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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6771 | Kionnataya Shevil Reed v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-10 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-regulation second-amendment | Does the lifetime criminalization of any convicted felon's possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment? |
| 25-6749 | Colin Williams v. United States | Second Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-statute felony-possession firearms-restriction second-amendment self-defense | 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) imposes a lifelong prohibition, punishable by up to 15 years' imprisonment, on the possession of any firearm or ammunition, for … |
| 25-6750 | Shawn Thomas Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-ban fourth-circuit | Petitioner Shawn Johnson was a felon only because of his nonviolent offenses of manufacturing and uttering counterfeit United States currency. After b… |
| 25-913 | Keegan L. Lovell v. United States | Armed Forces | 2026-02-03 | Pending | Response Waived | court-martial criminal-solicitation criminal-statute military-justice statutory-interpretation ucmj-jurisdiction | The relevant federal criminal statute requires that "[a]ny person subject to the [Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)] who solicits or advises ano… |
| 25-6650 | Michael Ledon Lee v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment. 2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o… |
| 25-6574 | Christopher Michael Arredondo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment. 2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o… |
| 25-796 | Princewill Arinze Duru v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Denied | Response Waived | bank-fraud criminal-statute identity-theft means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines victim-definition | Title 18, United State Code, Section 1028A imposes a mandatory two-year consecutive sentence on anyone who "knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, w… |
| 25-6403 | Miguel Abreu v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felony-possession gun-rights permanent-disarmament second-amendment | Petitioner Miguel Abreu possessed a gun only because, during a dispute, he disarmed another person and then retreated. Because he had two prior felony… |
| 25-6371 | Bobby Dale Simmons v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearms-possession gun-rights second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits felons from possessing firearms or ammunition, violates the Second Amendment—either on its face or as a… |
| 25-6375 | Eddie White, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearms-possession gun-rights second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits felons from possessing firearms or ammunition, violates the Second Amendment —either on its face or as … |
| 25A679 | Matthew Lee Pelton v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-09 | Application | criminal-statute ninth-circuit pecuniary-damages restitution statutory-interpretation victim-compensation | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6223 | Daniel Kroeker v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-statute dost-factors jury-instruction lascivious-exhibition sexual-offense | Whether, in a non-production child-pornography prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2), a trial court should define the phrase "lascivious exhibitio… |
| 25A611 | Paul Kenneth Cromar v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Application | criminal-statute pro-se-petition property-seizure statutory-interpretation tax-law tenth-circuit | Whether 26 U.S.C. § 7212(b), which criminalizes forcible rescue of "property after it shall have been seized under this title," applies to property ju… | |
| 25-5972 | Ramiro Gomez-Reyes v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-statute federal-definition realistic-probability sentencing statutory-interpretation | To establish that a "realistic probability" exists that a state statute applies to conduct not covered by a federal "crime of violence" definition for… |
| 25-5903 | Joseph Vicarlos Robinson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-statute federal-law gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violate the Second Amendment? |
| 25-5904 | Lawrence Ray v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actus-reus criminal-statute enterprise-definition knowledge-requirement rico-conspiracy sex-trafficking | 1. Whether, in a RICO conspiracy prosecution, 18 U.S.C. §1962(d), the government must prove the existence of a de facto enterprise that affects commer… |
| 25-5860 | Robert Matthew Bowman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B) authorizes conviction upon proof that a phone containing child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspeci… |
| 25-5867 | James Bradley Vlha v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-regulation gun-rights manufacturing-license second-amendment | Whether the statute prohibiting manufacturing and dealing in firearms without a license, 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(1)(A), is constitutional pursuant to the S… |
| 25A398 | Osvaldo Gonzalez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-07 | Presumed Complete | criminal-statute drug-possession eleventh-circuit-review federal-interdiction maritime-drug-law vessel-jurisdiction | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5796 | Daniel Matthew Matlock v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-statute federal-question mens-rea sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation | Whether the term "knowingly" in 18 U.S.C. § 2242(1) (sexual abuse) applies only to "causing another person to engage in a sexual act" or whether it ex… |
| 25-372 | Erik Matthew Harris v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Pending | Amici (2) | constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance criminal-statute firearm-possession marijuana-use second-amendment | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any… |
| 25-5577 | Brandon Grunwaldt v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-statute federal-criminal-law minor-protection statutory-interpretation video-evidence | Does a video of a minor in a bathroom engaged in ordinary grooming activities depict "the lascivious exhibition of the anus, genitals, or pubic area" … |
| 25-5565 | Marcus Delars Branson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-05 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment 2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely on… |
| 25-5467 | Patrick Lee Adams v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-08-26 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which prohibits felons from possessing firearms or ammunition, violates the Second Amendment. |
| 25-201 | Mahsa Parviz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Denied | consent-requirement criminal-statute identity-theft mandatory-sentencing means-of-identification statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1), titled "Aggravated identity theft," imposes a mandatory consecutive two-year prison term on one who, while committing a liste… | |
| 25-5347 | Daniel Lee Lusk, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession gun-rights interstate-commerce second-amendment | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 25-163 | Corrigan Clay v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-08-11 | Denied | constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-commerce-clause missouri-v-holland optional-protocol | 1. Whether the Foreign Commerce Clause empowers Congress to criminalize private, non-commercial conduct that occurs entirely abroad. 2. Whether Misso… | |
| 25-160 | Julian Omidi and Surgery Center Management, LLC v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-11 | Denied | Relisted (2) | appellate-review consent-element criminal-statute identity-theft jury-instruction mens-rea | 1. Whether the government must prove that the defendant used a means of identification without the consent of its owner, that is, stole the identity, … |
| 25A144 | Stephen K. Bannon v. United States | District of Columbia | 2025-08-05 | Presumed Complete | congressional-subpoena criminal-statute executive-privilege mens-rea separation-of-powers willful-conduct | Whether the D.C. Circuit's interpretation of "willfully" in 2 U.S.C. § 192 to require only intentional conduct, rather than knowledge of unlawfulness,… | |
| 25-5208 | Jessie Bullock v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-statute felony-conviction firearm-prohibition second-amendment self-defense | Section 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) imposes a permanent, lifetime prohibition on possession of a firearm by a person previously convicted of any crime punis… |
| 24-1328 | United States v. Keshon Daveon Baxter | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … |
| 24-7526 | Dwayne Lamonica Ford v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment. 2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o… |
| 24-7507 | Osmar Alexis Alvarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession gun-rights interstate-commerce second-amendment | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-7451 | Walston Owen v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-statute jury-finding racketeering-act rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement substantive-crime | Where a racketeering act amounts to a substantive crime that carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, but a racketeering act that amounts to a … |
| 24-7417 | Michael Elias Jalomo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-7419 | Cardari Bradley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-1247 | United States v. La'Vance LeMarr Cooper | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Denied | Relisted (3) | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … |
| 24-1248 | United States v. Patrick Darnell Daniels, Jr. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Pending | Relisted (3) | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute federal-law firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … |
| 24-1249 | United States v. Kindle Terrell Sam | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Pending | Relisted (3) | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-use firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who "is an unlawful user of or addicted to any … |
| 24-7347 | Joshua Caleb Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment. 2. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate firearm possession based solely o… |
| 24-7348 | Spencer Wayne Bacon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause conviction-restriction criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | (1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the statute that prohibits firearm possession by any person who was previously convicted of "a crime punishable by i… |
| 24-7286 | Christopher Glen Mason v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-7244 | Samuel York v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-19 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause criminal-statute felony-possession firearm-possession jurisdictional-burden second-amendment | 1. Is 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—convicted felon in possession of a firearm —facially unconstitutional under the Second Amendment ? 2. Does 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 24-7217 | Ladarius Dean v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause criminal-statute felony-possession firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | (1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)— the statute that prohibits firearm possession by any person who was previous ly convicted of "a crime punishable by… |
| 24-7148 | Julia Greenberg v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-statute document-fraud false-statement federal-criminal-law immigration-law statutory-interpretation | Whether the first paragraph of 18 U.S.C.A. §1546(a) reaches "authentic" immigration documents that are generated following a false statement (as oppos… |
| 24-6936 | Deveon Jamear Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-04-07 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge controlled-substance criminal-statute federal-law firearm-possession second-amendment | Whether the Charge of Unlawful User of or Addicted to Any Controlled Substance in Possession of a Firearm in Violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3) is Fac… |
| 24-6897 | Joshua Michael Faust v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-03-31 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-prohibition second-amendment | Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 24-6703 | Lewis Mobley v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-injury crime-of-violence criminal-statute physical-force statutory-interpretation VICAR | Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us… |
| 24-6557 | Steve Rosado v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attempted-enticement criminal-statute government-overreach motion-to-dismiss statutory-interpretation trial-court-error | WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT COMMITTED CLEAR ERROR DENYING THE MOTTON TO DISMISS THE INDICTMENT DUE TO LACK OF PERSUASION FOR THE ATTEMPTED ENTICEMENT? WH… |
| 24-6476 | Reginald Creshawn Doss v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-05 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute facial-validity felon-rights firearms-possession second-amendment | Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional both faci… |
| 24-6416 | Carlos James Meeks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession gun-rights interstate-commerce second-amendment | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24A737 | Frank Bell, Tyson Rhame, and James Shaw v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-27 | Presumed Complete | criminal-statute intent-to-defraud jury-instruction mail-fraud property-rights wire-fraud | Whether a misrepresentation that is designed to induce a transaction in property, but that does not concern the price or fundamental characteristics o… | |
| 24-6345 | Mark Jones v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-violation criminal-statute guilty-plea immigration-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether "in violation of law" in 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(ii) is limited to criminal immigration violations (and does not include civil immigration… |
| 24-6282 | Dominique Kevion Drake v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1951 constitutional-challenge criminal-statute facial-unconstitutionality hobbs-act statutory-interpretation | Whether the statute of conviction, Title 18, Section 1951 (The Hobbs Act), is facially unconstitutional? |
| 24A669 | Dajuan Martin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-08 | Presumed Complete | criminal-statute fifth-circuit firearm-possession plea-agreement prohibited-person sentencing | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6237 | Charles Edward Harris, Jr. v. Whitney Gass, et al. | Arkansas | 2025-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation criminal-statute double-jeopardy fifth-amendment legislative-intent punishment-interpretation | The Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits multiple punishment for the same offense without a clear… |
| 24-6197 | Gail Manney v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruen-standard constitutional-review criminal-statute firearm-regulation ninth-circuit second-amendment | The question presented is whether the Second Amendment covers a federal firearm regulation. This Court has not yet clarified the Second Amendment's co… |
| 24-6202 | Kayne Russell Donath v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | IFP | acceptance-of-responsibility circuit-split criminal-statute physical-force sentencing-enhancement ussg-guideline | The district court increased Mr. Donath's sentence based upon his prior state of Iowa conviction for assault causing bodily injury or mental illness. … |
| 24-6192 | Ladonta A. Tucker v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-statute firearm-use mandatory-minimum predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a person uses or carries a firearm "during and in relation to" a predicate offense anytime the firearm has "the potential to facilitate" the c… |
