| 25-994 |
Beverly Hennager v. Mary E. Deardon, as Personal Representative of the Estate of M.K. Jennings |
South Carolina |
2026-02-19 |
Pending |
|
access-to-courts appellate-review due-process-clause equal-protection judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due
Process Clause requires enforceable constitutional
safeguards in state judicial systems where (1) judges
bot… |
| 25A926 |
Melvin Trotter v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-02-19 |
Application |
|
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection protocol-violation stay-of-execution |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6847 |
Andre Lamont Rawls v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the judge in the Southern District of Mississippi erred by ordering the 60-month supervised release revocation sentence at issue to run consec… |
| 25-6848 |
Dennis Lenin Carranza-Clavel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review deportable-alien plain-error-review sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether a district court violated 18 U.S.C. § 3583(c) and U.S.S.G. § 5D1.1(c) by imposing a term of supervised release on a deportable defendant witho… |
| 25-970 |
Rami Ghanem v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
|
acquitted-conduct beyond-reasonable-doubt fifth-amendment judge-found-facts sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit federal courts from increasing a criminal defendant's authorized punishment based on conduct—including… |
| 25-968 |
Kishore Kumar Kavuru v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-17 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim equal-protection immigration-fraud mandate-rule |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in
denying a certificate of appealability (COA) by
holding that no jurist of reason would find the
petitioner 's… |
| 25-6806 |
Teresa Faye Morris v. Crawford & Company, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-02-13 |
Pending |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection federal-question-jurisdiction irrevocable-trust judgment-lien jury-trial-right |
#1 Does a Celebrity have more God given rights than a Mega Fan of his, both are United States citizens? I wanted a Jury Trial. I requested in writing … |
| 25A914 |
Nicole Malliotakis, et al. v. Michael Williams, et al. |
New York |
2026-02-13 |
Application |
Amici (1) |
congressional-redistricting due-process elections-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment racial-gerrymandering |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6779 |
Sasho Stantchev v. Bunker Hill Community College |
Massachusetts |
2026-02-11 |
Pending |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection personal-injury procedural-deadlines state-court |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment is violated when the enforcement of procedural deadlines takes priority over the merit of cases o… |
| 25-6774 |
Charles Don Flores v. Texas |
Texas |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
IFP |
actual-innocence death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest state-procedural-rule |
Where a state has created liberty interests that give death-sentenced prisoners with credible claims of innocence vehicles for proving their innocence… |
| 25-929 |
Joseph Sheely, et al. v. Harold R. Feezle, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
6th-circuit appeal-bond appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection statutory-rights |
Issue I: Whether a district court's imposition of an appeal bond for the express ed purpose of inhibiting appellants ' pursuit of their statutory righ… |
| 25-938 |
James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas |
Texas |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
|
batson-violation constitutional-law equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes race-discrimination |
Whether the State's considering race as a basis for striking prospective jurors, shown by its listing prospective jurors by race on a spreadsheet used… |
| 25-939 |
James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas |
Texas |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
|
confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment |
1. Whether the State's use in a capital sentencing proceeding of rap lyrics composed by a Black defendant to argue to a nearly all-White jury that the… |
| 25-926 |
Alexander Keely v. Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners |
Pennsylvania |
2026-02-05 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-school-accreditation professional-licensing racial-discrimination |
Shortly after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when most American Bar Association (ABA) law schools had not yet admitted Black students or minorities, Pe… |
| 25-898 |
William Muhr v. Kristin Lee, aka Kristin Ellias |
Colorado |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
|
district-map equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2 standing voting-rights-act |
Respondents challenged Washington state legislative district 15 ("LD-15"), alleging it diluted Hispanic votes under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act… |
| 25-918 |
Jose A. Trevino, et al. v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
|
district-reconfiguration equal-protection racial-gerrymandering section-2-liability standing voting-rights-act |
1. Whether a voter who is moved into a new district and a legislator whose district is reconfigured by a court-drawn remedial map have standing to cha… |
| 25A877 |
Dylann Storm Roof v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Application |
|
criminal-justice death-penalty federal-procedure judicial-recusal post-conviction writ-of-mandamus |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6699 |
Martin Gutierrez-Barba v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing |
Is urging a sentence recommendation lower than is ultimately imposed and grounding that recommendation in the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, sufficient … |
| 25-6685 |
Rodrigue Alain Ndje Nlend v. Suzanne Parisien, Judge, Superior Court of Washington, King County |
Washington |
2026-02-02 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion postjudgement-motions writ-of-certiorari |
1. Whether the DecEnation Order is clearly erroneous and whether
the resulting Judge Parisien 's refusal to hear Rodrigue 's
postjudgement motions d… |
| 25-6687 |
Herbert McDowell, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2026-02-02 |
Pending |
IFP |
contract-clause equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-association habeas-corpus unauthorized-practice-law |
Did the Supreme Court of South Carolina Justifiably Disregard this Court's Holding in Johnson v. Avery by Refusing to Allow Certified Paralegal Patric… |
| 25-6678 |
Isaac Ramirez Rodriguez v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum proportionality sentencing |
Are the mandatory minimum life sentence provisions of Virginia Code §§ 18.2-61(B)(2) and 18.2-67.2(B)(2) unconstitutional as constituting Cruel and Un… |
| 25-901 |
Benancio Garcia, III v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review equal-protection judicial-remedy legislative-districts mootness racial-gerrymandering |
Whether a plaintiff's Equal Protection Clause racial gerrymandering claim is rendered moot when the challenged legislative district is replaced in a d… |
| 25-6647 |
Emanuel Johnson, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus postconviction-review |
1. Under the threshold certificate of appealability standard, could reasonable jurists debate a district court's refusal to consolidate inextricably i… |
| 25-864 |
Daniel Otu v. Anita Whyte-Otu |
Georgia |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
|
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment protective-order void-for-vagueness |
1. Does a court of law violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when the issuance of a permanent protective order relies on the Petitione… |
| 25A835 |
Vikram Valame v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-21 |
Application |
|
equal-protection equal-rights-amendment fifth-amendment military-integration rostker-v-goldberg selective-service |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6626 |
Terrance Carew v. Robert Morton, Superintendent, Downstate Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
IFP |
batson-challenge constitutional-rights equal-protection ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination |
Whether an attorney has necessarily provided ineffective assistance of counsel when, after making successful Batson claims, he fails to insist on a re… |
| 25A821 |
Taylor Rene Parker v. Texas |
Texas |
2026-01-16 |
Application |
|
capital-punishment criminal-culpability death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability mental-capacity |
Question not identified. |
| 25-836 |
Rockland County, New York, et al. v. New York, et al. |
New York |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
county-administration due-process election-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment voting-rights |
This petition presents federal constitutional questions concerning Equal Protection and voting-rights limits on a state's authority to selectively res… |
| 25-6557 |
David Calhoun v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
contempt-of-court government-waiver habeas-corpus judicial-review section-2255 sentencing |
I. Should the § 2255 Court's denial of Petitioner's claim under Santobello v. New York, 404 U.S. 257 (1971) be construed as barring said claim from re… |
| 25-823 |
William King Moss, III v. Sachem Central Board of Education, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
|
civil-rights discrimination-pleading equal-protection rule-8 section-1981 title-vii |
1. Whether a federal court may dismiss a discrimination complaint at the pleading stage by crediting only the plaintiffs alternative theory of unlawfu… |
| 25-824 |
Tony Moody v. Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services |
Ohio |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
|
antidiscrimination-law burden-shifting due-process employment-retaliation equal-protection statutory-safeguards |
1. Whether the cumulative errors in applying established
antiretaliation standards —specifically the misapplication of the
McDonnell Douglas burden-… |
| 25-6552 |
Angeliina Lynn Lawson v. Jonathan David Lawson |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-12 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant removal-jurisdiction |
1 Whether 28 U.S.C. §1443(1) permits removal to federal court when a pro se litigant with disabilities alleges systemic discrimination, retaliation, a… |
| 25-6516 |
Auburn Calloway v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process equal-protection judicial-disqualification mens-rea sentence-reduction |
Whether the appellate affirmance of the district court's sentence reduction denial overlooked A) that the district court was disqualified because the … |
| 25-795 |
Montgomery Blair Sibley v. Chauncey J. Watches, Judge, Steuben County, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-immunity petition-clause second-amendment |
WHETHER federal in forma pauperis litigants may be significantly denied immediate access to Court while filing-fee paying litigants suffer no such con… |
| 25-6494 |
River William Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
conduct-dismissal criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion political-beliefs sentencing |
1) Whether a Defendant can be held accountable at sentencing for conduct that was dismissed?
2) Whether a Defendant's sentence can be enhanced becaus… |
| 25-6477 |
Warren Harold Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-conspiracy double-jeopardy hobbs-act judicial-precedent sentencing |
Whether Callanan v. United States, 364 U.S. 587 (1961), should be overruled or limited as violative of the Double Jeopardy Clause where petitioner was… |
| 25-6470 |
Jose Ferrer-Sosa v. United States |
First Circuit |
2026-01-02 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-violation fair-trial mental-health-evidence prosecutorial-disclosure sentencing witness-competency |
1. Whether the right to a fair trial is violated when a judge tells the jury that the only witness to a conspiracy was competent, after the witness ha… |
| 25-6448 |
Torrence Belcher v. Terri Hale, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection prisoner-rights state-law |
1. Should the intervening circumstances be consider when
questioning the Continuing Validity or soundness of this case??
2. What is good reasons to c… |
| 25-6451 |
Thomas Steven Sanders v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-or-controversy commutation death-penalty federal-sentencing mootness |
Following commutation of a death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of release, does a case or controversy regarding the death penalty… |
| 25-766 |
Justyna Jensen v. Maryland Cannabis Administration, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
business-licensing dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection nonresident-discrimination pell-grant-eligibility state-university |
Whether a state statute discriminates against nonresidents in violation of the dormant Commerce Clause if it confers eligibility for a business licens… |
| 25-6434 |
Natasha T. Baskin v. Algernon M. Pitre |
District of Columbia |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-justice disability-rights due-process emergency-tolling equal-protection pro-se-litigants |
1. Due Process and Access to Courts
Whether the combined effect of emergency tolling restrictions, denial of disability
accommodations, and additiona… |
| 25A752 |
Charles Don Flores v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-12-29 |
Application |
|
actual-innocence death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus state-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6422 |
Kenneth J. O'Brien v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-validity due-process equal-protection florida-law judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Were Florida Statutes, Chapters 794 and 800, under which Petitioner was arrested, charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and incarcerated, enacted in… |
| 25-6430 |
Jesse Michael Holliday v. California |
California |
2025-12-23 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct pretrial-detention state-court-review |
1) Whether the due process rights of the petitioner were violated when he was subjected to multiple
pretrial assaults/batteries/maiming by deputies a… |
| 25-6431 |
Edin Anael Solis-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error-standard rule-11 sentencing |
Does a defendant's failure to object to a Rule 11(b)(1)(H)-(I) error count against him twice, not only by subjecting him to the rigorous plain-error s… |
| 25-6415 |
Juan Viana-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure custodial-sentence judicial-modification rule-36 sentencing |
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 36 is titled "Clerical Error" and states, "[a]fter giving any notice it considers appropriate, the court may at any… |
| 25-733 |
Joseph Soaris v. Tony Aikhionbare |
California |
2025-12-22 |
Pending |
|
civil-rights equal-protection legal-equality state-law |
The question presented is whether the state is applying its laws equally amongst its citizens? |
| 25-6357 |
Frank A. Walls v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2025-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-rule constitutional-protection death-penalty hall-v-florida intellectual-disability procedural-bar |
1. Has Florida's partial retroactive treatment of Hall v. Florida denied intellectually disabled people the protections of Atkins and should procedura… |
| 25-6367 |
Luis Daniel Fuentes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion mitigating-evidence sentencing |
Whether a sentencing court must address mitigating evidence and arguments offered by defense counsel regarding factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a… |
| 25-6353 |
Marcin Sosniak v. Charles Mims, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty evidence-retrieval ineffective-assistance police-interview right-to-counsel |
Whether Petitioner has received ineffective assistance of counsel where Petitioner's counsel allowed Petitioner who was facing the death penalty to ac… |
| 25-6354 |
Osric Tyrone Daise v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure plain-error punishment revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the district court committed plain error in revoking Mr. Daise's supervised release pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e) when the court's expressed… |
| 25-692 |
Brooke Lynnette Girley, et al. v. The Florida Bar, et al. |
Florida |
2025-12-12 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection first-amendment professional-discipline religious-freedom speech-based-discipline |
In separate proceedings consolidated on review, the state high court affirmed 30-day suspensions of two attorneys, Reverend Girley and Professor Girle… |
| 25-6341 |
Selvin Edgardo Molina-Guzman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing |
If a federal criminal defendant fails to present rebuttal evidence, is the district court is free to adopt the Presentence Report's findings without f… |
| 25-684 |
Malcolm Curtis, et ux. v. Department of the Treasury, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof due-process equal-protection income-reporting judicial-presumption tax-law |
Whether granting the IRS a judicial presumption of correctness violates due process and equal protection in a case where a taxpayer is accused of not … |
| 25-6333 |
Cameron Kemp v. Michael Powers, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-10 |
Pending |
IFP |
access-to-courts due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity municipal-liability self-help-eviction |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the denial of Petitioner's statutory right to appeal, despite Judge Sims' knowledge of a self-help evi… |
| 25A671 |
Emanuel Johnson, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Application |
|
death-penalty docket-consolidation eleventh-circuit federal-habeas ineffective-assistance pro-se |
Question not identified. |
| 25A676 |
Jimmy ONeal Spencer v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2025-12-09 |
Application |
|
capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6316 |
Kyle Ray Campbell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure ninth-circuit sentence-reasonableness sentencing waiver |
Whether the district court erred and imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence of three hundred months?
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal… |
| 25-6291 |
Georgianna Parisi v. Estate of Jackie Jones, et al. |
Ohio |
2025-12-05 |
Pending |
IFP |
equal-protection fourteenth-amendment interstate-commerce judicial-oversight probate-court trustee-compensation |
This case presents a question of exceptional national importance because it implicates the federal constitutional limits on States' authority to regul… |
| 25-6279 |
Steven Matthew Wolf v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty fourteenth-amendment juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment |
Whether Mr. Wolf was deprived of a jury of his peers as guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments where the trial court removed a juror who pr… |
| 25-619 |
Zhe Zhang, aka Zack v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-penalty disjunctive-language federal-criminal-law murder-for-hire sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the disjunctive language at 18 U.S.C. § 1958(a) providing "if death results, [the offender] shall be punished by death or life imprisonment, o… |
| 25-6254 |
Jorge C. Ferretiz-Hernandez, Ignacio Felix-Salinas, and Elias Chiroy-Cac v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law equal-protection legislative-intent legislative-reenactment racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 25A626 |
Rajeh A. Saadeh v. New Jersey State Bar Association |
New Jersey |
2025-11-26 |
Application |
|
bar-association diversity-quotas equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-association status-based-discrimination |
Question not identified. |
| 25-611 |
Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Oregon Department of Revenue |
Oregon |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
administrative-convenience equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intangible-property state-law taxation |
Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state from singling out a few businesses for taxation of their intangible … |
| 25-6239 |
Elijah D. Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-testing circuit-split due-process evidence-standard fifth-amendment sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a district court to base a sentencing determination on technical and factual assertions that … |
| 25-6244 |
Tasleema Yasin v. VM Master Issuer, LLC |
Georgia |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review due-process electronic-filing equal-protection first-amendment |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a timely notice of appeal is denied solely because of the State's malfunctio… |
| 25-6201 |
Frank Paul Ferrara v. Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-general civil-commitment constitutional-law discretionary-action equal-protection fourteenth-amendment |
Question No. 1: Whether the Commonwealth of Virginia violated the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection of the laws when the Attorney G… |
| 25-593 |
Gerald Scott v. Boca Landings Homeowners Association, Inc. |
Florida |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
|
discretionary-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigants statute-of-limitations |
1. Does a state supreme court's practice of summarily denying discretionary review of Per Curium Affirmance (PCA), involving a Statute of Limitation d… |
| 25-6179 |
Benny Lee Hodge v. Laura Plappert, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus sixth-circuit |
I. Under its original meaning, the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the Eighth Amendment was interpreted as including disproportionate and arbi… |
| 25-6180 |
David Craig Milam v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court guilty-plea judicial-discretion plea-withdrawal sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying Petitioner's motion to withdraw his guilty plea. |
| 25-6190 |
Steven Dale Bradley v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
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3, Do cnw\4U$ kw 4 6an^WW^h4 rtaW 4t> ex^cV pnmke^ AncWl^ ™udn^/ 5 ft w'HW ^re^… |
| 25-6157 |
Eric King v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment identity-theft indictment-defects |
I. DUBIN MISAPPLICATION
Whether Petitioner's conviction for aggravated identity theft under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A can stand where, contrary to Dubin v. Un… |
| 25-6148 |
Jehan Semper v. Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection indigent-rights judicial-discretion pro-se |
Constitutional and Civil Rights
District Court
1. District Court FAILS to Consider Indigent Pro Se Plaintiffs Filings and Motions
Whatsoever. Is it … |
| 25A580 |
Tony Phillips v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Application |
|
appellate-review criminal-trial due-process judicial-discretion life-imprisonment sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 25-577 |
Chaldean Coalition, Inc. v. San Diego County Independent Redistricting Commission, et al. |
California |
2025-11-14 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
district-design equal-protection fourteenth-amendment population-deviation racial-gerrymandering redistricting |
During the summer of 2020, the term "BIPOC"—
"Black, Indigenous, and People of Color"—emerged as the
preferred moniker for the theory that all non-wh… |
| 25-6116 |
Frank Iglesias v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discretion early-termination ninth-circuit sentencing supervised-release |
Did the Ninth Circuit abused it's discretion in finding that Petitioner is not entitled to shortening or terminating supervised release of his sentenc… |
| 25A569 |
Eric Drake v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-11-14 |
Application |
|
deferred-adjudication due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment probation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the Court may stay or render void, the entire state deferred probation order entered by a judge who lacked subject-matter jurisdiction, in … |
| 25-572 |
James Stuart Faller, II v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity |
1. Whether persistent and categorical judicial bias
and procedural disregard toward pro se litigants,
resulting in dismissal despite detailed factual … |
| 25-6109 |
Dion Marsh v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defendant due-process fifth-amendment remorselessness self-incrimination sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits a sentencing court from inferring remorselessness from a criminal defendant's silence. |
| 25A556 |
La Union del Pueblo Entero, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Application |
|
equal-protection fifth-circuit redistricting texas-law voter-assistance voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6080 |
Warren Ellwood Shelton, Jr. v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals-process constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing |
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| 25-6060 |
Katherine Henry, et vir v. City of Ormond Beach, Florida |
Florida |
2025-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection excessive-fines local-law-compliance malum-prohibitum |
The lower tribunals committed harmful errors by violating Henrys' right to Equal Protection, issuing orders violating state and local laws, and issuin… |
| 25-6061 |
Bryan Fredrick Jennings v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2025-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment meaningful-access postconviction-counsel state-representation |
Mr. Jennings was deprived of counsel for three years before his death warrant was signed. On the day his death warrant was signed, the State requested… |
| 25A534 |
Roderick Leshun Rankin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-07 |
Application |
|
arkansas constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus standard-of-review |
Question not identified. |
| 25-553 |
Sossamma George Sebastin v. Sebastin Francis |
Illinois |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights custody-evaluation due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness |
1. Whether fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution are violated when a court denies a pro se litigant access to a custody evaluator's report… |
| 25-557 |
Donald T. Trinen v. Supreme Court of Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cle-compliance due-process equal-protection judicial-review lawyer-discipline suspension-order |
Diversity, equity, and inclusion ("DEI ") continuing legal education ("cle") is required for Colorado lawyers. Attorney petitioner Donald Trinen ("Tri… |
| 25-6058 |
Raymond E. Lumsden v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment prison-ministry religious-discrimination rluipa |
1. Does.Texas' Partnership With The 'Heart'Of Texas College
Of Ministry, A Solely Christian-Based Organization Housed
And Operated On A Texas Prison… |
| 25-550 |
Michael Fernandez, D.D.S., LTD., a Division of Atlantic Dental Care, PLC, et al. v. Stephen C. Brich, P.E., Commissioner of Highways, in His Individual and Official Capacity, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
class-of-one comparator-analysis constitutional-claim equal-protection pleading-standard zoning-law |
Is Appellants' non-zoning related equal protection claim based upon a "class-of-one theory" subject to the heightened pleading standard for similarly … |
| 25-537 |
Raymond H. Pierson, III v. Phyliss M. Rushing |
California |
2025-11-04 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment insurance-litigation medical-emergency |
1a. Isn't it true that under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, that Dr. Pierson, a self-represented party without alternat… |
| 25-6012 |
Julia Dixon v. Medhost Dispatcher, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2025-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection indigent-plaintiff medical-malpractice |
1. Whether requiring an indigent, self-represented plaintiff to post a mandatory medical tribunal bond as a condition for access to a malpractice tria… |
| 25-6015 |
Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Aramark, et al. |
Indiana |
2025-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se |
I. Whether the Court of Appeals of Indiana denies a litigant due process, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, when it selects a singular appella… |
| 25-6017 |
John Todd Williams v. Richard J. Sullivan, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion |
1. Whether the denial of in forma pauperis status to an indigent litigant raising substantial constitutional claims — including violations of the Four… |
| 25A502 |
Floyd D. Johnson v. United States Congress |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-03 |
Application |
|
bill-of-attainder constitutional-challenge equal-protection judicial-review sovereign-immunity veterans-benefits |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6011 |
John De Light v. Laura De Light, et al. |
California |
2025-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-transfer |
1. Automatic Preemptive Rulings and Judicial Overreach
Whether a state court violates basic principles of due process by issuing preemptive rulings —s… |
| 25-533 |
Minnesota Deer Farmers Association, et al. v. Sarah Strommen, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, or her successor, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-31 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
demographic-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights legal-vocation strict-scrutiny |
1. Whether pursuing a legal vocation that is completely prohibited by state law for a demographic group is a fundamental right under the Fourteenth Am… |
| 25A481 |
Steven J. Hecke v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Application |
|
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty extension-of-time supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5981 |
Erick Pizarro-Mercado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-rules procedural-error rule-29 sentencing |
Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P.
Whether the district court committed reversib… |
| 25-5974 |
Terrance Douglas Baker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion rule-32 sentencing |
Does a district court violate Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(C)(1) when it relies upon news stories or other information outside the record in determining a d… |
| 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… |
| 25-519 |
Efrain Lora v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process government-concession preponderance-of-evidence sentencing |
After remand from this Court, Petitioner Efrain Lora was resentenced to thirty years in confinement because he supposedly directed a murder. But the G… |
| 25A477 |
Amos Wells v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-27 |
Application |
|
death-penalty future-dangerousness genetic-evidence ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Question not identified. |
| 25A475 |
Aubrey C. Trail v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2025-10-24 |
Application |
|
certiorari death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus post-conviction supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5942 |
Ky Tan Le v. Stephen H. Locher, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection false-statement federal-crime judicial-misconduct |
1. While presided the case in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa,
Respondent in a particular Order knowingly, willfully made,… |
| 25-5932 |
Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota |
South Dakota |
2025-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
choice-of-counsel coram-nobis equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment structural-error |
1. Is a Sixth Amendment 'erroneous deprivation of choice of counsel ' structural error, an
error of the most fundamental character, properly before t… |
| 25-5922 |
Victor M. Hernandez-Carrasquillo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-sufficiency rule-29 sentencing |
Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P.
Whether the district court committed reversib… |
| 25-5920 |
Donald Otis Williams v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge death-penalty first-degree-murder legislative-expansion proportionality-review |
Whether the Florida Legislature's expansion of the applicability of our statute's "aggravating factors" requirements, Section 921.141(6), Florida Stat… |
| 25-5928 |
Anthony Boyd v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
comparative-analysis cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia |
When performing a comparative analysis to determine whether an alternative means of execution would significantly reduce a substantial risk of severe … |
| 25-489 |
Norman Engel v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation, et al. |
Texas |
2025-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-stability property-rights workers-compensation |
Injured workers in Texas have One Year after their date of injury to make a claim for workers' compensation benefits and a Two Year limit to reach med… |
| 25A445 |
Thomas Steven Sanders v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-conviction death-penalty double-jeopardy executive-clemency federal-prosecution fifth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 25-460 |
Donata Edwards v. U.S. Bank National Association, Trustee for RMAC Trust, Series 2016-CTT, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
covid-19-restrictions equal-protection executive-order foreclosure fourteenth-amendment property-sale |
1. Whether the DC Court of Appeals improperly
affirmed the decision of its lower court to
ratify the sale of Petitioner 's real property
and the su… |
| 25-5886 |
Kevin Scott v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-law due-process equal-protection legal-uniformity state-court |
Does a State Court that refuses to uniformly apply its own laws and
rules to similarly situate state prisoners violate the Due Process and
Equal Pro… |
| 25A423 |
Heather Swanson, et al. v. Michael T. Hilgers, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
equal-protection fourteenth-amendment home-birth medical-regulation midwifery rational-basis |
Question not identified. |
| 25A421 |
Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. Oregon Department of Revenue |
Oregon |
2025-10-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
centrally-assessed discriminatory-tax equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intangible-property taxation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5869 |
Lance Shockley v. Richard Adams, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty free-exercise missouri-law ramirez-precedent religious-rights spiritual-advisor |
1. Does the State of Missouri's decision to deny a condemned his choice of spiritual advisor solely on the basis of the individual's familial relation… |
| 25-442 |
Joseph J. Roybal, Sheriff, El Paso County, Colorado, et al. v. Darlene Griffith |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
constitutional-scrutiny due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection prison-policies transgender-rights |
1. Whether a transgender inmate's challenge to sex-based prison policies is subject to heightened scrutiny under United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 5… |
| 25-5845 |
Ohio, ex rel. Christopher Michael Williams v. Marilyn Zayas, Judge, First District Court of Appeals, Hamilton County, Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling judicial-immunity state-court-procedure |
QUESTION #1: Does a state Court Judge, commit a violation of a Defendants 14th Amendment rights to
the United States Constitution for Due process, an… |
| 25A406 |
Samuel Lee Smithers v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-stay meaningful-hearing |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5827 |
Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-oppression racial-discrimination sixth-amendment |
WHETHER A STATE RACIALLY MOTIVATED PERVASIVE Unconstitutional Statute
purposed to deny it's African American Citizens their equal protection of
law … |
| 25-5829 |
Samuel Lee Smithers v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment elderly-defendant standards-of-decency |
1. Does the execution of the elderly violate the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment… |
| 25-5807 |
Tamatha Lynn Melom v. Stone County, Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-10-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the seizure, destruction, and permanent transfer of a citizen's lawfully owned dogs, based on untested hearsay, without production of polic… |
| 25-408 |
Tamara Baines v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-work-environment section-1983 sexual-harassment title-vii |
To Respondent Robin Shahar:
Whether the "some harm" standard articulated by
this Court in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis , 601 U.S.
346 (2024) applies… |
| 25-398 |
Adeayo O. Turton v. Saks Fifth Avenue, LLC |
Pennsylvania |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-review waiver-doctrine |
1. Whether a state may constitutionally guarantee rights to appeal in all cases, then suppress that right by rigidly and/or arbitrarily applying proce… |
| 25-5798 |
Mikhael Y. Lerman v. Celine E. Lerman |
California |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment thirteenth-amendment |
1. Whether California Family Code § 2550, as applied in this case, violates my Equal Protection and Due Process rights.
2. Whether rigid equal divisi… |
| 25-5797 |
Leigha Page Ackerson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure felony-murder legislative-amendment life-without-parole proportionality-review sentencing |
1. Whether the procedure to affirm an LWOP
sentence for felony murder once the Felony Murder
bill 21-124 became effective is in the interest of
jus… |
| 25-5766 |
Jonathan Valentin v. Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industries |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourth-amendment pro-se-litigation |
Should the First Amendment provisions to the U.S. Constitution addressing the making of any law abridging the freedom of speech; and to petition the G… |
| 25-5733 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Jesus Valdivia, Police Officer, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-25 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-court appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection |
Did the Appellate Court wrongly dismiss the appeal because, although the orders did not end the litigation, they prevented the Plaintiff from litigati… |
| 25-357 |
Adrian M. Lockridge v. Madison Metropolitan School District, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 504-plan disability-rights education-law equal-protection individualized-education |
1. Does the Department of Education's 504 Plan for educating the child with disability provide equal protection under the 14th Amendment as does the p… |
| 25-5720 |
Gregory Bartunek v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial sentencing |
Whether the rights of due process and to a jury trial are violated when courts impose sentences that, but for a judge-found fact, including, but not l… |
| 25-5714 |
Abass Yaya Bamba v. United States District Court for the District of Colorado |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion |
1. Whether a federal court may constitutionally dismiss a civil rights complaint solely for inability to pay filing fees, in violation of 28 U.S.C. § … |
| 25-5696 |
Anatole Mbe v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-22 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure legal-error plea-agreement restitution sentencing |
Did petitioner's appeal waiver as part of his plea agreement preclude an appeal challenging the amount imposed for restitution on grounds that the gov… |
| 25A319 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Ashton Orr, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-09-19 |
Application |
Amici (1) |
biological-sex equal-protection executive-order gender-identity passport-policy sex-designation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-324 |
Richard William Kleinhammer v. California |
California |
2025-09-18 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
actual-innocence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment self-representation sixth-amendment |
Self representation for a postconviction collateral appeal was denied applying People v. Scott as a policy which is at loggerheads with actual innocen… |
| 25-5665 |
Ali Awad Mahmoud Irsan v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
constitutional-rights equal-protection judicial-discretion jury-selection race-discrimination voir-dire |
1. Does the knowing judicial enforcement of defense counsel's explicitly race-based agreement to exclude a Black woman from the venire violate the Equ… |
| 25-315 |
Silas Salyers, aka Silas Salyer v. Clifford B. Walker, Personal Representative of the Estate of Evelyn Walker |
Michigan |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
contract-clause deed-ownership due-process equal-protection property-rights trespass-damages |
I. Did the State of Michigan by its judiciary violate Petitioner's due process and equal protection rights by ruling contrary to the binding rule of l… |
| 25-5660 |
In Re David C. White |
|
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity loper-bright pro-se-litigation |
1. Shall U.S. Courts at all levels persist in extreme bias against pro se or any litigant, contrary to Judicial Code of Conduct and Loper Light, espec… |
| 25-5643 |
Deloris Phillips v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-16 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process economic-discrimination equal-protection legal-representation |
Did the United States District Court of the Northern District of Texas Dallas Division unconstitutionally err in labeling petitioner vexatious-frivolo… |
| 25-5620 |
Terry Duane Qualls v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver categorical-approach controlled-substances-act due-process plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether an appeal waiver applies when the sentencing judge advises the defendant that he has the right to appeal and the government does not object. |
| 25-5605 |
David Joseph Pittman v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection ex-post-facto retroactive-effect |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Phillips v. State , 299 So.3d 1013 (Fla. 2020) , denying some capital defendants the retroactive effec… |
| 25-5618 |
Jamil Jones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fifth-amendment mitchell-precedent right-to-silence self-incrimination sentencing |
Whether the failure to apologize or express remorse violates the
Fifth Amendment right to remain silent at sentencing, a question left open by
Mitchel… |
| 25-5609 |
Jackie Kavaskia McMillan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver district-court illegal-sentence jurisdictional-challenge plea-agreement sentencing |
While "jurisdictions appear to treat at least some claims as unwaivable" via an appeal waiver in a plea agreement, this Court has not yet decided "wha… |
| 25-5594 |
In Re Brian D. Dubuc |
|
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection non-discretionary-mandate reservation-lands treaty-rights tribal-jurisdiction |
1) Weather the Non Discretionary mandate of the state supreme court
Can be refused execution by the state trial court or restrict removal to
tribal … |
| 25-5580 |
Moises Moreno v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chemical-compound constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-analysis sentencing |
Did David L. Rallens' (act) of sending a Private Investigator Coteban Hearnandez to MEXICO Violate my Constitutional Rights and Due Process law Under … |
| 25-5563 |
Joseph Lee Smith v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2025-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-review manslaughter post-trial-motions sentencing specific-intent writ-application |
WHETHER THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED
PETITIONER'S WRIT APPLICATION FILED ON DIRECT APPEAL AND
THE CLAIM THAT PETITIONER POSSESSE… |
| 25-5562 |
Brian Dale Dubuc v. First National Bank of Okmulgee, et al. |
Oklahoma |
2025-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
cherokee-nation due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction land-allotment treaty-rights |
1) Whether Registered members of Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory
were Deprived of lands, business, rights , and equity's without due
process, eq… |
| 25-258 |
Zante, Inc., dba Marlena's Bistro and Pizzeria v. Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development |
Michigan |
2025-09-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-contempt equal-protection fundamental-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause void-ab-initio |
ISSUE I.
ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS VOID
AB INITIO REQUIRING RETROSPECTIVE
TREATMENT OF OPINIONS AFFECTING
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS?
ISSUE II.
DO MICHIGA… |
| 25-5549 |
Vladislav Konstantin Aksenov v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment racial-bias trial-procedure |
Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government at trial from implicitly evoking stereotypes about a defendant's racial or ethnic backg… |
| 25-243 |
Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Marcus Caster, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-03 |
Pending |
|
constitutional-interpretation equal-protection legislative-redistricting majority-minority-district racial-gerrymandering voting-rights-act |
Alabama's 2021 congressional districting plan was preliminarily enjoined under §2 of the Voting Rights Act because it splintered one community of inte… |
| 25-5534 |
Carl G. Lindsey v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder fourteenth-amendment |
Does the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments, and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantees of Due Process and Equal Prot… |
| 25-5523 |
Mohamed A. Ibrahim v. Allison L. Lynn |
Maryland |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-settlement mental-disability procedural-safeguards |
1- Whether a Maryland state courts' failure to recognize and accommodate a documented mental disability who is suffering from:
A- Dementia and Alzhei… |
| 25-5520 |
Dennis Wilson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-trial due-process fundamental-rights plea-agreement rights-to-counsel sentencing |
Whether the predicted outcome and the potential sentence faced by Mr. Wilson, should he be convicted at trial, is to be compared to the plea agreement… |
| 25A241 |
James P. Baumgartner v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
batson-challenge equal-protection jury-composition military-justice panel-member-selection racial-discrimination |
Question not identified. |
| 25A234 |
South Carolina, et al. v. John Doe, By His Next Friends and Parents, Jim Doe and Jane Doe |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-28 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (1) |
equal-protection gender-affirming-care legislative-act medical-treatment sovereignty title-x |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5498 |
Jason Strauch v. New Mexico |
New Mexico |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment right-to-appeal writ-of-mandamus |
1. Was the New Mexico Supreme Court's denial of Mr. Strauch's State Writ of Mandamus, contrary to the United State Constitution First Amendment, Right… |
| 25-5493 |
Joshua Devon Barrow v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law first-step-act revocation sentencing statutory-maximum supervised-release |
When determining the statutory maximum sentence on revocation, should courts consult current law or only the law at the time of the underlying offense… |
| 25-5489 |
Peter Fowler v. Correctional Officer Lucas Bohnert, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-27 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment equal-protection incarceration plra sexual-abuse |
I.
WHETHER "EQUAL PROTECTION" APPLIED TO ELDER INMATES
UNDER [SEXUAL ABUSED] WHILE INCARCERATED
(14TH AMEND. U.S.CONST.)
II.
WHETHER U.S.COURT OF AP… |
| 25-5469 |
Bryan Christopher Bell v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2025-08-26 |
Denied |
Amici (5)IFP |
batson-challenge equal-protection gender-discrimination jury-selection postconviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether this Court may review the merits of an undisputable violation of J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B., 511 U.S. 127 (1994) where the state court app… |
| 25-5456 |
Elbert Gaynor v. Extended Stay America |
Maryland |
2025-08-25 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment appointed-counsel equal-protection mootness procedural-due-process service-of-process |
1. Whether a state court of last resort erred in affirming a lower court decision to dismiss
petitioners' appeals overlooking deprivation of petition… |
| 25-5459 |
Robert Keith Woodall v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-08-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability |
The Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid the execution of persons with intellectual disability. Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304, 321 (2002). Perso… |
| 25-5447 |
La'Shaun Clark v. Jefferson Capital Systems, LLC, as Assignee of One Main Financial Group, LLC |
Georgia |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
contract-law debt-buyer due-process equal-protection federal-arbitration-act interstate-commerce |
The Federal Arbitration Act FAA 9 U.S.C. §§ 1-16 is a substantive rule applicable in state as well as in federal Courts. The FAA withdrew the power of… |
| 25-205 |
Schuyler E. Cole, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii |
Hawaii |
2025-08-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-valuation tax-assessment tax-classification |
Whether a real property tax class that consists of certain residential properties that are distinguished from identical residential properties based s… |
| 25-5399 |
Neda Mehrabani v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights discovery-violation fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance medicare-billing sentencing |
Whether a Certificate of Appealability ("COA") should have been issued because I was denied a constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel … |
| 25-199 |
Daniel Concepcion, et al. v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, dba MLB, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
antitrust-exemption baseball-litigation constitutional-challenge equal-protection sherman-act supreme-court-precedent |
1. WHETHER THIS COURT'S DECISION IN FEDERAL BASEBALL CLUB OF BALTIMORE V. NATIONAL LEAGUE OF PROFESSIONAL BASE BALL CLUBS, 259 U.S. 200 (1922) AND ITS… |
| 25-5401 |
Gregory Matthew Seay v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights double-jeopardy equal-protection manifest-necessity mistrial |
(1) DOES THE OKLAHOMA COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS' DECISION IN THE INSTANT CASE CONTRADICT THE DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES COURT OF THE NORTHERN DISTR… |
| 25-191 |
James Napier v. Orchard School Foundation |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights-act employer-bias employment-discrimination equal-protection evidentiary-standards title-vii |
Whether the opinion of the court of appeals below disregarding evidence of the background circumstances of the employer's bias against male employees … |
| 25-5376 |
Wesley Swick v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Pending |
IFP |
criminal-procedure federal-law fugitive-tolling habeas-corpus sentencing supervised-release |
I. Whether the fugitive-tolling doctrine applies in the context of supervised release. Rico v. United States, No. 24-1056, presents the same question. |
| 25-181 |
Arthur Lopez v. California Department of Motor Vehicles, et al. |
California |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection registration-fees unlawful-seizure |
Should the State of California Department of Motor Vehicles and the other defendants in this case be accountable for deprivation of Civil Rights (incl… |
| 25-5361 |
Rita Arguijo Garcia v. Frank Bisignano, Commissioner of Social Security |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appeals-council due-process equal-protection filing-date social-security |
Whether the Social Security Regulations and Ruling, permitting a claimant who submits new, irrelevant and immaterial evidence to the Appeals Council, … |
| 25-5370 |
Kayle B. Bates v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty ineffective-assistance neuropsychological-evidence sentencing-procedure |
After a questionable conviction, Kayle Bates has twice been sentenced to death. His first death sentence was reversed on collateral review for ineffec… |
| 25A185 |
Kayle B. Bates v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
|
capital-punishment constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment irreparable-harm |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5351 |
Roberta A. Lee v. Department of the Army |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights employment-discrimination equal-protection first-amendment merit-system-protection-board wrongful-termination |
(A) Whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, Art. 1, Sec. 8, allow Federal Government Employees to equal… |
| 25-5325 |
Robert W. Hassett, III v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2025-08-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process jury-instructions |
1. Whether the Eighth^hdil '4th Amendments to the United States Constitution are violated,
and this Court 's holdings are contradicted, 1 when a cour… |
| 25-155 |
Gennady Y. Paremsky v. Ingham County, Michigan, et al. |
Michigan |
2025-08-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
compensation-rights constitutional-violations contract-impairment due-process equal-protection takings-clause |
I. Did Michigan Ingham County and its officials Greta Wu, Kim Coleman, Bruce Bragg, Leslie M. Shanlian, Jennifer Mack violate U.S. Const. amend. V, XI… |
| 25-147 |
Michael J. Polelle v. Cord Byrd, Florida Secretary of State, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
closed-primary election-law equal-protection first-amendment political-association voting-rights |
1. Does the Petitioner have standing to sue the Florida Secretary of State in his official capacity as chief election officer of the state for any vio… |
| 25-142 |
William Gerard Sangervasi, II v. City of San Jose, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
equal-protection first-amendment government-speech police-uniform sexual-orientation viewpoint-discrimination |
Our American Flag and The Uniform of America's Police Officers are neutral and impartial visual symbols of blind-justice and equal protection under th… |
| 25-5269 |
Michael D. Miller v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals due-process habitual-offender legal-violation sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fiesk Digkeict Court of Appeals Violate Ane Pet isioner's tight Yo due process of Vaw by Imposing a habitual oe , Sentence in violation of& sp… |
| 25-136 |
Francis Palardy v. AT&T Services Inc., et al. |
Texas |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
|
americans-with-disabilities-act defamation disability-discrimination equal-protection supremacy-clause tester-litigation |
1. Whether state courts may disregard the Americans with Disabilities Act when adjudicating defamation claims involving disability-related conduct, in… |
| 25-5256 |
Leroy A. Garrett v. PDV Holding |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review court-procedure equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-technicalities procedural-fairness |
Where United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit way to manage the proceedings filed by Petitioner, according to Conley v. Gibson ; omitted … |
| 25-5243 |
Karen Y. Baez v. Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct mootness-doctrine pro-se-complaint |
1) Whether a district court violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by dismissing a factually supported pro se complaint as frivolous un… |
| 25-5219 |
Mao Hin v. California |
California |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt sentencing-procedure |
Whether California's capital-sentencing scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments because it fails to require the jury to fi… |
| 25-5225 |
Manuel Vega v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure multiple-violations prison-term sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
A court, in imposing sentence upon a criminal
defendant, may include as part of the sentence a term of
supervised release. If the defendant violates t… |
| 25-5214 |
Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-07-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-claim death-penalty federal-precedent intellectual-disability liberty-interest state-procedure |
Next Term, this Court will resolve a significant dispute among the federal Circuit Courts of Appeal : "Whether and how courts may consider the cumulat… |
| 25A118 |
Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-07-28 |
Denied |
|
atkins-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores medical-standards |
Question not identified. |
| 25A110 |
Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Evan Milligan, et al. |
Alabama |
2025-07-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
congressional-redistricting equal-protection intentional-discrimination racial-gerrymandering section-2 voting-rights-act |
Question not identified. |
| 25A109 |
Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Bobby Singleton, et al. |
Alabama |
2025-07-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
congressional-redistricting equal-protection intentional-discrimination racial-gerrymandering section-2 voting-rights-act |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5200 |
Isaias Lopez Nunez v. Martin Gamboa, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit procedural-default sentencing |
(1) Whether the California courts' and Ninth Circuit's rejection of an Ex Post Facto Clause claim—where a more punitive law was applied at sentencing,… |
| 25A104 |
Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-07-24 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-and-capricious cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-override |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5194 |
Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty florida-law judicial-override jury-recommendation |
Given that it is illegal to sentence an individual to death as the result of a bare majority jury vote or judicial override of a life sentence anywher… |
| 25-5188 |
Bethzaeli Safier v. Thelma Woolridge |
Florida |
2025-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct probate-law |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court 's refusal to review Petitioner 's case permitted
a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth A… |
| 25-5184 |
Matthew Lee Caylor v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-07-24 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
aggravating-factors capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-waiver |
I. Whether accepting a defendant's waiver of the right to a trial by jury and the jury's full consideration of mitigating evidence in a death penalty … |
| 25-93 |
Ang Jin v. Chen Zhao, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Yetao Jin |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
distribution-law due-process equal-protection fiduciary-liability restatement-second special-representative |
1. Whether the court judgment could circumvent appellants ' most important
argument: should this case adopt Restatement 2nd which is related to Speci… |
| 25A93 |
Kevin Don Foster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-violations death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5177 |
Aaron Edward Meier v. Aaron Williams, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-ethics supremacy-clause |
1. Does a state judge's refusal to follow federal law and a prosecutor's claim under oath that "the Republic is dead" violate due process and the Supr… |
| 25-5168 |
John E. Jackson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process punishment sentencing |
John Jackson fully completed his sentence while the government's second appeal was still pending. He argued at the third and fourth sentencings that t… |
| 25-5153 |
Steven Catlin v. Edward J. Silva, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence voir-dire |
1. Was the state court's summary denial of Petitioner's habeas claims alleging defense counsel's failure to investigate, develop and present available… |
| 25-69 |
Shan Shan Su v. Broward County, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-18 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-court due-process equal-protection legal-precedent motion-to-dismiss |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's claim that a litigant has forfeited her appellate rights and its refusal to conduct the required de novo review on a… |
| 25-5145 |
Nicholas Bernard Acklin v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-ethics conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
This is a death penalty case from Alabama in which the following occurred:
(1) the defense attorney was being paid in substantial part by the defenda… |
| 25-5112 |
Brian Lee Corbett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion rule-35 sentencing supervised-release |
In this case, the district court held a hearing at which it revoked Corbett's term of supervised release and imposed a term of imprisonment as a resul… |
| 25-5103 |
In Re Matthew Phillips |
|
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights equal-protection extraordinary-writ habeas-corpus procedural-due-process state-prisoner |
I. Whether or not the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Matthew Phillips procedural due process by denying leave for Phillips to file a sec… |
| 25-5101 |
In Re Matthew Phillips |
|
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-due-process sentence-execution state-prisoner |
I. Whether or not the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has
denied Matthew Phillips procedural due process by denying leave
for Phillips to file a s… |
| 25A53 |
Victor Saldano v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-07-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
atkins-claim competency-to-execute death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony intellectual-disability |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5096 |
Christopher John Spreitz v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-07-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP |
capital-sentencing constitutional-review death-penalty habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence ninth-circuit |
1. Whether in conducting independent sentencing review to cure a constitutional error in a capital case, a court must consider all of the evidence in … |
| 25-5089 |
Veronica M. Johnson v. William S. Moore, Judge, Circuit Court of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-recusal pro-se-plaintiff |
1. Whether the unprecedented conduct of all the sitting judges of the Portsmouth Circuit Court in entering a "sua sponte " joint administrative Recusa… |
| 25-5085 |
Donald Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2025-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence death-penalty florida-supreme-court habeas-corpus procedural-bar trial-court-jurisdiction |
1. Questia (9) /ReseuTeD - wien, on Nor THE SUPREME CounT OF RD Can Procedyfa lly Barked By ICTUAL TANCE Clzagse, ON TNR Z D625, 0) Spal PezeTEosser's… |
| 25-37 |
Theresa England v. Steven R. Siebe, et al. |
Indiana |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
|
common-law-tort equal-protection fourteenth-amendment joint-employer seventh-amendment third-party-tortfeasor |
1. Whether the Indiana courts below violated Petitioner's Fourteenth and Seventh Amendment rights by barring her from pursuing a common law cause of a… |
| 25-36 |
Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Seven, et al. |
California |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection parental-rights restraining-order |
1) Should United States Constitution Civil
Rights including 14th Amendment Equal
Protection and Due Process under Law
guarantees be applicable to C… |
| 25-5083 |
Michael Bernard Bell v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct witness-recantation |
Does the Petitioner's execution violate the Eighth and Fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution when the conduct of the government and … |
| 25-5061 |
Ronald Johnson v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2025-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law due-process judicial-discretion mitigating-evidence prisoner-rights sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 25A28 |
Mica Alexander Martinez v. Christe Quick, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment constitutional-error death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-protocol habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5056 |
Edward Lee Busby, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony intellectual-disability |
Where the clinical criteria unequivocally establish that a death row inmate is intellectually disabled, and where all the experts -- including the exp… |
| 25-5035 |
Jennifer Lynn Dees, et al. v. Jillian Knox, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity pro-se racketeering |
1. Whether the Fifth Amendment's due process guarantee and congressional intent behind 28 U.S.C. § 1915 prohibit federal courts from dismissing pro se… |
| 25A15 |
Ali Awad Mahmoud Irsan v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-07-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-conviction constitutional-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment texas-criminal-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7529 |
Matthew Carter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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V^ccejub-ex 31^ 2X>ZO <xac)< ^\aou\cL "tVvS… |
| 24A1286 |
Dion Horton, et al. v. Jill Rangos, Administrative Judge, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bail-hearing constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty pretrial-detention |
Whether, under the Fourteenth Amendment, people can be deprived of their physical liberty for months or even years based solely on a determination tha… |
| 24-7517 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. City of Miami, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-26 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion section-1983 |
Did the US Court of Appeal for the 11th Circuit error when it dismissed Petitioner's appeal and denying a rehearing on the appeal challenging US Distr… |
| 24-7485 |
Christopher Langdon v. Sun Lake Multi-Family Holdings, LLC, et al. |
Florida |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-access legal-standards pro-se-litigation |
(1) Do the courts in Florida deny: due process of law; equal protection under the law; and meaningful access to the courts, to pro se, non-prisoner, l… |
| 24-7484 |
Christopher Langdon v. Sun Lake Multi-Family Holdings, LLC, et al. |
Florida |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
court-access due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-standards pro-se-litigation |
(1) Do the courts in Florida deny: due process of law; equal protection under the law; and meaningful access to the courts;- to pro se, non-prisoner, … |
| 24-1315 |
Andy Desty v. Santander Consumer USA, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
corporate-powers due-process equal-protection promissory-note takings-clause truth-in-lending |
Whether this Court's decisions interpreting the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, including Fuentes v. Shevin, 40… |
| 24-7483 |
DeAngelo Zieglar v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
caldwell-precedent capital-punishment constitutional-procedure death-penalty jury-selection moratorium-impact |
In light of Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320 (1985), where a state has instituted an indefinite and formal moratorium on the death penalty, wheth… |
| 24A1268 |
Carl G. Lindsey v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-06-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-review death-penalty fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7476 |
Arturo Alexis Ordonez-Flores v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose equal-protection judicial-review legislative-intent racist-statute |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-7475 |
Samuel Mateo-Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose equal-protection legislative-intent racist-origins statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-7474 |
Richard Gerald Jordan v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-06-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-denial constitutional-claim death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto state-court |
Whether the State of Mississippi has run afoul of due process by arbitrarily denying an available state court forum to adjudicate a federal constituti… |
| 24A1253 |
Daniel Raul Santiago Vasquez v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-06-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment extension-of-time post-conviction pro-bono-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7457 |
Thomas Lee Gudinas v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment executive-discretion fourteenth-amendment public-records |
1. Whether Florida abused its discretion in denying Gudinas's demand for public records from the Executive Office of the Governor, in violation of Gud… |
| 24-1285 |
Dongxiao Yue v. Wenbin Yang |
California |
2025-06-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias pro-se-litigant |
1. In a civil trial where the trial judge precludes a self-represented plaintiff from offering material evidence, comments that the plaintiff is not a… |
| 24-7434 |
Ivan Gutierrez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
codefendant criminal-sentencing equal-protection leadership-enhancement sentencing-guidelines ussg-section |
Did imposing a leadership enhancement on Petitioner, pursuant to USSG § 3B1.1(b) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines, but not on his codefendan… |
| 24-7436 |
Hans Thomas Reiser v. California |
California |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-review death-penalty federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-errors state-remedies |
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| 24-1284 |
Eugene Dingle v. Leslie Armstrong, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem of Dorchester County Family Court, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-review rooker-feldman state-court |
1. Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal courts from reviewing state family court decisions where the petitioner alleges egregious violatio… |
| 24-1278 |
Kevin Scott Bjornson v. Equifax Information Services, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights counsel-disqualification due-process equal-protection ninth-circuit-interpretation statute-of-limitations |
Was the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals correct in their Interpretation of the laws regarding the disqualification of the Respondents counsel? When is … |
| 24A1239 |
Robert Keith Woodall v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-06-13 |
Presumed Complete |
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capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty fair-trial sentencing supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1273 |
Jonathan Phillips v. California |
California |
2025-06-13 |
Denied |
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due-process equal-protection felony-false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment nolo-contendere plea-bargaining |
1. Does a felony false imprisonment conviction obtained by way of a nolo contendere plea violate the due process protections of the Fifth and Fourteen… |
| 24-1271 |
Malik Leigh v. State Bar of Florida |
Florida |
2025-06-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment professional-conduct racial-discrimination |
1. Whether disciplining or disbarring a civil rights
attorney for speech critical of judicial bias and racial
injustice violates the First Amendment… |
| 24-7410 |
Nicholas Craig Woozencroft v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-courts final-judgment multi-count-indictment sentencing |
Whether a judgment which convicts and sentences a defendant on a count of a multi-count indictment is appealable under § 1291 where, although others c… |
| 24-7404 |
Zoe Ajjahnon v. Edward Sandler |
Florida |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-theft constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection per-curium-affirmed property-rights |
Whether the Fla. 6thDCA application of the State 's Per Curium: Affirmed (PCA) law violates the US Constitution 14th Amendment and perpetuates affirma… |
| 24-7387 |
Anthony Wainwright v. Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-10 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
capital-litigation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-bono-counsel |
1. Whether a State violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it mandates that capital litigants have counsel during their state… |
| 24-7379 |
Andra G. Green v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law firearms-offense hobbs-act jurisdictional-elements sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Green is serving a life sentence for pleading to a single count of murder with all the facts in relation to a crime of violence, under 18 U.S.C § 924(… |
| 24-7360 |
Daniel David Strader v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence sentencing |
Question (1)
In light of Mitchell v. United States, 526 U.S. 314,119 S.Ct. 1307,
143 L. Ed. 2d 424 (1999) and Erlinger v. United States, 144 S.Ct.
1… |
| 24-1245 |
Masika Brown Ray v. Anthony Boone, Chief, Longview Police Department, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection police-accountability selective-enforcement wrongful-detention |
1. Constitutional Violations of Due Process and Equal Protection: Did the Fifth Circuit err in affirming the district court's dismissal, where substan… |
| 24A1198 |
James Randall Rogers v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2025-06-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bitemark-evidence capital-punishment constitutional-due-process death-penalty new-trial recantation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7352 |
Robert Allen Benney v. Thomas McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-doctrine constitutional-rights due-diligence equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct youngblood-doctrine |
Since Youngblood & Brady are doctrines governing evidentiary preservation and focus on the prosecutions conduct, should courts be allowed to impose a … |
| 24-7351 |
Terry Pitchford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-03 |
Granted |
Amici (10)Relisted (8)IFP |
batson-challenge capital-punishment equal-protection habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination |
1. Does clearly established federal law determined by this Court and applied in six other circuits require reversal of a state appellate court's denia… |
| 24-7346 |
Seaga Edward Gillard v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2025-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment criminal-sentencing death-penalty felony-murder jury-instructions supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina violated this Court's precedent when it held that a jury instruction requiring a finding of culpability un… |
| 24-7343 |
Christopher Harris v. Officer Lesko, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-contract kokkonen-rule |
Where an officer of the court violates the "Kokkonen rule" by "enforcing" an on-the-record promise only, who has unambiguously invoked the Fourteenth … |
| 24-7336 |
Blondell F. Mitchell v. Raytown Water, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eeoc-discrimination employment-discrimination equal-protection media-harassment |
1. Whether the current rules in place for Social Media, Media, etc. justify, destroying every
aspect of an innocent person 's life (Media Munchausen)… |
| 24-7303 |
Donterrian M. Lavender v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeal defendant-rights federal-sentencing sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Lavender's sentence is substantively unreasonable. |
| 24-7298 |
Thurmond R. Guess, Sr. v. Leonardo Brown, Administrator, Richland County, South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights district-court equal-protection fourth-circuit rule-59e |
1. Did the United State District Court of Columbia South Carolina and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err Under Rule 59 E, on Motion to Alter or A… |
| 24-1209 |
Daryll Boyd Jones v. New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-discipline civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte-young judicial-bias |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred by failing to sever retrospective claims for damages from prospective injunctive claims under Ex parte Young, co… |
| 24A1150 |
Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7279 |
Carlos Hernandez, aka Ra Saadi Lennox Hernandez El v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection federal-government race-discrimination |
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| 24-7278 |
Malik J. Moss v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-rights due-process fact-finding fifth-amendment sentencing |
Was Petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process right violated when the Sentencing Court relieved the Government of its constitutionally mandated burden … |
| 24-7255 |
Jarred Adams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process legal-analysis sentence-length sentencing vindictive-prosecution |
Whether sentence length is the exclusive means to determine if a subsequent sentence is more severe for vindictive sentencing analysis? |
| 24-7254 |
Legarius Deshawn Bonner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process PROTECT-Act revocation sentencing supervised-release |
DOES THE COURT VIOLATE A DEFENDANT'S RIGHTS TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN IMPOSING A SENTENCE UPON REVOCATION OF SUPERVISED RELEASE, WHEN THE COURT EMPLO… |
| 24-7238 |
William Douglas Cope v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
abortion-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection reproductive-rights state-legislation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7235 |
Timmy Orlando Collier v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2025-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdictional-defect |
DID THE DISTRICT COURT COMMIT A RADICAL JURISDICTIONAL DEFECT BY NOT FOLLOWING MICHIGAN'S LAW AND STANDARDS SET FORTH BY MCL's, MCR's, AND FOURTH, FIF… |
| 24A1094 |
Nicholas Noelani D. Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2025-05-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case certiorari constitutional-review death-penalty direct-appeal penalty-proceeding |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7194 |
Neil Aaron Carver v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-05-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing |
1. This Honorable Court has declared that Counsel renders ineffective assistance
in failing to investigate and present mitigating evidence ina capita… |
| 24-7187 |
Elizabeth Anne Fitzgibbon v. Adam Paul Fitzgibbon |
Wisconsin |
2025-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
divorce-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct marital-settlement-agreement |
1. Did the trial court violate Elizabeth Fitzgibbon's due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by:
• Losing the parties… |
| 24-7183 |
James Little v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
appellate-review double-jeopardy executive-order january-6-offense presidential-pardon sentencing |
James Little pled guilty to a single petty offense arising from the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. After a successful appeal challengi… |
| 24-7164 |
Martin B. Brown v. District Attorney of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure procedural-fairness |
1) This Argument respectfully ask this Honorable Habeas Court (To Single Out) the November 15, 2022 Egregious Delay of Appeal where none of the Pa.R.A… |
| 24-1148 |
Dominic Michael Mason v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus self-incrimination sentencing |
WHETHER DOMINIC MASON IS ENTITLED TO HABEAS CORPUS RELIEF AND RESENTENCING WHERE HIS FIFTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS UNDER THE UNITED STATES CON… |
| 24A1072 |
Gary Pisner v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Maryland |
2025-05-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure state-supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1136 |
Dale Prey v. Franciscan University of Steubenville, et al. |
Ohio |
2025-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights equal-protection first-amendment judicial-interpretation religious-doctrine tort-law |
1) Does the text of the First Amendment,
"Congress shall make no law", limit its
application to the Legislature and, thus, allow
the Judiciary to craf… |
| 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… |
| 24-7129 |
Frank John Richard v. O'Bell T. Winn, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure confrontation-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment initial-disclosure pro-se-litigant |
1. ) Does Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 26 (a)(1)( B)(iv.) deny Initial Disclosure to incarcerated, pro se litigants, simply because they are not represented b… |
| 24-7123 |
Carlos Edward Thurman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court equal-protection firearm-enhancement second-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
I. Whether the district court clearly erred by applying the USSG § 2D1.1(b)(1) firearm enhancement?
II. Whether general application of the USSG § 2D1… |
| 24-7122 |
Michael Samuel Dekelbaum v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-bargain sentencing |
1. Should the U.S. Supreme Court recognize a "miscarriage of justice" exception to a waiver of appeal provision in a plea bargain for due process sent… |
| 24A1055 |
Anthony Lemicy v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
abortion-rights constitutional-privacy due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights reproductive-freedom |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7117 |
Jeffrey Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency-to-execute death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment mental-health panetti-standard |
1. Does a finding of competency because a petitioner has a "rational understanding of the fact of his pending execution and the reason for it[,]" sole… |
| 24-1118 |
Dongmei Li v. Richard Peck, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal |
1. Under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a), federal judges are statutorily disqualified from hearing cases whenever their "impartiality might reasonably be questione… |
| 24-7095 |
Javier Lopez-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination equal-protection legislative-intent racist-origins statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-7087 |
Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2025-04-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fundamental-fairness |
1. As the dissent below highlights, does "due process require [] more" than what has occurred in this death warrant case, including the unnoticed trun… |
| 24-7082 |
Edgar Llausas-Silva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion safety-valve sentencing |
1. Whether the district court improperly relied upon the subjective belief of the prosecutor without support in the record that petitioner lied when h… |
| 24-7079 |
Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-04-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
combat-trauma constitutional-law death-penalty mental-health scientific-evidence veterans-rights |
1. Given that "[o]ur Nation has a long tradition of according leniency to veterans in recognition of their service, especially for those who fought on… |
| 24-1104 |
Charles D. Hood v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration contract-interpretation dispute-resolution equal-protection private-contract remedy-rights |
When every right withheld must have a remedy, and every injury its proper redress I, Charles Dean of the Hood family present the following questions f… |
| 24-7067 |
Manuel Tijerino v. Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
consumer-protection due-process employer-misconduct equal-protection fmla-retaliation legal-presumption |
Did the lower courts err in misapplying the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) waiver of standards denying Petitioners FMLA, due to a concealed missrepre… |
| 24-7057 |
Earl B. Penn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge criminal-law judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment either facially, or as applied to individuals who have not been convicted of a vi… |
| 24-7048 |
Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se |
Whether the U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan, abused its discretion with prejudice and denied pro se Petitioner constitutional rights to … |
| 24-7043 |
Sean Christopher Owen v. Kristin Keisel, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-discrimination constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection minor-rights sexual-conduct |
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| 24-1085 |
David P. Demarest v. Town of Underhill, Vermont, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-04-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
class-of-one constitutional-rights equal-protection first-amendment municipal-retaliation property-rights |
1. When a property owner exercises his First Amendment right to speak out at public meetings, does it violate that Constitutional guarantee when the g… |
| 24-7009 |
Leonard Harris v. Nakita Ross, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discovery due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment summary-judgment |
1. Whether the district court's dismissal of Petitioner's case without permitting the development of the record deprived Petitioner of a meaningful op… |
| 24-6990 |
Abdul Kilgore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause hearsay-evidence procedural-reasonableness sentencing sixth-amendment supervised-release |
1. Whether the district court's reliance on hearsay evidence, including a complaining
witness's video statement and photographic evidence, in a superv… |
| 24-6933 |
Mikal Mahdi v. Bryan Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections |
South Carolina |
2025-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment childhood-trauma death-penalty ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment |
Mikal Mahdi faces execution even though the mitigating evidence presented by his defense counsel filled barely 15 transcript pages. The state supreme … |
| 24A954 |
Altony Brooks v. Sergeant Sheila Johnston, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-04-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights court-fees criminal-justice due-process equal-protection indigent-defendant |
Question not identified. |
| 24-1056 |
Isabel Rico v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-07 |
Granted |
Amici (4) |
criminal-procedure federal-law fugitive-tolling sentencing supervised-release tolling-doctrine |
Whether the fugitive-tolling doctrine applies in the context of supervised release. |
| 24-6932 |
Michael Tanzi v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-recommendation sixth-amendment |
1. Whether Florida may limit a penalty phase jury's role under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments based on Spaziano v. Florida, a case which… |
| 24-6931 |
Ohio, ex rel. David E. Feathers v. Eleventh District Court of Appeals of Ohio, Portage County, et al. |
Ohio |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
custodial-supervision due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection separation-of-powers writ-of-mandamus |
WHETHER THE USE OF A SHAM LEGAL PROCESS TO PROCESS FRAUDULENT APPEALS BY THE ELEVENTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO WARRANTED THE ISSUANCE OF A WR… |
| 24-1049 |
Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Bowling Green Independent Schools, Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection rule-59e summary-judgment title-vii |
Question 1. Should a plaintiffs response to the motion to dismiss be converted to a summary motion when some of the evidence are "the matters outside … |
| 24-6922 |
Lorenzo Vazquez-Alba v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
federal-criminal-law illegal-entry immigration-law judicial-procedure sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the district court properly enter judgment under both 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b)(2)? |
| 24-1042 |
Robert R. Parker, Jr. v. John D. Burnes, et al. |
Oregon |
2025-04-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraudulent-concealment judicial-review systemic-racism |
1. Whether the Oregon Supreme Court's denial of the Petition for Judicial Review, despite acknowledging systemic racism and discrimination, violates t… |
| 24-1044 |
Erroll Tyler, individually and as President and CEO of Nautical Tours, Inc., et al. v. Michael Cox, Commissioner, Boston Police Department, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-04-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection summary-judgment void-judgment |
Whether the First Circuit erred in holding that City officials decision [not] to act on Petitioners completed sightseeing vehicle license applications… |
| 24-6885 |
Thomas Creech v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2025-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards execution-attempts |
Should Resweber be overruled? |
| 24-6882 |
Michael C. Romig v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process equal-protection fair-trial procedural-default |
1.) Was it constitutional violation/error for the U.S. District Court to procedurally default Defendant/Petitioner due to court appointed counsels act… |
| 24-6852 |
Eric William Diaz v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2025-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
double-jeopardy legal-counsel plea-negotiation sentencing sexual-offense sixth-amendment |
1. - Whether the Pennsylvania State Courts violated the Double Jeopardy Clause
of the Fifth Amendment by sentencing the Petitioner in accordance with… |
| 24-6847 |
Richard Darren Emery v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2025-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality religious-consideration sentencing |
Does a sentencing court violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it invokes a defendant's lack of spirituality—while crediting … |
| 24-6836 |
Christian Genao v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing supervised-release |
Federal criminal defendants have a right to be present at sentencing, grounded in the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause and codified in Federal Rule … |
| 24-6828 |
Eric W. Strong v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus indigent-defendant no-merit-appeal |
I. On a no-merit appeal conducted pursuant to Anders v. Cal., does due process and equal protections require an indigent defendant be provided his att… |
| 24-1010 |
Raphael Weitzman v. Committee on Grievances for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment professional-conduct |
In the professional conduct review concerning Petitioner, Raphael Weitzman, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, without de novo review, the … |
| 24-1006 |
Lisa Antoine v. Oxmoor Preservation/One, LLC |
Alabama |
2025-03-20 |
Denied |
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14th-amendment due-process equal-protection property-rights state-law water-drainage |
Does the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution allow the State of Alabama to deny Lisa Antoine equal protection under the law and due proce… |
| 24-6798 |
Karl Douglas Roberts v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
aedpa-standard atkins-claim death-penalty federal-claim habeas-corpus state-court-adjudication |
Whether a claim has been adjudicated on the merits by a state court under § 2254(d), where the defendant did not present a federal claim for relief an… |
| 24A274 |
Marcellus Williams v. Missouri, ex rel. Michael L. Parson, Governor of Missouri, et al. |
Missouri |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence capital-punishment clemency death-penalty eighth-amendment post-conviction-relief |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6784 |
Jose Sanchez Adame v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 due-process equal-protection guideline-amendment pro-se-petition sentencing-reduction |
1. Whether a district court may point to documents on the record that a defendant has complained of not having recieved as the only iustification for … |
| 24-6783 |
Mitchell Dinnerstein v. United States, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship-rights constitutional-interpretation equal-protection originalism title-seven title-six |
I do not believe that Judge Kirsch or the Solicitor General have the power to correct the false interpretation and abuse of Title 6 and Title 7. Only … |
| 24-6775 |
Edward Thomas James v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-error death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency non-unanimous-jury |
Petitioner Edward Thomas James is scheduled to be executed by the State of Florida on March 20, 2025, based on a non-unanimous jury sentencing verdict… |
| 24-6766 |
David Lynn Griffith v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-purity evidence-reliability methamphetamine sentencing |
WHETHER HISTORICAL DRUGS PURCHASED BY SOMEONE OTHER THAN THE DEFENDANT CONSTITUTES RELIABLE EVIDENCE AT SENTENCING TO SUPPORT THE PURITY OF METHAMPHET… |
| 24-6756 |
Marcus Leshun Sargent v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection extraneous-offense ineffective-assistance |
Due to the inherently inflammatory and prejudicial nature of sexual offenses against children, with its tendency to suggest a verdict on an improper b… |
| 24-6748 |
Clifford Charles Galley, II v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences constitutional-proportionality cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-without-parole sentencing |
1) Under the ever evolving standards that mark the progress of a maturing society, does the Eighth Amendments prohibition against cruel and unusual pu… |
| 24-6718 |
Juan Carlos Gamez-Salas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law equal-protection legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-6710 |
Robert Klein v. Brookhaven Health Care Facility, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial pro-se-litigant seventh-amendment |
1. Whether the guarantee that the Constitution of the United States under the Seventh Amendment still entitles a U.S. citizen his Right to a jury tria… |
| 24-6709 |
Brad Keith Sigmon v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process execution-method lethal-injection prisoner-rights statutory-right |
Does South Carolina's compressed timeline and arbitrary denial of information necessary for a condemned prisoner to exercise his statutory right "neve… |
| 24-6665 |
Craig LaFayette Stingley v. John Laczkowski, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection medical-malpractice non-economic-damages state-action |
I. Petitioner respectfully asserts that this SCOTUS will recognize these questions expose an "Unconstitutional and Discriminatory " matter of national… |
| 24-6659 |
Ronnie Lee Seward v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-criminal criminal-procedure drug-trafficking florida-law sentencing |
Did the District Court erroneously sentence Petitioner as a career criminal based on prior convictions for Florida trafficking in amphetamine?
Did th… |
| 24-6638 |
Raquel Delgado Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
causal-connection criminal-law depraved-heart federal-murder second-degree-murder sentencing |
1. Does the "depraved heart" theory of federal second-degree murder require a causal connection between the defendant's "depraved" conduct and the vic… |
| 24-6628 |
Adrin Smack v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof disputed-facts due-process fourteenth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing |
Was Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process right violated when a Delaware State Sentencing Court applied a minimal indicia of reliability burde… |
| 24-897 |
Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Nelson County, Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection national-origin plausibility-standard |
Nelson absolutely and completely ignored Qiu for employment since Nelson found Qiu's Chinese accent. Qiu the American citizen sued Nelson under Title … |
| 24-896 |
Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Oldham County, Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process employment-law equal-protection motion-to-dismiss racial-discrimination title-vii |
1. Can a complaint allege direct violation of Title VII?
2. Should the case go back to the district court to discover the hiring information the empl… |
| 24-895 |
Wei Qiu v. Board of Education of Oldham County, Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection motion-to-dismiss prima-facie-case title-vii |
1. Should the evidence attached to the response to the motion to dismiss be declined?
2. Does the complaint meet the standard "state a claim to relie… |
| 24-6594 |
Jermaine Alexander Foster v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard death-penalty intellectual-disability procedural-hurdles retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the categorical restriction against executing the intellectually disabled can be circumvented via procedural hurdles implemented after liti… |
| 24-6578 |
Donald Lee Billings v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights equal-protection fair-cross-section fourteenth-amendment jury-selection systematic-exclusion |
How should courts assess whether the representation of a group is fair and reasonable?
What is necessary to show an underrepresentation is "systemati… |
| 24-6575 |
Marshall Ray Scarborough v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing |
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(1)(N) requires that, before a district court accepts a plea of guilty, it must first "inform the defendant of… |
| 24-6572 |
Victor Rivera v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review breach-of-agreement plain-error plea-agreement second-circuit sentencing |
1. Did the Second Circuit err by requiring Petitioner to object with specificity at sentencing and identify a particular provision of the plea agreeme… |
| 24-6570 |
Andrew Jeffery Helmin v. Yuemin Xu |
Minnesota |
2025-02-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-custody constitutional-law due-process equal-protection icwa-principles native-american-rights |
1. Did the Minnesota courts violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by prioritizing Respondent's cultural backgrou… |
| 24A774 |
Darrel Eston Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
conviction-challenge death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit standard-of-review |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6545 |
Rangsey Arundech Pich v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation sentencing written-order |
In federal criminal proceedings, circuit courts agree that an unambiguous oral pronouncement overrides a subsequent inconsistent written order. Courts… |
| 24-6534 |
Keith Robert Lugo v. California |
California |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law chevron-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection supremacy-clause |
THE QUESTION OF WHETHER THIS HIGH COURT'S RECENT RULING OVERTURNING THE CHEVRON DOCTRINE, AS ANNOUNCED IN LOPER LIGHT ENTERPRISES V. RAIMONDO, NO. 22-… |
| 24-6521 |
Lea Welles v. Marcel Lowitsch |
California |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-restraining-order constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias procedural-technicality |
1. Whether the Court of Appeal erred in dismissing Petitioner's appeal based on a technicality that caused no harm or prejudice, and abused its discre… |
| 24-6519 |
Larry R. Steele v. United States Postal Service, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus post-conviction texas-procedure |
Has the Jawenslecs of this Nahon w rope zah the di Gad surrem agin TAL PEOPLE the arpa REOPLE 6 Whe Unred Syorte ok Amerson? |
| 24-6510 |
James D. Ford v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief |
Whether Florida's use of the "conformity clause" in the Florida constitution improperly violates Ford's Fourteenth Amendment Due Process rights and hi… |
| 24A763 |
Kayle B. Bates v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-02-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty juror-interview post-conviction rule-3.575 |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6475 |
Charlene A. Greene-Rodriguez v. Puerto Rico Department of Education, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection tenure-rights |
1. Can the Judiciary of Puerto Rico, its Supreme Court, deprive the petitioner, a U.S. citizen who has been rightfully requesting reinstatement to her… |
| 24-6472 |
Willie R. Burgess, Jr. v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder death-penalty expert-testimony ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief strickland-standard |
Under the extreme circumstances of this case, can a state court deny a Strickland claim on the merits without conducting an evidentiary hearing? |
| 24-822 |
Alejandro Alers, Jr. v. Olympia Medical Center, et al. |
California |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure equal-protection power-of-attorney pro-se-litigant probate-code wrongful-death |
1. Are pro se litigants entitled to equal protection under federal and state laws as represented parties are protected under federal and state laws?
… |
| 24-811 |
Wei Qiu v. Woodford County, Kentucky Board of Education |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection race-discrimination summary-judgment title-vii |
1. Can facts be removed from a summary motion under Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure?
2. Did the three judges of the instant case and … |
| 24-801 |
Kevin Stitt, Governor of Oklahoma, et al. v. Rowan Fowler, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-28 |
GVR |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
birth-certificate civil-rights constitutional-law equal-protection gender-identity state-law |
Whether the Equal Protection Clause requires a State to alter its official certificate documenting a person's sex at birth to represent that person's … |
| 24-6408 |
Clinton Folkes v. South Carolina, et al. |
South Carolina |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-preservation retroactivity state-court |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection is violated when a state court conditions the retroactivity of a new rule of criminal… |
| 24-799 |
Hanh Ho Tran v. Parkway Condominiums I Homeowners Association, Inc. |
Colorado |
2025-01-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
assessment-collection civil-procedure due-process equal-protection foreclosure homeowners-association |
A. Whether Parkway Condominiums I Homeowners Association, Inc. violated the law by using illegal name to file lawsuits and on legal administration doc… |
| 24-788 |
Jeremy Young Hutchinson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
defendant-request federal-rule-criminal-procedure government-obligation legal-interpretation plea-bargain sentencing |
1. Does the plain language of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(c)(1)(B) require that the government either to join in the defendant's sentencing … |
| 24-6352 |
Juan Alberto Muria-Palacios v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law due-process equal-protection legislative-reenactment racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
When a law, such as 8 U.S.C. § 1326, was originally adopted for an impermissible discriminatory purpose, does a later silent legislative amendment or … |
| 24-6331 |
Gerardo Gamez-Reyes v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arlington-heights constitutional-law equal-protection fifth-amendment legislative-intent racial-animus |
When a law is originally motivated by racial animus, must a court consider its racist origins when deciding whether it violates the equal protection c… |
| 24-761 |
William H. Viehweg v. Insurance Programs Management Group, LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection kay-v-ehrler legal-counsel pro-se-representation |
Whether the lower courts' recognition of three defendants' entries of appearances as their own attorneys, including legal counsel, rather than persona… |
| 24-6321 |
Celeste Ryan v. Jeff Timmerman, et al. |
Washington |
2025-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-discretion sixth-amendment |
Q1- Does the exercise of judicial discretion violate constitutional guarantees such as due process, equal protection, impartiality, and the right to a… |
| 24A698 |
Randy W. Duck v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment method-of-execution prisoner-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 24-749 |
In Re Lorraine Bond |
|
2025-01-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction government-liability |
1. Should the respondents in the above civil action
be allowed to Escape justice when part of the respond
ents namely the City of Philadelphia, PA h… |
| 24A688 |
Thomas Creech v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2025-01-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
botched-execution cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-attempt resweber-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 24-744 |
Mark Irland v. Marengo Memorial Hospital, dba Compass Memorial Healthcare, et al. |
Iowa |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law due-process equal-protection healthcare-quality statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
This case explicitly presents important questions, over which, Supreme Court, Federal Courts of Appeals, state high, and intermediate courts are openl… |
| 24-6293 |
Ohio, ex rel. John Paul Gomez v. Dan Favreau, Judge, et al. |
Ohio |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection judicial-bias vexatious-litigator |
This case raises critical questions regarding constitutional rights of parents in family and juvenile court proceedings, and the necessity for a reaso… |
| 24-6270 |
Timothy Edward Peterson v. James Salmonsen, Warden |
Montana |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection montana-statute sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. The validity of Montana Statute MCA (46-22-101 (1) and MCA (46-22-101) (2) is drawn in question under 28 U.S.C. § 1257(a) on the ground of its bein… |
| 24A675 |
Jermaine Alexander Foster v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-01-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability postconviction-relief supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6238 |
In Re Daniel Felix |
|
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
animal-rights constitutional-personhood due-process equal-protection hate-crime-classification religious-freedom |
1. That Non-property Animals have a US Constitutional Right to be individual
"stand alone" Plaintiffs and petitioners in Courts of the United States O… |
| 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. |
| 24-6246 |
Benny Roe Stewart v. Jim Salmonsen, Warden |
Montana |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection montana-statute sentencing-court subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. The validity of Montana Statute M.C.A. (46-22-101) (1) and
M.C.A. (46-22-101 (2) is drawn in question on the ground of its
being repugnant to the C… |
| 24-6235 |
Joseph Furey Lusk v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights jury-trial predicate-offense proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing sex-offender-registration |
Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant committed a felony off ense involving a n … |
| 24-6221 |
Adaeze Nwosu v. Karla Smith, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-01-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte-communication judicial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
1. Whether it is legal and/or constitutional for sitting judges to affirm illegal and unconstitutional ex-parte discussions of sitting judges with a w… |
| 24-706 |
Andrew Thomas Cowhy v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2025-01-02 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-law criminal-procedure judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Should the Court reexamine its holding in Oregon v. Ice, 555 U.S. 160 (2009), which exempts factual findings necessary to increase a defendant's punis… |
| 24A659 |
Karl Douglas Roberts v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari circuit-court death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6220 |
John F. Policastro v. Nevada Employment Security Division, et al. |
Nevada |
2025-01-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law cares-act disability-rights due-process equal-protection nevada-constitution |
I. Did the Clark County District Court, the Court of Appeals of the State of Nevada and The Nevada Supreme Court purposely ignore the facts of this ca… |
| 24-6212 |
Raymond Anthony Lewis v. Raul Morales, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing death-penalty extraneous-evidence habeas-corpus jury-misconduct religious-bias |
1) In a death penalty case, does post-trial evidence showing that the
jury foreperson told the panel on the fourth day of sentencing
deliberations tha… |
| 24-6214 |
Jessy A. Cambel v. City of Charleston, Illinois, et al. |
Illinois |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation equal-protection municipal-ordinance native-landscaping property-rights religious-freedom |
1. When a person's religion requires them to be a steward of the earth and protector of all of God's creations (i.e. where possible to preserve it and… |
| 24A637 |
Davone Unique Anderson v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-12-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment criminal-culpability death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability supreme-court-review |
Whether a court must take into account a person's mental health crisis in assessing the voluntariness of custodial, non-Mirandized statements. |
| 24-695 |
Bill Cool, Warden v. Nathaniel Jackson |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure death-penalty lockett-precedent mitigation-evidence remand sentencing-review |
Has this Court clearly required state courts to reopen the mitigation evidence in every death-penalty remand, even if the error did not affect the def… |
| 24-690 |
Leslie E. Carr, et al. v. New York Division of Housing & Community Renewal, et al. |
New York |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-deference agency-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection state-courts |
Whether, under proper application of
Loper Light Enterprises v. Raimondo,
state courts should no longer mechanically
defer to a state administrativ… |
| 24A644 |
Shedrick Thornton v. Tina Y. Clinton, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process incarceration judicial-representation plea-proceedings sentencing time-served-credit |
Question not identified. |
| 24A630 |
Jesse Guardado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case certiorari constitutional-claims death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 24A614 |
Wanda L. Edwards v. South Dakota |
South Dakota |
2024-12-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6172 |
Tyrone T. Johnson v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-capricious capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment proportionality-review |
Has the Florida Supreme Court by abandoning comparative proportionality review in death penalty appeals - - while dismantling other safeguards, and in… |
| 24A582 |
Stacey Ian Humphreys v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aedpa cause-and-prejudice circuit-split death-penalty juror-misconduct procedural-default |
Question not identified. |
| 24A581 |
Lonzie Hershner, et al. v. City of Dallas, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights equal-protection first-amendment juneteenth lgbtq-rights municipal-discrimination |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6140 |
Terrance L. Lavoll v. Jerry Howell, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether Petitioner's Writ of Habeas Corpus was denied in violation of the Fifth Amendment when the state denied his right to appeal and his sentenc… |
| 24A575 |
Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
death-penalty eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus second-petition statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6123 |
Michael Ray Senn v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status penalty-enhancement sexual-assault |
Does a penalty provision of the Texa s sexual assault statute, which
provides for an increased penalty if the offender was married at the time
of the … |
| 24-6124 |
Bradley Dorman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
court-access equal-protection first-amendment prison-litigation-reform-act three-strike-rule younger-abstention |
1). Is the application of the Prison litigation Reform Act ("PLRA "), "Three-
Strike " Rule, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) to Petitioner 's prior dismissals un… |
| 24-6105 |
Ryan Lewis Hilyard v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-default strickland-standard |
I. DID THE WYOMING SUPREME COURT APPLY AND FOLLOW FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE CORRECTLY?
II. WAS THE WYOMING SUPREME COURT'S DECISION ARBITRARY, CAPRIC… |
| 24-631 |
Magni Hamso, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as the Medical Director of the Idaho Division of Medicaid v. M. H., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-09 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-law equal-protection heightened-scrutiny medicaid-coverage ninth-circuit sex-reassignment |
1. Whether a policy declining coverage for sexreassignment surgeries violates the Equal Protection Clause; and
2. Whether clearly established law as … |
| 24-6093 |
Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota |
South Dakota |
2024-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-client-relationship due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel |
1. Does South Dakota 's position, in its statutory required appointment of counsel for
indigent prisoners in habeas proceedings (SDCL § 21-27-4) there… |
| 24-6081 |
Christopher Zamarripa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing sixth-amendment |
WHETHER ZAMARRIPA WAS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL GUARANTEED BY THE SIXTH AMENDMENT AS A RESULT OF HIS COUNSEL'S ADVICE THAT HE ACCEPT THE … |
| 24-614 |
Michael Prete v. Rhode Island |
Rhode Island |
2024-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-discipline professional-conduct |
Is it a violation of the First Amendment for an attorney to be disciplined (let alone stripped of his law license) for Constitutionally Protected spee… |
| 24-612 |
Paul A. Eknes-Tucker, et al. v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-04 |
Dismissed |
|
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-treatment parental-rights transgender-rights |
In 2022, the Alabama Legislature enacted a categorical ban on the use of certain medical treatments for transgender minors. The ban applies when the t… |
| 24-607 |
Zhi Wu, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County, et al. |
California |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
|
access-to-justice civil-procedure discovery-referee due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment |
Whether the Due Process Clause, equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and the litigants' right to access justi… |
| 24-598 |
B&L Productions, Inc., dba Crossroads of the West, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
commercial-speech equal-protection first-amendment gun-show-ban public-forum second-amendment |
1. Whether the distinction between pure speech and commercial is obsolete, with the First Amendment protecting all lawful speech in the same manner an… |
| 24-6057 |
Luis Alfredo Aparicio v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8)IFP |
constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gender-classification non-discrimination scrutiny-standard |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's equal-protection clause requires scrutiny when the state treats men and women differently for purportedly non-pr… |
| 24A539 |
Kevin Stitt, Governor of Oklahoma, et al. v. Rowan Fowler, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
birth-certificate bostock-interpretation equal-protection gender-identity sex-discrimination transgender-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6050 |
Lolita Barthel v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-offender sentence-review |
1. Under the Eighth Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause, Are juvenile offenders entitled to a review of his or her sentence if they are serving … |
| 24A523 |
Willie R. Burgess, Jr. v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-11-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing postconviction state-review |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6047 |
Rodney Tyrone Henry v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a accomplice-liability circuit-court-review criminal-procedure premeditation sentencing |
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit's decision misapplied the established precedent regarding circumstances that could support a… |
| 24-581 |
Utah v. Douglas A. Lovell |
Utah |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
aggravating-factors criminal-sentencing death-penalty ineffective-assistance-counsel mitigation-evidence strickland-standard |
Did the Utah Supreme Court violate this Court's binding case law when it failed to (1) properly assess Strickland deficient performance by considering… |
| 24-582 |
United States v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-26 |
Dismissed |
|
constitutional-law equal-protection gender-identity medical-treatment minor-rights transgender-rights |
Whether Alabama Senate Bill 184, which prohibits certain medical treatments if they are provided to "alter the appearance of or affirm [a] minor's per… |
| 24-6025 |
Kecia Porter v. Jennifer Navarro, et al. |
Illinois |
2024-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitration color-of-law coram-non-judice due-process equal-protection jurisdiction |
1. Whether a court, Under the Color of Law Section 242 of Title 18 violates the petitioner 14th Amendment Due Process and Equal Protections rights by … |
| 24-6013 |
Sherrie Clements v. Club Space Management, LLC, dba Club Space |
Florida |
2024-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada-compliance cognitive-disability disability-discrimination equal-protection judicial-accommodation procedural-fairness |
Question as to Hidden Disability Discrimination within the Courts.
Question as to whether the Judge erred and was Erroneous in his Order Dated Octobe… |
| 24-6002 |
Alfredo Viveros-Chavez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arlington-heights equal-protection fifth-amendment legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-560 |
Dennis Hopkins, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
constitutional-law eighth-amendment equal-protection felony-disenfranchisement fourteenth-amendment voting-rights |
1. Mississippi's harsh and unforgiving felony disenfranchisement scheme is a national outlier. Section 241 of the Mississippi Constitution punishes ci… |
| 24-553 |
Donijah Virgo v. Heather Michelle Roberts, et al. |
Alabama |
2024-11-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights contributory-negligence due-process equal-protection summary-judgment |
In the District Court of Mobile, AL Donijah Virgo's constitutional rights were violated when complaint was not officially served to the parties involv… |
| 24-5977 |
Sammy Lee Gibbs v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2024-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-recusal procedural-fairness state-court-jurisdiction |
ARE ALL JUDGES IN EVERY STATE IN THE UNITED STATES BOUND TO FOLLOW ALL THE ARTICLES IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES?
CAN AND STATE COURT DEP… |
| 24A490 |
Reginald Keith Clark v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2024-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-bias |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5967 |
Robert Emert v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division One, et al. |
California |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-justice due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment vexatious-litigant-statute |
Are the State of California courts at multiple levels (trial, appellate, and supreme) violating self-represented litigants' constitutional rights to d… |
| 24-540 |
Weih Steve Chang v. United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
china-initiative equal-protection executive-immunity korematsu-precedent national-security racial-discrimination |
1. Whether, the racist discrimination sanctioned in Korematsu v. United States. 323 U.S. 214 (1944) continues to be a viable legal doctrine under whic… |
| 24A479 |
Von Clark Davis v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-claims death-penalty habeas-corpus resentencing sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 24A471 |
Kayne Russell Donath v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-11-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari conviction eighth-circuit federal-judiciary sentencing supreme-court-rules |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5930 |
Anthony Tawon Williams v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2024-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment merger-errors sentencing |
1. Whether a defendant indicted, tried, and found guilty of multiple counts of felony murder for the death of a single victim and later finds out that… |
| 24-5939 |
James Herard v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment interrogation-techniques miranda-rights |
I. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT REVERSIBLY ERRED BY REFUSING TO SUPPRESS JAMES HERARD'S STATEMENTS PURSUANT TO THE 5th AND 14th AMENDMENTS TO THE UNITED ST… |
| 24-5926 |
Glenn Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion sentencing |
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| 24-5916 |
Javance Mickey Wilson v. California |
California |
2024-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure death-penalty jury-findings reasonable-doubt |
Does California's capital-sentencing scheme violate the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments because it fails to require that the jury make the fac… |
| 24A442 |
Dale Scott Heineman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-procedure due-process incarceration peonage restitution sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5905 |
Huosheng Xian v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure jury-verdict mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing |
Do the findings embodied in a jury's verdict constrain a sentencing judge's ability to find that a defendant has provided full and truthful informatio… |
| 24-495 |
Lebene Konan v. United States Postal Service, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
circuit-split equal-protection federal-employees intracorporate-conspiracy ku-klux-klan-act section-1985-3 |
The Ku Klux Klan Act provides a federal cause of
action against "two or more persons" who "conspire,"
as relevant here, to deprive "any person or clas… |
| 24-5882 |
Tyrone Greenfield v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history judicial-discretion miscalculation procedural-error relevant-conduct sentencing |
Whether a sentence may be sustained if it relies upon an obvious and gross miscalculation pertaining to alleged wrongdoing that results in incorrect r… |
| 24-5878 |
Celeste M. Gonsalves v. Stuart B. Glauberman, by His Managing Agent, KFG Properties, Inc., et al. |
Hawaii |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection eviction hud-section-8 summary-judgment |
Whether the Intermediate Court of Appeals of Hawaii erred when affirming the lower trial court's rulings for two concurrent evictions both by Motions … |
| 24-5833 |
Douglas Fauconier v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole-eligibility section-1983 strict-scrutiny |
A. Did the substantive component of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments ' Due
Process Clauses require the United States Court of Appeals for the Four… |
| 24-5828 |
Stanley Lorenzo Williams v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection felons lifetime-ban second-amendment |
Does Amendment XIV To The United States Constitution Equal Protection Clause Constitutionally Impermissible Prohibits all States not limited to and in… |
| 24-5825 |
Victoria Wong v. Ricky Wong |
New York |
2024-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fabricated-documents perjury sworn-affidavit |
Whether the respondent's submission of fabricated documents and knowingly false statements in an sworn affidavit, with the intent to deceive the Supre… |
| 24-5819 |
Oscar Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure plain-error plea-agreement sentencing substantial-rights |
When a criminal defendant demonstrates that, but for the plain error raised on appeal, his sentence as to each of two separate counts would be differe… |
| 24-459 |
Gordon Alexander Clark v. Santander Bank, N.A. |
Connecticut |
2024-10-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-trial pro-se-litigation state-constitution |
In The Constitution of the United States: The Right of Trial by Jury Clause - 7th Amendment, it states, in its entirety, the following:
"In suits at … |
| 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. |
| 24-447 |
Mei Wong, et al. v. Shemia Fagan, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process election-fraud election-integrity equal-protection judicial-review sovereign-immunity |
1) This petition presents related issues of Exceptional Importance to the American Public, due process, election integrity, discrimination, and the in… |
| 24-449 |
Warren Petersen, President of the Arizona Senate, et al. v. Jane Doe, by Next Friends and Parents Helen Doe and James Doe, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Pending |
Amici (6)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
biological-sex constitutional-rights equal-protection gender-identity sex-discrimination sports-participation |
Whether Arizona's Save Women's Sports Act ("SWSA"), which preserves the traditional practice of excluding biological males from girls' and women's spo… |
| 24-5802 |
Burford Earl Frederick v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection medical-examination veterans-rights |
The SHA medical exam is required at discharge by the D.O.D, AND THE DEPARTMENT of Veterans Affairs. When a serviceman is overlooked, would this be a G… |
| 24-441 |
A. M. B., et al. v. Kelly J. McKnight, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Ashland County |
Wisconsin |
2024-10-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
adoption-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment second-parent-adoption |
Petitioners A.M.B. and T.G. have been in a committed relationship for over a decade. Together, they have raised M.M.C, A.M.B.'s biological daughter, a… |
| 24-5790 |
Inmer Isai Mayorga-Jacinto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-5791 |
Paul David Storey v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-10-21 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
brady-violation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. Whether, as the State concedes, the State's suppression of favorable
evidence and presentation of false argument at the penalty phase of a
death pe… |
| 24-5780 |
Alex Ryle v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing |
Was Petitioner's Fifth Amendment protections against multiple punishments for the same offense violated by several convictions and sentences for posse… |
| 24A371 |
Benjamin Tyree Townsel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-appeal jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5787 |
Taiming Zhang v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment immunity-doctrine section-230 |
a) The 9th circuit 's insurrection of 47 U.S. Code § 230 (c) (1) subverting the 1
plain text of CPA 230 cl'. This was called "republishing nonsense "… |
| 24-5775 |
Timothy Robert Ronk v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2024-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-claim death-penalty expert-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-rule sixth-amendment |
1. Does the failure of death penalty defense counsel to seek funding for an independent expert, coupled with the failure to challenge the State's flaw… |
| 24A363 |
Terius Thomas, aka Terius Brown, aka Terry Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
attempted-robbery criminal-intent eleventh-circuit hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-430 |
In Re Gregory Stenstrom, et al. |
|
2024-10-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
due-process election-fraud equal-protection first-amendment prosecutorial-discretion take-care-clause |
1. Does the Department of Justice's policy of deferring investigations, as outlined in its Election Crimes Branch Memorandum (Eighth Edition, 2017), v… |
| 24-5774 |
Dwayne Barrett v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-17 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence double-jeopardy hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause permits two sentences for an act that violates 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) and § 924(j), a question that divides seven ci… |
| 24-5766 |
Gilberto Nicolas Campos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
The government prosecuted Gilberto Campos under a statute with undisputed racist origins. Congress criminalized illegal reentry into the United States… |
| 24-423 |
Gatewood A. Walden v. The Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar |
Alabama |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceeding due-process equal-protection law-license-revocation |
Whether, in Petitioner's appeal, the Alabama Supreme Court justices violated his rights under the equal protection clause of the Eighth Amendment to t… |
| 24-5751 |
Nicolas Dominique v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing victim-impact-statement |
IS IT EVER DEEMED UNCONSTITUTIONAL WHEN A JUDGE USE THE VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT AS AN AGGRAVATING FACTOR OR AS FACT FINDING TO INCREASE DEFENDANT'S PU… |
| 24A347 |
Blaine Keith Milam v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-10-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
atkins-v-virginia capital-case death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5741 |
Wanda Nelson v. Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office, et al. |
California |
2024-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection governmental-immunity law-enforcement racial-discrimination |
1) Whether Government Code §821.6, as written, is a violation of Petitioner's right to Equal Protection under the United States Constitution, the Cali… |
| 24A342 |
Robert Emert v. Andrea Schuck |
California |
2024-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
access-to-courts due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation vexatious-litigant |
Question not identified. |
| 24-393 |
George Arsenis, et al. v. Borough of Bernardsville, New Jersey, et al. |
New Jersey |
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
|
discriminatory-taxation equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-assessment spot-assessment taxation-uniformity |
1. Whether the selective reassessment of 380
Claremont Road by Town Assessor Edward Kerwin,
conducted without a district-wide revaluation or the
pr… |
| 24-5724 |
Victor Guyton, II v. Golden Donuts, LLC |
Georgia |
2024-10-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law equal-protection insurance-policy sovereign-immunity state-rights |
Does it give a state the right to violate its constitution to violate the U.S. constitution in efforts to waive sovereign immunity? How can third part… |
| 24-5713 |
Hector Acosta v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment national-origin race-discrimination |
1. Whether the State violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of
the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when it invok… |
| 24-5695 |
Deandre Johnson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Whether Reasonable Doubt Find Defandgue Coonsacg Refzetiweness Foe. Cocinte To Argue Pentres Spe Mars Did Not Consrinue Theoms As Befined By Eloms.
O… |
| 24A318 |
Allen Ward Cox v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-10-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-collateral constitutional-rights death-penalty direct-appeal ineffective-assistance postconviction-relief |
Question not identified. |
| 24-359 |
Adriana Alvarez v. Texas Workforce Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
|
due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection religious-accommodation sovereign-immunity title-vii |
1. Whether TWC's employees may avail themselves of sovereign immunity as a bar to a claim for damages under Title VII, the First Amendment and Fourtee… |
| 24-5686 |
Luis Ernesto Prado-Crespo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law equal-protection legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-5666 |
Lidia M. Orrego v. Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh Stanton & Romano LLP, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice |
The Due Process Clause provides that no person may be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Due process requires notice, … |
| 24-5668 |
Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections |
South Carolina |
2024-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination voir-dire |
Whether the Supreme Court of South Carolina failed to apply the factors outlined by this Court in Flowers v. Mississippi, 588 U.S. 284, 139 S. Ct. 222… |
| 24-5658 |
Garcia Glen White v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-amendments death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability moore-v-texas texas-criminal-procedure |
1) Do Articles 11.073 and 11.071, Sec. 5 (a)(3) of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure create a due process problem because the statutes, as interpre… |
| 24A298 |
James Herard v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-09-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-unanimity |
Question not identified. |
| 24-348 |
Pamela D. Sutherland v. DCC Litigation Facility, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy-settlement breast-implant-claims constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection payment-dispute |
Was a Jury Trial Properly Denied Petitioner, and What Could a Jury Decide?
A. Did Dow pay $3.2 Billion, as it agreed to pay?
B. Should Dow be discha… |
| 24-342 |
Shiva Ayyadurai v. New Jersey Democratic State Committee, et al. |
New Jersey |
2024-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-access citizenship-clause equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment presidential-qualifications |
For the first time in the history of the United States, a State silenced a presidential candidate running for the Office whose message spoke to the in… |
| 24-5625 |
Sheng-Wen Cheng v. Steve Kallis, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-prisoners bureau-of-prisons due-process equal-protection removal-policy residential-reentry-center |
1. Does Respondent Jared Rardin's ("BOP") policy of barring federal alien prisoners with a final order of removal from being eligible/considered for R… |
| 24-5617 |
In Re Kesean Calvin Wilson |
|
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
bank-robbery constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-power |
WAS KESEAN WILSON DENIED HIS FOURTEENTH AMEND. RIGHTS TO EQUAL PROTECTION AND SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS, SINCE HE WAS SIMILARLY SITUATED TO AN INDIVIDUA… |
| 24A290 |
Prosecuting Attorney, 21st Judicial Circuit, ex rel. Marcellus Williams v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2024-09-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
capital-crime death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay innocence-project new-evidence |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5596 |
Oren Snowden v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release district-court-discretion kidney-disease medical-conditions prisoner-rights sentencing |
1. Did the district court abuse its discretion in denying Oren Snowden motion for compassionate release when Oren Snowden suffered from and continues … |
| 24-325 |
Mark B. Gibson v. Mark Schroeder, Commissioner, New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, et al. |
New York |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review property-rights separation-of-powers |
A. Does the driver license restoration regime established in New York violate Petitioner's right to due process of law because DMV, although given leg… |
| 24-315 |
Troy Pasulka v. Saraa Doris Lee |
California |
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
|
child-custody constitutional-rights custody-order domestic-violence due-process equal-protection |
1. When a state 's legislature — to stop its courts
from facilitating child abuse, litigation abuse, and
other forms of domestic violence — enacts m… |
| 24A279 |
John Esposito v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Georgia |
2024-09-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
death-penalty due-process fair-trial juror-misconduct outside-influences voir-dire |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5579 |
John F. Kodenkandeth v. UPMC Health Plan, Inc., dba UPMC for Life, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
collateral-order-doctrine due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion removal-jurisdiction separation-of-powers |
Q1) Whether, the 3rd circuit court of Appeal and district court of Western Pennsylvania, erred by Arbitrary, Capricious abuse of discretion by deliber… |
| 24A277 |
Dennis Hopkins, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge eighth-amendment equal-protection felony-disenfranchisement mississippi-constitution voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5563 |
Eloy Vela, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection mitigating-factors newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction |
1. Whether newly discovered evidence containing both
mitigating and aggravating factors can be simply
concluded in state post-conviction proceedings… |
| 24-5558 |
Bryant D. Aron v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fairness-doctrine federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plea-agreement review-standard sentencing |
1) Plea agreements under Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(c)(1)(C) bind a district court if the court accepts the agreement. A district court can also reject the a… |
| 24-299 |
Kent Knox Johnson v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-misconduct due-process equal-protection jurisdiction llc-law racketeering |
In 2014 California implemented the Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, or RULLCA, no longer permitting professional LLCs in California. Dur… |
| 24-5548 |
Gustavo Lazcano-Neria v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discriminatory-purpose equal-protection legislative-intent racist-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24A266 |
Upstate Jobs Party, et al. v. Peter Kosinski, New York State Board of Elections Co-Chair Commissioner, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
campaign-finance contribution-limits equal-protection first-amendment political-speech quid-pro-quo-corruption |
Question not identified. |
| 24A262 |
Nevada Green Party v. Francisco Aguilar, Secretary of State of Nevada, et al. |
Nevada |
2024-09-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ballot-access due-process equal-protection minor-party petition-signature state-election-law |
1. Did the exclusion of the Nevada Green Party from the 2024 presidential ballot, for using a form that the state itself instructed the NGP to use, vi… |
| 24-5531 |
Frederick Foster v. Joel H. Slomsky, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction postal-accountability procedural-law sovereign-immunity |
Whether 39 U.S.C. §409(d) & (e) waive any doctrine of sovereign immunity from judicial officers, Federal agencies, and employees acting on the behalf … |
| 24-285 |
Robert M. Rogers v. Jackson County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 county-commissioner due-process equal-protection kirkland-v-state official-misconduct |
Does the 1923 Florida Supreme Court embezzlement Case of Kirkland v State, 86 Fla. 64, 97, So. 502 (1923) excuse Jackson County's acquiescence to Coun… |
| 24-5520 |
Cyril Nnadozie Okoli v. Shanita R. Tucker, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-review agency-action due-process equal-protection immigration-law statutory-interpretation |
1)Whether the USCIS misinterpretation of 8 U.S.C. § 1154(c) is the permissible interpretation of the statute.
2)Whether 8 U.S.C. § 1154(c) required t… |
| 24-5514 |
Christopher Jensen v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-law jury-instructions sentencing trial-court |
1) When for A Whit of Cerbirar To decide which leecrd es tle altinse attihat al
2) do tu< dide_rihal Kecard 2 atturabe ac Cortect wtep.
3) When ted … |
| 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. |
| 24A242 |
Paul David Storey v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-09-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-sentencing constitutional-claims death-penalty habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct victim-impact |
Question not identified. |
| 24-256 |
First Finance International Bank, Inc. v. Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions |
Puerto Rico |
2024-09-06 |
Denied |
|
administrative-regulation equal-protection financial-institutions foreign-dormant-commerce-clause puerto-rico-law selective-enforcement |
1. Does Respondent The Office Of The Commissioner
Of Financial Institutions ("OCIF")'s regulation
of Petitioner First Finance International Bank
("… |
| 24-5455 |
Nelson Alexis Colato-Gallardo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-5432 |
Irina Collier v. Donald J. Trump |
District of Columbia |
2024-08-30 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection post-conviction-relief temporal-limitations |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5420 |
Jerry E. Russell, Sr. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
atkins-v-virginia criminal-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole sentencing |
Should the Eighth Amendment prohibition, against sentencing intellectually disabled individuals to death, announced in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 30… |
| 24-5418 |
Donald G. Barnes, Sr. v. William Danforth, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance legal-remedy post-conviction-relief |
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it£ sdtil HaiaiIauJ & CcAfS'ki'kxj'ifOMa / A-t£jlil~ /o
E-fk :tt±h\j&. A ss i S^A… |
| 24A218 |
In Re Warren Petersen, et al. |
|
2024-08-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ballot-curing election-law equal-protection mail-in-ballot signature-verification voter-disenfranchisement |
Question not identified. |
| 24-212 |
Lewis Archer v. America's First Federal Credit Union, et al. |
Alabama |
2024-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure property-rights state-court-jurisdiction |
Does the reversal of the ORDER of Sept. 1, 2021, [without due process], that granted Lewis Archer and his family the deed to their home of 30 years vi… |
| 24-5389 |
Loran Cole v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-08-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
baze-glossip-test due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection parkinson's-disease |
1. Whether Florida courts violated Cole's Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection rights by failing to hold an evidentiary hearing on hi… |
| 24-5367 |
Khadijah A. Muhammad Kebe v. Washington Township School District, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-aid pro-se-litigant systemic-disadvantage |
1. Whether the lack of provision of legal aid to pro se litigants in civil cases violates the
equal protection rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Am… |
| 24-199 |
Aldo Ortega v. Tanya Ford, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-22 |
Denied |
|
due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourth-amendment psychological-detention warrant-clause |
1. Without an existing mandatory supervised release agreement between plaintiff in the Department of Corrections, is a warrant, issued by the departme… |
| 24A194 |
Hector Acosta v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-08-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-murder death-sentence equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5347 |
Devin Allen Bennett v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2024-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate, uncover, and present evidence of defendant's reduced moral culpability may be categorically discounted… |
| 24-184 |
Xuejie He v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process en-banc-review equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration-law |
The Proceeding involves a question of exceptional importance. The denial of Petition for a hearing or rehearing En banc for Proceedings directly on re… |
| 24-177 |
Alison Gershenson v. Elizabet Da Silva |
Florida |
2024-08-20 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment per-curiam-decision summary-judgment |
1. Whether Florida's rules of appellate procedure which provide for the issuance by the Court of Appeals of a per curiam decision, without an opinion,… |
| 24-164 |
Aaron York Dean v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment grand-jury-indictment lesser-included-offense sixth-amendment |
Does Grey v. State , 298 S.W.3d 644 (Tex. Crim. App. 2009) violate the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the United States Constitution by a… |
| 24-5314 |
Martin L. Hunt and Xavier Greene v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
bodily-injury circuit-split crime-of-violence mandatory-consecutive physical-force sentencing |
1. Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A), a felony qualifies as a "crime of violence"
if it "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of p… |
| 24-5309 |
Andrew R. Allred v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health-evaluation mitigation-testimony sixth-amendment |
Whether Mr. Allred's convictions and death sentences are unconstitutional due to receiving ineffective assistance of counsel at his trial in violation… |
| 24-155 |
James R. Fouts v. The Warren City Council, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-expression term-limits |
1. Where an individual plaintiff challenges under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, as applied to him only, the constitutionality of a city charter… |
| 24A167 |
Bryan C. O'Rourke v. Carrie Bridges, Warden |
Oklahoma |
2024-08-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
equal-protection fifth-amendment indian-definition major-crimes-act race-classification tribal-enrollment |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5295 |
Thomas Dean Jones v. California |
California |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-review statutory-construction |
1) When He eachhtnel Comecton thik Prtaed ae loualrban, anther popes |
Th, Congress, ues The Pasor-ot The brantoc tested a Conventions. of the Bop ©
… |
| 24-145 |
Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-code restraining-order sex-trafficking |
Should Male, Catholic Christian, Father of Four Children be afforded Restraining Order and Equal Protection and Due Process under law as guaranteed by… |
| 24-146 |
Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-code restraining-order sex-trafficking |
Should Male, Catholic Christian, Father of four children be afforded Restraining Order, Equal Protection and Due Process under law as guaranteed by th… |
| 24A159 |
LeGregory Davis v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-08-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment constitutional-violation death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection procedural-due-process |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5297 |
Anthony Tawon Williams v. Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction equal-protection judicial-conflict legal-claim statutory-interpretation |
1) ES TT RACTAL DTSCRTIMINATTON By THE
STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS, WHEN A WHITE
DEPENDANT RAISES A CLAIM OR ~rssueE AND
THE COURTS TELLS HTM HE 2S CORRE… |
| 24-5282 |
Darrell Gunn v. New York |
New York |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal sentencing |
WHETHER APPELLANT COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR STRONG APPELLATE CLAIM THAT A WITHDRAWAL OF GUILTY PLEA WAS MADE PRIOR TO SENTENCING? |
| 24-5281 |
Alexander A. Fels v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights deportation due-process equal-protection immigration-law legal-status |
1) IS THE CURE STA ON 14 ARITODALS EQNERAL AGENC! ULU.d ) AN VREOEN DEVELOP MEST ANSWERING THE vst of MEOCHHE MALITVASA BY ALC THE RESIDES OF THE Ho v… |
| 24-5271 |
Claude P. Lacombe v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
guilty-plea habeas-relief ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing strickland-prejudice |
1. Under Puckett v. United States , 556 U.S. 129 (2009) and Brecht v. Abrahamson, 507 U.S. 619 (1993), a petitioner seeking habeas relief from a sente… |
| 24-5257 |
Miguel Aguilar, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law equal-protection legislative-apportionment minority-representation redistricting voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5255 |
Benjamin Burciaga-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-5250 |
Terry Antonio Lee v. Kevin Patterson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection inmate-grievance prison-conditions |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5242 |
Marcus Jarrod Payne v. The Anthony Scott Law Firm, P.L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
bankruptcy censorship constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment |
After divorcing the Eley (Payne) respondent, Petitioner was minding his own affairs, proceeding through post-divorce bankruptcy when Eley (Payne) resu… |
| 24-5237 |
Warren Alexander v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing supervised-release |
Should the Court grant the petition in order to resolve a conflict among the circuits as to whether a district court in imposing sentence is required … |
| 24-5244 |
Justin G. Reedy v. California Department of Social Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-hearing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment goldberg-v-kelly mathews-v-eldridge public-benefits state-regulation substantive-due-process title-ix |
1. Whether the principles of due process prohibit the Ninth Circuit Court's consideration of a new argument raised by the State Defendants' on appeal … |
| 24A132 |
Kyle Trevor Flack v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2024-08-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment eighth-amendment kansas-supreme-court mitigating-factors murder sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 24-133 |
Justin G. Dart v. Katrina Ahrens, as Independent Executor of the Estate of Lorne Ahrens, Deceased |
Texas |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection parentage-adjudication personal-jurisdiction posthumous-parentage standing subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-uniform-parentage-act uniform-parentage-act |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause permit a court to deny a child the right to adjudicate his rights under the Texas Uniform Pare… |
| 24-5222 |
Darrell D. Smith v. B. Eischen, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Bureau-of-Prisons Equal-Protection First-Step-Act first-time-credits FTC-Earnings imposed-term Liberty-Interest sentence-computation |
"Imposed Term" 1.
