (incorporated against… |
| 21-5846 | Luke W. Cain v. California | California | 2021-10-01 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-permissibility criminal-punishment double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion legislative-intent multiple-offenses multiple-punishments penal-code sentencing | GENERALLY, A FEDERAL COURT MAY NOT REVIEW A STATE COURT SENTENCE THAT IS WITHIN THE STATUTORY LIMITS. IT MAY VACATE A SENTENCE, HOWEVER IF IT WAS IMPO… |
| 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' … |
| 20-6997 | Joe D. Bryan v. Texas | Texas | 2021-01-29 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review substantive-due-process | Does the criminal punishment of an innocent person violate the Substantive Due Process Clause of the Constitution? If the criminal punishment of an i… |
| 20-5122 | Maximo Flores-Lezama v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-punishment due-process precedents punishment revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Whether a supervised release revocation sentence may be imposed to punish a defendant for his underlying criminal conduct, or whether a punitive revoc… |
| 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… |
| 19-962 | Travis Ray Norwood v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2020-01-31 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-review criminal-justice criminal-punishment drug-policy due-process equal-protection opioid-crisis opioid-sentencing recidivist-statute sentencing | Whether, and under what circumstances, can defendants charged with crimes involving Schedule I opioids such as heroin be constitutionally treated diff… |
| 18A1264 | City of Boise v. Robert Martin, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-04 | Presumed Complete | criminal-punishment cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment homelessness public-spaces shelter-availability | Question not identified. | |
| 18-7467 | Phillip E. LaPointe v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment atkins-precedent atkins-v-virginia brain-development criminal-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing | Does this Court's 8th Amendment protections extend to a just turned eighteen year old who received life without parole, where the evidence shows he wa… |
| 18-5434 | Troy Victorino v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-02 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-punishment criminal-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment jury-sentencing resentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court ruling that the automatic-resentencing-tolife provision of Florida Statutes Section 775.082(2) applies only if death… |