| 24-6185 | Warren Siepman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-statute digital-evidence federal-law peer-to-peer-networks transportation-of-illicit-material | Whether a conviction for transportation of child pornography under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(1), based on a defendant's use of a peer-to-peer program, requ… |
| 24-6128 | Jonathan High v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-statute minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation video-evidence | Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which there is a clear circuit split: can a defendant be convicted pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 24A550 | Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review child-exploitation criminal-statute federal-sentencing fourth-circuit statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 24-605 | Jason Dee Taylor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-statute federalism police-powers sex-trafficking states-rights tenth-amendment | Whether The Government's Application Of A Federal Criminal Statute For Sex Trafficking To The Purely Local Crime Of Prostitution Is An Invasion Of The… |
| 24A509 | Willems Calixte, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-25 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-statute gun-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6015 | Tawanna Hilliard v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-statute first-amendment law-enforcement-protection overbreadth-doctrine retaliation statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether § 1513(e) is facially overbroad in that, as interpreted by the court of appeals, the statute can be violated by mere speech alone. 2. Whet… |
| 24A392 | Rhobashi Holmes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-22 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea sentencing | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5768 | James H. Roane v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-16 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach criminal-statute force-clause racketeering-enterprise VICAR-statute violent-force | When a § 924(c) conviction is predicated on a VICAR offense, must a reviewing court apply the categorical approach to the state or federal statute und… |
| 24-404 | Ji Chaoqun v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-10 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-statute federal-criminal-law foreign-agent jury-unanimity prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 951 provides that "[w]hoever, other than a diplomatic or consular officer or attaché, acts in the United States as an agent of a foreign g… |
| 24-5690 | Rayzjaun Curry v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-10-02 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession gun-rights second-amendment | Is the federal statute criminalizing the possession of a firearm by a felon unconstitutional, either on its face or as applied, because it violates th… |
| 24-5639 | Isaac Joel Chavez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-statute federal-law gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? |
| 24-5646 | Lisa Hofschulz, et vir v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-09-26 | Denied | IFP | administrative-law controlled-substances-act criminal-statute medical-standards mens-rea prescription-authorization | 1. Did Congress delegate authority to the Attorney General to define what constitutes an "effective prescription" or an "authorized" distribution of n… |
| 24-5578 | Randy Lamartiniere v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-19 | Denied | IFP | administrative-delegation controlled-substances-act criminal-statute medical-standards mens-rea prescription-authorization | 1. Did Congress delegate authority to the Attorney General to define what constitutes an "effective prescription" or an "authorized" distribution of n… |
| 24-5560 | Adam Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute firearms-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? II. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firear… |
| 24-5557 | Michael Avenatti v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-liability criminal-statute identity-theft statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | In Dubin v. United States, 599 U.S. 110, 114 (2023), the Court narrowed the scope of the aggravated identity theft statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1028A(a)(1), a… |
| 24-5535 | Cesar Yoaldo Castillo v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-statute federal-assault sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | If a VICAR assault is predicated on an underlying state or federal assault offense that does not satisfy 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)'s "crime of violence" defi… |
| 24A250 | Thomas John Boukamp v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Presumed Complete | criminal-statute cyber-stalking federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit sentencing sexual-enticement | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5479 | Nathan Steward v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce prior-conviction second-amendment | (1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the statute that prohibits firearm possession by any person who was previously convicted of "a crime punishable by i… |
| 24-5424 | Bryan C. O'Rourke v. Carrie Bridges, Warden | Oklahoma | 2024-08-30 | Denied | IFP | brady-violation criminal-statute due-process evidence-suppression judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-misconduct | This is a case about: (1) the State of Oklahoma's suppression of material and exculpatory impeachment evidence in its possession to evade the presenta… |
| 24-5376 | Donald Davis Gipson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 24-5261 | Miguel Tejada-Cruz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment | L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 24-5243 | Ryan Taybron, Eric Nixon, and Geovanni Douglas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c3a bodily-injury circuit-split criminal-statute delligatti-v-united-states omission omission-crime physical-force use-of-force | Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us… |
| 24-124 | Brent Brewbaker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | 5th-amendment-6th-amendment'\n\n'Did the court of antitrust-law appellate-review article-1 constitutional-challenge constitutional-error criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error jury-instructions presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness | 1. Section 1 of the Sherman Act criminalizes "[e]very contract ...in restraint of trade." 15 U.S.C. § 1. This prohibition cannot be applied literally … | |
| 24-125 | Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | brady-disclosure brady-obligations conspiracy criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality-jurisdiction federal-agencies federal-agency improvised-explosive-devices statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. 844(f) and (n) apply extraterritorially to offenses committed abroad by non-U.S. persons, despite the statute's lack of any affir… | |
| 24-5229 | Justin Levar Taylor v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the statute that prohibits firearm possession by any person who was previously convicted of "a crime punishable by i… |
| 24-87 | Robert Sylvester Kelly v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | Response Waived | child-protection criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law retroactive-legislation sex-offenses statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation | Consistent with the presumption against retroactive legislation, whether the 2003 amendment to 18 U.S.C. § 3283, which extended the statute of limitat… |
| 24-5131 | John William Thomas Flechs v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt-crime criminal-statute federal-criminal-law sexual-enticement statutory-interpretation substantial-step | When proving a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) (attempted sexual enticement of a minor), must the government establish that the defendant either made… |
| 24-5101 | Luis Eduardo Baez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 24-5103 | David Thomas Overman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 24-5112 | Austin Wayne Massey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment | L. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 24-5087 | Travis Wayne Lovings v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law federalism firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment | 1. Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of a firearm solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into defenda… |
| 24-5013 | Jonathan Feliz v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | actus-reus bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea omission physical-force use-of-force violent-crime | Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted us… |
| 24-5007 | David Jimenez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? |
| 23-7836 | Thomas Joseph Brewer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law force-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether federal voluntary manslaughter in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1112(a) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 23-7796 | Stewart Bitman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2422(b) actual-innocence criminal-statute enticement ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor minor-protection plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Petitioner is actually innocent of the counts of conviction whereas, although the Petitioner actually committed, the acts stipulated in… |
| 23A1129 | Stephen K. Bannon v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-06-21 | Denied | Amici (1) | contempt-of-congress criminal-statute knowledge-of-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation willfully | Question not identified. |
| 23A1138 | Mark Jordan v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-06-21 | Denied | criminal-statute divisibility force-clause mens-rea section-924(c) sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7767 | In Re Jogaak Jogaak | 2024-06-20 | Denied | IFP | bodily-injury civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law north-dakota-law sentencing-enhancement serious-bodily-injury standing statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Is a Wif\ire ~Rcof +Ke c\ 'ocTious bodily injury as defined m c?0i>fh DaKofa (2drft ed Low 2-TrL-7_(^)? Does 12 0o£)°C' ^>l2>6b Qex^O Ujba-V i<b A Se… | |
| 23-7747 | Keith Hager v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rule-60b6 conviction conviction-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process judicial-correction legal-procedure sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Does Federal Civil Rule 60(b)(6) empower the judiciary to correct a conviction and ensuing sentence for conduct not criminalized by the statute in … |
| 23A1122 | Anthony Pandrella v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7715 | Noel Bender v. Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-statute domestic-violence due-process evidence federal-law firearm-possession gun-rights restraining-order standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation | Whether Suth Amfra/f &JdwCt Suff&rfe Ahvt dhAJat C&tudi Jyndfiy /XtiadOmaA'U skedA 9M9 y&d Bentff Add Pm/A Afrt A^hah/A/np a/- ?Ae Bmdtr dS&uf-kd AAe … |
| 23-7689 | Ardis Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment standing | L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 23-7693 | Jonathan Jamal Bangash v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) comports with the Second Amendment? Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(n) permits conviction for the receipt of any firearm that has ev… |
| 23-1290 | Michael Binday v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-06-11 | Denied | Response Waived | 598 U.S. 306 (2023) requires retroactive effect constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fraud habeas-corpus retroactive-effect retroactivity section-2255 standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Whether this Court's decision in Ciminelli v. United States, 598 U.S. 306 (2023), was a constitutional determination that placed particular conduct or… |
| 23-7632 | Cordero Passley v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute deliberate-intent deliberation first-degree-murder malicious-conduct mens-rea premeditation second-degree-murder willful-killing | Whether, for a defendant to commit a "willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing" that constitutes first degree murder (as opposed to se… |
| 23A1070 | Thomas George Stanko v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-05-30 | Denied | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession second-amendment supreme-court-review | Question not identified. | |
| 23A1022 | Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-17 | Presumed Complete | 18-usc-844 courts-of-appeals criminal-statute extraterritorial-application foreign-citizen presumption-against-extraterritoriality | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7439 | Basil Loud Hawk v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute federal-crimes federal-criminal-law force-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime violent-crimes | Whether federal second-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the force clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(… |
| 23-7401 | Kristopher Lee Rocco v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing takings | L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 23-7386 | Jose Caban v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-05-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-law inaction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve the conflict among the circuits on the question of whether a crime that can be committed by compl… |
| 23-7181 | Austin Drake Day v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-7179 | Xavier Lamarr Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-7160 | John Michael Carrasco v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite pas… |
| 23-7163 | Kyle Melkonian v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights criminal-statute due-process eleventh-circuit federal-statute government-property government-property-theft plain-text plain-text-analysis statutory-interpretation | The federal theft-of-government-property statute lays out two distinct offenses in two separate paragraphs, punishing the initial theft of government … |
| 23-7125 | Alberto Jimenez Pastrana v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms second-amendment | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceeds Congress's power under the Commerce Clause.… |
| 23-7075 | Breon D. Hicks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions section-924(c) section-924c unlawful-user | I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY INSTRUCTED THE JURY CONCERNING THE SECTION 924(c) CHARGES? II. WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED A KNOWING… |
| 23-7001 | Todd Andre Whitfield v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing takings | L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 23-6973 | Oren Javentay Pichon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing takings | L Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past… |
| 23-6934 | Calvin C. Freeman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process minor-protection minors prosecutorial-discretion sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation vagueness | 1.) Whether Congress intended the Alternative sex trafficking of, children "OR®' by force, fraud, or coercion as Alternative Elements or Alternative M… |