Whether "imposed term" used in 18 §3624 (g) , defining the
application of FTCs (First Step Time Credits) , has the same credit
appli… |
| 24A124 |
Arthur Lee Burton v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-08-04 |
Denied |
|
atkins-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing moore-v-texas |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by dismissing Arthur Lee Burton's subsequent writ of habeas … |
| 24-5221 |
Arthur Lee Burton v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment death-penalty diagnostic-criteria hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas-i moore-v-texas-ii procedural-review supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ("TCCA")—in refusing to
authorize plenary review of Mr. Burton's unrebutted prima facie case that his
i… |
| 24-5219 |
Bobbie Ray Edwards v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C.-2254 armed-career-criminal-act civil-procedure criminal-conviction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition sentencing statutory-limitation |
1) Whether the DisTReT COusTs dewial For sLaelh of Sues diCNow awd dew er sene of debewdauits Timely fled 2255 (1G) mation OTe SUa spoule Rechoradlarz… |
| 24-5209 |
Charles S. Renchenski v. Frederic J. Ammerman, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Clearfield County |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process impartiality objective-bias public-confidence constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-bias third-circuit |
HAS THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, AS WELL AS THE WESTERN DISTRICT COURT FOR PENNSYLVANIA, ENTERED A DECISION THAT IS IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH THE… |
| 24-5210 |
Jason William Dittmer v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5205 |
Carmen A. Zammiello v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-error supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5201 |
Rebecca Wu v. California State Teacher's Retirement System |
California |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure administrative-review due-process employee-classification equal-protection erisa fiduciary-duty public-retirement-systems retirement-system |
1. Is it required, mandated or an abuse of Discretion, for California State Teachers Retirement System to do a Review, Make a determination on the pro… |
| 24-5187 |
Eva A. Nieczyperowicz v. Andrew Nieczyperowicz |
Texas |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion standing state-court-review welfare-entitlements |
Whether, for purposes of equal protection, the actions of a State Court, |
| 24-5192 |
Matthew Nicholson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrariness constitutional-proportionality county-geography criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection geographic-disparity gregg-v-georgia sentencing-disparities |
Is Ohio's death penalty being arbitrarily applied in violation of Gregg v. Georgia, when geography dictates whether a defendant will be subject to the… |
| 24-5194 |
George Henry Purdy, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report second-amendment sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment?
Whether factual findings of a Presentence Report (PSR) that result in a higher sente… |
| 24-5195 |
Maalik Alim Jones v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collective-punishment constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process guilt-by-association organizational-liability sentencing |
Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner Due Process by
impermissibly relying on the principle of collective punishment, and sentencing the
De… |
| 24A113 |
Baboucar B. Taal v. John Cronin, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte judicial-misconduct state-actor |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5173 |
Sir Mario Owens v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-justice-system driving-while-black equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes race-neutral race-neutral-justification racial-discrimination |
1. Whether expressly linking a black juror's remark in a jury questionnaire
indicating that he had an "unpleasant experience" with police (namely, "dr… |
| 24-99 |
Dale Folwell, State Treasurer of North Carolina, et al. v. Maxwell Kadel, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
GVR |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
equal-protection gender-discrimination gender-dysphoria healthcare-exclusion medical-coverage sex-based-classification sex-discrimination state-health-plans transgender-rights |
Whether a State's decision to decline to provide health benefit coverage for treatments leading to sex changes violates the Equal Protection Clause. |
| 24-90 |
William Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. v. Shauntae Anderson, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
GVR |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
affordable-care-act equal-protection gender-dysphoria medicaid-act medical-coverage non-discrimination sex-discrimination transgender-status |
1. Whether West Virginia violated the Equal Protection Clause by declining to cover surgical treatments for gender dysphoria; and
2. Whether West Vir… |
| 24-5164 |
Joel Miles v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice sentencing waiver |
Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for judgments that represent a miscarriage of justice? |
| 24-5148 |
Alexander Harvin v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts assignment-of-security-deed civil-rights-violation due-process equal-protection foreclosure-challenge pro-se-litigation res-judicata standing |
1. The first question presented is could the Petitioner have raised the issue of wrongful / illegal foreclosure in the 2014 court proceedings?
2. The… |
| 24-5142 |
Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split competency-to-be-executed death-penalty federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus late-evolving-facts second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
Is a federal habeas petition based on late-evolving facts second or successive when it is not based on a claim that the inmate is incompetent to be ex… |
| 24A92 |
Christine A. Arakelian v. City of Falls Church, Virginia, et al. |
Virginia |
2024-07-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
board-of-equalization due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-tax section-1983 |
Question not identified. |
| 24-84 |
Enrique Vazquez-Quintana v. Hermenegildo Martinez Remigio, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection expert-testimony insular-cases judicial-integrity judicial-practices medical-licensing puerto-rico |
1. How can the Supreme Court of the United States reconcile the substandard judicial practices exemplified by the acceptance of false expert testimony… |
| 24-5129 |
Sergio Estrada-Maduena v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation village-of-arlington-heights |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24-5128 |
Selvyn Gustavo Mejia-Marroquin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) should be overruled. |
| 24-5121 |
Rebecca Wu v. Twin Rivers Unified School District |
California |
2024-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment classification due-process equal-protection misclassification motion-for-new-trial new-evidence probationary-status public-employee |
Questions 1 - Can a Motion for New Trial or for Damages, or change of
Judgement after Remititur case be denied review by Superior Court for
a case rul… |
| 24A71 |
Travis Adam Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ammunition-charge criminal-conviction felon-in-possession fifth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5119 |
Stacey Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether Mr. Williams's Count 1 conviction and corresponding life sentence violate his right to due process?
II. Whether application of a 21 U.S.C.… |
| 24-5110 |
Cristobal Castillo-Velasquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-55 |
Montana v. Robert Murray Gibbons |
Montana |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
|
eighth-amendment excessive-fines-clause financial-burden financial-circumstances mandatory-fine mandatory-fines proportionality proportionality-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether the Excessive Fines Clause requires the sentencing judge to consider a defendant's personal financial circumstances and the nature of the burd… |
| 24-5098 |
Gerald Smith v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
actus-reus crime-of-violence criminal-law mens-rea rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether this Court should grant a writ of certiorari to determine whether 21 U.S.C. § 848(e)(1)(A) represents a qualifying "crime of violence" unde… |
| 24-5093 |
David Nam v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5091 |
Linda J. Feaser v. George L. Landress |
Connecticut |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-interpretation standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5084 |
Terrence E. Gilchrist v. Simone Craig |
Ohio |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-support due-process equal-protection equitable-relief fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights privileges-and-immunities procedural-protections social-security-act takings-clause turner-v-rogers |
Whether non-adherence to Turner procedural protections, under 45 CFR § 303.6(c)(4-5), violates substantive due process as well as privileges and immun… |
| 24-5082 |
Adam Sprenger v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
change-in-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute legal-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
[Brief explanation of question] A defendant who him
or herself alone engages in sexually explicit
conduct without a minor's engagement is indicted
… |
| 24-43 |
West Virginia, et al. v. B. P. J., By Her Next Friend and Mother, Heather Jackson |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Granted |
Amici (46)Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
biological-sex civil-rights equal-protection gender-identity sex-discrimination sports-participation sports-teams title-ix |
1. Whether Title IX prevents a state from consistently designating girls' and boys' sports teams based on biological sex determined at birth.
2. Whet… |
| 24-38 |
Bradley Little, Governor of Idaho, et al. v. Lindsay Hecox, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-15 |
Granted |
Amici (26)Relisted (4) |
biological-differences biological-sex equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sex-discrimination sports-participation transgender transgender-rights women's-sports |
Whether laws that seek to protect women's and girls' sports by limiting participation to women and girls based on sex violate the Equal Protection Cla… |
| 24-5064 |
Rona Johnson Adeoye v. Clayton County DFCS Employees, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-power civil-rights conflicts-of-interest constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection false-arrest judicial-immunity statutory-interpretation |
12. If an Act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void, does it Notwithstanding its invalidity, blind the Courts and oblige them to gi… |
| 24-5065 |
Damon John Broussard v. Lousiana |
Louisiana |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Does Petitioner's, harsh and unprecendented, sentence of
fourty years, without benefits, constitute cruel and unusual
punishment, in violation of th… |
| 24-5072 |
Juan Rangel-Rubio v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge equal-protection juror-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-strike race-neutral-reasons voir-dire |
Did the district courts dearly err by denying Mr.Rangel-Rubio's Batson Challenge to
the government's peremptory strike of juror number 31 where the g… |
| 24-5071 |
Dennis German v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance eighth-amendment fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
(1). Weather the Government violated the
Petitioner's 8th Amendment. Constitutional
Rights (To be free from infliction of Cruel
and Unusual Punishm… |
| 24-5070 |
Javaris Marquez Tubbs v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment birth-certificate citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-classification national-identity sentencing state-jurisdiction |
as the sentence imposed in violation of the constitution or laws of the United States?
2. Is the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Loui… |
| 24A33 |
Michael Dale Iervolino v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-07-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review capital-conviction constitutional-rights criminal-appeal death-penalty due-process |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5054 |
Amir Aqeel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias culpability due-process equal-justice fairness Involuntary-Plea-Agreement mandatory-guidelines nationality nationality-bias plea-agreement religion sentencing sentencing-disparity Violation-of-Policy-5H1.10 |
1. **Sentencing Disparity:** Whether a significant disparity in the sentencing of co-defendants violates the principle of equal justice under the law,… |
| 24-5049 |
Irena Shie v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act communication-disability deprivation-of-constitutional-rights-under-color-o equal-protection fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech judicial-procedure meaningful-participation-in-justice-system petition-government-for-redress-of-grievances reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations |
In light of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Americans with Disabihties Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., which mandate e… |
| 24-5048 |
Bernard Celestine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process first-step-act resentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress incorporated a Constitutional right under the Due Process Clause to a plenary resentencing for an eligible Defendant under Section 40… |
| 24-5044 |
In Re David Brian Derringer |
|
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice rico civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation |
1) As traitors were hung in the 1950's, is the United States now so corrupt that traitors go unpunished and unaccountable for violations of the 14th A… |
| 24-5034 |
Ralph Loren Barenz, II v. Alaska |
Alaska |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bill-of-attainder constitutional-challenge due-process irrebuttable-presumption irrebuttable-presumptions judicial-review legislative-sentencing sentencing sexual-offender sexual-offenders unconstitutional |
Has the Alaskan Legislature created an Unconstitutional Bill of ,
Attainder when it raised the presumptive sentencing ranges for
sexual offenders fo… |
| 24-5024 |
Timothy John Miers v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment miller-el-v-cockrell sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers |
I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from established Federal Law [28 U.S.C, 2253(c)(2)] and the legal standards set o… |
| 24A12 |
Andrew R. Allred v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-review death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus postconviction section-2254 |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5033 |
Jose Domingo Carranza-Rubio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 24-5031 |
Keith White v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-u.s.c.-§-846 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-offenses criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-§-4b1.2 |
Whether an offense under 21 U.S.C. § 846 may be included in the U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 definition of "controlled substance offenses" for purposes of sentenc… |
| 24-5026 |
Claudio Alvarez Rodriguez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1326 constitutional-law discriminatory-effect discriminatory-purpose equal-protection fifth-amendment illegal-reentry racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether the illegal re-entry statute, 8 U.S.C. § 1326, violates the equal protection guarantee of the Fifth Amendment because the law was enacted with… |
| 24-5022 |
Angela J. Wells v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process plea-agreement plea-bargain post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation victim-rights |
1. SHOULD THE PETITIONER BE ELIGIBLE FOR RELIEF SET FORTH IN 735 ILCS 5/2£-1401( (B-5) 2016 REGARDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM EVEN IF SHE AGREES TO A… |
| 24A5 |
First Finance International Bank, Inc. v. Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions |
Puerto Rico |
2024-07-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law equal-protection financial-regulation foreign-dormant-commerce-clause puerto-rico selective-enforcement |
Question not identified. |
| 24-4 |
In Re E. Edward Zimmermann |
|
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-procedure distinction due-process equal-protection legal-interpretation petitioner standing statutory-interpretation |
Is Petitioner a distinction without a difference? |
| 24-5008 |
Glynzo Clark v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary circuit-split criminal-law generic-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states trespass |
I. Whether Texas burglary, defined to include a trespass followed
by the commission of a reckless crime, constitutes generic
"burglary" under 18 U.S.C… |
| 24-5012 |
Miguel Angel Ibarra-Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-1368 |
Luis S. Arana, aka Luis S. Arana Santiago v. Luis Tapia Maldonado, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-hearing administrative-procedure cross-examination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment notice-requirement public-employment tenure-rights |
In the circumstances described in the first paragraph, was the due process violated?
2. In the circumstances described in the second paragraph, was t… |
| 23-1370 |
David Dunlap v. JetBlue Airways Corporation, et al. |
New York |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection procedural-requirements right-to-counsel workers-compensation |
1. Is due process of law guaranteed by the 5th
and 14th Amendments to the Constitution of the
United States violated by the Board's refusal to hear
pe… |
| 23-1374 |
Keyvon Sellers v. Jerry Nelson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Eddie Lee Nelson, Jr., Deceased, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-duty deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection jail-intake procedural-guideposts procedure qualified-immunity racial-segregation |
(1) Whether a jail intake officer with no responsibility
for classification or cell assignments nevertheless
had a clearly established constitutiona… |
| 23-7842 |
Lateshia Patillo v. Iowa District Court for Scott County |
Iowa |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection injunctive-relief state-court-procedure substantive-harm |
1. Whether the Superior Court [tolljing procedures of execution by its Order upon the termination day of the Petitioner 's statutory duties, deprived … |
| 23-7844 |
Marcus Orlando Armstrong v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-jurisdiction forfeiture forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion objection sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,… |
| 23-7846 |
Yair Ramirez-Aguilar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arlington-heights-framework civil-rights due-process equal-protection legislative-intent racial-discrimination racist-origins statutory-interpretation village-of-arlington-heights |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 23-7843 |
Luis Alfredo Nanez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23A1170 |
Bryant D. Aron v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-conviction criminal-justice-act federal-case sentencing seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7841 |
Richard Schorovsky v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute fifth-circuit-interpretation jury-determination robbery-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement separate-occasions shepard-documents |
1. In light of Erlinger v. United States, No. 23-370, 602 U.S._ (June 21, 2024), was Petitioner Schorovsky properly sentenced as an armed career crimi… |
| 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… |
| 23-7822 |
Nukarri Williams v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law due-process equal-protection equal-treatment federal-code fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction petition relief state-court writ |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT FAILED TO PROVIDE THE PETITIONER WITH THE PROPER TO SIMILAR SITUATION TO DEFENDANT'S WILL AT EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE OF THE FE… |
| 23-7814 |
James Harmon, III v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction juvenile-justice parole sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1164 |
Charles Grover Brant v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certificate-of-appealability death-penalty eleventh-circuit first-degree-murder habeas-corpus post-conviction |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7802 |
Festus O. Ohan v. Axos Bank, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-26 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-banking habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance investment property-rights sentencing standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7804 |
Juan Jesus Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure judicial-discretion open-court-statement reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation |
1) Must district courts comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed?
2) Should … |
| 23-7795 |
Marc Pierre Hall, aka Marc Valeriano, aka Fella v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-7792 |
In Re Ramiro Felix Gonzales |
|
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness post-conviction-review state-law |
(1) Does it violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution to execute an individual who does not meet the eligibility … |
| 23-7791 |
Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-punishment-eligibility death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness jury-determination post-conviction-review |
When a state conditions a capital defendant's eligibility to be sentenced to death on a jury's determination of "future dangerousness," can the state … |
| 23-7788 |
Francisco Valtierra-Zuniga v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23A1147 |
In Re Ramiro Felix Gonzales |
|
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
|
death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness habeas-corpus jury-prediction |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1146 |
Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
|
capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness jury-determination |
When a state conditions a capital defendant's eligibility to be sentenced to death on a jury's determination of "future dangerousness," can the state … |
| 23-7785 |
Jared Pierce Sanchez v. Brown University, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
academic-exclusion civil-rights covid-19-mandate equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise public-hospitals religious-discrimination |
1) Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals and the
District Court erred in dismissing Mr. Sanchez 's claims of
religious discrimination, harassment… |
| 23-7783 |
Joseph James Conkling v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi-precedent apprendi-rule blakely-rule blakely-v-washington criminal-sentencing fact-finding jury-determination jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment unpled-facts |
Does this Court's decision in Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004) establish an "unpled but admitted facts" exception to the rule set forth in A… |
| 23-7772 |
Christopher L. Parker v. Darren Galloway, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-court-remedies |
Circumstances exist that render State Court Remedies in effective to Protect my 14th Frohts Pursuant to Clause 2254 HOG CY?
730205 613-63 0) QOD, AY,… |
| 23A1142 |
Nancy Landry, Louisiana Secretary of State, et al. v. Phillip Callais, et al. |
Louisiana |
2024-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
congressional-map constitutional-challenge equal-protection racial-gerrymander redistricting voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1330 |
Michael Stern, et ux. v. Mark Mcdonald |
Washington |
2024-06-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction certiorari constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-procedure judicial-review state-courts supreme-court |
Did THE SUPREME COURT OF WASHINGTON order to deny review, violate the Unites States Constitution? |
| 23-7763 |
Barry Steven Gahagan v. Bill Stange, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-standing standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7762 |
Christopher McPherson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure-appeal drug-trafficking felon-in-possession firearm-possession fourth-circuit-review plain-error-standard rehaif-test sentencing sentencing-discretion sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to reverse the
conviction on Count V of the Superseding Indictment - Possession of
a Firearm in Further… |
| 23-7761 |
Eddie L. Hatch, Jr., et ux. v. Tom Barrett, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct mail-tampering political-corruption pro-se-litigation rule-of-law |
Will Justice be provided by the Federal Courts to these Pro se, Minority Entrepreneurs during an ongoing conspiracy and media cover-up with evidence o… |
| 23-7765 |
Leon Davis, Jr. v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment cumulative-error death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion strickland-prejudice strickland-standard |
Counsel failed to object to the capital trial court's multiple misleading and inappropriate comments during jury selection about the uniquely gruesome… |
| 23-7753 |
William Lee Boyer v. Amy Robey, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts court-access due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus legal-assistance legal-notice notice one-year-deadline prisoner-rights |
1. ARE THE AVERAGE AMERICANS WHO BECOME CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS EDUCATED IN CRIMINAL LAW?
2. WHY ARE CONVICTED FELONS SUDDENLY REQUIRED TO LEARN THE COMP… |
| 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 … |
| 23-7746 |
Robert Brumfield, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct brady-prejudice criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal prosecution-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. Whether courts evaluating Brady prejudice are permitted to ignore a jury's acquittal when evaluating the strength of the prosecution's evidence.
I… |
| 23-7745 |
Gustavo Galindez v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal due-process michigan-constitution sentencing |
I. DOES MCL 769.34(10) VIOLATE THE DEFENDANTS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AS GUARANTEED BY THE SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO THE UNITED S… |
| 23-7744 |
In Re William F. Laffoon |
|
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction mcgirt-ruling native-american native-american-rights reservation-law retroactivity tribal-jurisdiction |
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| 23-7740 |
William H. Baker v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Whether the procedural default creates a miscarriage of justice that denies Petitioner his fundamental rights to due process as guaranteed by the Fift… |
| 23-7738 |
Terrill Goods v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure in-absentia presence sentencing waiver |
1. Whether a defendant who does not clearly and expressly waive his presence at his sentencing hearing may be sentenced in absentia under Fed. R. Crim… |
| 23-7727 |
Everett G. Miller v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factor constitutional-challenge constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder florida-supreme-court sentencing-statute |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's expansion of the applicability of our statute's aggravating factor, Section 921.141(5)(i), i.e., the murder was co… |
| 23-7726 |
Jason Robles v. Jeffery Artrip, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights constitutional-law death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief standing |
(1) Whether should prevail, the Constitution of the United States of America, Coupled with the Constitution of, or Arbitration's and Effective Death R… |
| 23-7705 |
Eric D. Johnson v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-relief retroactivity safety-valve sentencing-calculation statutory-interpretation |
Whether Sohnson's SenTencé 18 improperly Calculated--and Should be celev[aTe! under The $,4Ty
perseoT (0%) Sentencing law in effecT aT The Time
of im … |
| 23-7702 |
Stevie Whitehorn v. Maverick Tube Corporation, fka Tenaris Hickman |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pretext-evidence racial-discrimination standard-of-review summary-judgment |
1. Whether the fact that Respondent, Maverick Tube Corporation, fabricated false
(fraudulent) evidence of a photograph of a truck in the foreground wi… |
| 23-7683 |
Keon Lamont Lee v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-rights circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sixth-circuit |
Should a district court grant a pre-sentencing motion to withdraw a guilty plea if that plea was made without full knowledge of its consequences? |
| 23A1106 |
Lamar Z. Brooks v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certificate-of-appealability death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus hurst-v-florida section-2254 |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7677 |
Daniela Bowman v. Cordelia Friedman |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-production due-process due-process-clause equal-protection equal-protection-clause evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment judicial-review motion-to-dismiss oklahoma-press-publishing-co-v-walling statutory-interpretation |
It is a public record that petitioner is the only taxpayer in New Mexico who was deprived of property but denied due process evidentiary hearing when … |
| 23-7674 |
Eric Wright v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination |
Did the court of appeals' refusal to grant Mr. Wright habeas corpus relief in respect to his claim of unlawful racial discrimination in the selection … |
| 23-7671 |
James Chamblin v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment constitutional-rights due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indictment indictment-amendment pleading-recasting recasting-of-pleadings state-appellate-court |
Does a State Appellate Court violate a Petitioner's right to Due Process under the United States Constitution, when a court recast a litigants pleadin… |
| 23-7657 |
Leslie Willis v. PNC Financial Services Group Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
due-process due-process,14th-amendment,judicial-misconduct,bia equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-misconduct lgbtq-rights |
A. QUESTION PRESENTED: Whether there is an ongoing
violation of Fourteenth Amendment due process rights under
the Constitution of the United States, a… |
| 23A1088 |
Anthony Mungin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7650 |
Samuel Cuellar v. Jeff Tanner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-violation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sentencing |
I. PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO REINSTATEMENT OF PLEA OFFER WHERE COUNSEL FAILED TO INFORM HIM DURING PLEA NEGOTIATIONS THAT IF HE WAS CONVICTED UNDER MC… |
| 23-7646 |
Rogaciano Demetrio-Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7645 |
Antrell Teen v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7643 |
Thomas Antonio Stuart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling criminal-penalty criminal-procedure legislative-history mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation textualism |
Whether the five-year mandatory minimum penalty of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2), which applies to a defendant's third "violation" of subsection (a)(2)(B)(Gi)… |
| 23-7634 |
Claudio Salas-Bautista v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination-analysis due-process equal-protection immigration judicial-review legislative-intent racial-discrimination racist-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 23-7633 |
Deanne R. Upson Giese v. William Earl Wallace, III |
Maryland |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection equal-rights-amendment free-speech interstate-jurisdiction interstate-relations parent-child parental-rights |
Question 1: Given that the Equal Rights Amendment
is now Ratified, have the states of Maryland, District of
Columbia, and Virginia violated the righ… |
| 23A1083 |
Justin G. Reedy v. California Department of Social Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
custody-rights equal-protection gender-discrimination parental-rights social-services welfare-benefits |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7616 |
Jacob Ray Owens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof co-conspirator-evidence criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-purity drug-quantity ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel methamphetamine-purity sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the purity of outside-the-conspiracy methamphetamine, linked to Owens's conspiracy solely by personnel, permitted an inference that Owens's me… |
| 23-1265 |
Catherine Antunes v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al., |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodily-integrity constitutional-rights due-process economic-coercion emergency-authorization employer-coercion equal-protection jacobson-v-massachusetts prep-act vaccine vaccine-mandate |
1. Does the Constitutional right to bodily integrity encompass the right to decline a vaccine?
2. Is Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905), a… |
| 23-1266 |
Tonya Parks v. Affiliated Bank, et al. |
Texas |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
|
campaign-finance constitutional-fairness due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal |
I. Does the Texas judicial system's approach to
recusal, in conjunction with judges' collaborative
fundraising and expenditure activities, as viewed… |
| 23-7618 |
Jesse A. Reynolds v. Titus County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-housing fair-housing-act judicial-immunity prosecutorial-immunity sovereign-immunity statute-of-limitations takings |
1. Is the Statute of Limitations tolled for being considered under the age of 18 or of
unsound mind, because of fraud; relevant to the opinion of the … |
| 23-7625 |
Henry Sowers v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada-accessibility americans-with-disabilities-act criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection hearing-impairment judicial-accessibility pro-se pro-se-defendant structural-error voir-dire |
1. Does the State violate the American Disabilities Act by failing to provide
"Program Accessibility " to a hearing impaired Defendant (pro-se) in a
… |
| 23-7622 |
Angel Luis Concepcion-Rosario v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court-error due-process exclusionary-rule impeachment judgment-of-acquittal miranda-rights motion-for-mistrial physical-evidence sentencing suppression-of-evidence |
1. Did the district court error in not suppressing the physical evidence and the statement?
2. Did the district court error in not granting the petit… |
| 23-7598 |
Arnaud Paris v. Heidi M. Brown |
Oregon |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
custody-dispute due-process equal-protection family-law federal-statutes fourteenth-amendment international-custody international-law national-origin state-statutes uccjea |
Does a state court's decisions and actions violating both Federal Statutes (UCCJEA) and State Statues in a custody dispute, which appears to favor an … |
| 23-7599 |
Jorge Ortiz-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure overruling precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7608 |
Carney Turner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion life-sentence sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether, in federal criminal cases where the district court has imposed a discretionary life sentence, the courts of appeal should employ a de novo st… |
| 23-7594 |
Felipe Matias-Miguel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-1251 |
Paula Bourne, et vir v. Banner University Medical Center Phoenix, LLC |
Arizona |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias medical-malpractice standing vexatious-litigant |
1. Did the Arizona Court of Appeals errantly affirm and allow Arizona Superior Court to designate Bourne's vexatious litigants and dismiss their case … |
| 23-7573 |
Ryan Edward Offineer v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts,equal-protection,right-to-counsel collateral-attack-waiver conclusory-pleadings,vague-pleadings,precedent constitutional-rights disparate-plea-terms,sentencing,eighth-amendment due-process equal-protection inaccurate-information,administrative-remedy,prese ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance,defensive-strategies,guilty meritless-appeal,futile-appeal,right-to-appeal plea-agreement warrantless-search,computer-evidence,search-warran |
1) Do additional restrictions, such as Strickland, imposed in the standard collate
ral attack waiver that are not specifically stated anywhere in Mr.… |
| 23-7583 |
Shawn Hill v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure mental-health plea-bargaining remorse sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
1. Was petitioner improperly denied credit for acceptance of responsibility based on an incident in a Hartford jail that appeared to be a mental healt… |
| 23-7584 |
Quentin M. Salmond v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-claim conspiracy criminal-law due-process newly-discovered-evidence pcra-time-bar retroactivity sentencing third-degree-murder |
1. Is Conspiracy to Commit Third Degree Murder a Non-Cognizable Offense?
2. Can a defendnat be convicted of Conspiracy to commit third degree murder … |
| 23A1065 |
Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-gurney prolonged-restraint |
Whether the Eighth Amendment is violated when a condemned prisoner is restrained to an execution gurney for a prolonged period of time without access … |
| 23A1063 |
David Dunlap v. JetBlue Airways Corporation, et al. |
New York |
2024-05-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jetblue-airways workers-compensation workplace-injury |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7564 |
Ricky T. Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-hearsay due-process evidentiary-sufficiency sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that the uncorroborated and unreliable dou… |
| 23-7565 |
Juan Aguiera-Guzman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-reasoning mitigation-arguments plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion silent-record |
Does the holding in Molina -Martinez apply to non -Guidelines calculation sentencing errors, such as the clear Rule 32 violation here? If not, how doe… |
| 23-7566 |
Brendon Tyre Garner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 23-7567 |
Michael David Carruth v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
alabama appellate-counsel constitutional-right criminal-procedure death-penalty exhaustion ineffective-assistance procedural-bar right-to-counsel state-procedure writ-of-certiorari |
When a state by statute or rule imposes a duty upon appellate counsel for the defendant-appellant in a criminal case to file a petition for a writ of … |
| 23-7568 |
Malek Lassiter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-statute section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-taylor |
Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Holding Lassiter's Convictions Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) On Counts 25 And 28 Remain Lawful After United States v.… |
| 23-7570 |
Leonard Blackstock, Jr. v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-duty physical-harm statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legal authority is required to help the escape from physical harm by Section 1 for 15 U.S. Code s. 1116 to provide equal protection of the F… |
| 23-7571 |
Corey Goings v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-rights appeal-waiver constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining racial-discrimination sentencing |
I. Whether the Plea Agreement's general waiver of appeal rights included a waiver of appealing a sentence based on the impermissible factor of race. |
| 23-1244 |
Samuel Collin Robinson v. Katherine Lyman Freeman, fka Katherine Lyman Robinson |
Colorado |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard child-custody constitutional-rights divorce-law due-process equal-protection family-law parental-rights parenting-time |
Parenting time scarcity wreaks havoc on relationships between children of divorce and a parent on whom minority time is imposed by court order. Where … |
| 23-1248 |
Keresa Richardson v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-courts constitutional-law election-law equal-protection judicial-elections one-man-one-vote state-representation texas voting-districts |
Question 1: Does the Equal Protection Clause's one man,
one vote requirement apply to the election
of Texas appellate court justices so as to
requi… |
| 23A1052 |
Richard E. Glossip v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-05-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari criminal-appeals death-penalty eighth-amendment execution supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7553 |
Francisco Joseph Arcila Ramirez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2339b criminal-procedure foreign-terrorist-organization material-support sentencing terrorism-enhancement |
When a defendant has entered a plea of guilty to the offense of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, in violation of 18 U.S… |
| 23-7532 |
In Re Keith Hager |
|
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-instrument criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-authority mandamus mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation writ-of-mandamus |
WHETHER THIS COURT MUST ISSUE A WRIT OF MANDAMUS WHERE A FEDERAL COURT LACKED AUTHORITY TO SENTENCE PETITIONER UPON AN OFFENSE FOR WHICH CONGRESS DID … |
| 23-7534 |
Charles Feick v. The Brutsche Family Revocable Trust, et al. |
Washington |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ability-to-pay constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights |
This case presents a crucial opportunity for the
Supreme Court to protect indigent citizens and set a
nationwide precedent for the protection of appea… |
| 23-7540 |
Oscar Catalan Ruiz v. California |
California |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
abstract-statutes appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendants-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-interpretation procedural-due-process sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7543 |
Jeryme Morgan v. DeAnna Brookhart |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-interpretation precedent-setting prior-crimes-evidence standing statutory-construction |
The text in the "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" section is severely degraded and largely illegible due to handwriting and OCR errors. The visible portions app… |
| 23-7546 |
Enrique Zacarias Diaz v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7525 |
Stanley Waldron v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment due-process equal-protection hard-labor involuntary-servitude state-liability thirteenth-amendment |
IS THE STATE OF LOUISIANA BARRED BY THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT OF THE
UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION FROM THE PUNISHMENT OF INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE AT
HARD LA… |
| 23-7527 |
Larry Williams v. Warden Kelly, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7504 |
Sergio Antonio Hood v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
GVR |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights due-process jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7512 |
Dallas M. Acoff v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment guidelines harmless-error judicial-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court committed error and imposed a procedurally unreasonable sentence on Mr. Acoff that exceeded the upper end of his United Sta… |
| 23-1222 |
Children's Health Defense, et al. v. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection experimental-treatment experimental-vaccine jacobson-v-massachusetts medical-consent vaccine-efficacy vaccine-mandate vaccine-safety |
1. Is there a fundamental right under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process or Equal Protection Clauses to exercise informed consent freely and refus… |
| 23-1223 |
Jennifer L. Cooper, et al. v. US Dominion, Inc., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing cease-and-desist civil-rights defamation due-process equal-protection free-speech precedential-opinion standing |
Two questions are presented:
1. Whether the recipients of a cease-and-desist letter—which falsely accuses them of defamation, threatens imminent liti… |
| 23-7499 |
Russell William Tucker v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-of-proof disparate-treatment equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
I. Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina was free to reject evidence of disparate treatment and impose on Petitioner the crippling burden of sho… |
| 23-7500 |
Jonathan Pendleton v. Jason S. Miyares, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ngri-statute |
Whether and to what extent Virginia's "not guilty by reason of insanity" (NGRI) statutes, I.
Va. Code § 19.2-182.2, et seq., are facially unconstituti… |
| 23-7505 |
Daniel Lynn Goering-Runyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review legal-petition parole procedural-document sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7508 |
Matias Zarate v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guidelines reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit supervised-release |
Whether a sentence within the guidelines range is unreasonable when the defendant has already served more time on supervised release than originally s… |
| 23-7490 |
Chanel E. M. Nicholson v. W.L. York, Inc., dba Cover Girls, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14)IFP |
civil-rights discrete-acts employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection limitations-period national-railroad-passenger-corporation-v-morgan racial-discrimination |
Where the discriminatory act was refusing admission of Petitioner (a Black entertainer) to the business ' premises for work because her admission woul… |
| 23-7477 |
Joseph Ira Patterson, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-jurisdiction criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-enhancement waiver waiver-of-rights |
Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars a defendant from appealing "any sentence of imprisonment" can be knowingly entered into well before… |
| 23-7483 |
Edgardo Esteras v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-15 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Even though Congress excluded section 3553(a)(2)(A) from section 3583(e)'s list of factors to consider when revoking supervised release, may a distric… |
| 23-7471 |
Shauntavus Berklin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines gun-accountability sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
1. WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF BERKLIN'S OBJECTION TO THE… |
| 23-7457 |
E. R. v. Colorado, In the Interest of S. M. and E. M., Children |
Colorado |
2024-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-standard due-process equal-protection judicial-bias parent-child-rights racial-bias racial-prejudice standard-of-review termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether this Court's precedents, which apply an objective legal standard to determine whether there is an unconstitutional potential for judicial raci… |
| 23-7458 |
In Re Michael David Hower |
|
2024-05-13 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-charge acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jury-trial section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Did the Courts below commit reversible err denying petitioners 2255 motion
without conducting an evidentiary hearing to resolve factual disputes?
Di… |
| 23-1212 |
In Re Justin Mahwikizi |
|
2024-05-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-exemption ending-forced-arbitration-of-sexual-assault-and-se equal-protection equal-protection-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-review section-1 section-3 |
Whether section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act should be used to shield the Federal Arbitration Act's Section 1 exemption claim denials from judicia… |
| 23-7453 |
William Garrido v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
10-20-life-statute criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation trial-court-authority |
What authority does the trial court have to sentence beyond the selected mandatory minimum of 25 years under § 775.087 (2), (the 10-20-life Statute)? |
| 23-7427 |
Alton Pelichet v. Fredeane Artis, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment |
Whether this Honorable Court should grant Petitioner's Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, where Petitioner has demonstrated that his rights to a fair … |
| 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)(… |
| 23-7440 |
Michael Paul Puzey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-review rehabilitation sentence-modification sentencing statutory-interpretation |
"Balancing Justice and Compassion: A Case for Revisiting Compassionate Release under the First Step Act" |
| 23-7443 |
Irvin Thomas v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process excessive-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-errors provocation sentencing trial-procedure video-evidence |
why_did_qppelate.deteader (Manuela Hetniade2) lnttdlnd Lior pry case.._when Several avguable ments cpply (2
why wae, petiionee (luni Themis pose —gve… |
| 23A999 |
Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus judge-sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7411 |
Larry Elwood Steptoe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt career-criminal controlled-substances criminal-attempt criminal-law federal-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a violation of 21 U.S-C. § 841 of the U. S Criminal Code which incorporates "Attempt" crimes qualifies as a predicate offense for the Career C… |
| 23-7412 |
John Thomas Rooney v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment compulsory-testimony constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief privilege-against-self-incrimination self-incrimination state-court-review |
Does Georgia's failure of the clauses not allow any a Criminal Defendants waulty 6 leg to be Specifically Advised Of, tein —pduilege KG ASL con gulucy… |
| 23-7398 |
Jamaal Parker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion new-trial new-trial-standard preservation-of-error reversible-error sentencing sentencing-explanation |
This Petition implicates two splits in the Circuits.
First, a district judge can grant a new criminal trial "if the interest of justice so requires."… |
| 23-7405 |
In Re Patrick Christian |
|
2024-05-07 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy completed-sentence court-interpretation double-jeopardy legal-precedent lower-court-errors probation recidivism retroactive-punishment sentencing |
1. In the eyes of the Court when is Punishment Retroactive?
2. Is the Legal Definition of Double Jeopardy described here?
3. In considering the reco… |
| 23-7406 |
Bobby Rouse v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment |
1. Is it a violation of appellant's Sixth Amendment constitutional rights for defense counsel to refuse to investigate the evidence and interview witn… |
| 23A992 |
David W. Foley, Jr., et ux. v. Orange County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge county-commission equal-protection redistricting representation voting-rights |
I. Whether the "due process of law" clause of Amendment XIV gives a local government the burden to secure state judicial approval for its official dep… |
| 23-7388 |
Michael Andrew Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the feder… |
| 23-7389 |
Brad Evans v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants |
WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA HAS CREATED RULES OF CRIMINAL AND APPELLATE PROCEDURE THAT ARBITRARILY AND UNREASONABLY ENCROACHES UPON THE PERSONAL RIGH… |
| 23-7390 |
In Re Guy Lewis Coulston, Jr. |
|
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection exclusionary-rule interrogation-tactics involuntary-confession miranda-rights trespass |
Did Detective trespass on private property and violate" Miranda right And Edward, to make an
"Involuntary Confession " during Interrogation by (Ignori… |
| 23-7391 |
Markeith D. Loyd v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individual-responsibility jury-instructions sentencing-phase |
Where the court in a capital case allows the State to argue that the jury should, or must, try its best to reach a unanimous penalty phase verdict, is… |
| 23-1193 |
Favion Lara v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
breach-of-agreement criminal-procedure due-process government-breach plea-agreement police prosecutor prosecutorial-promise sentencing |
Where a plea agreement includes the prosecutor's promise that the State will recommend a particular sentence, does a police officer's recommendation o… |
| 23-1188 |
Jonathon Owen Shroyer v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-waiver first-amendment free-speech protected-speech relevant-conduct relevant-offense-conduct sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
1. Whether a prison sentence imposed as a result of the consideration of protected speech as "relevant offense conduct" violates the First Amendment a… |
| 23-7381 |
Larry Donnell Dunlap v. Arizona Office of the Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights clemency constitutional-claims constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection executive-clemency habeas-corpus special-action special-action-relief |
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| 23-7364 |
Jorge Galindo v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty eddings-v-oklahoma ineffective-assistance lockett-v-ohio mitigation sentencing-considerations supreme-court-precedent tennard-v-dretke youth youth-mitigation |
1. May a state categorically exclude youth as a mitigating factor in a capital case?
2. Must a state court follow this Court's jurisprudence of Locke… |
| 23-7366 |
Carlos Enrique Navarro-Trevino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23A978 |
Chuong Duong Tong v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rhines-stay voir-dire wiggins-claim |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7355 |
Demario Barker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-calculation hearsay hearsay-statements reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether presumptively unreliable hearsay statements should be permitted in sentencing hearings to substantially increase a Defendant's guideline calcu… |
| 23-7357 |
Jesus Robledo Aguilar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drugs firearms safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Does simultaneous constructive possession of drugs and firearms disqualify a defendant for safety valve relief? |
| 23-7361 |
Sean A. Gray v. Kevin Payne, Commandant, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burns-v-wilson constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus military-habeas military-justice suspension-clause tenth-circuit |
This Court, in Burns u. Wilson, 1 stated that a federal civilian court may not consider a military habeas petitioner 's claim "when a military decisio… |
| 23-7362 |
Tesae Harrington v. Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State |
District of Columbia |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-action civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection higher-education judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure precedent race-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7343 |
Dalevonte D. Hearn v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial mistrial sentencing trial-rights |
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| 23-7347 |
J. Guadalupe Figueroa-Juarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-law legislative-intent mass-incarceration racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 23-7325 |
In Re Linda Ann Wright |
|
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion property-rights standing veterans-affairs |
1. Whether Judge Ranjan Abused his discretion in § 1915(2)?
2. Whether it was possible to achieve due process, when there are three jurisdictions cau… |
| 23-7327 |
Zachariah Jay Histed v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant who plea ds guilty, admits the substantive elements of the
criminal charge, and spares the government the time and expense of a tr… |
| 23-7328 |
Leslie Hood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment employment probation-requirements sentencing sentencing-discretion supervision supervision-conditions |
1. Was the district court's imposition of supervision conditions requiring Mr. Hood to obtain some form of work/employment violated the Eighth Amendme… |
| 23-7333 |
Thomas Arnold v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protections inability-to-afford-attorney post-conviction right-to-appeal state-constitution |
Whether State Post Conviction Appellant's are denied access to the court violating due process of law and equal protections of the law under the 14th … |
| 23-7335 |
Walter J. Himmelreich v. Janel Fitzgerald |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 bivens bivens-action civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation territorial-jurisdiction |
1) Asdan"iis£ueaofGEdjrsi Impressi'en 5.fdingtlbisaCoBBt, does the "or Territory" clause of 4 2 USC § 19 8 3 and the related Civil Rights Statutes app… |
| 23-7310 |
In Re Arthur R. Holloway, Jr. |
|
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standard procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7312 |
James Bennett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether consideration of acquitted conduct by the District Court in consideration of Bennett's ultimate sentence violates the Due Process Clause of th… |
| 23-7318 |
Michael P. Crenshaw v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection executive-power individual-rights intellectual-disability judicial-review separation-of-powers state-sovereignty |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7303 |
Demetriaus L. Blaylock v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment emerging-adults juvenile-justice miller-v-alabama sentencing |
WHETHER THE EIGHT AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONS I TUT I ON11S PROHIBITION AGAINST CRUEL/ AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT REQUIRE THE PROTECTION GRANTED U… |
| 23-7307 |
Silvano Marroquin-Bravo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-1160 |
Derrick Williams v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence first-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-clause right-to-counsel |
1. WHETHER THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO
PETITION THE STATE COURTS PURSUANT
TO THE 1ST AND 14THAMENDMENTS OF
OUR UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION UPON
THE ISSUE … |
| 23-1156 |
Eun O. Kim, et al. v. Parcel K-Tudor Hall Farm, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-representation motion-to-reopen procedural-fairness timeliness |
Whether the Justice system (The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit) granting the Motion to Reopen to one party after 8 years from t… |
| 23-7300 |
Juan Francisco Turcios v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-04-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion plea-bargain sentencing |
(1). In accordance with Judicial Discretion ,once the trial Judge accepted and approved the plea bargain agreement for the maximum of the trial court … |
| 23-7302 |
In Re Michael A. Farrell |
|
2024-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254d due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment full-and-fair-hearing reasonable-doubt state-court |
Did the U.S. District Court violate petitioners XIV Amendment right to due process, equal protection of the law and 28 U.S.C. 2254(d) by failing to ho… |
| 23-7292 |
Morris Fuller v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process equal-protection federal-district-court judicial-discretion maximum-penalty post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7283 |
Hector Manuel Gomez Rodriguez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
21-usc-841 constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences non-capital-sentences proportionality-review sentencing |
Did the Ninth Circuit contravene Harmelin's plurality and Ewing by essentially exempting all sentences that a district court imposes under 21 U.S.C. §… |
| 23-7284 |
Neal Merrell Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent due-process ex-post-facto money-laundering sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
(1).Does the fatal Variance from the indictment violate Mr.Walkers' Due process rights, v ;i*. i
when he is convicted of and imprisonment for "Contro… |
| 23-7261 |
Geary Wayne Walton v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution mental-illness rational-understanding |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7265 |
Nicholas Stewart Hines v. South Dakota |
South Dakota |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-considerations sixth-amendment |
1.) WHETHER THE SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS PERMIT
GREATER INCLUDED OFFENSES AND CONDUCT THAT HAS BEEN
ACQUITTED BY A JURY, OR DISMISSED PURSUANT … |
| 23-7267 |
Vincent Dewayne Gaylord v. Kansas |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-7273 |
Lidia M. Orrego v. Kevin Knipfing, aka Kevin James, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
abuse-of-power constitutional-rights deprivation-of-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice second-circuit |
The Due Process Clause provides that no person may be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Due process requires notice, … |
| 23-7274 |
In Re Joseph T. Swift |
|
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal capital-punishment civil-rights death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7282 |
Jeff Baoliang Zhang v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violations deprivation-of-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-misconduct |
(A) Respondents/Defendants willfully refused to help a seriously wounded man at county jail, but the US District Court for the Central District of Cal… |
| 23-1137 |
Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp. v. The School Committee for the City of Boston, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Relisted (8) |
boston-school-committee disparate-impact equal-protection exam-schools intentional-discrimination race-neutral-criteria racial-balancing school-admissions |
The question presented is whether an equal protection challenge to facially race-neutral admission criteria is barred simply because members of the ra… |
| 23-7256 |
John Pedelahore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. Pedelahore to serve 30 months in prison for nonviolent supervised release violations when the recomme… |
| 23-7240 |
In Re Patrick Christian |
|
2024-04-17 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
asylum-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection hate-crimes statutory-interpretation systemic-racism |
1. When did raping, kidnapping, and murdering an American Voters family for being a Heterosexual become Law, and how can Constitutional Officers sanct… |
| 23-7241 |
Michael Allen v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment aider-and-abettor constitutional-law criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation |
(1) Does California Penal Code Section 117.95(a)(l)-(3) statute violates
The United States Constitution 14th AmendmentEqual Protection of the law by … |
| 23-7249 |
Robert Gandy v. Glenn Hegar, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts |
Texas |
2024-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-practice-and-remedies-code civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations thompson-v-clark tim-cole-act wrongful-conviction |
In Thompson v. Clark, 596 U.S. (2022), Cert No. 20-659, this Court held that a petitioner need not prove actual innocence after his conviction has bee… |
| 23A933 |
Kurt Benshoof v. Freya Brier, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights-act due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mask-mandate |
1. Whether Respondents must be enjoined from continuing to retaliate
against Applicant for his religious beliefs, and subjecting Applicant to
segregat… |
| 23-7236 |
Sandra Black v. Naomi Friedrichsen, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-ruling due-process equal-protection legal-standing pro-se procedural-challenge standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1120 |
DaBeth Manns v. U.S. Bank, N.A., as Trustee for Banc of America Funding Corporation for Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates 2007-03 |
District of Columbia |
2024-04-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure-claim foreclosure-debt-claim pro-se-litigant stare-decisis |
Should the District of Columbia Court of Appeals decision be upheld in part or whole, reversed and/or the case remanded because the United States Cons… |
| 23-7223 |
Daquan Doral Carter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver arraignment criminal-procedure district-court due-process merits-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing |
Can the Government invoke an appeal waiver to preclude merits review of an appeal when the district court failed to specifically question the defendan… |
| 23-7228 |
Jimmy D. Woods v. Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
article-iii civil-rights-damages due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause veterans-rights |
Whether under Article III Sect. 2. The judicial Power extends to all Cases,
in Law and Equity, arising under the Constitution, Laws of the United
St… |
| 23A920 |
Gatewood A. Walden v. The Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar |
Alabama |
2024-04-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
binding-precedent due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-review precedent |
Does a state appellate court violate a person's due process and equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment when it refuses or fails to comply wi… |
| 23-7216 |
Enrique Zacarias Diaz v. J. Highberger |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7217 |
Julio Ruiz Chuta v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-penalties de-minimis de-minimis-exception family-friend financial-gain human-smuggling immigration immigration-law sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a prosecution under the enhanced penalties of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2)(B)(ii) can be sustained where the "private financial gain" involved is a d… |
| 23-7218 |
Leslie Shannon v. Cherry Creek School District, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retaliation summary-judgment |
1. WHY WERE MY FIFTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS VIOLATED BY BOTH THE DISTRICT
AND 10TH CIRCUIT COURTS?
2. WHY WAS MY REQUEST FOR A JURY TRIAL AN… |
| 23-7197 |
Michael David Logering, et al. v. Morrison County Sheriff's Office, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-error standing |
1) Did the United States Appeals Court for the Eighth Circuit violate the Plaintiffs' Constitutional Rights to Due Process and Equal Protection under … |
| 23-7198 |
Ebone East, et al. v. Fix It Auto Repair, Inc. |
Arizona |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech right-to-appeal standing state-court-discretion |
1. ) Does This Federal courts apply standards of review when examining lower court rulings. It refers to the idea of fundamental fairness, that the go… |
| 23-7200 |
Willie Johnson v. Kenneth Nelson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-review petition sentencing statutory-provision writ |
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| 23-7204 |
Sean L. Hagins v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation court-discretion criminal-procedure defense-counsel-ineffectiveness habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plain-error-review pro-se pro-se-litigation sentencing |
Did the lower court have the obligation to correct an
illegal sentence, brought to its attention, regardless
of the passage of time?
Did the lower … |
| 23-7207 |
Dwayne K. Taylor v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-defect criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions necessity self-defense sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
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| 23-7166 |
Charles Edward Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist-enhancement residual-clause retroactivity second-successive-motion sentencing three-strikes-statute vagueness |
Whether a constitutional challenge to 18 U.S.C. §3559(c)'s residual clause predicated on Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), is cognizable … |
| 23-7167 |
Joseph Lochuch Ewalan v. Washington |
Washington |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standing |
This courts precedent in the united states Vi Flowers v. Mississippi, 139 set. (2019), Kentucky v. Batson, 476 U.S. 79, Miller-elv.dretke, 545 U.S. 23… |
| 23-7173 |
John Lee Barlow v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law felony-classification georgia-law mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court |
Did the Court of Appeals err when it categorically ruled that Mr. Barlow's two 2013 counts of conviction for Georgia aggravated assault constituted "c… |
| 23-7182 |
Jonathan Wray v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination predicate-act rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Does this Court's decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), require that the Government prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury that … |
| 23-7187 |
Leslie Galloway, III v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation-standard mitigation post-hoc-strategy post-traumatic-stress-disorder procedural-history sixth-amendment |
Leslie Galloway III was sentenced to death after his trial counsel conducted a
constitutionally inadequate investigation that failed to uncover his ex… |
| 23-7188 |
Jacob Winding, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, San Joaquin County, et al. |
California |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-disqualification procedural-safeguards recusal-standards standing verified-statement |
If a judge files and order Striking Petitioners verified statement of Disqualification under CCP section 170.3 but in the same moving order files and … |
| 23A904 |
Wayne Phillip Vance v. Glen Engstrom, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights due-process equal-protection page-limit pro-se writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23A891 |
Vicki Baker v. City of McKinney, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-liability police-conduct |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7157 |
Roy R. Dixon v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection precedents statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7161 |
James E. Homan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court due-process facts judicial-discretion record revocation revocation-proceeding sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the district court violated Mr. Homan's right to due process during the sentencing phase of this supervised release revocation proceeding when… |
| 23-7164 |
Jason Bryan Cass v. California |
California |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-courts jurisdiction standing violent-circumstances |
Was TDason Bryan Cass @th $
147Th Amendments Constitutional
rights where vioLated! |
| 23-7165 |
Emiliano Emmanuel Flores-González v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
article-iii article-iii-jurisdiction circuit-court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process en-banc en-banc-procedure judicial-review sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the court's fealty to ministerial en banc procedures justify abdication of its constitutional and statutory obligations to adjudicate an as-of-… |
| 23-1084 |
Jill Hile, et al. v. Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
blaine-amendment constitutional-amendment equal-protection nonpublic-schools political-disenfranchisement religious-animus school-choice school-vouchers |
Following modest legislative victories in the 1960s in favor of parochial-school parents and their children, antireligious groups mobilized voter anim… |
| 23A890 |
Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
2024-04-07 |
Denied |
|
capital-punishment certiorari-standard death-penalty eighth-amendment penological-goals rehabilitation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7146 |
Antonio Ochoa-Leyva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-7147 |
Margarito Cruz-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7149 |
Deterrius Wilson v. Randy F. Philhours, Circuit Judge, 2nd Judicial Circuit, Crittenden County, Arkansas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights compensation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process retaliation sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7154 |
Robert M. Greene v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2024-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
article-i-section-9 constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus speedy-trial state-suspension suspension trial-rights |
WHETHER Florida's suspension OF THE PRIVILEGE OF THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS VIOLATES ARTICLE 1, SECTION 9 OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION?
WHETHER F… |
| 23-7143 |
Armando Ordonez-Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-7144 |
Dricko Dashon Huskey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conspiracy criminal-enterprise due-process jury-finding jury-findings racketeering racketeering-activity rico-act rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
A conspiracy to violate The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d), is punishable by a maximum of 20 years, but… |
| 23-7145 |
Richard Dewayne Lewis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 appellate-review circuit-split extra-statutory-factors revocation-sentences sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
L. What is the proper standard of review for evaluating supervised release revocation sentences on appeal?
I. May a district court imposing sentence … |
| 23-1083 |
Shula Waxwoman, fka Shlomit Ruttkamp v. The Bank of New York Mellon, et al. |
Connecticut |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-protection covid-19 due-process equal-protection eviction-stay foreclosure foreclosure-moratorium fraud-misrepresentation judicial-procedure property-rights state-of-emergency |
Is the lifting of the COVID-19 State Foreclosure Moratoriums and Stays Governor's Tenth Supplemental State of Emergency Proclamation of May 21, 2020, … |
| 23-7120 |
Chaviz Wofford v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-statement constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction opinions plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7128 |
Harvey Windsor v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
accomplice-liability capital-murder certificate-of-appealability death-penalty discovery-limitation habeas-corpus head-injury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief |
Whether, when both the state trial court and the federal
district court agree that a habeas petitioner has pleaded a claim
that, if true, would warran… |
| 23-7100 |
Robert Merritt v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-review criminal-law due-process life-sentence plain-error RICO rico-statute sentencing |
Whether Merritt's life sentence under RICO statutes violated Apprendi, and is plain-error reverse warranted. |
| 23-7109 |
Edgar Garcia-Heredia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-7093 |
Jeremy J. Quinn, Jr. v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing sentencing-statute state-courts |
When a state court carelessly or negligently enters a cause claim, to enhance a criminal sentence, does it violate a person's due process rights and c… |
| 23-7094 |
Tyshawn Shepard v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-agency administrative-extension criminal-sentencing due-process incarceration incarceration-findings jury-trial post-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a right to trial by jury allow prison administrators to use their own post-conviction factual findings as the … |
| 23-7097 |
Travis C. Crosby v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidence fraud fraud-charges ppp-loans relevant-conduct rule-404b sentencing |
(1) Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in finding that the district court did not abuse its discretion by admitting Rule 404 (b) evidence of fraudulen… |
| 23-7099 |
Keatron Walls v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent variance-argument |
1.) Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(1) is not an unconstitutional expansion of the Commerce Clause in lig… |
| 23A868 |
Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case certiorari-extension constitutional-review death-penalty fourth-circuit habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 23A864 |
Manuel Sepulveda v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penalty-phase post-conviction |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7088 |
Brian T. Hill v. Josie Gastelo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-right counsel due-process equal-protection jury-trial ninth-circuit parole parole-hearing quorum |
1) Do a t2): ; judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit constitutes a quorum within the meaning of 28 United States Code Section… |
| 23-7070 |
Riley Thornock, et ux. v. Bedford County, Virginia |
Virginia |
2024-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection governmental-overreach property-rights regulatory-taking |
Does the government's attempt to compel an individual out of their established residence or property warrant the appointment of a court-appointed atto… |
| 23-7071 |
Joseph Kelvin Aberant v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion advanced-age age-consideration criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit-review incarceration medical-conditions sentencing sentencing-variance variance |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's abuse of discretion by its failure to give Mr. Aberant a variance sentence and a… |
| 23-7067 |
In Re Timothy Stratton |
|
2024-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-documents plea-bargaining post-conviction-review sentencing |
1. CAN A MAN BE CHARGED TO FIND GUILTY WHERE ALL OF THE NECESSARY ELEMENTS OF A CRIME ARE NOT INVOLVED IN THE JURY'S CHARGE?
2. IS THERE ANY POSSIBLE… |
| 23A861 |
Larry Elwood Steptoe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appeal-dismissal fourth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-access prisoner-rights sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7055 |
Jacob Lyon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922g constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi waiver |
1. Whether an objection to a sentencing enhancement, urged with a specific argument supporting the non-application of that enhancement, waives all oth… |
| 23-1049 |
John-Henry Ayanbadejo v. Chanel Goosby, et al. |
Texas |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment supreme-court-procedure |
1. Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the Te… |
| 23-1047 |
HSU Contracting, LLC v. Holton-Arms School, Inc. |
Maryland |
2024-03-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aia-contract commerce-clause construction-industry construction-law contract-interpretation damages equal-protection small-businesses standard-contract-terms |
In 2018, the Petitioner and Respondent entered into an AIA (American Institute of Architects) contract, a widely utilized construction industry standa… |
| 23-7052 |
Shirron Jozette Gayles-Zanders v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2024-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7035 |
Anderson Garcia v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure dominguez-benitez due-process guilty-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether a defendant who pleads guilty and appeals his sentence, challenging his appeal waiver as unknowing, must show both that the waiver was unknowi… |
| 23-7038 |
Benjamin Thurman v. Rug Doctor |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
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| 23-7041 |
Willie James Pye v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection preliminary-injunction procedural-defense res-judicata section-1983 stay-of-execution sua-sponte |
Mr. Pye brought an action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 and contemporaneously sought a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction to restrain… |
| 23-7042 |
Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Georgia |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability |
Georgia requires persons with intellectual disability to prove their disability 'beyond a reasonable doubt' in order to vindicate their Eighth Amendme… |
| 23A852 |
Melvin Bonnell v. Chris McBee, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-review death-penalty habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct ripeness-doctrine youngblood-claim |
Question not identified. |
| 23A856 |
Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Georgia |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
|
adaptive-deficits death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing woodard-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 23A855 |
Willie James Pye v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
|
due-process equal-protection preliminary-injunction res-judicata section-1983 sua-sponte |
Whether a federal court may raise a procedural affirmative defense sua sponte in the absence of any special circumstances, and, if so, whether it may … |
| 23-7022 |
Elvis Edgardo Molina v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burns-v-united-states due-process evidence-disclosure fifth-amendment guidelines guidelines-range judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance |
Whether the district court's failure to disclose gun statistics from unknown sources of questionable validity to justify an unpre cedented 30-month up… |
| 23-7024 |
Thomas Bevel v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors arbitrary-sentencing capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment proportionality-review reasonable-doubt |
L. Whether Florida's capital sentencing scheme violates the Eighth Amendment because the controlling statute does not meaningfully limit the class of … |
| 23-7026 |
Pedro Valencia-Ayala v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-review discriminatory-purpose equal-protection immigration-law legislative-intent mass-incarceration racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 23-7029 |
Byron James Shepard v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstance aggravating-factors capital-punishment capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-discretion |
Does Oklahoma's continuing threat aggravating circumstance violate this Court's capital sentencing jurisprudence and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendme… |
| 23-7030 |
Logan Dyjak v. Joseph Harper, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection forced-medication fourteenth-amendment judicial-review mental-health petition-denial vitek-v-jones writ-of-certiorari |
Should this Court order, consistent with 42 U.S.C. § 1983, to vacate and make bonds parental interests this a conditions of hospitalization, with mand… |
| 23-7033 |
Donte Taylor v. California |
California |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing |
1) WHy was my 8th amendment denied?
2) Why was my sentence not considered cruel or unusual? |
| 23-7009 |
Warren Simpson v. Alan Simpson |
Arizona |
2024-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection legal-counsel liberty pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation trustee |
1) Should every US citizen, on the defensive side of any adverse legal issue, be
provided council if they wish such and cannot afford or find; and com… |
| 23-6989 |
Lenroy McLean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion co-defendants compassionate-release criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection federal-procedure judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing-factors |
Whether the lower court properly applied the evaluation of the sect. 3553 factors among differently situated co-defendant to denied Petitioner's compa… |
| 23-6997 |
In Re Russell Rope |
|
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct standing |
Whether a Writ for Habeas Corpus Will be Issued
• Was Petitioner's right to fair trial violated due to misconduct or obstruction?
• Did Petitioner r… |
| 23-7000 |
Jereme Lee Escobedo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias sex-crimes sixth-amendment |
QUESTION ONE:
Does a criminal defendant charged with sex-crimes have the same
Constitutional rights as a defendant charged with non-sex-crimes?
QUES… |
| 23-7002 |
Ayoob Wali v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-law miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver-of-appeal |
Should the court of appeals below recognize a fundamental-miscarriage of-justice exception to a waiver-of-appeal provision of a federal criminal defen… |
| 23-7003 |
Kenneth Malik Wise v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowingly-waived plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-argument |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by concluding that Appellant Kenneth Malik Wise knowingly and voluntarily waived his… |
| 23-7005 |
Simon Chan v. Maura Tracy Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment ashcroft-v-iqbal civil-rights class-of-one due-process engquist-v-oregon equal-protection government-discrimination judicial-review |
Question 1: The Massachusetts Government is entrusted by its people to govern fairly and rationally. This lawsuit accuses its state government agencie… |
| 23-6988 |
Anthony Shief v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's protections under Miller v. Alabama require certain sentencing procedures for defendants convicted of crimes committed … |
| 23-6992 |
Reynaldo Avila-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-review legal-reasoning presentence-report sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether a federal court of appeals should vacate the sentence when the district adopts the invalid reasoning of a Presentence Report to resolve a fact… |
| 23-6994 |
Donald M. Reynolds v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review direct-appeal federal-prisoner guidelines-range resentencing retroactive-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification |
While a federal prisoner's direct appeal is pending for sentencing issues, and retroactive Amendment 821 is enacted which now lowers the appellant's g… |
| 23-1009 |
Leisl M. Carpenter v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights equal-protection mootness race-discrimination standing standing-doctrine statutory-interpretation voluntary-cessation |
Section 1005 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 established a debt relief program for "socially disadvantaged" farmers and ranchers. The United S… |
| 23-6969 |
James Paul Antonio v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether an assault with a dangerous weapon, with intent to do bodily harm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(3), categorically qualifies as a predica… |
| 23-6974 |
Bartolo Damaso-Sixtos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overruling precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6977 |
Dasmore T. Coleman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing defendant-rights due-process federal-sentencing procedural-history sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Coleman's sentence is substantively unreasonable. |
| 23-6978 |
Jose Salome Gallardo Granados v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6979 |
Kyston Ivory v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-revocation sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-haymond |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-6962 |
Vernon D. F. Robbins v. John E. Wetzel, former Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-remedy-exhaustion circuit-split due-process equal-protection stare-decisis administrative-exhaustion equal-protection prison-litigation-reform-act pro-se-litigation stare-decisis third-circuit-court |
1. Whether the United States fourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit has entered a
defision^tnat same United States Court of Appeals on the same decis… |
| 23-1002 |
Tony R. Hewitt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-12 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split criminal-law first-step-act judicial-vacatur mandatory-minimum post-enactment-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the FSA's enactment when that original s… |
| 23-993 |
Peter Kleidman v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2024-03-12 |
Denied |
|
court-of-appeal due-process equal-protection error-prone-decisions judicial-procedure legal-precedent mathews-factors new-rule-of-law no-citation-rule uncitable-decisions |
Question 1. Is California's No-citation Rule unconstitutional because it is substantively repugnant to due process?
Question 2. Is California's No-ci… |
| 23-6951 |
Jesus Barron-Bautista v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6954 |
Charles B. Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-law circuit-court-conflict criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-blackwell united-states-v-phipps witte-v-united-states |
WHETHER THE 7TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECISION IN THE CASE AT BAR IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S DECISION IN WITTE V. UNITED… |
| 23-6959 |
Lionel Scott Ellison v. Peter Bludworth, Warden, et al. |
Montana |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection standing |
Does the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution Protect the Rights of each Justice of the United States Supreme Court, to receive any Petition to th… |
| 23-6931 |
Darrell Tillery v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Louisiana |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-rape constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-jury sexual-battery sixth-amendment |
As there are conflicting decisions amongst state courts of last resort concerning a constitutional Issue, In accordance with Rule X(b), this matter is… |
| 23-6936 |
Jose Eulalio Aguillen-Servin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6942 |
Paulino Granda v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum predicate-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Petitioner demonstrates that he has made "a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right " warranting the issuance of a certi… |
| 23-6945 |
Ronnie Cornell Cosby v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federalism government-restrictions interstate-travel public-purpose state-sovereignty travel |
1 - When a state a £&■•!*>& "f0 A^ftoSS s+A+<^ l-Vs w.'-+A AA o<*tote** ^ y^nmejjt A <Lour>Jl t&ip 4"aK«-/ i (^fc 4-ljo fn£h AS + ° {>£&■&•t -iltA^ *t… |
| 23-983 |
Nicholas Harding v. Google LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure article-iii civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment standing state-citizenship |
1. Does the "state wherein they reside" provision of the Fourteenth Amendment define state citizenship for purposes of Article III diversity jurisdict… |
| 23A828 |
Benedict C. Ogbodiegwu v. Bryan Daniel, et al. |
Texas |
2024-03-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-hearing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud-on-court judicial-review |
Question not identified. |
| 23A825 |
Larry Muldrow v. Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights conspiracy due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-984 |
Joseph Dixon v. Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration-appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigation standing |
I. Whether the district court improperly denied
Petitioner pro se due process and equal protection
of law, when it denied Petitioner the right to
a… |
| 23-6925 |
Sadat El-Amin v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection forcible-rape fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment |
1. As there are conflicting decisions amongst state courts of last resort concerning a constitutional issue, in accordance with Rule X(b), this matter… |
| 23-6902 |
Jeffrey Akard v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-error plea-bargain procedural-due-process retroactivity sentencing statutory-provisions |
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4 ^ l$4'Cr £//] ZTo/y ^ A1tLcL&- £t/l error -fo 1/t… |
| 23-6889 |
Richard Wayne Barton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals bureau-of-prisons certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus obstruction-of-justice record-on-appeal |
Whether the Bureau of Prisons' failure and refusal to tender to Barton his Record on Appeal, provided by the Fifth Circuit to enable Barton to prepare… |
| 23-6900 |
Bryan Reshad Hill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-rules fifth-circuit jury-verdict plain-error presentence-report rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Does a sentence twice that authorized by the jury's verdict constitute plain error? This Court's decision in Rosales-Mireles suggests so, but recent F… |
| 23-6878 |
Jose Luis Avalos-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6880 |
Jamel Tyree Lunsford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6882 |
Steven Brown v. Felicia Adkins, Warden, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism marriage same-sex |
Question not identified. |
| 23A806 |
Russell William Tucker v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2024-03-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
batson-challenge death-penalty equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination |
Question not identified. |
| 23-946 |
Henry Eugene Gossage v. Reality Homes, Inc., et al. |
Washington |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-appeal judicial-review standing trial-de-novo |
The Washington State Court of Appeals Division IT and State Supreme Court has created an unworkable legal standard to Deny the prevailing unrepresente… |
| 23-6868 |
David Wayne Nelson v. Jim Salmonsen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the U.S. court of appeals err when it denied a Certificate of Appealability and/or remand to the district court to allow the petitioner (Nelson) t… |
| 23-6870 |
Ariel Perez-Lainez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6844 |
In Re Deborah E. Gouch-Onassis |
|
2024-02-28 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6845 |
Milton Martin Biester-Villeda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6846 |
In Re Shirron Jozette Gayles-Zanders |
|
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus nevada-supreme-court post-conviction-relief |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6849 |
Juan Salazar-Grimaldo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-procedure criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6834 |
Jeremy Lee Sestak v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
as-applied-petition constitutional-protections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release u.s.s.g.-§4b1.5 u.s.s.g.-§5d1.2 |
Can a defendant bring an as-applied petition for modification of the supervised conditions?
Does supervised release conditions as applied invoke Doub… |
| 23-6837 |
David Carbonaro v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review computer-crime computer-use criminal-procedure image-quantity judicial-discretion number-of-images reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements |
I. Whether the Court erred when it overruled the objections to the enhancements for the use of a computer and the number of images?
II. Whether the C… |
| 23-922 |
Ronald McCray v. City of Beloit, Wisconsin, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review state-courts unpublished-opinions |
I. Are the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District IV, UNPUBLISHED Opinion and Order 2021AP693, filed March 2, 2023, and UNPUBLISHED Opinion and Order 20… |
| 23-6824 |
Jeremiah James Lynch v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment parole proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Is it a Constitutional Violation to a grade A, naoUTk>iT\
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YAoa't… |
| 23-6830 |
Thomas E. Creech v. Josh Tewalt, Director, Idaho Department of Correction, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-secrecy lethal-injection |
Whether it comports with due process for a state to refuse to provide a condemned inmate information about his method of execution that would enable h… |
| 23-6832 |
Willie Levens, II v. Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity racial-discrimination standing |
I. What is the test of Levans Vs (Las pad invites, vi cld-ionkUMMb. rights.
2. kklhir an Off Mil OfFi'air sfill fliiairfto for ..fjjiflliTi'di immunf… |
| 23-6810 |
Larry D. Mosley v. Phillip A. White, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
Abuse-of-Discretion Equal-Protection Fourteenth-Amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance Police-Misconduct Prosecutorial-Misconduct Sixth-Amendment trial-court-discretion |
1. Did the federalcourt's ruling on Mosley's Ineffective
equal protectionAssistance of Counsel claim deny Mosley
where the court had before itan evid… |
| 23-6811 |
In Re Miguel Antonio Garcia |
|
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appearance-of-bias civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection impartiality judicial-recusal procedural-fairness standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6819 |
In Re Mary A. Nelson-Rogers |
|
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights equal-protection first-amendment free-speech standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23A772 |
Jorge Galindo v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2024-02-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-sentencing death-penalty eddings-standard eighth-amendment mitigating-circumstances youthful-offender |
Question not identified. |
| 23A771 |
Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp. v. The School Committee for the City of Boston, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment race-discrimination school-admissions section-1983 |
Question not identified. |
| 23A768 |
Terrence E. Gilchrist v. Simone Craig |
Ohio |
2024-02-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-support due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit interstate-enforcement turner-v-rogers |
Question not identified. |
| 23-905 |
John William Hanson, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arrest-time civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force false-testimony jury-instructions search-and-seizure sentencing |
1. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has already established that the Petitioner did not Resist Arrest on February 3, 2018. "Hanson did not threaten … |
| 23-911 |
Mary A. Harris v. Monroe County Public Library Board of Trustees, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination equal-protection race-discrimination race-retaliation retaliation |
Does the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution permit race retaliation claims? |
| 23-6808 |
Joseph Michael King, aka Joey King v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process non-indigent sentencing sentencing-enhancement special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Under 18 U.S.C. § 3014(a), defendants convicted of certain sexual offenses must be assessed a $5000 special assessment if one other condition is met —… |
| 23-6786 |
Carl Ray McNeil, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
The Armed Career Criminal Act imposes heightened statutory penalties if a defendant convicted of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) has three prior c… |
| 23-6791 |
Thomas Eugene Creech v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards judicial-sentencing post-conviction state-court |
Whether it comports with due process for a state court to reject as untimely an evolving-standards claim on a theory that would never allow for such a… |
| 23A761 |
Thomas Eugene Creech v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-proportionality cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution mental-illness |
Question not identified. |
| 23-889 |
In Re William B. Jolley |
|
2024-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-judges administrative-law constitutional-appointment due-process equal-protection merit-systems-protection-board mspb-procedure veterans veterans-rights whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
I
Do Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) decisions of Veteran and
Whistleblower appeals fail for lack of "due process " where 5 C.F.R. f 1201.57(d)… |
| 23-890 |
In Re Batia Zareh |
|
2024-02-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bilingual-election bilingual-requirements circuit-split compassionate-release constitutional-discrimination constitutional-law due-process election-law election-requirements equal-protection equal-protection
23-88" extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act language-minority mandatory-minimum-sentence national-origin sentencing-reduction voting-rights Whether non-retroactive changes in law can be 'ext |
Whether the Bilingual Election Requirements
(52 U.S.C. §10503) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
(52 U.S.C. §10301, et. sec.) by authorizing coverage
a… |
| 23-6788 |
Terrance Fowler v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-02-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions maximum-penalty sentencing uncharged-crime |
Can a State deny a defendant due process of law by convicting and sentencing him to the maximum penalty for a crime that he was not charged with, nor … |
| 23-6768 |
Vidal Garza-Morin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6771 |
Wild Chang, et al. v. Farmers Insurance Company, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights contract-rewriting due-process equal-protection insurance insurance-fraud RICO rico-fraud standing statutory-interpretation |
Q1. Whether national insurance companies can continue committing the RICO frauds in concert with other members of the RICO Enterprise with impunity by… |
| 23-6776 |
Robert Shawn Ingram v. Warden, Holman Correctional Facility |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel |
Is an attorney constitutionally ineffective when he does not realistically convey to his client the consequences of failing to honor his plea agreemen… |
| 23-883 |
Lawrence Wilson Kingsley v. Ann Elizabeth Lange |
Louisiana |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts appellate-procedure case-dismissal civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud judicial-intervention procedural-intervention standing |
Should this case be allowed to conflict with both federal and state cases which hold that a nonparty cannot intervene in a case without adherence to F… |
| 23A756 |
Harvey Windsor v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenges death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6747 |
Michael L. Miller v. Jeffery Norman |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure reproductive-rights scotus statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6759 |
Hia-Keem Don'ae Rice v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing supervised-release written-judgment |
Whether Rule 43(a)(3) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which requires a defendant to be present at sentencing, permits the sentencing judge… |
| 23-6745 |
Raymond Wilson, III v. Fairhaven Police Department, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection interstate-crime jurisdictional-issues legal-elements malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Why some cases can be successful and prosecute, whereas others cannot, having the same elements yet to be interpreted, and whereas a bias of a certain… |
| 23-6748 |
Eric Lavell Minter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-court-review civil-rights clear-error-standard criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure due-process evidence fact-based-enhancement managerial-role sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Must a district court find that a defendant exercised control over another participant in a criminal enterprise before considering a managerial role s… |
| 23-6751 |
Delon Joseph Adams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute firearm-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c)(1)(D)(ii) precludes a sentencing court from imposing a sentence for a Section 924(c) firearm offense partially concur… |
| 23-6754 |
Rodwick F. Abadam v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-violation miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement second-amendment sentencing sentencing-error |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when it failed to find that sentencing errors that violated Mr. Abadam's Second Amendment rights can amount to a "miscarr… |
| 23-6755 |
Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-deference atkins-v-virginia death-penalty federal-habeas habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-deference state-court-review supreme-court-review |
Robert Ybarra, Jr., is on death row in Nevada. He is intellectually disabled.
During a state court hearing on his claim under Atkins v. Virginia, 536 … |
| 23-6738 |
Ellis Louis Mashburn, Jr. v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder capital-trial death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether, under Strickland v. Washington , a death row inmate is
precluded from establishing prejudice from his trial counsel's
deficient performance d… |
| 23-6725 |
Deonte Marques Curry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process electronic-filing forfeiture notice restitution sentencing sentencing-error |
1. In Dolan v. United States, 560 U.S. 605 (2010), the Court held that compliance with the statutory deadline for determining restitution was unnecess… |
| 23-862 |
West Flagler Associates, Ltd., dba Magic City Casino, et al. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-02-12 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
equal-protection federal-approval indian-gaming-regulatory-act internet-gambling online-gambling sports-betting sports-gambling tribal-lands unlawful-internet-gambling-enforcement-act |
1. Whether IGRA authorize s the approval of a
compact that purports to allow for an online sports
gambling monopoly throughout the state and off
India… |
| 23-865 |
Dale Wendall Laue v. State Bar of California |
California |
2024-02-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights diversity-equity-inclusion due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest licensing moral-character standing state-bar-admission |
1. Whether admission to a State Bar, or other
state licensing agency, constitutes a liberty interest
under the United States Constitution.
2. Wheth… |
| 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… |
| 23-6712 |
Abner Renato Natareno-Calderon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges
the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may
rebut an appellate … |
| 23-6714 |
Ramon Umberto Cortez-Rodriguez, aka Ramon Humberto Cortez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-review jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6707 |
Sean Robert Wathen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon district-court drug-offense enhancement factual-findings findings-of-fact sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-2d1.1(b)(1) weapon-enhancement |
1. Is the sentencing court required to make specific findings of fact, supported by the record, that a defendant possessed a dangerous weapon in conne… |
| 23-6708 |
Georgios V. Vloutis v. Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft |
District of Columbia |
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection government-accountability national-security patriot-act terrorism terrorism-allegations |
1. The Lufthansa Airlines has been ignoring my letters my phone calls and my emails for the
last two years.Why they showing no responsibility for the… |
| 23-855 |
Richard Abbott v. Supreme Court of Delaware, et al. |
Delaware |
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause disbarment due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech pro-se professional-licensure |
I. Whether a person proceeding Pro Se in defending a confidential professional licensure disbarment proceeding is vested with full 1st Amendment Right… |
| 23-6690 |
Lamark Armond Combs, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process record-expansion remand sentencing |
I. May a district court expand the record on remand to allow the government to present additional evidence even though the government's burden was cle… |
| 23-6655 |
Ralph Hall v. Anthony J. Annucci, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-action constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review legal-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6668 |
Roosevelt L. Lincoln, aka Roosevelt L. Linicomn v. Harris County Sheriff's Office, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness legal-procedure section-242 statutory-interpretation |
1) DOES THE 14th AMENDMENT ; [AND SECTION 242 OF TITLE 18]
CONSTITUTE A MAN JUSTICE?
2) DOES THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE HAVE ANY RULES TO GO BY UNDER … |
| 23A720 |
Jeremy Lee Sestak v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge double-jeopardy fifth-amendment modification-of-conditions sentencing supervised-release |
Question not identified. |
| 23-831 |
Constance Eileen Caswell v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
almendarez-torres apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process felony-enhancement jury-determination jury-trial misdemeanor-elevation prior-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether a prior misdemeanor conviction that elevates a subsequent offense from a misdemeanor to a felony is an element of the subsequent offense th… |
| 23-6659 |
Edward Logan v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection pre-trial-detention sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
Wow con a Gioke enack and use an Ack, that by 45 oon Vagu ness, Com tae Werpretated te deny . Any. Criminal defendant the vight te.a spealy triol unde… |
| 23-6663 |
Emmanuel Gil v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6642 |
David Wayne Poydras v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-standard factual-innocence indigent-defendants judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-6645 |
Arthur Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-6646 |
Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht |
New Hampshire |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-violence due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights |
A recent New Hampshire Supreme Court precedential Opinion (July 25, 2023) addressed the enforcement of a valid child custody decree in a multi-state d… |
| 23A710 |
Pushpa Shekar v. PHH Mortgage Group |
Illinois |
2024-02-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review discriminatory-practices due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion petition-for-leave |
Question not identified. |
| 23A713 |
Richard Lee Tabler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
agency-duties death-penalty ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-habeas waiver-of-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6627 |
In Re Reginald Bernard Hatton |
|
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing time-served unconstitutional |
QUESTION No. 1.
WHETHER THE PETITIONER HAS BEEN DEPRIVED OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL
RIGHTS UNDER THE 8TH AND 14TH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES
CONSTITU… |
| 23-6632 |
Jasen Randhawa v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deterrence due-process general-deterrence sentencing sentencing-discretion social-science social-science-evidence |
I. Does a court violate a defendant's right to due process when a lengthy sentence is based upon mistaken information that a severe sentence will dete… |
| 23-6637 |
Aruan Aleman Hernandez v. Palm Beach County State Attorney |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
3. If the 6th Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the defendants with the right to assistance of counsel, it is fair to not include i… |
| 23-6612 |
Cornelius R. Caple v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-precedent career-offender case-law criminal-law due-process jackson-case sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Lower Court's erred in declaring the Petitioner a career offender in violation of Borden -v- United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021); Jackso… |
| 23-6621 |
Adrian Ayala-Garcia, et al. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-communications collateral-attack guilty-plea pre-plea-claims prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing tollett-preclusion tollett-v-henderson |
I. Does Tollett v. Henderson, 411 U.S. 258 (1973), preclude the government and
a defendant from conditioning a guilty plea on the defendant's right to… |
| 23-6590 |
Johnny Eugene Holton v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction mandatory-minimum res-judicata sentencing statutory-interpretation void-sentence |
1) Was Petitioner Deprived of His Due Process Clause of His Fourteenth Amendment fights and Equal Protection of the Law in Violation of His Rights Pro… |
| 23-6605 |
In Re Darius Lake |
|
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review jury-selection legal-procedure precedent racial-discrimination sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6606 |
In Re Jose Alonso Jimenez |
|
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
article-iii civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation jurisdictional-issue juvenile-justice legal-standards sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
I.HOW DOES-ONE NOT HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL
SAME FREEDOMS AS A JUVENILE WHOSE STANDARDS
-ULTS ARE LESS IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY?RIGHT TO THE
FOR ADII.WHE… |
| 23-817 |
Michael Donatelli, et al. v. Town of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, et al. |
Maine |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment motion-for-reconsideration motion-for-sanctions spoliation-of-evidence summary-judgment |
Did the court err in passing on properly disposing of the plaintiffs' filing of a motion for sanctions due to spoliation of evidence mis-styled as a m… |
| 23-6589 |
Reginald L. McCoy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing drug-quantity first-step-act judicial-discretion prior-finding sentencing sentencing-review statutory-threshold |
Whether a First Step Act movant's entitlement to review hinges on the statutory sentencing threshold for his offense, or may be foreclosed by a prior … |
| 23-6592 |
Bernardito Carvajal, aka Christian Mendez-Acevedo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-verdict sentencing sentencing-discretion unreasonable-sentence |
May a sentencing judge disregard the jury's verdict acquitting the defendant of causing the decedent's death and use facts the jury rejected to justif… |
| 23-6594 |
Noemy Ramirez-Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6596 |
Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
board-of-immigration-appeals child-status-protection-act criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review fair-sentencing-act immigration-law plain-error priority-date retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6562 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-protocol nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction ptsd-trauma standing |
Did the Eleventh Circuit deviate from established precedent when it affirmed the denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction on the ground that hi… |
| 23-6570 |
Bryan P. Hernandez v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington |
Washington |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6574 |
Deirdre Baker v. JEA |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-document petition standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6577 |
Vahe Dadyan and Artur Ayvazyan, aka Arthur Ayvazyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process mandatory-restitution proportional-punishment reasonably-foreseeable restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3663A (Mandatory restitution to victims of certain crimes) which imposes restitution for losses "directly and proximately" caused … |
| 23A688 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
|
cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-method fourteenth-amendment nitrogen-hypoxia |
Whether the State of Alabama's planned execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith using nitrogen hypoxia—a method never before attempted by any State or the fe… |
| 23-793 |
Isidro Javier Armenta v. California |
California |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment automated-enforcement automated-traffic-enforcement confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause holding in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U.S. 305 (2009) extends to automated traffic enforc… |
| 23-801 |
Richard George, et al. v. Triton Property Investments, LLC |
California |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights contract-clause due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants seventh-amendment state-courts |
Whether the empirical evidence of bias against, otherwise identically situated, pro se litigants in state courts proves the judicial intent to discrim… |
| 23-6560 |
Cole A. Wolak v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-conviction district-court-error double-jeopardy possession procedural-reasonableness receipt-and-distribution sentencing |
WHEIHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN CONVICTING PETITIONER FOR BOTH POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND FOR RECEIPT AND DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAP… |
| 23-6534 |
Lucious M. Jackson v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination scotus |
(1) Whether the state court's disregard of a Officer of the Court Reliance on FRAUD to Justify A Discriminatory Jury Strike Contradicts the Holding of… |
| 23-6537 |
Gregory Steshenko v. Foothill-De Anza Community College District, et al. |
California |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
ostensibly justified by business necessity violated the constitutional equal-protection business-necessity civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection public-education public-interest standing |
Whether permission of discrimination in public education against the protected classes, ostensibly justified by business necessity, violated the const… |
| 23-6540 |
Jennifer Agnes Lopez v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-immunity state-actors statute-of-limitations |
1. Whether the State actors can deprive the individual of a fair treatment which violates the guarantees of the Fifth Fourteenth Amendment;
2. Whethe… |
| 23-6546 |
Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether an indictment that alleges only a non-offense or that accepts a plea to conduct falling outside the scope of a federal mail or wire fraud stat… |
| 23-6548 |
Andrew Joseph Avitable, aka Andrew Joseph Larson v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-breach due-process equal-protection forma-pauperis indigent judicial-immunity pro-se-litigation state-law-interpretation |
1. Can a State create policies, rules, and/or laws that contradict the State's and US Constitutions; and create a situation in which only those with t… |
| 23-6549 |
Delon Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment motion-to-withdraw penson-v-ohio right-to-counsel standing |
WHETHER THE PETJTOINERS FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED,
WHEN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS GRANTED COUNSEL'S MOTION
FOR LEAVE TO WIT… |
| 23-790 |
Matthew Flinders v. State Bar of California |
California |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment age-discrimination bar-admission due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection privileges-and-immunities sovereign-immunity state-sovereign-immunity |
(1) Whether the State Supreme Court and State
Bar's denial of admission based on age violated
Petitioner's rights to due process, equal protection,
an… |
| 23-789 |
Larisa Dirkzwager v. Archer-Daniels-Midland Company |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal civil-procedure constitutional-review deadline due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-error jurisdiction procedural-deadline standing |
1. Whether the Judge's error in miscalculation of the Plaintiffs Response deadline negates his dispositive Order and thereby logically and legally ren… |
| 23A664 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-01-19 |
Denied |
|
cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-attempt iv-access lethal-injection |
Question not identified. |
| 23A663 |
Brandon De McCall v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-01-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case constitutional-review death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance texas-criminal-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 23-777 |
Herbert O. Chadbourne, Jr. v. Cumberland County District Court |
First Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-general civil-procedure default-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-rules honest-services-fraud judicial-procedure standing state-created-danger |
1. Since Maine's Attorney General: Aaron Frey, "declined to participate" for the entire 293-day duration of this case while it was before the United S… |
| 23-6512 |
Douglas Wayne Sokell v. David Pedro, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review life-sentence prisoner-detention recidivism sentencing three-strikes-law |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6515 |
John Edward Hall v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof death-penalty due-process federal-habeas standard-of-review state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6484 |
Miguel Angel Sanchez-Delgado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6488 |
Juan Garcia-Bertadillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6492 |
Delondo Henderson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
complicity complicity-law controlled-substances criminal-law inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 |
Does the State of Kentucky's complicity law state an inchoate offense, such that a conviction for complicity cannot constitute a "controlled substance… |
| 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… |
| 23-6498 |
Kevin Clayton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial murder racketeering racketeering-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the Jury Trial guarantees contained in the Sixth Amendment were violated when the District … |
| 23-771 |
Jill L. Stein, et al. v. Federal Election Commission |
District of Columbia |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-access federal-election-commission minor-party presidential-primary public-financing ballot-access equal-protection minor-party-candidates presidential-election primary-campaign public-financing |
Whether 26 U.S.C. § 9032(6) violates the equal protection of law by guaranteeing that major party candidates are eligible to receive public financing … |
| 23-770 |
John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge equal-protection federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction redressability rooker-feldman standing state-court |
Does Rooker-Feldman bar jurisdiction when declaring a statute unconstitutional would undermine a state court's reliance upon the statute?
Does Rooker… |
| 23A658 |
Pedro Rodriguez v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aggregate-sentence constitutional-proportionality federal-intervention habeas-review sentencing state-court-discretion |
Question not identified. |
| 23A654 |
Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Christe Quick, Acting Warden, Oklahoma State Penitentiary |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-trial sentencing-review |
Question not identified. |
| 23-761 |
Kionn Alls v. Florida Department of Revenue, on Behalf of Sharita Denise Gosa |
Florida |
2024-01-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection fundamental-error judicial-duty jurisdiction jurisdictional-error procedural-due-process standing |
Do our state court of appeals have an unrenunciable judicial duty to correct jurisdictional or fundamental errors that were preserved at trial, were r… |
| 23-6477 |
Jamaile L. Huey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit mens-rea robbery robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime |
Whether a state robbery conviction, sustained under a statute without a specified mens rea for the element of violence or threat of violence, but with… |
| 23-6457 |
Peter Grigg v. Barbara Benson |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-standards standing |
VIOLATIONS OF US CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
VIOLATIONS OF CIVIL RIGHTS
VIOLATIONS OF US COURTS JUDICIAL CANONS
VIOLATIONS OF MONTANA CODE ANNOTATED
VIO… |
| 23-6458 |
Mario Astudillo-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6461 |
Luis Armando Jimenez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-justice federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Under Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), can a district court at sentencing ignore a party's nonfrivolous arguments for a greater or lesser s… |
| 23-6470 |
Richard L. Gathercole v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-motion jurisdiction section-2255 sentencing unconstitutional |
(1) US 38 U.S.C. Section 2255 Whether petitioner has subjected to any substantial or procedural defects that ended his life, thereby violating section… |
| 23-6452 |
Shannon R. Thomas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
compassionate-release criminal-procedure federal-sentencing first-step-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-6453 |
James David Welton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus maximum-sentence petition-review procedural-challenge sentencing state-court-conviction supervised-release supreme-court-review |
Whether the court should grant the writ to resolve a circuit split as to whether the sentence of supervised release must be counted with a 10 year max… |
| 23-746 |
Dmitry Nikolenko v. Luiza Nikolenko |
Texas |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration international-comity personal-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1) Whether the Texas court violated the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause and interna-tional comity when it exercised subject matter jurisdictio… |
| 23-750 |
Jennica Carmona, Individually, and as Parent and Natural Guardian of B. A., et al. v. New Jersey Department of Education, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-exhaustion change-in-placement disability-rights due-process educational-placement equal-protection idea individuals-with-disabilities-education-act rehabilitation-act standing virtual-instruction |
1. Whether the move from in-person to virtual
educational instruction and support services
constitutes a change in placement under the
Individuals … |
| 23-733 |
Jada Ku v. Great Falls College Montana State University |
Montana |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accommodation civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process educational-discrimination equal-protection mental-health-rights reasonable-accommodation standing state-university |
Can the Great Falls College Montana State University discriminate against
me because of my mental disability?
Will the Supreme Court of the State of… |
| 23A634 |
Mary A. Harris v. Monroe County Public Library Board of Trustees, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection retaliation section-1983 |
Question not identified. |
| 23A627 |
Byron James Shepard v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-01-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
continuing-threat death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sentencing-hearing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6425 |
Christopher Daniel Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings direct-appeal due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-phase |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits courts to find a plea agreement waiver that is silent as to Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1… |
| 23-6431 |
Mariano Madrid v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process federal-law judicial-review juvenile-justice legal-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6432 |
Carlos Martinez v. California |
California |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto first-step-act prior-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6433 |
Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-finding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty |
The Armed Career Criminal Act imposes heightened statutory penalties if a defendant convicted of an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) has three prior c… |
| 23-6434 |
Pascal Gedeon v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment judicial-discretion mandamus pretrial-motions speedy-trial-act vagueness |
1) Will delay resulting from pretrial motions be excluded under the Speedy Trial Act if a defendant can assert that the motion hearing was deliberatel… |
| 23-6421 |
Remberto Rivera v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-guidance circuit-split deference judicial-deference sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation stinson-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie, 139 S. Ct. 2400 (2019), now prescribes the amount of deference to be paid to the United States Sente… |
| 23-6422 |
Raymond J. Kraynak v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process fair-and-just-reason guilty-plea judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing trial-court-discretion withdrawal-of-plea |
I. Whether Petitioner has sufficiently shown a fair and just reason for requesting withdrawal of his guilty plea such that the trial court shall grant… |
| 23-6414 |
In Re Joseph Raimondo |
|
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice qualified-immunity |
Whether the United State Eastern District of MI Court Errored when granting Respondents in civil cases No. 2:01-cv-71353, and Case No. 2:02-cv-71696, … |
| 23-6415 |
Christian Cruz v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection first-degree-murder pulley-v-harris relative-culpability sentencing supreme-court-review |
WHETHER THE AFFIRMANCE BY THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA OF DEFENDANT'S CONVICTION FOR FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND SENTENCE OF DEATH WAS CLEARL… |
| 23-6417 |
Ralph Hall v. New York |
New York |
2024-01-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech government-speech prosecutorial-discretion sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6410 |
Pedro Pena-Talamantes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6411 |
Gilberto Salvador Cortez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-determination jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6412 |
Jose Eugenio Pavon-Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6402 |
Vidal Orellana-Sibrian v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6403 |
Tony L. Ford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states criminal-resentencing eleventh-circuit eleventh-circuit-interpretation fair-sentencing-act first-step-act intervening-law-changes sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-penalty |
Previously, the courts of appeals were divided over whether a district court could consider intervening changes to the law during First Step Act proce… |
| 23-6405 |
Brian K. Allen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-circuit fundamental-rights plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-procedure |
1. Whether the near consensus Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals'
application of plea agreement appeal waivers as to subsequent
sentencing proceedings,… |
| 23-6406 |
Jamal Eberhardt v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-standard criminal-procedure due-process excessive-sentence judicial-discretion reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review third-circuit |
1. Did the Third Circuit error by not finding Mr. Eberhardt's sentence was harsh and excessive. |
| 23-6408 |
Jade LaRoche v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the use of acquitted conduct to determine a
defendant's sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth
Amendments. |
| 23A615 |
Curtis Dwayne Vaughn v. Sean M. Flannery, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
americans-with-disabilities-act due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6396 |
Eleuterio Covarrubias-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 23-6398 |
Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection executive-order federal-funding separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity |
1) The "Sec. 8. Affirmatively Advancing Civil Rights ... to prevent and address discrimination and advance equity for all" clause of the 2/16/2023 Pre… |
| 23-6399 |
Michael Salinas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the government must pr… |
| 23-6377 |
Ryan F. Duncan v. Florida Commission on Offender Review |
Florida |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
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| 23-6382 |
Francisco Batista-Reyes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process equal-protection first-time-offenders mdlea-offenses safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Do the MDLEA first time offenders charged for the violation of both the MDLEA as well as §§ 960 (b) and 963 statutes have a right to safety valve reli… |
| 23-6383 |
Guillermo Octavio Arbelaez v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards retroactivity teague-rule teague-v-lane |
In Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), this Court held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude the execution of individuals with intel… |
| 23-6384 |
Monterial Wesley v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-conflict criminal-justice-system due-process extraordinary-reasons prosecutorial-misconduct sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a combination of "extraordinary and compelling reasons" that may warrant a discretionary sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) ca… |
| 23-6385 |
Alfonso Garcia-Vela v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6390 |
Jose Guadalupe Ramirez v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adolescent-brain-development due-process expert-assistance indigent-defendant mandatory-life-sentence right-to-present-defense sentencing |
Does a trial court deprive an indigent defendant of due process and the right to present a defense by failing to appoint an adolescent brain developme… |
| 23-6391 |
Christopher Dalton Thomas v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection retaliation title-vii whistleblower-protection |
1. Are minority males who oppose discrimination and illegal activity in good-faith and
terminated without cause entitled to Equal Protection ? If so,… |
| 23-6357 |
Dalton Laquane Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice due-process federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion motion-for-relief sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the denial of the Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) Motion is contrary to this Court's ruling in CONCEPCION? see infra. |
| 23-6359 |
Davin Chaz Nevins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-amendment supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-6363 |
Matthew Reid Hinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competent-counsel due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
DOES AN ATTORNEY ADVISING HIS CLIENT TO ENTER A GUILTY PLEA WITHOUT
FIRST INVESTIGATING THE CASE AND/OR INTERVIEWING WITNESSES THEN
DISCUSSING VIABLE … |
| 23-6364 |
Luis Guridi v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6366 |
Jose Martin Islas v. DHS/ICE Office of Chief Counsel-ATD |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-appeal due-process equal-protection immigration visa-petition |
1. A person who is physical present in the United States, whose criminal appeal is pending in a state court, has a visa petition pending, and is not a… |
| 23-6373 |
Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-hearing civil-rights clearance constitutional-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process employer-discrimination equal-protection retaliation security-clearance |
Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1678 (DC-
3443-18-0288-1-1) which was about DIA's Admin Judge 's Failure to Postpon… |
| 23A587 |
Russell G. Conlon v. Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Child Support Services, et al. |
Oklahoma |
2023-12-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-support commerce-clause due-process equal-protection health-insurance origination-clause |
Question not identified. |
| 23A586 |
Anthony F. Wainwright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari civil-procedure death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sixty-b |
Question not identified. |
| 23A583 |
Ellis Louis Mashburn, Jr. v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case constitutional-challenge death-penalty eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6346 |
Walter Freeman Jordan, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-petition sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6351 |
Jerome Terry, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit notice sentencing sentencing-departure upward-departure waiver |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal when the district court failed to give notice of its intent to depart upwards 147 months and … |
| 23-6332 |
Antonio Misael Rivera-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-law circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), applies to claims of procedural error? |
| 23-6318 |
William Joseph Daniel v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consenting-adults constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection glucksberg-test privileges-or-immunities substantive-due-process |
1.) There are 330 million Americans and almost all of them either have or will
choose who to pursue for potential marriage, children, and family, whic… |
| 23-6320 |
Santiago Salazar-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6321 |
Barbara Johnson-Luster v. Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights court-appointed-counsel disability-rights due-process equal-protection exceptional-circumstances title-vii |
Whether an appellant in the Circuit Courts, with an invisible disability and previous court appointed attorneys in the Lower District Courts should re… |
| 23-6322 |
Ohio, ex rel. Ricardo Dodson v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. |
Ohio |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dna-testing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-hearing paternity paternity-determination rape |
1. WHETHER PETITION WAS DENIED HIS FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO A FAIR PAROLE HEARING WHERE THE PAROLE BOARD, DURING PAROLE CONSIDERATION… |
| 23-6323 |
Ryan F. Duncan v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification-evidence mandatory-minimum parole photo-array plea-bargaining sentencing witness-testimony |
I. Does (x. \t\&\ CUjurV c\. c*\<nvrwOi &&£erAdn\r cP di/ve. process ujWexA (\tde^Mf\c^ (x. o^aAVm pk^ u)^<mV v^ftAin^ -\h(y*\ dootxV (k. vmc,d{*Wu ■V… |
| 23-6325 |
James E. Downs v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection florida-statute habitual-offender sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONS (4) (0), (¢ )e 14 AMENDMENTS) CAN THE CLNEMS BEING PRESENTED HEREIN DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT MANIFEST WSUSTSECCE… |
| 23A572 |
Darrell Wayne Frederick v. Christe Quick, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-sentencing habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6314 |
Dana Jahmal Stevenson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review attempt attempt-offense controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the court of appeal s erred in ruling that a prior sentence for a
violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841 (a)(1) qualified as a "controlled substance … |
| 23-666 |
James T. Cunningham v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
|
court-martial criminal-procedure due-process military-justice non-unanimous-verdict prejudice-test sentencing unanimous-verdict victim-impact-statement |
I.
Whether Senior Airman James T. Cunningham was
entitled to a unanimous verdict in his court-martial
when the Government convicted him of murder—a
se… |
| 23-668 |
Warren King v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (13) |
28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-determination jury-selection racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
1. Whether the Georgia Supreme Court's decision was based on "an unreasonable determination" of the facts. 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2).
2. Whether the Geo… |
| 23-6301 |
Delbert Leroy Oldham v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines res-judicata sentencing |
(1). Whether the Court of Appeals erred by applying the doctrine of res judicata to "Petition In Error" because Petitioner raised Constitutional error… |
| 23-6280 |
Felix I. Gaspard v. BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP, et al. |
Florida |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure foreclosure-action fraud judicial-immunity property-rights taking-clause |
1. Under the U.S and Florida Constitutions, pursuant to applicable rules"plaintiffs" entered into with 49 States and the Federal Government the fraud … |
| 23-6282 |
Clay Chastain v. Bedford Regional Water Authority |
Virginia |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-procedure public-utility rate-regulation statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Can a Locality practice uniformly and selectively charge K Lucho mecs J: Lhe ant fove © Marian he susan all the Custome zc use ¢
2. Does sudan av … |
| 23-6275 |
Samuel Trelawney Hughes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing |
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).… |
| 23-6279 |
Ismael Robles-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6242 |
Francisco Mora-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-overturning sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6244 |
Edmond Carl Warrington v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction federal-offense judicial-review sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the $5,000 additional special assessment imposed under 18 U.S.C. § 3014, which applies upon conviction of certain enumerated federal offenses,… |
| 23-6245 |
Donato Lopez-Arellano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6248 |
Pradeep B. Gupte v. Kimberly Davis, HR Director, Newington Public Schools, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6249 |
Flenoid Greer v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines successive-motion |
Can a State's collateral review procedures deny a person from having an invalid sentence vacated, without violating the right to petition.
Whether Pe… |
| 23-6250 |
Matthew C. Spaeth v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-client-confidentiality collateral-attack plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sixth-amendment tollett-precedent |
I. Does Tollett v. Henderson, 411 U.S. 258 (1973), preclude the government and a defendant from conditioning a guilty plea on the defendant's right to… |
| 23-6251 |
Jonathan Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct confrontation-clause due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-standard sixth-amendment suppression-motion |
I. Whether the use of a preponderance of the evidence standard at sentencing violated Rodriguez's Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment rights?
II. Whe… |
| 23-6252 |
Juan Antonio Guerrero-Lazaro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6254 |
William Graves, III v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants |
WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA HAS CREATED RULES OF CRIMINAL AND APPELLATE PROCEDURE THAT ARBITRARILY AND UNREASONABLY ENCROACHES UPON THE PERSONAL RIGH… |
| 23-6229 |
Arnold A. Cary v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-materials medical-care prisoner-rights toxic-exposure toxic-water |
Did CDOC violate Cary's A constitutional federal question: 1.
due process and equal protection, provided in the Fourteenth and
Eighth Amendments, rega… |
| 23-6238 |
William Jarvis v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation confrontation-clause due-process effective-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment third-party-guilt |
1. Whether the Fifth Amendment right to be free from the compulsion to make self incriminating statements includes the right to not be required to pro… |
| 23-6240 |
Jesus Salvador Gonzalez-Lunar v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation covered-vessel criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-determination jury-trial maritime-law proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, or an adequate factual basis during a guilty plea, to find that a … |
| 23-630 |
James E. Pietrangelo, II v. Christopher T. Sununu, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Governor of New Hampshire, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-policy equal-protection qualified-immunity race-discrimination racial-discrimination section-1983 standing standing-doctrine |
Recently, Justice Thomas remarked how, despite the clear constitutional prohibition against racial classifications, government actors continue to "go … |
| 23-6214 |
Sealed v. Sealed |
Florida |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-proceeding judicial-review manifest-injustice parental-rights |
1. Does the decision of the Florida State Courts to deny the
Petitioner opportunity for belated appeal of the Lower
Court 's decision to terminate h… |
| 23-6216 |
Daniel E. Hall v. Devon Brochu-Reynolds |
New Hampshire |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law standing |
1. Did the NHSC apply Rule 20(2) unconstitutionally and violate Father's due process rights to a meaningful appeal?
2. Did the NHSC violate the Due P… |
| 23-6219 |
Manuel Rodrigues-Barios v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-criminal-law immigration legislative-intent mass-incarceration racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 23-6221 |
Gustavo Carrillo-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration legislative-intent mass-incarceration race-discrimination racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 23-6199 |
Trayvon Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-pronouncement life-sentence plain-language sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-6207 |
Ottis J. Cummings Jr., aka Ottis Junior Cummings, aka Otis Cummings, aka Ottis J. Commings, aka Otis J. Cummings v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations sex-discrimination standing trial-counsel |
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Hon" proceedings due to otatolly Mckay sexh? |
B). . . .Whebher Yro iadielmnent aos, orren… |
| 23-6182 |
Joshua Anthony Peterman v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender indictment ineffective-assistance judicial-bias jury-indictment prosecutorial-bias sentencing speedy-trial |
(1) Whether the trial Court erred in amending Judgment and hate Sentencing to not* dual in violation of fllx, ft-Crim. P, Rule ti&lH,i (h)
(d) Whethe… |
| 23-6187 |
Jamar Green v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Rehearing |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sentencing waiver-of-counsel waiver-of-rights |
1. Whether an uncounseled felony guilty plea is Constitutionally valid when
the defendant was not properly warned by the trial court of the perils of
… |
| 23-6190 |
Archer Hudson v. D'Artagnan Nathan Debow, et al. |
California |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6197 |
Daniel Joseph Teed v. Warden, Allenwood FCI Low |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-aggregation due-process equal-protection first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation time-credits |
Is the ineligibility provision of 18 USC §3632(d)(4)(D) First Step Act Time Credits constitutional?
