criminal-statutes

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24-5567 David Lee Smith v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-09-18 Denied IFP constitutional-act criminal-statutes due-process general-assembly repeat-offenders state-court-jurisdiction IS T_T A FACJLfi LLV UkICaN STXTCJTXUMAL ACT DF THB. M. L * ASSEAft&LV TO ASS'EAARLF f£-T) ZlKXAAXMrtL STATUSES XklTO M,C G*jS* /lI-7 . / FZ3£ STATE:…
24-5043 Cortlin Reese v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment bruen constitutional-law criminal-statutes due-process federal-statute firearms gun-rights second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)( 9) and (n) violate the Second Amendment under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen , 597 U.S. 1 (2022)…
22-1202 Spirit of the East, LLC v. Yale Products Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) arbitration-award contract-enforcement criminal-statutes eleventh-circuit federal-arbitration-act hall-street-associates-v-mattel judicial-review public-policy Whether a court is prohibited from even considering public policy as a ground to vacate an arbitration award under the FAA when the award commands act…
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…
20-8368 Bruce L. Farmer v. Keith Foley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied IFP criminal-statutes due-process habeas-corpus law-enforcement-officer presumption-of-correctness state-court I. WHETHER A CLEARLY ERRONEOUS LEGAL CONCLUSION BY A STATE COURT MY BE AFFORDED A PRESUMPTION OF CORRECTNESS AND RELIED UPON TO DEMY HABEAS CORPUS 'RE…
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 …
20-986 Michael Gregory Hubbard v. Alabama Alabama 2021-01-25 Denied Response Waived criminal-law criminal-statutes due-process fair-notice first-impression-law legal-interpretation official-actions official-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-theory statutory-interpretation Did the Supreme Court of Alabama deprive Petitioner of due process of law, when it affirmed his conviction based on (a) first-impression interpretatio…
20-5172 Darrell Henry Williams v. Joe Coakley, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied IFP career-offender criminal-statutes due-process federal-procedure mandatory-minimums physical-force reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Do criminal statutes satisfied by reckless conduct resulting in injury require as an element "the use ... of physical force against the person of a…
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[…
19-6653 Quinton Omar Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-statutes federal-criminal-law force force-and-violence intimidation legislative-intent mens-rea physical-force statutory-interpretation violence Whether Congress intended the phrase "by force and violence, or by intimidation," that appears in multiple federal criminal statutes to include the us…
19-6623 Mario Denane Fultz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP intentional physical force or by intimidation' to include the use of violent criminal-law criminal-statutes federal-crimes federal-criminal-statutes federal-robbery-statutes force force-clause force-definition intentional-force legislative-intent physical-force statutory-construction statutory-interpretation violence violent-crime Whether Congress intended the phrase "by force and violence, or by intimidation," that appears in multiple federal criminal statutes to include the us…
18-5976 In Re Jaame Amun Re El 2018-09-14 Denied IFP administrative-law banking-statutes civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-violations criminal-statutes due-process federal-habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-role legal-hermeneutics separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-drafting statutory-interpretation statutory-language statutory-meaning textual-analysis Qustin.Is t ueditat's duty toterret a ta? Question. Are Banking statutes appropriate for alleged banking violations? Can a Federal prisoner seek rel…