| 23-6881 | Miguel Salinas, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms interstate-travel second-amendment standing | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6793 | Timothy Burks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-859 | Zachary S. Spiegel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-09 | Denied | Response Waived | attempted-enticement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute free-speech mandatory-sentencing obscene-speech obscenity sentencing statutory-interpretation substantial-step | Does speech alone (even obscene speech or "explicit sex talk") constitute the "substantial step" for a charge of attempted enticement of a minor to en… |
| 23-6687 | Darius James Francis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment standing | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6652 | Don Meeker v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting carjacking criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-statutes intent rosemond-standard rosemond-v-us | 1. The government failed to prove by sufficient evidence as to the petitioner that the petitioner-appellant possessed the requisite intent to commit t… |
| 23-6647 | Davaudrick Antron EtchisonBrown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-01 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce precedent second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6602 | Sylvester Cunningham v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-29 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge bruen circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-statute felon-in-possession felon-possession firearms-possession second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether, as the Eighth Circuit held, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) (which prohibits any felon from possessing firearms) is invariably constitutional as applie… |
| 23A686 | Clifford Laines, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6495 | Peter Burno v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-law controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking drug-transfer due-process intent-to-distribute ninth-circuit sentencing | Is the mere transfer of drugs from one person to another sufficient to prove a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substanc… |
| 23-6413 | Donald Bill Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1512 burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-conspiracy mens-rea official-proceeding witness-tampering | 1. Whether the witness tampering resulting in death statute, 18 U.S.C. §§1512(a)(1)(A) and (k), requires the Government to prove beyond a reasonable d… |
| 23A559 | Colin Montague v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-12-18 | Presumed Complete | continuing-criminal-enterprise criminal-statute fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment predicate-violations | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6278 | Devontae Nykel Racliff v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-standard criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-commerce second-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-6218 | Shaquille Dewayne Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession interstate-commerce new-york-state-rifle-pistol-association-v-bruen second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022).… |
| 23-625 | Tel James Boam v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-11 | Denied | Amici (1) | child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute due-process lascivious-exhibition minor-protection sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Does a defendant produce or possess a depiction involving the use of a minor engaging in "lascivious exhibition," and thus "sexually explicit conduct,… |
| 23-6161 | Norman Javier Herrera Pastran v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech internet-access sex-offender supervised-release | 1. Whether the constitutional holding of Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730 (2017)—which recognized a First Amendment right to access the I… |
| 23A504 | Fernando Diaz Rodriguez v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-12-04 | Presumed Complete | aiding-and-abetting criminal-statute hobbs-act section-924(c) supreme-court-precedent vagueness-doctrine | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6119 | Amanda Lyn Walker v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-abuse constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process enabling-child-abuse judicial-discretion sentencing-range statutory-interpretation unconstitutionally-vague | 1. Whether a criminal statute with a sentencing range of not exceeding one year imprisonment in a county jail or not exceeding life imprisonment at th… |
| 23-553 | William Clark Turner v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction flight-attendant free-speech intimidation jury-instructions statutory-interpretation | 1. Did the inclusion of multiple alternative definitions of "intimidate" within the jury instructions for the charged violation of 49 U.S.C. section 4… |
| 23A375 | Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-25 | Presumed Complete | almendarez-torres apprendi-rule criminal-statute jury-finding prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's different-occasions element must be found by a jury rather than a sentencing judge. | |
| 23-5859 | Matthew Steven Hackney v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 and § 2252(a)(5)(B) authorize convictions upon proof that materials used to produce or possess child pornography once crossed… |
| 23-5796 | Jose Folch-Colon v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law mens-rea racketeering VICAR violent-crime | If by procuring and paying for the commission of murder, Petitioner aided and abetted a crime of violence in aid of racketeering (VICAR) as defined in… |
| 23-5815 | Emily Claire Hari v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute free-exercise jurisdictional-element non-economic | Whether the "jurisdictional element" contained within 18 U.S.C. § 247, standing alone, serves to authorize congressional enactment of a criminal statu… |
| 23-5649 | Jonathan Monson v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element minor-protection sexual-exploitation visual-depiction | Section 22 51(a) of Title 18 criminalizes the use o f a minor to engage in any sexually explicit conduc t "for the pu rpose o f producing an y visual … |
| 23-5309 | Jerome Stanley Carlos, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-clause habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1. By denying Petitioner's defacto motion to expand the Certificate of Appealability, did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in holding that 18 U.… |
| 23-94 | Garret Miller v. United States | District of Columbia | 2023-08-01 | GVR | Relisted (3) | congressional-proceedings criminal-law criminal-statute electoral-certification electoral-college intent-element mens-rea obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation | Whether the obstruction-of-justice offenses in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) cover only acts that affect the integrity or availability of evidence, or whether t… |
| 23-5194 | Andra Green v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act predicate-crime sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Mr. Green is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to a single count of using a firearm during a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). H… |
| 23-5036 | Brandon Mason v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | federal firearm sentencing federal sentencing or prior state drug offense armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense federal-sentencing jackson-v-united-states prior-state-drug-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), incorporates the federal drug schedules … |
| 22-7851 | George Poulo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-23 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process free-speech minor-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Section 2251(a) of Title 18 to the U.S. Code, known as the production of child pornography statute, makes it a crime punishable by at least fifteen ye… |
| 22-7855 | Edgar Dawson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-23 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law free-speech minor-exploitation sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | Section 2251(a) of Title 18 to the U.S. Code, known as the production of child pornography statute, makes it a crime punishable by at least fifteen ye… |
| 22-7452 | Lashawna Lashae Stewart v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute divisible-offense double-jeopardy federal-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-administration united-states-code | In Prince v. United States, 352 U.S. 322 (1957), this Court construed the first and second paragraphs of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) —bank robbery and entry i… |
| 22-7240 | Cole Lusby v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process facial-vagueness mens-rea sex-offender-registration vagueness-challenge | 1) Whether this Court's decisions in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) and its progeny enable defendants to raise facial vagueness chal… |
| 22-7241 | Eric Matthew Ray v. Utah | Utah | 2023-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process facial-challenge first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether Salerno's "no set of circumstances" test, the Hoffman/Grayned "more stringent vagueness test," or some other test, should govern judicial revi… |
| 22-7157 | Andreqio Stevens v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-30 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession interstate-transportation jurisdictional-element prohibited-persons statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) criminalizes three different offenses relating to a firearm for "prohibited persons": transporting a firearm, possessing a firearm,… |
| 22-945 | Jonathan Dean Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-procedure criminal-statute misrepresentation money-laundering restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-loss wire-fraud | 1. Is proof of misrepresentations by a defendant in 2014 alone sufficient to establish that wire transfers occurring years later in 2016 and 2017 were… |
| 22-7079 | Henry Joseph Stevens v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute due-process federal-courts physical-force state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code violent-felony | 1. When evaluating whether a state-law offense satisfies the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of a "violent felony," 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B), f… |
| 22-7065 | Ahmed Abu Khatallah v. United States | District of Columbia | 2023-03-22 | Denied | IFP | acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | i. Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) apply extraterritorially? ii. Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a court from basing a criminal defendant's senten… |
| 22-7045 | John Leendert Oskam v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actus-reus bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute intimidation mens-rea physical-force supreme-court-precedent | Under the Court's recent decisions in United States v. Taylor, 142 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), and Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), does the e… |
| 22-7053 | Jose Luis Ramirez-Dorantes v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-statute duplicitous duplicitous-charge firearm-use sentencing statutory-interpretation underlying-offense | Whether a count charging the use of a firearm to further a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) that rests on multiple underlying offenses is … |
| 22-7024 | In Re Kevin Ogden | 2023-03-16 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process insufficient-evidence jury-instructions legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation | There was insufficient evidence to convict. The N.M. Embezzlement Statute clearly says the owner's name must be used in the Criminal Complaint and Inf… | |
| 22-6847 | Philip M. Close v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-USC-2251 18-USC-2252A child-pornography circuit-split criminal-statute federal-law genital-exposure sentencing sexual-conduct sexually-explicit-conduct | The question presented is whether Mr. Close's convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), for producing child pornography, and 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B), … |
| 22-6804 | Joseph Mark Williams, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-procedure appellate-procedure civil-procedure criminal-statute due-process legal-timeline minor-protection motion-to-withdraw standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court | 1. Whether the 90 days under 28 U.S.C. § 1254 and Supreme Court Rule 13 applies to an order granting a motion to withdraw an appeal . 2. Whether the… |
| 22-6614 | Omar Kashaka Taylor v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ambiguous-term criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-instruction legal-principles statutory-interpretation Whether a jury instruction effectively directing a | 1) Whether an overly broad interpretation of an ambiguous term in a criminal statute carrying severe penalties complies with established principles of… |
| 22-6599 | Herman Harris, Jr. v. Ohio, et al. | Ohio | 2023-01-23 | Denied | IFP | criminal-statute due-process legislative-intent liberty-interest life-imprisonment parole parole-discretion sentencing sentencing-ambiguity statutory-interpretation vagueness | 1. When the State of Ohio Legislatures/The Ohio General Assembly had failed to drafted with reasonably clarity the precise number of years that equals… |
| 22-558 | Pedro Lance Soto v. Texas | Texas | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine | 1. Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct? 2. Is a law t… |
| 22-6315 | Iklas Richard Davis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federalism felon-in-possession rehaif-v-united-states scienter supreme-court-precedent | 1. In United States v. Rehaif, _ U.S. ___, 189 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court acknowledged the presumption in favor of scienter — that criminal statute… |
| 22-6306 | Marion Joseph Hare v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-force borden-v-united-states causation-of-injury circuit-split criminal-statute force-clause sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines violent-force | (1) Whether a statute that only requires causation-of-injury and not the affirmative application of force satisfies the violent-force requirement? (2… |
| 22-6267 | Mack Doak v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-requirements interstate-commerce interstate-travel sexual-offense statutory-interpretation | Petitioner was convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2241(c), which criminalizes "cross[ing]a state line with intent to engage in a sexual act with a person who… |
| 22-497 | Jasper Robin Chen v. Texas | Texas | 2022-11-28 | Dismissed | Response RequestedResponse Waived | communications criminal-law criminal-statute electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech harassment-law intent overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine | 1. Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from any First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct? 2. Is a l… |
| 22-434 | Slade Alan Moore v. Texas | Texas | 2022-11-09 | Denied | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech harassment intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine | A Texas statute criminalizes sending repeated electronic communications with the intent and likely result of "harassing, annoying, alarming, abusing, … | |
| 22-430 | Charles Barton v. Texas | Texas | 2022-11-08 | Denied | Amici (7) | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication electronic-communications expressive-speech first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine public-concern | In Snyder v. Phelps, this Court held that speech on matters of public concern cannot be punished "simply because it is upsetting or arouses contempt,"… |