II. Can the Federal Bureau of Prisons determine F… |
| 23A519 |
Raul Mendez v. Ada Community Libraries Board of Trustees, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights equal-protection first-amendment ninth-circuit pro-se voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 23A515 |
Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-12-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
batson-challenge equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination |
Question not identified. |
| 23-608 |
In Re Joseph Gothard, et al. |
|
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law agency-overreach civil-rights due-process equal-protection injunctive-relief mandamus property-rights standing |
1. Whether the Supreme Court of United States grants certiorari for extraordinary writ considering the major questions of national significance to pre… |
| 23-6169 |
Juan Carlos Soto v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3553 appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing ninth-circuit-court remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
A. Selective Remand
Petitioner asks: Why does the 4th Circuit Court of appeals Remand (Almost Cases Where Not all of the appellant's Non-Frivolous Pa… |
| 23-6176 |
Faustino Garcia-Sanchez, aka Miguel Garcia-Sanchez, aka Miguel Zamora-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6163 |
Vidala Aaronoff v. Curtis Olson |
California |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-fees civil-harassment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection indigent pro-se pro-se-litigant |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause requires a court to construe a pro se litigant's filings liberally in order to enable the litigant to participate as… |
| 23-6164 |
Albert Carrasco, v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process liberty-interest liberty-restriction rehabilitation sentencing sex-offender supervised-release |
For a low-level sex offender (like a mere possessor of child pornography with no prior criminal history), is a supervised-release condition prohibitin… |
| 23-598 |
Chester Noel Abing, et al. v. James F. Evers, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-laws discrimination due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-rights sovereign-immunity |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) amend the Eleventh Amendment (1798)? (If so, then the Eleventh Amendment cannot provide "sovereign immunity " fro… |
| 23A508 |
Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
atkins-claim death-penalty exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60b |
Question not identified. |
| 23-589 |
Oxana N. Parikh, et al. v. Tina Parikh-Smith, et al. |
Maryland |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
contract-clause due-process equal-protection inheritance-law orphans-court property-interest property-rights racial-animus statutory-law |
This case presents a question more egregious than Hodel v. Irving, 481 U.S. 704 (1987); whether the Maryland Orphans' Court for Montgomery County viol… |
| 23-6155 |
Mike Webb v. James Christian Kimmel, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
12(a)(1)(A) 18-usc-1964(c) civil-procedure default-judgment dismissal-motion equal-protection federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure racketeering-statute standing |
Whether a plaintiff is entitled under Fed.R.Civ.Pro. 55 to award of a default judgment after defendants have failed to provide an answer to a complain… |
| 23-6148 |
Lawrence Jeffrey Brooks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court drug-quantity due-process judicial-discretion judicial-transfer motion-to-dismiss sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review transfer-of-venue |
I. Whether the District Court erred by transferring the case back to the original District Court Judge after the case was reassigned to another Distri… |
| 23A494 |
West Flagler Associates, Ltd., a Florida Limited Partnership, dba Magic City Casino, et al. v. Debra A. Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-12-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
equal-protection indian-gaming-regulatory-act jurisdiction-allocation online-gambling sports-betting tribal-lands |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6138 |
John Doe v. Community College of Baltimore County, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection higher-education mental-health rehabilitation-act standing |
1. Does Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act prohibit federally funded colleges from forcing students off campus for being mentally ill?
2. Does the… |
| 23-6133 |
Jacquelyn Reaves v. Monmouth University, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection false-imprisonment hate-crime jurisdiction racial-discrimination |
Should respondents be criminally and civilly liable for hate crime(s), false imprisonment, racial discrimination, persecution, emotional distress, and… |
| 23-578 |
Christopher Kinzy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion gall-standard gall-v-united-states guidelines judicial-explanation rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court can insulate from vacatur a sentence based on an erroneously enhanced Guidelines range simply by stating, without explanation… |
| 23-6111 |
Lawrence Remsen, et al. v. Jennifer Shaffer, et al. |
California |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-principles criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legislative-intent sentencing sentencing-law |
Did the States Highest Court abuse its discretion when it failed to acknowledge the State's Legislature had repealed its indeterminate Sentencing Law … |
| 23-6112 |
Derek Paul Smyer v. Bryan D. Phillips, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion ninth-circuit standing third-party-culpability |
I. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED WHEN IT FAILED OR REFUSED TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) ON ONE OR MO… |
| 23-6121 |
Jemare Ray McNair, aka Head v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appeal-waivers career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
WHETHER CAREER OFFENDER STATUS SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO APPEAL WAIVERS IN PLEA AGREEMENTS WHERE A DEFENDANT HAS A LEGITIMATE ARGUMENT THAT HE WAS NOT A CA… |
| 23-6126 |
Wayne M. English v. Parcel Express, Inc. |
Texas |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct legal-representation pro-se pro-se-litigant texas-constitution |
The Texas judiciary is obligated to provide due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Article 1, section… |
| 23A478 |
Rufus E. Dennis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split criminal-attempt jurisdiction pro-se sentencing united-states-v-taylor |
Question not identified. |
| 23A473 |
Jill L. Stein, et al. v. Federal Election Commission |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ballot-access campaign-finance equal-protection minor-party presidential-election public-funding |
Question not identified. |
| 23-554 |
Michael O'Bannon v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Constitution permits a criminal defendant to be sentenced based on conduct for which he or she was acquitted. |
| 23-6074 |
Sylvester Onyejiaka, Jr. v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance criminal-law double-jeopardy fifth-amendment missouri-opinion possession-of-controlled-substance sentencing unlawful-use-of-weapon weapon-possession |
Is a defendant's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy violated when a conviction and sentence is entered and imposed for unlawful use of a we… |
| 23-6091 |
Valentino Bernard Lee v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions legal-principles mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence possession-of-firearm sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the trial court erred in sentencing defendant to a mandatory 11 year sentence under the 10-20-Life statute for possession of a firearm when th… |
| 23-6097 |
Montrez Duncan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-vindictiveness conviction criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing unconstitutional |
Is a court constitutionally vindictive in violation of due process when, after it vacates the conviction and mandatory-consecutive sentence on a count… |
| 23-6104 |
Michael Venetez McRae v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 23-6105 |
Alvin Henry Dalton v. M. Votari |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions dismissal district-court due-process environmental-justice equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure standing |
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| 23A465 |
Peter Kleidman v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2023-11-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
citation-rule due-process equal-protection judicial-precedent legal-citation state-court-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 23A462 |
Zachary S. Spiegel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-procedure criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit judicial-review sentencing writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6068 |
Jermaine Deshan West v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment courts-of-appeals due-process empirical-evidence equal-protection fifth-amendment methamphetamine sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines |
"Whether the U.S. Sentencing Commission abdicated its duties under 28 U.S.C. §994(2) (l)(B) when determining the appropriate amount of imprisonment Co… |
| 23-6070 |
Eric V. Bartoli v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum |
Whether a guilty plea should be vacated when the underlying plea bargain contains an error of law (an illegal sentence) at its core. |
| 23-6073 |
William Shirley, IV v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief |
1.) Have petitioner 's Fifth(5th) and Fourteenth(l4th) Constitutional Amendment Rights
been violated?
2.) Has the State of Oklahoma violated the M.C.… |
| 23-6081 |
Jacobo Fuentes-Salgado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6084 |
Joe Stephens v. Alaska Division of Elections |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law equal-protection federalism first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech |
Whether this Court will allow the People of the State of Alaska to determine if a certified candidate is allowed the name Joe Trump AKA Not Murkowski … |
| 23-6085 |
Randall Gray Stoneman, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-seizure federal-sentencing-guidelines motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines video-surveillance |
A. WAS THE DISTRICT COURT IN ERROR IN DENYING THE MOTION TO SUPPRESS THE EVIDENCE SEIZED PURSUANT TO THE APRIL 19, 2020 VIDEO?
B. WAS THE SIX LEVEL E… |
| 23-6087 |
Ronell Whitehead v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
21-usc-841 21-usc-846 circuit-split conspiracy-law controlled-substances drug-conspiracy drug-distribution mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Section 846 of title 21 provides that the available penalties for a controlled
substances conspiracy violation are "the same ... as those prescribe… |
| 23-6057 |
Juan J. Zuniga-Bruno v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy first-circuit issue-preclusion predicate-felonies sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vacatur |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals of the First Circuit's affirming opinion in Zuniga-Bruno is case is conflicting with First Circuit precedents United S… |
| 23-6040 |
Ernest Bustos v. Encino Park Homeowners Association, et al. |
Texas |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigation |
Whether the Court violated Petitioner's protected rights preventing the appeal to move forward failing to compare and evaluate the conduct of the Resp… |
| 23-6041 |
Luis Alberto Hernandez-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-6046 |
Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-of-culpability age-of-offender criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment roper-v-simmons scientific-evidence |
1. Does this Court's holding in Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551
(2005), that the death penalty is unconstitutionally cruel and
unusual punishment for i… |
| 23-6048 |
Elvis Redzepagic v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing material-support offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorism terrorist-organizations |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the circuit split regarding the correct offense level that is to be used in sentencing violation… |
| 23-6050 |
Khosrow Rahimi v. City of Sheridan, Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process environmental-justification equal-protection land-designation property-rights statute-of-limitations takings |
1. Sole Reliance on Statute of limitations: Why did the defendants solely rely on the statute of
limitations as their claim against me? It appears th… |
| 23A448 |
Dmitry Nikolenko v. Luiza Nikolenko |
Texas |
2023-11-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process equal-protection foreign-marriage fourteenth-amendment judicial-comity subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6009 |
Mario Austin v. American Building Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-claims civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection federal-employee national-origin retaliation title-vii |
Do employers violate the Civil Rights Act in retaliation and national origin discrimination when they treat employees less favorably based on retaliat… |
| 23-6035 |
In Re Kinley MacDonald |
|
2023-11-16 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection family-law hearsay parental-rights standing state-federal-relations |
Question not identified. |
| 23-523 |
Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino County v. Lynna Monell, Clerk, Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino County, et al. |
California |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-access candidate-restrictions civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny equal-protection freedom-of-association political-association term-limits voting-rights |
Does a term limit that bans incumbents from ever running for reelection merit heightened scrutiny? |
| 23-6003 |
David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legislative-history reconstruction-era removal-act statutory-interpretation |
1. Should an important federal law from the Reconstruction Era—
the removal act for criminal cases, 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1)—be given
its original public m… |
| 23-6014 |
Curtis Conway Bailey v. Bryan Morrison, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sexual-conduct direct-appeal due-process immutable-fact ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-notice mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence michigan-law sentencing |
1. Whether a trial court can find the fact of a defendant's age as an element of the offense of first-degree criminal sexual conduct under Michigan la… |
| 23-6018 |
Calvin F. Currica v. Richard Miller, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-standard brady-vs-maryland criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit guidelines judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because the Fourth Circuit substituted its judgment for an erroneous factual decision by the s… |
| 23-6025 |
Deunta Finch v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure guidelines plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit |
Has the Sixth Circuit erred by creating a novel doctrine that says, to avoid plain-error review, a criminal defendant must object after the sentencing… |
| 23A440 |
David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
|
capital-punishment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-review prosecutorial-discretion removal-statute |
Question not identified. |
| 23A436 |
Guillermo Octavio Arbelaez v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2023-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment postconviction-relief sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 23A429 |
Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay irreparable-harm supreme-court-alabama |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6008 |
Matthew Johnson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment district-court-discretion docket-control due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus statute-of-limitations statutory-limitations |
1. Does 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d), which provides in part that a "1-year period of
limitations shall apply" to applications filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 22… |
| 23-500 |
James Gimenez v. Franklin County, Washington, et al. |
Washington |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
at-large-elections constitutional-law constitutional-scrutiny election-systems equal-protection gerrymandering racial-polarization redistricting voting-rights |
Whether the Washington Voting Rights Act is subject to strict scrutiny. |
| 23-501 |
Norman A. Mallory v. Rocky Mountain Human Service SSVF |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights covid-19 equal-protection public-accommodations racial-discrimination veterans-affairs |
I Isn't this race discrimination, when a black elderly veteran applied to a veterans program for
some help during the covid-19 pandemic and was treat… |
| 23-503 |
Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
|
alabama constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process equal-protection execution execution-notice notice statute statutory-compliance |
Does a state violate a prisoner's right to due process and equal protection of the laws when it complies with an execution related statute for some pr… |
| 23-510 |
Dan Caulkins, et al. v. Jay Robert Pritzker, in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of Illinois, et al. |
Illinois |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
campaign-contributions caperton-v-massey due-process equal-protection fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment guarantees-clause judicial-independence judicial-recusal second-amendment |
Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Right to Fair Hearing and Guarantees Clause, Article IV, Sec. 4:
1. Does a self-evaluative review applying no object… |
| 23-511 |
Terrence R. Bell v. Sun West Mortgage Company, Inc. |
Texas |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation consumer-protection due-process equal-protection federal-trade-commission property-rights standing |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Court of Appeals, erred
in its interpretation and application of Amendment
XIV, Section 1 of the United States Constitutio… |
| 23-5992 |
In Re John Bailey |
|
2023-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habitual-offender judicial-discretion jury-selection legal-interpretation sentencing state-law trial-procedure unconstitutional |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5995 |
Jake Messer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion character-testimony commerce-clause federal-kidnapping-statute guidelines-calculation interstate-commerce noneconomic-violent-crime procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
L
Whether the Sixth Circuit's interpretation of the Federal Kidnapping statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(), as applied to Petitioner, exceeded Congressiona… |
| 23-5996 |
Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (9)IFP |
aedpa capital-sentencing constitutional-error death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance jury-argument jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-silence |
Lyndon Pace was convicted of four counts of malice murder in an Atlanta, Georgia trial. Thereafter, the prosecutor asked jurors to sentence him to dea… |
| 23A424 |
Kevin Keith v. Harold May, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-circuit successive-petition |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5980 |
Edgar Arellano v. California |
California |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial senate-bill-567 sentencing sentencing-disposition sixth-amendment |
The Court Should Grant A Review To Settle The Weather The California Courts Were Correct.
Question: In Stating That The Petitioner's Case Was Finally… |
| 23-5982 |
Garnet Small v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop traffic-stops whren-v-united-states |
Whether this Court's decision in Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), should be overruled. |
| 23-5989 |
In Re Kevin McKenna |
|
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
case-history civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-petition standing supreme-court voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5977 |
Sean Overstreet v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process right-to-be-present sentencing supervised-release waiver |
May counsel waive a criminal defendant's right to be present during the portion of his sentence in which special conditions of supervised release are … |
| 23-492 |
Jane Doe 1, et al. v. Kentucky, ex rel. Russell Coleman, Attorney General of Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (14) |
due-process equal-protection heightened-scrutiny medical-treatment parental-rights rational-basis-review sex-classification transgender transgender-rights |
In 2023, the Kentucky Legislature enacted a blanket ban on the use of certain medical treatments for transgender minors. The ban applies when the trea… |
| 23-5968 |
Richard Langston v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States prohibit a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentenc… |
| 23A410 |
Brent Ray Brewer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-07 |
Denied |
|
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim death-penalty expert-testimony future-dangerousness habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 23A406 |
Sylvester Cunningham v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari conviction eighth-circuit federal-public-defender sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5953 |
Michael Muthee Munywe v. Julie Dier, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5954 |
Arthur Picklo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the rule of lenity requires a sentencing court to impose a § 924(c) sentence consecutive to only the predicate crime of violence or drug offen… |
| 23-477 |
United States v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter for Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (92)Relisted (13) |
constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gender-identity medical-treatment minor-rights sex-based-classification sex-classification transgender-rights |
Whether Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB1), which prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow "a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported ide… |
| 23-471 |
Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-11-03 |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment age-discrimination capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-selection juvenile-justice |
Petitioner seeks this Court's review of the Alabama Supreme Court's denial of Petitioner's habeas petition, which presents important issues concerning… |
| 23A402 |
Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-11-03 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-challenge death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay irreparable-harm supreme-court-alabama |
Question not identified. |
| 23-466 |
L. W., By and Through Her Parents and Next Friends, Samantha Williams and Brian Williams, et al. v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter for Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (14) |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection gender-affirming-care heightened-scrutiny medical-autonomy medical-care parental-rights transgender transgender-rights |
1. Whether Tennessee's SB1, which categorically
bans gender-affirming healthcare for transgender
adolescents, triggers heightened scrutiny and likely
… |
| 23-469 |
Andrew P. Witt v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness judicial-ethics military-justice military-sentencing prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
The prosecutor repeatedly exhorted the panel members to consider how their sentence would reflect on them personally and professional and suggested th… |
| 23-5941 |
Gregory L. Randle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
consecutive-sentence consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. Randle to serve 12 months in prison for nonviolent supervised release violations, and by ordering the… |
| 23-5929 |
Anthony Andrews v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction parole sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5932 |
Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection equity-mandate executive-order legal-paradox russell's-paradox |
1) The "Sec. 8. Affirmatively Advancing Civil Rights ... to prevent and address discrimination and advance equity for all" clause of the 2/16/2023 Pre… |
| 23-5936 |
Hector Francisco Santos-Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23A398 |
Jeriah Scott Budder v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bureau-of-prisons criminal-appeal sentencing standard-of-review tenth-circuit voluntary-manslaughter |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5917 |
Salvador Diaz-Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certiorari-petition constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5918 |
Theodore Lee Williams, II v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law equal-protection free-speech standing |
In Florida v. Royer, 460 U.S. 491, 500 (1983) the Supreme Court held that the methods employed during an investigative detention under Terry v. Ohio, … |
| 23-5919 |
Wilkinson Oloyede Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-law drug-enforcement federal-courts sentencing standard-of-review |
Petitioner, WILKINSON OLOYEDE THOMAS, submits the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ("Fifth Circuit") failed to use the standard of review for pill mill … |
| 23-449 |
Aisha Trimble v. Department of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection federal-agency-misconduct federal-employment hiring-process initial-appointment military-service-rights veterans-preference |
1. When federal agencies take adverse actions causing denial of initial appointment, and purposefully use software settings and hiring processes that … |
| 23-5896 |
Frank Richardson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
§2255-motion 924(c) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process indictment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction |
Did both the District Court and Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate Petitioner's constitutional rights by denying his motion to Vacate, Set aside, … |
| 23-5898 |
Christian Hayward v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection privacy-interest property-seizure search-and-seizure standing texas-v-brown united-states-v-place |
1) DID THE LOWER COURT VIOLATE DUE PROCESS AND/OR EQUAL PROTECTION BY
FAILING BY FAILING TO RECOGNIZE THAT HAYWARD HAD A PRIVACY POSSESSORY
INTEREST I… |
| 23-5904 |
Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure excusable-neglect ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-motion sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals misapplied the standard of review applicable to assertion of justifiable excuse or excusable neglect for belated… |
| 23-5877 |
Sarah Nathreen Nakanwagi v. City of Flagstaff, Arizona |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment interests-of-justice judicial-subpoena judicial-system national-origin race |
Is the Currency of obtaining a Justice determined by one's race, ethnicity, and nothing to do on one's merits? Are First Amendment and Fourteenth Amen… |
| 23-5888 |
Howard L. Thompson v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law alien-tort-statute civil-rights corporate-liability due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federalism human-rights international-law ninth-circuit standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-437 |
Anthony A. Anderson v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-law court-martial criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection liberty-interests property-interests sixth-amendment |
Does the United States Constitution require that a general court-martial guilty verdict be unanimous? |
| 23-5879 |
Richard Wayne Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. In a Federal criminal case, whether a motion pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2255(e) is a petition in the Mitigation in the Residual can challenge the subj… |
| 23-5880 |
Jose Fernando Martinez-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-5884 |
Gregory Ifesinachi Ezeani v. Melinda H. Reagan, President, Amberton University |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment academic-credits civil-rights due-process equal-protection private-university racial-discrimination state-action |
1. The Pro se presents that the decision of the fifth circuit court of appeal violates due process right of 14th amend right of the pro se for failure… |
| 23-5860 |
John Carl Ferrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing supreme-court voluntary-plea |
Does a decision by the Supreme Court, after a plea is entered but before sentencing, present sufficient cause to consider if the plea was entered know… |
| 23-5844 |
Loretta J. Alford v. Jeffrey Koses, Chairman, Committee for Purchase/AbilityOne, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-court-system federal-rules standing witness witness-examination |
Under the Constitution the 14th Amendment it gives everyone equal protection of the law, so why am I required to comply with all federal rules and reg… |
| 23-5845 |
In Re Kennedy Wright |
|
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction sentencing supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5847 |
Mai-Trang Thi Nguyen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-review right-to-vote standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5848 |
In Re Naser A. Abdallah |
|
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights district-court due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit identity-theft standing writ-of-prohibition |
WHETHER BY REASON OF AN ABUSE OF DISCRETION COMMITTED BY THE DISTRICT COURT, IN REFUSING TO GRANT RELIEF PURSUANT TO PHASER ABDALLAH'S AGGRAVATED IDEN… |
| 23-5851 |
Hector Sanchez-Torres v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing culpability death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection mitigation-evidence |
1. In a case in which the victim died from a single gunshot wound and the
factfinder did not find that the death-sentenced codefendant fired the fatal… |
| 23-5853 |
Alex Adams v. Unknown Layton, Sergeant, Coffield Unit, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-jurisdiction standing state-law takings |
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| 23-5854 |
In Re Terrance A. McCauley |
|
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review petition-for-review sovereign-immunity standing |
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| 23-5839 |
Cesar Humberto Valencia-Terrazas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-precedent precedent-overruling sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-407 |
Robert Perkel, et al. v. Frank Canella, et al. |
New Jersey |
2023-10-19 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard probate probate-law service-of-process will-contest |
1. Where the State of New Jersey's probate laws and rules of procedure require a party seeking to probate a decedent's Last Will provide notice and op… |
| 23-5806 |
Jason Wayne Oien v. Chad Pringle, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-instructions marijuana prejudicial-evidence retroactivity sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5832 |
William R. Abbott v. Loretta Otis-Sanders, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights crack-cocaine criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection fair-sentencing-act federal-sentencing federal-statute-of-limitations first-step-act prison-rape-elimination-act retroactivity |
Whether the State of Louisiana Constitution's Equal Protection Clause embodies through the United States Constitution Fourteenth Amendment Federal sta… |
| 23-5833 |
Sean William Roulo v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fair-notice fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
1. Was the prosecutor's deliberate refusal to communicate with petitioner after filing formal charges, including withholding the court's summons and t… |
| 23-5812 |
Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process mens-rea proximate-causation racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
After this Court's decision in Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), the Circuit Courts have accepted that "death results" in 21 U.S.C. 841(b… |
| 23-5817 |
Cordarius Lawrence v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-proof |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5823 |
Ramiro Felix Gonzales v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness recantation texas-code-criminal-procedure |
Where a State conditions a death sentence on a jury's unanimous finding beyond a reasonable doubt that "there is a probability that the defendant woul… |
| 23-5825 |
Robert Robinson v. Savvy Ventures, LLC, c/o Gregory Real Estate, Inc., dba Gregory Property Management |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitution constitutional-rebellion due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-officials standing supreme-court-precedent |
No. 1: Does the third section of Amendment XIV guarantee citizens of the United States freedom from government officials who rebel against the Constit… |
| 23-5790 |
Brock Brian Beeman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit notice-requirements plea-agreement rule-32 sentencing sentencing-notice |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the Petitioner's appeal waiver to preclude his claim that the trial court violated the notice provisions of Ru… |
| 23-5792 |
Kevin Chandler v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
administrative-hearing delayed-appeal due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-decision-maker prisoner-rights retaliation |
1. Whether the defendant violated the plaintiffs rights under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the-Fourteenth Amendment, as well as I.D… |
| 23-5783 |
Edward Francis Davis v. Power Authority of the State of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence-handling in-forma-pauperis judicial-precedent procedural-fairness sanctions supervisory-power |
Petitioner and Plaintiff-Appellant, Edward Francis Davis, believes the lower courts have "so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judici… |
| 23-391 |
Alexander Eugenio Moskovits v. MTGLQ Investors, L.P. |
Florida |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection foreclosure foreclosure-law judicial-precedent standing stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction |
This case presents a question of public importance: whether Florida state courts can defy Stare Decisis on the jurisdictional issue of lack of plainti… |
| 23-392 |
Metropolitan School District of Martinsville v. A. C., a Minor Child by His Next Friend, Mother and Legal Guardian, M. C. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
bathroom-access bathroom-policy biological-sex circuit-split civil-rights equal-protection equal-protection-clause school-district sex-segregation student-rights title-ix |
Whether Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause dictate a single national policy that prohibits local schools from maintaining separate bathrooms base… |
| 23-383 |
Karen C. Yeh Ho v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-clause contracts due-process equal-protection foreclosure mortgage-modification takings |
1. Whether Respondent voided and denial of perma
nent streamline mortgage modification agreement
because Petitioner 's husband won 't sign the per
m… |
| 23-5777 |
Iker Fabricio Mendez-Alfaro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-standard precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5778 |
Larry David Davis v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment interrogation-tactics law-enforcement self-incrimination standing takings voluntary-confession |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5779 |
Donovan Romo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,… |
| 23-5780 |
Denis Chavez v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief sexual-offense |
1) Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, under
which Petitioner was charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and
incarcerated, are co… |
| 23A323 |
Robert Perkel, et al. v. Jane (Canella) Perkel, et al. |
New Jersey |
2023-10-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
discovery-rights due-process-clause equal-protection notice-and-hearing probate-procedure will-contest |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5753 |
Ben J. Latham v. Alaska |
Alaska |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment punishment punitive-law retroactivity right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Is AS 12 72 020CK BMA) Punitive EV Pest forp,
2. IS AS 12 72 626(W@ Punitive E¥ Post Lavy Prok- bi ted Stylo te
2. Wes Lottan dened of the Swovin… |
| 23-5754 |
Tony Terrel Chase v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing |
Whether Petitioner can obtain instruction on an necessary proviso. |
| 23-5758 |
Jimmy Jay Strayhorn, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial pepper-v-united-states resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation unconstitutional |
WHETHER OR NOT/WHEN ONE HAS EXCERSIZED HIS RIGHT TO TRIAL AND
RF. FOUND GUILTY OF A COUNT IN HIS INDICTMENT THAT WOULD LATER
RF. FOUND UNCONSTITUTIONA… |
| 23-5764 |
Kevin Lynn Tucker v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process nolle-prosequi nolle-prossed plea-agreement pretrial-detention sentencing sentencing-credit substantive-reasonableness waiver |
1. Whether the District Court's failure to give credit in sentencing for
state pretrial detention on subsequently nolle prossed "related" charges
crea… |
| 23-5735 |
Michael James French v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining plea-deal probable-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury wrongful-conviction |
(1) What ; "Definitive Actions Committed" , [Constitutes] the violent felony of the first degree ;
("Aggravated Assault With Serious Bodily Injury") -… |
| 23-5737 |
Roger Wilson v. Department of Justice, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-rights dobbs-precedent due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights history-and-tradition obergefell-v-hodges originalist-interpretation same-sex-marriage substantive-due-process unenumerated-rights |
Since the United States Supreme Court's ruling on Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization that any rights that are not mentioned in the Constituti… |
| 23-5739 |
Daniel Ray Metsinger v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Metsinger's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement. |
| 23-5740 |
Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
catastrophic-event catastrophic-fire civil-rights death-penalty discovery drug-administration due-process execution execution-protocol inmate-rights procedural-due-process |
Is an inmate who is to be executed entitled to procedural due process to discover the effects of a catastrophic fire on the drugs to be used in his ex… |
| 23-375 |
Brigetta D'Olivio v. Hilary Thompson Hutson |
Texas |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-constitution texas-estates-code texas-government-code trial-de-novo |
1. Did the lower court violate Petitioner's right to due process and equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment by:
a. Hearing and dec… |
| 23-5730 |
Blaise Caroleo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing sentencing-scheme statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
1. Whether a waiver of the protections against cruel and unusual punishment afforded to a defendant under the Eighth Amendment is valid and enforceabl… |
| 23-5722 |
Armando Orozco-Calderon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5699 |
Jose J. Galiany-Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court district-court-authority extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Does a district court have the authority to determine what constitutes "extra ordinary and compelling reasons " warranting compassionate release or ar… |
| 23-5700 |
Paul Gray v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-economy montgomery-v-louisiana nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment |
1. Does the State of Louisiana have the express right to invoke the defense of
"judicial economy " as a ruse for plausible deniability; especially wh… |
| 23-5708 |
In Re Michael Stansell |
|
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment life-sentence void-sentence |
I. WHETHER THE INFLICTION OF A LIFE SENTENCE UPON A PRISONER WHERE THE LIFE TAIL IS NOT APPLICABLE TO HIS OFFENSE OF CONVICTION CONSTITUTES CRUEL AND … |
| 23-5710 |
Darryl Burghardt v. Tammy L. Campbell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
(1) Whether Petitioner Darryl Burghardt's trial counsel performed deficiently by refusing to raise, and thereby waiving, a meritorious Batson objectio… |
| 23-348 |
Kristen H. Colindres, et al. v. Department of State, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-limitations consular-nonreviewability due-process equal-protection free-speech immigration immigration-law judicial-review standing |
Whether the doctrine of consular nonreviewability insulates from judicial review a consular decision that lacks both a facially legitimate and bona fi… |
| 23-350 |
Brigetta D'Olivio, aka Brigetta Alix Anderson, aka Alix Brigetta v. Hilary Thompson Hutson |
Texas |
2023-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure discovery due-process equal-protection forcible-detainer fourteenth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment |
1. Did the lower court violate Petitioner's right to due process and equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constituti… |
| 23-333 |
Evan S. Gutman v. Citibank, N.A. |
Florida |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity litigation-privilege tortious-act |
Does a State Supreme Court infringe upon the Due Process and Equal Protection Clause Rights of a Litigant in both the Civil and Criminal Context in ev… |
| 23-341 |
Bobby Lee Ingram v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
apprendi-v-new-jersey concepcion-v-united-states drug-quantity eleventh-circuit fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit has violated Terry in holding that, at step one, district courts should disregard the "elements" of a defendant's offe… |
| 23-5678 |
Jasper Michael Wagner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states gall-v-united-states judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-hernandez |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that that judicial fact-finding as to past offenses is permissible during sentencing pursuant to United States v. … |
| 23-5682 |
Dillion Gage Compton v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (10)IFP |
constitutional-law disparate-treatment equal-protection gender-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes side-by-side-analysis trial-procedure |
1. Whether a court's comparison of generalizations about all the female prospective jurors who were struck by the prosecution with generalizations abo… |
| 23-5683 |
Mary Louise Smith, et al. v. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
14th-amendment child-removal civil-rights conspiracy due-process equal-protection race racial-discrimination state-immunity |
1. Did a conspiracy exist among the appointed State employees, the Osceola School District, the Osceola Police Department, and Families, Inc. to deny … |
| 23-5684 |
William J. Dahl v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-robbery civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process felony judicial-review legal-procedure precedent sentencing statutory-analysis |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5692 |
Jose Ramon Andino-Morales v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 23-5693 |
Lawrence Edward Thompson v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5698 |
Roy Christopher West v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release concepcion-v-united-states district-court-discretion equal-protection extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-disparity |
1) Whether the Sixth Circuit's Threshold Determination of No Compelling Reasons Under the First Step Act of 2018 for Compassionate Release is Erroneou… |
| 23-5671 |
Oscar Hernandez Maldonado v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure cultural-assimilation downward-departure expert-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report sentencing waiver-of-rights |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly affirmed the trial court's determination that the defendant was denied effective assistance of cou… |
| 23-5672 |
Michael Lee Mac Cleary v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-history criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-accuracy sentencing townsend-v-burke uncounseled-defendants |
Whether the due process right to be sentenced based on accurate information that the Court recognized in Townsend v. Burke, 334 U.S. 736 (1948), is li… |
| 23-5666 |
Jeremy Aswegan v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure government-objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review |
I.WHETHER PLAIN ERROR REVIEW APPLIES WHEN A
DEFENDANT OPPOSES A GOVERNMENT' OBJECTION
TO A SENTENCING ENHANCEMENT?
II.WHETHER THERE WAS INSUFFICIEN… |
| 23A272 |
Jessie Dotson v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2023-09-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-post-conviction death-penalty due-process expert-assistance fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 23A276 |
Michael Duane Zack v. Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
|
clemency-proceedings death-penalty due-process executive-clemency fetal-alcohol-syndrome intellectual-disability |
Question not identified. |
| 23A268 |
Patrick Lockhart v. Karen Lockhart |
West Virginia |
2023-09-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process equal-protection equitable-distribution extrinsic-fraud judicial-recusal void-ab-initio |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5657 |
Arthur Ray Deere, Sr. v. Kiry K. Gray, Clerk, United States District Court for the Central District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction juvenile-custody legal-procedure standing state-courts |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5659 |
Cedric Theodis Hobbs, Jr. v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky comparative-juror-analysis constitutional-rights equal-protection jury-selection post-hoc-justifications racial-discrimination voir-dire |
Whether it is proper for a court conducting a comparative juror analysis to consider "favorable characteristics" in otherwise comparable jurors when t… |
| 23-314 |
Debra Brown v. Federal National Mortgage Association |
Massachusetts |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
consideration default due-process equal-protection foreclosure fraud government-instrumentality mortgage property-ownership standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-312 |
Lee E. Stephens, Jr. v. Carolyn J. Scruggs, Secretary, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-relief impeachment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prior-convictions resentencing right-to-testify sentencing unconstitutional-convictions |
1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether habeas relief and re sentencing is required when a defendant's sentence was premised on prior convi… |
| 23-5647 |
Eddie Savage v. Chae Harris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights conviction-relief due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence forfeiture fourteenth-amendment photographic-evidence post-conviction-relief |
when the accuse discovers that a photograph and its contents are now not what they were once purported to be at trial, is the fourteenth amendment, eq… |
| 23-5648 |
Frank Nucera, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing juror-misconduct jury-deliberations new-trial new-trial-motion racial-bias third-circuit-court voir-dire |
1. Did the Third Circuit err by upholding the denial of Petitioner's motion for new trial or an evidentiary hearing based on juror affidavits which es… |
| 23-5652 |
Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
comity death-penalty due-process federal-counsel federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court below erroneously denied jurisdiction pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3599 based on a failure to follow fundamental rules of statutory inter… |
| 23A262 |
Michael Duane Zack, III v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
|
atkins-exemption death-penalty eighth-amendment fetal-alcohol-syndrome intellectual-developmental-disability unanimous-jury-requirement |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5630 |
Jack R. Sliney v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment age-of-defendant death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders |
Whether under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, Florida may impose a death sentence upon an individual who was under the age o… |
| 23-5631 |
Jason M. Moriarty v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure imprisonment maximum-sentence revocation-of-release sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
When revoking multiple terms of supervised release and requiring a defendant "to serve in prison all or part of the term of supervised release," may t… |
| 23-5632 |
Mario Rolando Cadenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5619 |
Jordan Winczuk v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity sentencing sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
The federal criminal statute entitled Sexual Exploitation of Children provides a series of mandatory-minimum penalties. 18 U.S.C. §2251(e). The penalt… |
| 23-5621 |
Amado Alvarez-Alvarado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-interpretation precedent precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5626 |
Arun Dhavamani v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-finding federal-jurisdiction manufactured-jurisdiction sentencing |
Whether a defendant's right to due process is violated when a Court of Appeals remands a case for additional factfinding after the district court has … |
| 23-5627 |
Ronald Rene Deleon, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum plain-error revocation sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release |
Whether application of a mandatory minimum term of supervised release following a revocation amounts to plain error? |
| 23-5628 |
Richard C. Duerson, as Next Friend of Jennifer McFarland v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency-standard constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection mental-capacity mental-competency next-friend next-friend-petition physical-competency standing |
What Constitutional Standards should be applied when a judge is tasked with determining the competency of a defendant with known physical and mental a… |
| 23A254 |
Anthony Castillo Sanchez v. Christe Quick, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
|
access-to-files constitutional-violations death-penalty ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief stay-of-execution |
Question not identified. |
| 23A250 |
Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
AEDPA death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Strickland-standard |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5599 |
Juan Manuel Amaya-Castaneda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion prior-conviction-exception prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, _U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to… |
| 23-5604 |
Ernesto Ordunez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender controlled-substance crime-of-violence elements-clause preservation-of-error prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
(1) Whether an objection that a prior conviction is not a crime of violence and a district court's subsequent analysis of whether it meets the element… |
| 23-5592 |
Beau John Greene v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review arizona constitutional-bias death-penalty due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal prosecutorial-conflict recusal williams-v-pennsylvania |
Beau Greene is an Arizona death-row prisoner. Due to recent amendments to Arizona's death-penalty statute by the Arizona legislature, the sole aggrava… |
| 23-5593 |
Shawn V. Castiglione v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief sexual-offense statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, under
which Petitioner was charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and
incarcerated, are co… |
| 23-5598 |
Esteban Merchan v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process education equal-protection free-speech standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5568 |
Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Jason Clendenion, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-delay constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sixth-circuit speedy-appeal standing |
I.) WHETHER THE 6th CIRCUIT 'S ORDER SO FAR DEPARTED FROM HOUSTON V. LACK AND EVITTS V. LUCY, REQUIRING THIS COURT 'S SUPERVISORY POWERS TO PROTECT TH… |
| 23-5569 |
Francisco Gutierrez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure criminal-procedure de-novo-resentencing de-novo-review judicial-discretion law-of-case law-of-the-case open-record resentencing sentencing |
Does law of the case apply to an appeal from a de novo resentencing on an open record? |
| 23-5578 |
April Paw v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5580 |
Richard Barroso v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-09-14 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights disability-accommodations disability-rights due-process equal-protection prison-litigation-reform-act rehabilitation-act |
ONE. At what point has petitioner had a Constitutionally protected right to DUE PROCESS of his numerous requests for EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS , RE… |
| 23-5583 |
Fernando Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence double-counting felon-in-possession fifth-amendment preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-amendment |
L. Whether alleged possession of a different gun 17 months after Mr. Lopez's charged felon-in-possession offense constituted relevant conduct?
I. Whe… |
| 23-5588 |
Roger A. Libby v. Robert Legran, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-cases criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-law substantive-due-process substantive-rule |
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| 23-246 |
Donivon Craig Tingle v. Florida Department of Health |
Florida |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection governmental-action inherent-powers medical-marijuana pigford-v-glickman race-discrimination strict-scrutiny |
1. Whether the actions of Florida, through its legislative and executive branches in passing, implementing, and enforcing the Rule and the Statute con… |
| 23-248 |
James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (9) |
batson-challenge batson-violations black-defendant capital-case equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination white-victims |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' decision that Mr. Broadnax failed to establish a prima facie equal protection claim conflicts with this C… |
| 23A244 |
John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
birth-certificates equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gestational-surrogacy parental-rights sex-discrimination |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5565 |
William E. Wells, III v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment mental-illness proportionality-review |
L. Whether Florida's capital sentencing scheme violates the Eighth Amendment because the controlling statute does not meaningfully limit the class of … |
| 23-5555 |
Alfredo Garcia-Aleman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5556 |
William L. Gladney v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split crack-cocaine federal-sentencing first-step-act offense-grouping rico sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
May district courts reduce the sentence of those convicted of covered and non-covered offenses under the First Step Act, when the offenses intertwined… |
| 23A233 |
Jerry Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-09-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review capital-punishment constitutional-review death-penalty habeas-corpus penalty-phase |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5547 |
Timothy James Hahn v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment sentencing |
Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on a defendant who was under the age of twenty-five at the time of the offen… |
| 23-5550 |
Joseph Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver circuit-court civil-procedure contractual-law due-process plea-agreement sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing standing |
Whether the Appellant's rights were violated when the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals enforced a sentence appeal waiver in a plea agreement that was… |
| 23-219 |
Sherman Moore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
|
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether, for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e), a state offense relates to the "sexual exploitation of children" only when it relates to child pornograp… |
| 23-212 |
Amos N. Jones v. Catholic University of America |
District of Columbia |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection procedural-due-process procedural-fairness stare-decisis substantive-due-process tortious-interference |
Did the District of Columbia Court of Appeals err in its failure to apply its very own intervening and controlling authority as per the Full Faith and… |
| 23-5540 |
Michael Rinaldi v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial ratio-decidendi sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. ) Whether the fifth and sixth amendments prohitbit a ferderal court from basing a criminal
defendants sentence on conduct for which a jury has acq… |
| 23-5542 |
Stephen James Hood v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus legal-fiction petition-clause statutory-interpretation |
In Virginia, anyone who was convicted of a felony has the right to demonstrate their innocence with new evidence through a petition for a writ of actu… |
| 23-5526 |
Adelfo Rodriguez-Mendez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-standard constitutional-violation criminal-procedure drug-attribution evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment post-conviction-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether attributing drugs , post-conviction , in an amount greater than what is charged in an indictment and greater than what the jury found is in… |
| 23-5529 |
Abdalla Elehamir Mousa v. Christina Greve, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1997e administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process eighth-circuit-rule equal-protection prison-grievance prison-officials section-1983 |
Whether an Applicant for Relief Under 42 U.S.C. §1983 is Required to Exhaust Administrative Remedies Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1997e(a) If the Prison Off… |
| 23-5531 |
Shawn Andrew Crabtree v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision |
Oregon |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process ex-post-facto oregon-board-of-parole parole retroactive-laws sentencing |
1. Is the Ex Post Facto Clause of Article 6 of the United States Constitution violated when prison officials take away a determinate release date impo… |
| 23-5514 |
Rodger William Dillard v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2023-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion alford-plea appeal court-rules criminal-procedure due-process judicial-abuse judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentence-correction sentencing |
1. Did the District in and for Natrona County 7th Judicial Abuse its power when it accepted the Petitioner alford plea because the the statue reads as… |
| 23-5516 |
Angela Jane Johnson, et al. v. Victoria Fire and Casualty Company |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-05 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process judicial-process legal-review petition public-trial right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5517 |
Kamar Laquan Cox v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 23-203 |
Missouri Department of Corrections v. Jean Finney |
Missouri |
2023-09-05 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (9) |
batson-challenge civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection religious-beliefs religious-discrimination structural-error voir-dire |
During voir dire in an employment-discrimination suit involving a lesbian plaintiff, plaintiffs attorney asked several questions about whether jurors … |
| 23-5502 |
Juan Antonio Hernandez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose disparate-impact due-process equal-protection immigration-law racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
When a law is originally adopted for an impermissible racially discriminatory purpose and continues to have a disparate impact, do subsequent amendmen… |
| 23-5494 |
Dominic Asquith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5496 |
Jensen Ken Alexander v. Joseph Ely, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legal-procedure prison-conditions retaliation statutory-interpretation transfer |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5498 |
Alex Adams v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-31 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provision criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jurisdictional-matter legal-issue procedural-question statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5504 |
Jabriel Fitzgerald Lakes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
classification criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure incarceration-classification judicial-error presentence-report recidivism right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Did the District Court commit "error" that substantively
—violated Lakes' right when it failed to enclude the disputes
of the objection to the PRS w… |
| 23-5482 |
Timothy Allan Dunlap v. Idaho Maximum Security Institution, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5483 |
Dontavious Blake v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-prejudice ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing |
ISSUE 1: The Appellate Court erred in denying relief for
IOC concerning the advice that petitioner would receive a
life sentence after either a guilty… |
| 23-5484 |
Dion Ray Wheeler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-5487 |
Jose Humberto Hernandez-Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 23-5461 |
Joshua David Giddings v. Austin Knudsen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights equal-protection first-amendment free-speech standing |
Whether Detective Ekola destroyed exculpatory evidence in violation of Brady and Youngblood. |
| 23-5462 |
Victor Manuel Solorzano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split first-step-act intervening-law mandate-rule resentencing sentencing sentencing-package |
1. Does Section 403 of the First Step Act, Pub. L. No. 115-391, 132 Stat. 5194 apply to a defendant at a post-Act resentencing hearing following vacat… |
| 23-5466 |
Toddell Alexander v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment non-physical-harm prisoner-treatment sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
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Qc,S);AIK Tte ow* jr* *O… |
| 23-5457 |
Deangelus Thomas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-28 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof constitutional-fact-finding criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-penalty |
May a district court judge properly find, by a preponderance of the evidence, the uncharged, non-elemental fact that a person committed three prior of… |
| 23-5443 |
Scott Huss v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process equal-application equal-protection habeas-corpus |
Is it a federal due process, confrontation, and equal application violation as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments (U.S. Const.) when a st… |
| 23-5446 |
Elizabeth Richert v. Kathleen White Murphy, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings property-rights takings takings-clause |
1. The Fifth Amendment guarantees that private property shall not be taken
for public use without due process, nor shall it be taken for pubhc use wit… |
| 23-5449 |
Antonio Rojas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 23-5450 |
Hermenegildo Garcia-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5451 |
Raul Omar Rios-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-appeal judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent-overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23A178 |
Andrew P. Witt v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-08-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-sentencing court-martial death-penalty ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct uniform-code-of-military-justice |
Question not identified. |
| 23A179 |
Alexander Eugenio Moskovits v. MTGLQ Investors, L.P. |
Florida |
2023-08-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process equal-protection foreclosure standing stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether Florida state courts can deprive any person of property, without due process of law, or deny to any person the equal protection of the laws, b… |
| 23-5426 |
Christopher Robertson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-robbery constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act jury-instructions misstatement-of-law residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1) CAN A DEFENDANT BE CONVICTED OF A 4(c) OFFENSE IF DEFENDANT WAS CONVICTED OF ATTEMPTED HOBBS ACT ROBBERY?
2) CAN A DEFENDANT BE CONVICTED OF A OFF… |
| 23-5432 |
Kyle Vaughn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges
the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may
rebut an appellate … |
| 23-5438 |
Fox Joseph Salerno v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule blakely blakely-retroactivity certificate-of-appealability due-process jurisdiction retroactivity rule-of-finality rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction |
ONE
Does Apprendi decision apply to Arizona Defendants on the date that the
U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Apprendi (June 26, 2000), or on the date that… |
| 23-5413 |
Christopher Ray Lipska, aka Christopher Ray Hare v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2023-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-abuse child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-proportionality sexual-abuse |
1) In an ECSA and unlawful contact with a trial, does a trial court abuse its OEC 401, 402, 403 discretion by allowing the state to present evidence t… |
| 23-5419 |
Seth Williams v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority mandatory-minimum rehaif-doctrine sentencing sentencing-modification |
Does the District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania have the authority and jurisdiction to change a sentence after 12 years that was ORALL… |
| 23-170 |
Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (12)Relisted (6) |
admissions-criteria asian-american-discrimination asian-americans constitutional-law equal-protection fourthcircuit racial-balancing school-diversity summary-judgment |
The question presented is whether the Board violated the Equal Protection Clause when it overhauled the admissions criteria at TJ. |
| 23-5406 |
Kecia Porter v. USAA Casualty Insurance Company |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
civil-rights color-of-law cooperation-clause due-process equal-protection prejudice pro-se-litigant summary-judgment under-color-of-law |
1. Whether the 7th Circuit's decision is Under Color of Law Title 18, U.S.C. Section 242 an in error, contrary to well settled law, finding respondent… |
| 23-5385 |
Adam Knoll v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-error sexual-offense standing |
1) Whether the Florida Statutes, Chapter 794 and Chapter 800, under
which Petitioner was charged, tried, convicted, sentenced and
incarcerated, are co… |
| 23-5387 |
James Frank Noel, Jr. v. Indiana Metro Police Department, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5389 |
Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split colorable-claim criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-response sentencing sentencing-argument |
Where a federal criminal defendant raises a colorable sentencing argument, must the district court acknowledge and respond to it? |
| 23-5392 |
Angelo Joseph Fernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law domestic-violence mens-rea prior-conviction recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1. Does the petitioner's prior conviction for corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant under California Penal Code § 273.5(a) qualify as a crime of v… |
| 23-5375 |
Isidro Miguel Delacruz v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-sentencing constitutional-proportionality death-penalty due-process jury-instructions mitigation-evidence moral-culpability |
Can the Texas death penalty statute, which instructs the jury to consider "the circumstances of the offense, the defendant's character and background,… |
| 23-5376 |
Enrique J. Diaz, et ux. v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, dba Mr. Cooper |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law circuit-court civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-impression fundamental-fairness legal-review prisoner-rights standing statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION VIOLATES PRINCIPLES OF FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS BY HAVING GREAT PUBLIC IMPORTANCE BASED UPON A PRO SE PLEADING … |
| 23-132 |
Cynthia L. Pollick v. Anthony P. Trozzolillo |
Pennsylvania |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights debtors-prison due-process equal-protection imprisonment statutory-interpretation |
Whether imprisoning a citizen for a divorce judgment of attorney fees violated 28 U.S.C. § 2007(a) since a citizen cannot be imprisoned for a money ju… |
| 23-5355 |
Johnny Lee Warren v. Chris Nanos, Sheriff, Pima County, Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdictional-issue legal-petition procedural-review standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23A135 |
Richard Langston v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2023-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
acquitted-conduct-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether a state sentencing judge's explicit consideration of acquitted conduct, standing alone, violates a defendant's rights under the Sixth and Four… |
| 23A134 |
William Glenn Rogers v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-habeas death-penalty forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong strickland-standard |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5349 |
Elbert Johnson v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest due-process illegal-sentence judicial-bias judicial-conflict legal-error manifest-injustice sentencing trial-court witness-testimony |
When a circuit court judge is called upon, to be a witness against a defendant in a case, and then later on, sentence the defendant in the same case r… |
| 23-5350 |
Daniel Chris Ramsey v. California |
California |
2023-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights competency constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure mental-health writ |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5356 |
Trequan Devonte James v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection identification judicial-review police-procedures statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5338 |
Keith A. Penn v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
attempt circuit-split criminal-law distribution distribution-definition drug-offense elements-test sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the legal test announced in Shular v. United States — a state "serious drug offense" is an offense with elements that "necessarily entail one … |
| 23-5345 |
Henry Robledo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules holguin-hernandez-v-united-states preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-preservation statutory-interpretation |
Is an argument for a sentence based on specific statutory sentencing factors sufficient to preserve a procedural reasonableness claim? |
| 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.… |
| 23-5298 |
Edgar Sandoval Catarino v. California |
California |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments confer a right to a
jury trial with respect to a fact that has the dual effect of (1) increasing
the mandato… |
| 23-5301 |
Mack A. West, Jr. v. F. Ulloa, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23-112 |
Ian A. McElroy v. City of Corvallis, Oregon |
Oregon |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review municipal-law municipal-ordinance statutory-interpretation |
Ian McElroy was secretly, unconstitutionally convicted July 26, 1999 on three separate criminal citations by a City of Corvallis Municipal Judge who l… |
| 23-5273 |
Cory Joe Barton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit procedural-due-process rule-32 sentencing statutory-construction |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the determination of Mr. Barton's sentence did not violate his procedural due process rights? |
| 23-5275 |
Ambrosio Nolasco-Ariza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-law discriminatory-purpose disparate-impact due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration-and-nationality-act immigration-law racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation undesirable-aliens-act |
1. When a law is originally adopted for an impermissible racially discriminatory purpose and continues to have a disparate impact, do subsequent amend… |
| 23-5276 |
German Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 23A99 |
Brigetta D'Olivio v. Hilary Thompson Hutson |
Texas |
2023-08-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process equal-protection probate-proceeding property-dispute subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-de-novo |
The lower court so far departed from in its obligation to pursue a course of legal proceedings according to applicable rules and principles for like c… |
| 23-5266 |
Mantell Alabi Stevens v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-distribution due-process jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Can a court send a case to the jury when the evidence is
only sufficient to give them a choice between probabilities
instead of being sufficient to… |
| 23-5267 |
Dana Lunn v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-dismissal discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-procedure standing |
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U)h<j did fie o fficers lCentre mcj mcdicaJ bracd-ef gpCord if cmy
lOhydid fit officers Ignore my… |
| 23-5249 |
Ryan David Green v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review certiorari-request civil-rights court-filing death-penalty due-process legal-petition mental-health solitary-confinement supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5253 |
Youssef Hoballah v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5254 |
David Serrano-Munoz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process legal-definition sentence-enhancement sentencing sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Should certiorari be should granted to determine whether the sentence enhancement provided by 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e) is void for vagueness for lack of de… |
| 23-5259 |
Ryan Lewis Hilyard v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-decisions |
DID THE WYOMING SUPREME COURT APPLY AND FOLLOW FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE CORRECTLY?
II. IS THE WYOMING SUPREME COURTS DECISION ARBITRARY, CAPRICIOUS,… |
| 23-5261 |
Everado Joe Flores-Salcido v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5264 |
Julio Cesar De La Rosa-De La Cerda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-5244 |
Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 capital-punishment competency-to-be-executed death-penalty delusional-beliefs habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-illness panetti-standard state-court-review |
When a panel has determined that 28 U.S.C. 2253(c)(2) has been satisfied and an appeal and concordant stay are necessary, does an en banc court have a… |
| 23-5245 |
Juan Leonardo Aparicio-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5246 |
Aaron Abadi v. Caesars Entertainment, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts circuit-court-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion pro-se-litigants pro-se-litigation standing |
1) The Ninth Circuit developed an automated system, where it dismisses almost ALL indigent pro se claims without an opportunity to review; 414 cases s… |
| 23A93 |
Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
|
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-illness panetti-competency |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5230 |
Steven Poppo v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
assistance-of-counsel attempted-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-intent deadly-force due-process equal-protection fair-trial homicide self-defense use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5232 |
In Re Marcus Antone Peterson |
|
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process illegal-imprisonment jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect mandamus mandamus-relief sentencing |
1. The lower court acted outside its jurisdiction.
2. A quite bee ath lower court record jurisdiction
3. Peterson is illegally in-prison.
(An amets… |
| 23-5235 |
Hector Lares-Nunez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-overruling precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5237 |
Jordan Cole Laws v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-discretion criminal-procedure factual-findings indigent indigent-defendant justice-for-victims-of-trafficking-act sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Did the district court err when it imposed a $5,000 special assessment, pursuant to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015, 18 U.S.C. § 30… |
| 23-5240 |
Alden Brent Cooper v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Section 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(1) can be violated by either knowingly receiving or distributing child pornography. A defendant accused of a violation of… |
| 23-5242 |
Rebecca Wu v. Public Employment Relations Board, et al. |
California |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment arbitrary-classification constitutional-challenge constitutional-law employee-classification employee-misclassification equal-protection labor-law statutory-interpretation |
Is it unconstitutional to have an interpretation of a statute that creates an Arbitrary classification in violation of the constitution of the 14th Am… |
| 23-5221 |
Gilberto Betero-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 23-5226 |
Cornelius Michael Turner v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-factfinding occasions-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment wooden-v-united-states |
I. Whether a defendant's Armed Career Criminal Act sentence may be affirmed when the lower court fails to properly apply this Court's occasions clause… |
| 23-5229 |
Rodolfo Hernandez Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5198 |
Richard Potts v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing discretionary-authority district-court-discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty |
First Question
Whether the Fair Sentencing Act modified the
statutory penalty for petitioner's offense,
so that petitioner is eligible for a sentenc… |
| 23-5208 |
Jason Boudreau v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment plea-agreement search-and-seizure search-condition sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Whether the District Court's decision to subject the Petitioner to a lifetime
suspicionless search condition that lacks any limitations at all vio… |
| 23-5210 |
Andres Zapata-Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5218 |
In Re Jerome Curry |
|
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process indictment material-facts non-response sentencing standing summary-judgment waiver |
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| 23-5219 |
Jerry Wilson, aka Steve Vic Parker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Is a United States Citizen Wrongfully Imprisoned "LIFE INDANGER" ?
2. What is Permission Granted by a United States Distrist Judge?
3. Can (1) On… |
| 23A75 |
David Harris v. American Accounting Association, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
article-three-separation-of-powers due-process equal-protection judicial-delegation pro-se-appellants staff-attorneys |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5183 |
Allen S. Herschaft v. New York City Campaign Finance Board |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-exercise religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act res-judicata standing |
1) Whether Res Judicata precludes bringing the case?
2) Whether the defendant by enforcing its rules and regulations is violating plaintiffs free exe… |
| 23-5192 |
Phiet The Doan v. California |
California |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection excessive-fine fourteenth-amendment jury-trial restitution sixth-amendment victim-restitution |
1. Did Mr. Doan have a Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to a jury trial on whether he owed almost $64,000 in victim restitution?
2. Did the resti… |
| 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… |
| 23-5165 |
Jeff Baoliang Zhang v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
California |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
amendment-xiv civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-corruption judicial-misconduct standing state-court |
1. Whether the state court judges can willfully use all the lies made by Respondents and impose the unreasonable state statutes to dismiss this case w… |
| 23-5177 |
Kenneth Ragan-Armstrong v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release |
Whether the district court plainly erred in imposing special conditions of
supervision without explaining why such conditions were necessary or approp… |
| 23-5178 |
Bobby Dean Robey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-crimes evidence sentencing |
I.WHETHER THERE WAS INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE THAT MR. ROBEY WAS INVOLVED IN THE "IMPORTATION" OF METHAMPHETAMINE?
II.WHETHER MR. ROBEY'S CRIMINAL HISTOR… |
| 23-5181 |
Rudy Alexander Ventura-Recinos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-standard sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5172 |
Jose Antonio Deleon-Juarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split plain-error plain-error-review plea-agreement prosecutor-breach prosecutorial-breach sentencing substantial-rights |
Under plain error review, does a prosecutor's breach of a plea agreement affect a defendant's substantial rights unless the record contains evidence t… |
| 23-5150 |
Augustus Quintrell Light v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure government-misconduct illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error |
WHETHER ON ONE'S, DID THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS COMMIT ERROR IN FINDING THAT THE DISTRICT COURT DID NOT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN DENYING PETI… |
| 23-5154 |
Justin Christopher Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-sentencing violent-felony violent-offense |
1. Whether an appeal waiver can bar an attack on an enhanced statutory sentence?
2. Whether Petitioner's prior convictions for robbery and resisting … |
| 23-5130 |
Caleb Bryant Hickcox v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruen circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure reasonableness reasonableness-review second-amendment sentencing sentencing-requirements statutory-interpretation |
1) Must district courts comply with the requirements of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence imposed?
2) Should … |
| 23-5136 |
Chastity Quintana v. Rodney Wirthlin, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-counsel judicial-review legal-filing legal-standard procedural-error standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5137 |
Joshua Christopher Stockstill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines section-3553a-factors sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness |
Whether the district court ordered a substantively unreasonable 30-year
prison sentence. |
| 23-5141 |
Alejandro Holguin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5121 |
Kyle Ross Rivers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentence-appeal sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights |
1. Whether a defendant, consistent with the Due Process Clause, can waive the right to appeal his sentence knowingly when his purported waiver occurs … |
| 23-5127 |
Edward R. Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-analysis dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus laboratory-evidence sentencing trial-procedure |
(1). Did the trial court Error based on false and misleading DNA Laboratory Analysis reports in the Petitioner's trial proceeding which violated the P… |
| 23-46 |
United States v. Cassity Danielle Jones |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in order for a defendant to satisfy the prerequisite for "safety-valve" sentencing relief in 18 U.S.C. 3553(f)(1), a court must find that the… |
| 23-5113 |
Charleton Maxwell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit conservative-estimate criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines walton-rule |
Issue 1.
In the case at bar the sentencing judge refused to a apply a higher
standard than a mere preponderance when the issue was, based
on a drug… |
| 23-5107 |
Malcolm A. Jordan v. Jordan Fly |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals criminal-law due-process federal-agency federal-jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari |
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| 23-5079 |
Genaro Perchez-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5088 |
Quinton Troy Hall v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process jury jury-finding methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment |
WAS IT A VIOLATION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, SIXTH AMENDMENT WHEN THE TRIAL COURT SENTENCED THE PETITIONER TO A TERM OF 360 MONTHS. THE JURY … |
| 23-5089 |
Garland Bernell Harper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability equal-protection fifth-circuit habeas ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination |
This case arises from the State's peremptory challenge to a Black juror which Mr. Harper challenged as purposefully discriminatory. At trial, the Bats… |
| 23-5091 |
Javier H. Armengau v. Jenny Hildebrand, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing |
1. When a state Supreme Court requires a specific material fact and element to
be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in order to sustain a criminal con… |
| 23-5093 |
German Alexis Arjona v. California |
California |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection first-amendment jurisdiction legal-procedure standing statutory-provisions supreme-court voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5096 |
Kim Davis v. Gene R. Mariano, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-trial property-rights v-amendment |
1. Whether Petitioner was deprived of her V Amendment due process right to property?
2. Whether Petitioner's was deprived of her VII Amendment right … |
| 23-5097 |
Allen Auten v. California |
California |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legislative-intent parole sentencing sentencing-structure standing |
1. Has the California Supreme* Court (CSCC) prejudicially abused its dis
cretion by repudiating United States Supreme Court (USSC) controlling
author… |
| 23-5101 |
Christopher Wade v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states harmless-error judicial-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-guzman-rendon |
I. Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of harmless error doctrine
pursuant to United States v. Guzman-Rendon, 864 F.3d 409 (5th Cir. 2017) violate… |
| 23-5085 |
Andre Rene Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial non-elemental-facts preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial |
Whether the Constitution permits a sentencing judge to find non-elemental facts by a preponderance of the evidence and then rely on those facts to imp… |
| 23A24 |
Margaret A. Allen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus postconviction-relief state-conviction |
Question not identified. |
| 23-27 |
Michael Harper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-10 |
Denied |
|
apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split criminal-resentencing drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-penalty terry-v-united-states |
Under the First Step Act of 2018, courts may reduce certain previously imposed sentences to match the penalties in the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. Th… |
| 23-5062 |
Alfredo Martinez-Rubio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-5058 |
Gabriel Simental-Murillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-5060 |
Donald Edward McCord v. Carrie Bridges, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5050 |
Nickholas Knight, Sr. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5054 |
Vitaly Burleovitsch Kolosha v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-access exculpatory-evidence grand-jury multiple-prosecutions post-conviction sentencing state-prison |
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| 23-5031 |
Marc Anthony Hill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
advance-knowledge apprendi-precedent circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements fifth-amendment four-corner-rule jury-findings sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Is Apprendi v. New Jersey still good law?
If yes, are the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and other circuits applying Apprendi incorrectly which viola… |
| 23-5034 |
Omar Francisco Orduno-Ramirez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-privilege confidential-communications due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-phase sixth-amendment structural-error |
When prosecutors intentionally and without any legitimate law-enforcement
justification access confidential attorney-client communications before sent… |
| 23-5035 |
Miguel Lux-Tum v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-doctrine precedent-overruling sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 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 … |
| 23-5037 |
Patrick L. Martinez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus indigent-prisoners ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment texas-criminal-procedure |
Do Texas procedures for postconviction habeas corpus violate the Sixth Amendment and deny indigent prisoners equal protection and due process of law b… |
| 23-5044 |
Marvin Belser v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5046 |
Kashard O. Brown v. Brian Williams, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection precedent standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 23-11 |
Gary Victor Dubin v. United States District Court for the District of Hawaii |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion americans-with-disabilities-act appellate-procedure claims-processing-rule due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion temporary-disability |
Whereas, in Petitioner Dubin's three
separate timely appeals, filed by him both as an
attorney and as personally representing himself
and nearly one- … |
| 23-12 |
John Kowal v. Ferndale Area School District, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
|
age-discrimination but-for-causation employee-benefits equal-cost-or-equal-benefit equal-protection medicare-eligibility older-workers-benefit-protection-act takings-clause |
The U.S. Supreme Court, in University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar, (2013) and Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc., (2009), inter … |
| 23-5017 |
Jerry A. Smith v. Indiana Parole Board, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process government-misconduct parole public-importance sentencing |
Withholding of a Parole decision lasting in Several years sFunlewful Tacarce rab ©.
A. hy sohin Hais jushce bons brought te his supener's aad govecam… |
| 23-5018 |
Richard P. Spaulding v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appeal-rights court-order court-orders covid-quarantine due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-notice post-conviction |
During post-conviction proceedings in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, Petitioner was deprived of right to appeal or challenge numerous orders of the court and… |
| 23-5023 |
Kirby R. Thomas v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-trial due-process equal-protection fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection petit-venire racial-discrimination |
1) Whether Louisiana deprived Mr. Thomas of his right to an impartial jury trial before his peers through a petit venire selection process that effect… |
| 23-5024 |
Walter Charles Link v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-proceedings sufficiency-of-evidence texas-law |
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| 23-5025 |
Kelly Sundberg v. California |
California |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5027 |
Gabriel Gonzalez Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 23-2 |
Gerald Spruell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantities evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding
there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's
verdict and drug quantities attributed to the … |
| 22-7890 |
Christopher Ochoa v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3664 circuit-split criminal-restitution criminal-sentencing fraud joint-and-several-liability proline-precedent proline-v-united-states restitution-liability sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the discretion to order joint and several liability in restitution orders under 18 U.S.C. § 3664(h) limited by each defendant casual role in th … |
| 22-7891 |
Ronald James Littlefield v. California |
California |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness judicial-notice pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process state-court |
CAN A STATE TRIBUNAL DEPRIVE LITIGANTS TO THAT TRIBUNAL EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW AND EVEN HANDED JUSTICE BASED UPON A COMMITMENT OFFENSE?
DOES THE… |
| 22-7896 |
Marcelino Mendoza-Najera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7899 |
Enrique Lopez-Cristobal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7900 |
David Wright, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-range prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines state-statutes statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court erred by counting a prior conviction for violation of a state statute that had been changed to make the conduct not a crime… |
| 22-7906 |
Lamar McDonald v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence void-for-vagueness |
1)Is Apprendi v. New Jersey Still Good Caselaw?
Are the Lower Courts (Appeals Courts included)
misapplying Apprendi and Mr. McDonald Fifth and Sixth … |
| 22-1252 |
Dongmei Li v. Connecticut, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
has so far departed from the accepted and usual c anti-asian-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction hate-crimes judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings standing |
Whether it is Unconstitutional, has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings and has conducted an anti-Asian hate in… |
| 22-7852 |
Juan Victor Quezada-Lara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-7882 |
Sergio Delgado-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-7886 |
Ramon Jackson v. Mike Duggan, Mayor of the City of Detroit, et al. |
Michigan |
2023-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
bond-issuance civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection headlee-amendment municipal-bonds municipal-finance voting-rights |
1. Did the defendant(s) violate the plaintiff voting rights which are protected by the Headlee Tax Amendment and Michigan Constitution 1963, Article 9… |
| 22-7863 |
Osvaldo Castelan-Saucedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-review sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7868 |
Lawrence Broviak v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection expungement judicial-bias judicial-discretion legal-remedy sentence-commutation sentencing vindictive-sentencing |
CAN A VINDICTIVE SENTENCE BE EXPUNGED DUE TO PERSONAL BIAS BEING COMMUTED BT A JUDGE? |
| 22-7869 |
Kendall Demarko Wysinger, aka Demarko, aka D v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-law drug-statute human-trafficking life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Refusing To Reverse Wysinger's
Conviction On Count One For Conspiracy To Violate 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)(1)
(Lawy… |
| 22-1239 |
Michael Jerome Files v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
concurrent-sentences crack-cocaine crack-cocaine-offenses district-court-discretion first-step-act powder-cocaine sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Does § 404 of the First Step Act authorize district courts to impose a reduced sentence for both crack-cocaine offenses and related offenses that are … |
| 22-7854 |
Edgar Ivan Armenta-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law-review certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-overruling sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7857 |
Balwinder Singh v. California |
California |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud misconduct |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7858 |
Wayne Anthony Aviles v. Captain Jason Kowalski |
Montana |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
double-jeopardy due-process guardian-ad-litem ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias sentencing |
1. Is the Montana, Tenth Judicial District court, Fergus Connty, at fault for Double Jeopardy by giving Mr. Aviles 4 seperate Sentences?
2. Is the ju… |
| 22-7832 |
David Troy, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court circuit-precedent criminal-resentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act fourth-circuit retroactive-changes retroactive-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether retroactive changes in the law unrelated to the Fair Sentencing Act must be corrected in a First Step Act proceeding? |
| 22-7821 |
Joseph W. Peeples, lll v. United States District Court for the Western District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure document-authentication due-process equal-protection evidence-verification federal-agency legal-process original-copy standing takings |
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| 22-7822 |
Darwin Powell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing standard-of-review withdrawal withdrawal-of-guilty-plea |
Whether the courts of appeals, by creating checklists of considerations for the district courts to follow, have improperly narrowed the "fair and just… |
| 22-7833 |
Jeremy Randall Ezell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges
the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may
rebut an appellate … |
| 22-1227 |
Nejla K. Lane v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission |
Illinois |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech illinois-constitution professional-conduct |
1. In an attorney disciplinary matter in which charges against an attorney must be proven by clear and convincing evidence, and without any substantiv… |
| 22-7814 |
Joshua E. Preece v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
chapter-four criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines recidivism recidivist-enhancement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Do the relevant conduct principles of USSG § 1B1.3 govern application of Chapter Four recidivist enhancements? |
| 22-7819 |
Javier Bautista-Scheuber v. Alia Day Floren |
Montana |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights disability due-process equal-access equal-protection judicial-bias mental-capacity procedural-fairness standing |
1 - (a) Do the values of the constitution really hold true, or are they only good on paper? that
is, in practical terms, does the violation of a funda… |
| 22-7820 |
Annamalai Annamalai v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion due-process fair-trial impartiality judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-recusal recusal sentencing |
I. Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to recuse itself due to the appearance of impartiality when the court's remarks at sent… |
| 22-7823 |
Weston Ray Kubbe v. Utah |
Utah |
2023-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment criminal-defendants criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause |
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| 22-7802 |
James B. Norris, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process internet-access judicial-explanation pro-se-motion revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-discretion supervised-release |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred – contrary to the holdings of the Second, Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeals, which… |
| 22-7804 |
Ricky Simmonds v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
breach-of-contract constitutional-law contract-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process offense-level plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Whether the United States of America breaches a negotiated plea agreement when it fails to affirmatively state at the Sentencing hearing that the stip… |
| 22-7808 |
Elroy Pedro Gomez v. William Joe Sullivan, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
California-Supreme-Court criminal-procedure Due-process Equal-protection Habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargain Sentencing-enhancements Sixth-Amendment |
1. In the fi rst pl ace, was Peti tioner deni ed hi s Sixth Amendment
right to the effecti ve assi stance of counsel when hi s court-appoi nted
trial … |
| 22-1216 |
Dwayne Ferguson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons first-step-act habeas-corpus legal-error sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 limits a district court's discretion to consider—among other circumstancespecific factors—legal errors in prior proceedings a… |
| 22-1208 |
Ursula Newell-Davis, et al. v. Courtney N. Phillips, in Her Official Capacity as Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-14 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment occupation-rights privileges-or-immunities rational-basis regulatory-burden right-to-occupation slaughter-house-cases |
1. Whether the state may deny equal protection of the laws and exclude people from a trade for the sole purpose of easing its regulatory burden, or wh… |
| 22-7788 |
Deandre J. Baskerville v. Tim McConahay, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense |
Question #1: Was Petitioner's due process and equal protection of law rights to a fair trial under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution violate… |
| 22-7768 |
Nidal Ayyad v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy habeas-corpus resentencing section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review vacatur |
Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction (either on direct appeal or via a § 2255 motion), the district court must resentence the defen… |
| 22-7771 |
Jaden Rene Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure incarceration liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court unreasonably sentenced Petitioner to a higher than necessary sentence by denying Petitioner's points for acceptance of resp… |
| 22-7772 |
Stanley Jackson, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process jury-factfinding jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Constitution requires an indictment, jury trial, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find a defendant's prior convictions were "comm… |
| 22-7775 |
David Elijah Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did you Did yo… |
| 22-1203 |
Alan Patrick Fowler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
|
confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea mental-health sentencing specific-intent |
1) Could reasonable jurists disagree on whether there is insufficient evidence of specific intent to commit murder where Fowler never shot at a person… |
| 22-1204 |
William Muhr v. Dawna Braswell |
Colorado |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
child-custody conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-assignment judicial-bias judicial-disqualification parental-rights |
Question 1. Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process and equal protection were violated when Colorado allowed disqualified, pre… |
| 22-7756 |
Andre Zeno v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum |
Whether the "and" in § 3553(f)(1) means "and," so that a defendant satisfies the provision so long as he does not have (A) more than 4 criminal histor… |
| 22-7762 |
In Re Lionel Scott Ellison |
|
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction |
1) Where in the State District Court the Petitioner was acquitted of Count I: Arson, and the Respondents in Postconviction Proceedings knowingly waive… |
| 22-7764 |
Duane E. Owen v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency competency-to-be-executed criminal-procedure death-penalty dementia due-process eighth-amendment insanity legal-insanity rational-understanding |
1. Whether the State of Florida's perfunctory evaluation of Owen's claim that he is legally insane and incompetent to be executed violated the Eighth … |
| 22-7750 |
Jessie Traylor v. Stevie Knight, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights clemency constitutional-law criminal-justice-reform due-process equal-protection expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech hate-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-1193 |
Jeffry Thul v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection expedited-proceedings federal-employees federal-employment post-traumatic-stress-disorder service-of-process |
Whether service of process is relevant in a psycho
logical disability case when the equal protection
component of the Due Process Clause confers on al… |
| 22-1195 |
Phillip Robinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 22-1186 |
Citizens for Constitutional Integrity, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-rulemaking cloture-rule congressional-review-act due-process equal-protection executive-power legislative-power legislative-rule separation-of-powers voting-thresholds |
1. Whether the Congressional Review Act, which
incorporates the Cloture Rule, 5 U.S.C. 801(b)(2),
violates the separation of powers by creating a one-… |
| 22-1189 |
Patricia A. Bogan v. Denton County District Attorney Office, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
1) In 2019, the issue arose whether a court could dismiss for want of prosecution at a time after the statute of limitations had run. The state's argu… |
| 22-7731 |
Roy Lee Jones, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process essential-elements evidence fifth-circuit-precedent jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-issue standard-of-proof |
In addressing Roy Lee Jones, Jr.'s claim that the evidence in this methampethamine prosecution supported only a conviction for conspiracy to possess w… |
| 22-7734 |
Christopher Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act resentencing sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Reduction of Sentence, Pursuant to Section 404 of the
First Step Act of 2018, requires a Plenary Resentencing to provide
procedural and substantial Du… |
| 22-7735 |
Vivian R. Woodstock v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection resentencing restitution sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether a court may impose a harsher sentence upon resentencing after it was determined the initial sentence violated equal protection and due process… |
| 22-7736 |
Brandon Ross Williams v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance criminal-law drug-offense federal-jurisdiction predicate-offense sentencing |
Whether, under the categorical approach established by this Court for
determining whether a previous state conviction can qualify as a predicate "seri… |
| 22-7738 |
Michael Alexander Rivera v. California |
California |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7725 |
James Earl Green, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 22-7717 |
Christopher A. Bernard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review below-guidelines-sentence circuit-split district-court-discretion holguin-hernandez procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness |
This Court in Holguin-Hernandez held that a defendant's argument in the district court for
a lower sentence preserves appella te review to the substan… |
| 22-7721 |
William Whittman v. Prime Autotech, Inc., et al. |
Virginia |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-procedure due-process equal-justice equal-protection federal-questions petition-for-appeal reversible-error state-court state-court-decision |
1. Does the State Court Decision to deny Petitioner's Petition for Appeal on 2/27/23 on grounds that no reversible error occurred in the lower court v… |
| 22-7723 |
Wesley Jorome Harris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-7701 |
Jose Pena v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing vacatur |
Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction (either on direct appeal or via a § 2255 motion), the district court must resentence the defen… |
| 22-7705 |
Matthew J. Kwong v. Cheswold (TL), LLC, et al. |
Connecticut |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
agency-participation civil-procedure due-process equal-protection foreclosure standing |
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| 22-7709 |
Ashley Latreece Thackerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history first-step-act safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by finding that Petitioner did not qualify for safety valve relief under the First Step Act 18 U.S.C. § 355… |
| 22-7700 |
Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus juror-disqualification jury-selection procedural-claim state-concealment statutory-disqualification statutory-violation voir-dire |
An individual who was not qualified to serve under Missouri law sentenced Michael Tisius to death. This juror was, and is still, illiterate. His parti… |
| 22-7682 |
Tyrin Gayle v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure disjunctive-theories due-process firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation verdict-ambiguity |
I. Whether the Second Circuit conflicted with its own precedent in Capers when it denied Gayle relief?
II. Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeal… |
| 22-7697 |
Kenneth Brown, Jr. v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
act-84 civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio |
I. Whether Act B4, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9728(b)(5) is Unconstitutional
on its Face as Violative of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Constitution and/or the … |
| 22-7698 |
Tristan Kareem Davis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appointments-clause civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-power senate-confirmation sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum tenth-amendment territorial-governance |
Did the Court exceed its authority in not having a jury at the sentencing hearing to sentence Davis beyond the Statutory Maximum?
Is the United State… |
| 22-7683 |
Michael Dewayne Alfred v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2259 causal-role causation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum victim-compensation |
When imposing restitution under 18 U.S.C. § 2259(b)(2), does the district court's restitution order exceed the statutory maximum when that court fails… |
| 22-7686 |
Daniel Dorado v. California |
California |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda-rights rape-cases sentencing sixth-amendment |
For the Court's consideration and determination regarding issues involved in my criminal case, and consideration for adults in rape cases:
1. That th… |
| 22-7676 |
Rene Lugo-Barcenas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights drug-purity due-process equal-protection methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment ussg-2d1.1 |
Claim #1 Does the fifth amendment's due process and equal protection rights guard against disparate sentences created by the Methamphetamine Drug Tabl… |
| 22-7659 |
Darrien D. Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion motion-to-reduce sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it imposed a sentence of 360 months when the applicable guideline range was 235-293 months?
2. Di… |
| 22-7666 |
Bayardo R. Sandy v. The Baca Grande Property Owners Association |
Colorado |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cover-up due-process equal-protection legal-jurisdiction petitioner-rights state-misconduct |
Did Colorado violate Petitioner Bayardo Sandy's Civil Rights? I.
Has Colorado been Engaged in a Cover up of its Abuse of Discretions? II. |
| 22-7647 |
Nicasio Nevarez-Zamudio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7650 |
Nolan Washington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the Di strict Court erred when i t (1) fel t constrai ned to i mpose the
mandatory mi nimum sentence, 120 months of i mpri sonment; (2) di d … |
| 22-7653 |
Jose Carlos Gallegos-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7636 |
Jose Luis Manriquez-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7646 |
Derek Pelker v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-process certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection federal-government-collusion federalism ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default separation-of-powers |
Mr. Pelker alleged the Federal Governments impermissible collusion within the prosecution of the Commonwealth.of Pennsylvania for the same misconduct … |
| 22-7631 |
Terrell McGee v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion murder-degrees retroactivity sentencing sentencing-disparities |
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| 22-7625 |
Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
2023-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
brain-development criminal-responsibility cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mental-impairment |
Do executions of persons who committed their crimes when they were under the age of 21, or, at the least, the execution of a 19-year-old offender who … |
| 22-7626 |
Tynan Anthony Checchi v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cross-examination fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination sentencing unsworn-allocution |
1) Was Mr. Checchi's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination violated when a district court cross-examined him during his unsworn allocution … |
| 22-7630 |
Daniel Nathaniel McCall v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-24 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach federal-drug-schedules federal-firearm-offense mandatory-minimum prior-state-drug-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense |
1. This Court has granted certiorari in Jackson v. United States, No. 22-6640, and Brown v. United States, No. 22-6389, and consolidated the cases. Th… |
| 22-1137 |
Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations, Inc., et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cancel-culture civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-action due-process equal-protection ethnic-holiday executive-order injury-in-fact redressability standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in deviating from the test for standing employed by the Eleventh Circuit in Gardner v. Mutz, 857 F. App'x 633, 634 … |
| 22-1134 |
Siyu Yang, et al. v. University of Rochester, et al. |
New York |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction |
1. In Monroe County, N.Y. Supreme Court, JAMAL J. ROSSI, President of the Eastman School of Music, and Matthew Ardizzone, Associate President, submitt… |
| 22-7605 |
Sealed Appellant v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bad-faith cooperation cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct guilty-plea plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion section-3553e sentencing sentencing-relief |
Did the government act in bad faith by denying 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e) relief to Petitioner when, after securing his guilty plea with the promise that it … |
| 22-7612 |
Bayardo R. Sandy v. The Baca Grande Property Owners Association |
Colorado |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-violation cover-up due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-remedy standing state-misconduct |
Did Colorado violate Petitioner Bayardo Sandy's Civil Rights?
Has Colorado been Engaged in a Cover up of its Abuse of Discretions? |
| 22-7588 |
Eric Lee Coleman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense categorical-approach criminal-law due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation |
The question presented is whether a court must consider the availability (or non-availability) of an affirmative defense in the categorical approach. |
| 22-7592 |
Grace Woodham v. Tucker Scheffer |
New Hampshire |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights digital-privacy due-process electronic-communications equal-protection fourth-amendment free-speech probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search |
The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. While a section header labeled "QUESTIO… |
| 22-1127 |
Christine Sawicky v. Tao Sykes, Manuel Real Beneficiary, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment bribery due-process equal-protection honest-services-fraud judicial-immunity pro-se pro-se-litigation |
1. How can the DOJ bring multiple indictments
for judges in several circuits, inclusive of counts for
honest services fraud and bribery, but then re… |
| 22-7580 |
Victor Alfredo Bermudez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing notice-of-objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-objection procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review supervisory-powers trial-court-notice |
Whether a specific objection must be lodged to preserve a procedural error claim when the trial court was put on notice of the objection through defen… |
| 22-7582 |
Rodolfo A. Cuellar, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-law drug-convictions federal-prisoner first-step-act resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
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| 22-7585 |
Enrique Roberto Villarreal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-7586 |
Mark Ringland v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment privileges-and-immunities procedural-protections standing state-procedure |
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| 22-7561 |
In Re Christopher Vigliotti |
|
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process multiple-punishment plea-bargain probation probation-violation sentencing sentencing-scheme statutory-authority |
Petitioner humbly calls upon this Court to test the legality of his present 15 year state prison sentence which stemmed from violating probation, a pr… |
| 22-7563 |
Joseph I. Wilkes v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-rights constitutional-rights delayed-appeal due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-language trial-court-jurisdiction |
Question I:
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Constitution were violated whento the United States request for delayed appeal was denied for a… |
| 22-7567 |
Enrique Infante, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 compassionate-release extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-compelling-reasons judicial-discretion medical-care sentencing sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether inadequate medical care for a treatable illness
is a categorically insufficient basis to qualify as an
extraordinary and compelling reason… |
| 22-7545 |
Maude Laroche-St. Fleur v. Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-discipline constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity state-court state-court-jurisdiction |
1. Whether, when dealing with its citizens, a State court is permitted to issue decisions that are in direct conflict with this Court's precedents, an… |
| 22-1114 |
James Harris, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
|
death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability medically-accepted-standards moore-v-texas strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether the TCCA contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and this Court's precedents, when it evaluated petitioner's intellectual disabil… |
| 22-1106 |
Judy A. Brannberg, et al. v. Colorado State Board of Education, et al. |
Colorado |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure-act charter-school-rights civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review obstruction-of-justice retaliation school-safety state-board-decision |
Whether the last sentence of section Colorado Revised Statutes C.R.S. § 22-30.5-108(3)(d) —"The decision of the state board shall be final and not sub… |
| 22-1108 |
Reuben Haley v. Urban Outfitters, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether the grant of summary judgment against petitioner was error? |
| 22-1101 |
William Tyrone Cunningham v. Merit Systems Protection Board |
Federal Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection federal-employment national-labor-relations-act probationary-period veterans-preference |
The Petitioner is a preference eligible United
States Veteran that has 8 years of prior federal
employment with the United States Postal Service
(USPS… |
| 22-7527 |
Adam Garcia v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction force-clause predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
I. The definition of "crime of violence" for 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) requires immediacy and physical force. Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)(1), requ… |
| 22-7532 |
In Re Rex Gard |
|
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Is Petitioner actually innocent and has a miscarriage of justice occurred?
2. Is the South Dakota Supreme Court's overturning of their own precede… |
| 22-7533 |
Terence Crawley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure discretionary-relief district-court-discretion due-process first-step-act non-frivolous-arguments sentencing sentencing-relief supreme-court-ruling |
Whether the district court is obligated to consider a defendant's non-frivolous arguments in exercising its discretion to grant relief in a motion for… |
| 22-7503 |
Earnest A. Davis v. Porsche Cars of North America, et al. |
California |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights court-forms due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion legal-process procedural-fairness racial-discrimination standing |
1.) Are U.S. judicial officers presiding over civil cases required to process standard court forms such as Applications for Requests for Entry of Defa… |
| 22-7511 |
Jason C. Turem v. Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, et al. |
Florida |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights driver's-license drivers-license due-process equal-protection hardship-license pursuit-of-livelihood religious-freedom |
Whether Petitioner has a federal Constitutional right to equal protection & equal application under the law & rule to a business purpose hardship driv… |
| 22-7513 |
Jordan Nathaniel Mitchell v. John Stone, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection false-imprisonment government-misconduct incarceration involuntary-treatment medical-consent medical-treatment state-law |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7516 |
Adam Dean Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-injury controlled-substance criminal-intent drug-offense due-process felony-statute jury-determination prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
21 U.S.C. § 841(A)(1) makes is a crime to "knowingly or intentionally .. . manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture… |
| 22-7518 |
John William Iron Road v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing proximate-causation proximate-cause restitution restitution-award sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-award |
Whether an appellate court should enforce an appeal waiver where the appeal challenges an unlawful restitution award? |
| 22-1094 |
Mandy Mobley Li v. Chao Li |
Georgia |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-support child-support-modification due-process equal-protection exclusive-jurisdiction federal-preemption fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction preemption |
The Full Faith and Credit for Child Support Orders Act (FFCCSOA) grants continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to a court of a State to modify its child s… |
| 22-7494 |
Floyd Ellis Wyche v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver conviction conviction-appeal criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing |
Rule 11(b)(1)(N) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure requires that a
district court conducting a plea colloquy inquire into the defendant's kno… |
| 22-7479 |
Mario Rodolfo Chairez-Avila v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7485 |
Daniel Isaiah Thody v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release united-states-v-haymond |
As a case of first impression, whether the current implementation of Supervised Release, (18 U.S.C. §3583), as a "separate sentence " in addition to t… |
| 22-7468 |
Donatus O. Mbanefo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection minority-rights selective-prosecution sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Question 1. Whether the lower courts erred by lending themselves to a prosecution that intentionally selected minority physicians for prosecution in v… |
| 22-7475 |
Jason J. Hyatt v. Mike Lukas, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights equal-protection first-amendment free-speech standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7476 |
Michael D'Antonio v. Borough of Allendale, New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-housing foreclosure money-laundering municipal-misconduct racketeering sheriff-sale |
1. Petitioner questions the essence
2. Petitioner questions the lack of finding by the Rehearino of against the Respondent Borough of Allendale for v… |
| 22-7456 |
Zhaojin David Ke v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-justice equal-protection evidence-presentation judicial-discrimination pro-se-litigant standing |
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in deliberately repeating the district court's errors in factfinding and the application of law and in discri… |
| 22-7458 |
Roger Wayne Battle v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process murder-by-omission physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the crime of murder by omission, such as letting one's child starve to death,
"has as an element the use . . . of physical force" such that it… |
| 22-7459 |
Joseph Church v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea involuntary-plea notice plea-withdrawal sentencing |
I. Whether it is harmless error when a guilty plea is obtained in violation of due process of law when a judgment of conviction is entered without pro… |
| 22-7462 |
Ronnie Bowman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7451 |
Bennie C. Rivera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-justice criminal-procedure fair-sentence-act first-step-act judicial-discretion judicial-review motion-denial sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
DID JUDGE JOHN ANTON II, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ABUSE HIS DISCRETION WHEN HE DENIED THE PETITIONER'S MOTION IN PURSUANT TO THE FIRST STEP … |
| 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… |
| 22-7422 |
Darrell Gunn v. New York |
New York |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
conflicting-precedent criminal-law due-process equal-protection home-invasion legal-ambiguity murder-statute new-york-penal-law statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT OR LEGISLATURE DID NOT EXPRESSLY SWEEP WITHIN NEW
UNLAWFULLY YORK PENAL LAW § 125.27 ALL KILLINGS IN WHICH THE MURDERER
ENTERED THE … |
| 22-7436 |
Chad Robert Kolkman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history criminal-sentencing legal-interpretation mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation statutory-text |
When the terms of a statute are unambiguous, "it's no contest" what a court should do—apply the law as written. Bostock v. Clayton County, 140 S. Ct. … |
| 22-7409 |
Joshua Adam Schulte v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism marriage same-sex-marriage |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7417 |
Keanan Dequez Bond v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection where the district court in a motion for compassi… |
| 22-7420 |
Jose Angel Morquecho-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7423 |
Gilberto Marquez-Calzadilla v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7431 |
William Hill, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7396 |
Richard Anthony Wilford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cocaine-quantity criminal-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection false-declaration pro-se pro-se-petition sentencing sentencing-memorandum supervised-release supremacy-clause |
Whether to grant the petition for a writ of certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand for reconsideration in light of Concepcion V. United States, 1… |
| 22-7402 |
Nathan Alvarado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright habeas-corpus public-importance state-court |
1. Did the State Court proceedings afford Due Process and Equal Protection of Laws under the Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the United St… |
| 22-7404 |
Tomas Jaramillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-rights attorney-client-communication attorney-consultation consultation-duty criminal-appeals criminal-defendant criminal-procedure flores-ortega-standard ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-appeal sentencing |
Whether, when a criminal defendant expresses interest in an appeal and concern over the length of his sentence, an attorney who fails to hold a follow… |
| 22-7406 |
Shawn Henry v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial false-evidence fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct state-action state-court-discrimination |
WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED SUBSTANTIAL EQUALITY AND FAIR PROCESS WHERE STATE COURT ARBITRARILY DISCRIMINATED BETWEEN PERSONS APPLYING FOR RELIEF IN… |
| 22-7413 |
Nathan G. Flemming v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure defendant-rights delay due-process judicial-process presence-of-defendant pronouncement-of-sentence sentencing sentencing-delay |
1. DOES A THIRTEEN MONTH DELAY BETWEEN SENTENCING HEARING AND THE PRONOUNCEMENT OF SENTENCE VIOLATE DUE PROCESS?
2. DOES THE ABSENCE OF A DEFENDANT F… |
| 22-1049 |
Bo Peng v. F.M. Tarbell Co. |
California |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment color-of-law due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-impartiality lien real-property-rights wage-property |
Whether the lack of an impartial judges, and that the state judges, under color of law, without due process of law, deprived appellant of his wage pro… |
| 22-1051 |
Ronald Simon, et ux. v. Wayne Janke, et al. |
Washington |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
|
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process equal-protection fraud jurisdiction racial-discrimination standing |
Appellants seek review of the jurisdiction of the State Court and a judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of Washington denying Appellants' petit… |
| 22-1047 |
Rhonda J. Leaf, nka Rhonda J. Ring v. Brian E. Leaf |
Delaware |
2023-04-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal pro-se property-rights standing |
I. Per U.S.C. Arndt. 14.S1.5.1, U.S.C. Arndt 14.Si.5.2, U.S.C Arndt 14.S1.5.3 U.S.C. Arndt 14.SI.3, Was Rhonda J. Leaf (nka-Ring) 's 14th amendment ri… |
| 22-7385 |
Timothy Eugene Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substances eleventh-circuit federal-enhancement florida-priors sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law state-priors |
Whether United States v. Jackson, 36 F.4th 1294 (11th Cir. 2022) was wrongly decided by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, when it stated that App… |
| 22-7373 |
Victor M. Miranda-Guerrero v. California |
California |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se… |
| 22-7375 |
R. J. Kulick v. United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-authority magistrate-judge pro-per-status procedural-fairness report-and-recommendations standing |
The USDC & USCA-9 denied Kulick's right to Due Process by NOT Addressing Clause "(5) Filing Of Magistrate Judge's Report And Recommendations Before Th… |
| 22-7377 |
Jose Isabel Mora-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-7380 |
Toivania Ereachia Gill v. TBG Food Acquisition Corp. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constructive-discharge due-process equal-protection hostile-work-environment legal-procedure standing |
1) Did the United States Western District of Virginia Court dismiss Plaintiffs claim of constructive discharge prematurely when the burden of proof on… |
| 22-7381 |
Larry Anthony Ladson, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing procedural-due-process selective-prosecution standing |
Whether Petitioner was a victim of Selective Prosecution.
Whether Petitioner was erroneously denied a Certificate of Appealability. |
| 22-7382 |
Tarus Vandell Sales v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus law-of-parties sixth-amendment tison-v-arizona |
1. Whether Mr. Sales's death sentence violates the Sixth, Eighth, and
Fourteenth Amendments, where the jury did not and could not find, based on the
e… |
| 22-7355 |
Demarr M. Meyers v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment-violation appeals civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights court-review due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure judicial-process legal-procedure |
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| 22-7367 |
Christopher J. Bailey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion concepcion-precedent concepcion-v-united-states criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act precedent sentence-reduction sentencing |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION
WHEN IT ARBITRARILY IGNORED PRECEDENT FROM ITS OWN
CIRCUIT, AND THE SUPREME COURT, IN DENYING PETIT… |
| 22-1036 |
Ronda L. Cormier v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit meaningful-access pro-se pro-se-appeal summary-judgment willis-v-cleco |
This case presents an intractable conflict between the rights of appellants in the Fifth Circuit to enjoy equal protection under the law and meaningfu… |
| 22-7354 |
Rafael L. Beier v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in summarily denying a certificate of appealabililty that would allow an appeal from an order denying a motion to vacate,… |
| 22-7326 |
Quandraiko Hayes v. Mike Brown, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto sentencing |
COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT THE U S
UNREASONABLY DENIED PETITIONER, DUE PROCESS OF
DUE PROCESS CLAUSE RIGHTS OF THE U.S.
AMENDS V AND XIV… |
| 22-7330 |
Pedro Perez-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure deportation due-process habeas-corpus immigration ineffective-counsel sentencing |
guilty of offense of "reentry" into United States, which was for Sixth Constitutional Amendment (Effective Assistance of Counsel). Where defense Trial… |
| 22-7336 |
Shawn Kaleb Drake v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons credit criminal-procedure duty-to-determine federal-sentence federal-sentencing judicial-discretion presentence-detention sentencing |
1. If a defendant requests that he be given credit towards his federal sentence for presentence detention time, is a district court – knowing that the… |
| 22-7337 |
Toforest Onesha Johnson v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation capital-murder death-penalty post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct reward-payment suppressed-evidence witness-testimony |
Did the State suppress evidence under Brady in the extraordinary circumstances of this death penalty case? |
| 22-7338 |
Robert Lemke v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
autonomy criminal-autonomy criminal-defendant defendant-rights due-process legal-representation liberty liberty-interests mental-health mental-health-considerations sentencing sentencing-procedure |
1. Whether a criminal defendant's right to autonomy with respect to his defense applies to his sentencing?
2. Whether questions of a criminal defenda… |
| 22-7316 |
Hugo Perez-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-7319 |
Jose Manuel Salazar-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7307 |
Darek Lathan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavits appeal appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-procedure sentencing standing |
Did the appeadl court abuse its discretion by failing to comply
withthe consttution which guarartee me due process of law
which compel the rebuttal of… |
| 22-7288 |
Gilberto Gonzalez-Enriquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process error-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review u.s-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentencing court can insulate a substantial error in calculating the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines range from appellate review simply by assert… |
| 22-7294 |
Robert L. Tatum v. Earnell Lucas, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants sanctions summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7296 |
Nathan Karl Thomas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process legal-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-review supreme-court-petition |
Did the government breach the plea agreement by giving Petitioner a substantive sentence that was inconsistent with the plea agreement?
Double Jeopar… |
| 22-7297 |
Lawrence Edward Thompson v. Allred Unit |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights equal-protection fair-housing-act standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7298 |
In Re Gabriel Desmond Yankey, Jr. |
|
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-district judicial-recusal legal-standing petitioner-rights procedural-rights standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-1004 |
Kurt Garrison v. City of Ottawa, Kansas, et al. |
Kansas |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias prejudice procedural-due-process professional-engineering right-to-trial-by-jury standard-of-review substantive-due-process |
1. Whether substantive due process applied by the
state district court when erroneously dismissing this
case with no evidentiary hearing, without di… |
| 22-7269 |
Melchor Karl T. Limpin v. Robert B. C. McSeveney, Judge, United States Immigration Court, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration immigration-law probable-cause warrant-clause |
(1) Whether the statute 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a) ("On a warrant issued by the Attorney General, an alien may be arrested. ..") is constitutionally impermiss… |
| 22-7274 |
Jorge Galeas, Jr. v. Adam Gibson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
10th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus independent-state-ground procedural-default state-court-decision strickler-v-greene |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7275 |
Matthew Jones v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hate-crime judicial-branch law-enforcement police-misconduct standing takings |
1. Are you aware that I am the victim of the longest ongoing most violent hate crime and murder attempt in all of North America's millions of years of… |
| 22-7280 |
Richard Ralph Martinez v. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Governor of New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
criminal-procedure determinate-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus indeterminate-sentencing judicial-review life-sentence new-mexico parole parole-eligibility sentencing |
1. Whether Petitioner's allegations of violation, abridgment and denial of his constitutional rights by the named defendants' ignoring and violating t… |
| 22-994 |
Wall Street Apartments, LLC, et al. v. All Star Property Management, LLC, et al. |
Washington |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
|
access-to-court appellate-procedure constitutional-rights court-hearing decision-based-on-record due-process equal-protection judicial-review meaningful-hearing scrutiny-of-state-court-proceedings |
Appellants seek review of a judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of Washington denying Appellants' petition of review of the Washington Court of… |
| 22-7257 |
Santos Cuevas v. Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-law judicial-discretion jury-trial sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment |
Has Oregon's Judiciary and legislature failed to incorporate landmark cases relevant for how and-when to enhance a sentence, and to comport with the r… |
| 22-7259 |
Jose Manuel Cejudo-Mancinas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7260 |
Luis Alberto Escobedo-Duenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7261 |
Susan Elise Prophet v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-procedure eighth-circuit federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit abused its discretion in denying Prophet's Motion for Compassionate Release/Reductio… |
| 22-7263 |
Christopher L. Ramirez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances due-process equal-protection federal-law sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether "controlled substance offenses" under United States Sentencing Guidelines §4B1.2(b) are limited to those offenses involving substances list… |
| 22-985 |
Ferrell Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography double-jeopardy fifth-amendment revocation sentencing supervised-release |
1. Whether the subsequent imposition of a sentence to a term of imprisonment of 168 months on a charge of possession of child pornography, to run cons… |
| 22-986 |
Grant Nyhammer v. Paula Basta, in Her Official Capacity as Director of the Illinois Department on Aging |
Illinois |
2023-04-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7243 |
Mario Roberto Bonilla-Diaz v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment illegal-reentry immigration-law in-absentia removal-order sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines |
I. Whether Mr. Bonilla-Diaz's in absentia removal order, which issued when he was ten years old and forms the basis for his illegal reentry conviction… |
| 22-7245 |
Paul DiBiase v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal due-process plea-agreement post-conviction post-conviction-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony waiver-of-rights |
Petitioner was sentenced as an Armed Career Criminal (ACC) over his protests that he did not have three prior violent felony convictions as required f… |
| 22-7247 |
Claudia Castillo Guzman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process government-conduct judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentence-manipulation sentencing |
Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when a sentencing court refuses to consider, as a mitigating factor, whether the government has engaged in … |
| 22-7242 |
In Re Henry Jones |
|
2023-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-violations constructive-amendment denial-of-counsel due-process extraordinary-writ fraud jurisdiction sentencing trial-record-falsification |
WHETHER BY REASON OF THE NUMEROUS CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS COMMITTED BY THE DISTRICT COURT, SUCH AS FALSIFYING THE RECORD OF JONES' TRIAL PROCEEDINGS… |
| 22-7228 |
Sharon Hardman v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
age-discrimination civil-rights disparate-treatment due-process employment employment-law equal-protection promotion protected-class workplace-rights |
What does the Age Discrimination Act in Employment of 1967 state about a person seeking promotion over the age of 40? |
| 22-7229 |
Manuel Ovante, Jr. v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-04-06 |
GVR |
IFP |
capital-murder due-process guilty-plea judicial-misrepresentation lynch-v-arizona parole parole-eligibility sentencing simmons-v-south-carolina |
1. Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the decision below, and remand this case, as it did with six similarly situated petitioners in Burns v. … |
| 22-7231 |
James Sonny Alaniz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment gall-standard gall-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-due-process upward-departure |
Whether the Court of Appeals holding that a sentencing court is not required to use the incremental steps in Section 4A1 -3(a)(4)(B) in an upward depa… |
| 22-7233 |
Justin Heath Thomas v. California |
California |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona statutory-maximum |
WHETHER CALIFORNIA'S DEATH PENALTY SCHEME VIOLATES THE CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENT THAT ANY FACT, OTHER THAN A PRIOR CONVICTION, THAT SERVES TO INCREAS… |
| 22-7235 |
Adam Chism v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence interest-of-justice plain-error sentencing trial-court |
WHETHER CHISM WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN PLAIN ERROR WAS COMMITTED BY THE TRIAL COURT IN IMPOSING AN ILLEGAL SENTENCE AS A MATTER OF LAW AND/O… |
| 22-7236 |
Louis Gaskin v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment espinosa-v-florida fourteenth-amendment post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process procedural-rules sixth-amendment |
1. Whether evolving standards of decency have rendered Mr. Gaskin's death violative of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishm… |
| 22-7218 |
Jaime Tomas-Antonio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7220 |
Geronimo Juarez-Medellin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7191 |
Terrence Hammock v. Gail Watts, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights equal-protection racial-discrimination redistricting standing voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7198 |
Richard Roy Blake v. Liliane Hong, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-ordinance section-1983 void-for-vagueness |
1.) Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly on January 4, 2020 … |
| 22-7205 |
Miguel Valdivia-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7206 |
Dennis Hood v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights day-for-day due-process equal-protection false-aggregate-sentence parole-denial perjurious-information sentence-aggregate sentence-aggregation time-credit |
Whether a person can be put in fear of death for refusing parole on a sentence already served [DAY-FOR-DAY] regarding a false aggregate sentence?
Whe… |
| 22-7207 |
Ignacio Martinez-Saucedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent overruling sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7209 |
Dylan Brando Ervey Macias-Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-963 |
John Doe v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-action criminal-conduct criminal-violation dodd-frank enforcement-action judicial-action pleaded-guilty sec-interpretation sentencing whistleblower whistleblower-award |
In denying a whistleblower award to Petitioner, the SEC interpreted key provisions of the statutory whistleblower program created by Congress in the D… |
| 22-7172 |
Henry A. Harmon v. Kayla Noel-Emsweller, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment en-banc-review equal-protection good-time judicial-review sentencing time-served |
Did petitioner have a complete fair denovo review of his legal findings that Kayla Noel- Emsweller, et.al., and defendants deny him his constitutional… |
| 22-7178 |
David Frazier v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-procedure state-courts |
Whether Supreme Court for Tennessee ignored facts and procedure for correction of illegal sentence.
Whether Criminal Appeals Court for Tennessee also… |
| 22-7179 |
Andres Ajualip-Pablo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7180 |
Tyshon Booker v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2023-04-03 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment juvenile-court juvenile-transfer probable-cause reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment transfer-hearing |
The defendant in this case was sixteen when the alleged crime was committed. He was initially charged in Juvenile Court. He was transferred from Juven… |
| 22-7182 |
Azizjon Rakhmatov v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-46c 2nd-circuit circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process en-banc en-banc-review inter-panel-conflict judicial-bias racial-bias sentencing |
1. Whether the unresolved conflict between the Second Circuit panels in this case, and the conflict among the circuits on whether 28 U.S.C. §46 can an… |
| 22-7183 |
Manuel Camilo Ordonez-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-7184 |
Darrell Kelly Middlekauff v. Sue Washburn, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution |
Oregon |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-sentencing death-penalty fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial jury-trial-waiver post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment |
1. In a post-conviction relief case based on an aggravated murder conviction in which the defendant faced the death penalty, is trial counsel ineffect… |
| 22-7190 |
Dante R. Voss v. Kevin A. Carr, Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Corrections |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection legal-loan-policy standing takings takings-clause |
1. WHETHER Voss's COMPLAINT STATES A CLAIM UPON WHICH RELIEF MAY BE GRANTED?
2. WHETHER 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) IS UNCONSTITUTIONALLY OVERBROAD? |
| 22-7167 |
Quentin Truley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining probable-cause sentencing |
(1) Under categorical approach, is 18 USC § 924(c)'s residual clause held as unconstitutionally vague, and predicated by Conspiracy to Commit Hobbs Ac… |
| 22-7168 |
Larry St. Clair Whetstone v. Fraley and Schilling Trucking Company |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
ada-violation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection judicial-oath standing |
Is the decision of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the lower court's decision remain a decision that contradicts the judicial oath of fai… |
| 22-956 |
Paul Johnson v. Bastrop Central Appraisal District |
Texas |
2023-03-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-justice civil-rights due-process equal-protection mandamus-writ pro-se public-information standard-of-proof standing statutory-interpretation texas-law |
Should the State of Texas create a separate standard of proof in statutory Writ of Mandamus cases that denies the poor and pro se requesters access to… |
| 22-7142 |
William Matthew Plump v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fraud legal-ethics legal-misrepresentation mail-fraud misrepresentation sentencing wire-fraud |
The law of the Eighth Circit is that an attomey volates the federal mail andwi frand stattes 18 U.5.8 134 and 343, if thy Make Mat Misstatements or am… |
| 22-7152 |
In Re Daniel Felix |
|
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
animal-cruelty constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection non-property-animals standing victim-rights victims-rights |
1. A never before presented legal issue that per the recent Federal Animal Cruelty Law and existing State Animal Cruelty Laws, Homeless Cats and other… |
| 22-7156 |
James Anthony Rogers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7160 |
Daniel J. Rios v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge court-rule criminal-sentencing due-process federal-case-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review rehabilitation rehabilitative-efforts sentencing state-court-decisions |
1. Whether Rule 3:21-10(b) authorizes a reviewing court to reconsider a sentence based upon post-conviction rehabilitative efforts pursuant to establi… |
| 22-7138 |
Muzammil Ali v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure downward-variance due-process fifth-amendment jail-phone-calls motion-for-continuance sentencing sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act |
1. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN AFFIRMING THAT ALI'S FIFTH AND SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE NOT VIOLATED UNDER THE SPEEDY TRIAL ACT.
