dual-sovereignty
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-7134 | In Re Kesean Wilson | 2025-05-05 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights detainment dual-sovereignty equal-protection interstate-commerce tenth-amendment | DOES THE DUAL SOVEREIGNTY RULE, AS APPLIED TO CONDUCT THAT SUBSTANTIALLY AFFECTS INTERSTATE COMMERCE AND THE POWER TO COIN MONEY, CONFLICT WITH THE TE… | |
| 22-5849 | David Keith Wills v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process conflict-of-interest defense-witness dual-sovereignty due-process fair-trial federal-prosecutors perjury prosecutorial-misconduct witness-intimidation | QUESTION ONE: THIS COURT HAS LONG HELD THAT FOR A JUDGE TO THREATEN A DEFENSE WITNESS WITH PERJURY IF HE TESTIFIES FOR THE DEFENSE VIOLATES THE DEFEND… |
| 21-7026 | Nehemias Samayoa v. United States | District of Columbia | 2022-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-withdrawal civil-rights coercion dual-sovereignty due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-jurisdiction indigent-defendant standing state-court-judgment | When a federal court enters a judgment without proper jurisdiction, does it reach an opinion that would justify a recall of mandate? |
| 19-8629 | Carpeah R. Nyenekor, Sr. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit-falsification double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty due-process false-affidavit prosecutorial-misconduct res-judicata search-warrant | In Illinois V. Gate, 462 U.S. 213 (1983), the Supreme Court Stated that, when a Search Warrant has been Dismissed based on Falsely Sworn Affidavit, an… |
| 18-9427 | Willie Anthony Saxby, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution dual-sovereignty due-process fair-notice federal-jurisdiction federal-state-jurisdiction pending-charges state-jurisdiction supervised-release | Did the Federal Government violate the "Doctrines of Dual Sovergeinship" which exist between Federal and State jurisdictions for prosecuting an "alleg… |
| 18-7329 | Phillip Dale Selfa v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty due-process federal-state-jurisdiction presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vindictiveness | Does the prophylactic presumption of prosecutorial vindictiveness (North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711 (1982)) apply when two different sovereigns … |
| 18-821 | David Keith Wills v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Relisted (2) | constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty fifth-amendment gamble-v-united-states supreme-court | Whether the Court should overrule the dual sovereignty exception to the Fifth Amendment Double Jeopardy Clause. |
| 18-106 | John R. Turner v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-24 | Denied | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-procedure dual-sovereignty formal-charges plea-bargaining plea-negotiations pre-charge pre-indictment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | I. Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel attaches when the prosecutor conducts plea negotiations before the filing of a formal charge. II. Whe… |