| 22-6002 | Charles Morgan, Jr. v. United States | District of Columbia | 2022-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ambiguity-standard criminal-statute criminal-statutes grievous-ambiguity gundy-v-united-states liberty-deprivation nondelegation nondelegation-doctrine rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether the rule of lenity should apply to all ambiguous criminal statutes or only to those that are "grievously" ambiguous. 2. Whether the full C… |
| 22-5930 | Davon Young v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cause-and-prejudice circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | A claim not raised on direct review "may be raised in habeas [] if the defendant can [] demonstrate [] 'cause' and actual 'prejudice.'" Bousley v. Uni… |
| 22-5622 | Todd Matthew Phillips v. Amber Phillips, nka Amber Korpark | Nevada | 2022-09-20 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process evidentiary-standard family-court family-law parental-rights standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | In the midst of a routine divorce saga, Wife alleged that Husband, during the marriage, had committed violent crimes against her. But Wife never conta… |
| 22-5626 | James Earl Jones v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2022-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-assault case-law criminal-law criminal-statute jurisdiction legal-procedure murder remand sexual-assault statutory-interpretation | 1: (A) WHETHER THE TERM "ON ANOTHER" AS UTILIZED IN N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2(a)(3) APPLY or (B) WHETHER N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2(a)(6) CONTROL IN PETITIONER 'S CASE… |
| 22-5610 | Andre Thompson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process elements-clause physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation | i) 14I approach od \% US. Cf fcj U) CA) Courts allowed or retired b look to the J wlort it ordinarily invo Jicab crime ad i/ioknce fpplymj jit Catz^ … |
| 22-5491 | John Michael Ward v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute federal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel overbreadth statutory-interpretation vagueness | Was the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana's interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) vague and overbroad, and did Petitioner's at… |
| 22-5406 | Daniel Edward Gonzalez v. California | California | 2022-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute drug-possession due-process felony-enhancement firearm-possession firearms second-amendment | California Health and Safety Code section 11370.1 makes possessing certain drugs while armed a felony. Because mere misdemeanor drug possession is a n… |
| 22-5239 | Edward Bishop v. Jonathan R. Hemingway, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment legal-interpretation offense-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether § 924(c) criminalizes two seperate roffenses to determine if the Petitioner was convicted of an offense § 924(c) does not criminalize? |
| 22-76 | Keith L. Carnes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-07-26 | Denied | Amici (2) | 2nd-amendment circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-statute drug-use due-process firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation unlawful-user | Whether the government, to establish that the defendant is an "unlawful user" of a controlled substance, must show the defendant's regular or habitual… |
| 22-5169 | Antoine Deshawn Barnes v. T.V. Nationwide Network, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-25 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute due-process free-speech legal-challenge mens-rea standing state-court statutory-construction takings | Question not identified. |
| 21-8272 | Robert Edward Guerra v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 21-8217 | Herbert Bernard Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-code federal-criminal-law mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion sexual-activity sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-language | Should this Court grant the petition for writ of certiorari to resolve whether the statutory language of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b)'s "any sexual activity for… |
| 21-8035 | Charlie John Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) conviction-review criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis | Whether Petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. section 924 (c) remains valid under the Supreme Court's holding in United States v. Davis. 139 S. Ct. … |
| 21-1380 | Seun Banjo Ojedokun v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-cases congressional-intent criminal-statute extraterritorial-application presumption-against-extraterritoriality statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | The question presented is: Whether, as in civil cases, a clear indication of congressional intent is required to rebut the presumption against extrate… |
| 21-7529 | Jesse Dean Mince v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 21-7509 | Jean Carlo Ferreira v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute davis-precedent due-process jury-instruction procedural-default sentencing standing vagueness | Whether the Court should address the Circuit Split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default can be excused becau… |
| 21-7459 | Robbie Catchings, aka Robert Brown, aka Robbie Catching v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-law firearm-possession firearms jury-instructions jury-verdict knowingly-possessed statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether sufficient evidence supported the jury's verdict that petitioner knowingly possessed a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). |
| 21-7405 | Joshua Guity-Nunez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-section-1594 appeal base-offense-level criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | I, Whether Petitioner, who was convicted of 18 U.S.C. § 1594(c), is subject to a Base Offense Level of 34 or 14? |
| 21-1215 | Gun Owners of America, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment administrative-law agency-interpretation bump-stocks chevron-deference criminal-law criminal-statute firearms machinegun-definition rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the definition of "machinegun" found in 26 U.S.C. §5845(b) is clear and unambiguous, and whether bump stocks meet that definition? 2. Whet… |
| 21-7195 | James Leon Higgins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearms firearms-possession interstate-commerce perjury-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, a… |
| 21-7151 | Quentin Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea predicate-offense reasonable-person sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation threat-of-force | QUESTION ONE: The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his cond… |
| 21-7118 | Joshua B. Davoren v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2022-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession home-defense racial-inequality second-amendment standing takings | Is a statute that makes it a crime for every person, including responsible, law-abiding citizens, to possess a firearm, rifle, shotgun, or ammunition … |
| 21-7069 | Javar Dinsdale Clarke v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | May Bank robbery apply as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. 924(c) when Bank robbery does not match the elements of section 924(c)(3)(A). |
| 21-6991 | Lloyd George Kenney v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act california-penal-code-207 categorical-analysis criminal-statute divisibility force-clause implicit-threat-of-arrest kidnapping violent-felony | 1. When a state's highest court has interpreted a state criminal statute to allow for a conviction even if no physical force is used in certain circum… |
| 21-6915 | Maxwell Gaffney v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking federal-law foreseeability judicial-review jury-instructions proximate-cause sentencing | Kyle Rodriguez died after voluntarily using heroin. The government proved to a jury he bought it from Petitioner Maxwell Gaffney. The Government also … |
| 21-6894 | Arnoldo Alvarado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-111 18-usc-924c borden-v-united-states constitutional-review criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime | WHETHER, IN LIGHT OF THE COURT'S RULING IN BORDEN V. UNITED STATES, 593 U.S. _ (2021), ALVARADO'S CONVICTION UNDER 18 U.S.C. §111 (a) AND (b) QUALIFIE… |
| 21-6753 | Trevin Nunnally, aka Rick v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-04 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | apprendi cocaine-distribution constitutional-law constitutional-precedent criminal-justice-reform criminal-statute first-step-act intervening-developments sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | "Whether, when deciding if it should 'impose a reduced sentence' on an individual under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018 . . . a district … |
| 21-6589 | Lamont Guinyard v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause congressional-authority constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes a defendant's possession of a firearm or ammunition, is unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's … |
| 21-6512 | Jason Kiger v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Louisiana | 2021-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | capital-offense constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial legislative-amendment legislative-power sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation unanimous-verdict | Louisiana voted to change its Constitution to require unanimous verdicts in non-capital cases where they were not required before. In 1997 and 1998, w… |
| 21-6532 | Mary Noel Kruppe v. California | California | 2021-12-06 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process homicide malice murder-prosecution recklessness retroactive-law | An People v. Watson(1481)30 Cal. 3d 240,4he Appellate covurt IAvamatically exoanded du law of homicides a dafendait Whost Joonductwould once hove WC n… |
| 21-6503 | Pradeep Gupte v. University of Connecticut | Second Circuit | 2021-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review child-pornography civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 21-6459 | Daniel Lowell v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1(a) carjacking criminal-procedure criminal-statute defendant-burden federal-criminal-law felony-murder-rule legal-standard temporary-safety | When applying the felony murder rule under 18 U.S.C. § 1(a) to the crime of carjacking, what must a defendant show to establish that he has reached a … |
| 21-760 | Laura Kelly, Governor of Kansas, et al. v. Animal Legal Defense Fund, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-11-22 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) | animal-facilities constitutional-law criminal-statute first-amendment free-speech property-rights trespass viewpoint-discrimination | Whether Kan. Stat. Ann. § 47-1827(b), (c), and (d) violate the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment by criminalizing trespass by deception at ani… |
| 21-6071 | Aldridge Robinson, et al. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act section-1951 section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Hobbs Act Robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951 is a "crime of violence" as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3). |
| 21-6005 | Terrell Hunter v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause commerce-element criminal-statute drug-proceeds drug-robbery federal-jurisdiction federal-law hobbs-act statutory-interpretation supreme-court-interpretation taylor-v-united-states | Did the decisions of the district court and the court of appeals, that the commerce element of the Hobbs Act is satisfied by the robbery of moneys int… |
| 21-5984 | Zacharia Allen Clark v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act causation-of-injury circuit-split criminal-statute failure-to-act force-clause statutory-interpretation violent-force | (1) Whether a statute that only requires causation-of-injury and not the affirmative application of force satisfies the violent force requirement of t… |
| 21-5960 | Alexander Davis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-10-13 | Denied | IFP | actus-reus attempt attempt-offense criminal-law criminal-statute entrapment overt-act predisposition substantial-step | 1. Whether the requirement of a "substantial step" can be satisfied by conduct occurring after the alleged attempt has ended. 2. Whether a defendant'… |
| 21-5915 | Thomas D. Holmes v. Randy Gibbs, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-06 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure oral-verdict precedent sentencing | Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have issued on the question of whether a Defendant can be imprisoned pursuant to an orally pronounced ve… |
| 21-5905 | Mitchell L. Christen v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment alcohol-intoxication civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession self-defense standing state-regulation takings | Wisconsin Statute §941.20(1)(b) criminalizes possessing a firearm while under the influence of alcohol. Mitchell Christen had five drinks over an even… |
| 21-497 | T. E. L., a Minor v. Florida | Florida | 2021-10-04 | Granted | Relisted (2) | criminal-statute due-process elonis-v-united-states first-amendment free-speech intent-requirement speech-protection supreme-court-precedent virginia-v-black watts-v-united-states | 1. Whether Florida Statute § 790.162 (2007), which makes it a second degree felony to threaten to "throw, project, place or discharge any destructive … |
| 21-5827 | Jerry Ray Craine v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession government-prosecution mens-rea second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the government must prove, as an element of a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), that defendant knew his constitutionally protected cond… |
| 21-5790 | Patricia Ann Brown v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process felony-definition life-imprisonment sentencing-enhancement state-statute vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Is a state statute, providing for an enhanced punishment (life imprisonment) for one convicted of a "crime of violence," unconstitutionally vague, whe… |
| 21-5644 | Michael Hall v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c3a actus-reus aiding-and-abetting categorical-analysis criminal-statute force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing-enhancement violent-physical-force | Aiding and Abetting Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1951(a) and 2, does not require as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use, of violen… |
| 21-5627 | William Brinson Ball v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-exploitation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction international-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) extends to conduct occurring outside the United States. |
| 21-5595 | Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-standard burrage-v-united-states causation criminal-law criminal-statute drug-crimes drug-distribution due-process overdose proximate-cause sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1.) WHETHER, FOR PURPOSES OF TITLE 21 U.S.C. §841(A)(1) AND (B)(1) (C)'S ENHANCED PENALTY "IF DEATH RESULTS " FROM THE USE OF A SUBSTANCE, REQUIRES P… |
| 21-5559 | Selvin Leonell Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidentiary-standard federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea | Whether possession of a firearm is "in or affecting commerce" when there is no evidence that the defendant moved the firearm across state lines or tha… |
| 21-5523 | Amos Kiprop Koech v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof cell-phone-evidence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-statutes interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element jury-instruction reasonable-doubt | I. Does the jurisdictional element "in or affecting interstate commerce" in federal criminal statutes require an actual effect on interstate commerce … |