2. WHETH… |
| 22-7140 |
George Cerron v. Personal Investment Inc. |
Florida |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure counsel-disqualification due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment nonfinal-appeal nonfinal-order standing state-law |
Taking into account that the nonfinal order issued by the lower civil court in case 2017CA004797 is an order that denied the Defendants' Motion to Dis… |
| 22-7141 |
Donald McDonald v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-03-29 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act life-sentence non-violent-felony proportionate-penalties proportionate-penalties-clause sentencing solem-v-helm |
Whether the decision of the first District Appellate court of Illinois denying Petitioner's proportionate penalty clausd claim conflicts with the deci… |
| 22-7148 |
Karteu Omar Jenkins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (9)IFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure drug-weight-calculation due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN NOT APPOINTING NEW
COUNSEL AFTER THE SECOND HEARING ON THIS MATTER?
II. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN NO… |
| 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… |
| 22-948 |
Gennady Y. Paremsky v. Ingham County Medical Care Facility, et al. |
Michigan |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-agency administrative-law contract-clause due-process earned-compensation equal-protection paid-time-off tax-evasion wage-and-hour |
I. Did the Michigan State Administrative Agency Wage and Hour Division ("WHD"), as upheld by the Michigan Supreme Court, violate the U.S. Constitution… |
| 22-7123 |
Kenneth Chambers v. Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
The issue before this Court is whether the Seventh Circuit of the Southern District of Indiana had subject matter jurisdiction over the case. The Plai… |
| 22-7130 |
Timothy Fletcher v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker-decision criminal-procedure district-court-notice federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion mandatory-guidelines notice-requirement sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
Whether this Court's elimination of the mandatory sentencing guidelines pursuant to United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005) has rendered Fed. R. … |
| 22-7131 |
Deandre D. Currington v. Mason Bynum, Sheriff, Dale County, Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7114 |
Miguel Ortiz-Castillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-7121 |
Christopher Barret v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure de-novo-resentencing de-novo-review direct-appeal resentencing sentencing sentencing-discretion vacatur |
1. Whether, following the vacatur of one or more counts, either pursuant to a direct appeal or a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, a district court must conduc… |
| 22-7077 |
Otis Gamble, III v. Allstate Insurance Co. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
alabama civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7088 |
James Duane Grzeslo v. Raythel Fisher, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7096 |
Appellant 1 and Appellant 2 v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-discretion appellate-procedure breach constitutional contract-interpretation cooperation-agreement crime-of-violence judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Was it unconstitutional and improper for the Fifth Circuit to rely on the government's newly argued application of an undefined contract provision to … |
| 22-7101 |
Charles Eugene Nolden v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-sentencing federal-statute sentence-reduction sentencing third-circuit |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abused its discretion in denying Nolden's Motion for Compassionate Release/Reduction … |
| 22-7106 |
Brian Keith Wells, aka B. K. Wells v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-denial criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance procedural-review role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit substantive-reasonableness ussg-3b1.1 |
Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether Mr. Wells request for new counsel should have been granted?
Whether this honor… |
| 22-7109 |
In Re Freddie A. Land |
|
2023-03-24 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law asylum due-process equal-protection immigration statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7076 |
Servando Pineda-Valdez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-claims counsel-performance criminal-procedure guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing writ-of-certiorari |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted since Servando-Pineda 's title 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion sufficiently alleged constitutional claims violations du… |
| 22-7084 |
Christopher Daniel Lutker v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process guilty-plea involuntary-confession knowingly-voluntarily mental-competency plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing trial-court-discretion |
x, £>lP C-HHT^TOpHEM DAHTTT ZHTHE& KNOWTMZZYj I NTT/LLX&TNTIy AND YOIUNTARILYMADE WHEN
H E WAS 5J3aK AND SOJU-TN&HIMEJTLF ANDPZMZEP
A fiESrACOM uMTL… |
| 22-7062 |
Ricardo Noble v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment discretion-abuse due-process equal-protection prison-classification retaliation standing |
This UnconStitu tonal for judges and Prison
$taer to allow their PET Sonal preyadices te interfere |
with their ability to de their job. LiteKky v WSs… |
| 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… |
| 22-7070 |
Kenneth Douglas Clark, III v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th and 8th Amendment rights by refusing to drop char and allowing a biased jury verdict excluding his self-defense claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-bias jury-exclusion prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-procedure |
1. Is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in violation of the Petitioner's 5th and 8th amendment by refusing not to drop all charges against the Petition… |
| 22-7051 |
William Todd Lewallen v. Scott Crow |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-testimony due-process evidence jury-trial right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas sentencing sentencing-procedure state-evidence-law |
Oklahoma has jury sentencing in all felony cases, and those proceedings may be bifurcated. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals (the "OCCA") has the… |
| 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 … |
| 22-7048 |
Scott P. Roeder v. Dan Schnurr, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-economy postconviction-review standing suspension-clause unborn-rights |
1. Whether United States v. Vuitch, 402 U.S. 62 (1971), should be overruled in favor of equality with the unborn?
2. Whether a habeas corpus petition… |
| 22-7035 |
Brian Keith Person, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-circuit harmless-error mitigating-arguments procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review supervised-release |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit Erred By Applying a "Plainly Unreasonable" Standard of Review for Mr. Person's Supervised Release Violation Sentence ins… |
| 22-7038 |
In Re Mohammad Sharifi |
|
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-903 |
Jay Goodley v. Charles M. Greene |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-capacity judicial-conduct judicial-disqualification judicial-recusal recusal separation-of-powers |
1. Whether a person can be treated equally under the law when a judge is changing the law?
2. Whether it is a normal judicial function for a judge wh… |
| 22-893 |
Libertarian Party of New York, et al. v. New York State Board of Elections, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
anderson-burdick-test ballot-access election-law equal-protection first-amendment minor-parties political-parties signature-requirements |
1. Did the courts below properly apply the Anderson-Burdick standard as a "two-tracked approach" rather than as "a sliding-scale balancing analysis" w… |
| 22-7027 |
Lester Barnett v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
10th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment pre-trial-detention sentencing state-prisoner |
The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section verbatim. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED… |
| 22-7030 |
John Gabriel Trevino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-compliance criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-compliance with Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i)(1)(A) may be excused where the defendant fails to show that he or she would have … |
| 22-7015 |
Timothy Reaves v. Osvaldo Vidal, Superintendent, Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center |
First Circuit |
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7016 |
Guadalupe Onate-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-7006 |
Lamone M. Johnson, aka Marylin Monae Porter v. Luke Pettigrew, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act disability-discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection grievance-procedure municipal-employment ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-878 |
Alexander V. Brown v. William Harrington, United States Trustee for Region 1 |
First Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1930 bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-fees chapter-11 constitutional-challenge equal-protection reopened-case reopening retroactivity statutory-interpretation united-states-trustee |
1. Whether 28 U.S.C. §1930(a)(6)(A) applies to a case
under Chapter 11 of Title 11, United States Code, upon
reopening, where the chapter 11 case was … |
| 22-881 |
Martin J. Zielinski v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-hearing judicial-misconduct privacy-act section-1985 |
DID THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS JUDGES VIOLATE THE PETITIONERS DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW RIGH… |
| 22-6988 |
Carina Conerly v. John Patrick Winn, Judge, Superior Court of California, Sacramento County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-13 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation court-delay due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion negligence standing |
1. WHETHER, The Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in holding and delaying Petitioners ' cases?
2. WHETHER, The Eastern District Court abused its di… |
| 22-6998 |
David Arroyo-Ramon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent legal-standard precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-6999 |
Allen Maki v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-rules judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction motion-in-limine second-amendment statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-law |
Whether there is a conflict between Tex Criminal Code Art. 44.17 And Tex Gov. Code Sec. 30.00015 (a).(1)
(2) Whether it fair to regard Maki 's gentle… |
| 22-6983 |
Bernardino Berrun-Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-6986 |
Paulo Bernal-Ceto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6991 |
Samuel Dickerson v. Ken Scarlett, Chief, Springfield Police Department, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection police-misconduct standing |
Does it violate the Federal Constitution under the I4th Amendment Due Process and Egual Protection rights described by the Plaintiff in United States … |
| 22-6992 |
Samuel Reaves v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process felony-classification involuntary-plea parole parole-revocation plea-agreement plea-bargaining prison-sentence rehabilitation sentencing street-time |
IS IT LEGAL TO START A PRISON SENTENCE, THEN STOP IT AND THEN RE START IT BY ADDING MORE YEARS?
IS IT LEGAL TO REVOKE STREET TIME ON PAROLE WHEN IT C… |
| 22-6977 |
Sharif Talib v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence sentencing |
Did the lower court violate Appellant Constitutional Rights for never reviewing the conviction prohibition he received because the operation lied on s… |
| 22-6960 |
James Jonathan Mitchell v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-competency |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6968 |
Thomas Marmolejos v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-error predicate-offense section-924(c) section-924(j) sentencing |
Can a section 924(c) and 924(j) charge that alleges multiple predicates stand when one or more of the predicates no longer qualifies as a crime of vio… |
| 22-6972 |
Deandre Earp v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation mental-illness sentencing |
Whether a General Act violating the Constitution of the United States presents a "question" within the meaning of the Judiciary Act.
Whether the peti… |
| 22-849 |
Rickie Foy v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bank-theft criminal-intent criminal-law felony-bank-theft mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-element valuation-requirement |
Whether a conviction for conspiring to commit felony bank theft, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 and 2113(b), requires the government to prove that t… |
| 22-851 |
United States v. Julian Garcon |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines jurisdiction safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in order for a defendant to satisfy the prerequisite for "safety-valve" sentencing relief in 18 U.S.C. 3553(f)(1), a court must find that the… |
| 22-6953 |
Curtis Bradley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Was the sentence imposed on Petitioner substantively reasonable? |
| 22-6955 |
Jaime Piero Cole v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi caldwell-violation certificate-of-appealability death-penalty fifth-circuit-ruling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection procedural-default voir-dire |
During jury selection, the court told eleven of the twelve seated jurors that their decision to impose death would be automatically reviewed on appeal… |
| 22-6932 |
In Re Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. |
|
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-courts standing |
Petitioner's Rule 60(b)(4)(5) motion was unconstitutionally treated as a successive habeas application, denying equal protection of the law. |
| 22-6933 |
John Hessmer v. Robert Bryan, Sheriff, Wilson County, Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct judicial-review ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
SHOUD THE=SIXTH CIRCUTT BE to COVERUP JWDGE CRENSHALLS VIOLATIONS OP SICTH CRCUIT $ SUPREME COURT STANDINPRECIDENTS OF EXLEPTIONS TO THE YOUNFER & MID… |
| 22-6938 |
Raul Gonzalez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing vagueness |
Where legislatus vioate the ru announcedin altering the Beazell v. Ohie, by retroactively Tixas Sex of fender Registration Act defisiFion of and inece… |
| 22-6929 |
Forrest Thomas III v. Brandon M. Smith, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity sex-offender-registration |
Whether a sex offender registry statute, when applied to predators convicted of rape without any sexual motivation to the offense, bears a reasonable … |
| 22-6902 |
Roger Bryant Harbin v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law decontrol drug-convictions drug-policy due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-6905 |
Francisco Nunez Carrillo v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6907 |
Jeremy Jermaine Cumbie v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-unusual-punishment due-process evidence evidence-outside-record outside-the-record record sentencing trial-court-discretion |
I. WAS MR. CUMBIE DENIED DUE PROCESS OF THE LAW WHEN THE COURT CONSIDERED EVIDENCE OUTSIDE THE RECORD IN ASSESSING THE SENTENCE?
II. DID THE TRIAL CO… |
| 22-6908 |
Eduardo Guadalupe Melendrez-Soberanes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof case-agent-testimony criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-trafficking due-process evidence fifth-circuit photographic-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's Due Process … |
| 22-6917 |
Stevie Andre Roberson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection false-information liberty-interest parole parole-board procedural-rights texas-parole-statute |
(1) WHETHER THE MANDATORY PARDON STRUCTURE OF TEXAS PAROLE STATUTE ARTICLE 45.15 § 15 (?) TOGETHER WITH THE REQUISITE AND SPECIAL PAROLE CONDITIONS OF… |
| 22-6895 |
Heather Leavell-Keaton v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (4)IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process evidence prison-behavior sentencing skipper-precedent skipper-v-south-carolina |
When a capital defendant's death sentence is vacated and the case is remanded for a new sentencing at which the death penalty is an available sentence… |
| 22-6897 |
Ruben Hernandez-Correa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-823 |
Alicia Thompson v. Janelle Henderson |
Washington |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) |
burden-of-proof due-process equal-protection evidence-standard implicit-bias jury-verdict prima-facie racial-bias |
1. Whether the Washington Supreme Court's novel
standard addressing implicit bias violates the Due Process Clause—by prohibiting counsel from presenti… |
| 22-826 |
Sohail N. Butt v. John Brigham Zimmerman, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Executive Director, Georgia Composite Board for Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection licensing professional-licensing sovereign-immunity state-board statute-of-limitations |
Petitioner Sohail N. Butt sought license to practice mental health counseling in the State of Georgia in 2014. Respondents at their board meeting eval… |
| 22-818 |
Yusufu Anyika v. Cecelia Francis-Anyika |
Pennsylvania |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction |
The Lower Court incorrectly granted Judgment (Contempt of Court) in favor of the Plaintiff (Wife) where genuine issues of material fact exist which we… |
| 22-6875 |
Yvonne Jiang v. Helen Xu, et al. |
California |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-power civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-conspiracy judicial-misconduct vexatious-litigant |
1. California Constitution and its Rules of Court confer too much power to its Chief Justice that when the Chief Justice conspires with the people who… |
| 22-6880 |
Roosevelt Washington v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review justice-standard legal-interpretation sentencing |
Whether Washington's sentence is illegally imposed as a matter of law and/or in the interest of justice. |
| 22-6881 |
James Clark, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-law drug-convictions drug-policy due-process federal-sentencing retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of substances that have since been decontrolled can be used to impose present day federal sentencing enhancem… |
| 22-6882 |
David Byron Russ v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus mental-competency review-claim state-court state-courts substantive-incompetency |
1. Whether a state court may refuse to review a capital defendant's claim of substantive incompetency? |
| 22-6871 |
Ahmed Khalil v. New York |
New York |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing speedy-trial |
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| 22-6873 |
Jesus Ivan Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6857 |
Cynthia J. Rowe v. Penny J. Roberts, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights crime-scene criminal-procedure defendant-presence documentary-evidence due-process equal-protection evidentiary-standard jurisdiction standing supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6844 |
Eladio Loya-Palma v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 22-6846 |
Christopher L. Corn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure invited-error judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Can an appellate court use the invited error doctrine to preclude review of a plainly erroneous sentence that exceeds the statutory maximum sentence a… |
| 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), … |
| 22-6827 |
Sandra Rumanek v. Sherry R. Fallon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts administrative-law civil-rights court-resolution due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-questions petitioner-rights procedural-due-process right-to-be-heard standing |
Does petitioner Sandra Rumanek have the right to be heard?
If so, is it incumbent on this Court to resolve these questions of law? |
| 22-6829 |
Quinton Birdinground, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law mens-rea recklessness second-degree-murder sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crimes |
In Borden v. United States, 141 S.Ct. 1817, 1825 (2021), this Court held that, in order to qualify as a crime of violence, an offense must require pro… |
| 22-6831 |
Will Lee Carter v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-religion self-incrimination sexually-violent-predator substantive-due-process |
This Court has ruled that a variation of mental commitment known in several states as a "sexually violent predator" commitment proceeding can be const… |
| 22-6843 |
Edgar Barrera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction mandatory-minimum mens-rea non-elemental-facts plea-bargaining preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the Constitution permits a sentencing judge to find non-elemental facts by a preponderance of the evidence and then rely on those facts to … |
| 22-797 |
Marquay Quamaine Sheppard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal circuit-court-precedent criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-decisions |
Did the Fourth Circuit err by dismissing the Petitioner's appeal and affirming the 188 month sentence imposed by the trial court, inasmuch as this dec… |
| 22-6816 |
Montray Lorenzo Cato v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-6823 |
Abraham Conde-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6824 |
Daniel Dietz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process gall-v-united-states johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit revocation sentencing supervised-release |
The Ninth Circuit failed to apply this Court's decisions delineating the purpose of supervised release as set forth in Johnson v. United States, 529 U… |
| 22-6825 |
Richie Lee Edmonds, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-history criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-sentencing federalism sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a prior state conviction for drug distribution qualifies as a "controlled substance offense" under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), when the state statute… |
| 22-6826 |
Marcos Juan Martin-Andres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-review recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6813 |
Joshua Glowacki v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial probable-cause restitution restitution-order search-warrant sentencing victim-rights |
After Petitioner pled guilty to a child pornography offense the district court awarded restitution of $10,000 to one victim, over Petitioner's objecti… |
| 22-6815 |
David E. Merry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (7)IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing (enhancing) a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury ha… |
| 22-783 |
Victor J. Orena v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 concepcion-v-united-states district-court-authority extraordinary-and-compelling-circumstances extraordinary-circumstances first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
In Concepcion v. United States, — U.S. -, 142 S. Ct. 2389, 2404 213 L. Ed. 2d 731 (June 27, 2022), this Court held that the First Step Act "allows dis… |
| 22-770 |
Ross M. Jackson v. Glenn Cowan, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
1983 civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy equal-protection first-amendment-speech internal-policies probable-cause public-forum retroactive-application retroactivity section-1983 |
It is the rare decision that presents multiple conflicts with other circuits. The Eleventh Circuit's decision in this case presents four §1983 conflic… |
| 22-6803 |
Mario C. Thomas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-history criminal-history-points criminal-procedure federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Section 3553(f) of Title 18, U.S. Code, is the "safety valve" which can allow a defendant to receive a sentence less than the statutory mandatory mini… |
| 22-6805 |
Cornelius L. Jones v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection precedent-analysis statutory-interpretation |
This Court should grant Certiorari to determine whether the Appellate Court's construction of a statute pursuant to People v. Rineland, 2015 Ill App (… |
| 22-6807 |
Antonio McGhee v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-standard civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juvenile-justice post-conviction prejudicial-error retroactivity sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6808 |
Erich Deolax Riker v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding federal-sentencing jury-finding jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a factual finding that is necessary to render a federal sentence substantively reasonable must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. |
| 22-6784 |
Jerry Don South v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split due-process open-court reasonableness-review sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) Must District Courts actually comply with the requirements of 18
U.S.C. § 3553 (c) to state, in open court, the reasons for the sentence
imposed?
… |
| 22-6787 |
Mike Webb v. City of Falls Church, Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claim equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing standing-doctrine substantive-due-process |
1. Whether it constitutes a violation of rights to procedural due process, where a Trial Court, and later a Circuit Court, have "erect[ed] a novel pru… |
| 22-6789 |
Juan Francisco Turcios v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
compensation criminal-procedure due-process illegal-confinement judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-error |
(1) On A April 9,2012 after all parties approved and signed
the plea bargain agreement documents ,and Hon.Judge Teresa
Hawthorne approved and. accep… |
| 22-6793 |
Robert Loya, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking evidence felon-in-possession gang-affiliation intent-to-distribute sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Is there insufficient evidence to warrant a finding of guilty for Count 1: possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine over 50 grams and C… |
| 22-6794 |
Anthony Suggs v. Tim McConahay, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus legal-jurisdiction sentencing sixth-amendment standing |
WHY IS MR. OBEGS BEEN DENIES RELIEF ENENMIOUGH THE CONVICTIONS FOR KIESARRIN® BE NOT HAVE HE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS TO SO?PORE 17 ¢ FIND ATERSON GOUTY BEF… |
| 22-6775 |
Josue Anahun Marquez-Oseguera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Batson-challenge constitutional-law equal-protection implicit-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike race-discrimination race-neutral-reason |
Whether unstable work history automatically qualifies as a race-neutral reason for a peremptory strike in response to a Batson challenge. |
| 22-764 |
Hrair Kaladjian v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-standing equal-protection fifth-amendment freedom-support-act injunctive-relief presidential-waiver separation-of-powers standing |
1. Whether the President's violation of Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act is actionable by a private citizen under the Fifth Amendment Equal Prot… |
| 22-6762 |
Ryan Galal Van Dyck v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment child-pornography cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-sentencing proportionality sentencing |
Does a mandatory de facto life sentence for mere possession of child pornography images, when the person has never directly abused or attempted to abu… |
| 22-6765 |
Mamberto Real v. Michael Perry |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure court-cameras due-process equal-protection federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-review misconduct review witness witness-misconduct |
1. Whether the district court failed to review the court's building cameras after the facts, to verify a misconduct from a defense's witness; thereby … |
| 22-6768 |
Stanley Foster Baker v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation due-process equal-protection evidence-presentation judicial-procedure miranda-warnings reasonable-person-standard state-court supreme-court-precedent |
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| 22-6745 |
Robert Hill v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection jury-selection prima-facie-evidence prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-review |
A.
WHETHER PETITIONER ESTABLISHED PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE DEMONSTRATING COUNTERVAILING FACTORS EXCUSING HIM FROM MAKING HIS SIMILARLY SITUATED BATSON-BAS… |
| 22-6747 |
Jimmy Wayne Guinard v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing vouching |
The jury, whern he has never had charges of that nature and
was charged with drug offerses. violate petotioner's uis.c.lothand 14th
Amendment rights t… |
| 22-6750 |
Pascual Agustin-Basilio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6756 |
Wissam Taysir Hammoud v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process ninth-circuit-interpretation physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-taylor |
Whether, in light of this Court's recent decision in United States v. Taylor, 145 S. Ct. 2015 (2022), 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A)'s "crime of violence" d… |
| 22-6758 |
In Re Mark Marvin |
|
2023-02-10 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent statutory-interpretation |
I, WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ABUSED ITS DISCRETION AND ERRED WHEN IT HELD THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S FAILURE TO ADJUDICATE LAYMAN'S PETITION FOR HAB… |
| 22-6761 |
Joshua David Lambert v. Washington |
Washington |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure copyright-law criminal-procedure damages due-process jurisdiction legal-notice right-to-counsel sentencing statutory-interpretation waiver-of-counsel |
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| 22-757 |
Jonathan Roberts, et al. v. James V. McDonald, Commissioner, New York State Department of Health, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (5) |
civil-rights defendant-conduct due-process emergency-approval equal-protection injury-in-fact legal-standing predictable-events racial-discrimination standing |
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted emergency approval for lifesaving oral antiviral treatments. Facing a seve… |
| 22-746 |
Damion Kentrell White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether due process requires that a provision in a plea agreement waiving the right to file a motion to vacate sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 be cons… |
| 22-6736 |
Justin D. Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (8)IFP |
acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 22-6737 |
John Edward Butler v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-justice due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection parole sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6738 |
Melvin G. Simms v. Donald Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus magistrate-report magistrate-review summary-judgment |
Whether the District Court Judge Violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution By Granting the Respondent'… |
| 22-6725 |
Michael A. Gordon v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment proportionality-review pulley-v-harris |
Has the Florida Supreme Court by abandoning comparative proportionality review in death penalty appeals - - while dismantling other safeguards, and in… |
| 22-6727 |
Kenneth Baldwin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2244 constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure resentencing sentencing state-court statutory-interpretation |
The first question presented is one who 's being illegally detained pursuant to October 15, 2012 resentencing which authorize custody on new judgment … |
| 22-6730 |
Pabeel Narvaez-Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres U. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-6732 |
David Alvarado-Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
How does a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence rebut an appellate presumption of reasonableness of… |
| 22-6706 |
Darin M. Ogden v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-acquittal lewd-conduct sentencing united-states-v-watts |
Whether the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a state court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a … |
| 22-6716 |
Conrado Olivo-Duron v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a
defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either
… |
| 22-6717 |
Vontez Scales, aka Tez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-law delivery-definition due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
The battle lines are clearly drawn, with the circuits split and without
this court's intervention the debate regarding inchoate offenses are controlle… |
| 22-736 |
Willie Lumarris Baxter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal congressional-intent drug-offenses fourth-circuit predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Was the Fourth Circuit's rejection of the Petitioner, Willie Baxter's argument that the prior offenses for serious drug offenses included in a prior i… |
| 22-6703 |
Earnest A. Davis v. Government Employees Insurance Company, et al. |
California |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada-accommodation case-dismissal civil-proceedings court-procedure criminal-reporting due-process equal-protection judicial-ethics racial-bias |
1) Are judges in a trial court and justices in an appeals court and state supreme court in civil proceedings required to report direct evidence of cri… |
| 22-6704 |
Angel Vazquez-Figueroa v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure individualized-assessment judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review plea-agreement section-3553a-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6708 |
Arturo Villalobos-Franco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6709 |
Chad Michael Vice v. Lee County Correctional Medical Provider, et al. |
Iowa |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection incarcerated-individuals judicial-discretion right-to-petition |
Whether an Iowa 8th District Court in North Lee County at Fort Madison abused its discretion in its Order denying a motion to reconsider as [not timel… |
| 22-6712 |
Ramone L. Wright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguous-sentence correction-of-record court-transcript criminal-case due-process judicial-confidence judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice oral-sentence rule-36-correction sentencing sentencing-ambiguity |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6713 |
Leonard Taylor v. David Vandergriff, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus scientific-evidence |
In light of the foregoing facts, this petition presents the following questions:
1. Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence presents a cogni… |
| 22-6696 |
Rudy Garcia v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-appeals due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standards precedent prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel |
Question 1:
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disbarrad Prasad^cr,- Ralph Padly s undisclosed
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| 22-6699 |
Marquita Leigh Meredith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court federal-sentencing policy-statement sentencing statutory-interpretation |
The questions presented here is whether 2007 statement is an "applicable" policy Statement that binds a district court when deciding whether to grant … |
| 22-6690 |
Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1), F-R.A.P. 22(b) and this Court's decisions in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2003), Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S.… |
| 22-6692 |
Jerez Coleman v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-02-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection procedural-burden property-rights property-tax takings tax-assessment tax-sale |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6675 |
Barrett S. Tunsil v. Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights covid-19 due-process equal-protection free-exercise pandemic |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6682 |
Ricky Douglas Haynes, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-occasions due-process jury-trial mandatory-minimum non-elemental-facts sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether a sentencing judge may rely on non-elemental facts to conclude that a defendant's prior offenses were "committed on occasions different fro… |
| 22-6662 |
Wesley Ruiz v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process equal-protection juror-misconduct jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment |
Does Peria-Rodriguez apply to Petitioner's evidence that at least one juror relied on anti-Hispanic racial stereotypes and animus to find that he was … |
| 22-711 |
Arthur Lopez v. Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church, et al. |
California |
2023-01-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte judicial-system state-action |
1. Should State of California Judicial System (including judges) and the Catholic Church adhere to the rights of civilians guaranteed by the United St… |
| 22-6658 |
Wade Bonk v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal circuit-court-ruling conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion leadership-role retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Did the District Court err by refusing to apply the Seventh Circuit's ruling in U.S. v. Carnell retroactively since Petitioner's conviction was not fi… |
| 22-6643 |
Bednaco Harper v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6651 |
Michael Vanous v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure guidelines ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion jury pretrial-proceedings sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Question 1: Was defense counsel ineffective in the pretrial proceedings?
Question 2: Was it a violation of the Sixth Amendment to sentence outside th… |
| 22-6652 |
In Re Walter Drummond |
|
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment habeas-corpus interrogation miranda-rights state-criminal-procedure |
1. There is COURT RECORD that in bebveenxt the dime of 2001 (WEST & WEISS ecest year, please See to West v. State of Florida, 876 So. 2d G14 (Fla. AFH… |
| 22-6628 |
Johnell Lewis Britton, Sr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fact-specific-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion non-guidelines-sentences procedural-error reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether district courts are required to articulate fact-specific reasons for imposing non-guidelines sentences? |
| 22-692 |
April Premo Williams v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-25 |
Denied |
|
ada ada-accommodations civil-rights disability-discrimination discrimination due-process equal-protection equity judicial-procedure rehabilitation-act |
1. What are the terms to be used for the mentally disabled and the emotionally disabled? Did the Court error in allowing opposing counsel to use derog… |
| 22-6615 |
Robert Jim v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-presentation fair-trial improper-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing trial-fairness |
I. Whether The Court Violated Jim's Constitutional Rights To Due Process & A Fair Trial By Allowing Improper Evidence & Preventing Him From Presenting… |
| 22-6616 |
Brian Cota v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process notice plea-bargaining plea-negotiation sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Mr. Cota can be subject to a life time of supervised release, and thereby a lifetime of revocati… |
| 22-6619 |
Reginald L. Dunahue v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6592 |
James Stacey Harber v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing |
1. Was Mr. Harber denied the effective assistance of counsel at the plea and sentencing phase of trial?
2. Did the district court err by denying Mr. … |
| 22-6597 |
Jeremiah S. Farmer v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-conflict civil-rights drug-conspiracy due-process jurisdictional-requirement racketeering sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-authority supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the district court lacked statutory authority under 15 U.S.C. § 1962(d) for RICO conspiracy to be complete when the agreement is reached, not … |
| 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… |
| 22-6602 |
Matthew C. Eisenmann v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6603 |
Miguel Angel Valencia-Sandoval v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 22-6606 |
Henry Zabala-Zorilla v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allen-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction reversible-error supplemental-instruction |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection laws require a state judge be found to commit reversible error to give a supplemental charge - or an "A… |
| 22-6583 |
Keith Melillo v. City and County of Rice, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
arrest-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process equal-protection false-arrest law-enforcement standing |
the right to sue all of them defendants for violatin of my civil rights and discrimination cell me the N word and hit me my rights under ADA I am disa… |
| 22-6584 |
Meghan M. Kelly v. United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection reciprocal-discipline religious-beliefs self-incrimination standing |
1. Whether the Third Circuit's rule R.A.D.E. 16 violates Equal protections as applied to me as a party of one, as an attorney with religious political… |
| 22-6586 |
Reginald Daushawn Earl Tate v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brandishing criminal-procedure firearm-brandishing fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-11 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly affirmed the trial court's improper sentencing of the defendant pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(1)(A… |
| 22-6588 |
In Re Beverly A. Jenkins |
|
2023-01-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection instructions legal-notice lower-tribunal notice prima-facie pro-se standing |
1. Is it herein shown that the LT deviated from Sufficient Instructions/ required sufficient Notice for non-counsel litigants?
2. Is it herein shown … |
| 22-6568 |
Duraid Hussein v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection procedural-due-process rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
1. In Rehaif v. United States , 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court clarified that the word knowingly under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) applies to both defendan… |
| 22-6572 |
Christian Dior Womack v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-offenses due-process fraud-on-the-court government-misrepresentation habeas-corpus judicial-error mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice plea-bargaining sentencing |
The notion of miscarriage of justice prohibits a court from disregarding the fact that its opinion rest solely on criminal offenses that a defendant n… |
| 22-6579 |
Jaime Hoyos v. Ronald Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standard-of-review voir-dire |
DID THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS VIOLATE
PETITIONER'S RIGHTS UNDER THE FOURTEENTH
AMENDMENT BY ITS FAILURE TO APPLY THIS COURT'S
STANDAR D SET F… |
| 22-668 |
Nachaiya Kama v. Memorial Hermann Health Systems, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-law legal-standard sexual-harassment standing workplace-discrimination |
1. Should any law repugnant to the U.S. Constitution (the Supreme law of this land) prevail?
2. Has this Court ever extended liability to individual … |
| 22-6555 |
Steven Charles Hill v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict life-sentence proportionality sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
IS THE EVIDENCE SUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN THE JURY'S GUILTY VERDICT?
WAS THE LIFE SENTENCE IMPOSED ON MR. HILL GROSSLY DISPROPORTIONATE? DOES THE LIFE SE… |
| 22-6560 |
Candido Gomez-Santacruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a district-court-discretion federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states imprisonment-duration prior-term-of-imprisonment sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
In light of its nuanced, holistic approach to federal sentencing, whether a district court may, consistent with § 3553(a)'s plain text, treat the dura… |
| 22-6566 |
Rodney R. Ellis v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure jury-clause jury-trial prior-record-exception sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether a sentencing court violates the Sixth Amendment's Jury Clause when the sentencing court —rather than the jury —finds that the defendant commit… |
| 22-662 |
Ramon K. Jusino v. Federation of Catholic Teachers, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
|
1st-amendment church-schools civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech labor-organizations labor-relations religion-clauses standing |
Whether the Second Circuit contravened the Four
teenth Amendment Equal Protection clause by hold
ing that - because of potential First Amendment Re
… |
| 22-656 |
Jeffrey A. Bentley v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process prior-convictions section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
When a defendant shows on Section 2255 collateral review that a prior conviction is no longer a valid predicate offense under the Armed Career Crimina… |
| 22-6532 |
Alfred E. Caraffa, aka Alfred Erik Caraffa v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-rules habeas-corpus state-jurisdiction supreme-court-jurisdiction |
1) A writ corpus (ANKJC^^^u.'^or^CiUcA <d?.\<vy£ck ^ "{"cd -H/i<2L 'Ou.c ^CiCtSS Uo*.Ki a.»*H Ccju^I Le&<> O5? 4^ rZH"^ 4 /^AitrslC^ A\C.N]\ Ci-^r 4W_… |
| 22-6536 |
Antoine D. Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-history due-process safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether this Court should resolve a Circuit split and decide if the word "and" in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1) should be interpreted in the disjunctive … |
| 22-648 |
Igor Lukashin v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
|
due-process equal-protection forfeiture judicial-discretion ninth-circuit padgett-fraud pre-filing-order pro-se pro-se-appeals waiver |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit has been
denying Due Process by applying a
purportedly categorical rule, Ramirez-
Alejandre u. Ashcroft, 320 F.3d 858, 87… |
| 22-6512 |
Frank L. Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
direct-review due-process equal-protection finality finality-date fourteenth-amendment lamb-v-state montgomery-v-state state-court |
WHETHER THE LOWER FLORIDA STATE COURT'S ERROR IN FAILING TO CORRECTLY CALCULATE THE DATE THAT PETITIONER'S DIRECT REVIEW OF HIS CASE BECAME "FINAL" IN… |
| 22-6514 |
Santiago Pineda v. California |
California |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty jury-determination jury-fact-finding mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing-procedure |
Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se… |
| 22-6518 |
In Re Beverly A. Jenkins |
|
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection lawsuit-dismissal lower-tribunal prima-facie procedural-rights standing |
3. Is it herein shown that the LT deviated from Sufficient Instructions/ required sufficient Notice for non counsel litigants?
2. Is it herein shown … |
| 22-6524 |
Barry L. Brookins v. Rajendra Dwivedi |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-procedure state-law |
1. THE PLAINTIFF 8TH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT UNDER A DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE HAS BEEN VIOLATED THROUGH AN UNLAWFUL SURGERY PERFORMED WITHOUT TH… |
| 22-6527 |
William Langley, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) constitutional-challenge conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process factual-innocence firearm-statute guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
SHOULD THE COURT FIND PETITIONER'S CONVICTION FOR '924(c) et al. UNCOUNSTITUTIONAL "use" and "carry" of 924(c) a due process violation that warrants a… |
| 22-6502 |
Jerry Joseph Higdon, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
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IS
THE
UNITED
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COURT
OF
APPEALS
FOR
THE
ELEVENTH CIRCUIT USING
ITS
PROCEDURAL BAR
RULES
IN
MANNER
INCONSISTENT
WITH
THE
UNITED
STATES
CONSTIT… |
| 22-6503 |
Patrick Emeka Ifediba v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment intent medical-intent medical-practice sentencing sixth-amendment |
1.) Was Petitioner denied his rights under Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370, 213 L. Ed. 2d 706 (6-27-22) which was decided after briefing in Pet… |
| 22-6505 |
In Re Rosalind Holmes |
|
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure detainer-action discretionary-ruling due-process equal-protection forcible-entry forcible-entry-and-detainer rule-60(b) rule-60b standing |
Whether the Butler County Area III Court, West Chester Ohio, clearly and indisputably abused its' discretion when it ordered a forcible entry and deta… |
| 22-6515 |
Christopher Raiche v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender grossly-disproportionate life-sentence non-violent-crime sentencing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against grossly disproportionate prison sentences was triggered by the imposition of a de facto life senten… |
| 22-635 |
D. B. v. Colorado, et al. |
Colorado |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-standing child-welfare civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-separation non-parent-rights standing |
Colorado law permits courts to join certain non-parents as parties in child welfare cases as "special respondents," even without their consent, which … |
| 22-6481 |
Courtney J. v. Beaufort County Department of Social Services, et al. |
North Carolina |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
child-welfare civil-death-penalty due-process equal-protection payment-obligation statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina's interpretation of a termination of parental rights statute, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7B-1111(a)(3), deprives pa… |
| 22-6484 |
Courtney Saunders v. Kyle Thies, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights discriminatory-intent discriminatory-policing driving-while-black equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement racial-discrimination racial-profiling traffic-stop |
1. Whether an Equal Protection claim under the Fourteenth Amendment, based on an incident of discriminatory policing, requires a plaintiff to establis… |
| 22-6487 |
Chasity Reanee Orellana v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court due-process jurisdiction post-release-conduct revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred by revoking Ms. Orellana's supervised release because its revocation decision relied on conduct that occurred after h… |
| 22-6493 |
Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit preponderance-of-evidence sentencing supervised-release trial-by-jury |
Section 3583(g) of United States Code Title 18 requires a district court to revoke a defendant's term of supervised release and impose a term of impri… |
| 22-6496 |
Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Bryan Collier, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-acquittal due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment mental-health psychological-disorder sexually-violent-predator treatment |
1. Does an individual who has been diagnosed with a state created psychological disorder have a right to treatment equal to those who the medical comm… |
| 22-6497 |
Timothy Martin Kendrick v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law due-process johnson-ruling residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1) Does the struckdown 18 USc. g924 (e)(2)(B)(ii) residual under Johnson(2015) as applied to "ACCA equally apply to Mandatory Guideline USSGj4B1.2(a) … |
| 22-6468 |
Herbert Isaac Perkins v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-classification hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6464 |
Leonard Chase, Jr. v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6443 |
Daquan Madrid Pridgen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation structural-error |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED STRUCTURAL ERROR BY FINDING THAT THE SENTENCE FOR A VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e) SHOULD BE 10 YEARS TO LIF… |
| 22-6445 |
Juan Villa Ramirez v. California |
California |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt the ex… |
| 22-6450 |
Dedrevionus C. Williams v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-trial preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Does Florida's Statute §775.082(9) Prison Releasee Reoffender sentence violate a defendant's U.S. Constitutional rights per this Court's holdings i… |
| 22-6452 |
Michael L. Ziliak v. James Key, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights claim-evaluation court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-timeliness mental-health procedural-standards sentencing standing |
Why was my case denied due to being submitted after the timebar date when another court ruled that it was submitted in a timely manner?
why was I sen… |
| 22-6453 |
Mario Torres v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargain post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sentencing |
reneged on the plea bargain.
Whether the District Court is bound by the original plea-agreement. Petitioner was resentenced.
Whether a restitution h… |
| 22-6460 |
Davonte DeJean v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights court-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-trial right-to-jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Was counsel ineffective for not enforcing the 6th Amendment right to a jury trial in the sentencing proceeding and is the court also responsible?
Was… |
| 22-602 |
Ellizzette McDonald v. Shawn McDonald |
Illinois |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights guardianship guardianship-rights marriage marriage-competency ward-autonomy |
Whether a state statute impermissibly interferes with the fundamental rights of wards to marry under the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of t… |
| 22-6429 |
Robert McKenna v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-history district-court-discretion due-process public-safety sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-reasonableness |
I. Whether it was procedurally and substantively reasonable for the
sentencing court to a) recite statutory sentencing rationale by rote
recitation wi… |
| 22-6431 |
Philip Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights eighth-amendment guilty-plea juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama plea-bargaining proportionate-penalties sentencing sentencing-discretion |
(1) Whether a pre-Miller guilty plea bars a post-Miller sentencing challenge under the Eighth Amendment.
(2) Whether the sentencing process mandated … |
| 22-6436 |
Timothy D. Robertson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-petition prior-conviction reversal sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment |
1). Did Petitioner Robertson Establish and Show "Cause" for filing a Successive Post Conviction Petition by Advancing an Overwhelmingly Substantial "M… |
| 22-6411 |
Granville Ritchie v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-immigrant capital-penalty capital-punishment constitutional-rights equal-protection immigration-status impartial-jury jury-bias prosecutorial-misconduct unconstitutional-conditions |
Does the United States Constitution prohibit a prosecutor from suggesting to a capital penalty jury that the defendant, as a foreigner and an immigran… |
| 22-6421 |
Sergio Garcia-Lara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing unreliable-evidence |
Whether, in cases where a party seeks appellate relief on the ground that a district court has considered unreliable information, the district court m… |
| 22-597 |
Herbert W. G. Clanton v. Sam's Club, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 constitutional-amendments discrimination-in-employment due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure |
ARE, the Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure required to comply with a minimum of the benefits, privileges, immunities, degrees of protection guaranteed … |
| 22-6408 |
Samuel Lawrence Wood v. Mike Brown, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-review federal-sentencing habeas-corpus sentencing state-prisoner state-sentencing statutory-authority |
Is the state of Michigan in the Absence of Statutory Authority.
See 18 U.S.C. 9 3584 (a)
Petitioner was Already subject to the state sentences.
Petiti… |
| 22-6395 |
Bryan Wolfe v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process mental-condition mental-health multi-offense-adjustment notice racial-animus rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-departure |
Was there adequate notice of a departure the night before sentencing, as to allow Wolfe a fair opportunity to rebut the claims that increased his sent… |
| 22-6396 |
John Edward Sansing v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review clearly-established-law criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas mitigating-evidence mitigating-factors sentencing-procedure victim-impact |
John Edward Sansing pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and other felonies with no agreements offered by the state. During the sentencing proceeding… |
| 22-6400 |
José L. Canales-Cancel v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment privacy-and-1st-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether my claim is propperly presented under 28 USC § 1331 which is jurisdiction on all civil actions.
2. Whether 42 U S. Code § 2000dd is still … |
| 22-6389 |
Justin Rashaad Brown v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-23 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach drug-offense federal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-law |
Which version of federal law should a sentencing court consult under ACCA's categorical approach? |
| 22-6392 |
Adam Tello v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect legal-correction sentencing sentencing-error standing strickland-standard |
Whether a jurisdictional defective sentence is "non-law" and cannot be adjudicated time or procedurally barred under U.S. Supreme Court law of United … |
| 22-6377 |
Thaddeus Chaylon Martin v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights corrections criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction prison-credits retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-credits |
①Dd Court hae tunisdieton to Amend are-charge
then
re- sentence again years Later to an expired sentence?
martin recieved (45) duy time serve April 29… |
| 22-6380 |
Joseph Bergeron v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Minnesota |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-duty administrative-law due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-review legal-discretion rule-of-law separation-of-powers state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1.) Can Minnesota State Courts ignore issues presented to it by a party, circumvent the
rule of law to effectuate a clearly biased opinion?
(a) The C… |
| 22-6381 |
Teresa Young v. Mary Seymour, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-abuse civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection healthcare-access libel-slander military-retaliation retaliation |
1. Were the Plaintiff's Constitutional rights violated by the Defendants?
2. Did the Defendants' abuse their authority to unduly punish and/or retali… |
| 22-6386 |
Frank Sanchez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (9)IFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the use of acquitted conduct to determine a
defendant's sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth
Amendments. |
| 22-6388 |
Cornelius L. Jones v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether a defendant's fundamental right to equal protection of the laws was infringed where the appellate courts' construction of a statute contravene… |
| 22-580 |
John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Kenneth Eugene Smith |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (9) |
alternative-method comity death-penalty eighth-amendment feasibility finality method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia |
In an Eighth Amendment method-of-execution case, is an alternative method of execution feasible and readily implemented merely because the executing S… |
| 22-6359 |
Leonid Gershman v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review collateral-consequence conspiracy-charges criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy merger plain-error sentencing sentencing-multiplicity |
Isn't it plain error for a court to impose multiple punishments for multiple counts of conviction that for double jeopardy purposes amount to the same… |
| 22-6362 |
Carlos Santana R. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel unreasonable-determination |
1. Did the Court of Criminal APPeals of Texas and the US. Direraet Court Northeen Distact of Texas San AnGelo Division, eRe bi decidrna the merits of … |
| 22-6364 |
Fairly W. Earls v. Federal Bureau of Prisons |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-sentence |
I. Whether Earls should have to serve the same Federal Sentence a Second Time. The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit violated Ear… |
| 22-6366 |
Brala Beverly v. Orange County Sheriff, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection gender-identity transgender-rights |
Is it constitutional for the County of Orange in California, and the Orange County
Sheriff, as a matter of custom or policy, to pretend transgender pe… |
| 22-6369 |
In Re Tiyon T. Brown-Bey |
|
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-disenfranchisement due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus racial-discrimination sovereign-immunity standing |
Should this court use its power to grant A writ of habeas Corpus to A Moorish American Sovereign Man who has No Available Forum to raise his compellin… |
| 22-6372 |
Jose Felipe Cardenas-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-6345 |
Jeffrey Johnson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-cfr-1308.11 career-offender controlled-substance controlled-substance-analogue drug-classification motion-to-suppress schedule-1 search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing seventh-circuit |
I. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly allowed the District Court's Determination that Furanyl fentanyl was a "controlled substan… |
| 22-6346 |
Robert D. Johnson v. Douglas Fender, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-continuance speedy-trial sufficiency-of-evidence |
IS IT NOT ERRONEUOSLY FACTUAL AND A MISAPPLICATION OF LAW, RULE
OR STATUE FOR THE STATE COURTS AND DISTRICT COURTS TO CONCUR WITH A
CONTINUANCE THAT W… |
| 22-6353 |
Furlonzo R. Moran v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial juror-disqualification jury-selection social-media-evidence trial-court-discretion |
Is it unconstitutional to disqualify a juror from service without just cause?
Was Moran deprived of his right to be tried by the jurors selected to t… |
| 22-6329 |
Phosavan Khamnivong v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment bodily-injury due-process fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
In United States v. Jones, 574 U.S. 948 (2014), three justices urged the Court to grant certiorari to answer the question left open in Rita v. United … |
| 22-6332 |
In Re James Vandivere |
|
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
adam-walsh-act civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus necessary-and-proper-clause pro-se-petition |
1. Is Petitioner entitled to immediate Requested Relief when the originating
party offers no claim(s) of De facto injury, presents no "Case " or
"Co… |
| 22-6340 |
Ramon Simpson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability custodial-interrogation death-penalty fifth-amendment jury-instructions kidnapping miranda-rights |
1. Does a conviction for aiding and abetting kidnapping resulting in death, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1201(a)(1) and 2, require proof that the aide… |
| 22-6341 |
Angela Schmid v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution vindictive-prosecution |
Question not identified. |
| 22-557 |
Peter Kleidman v. RFF Family Partnership, LP |
California |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees civil-procedure contract-law contractual-claims due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial summary-adjudication |
Question 1. Does California's legal framework — whereby prevailing parties' claims for contractual attorney's fees are adjudicated summarily as claims… |
| 22-6317 |
Normando Eligio Esquivel-Ontiveros v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6321 |
Perry Taylor Armstrong v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-determination civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fancrim-fabulet federal-courts legal-application mercer-test standing takings |
The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header … |
| 22-6308 |
Alberto Mendoza-Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6309 |
Uriel Mora-Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-jurisdiction constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-548 |
Randall E. Rollins v. Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-jurisdiction justice-courts pro-se pro-se-litigant sovereign-immunity |
1. Did the court below err in not considering the
issue that pro se litigants in Texas justice courts are
treated unequally from all litigants in no… |
| 22-6302 |
Selvin Omar Canales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 22-6303 |
Steven Riad Jalloul v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation |
This Court should grant this petition to address the degree of specificity re-quired for the language in a defendant's plea agreement to be construed a… |
| 22-546 |
Nazira Urrego v. Samuel I. White, P.C. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-standards due-process equal-protection foreclosure loan-assignment property-rights takings |
Whether Virginia courts have violated the constitutional standards of due process and equal protection? And have the trial courts entertained the suit… |
| 22-6266 |
Earl Moore v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act recidivism sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6279 |
Alex Duncan v. Jennifer R. Bartone, et al. |
Ohio |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
accessibility ada civil-rights disability due-process equal-protection |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6252 |
In Re James E. Hitchcock |
|
2022-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appeals constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process federal-courts federal-habeas post-conviction state-habeas writ-of-habeas-corpus |
1. Whether the federal courts' refusal to hear Mr. Hitchcock's meritorious federal claims after he received a new judgment and sentence amounted to a … |
| 22-6261 |
Damar D. Ruffin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
This Court has made clear that any fact, other than prior conviction, that increases the statutory range of punishment, must be found by a jury to hav… |
| 22-6239 |
Nicholas Stewart Hines v. Denny Kaemingk, Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts access-to-legal-documents civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-access prisoners-rights retaliation |
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fo«PvTEENT|-tM^OfAEAlT5 DiFfERT/IT TW K RegULPT <L\Tt… |
| 22-6241 |
Clarence Lee Hooker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-interpretation procedural-due-process |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6245 |
Wade Plair v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violations double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct tampering-with-records |
DOES INTENTIONAL PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT DISQUALIFY THE TRIAL COURT FROM PURSUING A SECOND PROSECUTION OF THE SAME CASE. ?1.
WHEN A COMMON PLEAS COU… |
| 22-6247 |
Denis Amilcar Munguia-Portales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6253 |
Michael J. Moller, aka Michael Robinson v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process paycheck-protection-program plea-bargaining sentencing sophisticated-means-enhancement standard-of-review |
1. Should certiorari be granted to address the enforceability of an
appellate waiver where the District Court's entire inquiry consisted of
a single q… |
| 22-6227 |
Peter Corines v. New York |
New York |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection false-testimony indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain state-action |
Was Petitioner denied due process and equal protection of the law in violation of Constitutional Amendments V and XIV when the State used known false … |
| 22-6228 |
Giovanny Sanchez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure immigration-law indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) was wrongly decided, allowing for the provisions of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2) deal… |
| 22-6231 |
William Dustin Poole v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment life-without-parole non-homicide-offense sentencing |
Whether a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on an eighteen-year-old defendant convicted of a non-homicide offense violat… |
| 22-6233 |
Clifton B. Mays v. Kenneth Black, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts standing |
Why WAS COXAhOgA CoUNty AlloW tO POt MR. MAYS throogh
ShAM LegAL Process thAt included a Roue HolidAy JOrye?
Why Wele they Allowed to CRente fRAudul… |
| 22-6216 |
Jonny Shineflew v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure guideline-offense integrated-agreement plea-agreement prosecutor prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether an integrated plea agreement that specifically identifies Guideline offense levels and specific offense characteristics on which the parties a… |
| 22-6217 |
Steven Wayne Keefe v. Montana |
Montana |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adequate-defense ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights due-process expert-assistance juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mental-health mental-health-expert miller-v-alabama sentencing |
This petition presents the following question: whether the "basic tools of an adequate defense" include expert assistance in "evaluation, preparation,… |
| 22-6218 |
Carlos Brito-Brito v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 22-6220 |
Martin Robert Moncada-Aguirre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-521 |
Jack Pidgeon, et al. v. Sylvester Turner, Mayor of the City of Houston, Texas, et al. |
Texas |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection family-code fourteenth-amendment marriage-recognition same-sex-marriage texas-constitution |
1. Whether Texas Constitution article I, § 32 prohibiting the state or political subdivision of the state from creating or recognizing any legal statu… |
| 22-6209 |
Mayeli Molina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial dual-role-witnesses due-process expert-testimony jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-standards substantial-rights witness-testimony |
1. Whether Molina's substantial rights were affected when two-thirds of the Government's witnesses testified in dual roles as experts and fact witness… |
| 22-6210 |
Aaron Michael Crick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance fourth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-discretion motion-denial reversible-error sentencing |
A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. CRICK'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY… |
| 22-6196 |
Morris Rucker v. Jim Purviance, Executive Director, Tennessee Board of Parole, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto filing-fee standing |
(1) WHETHER THE TN U.S. DISTRICT COURT AND THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER'S EX POST FACTO CLAIM?
(2) WHETHER THE TN U.S. DISTR… |
| 22-6170 |
Andrea Peterson v. HVM L.L.C., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendment court-rules disability-rights discovery due-process equal-protection legal-representation standing |
Whether a person(s), who lacks the financial resources to hire an attorney, and because of their handicap, disability cannot comply with a court rule(… |
| 22-6179 |
Brandon J. Office v. Marcus Myers |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
charging-document constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence motion-to-correct sentencing |
1. Was the Petitioner entitled to Habeas Corpus Relief, where the Petitioner properly raised a Motion to Correct an Illegal Sentence ?
2. Was the Pet… |
| 22-504 |
Peter Paul Mitrano v. Marcia Mitrano, et al. |
Virginia |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 22-501 |
Tom Alonzo, et al. v. Scott Schwab, Kansas Secretary of State, et al. |
Kansas |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gingles-prong-one minority-voting-rights racial-discrimination redistricting single-member-district standing |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit intentional racial discrimination in redistricting where the minority voters discriminated against are not suff… |
| 22-6164 |
Calvin Gary Walker v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judgment restitution sentencing |
1. Does the Fifth Amendment's double jeopardy clause bar a restitution order entered ninety-nine days after Petitioner's sentence began and after entr… |
| 22-6166 |
Raymond Mendez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power |
Throughout three cycles of 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) proceedings, the district court has denied Raymond Mendez a reduction to his life sentence based on … |
| 22-6168 |
Jose Santos Perez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-review precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should overrule its decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-6157 |
Carlton McKissic v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-interpretation plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing state-court-review |
WHy Have All other Courts ignored the Plea bargain
(1
Process
And Procedures Afforded to me, As my
Faulf 1is Mot
raiseing the issue earlier?
2.
Why wa… |
| 22-6146 |
In Re Maria Navarro-Martin |
|
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing state-action |
Whether a former President is withholding, desclassifying, concealing or depriving of records and evidences in an offered proceeding where the prosecu… |
| 22-6148 |
Larry James Bradley v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause due-process enemy-combatant equal-protection fourth-amendment jurisdiction presidential-authority standing statutory-interpretation suspension-clause |
(1) WHETHER PETITIONER IS PROPERLY DETAILED AS AN ENEMY COMBATANT WITHOUT PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY TO DO SO?
(2) WHETHER FLORIDA STATUTE SECTION §775.0… |
| 22-6149 |
Edgar Arellano v. California |
California |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
assistance-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-justice-reform effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment mitigating-evidence senate-bill-1333 sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment |
WEATHER A Re - SeuJTEAICIAI^ HEARING^ .UNDER THE MEVJ . ..
LaVJ SeMaTE 2mL\_ - 13^3, JbMT.TLES ft DEFENDANT __
The Hi^hT. _io _effective
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| 22-490 |
Lydell Chestnut, Deputy Warden v. Quincy J. Allen |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
aedpa death-penalty death-sentence eating-disorder federal-habeas fourth-circuit-review mental-health mental-health-evidence schizophrenia sentencing-consideration state-post-conviction statutory-limitations |
Did the Fourth Circuit violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) limitations and needlessly overturn a state death sentence on an insubstantial premise that Allen's… |
| 22-6138 |
Michael Lindell Teasley v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection judicial-discretion non-violent-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
bh pid the Gort of pepeals fp the Eight Cikwuit, South cn Piswier oF Towa, abuse its diduetin by vhlizing the Cer wero Feendeg guidelines, whi dh phim… |
| 22-6141 |
Eric Lamont Wade v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion concepcion-ruling concepcion-v-united-states criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion due-process first-step-act section-404(c) sentence-reduction sentencing |
QUESTON NUMBER ONE:
Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to comply
with Section 404 (c) of the First Step Act of 2018, ensurin… |
| 22-6115 |
Danny Fabricant v. Federal Election Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-21 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii-standing campaign-finance constitutional-law constitutional-qualifications declaratory-judgment equal-protection federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission prisoner-litigation standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Does 52 U.S.C. § 30101's REQUIREMENT, that potential candidates for the House of Representatives report (either) the receipt of more that $5,000 in… |
| 22-6118 |
Wilbert Glover v. Matt Bostrom, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection inmate-treatment prison-conditions qualified-immunity racial-discrimination |
RE. GLOVER NV. BOSTEM, TAL.
PETITIONER WILBERT GROVER AND OTHER INMATES OF ADC RAMSEY COUNTY JAIL SEND SEVERAL INTERNAL GRIEVANCES THAT WERE REJECTED… |
| 22-6125 |
Carlos Bladimir Rodriguez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-6095 |
Owen Garth Hinkson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-law ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-enhancement vacated-conviction |
Whether the district court can sentence Mr. Owen Garth Hinkson, to a statute of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(2), 20 years imprisonment when his 1987 Massachuset… |
| 22-6098 |
Quartshezz Leonard Lewis v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-error legal-review statutory-analysis |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6099 |
Robert Lewis v. Hoke County, North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing |
What inhibits a Court of Appeals' discretion to invoke the waiver doctrine?
Whether a court of appeals should apply the waiver doctrine to a litigant… |
| 22-6104 |
Esteban Parra-Reyes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-review compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-sentencing judicial-discretion ninth-circuit prisoner-rights sentencing summary-affirmance |
I.
Whether The Denial Of Esteban Para Reyes's Motion For Compassionate
Release Was An Abuse Of Discretion?
II.
Whether the Ninth Circuit's Summary Af… |
| 22-6107 |
Jarmal Williamson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
Does Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), and its progeny, including Flowers v. Mississippi, 139 S. Ct. 2228 (2019), instruct courts to consider as… |
| 22-6088 |
Tupoutoe Mataele v. California |
California |
2022-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment aggravating-circumstances constitutional-requirements criminal-sentencing death-penalty jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt |
Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt the ex… |
| 22-6066 |
Brent Stephens v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 appeal appeal'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appeals f appeal'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District Court Magist appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appea federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-deference jury-trial jury-verdict magistrate-bar procedural-bar sentencing standard-of-review standard-of-review'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District trial-court-authority |
QUESTION A: Whether the Trial Court had the authority to supplant
the verdict of the jury on punishment?
QUESTION B: Whether the U.S. District Court … |
| 22-6071 |
Manuel Bracamontes v. California |
California |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt |
Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se… |
| 22-6072 |
Randy Belcher v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction physical-force sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
without the use, attempted use or threatened use of physical force against the person of another |
| 22-6073 |
Lindsey Chow v. Ma Leyba, et al. |
California |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-rights civil-rights due-process equal-protection euthanasia fourteenth-amendment medical-autonomy medicare survivorship-rights |
1. Did the Supreme Court of California violate murder victim Henry Chow 's and
his children their Fourteenth Amendment rights of "life, liberty, and … |
| 22-452 |
Bernice Curry-Malcolm v. New York State Division of Human Rights, et al. |
New York |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-decision civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection retaliation title-vii |
1. The word "substantial" is not found in the
governing statute, CPLR 5601(a), or the New
York State Constitution provision that provides for appeals … |
| 22-6049 |
Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination jury-override state-federal-practice |
Does executing a condemned person contrary to a capital sentencing jury's determination that he should be sentenced to life imprisonment without the p… |
| 22-6035 |
Michael Andra Reed, aka Mychal Andra Reed v. California |
California |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent-litigants indigent-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-bar time-limits |
DOES THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA CRIMINAL APPEAL TIME LIMIT
(TIME BAR) VIOLATE THE U.S. CONSTITUTION'S 14TH AMNEDMENT
EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE PERTAINING… |
| 22-6042 |
Ryan Hayes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-circuit sentencing |
I. Whether considerations of equal protection and due process required
the First Circuit to entertain Mr. Hayes' appeal where Mr. Hayes had
not challe… |
| 22-6043 |
Jose Rene Cante-Dondiego v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-438 |
Glow In One Mini Golf, L.L.C., et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
5th-amendment constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-shutdown emergency-powers equal-protection equal-protection-clause fifth-amendment qualified-immunity takings-clause |
1. Whether Minnesota's Governor has qualified immunity against Petitioners' Fifth Amendment Takings Clause claims for ordering the shut-down of their … |
| 22-444 |
Nazir Khan v. Presence Chicago Hospitals Network, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment antitrust antitrust-claim civil-rights due-process equal-protection medical-privileges physician-privileges standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the hospital can terminate the privileges of a physician who is physically and mentally normal on the basis that he did not cooperate with … |
| 22-6017 |
Reginald Eugene Grimes, Sr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit false-testimony perjury plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-hearing |
(1) DID THE HONORABLE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA
COMMIT "PLAIN AND OBVIOUS ERROR" BY DENYING PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR A
C… |
| 22-6022 |
Shimar Jamal Dean Thompkins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure diversionary-disposition due-process federal-charging federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant's prior diversionary disposition in a felony case can be considered both an indictment and a conviction for federal charging and s… |
| 22-6025 |
Christopher Alan Mitchell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure district-court final-order finality habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing sentencing-range statutory-interpretation |
(1) Is an order granting relief and resentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 final when the order changes the statutory sentencing range such that the dist… |
| 22-5998 |
Jeffrey Wingate v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553 bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure due-process mitigating-evidence rule-35 rule-35-resentencing sentencing sentencing-factors |
1) Whether due process is violated when, in the event a defendant
submits mitigating evidence in a rule 35 (b) resentencing that has a
connection to… |
| 22-6006 |
Justin Richard Testani v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-history cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-disparity |
1. Whether a 720-month sentence violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual sentences when Mr. Testani never had physical contact w… |
| 22-5993 |
Malik Ross v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Does a judge deny a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights by increasing a prison sentence based on disputed facts the Court did not find beyond a reasona… |
| 22-420 |
In Re Ohio, ex rel. Terpsehore P. Maras |
|
2022-11-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge election-law election-observers equal-protection fundamental-right-to-vote independent-candidates party-representation political-parties strict-scrutiny voting-rights |
The question presented is whether Ohio law allowing for Republican and Democratic Parties' election observers in any Ohio precinct or board of electio… |
| 22-5990 |
Leroy Brooks v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553a-factors abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion extraordinary-reasons judicial-review sentence-reduction sentencing |
1. Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner's motion for compassionate release/reduction in sentence. |
| 22-5981 |
Jose Refugio Nieto-Uribe v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)
should be overruled. |
| 22-5988 |
Clemente Hernandez-Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection judicial-standard ninth-circuit peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
If a trial court legally errs at step three of Batson, may an appellate court resolve the factual question of whether a party acted with discriminator… |
| 22-5970 |
David Antoine Luster v. R. M. Wolfe, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(d) 924(c)(3)(a) armed-bank-robbery borden-v-united-states categorical-approach criminal-procedure mens-rea plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question of Law : In light of Borden v. United States, 141 S.Ct. 1821 (2021), under the categorical approach the element narrow enough to be deemed a … |
| 22-5977 |
Bonerge Benitez-Marquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5979 |
Demetrice R. Devine and Brandon Jowan Mangum v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
blockburger-test consecutive-sentences constitutional-review criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy modified-blockburger new-sentencing-hearings sentencing sentencing-enhancements substantive-reasonableness |
1. Should this Court adopt the predominant modified Blockburger approach and find the maximum consecutive sentences imposed on the Petitioners on all … |
| 22-412 |
Roy Harness, et al. v. Michael Watson, Mississippi Secretary of State |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (17) |
civil-rights constitutional-law en-banc-review equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legislative-intent racial-discrimination voting-rights |
Whether any amendment to a law originally adopted for an impermissible racially discriminatory purpose, no matter how minor the amendment and no matte… |
| 22-409 |
Alexander Moskovits v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-recusal supervisory-power |
This case presents a Constitutional question of fundamental public importance: whether instituting sealed proceedings in a civil case (in next day rea… |
| 22-5956 |
Charles Wallace v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2022-11-01 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitution state-jurisdiction |
ARE NONUNANIMOUS INSTRUCTED CASES RIPE TO REMOVAL via 28 U.S.C.A. §1443?
DOES THE UNITED STATE CONSTITUTION AND AMENDMENTS IN AND OF ITSELF VOID AND … |
| 22-5961 |
Richard Rojas v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
Whether the Eighth Amendment requires that a sentencing court, when imposing a sentence of life without parole on a juvenile offender, must consider a… |
| 22-5936 |
Demetrius Troy Bradley v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-rights sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment |
1. Do the jury-trial and due process guarantees of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit judges from considering, at sentencing in a criminal c… |
| 22-5947 |
Kevin Johnson v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty eighth-amendment juror-misconduct juvenile-justice mental-health mental-impairment racial-bias |
1. In light of a court's duty to issue a remedy that "neutralize[s] the taint of a constitutional violation" while avoiding the grant of "a windfall t… |
| 22-5949 |
Oswaldo Omar Ramirez-Ortiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5950 |
Antonio Ramirez-Juan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-review sentencing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5951 |
Cavon C. Clark v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal concurrent-sentence consecutive-sentence criminal-appeal due-process recidivism recidivist-enhancement resentencing sentencing vindictiveness |
1. Must a "more severe" sentence of incarceration be numerically longer than the sentences of incarceration previously imposed; and if not
2. Ata thi… |
| 22-5940 |
Hugo Villarreal-Solis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion sentencing |
WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT TO DENY SOLIS' MOTION FOR COMPASSIONATE RELEASE? |
| 22-5943 |
Isaiah Tyler v. Kentucky Department of Corrections |
Kentucky |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest violent-offender-statute |
1. Do Kentucky's violent offender statute create a liberty interest protected by due process?
2. Is the Kentucky Department of Corrections in constan… |
| 22-5899 |
Dave V. Merritt v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection griffin-v-illinois ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief ross-v-moffitt |
I.) WHETHER SHINN V RAMIREZ 'S HOLDING
PETITIONER "AT FAULT " FOR POST
CONVICTION COUNSEL 'S APPELLATE
ERRORS GIVE INDIGENT POST-CONVICTION
APPELL… |
| 22-5903 |
L. Powers v. United States Postal Service |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection equal-rights in-forma-pauperis indigent-rights judicial-discretion judicial-powers |
1. Was the appearance of dismissing Petitioner's in forma pauperis applications an abuse of judicial powers & law?
-I filed three in form pauperis app… |
| 22-5912 |
William Gonzalez-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5914 |
Dominique Lamar Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 administrative-violations criminal-procedure criminal-supervision district-court-discretion due-process liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court acted excessively by sentencing Petitioner to a sentence two and half times above the supervision guideline range for admin… |
| 22-5920 |
Jesse Brewer v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process immigration judicial-review legal-procedure plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-390 |
Shahrouz Jahanshahi v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-rights attorney-fees attorneys-fees civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-sanction limited-jurisdiction rule-of-law sanctions |
(1) Can a limited jurisdiction court of California award attorneys' fees in excess of its jurisdictional limit of $10,000.00?
(2) Is it justified to … |
| 22-5902 |
Monica Rodriguez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 circuit-split controlled-substance drug-conspiracy mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
To prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, does the government need to est… |
| 22-5905 |
Terrell Biggs, Jr. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company |
Tennessee |
2022-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights due-process emotional-distress equal-protection insurance-company standing systemic-misconduct |
WHETHER THE STATE APPELLATE COURTS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONALLY FORCING
THE PLAINTIFF AND SIMILARLY?: SITUATED CITIZENS UNDER THE CONTROL
OF NATIONAL PRIV… |
| 22-5906 |
William Lee Thompson v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-10-25 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing retroactivity standard-error teague-rule |
1. In Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), this Court held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude the execution of defendants with int… |
| 22-5910 |
In Re Mark Lewis |
|
2022-10-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aedpa aedpa-limitations criminal-jurisdiction equal-protection federal-criminal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus major-crimes-act subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause |
1. Whether a state court acting beyond its legislated authority - and without subject-matter jurisdiction in the first instance - can render a judgmen… |
| 22-5889 |
Michael Paul Jessup v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing parole-abolition sentencing |
When a state abolishes its parole system, does it create a mandatory life-without-parole sentence that, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, … |
| 22-5891 |
Kevin B. Burns v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (7)IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing felony-murder ineffective-assistance moral-culpability residual-doubt sentencing state-law strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether an ineffective assistance claim may be based on counsel's
failure to exercise a state-law right to introduce residual doubt evidence at a c… |
| 22-5894 |
Terrence Gibbs v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice extraordinary-and-compelling extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing-law federal-statute judicial-discretion retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-law |
Whether non-retroactive changes in federal sentencing law, which dramatically altered sentencing exposure for those later sentenced, comprise "extraor… |
| 22-378 |
Steven Elmer Hinds v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment policing-for-profit sixth-amendment state-prosecution |
This Court has repeatedly admonished lower courts ' disregard of
constitutionally-secured rights with many decisions in favor of the 5th and 14th
Amen… |
| 22-377 |
Steven Elmer Hinds v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment policing-for-profit sixth-amendment |
This Court has repeatedly admonished and corrected lower courts ' disregard
of constitutionally-secured rights with many decisions: the 5th and 14th
A… |
| 22-5881 |
Trencie V. Oliver v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Whether Trencie Oliver's sentence imposed as to his offenses is disproportionate to the offense and violates due process or the Eighth Amendment of th… |
| 22-5882 |
Allen Calligan v. Frank Vanihel, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure habitual-offender ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informal-plea-offer plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing sixth-amendment |
Mr. Calligan alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to inform him of an informal plea offer made by the prosecutor, which would ha… |
| 22-5884 |
Rolando Cifuentes-Lopez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5872 |
In Re Benjamin Cole |
|
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-protocol fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-illness original-jurisdiction |
Whether the State of Oklahoma may execute Benjamin Cole while he is incompetent to be executed, in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments t… |
| 22-5880 |
Sixing Liu v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability confidential-information constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection pro-se-petition proprietary-information science-and-technology |
Did the Third Circuit err when, in conflict with this Court, it held that Petitioner failed to "make a substantial showing of the denial of a constitu… |
| 22-5869 |
Carlos Ivan Chavira-Montanez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-construction supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5870 |
Rodney Marshall v. Brian Williams, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial ninth-circuit sentencing |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability on the question of whether Mr. Marshall's right to be free from double je… |
| 22-5847 |
Lindsey Orr v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation term-of-imprisonment |
WHEN ARE THE SECTION 3553 (d) FACTORS SATISFIED?
THE 3553 OPINION JUSTIFIED BASED UPON?
THE COMPLETION OF THE TERM OF IMPLEMENTATION SPECIFIED FROM … |
| 22-5854 |
Willie Ricardo Gordon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-weights fourth-circuit obstruction-of-justice presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing |
1. Did the trial court err in accepting the findings of the presentence investigation report, regarding the weights of the drugs attributable to Mr. G… |
| 22-5865 |
Charles Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in dismissing the appeal when Mr. Smith's plea agreement contains a count of conviction and resulting sentence that is… |
| 22-359 |
Roda T. Gidey v. Settlement Corp., et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process equal-protection interpleader racial-discrimination real-estate summary-judgment |
Most of the Defendants in interpleader cases in real estate transactions in the District of Columbia are African Americans even though they are only h… |
| 22-5825 |
Ahmed R. Morning v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction ramos-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-review |
1) Whether the State trial court erred by imposing an unconstitutionally harsh and excessive sentence?
2) Whether the holding in Ramos v. Louisiana, … |
| 22-5828 |
DeShaun Bullock v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (10)IFP |
acquittal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitt… |
| 22-5839 |
Daniel Mason v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
Whether the Colorado Supreme erred in finding no Equal Protection violation when the prosecution impermissibly used race as a reason for the peremptor… |
| 22-5830 |
William Richter v. Ghaliah Obaisi, as Executor of the Estate of Saleh Obaisi |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-assistance pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process procedural-errors |
1. Whether The Faivie "Te Apnot Cowimwrel Oy Apneal Foa Rosie, OF the Disthirel Cords Alaue of Dis hes Ze Faleng To Recess wee Conmtel Upow Wilheincsa… |
| 22-5835 |
Norman Alan Kerr v. Christopher Gomez, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process involuntary-confession plea-bargaining sentencing |
should the Cincuit Rehaif r U.s that allows split held in stipolatiow waiving all the elements 9922(1) 2 be held coutnolling a credible clain of despi… |
| 22-5810 |
Martin Perez-Barrios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5811 |
Matthew Poulin v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alcohol-consumption alcohol-prohibition appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process reasonableness sentencing supervised-release unreasonable-sentence |
I. Whether the district court erred by sentencing Mr. Poulin to twelve (12) months considering the circumstances of the case?
II. Whether the special… |
| 22-5814 |
Christopher Allan Allred v. Washington |
Washington |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution mental-illness rational-understanding right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5818 |
In Re Errol Victor, Sr. |
|
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-privileges criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination speedy-trial trial-rights |
Whether due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and relevant civil rights laws prohibit a st… |
| 22-334 |
Alice Guan v. Gary Bell, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment notice-of-appeal petition-government |
1. Whether Fourth Circuit affirming district court's decision based on altered Notice of Appeal without performing any review on the merit of the appe… |
| 22-5805 |
Lawrence Crawford, et al. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-10-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-structural-error due-process equal-protection judicial-bias procedural-rules separation-of-powers standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
(1) DO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HOLDINGS UNDER
FORTBEND COUNTY, TEXAS v. DAVIS, 139 S.Ct. 1843( U.S.2019) AND
HALL v. HALL, 138 S.Ct. 1118, 200… |
| 22-5777 |
In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi |
|
2022-10-06 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering jury-instructions jury-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias |
1-Attached transcripts prores that tral Judge & Prosecution acknowledged that the
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Claiming it is not Extraordinary -.… |
| 22-5780 |
James F. Snyder v. Washington |
Washington |
2022-10-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
ada civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure disability-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standing sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5783 |
Kofi Kyei v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2022-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment oral-argument oregon-state-courts precedent statutory-mandate utcr-5.050(1) zehr-v-haugen |
Whether the Oregon State courts violated pro se Petitioner's federal due process and equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Uni… |
| 22-5766 |
Clifford Benjamin Kinkade v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the district Court's order denying a certificate of appealability for petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate, set aside, or correct th… |
| 22-5767 |
Silas Kendricks v. Okeechobee Correctional Institution, et al. |
Florida |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process equal-protection florida-statute legal-adherence procedural-violation respondent-liability |
WHEM THERE 18 8 PULSE OF OPPLILEABLE haa) § 944.176)
FLORZLDA STATUS , ADD THE RECORD OF THE CASE RUEVIGALS
THAT ADHERENCE OF THAT APPLLLABLE LAW LS U… |
| 22-5769 |
Donovan Lemont Bookman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 22-5771 |
Shawn Canada v. Olmsted County Community Corrections, All Staff Members, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process proportionality prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5752 |
Ricardo M. Suggs, Jr. v. Warden, FCI Loretto |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
1) Whether the Court of Appeals for Third Circuit incorrectly
determined that the concurrent sentence doctrine can be used
on a petitioner with solely… |
| 22-5753 |
Phillip Scott, Jr. v. District Court of Iowa, Scott County |
Iowa |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing |
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| 22-5756 |
Adelbert H. Warner, II v. K. Zook, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-exception equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-bars schlup-v-delo successive-application |
Does the Schlup v Delo/ 513 US 298 (1995)/ actual innocence exception to procedural bars to habeas corpus relief serve as a gateway through the pro ce… |
| 22-5762 |
Jonathan Mattox v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal arizona-rule-criminal-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
What i the coredtinter pretation that should be percieved
from A.R.5. 28-1383 (4)(2) T? |
| 22-5720 |
Mark Julian Edmonds v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge procedural-standard residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional |
Was Mr. Edmonds required to prove, in district court, that it is "more likely than not" that the sentencing judge "actually relied on" the ACCA's unco… |
| 22-5730 |
Quincy Campbell v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof coconspirator-testimony criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Whether the district court erred by sentencing the Defendant to one twenty (120) months in light of the circumstances of the case ?
II. Whether th… |
| 22-5737 |
Sharla Jenkins v. Helen Forbes Fields, as Administrator of the Estate of Elase Jenkins |
Ohio |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law equal-protection free-speech standing |
APPENDIX C: Why did it take Sr. Magistrate Richard L. Gedeon over 6 months to remove Shera Jenkins as executrix of the Estate and she was not preformi… |
| 22-5740 |
Rony Alexander Granados-Ortez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5742 |
Reggie D. Caswell v. Steven Racetti |
Second Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-appeals due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-appeal sentencing-consequences trial-exhibits |
1) Petitioner respectfully request that this Honorable Court revisit it's holding in Martinez v Court of Appeal of California Fourth Appellate Dist. 5… |
| 22-5743 |
Timothy Love v. California |
California |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crimes |
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| 22-5718 |
Amos Westmoreland, Jr. v. Aimee Smith, Warden |
Georgia |
2022-09-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
conflict-free-assistance-of-counsel cumulative-error due-process equal-protection federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Question One:
Prior iu February iu, 2020, Georgia [Supreme Court] Iiau repeatedly held iliai
although the combined effects of trial counsel's errors … |
| 22-5695 |
Christopher Eric Poore v. California |
California |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-6th-14th-amendments aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt the ex… |
| 22-5704 |
Ronald Buzzard, Jr. v. Washington |
Washington |
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-sentencing judicial-misconduct procedural-fairness sentencing sentencing-modification |
Is Buzzard's judgment and Sentence void and invalid on the face due to the handwritten "fraudulent interlineations" on the face by the sentencing Judg… |
| 22-5692 |
Kyle Brandon Rocha v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
beyond-a-reasonable-doubt confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-hearing standard-of-proof |
Is it a violation of a defendant's rights to due process of law and confrontation for a Court to make a finding in a sentencing hearing based solely o… |
| 22-5693 |
Rosa Isela Acuna v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-importation due-process mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under 21 U.S.C. § 960, a defendant who know ingly imports a
controlled substance can be convicted and subjected to an enhanced
punishment o… |
| 22-5701 |
Terry Wayne Cope v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release congress covid-19 criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion public-health sentencing |
A. Does the precedent that "a defendant's incarceration during the COVID-19 Pandemic when the defendant has access to the COVID-19 vaccine does not pr… |
| 22-5673 |
Juan Amaya Lozano v. Fredrick Entzel, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel interpreter-rights limited-english-proficiency sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment |
1) Whether the District Court abused it's discretion after ruling that Juan Lozano, (a limited English Proficiency defendant), required a Spanish Inte… |
| 22-5679 |
Dwandarrius Jamar Robinson v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge discriminatory-intent disparate-impact due-process equal-protection jury-selection misstatements-of-fact peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination |
Dwandarrius Robinson is a black man who was sentenced to death by a jury that the State scrubbed clean of all but one minority juror. The State used i… |
| 22-281 |
Peter Kruithoff v. Catholic Charities of West Michigan, et al. |
Michigan |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
child-welfare due-process equal-protection marital-status parental-rights standing state-interest statutory-interpretation |
1. Under Michigan's Safe Delivery of Newborns Law
("SDNL"), a parent-child relationship can be
permanently severed (1) with less notice than is
requir… |
| 22-5654 |
Elaine Mickman v. Richard Mickman |
Pennsylvania |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-discrimination child-support constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection minor-children second-class-siblings state-court-jurisdiction |
1. Doesn't the state Court violate federal law and the Constitution by depriving Equal Protection of the Law when it terminates child support by arbit… |
| 22-5655 |
Robert Frank Miller v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-history equal-protection procedural-fairness rehabilitation sentence-reduction sentencing-objectives standing waiver |
failed to meet his burden of demonstrating Extraordinary and Compelling reasons that warrant a sentence reduction?
Whether Certiorari should be grant… |
| 22-5669 |
Robert Carrasco Gamez v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5671 |
Andre Juvell Byrd v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-framework batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection intentional-discrimination jury-selection mccollum-v-georgia peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination |
Did the Supreme Court of Georgia violate the Equal Protection of the Laws by disallowing three of Petitioner's peremptory challenges to white jurors a… |
| 22-5644 |
Kevin Griffin v. Thomas P. DiNapoli, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appeal appointed-counsel constitutional-rights disability-claims due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence |
Was petitioner's appeal erroneously dismissed even though newly discovered evidence supports petitioner's disability claims, U.S. Const. Amend. XIV?
… |
| 22-5645 |
John Gay v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5646 |
Fred Freeman v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights classification-error court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion procedural-review qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5650 |
In Re Bobby D. Hathaway-Bey |
|
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure first-amendment public-access public-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
should this court isr s lowik toGrant alrit of Haks Corpus Jo a Moorish AMKican SovErig Man wHo has No wvaila forum to raiss his Comlilling clam of Di… |
| 22-5651 |
In Re Randolph Lavon Carr-El |
|
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
citizenship civil-rights constitutional-provisions denationalization due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus race-discrimination racial-discrimination thirteenth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5660 |
Jon Anthony Terry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ability-to-pay criminal-procedure district-court due-process future-assessment hypothetical-means judicial-discretion sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
1. May a District Court at sentencing, find a defendant "non-indigent" for the purposes of 18 USC 3014(e), based upon past income and a hypothetical "… |
| 22-5638 |
Hector Martinez-Robos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mandatory-minimum-sentences mens-rea plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether an instructional error is "plain" for purposes of Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) when the charge to the jury is erroneous under an opinion of this … |
| 22-5641 |
Jay Eugene Reed v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
charging-instrument constitutional-rights conviction due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-reasonableness sixth-amendment |
Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit violated the Fifth and Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution by allowing an i… |
| 22-5643 |
Derek Lee Casey, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing trial-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5624 |
Tiffany Leigh Marion v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky criminal-procedure equal-protection plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination |
Whether Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) and its progeny apply to equal protection claims challenging a prosecutor's decision of whether to exte… |
| 22-5633 |
James Blessing v. Nick Hoffman, et al. |
New Jersey |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment administrative-action communication-ban constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection liberty property property-rights slander |
Without any due process nor hearing, should two lower
level administrators be premitted to sabatoge an Appellant
throughout the lower Court by bannin… |
| 22-5603 |
Faustino Sanchez-Lugo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5606 |
Jesus Guadalupe Amparano-Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-challenge sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 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^ … |
| 22-5597 |
Bernardino Adrian Venzor-Ortega v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5598 |
Ramiro Montoya-De La Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 22-249 |
Chambers Self-Storage Oakdale, LLC v. Washington County, Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
assessment assessment-methodology constitutional-claim discovery due-process equal-protection judicial-review property-tax unequal-assessment |
1. Does the right to Due Process under the U.S. Constitution prohibit a State from depriving real property taxpayers the right to conduct discovery of… |
| 22-247 |
Jacqueline Chui v. Benjamin Tze-Man Chui, et al. |
California |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection guardian-ad-litem minor minor-rights |
1. Does the California guardian ad litem procedure which prevents challenge, deprive a 17year-old minor of her due process rights under the 14th Amend… |
| 22-5582 |
Deborah Fishman v. Victor Politis |
Massachusetts |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
1) How are people with disabilities supposed to access relief from abuses of discretion in legal system when their disability is not accommodated and … |
| 22-5584 |
Emru Kebede v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment age-discrimination due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences roper-v-simmons |
1.) DO THE DECISIONS OF THIS COURT IN ROPER V. SIMMONS AND MILLER V. ALABAMA ESTABLISH A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT FOR OFFENDERS UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE AS IT R… |
| 22-5586 |
Lori Ann Robles v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discretionary-review mandatory-guidelines rita-v-united-states sentencing velson-v-united-states |
1. Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirming Petitioner's sentence of 360 months, based on an importa… |
| 22-5591 |
Robert Lopez-Parker v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act criminal-enhancement criminal-law disability disability-classification due-process equal-protection federal-standard fourteenth-amendment state-law |
When is an individual regarded as having or percieved to have, impairment within the meaning of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"). 42 U.S.C.… |
| 22-5575 |
Ronald Mickel v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-minimum violent-felony |
I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 22-5567 |
Lamar Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-waiver waiver |
1. The question presented is whethe r sentencing issue is waived where the
Defendant raises, but drops an issue as part of a sentencing or subject to… |
| 22-5576 |
Thoucharin Ruttanamongkongul v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-work sexual-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
When state values v. evidence, to show that petitioner fired (unclear handwriting) to the United States to court completely e.g. a six footers; and th… |
| 22-5579 |
William Baham v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance state-action supremacy-clause |
Whether the 14% Amendment, imposes upon the States of Louisiana the obligation to refrain from systemic, purposeful deprivations of substantive federa… |
| 22-5522 |
Fernando Cazares v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict pinkerton-conspiracy section-241 section-245 sentencing violent-crime |
Did the court of appeals err in failing to grant a certificate of appealability where the application presented three debatable questions: First, the … |
| 22-5551 |
Jose Carmen Barajas-Salvador v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5559 |
Patricio Estrada v. Troy Nehls, Sheriff, Fort Bend County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference disciplinary-isolation due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection medical-treatment prison-conditions |
2) Can ya ackless Ho cbflerences in Duc Mecess. tights 40.adlhn. Segegahion, veties discyplinaty iSolatoty:asas Esttadhs £eual Astechon dad Lue lace a… |
| 22-5562 |
Christopher Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process first-step-act government-response judicial-discretion misinformation reply section-404 sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance |
Whether Petitioner was denied his due process rights when the district court granted his Section 404 of the First Step Act motion, but imposed upward … |
| 22-5540 |
David Villegas Pereznegron v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings plain-error-review right-to-allocution sentencing sentencing-allocution substantial-rights |
Whether the plain and prejudicial denial of the right to allocution is an error that ordinarily warrants correction under the fourth prong of plain-er… |
| 22-5527 |
Dora L. Adkins v. Tyson's Lodging, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court-affirmance civil-procedure district-court-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-courts legal-sufficiency per-curiam-opinion rule-60-motion standing |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Erred in the per curiam unpublished opinion and/or Judgment, Dated, August 25. 20… |
| 22-5528 |
Felix Lyle Cowan v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5531 |
Patrick O. Christian v. Republican Party, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection majority-rule minority-protection minority-rights protected-class sexual-orientation |
1. When Democracy is defined as the "majority rules "
does this indicate that the minority will legally be
discriminated-against
deprived, and/or c… |
| 22-5533 |
Dario Pinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S FAILURE TO PROPERLY CONSIDER THE APPROPRIATE FACTORS PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c) BEFORE DENYING MR. PINSON'S MOTION F… |
| 22-5507 |
Edward F. Swanson v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-dismissal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard |
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tPH f> Tt/fiSC OXSMXSS THE... Titty &TP ,n
aeFEUOMT QuZLTy OF /) LtC°X… |
| 22-5511 |
Edmundo Portillo-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 22-5514 |
Roland Scott, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the United States Supreme Cort overturn it's own precedent
in Rehaf v. United States 139 S. Ct 2191, 20t L. Ed 594
2o1g), where this Cort decided … |
| 22-201 |
Jane Doe, as Parent and Next Friend of Baby Mary Doe, et al. v. Daniel McKee, Governor of Rhode Island, et al. |
Rhode Island |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abortion constitutional-rights constitutional-standing dobbs-precedent dobbs-v-jackson due-process equal-protection history-and-tradition prenatal-life standing unborn-rights |
1. Whether, in light of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's
Health Organization, 597 U.S. __ (2022), the
Rhode Island Supreme Court erred in holding that
the unb… |
| 22-199 |
Barry J. Smith v. Community Care Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
citizenship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Is the first question to be answered by both the
district courts and the courts of appeals, when a civil
complaint is presented to them, whether … |
| 22-5503 |
Jose Vargas-Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus johnson-decision procedural-default residual-clause sentencing vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the doctrine of procedural default bars a court from granting relief to a defendant whose conviction and sentence were predicated on an uncons… |
| 22-5483 |
In Re Frank Michael Monte |
|
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration sentencing |
1. Constitutionality of Petitioner's incarceration. |
| 22-5492 |
William Wallace v. Florida Commission on Offender Review |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-review reasonable-doubt sentencing standing witness-testimony |
(1) Is it abuse of false evidence to convict a petitioner for a crime, where there has never been any proof of deception that does use / in this case?… |
| 22-5496 |
Vance L. White v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
court-modification criminal-procedure grand-jury indictment-elements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-maximum |
Can H)t Tudyz modipy the. essentiac elements set Qonth In the /'ndittment cn~ the. Plea CoUoquy?
Coin -the. Court Armnd M indictment- (oithout dAt te… |
| 22-5477 |
Tracey L. Brown v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender case-law circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act jurisdiction ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Should the decision by the Ninth Circuit to deny Mr. Brown's appeal be vacated when said decision was based upon case law that was vacated by this … |
| 22-5480 |
Manuel Ralios-Chajal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 22-5469 |
Jeffrey Beard, II v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay hearsay-evidence obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires that the accused "shall enjoy the right ... to be confronted with the witnesses against him." Th… |
| 22-5474 |
Romney Christopher Ellis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
communication-offense criminal-sentencing harassment intent-to-carry-out overt-acts sentencing sentencing-guidelines threat-enhancement threatening-communications u-s-sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§-2a6.1(b)(1) |
Whether, in sentencing in cases involving threatening or harassing communications, the six-level offense level enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2A6.1(b)(1… |
| 22-5466 |
Leonard Andrew v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
significant intellectual deficit and reduced ment criminal-sentencing downward-departure intellectual-deficit judicial-discretion mental-capacity reduced-mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-guidelines USSG-5H1.3 USSG-5K2.13 |
Whether a sentencing court must meaningfully address a defendant's request for a downward departure pursuant to USSG §§ 5H1.3 and 5K2.13 when he has a… |
| 22-5468 |
Benjamin Lawrence Petty v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
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I; feaOxawG a \y_^vj\ihktvT To A Wi/aSEEF buOU/& PoE/COAPW B0=*v\S ; A SQtCiAL (Lo^biXX<>f\) Of PaofiATEOrJ , vIolATE JXE- PRO… |
| 22-5475 |
Merlin Williams v. Burl Cain, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circumstantial-evidence civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony wrongful-conviction |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5459 |
Jose Socorro Gonzalez-Ruiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)
should be overruled. |
| 22-5445 |
Ereby Lujan-Madrid v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5446 |
Jose Francisco Maldonado-Rosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Maldonado waived the
right to appeal his sentence because of the Waiver of Appeal provision in his … |
| 22-5448 |
Roger C. Cassidy v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-defendant due-process equal-protection judicial-fact-finding judicial-review mandatory-sentencing preponderance-of-evidence prior-conviction sentencing-exposure standing |
Question 1: May a state legislature require a state court to increase a criminal defendant's sentencing exposure based on judicial fact-finding by pre… |
| 22-5430 |
Derrick Lakeith Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-interpretation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-review sentencing state-courts |
WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION ERRED.
PEPPER V. UNITED STATES,
IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT
PRECEDENT OF UNITED S
1108-111S(6T… |
| 22-5439 |
In Re Tyvon Montrey Spencer El-Bey |
|
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge political-sovereignty racial-discrimination standing |
Should this Court use its power to grant a writ of habeas corpus for Tyven Mendvey Spencer-e/-Bey, an American Sovereign on that has compelling claim? |
| 22-5421 |
Henry Wilke Eilders v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-history drug-conspiracy drug-offenses federal-sentencing-guidelines methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether Petitioner's prior methamphetamine related convictions occurring within two years of the conspiracy for distributing methamphetamine should… |
| 22-5422 |
Vohn Robert Cooper v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
WHETHER THE SENTENCING JUDGE VIOLATED COOPER'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO HAVE A JURY DETERMINE ANY FACT THAT INCREASED THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM IN HIS CAS… |
| 22-5423 |
Elise LaMartina v. Jason Patrick Johnson, et al. |
Mississippi |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-liability civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection indigent-rights interstate-commerce privileges-and-immunities |
Whether the State of Mississippi may unconstitutionally discriminate against interstate commerce to shield and protect its citizens and businesses fro… |
| 22-161 |
Robert Nieto and Darrick R. Vallodolid v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights equal-protection jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Mr. Nieto's and Mr. Vallodolid's convictions should be reversed because the Government's peremptory striking of qualified Hispanic prospect… |
| 22-5400 |
Maurice D. Bell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error-review preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Whether an appellate court errs under Fed. R. Crim. P. 51 by applying plain error review to a claim of procedural error brought to the sentencing judg… |
| 22-5402 |
Ronnie Jones v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-error sentencing standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5405 |
Perry Sawano v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment aggregate-sentence constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment proportionality-analysis proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-review |
1) Does the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits
the imposition of cruel and unusual punishment require that a sentencing
court… |
| 22-5354 |
Ricardo L. Noble v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing miller-rule rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-discretion |
The facts, issues, and eudeace relates to Lace A Juvenile Lifec*s DecertiFitarion(Jrunstec) deescrou ace celévaatto Said Juvenile Likees re sentencing… |
| 22-5383 |
Lynn M. Giovanni v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-defense diminished-capacity guilty-plea ineffective-assistance insanity-defense psychiatric-evaluation sentencing sentencing-mitigation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington withdrawal |
DOES THE ACTION/INACTION OF DEFENSE COUNSEL, IN FAILING TO UTILIZE OR UNDER-UTILIZING THE FAVORABLE PSYCHATRIC REPORTS COMPILED FOR THE DEFENSE IN ASS… |
| 22-5384 |
In Re Randell Joseph Redmond |
|
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-rights standing |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5387 |
Ulises Ervey Islas-Macias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5389 |
Antonio Molina-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-156 |
David Douglas Fennell v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-SLAPP-law civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection federal-preemption free-speech jury-trial jury-trial-rights political-assembly right-to-assemble |
Is California's anti-SLAPP law which allows California to ban Republicans from assembling and running for office as a "matter of public interest" in v… |
| 22-5365 |
David Steve Elias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum plain-error retroactivity rule-11 sentencing |
I. After Mr. Elias's plea but before his sentencing, the First Step Act amended § 924(c)(1) to clarify that the consecutive mandatory minimum sentence… |
| 22-5376 |
Jerico Matias Cruz v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis standing |
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s*)OTZ&*J rF/Z/Kjzsszzotf <rz> J=Aj
f… |
| 22-5377 |
Malik Breyon Hollis v. Matthew Magnusson, Warden |
First Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-composition jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination |
Whether peremptory challenges of racial minorities during jury selection in criminal trials should be subjected to a heightened judicial inquiry of st… |
| 22-5378 |
Robert Collazo, Lino Delgado-Vidaca, Julio Rodriguez, and Steven Amador v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-penalties drug-distribution due-process mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing |
Whether, to prove conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance triggering
mandatory-minimum and increased-maximum penalties, the Government must sh… |
| 22-5362 |
Agustin Garcia v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2022-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment complete-defense constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment technological-advances |
1. WHETHER THE STATE COURT'S OCT. 13, 2021 ORDER (App. P-2) DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF THE FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO FAIR TRIAL, E.G., A MEANING… |
| 22-5348 |
Clarence Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal motion-hearing prosecutorial-agreement recusal sentencing sentencing-discretion standing |
1) Whether the district court erred by denying defense counsel's oral motion for recusal of the district judge.
2) Whether the district court erred b… |
| 22-5349 |
Leopoldo Pacheco-Apodaca v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5353 |
Ricardo Salazar-Munoz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-139 |
Sari Alqsous v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
charge-conference confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act mens-rea public-official sentencing sixth-circuit |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in analyzing ruling that Petitioner was not entitled to be present during the Charge Conference under Fed. R. Crim. P.… |
| 22-140 |
Yvette B. Beaulieu v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure disclosure-requirements due-process equal-protection federal-employee government-investigation government-misconduct legal-fairness |
1. WHY IS THERE NO EQUAL APPLICATION OF
RELEVANT FAIRNESS PRINCIPLES IN CIVIL
AND CRIMINAL MATTERS?
2. WHY IS THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
ALLOWED… |
| 22-141 |
Michelle McDonald-Witherspoon, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Kenyada Jones v. Amber Browne, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights disability due-process equal-protection mental-disability mental-health probation-officer section-1983 |
Whether a probation officer with no medical or psychiatric training who is in charge of a mentally disabled (schizophrenic) person (who is out of jail… |
| 22-5337 |
Carlos Vazquez-Tellez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5338 |
Chikosi Legins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1001 apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence false-statement relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum sufficiency |
I. Whether the evidence was sufficient to support the conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1001.
II. Whether the defendant was improperly subjected to an enhan… |
| 22-5341 |
Ted Amparan v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyene-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-sentencing due-process exhaustion habeas-corpus jury jury-determination sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
1) Did the State Violate Supreme Court precedent of Apprendi v. New Jersey and Alleyne v. United States by having a sentencing judge not the jury make… |
| 22-5326 |
Juan Samuel Rodriguez-Huitron v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-review limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
This Court in Molina-Martinez v. United States advised that courts of appeals may order a limited remand to assess the impact of clear error on the de… |
| 22-5329 |
Chadrick Fulks v. T. J. Watson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-U.S.C-2241 28-U.S.C-2255 collateral-review death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability section-2241 section-2255 |
Is an intellectually disabled and death-sentenced prisoner condemned to be executed in violation of the Eighth Amendment because he was found not to b… |
| 22-5332 |
Jerome Mellion v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection manslaughter pro-se state-court-decisions state-supreme-court |
DID THE LOUISIANA STATE SUPREME COURT VIOLATE THE FEDERAL U.S.
14TH AMENDMENT TO THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION "EQUAL PROTECTION " OF
LAW GUARANTEES WHEN… |
| 22-128 |
Michelle Herczeg v. City of Dallas, Texas |
Texas |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection police-misconduct retaliation sexual-harassment |
Is it repugnant to the Constitution and laws of the United States when th e rights of a decorated police offer, who was a victim of sexual assault and… |
| 22-5305 |
Aileen Kogera Njoroge v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fraud identity-theft legal-appeal probation restitution sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court-discretion |
The Defendant, Aileen Kogera Njoroge, hereinafter "Kogera " appeals her conviction following a jury trial held on October 13th through October 16, 202… |
| 22-5312 |
Carl A. Nelson, Sr. v. Ohio Parole Board, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-agency administrative-jurisdiction aedpa due-process habeas-corpus liberty liberty-deprivation sentencing sentencing-judgment void-commitment |
(1) When a sentencing judgment entry of commitment is legally invalid, according to state and clearly
established federal law as determined by this co… |
| 22-5321 |
William S. Divine v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-challenge covid-19 covid-19-restrictions due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-deadline section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
1). When the government impedes a defendant, in the name of COVID-19
safeguards, from making ;a motion and the Court enforces the (f)(1) clause of
§2… |
| 22-5287 |
Gregory Edwin Dunn v. County of Santa Cruz, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection indigence privileges-and-immunities self-representation |
Whether indigence should be deemed a suspect or quasi-suspect class under the Equal Protection Guarantee of the 5th amendment and the Due Process Clau… |
| 22-118 |
Marquis Shaw v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (12) |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process issue-preclusion jury-trial sentencing united-states-v-watts |
(1) Do either the Jury Clauses of Article III and
the Sixth Amendment or the Due Process Clause of
the Fifth Amendment bar a court from imposing a
mor… |
| 22-5281 |
Leonardo T. Morales v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2022-08-04 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
constitutional-review due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus res-judicata sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Florida Supreme Court had subject matter jurisdiction to entertain Petitioner's Writ of Habeas Corpus as the issue was one of law instead it applied R… |
| 22-5294 |
Gary Wayne Warner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction limitation-bar miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing |
1 [QUESTION ONE]: DOES THIS COURT HAVE [JURISDICTION & POWER]-
TO GRANT CERTIORARI-EXCUSED LIMITION BAR AN CORRECT FUNDAMETAL
MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE… |
| 22-5260 |
David Perez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder federal-sentencing racketeering-activity rico rico-sentencing sentencing state-law state-law-maximum statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
State sentencing law determines the statutory maximum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 1963(a) for a RICO conviction based on a racketeering activity that i… |
| 22-109 |
Paula Steven v. Federal Way School District |
Washington |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment public-education racial-discrimination school-segregation |
I. Whether a Black mother and her Black
child/student who walks through the main entrance
of the public school doors every morning as does the
non-… |
| 22-101 |
Martin Cowen, et al. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
ballot-access congressional-district equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment signature-requirements third-party third-party-candidates |
1. Does a State violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments when its ballot-access restrictions on third-party candidates for United States Representa… |
| 22-5264 |
Cody Gober v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentence constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentence post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-circuit state-sentence |
Whether the due process rights of the Petitioner were violated by the failure of the trial court to address, first at sentencing and then in a post-se… |
| 22-5265 |
Preston Hester, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines SORNA SORNA-tier tier-level |
Whether the district court's failure to determine Mr. Hester's correct SORNA tier level in calculating the correct advisory Guideline sentencing range… |
| 22-5269 |
Juan M. Cuellar v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus lesser-offense newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction sentencing |
Whether a Retnal ZT ano core Clain Apples bo fesser ob gale? he mcd es Se fhay one Can be Ae Fall va IeCenJd- RL Ps Segre e Murder Sach thal he- "ys G… |
| 22-5192 |
Jose Manuel Hernandez-Miranda v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release court-review covid-19 criminal-justice due-process eighth-amendment extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion petitioner-rights sentencing sentencing-relief |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5234 |
Victor Manuel Duarte-Munoz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5235 |
Louis McIntosh v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
GVR |
IFP |
§924(c) criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction forfeiture hobbs-act interstate-commerce rule-32.2 sentencing |
1. Whether petitioner's §924(c) conviction based on an attempted Hobbs Act robbery should be vacated in light of United States v. Taylor?
2. Whether … |
| 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? |
| 22-5241 |
Silvino Vasquez-Jacinto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5245 |
Pamela McCoy v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection fair-proceeding juvenile-sentencing manifest-injustice sentencing-review |
I. Does the decision of the Florida State Courts to deny the Petitioner relief ruling that the Petitioner's thirty-five (35) year sentence as a juveni… |
| 22-5225 |
Craig Anthony Ross v. Ron Bloomfield, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
aider-and-abettor aiding-and-abetting cabana-v-bullock death-penalty enmund-v-florida habeas-corpus intent-to-kill jury-instructions murder-first-degree ninth-circuit-review shared-intent |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err under Title 28, United States Code, Section 2254(d)(1) in affirming that the jury instructions given by the California Su… |
| 22-5229 |
Gwendolyn Wilson v. Hillsborough Township Construction/Building Department, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights equal-protection fair-housing fourteenth-amendment municipal-services property-assessments racial-discrimination retaliation |
(1) Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States District Court, New Jersey erred in concluding that the Equ… |
| 22-5232 |
Jesus Javier Cruz-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate … |
| 22-5212 |
Jonita Desirrae Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonableness reasonableness sentencing supervised-release |
Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness, as United States v… |
| 22-5214 |
Martin Rios-Galicia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent-overturning recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 22-5181 |
Edward Avila v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing |
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| 22-5168 |
Rodney Mesquias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-error jurisdiction legal-standard sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming Mesquias' convictions and sentences. |
| 22-5178 |
Daniel K. Cleary v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
I. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN DENYING THE POST-CONVICTION CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHERE THE RECORD ESTABLISHES THAT AN ORDER … |
| 22-5179 |
Jon Christopher Stoune v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance patent section-2255 standing takings |
1) Should the U.S. Supreme Court grant a Certificate of Appealability in light of this Court's decisions and the Petitioner's three §2255 application … |
| 22-5152 |
In Re Jerry N. Alfred |
|
2022-07-22 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection false-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
WHETHER A TEMPORARY EXCEPTION EXISTS TO CITE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S UPLE HOLDING THAT A CRIMINAL CONVICTION USING USE OF FALSE EVIDENCE "MUST F… |
| 22-5156 |
Wilbert McKreith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform criminal-sentencing district-court-authority first-step-act judicial-authority sentencing sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation |
Do district courts have authority to grant compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A), as amended by the First Step Act of 2018, based on a c… |
| 22-5158 |
Bernard J. Battle v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance legal-nullity plea-bargaining procedural-default sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation |
When guilty plea is entered without the defendant being informed of the consequences, the judgment of conviction is a nullity. |
| 22-5163 |
Diann Ramcharan v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-fraud jury-selection race-discrimination racial-bias voir-dire |
Is it an abuse of discretion for a district court, when there is a proper request by the accused, to refuse to conduct reasonable voir dire inquiry in… |
| 22-5148 |
Johnson Christopher Jamerson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights corrections-department due-process equal-protection legal-claims separation-of-powers standing |
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And enforce the law ss Department
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I's it A … |
| 22-5143 |
Malia Arciero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion appellate-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-statute judicial-review motion-reconsideration reconsideration sentencing sentencing-modification |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in denying Arciero's Motion for Compassionate Release Under 18 … |
| 22-49 |
Efrain Lora v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-split concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(D)(ii), which provides that "no term of imprisonment imposed … under this subsection shall run concurrently with any oth… |
| 22-5127 |
Edward Brown v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-conspirators double-jeopardy fifth-amendment political-beliefs political-views procedural-reasonableness resentencing sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines |
1. Since the petitioner has been continuously in custody since October 4, 2007, he completely served the sentences of imprisonment imposed by the dist… |
| 22-5129 |
V. V. v. E. V. |
Connecticut |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
article-iii article-iii-standing contracts-clause due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit next-friend standing supremacy-clause |
Does the respondent have standing to assert claims as next friend of the child (1)
against the petitioner under Article III of the United States Const… |
| 22-5130 |
Timothy J. Mazique v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrears child-support civil-procedure due-process equal-protection incarceration judicial-review obligor-rights statutory-interpretation |
1. The district court, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Louisiana Supreme Court erred in finding the petitioner responsible for paying arrears in t… |
| 22-5132 |
Joe Octavio Granado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences district-court incarceration liberty-deprivation liberty-interest revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the District Court, in revoking supervised release, excessively sentenced Petitioner with consecutive incarceration from an original concurren… |
| 22-5135 |
Joshua Jay Schroeder v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-rules plea-agreement right-to-appeal sentencing |
Does a defendant retain the right to appeal a sentence if, after imposition of the sentence, the district court advises the defendant of the right to … |
| 22-5136 |
Francette Washington v. Virginia Rodriguez, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
assets civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment equal-protection financial-status in-forma-pauperis income poverty standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5137 |
Clifford Raymond Salas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process factual-errors plain-error prosecutorial-argument sentencing sentencing-variance tenth-circuit-review |
Did the Tenth Circuit wrongly hold that the district court did not plainly err, where (a) the prosecutor argued that a factually untrue reason support… |
| 22-5138 |
Arthur Frank Cardenas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus knowledge-element ninth-circuit rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states right-to-counsel sentencing |
In light of this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019) must show that the defendant knew he possessed the firearm and als… |
| 22-5139 |
Carol Johnene Morris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-possession due-process felony-enhancement prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5141 |
Jodie Louise Byrne v. Maryland, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
1983-civil-action civil-rights constitutional-violation consular-notification due-process equal-protection human-rights state-actor-liability victim-protection |
The lower courts have failed to apply the Laws of the United States. The USA holds a 90 percent failure rates in the State Courts regarding the Protec… |
| 22-45 |
Jada Ku v. Great Falls Public Schools |
Montana |
2022-07-18 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-accommodation legal-representation mental-disability public-education school-discrimination standing supreme-court-procedure |
Can the Great Falls Public Schools discriminate against me because of my mental disability?
Will the Supreme Court of the State of Montana accommodat… |
| 22-46 |
Ada County, Idaho v. Idaho Commission for Reapportionment, et al. |
Idaho |
2022-07-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause federal-supremacy reapportionment state-administrative-body state-court-review state-redistricting |
Whether principles of federal supremacy and due process permit a nonjudicial state entity to reject claims of federal constitutional rights violations… |
| 22-47 |
Kerry Benninghoff, Individually and as Majority Leader of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives v. 2021 Legislative Reapportionment Commission, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2022-07-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights district-drawing equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legislative-redistricting racial-gerrymandering redistricting voting-rights-act |
Pennsylvania's Legislative Reapportionment Commission admittedly made extensive use of race in constructing up to 14 state legislative districts. The … |
| 22-5116 |
Michael Dewayne Vickers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca actual-reliance armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-requirement second-or-successive-motion sentencing sentencing-reliance |
After this Court struck down the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual cause in 2015, the Fifth Circuit granted Mr. Vickers permission to file a "secon… |
| 22-5112 |
Roberto Hernandez-Aldama v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation methamphetamine sentencing |
Whether the court of appeals violated the defendant's Fifth Amendment right to due process where the government presented evidence regarding just one … |
| 22-5083 |
William Wellington Hooper, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sentencing |
1. Were Mr. Hooper's cell phones seized in violation of his Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure?
2. Did the District Court… |
| 22-5084 |
Luciano Felipe-Pascual v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5086 |
Nouboukpo Gassesse v. University of Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection motion-for-default state-court-decisions summary-judgment trial-court-procedure |
1- Plaintiff invoked the violation of the 14th amendment of the constitution of the
United States as to the fact that he was not served with a due pr… |
| 22-5088 |
Norman Blake McKenzie v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Mr. McKenzie had a right to a jury finding for each fact that subjected him to the enhanced penalty of death. This proof was required to be "beyond a … |
| 22-5090 |
Michelle C. Cantatore v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-history district-court-discretion evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 sentencing sentencing-counsel sentencing-disparity |
Whether the Third Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by denying… |
| 22-5093 |
Jerry Leon Haliburton v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof capital-punishment clear-and-convincing-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability state-law |
In Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), this Court held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude the execution of defendants with intell… |
| 22-5094 |
Garfield D. Campbell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit marijuana-use reversible-error sentencing supervised-release |
WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. CAMPBELL'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY… |
| 22-5095 |
J. Christopher Wreh v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing |
WRIT OF CERTIORARI IS TO REVIEW EXCLUSIVELY OF JANUARY 12, 2022 ORDER OF
WHICH WAS DENIED ON FEBRUARY 2, 2022 BY THE UNITED STATES COURT OF
APPEALS FO… |
| 22-5096 |
Theodore Luczak v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-07-13 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
citizen-rights civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-system legal-procedure legislative-overreach separation-of-powers state-attorney state-attorney-general |
WHETHER A STATE'S ATTORNEY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO ENACT LEGISLATION ON THEIR OWN THAT WOULD VIOLATE THE STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF EACH … |
| 22-5103 |
Chico Jermell Carraway v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion 28-usc-2255 evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 rule-11-procedure sentencing sentencing-hearing |
When a defendant alleges with supporting evidence that he pleaded guilty based on an unkept promise of counsel concerning sentencing, is he entitled t… |
| 22-5073 |
Leroy McGill v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
arizona constitutional-law criminal-punishment criminal-sentencing death-penalty ex-post-facto ninth-circuit retroactive-increase retroactive-law |
The Ex Post Facto Clause prohibits retroactive increases in criminal punishment. When Mr. McGill committed the crime for which he was convicted, Arizo… |
| 22-35 |
Yufan Zhang v. UnitedHealth Group, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment arbitration burden-of-proof due-process employment-termination equal-protection evidence-destruction intellectual-property |
In this case, the evidence Zhang used to have as proof of his claims was taken away and destroyed by UnitedHealth Group at time Zhang was fired becaus… |
| 22-5059 |
Rodolfo Oliva-Santos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5061 |
Dewayne Joseph v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
GVR |
IFP |
concepcion-ruling concepcion-v-united-states crack-cocaine crack-penalties criminal-resentencing discretion eleventh-circuit fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing sentencing-modification |
Whether this case should be reversed and remanded in light of Concepcion? |
| 22-5062 |
Zachary Chambers v. R. Thompson, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession habeas-corpus retroactivity safety-valve-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), renders invalid the imposition of Petitioner's sentencing enhancement for possession of a … |
| 22-5051 |
Gabriel M. Robles, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-rights due-process energy-assistance equal-protection in-forma-pauperis low-income-assistance poverty poverty-level |
Have the Courts enacted "Rules" and Congress made laws that
serve to deprive the poor and needy, the elderly, and the
developmentally disabled, their… |
| 22-5053 |
Jesus Perez-Solis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5047 |
Jermaine Blackwell v. Jeff Nines, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargain plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing trial-counsel trial-strategy |
1. Did the lower .Court error in Not finding that the Petitioner
Trial Counsel committed ineffective assistance of Counsel
when trial counsel misadv… |
| 22-5031 |
Thomas Sawyer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection public-services race-discrimination |
WHETHER ETTONER'S CONICTON VOLATES THE FIT FIFTH AMD FOURTEENTHENMENT OF THE UTIF THE NTE E IN THE BSTKE COURT HAS BEEN ININK A RACAL DESTGNATOR OR MI… |
| 22-5033 |
Curtis Chewning v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-information court-fraud due-process fraud jury jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing unlawful-seizure |
Question (1)
WHETHER DUE PROCESS OF LAW IS VIOLATED WHERE A SENTENCE IS
INCREASED BASED UPON FACTS NOT INHERENT IN THE CHARGING
INFORMATION OR PROVE… |
| 22-5003 |
Ernesto Villalobos-Marquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5004 |
Eduardo Pena-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5005 |
Gerardo Olvera-Vitela v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 22-5006 |
David Cadena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum upward-variance |
1. Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range to the statutory maxim… |
| 22-5012 |
Kielan Brett Franklin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence due-process fifth-amendment guideline-range hearsay hearsay-statements hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reliability |
(1) Is substantive reliability required under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States when a district c… |
| 21-1609 |
Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona v. Paul A. Isaacson, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process equal-protection injunction irreparable-harm stay |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1610 |
Paula Steven v. Federal Way School District |
Washington |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parental-rights racial-discrimination school-access school-segregation truancy-law |
1. Whether a Black mother of a public school student who walks her young Black, student into school every morning through the main entrance and not th… |
| 21-8245 |
Felix I. Gaspard v. BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP, et al. |
Florida |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure judicial-immunity property-rights takings |
1. Under the U.S and Florida Constitutions, pursuant to applicable
rules of law and the various consent decrees the very same
"plaintiffs" entered i… |
| 21-8261 |
Elgin Z. Haynie v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal conviction due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation sentencing |
own faulty pro se representation. |
| 21-8265 |
Michael S. Gorbey v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-29 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appointment-of-counsel compassionate-release constitutional-rights covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-8269 |
James Paris Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
1. Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range? |
| 21-8271 |
Raul Garcia-Salazar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8273 |
Jesus Fernando Fierro-Renteria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-8276 |
Isidoro Reyes-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8277 |
Matthew Michael Cimino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 21-8281 |
Jose Carreon-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8286 |
Thomas Richie McBride v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process judicial-proceedings jury-trial repeat-offender sentencing sixth-amendment |
[ Illegal/Void 1984 Sentence And Judgment ]
The questions presented here for the Court ,respectfully ,are possi
bly of first impression upon judicial… |
| 21-8287 |
Michael D. Phillips v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
burglary civil-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Did the prosecutor ever prove all prongs and elements of the crime being charged in a second degree murder?
Did the prosecutor ever prove that the al… |
| 21-8241 |
Randy Lassiter v. Gerald Jenkins, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment |
The US courk oF ApredditS Evved ty NE Fine
Mre TRA AS Couvk < bdr Granting Zespo nde HS
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2.) The ES uy OF her… |
| 21-8246 |
Richard D. Bostwick v. 44 Chestnut Street, Wakefield, Massachusetts, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity reasonable-accommodation regulatory-taking standing substantive-due-process |
Whether the Remedies, Procedures and Rights set forth in (a) the Americans with Disabilities Act (Title 42 c. 126 U.S.C. ^ 12101) generally and Enforc… |
| 21-8256 |
Ortaz Sharp v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure due-process government-abandonment government-appeal judicial-discretion party-presentation sentencing sentencing-hearing sineneng-smith statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals violates the principle of party presentation announced in United States v. Sineneng Smith, 140 S. Ct. 1575 (2020), by permi… |
| 21-1601 |
Areli Carbajal Escobar v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-06-28 |
GVR |
Amici (3)Relisted (7) |
capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty dna-evidence due-process false-evidence federal-court habeas-corpus state-court |
Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in holding that the prosecution's reliance on admittedly false DNA evidence to secure petitioner's convict… |
| 21-1588 |
Susan Spell v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services |
California |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
|
child-custody civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud racial-discrimination writ-of-error-coram-vobis |
1)
Does a trial court violate the requirements of the
Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it bases a permanent child custody orde… |
| 21-8227 |
Jose Fernando Ochoa-Fabian v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8229 |
Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split collateral-estoppel criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Section 1326(b)(2) of Title 8 provides an elevated penalty for illegally re-entering the country following an "aggravated felony." Does a district cou… |
| 21-8230 |
David Matthews v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach civil-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. In Texas, a thief is guilty of robbery if he "intentionally or knowingly
threatens or places another in fear of imminent bodily injury or death." T… |
| 21-8231 |
Fidel Torres-Villanueva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-8233 |
Barkley Gardner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-1959 criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law punishment-alternatives racketeering sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether a court may punish a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a) by a fine instead of death or life imprisonment. |
| 21-8206 |
Noble Laverne Bennett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing sentencing-review |
I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT TO DENY BENNETT'S APPEAL WITHOUT AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD?
II. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE LOWER CO… |
| 21-8214 |
Miguel Andres-Tomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8216 |
Roy Lee Dykes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions sentencing |
1. Did the Fourth Circuit err in affirming the District Court's abuse of its discretion in admitting evidence of weapons found in Mr. Dykes' residence… |
| 21-8225 |
Luis Adrian Carchi-Fernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8196 |
Cody Andrew Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonable reasonableness sentencing supervised-release |
Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness, as United States v… |
| 21-8198 |
Ruben Cabrera Saucedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure davis-precedent district-court-discretion double-jeopardy motion-to-vacate sentence-modification sentencing unconstitutional unconstitutional-conviction united-states-v-davis |
Whether, after a motion to vacate sentence is granted on a
conviction that is unconstitutional under United States v. Davis, 139 S.
Ct. 2319 (2019), a… |
| 21-8201 |
Judel Espinoza-Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-waiver constitutional-violation conviction-review criminal-procedure district-court-authority due-process jurisdictional-challenge mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentence sentencing unconstitutional-conviction |
L. A guilty plea that includes an appellate waiver does not bar jurisdictional challenges on appeal. Class v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 798 (2018). Th… |
| 21-8190 |
Thomas Luczak v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (13)IFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sentencing united-states-v-watts |
Whether this Court should overturn its decision in United States v. Watts, 519 U.S. 148 (S.Ct. 1997), which holds that sentencing judges can consider … |
| 21-8171 |
Lamar Keith Garvin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-characteristics due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range sentencing-variance |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by affirming the District Court's imposing an unreasonable sentence under the totality of the circumstances, and w… |
| 21-8177 |
Marlin Larice Joseph v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-safeguards cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment geographic-arbitrariness sixth-amendment standards-of-decency |
Does the death penalty in and of itself violate the Eighth Amendment in light of contemporary standards of decency and the geographic and other arbitr… |
| 21-8152 |
Filiberto Chavez, aka Big Boy, aka Freeway Beto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion lesser-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
Can a sentencing court use the elements of a lesser offense to increase a defendant's sentence in a different, legally unrelated, offense beyond the o… |
| 21-8153 |
Michael Tisius v. Paul Blair, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation |
The Eighth Circuit redefined and amended Congress's lenient certificate of
appealability (COA) standard found in 28 U.S.C.§ 2253 with a more restricti… |
| 21-8158 |
Larry Jose Torrez-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8159 |
Danny Leon Lynch, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-8161 |
Onofre Tommy Serrano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1443 civil-rights civil-rights-removal criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection federal-defense federal-jurisdiction federal-removal jurisdiction removal statutory-interpretation |
1. Does berg derled equol civl Rights on the basis
fOR REMOU pRSANt tO 28 USC & 1443(1)?
2. CaN A CRimIrAl stote cASE be RemovEd puRsJANt tO
28 USC &… |
| 21-8163 |
Benjamin Perez-Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8165 |
Darryl Keith Rolle v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection rule-of-lenity sentencing |
Whether this Honorable Court should grant Certiorari where Florida Statute section 775.021(1) concerning the rule of lenity is being unconstitutionall… |
| 21-8143 |
Marcus Branch v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-offense criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process parole parole-board sentencing separation-of-powers |
WAS THE "DOUBLE JEOPARDY ' CLAUSE VIOLATED WHEN I WAS SENTENCED THREE TIMES FOR THE EXACT SAME OFFENSE I'M HERE FOR NOW PURSUANT TO USCS CONSTITUTION,… |
| 21-8146 |
Gregory Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
This Court should issue a GVR Order so that the lower court can determine whether it is an abuse of discretion when a court fails to follow the law by… |
| 21-1557 |
Dayonta McClinton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14) |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted … |
| 21-1558 |
John Curtis Dewberry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Divisions |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
|
aedpa certificate-of-appealability death-penalty district-court evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel minor-sentencing |
Whether the United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Texas erred in denying Petitioner Dewberry a Certificate of Appealability when it… |
| 21-8116 |
Demarco Tempo v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but-for-causation causation criminal-law death-enhancement drug-statute due-process jury-instructions pinkerton-liability proximate-cause sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Should the government be required to prove proximate cause in addition
to but-for causation for the "death results" enhancement in 21 U.S.C.
§ 841?… |
| 21-8117 |
Xavier Jamaal Orange v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-error criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Due to defense counsel's deficiency, petitioner was sentenced based on an incorrect Sentencing Guidelines range (57 months, using a range of 46-57 mon… |
| 21-8124 |
Kywon A. Datham v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure danger-to-community due-process incarcerated-persons judicial-discretion rule-35b sentence-reduction sentencing time-bar |
Whether District of Colombia Court of Appeals errd when it denid petitioner's Request For summary reversal?
Did the Lower Courts abuse their discreti… |
| 21-8105 |
Rashaun Antonio Taylor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 21-8106 |
Jay Jurdi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure government-misconduct ineffective-assistance jurisdictional-issue legal-standard preservation-of-error procedural-question self-incrimination sentencing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
Was Jurdi's counsel ineffective for failing to object to, and thereby preserve for appeal, the fact that the government intended to use a non-qualifyi… |
| 21-8108 |
Daniel Gallegos-Quirino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8097 |
Thomas Randall Ainsworth v. Robert Powell, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-laws due-process equal-protection sentencing statutory-interpretation utah |
WHETHER THE TENTH CIRCUIT'S CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) ANALYSIS CONFLICTS WITH THE FIFTH CIRCUIT'S COA ANALYSIS.
WHETHER THE DIFFERING PENALT… |
| 21-8099 |
Darnell McConnell, II v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-act federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether "controlled substance[s]" in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines § 4B1.2(b) are limited to those substances defined and regulated under the fede… |
| 21-8100 |
Luis Antonio Molina-Rivas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8101 |
Marco Antonio Marin-Maldonado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8102 |
Rodrigo Jimenez-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-1547 |
Chris C. Streeter v. John D. Casey, Chief Justice, Massachusetts Probate and Family Court |
Massachusetts |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-delay probate-court standing |
If the Petitioner's 14th Amendment right to due process and equal protection under the law are violated by the delays in issuing rulings as justice de… |
| 21-8093 |
Albert Aiad-Toss v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-USC-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether Mr. Aiad-Toss's lifetime supervised release term was procedurally unreasonable because the district court failed to adequately explain its dec… |
| 21-8072 |
Erik Daniel Salgado-Castellano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres appellate-procedure case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8074 |
Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-8083 |
In Re Frank Jarvis Atwood |
|
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-conviction state-ground statutory-elements |
Question not identified. |
| 21-8058 |
Alejandro Pascual-Miguel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8059 |
Jesus Morales-Agustin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8066 |
Christopher Darnell Wilson v. South Carolina, et al. |
South Carolina |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-error due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-bias multi-district-litigation res-judicata separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction |
(1) DO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HOLDINGS UNDER
FORTBEND COUNTY, TEXAS V. DAYIS , 139 S.Ct. 1843( U.S.2019) AND
HALL v. HALL, 138 S.Ct. 1118, 20… |
| 21-1529 |
Jian Wang, aka James Wang v. International Business Machines Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
|
asl-interpreter civil-rights deaf-litigant deaf-litigants due-process equal-protection pro-se property-rights |
Whether the Petitioner, as a Deaf plaintiff in a civil proceeding was denied property rights without due process and equal protection of the laws that… |
| 21-8048 |
Michael Ray Kapp v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing summary-affirmance |
I.
Whether The Denial Of Michael Kapp's Motion For Compassionate
Release Was An Abuse Of Discretion?
II.
Whether the Ninth Circuit's Summary Affirman… |
| 21-8049 |
Thomas Tate Tunstall v. Hope Daigle, fka Hope D. Theriot |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection ex-parte-young fourth-amendment section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
Respondent, a Louisiana state agent, procured the post-legal-process seizures of petitioner and his property (seaman's wages and tax refunds) through … |
| 21-8050 |
Brad Allen Dunn v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection first-amendment public-university religious-freedom standing student-organization takings viewpoint-discrimination |
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| 21-8052 |
Rene Sanchez-Quintero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-8032 |
Michael G. Peters v. Innocent Projects of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights marriage sexual-orientation |
Question not identified. |
| 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. … |
| 21-8042 |
Etheria Verdell Jackson v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-recommendation jury-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right |
I. Whether a jury's advisory recommendation of death which does not identify the specific
aggravators found, nor whether the aggravators were found un… |
| 21-1512 |
San Bernardino County District Attorney, et al. v. Kevin Cooper, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty due-process federal-courts governor-powers judicial-intervention ninth-circuit standing state-law |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit improperly denied Petitioners intervention in death penalty litigation by deviatin… |
| 21-1506 |
Christine M. Owen v. Liberty University, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-funding institutional-accountability public-private title-ix |
Title IX is a federal civil rights law that only applies to colleges and universities who voluntarily choose to seek and accept federal funding in ord… |
| 21-1507 |
Houston Byrd, Jr. v. Christopher Cook, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-conspiracy due-process equal-protection fair-hearing judicial-bias jurisdiction procedural-fairness |
1. Did the Circuit court violate one's civil and constitutional rights with respect to Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of th… |
| 21-8019 |
Levelt Dewarren Musgraves v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law-application juvenile-lifers parole sentencing sentencing-modification state-court-review |
1. The Wisconsin state courts did not conduct a complete round of the Public
Interest Justice Initiative (PIJI) sentencing issue presented before the… |
| 21-8021 |
Frank W. Coon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-justice district-court-discretion first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the District Court Abused its Discretion by Denying Mr. Coon's Motion for Compassionate Release? |
| 21-8025 |
Christopher Thieme, aka John Thieme v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3664 all-writs-act criminal-law criminal-procedure illegal legal-relief restitution restitution-order sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation writ-of-audita-querela |
1.) Does 18 U.S.C. §3664(k) and (0). which allows a sentencing court to consider motions to "adjust" a restitution order without anv time limits. perm… |
| 21-8028 |
Ryricka Nikita Custis v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection state-action |
1) Wheather The petitioner constitutional Rights violated
Under The Constitution of Vircinia and the United
STAtes Constitution? |
| 21-8030 |
Andre Marcus Buchanan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a career-offender criminal-procedure due-process plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness sentencing |
WHETHER MR. BUCHANAN'S SENTENCE IS UNREASONABLE BECAUSE
IT IS GREATER THAN NECESSARY TO ACCOMPLISH THE GOALS OF
18 U.S.C. § 3553(a).
WHETHER PLAIN … |
| 21-1499 |
Mahesh Ramchanndani v. Sunil Gahdhi, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-31 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-law federal-statute property-rights racial-discrimination security-deposit standing tenant-rights |
Statement by Landlord in an email exhibit 001
Deal is Approved but being that their money is in India ,
I need 4 months deposit - 1 month of that wil… |
| 21-7984 |
Emilio Gomez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7988 |
Donald Tarnawa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure financial-factors financial-resources restitution restitution-modification sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
1. Whether the controlling standard of review for modification under 18 USCA § 3664(k) should be de novo or abuse of description. The Panel Opinion re… |
| 21-7991 |
Mario Mandell Moore v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection identification-procedure identification-procedures police-misconduct show-up-identification show-up-identifications writ-of-certiorari |
WHETHER PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO A WRIT OF CERTIORARI WHERE MICHIGAN HAS DENIED HIM DUE PROCESS, EQUAL PROTECTION AND IGNORED THE DICTATES OF THIS CO… |
| 21-7992 |
Reginald Andre Molette v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-law federal-statute generic-burglary sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether North Carolina breaking and entering categorically qualifies as generic burglary under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii)? |
| 21-7974 |
Omero Rojas-Leal, aka Belarmino Lopez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-1485 |
In Re Eileen Vey |
|
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct retaliation self-defense |
WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD ORDER APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS TO CLEAR HER RECORD OF ALL CHARGES SINCE SHE WAS DEPRIVED OF "REASONABLE DOUBT" AND CLEAR EVIDEN… |
| 21-7960 |
Jesus Antonio Montoya-Balderrama v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7940 |
Jason P. Thomas v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidentiary-hearing fabricated-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
I. Whether the District Court, without holding an evidentiary hearing erred in disposing of Petitioner 's trial icounsel 's ineffectiveness surroundin… |
| 21-7929 |
Johnny Joe Avalos v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-murder cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mitigating-circumstances sentencing texas-penal-code |
Whether an ALWOP sentence on an intellectually disabled adult convicted of capital murder as provided by Texas Penal Code Section 12.31(a)(2) - a stat… |
| 21-7931 |
John Bailey v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prolonged-detention sentencing standing trial-rights |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that petitioner's constitutional claims were barred by the statute of limitations, and whether petitione… |
| 21-7933 |
John Armstrong, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-20 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
case-determination civil-rights criminal-adjudication criminal-procedure due-process legal-interpretation recidivism-calculation sentencing sentencing-containment statutory-interpretation supreme-court violent-offense |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7913 |
William Earl Sweet v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection faretta-standard fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error self-representation timeliness |
1. Whether the Petitioner's right to self-representation was violated when the trial court denied the Petitioner's request to proceed pro se and the F… |
| 21-7914 |
Andres Santana v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District |
California |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-rights board-of-regents civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus people-v-wende pro-se-brief state-created-liberty-interest wende-procedure |
1. is a California Penal Code §1237 (b) appeal from "any order made
after judgment, affecting the substantial rights of the party,"
a state created … |
| 21-7915 |
Amado Rodriguez-Navarrete v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7916 |
James Fetzer v. Leonard Pozner |
Wisconsin |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3)IFP |
14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection equal-rights jury-trial summary-judgment wisconsin |
1. May rules of summary judgment vary throughout the states allowing the Wisconsin Judiciary to conduct and affirm a non-jury trial under the pretense… |
| 21-7917 |
Larry Pride Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Here the Petitioner submits a question as to whether a conflict in the decision at Amended Appendix, Ex (B) attached exists, whereas other similar Flo… |
| 21-7920 |
Jimmy Lee Wheeler v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction government-misconduct habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard structural-error |
11. Whether his Court Will Certify that A Manifert has been Cireumvented by the lower injustice disregarded by the Appelliate Also been Courts and rul… |
| 21-7925 |
Robert Wallace Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit procedural-default standing |
1) Did the Ninth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly
before the court to justify the denial of certificate of appealability.
… |
| 21-7896 |
Margie E. Robertson v. District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights district-of-columbia due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection judicial-employment title-vii |
Do Article III, Section 2, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution and the First, Fifth an Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution … |
| 21-7897 |
Barry Slakman v. Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto parole sentencing standing statutory-interpretation takings |
interpretation and application of an ex post facto violation within the context of parole eligibility statutes, such as in initial parole eligibility,… |
| 21-7901 |
Richard Coleman v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-pro-se-bias civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-overreach obstruction-of-justice pro-se-bias seventh-amendment |
Whether judges judging judges in cases in which one party is not represented results in pro se litigants being victims of judicial criminal acts - tho… |
| 21-7903 |
Steve Ballesteros v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment appellate-review attorney-ineffectiveness constitutional-limitation due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction procedural-error strickland-v-washington |
1) Is it unconstitutional for state appellate courts to hinder petitioner's
post collateral proceeding by holding petition pass the 1-year federal
l… |
| 21-7910 |
Kendrick Dwight Marshall v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-7911 |
Lincoln Dille, aka Lincoln Dille II v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions jury-selection racial-discrimination speedy-trial standing |
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| 21-7891 |
William Ramirez-Frechel v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing |
Whether The Sentence Imposed is Unreasonable. |
| 21-7894 |
Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht |
New Hampshire |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
domestic-violence due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment objective-standards orders-of-protection protective-order supreme-court |
Petitioner alleges that New Hampshire does not provide equal protection under the law to its citizens when deciding whether to issue domestic violence… |
| 21-7895 |
Antoine Mayes v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-court criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis |
I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT TO DENY MAYES THE RIGHT TO FILE AN APPEAL OR COAIN LIGHT OF THE SUPREME COURT 'S DECISION IN UNITED STA… |
| 21-7862 |
Mark DeWayne Hallcy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mootness ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Does &4$aul4r Cw/Wiel^ i/uo erf W{\4, h'oHtflif % >9^4 r^oiric^ 6ttk^^ >kJjk&> ft ' ^e ot 0^ u*vW ■fa* ^ 'i^^tuuk, sWe. p^o^eiu^e *mi£ ifat' P^ft'K… |
| 21-7867 |
Jasper B. Mackey, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit government-discretion mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing substantial-assistance |
I. The United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's judgment which did not depart below the mandatory minimum… |
| 21-7833 |
Rhonda Nanette Polite v. Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7835 |
Michael Perryman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process firearm-statute firearms legal-interpretation precedent precedential-reasoning sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the mere possession reasoning in Bailey and Bousley retain precedential value in regard to "use" of a firearm under the amended Section 924(c)… |
| 21-7842 |
Tommy Dean Bullcoming v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment access-to-evidence constitutional-rights crime-scene-access criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-gathering fair-trial property-rights |
Does an accused in a criminal case have a constitutional right to access the crime scene, where it is private property not under government control --… |
| 21-7846 |
Jose L. Arroyo-Garcia v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection exceptions indictment-amendment legal-discrimination state-court state-courts |
Does the Due Process Clause tolerate invidious discrimination by way of a state court's denial of a well-established exception to the rule?
Is notice… |
| 21-1432 |
K. S., Father v. Iowa Department of Human Services, et al. |
Iowa |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-court parental-rights procedural-hearing standing termination-of-rights |
In terminating petitioner's relationship with his
child, the State's juvenile court held a permanency
hearing at the same time as the hearing to termi… |
| 21-7821 |
Mandrail Jamar Woodberry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining probable-cause sentencing unreasonable-search warrantless-search |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7822 |
Christopher Patrick Lovings v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure enhancement fleeing fleeing-offense judicial-discretion knowledge knowledge-standard law-enforcement sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3c1.2 |
Whether a sentencing court may apply an enhancement pursuant to USSG § 3C1.2 when the record fails to establish the defendant knew or had reason to kn… |
| 21-7824 |
Jerome Scott King v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing voluntary-waiver |
Whether a provision in a plea agreement that bars a defendant from appealing a sentence of imprisonment violates due process and whether it can be kno… |
| 21-7825 |
Charles Wycuff v. Ed Sheldon, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-amendments due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Whether the procedural default creates a miscarriage of justice that denies Petitioner his fundamental rights to due process as guaranteed by the Fift… |
| 21-7802 |
In Re Jaime Rodriguez, aka Jay, et al. |
|
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment second-circuit uncontested-factual-circumstances united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-v-heymond united-states-v-merced writ-of-mandamus |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7804 |
Charles Austin Alger, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
deprivation deprivation-of-liberty financial-conditions liberty policy-statements sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the district court violated 18 U.S.C. § 3583(d) when it imposed special financial conditions of supervised release that do not reasonably rela… |
| 21-7807 |
In Re Rafael Cezar Danam |
|
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment jury-trial mandamus-writ redress-of-grievances supremacy-clause |
1.) Application pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 22, United States Constitution Article III, Sections 1 and 2, Applicant as Petitioner seeks interventio… |
| 21-7808 |
John Edward McIntyre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-interdiction criminal-procedure equal-protection fourth-amendment high-crime-neighborhood high-crime-neighborhoods law-enforcement probable-cause racial-profiling targeted-enforcement traffic-stop |
In Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), this Court held that for purposes of the Fourth Amendment, a police officer's subjective motivation fo… |
| 21-7809 |
Urshawn Eric Miller v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious capital-punishment comparative-proportionality-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment proportionality-review sentencing-review |
Whether Tennessee's comparative proportionality review, the state's chosen safeguard against arbitrary and capricious imposition of the death penalty,… |
| 21-7813 |
Hector Cervantes-Resendiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit precedent-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7791 |
Aaron Ramirez-Almader v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure judicial-review legal-precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7784 |
Idania Renteria Madrid v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 consecutive-incarceration consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines immigration-detention liberty-deprivation sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court excessively sentenced Petitioner to consecutive incarceration and deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18… |
| 21-7786 |
Ignacio Trevizo-Cortez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7792 |
John Joseph Dedeaux v. Marc McClure, Superintendent, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-questions due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto jurisdiction retroactive-application statutory-interpretation vagueness |
whetheR the Application of M.C.A. 97-3-2 IAs Applred] eRentes A" Slgnificant Risk of prolonging The petitioneR's StAYin pRison.
whetheR the RetroActi… |
| 21-1418 |
Medardo Queg Santos v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
controlled-substances expert-testimony good-faith good-faith-defense medical-practice medical-purpose relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. If a physician's good faith is a complete defense to a prosecution for prescribing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose or ou… |
| 21-1413 |
James Tolle v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection executive-order first-amendment friends-of-the-earth-v-laidlaw mootness-doctrine roman-catholic-diocese-of-brooklyn-v-cuomo state-of-emergency |
Does the Supreme Court's Mootness Doctrine found in Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOG), Inc., 528 U. S. 167 (2000), he… |
| 21-7759 |
Mikkel McKinnie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 8th-amendment burrage-precedent causation drug-offense drug-related-death due-process guideline-range sentencing sentencing-reasonableness upward-variance |
I.
Whether the Lower Courts Erred in Not Applying the Court's Precedent in
Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014), to Upward Variances When a
D… |
| 21-7758 |
Donald W. Estell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process false-testimony guilty-plea napue-rule napue-v-illinois narcotics-influence plea-bargaining right-to-testify sentencing witness-testimony |
Should this court apply the Napue Due Process for a defendant whom pleads guilty, in addition, apply the Napue Due Process to the Rule requirement?
W… |
| 21-7709 |
David C. Morris v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment direct-appeal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel res-judicata sentencing sentencing-error statutory-authority statutory-authorization |
"NATURAL LIFE"
THAT DOES
A SENTENCE
OF
NOT
EXIST
IS
NOT
AUTHOR IZED
BY
AND
STATUTE,
WHICH
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
PUNI SHMENT
CONSTITUTES
BECAUSE
WAS
ASSIGN… |
| 21-7733 |
Rashod Lewis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) conviction-validity crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-precedent due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-offense united-states-v-davis vagueness-doctrine |
1) Can a conviction and punishment stand on a non-existent stat utory offense, based on it being dismissed?
2) Was Petitioner's 18 U.S.C. 924(c) (1)(… |
| 21-7738 |
Guillermo Mata-Valerio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7743 |
Matthew J. Kidder v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing sixth-amendment state-court-jurisdiction |
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S'V+k. cxvdi ft)odee.r\Ui p£jM fs effective G S3'S^nce c? Cocosel cIcm S Tflue … |
| 21-7745 |
Raymond E. Lumsden v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is falsely interpreting the qualified immunity defense in favor of law enforcement and prison officer's?
W… |
| 21-7721 |
Juan Francisco Cruz-Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7722 |
Santonio Byars v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination voir-dire |
1) Whether the Illinois Appellate Court erred where it did not find that the State's reason requesting the removal of two Black prospective jurors was… |
| 21-7731 |
Alonzo Bell v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-discretion proportionate-penalties sentencing |
Whether the Circuit Court erred in admitting Social Media evidence at trial.
Whether Defendant was Denied His Constitutional right to the effective a… |
| 21-7691 |
Larry Eugene Fuller v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Did the lower courts err denying Fuller an Evidentiary Hearing to hear and rule on the merits of his claims, violating his Due Process Constitution… |
| 21-7704 |
Kerry Vanderpool v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3742 appeals criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing |
1. Does the plain language of 18 U.S.C. § 3742(f) deprive the federal Courts of Appeals of jurisdiction to vacate a sentence when it is uncontested th… |
| 21-7706 |
Irving Ernesto Arias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining sentencing |
DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERR BY FINDING THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION TO DENY MR. ARIAS'S MOTION TO WITHDRAW HIS GUILTY PLEA DID NOT CONSTITUTE AN A… |
| 21-7708 |
Amit Patel v. Mark Rockwood |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus in-custody |
When the District Court sua sponte "closed the Courthouse doors" upon "Garden-Variety" reasons, dismissing writ of Habeas corpus for 1) statute of lim… |
| 21-1383 |
Alejandro Asbun v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services |
North Carolina |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-activities property-interest state-courts state-created-property sua-sponte whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protections |
Whether the U.S. Const, amend. XIV, § 1 "Due Process Clause," affords litigants the right to due process of law and the equal protection of the laws, … |
| 21-7666 |
Izell Delorean Grissett, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-ruling collateral-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure guidelines mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires the fact of a first-degree murder cross reference under § 2Al.l-to be treated as an element-when that finding … |
| 21-7676 |
Robert Christopher Jones v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice eighth-amendment juvenile-justice mandatory-sentencing miller-factors miller-v-alabama plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-challenge |
(1) Whether a pre- Miller guilty plea bars a post- Miller sentencing challenge
under the Eighth Amendment.
(2) Whether the sentencing process mandat… |
| 21-7679 |
Richard Morrison v. CCA CORR - Civil, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-statute jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7646 |
Jason Delacerda v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel psychiatric-evidence psychiatric-testimony sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. QUESTION PRESENTED NO. ONE - Did the
appellate court err in failing to find that the evidence was
insufficient to support the conviction and death … |
| 21-7638 |
Carlos Jimenez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defendant criminal-law drug-offenses drug-quantity mandatory-minimums mens-rea scienter sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the government can subject a criminal defendant to the escalating mandatory minimums and maximums under 18 U.S.C. § 841(b), without proving th… |
| 21-7645 |
Alimamy Barrie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-appeals federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review plain-error procedural-default re-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines successive-filing |
Should an Error be Corrected in a Motion under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 52b, when the Conditions of US v. Olano are met, even if the I… |
| 21-7620 |
Arizona Hall v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-and-race constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection federal-judiciary missouri-laws racial-discrimination |
WHETHER WHITE FEDERAL JUDGES OF THE EASTERN
DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI UNDER COLOR OF
MISSOURI LAWS WILLFULLY SUBJECTED PETITIONER BASED
ON HIS… |
| 21-7619 |
Jarbarri Randale Wall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure federal-law plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-condition statutory-authority statutory-maximum supervised-release |
The district court imposed a special condition of supervised release that the defendant abstain from the use of alcoholic beverages, not associate wit… |
| 21-7621 |
Jose Miguel Perez-Vides v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7622 |
Alejandro Medina-Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7612 |
Jose Luis Aldaba-Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7614 |
Jacqueline M. Tauscher v. Pamela Donison, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection equal-rights gender gender-discrimination legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Does 'all persons' as stated in 42 U.S.C. 1981 Equal Rights Under the Law also include the female gender? All person's does not specifically state gen… |
| 21-7616 |
Andrew Ussery v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guidelines methamphetamine sentencing supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the decision of the District Court t… |
| 21-1349 |
Ignis Development, Inc., et al. v. Long Island College Hospital, et al. |
New York |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion new-york-law statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
1. Did the Second Department of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York (the "Second Department") so far depart from the accepted and … |
| 21-7595 |
O. C. v. V. C. |
Ohio |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
14th-amendment custody custody-order due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-procedure parental-rights |
1. Section 1 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. constitution states that, "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or… |
| 21-7596 |
Janai Meeks v. Butte County District Attorney, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions detention due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdictional-issues juvenile-justice legal-interpretation procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions |
Specifically designated for 401 &602 cases held in Juvenile court and the later placed in Minors coster Is the Family Court of Law Judge of minors due… |
| 21-7600 |
Christopher Hibshman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3583 18-USC-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-sentencing reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-standards supervised-release |
1. For violation of supervised release is the imposition of a 24 month sentence consecutive to a 2 year Indiana prison term unreasonable and at odds w… |
| 21-7591 |
Donald Morris Lee v. Washington |
Washington |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-remedy judicial-review resentencing sentencing sentencing-error state-action |
Can the court void the illegally obtained J&S?
Can the court reverse and dismiss the conviction?
Can the court order Lee released?
Can the court di… |
| 21-7575 |
Keith Morris v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver criminal-procedure due-process knowing-waiver plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-appeal sentencing waiver |
Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars a defendant from appealing "any sentence of imprisonment" can be knowingly entered into well before… |
| 21-7570 |
Vander Clayborne v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea juvenile-justice mental-capacity mental-competency miller-v-alabama parole sentencing |
In every jurisdiction of the United States - both federal and State - there is a balancing test for deciding whether a court's decision to deny a Crim… |
| 21-7560 |
Martin Andres-Tomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-interpretation court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-1330 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. City of Conyers, Georgia |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause false-reports fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment official-discrimination racial-profiling search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether respondent on July 5, 2002, transgressed the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States when respondent acted w… |
| 21-7536 |
Ramonta Forte v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment counsel-of-choice discretion due-process federal-law habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sentencing |
1. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT CORRECTLY DETERMINED THAT THE RIGHT TO COUNSEL AT SENTENCING IS NOT CLEARLY ESTABLISHED FEDERAL LAW?
2. WHETHER THE DIS… |
| 21-7538 |
Clyde Otis Alston, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment sentencing |
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| 21-7545 |
Sloan Patrick Stanley v. Jeffrey Uttecht, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-rights constitutional-provisions custody-status due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-7547 |
Gabriel Gonzalez v. John P. Yates, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights covid-19 cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment imprisonment prison-conditions sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Does continued imprisonment under unconstrained exposure to a lethal contagion, such as COVID-19, violate his Eighth Amendment right to be free fro… |
| 21-7549 |
Ernesto Palacios-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure immigration-law indictment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998) was wrongly decided, allowing for the provisions of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2) deal… |
| 21-7550 |
Sharon Neal v. Natalia Neal |
Oregon |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process equal-protection indigent involuntary-dismissal judicial-discretion sanctions |
1) Is it a violation of due process to involuntarily dismiss a case with prejudice for a party's failure to pay a monetary sanction that bears no rele… |
| 21-7510 |
Ramon Lopez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-corrections federal-sentencing-guidelines sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Criminal Defendants may use the "recently amended"
Compassionate Release Statute [18 U.S.C. Sec. 3582(c)(1)(A)]'to
reduce or correct an exce… |
| 21-7519 |
Nathan Lee Tamez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
discretionary-review due-process firearms guidelines sentencing supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the decision of the District Court t… |
| 21-7527 |
Kieron Derek Penigar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
13th-amendment civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection healthcare-access interstate-travel reproductive-rights slavery state-restrictions states-rights |
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| 21-7500 |
William Curtis Jones v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing |
1. Does a false conviction from a "fatally defective" Indictments violate the Constitutional Rights of Due Process Clause - if a key part of the prose… |
| 21-7501 |
Helen Tyne Mayfield v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus right-to-confrontation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-in-abstentia |
1. WHEN PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW IS DISCRETIONARY BY THE
TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS, DID THE COURT ABUSE ITS
DISCRETION IN NOT REVIEWI… |
| 21-7503 |
Lucas Victorino-Tista v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7504 |
Michael Bruce Bynoe v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law district-court due-process equal-protection immunity-provision judicial-jurisdiction legal-review post-conviction racial-discrimination standing |
Why wasn't Exhibits B.1, B.d to stand as Jurisdiction?
Order denying my motion asking for adjudication legal or illegal strategy App B.1 dealing with… |
| 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… |
| 21-7511 |
Kevin E. Herriott v. Charles Burton, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech government-regulation judicial-review |
WHETHER THE SOUTH CAROLINA APPELLATE COURT RULES 2-05 (a)(4) FRG. VIOLATE CONTINUE A LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENTAL OBJECTIVE? |
| 21-7514 |
Sidney J. Clark, Jr. v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-withholding full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus sentencing |
(1) THE SENTENCING OF S.J.C.JR., TO THE H.C.A. PURSUANT TO K.S.A. 21-4504 ,WITHOUT ANY
LEGAL PROOF OF THE ONE PRIOR JUDICIAL COURT PROCEEDING OF THE S… |
| 21-7515 |
Paula Antonia Gordon v. Leslie Nelson Parker, et al. |
Louisiana |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bench-warrant child-custody contempt dna-testing due-process equal-protection family-court human-trafficking judicial-misconduct order-of-appeal |
1. Did the family court judge commit a "severe form of human trafficking " when he threatened the child 's mother that if she did not change her sworn… |
| 21-7516 |
Delroy T. Booth v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standing |
1. Did the Georgia Supreme court Have Jurisdiction to Review Petitioner's appeal From the Denial of the Georgia Superior Court Denying Petitioners Mot… |
| 21-1308 |
J. Martin Robertson v. Larkspur Courts, et al. |
California |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medicaid medicare medicare-reporting privacy settlement-disclosure social-security social-security-privacy |
1. Whether Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 as amended by Section 204 of the Medicare IVIG Access and Strengthen… |
| 21-7490 |
Jeremy P. Spencer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7482 |
Gregory Jean-Louis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-review sentencing waiver-exception |
Should the United States Supreme Court grant certiorari in order the finally resolve the substantial circuit split regarding the "miscarriage—of—justi… |
| 21-7475 |
Edward James Rose v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-03-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-inquiry discriminatory-purpose equal-protection judicial-speculation jury-selection peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion |
In Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), this Court developed a three-step inquiry to determine whether a party's peremptory strikes were unconstitu… |
| 21-7463 |
James Edward Sandford, III v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-justice-reform judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief prison-population rehabilitation sentencing supervisory-power supreme-court-power |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7471 |
Jacques Hernes Telcy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
district-court-authority first-step-act first-step-act-2018 habeas-corpus new-judgment resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
In the course of a "New Judgment " under the First Step Act of 2018 (FSA2018) new imposed sentence, what truly excess the reset clock for habeas corpu… |
| 21-7472 |
Earnest Eugene Walker, Jr. v. Kansas |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing |
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After senterced hos beer served; w… |
| 21-7455 |
Don'te Lamont McDaniel v. California |
California |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection mixed-motive peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-bias racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-stereotypes |
This case presents an important question over which lower courts are openly and intractably divided regarding the proper method for assessing mixed mo… |
| 21-7457 |
Gregory Wynn v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-rehabilitation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders life-sentence life-without-parole rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-proportionality |
Whether, in light of the uncontroverted evidence of Gregory Wynn's potential for maturity and positive change as an adult, his sentence of life impris… |
| 21-7460 |
Eric Dean Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process sentencing |
1. Did thE CouRts AbUsE it's DiscletiOw AftR Derying Me. SMith COMPASSIONATE RELEASEUNDER IBL. 13 AFER COUR CoNCudEd DEENdANt sAtisfiEd thE ExteoRdiNA… |
| 21-7461 |
Antonio D. Rooks-Byrd v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure plea-agreement sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
1) Do the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment's
under the U.S. Constitution apply for Sixth Month Speedy
Trial violation?
2) Do the Sixth… |
| 21-7445 |
Juniel B. Rios v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
1. Whether Constitutional Due Process requires that Irizarry v. United States, 553 U.S. 708 (2008) that limited the Notice requirement in Fed.R.Crim.P… |
| 21-7446 |
Kristopher Kyle Russell v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation |
1. The plain reading of the statute indicates that counsel must be appointed to learn if biological evidence exists, yet Texas courts have specificall… |
| 21-7453 |
Jaime Luevano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-law due-process equal-protection medical-marijuana standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7440 |
Norman Alan Kerr v. Christopher Gomez, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure document-suppression due-process evidence-rules government-misconduct judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7448 |
Edgar Garza-Limones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 21-1288 |
Libertarian Party of Alabama v. John Harold Merrill, Alabama Secretary of State |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties voter-registration |
Does it violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution for a State to discriminate against minor political parties by p… |
| 21-1275 |
Abetubokun Adesioye v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appeal-waiver court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining right-to-appeal rule-11-colloquy sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver |
Did the Court of Appeals err in finding that the petitioner knowingly and intelligently waived his right of appeal without having considered the exist… |
| 21-7428 |
Chad Eugene Caldwell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence career-offender circuit-split criminal-procedure mandatory-guidelines section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Petitioner Chad Caldwell was sentenced to 272 months in prison based on the district court's conclusion that he was a career offender under USSG §4B1.… |
| 21-7430 |
Roberto Padilla Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit-review judicial-discretion prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7434 |
Darryl Williams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split crime-of-violence due-process equal-protection residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines |
This Court holds various residual clauses are unconstitutionally vague under the Due Process Clause, but has not yet addressed the residual clause in … |
| 21-7418 |
James Roland L'Heureux v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2022-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
contract-law contractual-breach due-process fourteenth-amendment mabry-v-johnson plea-agreement pre-sentence-investigation sentencing sentencing-arguments |
Under Mabry v. Johnson, the prosecution may not breach a term of a plea agreement that can be said to have induced a plea, although jurisdictions are … |
| 21-7423 |
Delbert Keyes v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2022-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7425 |
Jabari J. Johnson v. Patrick Gentzler, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-21 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
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… |
| 21-1274 |
Bobby Lee Ingram v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-21 |
GVR |
Relisted (4) |
criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion first-step-act judicial-discretion legal-developments retroactivity 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 court … |
| 21-1268 |
Joe Clarence Smith, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-18 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-row eighth-amendment habeas-relief method-of-execution section-1983 |
1. Whether Mr. Smith's method-of-execution challenge is cognizable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
2. Whether a method of execution involving 44 years of mos… |
| 21-7414 |
Gregory M. Hawes v. Michael Pacheco, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether this Court's decision in Patterson v. New York (1977), which permitted placing the burden on a criminal defendant to establish mitigating f… |
| 21-7396 |
Hung M. Nguyen v. Yolo County District Attorney |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-deprivation due-process equal-protection immunity negligence policy-maker prosecutorial-immunity public-entity |
Does Yolo County District Attorney Office as Public Entity have any liabilities or qualify for prosecutory immunity due to negligence or reckless rela… |
| 21-7399 |
Rosalind A. Clayton v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-discrimination civil-rights due-process eeoc-administrative-remedies employment-discrimination equal-protection exhaustion-of-administrative-remedies federal-employees subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii |
Where the Courts decision egregiously conflicts with Supreme Court Fort Bend County, Texas v. Davis 18-525 and 29 C.F.R. 1613.513, as amend. Was petit… |
| 21-7404 |
Jose Antonio Barahona-Paz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 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? |
| 21-7381 |
Jessie D. Hoffman, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
capital-case criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process juror-misconduct jury-selection no-impeachment-rule peña-rodriguez racial-bias |
Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err in failing to consider clear evidence of juror racial bias under Peña-Rodriguez in the extraordinary circumstances… |
| 21-7388 |
Amos Joseph Wells, III v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation death-penalty due-process fact-finding ineffective-assistance post-conviction post-conviction-relief racial-animus sixth-amendment |
When a state provides a mandatory procedure for fact-finding in post-conviction death penalty cases where a constitutional violation is pleaded, does … |
| 21-7365 |
Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent child-marriage civil-rights criminal-registration due-process equal-protection florida-law sexual-offense statutory-interpretation statutory-rape |
1) How does the State of Florida condone conviction, incarceration, and registration of adults for engaging in consensual sex with minors when at the … |
| 21-7368 |
Antwan Boyd v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity 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 court … |
| 21-7377 |
Rosee Torres, et vir v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction identity-theft judicial-recusal mortgage-fraud rico-act standing takings |
(a) WHETHER Torres are entitled to protections of Amendments 5th, 6th, 7th-13th and 14th to the Constitution?
(b) WHETHER dismissal with prejudice of… |
| 21-7378 |
Andrew Long v. Oregon State Bar |
Oregon |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-discipline bribery disbarment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indefinite-suspension state-attorney-discipline state-bar-misconduct witness-bribery |
Did the Oregon Supreme Court violate Long's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process prior to deprivation of his property interest where its order of… |
| 21-7353 |
Alejandro Chavarria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-estoppel judicial-error plea-agreement rule-32 sentencing |
1. Whether a trial judge's erroneous FED. R. CRIM. P. 32(j)(1)(B) advice regarding the defendant's right to appeal his sentence, and the Government's … |
| 21-7354 |
Joseph Patrick Keel v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-precedent apprendi-rule criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process identity judicial-interpretation prior-convictions prior-record-exception sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether courts, including those in Florida, have been incorrectly applying
a "prior record" exception to the rule from Apprendi v. New Jersey 530 U… |
| 21-7356 |
Stacey Tremaine Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence firearm-possession guideline-calculation jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-proof uncharged-conduct |
1. Whether there was sufficient evidence for the jury to find the petitioner guilty of drug trafficking and firearm possession.
2. Whether the jury i… |
| 21-7357 |
Joel Castro-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion guidelines judicial-reasoning legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a district court errs should reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range? |
| 21-7340 |
Joseph Louis Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process judicial-review legislative-intent patent sentencing standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT CAN RELY SOLELY ON A DEFENDANT'S ORIGINAL SENTENCING FACTORS SET FORTH IN 18 U.S.C.3553(A) AND WHETHER A DEFENDANT'S POST-… |
| 21-7345 |
David Wayne Aring v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split due-process eighth-amendment first-time-offender judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
QUESTION ONE
Whether in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the United States
Courts, this Court should correct the correctable injustic… |
| 21-7346 |
Avian Brule v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion revocation-standard sentencing supervised-release |
(1) What is the appellate standard of review applicable to sentences imposed following revocation of supervised release?
(2) Is a district court's er… |
| 21-7352 |
Pedro Intzin-Guzman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-7331 |
Darregus T. Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus policy sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
USSG §1B1. B TO DENY RELIEF WHEN THE GUIDELINE DID NOT APPLY TO HIS MOTION?
5TH AND 8TH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS!
CAN PETITIONER GET RELIE… |
| 21-7332 |
Marlon Sisnero-Gil v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness supervisory-power |
Whether the Petition should be granted because the Court of Appeals' decision holding that Petitioner's sentence was not substantively unreasonable co… |
| 21-7335 |
Charles Don Flores v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation death-penalty due-process habeas habeas-corpus state-procedural-law |
1. Is the right to due process violated when a death-sentenced individual is barred from developing substantial habeas claims by the arbitrary applica… |
| 21-1231 |
Priscilla Lefebure v. Samuel D'Aquilla, Individually and in His Official Capacity as District Attorney |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
article-iii-standing causation civil-rights damages discriminatory-policy district-attorney due-process equal-protection sexual-assault standing |
Whether a rape victim has Article III standing to
sue for damages when the invidiously discriminatory
policies of a district attorney's office are cau… |
| 21-7322 |
James Earl Harper v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
breach-of-agreement breach-of-contract criminal-procedure due-process government-contract government-motion incarceration plea-agreement sentencing |
1. Whether the Government should have been bound by the provisions of the Plea Agreement as the Petitioner did not breach the provisions contained the… |
| 21-7327 |
Tina Carol Ortega v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error probation probation-officer sentencing separation-of-powers |
1. Did the district court plainly err when it delegated to a probation officer the authority to determine the duration of a residential treatment prog… |
| 21-7299 |
Rasheed Ali Muhammad v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7300 |
LeMaricus Davidson v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-prejudice death-penalty fair-trial fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection post-conviction prejudice-presumption structural-error |
Should prejudice in an ineffective assistance of counsel case be presumed where the deficient performance of counsel resulted in a structural error co… |
| 21-7302 |
Christian Peterson v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure jury-selection race-discrimination racial-discrimination |
Did the Kansas courts err in failing to recognize race discrimination under Batson. |
| 21-7307 |
Jennifer McFarland v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination venireperson |
Whether the government's preemptory strike of Prospective Juror 128, the sole black venireperson in the 31-member pool of potential jurors, violated M… |
| 21-7318 |
Abraham A. Augustin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process federal-court mandatory-sentence resentencing right-to-counsel section-2255 section-3553a sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-requirements |
SENTENCING IN FEDERAL COURT IS GUIDED BY STATUTE AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS. STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS INCLUDE CONSIDERATION OF THE FACTORS IN 18 … |
| 21-7321 |
Eric Labreece Mack v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review |
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| 21-1221 |
S. U. v. C. J. |
West Virginia |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
biological-parenthood civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law family-separation fourteenth-amendment gestational-surrogacy maternity-presumption reproductive-rights standing surrogacy |
West Virginia identified unmarried biological stranger gestational surrogate C.J. as the legal mother of S.U.'s children against S.U.'s wishes and in … |
| 21-1212 |
Linsay Lorine Gatsby, nka Linsay Lorine Wallace v. Kylee Diane Gatsby |
Idaho |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
child-custody civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fundamental-rights parental-rights same-sex-marriage |
Whether both members of a same-sex married couple have the same fundamental right as opposite-sex married couples to participate in the care, custody,… |
| 21-7291 |
Bonifacio Eduardo Trujillo-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7292 |
James E. Walker v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability post-conviction post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Was it prosecutorial misconduct ct during the state's opening vacnta hnee hodn his trial. Page 15,16
Is i inel e ng afilue tga e te was impasing acco… |
| 21-7293 |
Jose Rodriguez-Vasquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-7295 |
Miguel Lerma-Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-7296 |
Frank C. Gonzalez v. California |
California |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment jury jury-finding sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt the ex… |
| 21-7270 |
Karo Brown v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act legal-developments retroactivity 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 court … |
| 21-7282 |
Joshua Davis Bland v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
censorship compelling-interest equal-protection fourteenth-amendment least-restrictive-means r-l-u-i-p-a religious-freedom religious-practice rluipa |
1) Does a state prison have the right to void an inmate's religious practice if the state prison refuses to recognize the inmate's religion, and claim… |
| 21-7283 |
Earnest J. Matthews v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7263 |
Michael Halford v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination spousal-privilege |
Whether the denial of Petitioner's Spousal Privilege to exclude testimony at trial violated his rights against self-incrimination, due process, equal … |
| 21-7264 |
Samuel Lee Gore v. Gus J. Skropas, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing state-law-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution requires indictment by a Grand Jury for a capital crime?
Whether the Fourteenth Amendme… |
| 21-1200 |
Sherif A. Philips v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection federal-question-jurisdiction fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court personal-jurisdiction |
Unrecognized Transfer The Case From Guam Superior Court To Guam District Court , even with lack of Jurisdiction lead To Default Judgement And Levi on … |
| 21-7230 |
Gemar Morgan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-standard probation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7245 |
Julia Ann Poff v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-filing sentence-reduction sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7252 |
Terrance Stinson, aka T-Rock v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-guarantee jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether sentencing based on acquitted conduct violates the Sixth Amendment jury guarantee and the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause. |
| 21-7256 |
Clemente Rosales-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7258 |
Fernando Contreras-Rojas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres certiorari constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7221 |
Alfred Lavoris Moody v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion juvenile-justice mitigating-factors mitigation-factors proportionality rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
Whether the 78-month sentence imposed on Mr. Moody was " greater than necessary " considering his troubled childhood. |
| 21-7223 |
Angel DeLara v. California |
California |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-trial penal-code sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law, by permitting sentencing Judges to impose enhanced sentences based on their determination of facts no… |
| 21-7226 |
Christopher Ronald Martin v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing generic-robbery mens-rea recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
() Whether generic robbery, as used in federal sentencing enhancement provisions, encompasses robbery offenses that only require a mens rea of mere re… |
| 21-7227 |
Daniel Isaiah Thody v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
As a case of first impression, whether the current implementation of Supervised Release, (18 U.S.C. §3583), as a "separate sentence " in addition to t… |
| 21-1185 |
Rufino Valdez-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-vindictiveness sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
This case turns on whether the Pearce presumption of judicial vindictiveness applies—for the Government to then rebut with new evidence—when a second … |
| 21-7193 |
Jose Yeyille v. Justin Cole Speigel |
Florida |
2022-02-25 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics privileges-and-immunities recusal |
Whether a state trial court judge should be disqualified on Fourteenth Amendment due process, equal protection, and privileges and immunities grounds … |
| 21-7212 |
Kecia Porter v. Queen Cunningham |
Illinois |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
capacity-determination competency constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-review legal-review power-of-attorney retroactive |
1. Whether the Petitioners 5th and 14th Amend. Rights were violated when the reviewing courts denied review on the merits of the case as the Petitione… |
| 21-7213 |
Kwasi McKinney v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection postconviction-relief speedy-trial |
1. WHEN DOES THE DIRECT APPEAL OF A JURY TRIAL CONVICTION OF SIX (6) DIFFERENT CRIMINAL OFFENSES AND SENTENCE BECOME FINAL?
2. IF A STATE TRIAL COURT… |
| 21-7216 |
Cory Mendrell Welch v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the state courts rely solely on a procedural bar? Also, the basis of this petition challenges the Wisconsin court of appeals jurisprudence pursuan… |
| 21-7191 |
Rosa Leija-Peralta v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-7196 |
Luis Alonso Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres certiorari criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7198 |
Remel Ahart v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and whether Massachusetts's appellate review prov appellate-review collateral-review criminal-procedure equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel postconviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment |
1. When a court issues a procedural ruling not to extend the benefits of a
new rule collaterally to those who did not preserve their claim, does the S… |
| 21-7167 |
M. D. v. Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division, et al. |
Montana |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection parental-rights standing |
Why was I not afforded rights to due process?
How was it decided I had "competent" counsel when my counsel advised me to not work with DFS until the … |
| 21-7169 |
Latwon James v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-factors supervised-release waiver |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously dismissed Mr. James's appeal based on a provision in Mr. James's plea agreement waiving his right to appeal … |
| 21-7172 |
Corey J. Zinman v. Nova Southeastern University, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process en-banc-review equal-protection mootness preliminary-injunction vacatur |
Although "an appeal from the grant of a preliminary injunction becomes moot when the trial court enters a permanent injunction " incorporating the sam… |
| 21-7174 |
Inocencio Gamboa-Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit legal-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-1160 |
Alfred Morin v. William Lyver, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection firearm-regulation gun-rights licensing-requirements misdemeanor-restrictions second-amendment standing state-regulation |
Massachusetts requires people to obtain licenses in order to possess or purchase handguns, and it disqualifies people with certain criminal conviction… |
| 21-7155 |
Binbing Xie v. Yan Fang Chen |
New York |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment abuse-of-discretion amendment-xiv civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure trial-court-discretion |
Whether the trial court abused its discretion by violating the Due Process and Equal Protection of United States Constitution, Amendment XIV to procee… |
| 21-7145 |
Kevin Hall v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection property-rights standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7147 |
Sergio Alberto Arzate-Gameroz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review overrule sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7149 |
Pedro Romero-Sandoval v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 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… |
| 21-1136 |
M. S. v. J. B. |
Massachusetts |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
|
due-process equal-protection ex-parte-order ex-parte-restraining-orders false-impression-of-dangerousness fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment records-expungement restraining-order vacated-orders |
Does Mass. G.L. c. 209A(l)b prima facie infringe a defendant's 5th and 14th Amendment rights to due process and equal protection, with no remedy, by m… |
| 21-7134 |
Anthony Jerome Bell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release district-court-discretion extraordinary-reasons first-step-act intervening-developments legal-developments sentencing sentencing-factors |
In denying a motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) for "extraordinary and compelling reasons" after considering the factors… |
| 21-7137 |
Lonnel Porter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law custody custody-escape eighth-circuit escape homelessness residential-reentry-center sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT MISCONSTRUED 18 U.S.C. § 751(a) TO FIND THAT AN ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY IMPOSED "BY VIRTUE OF . . . CONVICTION" INCLUDES PLACEM… |
| 21-7116 |
Victor Armando Acevedo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure notice sentencing supervised-release |
Whether, under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 43(a)(3), a district court can lawfully impose the thirteen "standard" supervised-release conditions… |
| 21-7119 |
Victor Carlos Castano v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure enterprise fifth-amendment grand-jury jury-instructions proffer-agreement rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
A. Whether the government was impermissibly relieved of its burden to prove each element of RICO Conspiracy when the court instructed the jury that an… |
| 21-7122 |
Thomas Warner v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-battery criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency firearm-discharge jury-instructions sentencing state-testimony witness-credibility |
Whether Thomas Warner's convictions for Aggravated Battery with Discharge of a Firearm should be reversed where they were not supported by credible te… |
| 21-7130 |
Jabari J. Johnson v. DeFrancesco, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
their descretion rEgnrding Issye / and Issye2?
or was the District folrt Clearly erroneous?
2.Plaintit ask the Supreme Conrt was District Court/ Coul… |
| 21-7110 |
Jorge Alberto Funez-Zapata v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-7102 |
Elmer Josue Rivas-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-1118 |
Duianete Moore v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
career-offender criminal-history criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines juvenile-conviction juvenile-offenses predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is a conviction committed 24 years ago, when Petitioner was 16 years old, a proper predicate offense for classification of Career Offender status purs… |
| 21-7094 |
Gustavo Guillermo Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey constitutional-provisions criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial precedent-review recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-7079 |
Reginald Glenn v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault circuit-split criminal-law generic-offense mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-4b1.2 |
To be a "crime of violence" under the enumerated
clause of U.S.S.G. §4B1.2(a)(2), an offense must have
elements that match or are narrower than the el… |
| 21-7087 |
In Re Wesley Thompson |
|
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing |
PRIOR COURTS DISPITE THE CONSTTTUTIONAL VIOLATIONS?
2) CAN MR. THOMPSON'S CONVICTIONS STAND WITHOOT VINDICATION OF THE VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION… |
| 21-1102 |
Oklahoma v. Shaynna Lauren Sims |
Oklahoma |
2022-02-08 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism indian-country native-american-rights non-indian-crimes state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty |
1. Whether a state has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country.
2. If the answer to the first question… |
| 21-1087 |
Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Marcus Caster, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
congressional-districts equal-protection gerrymandering minority-representation preliminary-injunction racial-gerrymandering redistricting section-2 standing voting-rights-act |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1094 |
Jacques Jean Kabongo v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review batson-challenge due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection structural-error supreme-court-review |
I. WHETHER THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT APPLICATION OF BATSON WAS OBECTIVELY UNREASONABLE BY ACCEPTING CLEARLY ERRONEOUS FINDINGS AND DEFERRING TO TRIAL… |
| 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). |
| 21-7061 |
John Lezell Balentine v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-sentencing circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence schriro-v-landrigan sentencing trial-counsel |
Under Schriro v. Landrigan, 550 U.S. 465 (2007), does a capital defendant necessarily forfeit his right to allege trial counsel's ineffectiveness for … |
| 21-7062 |
Michael Devell Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a) criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines section-3553a sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparities |
Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 24-month sentence considering the facts of this case and the Guidelines sentence range of 12 to 18 … |
| 21-7063 |
Salahudin Shaheed v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-introduction due-process exculpatory-defense legal-standard plea-bargaining sentencing sexual-misconduct standing |
Has thousands of people been wrongfully convicted by Courts of law, facts (drug introduction into correctional institutions) and "illicit sex acts)" i… |
| 21-1081 |
L. Lin Wood v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process election-procedure election-procedures equal-protection federal-elections legislative-authority standing vote-dilution voter-rights |
1. Whether the Petitioner, as a registered voter, has standing to challenge the unconstitutional actions of nonlegislative officials, who unilaterally… |
| 21-7046 |
Makeda Haile v. Abdul Conteh |
Virginia |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment human-rights judicial-discretion privileges-or-immunities standing takings |
Whether this court is willing to stop the violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right ".No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the… |
| 21-7047 |
In Re Daren Kareem Gadsden |
|
2022-02-03 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-indictment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-indictment federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-authority |
Whether or not the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland exceeded its authority and/or jurisdiction by punishing petitioner to a (23) twent… |
| 21-7050 |
Guy Cozzi v. New York State Workers' Compensation Board, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-review necessary-and-proper-clause rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing supreme-court-discretion |
1. At oral argument, did the three Justices at the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit say that this case has "profound legal and Constitutiona… |
| 21-7052 |
Lewis Taylor, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing meaningful-opportunity parole parole-eligibility rehabilitation-consideration sentencing solem-v-helm |
Whether, given the rarity of the grant of parole in Florida and Florida's failure to take a juvenile offender's maturity and rehabilitation adequately… |
| 21-7041 |
Anthony Andrews v. Bryan K. Dobbs, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process parole revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7021 |
John Matthew Gayden, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7022 |
Patrick Nilo Gil v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction public-defender sentencing suppression-hearing video-evidence |
Vehicle seized EASTERN Shore of VA comack CouNty Sheriff's chris Hargis offic IN the couNty of NOrthamPtON VA EASTERN Store him authority in having NO… |
| 21-7023 |
Toni Marie Rambo v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment sentencing |
DOES THE SENTENCE IMPOSED ON MRS. RAMBO CONSTITUTE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT IN VIOLATION OF HIS EIGHTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS? |
| 21-7025 |
Derrick Garrell Samuels v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-rights due-process equal-protection expert-testimony fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-composition jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment |
Should a writ of certiorari been granted to determine if Samuel's Fifth Amendment rights were violated when he was forced to proceed to trial as the o… |
| 21-7028 |
Fred Pride v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law due-process equal-protection informal-claim medical-record pro-se pro-se-veteran va-medical-records veterans-affairs veterans-benefits |
A special provision, 38 C.F. R. § 3 157, (Authority 38 U.S. Code § 5108), effectively makes a VA medical record itself an informal claim that can be r… |
| 21-7031 |
Joseph D. Davis v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compassionate-release court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-of-columbia-court-of-appeals federal-procedure guidelines inconsistent-opinions judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-commission |
I. Whether the opinion of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals concerning the Petitioner's motion for Compassionate Release is inconsistent with … |
| 21-7039 |
Andrew Sasser v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
28-usc-2244 adaptive-skills circuit-split death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability remand second-or-successive second-or-successive-application |
1. Whether amending a petition for writ of habeas corpus after a remand by
an appellate court makes it a second-or-successive application under
28 U.S… |
| 21-1058 |
Oklahoma v. Marquise Petey White |
Oklahoma |
2022-02-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process equal-protection indian-country non-indian-defendants public-safety state-prosecution tribal-sovereignty |
Whether a State has authority to prosecute non Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country. |
| 21-6989 |
Jason Wayne Oien v. Chad Pringle, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review lower-court-decision post-conviction-relief procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing supreme-court-review |
Testinny y Exprt winses My lawer ad
1. Rule 702.
Police OFFicer. (14thAmendment)
2. Luminol testing.
DNA was never found on me or victim.
3. Rule 1… |
| 21-7000 |
Dominic Dean Adams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conviction conviction-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Did the court of appeals err in affirming Mr. Adams' conviction? |
| 21-7006 |
Juan Jaime-Guzman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure indictment prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
I. Can a court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior conviction never alleged in t… |
| 21-6974 |
Alfredo Gonzalez v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Connecticut |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accessory-liability burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement firearms jury-determination manslaughter sentencing |
Does Connecticut's statutory scheme of accessory to manslaughter in the first degree with a firearm violate Due Process, in that it allows for an incr… |
| 21-6987 |
Marcus Antonio Grubbs v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process miscarriage-of-justice procedural-waiver sentencing |
Whether a defendant can "knowingly," "voluntarily," and/or "intelligently," execute an appeal waiver of conduct yet to occur in the proceedings, visa-… |
| 21-6992 |
Michael Rocky Lane v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing ninth-circuit sentencing summary-affirmance |
I. Whether The Denial Of Michael Lane's Motion For Compassionate Release Was An Abuse Of Discretion?
II. Whether the Ninth Circuit's Summary Affirman… |
| 21-1048 |
Cesar Caballero, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
equal-protection first-amendment native-american-land-rights native-american-lands political-question-doctrine quiet-title right-to-access-courts sovereign-immunity |
1. Whether the Trial Court and the Court of Appeals committed prejudicial error in barring/blocking a Native American tribe from pursuing in rem / qui… |
| 21-1042 |
David Minnick v. Dan Winkleski, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure defense-counsel direct-appeal guilty-plea hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonableness-inquiry sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether the "reasonableness" standard for assessing deficient performance of defense counsel under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a… |
| 21-6966 |
Juan Sampel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-withholding government-misconduct judicial-discretion sentencing |
Does an appellate court violate principles of Due Process when it disregards substantial evidence, which questions a district court's drug quantity fi… |
| 21-6968 |
Jay Anthony Jones v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-protection criminal-procedure criminal-remand double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion north-carolina-v-pearce sentencing sentencing-enhancement twigg-v-state |
1. Is the State of Maryland's case Twigg v. State, 447 Md. 1 (2016), afoul of the long standing principal set forth in North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U… |
| 21-6948 |
Robert Earl Ramseur v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury indictment prosecutorial-vindictiveness self-surrender sentencing superseding-indictment |
1. Is it prosecutorial vindictiveness to have a superseding indictment after completion of the trial proceedings and sentencing without resubmission t… |
| 21-6949 |
Reno Fuentes Rios v. Ken Clark, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6950 |
Stephen Rosa v. New York |
New York |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law civil-rights constitutional-violation court-procedure criminal-procedure district-attorney due-process sentencing standing statutory-rights |
WAS THE COURTS IN VIOLATIONS FOR NOT FOLLOWING ITS OWN CASE LAWS ?
WAS PETITIONERS DUE PROCESS RIGHTS VIOLATED AND HIS RIGHTS UNDER D.L. § § 720.10 &… |
| 21-6963 |
Vincent X. Lee, aka Imam M. Khalifa Al-Amin v. Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-1038 |
John B. Kenney v. City of San Diego, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-misconduct retaliation standing |
When & What interest &/or other penalties may A/P Kenney also collect along with the $6,050,800.00 "DEFAULT JUDGEMENTS" - now seven (7) years+ -per De… |
| 21-6946 |
Gregory Lozado v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-decision circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law felony-menacing force-clause general-intent guidelines guidelines-interpretation sentencing |
Colorado felony menacing is a general intent crime that does not require proof that the defendant intended to harm a specific person. To qualify as a … |
| 21-6935 |
Richard Roy Blake v. City of Northglenn, Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-assembly free-speech municipal-code vagueness |
1.) Did the City of Northglenn, Colorado police department violate Petitioner's First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly on January 4, 2020 … |
| 21-6937 |
Colin Michael v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion judicial-presumption rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness united-states-sentencing-commission |
Should an appellate court automatically presume that a within - or below guideline sentence is substantively reasonable when the underlying rationale … |
| 21-6940 |
Ferney Salas Torres v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-appeal criminal-procedure district-court-discretion minor-role-adjustment pilot-enhancement plea-agreement procedural-reasonableness second-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming Ferney Salas Torres' judgment of conv… |
| 21-6944 |
Juan Coreno-Garay v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 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 … |
| 21-6920 |
Perry Cousins, aka Pzo v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process jury-trial sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6925 |
Chong Su Yi v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland, et al. |
Maryland |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights court-rules due-process equal-protection judicial-deference judicial-discretion legal-interpretation procedural-fit statutory-interpretation |
Could the court apply rules that do not fit the person? |
| 21-6930 |
Juan Rivera-George, aka Tio v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation cross-examination-limitation fair-trial hearsay-admission impartial-jury impeachment-evidence jury-bias jury-impartiality sentencing sentencing-disparity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right |
1. Whether Juan Rivera-George ("Juan") was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial by an impartial jury when the District Court failed t… |
| 21-1021 |
Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction v. Alvin Bernal Jackson |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (4) |
adaptive-skills constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process evidence intellectual-disability judicial-interpretation |
Whether courts may consider adaptive strengths in deciding whether a defendant is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty. |
| 21-1015 |
Angela Cao v. BSI Financial Services, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection issue-preclusion judicial-power separation-of-powers sua-sponte ultra-vires |
The Fifth Circuit vastly departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings and sanctioned the same by the lower court. Both the lowe… |
| 21-6903 |
Michel Thomas v. Grundfos, CBS, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
What is the proper standard of review when it comes to the question of a void judgment and/or a constitutional question, and/or question of law, and/o… |
| 21-6905 |
Ramon Diaz-Quintana v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6907 |
Linda Baldwin v. Zurich American Insurance Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal citizenship civil-procedure class-action class-decertification constitutional-law due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling privileges-and-immunities |
1. Constitution of the United States of America 1789 (rev. 1992). All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction… |
| 21-6882 |
Alexi Lenin Argueta-Urbina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6884 |
Hermin Rodriguez-Monserrate, aka Cano, aka Canito v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coronavirus-act coronavirus-aid-relief-and-economic-security-act criminal-procedure defendant-absence due-process educational-condition learning-disability sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release |
1. Should certiorari be granted because the district court
conducted Petitioner's sentence and revocation hearing in his physical
absence, even though… |
| 21-6887 |
Sergio Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6900 |
Patrice E. Brown v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Arizona |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Does a court render no judgment which violates the law of its veld when it renders its judgment 2 Compliance with the mandatory provisions of an uncon… |
| 21-6901 |
Wilbert Mathes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure drug-quantity drug-quantity-enhancement evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel leadership-enhancement sentencing sentencing-errors |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by conclud… |
| 21-6875 |
Dontaie Anderson v. Kyle Russell, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection evidence judicial-procedure sentencing supreme-court |
SECURIYOF PERSON, FROM, SEVER IINESS, MENTANY. PHYSICAHY, DEATH. DUE
PROCESS.AND.PUNISHMENT.
PERTICIPATING IN MIS OWN DEFFENCSE, DID VIOIATE THE SIXTH… |
| 21-6854 |
Joe Byrd v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka Trustee for the Benefit of Alternative Loan Trust 2007-J1 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure court-jurisdiction dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice due-process equal-protection federal-statute subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Is it an error, a violation of federal statute, and an impermissible denial of due process of law and equal protection of law for a court without subj… |
| 21-6868 |
Michael D. Webb v. Anthony S. Fauci, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and whether summary judgment can be granted in a administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-information-act freedom-of-religion standing |
1. Whether, pursuant to S.Ct.R. 11, see also 28 U. S. C. § 2101(e) 1, upon application for prejudgment relief, in "a case pending in a United States c… |
| 21-6838 |
Bernard Steven Boyd v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guideline-sentence guideline-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance |
Did the Trial Court provide insufficient information or explanation to an upward variance in the Petitioner's Guideline Sentence, from a range of 51 t… |
| 21-6848 |
Juan Manuel Lopez v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure equal-protection equal-protection-clause federal-major-crimes-act judicial-interpretation major-crimes-act mcgirt-v-oklahoma native-american-rights new-rule subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), announced a new rule of criminal procedure.
Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' indepe… |
| 21-6828 |
James Jonathan Mitchell v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure collateral-relief due-process equal-protection gideon-v-wainwright habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-procedure |
I. Does it tonsure (shear) due process & equal protection for the State (Florida) to summarily "dismiss as unauthorized " a prison Petitioner's is Sta… |
| 21-6810 |
Jodie T. v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-01-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6818 |
Arron Lawson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-offenses competency competency-evaluation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment state-court-proceedings |
Does a state Court proceeding resulting in a sentence of death violate the Fifth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States when t… |
| 21-6784 |
Brian James Talbot v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-consistency legal-precedent plea-withdrawal precedent |
Can the decision in the present case and the prior decision of the Court of Appeals of Virginia in Williams v. Commonwealth and its progeny, be reconc… |
| 21-6790 |
Timothy Ryan v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction child-pornography civil-rights constitutional-violations discretionary-review due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
1. DID THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT AND/OR DISTRICT OF INDIANA—SOUTH BEND DIVISION OF THE DISTRICT COURT ERR IN DENYING RYAN'S § 2255 HABEAS CORPUS PETITION WI… |
| 21-6792 |
Pauline Leslie v. Alexander Bodkin, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hipaa independent-medical-examiner medical-malpractice |
Whether the State of Massachusetts has authority to abrogate a citizen's Constitutional rights under the 14th Amendment Due Process by depriving the c… |
| 21-6799 |
Erich William Norris v. Brook Forest Community Association, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-removal judicial-discretion pro-se-litigation racial-inequality rule-of-law state-court-procedure state-remedy texas-constitution |
1) Does patently unequal, disparate state administration of the
Rule of Law and failure to provide state remedy in strict
accordance with the Texas Co… |
| 21-6801 |
In re Johnny McMahon |
|
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing extrinsic-fraud fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial |
Petitioner, Johnny E. McMahon, has been collaterally attacking subject-matter jurisdiction since 2011. However, this is the first time this Honorable … |
| 21-6803 |
Javier Rosales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion amendment-782 discretion drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment opportunity-to-be-heard retroactive-amendment sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in deciding that the District Court's order denying relief under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) did not comprise an abuse o… |
| 21-6807 |
Davis Salary v. California |
California |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief sentencing |
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| 21-6778 |
In Re Mark Thomas Garrett |
|
2022-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights court-discretion due-process equal-protection exceptional-circumstances extraordinary-relief legal-remedy qualified-immunity standing writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6767 |
Bryce Clair Clark v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the court in applying point eroe enhanciment for having 3 altered with an numbers re chary read? |
| 21-6771 |
Charles Reddicks v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-records equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-selection race-neutral racial-discrimination sixth-amendment |
Whether permitting the Government to run criminal records for
potential jurors, then use the records of the record check to strike
jurors of color, vi… |
| 21-969 |
Jean Coulter v. Gerri Volchko Paulisick, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-rules due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-litigation standing state-courts |
This case asks This Honorable Court to show that the Pervasive Bias in the state courts does not extend to this nation's Highest Court. Here, a Butler… |
| 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 … |
| 21-6758 |
Cameron Taevon Jones v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law federal-law guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law |
does the term "controlled substance offense" as defined in the Guidelines include offenses under state law that are not categorical matches under fede… |
| 21-6760 |
Deandre Spencer Cotton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-court-certification federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-criminal-statute statutory-interpretation |
I. If a state criminal statute's divisibility is ambiguous when the defendant is convicted in state court, may a federal court later certify its divis… |
| 21-955 |
Khristy Goins Rismiller, Tutrix for Daniel Edward Goins, et al. v. Gemini Insurance Company, et al. |
Louisiana |
2021-12-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adoption adoption-law biological-classification civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection intermediate-scrutiny levy-v-louisiana wrongful-death |
1. Do children given in adoption have a constitutional
right to sue for the wrongful death of their biological
parent and siblings under the 14th Am… |
| 21-957 |
Marci M. Webber v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-12-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights confinement due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-health-detention ngri not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity |
Petitioner has been detained in a state mental health center since her bench trial in June 2012, which adjudicated her Not Guilty by Reason of Insanit… |
| 21-960 |
Oklahoma v. Jessy Shay Bailey |
Oklahoma |
2021-12-30 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
criminal-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection indian-country mcgirt-v-oklahoma tribal-sovereignty |
1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country.
2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. … |
| 21-6739 |
Anthony Harris v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
covered-offense criminal-justice-reform district-court-discretion factual-developments first-step-act intervening-developments legal-developments retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments before imposing a reduced sentence on an individual found eli… |
| 21-6740 |
Teddy Chiquito v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection indian-civil-rights-act restitution-damages self-defense tribal-bill-of-rights tribal-law |
1. Whether the Government and a Tribal Law Enforcement Employer can arbitrarily convict a Tribal Police Officer, by violating his due process rights a… |
| 21-6746 |
Adan Ramirez-Rubio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-939 |
Peter Beasley v. Society of Information Management, Dallas Area Chapter, et al. |
Texas |
2021-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment race-discrimination racial-discrimination standing vexatious-litigant |
Whether Texas courts may discriminate against Black people in violation of Due Process and Equal Protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment thr… |
| 21-935 |
McIlwain, LLC, aka Timothy J. McIlwain, Attorney at Law v. Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection osborn-v-bank-of-the-united-states pro-hac-vice pro-se rowland-v-mens-colony subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment transunion-llc-v-ramirez |
1. Did the court below err in not considering the
issue of whether the District Court had subject matter
jurisdiction to consider the sole special d… |
| 21-937 |
Christopher Lee Holloway v. Minnesota |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
based solely on the relative age of the actor violates the constitutional right to equal-protec while permitting it to another affirmative-defense age-discrimination constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-law legislative-intent rational-basis |
Whether the denial of an affirmative defense to one class of offenders in a criminal case, while permitting it to another, based solely on the relativ… |
| 21-6718 |
Gregory Chester and William Ford v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-doctrine conspiracy-sentencing criminal-procedure grand-jury indictment presentment-clause sentencing statutory-sentencing superseding-indictment |
Whether, where Apprendi and its progeny requires the petit jury to return special findings as to individual conspiracy defendants to justify an increa… |
| 21-6723 |
Jeremy L. Watson-Buisson v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights computer-aided-solicitation constitutional-challenge criminal-classification equal-protection indecent-liberties jurisdictional-comparison sex-offender-registration sex-offender-registry standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Does the Petitioner lack standing to raise an Equal Protection challenge to Code of Va. § 9.1-902(F) (formerly effective 2018) where the Supreme Co… |
| 21-6730 |
Mehmet Fatih Biyikoglu v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver breach-of-contract criminal-procedure district-court due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
Was petitioner's appellate waiver enforceable after the district court found him in breach of his plea? |
| 21-6706 |
Billy Dean Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof due-process fifth-amendment hearsay judicial-discretion sentencing uncharged-felony |
Did the district court violate Mr. Smith's Fifth Amendment Due Process rights by relying on unreliable, unsupported hearsay to, first, find that Mr. S… |
| 21-6709 |
Suran Wije v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations disability-rights due-process education educational-discrimination equal-protection invisible-disabilities standing systemic-segregation |
An exception to the Thirteenth Amendment permitted slavery to continue for an additional 80 years; likewise, will another exception or immunity to the… |
| 21-6710 |
Prince Charles Nana Yaw Owusu Boateng v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy count-of-conviction court-of-appeals criminal-restitution loss-calculation mandatory-victims-restitution-act pattern-of-criminal-activity restitution scheme sentencing |
Under the Mandatory Victim s Restitution Act, when an offense does
not involve as an element a scheme, conspiracy, or pattern of criminal
activity, … |
| 21-920 |
Kalab D. Willman v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure article-66-ucmj courts-martial due-process judicial-interpretation military-justice sentence-review sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-code-military-justice |
Does the CAAF's decision prevent the CCAs from fulfilling their Congressionally imposed mandate pursuant to Article 66, UCMJ, 10 U.S.C. § 866, to dete… |
| 21-917 |
Abel Diaz v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Bennettsville |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
drug-offense drug-offenses habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-trial savings-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT HAD JURISDICTION UNDER THE SAVINGS CLAUSE OF 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) TO ADJUDICATE THE MERITS OF PETITIONER DIAZ'S § 2241 PETIT… |
| 21-6669 |
Robert Walter Scully v. California |
California |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances beyond-reasonable-doubt constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances statutory-maximum |
Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se… |
| 21-6684 |
Ferrill Joseph Volpicelli v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County, et al. |
Nevada |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-autonomy civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights judicial-review legal-interpretation reproductive-freedom state-supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6685 |
Christopher Dominguez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent mandatory-minimum plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
The prosecutor, defense counsel, and the district court all informed Mr. Dominguez that if he went to trial he would face a mandatory minimum sentence… |
| 21-6686 |
Garry Lynn Baker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
1) MR BAKER WAS DEPRIVED OF HIS RIGHTS BECAUSE OF THE FEDERAL AND STATE COURTS SUBSTITUTING THEIR OWN CONCEPTS OF LAW OF DUE PROCESS
2) MR. BAKER AVE… |
| 21-6693 |
Joey Rogers v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competence plea-bargaining plea-coercion sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Were the Due Process rights of Joey Rogers ignored by the Louisiana Courts when they maintained a plea made by the vulnerable, illiterate, hearing … |
| 21-6679 |
Juan Jarmon v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-law crack-cocaine criminal-law evidence evidentiary-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review united-states-v-pressler |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision in conflict with the decision of United States v. Pressler where the evidence presented … |
| 21-6656 |
Azizjon Rakhmatov v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection guilty-plea plea-agreement right-to-appeal right-to-counsel sentencing-bias |
Whether a sentence based on racial and ethnic bias can be appealed pursuant to the Constitutional rights to due process and equal protection of the la… |
| 21-6657 |
Joshua Reshi Dudley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure occasions-different occasions-test prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement shepard-v-united-states sixth-amendment |
I. Whether the Sixth Amendment limits a sentencing court, when determining whether a defendant's prior offenses were "committed on occasions different… |
| 21-6663 |
Asher Abid Khan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-deference remand sentencing |
Did the Court of Appeals fail to accord due deference to the district court's reasons for reimposing the same sentence after remand? |
| 21-897 |
Brian Benson, et al. v. Ann Kemske, et vir |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation res-judicata standing |
1. Whether pro se litigants in civil cases in fed
eral court are entitled under the due process clause
to have their pleadings liberally construed by… |
| 21-6629 |
Jimmy Steele v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-interpretation retroactivity sentencing state-court statutory-interpretation |
The question for review is whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) and the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, Congress intended that reasons in the first insta… |
| 21-6636 |
Leroy Fears v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-review death-penalty due-process homophobia judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct partiality racism religious-bigotry supreme-court |
Was Due Process Violated when A State Supreme Court Justice Showed Partiality In Sending And Receiving Derogatory Eknails Of Female Abuse, Racism, Hom… |
| 21-6637 |
Kenan Ivery v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure application-for-reopening due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions ohio-law procedural-dismissal state-court-of-appeals |
IS A PETITIONER DENIED DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAW WHEN THE STATE COURT OF APPEALS PROCEDURALLY DISMISSES HIS OHIO APP.R. 26(B) APPLICATIO… |
| 21-6640 |
Kennedy Terrell Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
borden-standard carjacking criminal-procedure elements-clause first-time-motion florida-robbery habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states recidivism section-2255 sentencing violent-felony |
1. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 for the first time should be subject to the statutory hurdles applicable to m… |
| 21-6644 |
Ashot Minasyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing voluntary-plea |
Whether Minasyan's waiver of appeal is unenforceable for the following reasons: because it was not knowing, intelligent and voluntary, and because Min… |
| 21-6647 |
Kenneth Howard Kerr, III v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
computer-skills due-process equal-protection first-amendment freedom-of-speech injury-in-fact re-entry rehabilitation survival |
Did the Petitioner state enough facts (included in his
attachments as well as the text) to present a valid claim?
II
Did the Petitioner state enough … |
| 21-6594 |
James A. Hald, et al. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process extraordinary-reasons federal-prisoner-rights federal-prisons sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), a district court must first determine whether "extraordinary and compelling reasons warrant such a reduct… |
| 21-6595 |
Ronnie Lee Hightower v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the lower court's in… |
| 21-6613 |
DeAndre Russell, et ux. v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights class-action constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-act pro-se standing stare-decisis |
Whether Rule 5.1 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures which wato in part; *A jnfiy Ik afewsd to "fife m Cpwptett, ffer Sa^ssstssme fs^Ssif ifaw^ i… |
| 21-6614 |
Mario Martell Spencer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law fifth-amendment hobbs-act interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-enhancement witness-tampering |
1. For intrastate robberies that do not otherwise affect "commerce over which the United States has jurisdiction," 18 U.S.C. §1951(b)(3), does the Hob… |
| 21-6625 |
Derrick Harrell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b) is a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A), i.e., one that "has as an elem… |
| 21-6631 |
Jorge Ivan Vazquez-Medrano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-6634 |
Roy Cornell Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assistance-of-counsel constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-standard ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-stage |
1. Was the Petitioner afforded his Constitutional Right to accurate assistance of Counsel in his sentencing stage.
2. Did Petitioner fail to prosecut… |
| 21-884 |
Blake Fields v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-procedure district-court factual-developments first-step-act intervening-factual-developments intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence 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, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n… |
| 21-874 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause false-reports fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment official-discrimination search-and-seizure |
1. Whether respondents, Quentin T. Sumner, Calvin Woodard, Keith Stone and magistrate Kenneth Barnes, acted in a conspiracy when appellee Calvin Wooda… |
| 21-6579 |
Cesar Hidrogo-Marin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 21-6590 |
Terry Lynn King v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment categorical-approach constitutional-vagueness death-penalty death-sentence due-process elements-based-approach johnson-precedent prior-conviction prior-violent-felony sentencing-aggravator vagueness |
(1) Is the 'prior violent felony conviction' aggravating factor in Tennessee's death penalty statutes unconstitutional under Johnson v. United States,… |
| 21-6596 |
Jimmy D. Woods v. Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption state-court-jurisdiction supremacy-clause tenth-amendment veterans-benefits veterans-disability |
1. Whether Superior Court State of Arizona, Maricopa County, without authority, lacked jurisdiction of subject matter, and personal jurisdiction to he… |
| 21-6602 |
Brandon Christian v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis habeas-corpus plea-bargaining plea-validity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
In petitioner §2254 petition, Petitioner raises this question of error?
The plea was not entered knowingly and voluntarily because the trial court fa… |
| 21-6603 |
Joanna Blauch v. City of Westminster, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-injury due-process equal-protection false-statements justiciability pro-se public-records standing supervisory-liability |
1. Whether ignoring live controversies defies U.S. Supreme Court justiciability standards requiring cause applied to injury-in-fact?
2. Whether condo… |
| 21-6609 |
Christopher Coffer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-health due-process health-issues judicial-discretion medical-disadvantage mitigation-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance variance |
What is the extent of medical disadvantage that a
defendant must present in order to secure a variance
based on ill health? |
| 21-6570 |
Bo Jack Kelley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 21-6572 |
Jose Luis Ramos-Ramos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6573 |
Michael Roy Sharpe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-guarantees criminal-law due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial maximum-sentence sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release trial-by-jury |
When Congress created the novel system of supervised release for federal criminal defendants, it authorized district judges to act as factfinders and … |
| 21-6582 |
Genaro Alberto Nunez-Ugarte v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-precedent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing Supreme-Court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6583 |
Roger Edward Picard v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mental-health-assessment rule-35 rule-35-motion sentencing sentencing-procedure |
i. Did the First Circuit err in denying a jurisdictionally sound motion filed pursuant to Fed.R.Crim.P. 35(a), where the district court simply ignored… |
| 21-6584 |
Gregory Donell Eatmon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-u.s.c.-3553(a) criminal-procedure district-court-discretion first-step-act section-404(b) sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-guidelines |
This Court recently granted certiorari in Concepcion v. United States, No. 201650, on the question of whether, when deciding if it should "impose a re… |
| 21-871 |
Louisiana v. David H. Brown |
Louisiana |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
|
capital-case death-penalty faretta-right faretta-v-california mccoy-v-louisiana self-representation structural-error trial-counsel |
Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court erred in vacating the three death sentences imposed on the respondent when the trial court granted respondent's re… |
| 21-872 |
Amoneo Lee v. Shannon Meyer, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aedpa-tolling alleyne-rule collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus innocence retroactivity sentencing statute-of-limitations substantive-law |
1. Whether AEDPA's one-year statute of limitations should be equitably tolled because the Petitioner is innocent of the non-capital Hard 40 sentence?
… |
| 21-6575 |
Nathaniel Fields v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence 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 court … |
| 21-6566 |
Steven Craig Bethea v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-review criminal-sentencing discretion eighth-amendment judicial-abuse sentencing sentencing-discretion substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN SENTENCING THE APPELLANT STEVEN BETHEA TO A GREATER SENTENCE THAN NECESSARY AS THE COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY … |
| 21-6568 |
Manuel Nunez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —
that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be
pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 21-6569 |
Jonathan Hilliam McDougal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alcohol-treatment criminal-sentencing delegation-of-authority drug-treatment due-process judicial-discretion probation-terms sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred by ordering Mr. McDougal to undergo alcohol and drug treatment as a special condition of supervised release. |
| 21-855 |
Paul M. Mahoney v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three |
California |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt contempt-citation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech judicial-proceedings petition-for-rehearing |
This petition seeks review of the California Court of Appeal citing Petitioner for Civil Contempt for allegedly making contemptuous statements in a pe… |
| 21-850 |
Chelsea C. Eline, et al. v. Town of Ocean City, Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection gender-classification gender-discrimination government-interest governmental-interest moral-sensibilities tailoring |
Is protecting traditional moral sensibilities an important governmental interest on which the govern-ment may lawfully base a discriminatory gender-ba… |
| 21-6548 |
James Calhoun-El v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights comparative-treatment constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-precedent relief-standards standing |
Whether the lower courts violates the equal protection clause when it denies to a similarly situated individual relief that it had previously given to… |
| 21-6560 |
Carlo Donato v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) covered-offense criminal-sentencing deportation first-step-act retroactive-penalty retroactivity section-924(c) sentencing stacking statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under the First Step Act, Act 403(a) Title 18 U.S.C. Section 924(c) modify penalty the covered offense Act, due to the fact that the statutor… |
| 21-6541 |
Jesus Corona v. James Hill, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure habeas-corpus preliminary-hearing presumption-of-vindictiveness prima-facie-case procedural-default prosecutorial-discretion sentencing vindictive-prosecution |
1. Does a criminal defendant state a prima facie case of vindictive
prosecution, trigging a presumption of vindictiveness, when the day after he
succe… |
| 21-6542 |
Juan Trujillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-discretion limited-remand plain-error remand-standard sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
This Court in Molina-Martinez v. United States advised that courts of appeals may order a limited remand to assess the impact of clear error on the de… |
| 21-6545 |
Debra A. Nichols v. William Paul Nichols, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment ada americans-with-disabilities-act equal-protection fifth-amendment government-employees medical-privacy state-actors warrantless-search warrantless-searches |
Can state actors, and/or government employees violate the equal protection Clause of the 5th Amendment of people considered disabled under the ADA?
W… |
| 21-6550 |
Wade Lay v. Aboutanaa El Habti, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process execution judicial-discretion standing |
Whether a prisoner may appeal to the United States Supreme Court under 28 U.S.C. § 1254 to contest his grounds under the Correct Constitution, regardi… |
| 21-841 |
Michael Smallwood v. William Paul Nichols, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment government-agency government-liability liberty-interest search-and-seizure standing |
I Can state and federal agencies use private entities, as agents of the government to commits acts of unlawful search and seizure, and deprivation of … |
| 21-6514 |
Jorge Hernandez Rivera v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure elements-of-crime felon-in-possession firearm-offense information-defect second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
WHETHER AN INFORMATION IS DEFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO STATE THE PROPER ELEMENTS FOR THE CRIME OF FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM
WHETHER THE ACCA BAN B… |
| 21-6518 |
Kassie Bond Carpenter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional criminal-procedure federal-courts guideline sentencing statutory |
Whether application of 18 U.S.C. §3147 increases the total range of imprisonment to which the defendant may be subject? |
| 21-6524 |
Joshua James Mjoness v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-language crime-of-violence criminal-law mathis-precedent modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whet her, when applying the modified categorical approach under Mathis v. United States , 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) , a court may place determinative wei… |
| 21-6525 |
George Patrick v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
class-of-felony criminal-procedure error-correction felony-classification judicial-authority revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
A sentence imposed upon revocation of supervised release is governed by the class of felony determined at the time of the original sentence. 18 U.S.C.… |
| 21-6527 |
Ronald Johnson v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process jurisdiction mandatory-minimums sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-6530 |
Tyreese Thompson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial precedent-review reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
Do any facts that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum need to be submitted to a jury, and proved beyond a reason… |
| 21-6531 |
Billy Mack Nichols, Jr. v. Gary Kerstein, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment equal-protection medical-care medical-negligence summary-judgment |
1) Whether the lower courts were wrong for not seeking out, or for not causing the medical doctor, defendant, to seek out the cause for my Central Dia… |
| 21-6511 |
Betty Caitlin Nicole Smith v. Zachary Taylor Daniel |
Kentucky |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-violence domestic-violence-orders due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct standing state-court-procedure |
1. Whether it is acceptable for State courts to ignore the fifth and fourteenth amendments and deny hearings in cases and deny equal protection of the… |
| 21-6473 |
Michael Stumph v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
Appellate-Review Cruel-and-Unusual-Punishment Due-Process eighth-amendment Equal-Protection fourteenth-amendment Procedural-Due-Process sentencing-discretion |
Whether Ohio Revised Code § 2953.08(D)(3) violates the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to the United State… |
| 21-6488 |
Bertram S. Mann v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing |
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AND fOR MODIFiCATiON OF SENTENCE
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| 21-6489 |
Edward F. Swanson v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment judicial-discretion jury-trial preponderance-standard sentencing statutory-scheme |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6491 |
Lucas Montagne v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure exception illegal-sentence invited-error judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing |
1. Should an exception to the doctrine of invited error be recognized in a case in which an illegal sentence is imposed?
2. Should an exception to th… |
| 21-6466 |
Ernest Romond Gibbs, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure direct-appeal judicial-discretion pepper-v-united-states post-sentencing-rehabilitation resentencing sentencing sentencing-evidence |
In Pepper v. United States, 562 U.S. 476 (2011), this Court held that a district court, in resentencing a defendant, may consider evidence of post-sen… |
| 21-6468 |
Joshua Fernandes v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-discrimination constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-cross-section jury-selection peremptory-challenge race-neutral-reasons |
Whether age should be considered a protected class, and whether the exclusion of all young potential jurors violates the Equal Protection Clause.
Whe… |
| 21-6471 |
Jose Francisco Noesi v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-step-act retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner is eligible for a Title 18 U.S.C. Section 358a(c)(1)(A)(i), bd on the modiiction of Secon 35 C)A), through the First Step Act of J0… |
| 21-6438 |
David Lee Smith v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-powers executive-order habitual-offenders incarceration pandemic-response public-health sentencing |
IS A CLASS OF CONVICTED HABITUAL FELONS, THAT HAVE COMPLETED THEIR LAWFUL MAXIMUM SENTENCES, ENTITLED TO IMMEDIATE UNCONDITIONAL RELEASES IN ORDER TO … |
| 21-6448 |
Joseph D. Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
acca career-criminal-act criminal-law criminal-procedure occasions-different occasions-test sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation temporal-analysis |
1. Should the courts employ a purely temporal approach or a "totality of the circumstances" test when interpreting the Career Criminal Act's phrase, "… |
| 21-6450 |
Steven Zinnel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure gall-v-united-states jury-determination sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness |
Any fact that increases the penalty to which a defendant is exposed constitutes an element of a crime under and must be found by a jury, not a judge. … |
| 21-6457 |
Ervin Anibar Lopez-Ordonez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-6431 |
Vegas D. Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure explanation judicial-discretion procedural-error record sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit commit error when it affirmed the District Court's decision to deny petitioner's motion filed under 18… |
| 21-6402 |
Nyambui Joe Gipson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreements sentencing waivers-of-appeal |
Whether this Court should recognize a "miscarriage of justice" exception to waivers of appeal in plea agreements? |
| 21-6404 |
Ngoc Hong Nguyen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-6417 |
Mausean Carter v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review miranda-rights search-and-seizure standing state-law |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6419 |
Roberto Aguilar-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-6420 |
Simona Tanasescu, et al. v. Dorin Coroian, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-rule civil-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-fraud judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-litigation racketeering |
l) Whether the United States Court for the Ninth Circuit departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercis… |
| 21-6426 |
Lee Dale White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice-reform first-step-act section-404 sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review? |
| 21-6428 |
Danny Lee Hill v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (18)IFP |
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia death-penalty diagnoses federal-review habeas-corpus historical-evidence intellectual-disability miscarriage-of-justice present-functioning state-court-review |
I. Whether it constitutes an unreasonable determination of the facts under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2) when a state court decision rejecting an Atkins v. V… |
| 21-6357 |
Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-sentencing-act federal-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity sentencing |
When the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Vacated and Remanded case #19-7803 back to the District Court shouldn't the district Court have given Mr. Reid a… |
| 21-6376 |
Antonio Soul Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-resentencing eligibility first-step-act judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
The question presented here is analogous to the question presented in Concepcion v. United States, No. 20-1650, on which this Court recently granted c… |
| 21-6378 |
Severo Garcia-Meza v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law board-of-immigration-appeals civil-rights compassionate-release cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process immigration-law incarceration ineffective-assistance judicial-review sentencing |
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| 21-6379 |
Keith R. Gomez v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-remedy sentencing state-court substantive-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6384 |
Kimani I. Sterling v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review criminal-appeal eighth-circuit judicial-procedure preservation-of-error procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-objections standard-of-review waiver waiver-doctrine |
Has the Eighth Circuit imposed upon Mr. Sterling an unlawful burden by finding Sterling waived his argument that the District Court violated procedura… |
| 21-6387 |
Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retroactive-law statutory-construction |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State constitutes statutory construction of substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Pr… |
| 21-6398 |
Roy M. Belfast v. M. Breckon, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure judicial-review standing takings |
Did The Anpellate Court Aid In The Violation Of The Powers Suspending The Writ of Habers Seperation, " :Corpus And Constitufiondl Avoidance Doctrine :… |
| 21-763 |
John Forrest Ham, Jr. v. M. Breckon, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent federal-prisoner habeas-corpus retroactivity section-2241 section-2255 sentence-review sentencing |
Whether a district court has jurisdiction under section 2241 to review a claim that a federal prisoner's sentence is invalid in light of an intervenin… |
| 21-758 |
James P. Tatten v. LSF9 Master Participation Trust |
Colorado |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection foreclosure fourteenth-amendment nonjudicial-foreclosure nonjudicial-hearing property-rights real-property state-court-procedure |
In Obduskey v. McCarthy, this Court observed: "Colorado's 'nonjudicial' foreclosure process is something of a hybrid, though no party claims these fea… |
| 21-6348 |
Rafael Ramiro-Medina v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection fact-finding jury-selection procedural-error racial-discrimination standard-of-review |
If a trial court legally errs in applying the final step of the process under Batson v. Kentucky, 476
U.S. 79 (1986), can a federal court of appeals c… |
| 21-6366 |
Juan Alberto Ceron-Ortiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial recidivism sentencing |
The Court Should Grant Certiorari to Consider Whether to Overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998). |
| 21-6341 |
Donald D. Foltz, Jr. v. Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment implied-bias jury-bias jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
1. Was the seating of juror who should have been dismissed for cause requires reversal because implied biased applies to Juror foreman, 1301, married … |
| 21-6350 |
Michael J. Greene v. Shelby Searls, Superintendent, Huttonsville Correctional Center |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure custody due-process plea-agreement sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6353 |
Stephen Allwine v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts court-funding due-process equal-protection financial-status in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion legal-procedure post-conviction post-conviction-relief |
1) Did the Trial Court err in denying In Forma Pauperis funding for post-conviction services based upon Petitioner's financial status at the beginning… |
| 21-6361 |
Marcus Crawley, aka Holyfield v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states due-process judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
If a defendant pleaded guilty to a § 924(c) charge and a predicate crime of violence that is no longer valid after Davis, may a reviewing court search… |
| 21-750 |
Jasper Knabb v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Where 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a prompt hearing unless the motion and the files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitl… |
| 21-751 |
Dr. Ralph Slaughter v. Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System |
Louisiana |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
compensation-calculation constitutional-challenge equal-protection judges law-enforcement retirement-benefits state-employees statutory-interpretation supplemental-pay |
Does the statutory scheme of the Louisiana State
Employees' Retirement System ("LASERS") violate
the Equal Protection Clause by defining earned compen… |
| 21-6321 |
Fernando Rodriguez-Macedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 21-6328 |
Scottie D. Allen v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing standard-of-proof |
I. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's rejection of Petitioner's claim of error based on the jury being affirmatively misinformed about its role in th… |
| 21-6335 |
Chi Mak v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion compassionate-release criminal-procedure judicial-review sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors statutory-factors statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court abused its direction and acted unreasonably in denying Mak's motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. §3582(c), by … |
| 21-6286 |
Patrick Lawrence Henderson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
Whether Henderson's revocation sentence violates Apprendi and its progeny because he has been forced to serve a sentence beyond the statutory maximum … |
| 21-6287 |
Mario Hernandez-Galarza v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history discrimination due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment immigration-law liberty noncitizen-rights sentencing-guidelines |
In 2016, the United States Sentencing Commission promulgated United States Sentencing Guideline (U.S.S.G.) § 2L1.2(b)(3), which applies exclusively to… |
| 21-6316 |
Clayton G. Walker v. Steve Barnett, South Dakota Secretary of State, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
ballot-access candidate-selection constitutional-rights election-law election-process equal-protection freedom-of-association independent-candidates major-parties third-party |
1. Should Walker as a Governor Candidate be able to choose from any party to join him in
the nomination to be on the ballot just as the rights of Majo… |
| 21-6317 |
Clayton G. Walker v. Steve Barnett, South Dakota Secretary of State, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment-interpretation candidate-rights constitutional-access election election-rights equal-protection judicial-procedure jurisdiction mask-mandate writ-of-mandamus |
1. Should everyone have the same Access During the Pandemic.
2. Should Walker as a Candidate for United States Sente be grated the same rights as oth… |
| 21-6319 |
Eric Martinez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
conviction crime federal-law probation sentencing state-law |
When federal law compels the use of state law to define and punish crime, and the state allows probation in lieu of a conviction, does federal law als… |
| 21-6322 |
Gustavo Trejo-Ramos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-6323 |
D'Arde Lee Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure escape halfway-house plain-error sentencing u.s.s.g.-2p1.1 |
Whether the court of appeals failed to properly apply the plain error analysis to the question of whether the sentencing court erred by failing to gra… |
| 21-730 |
'Lanre O. Amu v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission |
Illinois |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
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attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-hearing freedom-of-press freedom-of-speech judicial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
1. Whether in light of the public Oaths taken in
The Name of God to faithfully and impartially discharge
the duties of the office, the seven Justice… |
| 21-723 |
Mark Alan Staples v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1st-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection ex-parte-communication free-speech social-security-law tax-law |
Under the United States Constitution, especially the 14th Amendment, "due process of law" and "equal protection of the laws", the 1st Amendment, free … |
| 21-6289 |
Norris Deshon Andrews v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-trial-rights predicate-crimes predicate-crimes-of-violence sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the sentencing court violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment jury trial rights by engaging in judicial fact-finding that two alleged assault con… |
| 21-6294 |
Robert Michael Junkins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-sentencing illegal-search motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines vehicle-search |
1. Whether the district court erred in denying Junkins' Defendant's Motion to Suppress Evidence for the evidence discovered in Mr. Junkins' vehicle af… |
| 21-6297 |
Henry Cervantes and Jaime Cervantes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-statute jury-trial obstruction-of-justice official-proceeding sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
As to both petitioners,
1. Whether the federal obstruction of justice statute, 18 U.S.C. §1512(c)(2) (obstruction of an official proceeding), can be … |
| 21-6298 |
Ronald David McCalister, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreements sentencing waivers-of-appeal |
I. Whether this Court should recognize a "miscarriage of justice" exception to waivers of appeal in plea agreements? |
| 21-6300 |
Ricky Cardenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-procedure objection-standard presentence-report sentencing unjust-incarceration |
Whether the defendant bears a burden to disprove adverse conclusions of a Presentence Report? |
| 21-6302 |
Juan Alvarado-Gonzalez v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech government-action immigration language-access public-officials retaliation |
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| 21-6304 |
Neng Por Yang v. Ann Marie Holland |
Minnesota |
2021-11-16 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment harassment-restraining-order judicial-jurisdiction pro-se |
1. Whether the Minnesota Court of Appeals decision to continue the enforcement of a fraudulent and pretentious state harassment restraining order to a… |
| 21-6263 |
Gary Aaron Coble v. David Anderson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection individual-rights judicial-review self-incrimination supreme-court-jurisdiction takings |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6267 |
Adrienne Brown-Mallard v. Potomac Concrete Company, Inc., et al. |
Maryland |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection j-e-b-v-alabama jury-selection |
This extreme violative case significantly challenges multiple Constitutional and Federal laws. On appeal, Petitioner presented trial court reversable … |
| 21-6271 |
Austin Myers v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction postconviction-relief summary-dismissal |
I. Do the Ohio state courts deny a death-sentenced postconviction petitioner's rights to due process, access to the Ohio courts, and an adequate corre… |
| 21-6279 |
Jquan Leearthur McInnis v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama roper-v-simmons sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether sentencing a juvenile to two consecutive homicide sentences of life-with-the possibility-of-release after thirty years, the functional equival… |
| 21-707 |
Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Amici (14)Relisted (3) |
admissions affirmative-action civil-rights diversity educational-diversity equal-protection grutter-precedent higher-education higher-education-admissions race-conscious-admissions race-neutral-alternatives |
1. Should this Court overrule Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), and hold that institutions of higher education cannot use race as a factor in… |
| 21-6232 |
Jason Stallcup v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does completed Hobbs Act robbery qualify as a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)? |
| 21-6253 |
Baltazar Aguirre-Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment special-interrogatory |
When a jury's answer to a special interrogatory negates an element of the charged offense, must a district court enter a judgment of acquittal when th… |
| 21-6255 |
Ofelio Arvizu-Loredo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 21-6256 |
Macario Andrew Gomez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 21-6224 |
Tony Ford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments retroactivity 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 court … |
| 21-6235 |
Brandon Marquis Jennings v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence miller-v-alabama presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
WHETHER THE APPELLATE REVIEW FOR REASONABLENESS OF A LIFE SENTENCE LACKS SUFFICIENT SCRUTINY. THE CIRCUIT COURT'S APPLICATION OF PRESUMED REASONABLENE… |
| 21-6248 |
Oliver Vaughn Douce Al Dey v. New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent statutory-interpretation |
1/Whether federal court U.S. judge bias abuse discretion. Or error over look 28 USC 1441
2/Whether IV-D agency may deprive a parent, daughter of fit … |
| 21-6200 |
Jesus Ruiz v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-conviction harmless-error non-concurrent-sentence sentencing |
1. Whether a conviction carrying a non-concurrent prison sentence for an act the law does not make criminal can ever be considered harmless.