| 21-5503 | Eric Henry Woodberry and Bradford Marselas Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-length firearms mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums mens-rea prosecutorial-burden sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(B)(i) requires the government to prove that a defendant knew of the length of the firearm carried during the commission … |
| 21-5432 | Deangelo Lenard Johnson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute domestic-violence firearm-possession firearms knowledge-of-status mens-rea misdemeanor-conviction rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether, to support Rehaif's knowledge-of-status element in a prosecution for unlawful possession of a firearm by a person convicted of a misdemeanor … |
| 21-5154 | Dakota Stewart v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-travel prosecutorial-discretion sex-offender-registration venue venue-jurisdiction | In a prosecution for failing to update sex offender registration under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a), does venue lie in the district where the offender resided … |
| 21-5060 | Kevin Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-921 18-usc-922 circuit-split criminal-statute domestic-violence firearm-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-hayes | Under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) , a person may not possess a gun if he has been convicted of a "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence." A "misdemeanor cr… |
| 21-5065 | Blake Taylor v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-09 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute divisible-offense double-jeopardy sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | 1. In Prince v. United States, 352 U.S. 322 (1957), this Court construed the first and second paragraphs of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a)—bank robbery and entry… |
| 20-1803 | Evelyn Sineneng-Smith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-25 | Denied | Response Waived | alien-status constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute due-process first-amendment immigration-law standing statutory-interpretation vagueness | 1. Do the terms "encouraging" and "inducing" an alien to reside in the United States, within the meaning of 8 U. S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv), extend to t… |
| 20-8300 | Lonnie Norton v. Utah | Utah | 2021-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | (N) Do this Court's rulings in Apprend: v. New Jersey,530U.S. 466 (2000) and Alleyne v. United States 577 U.S.99 (2013) require that when a state stat… |
| 20-8161 | Lisa Marie Belyew v. Mike Pallares, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-28 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure bail constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process evidence-standard federal-law judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure statutory-interpretation | peleai^ on OkM A^feadLsaJA/V proper eAj{d-€AAce O^A'tJC U5C §a^b6io)j (tiod UOkfiAkrfwr V(L CaofK Of red \vi d&yu^i HIajl moIIq^v |
| 20-1635 | Michael Anthony Casillas v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2021-05-24 | Denied | civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea nonconsensual-dissemination obscenity protected-speech strict-scrutiny | Does the First Amendment allow a state to criminalize protected speech by means of a statute aimed at prohibiting the nonconsensual dissemination of s… | |
| 20-1594 | Murray Rojas v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-05-18 | GVR | Amici (1) | criminal-statute drug-dispensing drug-regulation fdca federal-criminal-law federal-state-balance federalism lenity medical-practitioner statutory-interpretation young-v-united-states | Whether the FDCA's felony prohibitions on "dispensing" drugs reach the administering of drugs by practitioners, which has been left to state and local… |
| 20-1595 | Naum Morgovsky and Irina Morgovsky v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | appellate-waiver arms-export-control-act class-v-united-states constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-statute executive-authority intelligible-principle rule-12(b)(3) separation-of-powers | 1. Whether the Executive had the authority to issue the regulations under which the Morgovskys were convicted; if so, whether those regulations and th… | |
| 20-8011 | Troy Webb v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922(g)(1) 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-statute discarding-firearm due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process | Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's co… |
| 20-7958 | Anderson Jean v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-felon aggravated-felony criminal-statute mens-rea scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | In the wake of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), and Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), jurists continue to disagree… |
| 20-7855 | James Ayers v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-27 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Question not identified. |
| 20-7816 | Lassissi Afolabi v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix | Third Circuit | 2021-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2246 18-usc-2255(e) 18-usc-2423(b) constitutional-review conviction-and-sentence-enhancement conviction-challenge criminal-statute due-process savings-clause sexual-abuse-of-a-minor supreme-court-interpretation | UNDER ESQUIVEL-QUINTANA APPLIES TO 18 U.S.C. § 2423(b) STATUTE AS WHETHER THE GENERIC FEDERAL DEFINITION OF SEXUAL ABUSE OF A MINOR DEFINED IN SECTION… |
| 20-7778 | Gerald Scott v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-04-15 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-sentencing physical-force physical-inaction rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Does a crime of physical inaction, in which the inaction is deemed the cause of injury or death, have as an element the "use of physical force against… |
| 20-7785 | Kevino Graham v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel human-trafficking sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness | (A.) "WHETHER PETITIONER GRAHAM WAS DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHEN COUNSEL FAILED TO CHALLENGE; "WHETHER 18 … |
| 20-7765 | Jared Andrew Martin v. California | California | 2021-04-14 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute culpability due-process evidence jury mens-rea standing statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 20-7701 | Samuel Alex Gann v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute sentencing specific-intent statutory-interpretation trespass | An essential element of generic "burglary" is that the person formed the specific intent to commit a crime at some point during the commission of the … |
| 20-7678 | Roshawn Deon Joiner, aka Shon Joiner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-08 | GVR | IFP | 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-statute fifth-circuit mens-rea recklessness statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force-clause | Does the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of mere rec… |
| 20-7680 | Jonathan Beasley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether, in a federal prosecution for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(1) that occurred after the dec… |
| 20-1409 | Graham B. Spanier v. Chad Libby, Director, Dauphin County Probation Services, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-liability criminal-statute due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction retroactive-application retroactivity | 1. May a state prosecute a defendant for violating a statute enacted after the defendant's conduct, without violating the Ex Post Facto Clause, merely… |
| 20-7632 | Shannon D. Hixon v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | causation criminal-law criminal-statute death-results drug-overdose drug-trafficking due-process foreseeable-result jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing | WHETHER A DEFENDANT MAY BE CONVICTED UNDER THE "DEATH RESULTS" PROVISION OF 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) WITHOUT INSTRUCTING THE JURY THAT IT MUST DECIDE … |
| 20-7609 | Raynal King and Howard R. Ross, III v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-31 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c3a criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause force-clause mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a crime that requires a resulting death categorically includes, as an element, "the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force ag… |
| 20-7447 | Elijah Hasan Jones v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-15 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute mens-rea recklessness sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force use-of-force-clause | Whether the "use of force" clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act (the "ACCA"), 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i) encompass crimes with a mens rea of reckl… |
| 20-7360 | Emmanuel Feaster v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1), "[i]t shall be unlawful" for certain individuals to possess firearms that have traveled in interstate… |
| 20-7326 | Tyrone Valentine v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability criminal-statute criminal-statutes drunk-driving extreme-indifference physical-force violent-felony | Whether reasonable jurists could disagree on whether criminal statutes that encompass drunk driving "manifesting extreme indifference to the value of … |
| 20-7305 | Larry Daniel Harris v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c3a attempted-hobbs-act-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-statute hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery negligence physical-force predicate-conviction property-injury statutory-interpretation | 1. Circuit courts, including the Ninth Circuit here, are analogizing the element of "intimidation" in 18 U.S.C. § 2113 with the element of "fear of in… |
| 20-1193 | Christopher G. Lee v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-03-01 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-chapter-110 child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process first-amendment image-cropping ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lascivious-exhibition minor-image sexually-explicit-conduct | 1. Can innocent, concededly non-sexual conduct of a minor, depicted in an image, be retroactively converted into the "use or employment" of a minor to… |
| 20-7243 | David Linehan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce interstate-communication statutory-interpretation threat-transmission | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), which criminalizes "transmit[ting] in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to . . . inju… |
| 20-7146 | Frank Ray Gallardo v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea specific-intent statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant charged with an offense under 18 USC § 2244 is entitled to a specific intent instruction and there is a conflict among Circuits. |
| 20-7122 | Adam Lloyd Cooper v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms intent mens-rea rosemond-v-united-states | Whether Sec. 924(c) contains a specific mens rea requirement that requires one to know more than that firearms are "tools of the trade" for drug traff… |
| 20-7038 | David Paul Martinez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-05 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-921-a-33 criminal-law criminal-statute domestic-violence firearms firearms-possession mens-rea misdemeanor-domestic-violence plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether Mr. Martinez's convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), possession of a firearm after a conviction for a "misdemeanor crime of dome… |
| 20-7020 | Richie Wheeler v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute deadly-weapon intent jury-finding law-enforcement reckless-driving sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether to be guilty of a violation of 18 U.S.C. §111(b), which requires the use of a deadly weapon while forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing,… |
| 20-1057 | Oracle America, Inc. v. United States, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-law administrative-record agency-deference bid-protest conflicts-of-interest criminal-statute federal-law harmless-error procurement procurement-law | 1. Whether a bid protest that establishes a violation of federal law may be denied for "harmless error" based on a rationale not present in the admini… |
| 20-1017 | Lawrence Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-rights common-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession law-enforcement statutory-interpretation | In Dixon v. United States, 548 U.S. 1 (2006), this Court held that every "long-established common-law" affirmative defense is incorporated into the fe… |
| 20-6978 | Chaka LeChar Castro v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process ethnic-targeting evidence evidence-sufficiency hate-crime hate-crimes religious-discrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Whether sufficient evidence supported Petitioner's convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for counts three, five, seven and nine of the Second Supers… |
| 20-6840 | Frederick D. Darrington, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-12 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause intimidation mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation | Whether a crime that requires proof of "intimidation" of the victim satisfies the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), when the offense does n… |
| 20-6756 | David Ray Wallace v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-04 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing successive-motion texas-robbery violent-crime | 1. Whether Texas robbery—an offense that can be committed by recklessly causing injury or by placing the victim in fear of injury—has "the use of phys… |
| 20-6710 | Marlon Iron Crow v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1 criminal-law criminal-statute jury-instruction jury-instructions malice-aforethought mens-rea second-degree-murder statutory-interpretation | Whether the "reckless" mens rea should be included in the jury instruction for "malice aforethought" for second degree murder under 18 U.S.C. § 1. |
| 20-6641 | Jose Angel Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(a) is unconstitutional by exceeding the scope of the commerce claus… |
| 20-6420 | Oscar Urias Espinoza, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-restriction firearm-possession firearms statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 20-551 | Jack Witt Voris v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | 18-usc-111 assault assault-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-use multiple-offenses rule-of-lenity sentencing-interpretation statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether firing multiple gunshots in a single assaultive act can be construed as multiple, distinct offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 111 as the Ninth Circ… | |
| 20-6075 | Deshawn McCarter v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | california-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-statute generic-extortion generic-robbery property-threat sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Does the California robbery statute criminalize a broader swath of conduct than generic robbery or generic extortion in light of the fact that Califor… |
| 20-5871 | Derrick Lenard Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 attempt bodily-injury borden-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(A) includes all offenses that require an attempt to inflict bodily injury? |
| 20-5596 | Kevin Dean Green v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | beckles-v-united-states constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines vagueness-challenge vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | Does Beckles U. United States, U.S. —, 137 S. Ct. 886 (2017) foreclose a vagueness challenge to a sentencing guideline when the operative term in that… |
| 20-5585 | Denis Nikolla v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute duenas-alvarez federal-criminal-statute federal-definition generic-definition generic-offense predicate-offense realistic-probability realistic-probability-test | In Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez, 549 U.S. 183 (2007), an immigration case, this Court held that when a federal court applies the categorical approach to… |
| 20-5558 | Anthony Smith v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions knowledge-element mens-rea plain-error prohibited-possession | 1. Whether the district court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that the evidence must establish both that appellant Anthony Smith… |
| 20-266 | Bradley Bieganski v. Arizona | Arizona | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Response Waived | affirmative-defense burden-of-proof child-molestation constitutional-limits criminal-statute due-process presumption-of-innocence sexual-intent | Whether Arizona's molestation statute -- which presumes that anyone, including parents and foster parents like Petitioner, who bathe or diaper their c… |
| 20-256 | Zavian Munize Jordan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-01 | Denied | Amici (2) | 18-usc-924c circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession predicate-crime statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), "any person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence or drug trafficking crime * ** uses or carries a firearm… |
| 20-5220 | Gerald Lee Groomes v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2020-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-nudity child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-statute first-amendment lewd-exhibition overbreadth protected-expression protected-speech vagueness | Does a state's unreasonable application of a criminal statute prohibiting the possession of images depicting a "lewd exhibition" of child nudity in a … |
| 20-5079 | Charles Monroe Finchum v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 20-5080 | Christopher George Wiggin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | with no evidence of defendants' conduct causing s criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-law felon-in-possession firearms-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 20-5081 | Clarence Hoffert v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1521 criminal-intent criminal-statute due-process false-lien federal-false-lien-statute intent-standard mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | The question presented is whether the interpretation of the federal false lien statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1521, adopted by the court of appeals in this case… |
| 20-5012 | In Re Jeanette Woolsey-Ross | 2020-07-09 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute due-process equal-protection federal-state-laws judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legislative-intent standing statutory-interpretation | Should a writ of Prohibition be issued under the U.S. Supreme Court Writ of Certiorari in this case or Writ of Mandamus, I also stated or whatever the… | |
| 19-1412 | Mark Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Amici (2) | common-law common-law-interpretation contract criminal-statute criminal-statutes false-promises federal-criminal-statutes fraud integration-clause mail-fraud right-to-control wire-fraud | Can an oral promise excluded from a fully-integrated written contract, which is unenforceable under the common law, be a "false or fraudulent…promise[… |
| 19-8756 | Kevin Ingram v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c3a attempted-hobbs-act-robbery attempted-offense categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-statute federal-sentencing james-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | If a completed offense is categorically a "crime of violence" within 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause, is the attempted commission of that o… |
| 19-8710 | William Frazier v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-15 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit is correct that—contrary to every other circuit's application of the plain statutory language—the VICAR statute, 18 U.S.C… |
| 19-8663 | Tesa Keith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-statute facial-challenge federal-courts federal-law plea-agreement procedural-challenge waiver | Whether facial challenges to a federal criminal statute may be waived by plea agreement? |
| 19-8606 | Robert D. Thorson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-power criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech intimate-images privacy-rights standing takings | 1) MAY CONGRESS ENACT BROAD AND SWEEPING STATUTES TO PROHIBIT THE PRODUCTION AND POSSESSION OF PERSONAL IMAGES OF INTIMATE AND LAWFUL CONDUCT WITHOUT … |
| 19-8580 | Lary James Plumlee v. Isidro Baca, Warden | Nevada | 2020-06-02 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-doctrine welch-v-united-states | Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re… |
| 19-8567 | Thintinus Noseth Taylor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922 2nd-amendment burden-of-proof constructive-possession criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearm-prohibition second-amendment standard-of-proof | Whether the Ninth Circuit's low burden of proof for possession of a firearm in cohabitation cases extends the scope of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) beyond its p… |
| 19-8399 | Reshon Tolliver v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute drug-payment drug-trafficking evidence federal-law money-laundering statutory-interpretation | To resolve a circuit split, whether mere payment for drugs constitutes sufficient evidence for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1956? |
| 19-8333 | Nekhent Supreme Ali, aka William Sean Perry, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 criminal-procedure criminal-statute currency-conversion drug-proceeds drug-weight due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether in the conversion of currency drug proceeds into drug weight for purposes of sentencing criminal violations of 21 U.S.C. § 841, federal courts… |
| 19-8269 | Stella Rae James v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1791 conviction criminal-statute due-process federal-correctional-facilities federal-correctional-facility federal-criminal-law inmate-contraband possession possession-law statutory-interpretation | Whether due process requires the government to establish actual or constructive possession of a prohibited object in order to sustain a conviction und… |
| 19-8240 | Richard Valentini v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conviction criminal-statute extortion hobbs-act personal-gain property-deprivation property-transfer statutory-interpretation third-party third-party-transfer | 1) Does a conviction for violation of the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 1951(b)(2) require not only that a victim be deprived of his or her property, but a… |
| 19-8195 | Alens Charles v. Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-04-06 | Denied | IFP | assault civil-rights-act-of-1991 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritoriality federal-government federal-officers general-intent specific-intent statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. §111 criminalizes "assaulting, or impeding certain victim or" of the federal government. As ED CARNES explained below (and the US District C… |
| 19-8030 | Robbie Shane Bateman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary criminal-statute entry entry-definition generic-burglary sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-law | The Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory penalty can be triggered by prior convictions for "burglary." 18 U.S.C. § 924(e) , (e)(2(B)(ii). The term "b… |
| 19-7952 | Michael Deon Thompson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 criminal-law criminal-statute drug-distribution drug-trafficking proximate-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation strict-liability | 1. Whether the language "death or serious bodily injury results from" in 21 U.S.C. § 841 creates a strict liability crime, without a foreseeability or… |
| 19-7863 | Delores L. Knight v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-statute due-process federal-appellate-review judicial-review ninth-circuit patent sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation takings | Question not identified. |
| 19-7797 | Lonnie W. Hubbard v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process medical-necessity medical-practice medical-purpose prescription-dispensing prescription-drugs professional-practice statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY HOLDING A JURY COULD RATIONALLY CONCLUDE THAT DEFENDANT PHARMACIST ABDICATED HIS DUTY UNDER §§ 1306.04(a) & 841(… |
| 19-7732 | Jerad Hanks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | bank-robbery circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-split constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-statutes firearm-use rule-of-lenity use-of-force vagueness-doctrine | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), which criminalizes the use of a firearm during a "crime of violence," in this case, the federal bank robbery statute… |
| 19-1032 | Alphonso I. Waters, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process government-burden-of-proof government-evidence intent-to-harm jury-charge target-deception wire-fraud | 1. Whether petitioner's due process rights were violated by his wire fraud convictions for conduct that did not fall within the ambit of the wire frau… |
| 19-7665 | Marvie Chapman, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-statute divisibility felony-drug-offense mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | How to determine whether a statute is indivisible for purposes of applying Mathis v. United States to "controlled substance offense", "serious drug of… |
| 19-7609 | Juan Mauricio Castillo v. Isidro Baca, Warden | Nevada | 2020-02-07 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity state-courts statutory-interpretation substantive-rule welch-united-states welch-v-united-states | Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re… |
| 19-7409 | Melvin Pryor v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm firearm-display physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Do criminal statutes that prohibit angry or threatening firearm displays not targeted at a specific victim qualify as a "violent felony" having as an … |
| 19-7334 | Edgardo Diaz-Cestary v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) categorical-approach categorical-qualification criminal-statute elements-clause hobbs-act johnson-i johnson-standard physical-force statutory-interpretation | I. WHETHER FORCE REQUIRED TO COMMIT HOBBS ACT ROBBERY SATISFIES THE PHYSICAL FORCE STANDARD OF JOHNSON I TO CATEGORICALLY QUALIFY THE ELEMENTS CLAUSE … |
| 19-7313 | Dalton Crutchfield v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statutes categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute entry entry-element entry-requirement generic-crimes generic-statutes predicate-offense sentencing state-conviction tennessee-law | Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of "e… |
| 19-850 | Mark Joseph Derrico v. Georgia | Georgia | 2020-01-07 | Denied | Response Waived | arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness | Does the void-for-vagueness doctrine extend to cases such as Derrico's where courts have rested on the authority of judges and juries to ratify arbitr… |
| 19-7115 | Alexander Faulkner v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca burglary burglary-definition categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Generic burglary must be committed in a building or structure. For non buildings like vehicles to qualify as a structure, this Court has required that… |
| 19-805 | Ben Adam v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-statute due-process first-amendment prosecution-threat religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act religious-practice standing standing-doctrine threat-of-prosecution | (1) Did the Second Circuit err in finding that petitioner lacked standing to challenge a criminal statute under the threat of prosecution doctrine, wh… |
| 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… | |
| 19-7003 | Quintin Wright v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-18 | Denied | IFP | alternative-means arkansas-law armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute domestic-battering force-clause property-damage serious-physical-injury terroristic-threatening violent-felony | I. Whether a conviction under Arkansas's terroristic threatening in the first degree statute qualifies as a violent felony under the Armed Career Crim… |
| 19-759 | Milo H. Segner, Jr. v. Cianna Resources Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | avoidance-power bankruptcy bankruptcy-code burden-of-proof criminal-statute good-faith jury-instructions ponzi-scheme reasonable-commercial-standards transfer-liability | This petition presents two important questions concerning the pursuit of Ponzi-scheme proceeds in bankruptcy proceedings—including one that has provok… | |
| 19-6904 | Afries Sandonicaes Maham v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute federalism sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering, which criminalizes the breaking or entering into "any other structure designed to house or secure within… |
| 19-6850 | Ledell Tyler v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process force-definition hobbs-act home-invasion interstate-commerce jurisdiction non-violent-conduct statutory-interpretation violent-conduct | 1. Whether The Meaning of The Word "Force" Under The Hobbs Act Provision Encompassass Both Violent and Non-Violent Conduct: 2. Whether The Hobbs Act … |
| 19-6826 | Jennifer Castro v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defenses age-of-consent criminal-law criminal-statute human-trafficking mens-rea minor minor-victims prostitution prostitution-law reasonable-belief sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Is 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a), which bars employing a minor to engage in prostitution, a strict liability offense requiring no proof of the defendant's knowl… |
| 19-6793 | Quentin Herndon v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-court federal-courts physical-force sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-interpretation state-courts statutory-interpretation USSG-4B1.2(a) | Whether a federal court must defer to a state court's interpretation of the elements of a state criminal statute to determine if that offense requires… |
| 19-6784 | Jermaine Whyte v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-victim criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mens-rea reasonable-opportunity sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1591(c) creates a self-standing strict liability offense with regard to the age of the victim that removes the mens rea element in… |
| 19-6757 | Jamal Bowens v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms mens-rea reasonable-doubt rehaif-interpretation statutory-interpretation supreme-court | 1. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct… |
| 19-6711 | Luciano Diaz-Contreras v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-power felon-in-possession firearms firearms-possession statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution | Does 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), which criminalizes possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, exceed Congress's power under the Commerce Clause? |
| 19-6586 | Shane Inghels v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-12 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-statute divisibility indiana-code indiana-code-35-48-4-1.1 serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction for dealing in methamphetamine under Indiana Code § 35-48-4-1.1 is improperly considered a "serious drug offense" under the Armed… |
| 19-6569 | Keyon W. Carraway v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether there is a reasonable probability that the court of appeals would conclud e that Rehaif v. United States , __U.S.__, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (June 2… |