2. Wheth… |
| 21-6201 |
Reginald Kindle v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Whether a sentencing court violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial when it finds by a preponderance of the evidence that he commi… |
| 21-6214 |
Usman Oyibo v. North Shore University Hospital, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct legal-procedure standing tuskegee-experiment |
SINCE PETITIONER HAS NOT HAD A REAL JUDGE IN ALL OF THE STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS NOR CAN THEY DISPROVE LOGICALLY THAT A CHILD IS INFALLIBLY RELATED TO… |
| 21-6215 |
Lawrence Oakie, aka LBJ v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the use of acquitted conduct to determine a defendant's sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments. |
| 21-6178 |
Henry Baird v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law drug-cases entrapment federal-drug-cases federal-sentencing judicial-doctrine manipulation sentencing sentencing-entrapment |
WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD RESOLVE THE CIRCUIT SPLIT ON RECOGNIZING SENTENCING ENTRAPMENT AND SENTENCING MANIPULATION DOCTRINES AS VIABLE DEFENSES AT SE… |
| 21-6198 |
Billy Dean Smith v. Lynnie Einerson, Acting Superintendent, Spring Creek Correctional Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-protections death-penalty disadvantaged-groups due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-review prisoner-rights standing state-prisoners state-procedure |
When litigating a State Criminal Convictions by way of a Federal Habeas Corpus, the Indigent State Prisoner & Matter What Race, Color or Creed, Who ha… |
| 21-6210 |
Tony Bowen v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver armed-career-criminal-act conviction-counting felon-in-possession sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-maximum |
1. If a defendant convicted of felon-in-possession charges has
three qualifying convictions, the Armed Career Criminal Act
("ACCA") enhances the maxim… |
| 21-6217 |
Alberto Grajales v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict harmless-error judicial-review residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a general verdict that was obtained in reliance on the
unconstitutionally vague residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(B)
may be sustained b… |
| 21-6174 |
Antonio Smith v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent standing state-law statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-6179 |
Leoncio Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-justice due-process first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-6182 |
Erick Argueta Larios v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure due-process federal-district-court relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a federal district court may use relevant conduct not proven by clear and convincing evidence to disproportionately raise a defendant's senten… |
| 21-6184 |
Mark Bitzan v. Chris Tripp, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-discretion court-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel petition-for-rehearing |
I. Where the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit (Eighth Circuit) granted permission to file an overlength Petition for Rehearing and then den… |
| 21-6190 |
Joe Lewis Finley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice-reform first-step-act section-404 sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review? |
| 21-6192 |
Benjamin Joseph Langford v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process habeas-relief iowa-robbery-statute johnson-ruling predicate-conviction residual-clause sentencing serious-violent-felony statutory-interpretation three-strikes united-states-v-johnson |
Whether Mr. Langford was improperly denied 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief from his "three strikes" mandatory life sentence, pursuant to United States v. John… |
| 21-6160 |
Dennis Dean Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice-reform cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection first-step-act prior-convictions retroactive-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-changes |
1) Has the Eleventh Amendment barred the federal courts from exercising jurisdiction over this case where the state has been sued in federal court to … |
| 21-6161 |
Adam Rene Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-court judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER DEFENDANT'S CONVICTION IS IN VIOLATION OF THE SEARCH AND SEIZURE PROTECTION OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT, AND THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FOURTEE… |
| 21-6166 |
Ángel De la Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law drug-offense due-process first-step-act maritime-drug-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation terry-v-united-states |
The Pre-First Step Act Safety Valve was widely applied to the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA), a statute whose punishment criteria and eleme… |
| 21-6167 |
Harry Sharod James v. Roy Cooper, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure law-library legal-access prisoner-rights |
Does the Fundamental Court Constitution said fair access, to the Cards book think(?) access to a mean not, effective, fact adequate law than a (Accoun… |
| 21-6168 |
Vance L. White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review blakely-v-washington constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6135 |
Jesus Ramirez-Barrera v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail community-danger criminal-procedure detention district-court-review due-process extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion public-safety relief-standard sentencing sentencing-review |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN DECIDING THAT PETITIONER HAS NOT SHOWN EXTRAORDINARY AND COMPELLING REASONS; AND THAT HE WAS A DANGER TO THE CO… |
| 21-6145 |
Omar Sanchez-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review certiorari constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial precedent sentencing supreme-court-review |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6146 |
Keenan Rollerson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether a sentencing judge increasing a criminal defendant's punishment for acts charged but acquitted by the jury violates the jury trial guarantee o… |
| 21-6153 |
Suran Wije v. David A. Burns, et al. |
Texas |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-liberties due-process equal-protection equal-rights fourteenth-amendment immunity leave-to-amend liberty nondisclosure qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
Despite the freedoms and privileges of U.S. citizenship, for over 17 years, petitioner has been imprisoned within an illiberal democracy 1, having los… |
| 21-6155 |
Jose Burciaga-Alcantar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6114 |
Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment racial-discrimination standing systematic-exclusion |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6123 |
Antonio Rene Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 sentencing structural-error |
Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci… |
| 21-6137 |
Vassily Anthony Thompson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment sentencing |
1. Does it offend the Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury for a court to ignore legally relevant elements of an offense charged by a grand jury in a… |
| 21-6143 |
Stephen Cameron Zyszkiewicz v. California |
California |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights controlled-substances-act equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment freedom-of-religion marijuana-prohibition religious-freedom state-federal-conflict |
Petitioner sold marijuana ostensibly as part of a California state legal nonprofit cannabis collective and possessed mescaline, ostensibly as a member… |
| 21-6124 |
Saul Contreras-Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-6130 |
Brett Allan Corrigan, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure drug-offense firearm sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review weapon-enhancement |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S FINDING THAT A WEAPON WAS CONNECTED TO THE DRUG OFFENSE UNDER §2D1.1(b)(1) WAS CLEAR ERROR. |
| 21-6131 |
Jose Alfredo Gonzalez-Mares v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-633 |
Gustavo Placancia-Rosendo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acceptance-of-responsibility burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement relevant-conduct sentencing standard-of-proof |
A defendant who pleads guilty will face a presentence investigation report, the results of which will guide the District Court in affixing sentence. A… |
| 21-6122 |
Malek Lassiter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rico rico-conspiracy sentencing standard-of-review |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF LASSITER'S MOTION FOR JUDGMENT OF ACQUITTAL ON THE RICO CONSPIRACY CHAR… |
| 21-6075 |
James Frei v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6099 |
Sandchase Cody v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review due-process federal-appellate-courts habeas-corpus remedy-selection section-2255 sentencing |
Whether an individual must obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the district court's choice of remedy following the grant of relief under 2… |
| 21-6102 |
Anthony B. Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury-indictment jury-instructions sentencing |
Does the absence of a specific unanimity instruction at trial require both distribution of Pcp and accompanying 924.lis count be vacated
Does a convi… |
| 21-6106 |
Ahmed Osman Farah v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest-record circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement |
Does a district court violate a defendant's right to due process by enhancing a sentence based on unreliable arrest history, as the Third and Seventh … |
| 21-6107 |
Thomas Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing district-court-discretion factual-developments fair-sentencing-act first-step-act legal-developments presidential-commutation sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when deciding if it should "impose a reduced sentence" on an eligible defendant under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018, a distric… |
| 21-606 |
Donald Shooter v. Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech legislative-immunity legislative-procedure qualified-immunity standing |
1. Does this case present an important question not previously decided by the Supreme Court in which an elected member of the Arizona Legislature enga… |
| 21-6064 |
Robert William Knopping v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion downward-departure government-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines third-level-reduction u.s.s.g. |
Under what circumstances can the district court at sentencing deny the government's motion for a third-level reduction for acceptance of responsibilit… |
| 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). |
| 21-6077 |
Torri McCray v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split due-process fact-finding fentanyl-analogue fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct |
1. As every Federal Court of Appeals has now taken a position, should this Court resolve the Circuit split as to the proper fact-finding standard for … |
| 21-6083 |
James Osgood v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment credibility-determinations death-penalty juror-challenge jury-selection sentencing-determination sixth-amendment trial-court witherspoon-v-illinois |
Can a reviewing court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, uphold a challenge for cause in a capital case on the basis of a potential juror's persona… |
| 21-6087 |
Maria Vargas-Luna v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy fact-finding judicial-fact-finding jury-trial-right reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Petitioner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance. She admitted to the district court that approxima… |
| 21-611 |
Gertrude Coretta Fennell Hamilton v. United States, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigation retaliation sovereign-immunity whistleblower |
Whether a Pattern and/or Practice of Discrimination took place in Charleston S.C. District Court, depriving Pro Se Petitioner of Constitutional Rights… |
| 21-6066 |
R. Susan Woods v. Alina's Real Estate, LLC |
First Circuit |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
ada bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review disability due-process equal-protection indigent-rights judicial-discretion standing |
a. Under what circumstances is it appropriate for the courts to refuse accommodation to the disabled?
b. Can a trustee in a bankruptcy matter use per… |
| 21-6067 |
Johnnie Franklin Wills v. Karen Pszczolkowski, Superintendent, Northern Correctional Facility |
West Virginia |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-v-united-states recidivism recidivist-statute residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is a judicially crafted residual clause, which allows a life sentence to be imposed via a state recidivist statute only when certain underlying crimes… |
| 21-6068 |
Ronald Tingle v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3582 district-court drug-offenses extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district judge is categorically prohibited from considering the First
Step Act's amendment to penalties for drug offenses when determining w… |
| 21-6053 |
Jimmie Barge v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne apprendi apprendi-violation certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment prison-releasee-reoffender sixth-amendment |
Is the Florida State trial court erring when sentencing Petitioner to minimum mandatory term of life in prison because the Prison Releasee Reoffender … |
| 21-6057 |
Eugene Korte v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination standing voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6060 |
Ance Payton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-procedure district-court federal-criminal-procedure health-conditions motion sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Payton's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). |
| 21-6061 |
John Rodney Johnson v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias sixth-amendment |
Does a Prosecutor's conduct to interject race comments into a State trial as an appeal to a racial prejudice based on the fact the trial having the in… |
| 21-6063 |
Jason William Custer v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-6th-14th-amendments due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions miranda-rights pauper-defendant postconviction procedural-bar self-defense |
This is a First Degree Murder case, which resulted in the finding of guilt on all charges and a Life Without the Possibility (LWOP) sentence plus and … |
| 21-6048 |
Shakina Ortega v. Higgs Fletcher and Mack LLP, et al. |
California |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection impartial-court racial-discrimination self-representation self-represented summary-judgment |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals ' decision to uphold the granting of the
summary judgment motion when discovery was not complete, in conflict with the… |
| 21-578 |
John Raynor v. Dennis Walker, et al. |
Nebraska |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection internal-affairs-doctrine nebraska-supreme-court subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska (Neb. Const., art. I, § 1-3) coupled with the Equal Protection Clause of… |
| 21-6010 |
Robert D. Sutton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums retroactivity sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), a defendant may seek a sentence reduction based, in part, on "extraordinary and compelling reasons." In 2018, Congres… |
| 21-6027 |
Fidel Anguiano Gallardo v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-6028 |
Johnny Jasper Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
GVR |
IFP |
borden-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing intervening-development sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-robbery ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery by injury, Tex. Penal Code §29.02(a)(1) constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 21-6029 |
Daronnie Thompkins v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery coercion criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-enhancement interrogation interrogation-tactics involuntary-statements self-incrimination sentencing |
Whether Thompkins' incriminating statements were involuntary and should have been suppressed, where the interrogating officer: suggested that Thompkin… |
| 21-6001 |
Terence Tramaine Andrus v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Relisted (17)IFP |
capital-case criminal-procedure death-penalty effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment stare-decisis strickland-v-washington vertical-stare-decisis |
I. On remand, did the Texas court reject this Court's conclusions in Andrus v. Texas, 140 S.Ct. 1875 (2020), which were amply supported by the habeas … |
| 21-6008 |
Keyaira Porter v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge comparative-juror-analysis criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination standard-of-review trial-procedure |
For over a decade now, Courts have found themselves intractably divided on two important issues regarding the enforcement of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U… |
| 21-6014 |
Yina Maria Castaneda Benavidez, aka La Reina, aka Ingeniera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-standard knowledge-element sentencing sentencing-disparity |
This petition arises from the affirm ance of a judgment of conviction and sentence to a term of 22 ½ years ' incarceration following a jury trial for … |
| 21-566 |
Teresa Ward Cooper, as Next Friend of Jane Doe/D. T. v. First Financial Bank, N.A. |
Texas |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-review declaratory-judgment equal-protection mootness standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
When its petition was filed, did the Bank have standing to sue Petitioner/D.T. to remove a claimed uncertainty?
After the Bank pled in its Motion for… |
| 21-568 |
Jason Jarvis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-law criminal-procedure extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-circumstances federal-law federal-law-change judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as "extraordinary and compelling reasons" warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 21-5992 |
Jose Miguel Ramirez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
COVID-19 criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection felony-convictions judicial-discretion medical-records procedural-error sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines time-served |
-1-he. Scolcnce 4he Tudge (kiitheia Moo fez) eae d vivre Aan 4-14e Guedelmes Rom mord-)15- 4's on error sloe broke 4-he )sol rules -(4/Jere_ 7) -tkie … |
| 21-5983 |
Jennifer L. Kammerer v. State Bar of California |
California |
2021-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law americans-with-disabilities-act disability-rights discrimination equal-protection mental-illness mental-illness-discrimination professional-license professional-licensing rehabilitation-program |
1. DOES IT VIOLATE THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, TO PUNISH AN INDIVIDUAL FOR BEING MENTALLY ILL, BY SUMMARILY REVOKING THEIR PROFESSIONAL LICEN… |
| 21-5985 |
DeCarlos Titington v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing discharged-sentences due-process equal-protection relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines undischarged-sentences |
The federal Sentencing Guidelines treat discharged and
undischarged sentences based on conduct relevant to a case
before the court for sentencing diff… |
| 21-5955 |
Joanna E. Harty v. Office of Personnel Management |
Federal Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment equal-protection standing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5965 |
In Re Jennifer L. Kammerer |
|
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination disciplinary-program disparate-treatment equal-protection license-revocation mental-illness professional-license professional-licensing |
1. DOES IT VIOLATE THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, TO PUNISH AN INDIVIDUAL FOR BEING MENTALLY ILL, BY SUMMARILY REVOKING THEIR PROFESSIONAL LICEN… |
| 21-5973 |
Jesus Lopez-Mejia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
I. Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable? |
| 21-5974 |
Eduviges Ayala-Bello and Walter Velez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-policy alienage alienage-classification citizenship-distinction due-process equal-protection immigration rational-basis-review strict-scrutiny |
Whether agency policies that distinguish on the basis of citizenship automatically receive rational basis review. |
| 21-5975 |
Modesto Balderas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-procedure records-of-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement simple-robbery texas-penal-code violent-felony |
Whether the Texas offense of Simple Robbery, Tex. Penal Code §29.02(a) constitutes a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 21-5950 |
James Henry Abel v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection intervention standing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-538 |
Dennis Reagle, Warden v. Roderick V. Lewis |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
|
aedpa circuit-court federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penson-v-ohio sentencing strickland-v-washington supreme-court united-states-v-cronic |
While Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687 (1984), requires an ineffective-assistance claimant to prove both deficient performance and prejudic… |
| 21-546 |
Michael G. Harper, aka Cuban Mike v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act intervening-legal-developments legal-developments reduced-sentence 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 court … |
| 21-547 |
Kevin Tung v. Superior Court of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-ethics civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection ex-parte-young federal-law judiciary sovereign-immunity |
The Third Circuit affirmed the New Jersey District Court's decision that dismissed the Petitioner Kevin Tung, Esq.'s violation of the constitutional d… |
| 21-536 |
Christopher Chestnut v. Charles Canady, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-injunction-statute civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction protected-class state-bar-discipline younger-abstention |
1. Whether the district court may abstain from exercising its jurisdiction to enjoin an ongoing state bar disciplinary proceeding, pursuant to the You… |
| 21-5933 |
Kevin Deon Loggins, Sr. v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection sentencing speedy-trial |
WHETHER THE KANSAS STATE COURT FINDING THAT PETITIONER SENT
ENCE IS NOT AN ILLEGAL SENTENCE, A ABUSE OF DISCRETION REPUGNANT TO
THE DUE PROCESS CLAU… |
| 21-5940 |
Jovani Jacobo v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
compassionate-release criminal-justice extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons federal-courts federal-prisoners judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
The federal compassionate-release statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), permits sentencing courts to release federal prisoners for "extraordinary and co… |
| 21-5942 |
Michael Woolen v. California |
California |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion procedural-due-process sentencing-guidelines |
DEPRIVATIONS OF EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAWS, FAILURE TO APPOINT COUNSEL TO ADA PETITIONER WITH 8TH GRADE COGNITIVE FUNCTION PREDICATED PROCEDURAL DUE PRO… |
| 21-5944 |
Casey Ray Culp v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment reform sentencing |
1. Whether a guideline sentence of seventy-five months imprisonment violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in the c… |
| 21-5924 |
In Re Jose Victor Hernandez-Cuellar |
|
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment immigrant-status immigration judicial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
1. Does a immigrant in the United States of America, whether here legally with visa or illegally, receive Constitutionally guaranteed Rights ?
2. How… |
| 21-5939 |
Michael Luis Cota v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing state-laws takings |
Question not identified. |
| 21-525 |
Hemant Bhimnathwala v. New Jersey State Judiciary, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
child-custody disparate-impact due-process equal-custody equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges statute-of-limitations |
1. Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a presumption of equal, joint custody of children in child custody proceedings? Is this presumption a logical… |
| 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… |
| 21-5916 |
Ramiro Medina-Oliden v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 21-5919 |
Robert Arthur Moses v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Question 1.
Whether the State of Texas and the 219th District Court,
Collin County, Texas, by the failure to magistrate/prompt
presentment, failure t… |
| 21-5860 |
Antonio Franklin v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-process cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection final-judgment-rule fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel judicial-dereliction |
1. Though completely forsaken by the protections of the Sixth Amendment by the time
ive at the federal appellate courts, does either the Eighth or sta… |
| 21-5893 |
In Re Sandra Black |
|
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination standing systematic-exclusion systemic-racism |
1. How is it possible for a black person to have constitutional rights to be treated EQUAL to a white person's rights, privileges, benefits and advant… |
| 21-5900 |
Justin Anderson v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment prior-offense resentencing sentencing victim-impact victim-impact-evidence |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a State to present victim-impact evidence arising from a crime other than the murder for which the defendant i… |
| 21-5901 |
Shawn R. Erpelding v. Scott Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-judgment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief pro-se pro-se-application state-criminal-judgment |
1. Whether pro se applications to vacate and set aside a state criminal nonsupport judgment and its direct counterpart civil judgment tolls the limita… |
| 21-500 |
Francis Finster v. New York |
New York |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fraud-upon-the-court mode-of-proceedings-error waiver-of-indictment |
Under NY law the. trial court's failure to adhere to procedural
requirements of the waiver of indictment process, constitutes a
mode of proceedings … |
| 21-5864 |
Deloris Phillips v. Columbia Luxar |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights court-system due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion sanctions vexatious-litigant |
1) Whether it is unconstitutional, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment-
Equal Protection Clause, for any litigant alleging discrimination in the… |
| 21-5879 |
Dheadry Powell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act guidelines justification money-laundering resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. UNDER THE FIRST STEP ACT, DID THE DISTRICT COURT FAIL TO PROVIDE A SUFFICIENTLY COMPELLING JUSTIFICATION THAT THOROUGHLY EXPLAINS IT'S ABOVE THE GU… |
| 21-5845 |
Danny Collins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals certiorari criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing service-of-process solicitor-general supreme-court-rule |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5846 |
Luke W. Cain v. California |
California |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-permissibility criminal-punishment double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion legislative-intent multiple-offenses multiple-punishments penal-code sentencing |
GENERALLY, A FEDERAL COURT MAY NOT REVIEW A STATE COURT SENTENCE THAT IS WITHIN THE STATUTORY LIMITS. IT MAY VACATE A SENTENCE, HOWEVER IF IT WAS IMPO… |
| 21-5849 |
Jason August Eisenach v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standing plea-bargaining sentencing |
Why did may public defender help the prosecution by delaging the trial so the prosrcution could d
3.why Did my attorney at the last sicond ask me to … |
| 21-5850 |
Lawrence E. Mattison v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law equal-protection federal-employment federal-law policy-procedure race-discrimination racial-discrimination |
1. Whether, and in what circumstances, this Federal employer may use a Substantive Procedure contrary (repugnant) to Federal law and DVA Policy & Proc… |
| 21-485 |
Oklahoma v. Shawn Lee McDaniel |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-01 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection indian-country mcgirt-precedent mcgirt-v-oklahoma non-indian-defendants state-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country.
2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.C… |
| 21-5808 |
In Re Tommy Rutledge |
|
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-mandate mandate procedural-review res-judicata sentencing supreme-court-order vacatur |
When a District Court Judge has executed a mandate of the United States Supreme Court by vacating a charge and its sentence, can that same Judge reins… |
| 21-5810 |
Mandell Rhodes, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law constitutional-law criminal-justice double-jeopardy fifth-amendment good-conduct-time legislative-intent parole prisoner-rights sentencing |
1). Was petitioner written a Califia hcale Appralablly
Lo Meni Mthethsr Lhe EE ee don
REFUSED fo Conatrue 02 anabyge Led of une 11, 1185,
Li" Lag, RS,… |
| 21-5812 |
Carlos Velazquez-Fontanez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) actual-innocence crime-of-violence davis-precedent davis-v-us first-step-act jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing sentencing-review |
"WHETHER THE U.S. FIRST CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN FAILING TO FIND THAT APPELLANT CARLOS VELAZQUEZ-FONTANEZ IS "ACTUALLY INNOCENT" OF VIOLATING… |
| 21-5815 |
Jose Antonio Morales v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5816 |
Ronald Peden v. Democratic National Committee, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights dismissal-on-merits due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-conduct media-filtering political-preference preliminary-injunction prudential-standing res-judicata standing |
1. Are Federal judges at liberty to unilaterally issue rulings and orders based on personal political preferences, in addition to race and class bias,… |
| 21-5822 |
Tahji Antonio Eley, et al. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act-robbery section-924(c) sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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). |
| 21-5792 |
Karl Roye v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-amendment-violation constitutional-law criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-life-without-parole miller-v-alabama sentencing |
Whether the Second Circuit erred, in violation of the Eighth Amendment, when it concluded that Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012) condoned the imp… |
| 21-5797 |
George Verkler v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct plea-agreement presumption-of-innocence right-to-appeal right-to-counsel sentencing |
Does the presumption of innocence and due process mean that if a judge will not read what a defendant in a criminal case submits to the court, or if t… |
| 21-5800 |
Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard Atkins-v-Virginia clinical-assessment clinical-standards conflict-between-lower-courts constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing death-penalty intellectual-disability national-concern sub-average-intellectual-functioning |
Did Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), require the use of clinical standards for the determination of sub-average intellectual functioning? |
| 21-466 |
Eric DeWayne Cathey v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-criteria medical-standards precedent supreme-court-precedent |
Whether, in rejecting the detailed factfindings and legal conclusions of a state habeas trial court, disregarding medically accepted standards, and de… |
| 21-5775 |
Peter George Noe, aka Ghost v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5779 |
Morris Kent Thompson v. Jennifer Leppek Cerato, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Natalie A. Richards-Thompson |
Florida |
2021-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection government-misconduct judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight legal-fraud separation-of-powers |
1. Have the attorney's and court committed a management override of the Constitution?
2. When fraud and attorney misconduct is present is the court r… |
| 21-5782 |
Cenobio Humberto Herrera, Sr., aka Bert Herrera, aka Cenobio Herrera Lanz, aka Cenobio Humberto Lanz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure custodial-status district-court methamphetamine methamphetamine-production ninth-circuit pseudoephedrine section-3553a sentencing sentencing-discretion |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to vacate the district court's order because the court based its analysis on two clearly erroneous facts—the a… |
| 21-5783 |
Brian D. Smith v. Montana |
Montana |
2021-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal post-conviction procedural-default right-to-counsel sentencing |
Is a motion to withdraw guilty plea considered a "critical Stage" requiring the assistance of counsel for a person "too poor" to hire one at the follo… |
| 21-5787 |
In Re Randall Thomas McArty |
|
2021-09-24 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus parole sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
1. Whethe the prima fai requiement in 28uss 2244() wud funtion
enn renen ennt f a sentn ot ld l dee etio
of nelease or paude.
2). Whether 28 usc 246 … |
| 21-5788 |
Paul Joseph Begnoche, Sr. v. Melinda Adams, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mercer, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-neglect judicial-partiality jurisdiction statutory-jurisdiction third-circuit |
This case before the Honorable Court through its Materiality of (5) years of impermissible Inordinate Delays presents important issues in the interest… |
| 21-5730 |
Shikeb Saddozai v. Kristen Esterheld, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-review section-1983 standing |
Whether plaintiff's claims are cognizable under 42 U.S.C.S.
1983; 1985; 1986; 1988, as well as Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and
Fourteenth Amendments to th… |
| 21-5745 |
Juan Francisco Turcios v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-appeal right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-stage trial-counsel |
(1) .Was reversible error, committed pursuant to; STRICKLAND
vs.WASHINGTON; MAPLE vsTHOMAS; UNITED STATE vs.HILLSMAN : ,
when trial counsel abandoned … |
| 21-5747 |
Juan Carlos Osorto v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history due-process equal-protection federal-agencies immigration-law noncitizen-rights noncitizens sentencing-guidelines |
In 2016, the United States Sentencing Commission promulgated United States Sentencing Guideline (USSG) § 2L1.2(b)(3), which applies exclusively to non… |
| 21-5755 |
Kevin L. Frost v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-factors constitutional-rights due-process mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Petitioner contends that the sentencing court
did not follow the proper statutory procedure with
the improper weighing of mitigating and aggravating… |
| 21-5756 |
Gettus Leroy Mintz v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection false-testimony forensic-evidence grand-jury sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5715 |
Ronald George Whitehouse v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof co-defendant criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process fifth-circuit probation-officer reversible-error sentencing |
1.
THE PETITIONER OBJECTED TO THE PROBATION
OFFICER'S CONCLUSION THAT THIS DEFENDANT WAS
RESPONSIBLE TO 10 KILOS OF METHAMPHETAMINE AS
A RESULT OF GIV… |
| 21-5735 |
Juan Manuel Lira-Salinas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process fifth-circuit sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of
production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's
Due Process … |
| 21-5737 |
Elizabeth Maya v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company |
Florida |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equity equity-principle fair-trial legal-proceedings takings |
These case is of great public importance raise the question whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United State Constitution has been igno… |
| 21-5738 |
Daniel Jose Gomez v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-trial statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-425 |
Riccardo Green v. Washington State Employment Security Department |
Washington |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection motion-for-reconsideration petition-for-review sanctions state-supreme-court us-constitution washington-state-constitution |
1. Whether or not the Washington State Supreme Court erred in judgement & abused discretion when it failed/refused to grant the Petition for Review un… |
| 21-5712 |
George Ferrer Sanchez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion right-to-appeal sentencing |
Across all federal circuits, the courts of appeals have held that, as part of a plea agreement with the government, a criminal defendant can waive his… |
| 21-5717 |
Brandon Demon Blackmon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault criminal-law guidelines sentencing statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 21-5723 |
Juan Manuel Pardo-Oseguera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure plain-error presentence-report safety-valve sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-minimum weapons-enhancement |
A defendant in a federal criminal case, under the appropriate circumstances, is eligible for a reduction of 2 offense levels and to be sentenced witho… |
| 21-5724 |
Devin Lee Rintye v. California |
California |
2021-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel miller-v-alabama mitigating-evidence sentencing youth youth-mitigation |
Does a State Court Violate a defendant's due process rights, in light of U.S. Supreme Court rulings in Appendix: New Jersey and Miller YAUW the Court … |
| 21-5690 |
Pedro Zavala-Armendariz v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(f) appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-discretion safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court err by not adequately explaining its ruling in applying or not applying the safety valve in connection with 18 U.S.C. §3553(f)? |
| 21-5710 |
Charles L. Fieldgrove v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. |
Nebraska |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
A Criminal Defendant's initial Habeas Corpus action, filed for the purpose determining the validty of the statutes convicted and sentence under, as be… |
| 21-5678 |
Shawn Kelly Thomason v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law court-practice due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure pronoun-usage transgender-rights |
It is common practice for courts to refer to transgender litigants using their pronouns. Since at least 1980, the Eighth Circuit has issued opinions t… |
| 21-5693 |
Eleno Guillen-Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing Sixth-Amendment supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5694 |
Shawn Travis Paschal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights elements-of-offense federal-sentencing maximum-sentence minimum-sentence sentencing |
I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be treated as elements of the defendant's offense for constitutio… |
| 21-5666 |
William Marcellus Campbell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment abuse-of-discretion appellate-review confrontation-clause cooperating-witness criminal-procedure de-novo-review sentencing |
1. There is a split in the federal courts of appeals and several state courts regarding the following question: Whether a Defendant's 6th Amendment Co… |
| 21-5675 |
Jayson Neil Sparks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigenous-rights jurisdiction native-american-law sentencing |
WAS PETITIONER NOT OWED THE MIMISTERIOL DUTY BU THE JS. DIBTRICT COURT OF A FOL AND FOIR HEARING OF TUE FIIED S ZZSY LOBEAS CRPUS?
ACCORDING TO US. C… |
| 21-5676 |
Patsy Naomi Sakuma v. Association of Condominium Homeowners of Tropics at Waikele, et al. |
Hawaii |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process equal-protection foreclosure foreclosure-proceeding jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge mootness |
(1) Whether the Intermediate Court of Appeals for the State of Hawaii improperly applied mootness to dismiss the case by bypassing the federal questio… |
| 21-5662 |
Bishop Ruben DeWayne v. United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment free-speech |
1. Whether or not the lower court's denial of the Petitioner's guaranteed rights as published under provision outlined in the Bill of Rights departed … |
| 21-5647 |
Adolphus Symonette v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-proceeding certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court-discretion habeas-corpus post-offense-rehabilitation reasonable-jurists resentencing sentencing |
Whether reasonable jurists would find the district court's decision to vacate Count 3 of the second superseding indictment while simultaneously denyin… |
| 21-5649 |
Javon Pierre Shelby v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky discriminatory-purpose equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes racial-bias racial-discrimination step-three-finding |
When a trial court denies a Batson motion as to one juror at step one and then, in response to a second Batson motion as to a subsequently struck juro… |
| 21-393 |
Sanford A. Mohr, et ux., Individually and as Co-Trustees of Their October 15, 1996 Unrecorded Revocable Trust v. MLB, SUB I, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure hawaii-law quiet-title summary-judgment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii denied Petitioners Mohrs' Constitutional ri… |
| 21-386 |
Andre Barnaby, et al. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
18-usc-924 attempted-robbery circuit-split crime-of-violence hobbs-act section-924c sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether attempted robbery under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, qualifies as a "crime of violence," meaning that it "has as an element the use, attem… |
| 21-387 |
George Berka v. City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. |
Connecticut |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure blight-citation civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection municipal-law property-rights |
Did the subject, February 14th; 2018 Blight Citation that the Defendant City had issued to. the Plaintiff, violate many of the Plaintiffs important co… |
| 21-5610 |
Willie M. Hardy, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender confession crime-of-violence criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions malicious-wounding sentencing sentencing-factor sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Whether Virginia Code 18.2-51, malicious wounding, is a a crime of violence.
2. Whether acquitted conduct is a proper sentencing factor.
3. Wheth… |
| 21-5625 |
Phillip Shawn Horton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation legal-conflict procedural-review remand remand-order sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent |
I. Should this Court should grant review to determine whether the opinion of the court below conflicts with this Court's decisions in Witte v. United … |
| 21-5626 |
Carnell Fitzpatrick v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process equal-protection incarceration prison-library-access |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5628 |
Danny W. Alcoser v. Court of Appeals of Texas, Tenth District |
Texas |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law judicial-procedure procedural-rights standing supreme-court-review texas-family-code texas-supreme-court |
Did the Texas Supreme Court deprive the petitioner from obtaining the Equal Protection of a procedural right under the Due Process of law, specificall… |
| 21-5632 |
Eliseo Carrillo, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons criminal-law district-court due-process liberty liberty-interest mental-health sentencing supervised-release upward-departure |
Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by upward departing in re-sentencing Peti… |
| 21-5636 |
Peter Hurley v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process evidence-preservation government-misconduct plea-bargaining sentencing |
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| 21-5637 |
Vinicio Jesus Garcia v. Darryl Glenn, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-resources due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus inmate-rights legal-access standing |
DOES THE DENIAL OF THE RIGHT TO FILE A §2254 HABEAS PETITION OF A CLAIM AND AN INJURY?
IS THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL DENIAL OF SUPPLIES TO INCARCERATED I… |
| 21-5638 |
Davin Griffin v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights due-process factual-innocence first-step-act habeas-corpus sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the lower court courts denial of relief in a habeas corpus petition pursuant to
28 U.S.C. 2241 ON THE QUESTION OF FACTUAL AND ACTUAL INNOCE… |
| 21-5639 |
Siliaivaoese Fuimaona v. D. Hudson, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences criminal-appeal custody federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-5588 |
Ivan Goodlaw v. California |
California |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination standing takings |
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| 21-5589 |
Michael Lee Gordon v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel sentencing standing |
1. whether the United States District Court or not has jurisdiction to grant Habeas Corpus relief for WNH pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2241
2. whether or no… |
| 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… |
| 21-5601 |
Abdullah Hamidullah v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
colloquy constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing |
1. DID. THE DISTRICT'COURT VIOLATE THE DEFENDANT'S SUBSTANTIAL DUE
PROCESS RIGHTS DURING THE MANDATORY RULE 11 COLLOGUY?
2. DID THE COURT ERR WHEN TH… |
| 21-5603 |
Alphonse Gainer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeal appellate-discretion criminal-justice criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit first-step-act motion-for-reconsideration motion-reconsideration sentence-reduction sentencing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion in denying Gainer's Motion for Reconsideration of Denial of … |
| 21-376 |
Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. v. Chad Everet Brackeen, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Response WaivedRelisted (5) |
10th-amendment anticommandeering article-iii-standing equal-protection indian-child-welfare-act placement-preferences recordkeeping standing tenth-amendment |
1. Whether various provisions of ICWA —namely, the minimum standards of Section 1912(a), (d), (e), and (f); the placement-preference provisions of Sec… |
| 21-377 |
Cherokee Nation, et al. v. Chad Everet Brackeen, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Response WaivedRelisted (5) |
anti-commandeering child-welfare civil-rights equal-protection indian-child-welfare-act morton-v-mancari placement-preferences spending-clause state-commandeering tribal-rights |
In 1978, Congress enacted the Indian Child Welfare Act ("ICWA") to remedy the "alarmingly high percentage of Indian families [being] broken up by the … |
| 21-378 |
Texas v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (5) |
anti-commandeering anticommandeering child-custody child-custody-proceedings commerce-clause equal-protection indian-child-welfare-act indian-commerce-clause nondelegation nondelegation-doctrine |
The Indian Child Welfare Act, 25 U.S.C. § § 1901- 63 (ICWA), creates a child -custody regime for "Indian children," a status defined by a child's gene… |
| 21-5584 |
Guerly Alexis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit equal-protection fair-sentencing-act first-step-act sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant whose offense preceded the enactment of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, and who was sentenced after its enactment, but not necess… |
| 21-5574 |
Walter Manuel Marques-Mejia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-5581 |
Raoul Lafond v. Richard S. Glaser, Jr., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing |
1. The supreme court In NEITZKE, Recognized that: A complaint is Frivolous if it is, without
Arguable Merit either In Law or In Fact.. Doesnt Theories… |
| 21-5560 |
Gary Lamar Henry v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law pinkerton-liability sentencing supreme-court violent-crimes |
1. Whether Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 (1946) liability, which only requires that a conspirator reasonably foresee the substantive crimes… |
| 21-5565 |
Fortrell Latrae Sain v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cross-examination discovery-violations due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-violation sentencing |
I.
Whether delendant was the ^ deried the Oppurtunity to hry CRoss - examine the key Goveenment witness.
II. Whether remand is requrees to deteemines… |
| 21-5572 |
Kamau Alan Israel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency competency-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense mental-illness plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Trial counsel in this case failed to investigate Mr. Israel's mental illness before his case was adjudicated. But Mr. Israel has been mentally ill for… |
| 21-338 |
Gary S. Christensen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
16th-amendment criminal-tax due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction irs-determination precedent-interpretation restitution sixteenth-amendment tax-liability |
Where no determination of federal tax liability has been made by the IRS and the court of appeals has ruled patently contrary to this court's decision… |
| 21-342 |
Hong Tang v. RuthAnne Visnauskas, Commissioner, New York Division of Housing and Community Renewal, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 appellate-preservation bolling-v-sharpe due-process equal-protection liberty-interest motion-for-reconsideration pro-se-litigation section-1983 substantive-due-process |
1. Whether in 42 U.S.C. § 1983 proceedings, when the pro se litigant initially only
argued his property interest in the complaint and then claimed wit… |
| 21-331 |
Alice Jin-Yue Guan v. Bing Ran |
Virginia |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights takings |
1. Whether state courts violated Petitioner's federal rights by removing her own property of 2% company ownership and $2.3M cash without notice and du… |
| 21-332 |
William A. White v. Daniel Sproul, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-USC-1503 18-USC-373 28-USC-2241 28-USC-2255(e) federal-criminal-law habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge non-existent-offense post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation |
When, if ever, is relief available under 28 USC §2241 and 28 USC. §2255 (e), where a person stands convicted and remains in custody for a non-existant… |
| 21-333 |
Amro Elansari v. Maite Ragazzo, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination equal-protection medical-marijuana pennsylvania standing state-law |
1. Does 14th Amendment Equal Protection apply to Medical Marijuana Card Holders in
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania?
(Suggested Answer Yes) |
| 21-5562 |
Richard C. Curran v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment case-reassignment due-process equal-protection government-interference judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal reassignment recusal |
DID, PRESIDENT JUDGE WILLIAM HARVEY WIEST ABUSE HIS AUTHORITY BY RECUSING THE ENTIRE NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FROM HEARING ANY OF M… |
| 21-5525 |
Thomas Richardson v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstance court-martial death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief rompilla-standard rompilla-v-beard |
Whether the Nevada Supreme Court misapplied the law by failing to examine or analyze the failure of counsel to investigate readily available informati… |
| 21-5532 |
Guy Harvey Spruhan, IV v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
equal-protection non-delegation-doctrine retroactive-relief retroactive-sentence-reduction sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act separation-of-powers |
1. Is the limitation in U.S.S.G. § 1B1.10, which prohibits proportional sentence reductions for defendants who have previously received variances or d… |
| 21-314 |
Ed Reynolds, et al. v. Karri Dalton, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Nikki Bascom, and Next Friend to M. B., a Minor Child and A. C.. a Minor Child |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
10th-circuit civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights domestic-violence equal-protection police-duty police-protection qualified-immunity Question not identified. section-1983
21-313" section-1983
21-313" |
I. Did the Tenth Circuit err in denying
Petitioners qualified immunity on Dalton's
Equal Protection claim where it was not
clearly established that po… |
| 21-291 |
Barbara Silva v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-tort-claims-act personal-information privacy-act privacy-act-1974 social-security-number sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1) Under Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C § 552a.
(2)(c)(d),(6), (9), (10).
a) Is the Agency required to maintain accurate information on
each… |
| 21-304 |
Sharon Brown v. Cherokee County School District |
South Carolina |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usca-1983 administrative-record agency-record due-process equal-protection judicial-review south-carolina teacher-termination |
1. WHETHER PETITIONER'S DUE PROCESS RIGHTS AND EQUAL PROTECTION RIGHTS VIOLATED UNDER 42 USCA § 1983 WHEN THE CHEROKEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF… |
| 21-5511 |
Jose Cesar Sanchez, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne circuit-split criminal-law drug-conspiracy foreseeability rehaif scienter sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Like most other circuits, the Ninth Circuit has long held that an individual coconspirator convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 846 is liable only for the type… |
| 21-5513 |
Christopher Seckington v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
chapman-v-united-states constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-trafficking eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment urine-testing |
Question 1:
What must a Defendant show in order to demonstrate an Eighth Amendment violation where
Petitioner was sentenced to in essence life for pos… |
| 21-5515 |
Kenneth Hairston v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factor criminal-procedure death-penalty felony-convictions ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct victim-impact victim-impact-testimony |
TRIAL COUNSEL GAVE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE FOR FAILING TO OBJECT TO THE PROSECUTOR'S IMPROPER ARGUMENT REGARDING VICTIM IMPACT TESTIMONY USED TO SUPPOR… |
| 21-5508 |
Marc Norfleet v. John R. Baldwin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-U.S.C.-3582 access-to-courts civil-rights compassionate-release due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing indigent-status prisoner-rights sanctions sentence-modification statutory-interpretation |
Upon 8/04/15 (9) Court's Denial of Petitioner's Constitutional Violation of Petitioner's USC Fourteenth Amendment due process Clause, equal protection… |
| 21-283 |
In Re Roland N. Patterson |
|
2021-08-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-discipline bar-admission civil-rights disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process reinstatement separation-of-powers substantive-due-process |
A) Whether Petitioner suffered the violation of his Constitutional Rights to Procedural Due Process when he was denied Reinstatement in 2012, without … |
| 21-289 |
Randall Winslow v. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts certificate-of-merit civil-rights contract-clause due-process equal-protection legal-redress redress right-to-contract standing state-regulation |
Whether Pennsylvania Certificate of Merit Pa.Code Rule 1042.3 comports with EQUAL JUSTICE that the outside of your building proudly displays.
Whether… |
| 21-5491 |
Alton Alexander Nolen v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability mental-retardation |
Whether Oklahoma's procedure for litigating the issue of whether a capital defendant suffers from an intellectual disability that would disqualify him… |
| 21-5494 |
In Re Eric W. Poirier |
|
2021-08-26 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
attempted-homicide court-of-appeals criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process indigent-counsel predicate-offenses sentencing |
Should this Court decide what crimes are predicate Attempted First Degree Intentional Homicide because the Law is not settled yet, nor has this Court … |
| 21-5495 |
José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. |
Florida |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts certiorari discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights |
1. Whether the judiciary of the State of Florida, whose Declaratory Judgment Statutes §§86.011 through 86.111 are appropriate for the occasion, may le… |
| 21-5496 |
José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. |
Florida |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts discretionary-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment florida-constitution fourteenth-amendment petition-clause |
1. Whether the judiciary of the State of Florida, whose Declaratory Judgment Statutes §§86.011 through 86.111 are appropriate for the occasion, may le… |
| 21-5497 |
José Yeyille v. Armandina Acosta-Leon, et al. |
Florida |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts constitutional-review due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-petition-clause fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights petition-clause pro-se-litigant |
Whether Florida Constitution Article V, Sections 3(b)(3), 3(b)(7), and 3(b)(8), Jenkins v. State, 385 So. 2d 1356 (1980), and Grate v. State, 750 So. … |
| 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 … |
| 21-5504 |
Eric Worley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
The Appellant's Appeal was denied on June 1, 2021 by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. In this case, the Appellant raised one (1) issue for determin… |
| 21-5481 |
James Earnest Watts v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Whether Watts Sentence OF Petitioner Withut The Possibit OF Parores Life AI ETE, Loot Committed IAC1 the RAU ERROR Durins Gentecing When Phaud have Kn… |
| 21-5484 |
Sylvia Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law due-process equal-protection firearms licensed-dealer mens-rea selective-prosecution straw-purchase |
Petitioner plead guilty to one count of conspiring to commit straw purchases of firearms (as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(6)) in violation of 18 U… |
| 21-273 |
Buck Gene Brune v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment finality-of-judgment plea-bargaining plea-of-guilty prosecutorial-overreach sentencing |
Under the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause, upon a defendant's plea of guilty, does jeopardy attach:
a. when the district court accepts the d… |
| 21-262 |
The Rouge House, LLC v. 308 Decatur-New Orleans, LLC |
Louisiana |
2021-08-24 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-rights corporate-representation corporations due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis |
1. Whether the fundamental rights of Due Process and Equal Protection guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution are violated when a co… |
| 21-265 |
Oklahoma v. Erik Sherney Williams |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-24 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
criminal-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection indian-country mcgirt-v-oklahoma tribal-sovereignty |
1. Whether a State has authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian country.
2. Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. … |
| 21-5429 |
Pedro Reyes v. Jeff Jensen, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement standing state-action |
1. Whether State action is implied by the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) anomalous codification of C.R.S. § 34-32.5-112 (9) (c) into the Division o… |
| 21-5463 |
Christopher Jonell Tyler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process fourth-circuit government-breach judicial-review plain-error plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the "interests of justice" and this Court's ruling in Puckett v. United States, 556 U.S. 129, 143, 129 S. Ct. 1423… |
| 21-5465 |
Kent Glen Williams v. Alan Stewart, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection free-speech petition pro-se-litigant procedural-requirements section-1983 standing |
Does the United States District court for the District of Idaho Local Rule 342, which imposes only pro se litigants a twenty (20) page limit on civil … |
| 21-5467 |
Michael Denton v. Ron Haynes, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure sentencing |
Ceetificate of Appealalontith Sterting: AppEllant has Not Made A "SubstantiAl Shawing
PEtition andl HIS Habeas CoRAs PEtitin that His SixthAmendment C… |
| 21-5446 |
Robert Carter v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Retreat, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel maximum-penalty plea-bargaining sentencing third-degree-murder trial-counsel |
WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL ADEQUATELY AND EFFECTIVELY ASSISTED PETITIONER IN DECIDING WHETHER TO ACCEPT A PLEA OFFER OF 15 TO 30 YEARS WHERE COUNSEL FAILED… |
| 21-5452 |
Elliot Joseph v. Daniel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel miranda-v-arizona strickland-v-washington |
Whether the lower courts incorrectly found petitioner's petition for writ of habeas corpus failed to demonstrate a substantial showing of the denial o… |
| 21-256 |
Bilal Hamid Love v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard |
Is defense counsel required, in order to provide effective assistance
of counsel, to give the defendant an estimate of the potential guideline
sentenc… |
| 21-261 |
Carrie Rae Eldridge v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights class-legislation direct-tax due-process equal-protection graduated-taxation jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tax |
Does subject-matter jurisdiction exist to enforce the income tax as a direct tax without limitation?
Is the graduated taxation of citizens unconstitu… |
| 21-5418 |
Sergio Bucio v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-role money-laundering role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 |
I.
Whether the district court erred in calculating the amount of laundered funds
attributable to Mr. Bucio.
II.
Whether the district court erred by f… |
| 21-5421 |
Michael A. Payne v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction-challenge magistrate-orders motion-to-reconsider pandemic-impact |
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to accept JunadxtAion <x PPc.ll nnt3 MEA/iornndu aa'1 bk]o\jUin& 4hc.
… |
| 21-5423 |
Shaheen Cabbagestalk, aka James Cabbagestalk v. William Berley, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5425 |
Jay J. Sawatzky v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession first-amendment judicial-discretion racist-paraphernalia racist-views sentencing sentencing-variance upward-variance |
May a sentencing judge impose an upward variance on a defendant convicted of possessing firearms and ammunition as a felon, based on that defendant's … |
| 21-5431 |
Jereme Eugene Mackey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel pre-trial-custody sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN FINDING THE APPELLANT JEREME EUGENE MACKEY GUILTY INASMUCH AS THE GOVERNMENT FAILED TO PROVE AT THE TIME OF ARR… |
| 21-5436 |
William D. Dickerson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-analysis civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-review court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-standard legal-procedure procedural-error sentencing statutory-interpretation |
The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header … |
| 21-5442 |
Jasper Crook v. Robin Shea |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
10th-amendment 14th-amendment 42-usc-1981 7th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation-claim equal-protection judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation treason-allegation |
1. If beneficiaries of the United States Constitution have the right to
prosecute in their own name under Article 3, Section 2 of the Constitution
pr… |
| 21-5396 |
Joseph Arguello v. Jason Ravnsborg, Attorney General of South Dakota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Whither petitiner prsents, " excusing proondural default by :f Cause ohe when respondent heirk not Mortine Ryan daim prosents 6s contrery too AEDPA sh… |
| 21-5409 |
Antonyo Reece v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion pepper-precedent pepper-v-united-states rehabilitation-evidence sentencing sentencing-variance upward-departure |
Whether imposing an upward departure of 200 months to a criminal defendant who has exemplary rehabilitation evidence is incongruous to this Court's ho… |
| 21-5415 |
Jarvis Brown v. Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review standing supreme-court-review |
Whether the United States District Court and United States Court of Appeals 5ir have violated United States Federal Constitutional Rights?
Whether th… |
| 21-5382 |
Nickie Nathanial Rico v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure defendant-objection district-court enhancement objection presentence-report sentencing |
Whether the District Court erred in overruling Defendant's Objection to the Attempted Murder Enhancement in the Presentence Report. |
| 21-5391 |
Jermontae Moss v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment family-violence felony-murder juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Does a court violate Miller when it refuses to consider childhood trauma as mitigating when sentencing a child to life without parole? |
| 21-5400 |
Maria Gonzalez Maldonado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking federal-sentencing methamphetamine-possession minor-participant sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Did Maria Gonzalez Maldonado conspire to possess and/or actually and knowingly possess between 5kg-15kg kilograms of methamphetamine pursuant to U.… |
| 21-5401 |
Shawn R. Wilson v. Douglas Fender, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5402 |
Ronald E. West v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-issue criminal-procedure due-process election-dispute election-procedure judicial-review legal-challenge recidivism rehabilitation sentencing supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5404 |
Maria Teresa Duarte Godinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure disparities due-process judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-waiver waiver |
Whether the appellate court erred when it enforced the waiver keeping the Defendant from appealing her sentence in violation of her due process rights… |
| 21-5407 |
Robin Rick Manning v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process first-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-justice miller-v-alabama proportionality-review roper-v-simmons sentencing sentencing-discretion |
1. THE 4 TO 3 MAJORITY DECISION OF HE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT FLOUTED U.S. SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT i .e. THE EVOLVING STANDARDS OF DECENCY ON PROPORTIO… |
| 21-230 |
William Herman Viehweg v. Sirius XM Radio, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
|
attorney-conduct bordenkircher-v-hayes civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court disqualification due-process equal-protection judicial-impartiality legal-privilege pro-se-representation |
Whether separate attorneys' representing a defendant corporation and attorneys' representing a non-party key witness, mutual claim of a protective leg… |
| 21-222 |
Ferrell Walker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-3583(k) constitutional-provision double-jeopardy fifth-amendment plain-error sentencing |
1. Whether, on plain error review, the defendant's right not to be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the … |
| 21-5386 |
Michael Kenneth Young v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal criminal-classification district-court drug-offense fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offenses |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal err in reversing the decision of the District Court which had determined that Petitioner Michael Young was not … |
| 21-5353 |
Michael Napper v. Artis Singleton, Warden |
Georgia |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5372 |
Jessica Graulau v. Credit One Bank, N.A. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitration arbitration-dispute civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection jury-trial subject-matter-jurisdiction telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Did Circuit Court of Appeal violated U.S. Const. Amend. XII enforced by Fed. R. 1.
Civ. P. 38 & 39 after affirmed the District Court 's decision that … |
| 21-5373 |
Bernard Hollomond v. Tracy Ray, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
confusion constitutional-rights due-process evidence-consideration jury-trial knowing-and-intelligent sentencing trial-procedure voluntariness waiver |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5374 |
Patrina Harrison v. Wells Fargo Bank, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1981 banking-services civil-rights civil-rights-act equal-protection fair-housing-act federal-housing-act home-loan racial-discrimination |
I. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Section 1981 can Defendant Wells Fargo Bank and its Branch manage deny Plaintiff "access to servicing her federal home becaus… |
| 21-5375 |
Douglas Coley v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review counsel-abandonment death-penalty death-row-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review right-to-counsel trial-court-duty trial-court-management |
Can a state provide a rational basis to deny a death row prisoner his right to the state's first collateral, conviction, review process, where the pri… |
| 21-5350 |
Bobby Earl Keys v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process prisoner-release sentencing sentencing-factors standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
DID THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS APPLIED THE WRONGED APPELLATE
STANDARD OF REVIEW TO CLAIM THAT DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED STATUTORY ERROR
UNDER 1… |
| 21-5356 |
Joel Dale Wright v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-law retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-law |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause… |
| 21-5358 |
Leonel Rodriguez-Caraveo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 21-5340 |
Gerald Allen Hiler v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure district-court factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-agreement sentencing |
Does a federal criminal defendant's valid waiver of appeal in a plea agreement bar the defendant from an appeal that challenges the sufficiency of the… |
| 21-5346 |
Genard Alonzo Toney v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-law due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-190 |
Carlos W. Santiago v. Josean Toucet, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appeal appellate-rights confession confession-suppression criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct trial-transparency |
A = If due process of law is violated when a judge in a hidden trial disappears and
erases from his judgment the confession obtained through strong cr… |
| 21-5324 |
Michael Dasean Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process harmless-error rule-32 sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
At sentencing, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i)(3)(B) gives a district court two options for addressing any "controverted matter": "rule on th… |
| 21-5392 |
Jose Raymundo Rodriguez-Yanez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5328 |
James Robert Dowty v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-scene-search criminal-procedure custody-testimony due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment government-witnesses judicial-bias police-procedure sequestration |
Whether the District Court violated the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process when the p is frich (tarticnitJ a metier) per, the jotrp fo iriew th… |
| 21-5311 |
Thomas Morgan Soper, II v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
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*To Avi e?^o<ef^ o£-0lo5u5pes)^ a/J pefts/'sTMt E/ilfiwceirtert&
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| 21-177 |
Danos Kallas v. Theresa L. Egan, Executive Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles of the State of New York |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-enforcement civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection information-sharing low-threshold-offenses police-community-relations public-perception-of-police |
1. "Whether the civil enforcement system should be
modified nation-wide to integrate an educational
option (with limitations for repeat offenders an… |
| 21-171 |
Joel Zupnik v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
' 'entice ' 'induce ' or 'coerce' in 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) require more circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-state-balance federalism interstate-commerce mens-rea minor-protection sentencing sexual-offense statutory-interpretation |
Title 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) prohibits using a facility or means of interstate commerce to "persuad[e], induc[e], entic[e], or coerc[e]" a minor to engag… |
| 21-5306 |
In Re Richard Arjun Kaul |
|
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction free-speech standing |
In continuing to violate Kaul's fundamental and constitutional human rights, does the law strip the judges and the District of New Jersey of their jur… |
| 21-5295 |
Anthony D. Jones v. Michelle Floyd, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance jurisdiction legal-representation sixth-amendment standing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5296 |
Patrick C. Lynn v. Debra Lundry |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-144 administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection physical-injury recusal reverse-error statutory-duty statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-5299 |
John Johnson, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause factfinder-discretion fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-verdict penal-code statutory-interpretation |
Does Texas Penal Code §21.02 desciminate who is an<d.who is not protected under the Equal Protection Clause under the Fourteenth Amendment by allowing… |
| 21-154 |
Nagui Mankaruse v. Raytheon Company, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
I. Whether the Honorable United States Supreme Court must defend our Great United States Constitution?
II. Whether the Honorable United States Suprem… |
| 21-158 |
Bobcar Media, LLC v. Aardvark Event Logistics, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-circuit rule-36 seventh-amendment |
1. Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 36 (wherein a minority of circuit courts issue judgmen… |
| 21-163 |
George Cantu v. Providence Hospital, et al. |
Washington |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights discovery-rule due-process equal-protection healthcare-providers medical-malpractice right-to-jury-trial special-privileges-and-immunities statute-of-limitations |
I. Does Washington State's RCW 4.16.350(3), granting one year statute of limitations after discovering medical malpractice and eight year repose compa… |
| 21-153 |
Nagui Mankaruse v. Intel Corporation, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment amendment-violations bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech |
I. Whether the Honorable United States Supreme Court must defend our Great United States Constitution?
II. Whether the Honorable United States Suprem… |
| 21-141 |
Jaimee Carole Finley v. Jon Mark Finley |
California |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-court parental-rights state-discretion |
1. If each citizen is protected under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, why would any parent, absent compell… |
| 21-5279 |
Ernest Francis v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process good-time-credits habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 21-5284 |
Albert Lamont Hector v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct due-process federal-appeals-courts fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment state-high-courts |
Whether sentences based on acquitted conduct violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause or Sixth Amendment's jury-trial guarantee, a question th… |
| 21-5259 |
James Plas Sams v. Neil McDowell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
class-of-one contracts-clause due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination habeas-corpus plea-agreement police-misconduct |
1. The State may not selectively deny its protective services to certain minorities without violating the Equal Protection Clause. Petitioner's wife a… |
| 21-5263 |
Derrick Edwards v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection government-overreach |
1. Did the Trial court erred in giving erroneous burden shifting jury instruction on manslaughter, (LSA 14:31) in violation of petitioner's right to d… |
| 21-5267 |
Robert Drawn, IV v. Robert Neuschmid, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court-assessment due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standard qualified-immunity reasonable-jurists summary-judgment writ-of-certiorari |
DID PETITIONER DEMONSTRATE THAT REASONABLE JURISTS WOULD FIND
THE DISTRICT COURT'S ASSESSMENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIMS
DEBATABLE OR WRONG ... |
| 21-5268 |
Ambus Ray Davis, III v. Nick Ludwick, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rule criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retrospective-application united-states-constitution |
1. WHETHER ALL NEWLY DECLARED CONSTITUTIONAL RULE OF
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE APPLY RETROSPECTIVELY TO
JUDGMENTS OF CONVICTIONS NOT YET FINAL AND PENDING … |
| 21-127 |
Adolfo Gutierrez Avila Jr. v. Vicki Janssen, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
a person of color violate his fundamental-federal-rights 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct systemic-racism |
1. Where judicial misconduct targeted Petitioner, a person of color, violate his Fundamental Federal Rights guaranteed him by the Due Process Clause i… |
| 21-5245 |
Jamie Patrick Hahn v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
case-record constitutional-rights court-precedent criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-denial procedural-challenge prosecutorial-misconduct vindictive-prosecution |
1. Will this Court review the fact of the Respondent's vindictive prosecution? The record of the case shows the vindictiveness and the lower courts de… |
| 21-5253 |
John David Wilson, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I ENTER THIS COURT WITH "CLEAN HAND" AS A HONORABLY DISCHARGED QUALIFIED SUBMARINER, WHO POSSESSED A QUALIFIED SUBMARINE INSIGNIA. (THIS MILITARY AWAR… |
| 21-5254 |
Baboucar Taal v. St. Mary's Bank, et al. |
New Hampshire |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal |
May a party who appears before a state judge who at the same time is donating to the
political campaign of the defendant chairman be entitled to a new… |
| 21-5231 |
Shaun J. Salazar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-law imprisonment revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum supervised-release united-states-v-haymond |
Whether a district court may impose a revocation imprisonment term under 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e)(3) that, when combined with a defendant's initial term of… |
| 21-5233 |
Abel Guillermo Godoy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process elements-of-crime jury-determination legal-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-factors sixth-amendment |
In Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), the Court held that in a prosecution for 8 U.S.C. § 1326, the fact of a prior conviction n… |
| 21-115 |
Ivan Rosario v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
6th-amendment criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment judicial-factfinding jury jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's right to trial by jury protect criminal defendants from being sentenced bas… |
| 21-5234 |
Melquiades Galvez-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5235 |
Vincent Holton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy conviction criminal-procedure due-process entrapment jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing |
1. Whether t he District Court Wrongly Denied Petitioner's Request for a Jury Instruction on Entrapment ?
2. Whether t he Court Erred by Allowing the… |
| 21-5240 |
Carlos Elias Cruz-Bermudez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-5241 |
Jose Lazaro Venancio Mendoza-Batres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure jury-trial legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5198 |
Dustin Trevino Lawrence v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-judge judicial-bias manifest-weight manifest-weight-of-evidence proportionate-sentencing reasonable-doubt sentencing |
1. When a judge openly admits bias against an appellant in which he was not only the trial judge but also the sentencing, shouldn't the remedy afforde… |
| 21-5204 |
Walter Patrick v. Jimmy Thomas, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection incarceration standing statute-of-limitations |
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| 21-5218 |
Courtney Robinson v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review manifest-injustice procedural-default |
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| 21-5219 |
Bryan James Collins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence federal-statute fifth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit wrongly affirmed Collins's conviction where it determined that the evidence was sufficient to establish that Collins violate… |
| 21-5226 |
Faryion Edward Wardrip v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unreasonable-factual-determinations |
1. Though Faryion Wardrip 's trial counsel failed to present critical evidence
supporting his strategy to spare Wardrip from the death penalty, the T… |
| 21-5205 |
Eddie Mendia v. Abby Harman, et al. |
Kansas |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-liberties civil-rights due-process equal-protection geolocation-tracking privacy privacy-rights probable-cause racial-justice search-warrant virtual-trespass |
Whether, my civil liberty rights; racial Justice; require private
citizens to have probable cause and search warrants to obtain geolocation data,
la… |
| 21-5210 |
Trojan Hart v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-restrictions jury-instructions right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-review shackling |
(1) Whether the district court erred when it shackled Hart and co-defendant Sharpe?
(2) Whether the district court interfered with the right to couns… |
| 21-5211 |
Edwin Artis Pettaway v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process firearm-possession search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing |
1. Was Mr. Pettaway denied his constitutional right to present a complete defense?
2. Where multiple additional errors affected petitioner's convicti… |
| 21-5214 |
Ademola O. Adebayo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment frap-36 |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that strengthens the circuit split created by Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 86, which allows … |
| 21-100 |
Panya Lerdthaisong, et al. v. Benjamin Cunningham, et al. |
Texas |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
due-process equal-protection forum-selection-clause mandamus precedents writ-of-mandamus |
1. Whether the Supreme Court of Texas' failure to follow its precedents in enforcing the forum selection clause by Writ of Mandamus is a denial of equ… |
| 21-5193 |
Vernon Collins v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-division appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law illegal-sentence open-court procedural-claims sentencing |
DID THE NEW JERSEY SUPERIOR COURT APPELLATE DIVISION ERR IN CONCLUDING CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES IMPOSED OUTSIDE PETITIONER'S PRESENCE IN OPEN COURT SOME … |
| 21-5194 |
Benjamin Mario Soto v. Minnesota Supreme Court, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 contract-law contract-rights due-process equal-protection ex-parte-young supremacy-clause |
Judicial officers acting clearly/substantially beyond their judicial capacities fraudulently legislating/extrapolating law deliberately fraudulently m… |
| 21-5206 |
S. J., Mother of A. C. and A. W., Each a Minor Child v. Department of Children and Families |
Florida |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel civil-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent indigent-representation meaningful-review parental-rights |
Whether an indigent Mother whose parental rights are terminated is denied equal protection and due process of law when an appointed appellate counsel … |
| 21-5167 |
Bishop Ruben DeWayne v. JPMorgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
and the right to a fair trial equal protection bill-of-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment standing |
1. Whether or not the lower court 's denial of the Petitioner 's guaranteed rights under
provision as outlined in the Bill of Rights departed so far f… |
| 21-5172 |
Mayra Vanessa Gandara Escarcega v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-procedure sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5174 |
Domingo Cruz-Miguel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent recidivism sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5175 |
Alfredo Jesus Chavez-Portillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5177 |
Skyler Chiras v. Jill Marshall, Superintendent, Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-orders due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5185 |
Lexton Pellew v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal conviction-count criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-review sentence-calculation sentencing sentencing-error |
The petitioner was not charged with aiding and abetting in counts 11-14 but the court allowed the jury verdict on those counts based upon an admittedl… |
| 21-5186 |
Mihran Melkonyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law auer-deference circuit-split deference federal-courts judicial-interpretation regulatory-interpretation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1.)
Whether, as the Courts of Appeals for the Third' and Sixth² Circuits have held, in
conflict with the decision below³ and decisions of the Fifth* a… |
| 21-5150 |
John B. Freitas v. Bank of America |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-violation court-officer-accountability due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct racketeering real-estate-dispute res-judicata void-altered-defective-deeds |
Whether local, state and federal court officers, among which are judges, attorneys, sheriffs, clerks, county recorders and notaries public, should be … |
| 21-5158 |
Miguel Angel Berdeja-Medina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5159 |
Alfred P. Centofanti, III v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus medical-disability pro-se stay-proceedings |
Centofanti is a state prisoner litigating the appeal of the denial of his state collateral review proceedings in the Nevada Court of Appeals and Nevad… |
| 21-5160 |
Rodney Ledell Carter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process parole sentencing sixth-amendment supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 21-5164 |
Larry G. Coker v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process illegal-indictment sentencing sex-offender-registration |
(A) That Judge Hili re-sentenced Coker to 25 years on uct. 2008/ which was 5 tiroes the amount aiioweo dv iaw/ cruei and unusual punishment/ violated … |
| 21-83 |
William H. Sorkpor v. The Harlo Fenway |
First Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights equal-protection fair-housing housing-discrimination minority-rights section-1982 spending-power statutory-interpretation title-viii |
Whether Congress intended the Fair Housing Act to be construed — technically and broadly —to ensure that the Title VIII protection of a minority home-… |
| 21-5142 |
Michael Angelo Williams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether Mr. Williams should have been permitted to withdraw his guilty plea, which requ… |
| 21-5143 |
Cathy Carr v. National Presto Industries, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-reinstatement civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-rights procedural-fairness standing |
WAS THE PETITIONER DENIED FAIR DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION OR OTHER RIGHTS, AND ARE THERE ANY REASONS TO REOPEN OR REINSTATE HER APPEAL? |
| 21-5146 |
Antonio Dewayne Adams v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
The Tenth Circuit's decision is in conflict with decisions from the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Tenth Circuit affirmed the district
court's us… |
| 21-5147 |
Firas Ayoubi v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law descamps-v-united-states divisible-statutes due-process equal-protection jury-selection mathis-v-united-states peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation united-states-v-cardena |
held in United State v. Cardena 842 F.3d997 h Ci. 2016)
Soastomae ts Sections [a(), a), a(3 Seprate Crimes
with their Own elemerts?
#2: was the jury … |
| 21-5136 |
Ledaniel Vernell Russell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10-1-provision civil-rights drug-laws due-process equal-protection legal-interpretation markup-provision metric-calculation mixture-metric opportunity-gain sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 21-66 |
PBS Coals, Inc., et al. v. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation |
Pennsylvania |
2021-07-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment coal constitutional-law equal-protection physical-occupation property-rights real-estate subsurface-estate takings takings-clause |
Issue 1: When a State Agency permanently physically occupies a right-of-way and thereby completely blocks physical access to a subsurface owner's reco… |
| 21-65 |
Yvonne Bowers, Sr. v. Lynx Asset Services, LLC |
New Jersey |
2021-07-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court section-1983 state-action state-actions |
1. Whether violations of due process and equal protection of law by state actions present a constitutional challenge and violates Petitioner's civil r… |
| 21-5117 |
Christopher Allan Allred v. Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial jurisdiction jury-selection standing |
1o Does the U.s. Constitution allov for Grand Juries in state Criminal cases?
2. Per the Hurtao v. California ruling, can states, if they so choose, … |
| 21-5110 |
Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C.-3553(a) advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasoned-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
The district court, on remand for resentencing after failing or iginally to permit
allocution by petitioner, reimposed the original sentence witho ut … |
| 21-5111 |
Joenell L. Rice v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit time-served |
Question not identified. |
| 21-59 |
Carl Gordon v. Regents of the University of California, et al. |
California |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure-act administrative-record california-public-records-act california-state-law daca due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court preemption |
After twice being ordered to and agreeing to do so, the Regents of the University of California (UC Regents) caused intrinsic and extrinsic fraud upon… |
| 21-50 |
D. R. S. v. D. P. H. L., et al. |
Florida |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment government-overreach interstate-commerce parental-rights |
Should the Government, with assistance of family courts, have the sole and final say on the Frankensteining of the American Family? Does this deny bas… |
| 21-5108 |
Victor Willis v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5077 |
Herbert Jonathan Castillo Juarez and Paola Valenzuela Arevalo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-type knowledge-requirement mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-2d1.1 |
Whether the government is required to prove a defendant's mens rea and knowledge with respect to the requisite drug type for penalties under Title 21 … |
| 21-5089 |
Martin Thomas Lawrence v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-exposure sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
1. Whether, in light of trial counsel's express admission that he underestimated Petitioner's sentencing exposure if he went to trial, this Court shou… |
| 21-5094 |
Stanley Jalowiec v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-case capital-punishment constitutional-error death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-responsibility jury-selection sentencing-responsibility trial-procedure |
Is telling the jury that their decision is only a mere recommendation unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
| 21-5096 |
Jaime Martinez-Rojas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-34 |
George Boutros v. Cory Hony, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights district-attorney-immunity due-process equal-protection judicial-review prosecutorial-immunity retaliation retaliatory-prosecution standing |
In California Butte County, District Attorney, Michael Ramsey, perceived the petitioner to be Mentally ill, discriminated against the petitioner, deni… |
| 21-5072 |
Roque Saenz-Quintela v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5073 |
Brian Adrian Sloan v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-jurisdiction equal-protection fifth-amendment indian-country major-crimes-act native-american native-american-rights racial-classification |
Whether United States v. Antelope, 430 U.S. 641 (1977), should be overruled because the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1153—which transforms certain ac… |
| 21-5075 |
Elizabeth Shaw v. Derek Shaw |
Michigan |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-custody due-process equal-protection federal-statute icwa jurisdiction-challenge mifpa tribal-law |
1. In violation of court orders, MIFPA, ICWA, federal law, state law, and tribal law,
the Tribe illegally seized my children from their school and ref… |
| 21-30 |
Cammie L. Marceaux v. Tiffany & Bosco, P.A., et al. |
Arizona |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure-challenge just-compensation mortgage-transfer property property-rights standing takings |
The Questions Presented for review of this Court of last resort. Has the Only Power Enlisted in it to rule upon the Land and the Law 's of this Land t… |
| 21-5050 |
Kristopher Love v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (12)IFP |
court-of-criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment |
I. Whether Texas' Court of Criminal Appeals, the only court of last resort reviewing direct appeals in death penalty cases has decided an important fe… |
| 21-5063 |
Sammy Cano v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-seizure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-discretion witness-credibility witness-testimony |
1. Whether or not the State failed to prove Sammy Cano guilty beyond a reasonable doubt where the only witness to the crime directly contradicted her … |
| 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… |
| 21-5066 |
Aquabeus Moore v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment 924(c)-enhancement crime-of-violence eighth-amendment equal-protection first-step-act fourteenth-amendment hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery |
Whether Petitioner's conviction of Hobbs Act Robbery constitutes a "crime of violence" considering new case law and the passage of the First Step Act?… |
| 21-5068 |
Leonard Griffin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-procedure district-court-discretion family-circumstances federal-statute health-conditions motion-for-relief race sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Griffin's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). |
| 21-5043 |
Carlos Amador Saragoza-Botello v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-challenge sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5045 |
Colvis Jerrod Higgins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alcohol-prohibition criminal-procedure drug-treatment due-process judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-conditions special-conditions substance-abuse supervised-release |
I. Did the district court plainly err when it imposed a special condition of supervised release requiring Mr. Higgins to abstain from alcohol and to a… |
| 21-5046 |
Ira Lee Wilkins v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law reckless-conduct reckless-force sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review tenth-circuit violent-crime |
Should this Court grant this petition, vacate the judgment below, and remand in order to allow the Tenth Circuit to determine in the first instance wh… |
| 21-5058 |
Joseph Andrew Phipps v. Neil McDowell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment aedpa criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses |
1) Does Petitioner have a due process right to jury instructions on
lesser included offenses?
2) Does the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendm… |
| 21-5020 |
Michael Bernard Potere v. State Bar of California |
California |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bar-admission constitutional-rights disbarment due-process equal-protection federal-rights legal-procedure professional-conduct professional-discipline state-bar |
Whether the State Bar Court of California violated petitioner's constitutional and federal legal rights and erred in recommending disbarment. |
| 21-5029 |
Antonio Domingo-Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 21-5030 |
Jonathan Mark Brinda v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process excessive-sentence sentencing sentencing-considerations statutory-considerations statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
A. AFTER DETERMINING MR. BRINDA HAD VIOLATED THE TERMS OF HIS SUPERVISED RELEASE, THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED BY SENTENCING MR. BRINDA EXCESSIVELY BASED … |
| 21-5010 |
Robert R. Taylor v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus state-court-procedure state-court-review subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari |
1. Under the constitutional provisions and guarantees of the U.S.C.14th Amendment due process and equal application of the law, providing that there a… |
| 21-5011 |
Anthony Farmer v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 abuse-of-discretion criminal-justice criminal-law federal-sentencing judicial-discretion public-confidence racial-disparities racial-disparity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether, under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6), a district court can or should consider the need to avoid unwarranted racial disparities in sentencing among de… |
| 21-5012 |
Brian David Johnsen v. California |
California |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process jury reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona sentencing |
Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt the ex… |
| 21-5014 |
John Bruce Fifield, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-history criminal-procedure judicial-notice plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a court of appeals may consider judicially noticeable facts presented for the first time on appeal in deciding whether an error is plain? |
| 21-5016 |
Salvador Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-knowledge criminal-law drug-statutes evidence harmless-error mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement testimony |
1. Whether a federal court of appeals can reject a defendant's testimony denying the requisite criminal knowledge as implausible in determining that a… |
| 21-5017 |
Angel Mondragon Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
GVR |
IFP |
aggravated-felony borden-decision certiorari crime-of-violence criminal-law immigration mens-rea sentencing statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below and remand for further consideration in light of this Court's recent decision in … |
| 21-5021 |
Michael Ray Senn v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Does a criminal law which provides for increased punishment based solely on an offender's status as married violate his or her right to equal protecti… |
| 21-5001 |
Ronald D. Smith v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-proportionality criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement firearms illinois-constitution legislative-revival sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the legislature revived the firearm enhancement in Section 720 ILCS 5/8-4 (B-D) (West 2000) amended by Public Act 91-404 that was declared unc… |
| 21-5007 |
Alphonza Leonard Phillip Thomas Bey v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment citizenship civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection racial-segregation reconstruction slavery state-sovereignty |
What Branch of law authorized the States to are abolished Slave labels (Hest: Blacks Colo ced) to aur Peccon, of African descent, after 1865.A.2.?
A.… |
| 20-8473 |
Beryl Harris McCray v. FedEx Express |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection religious-accommodation sexual-harassment standing title-vii |
The EEO, and Title VII Act of 1964 makes it unlawful for an employee to discriminate against any employee or applicant, regardless of race, color, age… |
| 20-8477 |
Stephen Aguiar v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure article-three case-or-controversy civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing standing supervised-release |
1. WHETHER THE SECOND CIRCUIT WRONGLY DISMISSED PETITIONER'S PETITION AS MOOT BEFORE ALLOWING HIM THE OPPORTUNITY APPEAL TO SHOW THAT HIS APPEAL MEETS… |
| 20-1827 |
Gregory Shawn Mercer v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection guarantee-clause judicial-review standing state-courts supreme-court |
A) SCOTUS Rule 10(b) - Whether or not the Circuit Court of Fairfax County (hereafter "FCCC ") erred by entering its 1/15/2019 "Final Order " captioned… |
| 20-8454 |
In Re Randy Dale Jackson |
|
2021-06-30 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-question rule-of-law standing |
WHETHER PETITIONER DEPRIVED EQUAL JUSTICE AND LIBERTY UNDER RULE OF LAW? HV. 6. CAN8 "Equal Rights Under The Law:" Federal Question |
| 20-8457 |
Michael Izell Seals v. K. Allison, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8459 |
Deon Frederick Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection government-overreach standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8460 |
Marcus Snipes v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
Apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
WHETHER THE STATE CAN AVOID APPRENDI'S REACH BY WRITING ITS PENAL STATUTES SO THAT A FACT THAT INCREASES THE PENALTY FOR A CRIME INSTEAD BECOMES A FAC… |
| 20-8436 |
Michael T. Hughes v. Kim Anderson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection executive-authority standing |
Dow comes An Appellant in this Certiorari to request these High Tribunal to determine whether The Fourthward District of Illinois over asserted US civ… |
| 20-8453 |
Devonte Jaishun Tucker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mitigation preservation preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether a defendant must object to sentencing court's failure to consider a nonfrivolous mitigation argument in order to preserve the issue for appeal… |
| 20-1810 |
Charles Landon Roberson v. Hanesbrands, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection in-forma-pauperis labor-law protected-activity restitution retaliation wrongful-termination |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8435 |
Vladimir Eugene v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment hearsay ineffective-assistance non-hearsay-purpose |
I. WHETHER OTHERWISE INADMISSIBLE NONTESTIMONIAL HEARSAY, WHICH FALLS WITHIN NO STATUTORY HEARSAY EXCEPTION, ADMITTED FOR NON-HEARSAY PURPOSE AND THER… |
| 20-8439 |
Francisco Coto-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-review guideline-range judicial-discretion objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails t… |
| 20-8417 |
David Sutton v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-assault crime-of-violence due-process possession-of-firearm second-amendment sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8421 |
Braulio Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 911-call armed-career-criminal body-camera body-camera-footage constitutional-rights'\n'Issue 4 criminal-history criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 2 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 3 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 4 enhancement evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment firearm fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statements statutory-interpretation witness witness-testimony |
1. Whether Mr. Perez's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when his motion to suppress the firearm was denied?
2. Whether Mr. Perez's Fifth Amendme… |
| 20-8422 |
Wayne Porter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conspiracy-conviction criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
Whether the Fourt Circuit Court of Appeal's sanctioning of the
district court's refusal to correct errors and omissions of facts from
the Fourth Circu… |
| 20-8398 |
Jonathan Jerome Hills v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 criminal-justice criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-step-act judicial-discretion procedural-opportunity sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Whether differences in procedural opportunity arising from the fact that a defendant is statutorily eligible for relief under the First Step Act, such… |
| 20-8399 |
Clarence O. Hopkins v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habitual-criminal mandatory-supervised-release pre-trial-detention sentencing speedy-trial |
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speedy trial violation? |
| 20-8426 |
Bin Yang v. California Board of Registered Nursing |
California |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection expert-testimony government-agency government-misconduct licensing-board standing |
1. Why is Petitioner NOT ALLOWED to withdraw her application from a nursing
board (quit) while she could do so from medical boards?
2. Why is Petitio… |
| 20-8429 |
Christopher Forman v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment burglary conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing |
1. Did the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania defy the due process clause of the Fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution by permitting a conv… |
| 20-8431 |
Brandon Kendale Dudley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the use of the preponderance of the evidence standard at sentencing to substantially enhance a criminal defendant's advisory guideline range c… |
| 20-8432 |
Robert L. Garza v. Donald Kleine, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process judicial-authority judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Does a judge exceed his legal authority by making factual findings by a preponderance of the evidence which expose a defendant to the elevated upper t… |
| 20-1799 |
Hozie Rowell v. Joan Ferreira, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
Did the court of appeals contravene Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) when in affirming the peremptory striking of the only qualified African-Ame… |
| 20-1794 |
Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches, et al. v. Department of the Navy, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts chaplain-selection civil-rights due-process equal-protection establishment-clause government-neutrality religious-discrimination standing |
The First question presented is whether the Navy's grant of unbridled power to reject Non-denominational chaplains to serving as chaplain selection bo… |
| 20-8394 |
Michael Geoffrey Peters v. Barbara Gladden Adamick, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights commerce-clause due-process equal-protection standing |
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| 20-8402 |
Daniel Chica-Gutierrez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affirmative-defense collateral-attack criminal-procedure custis-rule federal-statutory-provision sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines state-court-conviction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal court is permitted to consider an argument that a prior state-court conviction does not satisfy a relevant federal statutory provisi… |
| 20-8403 |
Daniel Jacob Craven, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict |
Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven … |
| 20-8407 |
Daniel Littlepage v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-murder criminal-procedure due-process orc-2945.06 plea-bargaining post-release-control sentencing three-judge-panel |
1. Is the Petitioner's Due Process Rights Violated Due to the
requiring a Three-Judge Panel Violation of O.R.C. ' 2945.06
for Aggravated Murder?
2. … |
| 20-8355 |
Jason Kyle Gee v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jackson-v-virginia jury-deliberations racial-bias standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence verdict-challenge |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8384 |
Pedro Rodriguez-Calderon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-8386 |
Cheddie Lamar Griffin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-rule sentencing statutory-interpretation successive-petition supreme-court |
WHETHER THE CIRCUIT PANEL'S DECISION AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF MR. GRIFFIN'S AUTHORIZED SUCCESSIVE 2255 (UNDER JOHNSON) SIMPLY BECAUSE … |
| 20-1765 |
Donald S. Harden v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
but-for-causation circuit-split controlled-substances-act death-results ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing |
For a death-results sentence under the Controlled Substances Act, must a jury be instructed as to but-for cause if the evidence of causation is confli… |
| 20-1772 |
Branden Edward Shumate v. California |
California |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-client-relationship attorney-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure motion-for-new-trial post-conviction-proceedings right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-court |
I. Whether a Trial Court Deprives a Defendant of His Right to Counsel by Discharging a Defendant's Hired Attorney of Choice Just Before Trial Was to S… |
| 20-8364 |
David Gilmartin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-sentencing earnings-definition economic-circumstances probation-conditions restitution restitution-order sentencing social-security social-security-benefits statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether an increase in a defendant's monthly receipts and revenue from $0 (zero) at time of sentencing to $3000 after release from prison and award… |
| 20-8367 |
Kiera Shanice Graham v. Brooks Benton, Warden |
Georgia |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-representation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing voluntary-decision |
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| 20-8369 |
Clarence Clark v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI as well as this Court's precedent, when it denied Mr. Clark's c… |
| 20-8370 |
Loranzo Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in light of Borden v. United States, -- U.S. --, -- S. Ct. -, 2021 WL 2367312 (U.S. June 10, 2021), aiding and abetting Hobbs Act robbery by … |
| 20-8331 |
Charlene Walker Rosa v. Michael J. Satz, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
attorney-client-confidentiality civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8341 |
Jonathan Huey Lawrence v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment proffitt-v-florida proportionality-review pulley-v-harris |
In the decision below, the Florida Supreme Court held that maintaining conformity with this Court's Eighth Amendment jurisprudence required eliminatin… |
| 20-8343 |
Joseph Jenkins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appearance-of-impropriety appellate-procedure constitutional-review due-process judicial-bias laws-of-case mandate-rule panel-composition sentencing |
On third direct appeal, did the fractionally different appellate Panel plainly err by failing to force district court compliance (mandate rule) with t… |
| 20-8344 |
Harry Sharod James v. Tom Brickhouse, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-admissibility ex-post-facto grand-jury impartial-jury indictment judicial-discretion trial-rights |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment and presented to a grand jury in th… |
| 20-8345 |
Ricky Parkerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-production burden-of-proof confrontation-clause due-process sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's Due Proce… |
| 20-8347 |
Terron McAllister v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-resentencing discretion first-step-act guidelines guidelines-range judicial-discretion resentencing sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether a District Court adjudicating a motion for a reduced sentence under the First Step Act abuses its discretion when a defendant would have a sig… |
| 20-8325 |
Francisco Javier Bermudez-Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-8336 |
Guillermo Vera v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism full-faith-and-credit same-sex-marriage |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 20-8310 |
Kenrick Brathwaite v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-conspiracy jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing sentencing-exposure statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
1. What is the statutory maximum sentence for a conspiracy conviction under 21 U.S.C. §§ 963 or 846, where the jury has declined to make any specific … |
| 20-1741 |
Vincent Tang v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. |
California |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection forgery judicial-process property-rights property-title robo-signing |
1. Are forgery and robo-signing one and the same?
2. Are there due process and equal protection issues surrounding the determination as to whether th… |
| 20-1728 |
Rico Sanders v. Dylon Radtke, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing juvenile-status life-sentence mitigating-factor parole sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether this Court's Eighth Amendment precedent clearly establishes that a sentencing court must consider a defendant's juvenile status as a mitigatin… |
| 20-8284 |
Harold Gashe v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-court-split appellate-review criminal-justice due-process equal-protection extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion section-3582 sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Is it fair and equal justice for defendants who present under that the previously harsh 924(c) stacking is an extraordinary and compelling reason dese… |
| 20-8295 |
Jose Antonio Martinez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law rico rico-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether substantive RICO is a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)? |
| 20-8296 |
Carrington Sturgis v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the memos of the remire were boad against apelent cut or Austaticr
Dathe court abue Hs discretion in 4ailing to addess apellants reguest to d… |
| 20-8297 |
Michael Doyle Ruggles v. David Y. Ige, Governor of Hawaii, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-responsibility due-process equal-protection legal-ambiguity medical-cannabis patient-rights state-law state-responsibility vague-laws |
Does the State of Hawaii have a constitutional responsibility to draft laws that do not stand silent and create ambiguities? Hawaii's medical cannabis… |
| 20-8280 |
Trent Slone v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal drug-possession due-process fifth-amendment firearms firearms-violation presumption-of-innocence sentencing |
1.Does the presumption of innocence and the due process clause of
the Fifth Amendment protect a defendant at a firearms violation
sentencing when th… |
| 20-8287 |
Kenneth Wayne Walker, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-1711 |
Kevin K. Tung v. Janet Yijuan Fou |
New Jersey |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
|
attorney-discipline attorney-ethics due-process equal-protection fraud-on-the-court hostile-work-environment intervention judicial-criticism judicial-misconduct professional-reputation |
Whether the New Jersey Judiciary's denial of the motion to intervene by the Petitioner in the an action on the basis that Petitioner does not have "an… |
| 20-1708 |
Jose Leonel Bonilla-Romero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment notice sentencing sentencing-range separation-of-powers |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment require notice of the sentencing range prior to sentencing?
Is it a violation of separation of pow… |
| 20-1713 |
Symon B. Mandawala v. Era Living, LLC, et al. |
Washington |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1985 attorney-client-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection motion-to-dismiss service-of-process |
As of Matter of Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment right of the U.S constitution^
(1)(a) while racially civil rights action is pending, wi… |
| 20-8274 |
RaySean D. Barber v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-deficiencies district-court due-process equal-protection indigent-claims leave-to-amend meaningful-review prisoner-claims standing |
1.) Whether the district court's finding with regard to Mr. Barber's equal
protection claim conflicted with this Court's governing determinations.
2.… |
| 20-8272 |
Roberto Luis Rene Martinez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights correction double-jeopardy due-process judgment-commitment judicial-correction life-liberty sentencing |
1. When a District Court vacates a sentence pursuant to the United States Supreme Court Decision in RUTLEDGE v. UNITED STATES, 116 S.Ct 1246 , 134 L.e… |
| 20-8273 |
Roger G. Babcock v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-discretion state-law statutory-interpretation |
My name is Roger G. Babcock, and, in 1997 a Florida jury found me guilty of the crime of sexual battery, a capital felony not punishable by death. At … |
| 20-8259 |
Peter James Sorokaput v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement plea-bargaining sentencing wrongful-conviction |
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Hie-, Forced me +o Confess -Vo a crime I d ithric… |
| 20-8264 |
Jeremy Hough v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-procedure procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether, through "assumed error harmlessness review," appellate courts may affirm a criminal sentence without addressing allegations of significant pr… |
| 20-8268 |
Duprece Jett v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights compassionate-release constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sentencing separation-of-powers |
Whether testimony identifying Agent Guy's identifying Def. Dyprece Jett, as one of the two robbers under the Open Door doctrine was harmless error alt… |
| 20-8254 |
Demario M. Peterson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-variance sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Sixth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, and this Court's jurisprudence on the procedural and substantive reasonableness of sentences are implica… |
| 20-1703 |
Martin Dekom v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure-procedure judicial-authority judicial-usurpation mortgage-fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine second-amendment standing |
Can courts alleviate their backlog by letting staffers usurp the authority of judges?
Is the Rooker-Feldman doctrine a safe harbor for fraud?
Can co… |
| 20-1691 |
Paul E. Robinson v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law auer-deference constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review veterans-benefits |
1) Did the court of appeals violate constitutional rights of "Due process " and "Equal protection " when it deferred to the BVA and failed to review a… |
| 20-1693 |
Erick Allen Osby v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether basing a criminal defendant's sentence on charges of which the jury acquitted him violates the Fifth or Sixth Amendments. |
| 20-8241 |
John Doe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
139 S.ct.2369 (2019) Abrogate crcnit precedest 1n U.5. v. Ward, 770 F.3d 1069 (4+h (i2.2014) Gupy +54 Supercised Belease under 18 USC Bevocation Procc… |
| 20-8228 |
John Campbell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery count-severance criminal-procedure evidence evidence-suppression firearm-possession jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Did the district court incorrectly decline to charge the jury on a key element of armed bank robbery?
2. Did the district court err in denying sup… |
| 20-8234 |
Arian Lamont Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-criminal-guideline criminal-procedure en-banc en-banc-review judicial-discretion mandate mandate-recall precedent sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-circuit |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abuse its discretion and err by denying the Motion to Recall the Mandate, when The United… |
| 20-8209 |
Dennis J. Edwards v. Kim Larson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-testimony |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8215 |
Aaron Walton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eighth-circuit guidelines inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that an inchoate offense such as an attempt is included in the definition of a "controll… |
| 20-8221 |
Terrence Lavaron Thomas v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal right-to-counsel right-to-speedy-trial sentencing sentencing-error speedy-trial |
Was Defense counsel ineffective in failing to contest the sufficiency of evidence against Mr. Thomas, as he was charged with assault with a dangerous … |
| 20-8189 |
Heather Dawn Griffith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-distribution federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether, in a prosecution under 21 U.S.C. § 846, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) requires a statement sufficient to show an agreement to d… |
| 20-8198 |
In Re Khayree Smith |
|
2021-06-02 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus property-rights racial-classification reconstruction-amendments slavery |
(negro, black,colored) to any person of African descent after 1865? This act reinstates such persons as chattel propertv and reopens the institution o… |
| 20-8202 |
Otis Hill v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law eighth-circuit inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.2 |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that inchoate offenses such as attempts and conspiracy are included in the definition of… |
| 20-8204 |
Severiano Martinez-Rojas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-review plea-bargaining restitution restitution-calculation sentencing sentencing-procedure vulnerable-victim-enhancement |
I. Whether the Second Circuit failed to follow Supreme Court precedent in Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1897, 1900 (2018) when it enfor… |
| 20-8206 |
Prentiss Morris v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review legal-procedure mental-health sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Can Convicted of alleged Crime be petiticrer mentianed) from retarded (persan) mental a testmany Cbsence of a alane, in the ealuation Detenmine, If al… |
| 20-8178 |
Heena Shim-Larkin v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-455 due-process equal-protection fair-trial good-faith-standard judicial-bias judicial-recusal mandamus-appeal objective-standard pro-se-litigant recusal |
1. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal's criticism regarding the infamous Chicago 7 trial includes that "in comparable situations, the judge likely to… |
| 20-8182 |
Gilbert Sanchez v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
QUESTION NUMBER ONE
The trial court judge in this case states unequivocally that she misdirected the
jury as to the law in this case that changed Peti… |
| 20-1664 |
Jason Michael Jett v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-05-28 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-violation constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection felony-charges illegal-search-and-seizure jurisdiction racketeering state-agent |
we wish for answers to our questions presented in kind and in writing, by mail, in reasonable time, to our address, properly signed and dated, please … |
| 20-1665 |
William S. Palmer v. Harolyn Williams |
Indiana |
2021-05-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
cause-of-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection impartial-tribunal procedural-due-process property-rights standing tax-dispute |
William Shecoby Palmer being the disseisor who have a common law claim of right to 390 Lincoln Street in Gary Indiana since 09/26/2017, and being equa… |
| 20-8152 |
Miguel Martinez-Figueroa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-8139 |
Mark W. Blond, Jr. v. New York |
New York |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment 8th-amendment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus state-court-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8147 |
Hasan Shareef v. William O'Donnell, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights due-process employment equal-protection standard-of-review |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1650 |
Carlos Concepcion v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (10) |
circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing factual-developments first-step-act legal-developments resentencing 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, 21 U.S.C. § 841 n… |
| 20-8121 |
Andy Kejadi Onwuka v. California |
California |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process probation self-incrimination sentencing |
I. Whether the Trial Court Violated petitioner's 5th & Fourteenth Amendment Maximum Sentence Exposure while presenting and basing he him lenient Guilt… |
| 20-8124 |
Lance Mitchell Owens v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. Are courts violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution by excluding defendants who enter pl… |
| 20-8136 |
Ebone Jazmine McAfee, aka Jazzy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review circuit-split sentencing supervised-release supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed two revocation sentences for violati… |
| 20-8138 |
Eddy Pena v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-846 conspiracy conspiracy-liability controlled-substances pinkerton-doctrine reasonable-foreseeability sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Should the Court grant certiorari in order to determine whether under 21 U.S.C. § 846 (conspiracy to distribute controlled substances) it is proper to… |
| 20-8110 |
Lawrence Edward Jackson, Jr. v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection excessive-fines fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure takings wrongful-conviction |
Prosecution at the time of trial of a criminal defendant has a constitutional trial under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment by overseeing mandatory f… |
| 20-1633 |
Frank Salazar v. Anthony Anderson, et al. |
Colorado |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment motor-vehicle-seizure notice-of-dismissal standing substantive-and-procedural-due-process |
This case is important because it involves lower court decisions that flout this Court's binding precedent, and, denies the fundamental constitutional… |
| 20-1628 |
Daniel Tekle v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure void-judgment warrantless-search |
Whether "The right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizers, shall not be violat… |
| 20-8079 |
Kevin L. Martin v. Kenneth P. Cotter, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8084 |
Gregory Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-courts federal-procedure mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 994(h)(2)(B) and the definition of a "controlled substance offense" in U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) require that a defendant's prior offens… |
| 20-8085 |
Michael James Barnes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release covid-19 covid-19-pandemic extraordinary-circumstances federal-statute health-conditions prisoner-relief sentencing sentencing-modification |
Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Barnes' Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). |
| 20-8094 |
Corey L. Johnson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
covered-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy federal-sentencing first-step-act multi-object-conspiracy rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Where there is ambiguity as to which penalty applies in a multi-object conspiracy that is a "covered offense" pursuant to the First Step Act of 2018, … |
| 20-8095 |
Pasqual Lozano v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit petition-for-review prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8072 |
Byron Montijo-Maysonet v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
commerce-clause criminal-law due-process equal-protection internet-crimes internet-enticement minors statutory-interpretation |
1. The enticement of minors over the internet is criminalized under 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b). The First Circuit upheld the § 2422(b) conviction below based… |
| 20-8073 |
Damari Jennings v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alford-plea due-process equal-protection guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-defendant north-carolina-v-alford plea-bargaining sixth-amendment |
Under the requirements of Boykin v. Alabama, was Jennings denied due process and equal protection when the trial court refused to allow him to withdra… |
| 20-8076 |
Tyrone Price v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights community-impact criminal-procedure due-process public-safety sentencing |
Ded Ha dati wach ond appeals Court abuse (ts diseredven |
iM velyrity on Vefertant's Stule puventlhe wruretidas when sf |
boncluded! that Beterwlint… |
| 20-1614 |
John D. Leontaritis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-determination jury-finding jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-proof |
This criminal case's questions concern the impact of jury findings on sentencing. Both recur frequently, especially in cases about drugs. Both are the… |
| 20-1617 |
Matthew Earley v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Can the "burden of proof" regarding inherency shift if the Court (US Court of Appeals / Federal Circuit) and Board (US Patent Trial and Appeal Board) … |
| 20-1593 |
Devon E. Sanders v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography criminal-law disaggregation double-jeopardy federal-sentencing paroline-v-united-states restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Petitioner pleaded guilty to two counts under federal statutes relating to possession of child pornography. One count charged knowing receipt of th… |
| 20-8050 |
Jennifer Van Bergen, aka Gwendolyn Stone v. Scott Koppel |
Florida |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection indigent medical-malpractice pro-se pro-se-litigant separation-of-powers |
1. Does the Florida Medical Malpractice Act's presuit medical expert affidavit requirement violate the 14th Amendment equal protection clause and the … |
| 20-8053 |
William Leroy Sanders v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act iowa-interference-with-official-acts johnson-precedent mathis-analysis mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach residual-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-overbreadth violent-felony |
Whether Mr. Sanders was improperly denied 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief from his fifteen-year Armed Career Criminal Sentence, pursuant to United States v. J… |
| 20-8062 |
Erold Martin Panopio v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing sentencing sentencing-reform supervised-release youthful-offender youthful-offenders |
I. WHETHER A NEAR TWENTY YEAR PRISON SENTENCE FOLLOWED BY A FIFTEEN YEAR TERM OF SUPERVISED RELEASE FOR A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER SUCH AS PANOPIO VIOLATES T… |
| 20-8037 |
Quintin Phillippe Jones v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia constitutional-law death-penalty due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactive-rule retroactivity |
1. Does Moore v. Texas, 137 S.Ct. 1039 (2017) establish a new retroactive rule of constitutional law that Petitioner is eligible for but could not pre… |
| 20-8039 |
Matthew J. O'Neal v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-pornography criminal-law eighth-amendment mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by expanding the scope of the "relating to" language in 18 U.S.C. §2252A(b)(2) to include conduct under a state statut… |
| 20-8040 |
Michael N. Kelsey v. New York |
New York |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-neutrality plea-bargaining procedural-default sentencing trial-rights |
1: Are New York State's procedural rules insufficiently hospitable to a Petitioner's constitutional claims such as here where the Petitioner was deeme… |
| 20-8043 |
Carl Wayne Buntion v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty deterrence eighth-amendment retribution |
If neither of the two purposes this Court has deemed to be a legitimate purpose for the death penalty —i.e. , retribution and deterrence— would be ser… |
| 20-8048 |
James Terry Colley, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment aggravating-factor constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder florida-supreme-court sentencing-scheme |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's expansion of the applicability of our
statute's aggravating factor, Section 921.141(5)(i), i.e., the murder was es… |
| 20-1590 |
Audrey L. Kimner v. Capital Title of Texas, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts federal-jurisdiction mortgage-fraud standing |
4. Whether the California Federal District Court in San Jose and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals intentionally and willfully deprived petitioner of… |
| 20-1586 |
Artavis Desmond McGowan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-conviction evidence first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-relief wiretap wiretap-evidence |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERR IN DENYING McGOWAN'S MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL BASED ON CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT OF THE INDICTMENT WHEN IT ALLOWED THE GOVE… |
| 20-8030 |
Reginald Tremaine Wilson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-asset-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment property-rights seizure sentencing standing |
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| 20-8032 |
Phillip Scott Grigalanz v. Kristi Lynn Grigalanz |
Indiana |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8033 |
Ivan Ignacio Minjarez-Molina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-8038 |
Shawn Grate v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
capital-punishment criminal-defendant criminal-defense death-penalty due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense mental-health mitigation |
1. If a criminal defendant, charged with a death penalty-qualified offense, admit to murdering multiple women, and the only possible defense is a verd… |
| 20-7980 |
Takiese Naceer Bethea v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendants criminal-procedure equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-fairness prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination sentencing |
Does it violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when the African-American co-defendants in a case receive vastly less favorabl… |
| 20-8013 |
Jesus Manuel Anchondo-Quezada v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-8015 |
Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination prima-facie prima-facie-case title-vii |
1. WAS DECISIONS UNDER TITLE VII ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT A PERSON CLAIMING
THAT HE HAS BEEN THE VICTIM OF INTENTIONAL DISCRIMINATION MAY MAKE GUT A
PRIMA … |
| 20-8017 |
Subrina Brenham v. Joseph Kemp, et al. |
Texas |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
i.
Whether the Supreme Court of Texas case no. 20-0246 denial on November 13,
2020 of my (1) right to a rehearing and the (2) Supreme Court failure to… |
| 20-8019 |
Roberto Torner v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process equal-protection new-jersey-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a New Jersey conviction for Aggravated Assault, pursuant to
N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1(b)(1), is a crime of violence for sentencing guideline
purposes. |
| 20-8021 |
Jason Scott Pedro v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-maximum |
Can a significant procedural error be deemed harmless when the sentencing judge uses the statutory maximum as the baseline for imposition of sentence? |
| 20-1575 |
Americare Emergency Medical Service, Inc. v. New Jersey Office of Emergency Medical Services, et al. |
New Jersey |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection property-rights standing |
On June 16, 2019 Superior Court Judge Lynott reversed AmeriCare's license suspension after findings of provable due process and civil rights violation… |
| 20-1576 |
145 Fisk, LLC v. F. William Nicklas |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation judicial-review preliminary-agreement rational-basis retaliation standing |
1. Whether false information, which a city official knows to be false, is a "rational basis" for terminating a preliminary agreement allocating city f… |
| 20-1580 |
Shenglin R. Chen, et al. v. Alvin Turner, et al. |
Maryland |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
|
1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emergency-access emergency-exit equal-protection equal-rights first-amendment free-speech judicial-misconduct |
Question 1. Is freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment?
Question 2. Whether complied/ substantially complied the equal rights?