| 19-6484 | In Re John Harry Steele | 2019-11-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment arrest constitutional-violation conviction-review criminal-statute due-process procedural-fairness prosecution unfairness | 1) Was the Petitioner denied due process of law,in Wolation of the 14 Amendment toy The circumstance thal the feditiones conviction was affirmed vnle… | |
| 19-6420 | Christopher Mark Heath v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking firearm-possession firearms mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | The mere presence of a firearm at the scene of a drug trafficking offense constitutes possession of the firearm "in furtherance of" the conspiracy for… |
| 19-6372 | Kelby Germaine Parson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms mandatory-minimum statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness | I. Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and his conviction under 18 U.S.C. … |
| 19-6354 | Brent Delvalen Blake v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c bank-robbery categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-statute elements-clause federal-armed-bank-robbery intent physical-force vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime | Can reasonable jurists debate whether federal armed bank robbery by intimidation is not a crime of violence under the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. § 9… |
| 19-6320 | Nalen Pierre Williams v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922g1 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession legal-status mens-rea plain-error reasonable-doubt rehaif-precedent rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-6293 | Dwight Knowles v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-jurisprudence congressional-intent conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-conspiracy extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritorial-offenses extraterritoriality federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation territorial-application | Whether federal conspiracy statutes apply extraterritorially when the object of the conspiracy is an extraterritorial offense but there is no clear in… |
| 19-6249 | Michael Terrill Faircloth v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-10 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922g1 affirmative-defense circuit-split criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession innocent-possession safe-streets-act transitory-possession | Whether a felon may assert an affirmative defense of innocent, transitory possession when charged as a felon-in-possession of a firearm under § 922(g)… |
| 19-6025 | Javier Segovia-Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-24 | GVR | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-sentencing force force-against-person immigration-law mens-rea mental-state reckless-conduct reckless-mental-state recklessness statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-5882 | Rome Richard Chacon v. Nevada | Nevada | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states | 1. Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court… |
| 19-5812 | Mitchum Pastor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Because 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) defines bank robbery in a way that does not require intentional intimidation, does § 2113(a) bank robbery fail to qualify … |
| 19-5771 | Eric Allen Haensgen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2252a age-of-consent child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech statutory-interpretation unconstitutional | Whether amendments to the child pornography law set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2)(A) have rendered the current version of the statute unconstitutio… |
| 19-5709 | Sam Newman v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruton-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute due-process firearm-discharge johnson-v-united-states reasonable-person-standard sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. Whether Louisiana Revised Statute Annotated § 14:94(A) (1995), barring the "illegal use of a weapon," is unconstitutionally vague under Johnson v. … |
| 19-5699 | Robert Gray v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-jurisdiction federal-law firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 19-5654 | Shederro Lemarc Brooks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-firearms-law federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 19-5521 | Steven Michael Cox v. Nevada | Nevada | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-statute due-process montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-standard welch-v-united-states | Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re… |
| 19-5456 | Ibrahim McCants v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-08-05 | GVR | IFP | anonymous-tip categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility-of-state-statutes domestic-violence due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms fourth-amendment mathis-v-united-states mens-rea police-stop-and-frisk reasonable-suspicion rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation stop-and-frisk supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court-of-appeals | 1. In light of this Court's recent decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgmen… |
| 19-151 | United States v. Dominic Ladale Walton | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-01 | GVR | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition criminal-law criminal-statute due-process dwelling-offense intent-to-commit-crime statutory-interpretation taylor-v-united-states unlawful-entry | Whether a state offense that criminalizes continued unpermitted presence in a dwelling following the formation of intent to commit a crime has "the ba… |
| 19-5309 | William Dante Mitchell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | certiorari-petition criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearms-violation habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court violent-felony | Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, U.S._, _ S.Ct. —, 2019 WL 2649851 (June 28, 2019)? |
| 19-5330 | Maurice Montrae Parks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | GVR | IFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-validity criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a new trial is warranted where the District Court failed to instruct the jury that, in order to convict a person under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), it … |
| 19-5325 | Alan Victor Gomez Gomez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-25 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure force-element immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing sentencing-law statutory-interpretation | Whether a statute has as an element the use of force against the person of another when a conviction under that statute can be based on a reckless men… |
| 19-5312 | Kenneth H. Burke, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-24 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms-offense hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review violent-crime | Mr. Burke was convicted of knowingly carrying a firearm during and in relation to a "crime of violence," in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). The "crim… |
| 19-5236 | Seab Nolen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprehension-of-physical-injury armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute immediate-physical-injury physical-force possession-of-weapon sentencing-enhancement violent-felony weapon-possession | Is a prior conviction that includes as an element the possession of a weapon categorically a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.… |
| 19-5261 | Jorge Baez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c certificate-of-appealability conviction criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process due-process,vagueness,18-usc-924(c),criminal-proce eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus statutory-vagueness united-states-v-davis vagueness | 1. Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief on his claim that 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague and therefore his conviction under … |
| 19-5183 | Miguel Grado v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process firearm-use firearms multiple-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) for using a firearm to further a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime may rest on more than one u… |
| 19-67 | United States v. Evelyn Sineneng-Smith | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-12 | Judgment Issued | Amici (11) | civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute facial-challenge financial-gain first-amendment free-speech immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation | Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in vi… |
| 19-5063 | Jose Thomas Barriera-Vera v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery armed-robbery attempted-armed-robbery attempted-crime criminal-law criminal-statute person-or-property physical-force statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether attempted armed bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113) has as an element "the use . . . of physical force against the person or property of another,"… |
| 19-5070 | Carlos Lamar Mitchell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2113 18-usc-924c3a bank-robbery bank-robbery-18-usc-2113 criminal-law criminal-statute demand-note intimidation physical-force physical-force-18-usc-924c3a sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Whether bank robbery (18 U.S.C. § 2113), which may be committed by unintentionally intimidating a victim or by presenting a teller with a demand note,… |
| 19-5037 | Gilberto Villanueva, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute descamps-v-united-states district-court-fact-finding felon-in-possession johnson-descamps-precedent johnson-v-united-states mens-rea | Should the District Court be allowed to find the facts necessary in order to qualify defendant as an Armed Career Criminal or should precedent such as… |
| 18-1552 | Henry P. Alfano and William Hird v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federalism mail-fraud property property-rights statutory-interpretation traffic-tickets unadjudicated-charges unadjudicated-tickets wire-fraud | Does the potential for collection of fines and costs which may become due to the state from unadjudicated traffic tickets, on which there has yet been… |
| 18-9726 | Lorenzo Hale v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-19 | GVR | IFP | 2nd-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea prior-occasion recent-past state-lines statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g ) authoriz es conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there i… |
| 18-9661 | William Kostopoulos v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1512 criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-nexus law-enforcement mens-rea misdemeanor obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation | WHETHER A DEFENDANT'S GENERAL DENIAL TO STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS THAT HE COMMITTED A MISDEMEANOR OFFENSE IS SUFFICIENT TO MEET THE FEDERAL NEXUS… |
| 18A1293 | Jeffrey Fairbanks v. Indiana | Indiana | 2019-06-11 | Presumed Complete | child-neglect constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute due-process evidence-rule infant-death | This document is an application for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari, not a petition itself. It does not contain a "Ques… | |
| 18-9521 | Christopher Anthony Jones v. Nevada | Nevada | 2019-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-statute due-process montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent teague-exception welch-v-united-states | Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re… |
| 18-9501 | Bruce Mayo Ennis v. Nevada | Nevada | 2019-05-31 | Denied | IFP | criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states | Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re… |
| 18-9436 | William Edward Branham v. Isidro Baca, Warden | Nevada | 2019-05-28 | Denied | IFP | criminal-statute due-process montgomery-louisiana montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity statutory-interpretation substantive-rule teague-exception welch-united-states welch-v-united-states | Under the new constitutional rule of retroactivity established in Montgomery v. Louisiana and clarified in Welch v. United States, is a state court re… |
| 18-9444 | Gregory Greer v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-28 | GVR | IFP | 922(g) 924(a)(2) commerce-clause congressional-authority criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms interstate-commerce mens-rea scarborough-v-united-states statutory-interpretation united-states-v-lopez | 1. Whether—in light of intervening authority in United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995)—Congress may rely on Scarborough v. United States, 431 U.S… |
| 18-9420 | Le'Ardrus Burris v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility divisibility-analysis felonious-assault mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states ohio-law ohio-revised-code-2903a sixth-circuit state-v-harris statutory-interpretation | Whether the Sixth Circuit's divisibility analysis ignores this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States, 579 U.S. __, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) and Oh… |
| 18-9394 | Ward T. Evans v. Delaware | Delaware | 2019-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge constitutionality-of-statute criminal-law criminal-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process in-forma-pauperis indictment indictment-counts statutory-interpretation three-strike-rule three-strikes-law | Whether Delaware's 11 Del. Crim. C. sec. 773(2) as it was written when Petitioner was charged and convicted, define three distinct and separate crimin… |
| 18-9366 | Michael T. Rivera v. Florida | Florida | 2019-05-22 | Denied | IFP | collateral-review criminal-statute due-process eighth-amendment judicial-interpretation procedural-rule retroactivity substantive-law | 1. Whether the Federal Due Process Clause requires a state to apply a new interpretation of a state criminal statute retroactively to cases on collate… |
| 18-9378 | In Re Tae Hon Chon | 2019-05-22 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-statute district-court due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-doctrine fair-warning substantive-law | Does a District Court's ex post facto construction of a substantive criminal statute deprive a petitioner of the fair warning to which the Constitutio… | |
| 18-9360 | Lazaro Veliz v. John V. Flournoy, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-step-act johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court void-for-vagueness | 1. Whether the residual clause in 18 u.s.c. $924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness in light of this Court's decisions in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.… |
| 18-9344 | Samuel J. Yarber v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922g 18-usc-924c 21-usc-841a conviction-grouping criminal-statute federal-courts federal-law grouping judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines united-states-code | Whether counts of conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) should be grouped under the United States Sentencing Guidelines, U.S.S.G.… |
| 18-1434 | United States v. Pablo Lovo and Joel Sorto | District of Columbia | 2019-05-15 | Denied | 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… | |
| 18-1338 | United States v. Joseph Decore Simms | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-24 | Denied | 18-usc-924(c) constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… | |
| 18-8892 | Carlos Hernandez Machin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-18 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mandatory-minimum residual-clause samuel-johnson sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability is in conflict with this Court's precedent when reasonable jurists are current… |