Question 3… |
| 20-1568 |
Teresa Miller v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process judicial-procedure judicial-review |
Why did the court feel it necessary to order the defendant with a death sentence, so that they would not have their conduct or actions reviewed; why n… |
| 20-7997 |
John Sloan v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts administrative-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-standing medical-care retaliation |
Was Pefifioners rights vio lated when:
a She was not afforded a safe work envivonment while incarcerated?
bo he was a nectie of retaliation seeking … |
| 20-8005 |
Philip Steven Matwyuk v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation sixth-amendment |
1. Was Matwyuks Due Process and Equal Protection and Constitutional Rights violated when trial counsel failed to investigate exculpatory evidence. I.E… |
| 20-8010 |
James Logan Diez v. Google, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
47-usc-230 civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Does 47 U.S.C. § 230 Immunity given to Internet Service Provider violate the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment's Right to Petition, and Fourteenth A… |
| 20-7967 |
Nikolay Vladimirov Sloboda v. Mike Obenland, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction racial-bias sentencing statutory-provisions writ |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7988 |
Robert Allen Poyson v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors capital-sentencing causal-nexus constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing mitigation-evidence non-statutory-mitigation |
1. Is the individualized capital sentencing requirement guaranteed by the
Eighth Amendment violated when a State—whether by statute or court-
imposed … |
| 20-7991 |
Bulmaro Contreras-Figueroa, aka Israel Contreras v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Is the Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury violated when a defendant enters a guilty plea to an indictment that alleges a conspiracy to commit an of… |
| 20-1560 |
Lowndes County Health Services, LLC v. Gregory Copeland, et al. |
Georgia |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection juror-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike race-neutrality racial-discrimination |
1. Whether striking a juror based on allegations of racial prejudice, when unsubstantiated, is not a facially race neutral explanation under step two … |
| 20-1556 |
Dawn Herndon v. Judy R. Upton, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-procedure equitable-considerations habeas-corpus mootness prison-release sentencing supervised-release |
A defendant in a federal criminal case receives a paradigmatic sentence -- a term of imprisonment, to be followed by a term of supervised release. Whi… |
| 20-1550 |
Xiu Jian Sun v. Rudolph Contreras |
District of Columbia |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7963 |
Lugene L. Scott v. Neil Turner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felonious-assault fifth-amendment manslaughter sentencing time-served |
Is the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when a defendant is denied credit for time served when… |
| 20-7964 |
John Riley, aka P. J. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-sentencing district-court federal-jurisdiction first-step-act motion-denial motion-to-modify sentence-reduction sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying the Motion for Sentence Reduction under The First Step Act of 2018. |
| 20-7977 |
Bobby Carl Terrick v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto sentence-enhancement sentencing |
CAN PLEADINGS FROM UNDISTURBED CONVICTION BE CHALLENGED POST ID TIME WITH "NEW JUDGMENT"?
CAN A TRIBUNAL DECISION MAKING TO RETROACTIVELY APPLY A STA… |
| 20-7955 |
Alton D. Pelichet v. Wayne Circuit Court Judge, et al. |
Michigan |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence due-process equal-protection felony-murder fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
I.
Whether Petitioner was denied his right to a fair trial, due process and equal protection of the law, guaranteed by the 6th and 14th Amendments to … |
| 20-7956 |
Bryan Montalvo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure downward-departure federal-courts judicial-discretion motion-for-departure sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether a circuit court of appeals has jurisdiction to review the denial of a motion for downward departure? |
| 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… |
| 20-7950 |
Antonio Serrano-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process felony-offense illegal-reentry immigration-law prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
The default penalty range for ill egal reentry in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) is a sentence of "n ot more than 2 years" in prison. Petitioner was … |
| 20-7929 |
William Rouser v. California |
California |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7930 |
Oscar Smith v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty death-sentence due-process fair-trial fundamental-rights juror-bias juror-misconduct procedural-rules state-court-proceedings |
Whether a state court violates the federal due process rights of a death sentenced prisoner who has asserted a colorable claim of juror bias and/or mi… |
| 20-7931 |
Oscar Segura-Resendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-due-process due-process ex-post-facto fifth-circuit guidelines harmless-error post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-retroactivity |
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| 20-7936 |
Jose Oribel Ponce-Ulloa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines temporal-connection ussg-2d1.1 weapon-possession |
The question presented which has divided federal courts of appeal is whether a sentencing court can add two offense levels for possession of a weapon … |
| 20-7941 |
Kiandrick Onick v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process parole sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-1544 |
Felicia Ross v. Peregrine Health Services, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel counsel-request district-court-dismissal due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process standing |
Did the District Courts err by not allowing Due Process?
Did the District Courts err by not considering the rights of a protected citizen in the rule… |
| 20-7912 |
Jorge Gomez-Gomez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Petitioner's 99-month sentence was substantively reasonable. |
| 20-7913 |
Dallas Jerome Wims v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance-act eighth-amendment first-step-act sentencing serious-drug-offense |
1. WHETHER THE FIRST STEP ACT'S AMENDMENT REDEFINING "SERIOUS DRUG OFFENSE" FOR PURPOSES OF AN ENHANCEMENT FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE … |
| 20-7920 |
Edward Shane West-El v. City of Miami Gardens, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-hearing legal-standing procedural-fairness right-to-travel standing |
1. Why was the Petitioner denied the Right to Travel and had to pay a fine?
2. In Earle v McVeigh, 91 US 503,23 L Ed 398, it says " Every person is e… |
| 20-7922 |
Edward Shane West-El v. Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-hearing legal-standing procedural-fairness right-to-travel standing |
1. Why was the Petitioner denied the Right to Travel and had to pay a fine?
2. In Earle v McVeigh, 91 US 503, 23 L Ed 398, it says " Every person is … |
| 20-7925 |
In Re Clement Mosseri |
|
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
court-access discrimination due-process equal-protection fair-hearing judicial-bias legal-representation pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation right-to-counsel unbiased-tribunal |
1) Is petitioner entitled to a fair hearing before an unbiased tribunal?
2) Does a poor person, Pro se litigant have a right to an attorney without c… |
| 20-1525 |
Lewis Archer v. America's First Federal Credit Union |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-03 |
Denied |
|
equal-protection equitable-tolling non-judicial-foreclosure respa statute-of-limitations supremacy-clause |
Does the fact that there is "no defense for Federal Mitigation wrongdoing by lenders in non-judicial State court " while such defense naturally exists… |
| 20-1523 |
Rolando Cruz, Jr., Marc Hernandez, and Roscoe Villega v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights drug-conspiracy integrity-of-courts jury-selection plain-error-review public-interest sentencing structural-error substantial-rights |
1. The district court excluded the public, including family members, from the
courtroom for the entirety of jury selection. Petitioners' counsel faile… |
| 20-7895 |
David Scott Franks v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-sentencing eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence residual-doubt sentencing wiggins-standard wiggins-v-smith |
Question One
In Mr. Franks's case, the district court found that "the evidence …was so overwhelming that no competent lawyer could be expected to hav… |
| 20-7901 |
Chalin Merrihew v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-7902 |
John Laponte v. California |
California |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-punishment incarceration plea-agreement plea-bargaining punishment sentencing |
Is petitioner entitled to enforce the terms of his plea agreement; 1 .
Is indefinite incarceration constitutional; 2 .
What constitutes excessive pu… |
| 20-7884 |
Roel Gilberto Melendez-Davila v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi-v-New-Jersey case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7886 |
Shirl A. Stephen v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment sentencing witness-impeachment |
D.C. Code § 14-305 establishes the method upon which a witness may be impeached by a criminal "conviction," which the District's case law defines as a… |
| 20-7887 |
Ronnie Spells v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crack-cocaine discretion first-step-act judicial-discretion mandatory-minimums racial-disparities sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation systemic-racism |
Whether District Court Judge Castel and the Second Circuit Appeals Court perpetuated continued systemic racism by contending that Congress left out th… |
| 20-7898 |
Edward Tyrone Ridley v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights collateral-consequences due-process equal-protection legal-stigma sex-offender-registration |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7872 |
Jeremy Darnell Morton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appeal attempt-offense career-offender controlled-substance criminal-procedure guideline-range harmless-error search-and-seizure sentencing |
I. Did the court of appeals err in using the harmless error rule to resolve the illegal search
and seizure of $8,300?
II. Was the career offender gui… |
| 20-1510 |
Louis Tafuto v. Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights electoral-college equal-protection free-speech gerrymandering injury-in-fact standing vote-dilution voting-rights |
1. Is a diluted vote an injury-in-fact when Plaintiff is in a "packed" Electoral College district (New York) in a U.S. federal election?
2. Are the r… |
| 20-1498 |
Kory Alexander v. Alex Jones, Acting Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alleyne-precedent appellate-review criminal-elements criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-discharge first-degree-murder jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sentencing sentencing-factor |
Kory Alexander was charged by indictment with first degree murder with the specific allegation that he personally discharged a firearm during the comm… |
| 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. |
| 20-7860 |
Alicia Marie Richards v. Ryal W. Richards |
California |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-law pro-se-litigant property-rights sanctions statutory-interpretation |
Is the statutory law taking of a person's property arbitrary, too broad and discriminatory under Dusenbery v. United States, 534 U.S. 161 (2002) and v… |
| 20-7865 |
Terry Lee Froman v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-duty death-penalty fair-trial jury-selection racial-bias structural-error voir-dire |
1) Does trial counsel have an obligation to conduct a meaningful and comprehensive voir dire as it relates to racial bias, explicit or implicit, of ju… |
| 20-7844 |
Paul Patrick Jolivette, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion sovereign-immunity |
Did the United States Court of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit Order in " DENIAL " of a writ of mandate to enforce a judgment Registeered and entered in… |
| 20-7849 |
Ismael Lopez v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment accomplice-liability constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process factor-based-analysis mandatory-sentencing mens-rea nexus proportionality-test sentencing |
Whether mandatory sentences, as a whole or in part, are constitutional and should be replaced with factor-based analysis under §3553, in conjunction w… |
| 20-7850 |
Aaron J. LaRose v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance napue-standard napue-v-illinois post-conviction-relief strickland-v-washington |
WHETHER THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ST.CHARLES COUNTY MISSO- I.
URI, THE MISSOURI COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICK, AND
THE MISSOURI SUPREME COURT,… |
| 20-1494 |
Nob Hill General Stores, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collective-bargaining contract-interpretation contract-law due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause ninth-circuit precedent precedential-value publication-rules |
Contracting parties use a "notwithstanding any language to the contrary" clause in their contracts to preclude the applicability of competing contract… |
| 20-7829 |
Edmundo Bustamante-Muniz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit precedent-overturning sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7837 |
Sam Bradford v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence miss-code-ann-47-314 murder plain-error sentencing trial-court |
WheTher PeTiTionER's (Sam Bradford), Due Process of Law when plain error CommiTTed by The Trial CourT in was imposing SenTence for The naToral life a … |
| 20-7839 |
Taquarius Kaream Ford v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process hearsay presentence-report rule-32 sentencing |
When the defendant personally objects at sentencing to a hearsay accusation in a presentence report that he raped a woman, even though his attorney ne… |
| 20-7821 |
In Re John A. Toth |
|
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel standing unlawful-detention |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7822 |
Trevon Wiley v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection non-unanimous-verdict ramos-precedent retroactivity sixth-amendment state-criminal-procedure teague-standard unanimous-verdict |
Does the Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020) applies to cases on state collateral review, where the State follows the retroa… |
| 20-7826 |
Jimmie C. Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights collateral-review crack-cocaine district-court due-process eighth-circuit first-step-act ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-case legal-review motion-denial sentencing |
Whether the district court and Eighth cir. Erred when they determine that m. Joknson 2ass motion was not retroactive to cases on collateral review, Wh… |
| 20-7827 |
Glen D. Plourde v. Stephen C. Bellavia |
Maine |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-bias police-misconduct torture |
1. Opposing Counsel in this case was the law firm of Jabar, Laliberty, and Dubord, LLC, and lead counsel for that law firm is George Jabar, son of Jus… |
| 20-7832 |
Chadwick Marvin Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-procedure extraordinary-circumstances federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
What qualifies as 'extraordinary and compelling circumstances under a Motion for Compassionate release, 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A)?
(2) Does the lower c… |
| 20-7798 |
Christopher Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substance drug-transactions judicial-vindictiveness law-enforcement-officer occasions-different prosecutorial-vindictiveness sentencing sentencing-recommendation undercover-law-enforcement |
I. Are sequential drug transactions over a short time frame "committed on occasions different from one another" for purposes of the Armed Career Crimi… |
| 20-7805 |
Melvin Knight v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (13)IFP |
brumfield-v-cain clinical-standards death-penalty documentation-requirement intellectual-disability iq-score moore-v-texas supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a State may require a defendant to present an IQ score of 75 or below that was "documented prior to age 18" to have his intellectual disabilit… |
| 20-7806 |
Zacharias Christopher Lee v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process constitutional-rights discovery-manipulation due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment impartial-jury sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. THE FOURTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION FINDING
REASONABLENESS IN THE SENTENCE IMPOSED BY THE
DISTRICT COURT IS CONTRARY TO THE FIFTH AMENDMENT
DUE PROCESS C… |
| 20-1473 |
Alan W. Crittenden v. Mariko C. Crittenden |
Georgia |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
|
due-process equal-protection military-powers military-service sofa status-of-forces-agreement subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause treaty-powers |
For purposes of the disposition of Petitioner's constitutional rights (including those with respect to custody of and visitation with his minor childr… |
| 20-1464 |
Rahul Ramesh Joshi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process government-breach government-misconduct judicial-review plea-agreement resentencing sentencing |
WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT'S BREACH OF THE PLEA AGREEMENT CONSTITUTED A DUE PROCESS VIOLATION, WHICH REQUIRED REMAND FOR A DE NOVO RESENTENCING? |
| 20-7797 |
Jorge Luis Rosa-Hernandez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-decision due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-guidelines third-circuit unrelated-misconduct |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Decision in allowing the Government to use unrelated, uncharged mis… |
| 20-7801 |
Cody Lee Herman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and sentencing stages plea constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-stage plea-stages pro-se-objections right-to-counsel sentence sentencing sentencing-stage |
A. Whether Petitioner's Right to the Effective Assistance of Counsel Was Violated During the Pretrial and Plea Stages of this Case Requiring That Peti… |
| 20-7790 |
Rolando Villarreal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
GVR |
IFP |
assault-statute criminal-law force-against-person mens-rea reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-force violent-felony |
I. 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 … |
| 20-7793 |
Edgar Ivan Lira Estrada v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-1459 |
United States v. Justin Eugene Taylor |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (2) |
attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether 18 U.S.C. 924(¢)(3)(A)'s definition of "crime of violence" excludes attempted Hobbs Act robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951(a). |
| 20-7784 |
Bryan Keith Goins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process filing-deadline ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-timeliness procedural-requirements sentencing writ-of-certiorari |
(1) Do my Prior Georgia Code ANN 3 16-3-30 lb Possessis
with inent to Dis Tribute methamphetanine 4 or my
TeNNeSSEe Code ANN. 339r 174 lsE PossEsSiON … |
| 20-7737 |
Marjuan Shondell Fleming v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights crack-cocaine criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act post-conviction right-to-counsel sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the term "Covered offense" in the First Step Act of 2018, includes violations of Title 18 USC 924(c), involving crack cocaine, to which ACCA t… |
| 20-7744 |
Millard Price v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disciplinary-actions due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole sentencing state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7746 |
Miguel Angel Mendoza v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process fair-trial mens-rea sentencing |
1. Whether 21 U.S.C. § 960, which carries a ten-year mandatory-minimum sentence for "knowingly" importing a controlled substance if that substance is … |
| 20-7748 |
Cavin Burns Francis McKen v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto sentencing sex-offender-registration |
Whether the designation of Petitioner as a
Sexual offender
Persuant to Florida 8tatutes 3943.0435 is illegal as pertained
to this Petitioner. |
| 20-7757 |
James L. Toliver v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection harmless-error jury-instructions standard-of-review |
The question(s) presented in this case is whether similarly situated criminal defendants should be treated equally in pipeline cases where erroneous j… |
| 20-7758 |
Benjamin E. Vance v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination |
Did the lower courts violate Petitioner's Constitutional rights under the 14 Amendment to Due Process, Equal Protection clause, and U.S. Amendment VI;… |
| 20-7761 |
Andrew Indelicato Peterson v. S. Butler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements evidence-admissibility felon-in-possession knowledge-of-status plea-agreement prior-conviction prior-misconduct sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Can the distriet Court Use Post offenic conduct for crimes that a
defendant never Served Overa Year in Prison to assume ai defendant
knew his status P… |
| 20-7713 |
Anthony Keenan Sharp v. Lawrence Long, Judge, Second Judicial Circuit Court of South Dakota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence fair-trial freedom-of-speech prosecutorial-misconduct unlawful-search-and-seizure |
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| 20-7732 |
Tina LaSonya Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors appellate-review capital-sentencing constitutional-procedure death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto jury-finding jury-findings sixth-amendment |
ONE: Petitioner Tina Brown sought state postconviction relief from a 2012 death sentence imposed under the procedure subsequently held unconstitutiona… |
| 20-1434 |
Leslie Rutledge, Attorney General of Arkansas, et al. v. Little Rock Family Planning Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
GVR |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
abortion abortion-rights civil-rights disability down-syndrome due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-ethics prenatal-diagnosis selective-abortion state-prohibition |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment bars States from prohibiting abortions that are sought solely because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. |
| 20-1428 |
Tammy Noergaard v. Christian Noergaard |
California |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hague-convention judicial-review jurisdiction trial-costs trial-delays trial-jurisdiction |
1. Does a reviewing Court retain jurisdiction to review lower court decisions for due process violations under the Due Process and Equal Protection Cl… |
| 20-7720 |
Corey Denard Thomas v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-rules sentencing standing state-court-procedure |
ARE FEDERAL COURTS ALLOWED TO INTERFERE WITH PENDING STATE COURT PROCEEDINGS?
DOES CONVICTION AND SENTENCES ON ALL COUNTS BECOME THE FINAL JUDGMENT O… |
| 20-7722 |
Charles Erskine Church v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism marriage same-sex |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7723 |
Dangelo Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-endeavor criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-amount drug-charges due-process RICO sentencing sixth-circuit |
I. DID THE DECISION OF THE COURTS APPEALS THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERR WHEN CONCLUDING THAT DAVIS NOWAK'S GOAL OF FURTHERING OR FACILITATING THE CRIMINAL ENT… |
| 20-7725 |
Todd Glenn Dean v. F. Entzel, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-exhaustion bivens-claims civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-violation due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7726 |
James Ray Davis v. Gary Musselwhite, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure discovery due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure motion-to-dismiss sentencing 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 … |
| 20-7702 |
Covia Dzell Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-errors fair-trial fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance right-to-present-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I.
Whether trial counsel's ineffective assistance deprived Mr. Smith of the right to offer evidence in his defense.
II.
Whether the district court's … |
| 20-7696 |
Hamid Reza Ardaneh v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discriminatory-arrest due-process equal-protection false-arrest false-indictment forced-medication human-rights malicious-prosecution selective-prosecution |
1- Why Discriminated and absolutely illegal arrested the defendant?
2- Why Discriminated and absolutely illegal Jailed the defendant?
3- Why by allege… |
| 20-1423 |
Robert Grundstein v. Vermont Board of Bar Examiners |
Vermont |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bar-admission character-and-fitness civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights separation-of-powers |
What Levels of Due Process are Required for Bar Admission?
Can A State Impose a Five Year Maximum Between Date Applicant Graduates from Law School an… |
| 20-1413 |
Debra M. Brown v. Federal National Mortgage Association |
Massachusetts |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-constraints delegation-of-authority due-process equal-protection foreclosure housing-court land-court mortgage-backed-securities servicer-responsibilities state-action takings |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7694 |
Eusebio Escobar de Jesus v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release due-process fifth-amendment first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the denial of Petitioner's Motion for Compassionate Release under the First Step Act, which the Distri… |
| 20-7695 |
Gregory D. Jones v. Andrew Tilden, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-7672 |
James Michael Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault child-abuse criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing serious-bodily-injury |
WHETHER, AFTER A DEFENDANT PLEADS GUILTY TO FELONY CHILD ABUSE, THE GOVERNMENT MAY STILL PURSUE A CHARGE OF ASSAULT RESULTING IN SERIOUS BODILY INJURY… |
| 20-7682 |
Antoine Barnes v. Salinas Superior Court Judge |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection firearms first-amendment jurisdiction legal-provisions standing supreme-court writ |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7683 |
Paul Wesley Baker v. California |
California |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-standard equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review |
When the defense challenges a prosecutor's exercise of a peremptory strike of a prospective juror under Batson v. Kentucky, 487 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 171… |
| 20-1405 |
Tarek Farag v. Ali Waqas |
Illinois |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief judicial-discretion legal-procedure religious-freedom religious-law |
Whether Sharia is contrary to Our Constitution and laws?
Whether Sharia is untouchable?
Whether the Court erred in not granting the injunction and n… |
| 20-1396 |
Walter A. Tormasi v. Western Digital Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process equal-protection inmate-access patent patent-rights property-rights standing state-agencies takings |
Does imprisonment (1) forfeit a patent owner's right not to be deprived of personal property without due process of law and (2) render a person wholly… |
| 20-7656 |
James Robert Monson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights intentional-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing united-states-attorney |
1. Whether the United States Attorney Offices' standard appeal waiver violates due process of law where, subsequent to the defendant signing the waive… |
| 20-7665 |
Donald David Dillbeck v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty due-process evolving-standards habeas-corpus medical-evidence mental-health post-conviction post-conviction-relief scientific-advancements scientific-evidence |
1) What constitutes diligence in raising newly discovered medical and/or mental health evidence and diagnoses?
2) Are capital defendants confined to … |
| 20-7671 |
Ronald E. Johnson v. Derek Schmidt, Attorney General of Kansas, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process kansas-supreme-court mandatory-minimums mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-modification sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
Was Astorga v. Kansas remanded back to the Kansas Supreme Court for the purpose of correcting with the Mandatory Sentence modification of Hard 40/50 p… |
| 20-7655 |
Lisa Bershan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure downward-departure judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines variances |
Should this Court should grant certiorari in order to resolve the following conflict among the circuits: Is a sentencing judge required specifically t… |
| 20-1387 |
In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam |
|
2021-04-05 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-241-245-249 42-usc-1983 access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct property-rights |
1. Whether denial of my fundamental right to
protection provided by the law, denial of my rights
to private property, personal security, health,
re… |
| 20-7629 |
Robert Earl Martin v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states legal-precedent residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether application of Johnson to the virtually identical residual clause in § 3559(c) does not require a new rule of constitutional law, but merely r… |
| 20-7637 |
Derrick Gregory James v. Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
corrections-department cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentence-modification sentencing |
Can A Stale Corrections Arbitrarily Change A Defendant 's Prison Sentence
Nearly Two Decades Later, Even After Having Initionaliy Structured Said Cou… |
| 20-7648 |
Kesner V. Joaseus, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age constitutional-law criminal-justice culpability due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing |
Whether the proportionality principle & the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution has been violated by the sentencing court's failure to take into… |
| 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 … |
| 20-7639 |
Joseph A. Harris v. Michael Pacheco, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation corrections department-of-corrections due-process inmate-rights judicial-authority judicial-review sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers |
1.) Is the Department of Corrections above the Judicial Branch in such a way that it may increase a judicially given Maximum sentence without judicial… |
| 20-7640 |
Nicholas Corey Garner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure email-search ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report restitution search-and-seizure sentencing sixth-circuit |
Was Counsel constitutionally ineffective when he failed to challenge the search of Petitioner's vehicle in violation of Petitioner's Fourth Amendment … |
| 20-7645 |
Joshua Horn v. Walmart Stores, Inc. |
California |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-administration-of-justice judicial-misconduct liberty-interest racial-discrimination systemic-racism |
1. Whether, in accordance with this Court's directive regarding the interpretation of due process and equal protection, the trial court's awarded judg… |
| 20-7615 |
Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case constitutional-claims criminal-procedure death-penalty equal-protection florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus penalty-phase procedural-history retroactivity supreme-court-review |
Whether Petitioner was denied equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the Florida Supreme Court decline… |
| 20-7616 |
Deshun Thomas v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
constructive-denial cronic cronic-standard effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-strategy |
Is a defendant constructively denied the assistance of counsel under United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (1984), when trial counsel tells the jury t… |
| 20-1369 |
Mohammed Jabateh v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-criminal-rule federal-criminal-rule-52(b) plain-error plain-error-rule sentencing statutory-construction |
Does the plain error rule permit affirmance of a federal criminal conviction and sentence based on conduct that concededly does not violate the charge… |
| 20-7590 |
Billy Earl Parker v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-7591 |
Herminio Perales-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-7592 |
Alan Eugene Miller v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factor aggravating-factors caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment jury-instructions jury-verdict sixth-amendment |
After petitioner Alan Miller was convicted of murder, the trial judge instructed the jurors that their penalty-phase verdict was merely an advisory re… |
| 20-7594 |
Rashawn Donnell Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal conviction criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-7598 |
Marcellus Thomas v. Sonja Nicklaus, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7575 |
In Re Ivory Lee Robinson |
|
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process equal-protection mandatory-minimum sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7580 |
Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing individualized-circumstances judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
whether Formal objection after pronouncement of Sentence is necessary to invoke appellate review of Sentence (Ground Four) and Sentence Prejudice the … |
| 20-7585 |
Charles D. Bowser v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias north-carolina-v-pearce plea-bargain prejudice sentencing |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the issue if the Due Process Clause and North Carolina v. Pearce , 395 U.S. 711, 89 S. Ct. 2072,… |
| 20-7548 |
David Antoine Luster v. Bradley M. Trate, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law career-offender constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7555 |
Anthony A. Patel v. Patricia Miller, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
asian-americans civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection mental-health political-speech state-action |
1. Do the federal civil rights laws passed for the benefit of Americans of African descent after the U.S. Civil War also apply with equal force and ef… |
| 20-7560 |
Hakim Jakuin Morris v. Jocelyn B. Cate, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law due-process equal-protection property-rights property-seizure standing strict-scrutiny |
Why was I denied Substantive & Procedural Due process to challenge the validity of the alleged claims made by DMV, DSS and court officials? Why was pr… |
| 20-7568 |
L. E. Pauli Coffey v. South Carolina |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection privacy sovereign-immunity standing |
Do Americans have the inalienable 14th Amendment right to Due Process?
Do American women have the inalienable 14th Amendment Right to Due Process?
D… |
| 20-7545 |
Tyrone Robinson v. Christopher Buesgen, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
evidentiary-hearing fact-reduction hearing-standard legal-standing plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief procedural-rule sentencing standard-of-review standing state-court-jurisdiction |
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| 20-7552 |
Hugo Rufino Alvarez-Reyes v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection expert-testimony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standing witness-credibility |
1. Where petitioner is actually innocent and being held in violation of the 8th and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution, where such peti… |
| 20-7531 |
Baidehi L. Mukherjee v. The Childrens Mercy Hospital |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
after-acquired-evidence appellate-review civil-procedure due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection hearsay-evidence jury-instructions standard-of-review summary-judgment |
1. Should the violation of Standard of Review for Summary Judgment be allowed to stand uncorrected?
2. Should the violation of Federal Rules of Civil… |
| 20-7532 |
Noel Turner v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure capable-of-repetition civil-procedure constitutional-rights cost-of-suit due-process equal-protection evading-review prevailing-party |
1) Has Turner's constitutional Due Process rights been violated under the
"evading review" and "capable of repetition" standards? Despite the many
c… |
| 20-7538 |
Frankie Lewis Jones v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment interstate-agreement personal-detention probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing statute-of-limitations warrantless-search |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1330 |
June M. Domino v. California Correctional Health Care Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection government-misconduct pattern-of-discrimination racial-discrimination retaliation title-vii |
1) Seven (7) government agencies failed in applying Title VII
mandates as outlined in our United States Constitution; Was
this a coordinated effort … |
| 20-1322 |
Michael Neely v. The Boeing Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
administrative-action administrative-law age-discrimination civil-rights dodd-frank due-process equal-protection sarbanes-oxley standard-of-review whistleblower-rights |
1) Do Whistleblowers have a right to the equality of
standard review under law, when the adverse effect
dismisses the entire causes of action?
2) Do … |
| 20-1331 |
Arthur J. Clemens, Jr. v. Local One Service Employees International Union, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights class-counsel constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies first-amendment free-speech labor standing union union-governance |
1. Should 29 USC 481(c) be declared Unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and the case remanded to the Eighth Circuit or the Trial Court with instruct… |
| 20-1319 |
Victor Manuel Solorzano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-review plain-error search-and-seizure unreasonable-search |
For the first time on appeal, Mr. Solorzano raised a Fourth Amendment claim objecting to a state order to place a tracking device on his vehicle. He c… |
| 20-7516 |
Josue Portillo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment incorrigibility juvenile-justice juvenile-offenders miller-rule miller-v-alabama proportionality sentencing |
Absent proof of incorrigibility, can a district court sentence a defendant to fifty-five years imprisonment without parole for participating in a exec… |
| 20-7518 |
In Re Jack Stone |
|
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedures-act custody-after-abduction damages due-process equal-protection international-child-abduction passport-issuance passport-reissuance visa-approval-denial visa-processing |
FIRST ISSUE
THE QUESTIONS IN THIS ISSUE PERTAIN TO INTERNATIONAL CHILD
ABDUCTION, CUSTODY AFTER ABDUCTION AND THEREAFTER, FAILURE
OF THE U.S. DEPART… |
| 20-7520 |
Shante Bruce Rice v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-of-defendant constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-sentencing equal-protection equal-protection-clause life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
WHETHER THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPERIOR COURT'S DECISION THAT THE BAN ON MANDATORY SENTENCES OF LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE APPLIES TO ONLY THOSE DEFENDANTS WHO WER… |
| 20-7523 |
Joseph M. Bryant v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-03-22 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure direct-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus non-unanimous-jury ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
This Court held in Ramos v. Louisiana, that Louisiana's non-unanimous jury scheme was unconstitutional. Pretermitting the question raised in Edwards v… |
| 20-7528 |
Jonathan Figueroa-Serrano v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review conditional-plea criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-rules harmless-error plea-bargaining sentencing |
Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(a)(2), a defendant may enter a guilty plea conditioned on the right to appeal an adverse pretrial ruling. … |
| 20-7509 |
Erik Santiago Leon Del Angel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
continuance criminal-procedure defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process immigration immigration-proceedings judicial-error jurisdiction procedural-fairness sentencing sentencing-continuance |
Did the District Court prejudicially err by denying petitioner's request to continue his sentencing so he may first appear in Immigration Court? |
| 20-7510 |
In Re Leonard English |
|
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fairness fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-discretion ninth-amendment |
1) Does any judge have the discretion to arbitrarily pick what relevant written & verified facts to consider and not apply them to governing laws for … |
| 20-1307 |
Michael White v. Donald Knapp, Jr., et al. |
Michigan |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy-exemption bankruptcy-law debtor-rights due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit preemption preemption-doctrine property-ownership property-rights standing state-court-jurisdiction |
When a debtor uses 11 USC 522(d)(3) to legally exempt property from the bankruptcy estate and a subsequent state court jurisdiction ownership conflict… |
| 20-1297 |
In Re Barbara Riley |
|
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-order civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equal-rights judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge slavery |
Is it constitutional for officers of the courts to be creating, selling and buying facially null and void judge's personal orders entered/issued witho… |
| 20-7492 |
Justice Towan Roundtree v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-sentence appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a Guidelines error is harmless when the district judge issues an alternative sentence by stating that she would impose the same sentence even … |
| 20-7495 |
Angel Santiago-Gonzalez v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict |
Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven … |
| 20-7496 |
Maurice Spriggs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-law due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7505 |
Olin Matice Gaskins v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process equal-protection federal-law fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure retroactivity state-court supreme-court |
DID THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA VIOLATE
CLEARLY ESTABLISHED FEDERAL LAW AND PETITIONER'S FOURTEENTH
AMENDMENT RIGHTS WHEN IT FAILED … |
| 20-7506 |
Peter Gakuba v. Terry Grissom |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights conclusory-denial constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection false-arrest federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review standing |
HABEAS 28 USC $2264 ; CERT. OF APPEAL. 28 USC S2253 F.B.CIY.P.RULE 6O(b)(1-4)
PER GONZALEZ V. CROSBY 545 US 524, 125S.CT. 264) (2005) GAKUBAS F.R.CIN… |
| 20-7507 |
Christopher Faella v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2259 appellate-rights eighth-amendment plea-agreement restitution sentencing sentencing-appeal statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum waiver |
Whether a defendant's waiver in his plea agreement of the right to appeal his sentence -- unless it exceeds the statutory maximum penalty or violated … |
| 20-7462 |
Anthony Kirkland v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant death-penalty fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
I. Are a capital defendant's rights to a fair trial by an impartial jury, as guaranteed by the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments, denied when on… |
| 20-7476 |
Jose Armondo Ramos Cabrera v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-appeal criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review two-level-enhancement |
Whether the court erred when it denied defendant's objection to the two level enhancement for possession of a firearm |
| 20-7479 |
Benjamin Velayo v. Cheryl Fox, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment mental-illness rational-understanding reasons-for-execution |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7449 |
Michael Nunez, aka Gordo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a) 3553a-factors appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-review due-process judicial-bias judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-bias |
Whether a sentence imposed by an apparently biased judge, based on material falsehood, disregard of the 3553(a) factors, legally unfounded fixed polic… |
| 20-7450 |
Anthony A. Patel v. Regents of the University of California |
California |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion mental-health mental-health-diagnosis political-discrimination political-speech trump-presidency |
Does the U.S. Constitution permit the State of California to misdiagnose an American Citizen as Suffering from a Mental Disorder for supporting Presid… |
| 20-7453 |
Douglas D. Jackson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation venue |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7456 |
Rafael Ayala-Solorio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-7410 |
Edward McCain v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
case-remand certiorari concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-judgment jones-v-mississippi judicial-review juvenile-offenders plain-error sentencing supreme-court-procedure |
I. Whether an invalid conviction affects a criminal defendant's substantial rights and must be vacated on plain error review, irrespective of whether … |
| 20-7421 |
Jefferson Levine v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) circuit-conflict criminal-resentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion post-sentencing-conduct section-404(b) sentencing sentencing-discretion |
1. Whether, in order to properly exercise its discretion under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act of 2018 to impose a reduced sentence for an eligib… |
| 20-7428 |
Aldo Marones v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights due-process evidence firearms sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7430 |
Carlos Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act predicate-offense robbery-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether a completed Hobbs Act robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 categorically qualifies as a predicate "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)… |
| 20-1266 |
In Re Ivan Rene Moore, et al. |
|
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
|
california-constitution constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure property-rights redress superior-court supreme-court |
Shall a writ lie for violation of due process because the California Supreme Court violated its own Constitution by allowing one department of the Sup… |
| 20-1265 |
Ivan Rene Moore, et al. v. Kimberly Martin-Bragg |
California |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct judicial-review procedural-fairness property-rights |
Shall a writ lie for denial of due process and unrestricted access to the courts when the California Supreme Court allows one department of the Superi… |
| 20-1262 |
MarySusan Ward v. Louisville Metro Government |
Kentucky |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
|
batson-v-kentucky civil-rights equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges supremacy-clause |
This Court in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) held that the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment prohibited litig… |
| 20-1243 |
Staci Burk v. Doug Ducey, Governor of Arizona, et al. |
Arizona |
2021-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
case-or-controversy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process election-challenge equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment standing stare-decisis voter-registration |
1. Did the Arizona Supreme Court violate Petitioner's right to Equal Protection when it denied remand for an evidentiary hearing of Petitioner's const… |
| 20-1249 |
Gary Victor Dubin v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel |
Hawaii |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech freedom-of-speech judicial-discretion license-revocation professional-licensing state-constitution |
Is it a violation of (1) Equal Protection, (2) Due Process and/or (3) Freedom of Speech for a State Supreme Court especially where exceeding its expre… |
| 20-1245 |
Pedro Vasquez v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-counsel contract-obligations contracts-clause criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fee-advancement impairment indigent-defense sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court impaired the obligation of a contract in contravention of Article I, sec. 10, cl. 1 of the U.S. Co… |
| 20-1244 |
Barbara Tully, et al. v. Paul Okeson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
absentee-voting age-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment twenty-sixth-amendment voting-rights |
Indiana's absentee voting laws expressly distinguish between voters based on age by giving all voters age 65 or older an entitlement to cast an absent… |
| 20-7373 |
Christopher Mathew Payne v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
resulting in prejudice capital-punishment death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions parole-ineligibility simmons-precedent |
Whether a death sentence may be carried out when defense counsel unreasonably fails to inform the jury of parole ineligibility under Simmons, 512 U.S.… |
| 20-7376 |
Howard E. Martin, III v. Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-justice appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis legal-access standing systemic-racism |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7385 |
William F. Kaetz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail-conditions community-safety constitutional-rights covid-19 covid-19-considerations due-process pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention public-safety sentencing |
1. Whether Petitioner is entitled to release pending trial where the government has failed to establish, and the lower courts' findings are unsupporte… |
| 20-7386 |
Andrew Chapnick v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation timeliness-provision |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker
… |
| 20-7388 |
Alejandro De La Torre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review downward-departure due-process sentencing |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the District Court's denial of Mr. D… |
| 20-7354 |
In Re Michael Robinson |
|
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-power access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct mandamus self-representation |
The issue here goes beyond a miscarriage of justice. It's lower courts ' and it's
officers as such in this case District Attorney Matulewicz blatant … |
| 20-7363 |
Lerone Bernard Butler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-offenses due-process law-enforcement-misconduct possession-with-intent sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
WHETHER THE VERDICT OF GUILT WAS SUPPORTED BY SUFFCIENT EVIDENCE TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION, AND THE EVIDENCE, VIEWED IN A LIGHT MOST FAVORABLE TO THE GO… |
| 20-7364 |
James Baldwin v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance mental-disability sixth-amendment |
1. Whether Appellant was denied rights under the
Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United
States Constitution to effective trial counsel and
w… |
| 20-7369 |
Antonia Janai Hickmon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 20-7370 |
Avery Bradford v. Clinton Perry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-1239 |
Edward Smith v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-protection constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-procedure state-court stealthy-encroachment |
When the Supreme Court of Ohio "sidestepped," & refused to enforce the protection &
privileges of the 5th, 6th, & 14th Amend, to the U.S. Constitution… |
| 20-7327 |
Timothy A. Ward v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender categorical-approach controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-guidelines federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-drug-schedules state-law |
Under the provisions of the career offender enhancement in the United States Sentencing Guidelines, guideline ranges are dramatically increased for pe… |
| 20-7338 |
Foster Lee Tarver v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment judicial-abuse-of-discretion juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama statutory-construction |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ' Judgment, that affirmed an illegal
mandatory maximum life sentence imposed upon the Petitioner by the ar… |
| 20-7344 |
Carl Dwight Davis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
ARIZONA DISTRIET COUNTS DISMISSAL OF DAUIS' SI983 CIVIL- AETIN,
CIRCUIT POURE OF APPEALS DECISIONS ON THE SAME .POMSTITUTIONALLY IMPORTANT MATTER?
) D… |
| 20-7345 |
Willie Ray Lewis v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abortion appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-standing medical-regulations standing statutory-interpretation |
I) Whether Trial counsel's failune to inwestigate interview, or loss-examine thealleged Victims, Pretrial, Whenshe was inossession of a resantationtaf… |
| 20-7347 |
Warren Tarver v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-felony constitutional-standards death-penalty due-process federalism state-law state-laws unconstitutional |
WHETHER IT IS A VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS OF LAW TO DETAIN A PERSON UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF A STATUTE THAT CLASSIFIES THE OFFENSE A CAPITAL FELONY WHERE… |
| 20-7349 |
In Re Bobby Mellard |
|
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7306 |
Agustin Madrid, aka Augustin Madrid v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure case-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-objection preservation-of-error procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
1. Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedura… |
| 20-7308 |
Michael N. Kelsey v. New York |
New York |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance post-conviction-motion right-to-appeal sentencing-judge-advisement |
Are New York State's criminal appellate procedures deficient, and/or prejudicial to a criminal defendant's due process, equal protection and/or state-… |
| 20-7309 |
Phillip Maldonado v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington supremacy-clause |
I. DOES THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION'S ARTICLE VI, CLAUSE 2 SUPREMACY CLAUSE PRESCRIBE A RULE OF DECISION UNDER INTERPRETATION OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT PER … |
| 20-7311 |
Juan Matthews v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection jury-verdict racial-discrimination ramos-v-louisiana standing supreme-court-precedent |
Was Louisiana's Jury verdict Scheme that convicted petitioner in violation to the U.S.C.A. 14th Amendment of the Louisiana's Constitution? Standard se… |
| 20-7313 |
Leonard Glen Overmyer, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-error supervised-release |
Whether a Defendant should be allowed to seek a reduction of, or discharge from, an imposed supervised release after being improperly sentenced, and r… |
| 20-7291 |
John L. Harris v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea non-consensual-reinstatement plea-bargaining plea-opportunity presumption-of-innocence sentencing trial-court |
Whether a trial court's non-consensual reinstatement of a defendant's guilty plea, without admonishments or the opportunity to plead anew, violates th… |
| 20-1209 |
In Re Raymond L. Rogers |
|
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
all-writs-act appeals appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Your Petitioner is [requesting] and [praying] for this United States Supreme Court to exercise its supervisory appellate powers pursuant-to 28 U.S.C. … |
| 20-1199 |
Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College |
First Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Judgment Issued |
CVSGAmici (32)Relisted (4) |
affirmative-action asian-american-discrimination civil-rights equal-protection higher-education race-based-admissions strict-scrutiny title-vi |
1. Should this Court overrule Grutter v. Bollinger,
539 U.S. 306 (2003), and hold that institutions of
higher education cannot use race as a factor in… |
| 20-1194 |
Arthur Lopez v. Corona Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Should these defendants Corona Police Department, City of Corona, Joseph Brown and James Birmingham be held accountable for their Deprivation of Civil… |
| 20-7282 |
Earl Malloy v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearms-offense guilty-plea rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this petition should be held pending the decision in United States v. Gary, No. 20-444, given that both this petition and Gary present the sam… |
| 20-7261 |
Randell Joseph Redmond v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech just-compensation property-rights standing takings-clause tax-foreclosure |
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| 20-7263 |
Darryl A. Robinson v. Yee |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
equal-protection first-amendment gerrymandering redistricting standing voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7273 |
Patrick Roger Brigaudin v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
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lO&tL'ld. rectrVe. h'-ft 5-cofence (f ht d:d not accept cl
p{tQ_ tf-f fer cLto (td. h<… |
| 20-1192 |
Fred Lohr Fouse, et ux. v. Saratoga Partners L.P., et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
|
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-tax-sale property-rights redemption-rights |
Does Pennsylvania law violate the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by denying ho… |
| 20-1191 |
Robert Singletary v. Kenneth Nelsen, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights compulsory-process due-process equal-protection jurisdiction rule-of-law |
A. Do The Accused hAve Righto?
C.Do the Constitution guArAnted rights For Allthe people?
dIS COMpLUSON PrOCESS A CONStiTUTiONAL RighT. ALONg WeTh LA… |
| 20-1188 |
Marilynn Thomason v. Beneficial Financial I Inc. |
Idaho |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-1956 28-usc-1651 appellate-procedure constitutional-authority court-records due-process equal-protection idaho-appellate-rule-28 judicial-discretion |
Whether any State Supreme Court, state appellate court, state district court and/or any clerk of such court has the constitutional and statutory autho… |
| 20-7228 |
Leroy Pooler v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state state-v-poole statutory-construction substantive-law |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitute substantive law and, if so, does the Due Process Clause of the… |
| 20-7251 |
Eric Lyle Williams v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fair-trial prosecutor-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal structural-error |
(1) Does the participation of a conflicted and recused prosecutor in a death penalty trial violate due process?
(2) Does the undisclosed participatio… |
| 20-7253 |
Nancy Cole v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-statutes due-process fifth-amendment mandatory-minimum mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
1. Whether the knowingly mens rea in the federal drug statutes, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841, 960, applies to the elements of drug type and quantity that establis… |
| 20-7255 |
Samuel Zubia-Olivas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing Supreme-Court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7216 |
Antwan Seawood v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment |
Did the District Court abuse its discretion and violate Appellant's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights by sentencing him to a term of 240 months based u… |
| 20-7232 |
Raul Almanza-Portillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-7233 |
John Dan Bumphus, Jr. v. Unique Personnel Consultants, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit abuse its jurisdictional standard of review, by allowing a District Court judge to nega… |
| 20-7235 |
Michael Alvarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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 conduct would be p… |
| 20-7238 |
Alberto Julio Garcia v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process dusky-standard eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-competency pretrial-proceedings restorative-treatment |
Does Mississippi's "presumption of competency" violate the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or the Eighth Amendment, when that presumption is expanded to all… |
| 20-1163 |
Gloucester County School Board v. Gavin Grimm |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
biological-sex civil-rights equal-protection equal-protection-clause gender-identity restrooms school-discrimination title-ix transgender transgender-rights |
Does Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause require school s to let transgender students use multi user restrooms designated for the opposite biologi… |
| 20-7197 |
Roberto Elias Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court due-process maximum-term plain-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether plain error resulted from the district court erroneously advising the client during plea colloquy that the maximum term of imprisonment was 10… |
| 20-7217 |
Felix Cisneros, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-intent criminal-law due-process mens-rea sentencing statutory-elements statutory-interpretation waiver-doctrine |
1. Can a person be convicted of conspiracy to violate a statute containing an element increasing the offense's severity, where that element is not act… |
| 20-7219 |
Cedric C. Westbrook v. California |
California |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-action arbitrary-classification civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-classification procedural-hurdles standing state-court |
Does the State Court have an arbitrary right to re-classify a legal document into a specific classification of filings that the State knows has surmou… |
| 20-7220 |
Antonio Diaz-Agurcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-7222 |
Ian Lamonte Cormier v. Riverside County District Attorney, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-access judicial-review standing |
How Can (Witness Case Be Dismissed from Proper Remedy If This Court Look at Response to the Central District's Dismissal (Pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6)) (… |
| 20-7224 |
Leon Niles Daye v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7190 |
Erik Sanchez v. Terry Jacques, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-review judicial-discretion plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
IN ORCDER FOR THE SENTENCING COURT TO DEPART
FROM THE CONCURCENT SENTENCES REQUIREMENT
IN .R.S. S18-1-HOB(3) DOES COOVECNMENT
MUST ENTER FACTUAL BASIS… |
| 20-7191 |
Curtis Shuler v. Kenneth E. Lassiter, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7192 |
Phillip Vance Smith, II v. Josh Stein, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-doctrine |
Whether the rule announced in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 U.S. 1500 (2018) applies retroactively to cases on collateral review. |
| 20-7202 |
Deon Anthony Romell Bailey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel ninth-circuit plea-bargaining post-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment |
Did the Eighth Circuit improperly deny Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel by failing to remand to the district cour… |
| 20-7204 |
Shane Faithful v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-distribution criminal-law federal-sentencing medical-care medical-prescription prescription-drugs sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a physician who prescribes a controlled substance to a patient for reasons other than medical care has unlawfully "dispensed" the substance… |
| 20-7168 |
Loren Joel McReynolds v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review base-offense-level criminal-procedure firearms-offense reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2k2.1 |
I. Whether The Court's Calculation Of McReynolds' Base Offense Level Was Erroneous?
II. Whether The Court Erred In Denying A Reduction In The Offense… |
| 20-7177 |
Sandra Doyle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process post-arrest-interview prosecutorial-discretion relevant-conduct safety-valve sentencing witness-testimony |
1. Is it a denial of due process to sentence petitioner to additional imprisonment based on a finding that she lied or minimized in her safety-valve i… |
| 20-7186 |
Brian Dale Lee v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5k2.1-motion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit court erred in finding that the district court's consideration of conduct raised in a 5k2.1 motion was appropriate? |
| 20-1136 |
Peter Capote v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
|
6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment death-penalty judicial-fact-finding judicial-weighing jury-trial mitigating-circumstances sentencing-scheme sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Alabama death penalty sentencing scheme, which leaves it to the judge to find whether the aggravating circumstances outweigh the mitiga… |
| 20-1133 |
Nicholas L. Triantos v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Morgan Stanley ABS Capital I Inc. Trust 2004-HE4, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-HE4, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption federalism mgc-93a remand separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the First Circuit erred in concluding that one Count under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act was sufficient to confer Federal Jurisdic… |
| 20-1125 |
Antonio Devoe Jones v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
|
6th-amendment alabama-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence mitigation-investigation |
1. Was Petitioner deprived of his constitutional right to effective counsel after his defense lawyers misunderstood controlling Alabama law and mistak… |
| 20-7166 |
Charles J. Jordan v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection grand-jury grand-jury-selection judicial-review jurisdiction |
1. Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals is interpreting D.C. Code § 1-204 right when it is allowing the D.C. Superior Court to modify Federal Rules and i… |
| 20-7172 |
Dakota Manucy Constantin v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct |
WAS CONSTANTIN DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE SENTENCING COURT RELIED UPON UNCHARGED CONDUCT IN IMPOSING A SENTENCE IN EXCESS OF THAT RECOMMENDED BY THE … |
| 20-7148 |
Benjamin W. Fawley v. David Jablonski, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-violations contracts-clause criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-errors sentencing standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7150 |
Creadell Hubbard v. Charles Ratledge, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7152 |
Brian Hook v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habitual-offender ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Indiana Courts erred denying Petitioner was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth A… |
| 20-7154 |
Robert Earl Ramseur v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-seizure government-surveillance judicial-misconduct mental-health privacy racial-discrimination sentencing veterans-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7160 |
Emmett Garrison, IV v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole presumption sentencing sentencing-discretion |
If the Eighth Amendment forbids automatic life without parole sentences for juvenile offenders, does a sentencing court have the discretion to impose … |
| 20-7164 |
Marcelino Hernandez-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-procedure drug-offenses due-process sentencing supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United State s Cour t of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–whi ch affirmed the significant increase of the b… |
| 20-7128 |
Teodoro Reynosa-Denova v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7134 |
Fadeel Shuhaiber v. Illinois Department of Corrections |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights due-process equal-protection rehabilitation-act-of-1973 standing |
Did the I Llinois Department of Corrections violate Tite I of the
Americans with bisability Act and the Rehabilitation Act. of 19b4 with
ADA vans that… |
| 20-7138 |
Patrick Begay v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 aggravated-assault criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion native-american native-american-defendants sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
In carrying out the mandate of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) to impose a sentence that is "sufficient but not greater than necessary on a defendant," may a dist… |
| 20-7143 |
Heyangjing Shi, et al. v. Jim J. Mash |
New York |
2021-02-12 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-standing standing unauthorized-use void-judgment |
Whether it violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,
1. There is no one plaintiff in the contract , … |
| 20-7144 |
Xue Jie He v. Hairong Xue |
New York |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment landlord-tenant security-deposit statutory-interpretation |
Whether it violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,
1. The petitioner does not owe the statement an… |
| 20-1112 |
In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam |
|
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appointments-clause constitutional-law contract-clause due-process equal-protection government-contracts patent patent-law separation-of-powers stare-decisis |
1. Whether Justice Barrett, as the last standing
Justice with original jurisdiction, with the same
duty and oath as the lower courts to enforce the … |
| 20-7112 |
Hector Miguel Martinez-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-7115 |
Christopher A. Carter v. Frank Lawrence, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-rights comity due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review standing |
1. Whether the Seventh Circuit ruling which is in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, the Seventh Circuit, other circuits, is debatable and… |
| 20-7118 |
Terry Allen Miles v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
Did the trial court violate the 5th and 6th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States in overruling Petitioner's objection to the inclusion … |
| 20-7124 |
George Skylar Cloud v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence evidence-admission federal-charges federal-criminal-law firearm-discharge guilty-plea sentencing separation-of-powers |
Did the district court error when it allowed the government to introduce into evidence the Petitioner's guilty plea, in a separate pending matter, to … |
| 20-7129 |
Tyreek Torrence v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7131 |
Shean Elkins v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights marriage-equality sexual-orientation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-7109 |
Raul Flores-Villalvaso v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process illegal-reentry mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines specific-intent |
Whether the 8 U.S.C. § 1326 Attempted Illegal Reentry mens rea element of "specific intent" can be restated as simply "a conscious desire" with no ref… |
| 20-1100 |
Paul Rodriguez, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
electoral-college equal-protection first-amendment political-parties presidential-election summary-affirmance vote-dilution voting-rights |
Petitioners are two California Republicans and two non-profit organizations who have alleged their votes for President and Vice President are diluted … |
| 20-7100 |
Ryan Detrell Robinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court-judgment due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-variance |
Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing To Reverse District Court's Imposition of an "Alternate Variance Sentence" Which Was Designed To Insulate The … |
| 20-7103 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. North Carolina, et al. |
North Carolina |
2021-02-10 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-mechanism petition-clause prisoner-rights standing |
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| 20-7107 |
Jimmy Richard Husband v. J. Ray Ormond, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-defect retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-rule |
1. Whether NELSON V. COLORADO 137 S. Ct. 1249 (2018), announced a new substantive rule, narrowing the language and scope of 18 USC Sect. 3661, that ha… |
| 20-7076 |
Michael Javier Ottogalli v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-sentence factual-contestation government-sentencing-memorandum ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Is d ueprocess Violat&J dut ~h> i'neffe:f iVe assistance
of Counsel when defendant aWofney did oof qivc
defendant opportunity to review Peesenfence … |
| 20-7091 |
Ray Anthony Chaney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-challenge residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review violent-felony |
The overall issue is whether, under law set forth in Johnson, Mr. Chaney should be resentenced without applying the armed career criminal provisions o… |
| 20-7092 |
Marlon L. Watford v. Randy Pfister, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
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| 20-1088 |
David Carson, as Parent and Next Friend of O. C., et al. v. A. Pender Makin |
First Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (55)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
constitutional-rights equal-protection espinoza-v-montana first-amendment first-circuit religion-clauses sectarian-instruction student-aid-program |
Does a state violate the Religion Clauses or Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution by prohibiting students participating in an oth… |
| 20-7079 |
Lorenzo Liwayne Barnes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel narcotics-distribution perjury sentencing sentencing-factors |
Whether the United States Court of Appeal 4th Circuit violated the United States V McCarthy Rule.
Whether the United States Court of Appeal 4th Circu… |
| 20-7052 |
Joshua Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mitigating-factors procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Where the court failed to address Petitioner's mitigating arguments and failed to justify its sentence, whether the 151-month sentence is procedurally… |
| 20-7053 |
Hector Manuel Torres v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargain retroactivity sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
In Ghaidez V United kStages. 56B U . S . 342( 2023 ) this court decided that
Padilla V Kentucky , dis not apply retroactive and announced a new
rule… |
| 20-7057 |
Romario Waller v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-factors amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-sentencing plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Did the Trial Judge in case no 1995-CR-545 violate Petitioner 's 5th, 6th, 14th ,
Amendment rights when he sentenced Petitioner to a more than 20%… |
| 20-7058 |
Dwayne Wilson v. Ed Sheldon, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection jurisdiction mental-health miscarriage-of-justice |
Was it a "Miscarriage of Justice " and a violation of the "Clean Hand(s) Doctrine " when Petitioner orally moved the Court to dismiss charge(s) agains… |
| 20-7061 |
Frank Durand Tomlin v. Todd E. Ishee |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment basic-human-needs civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection prison-conditions public-policy standing |
THE ISSUE OF PLAIN ISSUES UPON OF HYGIENE AND CASH ISSUES THAT DON'T WORK AT TRANSSHIPMENTS CONSTITUTE DEPRIVATION OF A PUBLIC GRIEVOUSLY EXPLICITLY H… |
| 20-7067 |
Wilma Pennington-Thurman v. Sansone Group DDR LLC |
Missouri |
2021-02-05 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction removal-jurisdiction state-courts state-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1971 stated: "In the event of conflicting proceedings during the interim, federal jurisdiction prevails over st… |
| 20-7068 |
Jerry Davis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure discretionary-sentencing drug-convictions drug-crimes due-process first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the 4thCircuit Court of Appeals created a Cirauit split by affiomingthe District
Courts reuson to ceny his motion for a sentence reduction und… |
| 20-7026 |
Jerome Berry v. Teri Lawson, Superintendent, Farmington Correctional Center |
Missouri |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-application board-of-probation discriminatory-treatment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus missouri-sexual-offenders-program parole sexual-offenders state-courts |
Did the Missouri courts err in failing to find that Petitioner was entitled to immediate release due to the Missouri Board of Probation and Paroles ar… |
| 20-7034 |
Kelli Renee Bullard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing defendant-rehabilitation district-court-discretion due-process judicial-review rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-maximum |
Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence of 60 months imprisonment —the statutory maximum—when it did so with a blind eye t… |
| 20-7037 |
Elias Junior Rodriguez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5K1.1-motion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance government-motion judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines U.S.S.G.-5K1.1 |
1. DOES A COURT VIOLATE THIS COURT'S HOLDING IN GALL v. UNITED STATES, 552 U.S. 38 (2007) BY FAILING TO ADEQUATELY EXPLAIN TO WHAT EXTENT THE COURT'S … |
| 20-7041 |
Bruce Kintrell Green v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment parole sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-7042 |
Ronald Morris Hoenig v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states merits-ruling section-2255 sentencing standing successive-2255-motion successive-motion |
Where an authorized successive § 2255 motion argues that an Armed Career Criminal Act sentence should be set aside under Johnson v. United States, 135… |
| 20-7043 |
Kevin Hall v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-decision criminal-law due-process sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-dominguez |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that Hobbs Act robbery is a "crime of violence" under United States v. Dominguez, 954 F.3d 1251 (9th Cir. 2020… |
| 20-7048 |
Roman Gabriel Gonzales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargain sentencing supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the significant increase of the base… |
| 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,… |
| 20-7021 |
Martel Valencia-Cortez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault assault-charge criminal-law dangerous-weapon due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation weapon-definition weapons |
Whether a "deadly or dangerous weapon" for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) includes a natural object that was not designed to be a weapon, such as a ro… |
| 20-7032 |
Salvador Delrio v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
courier courier-status criminal-procedure due-process mitigating-role sentencing sentencing-guidelines speculative-inference speculative-inferences u.s.s.g.-3b1.2 |
1. What weight should a court give to a defendant's essential role as a mere courier when determining a mitigating-role adjustment?
2. Does a distric… |
| 20-6994 |
In Re Khayree Smith |
|
2021-02-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment citizenship-status civil-rights constitutional-law denationalization due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto slavery slavery-labels |
A) What branch of law authorized states to apply abolished slave labels (Negro, Black, colored) to any person of African descent after 1865? This act … |
| 20-7009 |
Mark Rudolph Arsenio Reed v. Robert Toole, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant motion-in-arrest sixth-amendment standing |
Georgia state law O.C.G.A. 17-9-61 provides the following: (a) When a judgement has been rendered, either party may move in arrest thereof for any def… |
| 20-7011 |
Hemmingway Mukora Saisi v. Carolyn Murray, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-02-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection protection-claim self-defense stare-decisis state-criminal-procedure state-officials |
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| 20-1052 |
In Re Christopher Gary Baylor |
|
2021-02-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigant section-1983 section-1983-claim |
Does a non-prisoner, indigent, pro se litigant to a Section 1983 claim who initially proceeds In Forma Pauperis but later pays for his appeal, lose th… |
| 20-6991 |
Edwin Jurado-Nazario v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process first-circuit judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing |
Whether The Sentence Imposed is Unreasonable. |
| 20-6993 |
Clarence Jackson v. Office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-licensing bar-admission civil-rights due-process equal-protection legal-discrimination legal-profession racial-discrimination systemic-racism white-supremacy |
1. Does the background that is established in the recently filed Petition for Writ Certiorari in this court at case number 20-5544 the 98 plus percent… |
| 20-7007 |
Vernon Allen Collins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii-standing civil-procedure constitutional-minimum coram-nobis due-process johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing |
I. WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT ADOPTIONS OF THE DISTRICT COURT DISPOSITIVE PROCEDURAL CONCLUSIONS ERRED IN HOLDING COLONS HAD FAILED TO PROVE ARTICLE … |
| 20-6999 |
Kannha Bounchanh v. Washington State Health Care Authority, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ada ada-adaa civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-discrimination |
Whether panel of judges at the Ninth Circuit court have violated my Due Process and Equal Justice process and the Equal Protection Clause under the Fo… |
| 20-6958 |
Luis C. Paulino v. Thomas Griffin, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection justification-defense self-defense standing takings |
WHETHER A DEFENDANT IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS MAY BE UPON PRESUMPTION OF VINDICTIVENESS FOR EXERCISING RIGHT TO TRIAL
WHETHER PRO-SE PLEADINGS IN THE UNI… |
| 20-6967 |
Justin Loper v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge conviction crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DISMISSING THE
APPEAL WHERE THE CONVICTION AND SENTENCE WERE
UNCONSTITUTIONAL BECAUSE HOBBS ACT ROBBERY IS NOT A… |
| 20-6969 |
Barto Edward Usry, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery business-burglary johnson-ruling mississippi-state-convictions resentencing robbery section-2255 sentencing violent-felony |
Whether Mr. Usry is entitled to resentencing without applying the ACCA because post-Johnson (2015), he no longer has three prior qualifying "violent f… |
| 20-6971 |
Jason Alfred Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-reasonableness revocation-of-supervised-release revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
I. Did the court of appeals err when it reviewed the district court's sentence for plain reasonableness?
II. Did the district court impose a plainly … |
| 20-6976 |
Timothy Tijwan Doctor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure different-occasions federal-court non-elemental-facts plea-colloquy prior-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Whether a federal court may increase a defendant's sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) by relying on its own finding about non-elem… |
| 20-6977 |
Joshua Ryan Dorman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 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… |
| 20-6980 |
Michael Ray West v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing standing successive-2255-motion successive-motion |
Where an authorized successive § 2255 motion argues that an Armed Career Criminal Act sentence should be set aside under Johnson v. United States, 135… |
| 20-6982 |
Misty R. Weed v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-laws constitutional-rights district-court-conflict due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-discretion |
I. DID THE FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL CREATE A MANIFEST
INJUSTICE WHEN IT EXPRESSLY AND DIRECTLY RULED IN
CONFLICT WITH DECISIONS OF FELLOW DISTRI… |
| 20-6985 |
Zongli Chang v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver constitutional-rights due-process fines plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
In a plea agreement that was tied to a fine guideline range, the Petitioner was never told his "maximal possible penalty" in terms of fine and forfeit… |
| 20-6986 |
Lorenzo Escudero v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights habeas-corpus legal-sufficiency sentencing trial-by-jury trial-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6988 |
Antwone Lamont Creater v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines |
This case presents an excellent vehicle for this Court to resolve a growing conflict in the Illinois Appellate Courts: Whether the seriousness of the … |
| 20-1030 |
Tommie Rae Brown v. Deanna Brown-Thomas, et al. |
South Carolina |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fundamental-right-to-marry judicial-decree marriage-validity retroactive-application retroactivity void-marriage |
I. Whether requiring the class of persons in
marriages that are void ab initio to obtain a judicial
decree of invalidity before remarrying violates th… |
| 20-1023 |
Jean Coulter v. Philip A. Ignelzi, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias mandamus rule-233.1 rule-making-authority standing vagueness |
1. a. Is Pa. R.C.P. Rule 233.1 Unconstitutional?
b. Is Pa. R.C.P. Rule 233.1 Unconstitutionally Vague?
3. Were Coulter's Due Process Rights violated?… |
| 20-1007 |
Merrilee Stewart v. RRL Holding Company of Ohio, LLC, et al. |
Ohio |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
antitrust civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-employment-opportunity equal-protection fair-housing-act federal-law-enforcement federal-laws state-court-procedure whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
1. Are the Courts of the State of Ohio obligated to enforce Federal Laws?
a. Whistleblower Laws designed to protect the crime victim and informants.
b… |
| 20-6954 |
Brenda Yadira Gamez-Castaneda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judge-found-facts judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-trial-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Petitioner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport aliens within the United States and being found in the United States after a previous deportation… |
| 20-6955 |
Theresa Skillings v. City of New York, New York |
New York |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law agency-discretion americans-with-disabilities-act child-services civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law immigration-law social-services-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether the respondent, in denying the petitioner's request for services by occupation at the petitioner's home in accordance with New York State Law,… |
| 20-6919 |
Lawrence James Napper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-rules speedy-trial successive-motion |
1). Whether the court of criminal apeal's was invioaltion
or not filing and ruling on all of this petitioner
grounds of error that the Court of Grim… |
| 20-6920 |
Sean Moffitt v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-procedure post-conviction-relief subsequent-petition |
(1) Does the district court have jurisdiction to entertain a lawfully filed, Subsequent Petition, (i.e. motion to amend) during the pendency of appeal… |
| 20-6930 |
Marco Antonio Lopez-Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-precedent recidivism sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6931 |
Christopher Shawn Landreneau v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court may, consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and Rule 32 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, re… |
| 20-6932 |
Jorge Armando Jamaica-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 20-6933 |
Seledonio Martinez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard totality-of-the-circumstances |
Where the totality of the circumstances of this case do not support a top-of-the-Guidelines sentence, whether the 46-month sentence is reasonable. |
| 20-6934 |
Fred Cartwright v. Silver Cross Hospital, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process en-banc-rehearing equal-protection legal-counsel medical-condition post-traumatic-stress-disorder standing writ-of-certiorari |
The Petitioner does not know what he are doing, please view the next page labeled "List of Parties " for more details and everything that listed may h… |
| 20-6939 |
Thomas Nevius v. Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights co-defendant-confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion standing |
DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR WHEN IT DECIDED THAT CO-DEFENDANT (WILLIAM BOSTON) MINIMIZED HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE HOMICIDE, THEREFORE MAKING HIS CONFESSI… |
| 20-6940 |
Ellery Dennis Thomas v. Raymond Madden, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus prisoner-rights remittitur sentencing standing |
Under the amendment of the U.S. Constitution, if there is a search seizure by prosecutor never mentioning it to the defendant and it was never mention… |
| 20-6943 |
Ronald Lewis Coleman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentence-reduction sentencing |
Whether the changes in applicable mandatory minimum sentences worked by the First Step Act can provide extraordinary and compelling reasons to support… |
| 20-6946 |
Barry Cashin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a) restrict appellate courts' authority to review the procedural and substantive reasonableness of a denial of a motion for a se… |
| 20-6949 |
Neally Cunningham v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
cocaine-base criminal-law criminal-resentencing drug-offenses federal-drug-offense first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether Appellant's offense of conviction, a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) occurring before August 3, 2010, and involving cocaine base, is a "… |
| 20-989 |
City of Newark, New Jersey v. Fraternal Order of Police, Newark Lodge No. 12 |
New Jersey |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights department-of-justice due-process equal-protection municipal-authority police-oversight racial-discrimination |
1. Does a state supreme court violate the Equal Protection Clause by reading state statutes to preclude its largest city from protecting Black citizen… |
| 20-6924 |
Auturo Beltran v. Craig Koenig, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus plea-agreement sentencing trial-court |
During a colloquy on a plea agreement to a 24-year sentence, petitioner said that he did not understand all of the rights and consequences of the plea… |
| 20-6925 |
Leonidas Iraheta and Eduardo Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judge-found-facts judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit severe increases to the sentences of criminal defendants using judge-found facts rejected by the jury. |
| 20-6926 |
Nestor Alegria Hernandez v. California |
California |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intoxicated-driving involuntary-manslaughter jury-instructions lesser-included-offense |
I. CALIFORNIA LAW VIOLATES THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT'S EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE BY REQUIRING ITS COURTS TO INSTRUCT ON INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AS A LES… |
| 20-6927 |
Anthony Freeney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a audio-recordings criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jail-phone-calls jury-instructions jury-verdict sentencing standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
GUILTY VERDICT?
DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR IN ADMITTING AUDIO RECORDINGS OF MR. FREENEY'S JAIL PHONE CALLS?
DID THE SENTENCE IMPOSED BY THE DISTRICT… |
| 20-6915 |
Scott Lee Peterson v. California |
California |
2021-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire witherspoon-challenge witherspoon-v-illinois |
Petitioner was charged with capital murder. During voir dire, and based solely on answers to jury questionnaires, the state trial court systematically… |
| 20-6896 |
Phillip A. Benjamin v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
1. Did the Trial Court err when limiting the testimonies of the defense witness from testifying of vital information, therefore, hindering the Defenda… |
| 20-6897 |
In Re Lee Charles Bradford |
|
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
I. DID THE DISTRICT COURT ABDICATE ITS CLEAR LEGAL DUTY TO EXERCISE ANCILLARY JURISDICTION OVER CLAIMS OF FRAUD ON THE COURT, ABUSE ITS DISCRETION BY … |
| 20-6909 |
Brian Gale v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law district-court due-process elements-clause hobbs-act residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
"WHETHER HOBBS ACT ROBBERY QUALIFIES AS A "CRIME OF VIOLENCE"?, WHERE THE DISTRICT
COURT FAILED TO ADVANCE ANY THEORY (i.e. "residual clause, force c… |
| 20-6910 |
El-Asad Alsaedi v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum sentencing-authority sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6911 |
Dimas Alfaro-Granados v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama rico-enterprise sentencing sixth-amendment vicar |
[1]- 1st Question Presented on Request and Application for COA
Did the appellate court err in denying a certificate of appealability on whether the di… |
| 20-968 |
R. M. S. v. Madison County Department of Human Resources |
Alabama |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
|
child-custody due-process equal-protection federal-statute federal-statutory-notice grandparent-rights social-service-agency state-proceedings termination-of-parental-rights |
First Question Presented : When a State
initiates child custody proceedings, does 28
U.S.C. §1738A(e), the national standard for
custody determinat… |
| 20-946 |
John J. Dierlam v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1st-amendment affordable-care-act civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech religious-exemptions rfra |
1)Do one or more Constitutional violations exist in the ACA? Subsidiary to this question and suggested by the Claims in the Complaint and subsequent p… |
| 20-959 |
Angela Thigpen v. Board of Trustees of the Local 807 Labor-Management Pension Fund |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6875 |
Jason Pierce v. Nathan Brooks, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure death-penalty faretta-protocol habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-defect structural-defect |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit err in filing to issue a Certificate of Appealability from the denial of the Petition … |
| 20-6883 |
Christopher Brent Garner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-authority jury-trial legal-error sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release trial-by-jury |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §3583(g) unconstitutionally deprives federal supervised releasees of the right to trial by jury?
Whether courts of appeals reviewin… |
| 20-6884 |
Luis Alberto Andrade-Salas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-6888 |
Christina Elizabeth Pandey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6894 |
Macho Joe Williams v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
DiD The Trial court Abuse Its Disctetion when He Denied Apellant's Motions
To Sever
a. Dig The Trial couwst commit Reversible Ervor when He faile To … |
| 20-6858 |
Benjamin Mario Soto v. AFSCME Union Council 5 Local 12181, et al. |
Minnesota |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct state-constitution |
1. My employment contractual due process property rights were deprived without due process by all defendants violating the 5th and 14th Amendments of … |
| 20-6860 |
Antonia W. Shields v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1915 28-usc-453 civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection judicial-review pro-se-litigation standard-of-review |
Respectfully, does the federal government give unequal right to a free United States citizen and give unequal right to the United States Constitution … |
| 20-6865 |
William Rouser v. Unknown |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6867 |
Noel Romero-Espinal v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
continuing-offense criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-code |
Whether illegally reentering the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. §1326 is a continuing offense. |
| 20-6871 |
Angnem Green v. New York |
New York |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination |
Petitioner an African-American man, was tried for the crime of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance, namely cocaine. During the prosecutor's closin… |
| 20-943 |
Jean Barton, et vir v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1738 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-proceedings land-rights standing takings |
1. When the lower federal courts abandon 28 U.S.C. Section 1738- State and Territorial statutes and judicial proceedings; full faith and credit and im… |
| 20-928 |
National Coalition For Men, et al. v. Selective Service System, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Relisted (3) |
combat-roles constitutional-challenge equal-protection fifth-amendment gender-discrimination military-draft rostker-v-goldberg selective-service |
In Rostker v. Goldberg, 453 U.S. 57 (1981), this Court held that the Military Selective Service Act, under which men—but not women—are required to reg… |
| 20-939 |
Colette Marie Wilcox v. Nathan H. Lyons, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-conflict civil-rights constitutional-provisions discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment invidious-discrimination retaliation standing |
Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits retaliation against a person who has complained about invidious discriminati… |
| 20-6830 |
Donald Jones v. Bank of America, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fee-waiver indigent-litigant judicial-procedure poverty |
Denying the petitioner a panel of three judges becouse he was to poor to pay the fee's was in violation of his Fifth and fouteeth amendment right, |
| 20-6837 |
Jacob Ray Owens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure drug-crimes fact-finding judicial-fact-finding methamphetamine-distribution plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Petitioner pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. He admitted to the district court only to possession of … |
| 20-6841 |
Steven Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi apprendi-standard circuit-split covered-offense drug-quantity federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-range statutory-penalties |
I. Whether "statutory penalties" in § 404(a) of the First Step Act modifies the entire phrase – "a violation of a Federal criminal statute" – as the E… |
| 20-6846 |
Tyrone Campbell v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment standing supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6848 |
Dana Sylvester Whitley v. R. Graham, Jr., Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merger-of-sentences ohio-court-of-appeals post-conviction-relief second-degree-murder sentencing |
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| 20-6824 |
Raymond Bright v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict |
Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven … |
| 20-933 |
In Re Jack R. Finnegan |
|
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-guarantees due-process equal-protection equitable-relief fraud-prevention injunction judicial-jurisdiction standing |
The courts have no authority to arbitrarily impose a misapplication of a legal doctrine to action in equity. This elliptical action leads to incorrect… |
| 20-6787 |
Matthew Lee Pryor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal direct-review first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does Congress' express "Clarification of Section 924(c) of Title 18, United States Code" in Section 403 of the First Step Act apply to a defendant con… |
| 20-6812 |
Keith McCoy v. Michael Atherton, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection inter-prison-transfer involuntary-treatment liberty-interest mental-health prison-transfer pro-se-representation state-law stigma |
1. Did the Appeals Court err though McCoy might have had a liberty interest in avoiding transfer to a mental hospital for involuntary psychiatric trea… |
| 20-6769 |
Juan David Rodriguez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-consensus scientific-authority |
Whether the disregard of medical and scientific consensus and well-established clinical authority when evaluating a claim of intellectual disability c… |
| 20-6777 |
James Baxton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Whether the Government produced sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Petitioner's actions were part of a Rico Conspiracy… |
| 20-6779 |
Leon Bright v. Angel Didios |
Florida |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss notice |
Whether Defendants named above i.e., Lloyds of London 11c, Certain Underwriters 11c, Wow Burgers 11c, Checkers store 106, Checkers Drive-In Rest. Inc.… |
| 20-6781 |
Bernard Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felon-status jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing substantial-rights |
In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant knew he possess… |
| 20-6754 |
Alford Donta Tarpley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
borden-v-united-states burris-v-united-states crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing precedent robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines texas-law ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the Texas offense of robbery by injury constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 20-6755 |
Alejandro Tovar-Regalado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation precedent-interpretation sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 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… |
| 20-6757 |
Phillip Jazir Thompson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fugitive fugitive-status probation-law sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release tolling tolling-period |
Whether a term of supervised release is tolled during the time in which
the person on supervised release is a fugitive. |
| 20-6758 |
Patrick Koroma v. Katti Lanham, et al. |
Georgia |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antiterrorism-act appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure collateral-order death-penalty-act district-court due-process equal-protection final-judgment habeas-corpus standing writ-of-appeal |
1. Whether an order denying a motion to strike pursuant to OCGA 9-11-11.1 (j) is directly appealable, and whether the Georgia Court of Appeals had jur… |
| 20-6761 |
Wayne Wells, Jr. v. Terrie Wallace, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rules sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure witness-testimony |
Does Module Code Ann. § 16-3-1055 (B)(c) has a constitutional requirement that a trial court must rule on the defendant's motion to suppress evidence … |
| 20-6764 |
James Ray Davis v. Christopher Morledge, Judge, Circuit Court of Arkansas, St. Francis County, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing |
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| 20-6767 |
Marlon Thomas v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process mental-competence pre-trial-evaluation right-to-counsel sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-881 |
Huong L. Tran, et al. v. City of Holmes Beach, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-access equal-protection finality-requirement section-1983 shotgun-pleading |
The first broad question is whether strict shotgun pleading rules, a category of heightened standard, is permissible as used (excessively) in the Elev… |
| 20-883 |
Donald J. Trump v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absentee-voting election-integrity election-law election-procedures elections-clause electors-clause equal-protection legislative-intent voter-fraud |
Since the 1980s, the Wisconsin Legislature has authorized absentee voting but explicitly commanded it must be "carefully regulated to prevent the pote… |
| 20-887 |
In Re L. Lin Wood, Jr. |
|
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process election-law elections equal-protection legislative-authority signature-verification standing vote-dilution voting-rights |
1. Whether the Petitioner/voter has standing to challenge state action based on the predicate act of vote dilution where the underlying wrong infringe… |
| 20-878 |
Michael Edwards v. Indiana University |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment public-employment state-action workplace-termination |
Was my 14th Amendment United States Constitutional Rights violated when I was fired by Indiana University? |
| 20-6743 |
Neil Dussard v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether the Supreme Court should correct the Second Circuit's split from other Circuit Courts in addressing the recurring question of the validity of … |
| 20-6744 |
Sinclair Ellis, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Where as the District Court has 30 days on the Speedy Trial Clock to make a ruling on a pre-trial motion under §3161 (H)(l)(J). If the Distrcit Court … |
| 20-6746 |
Jonathan Loyd v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment age-of-offender constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment mandatory-life-sentence sentencing |
Whether a mandatory term of life imprisonment imposed upon an offender under the age of 18 is per se lawful under the Eighth Amendment? |
| 20-6749 |
Ricardo Morales v. Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1447c civil-procedure civil-procedure-violation conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection federal-removal judicial-misconduct |
I. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT WAS CLEARLY ERRONEOUS AND DENIED PETITIONER FEDERAL DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECT… |
| 20-6729 |
Michael Allen Bullock v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering fraud-on-the-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fraud prior-record sentencing |
Petitioner's attorney deliberately and flagrantly violated my constitutional rights. Why has each court avoided my rights under the United States Cons… |
| 20-860 |
Ryan Randall Gilbertson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-restitution due-process jury jury-determination procedural-due-process reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment prohibits a court from imposing criminal restitution on a defendant based on facts not found by the jury beyond a reasonab… |
| 20-858 |
In Re Tyler Bowyer, et al. |
|
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
|
42-U.S.C.-1983 constitutional-rights due-process election-fraud elections electoral-college equal-protection fraud presidential-electors standing |
A. Whether presidential electors have standing to challenge the outcome of a presidential election for fraud and illegality that cause the defeat of t… |
| 20-859 |
In Re William Feehan |
|
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-U.S.C.-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process election-fraud elections electoral-college electors equal-protection presidential-electors standing |
A. Whether presidential electors have standing to challenge the outcome of a presidential election for fraud and illegality that cause the defeat of t… |
| 20-6715 |
Michael Adair Mankin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6722 |
Eddie A. Poindexter v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6709 |
Lance Hundley v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-12-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-sentencing constitutional-review death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mental-health self-representation sixth-amendment |
1.Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to
the U.S. Constitution forbid a trial court from
allowing a capital defendant with a
questionable mental he… |
| 20-6687 |
William James Jonas, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-appointed-counsel due-process fifth-circuit pro-se right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment substitute-counsel |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the district court did not violate Petitioner William James Jonas, III's right to cou… |
| 20-6696 |
La Verne Koenig v. Andrew Wheeler, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-precedent due-process equal-protection erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure full-faith-and-credit pro-se-litigation state-rights |
Question 1: (A) Does the Federal Rule, [Fed. R. Civ. Pro. Rule 4] significantly affect the result of a litigation for a Federal Court to disregard a l… |
| 20-6699 |
Juan David Pineda-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-procedure sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6702 |
Tomas Moreno-Turrubiates v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review mitigation-arguments plain-error-review procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentence-explanation sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
1. Whether, when a defendant presents nonfrivolous mitigation arguments in favor of a lower sentence, a district court must address those arguments as… |
| 20-844 |
Barbara Murray v. Elizabeth A. Fry, as Executrix of the Estate of James E. Fry, et al. |
Connecticut |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
|
7th-amendment civil-eviction civil-rights due-process equal-protection eviction false-factual-finding fourteenth-amendment national-health-crisis seventh-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Does the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Con
stitution require a jury trial in a civil eviction case,
which is based on equity to an elderly petitio… |
| 20-845 |
Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. v. Veronica Degraffenreid, Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
article-ii constitutional-interpretation due-process election-integrity election-law equal-protection legislative-authority mail-ballot presidential-election |
Article II of the Constitution provides that "Each State shall appoint [electors for President and Vice President] in such Manner as the Legislature t… |
| 20-847 |
Billie Renee Frances Lillian Powers v. The Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation summary-affirmance supervisory-authority |
I. Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory authority to issue the Writ of Certiorari to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ("Circuit Court"… |
| 20-6692 |
Juan Manuel Lopez-Canales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres case-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent jury-trial legal-challenge recidivism sentencing supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6694 |
Gerardo Flores-Riojas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6672 |
Adam L. Coleman v. Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center |
Kentucky |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-of-majority civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause estate-administration legal-representation medical-malpractice wrongful-death |
Can a state pass legislation that jeopardizes legal representation of a Wrongful Death or Medical Malpractice asserted claim that would otherwise be g… |
| 20-6679 |
Larry Dortley v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
civil-rights competency criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-competency trial-rights |
Petitioner, Larry Dortley, was declared incompetent to proceed to trial by the Third Judicial Circuit Court, Columbia County, Florida, and was involun… |
| 20-6655 |
Alonso Sanchez Ochoa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentence criminal-sentencing defense-counsel district-court pre-sentence-report probation-officer relevant-conduct sentencing |
1. Is it reasonable for a District court to order a consecutive sentence despite an agreement among Probation Officer, Pre-Sentence Report Addendum, a… |
| 20-6650 |
Gregory Scott Sumner v. Brett Carter, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
ada ada-discrimination bivens-action civil-rights disability-rights due-process equal-access equal-protection free-speech public-services reasonable-accommodation |
This is a Title II ADA case violation of Civil Rights. 35.130 (a)No qualified individual with a disability shall, on the basis of disability, be exclu… |
| 20-6656 |
Jose Armando Bazan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fifth-circuit plain-error role-adjustment sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit properly applied the plain error standard of review in determining that petitioner failed to establish plain error regarding… |
| 20-6658 |
Michael Brent Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-petition fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights procedural-grounds statute-of-limitations |
Petirénep wishes te challeuge the ARisiows of the united
States Court of Ampenls far the Fifth circuit m caus€ no.
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| 20-6643 |
Adrian McCray v. Scott Lewis, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6646 |
Marcia Croce v. Lorin A. Croce |
Pennsylvania |
2020-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure political-bias |
1. Whether the Pennsylvania Judicial System erred in depriving the low-income Petitioner of equal process and protection of the laws guaranteed by the… |
| 20-820 |
Denise Jackson v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-programs federal-rules hearing-notice judicial-fairness |
Is evidence the rule of law a part of our constitution?
Does the court have the right to choose who benefits from the constitutional protections?
Is… |
| 20-6644 |
David Santiago Renteria v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus investigative-funds sentencing |
1. Did the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit deny petitioner a full appeal of the district court's denial of funding under 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f), a… |
| 20-6578 |
Rickey White v. Gary L. Lumpkin, Presiding Judge, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-6623 |
Raymond Ka-Lun Pin v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-grievance civil-rights constitutional-rights discretionary-parole due-process equal-protection imprisonment parole sentencing takings |
VIOLATON COMHANT AND AFFIRMED BY THE COUAT OF APPEAS FOR THE FOUATH
CIRCUTT IS IN CENFHCT WITH DECISIONS OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
WHEN TOE D… |
| 20-6627 |
Clarence B. Jenkins, Jr. v. South Carolina Department of Employment Workforce, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act discrimination due-process employment-workforce equal-protection institutional-racism systemic-racism title-vii |
The United States of America in 1964 decided that it is was unlawful to discriminate against another human being because of color of their skin by den… |
| 20-6630 |
Alejandro S. Estrada v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence administrative-law agency-decision certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge procedural-default procedural-error sentencing |
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| 20-6632 |
Claudio Valdez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing |
WHETHER THIS CASE PRESENTS THE COURT WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS WHAT POINT IN A CRIMINAL PROCEEDING AND UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES A DEFENDANT CAN I… |
| 20-6633 |
Eduardo David Vargas v. California |
California |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt the ex… |
| 20-802 |
Virginia Ann Kurschinske v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment final-order-of-acquittal fourteenth-amendment state-law |
1. Are Pennsylvania state LAWS constitutional? If the answer is yes, are they being applied and are they applied equally?
2. Is the double jeopardy c… |
| 20-808 |
Johnny Duane Miles v. California |
California |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
batson-challenge batson-claim comparative-juror-analysis death-penalty jury-selection peremptory-challenges pretext prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination |
During jury selection for Johnny Duane Miles's capital murder trial, the prosecutor used his peremptory challenges to remove every Black prospective j… |
| 20-815 |
Timothy King, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-dispute elections-clause electors-clause equal-protection michigan-election-code preliminary-injunction voter-fraud |
I. THE TRIAL COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED THE PETITIONERS' EMERGENCY MOTION WITOUT EVEN A HEARING OR ORAL ARGUMENT FOR DECLARATORY, EMERGENCY, AND PERMA… |
| 20-816 |
In Re Coreco Ja'Qan Pearson, et al. |
|
2020-12-15 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
due-process election-fraud electoral-college equal-protection fraud illegality presidential-election section-1983 standing standing-doctrine |
A. Do presidential electors have standing to challenge the outcome of a presidential election for fraud and illegality that cause the defeat of their … |
| 20-799 |
L. Lin Wood, Jr. v. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
|
due-process election-integrity election-law equal-protection legislative-authority signature-verification standing state-legislature vote-dilution voting-rights |
1. Whether the Petitioner/voter has standing to challenge state action based on the predicate act of vote dilution where the underlying wrong infringe… |
| 20-6609 |
Salvador Moreno Cervantes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6613 |
C. D. Pickle, Jr., aka Clanton D. Pickle, Jr. v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure petition supreme-court takings-clause writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6602 |
Wayne Boucher v. Deanne Lyons |
New Hampshire |
2020-12-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse child-custody domestic-dispute due-process equal-protection evidence-exclusion family-law guardian-ad-litem judicial-bias parental-rights |
14. What is best for E.B..
15. Why the courts refuse to hear the wishes of E.B. a 13 year old child that is fully aware of the situation and knows wh… |
| 20-6603 |
In Re Antonio Akel |
|
2020-12-10 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus mandamus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error |
WHETHER:
A WRIT OF MANDAMUS IS THE ONLY APPROPRIATE REMEDY WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IS IN CLEAR AND UNEQUIVOCAL DEPARTURE OF FEDER… |
| 20-6579 |
Aimee O'Neil v. Weld County, Colorado |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection individual-rights judicial-procedure legal-representation liberty-interest procedural-protection standing |
Did AHornty Andrew Poland provide adequate representation
2. Did Weld County Provide fair procedure and equal protection in the courts?
3. Did Count… |
| 20-6552 |
Ignacio Arreola-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing 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… |
| 20-6557 |
Richard Cruz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process felony-drug-offense fifth-amendment jury-verdict mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
I. Whether the definition of "felony drug offense" for the pur poses of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vaguene ss after Johnson, Dimaya, and Da vis.
II. … |
| 20-6559 |
Jesus Villarreal-Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-6560 |
Lorenzo Gerald Ferebee v. Karen Stapleton, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection prisoner-rights procedural-due-process |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6566 |
Anilou Beltran Del Rio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6570 |
Brandon Bernard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure brady-violation death-penalty gang-affiliation government-misconduct napue-claim napue-violation procedural-default section-2255 successive-habeas successive-petition |
Where government action prevented Petitioner from bringing his claims under Brady and Napue in his initial § 2255 motion, should a second-in-time moti… |
| 20-6541 |
Alejandro Pineda-Campuzano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing 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… |
| 20-6543 |
Curtis Moody v. Chae Harris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection gerrymandering redistricting standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6547 |
David Franklin McNees, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct |
DID THE FEDERAL AND STATE COURT'S ABUSE THEIR DISCRETION WHEN THEY MISAPPLIED THE LAW IN DENYING PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL AND GINTHER HEARI… |
| 20-6517 |
Elvis Basic v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
1. Whether a federal district court must use the "err on the side of caution" principle when approximating the drug quantity? |
| 20-6523 |
Jason Lamont Brooks v. Scott Jordan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-time-bar civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-offender lwop-sentence meaningful-opportunity montgomery-miller-precedent standing |
1. Does the AEDPA time-bar apply to a "protected class of citizen's" claim for relief?
2. Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit a "de jure"/"de facto" L… |
| 20-6531 |
Rogelio May Ruiz v. David Baughman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection reopening-case standing |
Ninth carcuit commited Discimination Raial
Why
1
Deneriag Counsel interprer for access to the courts.
PlaintiFF
Request appointment of counsel
T any c… |
| 20-6539 |
Alfonso Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law physical-force reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether a statute has as an element the use of physical force against the person or property of another, for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 16(a), when a con… |
| 20-6540 |
Joshua N. Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abduction acquitted-conduct constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-courts jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-enhancement upward-variance |
1. Whether the district court erred in its "crime of violence" instruction to the jury.
2. Whether the district court erred in assessing an enhanceme… |
| 20-6500 |
Alfred Bourgeois v. T. J. Watson, Warden, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
death-penalty diagnostic-standards due-process federal-death-penalty-act federal-statute habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review |
Does the Federal Death Penalty Act, which provides that a "sentence of death shall not be carried out upon a person who is mentally retarded," prohibi… |
| 20-6511 |
Jose Antonio Lugo-Guerrero, aka Antonio Moraima, aka Fernando Rivera-Rodriguez, aka Alex v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether This Court Should Grant This Petition Because The First Circuit's Judgment Affirming The District Court's Judgment Violates Mr. Lugo-Guerre… |
| 20-6518 |
Blaine Milam v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
briseno-framework collateral-review court-of-criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactive-rule retroactivity substantive-law |
1. Did Moore v. Texas announce a new substantive rule that is retroactive to cases on collateral review and, if so, did the Texas Court of Criminal Ap… |
| 20-6519 |
Julian Mondragon-Hernandez, aka David Rojas, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-elements conviction criminal-procedure factual-findings judicial-fact-finding judicial-review jury-instructions jury-verdict mandatory-minimum-sentences mandatory-minimums sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
When a jury verdict allows for alternative elements of conviction, may courts review the evidence and make factual findings to uphold the conviction a… |
| 20-6521 |
Hector Valdez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
If a defendant waives the right to appeal a sentence and the waiver takes place before the passage of the First Step Act and the defendant is sentence… |
| 20-6497 |
Andrey Bridges v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-power access-to-courts appellate-review civil-forum civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion judicial-review self-representation |
The issue here goes beyond a miscarriage of justice. It's lower court's blatant and outright refusal to administer justice, when law warrants otherwis… |
| 20-6499 |
Robert T. Sigler v. Jimmy Thornton, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights class-action constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference detainee-rights detention-conditions due-process equal-protection medical-care prison-conditions |
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| 20-6505 |
Roosevelt Bigbee, Jr. v. Johnny Fitz, Warden |
Tennessee |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus search-and-seizure |
Whether the Court of Crim. App. erred in deeming the ressential robbrery elements that thee pelitiorer was fouend gueilty of, in thee lesser included … |
| 20-756 |
Christopher Gary Baylor v. Ayano Eto, fka Ayano Eto Baylor |
Minnesota |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status parent-child-relationship parental-rights standing state-court |
May a state court terminate the rights of a parent without notice or due process of service?
May a state court deny an indigent person relief based o… |
| 20-762 |
Eric Ferrier v. Cascade Falls Condominium Association, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure national-settlement national-settlement-agreement property-rights title-transfer |
I. Whether a person born or naturalized in the
United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
may be deprived of property without due proce… |
| 20-745 |
Ismael Lechuga v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-split due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit impartiality judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
I. Whether a federal circuit court reviews the denial of a motion to recuse a district judge under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) de novo or for an abuse of discr… |
| 20-752 |
Gavin B. Davis v. California |
California |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing totality-of-circumstances |
(1) Did the 4th Dist., Div. 1, Court of Appeal, California, err in its (a) inquiry and (b) application of Boykin / Tahl 1 analysis under its (c) "tota… |
| 20-6469 |
Hector Valentine v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-innocence criminal-law double-jeopardy judicial-review plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit's Erred
in not addressingconduct has been
rendered non-criminal byanintervening
Whether the Third Cirauit's Erred
in not ad… |
| 20-6482 |
Derrick Moffite v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
WheTher itis a violaTion of due process
where The evidence is insufficient To Support The jury
Verdict of a greater offense; here
AggravaTed AssaulT,
… |
| 20-6487 |
Andrew Johnston v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge sentencing suppression-of-evidence |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6488 |
Mario Allan Montano v. Oakland County Circuit Court Judge |
Michigan |
2020-12-01 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-fees due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-standing standing supreme-court-jurisdiction |
I. Whether the Michigan Supreme Court violated its jurisdiction by issuing an order dismissing the Petitioner's case thus depriving the Petitioner of … |
| 20-6489 |
Mario Allan Montano v. Ivy Alice Wimmer |
Michigan |
2020-12-01 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-courts case-dismissal constitutional-rights court-fees court-orders due-process equal-protection filing-fees jurisdiction supreme-court-jurisdiction |
I. Whether the Michigan Supreme Court violated its jurisdiction in issuing three orders dismissing the Petitioner's cases thus depriving the Petitione… |
| 20-6490 |
Mario Allan Montano v. Oakland County Circuit Court Judge |
Michigan |
2020-12-01 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-fees court-orders due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-injunction standing supreme-court-jurisdiction |
I. Whether the Michigan Supreme Court violated its jurisdiction in issuing two
orders dismissing the Petitioner 's cases thus depriving the Petitioner… |
| 20-6492 |
Calvin James v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms government-power interstate-commerce sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-6468 |
Kinzey Shaw v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence sentencing standard-of-review |
1. Whether there was sufficient foundation to support the District Court's drug quantity approximation?
2. Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision to a… |
| 20-6473 |
Jessica Arnold v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court failure-to-address judicial-discretion mitigation procedural-error sentencing sentencing-mitigation standard-of-review trial-counsel |
What standard applies to appellate review of the appeal of a district court's failure to address arguments of counsel in mitigation of sentencing, whe… |
| 20-6474 |
Pedro Fermin Barajas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 20-6477 |
Hamid Reza Ardaneh v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias jurisdiction mental-health-detention national-origin nationality |
1) If the petitioner connot enforce his equality of Rights in
lower state Courts Based on Discrimination toward his nationality
of being Iranian, th… |
| 20-6479 |
Genaro Garcia v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-petition prosecutorial-misconduct |
I.
Is State Appellate Court's unexplained to allow a petitioner to file a successive petition for Post-Conviction reliet under Rule I(zz) and Post-Con… |
| 20-6465 |
Damontaze Montrell Tillery v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
convicted-felon criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's decision to overrule Petitioner's motion for acquittal when the evidence at trial… |
| 20-6466 |
Louis Anthony Jackson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
924(c) 924(c)-sentence certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure davis-decision due-process hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sentencing |
[1] WHETHER A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED, WHERE MR. JACKSON ARGUED THAT IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES … |
| 20-740 |
Jim Bognet, et al. v. Veronica Degraffenreid, Acting Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
ballot-deadline election-integrity elections-clause electors-clause equal-protection judicial-overreach mail-in-ballots purcell-v-gonzalez standing |
The Pennsylvania General Assembly established
an unambiguous election- day deadline for receipt of
absentee and mail -in ballots. A majority of the … |
| 20-6423 |
Byron Lee v. AT&T Services, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
breach-of-contract breach-of-duty equal-protection federal-question feha feha-violation procedural-due-process removal removal-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1.) Did Los Angeles' Central District of California Court or The Ninth Cir. Ct. of Appeals, commit an Equal Protection Under The Law violation or Cali… |
| 20-6449 |
Anthony Don Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment waiver |
1. Under Class v. United States, 138 S.Ct. 798 (2018), when a defendant argues on appeal that his sentence was imposed in violation of his Fifth Amend… |
| 20-6451 |
Genesis Javon White v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act criminal-classification factual-finding occasions-different prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense serious-drug-offenses |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN CLASSIFYING MR. GRIFFIN AS AN ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL WHERE HIS PRIOR CONVICTIONS DID NOT QUALIFY AS "SERIOUS DRU… |
| 20-6452 |
Michael Deshawn Homer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu case-remand certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 20-6409 |
Hugo Humberto Perez Rangel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
advisory-opinions appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-error harmless-error incentive-to-object judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a… |
| 20-6418 |
Michael A. Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting brandishing brandishing-firearm conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act sentence-reduction sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to a sentence reduction after pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Hobbs Act Robbery and aiding and abetting bra… |
| 20-6419 |
Romell Broom v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-attempt habeas-corpus robinson-v-california section-2254 sentencing supreme-court-precedent trop-v-dulles |
Is Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947) the clearly established United States Supreme Court precedent, for purposes of 28 U.S.C.… |
| 20-6427 |
Marquis Wilson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, which is expressly titled a "clarification" of the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) (1)(… |
| 20-6403 |
Casey Mattingly v. Duval County Jail, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-trial summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6406 |
Jeffrey Neal Cuddington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split history-and-characteristics preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure substantive-reasonableness |
I. In Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, this Court reserved whether a
formal objection at the time of sentencing is required to preserve abuseof-dis… |
| 20-6408 |
Jose Hilario Fernandez-Vargas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-6396 |
Michael John Bever v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-review jury-finding juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether a judge's decision to sentence a juvenile offender to consecutive terms is exempt from Eighth Amendment review.
2. Whether a judge's decis… |
| 20-6398 |
Richard Wesley Allen v. Marcus A. Pollard, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection First-Amendment Fourteenth-Amendment free-speech parole prisoner-rights religious-freedom |
DOES IT VIOLATE THE FIRST AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, WHEN A STATE THAT OFFERS PAROLE TO PRISONERS, DENIES PAROLE TO A PRISONE… |
| 20-698 |
Alan Headman v. Royal I. Hansen, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
13th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection inadequate-forum involuntary-servitude judicial-immunity thirteenth-amendment |
Regarding the application of 13th Amendment protection, whether the lack of I.
"specific" terms within a written agreement should prevent state court … |
| 20-704 |
Cesar Santana v. California |
California |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
|
age-appropriate-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing liberty-interest miller-v-alabama sentencing youth-offender |
1. Does California Create a Liberty Interest to "Youthful-Offender's" when it Enacted
Legislation in Response/Remedy of a United States Supreme Court… |
| 20-694 |
Eagle Cove Camp & Conference Center, Inc., et al. v. Town of Woodboro, Wisconsin, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection federal-law judicial-review notice procedural-due-process property property-rights religious-exercise sanctions sua-sponte sua-sponte-analysis |
1) Did the Wisconsin Court of Appeals Deprive and Did the Wisconsin
Supreme Court's Refusal to Accept the Case for Review Permit the
Deprivation of Pe… |
| 20-697 |
Orlando Cordia Hall v. T. J. Watson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 batson-claim batson-v-kentucky constitutional-error death-penalty federal-procedure habeas-corpus racial-discrimination |
When Petitioner, a Black man, was sentenced to death in a Texas federal courtroom after the prosecution struck four out of five Black prospective juro… |
| 20-6377 |
Anthony C. Martin v. Larry Fowler, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
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| 20-6382 |
Randall Allen Eplion, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-practice plea-agreement sentencing standing waiver |
Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars the defendant from appealing "the right to seek appellate review of . . . any sentence of imprisonm… |
| 20-6386 |
James Ray Earl Walker v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-framework death-penalty juror-selection jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination racial-discrimination state-courts voir-dire |
Did the Nevada courts err in failing to observe and follow the three step Batson framework and failing to recognize the prosecutor's blatant discrimin… |
| 20-6389 |
Tomas Martinez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-6390 |
Rigoberto Cabrera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loss-amount prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error witness-testimony |
1. Whether Cabrera made a sufficient showing that he received
ineffective assistance of counsel as a result of his counsel's
failure to challenge the … |
| 20-6374 |
Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-law drug-conspiracy fourth-circuit harmless-error sentencing united-states-v-harchulik |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLIED THE HARMLESS ERROR DOCTRINE ANNOUNCED IN UNITED STATES v. HARDING WHEN IT AFFIRMED DEFENDANT'S SENTENCE FOR DR… |
| 20-6376 |
Sean Jason Harstine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-defendant appeal breaking-and-entering criminal-history due-process juvenile-offender juvenile-offenses point-calculation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER IT WAS ERROR TO COUNT CRIMINAL HISTORY POINTS FOR FOUR 2004 BREAKING AND ENTERING (B&E) CONVITIONS WHEN THE DEFENDANT WAS ONLY 17 YEARS OLD… |
| 20-6346 |
Demarcus D. Morris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment indictment-vagueness rico rico-statute sentencing |
1) Count One (RICO) of the Indictment is unconstitutionally vague.
2) Count Two (Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances) of the Indictment is… |
| 20-6349 |
Larry D. Odum v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6350 |
Esau Dozier v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brown-vs-board civil-rights due-process equal-protection public-schools racial-segregation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6353 |
Larry Williams v. Scott B. Lewis, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6354 |
Richard A. Poplawski v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fee-provisions fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act standing |
I. In the Third Circuit, the Prison Litigation Reform Act has been applied to require
separate, duplicative fees from joined litigants. But the distr… |
| 20-6356 |
Ryan Dennis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus physical-force reckless-injury residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether an offense that can be committed by recklessly causing serious injury has "the use of physical force against the person of another" as an e… |
| 20-6359 |
Andrew Rey Ybaben v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction child-pornography discretionary-conditions due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 20-6365 |
Gregory D. Crosby v. Bill True, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-686 |
Michael Shock v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-law discovery-violation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-interpretation |
Are significant discovery and Brady violations by the
prosecuting attorney, necessitating the grant of a mistrial,
sufficient to invoke the double j… |
| 20-672 |
Thomas Gilewicz v. Brylin Hospital, et al. |
New York |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights court-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-procedure standing state-court statutory-interpretation |
Did the state court procedure in petitioner's case violate his right to due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constit… |
| 20-6331 |
Raphael Dimenick Sam v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing |
WHETHER OR NOT THE LOWER COURT ERRED AND ABUSED HIS DISCRETION THE TRIAL COURT REVERSIBLY ERRED FOR ALLOWING "VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT AND VICTIM IMPAC… |
| 20-6335 |
Duane Allen Sikes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct |
The question presented by this case is whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments preclude a district court from increasing a defendant's sentence based o… |
| 20-6337 |
Tramaine Standberry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct crime-of-violence criminal-law district-court-discretion due-process guidelines-interpretation jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional upward-variance |
1. Did the jury convict Mr. Standberry for a crime of violence that this Court has held is unconstitutional?
2. Was the district court's upward varia… |
| 20-6302 |
Nguyen Vu v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-11-13 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-bias perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct |
Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution states, in part,
nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or … |
| 20-6303 |
Lamar Whatley v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-challenge de-novo eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers sixth-amendment |
1, The seperation of powers clause,as legislature has power to fix sentences.for mr.whatley crime and limit the scope of the judicial decsrition to im… |
| 20-6305 |
Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea plain-error sentencing sentencing-error |
Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitle… |
| 20-6307 |
Gary Lawrence v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
atkins-v-virginia death-penalty hall-v-florida intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's decision in Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014), merely clarified Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), or announced a new… |
| 20-6311 |
Russell Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability co-conspirator-liability controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution due-process enhanced-penalty pinkerton-liability sentencing |
I. Whether the government must satisfy the evidentiary requirements for accomplice
liability under 18 U.S.C. §2 or co-conspirator liability under Pink… |
| 20-6313 |
Kevin Merritt v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review presentence-report procedural-objection sentencing sentencing-unreasonableness |
1. Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), is relevant to the objections necessary to preserve claims of procedura… |
| 20-6316 |
Mickey Pubien v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing discretion first-step-act penalty-reduction sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
What the district court may appropriately consider when imposing a reduced sentence pursuant to § 404 of the First Step Act of 2018 remains an unsettl… |
| 20-6317 |
Robert Petty v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review closing-arguments constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
1. Whether the Indiana Courts erred denying Appellant was deprived effective assistance of trial counsel during closing arguments and sentencing viola… |
| 20-6323 |
Lamont Andre Thomas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction prosecutorial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-code |
Does the Fifth Circuit have constitutional authority under Article III, Section 2, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution, to bring Criminal Charg… |
| 20-664 |
Artem M. Joukov v. Office of the State Attorney for the Second Judicial Circuit of Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-action civil-rights due-process equal-protection florida-law small-business small-business-rights state-agency statutory-interpretation |
FLA. STAT. § 57.111 (2020), the Equal Access to Justice Act, entitles small business owners to costs and attorney's fees when they prevail in administ… |
| 20-665 |
Damon B. Cook v. George M. Galaza, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt rule-60(b)(6) sentencing |
1.) WhetheR The PetitioNeR DAMON COOk Has Made of A Substantial Showing The DeNial ConstitutioNAL RighT 28 USC 2253(C)(2) IN order To ObtaiN A CertiFi… |
| 20-6276 |
Arek R. Fressadi v. Arizona, et al. |
Arizona |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-violations court-rules due-process equal-protection first-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct judicial-review oath-of-office procedural-default self-defense state-law supreme-court trial-counsel venue-transfer venue-transfer
20-6275" Would a jurist of reason find debatable the correc |
1) Whether failures to apply mandatory language of the U.S. Constitution,
U.S. Supreme Court rulings, state law, and court rules are violations of the… |
| 20-6281 |
Kevin Lamar Ratliff v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-782 career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure discretion federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Lower Courts have discretion to reduce Whether the
Petitioner's sentence under U.S.S. Guideline Amendment 782,
regardless of Petitioner's career offen… |
| 20-6285 |
Brittany Shanice Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6291 |
Christopher Stacy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitle… |
| 20-6292 |
Alonte Deshavion Richey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) comports with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 20-6298 |
Carlton Butler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus sentencing |
Does Fed.R. Crim. P. Rule 35(c)(4) provide the District Court with authority to increase a defendant's otherwise lawful sentence previously imposed on… |
| 20-6271 |
Cordarryl Antonio Betton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process government-breach plea-agreement record-support sentencing sentencing-enhancements |
Is a Plea Agreement breached by the government when the prosecutor announces the government's agreed to recommendation to the sentencing court but the… |
| 20-639 |
Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley v. Steve Sisolak, Governor of Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Relisted (2) |
covid-19 covid-19-restrictions equal-protection first-amendment free-assembly free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech religious-liberty strict-scrutiny |
1. Whether the Governor's favoring of secular over religious gatherings violates the Free Exercise Clause.
2. Whether the Governor's favoring of secu… |
| 20-6259 |
Angela de Jesus-Concepcion v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel misrepresentation sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel impermissibly violated, when the district court erred in failing … |
| 20-6260 |
Sherman Johnson, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
eighth-circuit equal-protection fifth-amendment flowers-v-mississippi foster-v-chatman juror-strikes jury-selection miller-el-v-dretke prosecutorial-discrimination voir-dire |
Whether the District Court and United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit considered the full context of the other evidence of discriminati… |
| 20-6261 |
Damien Edward Desjardins-Racine v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons first-step-act guidelines sentencing |
Does Asthnu Diagnosis o A OF Give − Rise EXTZADRDINATY OTD .3F TO AN compelling REASON DURSUANT the SeNtercing GUiDeliNeS?