| 18-8642 | DeJuan Leshae Hill v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-04-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment-rights certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense habeas-corpus hobbs-act post-conviction-relief sentencing tenth-circuit unconstitutionality | Whether The Tenth Circuit Erred In Failing To Address In Its Order Denying A Certificate Of Appealability, The Unconstitutionality Of Use And Carry Of… |
| 18-1182 | Scott Ogle v. Texas | Texas | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights content-based-regulation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication electronic-communications first-amendment free-speech intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine | Does a statute criminalizing electronically communicated speech that is both intended and reasonably likely to annoy, alarm, or embarrass another pers… |
| 18-8076 | Elijah Loren Arthur, Sr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1 18-usc-16 18-usc-924c circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) define only one crime, as held by the Seventh and Ninth Circuits, or two crimes, as held by the Sixth and Eighth Circuits? … |
| 18-8050 | Alvaun Thompson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | age-requirement aggravated-offense criminal-statute federal-criminal-law mens-rea minors sentencing sex-trafficking strict-liability under-14 | A federal criminal statute this Court has not construed, 18 U.S.C. § 1591, prohibits wide-ranging conduct that facilitates, directly or indirectly, th… |
| 18-8064 | Fernando Luviano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute document-falsification evidence federal-investigation obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-standard statutory-interpretation | Should this Court grant the petition for writ of certiorari to resolve the circuit split of whether 18 U.S.C. § 1519 requires the government to prove … |
| 18-7833 | Jerome Hayes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | begay begay-v-united-states categorical-approach certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-statute mens-rea serious-drug-offense staples staples-v-united-states strict-liability | I. Is a post-2002 conviction for sale of cocaine or possession of cocaine with intent to sell in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "serious drug offe… |
| 18-7745 | Alrick A. Evans v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense alleyne-precedent criminal-statute element jury-determination mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment united-states-v-alleyne | Whether a state court may interpret a criminal statute so that a fact that triggers a mandatory minimum is termed an "affirmative defenses" rather tha… |
| 18-989 | United States v. Marvin Lewis | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (3) | 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-offense firearms statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-7511 | Edwin J. Ortiz-Fagot v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-3582-c-2 criminal-statute due-process non-delegation retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation | Does the sentencing court's discretion of setting modification via 3553(A); include deciding whether to retroactively apply the plain language of the … |
| 18-7500 | Clay O'Brien Mann v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-22 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-113 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act assault crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause firearm-discharge mens-rea recklessness violent-crime | Whether a felony offense with a recklessness mens rea, such as reckless driving while intoxicated, satisfies the requirements of the elements clauses … |
| 18-7496 | Nemiah Allan v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2019-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense alleyne-precedent criminal-statute element jury-determination mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment united-states-v-alleyne | Whether a state court may interpret a criminal statute so that a fact that triggers a mandatory minimum is termed an "affirmative defenses' rather tha… |
| 18-7413 | Billy Dean Smith v. Robert Corcoran, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-15 | Denied | IFP | alaska-statute brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-statute disciplinary-actions due-process free-speech prison-discipline prison-regulations state-action state-law vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | 1. Does Full Faith and Credit as defined and as ordered by this Supreme Court in Steel v. Parson Inc., 474 U.S. 518 (1986) at 523-525, apply to Brando… |
| 18-7432 | Cornell W. Barber v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute curtis-johnson-v-united-states mens-rea reckless reckless-conduct reckless-mens-rea united-states-v-castleman violent-felony | I. Whether a criminal offense with a reckless mens rea -- in this case, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon under D.C. Code § 22402, which can be violated… |
| 18-7286 | 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 … |
| 18-846 | David Allen Anderton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-statute due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech immigration-law overbreadth separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation vagueness | Whether to "encourage" or "induce" an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States in reckless disregard of the alien's "in violation of la… |
| 18-7192 | Lavell Phillips v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act attempted-first-degree-murder attempted-murder attempted-use-of-force criminal-statute elements-clause first-degree-murder physical-force procedural-background sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA"), a "violent felony" is defined as, inter alia, a felony that "has as an element the use, attempted use, o… |
| 18-7143 | Derian Eidson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1956 18-usc-1956-a-3 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution government-sting money-laundering proceeds-definition specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation | Whether the criminal prohibitions against money laundering contained in 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1) based on financial transactions that "in fact involvel]… |
| 18-6912 | Bryant Lamar Monie v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking federal-jurisdiction federal-law felony-conviction persistent-felony-offender sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the Defendant's Kentucky Drug trafficking conviction, which carries a maximum sentence of five (5) years and was enhanced by Kentucky's Per… |
| 18-6865 | Adony Nina v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-statute due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-element prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation united-states | Whether Title 18 U.S.C. § 2 (Aiding and Abetting) Requires the Prosecution to prove Beyond A Reasonable Doubt The Jurisdictional Element By Establishi… |
| 18-6801 | Van McDuffy v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accidental-killing bank-robbery criminal-law criminal-statute felony-murder intent mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation | What intent, if any, beyond the intent to commit bank robbery, is required to sustain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e), which imposes a mandator… |
| 18-6748 | Malachi M. Glass v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law criminal-statute drug-offense federal-law federal-sentencing pennsylvania pennsylvania-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. WHETHER THE BROADER PENNSYLVANIA DELIVERY OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE STATUTE, 35 PA. C.S.A. § 780-113(A)(30), QUALIFIES AS A "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE O… |
| 18-6563 | Jesus R. Gonzalez-Negron v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute drug-trafficking due-process factual-basis firearm-possession firearms guilty-plea machine-gun-possession plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation | Is evidence of a loaded machine gun and drugs within a person's residence an adequate factual basis to support a guilty plea to possession of a firear… |
| 18-6474 | Tyrone Hart v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act begay-v-united-states categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense elonis-v-united-states federal-law florida-statute intent-to-sell mens-rea serious-drug-offense staples-v-united-states | Is a post-2002 conviction for possession with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver a controlled substance in violation of Fla. Stat. § 893.13 a "se… |
| 18-6398 | Deon Pittman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense element-of-offense federal-law means-of-offense michigan-law sentencing-guidelines state-law state-statute | When a state statute prohibits the delivery of a "controlled substance" by reference to various schedules, is the specific type of substance an elemen… |
| 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… |
| 18-445 | Tanya Ramirez v. Texas | Texas | 2018-10-10 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process equal-protection fundamental-right fundamental-rights intimacy legal-infringement privacy procreation sexual-conduct sexual-relationship texas-penal-code | Is TEXAS PENAL CODE §21.12, which criminalizes an otherwise legal sexual relationship, unconstitutional in its infringement upon a constitutionally-pr… | |
| 18-6265 | Samuel Silva v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidence-prejudice federal-firearms federal-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence felon-in-possession felon-possession firearm-possession jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice prejudicial-evidence probative-value rule-403 | Whether the practice of telling juries in a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1) prosecution that the defendant is a previously -convicted felon, as is routine ly d… |
| 18-428 | United States v. Clifford Raymond Salas | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Relisted (2) | constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-offense firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-431 | United States v. Maurice Lamont Davis and Andre Levon Glover | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Judgment Issued | Amici (3) | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law firearm-offense firearms hobbs-act statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness | Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-6187 | Antonio Martinez-Lopez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1425 acquisition-of-citizenship citizenship-application criminal-statute false-statement immigration-law judicial-interpretation maslenjak-v-us naturalization naturalization-fraud revocation-of-citizenship | 1) Did the appeals court err affirming petitioner's conviction for unlawful procurement of naturalization pursuant citizenship application when the Su… |
| 18-6036 | Donald S. Harden v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | causation criminal-statute drug-trafficking mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing proximate-cause racial-disparities rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability | This Court granted certiorari in Burrage v. United States, 569 U.S. 957 (2013), to decide two questions concerning the "death results" sentencing enha… |
| 18-6006 | Gerson Gonzalez Tovar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions criminal-statute due-process interstate-commerce plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materia ls used to produce child pornog raphy once crosse d state lines at an unspeci… |
| 18-6009 | Emile Myrthil v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-16 18-usc-924 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) attempt attempt-liability attempted-offense categorical-approach constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-statute intent-element sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-force | 1. Is "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague, given the Court's holding in Sessions v. Dimaya, 138 S.Ct. 1204 (2018)… |
| 18-5838 | Hosea Swopes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | categorically constitutes a 'violent felony' unde interpreted by state law to be satisfied by the f armed-career-criminal-act circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-statute element-of-force force-element robbery-offense state-robbery-offense statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states united-states violent-felony | 1. Is a state robbery offense that includes "as an element" the taking of property by another by force, interpreted by state law to be satisfied by th… |
| 18-5637 | Afelix Desir v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-17 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process fundamental-error information-charging jury-instructions minor minor-protection sexual-activity sexual-offense | Does a trial court commit fundamental error when it instructs a jury regarding both "Penile/Vaginal intercourse" unlawful sexual activity with specifi… |
| 18-5576 | DifAnkh Asar, aka James Walter Gist v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca categorical-approach civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine | (1) Is South Carolina's Code Ann. 16-23-40 Unconstitutional on its face, as applied to Petitioner, and when read in conjunction with other laws becaus… |
| 18-5314 | Shannon Dale Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing criminal-statute firearm firearm-possession firearms intent mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) increases the sentence of "any person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence . . . uses or carries a firearm, o… |
| 18-5066 | Edward Vincent Ray v. California | California | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-statute cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection gender-bias ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-interpretation overbreadth sentencing-disparities vagueness-doctrine | Whether Petitioners sentence of 38yrs 4mos., violates equal protection under the law because of the disparities in Californa sentences whether Ptiton… |
| 18-5146 | Adam Darrick Toghill v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation conviction criminal-conviction criminal-statute due-process equal-protection lawrence-v-texas sodomy-statute substantive-due-process unequal-penal-consequences unequal-treatment | I. In Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), this Court invalidated, as inconsistent with the requirements of substantive due process, Texas's blank… |
| 18-5164 | George Adrien Brooks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2422(b) attempted-inducement circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-criminal-law intent intent-requirement mens-rea minor minor-protection minors sexual-abuse sexual-activity sexual-inducement statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 2242(b) criminalizes, among other things, the attempted inducement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. The question presented by this… |
| 18-5041 | Louis Robinson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-enhancement sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine | I. Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States , 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) a… |
| 18-5043 | Guy St. Amour v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-interpretation administrative-law aviation-law criminal-statute due-process faa-regulation fair-notice over-criminalization rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation | Title 49, United States Code, Section 46306 (b)(9), makes it a felony offense to knowingly "operat [e] an aircraft with a fuel tank or fuel system tha… |
| 18-5061 | Travis Horne v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-16b 18-usc-924c appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-statute due-process force-definition johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sessions-v-dimaya vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime | Whether § 924(c)'s residual clause, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B), is unconstitutionally vague after Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Samu… |