DD The Rassabe oF oyf FIRS… |
| 20-6243 |
Okeiba Sadio v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights covered-offense criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process first-step-act sentencing sentencing-reduction sixth-amendment statutory-penalties |
(1) Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Wrongly dismiss Mr Sadio's Appeal with out no Briefs being filed or hearing any arguments, violating m… |
| 20-6250 |
Kyle A. Box v. New York |
New York |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
According to Grady Vs. Mee 379 U.S. 109 (1964), any evidence in possession of the prosecution that can be favorable for the defense, must be made over… |
| 20-614 |
Thomas D. Kerr v. Heidi L. Kerr |
Montana |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
|
child-rearing constitutional-guarantees constitutional-law due-process equal-protection family-law gender-discrimination parental-rights parenting supreme-court-review |
Can the Montana Supreme Court ignore the unjustifiable and inexplicable decisions of the lower court discriminate against a father for no other discer… |
| 20-612 |
Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State |
Minnesota |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
ballot-access equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment political-parties political-party-rights primary-election primary-elections |
In the context of Minnesota's taxpayer-funded, state-administered, and binding presidential nomination primary election, are Minnesota Statues repugna… |
| 20-6218 |
Terance Valentine v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-fact-finding jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona |
Whether a waiver to an advisory, non-unanimous jury verdict lacking in any fact finding requirement under a death penalty scheme later determined to b… |
| 20-6230 |
Ulis Howard Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
corpus-delicti criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-error punishment-phase sentencing |
Did the Fi fth Ci rcuit err i n hol ding that the concept of corpus del icti shoul d not
apply in the puni shment phase? |
| 20-6237 |
Jamar Parker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history district-court mitigating-factors mitigation-arguments procedural-reasonableness sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Where the district court failed to consider or address Petitioner's mitigating arguments and focused exclusively on his criminal history, whether the … |
| 20-6242 |
Devontate Mauryce Davis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
administrative-law controlled-substance-offense guideline-commentary inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-commission statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether the United States Sentencing Commission exceeded its authority by adding inchoate offenses to the USSG § 4B1.2(b) definition of "controlled su… |
| 20-596 |
Leroy E. Scott v. City of St. Petersburg, Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2020-11-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection home-rule-powers municipal-abatement racial-discrimination seventh-amendment special-assessment-liens standing summary-judgment |
Is the PER CURIAM Affirm opinion, as applied in this case, a pretext for discrimination?
Pursuant to Article VIII, Section 2, Florida Constitution, a… |
| 20-583 |
Mitzi Elaine Dailey v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Maryland |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline confidentiality confidentiality-breach due-process equal-protection judicial-bias mandamus-petition pro-bono |
Should the Maryland Court of Appeals, acting by and through its Attorney Grievance Commission, have granted Petitioner's request for a hearing on her … |
| 20-586 |
James T. Gersky v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment court-precedent criminal-procedure defendant-testimony due-process estelle-v-smith judicial-guidance mitchell-v-united-states sentencing |
I.
Should this Court provide guidance to district
courts regarding the forced testimony of
defendants at sentencing, in accordance with
this Court's p… |
| 20-6198 |
Agustin Chavez v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process identity identity-verification post-conviction-information postconviction-information prior-record-exception sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether courts, including those in Florida, have been incorrectly applying a "prior record" exception to the rule from Apprendi v. New Jersey 530 U… |
| 20-6202 |
Jimmy Don Wooten v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3005 capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process error-coram-nobis statutory-interpretation |
Did United States Code Annotated 18 U.S.C.A. 3005 apply to Petitioner in 1994 when he was charged with Capital Murder and the Death Penalty was sought… |
| 20-6203 |
Rachel O. v. Alaska Department of Health and Social Services |
Alaska |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law alaska-supreme-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection guardianship native-american standing |
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| 20-6204 |
Kenneth Curry v. Kess Roberson |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER THE PETITIONER PLAUSIBLY HAS SUFFICIENTLY PLEADED A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DENIAL OF A SECURED RIGHT PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. SECTION 2253… |
| 20-6206 |
Travis Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing solem-v-helm state-courts supreme-court-precedent |
1. IS Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277 (1983) binding Case Law?
2. Must Illinois Appellant Courts be required to Follow the United States Supreme Court's … |
| 20-6182 |
Kyle Rainey v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Under Brady vs. Maryland, a PCRA petitioner may establish a true Brady violation if the following can be proven; if the evidence at issue is favorable… |
| 20-6173 |
In Re Tommie H. Telfair |
|
2020-10-30 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment standing |
I. WHETHER CUMULATIVE VIOLATIONS AND FUNDAMENTAL ERRORS AS A "SOURCE" OF "
CONSTITUTIONAL INFRINGEMENT DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF THE 1ST, 5TH, 6TH, 13TH,… |
| 20-6175 |
Rico Walker v. Vance Laughlin, Warden |
Georgia |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment indictment-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-of-charges void-conviction |
Can petitioner be convicted of a crime Where the Indictment fail to allege the essential elements of the crime charged.
Does the trial court have Jur… |
| 20-6179 |
Hai Duong v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation doyle-v-ohio due-process equal-protection harmless-error miranda-rights post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct |
Under the particularized need doctrine, indigent defendants are allowed to file applications for post-conviction relief without supporting documentati… |
| 20-577 |
Moaze Ibrahim v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6158 |
Clara Lewis Brockington v. South Carolina Department of Social Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
discrimination due-process education-requirements employment-termination equal-protection master's-degree test-administration workers-compensation workplace-discrimination |
1/ Why did S. C. Department of Social Services terminate Pro Se Plaintiff from employment with S. C. Department of Social Services when it was not abo… |
| 20-6164 |
In Re Theresa S. Romain |
|
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud-upon-the-court full-faith-and-credit petition-clause race-discrimination |
1. Can a State encourages discrimination on the basis of the race theory?
2. Does the petition clause (1st Amendment) automatically disqualifies a pe… |
| 20-6170 |
Justin David Brown v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-action constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation substantial-assistance |
Did the defendants Sixth Distnet Court violate the Amendment right Special Agent Nicole allowing ba Bailey Hecring the defendants Sentancing 4s2 24 at… |
| 20-6143 |
Saul Mangual-Corchado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carjacking-statute civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process force-clause johnson-standard residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
THE COURT SHOULD ISSUE A W.O.C. AND ADDRESS WHETHER THE FEDERAL CARJACKING OFFENSE DOES CONSTITUTE A "CRIME OF VIOLENCE" WITHIN THE MEANING OF 18 U.S.… |
| 20-6147 |
Shane Anthony Roberts v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-right waiver |
Whether the Court of Appeals improperly denied Mr. Roberts of the statutory right to appeal his 70-month sentence by summarily granting a government m… |
| 20-6148 |
Smith Merinord v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 924(c)-statute brandishing criminal-justice-reform direct-appeal firearms-offense first-step-act hobbs-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE FIRST STEP ACT APPLIES TO CASES PENDING ON DIRECT APPEAL AT THE TIME OF ITS ENACTMENT, WHERE THE PETITIONER WAS CONVICTED OF THREE HOBB… |
| 20-6130 |
Desmond Howard Greer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-26 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-offense elements-of-crime force legal-interpretation mens-rea personal-injury reckless-injury recklessness sentencing use-of-force violent-crime |
Whether an offense has as an element the use of force against the person of another if it may be committed by recklessly inflicting injury? |
| 20-545 |
Barbara D. Terrell v. John Lewis Renner, II |
West Virginia |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations-exception due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-assets notice privileges-immunities property |
1) Whether the customarily recognized domestic relations exception for federal and state jurisdiction applies where a state appellate court of last re… |
| 20-549 |
John Farrow, et al. v. Contra Costa County, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bail circuit-split counsel-appointment criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equal-protection indigent-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Is a detainee's first appearance in court a "critical stage" of the proceedings, when bail is set and statutory liberty interests are adjudicated, as … |
| 20-541 |
James MacDonald v. Louis E. Kempinsky, et al. |
California |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts civil-rights discovery due-process equal-protection petition-for-redress |
l) Once again, the California SLAPP LAW has denied due process, denied equal
protection, denied access to the Courts, penalized those petitioning for … |
| 20-6117 |
David M. Wasanyi v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law controlled-substances-act diversion-amendment due-process equal-protection food-and-drug-agency healthcare-services minority-health |
1. Whether the Federal government infringed on Petitioner's rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States … |
| 20-6119 |
In Re Nira Woods |
|
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights court-reporter due-process equal-protection judicial-recusal recusal standing superior-court |
Three Orders by three Judges, at three different Superior Court branches in California, without hearing Petitioner (on 09/28/20, 09/30/20, 10/30/20), … |
| 20-6122 |
Jerome Capelton v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-liability first-circuit joint-venture mens-rea realistic-probability sentencing |
1. Whether the First Circuit's application of the "realistic probability" standard in Mr. Capelton's case, where the elements of Massachusetts "joint … |
| 20-6124 |
Jose Maria Loaiza-Gaspar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guideline-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
My Sentence of LIFE imprisonment was imposed without the trial court addressing my non-frivolous argument for a lower sentence. On appeal, the Court o… |
| 20-6125 |
Edward Jones v. William Aaron Traylor, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
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| 20-6095 |
Ray Anthony Chaney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3582 compassionate-release covid-19 criminal-justice district-court federal-criminal-procedure health-conditions home-confinement motion sentencing |
Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Chaney's Motion for Compassionate Release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A). |
| 20-6105 |
Gabriel Oliver v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6091 |
Cherrie A. Hollie v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equitable-claims federal-circuit oral-argument standing veterans-claims |
A. Did the Federal Circuit err in dismissing Petitioner's appeal from the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Affairs for lack of jurisdiction?
B Did … |
| 20-6099 |
Malcolm Moore v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-review due-process first-step-act judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, which is expressly titled a "clarification" of the penalty provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), … |
| 20-6100 |
Carlos Meza-Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing Supreme-Court |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-6103 |
Curtis Lee Dale v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery document-discovery due-process pro-se-defendant search-warrant search-warrants sentencing standing |
- Is a prose litigant due a merits determination or adjudication on every claim he presents in his 28usc.f22ssMotion?
-Is a defendant to be provided … |
| 20-6106 |
Rafael Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance mental-disability plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment voluntariness |
When the District Court denied to issue a Certificate of Appealability, then a jury picked Court abused its discretion when the Defendant was forced t… |
| 20-530 |
Harold H. Burbank, II v. Connecticut Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel |
Connecticut |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
|
attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech petition petition-rights political-speech |
I. Did the First Amendment and Connecticut Constitution preclude Connecticut from reciprocal attorney discipline predicated on petitioner's Maine appe… |
| 20-531 |
Derek Hutter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim(s) that his counse… |
| 20-6067 |
Angeledith Saramaylene Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Whether the District Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that her attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to object to … |
| 20-6074 |
Timothy Jarred Paige v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-charge criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation |
WHEN CHARGED WITH VIOLATING 18.U.S.C § 922(9)(1) COUPLED WITH § 924(a)(2) DOES THE DISTRICT COURT RETAIN JURISDICTION TO CHARGE AN OFFENSE THAT ISN'T … |
| 20-6077 |
Johnathan Pinney v. Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts frivolous-claims judicial-discretion pleading-standards pro-se-litigation standing three-strikes-rule |
1: May the District court compell related Issues to be severed and indrvldually flled so as to dismiss the resulting actlons indirldnaly and deprive s… |
| 20-6079 |
In Re Dale McKenzie |
|
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-error trial-court-discretion unconstitutional-law void-conviction |
GROUND ONE
1. Has prejudice been shown where the trial court overruled
the defendant's motion for continuance to show that his prior
Georgia convict… |
| 20-6080 |
David Russell Posey v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
ada-accommodations civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection florida-bar fraud obstruction-of-justice trial-record |
1. IS IT OF GREAT PUBLIC IMPORTANCE, TO STATE PETITIONERS THAT PROSECUTORS NAMES FROM THE "ROLL OF ATTORNEYS" AS TRIAL RECORD SHOWS, THE VIOLATED DUE … |
| 20-6081 |
Lenore L. Albert-Sheridan v. State Bar of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
11-usc-523 bankruptcy-discharge court-costs due-process equal-protection license-suspension professional-licensing state-bar-discipline statutory-interpretation |
Whether 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(7) bars a debtor from obtaining a discharge of State Bar disciplinary costs under Chapter 7. Whether the equal protection c… |
| 20-6084 |
Laron J. Wainwright v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act judicial-records jury-trial modified-categorical-approach prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Most circuits agree that when increasing a defendant's sentence beyond the normal statutory maximum pursuant to the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), … |
| 20-6085 |
Celso Yanez v. California |
California |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-abuse |
Whether a mandatory sentence of 45 years to life, imposed on a 56-year-old first-time offender in a sexual abuse case involving no violence, no force,… |
| 20-6087 |
Tana Chris Lawrence v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-disparity standard-of-review |
1. Whether the District Court erred in rejecting petitioner's claim that her attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to object … |
| 20-6088 |
Miguel Angel Baez-Castillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure indictment prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
I. Can a court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior conviction never alleged in t… |
| 20-6060 |
Benjamin Davis Smiley, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mitigating-circumstances sentencing |
1. Does the decision of the Florida Supreme Court in Smiley v. State , 295 So.3d 156 (2020), violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual pun… |
| 20-6073 |
Desmond Littlejohn v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c certiorari-review civil-rights crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fourth-amendment ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). |
| 20-6042 |
Barry Lynn Bailey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 20-6043 |
Robin Lee Archer v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-role retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-criminal-law substantive-law |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause… |
| 20-6047 |
Ramada Tajedeen Shabazz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-6051 |
Jonathan Ortiz-Torres v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-agreement sentencing sixth-amendment voluntariness |
Should a writ of certiorari should be granted to determine if trial counsel renders ineffective assistance when he fails to advise his client that the… |
| 20-6052 |
Donald R. Conway v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review case-law-conflict circuit-court-precedent constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection procedural-default |
Did the Court of Appeals err or abuse its discretion when upon reading Appellate Counsel's single-issue Brief, that, in context, was a matter of law a… |
| 20-6057 |
David Lee Emmert, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-defendants criminal-enhancement due-process equal-protection immigration liberty-interest sentencing-disparity sexual-abuse-minor statutory-interpretation |
As of right now, immigration cases use the Esquivel-Quintana standard exposure to statutory penalty for "any 1' prior felony of "sexual abuse of a min… |
| 20-507 |
Tony Mays, Warden v. Anthony Darrell Dugard Hines |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (4) |
antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act capital-trial death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
The question presented is whether the Sixth Circuit's decision conflicts with the Court's precedents governing claims of ineffective assistance of cou… |
| 20-488 |
Sangeeta Bhargava v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. |
California |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure forgery fraud judicial-process robo-signing standing |
1. Are forgery and robo-signing one and the same?
2. Is it a violation of due process and equal protection of the law to forbid a victim of forgery t… |
| 20-489 |
Pedro M. Bess v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
|
convening-authority court-martial due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment military-justice racial-discrimination standing |
1. Whether 10 U.S.C. § 825, as applied in Petitioner's case, violates the Fifth Amendment.
2. Whether the lower court erred in declining to remand Pe… |
| 20-6017 |
Tracey Godfrey v. Lynn Guyer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
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| 20-6028 |
Carmencita Maria Pedro v. City Fitness, LLC, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-duty due-process equal-protection evidence-fabrication forgery judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct rule-of-law standing |
1. If United States District Court Judges are: (a.) unable to "decipher "ox discern the falsity, inauthenticity, illegitimacy and invalidity of The FO… |
| 20-6029 |
Pedro Tiempo-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in ruling the District Court did not err in imposing an upward departure sentence.
Whether the Court of Appeals er… |
| 20-6031 |
Durwyn Talley v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prison-litigation-reform-act |
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| 20-6034 |
Christopher Thieme v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa-limitations aedpa-statute-of-limitations constitutional-challenge equal-access-to-courts equal-protection equitable-estoppel first-time-filer habeas-corpus material-mutual-mistake suspension-clause |
When faced with a plea agreement that contained unconstitutional provisions, does the doctrine of "equitable estoppel" or "material mutual mistake" ap… |
| 20-6041 |
Raymond Lewis Perry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection first-stage-proceeding robbery sentencing sentencing-hearing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6004 |
Jconcepcion Alonso-Tobar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5983 |
Omar Sierre Folk v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines career-offender criminal-procedure guidelines habeas-corpus pre-beckles section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations third-circuit |
1. Whether the Third Circuit's erred in not addressing Erroneous Career Offender Designation under the 5, 2016. |
| 20-5992 |
Alan Lane Hicks v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing |
Does subjecting petitioner's pro se Rule 35(a) argument styled, "Correction of an Illegal Sentence," to the 35(b) timeline, violate petitioner's Feder… |
| 20-5997 |
Zaira Franco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies compassionate-release criminal-justice exhaustion federal-procedure judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred by ruling that exhaustion of administrative remedies is required before a court can consider a motion for compassiona… |
| 20-6000 |
Sara G. Kielly v. New York |
New York |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-conditions conviction-challenge criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining prison-treatment sentencing |
1.5 a defendant required, in light of well-established facts, to explicitly state a plea agreement's constitutional conditions, and treatment in priso… |
| 20-5974 |
Quordalis V. Sanders v. Brian Foster, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence sentencing |
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| 20-5978 |
Yoder Austin Blalock v. Alaska |
Alaska |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection self-incrimination unreasonable-search |
1) The decision of the State of Alaska, and the Alaska Court of Appeals are inconsistent with the United States Fifth Amendment rights providing that … |
| 20-5979 |
Steven Dwayne Bailey v. Stuart Sherman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review compassionate-release criminal-justice district-court due-process early-release judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-standard parole procedural-error sentencing |
Assembly Bill 29u2 allows the Court to recall andlor
resentence the defendant upon recommendation
of the district Attorney of the Cownty in Which
the … |
| 20-5985 |
Derrick Kennedy Crumpton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bad-faith-review circuit-court-split criminal-procedure government-discretion government-motion judicial-review plea-agreement proffer-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
What is the scope of judicial review when the defendant and the government have entered in a Plea Agreement and/or a Proffer Agreement in which the go… |
| 20-5987 |
William J. Truesdale v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection neil-challenge peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standing |
Whether a state trial court's brief colloquy and abbreviated review of evidence relevant to a Batson challenge satisfied its obligation under step thr… |
| 20-5948 |
Christopher Michael Sevier v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault borden-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court texas-law violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2?
Subsidiary question: whether the decis… |
| 20-5950 |
Clinton Riley v. Indiana Department of Correction, et al. |
Indiana |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5951 |
Joshua Scott Richards v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness u.s.-sentencing-commission u.s.s.g.-§-2g2.2 |
Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines covering the crimes of accessing or possessing child pornography, U.S.S… |
| 20-5954 |
Meryl S. McDonald v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment post-conviction postconviction-counsel pro-se-filing right-to-counsel |
The question presented in this case is whether rule 3.851(b)(6)&(i) found in the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is unconstitutional and violates … |
| 20-5957 |
Darius Taurean Caldwell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5971 |
Gregory D. Crosby v. Bill True, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure petition-for-writ remedies standing statutory-provisions |
Question not identified. |
| 20-452 |
S. S., Mother v. D. S., et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment adoption amish-education best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard child-welfare constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights |
Is the decision to terminate parental rights Constitutional, where the court determined that adoption to an Amish home is in the best interest of the … |
| 20-459 |
Robert Ryan Snyder v. California |
California |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law cell-assignment constitutional-rights due-process emergency-regulations equal-protection prison-overcrowding prisoner-conditions prisoner-rights sentencing-reform |
After the Plata ruling, California's legislature lowered its prison population by enacting Proposition(s): 36, 47 and 57. Should the resultant extra l… |
| 20-5938 |
Robert B. Wister v. Donald R. White, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process elder-abuse equal-protection federal-statute petition-of-grievances |
Abject refusal of a series of courts to read and give credibility to Appellant's brief citing violations of statutes by those holding office. County A… |
| 20-5940 |
Sabrina Alexander Weightman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond writ-of-certiorari |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 20-5923 |
Charles Don Flores v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
constitutional-fairness death-penalty due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial hypnosis investigative-hypnosis law-enforcement-procedure police-investigation |
In Rock v. Arkansas, 483 U.S. 44 (1987), this Court found that, although "hypnotically refreshed" testimony was "controversial," the dangers associate… |
| 20-5892 |
Russell A. Stoddard v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment enhanced-sentence fourteenth-amendment sentencing state-law |
1. DOES THE EIGHT AMENDMENT PROTECTION AGAINST CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT PROHIBIT A STATE FROM IMPOSING A PRISON SENTENCE THAT EXCEEDS THE MAXIMUM … |
| 20-5893 |
Jonnie Ravon v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole manifest-injustice sentencing violent-offenses |
Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d… |
| 20-5900 |
Fane R. Sellers, et al. v. Wyoming, et al. |
Wyoming |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection good-behavior government-accountability judicial-procedure jurisdiction unbiased-judge |
I. When the inferior District Court failed and/or refused to initiate or commence the action by
issuing the summons as required by Wyoming Rules of Ci… |
| 20-5902 |
Larry Burt Sexton v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence parole-consideration sentencing |
Error by the trial court in admitting hearsay evidence at the sentencing hearing and by finding that the petitioner was a career offender and sentenci… |
| 20-5904 |
Tarahrick Terry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)IFP |
2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § circuit-split crack-cocaine fair-sentencing-act federal-criminal-statute first-step-act sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
Whether pre-August 3, 2010 crack offenders sentenced under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) have a "covered offense" under Section 404 of the First Step Act. |
| 20-5909 |
David Conerly v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-review judicial-review ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by mining the district record to uphold an upward adjustment to petitioner's offense level under the Sentencing Guidelines? … |
| 20-5910 |
Robert Coleman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
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Ad. \Nhen does teledant Conduck become Celevant Conduct do dhe inslant S¥Sense oF conuicheon Yo be used to enha… |
| 20-5914 |
Clifton Robinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech interstate-commerce regulatory-authority sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1) peTiTIoNer Obsects To The hower courrs deTenmiratio> ThAT peTiTIONER STIpUlUTEd ait Triul That The scheme wuolved c1 WIne COMMUNiCUTIONS aFFECTINg … |
| 20-5915 |
Perry Cortese v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court enhancement federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing |
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| 20-5872 |
Jesus Sanchez-Chacon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-5887 |
Charles Kunta Lewis, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-consideration brain-development constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment individualized-sentencing juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sentencing |
I. The Constitution prohibits punishments that are cruel and unusual. In addition to the crime committed, the juvenile offender's age must also be tak… |
| 20-5890 |
Willie R. Benton, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process mistake-of-fact relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-circuit |
Is a criminal defendant denied Due Process of Law when the sentencing Court in a drug conspiracy case determines that a quantity of a substance should… |
| 20-5897 |
Demetrice Williams v. Sandy McCain, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability COA criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution denial effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection federal-district-court fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
A. WHETHER THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT SHOULD NOT HAVE DENIED COA BASED ON THE SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DENIAL OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT GUARANTEES OF T… |
| 20-423 |
LaQuanda Gilmore Garrott v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
|
charge-bargain judicial-review maximum-sentence plea-agreement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers |
Whether a district judge violates the separation of powers by rejecting a plea agreement containing a "charge bargain"—a guilty plea to one or more co… |
| 20-415 |
Pablo Javier Aleman v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-responsibility detainer-transfer interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers jurisdictional-authority mental-health-adjudication not-criminally-responsible receiving-state sending-state sentencing sentencing-procedure treatment |
1. Under the Interstate Agreement on Detainers ("IAD"), MD. CODE
ANN., CORR. SERVS. § 8-401 et seq., does the receiving state have the
authority to co… |
| 20-5857 |
Alimamy Barrie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3582 criminal-procedure discretion federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion retroactivity sentencing sentencing-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5858 |
Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights disciplinary-hearing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection first-amendment liberty-interest sandin-v-connor |
Liberty Interest
Can an action by a prison disciplinary hearing that is a violation of the First Amendment, Eighth Amendment, or Equal Protection Clau… |
| 20-5863 |
Andrew Newson v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure court-procedure due-process equal-protection mailing-error parental-rights petition-for-review statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights timeliness |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5865 |
John Doe #1 v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process sentencing supervision-conditions vagueness |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V, when it imposed the communication condition of supervision which is … |
| 20-5869 |
Michael Robert Everett v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-law federal-preemption judgment-rendition reclassification sentencing state-law |
DURING THE CHARGE IS RECLASSIFIED FROM ONE VARYING DEGREE OFFENSE TO ANOTHER, DOES THIS FINDING RENEW THE BURTON V. STEWART, FERREIRA V. SEC'Y DEP'T O… |
| 20-5874 |
Jerry Lard v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-prohibition death-penalty eighth-amendment execution intellectual-disability ripeness waiver |
1. Whether a death-sentenced inmate is permitted to waive a viable claim for an Eighth Amendment categorical probation against the execution of person… |
| 20-5877 |
Demetrius Cherilus Morancy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3013 criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-statute legal-procedure offenses-against-the-united-states sentencing special-assessment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the special assessment required by 18 U.S.C. Section 3013 for "an offense against the United States" is required to be imposed for all offense… |
| 20-5882 |
Omero Nino-Guerrero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-5851 |
John Christopher Badgett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 20-5861 |
Alijah Jaquez Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime weapons-offense |
IS A HOBBS ACT ROBBERY A CRIME OF VIOLENCE FOR PURPOSES OF 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)? |
| 20-5835 |
Joseph Belarde Garcia v. California |
California |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus parole parole-board prisoner-rights victim-impact-statement |
CAN A STATE PAROLE BOARD COMMIT A FATAL ERROR BY THE
REFUSAL TO ENTERTAIN FAVORABLE EVIDENCE OF THE STATE
PRISONER FOR HIS SUITABILITY TO BE RELEASED … |
| 20-5836 |
Rosie Diggles v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process external-document judicial-procedure mandatory-supervision oral-pronouncement pronouncement sentencing special-conditions |
Is the Court required to orally pronounce special conditions and give reasons for those special condition, as a condition of mandatory supervision, at… |
| 20-5841 |
Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-standard prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator |
Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica… |
| 20-5803 |
Raymond Brown v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment petition-for-review standing state-court supreme-court-rules |
Did the State Courts of Pennsylvania violate petitioner's due process under the United States Constitution where they quash Petitioner's appeal? |
| 20-5825 |
Larry Lamar Nance v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review central-thesis circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether it is sufficient for a sentencing court to address the "central
thesis" of a defendant's arguments in mitigation or whether, as a majority
of … |
| 20-5810 |
Ruth Torres v. Marie Diaz, et al. |
Texas |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-process anti-SLAPP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review whistleblower whistleblower-retaliation |
Issue V Is a state anti-Slapp restriction seeking dismissal within 60 days of the filing of claims (ignoring later legal actions) unconstitutional whe… |
| 20-5811 |
Ruth Torres v. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, et al. |
Texas |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection equal-protections governmental-immunity judicial-bias pro-se-litigation whistleblower-rights |
Issue V When Pro Se Indigent parties lack meaningful access, procedurally and meritoriously, does this constitute lack of due process and equal protec… |
| 20-5819 |
Kyle Damond Jones v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
checks-and-balances civil-rights due-process equal-protection medical-care state-supremacy |
1. Can the state make medical care an area of diminished rights due to detainment?
2. Can the state deny a class of medication previously prescribed … |
| 20-387 |
Lewana Howard v. Gabriel DeFrates, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights equal-protection federal-remedy retaliation state-action state-employees |
(1) When state employees acting in their personal capacity rather than agents of the state, violate the 14,h Amendment Equal Protection rights of a ci… |
| 20-375 |
In Re E. Edward Zimmermann |
|
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech standing |
Are "terms and conditions of employment and working conditions " as
defined by The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), subject matter left to
Petitio… |
| 20-5771 |
Taveon Nixon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver due-process miscarriage-of-justice procedural-reasonableness sentencing statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT'S OVERT CONSIDERATION OF THE EXISTENCE AND NATURE OF AN APPEAL WAIVER PRIOR TO VARYING UPWARD TO THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM SENTENC… |
| 20-5779 |
Cynthia B. Woods v. South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process employment-law equal-protection |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5787 |
Thomas Wayne Godard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) 924(c)-conviction due-process equal-protection first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-relief |
Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing to Apply First Step Act retroactively to multiple 924(c) convictions that were announced, but not final, at th… |
| 20-5790 |
Gerard Nguedi v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights comparator-evidence disparate-treatment employment-discrimination employment-law equal-protection intentional-discrimination judicial-finding prima-facie-case similarly-situated-comparator |
Does a prima facie case of intentional discrimination require a judicial finding that the defendant gave more favorable treatment to a nearly identica… |
| 20-5799 |
Lorenzo Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a criminal defendant's sentence should be based upon acquitted conduct. |
| 20-5770 |
David A. Bridgewater v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule dismissed-conduct due-process fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a court from relying solely on dismissed conduct to impose an otherwise substantively unreasonable sen… |
| 20-5775 |
Natalie Angeles v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure harm-analysis judicial-coercion presentence-report sentencing structural-error |
Does a district court coerce the Defendant to withdraw her objections to findings in the Presentence Report where the court informs the Defendant that… |
| 20-373 |
Richard Lee Abrams v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss standing state-action |
1. Did the district court and the Ninth Circuit abuse their discretion by not allowing Petitioner to even argue that the behavior of the Commission on… |
| 20-5751 |
Pedro Fernandez-de Campa v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certiorari-petition criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-reconsideration precedent precedent-review sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled. |
| 20-5766 |
Christopher Andre Vialva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-general-power death-penalty death-sentence execution-procedures federal-courts federal-death-penalty-act federal-law judicial-precedent state-law state-law-implementation |
Since the federal government resumed executions this year, after a 17-year hiatus, the Courts of Appeals have addressed challenges to federal methods … |
| 20-5757 |
Jerrieus Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process firearms-offense plea-agreement plea-bargaining residual-clause sentencing void-for-vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 1951(a), aiding and abetting interference with commerce by robbery, falls under the residual clause found at 18 U.S.C. § 92… |
| 20-5732 |
Ernest Seadin v. Dean Williams, Director, Colorado Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment new-evidence no-escape-conviction plea-agreement sentence-expiration sentencing-violation |
1. Is the State of Colorado, the Colorado Courts, both State and
Federal, subjecting Petitioner to a death in prison sentence by not
giving him relief… |
| 20-357 |
Fritz Kaegi v. A.F. Moore & Associates, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
comity comity-doctrine equal-protection federal-courts federal-jurisdiction property-tax state-courts state-jurisdiction tax-injunction-act |
This Court previously examined Illinois' property tax objection system and declared it a plain, speedy, and efficient process for taxpayers to obtain … |
| 20-5738 |
Willie Hugh Washington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu 139-S-Ct-2369 certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit sentence-vacatur sentencing united-states-v-haymond |
L. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 20-5740 |
Edward Mahan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3553a appeal criminal-procedure downward-adjustment drug-offense due-process government-misconduct plea-agreement safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR BY ALLOWING THE GOVERNMENT TO VIOLATE THE PLEA AGREEMENT?
DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR BY DENYING MR. MAHAN'S OBJECTION TO T… |
| 20-5741 |
Juan Gabriel Sanchez-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial recidivism sentencing Sixth-Amendment |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez- Torres v. United States , 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5743 |
Johnny Melendez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-criminal-act constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance narcotics-possession prior-conviction right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Should a writ of certiorari should be granted to determine if counsel rendered ineffective assistance when it allowed the court to rely on a prior con… |
| 20-5734 |
Alfred Flores, III v. California |
California |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-requirements criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-findings jury-trial reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona sentencing |
Whether California's death penalty scheme violates the constitutional requirement that any fact that increases the penalty for a crime must be found b… |
| 20-5707 |
Ruth Ellen Reeves v. Mark T. Esper, Secretary of Defense, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial institutional-abuse medical-ethics military-intervention patient-rights standing |
1. Is it legal for a court to render judgment on a case before the case is heard from the Plaintiff and/or the Defendants?
2. Is it legal for a medic… |
| 20-5711 |
David Smith-Garcia, fka David Garwood Atwood, II v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release |
1. Whether the district court erred by ordering two terms of imprisonment to run consecutive in the subject third supervised release revocation procee… |
| 20-5717 |
William Bradner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system due-process government-breach plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-level sixth-circuit |
Whether the government breaches the bargain of a plea agreement by requesting a minimum sentencing level fifteen years longer than what it had explici… |
| 20-5728 |
Derrick A. Dotson v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
batson-challenge collateral-review criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection jury-trial ramos-retroactivity retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-standard |
Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S. Ct. 1390
(2020) applies to cases on state collateral review, where the State follows the
r… |
| 20-5697 |
Heather P. Hogrobrooks Harris v. Jimmie L. Smith |
Tennessee |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1981 civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct recusal recusal-standard |
Whether a judge who lied about her reasons for not hearing from the Petitioner during
a hearing and subsequently lied in her Order denying to recusal … |
| 20-5700 |
Antonio Moss v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law agency-regulations civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation judicial-review sentencing statutory-construction |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5709 |
Rickey Cole v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? placed in the indictment burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grand-jury indictment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be found by a grand jury, placed in the indictment, and proven to… |
| 20-5710 |
Jaime E. Coca-Ortiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-340 |
Olga Paule Perrier-Bilbo v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise freedom-of-religion government-endorsement religious-discrimination standing |
May the federal government continue to degrade Atheists from the equal rank of citizens by repeatedly, flagrantly, and facially lending its power to M… |
| 20-348 |
Gregory Shawn Mercer v. E. A. Vega |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process guarantee-clause jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment supreme-clause |
SCOTUS Rule 10(a) - Whether or not a Circuit Split has arisen between the Fourth Circuit and other Circuits over the interpretation of whether crimes … |
| 20-5685 |
Ruben Sanchez v. Steven Silva, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge pretext racial-discrimination standard-of-review |
(1) Whether, in an analysis under Batson v Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), the prosecutor's peremptory challenge of Hispanic prospective jurors was just… |
| 20-5688 |
Joseph L. Berry v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gender-discrimination jury-selection race-discrimination |
Does discrimination in jury selection at the intersection of race and gender violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Un… |
| 20-5689 |
Orlando Bell v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a defendant's sentence on conduct for which the jury acquitted the defenda… |
| 20-5655 |
Casye Necole Richardson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 20-5667 |
Lisa Tenaglia-Evans v. Thomas J. Evans |
Delaware |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
Did dude rulings hidbte my lothammend mont
1,
and 4th anmendment rights to Du Prers
ty violating hoe of law upon relying on
urronenus faots documented… |
| 20-5671 |
Michael Ward v. Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission |
Michigan |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection fees-and-costs indigent-litigant prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights |
I. IS MICHIGAN'S STATUTE, MCL 60G.2963(B) UNCONSTITUTIONAL ON ITS FACE and/or AS APPLIED TO THIS PETITIONER, AS VIOLATING THE RIGHT OF ACCESS TO COURT… |
| 20-5674 |
In Re James Ward |
|
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Consistent with the holding in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), which held that to prove prejudice on a claim of ineffective assistance … |
| 20-5677 |
In Re Jimmy Wren |
|
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus motion-to-rehear sentencing sentencing-hearing successive-habeas-corpus |
1. Whether 28, §2244, U.S.C. deprives similar situated litigants of due process of law?
2. Whether the enforcement of 28, §2244, U.S.C., subjects sim… |
| 20-323 |
John S. Barth v. City of Peabody, Massachusetts |
First Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment municipal-ordinance property property-rights regulatory-taking takings |
1. Did municipal denial of permission to rebuild a home effect a taking of private property, where an ex post facto ordinance prohibited all other eco… |
| 20-316 |
Maria Pappas, Cook County Treasurer, et al. v. A.F. Moore & Associates, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
civil-rights comity-doctrine due-process equal-protection real-estate real-estate-assessment tax-assessment tax-injunction-act tax-refund |
1. Whether the Equal Protection Clause mandates that a real estate taxpayer seeking a refund based on an over assessment of real property be able to c… |
| 20-5636 |
Miguel Figueroa v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction gun-statute plea-bargaining plea-colloquy predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant's statement during a plea colloquy admitting conduct that could serve as a predicate for a conviction for use of a gun under 18 U.… |
| 20-5640 |
Michael Wayne Northcutt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process intentional-conduct mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Where 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 conduct woul… |
| 20-5646 |
Sean Justin Owens v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-conviction firearm-possession jury prior-conviction prior-convictions rehaif-v-united-states sentencing serious-drug-offense |
1. Whether, in cases charged and tried to a jury before this Court decided Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), courts of appeals may affi… |
| 20-5650 |
Carlos Cruz-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure firearms firearms-conviction first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), which as clarified and as amended by
the First Step Act of 2018, precludes aggravated punishment for
second firearms… |
| 20-5652 |
Daniel L. Lopez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states motion-to-vacate sentencing statute-of-limitations |
Whether Lopez's 28 USC Section 2255(a) Motion was timely filed under Johnson v United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) as there is a split between the 8… |
| 20-5653 |
Hermenegildo Margarito Espinoza Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
1) Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eith… |
| 20-5622 |
Larry E. Starks, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment |
A. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED AND ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY
TERMINATING THE INQUIRY AS TO WHETHER THE PETITIONER MET TH… |
| 20-5627 |
Justin Woodard v. New York |
New York |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Was defendant's Constitutional Fourteenth Amendment right to Due process violated when the Monroe County Trial Court denied the re-opening of a sup… |
| 20-5630 |
Mark Anthony Thacker v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indiana-law jail-time-credit judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice sentencing sentencing-credit |
Whether Petitioner, Mark A. Thacker, has suffer a miscarriage of justice and has been denied the equal protection and due process of laws as guarantee… |
| 20-5642 |
Christopher Wooten v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony plea-bargaining sentencing |
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| 20-303 |
United States v. Jose Luis Vaello Madero |
First Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (31)Relisted (6) |
civil-rights congressional-authority due-process equal-protection federal-benefits fifth-amendment puerto-rico statutory-interpretation supplemental-security-income territorial-rights |
Whether Congress violated the equal-protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment by establishing Supplemental Security Income… |
| 20-300 |
James Alan Clark v. Wendy Kristine Clark |
Washington |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-support due-process equal-custody equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-liberty-interests residential-credit shared-custody strict-scrutiny |
1.) If the interest of parents in the care, custody, and control of their children is one of the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognize… |
| 20-5603 |
Michael A. Glover v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-sufficiency reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. DID THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COURTS VIOLATE THE PETITIONER'S
5TH & 14TH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WHEN
THEY FOUND THE PETITIONER … |
| 20-5608 |
Michael Jonathon Besoyan v. Jimmy Yee, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-access jury-trial pro-se-litigant void-orders |
Whether any court or tribunal should be allowed to deny or deprive any citizen of basic rights listed in the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment eve… |
| 20-5610 |
Eric J. Brown v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure direct-appeal jury-unanimity juvenile-offenders retroactivity sentencing |
Under Griffith v. Kentucky, new rules apply to all defendants whose cases are "pending on direct review or not yet final." Petitioner was convicted in… |
| 20-5614 |
Derrick Anthony Felton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-activity defendant-status due-process judicial-determination leadership-role legal-error plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-court vagueness |
Did the Trial Court error in finding that Mr. Felton was an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of the criminal activity? |
| 20-5595 |
Joshua Glen Box v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-circuit categorical-approach child-pornography criminal-law eighth-circuit federal-criminal-law predicate-offense predicate-offenses sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred when it failed to properly apply the categorical approach to determine whether Mr. Box's pri… |
| 20-5561 |
Craig Edward Hunnicutt, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review discretion federal-sentencing first-step-act guidelines judicial-discretion motion-denial sentence-reduction sentencing |
1. A First Step Act (FSA) sentence reduction denial should come only after a
"complete review on the merits." Yet the Sixth Circuit held that it had n… |
| 20-5562 |
Jeffrey Hessler v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-amendments death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-panel jury-determination post-conviction-relief ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment |
Are the Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as Ring and Hurst, violated when eligibility for the death penalty is asserted to be decided … |
| 20-5582 |
In Re Karl-Heinz Dupuy |
|
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-hearing constitutional-rights deliberation-errors due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection trial-procedure |
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| 20-5583 |
Gregory D. Crosby v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
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| 20-5590 |
Manuel Chacon-Lara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fast-track fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-proceedings pre-trial-stage sentence-reduction sentencing |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining there was no "Substantial Showing of Denial of a Constitutional Right" - When Chacon-Lara ar… |
| 20-5591 |
Joseph G. Edwards v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Nebraska |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection material-facts nebraska-supreme-court precedential-authority sexual-assault vulnerable-adult |
1. The petitioner asks this honorbale court, did, the Petitioner;, obtain a denial from the Nebraska Supreme Court, that omitted material fact(s) on o… |
| 20-5563 |
Richard Bays v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia certificate-of-appealability death-penalty habeas-corpus hall-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability moore-v-texas |
1. Is it at least debatable whether Petitioner was improperly denied the right to amend his federal habeas corpus petition to include a claim that he … |
| 20-5564 |
Antonio U. Akel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brown-opinion Brown-v-Board due-process Eleventh-Circuit fair-trial recusal recusal-statute resentencing sentencing |
WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S REFUSAL TO CONDUCT A FULL RESENTENCING WITH THE DEFENDANT PRESENT RENDERS THE P… |
| 20-5573 |
In Re Abdul Mahhadie Underwood |
|
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies qualified-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5577 |
Malik Timbers v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-guidelines violence-enhancement weapon-enhancement |
I.
WHETHER CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED
WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN FINDING THAT
TIMBERS' GUILTY PLEA WAS VOLUNTARY AND THE
SENTENCE-AP… |
| 20-5578 |
Steven Gerard Walker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure federal-state-courts felon-in-possession mens-rea preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement violent-felony |
1) Whether a sentencing judge can find facts in the first instance about whether
a defendant committed offenses on different occasions by a prepondera… |
| 20-272 |
Maryland, et al. v. Jimmie Rogers |
Maryland |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment |
Did the Court of Appeals of Maryland depart from this Court's decisions in Smith v. Doe and Apprendi v. New Jersey in holding, contrary to the decisio… |
| 20-250 |
Mark Anthony Poole v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
|
aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment hurst-precedent hurst-v-florida jury-recommendation mitigating-circumstances sixth-amendment |
I. Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in
reinstating a capital sentence issued under Florida's
pre-2016 scheme, in contravention of this Court's
… |
| 20-5543 |
Javier Galindo-Caballero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5557 |
Earl Crownhart v. STRiVE |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5464 |
Dwayne Banks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty due-process habeas standing |
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| 20-5537 |
Anderson Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process johnson-decision mississippi-state-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-johnson violent-felony |
At issue is whether, under this Court's law established in United States v. Johnson, Mr. Alexander should be resentenced without application of the ar… |
| 20-243 |
James L. Robison v. Citibank, N.A., et al. |
Florida |
2020-08-31 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court procedural-fairness property-rights standing state-court-procedure state-courts |
1. Is the United States Constitution 's 5th Amendment right for a person not to be
deprived of property without due process of law an amendment that … |
| 20-5461 |
Jose Camilo v. New Jersey State Parole Board |
New Jersey |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process extended-term parole parole-board retaliation retaliatory-action sentencing |
THE PETITIONER, CONTENDS THAT His CASE IS
VERY SIMILAR. TO TRANTINO V. STATE OF N.S. _
PAROLE BOARD. AFTER HAVING SERVED THE PUNIT IVE ASPECTS OF HIS … |
| 20-5511 |
Debbie Pittman v. Ronnie Pittman |
Illinois |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-contempt civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection notice-of-appeal premature-filing prematurely-filed standing |
1. Whether a notice of appeal filed on May 10, 2016 is considered prematurely filed when the orders being challenged cover the period between 2013 and… |
| 20-5514 |
Daryl D. Nelson v. Mike Brown, Acting Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Did the Circuit Court commit a reversible error and grossly violate petitioner's Due Process when it (1) overlooked the district court's fact-finding … |
| 20-5517 |
Scotty Ray Gardner v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts aggravating-circumstance aggravating-circumstances appellate-review capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-instructions |
I.
In a state in which the death penalty is authorized only upon
a finding of an enumerated aggravating circumstance, does due process
require that ev… |
| 20-5522 |
Obatala Blount v. Bridgett Beecher |
Georgia |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection government-conduct judicial-review |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5530 |
Tony Gordon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice-act due-process expert-services independent-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether a trial court violates the Sixth Amendment right to independent counsel in denying a defense application for necessary expert services pursuan… |
| 20-223 |
Michael P. O'Donnell v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing |
Pursuant to Sup. Ct. R. 14(l)(a) Petitioner respectfully presents the following four questions for review. Petitioner also respectfully states the "St… |
| 20-5504 |
Kevin L. Martin v. Cathleen Capron, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights court-discretion due-process equal-protection federal-pleading jurisdictional-review pleading-standards procedural-standards qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court of appeals dealt with the merit and merits due in good faith process protection protect mactin in this case.
2) District court abus… |
| 20-5507 |
Laci Landers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review drug-offense guidelines judicial-review reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines totality-of-circumstances |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit") has so far departed from the accepted and usual cou… |
| 20-5478 |
Fernando Hernandez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure discretion domestic-violence drug-trafficking due-process sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Was Hernandez ' due process rights violated when the district court abused
its discretion in relying on Hernandez ' domestic violence past in sentenc… |
| 20-5479 |
Santos Mondragon Benitez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-5488 |
Franklin Rafael Lopez Toala v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-Amendment appellate-record due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment Gardner-v-Florida judicial-procedure presentence-investigation sentencing sentencing-review |
1. In reviewing a sentencing judgment, may the Eleventh Circuit consider new materials that were never introduced to the sentencing judge? (A 9-2 spli… |
| 20-5492 |
Ray Lamar Johnston v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus hurst-v-florida ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-default |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have remanded or expanded the appeal after new law and evidence developed. The Eleventh Circuit had limited the… |
| 20-5454 |
Mark Shields v. R. C. Smith, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto judicial-individualization parole parole-considerations sentencing sentencing-rights stage-1-calculation standing takings |
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| 20-5457 |
Dennis A. Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-law drug-statute first-step-act predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals incorrectly determined that the Ohio Revised Code §2925.03(A)(2) dealing with preparation for shipment or preparation for… |
| 20-5469 |
Alfonzo Traymayne Lee v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion due-process equal-protection first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether giving the District court discretion to grant or deny sentencing reduction pursuant to 18 USC 3553(a) and the First Step Act of 2018, Section … |
| 20-5470 |
German Milla-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent legal-overturning precedent sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5471 |
Darryl C. Daniels v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment involuntary-detention liberty liberty-interest sexual-predator state-power |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5472 |
Henry Dailey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-authority criminal-procedure due-process federal-law jurisdictional-challenge restitution sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation |
The State of Missouri has a Statute that criminalizes the transfer of dee. Custody or @acontcol of ANY Corin +o aNatrer, or ko another place, when the… |
| 20-5473 |
Andres Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing |
I. WHETHER CHAVEZ WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN HE WAS MISLEAD INTO ENTERING A GUILTY PLEA; BECAUSE COUNSEL FAILED TO REVIEW THE PSR WITH HIM AND FAILED… |
| 20-5474 |
Montez L. Clayton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
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| 20-5440 |
Jose Tejada v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ethnic-bias fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the right to a fair trial by an impartial jury under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments requires a trial judge, during jury selection and … |
| 20-5428 |
Jose Ricardo Morales-Mercado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres apprendi criminal-procedure due-process sentencing supreme-court |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez- Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998) , in light of the reasoning of … |
| 20-5429 |
Derrick T. Neville, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne apprendi criminal-procedure jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
approacl does not apply to the texn "serious drvg
sffense pursuant to 92yle)(2lA)i). Tne tevm "requires an ly
that the state offsuse inuolue thecondu… |
| 20-5432 |
Michael James Barnes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief post-conviction-waiver section-2255-petition sentencing |
Whether the district court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by finding that the post-conviction waiver in Mr. Barnes' Plea Agreement bars … |
| 20-5433 |
Gregory Wind v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-deference circuit-split deference district-court federal-courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Wind? |
| 20-5437 |
Wendell Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states plea-agreement plea-bargaining post-conviction-waiver section-2255-petition sentencing |
Whether the district court and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by finding that the post-conviction waiver in Mr. Taylor's Plea Agreement bars… |
| 20-5401 |
Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
abstention access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection federal-forum judicial-abstention pro-se-litigation standing |
When the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the U.S. District Court's abstaining from ruling on Sundy's independent claims despite Sundy bein… |
| 20-5402 |
Joseph Glenn Savicki v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5407 |
Dominique Mack v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process evidence jailhouse-informant mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing plain-error sentencing statements-against-interest |
1. Should the Court should grant certiorari in order to consider whether this
Court's jurisprudence concerning the admission of statements against int… |
| 20-5408 |
Robert Richard Jodoin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment federal-sentencing military-veteran non-violent-offense reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines veteran-status |
WHETHER A ONE HUNDRED THIRTY MONTH PRISON SENTENCE FOR A NON-VIOLENT, DRUG DEALING, FIFTY (50) YEAR OLD, MILITARY VETERAN IS UNREASONABLE. |
| 20-5409 |
Johnathan Scott Keen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law drug-offenses due-process felony-enhancement mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether, as preserved, the District Court erred as a matter of (Constitutional) Law in finding Mr. Keen's prior Florida drug convictions qualified as … |
| 20-5413 |
Josiah English v. Jo Lynn Gentry, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. |
Arizona |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-court federal-courts judicial-discretion standing state-courts |
Did the Arizona Supreme Court err by denying Petition For Review and Request For A Stay of Proceedings in disregard of the fact that ongoing parallel … |
| 20-184 |
Jamel Ellerbee v. Annett Holdings, Inc., dba TMC Transportation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
29-cfr-1987-110-b 49-usc-31105 administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act commercial-motor-vehicle due-process employee-retaliation equal-protection judicial-review statutory-construction transportation |
Whether statutory construction of 49 U.S.C. §31105 conflicts with judicial review, 29 C.F.R. § 1987.110(b), of the Administrative Procedure Act?
Whet… |
| 20-185 |
Rickey Nelson Jones v. Mary Ellen Barbera, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of Maryland |
Maryland |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection judicial-appointment judicial-review judicial-selection maryland-law race-discrimination standing |
Was the United States Constitution violated
when the highest court in Maryland supported the
lower courts' decisions to [i] apply federal statutory
di… |
| 20-178 |
Anne Prafada v. Mesa Unified School District |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy-to-defraud due-process educational-law equal-protection federal-preemption free-speech standing supplemental-jurisdiction |
Whether fraudulent misrepresentation and conspiracy to defraud are preempted, when the Educational federal statutes touch a field in which the federal… |
| 20-5365 |
In Re Jacquelyn B. N'Jai |
|
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5368 |
Usman Oyibo v. Huntington Hospital, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
biological-relationship civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial judicial-misconduct legal-standing standing takings |
SINCE PETITIONER HAS NOT HAD A REAL JUDGE IN ALL OF THE STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS NOR CAN THEY DISPROVE LOGICALLY THAT A CHILD IS INFALLIBLY RELATED TO… |
| 20-5383 |
Dennis Marc Grigsby v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-writ procedural-due-process standard-of-review state-court-proceedings |
Did the state district court failure to certify its grant of motion for reconsideration affect the course of proceedings and factor into the Nevada Su… |
| 20-5384 |
Jerome Nathan Grant v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection federal-court-review pro-se-petition right-to-counsel sentencing-enhancement standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5386 |
Leon Hawkins v. Donnie Morgan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion merger ohio-law sentencing sentencing-merger |
Does Ohio violate petitioner's constitutional right to be sentenced for sentences that merged (yet) the court sentenced separate sentences for the sam… |
| 20-5393 |
Timothy McCullough v. Jeff Dennison, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing void-for-vagueness |
1. Does the sentencing courthave Jurisdictionto Sentence a defen dant
to a statute void of judgment,un-enforceable undar the Constitution?
charging, s… |
| 20-5398 |
Lezmond Charles Mitchell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights death-penalty due-process extraordinary-circumstance juror-interviews jury-selection pena-rodriguez racial-bias rule-60b |
In Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado, 137 S. Ct. 855 (2017), this Court held, for the first time, that no-impeachment rules may not bar consideration of juro… |
| 20-5374 |
In Re Amro Elansari |
|
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cannabis-prohibition class-of-one constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review mandamus-writ medicinal-value substantive-due-process |
1. Does the failure of the Third Circuit - and other courts - to consider the Plaintiffs substantive due process claims applied to the prohibition of … |
| 20-5376 |
Alfredo Estrada-Eugenio, aka Alfredo Erasto Estrada-Eugenio, aka Juan Eugenio Medina, aka Alfredo Estarada, aka Alfredo Eugenio-Estrada, aka Alfredo Estrada, aka Gerardo Amezquita v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5348 |
Chazdin Miller v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law ploseny-case sentencing sentencing-guidelines taylor-decision |
Whether an offense-matching categorical approach applies to the determination of a "controlled substance offense" under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 20-5355 |
Eddie David Cox v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appeal circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process resentencing sentencing |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars resentencing on counts for sentences a defendant has already served? |
| 20-5362 |
David Wayne Allen v. Betty Mitchell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
biased-juror death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus juror-bias ohio-supreme-court sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Did the trial court's refusal to dismiss a biased juror from a Death Penalty Panel, deprive Petitioner Allen of protection under the Sixth and Fourtee… |
| 20-5331 |
Michael A. Bruzzone v. Intel Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure anti-SLAPP antitrust civil-rights confrontation confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection retaliation |
In a 15 U.S.C. § 1 controversy claiming industry, law, attorney, group boycott, can District and Appellant Courts, one after the next, deny a citizen … |
| 20-5346 |
Jerry Lee Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing substance-abuse-treatment supervised-release |
I. Does a district court commit reversible plain error when, in a sentence revoking supervised release, it imposes a condition of supervised release r… |
| 20-5349 |
In Re Daryl L. Zimmer |
|
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing-guidelines |
THE TRIAL COURT DENIED PETITIONER DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW RIGHTS WHEN THE TRIAL COURT HAVING FULL KNOWLEDGE THAT PETITIONER PLED G… |
| 20-5353 |
Ramone L. Wright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-precedent qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 20-159 |
John Devos v. Rhino Contracting, Inc., et al. |
Minnesota |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-law equal-protection interstate-commerce state-law state-residency workers-compensation |
Does a State's workers compensation statute
violate Equal Protection when it treats Minnesota
residents injured on the job in Minnesota differently
ba… |
| 20-5326 |
Jose Alonso Garcia v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Were Mr. Garcia Due Process Rights violated under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment when he was:
A.) Incorrectly sentenced under U.S.S.G. 4Bl-2(c) Te… |
| 20-5328 |
Jeffrey Paul Giblin v. Washington |
Washington |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-rules eyewitness-testimony intent intent-standard lay-opinion-testimony |
A h FourteenAmenden Contittinauarnts
of "Due Proces ofLaw and"equal protection of the laws"
duly satistied for a Defendant accused of a crime involvin… |
| 20-5329 |
Douglas Dean Scyphers v. Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection grand-jury indictment indictment-procedure statutory-conflict vagueness |
1. When the Washington State Constitution, Article I, section 26, says, "No
grand jury shall be drawn or summoned in any county, except the superior
j… |
| 20-5335 |
Dustin Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment methamphetamine methamphetamine-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Issue I
Whether the District Court erred in sentencing the Defendant based on ice ("actual" methamphetamine) rather than a mixture and substance cont… |
| 20-143 |
Michael Harrison Lowman, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure disparate-treatment due-process judicial-discretion sentencing unreliable-facts |
SHOULD AN APPEAL WAIVER THAT DID NOT EXPRESSLY WAIVE A DUE PROCESS CHALLENGE BE ENFORCED WHERE THE SENTENCING COURT BASED ITS SENTENCE ON UNRELIABLE F… |
| 20-5315 |
Robert Lee Stabnow v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction pleadings standing |
Did Mr. Stabnow fail to exhaust his state court remedies where no remedies exist?
Did Mr. Stabnow fail to exhaust his state court remedies where no r… |
| 20-5316 |
Tyrone Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim discretionary-review due-process equal-protection federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus standing |
1. Abbednee toe Slate Covort decrvgor Patt "here v3 NO Beguiremeut Hye Court ufoven Hae ly <feadanit of tHe Elemieats of @ach Chinogs" Coatrory to Sup… |
| 20-5321 |
Michael Wayne Wadena v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights controlled-substance criminal-history due-process eighth-amendment firearm-possession related-cases sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation |
Does 924(e)'s "serious drug offense" mandate that courts consider both statutes when sentencing
Could hypothetical aggravating sentencing factors be … |
| 20-5322 |
Patrick H. Torrence v. Alaska |
Alaska |
2020-08-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
compulsory-process constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection search-and-seizure self-incrimination unreasonable-searches-and-seizures |
1) The decision of the State of Alaska, and the Alaska Court of Appeals are inconsistent with the United States Fourteenth Amendment rights to fair an… |
| 20-5308 |
Tammy Horton v. The Methodist University, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-accommodations disability-rights due-process equal-protection higher-education rehab-act rehabilitation-act |
Whether the United States District and Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit are obligated to confirm an institution of higher learning, subject to … |
| 20-5311 |
Richard Hollihan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-08-10 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection extraordinary-relief fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent precedent precedential-decision state-court-jurisdiction supreme-court |
1. Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violate the
14th Amendment to the United States Constitution
when it Denied Petitioner's Application For
Extraor… |
| 20-5300 |
Victor Santana-Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Does plain error apply to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 32(i)(4)(a)(ii) when the error is caused by the sentencing court |
| 20-5281 |
Steven Robinson, aka Michael Moore v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech self-incrimination sixth-amendment standing |
I. WAS PETITIONER'S FIFTH AMENDMENT COMPULSORY SELF INCRIMINATION WAS VIOLATED
BECAUSE THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS GLENN KIRSCHNER AND NIHAR MOHANTY TH… |
| 20-5283 |
Mauricio Lemus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence revocation-hearing sentencing supervised-release |
Whether at a supervised-release revocation hearing the government must prove by a preponderance of the evidence its contention that a defendant's cond… |
| 20-5286 |
Tomas Rodriguez Infante v. Michael Martel, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process equal-protection impartial-jury jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-bias racial-discrimination |
1. "This Court firmly has rejected the view that assumptions of partiality based on race provide a legitimate basis for disqualifying a person as an i… |
| 20-5291 |
Dexter Leemon Johnson v. John Marlar |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-conflict civil-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements medical-treatment standing tenth-circuit warrant-constitutionality |
1. TENTH CIRCUIT'S FAILURE TO SATISFY ITSELF OF DISTRICT COURT'S JURISDICTION RESULTED IN IT EXCEEDING ITS DISCRETION AND JURISDICTION
2. What Tenth … |
| 20-5266 |
Angela Rogers, et vir v. Caddo Parish School Board |
Louisiana |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection liberty-interest property-interest redress-of-grievances state-government-liability state-liability |
1. Whether the U.S. Const. amend XIV, § 1, Due Process, Equal Protection, Liberty Interest in employment and Property Interest in employment contracts… |
| 20-5263 |
Patrick W. Schroeder v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation mitigation-evidence pro-se pro-se-representation proportionality sentencing |
1) Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution are violated when a capital sentencing panel issues a death sentence… |
| 20-124 |
Robert Fusco v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment standing |
1) Whether the District court erred by dismissing
Potitoners $2254 as Untimely (dee Wo. Lad 2) Which conklicts
with decisions of other appellate court… |
| 20-5248 |
Robert Bernal, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-limits unlawful-sentence |
Whether a defendant's waiver of the right to appeal which explicitly permits appeal of a sentence that "exceeds the applicable statutory limits set fo… |
| 20-5253 |
Douglas Farrar, Sr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony findings judicial-findings obstruction-of-justice perjury presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the generic adoption of a Presentence Report is sufficient to discharge the court's duties to make express and independent findings for an obs… |
| 20-5237 |
Kenneth Lee Manhard v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal collision-liability criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection license-suspension miranda-rights sentencing vehicular-manslaughter |
(1) Was he denied equal protection of the law ? |
| 20-5243 |
Warren K. Henness v. Mike DeWine, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Amici (3)IFP |
alternative-methods cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection medical-aid-in-dying |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically permits the degree of pain caused by hanging—including sensations of drowning and suffocation—or whether… |
| 20-5244 |
David Lopez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
application-note base-offense-level criminal-procedure judicial-discretion leadership-enhancement rico rico-violation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the district court and the First Circuit err by declining to apply Application Note One as written? |
| 20-5194 |
In Re Kevin D. Moore |
|
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
compassionate-release covid-19 due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus non-successive-claim post-conviction-relief sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5240 |
Cynthia Gilmore v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguity ambiguous-verdict conspiracy criminal-procedure jury-instructions jury-verdict predicate-acts reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Whether the sentencing court is required to use the reasonable doubt standard to determine the predicate acts where the jury's verdict was purposefull… |
| 20-100 |
Michael S. Barth v. Bernards Township Planning Board, et al. |
New Jersey |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-process constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection injunction new-jersey-supreme-court procedural-fairness remand supreme-court-review temporary-injunction |
While there are a number of questions and sub questions in this matter, the overarching question is whether the unconstitutional process of the court … |
| 20-5219 |
Binh Nguyen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review remand sentence-vacatur sentencing united-states-v-haymond |
L. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 20-5222 |
Travon Nikeith Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-remand court-review criminal-procedure exceptions Holguin-Hernandez judicial-interpretation legal-precedent procedural-analysis remand reversal sentencing supreme-court-citation |
Whether the court below overlooked or disregarded Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), meriting remand or reversal? |
| 20-5223 |
Jorge Madrid-Uriarte v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review |
I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light… |
| 20-5226 |
Jose Flores-Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-5203 |
Derrick Ivan Jim v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment indian-country major-crimes-act native-american-rights united-states-v-antelope |
Whether United States v. Antelope, 430 U.S. 641 (1977), should be overruled because the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1153—which transforms certain ac… |
| 20-5206 |
Nathan D. Knuth v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5207 |
William Joe Long v. George Jaime, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection legislative-discretion prison-overcrowding separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
1. When the Legislation oasses enactments pertaining to all its citizens does not the (14th.Amendment ) Equal Protection apply to all it's citizens ?
… |
| 20-93 |
Jane Doe, a Minor Child Who is Unborn, By and Through Her Father and Next Friend, John Doe v. Mike Hunter, Attorney General of Oklahoma, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
|
abortion due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-precedent levy-v-louisiana roe-v-wade standing traceability unborn-children |
Classed by law as a 'less-than,' and treated for some purposes as property rather than a person, Petitioner Baby Jane seeks constitutional equality un… |
| 20-77 |
Steven Ivey v. Richard Corcoran |
Florida |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
|
brown-v-board brown-vs-board civil-rights due-process education education-districts equal-protection federalism segregation state-oversight |
Question 1:
Is the present Florida education system of 'separate but equal' county
education districts with no central state FL DOE oversight a form … |
| 20-5161 |
Roberto Gonzalez-Gatica v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-5180 |
Matthew J. Frawley v. Victoria L. Frawley |
Missouri |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal missouri-supreme-court-rules parental-rights recusal |
I. Whether the Missouri Western District Court of Appeals committed err by not finding Petitioner's 14th Amendment due process rights were violated by… |
| 20-5184 |
Richard Brian Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act criminal-charging criminal-procedure indictment indictment-error prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-provision statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether sentencing Mr. Williams under the ACCA was error because the prosecutor specifically charged the sentencing provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)… |
| 20-5166 |
J. J. H. v. Waukesha County, Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
civil-rights disability disability-accommodation due-process equal-protection hearing-rights involuntary-commitment legal-participation mental-health procedural-due-process procedural-fairness |
Whether a deaf person undergoing an involuntary commitment has a due process right to understand and participate in her hearing. |
| 20-71 |
Stephen P. Brown v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review sixth-amendment |
Should this Court vacate and remand the Februar y 12, 2020 Order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denying a certificate of appealab… |
| 20-59 |
Charles R. Campbell v. Hollie Bennett, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
due-process equal-protection family-court family-rights right-to-counsel rooker-feldman self-incrimination sixth-amendment state-actor state-bar |
Coincident May 2013 Divorce action and mandated co-Parental Evaluation, Petitioner, a long-time professional with no previous criminal history, was fa… |
| 20-5152 |
Joel Arredondo-Moreno v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-amendment stare-decisis supreme-court |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 20-5153 |
Jamiell Sims v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1594 conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law federal-jurisdiction federal-statute force-fraud-coercion offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking |
What is the base offense level for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1594(c)? |
| 20-5156 |
Manuel Contreras Saucedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding federal-sentencing jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 20-5135 |
James Bowell v. State Bar of California |
California |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-revocation parolee sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
1. Would it be considered a 6th Amendment deprivation violation ineffective assistance of counsel for a court appointed attorney refusing to present f… |
| 20-5143 |
Glen Jones Ward v. Idaho, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment 8th-amendment civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-violation correctional-facility due-process equal-protection inmate-rights personal-safety retaliation staff-misconduct |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5112 |
David Wayne Robinson v. Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment booking-fees civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection excessive-fines takings-clause |
Did Dist ct. ERR tw dismissing / And Appeals a ANowing Legal Skills?
TS The AcTiox/ of Sep aaliont of Fouiets To Authorize The Take Twas of monies fo… |
| 20-5113 |
Jeremias Robertson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fact-finding fifth-amendment guideline-sentencing self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-deliberations silence |
1. In United States v. Mitchell , 526 U.S. 314, 330 (1999), this Court held that a sentencing court may not draw adverse factual inferences from silen… |
| 20-5114 |
Leonel Romero-Ochoa v. Washington |
Washington |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5117 |
Jeremiah M. Rodgers v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process equal-protection gender-dysphoria medical-condition voluntariness waiver-voluntariness waivers |
Whether the newly discovered evidence of a criminal defendant's medical condition, including gender dysphoria, may implicate the voluntariness of prio… |
| 20-5119 |
Wayne Powell v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment expert-funding hurst-v-florida indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief sixth-amendment |
1. Does Ohio's postconviction process allow indigent defendants a substantive opportunity to develop claims that comport with Ohio's collateral review… |
| 20-5122 |
Maximo Flores-Lezama v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-punishment due-process precedents punishment revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether a supervised release revocation sentence may be imposed to punish a defendant for his underlying criminal conduct, or whether a punitive revoc… |
| 20-5123 |
Cardell A. Hayes v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-07-21 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-pipeline criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-verdict pipeline ramos-relief ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment |
Because Cardell Hayes's non-unanimous verdict is unconstitutional, Ramos v. Louisiana, — S.Ct. —, 2020 WL 1906545 (2020), is he entitled to the relief… |
| 20-5126 |
Roger Charles Day, Jr. v. T. J. Watson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Whether Tithe USC 82241 Corers 28 Challenges to the validity of ones Convectien sentence only Concerning Onnel or grounds the excntion but not the sen… |
| 20-49 |
Peter N. Myma v. Wendy A. Wroe |
Indiana |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
|
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family family-law liberty-interest parental-rights scrutiny-standard standard-of-review |
1. Whether joint child custody is a constitutionally protected, rebuttable presumption of equal rights.
2. Whether a clear and convincing standard is… |
| 20-5036 |
Jermond Perry v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination sixth-amendment |
I. Was counsel's objection at the moment
the pattern emerged sufficient to warrant
a full Batson inquiry withrespect to all strikes in the alleged p… |
| 20-5102 |
Makeda Haile v. Abdul Conteh |
Virginia |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct title-vii |
Whether The Supreme Court Of The United States and Department Of Justice are going to discard the evidences, and ignore the violations, while corrupte… |
| 20-5103 |
Makeda Haile v. Kaiser Permanente Tysons Corner |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct title-vii |
Whether The Supreme Court Of The United States and Department Of Justice are going to discard the evidences, and ignore the violations, while corrupte… |
| 20-5104 |
Justin Tapp v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 20-34 |
Anthony Thomas Grimes v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel parole-eligibility plea-bargaining plea-negotiation prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-information sexual-offender-registration sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Kentucky Court of Appeals has diminished and violated the federal constitutional guarantee of effective assistance of counsel in the pretr… |
| 20-5084 |
Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-claim civil-rights due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-prejudice racial-bias sentencing sixth-amendment |
Was Ellis Prejudicied when NONE of her concerns were considered in her Initial Appeal 17-12737?
Was Ellis Prejudiced per 6th Amendment when Attorney … |
| 20-5088 |
Francisco Javier Ponce-Mares v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-below different-result holguin-hernandez Holguin-Hernandez-v-United-States lower-court-decision reasonable-probability reconsider-decision reconsideration sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of… |
| 20-5090 |
Ronald Lynn Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a… |
| 20-5095 |
Jethro L. Clairvoyant v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection ineffective-counsel jury-instructions martinez-claim reversals similarly-situated-defendants state-court |
1. WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW BY THE STATE COURT'S REFUSAL TO RESERVE THE CONVICTIONS FROM THE STATE CO… |
| 20-5096 |
In Re Shavez Evans |
|
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 campaign-finance civil-rights constitutional-law declaratory-judgment due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-elections judicial-immunity state-court |
1) he Distic Cor Aiona n the ptner Evn uce ual when abusing their discretion ruling Judges are absolutely immone. from S 1983 suits for damages when t… |
| 20-5077 |
Joaquin Mario Cipriano-Ortega v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship-classification citizenship-laws due-process equal-protection illegal-reentry morales-santana morales-santana-precedent ninth-circuit-review severability statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision below conflicts with the Court's instruction in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 137 S. Ct. 1678, 1699 n.24 (2017), that a defendant … |
| 20-5056 |
George Cortez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-5058 |
Randy Estevez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process felony-enhancement firearm-possession jury-instructions jury-unanimity sentencing sentencing-reasonableness u-s-sentencing-guidelines unanimity |
1. Whether the district court erred in not instructing the jury that it
should be unanimous on the date and location of his alleged
possession of the … |
| 20-5024 |
Calvin Earl Brown v. Blair Williams, Clerk, Superior Court of North Carolina, Wake County |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigation standing state-court-procedure state-official |
Whether it is unconstitutional that this pro se litigant (Petitioner) is denied the ability to be able to challenge the explicit correctness of a stat… |
| 20-5040 |
In Re Antwoyn Terrell Spencer |
|
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit first-step-act mandamus personal-liberty sentence-reduction sentencing |
1. Petitioner is deprived of Due Process of Law Contrary to Law in violation of the Fifth Amendment and Section 404 of the First Step Act.
2. Because… |
| 20-5051 |
Andre Patrick Staggers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841(b) criminal-procedure drug-offense first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-law statutory-minimums |
Does the First Step Act provision lowering the enhanced statutory minimums of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b) apply to persons who were sentenced before the provis… |
| 20-13 |
Brandon S. Lavergne v. Burl Cain, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disciplinary-action due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech legal-correspondence prisoner-mail qualified-immunity standing |
1. Did the state actors Paul Smith, Amber Vittorio and Michael Vaughn violate my 6th and 14th Amendment rights by finding me guilty of a rule violatio… |
| 20-5016 |
Ashton Charles Butler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery criminal-law divisible-offense double-jeopardy federal-sentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation uniform-administration-of-justice 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 in… |
| 20-5019 |
Raul Barrera-Velasquez, aka Raul V. Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez Barrera, aka Raul Velasquez-Barrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement equal-protection fifth-circuit parole sentencing sentencing-enhancement u.s.s.g-2l1.2 |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Barrera's claim that the District Court's sentence violated constitutional principles of… |
| 20-5031 |
Artemio Ramirez-Arroyo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582(c)(2) due-process equal-protection hughes-v-united-states retroactive-amendment retroactive-guideline-amendments sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
In 2011, the Sentencing Commission changed its policy statement in U.S.S.G. § 1B1.10 to disqualify defendants who received sentences below the Guideli… |
| 20-5007 |
Anthony Ray Foley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split due-process federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release |
1. Is the "reasonableness" standard, under United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), the proper standard for appellate review of a sentence impose… |
| 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… |
| 20-5015 |
James Latron Sumter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-step-act guilty-plea mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining sentencing |
1. WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE
DISTRICT COURT'S RULING NOT ALLOWING SUMTER TO WITHDRAW
HIS GUILTY PLEA?
2. WHETHER THE APPELLA… |
| 19-8922 |
Amber Renee Craker v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-discretion capital-punishment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Was there sufficient evidence to support her capital murder conviction?
Did the Court of Appeals Err in holding Craker's mistaken belief that she kil… |
| 19-8927 |
Alfred Brian Mitchell v. Tommy Sharp, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
age-of-culpability cognitive-science constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment sentencing-aggravator standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Given this Court's prior ruling that the text of Oklahoma's "heinous, atrocious, or cruel" death-penalty aggravator is unconstitutionally vague, is… |
| 19-8928 |
Oscar Campos-Lagunas, aka Jose Lopez-Lomali, aka Carlos Ortiz, aka Orbelin Lagunas Campos, aka Carlos Laguna Campos, aka Oscar Laguan Campos, aka Norbelio Campos-Lagunas, aka Carlo Garcia, aka Orbelin Campos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation precedent-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-8915 |
Robert Eugene Glassgow v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acquittal aedpa court-of-appeals criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence sentencing |
Whether prose defendants since file under 18 U.S.C. § 2255 and are paid back costs by the Court Judge if in be the onus ce oy tt permission of the app… |
| 19-8912 |
Giezi Arce-Calderon v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guideline-range guideline-sentence judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
A. Whether the sentence imposed on Mr. Arce is substantively unreasonable, despite being a guideline sentence of six months, where the parties agreed … |
| 19-8911 |
Lee Montez Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states district-court due-process habeas-corpus plain-error pleading-defendant reasonable-probability rehaif-v-united-states sentencing |
I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light… |
| 19-8905 |
In Re Frank J. Matylinsky, Jr. |
|
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing |
1. Do the decisions of the United States Supreme Court, rendered in the cases of Montgomery v. Louisiana, 577 U.S. , 136 S. Ct. 718 (2016), and Welch … |
| 19-1463 |
Sandra Jean Oliver v. James C. Oliver, Jr., et al. |
Mississippi |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion chancery-court civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction recusal rule-60 standing void-judgment |
I. Whether four orders issued by the chancery court, when the court did not have jurisdiction over the Petitioners, should be held as void and vacated… |
| 19-8904 |
William Clyde Gibson, III v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-circumstances post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington traumatic-brain-injury wiggins-v-smith williams-v-taylor |
1. Whether the Indiana Supreme Court's opinion contravened Williams v. Taylor and Wiggins v. Smith by failing to find deficient performance where coun… |
| 19-8900 |
Jeffrey Chleo Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-preservation circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-procedure factual-dispute factual-objection legal-sufficiency preservation-of-appeal procedural-error sentencing sentencing-objection standard-of-review |
Is a factual objection at sentencing sufficient to preserve for appeal the district court's failure to resolve the ensuing dispute? |
| 19-8902 |
Rafael Antonio Patino-Villalobos v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acknowledgement criminal-procedure defense-counsel district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure invited-error legal-doctrine procedural-waiver rule-52(b) sentencing |
Whether defense counsel's acknowledgement of the district court's statement during sentencing constitutes an affirmative, intentional, deliberate, and… |
| 19-8897 |
David Lee Smith v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-07-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge covid-prison-conditions due-process emergency-relief fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-petition sentencing sentencing-review |
ARE PRO-SE PETITIONER'S ENTITLED TO COURTS' LIBERAL CONSTRUCTION OF THEIR COURT PAPERS OR FAIR AMENDMENT?
IF PROSECUTOR PRESENT ED NO EVIDENCE PETITI… |
| 19-8896 |
Melodio Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8841 |
Gregory Moore v. Orange County, California, et al. |
California |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment government-liability rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine |
Should the United States Supreme Court overturn a state case where serious United States Constitutional human rights have been violated by government … |
| 19-8849 |
Linda Pedroza v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing parole proportionality second-degree-homicide sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Where a juvenile offender is sentenced to a term of 40 years in prison for a second degree homicide, and that sentence places her in a worse position … |
| 19-8891 |
Jeffery L. Howard v. Management and Training Corp., et al. |
Ohio |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-exhaustion due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech grievance-forms retaliation stare-decisis state-courts |
1) is PETITIONER'S first amendment rights violated when
PRIVATE FOR PROFIT CORPORATION AND ITS AGENTS DENY
ACCESS TO THE PAPER NOTIFICATION of GRIEV… |
| 19-8884 |
Samuel Gray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3559 categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law elemental-analysis georgia-robbery prior-convictions recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. THERE IS A LACK OF CLARITY AND UNANIMITY AMONG LOWER COURTS OF WHETHER A PRIOR GEORGIA ROBBERY CONVICTION CONSTITUTES A "CRIME OF VIOLENCE" FOR ENH… |
| 19-1453 |
Michigan v. Gerald Raynard Fuller |
Michigan |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
|
acquittal acquittal-consideration acquitted-conduct conflict-of-authority criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuits judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards state-courts |
The federal circuit courts have uniformly held that a sentencing judge may consider conduct for which the defendant has been acquitted, and this Court… |
| 19-1449 |
Ronald E. Davis v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing tax |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8873 |
Efrain Diaz, Jr. and Justin Smith v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
criminal-defendant criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment justiciability party-presentation procedural-due-process standing-doctrine |
1. Does the requirement in Lujan v. Defs. of Wildlife , 504 U.S. 555, 560 (1992), that a litigant have suffered an "actual or imminent" injury apply t… |
| 19-8876 |
Solomon Jalloh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule common-law common-law-tradition criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing jury-findings loss-calculation restitution sentencing |
Whether under Apprendi, the maximum restitution that can be imposed without additional jury findings as to any amount of loss is zero, consistent with… |
| 19-8878 |
Frank Richardson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c criminal-law first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
On December 21, 2018, President Trump signed into law the First Step Act of 2018 which dramatically changes the penalties imposed for gun-related crim… |
| 19-8877 |
Patrick D. Lomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure discretion fair-sentencing-act first-step-act judicial-discretion section-404 sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
i.
Did the District Court abuse it's Discretion when it denied Petitioner's
Motion seeking a reduction of Sentence under Section 404(b) of the First S… |
| 19-8860 |
In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam |
|
2020-06-30 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appointments-clause aqua-products arthrex constitutional-redress equal-protection fletcher-v-peck patent-prosecution patent-prosecution-history patent-review supreme-court-precedent virnetx |
Whether this Court must Order the Circuit Court to apply Arthrex, Virnetx, Aqua Products, consider Patent Prosecution History, and enforce Fletcher, i… |
| 19-8845 |
Charles Grover Brant v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fact-finding fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-waiver |
Whether a waiver to an advisory, non-unanimous jury verdict lacking in any fact finding requirement under a death penalty scheme later determined to b… |
| 19-8851 |
Peter Szanto v. Alyce Ann Jurgens |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-157 bankruptcy-procedure district-court-review due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se-litigation res-judicata |
1. Two Questions Presented
a. Disregard of Mandatory Rule 28 USC § 157(c)
The first question for review is that contrary to 28 USC § 157(c) there wa… |
| 19-8840 |
Darnell Cooper v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection filing-fees in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion partial-filing-fee prison-litigation-reform-act standing |
1. Should Petitioner have been charged with an initial partial filing fee of 20 percent of the $1,300 dollars petitioner had in his account, to procee… |
| 19-8837 |
Donnie Wayne Nipper v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy ex-post-facto jurisdictional-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
Should Mr. Nipper be resentenced without an armed career criminal enhancement to his guideline range where the government failed to allege prior convi… |
| 19-8831 |
Eric Reid v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-cases constitutional-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty due-process jury-selection morgan-v-illinois voir-dire |
Whether the Arkansas' voir dire framework in capital cases conflicts with this Court's ruling in Morgan v. Illinois, 504 U.S. 719 (1992). |
| 19-8830 |
Justin Michael Oxendine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-variance |
Whether the district court abused its discretion by varying upward when an applicable guideline provision addressed conduct that formed part of the ra… |
| 19-8800 |
Justice Jerrell Knight v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-prejudice prejudicial-evidence racial-bias sentencing |
In a capital case in which the defendant's jury observes him in shackles and jail clothing, and multiple members of the jury expressed the belief that… |
| 19-8818 |
Sharon Johnson v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-accommodation due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-rights standing |
1. Whether in pro per parties are entitled to the same U.S. Constitution Fourteenth Amendment due process and equal protection rights as represented p… |
| 19-8817 |
Barry Lalane Harrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
above-range criminal-procedure district-court justification policy-statement sentencing |
I. Whether the district court erred when it sentenced Petitioner significantly above the policy statement range without adequate justification? |
| 19-8815 |
Jose Armando Nunez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1326 almendarez-torres apprendi criminal-procedure due-process sentencing |
1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of… |
| 19-8813 |
Tom Mark Franks v. Kirk, Deputy Sheriff, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8799 |
James Johnman, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals circuit-split criminal-assessment criminal-law judicial-review sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation victims-rights victims-trafficking-act |
Whether the "additional special assessment" in the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3014, imposes a per-offender or per-count asses… |
| 19-8798 |
Rafeeq Salahuddin v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections |
Arizona |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal-rights batson-rule civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection legal-procedure retroactivity |
whether a state count of last resort has power to destroy a
dependant's constitutional vight to trial by jury whosemember's
are selected by non-discri… |
| 19-8805 |
Shane Bruce v. Great Britain, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights class-action constitutional-animus district-conspiracy due-process equal-protection foreign-litigation industrial-poisoning medical-malpractice pro-per-amendment standing toxic-torts |
Are victims of industrial poisoning persecuted as a group with grounds for claims a subclass facing Unconstitutional animus?
Is litigation against fo… |
| 19-1415 |
John J. Dierlam v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1st-amendment affordable-care-act civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association healthcare-mandate religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act rfra |
1)Do one or more Constitutional violations exist in the ACA? Subsidiary to this question and suggested by the Claims in the Complaint and subsequent p… |
| 19-1413 |
Armin Abazari v. Department of Education, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules complaint dismissal due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment objections procedural-due-process sovereign-immunity standing |
1. Whether the District Court must A.
consider an opportunity to present objections
under F.R.C.P. §72(b)(2) prior to a ruling on a
dismissal of a Com… |
| 19-1405 |
Matthew Jacobson v. Butterfly Blaise, et al. |
New York |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confrontation-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fundamental-fairness privilege-and-immunities public-university student-disciplinary-proceeding student-discipline |
Whether the Due Process, Equal Protection and
Privilege and Immunities Clauses of the United States
Constitution, and the Constitutional Guarantees of… |
| 19-1404 |
Michael Lieberman v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
all-writs-act amendment criminal-defendant district-court judicial-relief post-conviction-remedies relief restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) What relief is available to a criminal defendant
under the All Writs Act?
2) How, and when, may a district court amend a
restitution order imposed… |
| 19-8786 |
Quamine Jones v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals enter a decision in conflict with the decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the matter of appli… |
| 19-8790 |
Christina Ann Whichard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 19-8791 |
Jose Angel Vasquez-Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-8792 |
John Hummel v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-U.S.C.-3599 clemency clemency-proceedings death-penalty discretionary-review expert-assistance expert-services legal-representation reasonably-necessary statutory-funding unusual-character-or-duration |
When the appointed attorney for a death-sentenced inmate shows that expert services have likely utility—and are of unusual character or duration—but c… |
| 19-8767 |
In Re Linda Ann Wright |
|
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice |
1. Was there a concerted effort, from 2007-Present to deny petitioner her Due Process, under the 5th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution of the U.… |
| 19-8771 |
Michael A. Risenhoover v. William Muniz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-years-to-life criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder first-time-offender judicial-discretion murder prior-criminal-history proportionality public-message sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1) Does SENTENCING A FIRST TIME OFFENDER WITHOUT HAS NO PRIOR CRIMINAL HISTORY TO 28 YEARS TO LIFE SEND A DANGEROUS MESSAGE TO THE PUBLIC AND FUTURE O… |
| 19-8775 |
Kirby Gardner v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure parole petition-timing sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-maximum |
WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED DUE PROCESS OF LAW GUARANTEED BY THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. |
| 19-8780 |
Ron Glick v. Mara Guiffrida |
Montana |
2020-06-22 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights court-opinion due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-citation noncitable-opinions procedural-fairness supreme-court-discretion unequal-treatment |
1. Where the Montana Supreme Court utilized an internal operating procedure to
issue noncitable opinions with an evil eye and unequal hand, did the lo… |
| 19-1399 |
Shelby Advocates for Valid Elections, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process election-security election-standing equal-protection maladministration rule-12b1 rule-12b6 standing voting-rights voting-system |
I. Do the plaintiffs, who have shown an actual breach and maladministration, have standing to challenge their county's fundamentally unfair voting sys… |
| 19-8750 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. SAP America, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-19 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
constitution-of-the-united-states constitutional-impairment contract-clause due-process equal-protection impairment-of-contract judicial-malfeasance patent-contract patent-contract-grant stare-decisis |
1. Whether the inventor 's government-issued patent contract grant is protected
by the Constitution of the United States. If so,
2. Whether the inve… |
| 19-8755 |
Levi West v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
The Armed Career Criminal Act enhances the statutory penalty for a firearms offense when the offender has three predicate convictions for crimes that … |
| 19-8758 |
Li Qin, et al. v. 99 Cents Only Stores, LLC, et al. |
California |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering fraud judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice |
(1) May a state trial court proceed a personal injury case bypass U.S. Constitution XIV Amendment 's clause of due process and clause of equal protect… |
| 19-8764 |
James William Burney v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provision due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-law state-constitution voter-intent |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection protections requires enactment legislation for a state constitutional provision to b… |
| 19-8696 |
Frank DiTomasso v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial free-speech ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standing |
,and there is not even an attempt to
sked for,e.g.pictures or video,
2
get any picturer or videos?
.There is a bold lie Tald to the grand jury in firs… |
| 19-8742 |
Harold Wayne Nichols v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override prior-felony-aggravator settlement-agreement vagueness-doctrine |
The death sentence in this case is supported by only one aggravating circumstance, Tennessee's prior violent felony conviction aggravator. The elected… |
| 19-8743 |
Jeremiah Lee Guerra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-instruction legal-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of… |
| 19-8748 |
Nathan Daniel Knuth v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing |
I. WHETHER SECTION 16-5-402 OF THE COLORADO REVISED STATUTES IS
UNCONSTITUTIONAL, AS IT CREATES A TIME BAR TO ATTACK PRIOR CONVICTIONS
BASED SOLELY ON… |
| 19-1390 |
Martin Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process elements-clause fair-notice sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the "elements clause" of the Armed Career Criminal Act (18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(i)) is void for vagueness. |
| 19-1385 |
Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health v. Ashlee Henderson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
biological-parentage biology-based birth-certificate birth-certificates due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status parentage presumption rebuttable-presumption |
May a State, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses, adopt a biology-based birth-certificate system that in… |
| 19-8725 |
Jarvis Lee Glenn v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment access-rights civil-rights constitutional-protections defendants-rights due-process equal-protection federal-statute judicial-review search-and-seizure standing state-appeal |
DID THE STATE OF MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT DENY MR. GLENN THE EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTION WHEN IT RUBBER-STAMPED MR. GLENN'… |
| 19-8728 |
Joshua Harrell v. California |
California |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-illness rational-understanding |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8729 |
Maurice Gilbert v. Isabel Barrios-Gilbert |
California |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-law liberty notice notice-requirements statutory-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Under Family Law & the laws of California is Freedom from Arbitrary Adjudicative Procedures a substantive element of one's Liberty under Federal La… |
| 19-8732 |
Efrain Leyva Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion accurate-information criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion ninth-circuit record sentencing speculative-inference speculative-inferences |
Does a district court violate a defendant's due process right to be sentenced based on accurate information and abuse its discretion when it imposes a… |
| 19-8718 |
James Miller v. Michael Capra, Warden |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8719 |
Brown Laster, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-precedent kotteakos-standard kotteakos-v-united-states sentencing uniformity |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that conflicts with this Court's precedent in Kotteakos v. United States, 328 U.S. 750, 66 S.Ct. 12… |
| 19-1379 |
Andrew McKinley v. Christopher Lee-Murray Bey |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection fourth-amendment investigation investigatory-detention law-enforcement pre-contact qualified-immunity race race-discrimination |
Does the Equal Protection clause require an officer who initiated a pre-contact investigation for non-race-related reasons to break off the investigat… |
| 19-8702 |
Billy Edward Sedberry v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-quantity judicial-fact-finding jury-trial methamphetamine sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the district court procedurally erred in miscalculating Sedberry's drug quantity base offense level.
2. Alternatively, whether the distric… |
| 19-8708 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Presidio Bank |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment brown-vs-board civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-ethics patent patent-rights stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether this Court's duty to enforce its Governing Precedents as declared by Chief Justice J. Marshall in Fletcher v. Peck (1810) and Trustees of D… |
| 19-8712 |
Billy Joe Wardlow v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
age-of-offender brain-development death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness neuroscience roper-v-simmons |
Whether, under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Texas may continue to impose, and carry out previously imposed, death sentences for which future … |
| 19-8714 |
Bodhi Tree v. Jim Robertson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provision due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure standing supreme-court writ |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8649 |
Angelo Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process guidelines guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission |
Should a defendant be denied a three-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S.G. § 3E1.1 when the defendant enters a timely guilty… |
| 19-8681 |
Sung Hong, et ux. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affinity-fraud aggravating-factors civil-rights constitutional-law due-process establishment-clause free-exercise holguin-hernandez-v-united-states plain-error-review religious-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Is it permissible for courts to consider religion as an aggravating factor in determining sentences, or to favor a religion by sentencing defendant… |
| 19-8682 |
Charles Ray Fulmer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-agreement prosecutor prosecutorial-discretion sentencing upward-departure variance |
Whether due process requires remand for specific performance of a plea agreement or, in the alternative, remand for determination of the full terms of… |
| 19-8683 |
Edgardo Grande v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appeal-waiver fairness-integrity-public-reputation judicial-proceedings plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-factors substantial-rights unconscionability unconscionable-contract |
1. Whether the waiver of appeal rights contained in the Plea Agreement is unenforceable since the Plea Agreement is invalid because it is an unconscio… |
| 19-8690 |
Jimmy Lee Wheeler v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation structural-error |
The OCR text is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section verbatim. While a "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" header … |
| 19-8691 |
Jardiel Infante-Caballero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process sentencing supervised-release |
1. Whether imposing a supervised release term —which authorizes a court to send Petitioner to prison for an additional prison term beyond the custodia… |
| 19-8693 |
Nathan Thomas Trujillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-procedure judicial-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states kimbrough-variance policy-grounds sentencing sentencing-guidelines variance |
A. WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN HOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT DID NOT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION WITH ITS SENTENCE?
B. WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN HOLDING THE DI… |
| 19-8694 |
Joseph D. Rouse v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 appeal-waiver appellate-review due-process mandatory-minimum notice-requirement plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does the express language of 21 U.S.C. § 851 requiring prior written notice of the particular conviction the government seeks to use to enhance a mand… |
| 19-1365 |
Ramon Hueso v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
28-usc-2255 circuit-law circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief retroactivity savings-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Section 2255 of 28 U.S.C., which authorizes postconviction relief for federal prisoners, generally requires post-conviction motions be brought within … |
| 19-1367 |
Vernon Lee Havens, II v. Maureen O'Connor, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-guarantees due-process equal-protection equal-treatment federal-law judicial-immunity jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 section-1988 superior-courts |
1. Do Mireles v. Waco, Brookings v. Clunk,
and associated case law combine to grant
absolute judicial immunity to all other regulation,
Section 1983 … |
| 19-1361 |
Richard Jordan, et al. v. Georgia Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
|
8th-amendment alternative-method availability capital-punishment death-penalty department-of-corrections departments-of-corrections execution-method feasibility Glossip-v-Gross legal-precedent |
Whether evidence of how other departments of corrections have obtained and successfully administered an alternative execution method is relevant to sh… |
| 19-8655 |
Milton Barrios-Alvarado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States Apprendi-v-New-Jersey certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jury-trial overrule petition sentencing supreme-court writ |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-8667 |
Diamante Alfred v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process individualized-sentencing judicial-bias judicial-discretion plea-bargaining recusal sentencing supervised-release supervision-violation |
1. Does a district court fail to appropriately individualize a supervision-violation sentence where the sentence imposed is based on a "promise" made … |
| 19-8670 |
Rosalio Ramos Tapia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review |
I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light… |
| 19-8672 |
Terry Bridges v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules murder-evidence prejudice prejudicial-testimony rehabilitation sentencing trial-court-discretion uncharged-crime |
whether the trial court erred in permitting the state to introduce excessive evidence relating to the murder of keith Slugg, of which Terry Bridges wa… |
| 19-8654 |
Richard Senese, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii article-three due-process equal-protection exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-precedent panel-rule stare-decisis |
I. Rather than applying this Court's precedents, the Eleventh Circuit held that its "prior panel rule" precluded it from reaching appellant's argument… |
| 19-8658 |
Garian King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
__U.S.__ 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020). court-reconsideration criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review lower-court-decision precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light… |
| 19-8659 |
Steven Adam Segovia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fact-finding federal-sentencing jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 19-8660 |
Thomas Michael Riley v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-review death-penalty furman-v-georgia gregg-v-georgia narrowing-requirement sentencing-scheme |
"To pass constitutional muster, a capital sentencing scheme must genuinely narrow the class of persons eligible for the death penalty and must reasona… |
| 19-8666 |
Louis Mayes v. Jonathan Lebo, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection life-without-parole sentencing |
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| 19-8621 |
Steven Desmond Peterson, aka Primo v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8623 |
Joshua Charles Lovell Moseley v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
burglary criminal-conviction criminal-procedure dominion-control double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection federalism grand-larceny reasonable-doubt standard-of-review totality-principle |
When Vhe Vwo SVaVe CoorVs arrive aV diVYemanV Conclusions in Vhe same case, should Vhe PeViVioner be given a new Vrial and legal principled o&ln Ola V… |
| 19-8645 |
Joe Cephus Ross v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography due-process mandatory-minimum prosecutorial-discretion sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 2252A violate the Due Process Clause and the separation-of-powers doctrine because the statute allows a prosecutor to unilaterally se… |
| 19-8646 |
Leonard Griffin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states resentencing section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether, under the law established by this Court in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), Mr. Griffin should be resentenced without applyin… |
| 19-1348 |
Alfred Bourgeois, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law agency-deference agency-rule capital-case death-penalty execution-protocol federal-death-penalty-act federal-law notice-and-comment procedural-rule statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the phrase "prescribed by the law of the State" in 18 U.S.C. § 3596(a) includes those procedures that state law requires state officials to… |
| 19-8639 |
Derrick Allen v. Ted Wire, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights contract-law discrimination due-process employment equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8632 |
Sandra Rumanek v. Sherry R. Fallon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 15th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-amendments equal-protection fraud-on-the-court judges-liability judicial-immunity obstruction-of-justice pro-se-litigation |
Does the law shielding judges, officers of the court and state actors from personal liability in a civil rights suit, in effect, facilitate and thus e… |
| 19-8611 |
Adam Scott v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-circuit-split appellate-review assault crime-of-violence dangerous-weapon due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing statutory-interpretation |
At least five federal appellate courts, including the Ninth Circuit, have determined the use of a dangerous weapon automatically transforms assault in… |
| 19-8617 |
Homar Perez Chavez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres case-review criminal-law due-process judicial-review legal-precedent precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), should be overruled? |
| 19-1344 |
Lahkwinder Singh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split criminal-forfeiture deprivation-of-livelihood eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause livelihood-deprivation proportionality-analysis sentencing |
Whether this Court should resolve the conflict between the
circuits regarding whether the 'deprivation of livelihood'
should be included in the prop… |
| 19-1340 |
David Tribble, et al. v. First Security Bank, et al. |
Arkansas |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals appellate-review arkansas-judiciary civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection procedure state-court supreme-court |
Did reliance on the Appellate Review Attorney for the Office of the Clerk of the Arkansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals' instruction for drafting… |
| 19-8591 |
Frederick Pennington, Jr. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
discovery-motions exonerating-evidence habeas-corpus juvenile-jurisdiction new-evidence post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-hearing |
1. Does the improper waiver of Exclusive Juvenile Jurisdiction, (Title 47 Arkansas Code Annotated 45-413(1977)), allow for the dismissing of the previ… |
| 19-8600 |
Marco E. Torres, Jr. v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-attainder cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection media-campaign referendum |
I. Whether the successful media campaign and referendum culminating in affirmance of Mr. Torres' death sentences qualify as cruel and unusual punishme… |
| 19-8601 |
William Cornell Walker v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-discrimination civil-rights due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence false-testimony jury jury-composition peer-selection police-misconduct racial-bias |
1. Whether jurors twice your age can be considered your peers, the jury of 12 were not my peers except for one or two 11 has nothing to do with being … |
| 19-8604 |
Dontarius Marquis Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure drug-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. HALL'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN DENYI… |
| 19-8581 |
Marlon Deon Harmon v. Tommy Sharp, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson confession confession-evidence constitutional-error death-penalty habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence sentencing |
Should this Court provide uniform guidance to federal courts in their analyses under Brecht v. Abrahamson when the harm caused in the admission of an … |
| 19-8590 |
Timothy A. Marr v. Joshua E. Doyle |
Florida |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-oath due-process equal-protection fraud fraud-allegations judicial-conduct oath-of-office petition-rights right-to-petition |
WHETHER FLORIDA'S CODE OF JUDICIAL CONDUCT CAN PROVIDE AND EXCEPTION TO PERMIT FRAUD ON OR BY JUDGES AND OFFICERS OF A STATE'S COURTS.
WHETHER THE FL… |
| 19-8575 |
In Re Andrew Robinson |
|
2020-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling habeas-corpus jurisdiction-claims |
1) . Does State and Federal law allow jurisdiction claims to be made at anytime?
2) . Does Sate and Federal law say jurisdiction claims go under habe… |
| 19-1326 |
E. Thomas Scarborough, III v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Northampton County, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
access-to-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-crimes parental-rights rooker-feldman section-1983 standing |
I. Whether District Court has jurisdiction over
state deprivation of federal rights, under the color of
state law?
a. ) Whether Respondents are amen… |
| 19-8573 |
David Konepachit v. California |
California |
2020-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
DOES THE SENATE BILL 1393 INHERENTLY DEPRIVE THE PETITIONER FROM EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS BECAUSE OF THE AMELIORATIVE STATUTE THAT 1893 AMENDS, LA… |
| 19-8574 |
Calvin G. Latimer v. North Carolina Department of Transportation |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 19-8559 |
Christopher Scott Jepsen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review child-pornography criminal-law due-process federal-conviction prior-judgment sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-judgment |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred by concluding that Mr. Jepsen was subject to an enhanced sentence for his fede… |
| 19-8561 |
Jesus Julian Corona-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-procedure indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-8563 |
Michael Lee v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-review due-process first-time-offender life-sentence sentencing sentencing-review sex-crimes |
1. Should certiorari be granted to address whether a circuit court is presented with a substantial question, hence warranting full appellate review, r… |
| 19-8566 |
John Charles Thompson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregate-imprisonment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process imprisonment plain-error revocation sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Was it plain err for the Western District of North Carolina to not aggregate Mr. Thompson's multiple revocation active imprisonment sentences then red… |
| 19-8569 |
Brandon S. Wilson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process procedural-error sentencing sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release |
1. Is Mr. Wilson's sentence procedurally and substantively infirm because the district court failed to consider the factors under 18 USC §3553(a) or o… |
| 19-8571 |
Derrick Martin King v. Ohio Department of Job and Family Services |
Ohio |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
budgetary-reasons constitutional-right constitutional-rights disability-benefits due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-assistance state-constitutions |
Does the U.S. Constitution recognize a constitutional right of safety as enumerated in several state constitutions?
Does the elimination of a state d… |
| 19-8550 |
Wayne Carl Nicolaison v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2020-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-commitment due-process equal-protection Foucha-v-Louisiana liberty mental-illness |
THE CASE UNDERLYING THIS PETITION IS AN ACTION TO ENFORCE CASE LAW, THAT REQUIRES DISCHARGE OF CIVIL COMMITMENT, WHEN THE ORIGINAL MENTAL ILLNESS IS I… |
| 19-8551 |
Londro Emanuel Patterson, III v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2020-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-sentence parole sentencing |
Does a Life sentence., without right to parole, upon a Ninteen year old for killing committed by another cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of… |
| 19-8557 |
Kallen E. Dorsett, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing strickland-standard |
1. Does a prosecutor's threat to prosecute a defendant if he withdraws from his guilty plea invalidate the knowing, voluntary and intelligent clause u… |
| 19-8560 |
Ricardo Noble v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-05-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure court-order criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-appeal motion-correction self-representation sentencing transcript transcript-error |
DID COURT ERR AND ABUSE DISCRETION BY ERRONEOUSLY QUASHING AS UNTIMELY PETITIONER'S OWN MOTION (POCKETED OWN MOTION) APPEAL OF TRIAL COURT'S 08/8/2°/8… |
| 19-1317 |
Efrain Areizaga v. ADW Corporation |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hobbs-act mediation-confidentiality retaliation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The following un-disputed facts in this case pre
sents the grounds on which the petitioner frames his
question to the court.
On 7/8/16 & 7/11/16 the … |
| 19-8543 |
Carl L. Burdick v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plea-agreement rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range united-states-v-booker |
Whether the District Court, contrary to precedents of this Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, accorded the advisory … |
| 19-8544 |
Hubert Carter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Does the judicial determination of crimes "committed on occasions different from one another" at sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.… |
| 19-8548 |
Shawndell Lee Harrison v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactive-rule retroactivity sentencing |
A second or successive motion to vacate, set aside, or correct a federal sentence may be filed if it "contain[s] . . . a new rule of constitutional la… |
| 19-8537 |
Susan Xiao-Ping Su v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-remedy procedural-error sentencing |
A. whether the Ninth Ciruit should sue sponte vacate or grant
Conviction/sentence becanse ind: ctment alleged certificuateont
of statnte scope aleordi… |
| 19-8539 |
Tony Spencer v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-05-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-1314 |
Natalie Anderson v. Adam Robitaille |
New Hampshire |
2020-05-26 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-interpretation contract-clause contract-law due-process equal-protection housing housing-rental impairment-of-contract judicial-bias tenancy-rights tenant-rights |
1. Whether in regards to a contract for rental housing between a long-term resident of an
extended-stay hotel property and the extended stay hotel pro… |
| 19-8523 |
Christian James v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split due-process fifth-circuit government-promise obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-justice united-states-sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion rejecting James's
claim that the Government made an implied promise that any
obstruction of just… |
| 19-8530 |
Sacorey L. Clark v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process government-duty government-liability judicial-remand legal-claims rehaif rehaif-precedent remand sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether CLARK's Affirmed Sentence & Judgment Must be Vacated in light of REHAIF, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), Then Remanded, Where it is Warranted that CLAR… |
| 19-8515 |
Michael Munday v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
disparate-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fairness fifth-amendment judicial-review reasonableness sentencing sentencing-disparity sixth-amendment |
In affirming the 12-year upward departure sentence, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of ju… |
| 19-8518 |
Dexter C. Newson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights compulsory-process constitutional-law due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence judicial-review legal-procedure right-to-present-defense statutory-interpretation |
Petitioners appeal Without him compusorry process to Call a Witness in his Fabor as guarented in the 6th AMendment of the Constitution and to determin… |
| 19-8519 |
James E. Myers v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause dna-testing due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus substantive-due-process writ-of-certiorari |
(1). Whether Procedual Due Process, Substantive Due Process, Equal
Protection, and Confrontational Clause have been violated by state concluding
pri… |
| 19-8504 |
Jose Antonio Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admission-of-guilt constitutional-law criminal-procedure disposition-agreement due-process judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing supervised-release |
Whether Mr. Garcia's admission to a violation of supervised release in this matter violated due process where the district court failed to clearly inf… |
| 19-1303 |
Earnest Cassell Woods, II v. California |
California |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
|
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process mens-rea murder-conviction natural-probable-consequences resentencing retroactive retroactivity self-defense senate-bill-1437 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. DOES SENATE BILL 1437 ADDED SECTION 1170.95, WHICH PERMITS PERSONS CONVICTED OF MURDER UNDER THE NATURAL AND PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES THEORY TO PETITI… |
| 19-8498 |
Winnie Diggs v. Neil Gallucci, Chief of Police, City of Carlsbad, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
affirmative-action antidiscrimination civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-process law-enforcement racial-discrimination supreme-court-jurisprudence |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8500 |
David Furtado Gray v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Whether the term "pattern of Racketeering Activity" as defined in 18 U.S.C.D. 1959(a), which cross references to 18 U.S.C.S. 1961, proved more of simp… |
| 19-8487 |
Jerrell Berger v. Robert Adams, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection multiple-charges murder-charge sentencing sentencing-decision sixth-amendment trial-court |
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MAKE COE Awe of Lwo chur ses ak he hzen/
Severed! iw My CHASE ana grated by rial unas,
his case Ase in… |
| 19-8489 |
Jason Mitchell Abbo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca acca-enhancement burden-of-proof criminal-justice due-process equal-protection juvenile-conviction predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
#1. Does a Juvenile Conviction for "Possession" of a controlled substance qualify as a prior predicate conviction for an ACCA enhancement when 18 U.S.… |
| 19-8492 |
In Re Tim Sundy |
|
2020-05-18 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-record due-process equal-protection fraud-upon-court judicial-procedure mandamus standing |
Whether Congress and/or the U.S. Constitution has afforded all United States citizens the unconditional right to equal protection to be secured in the… |
| 19-8471 |
Eddie Gene Vaughn v. Timothy Hawkins, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-obligations due-process equal-protection excessive-force poverty prisoner-rights standing |
1.ARE CORRECTIONAL STAFF FREE TO PHYSICALLY BEAT PRISONERS
SIMPLY DUE TO THE PRISONERS APPEARANCE AND DEMEANOR OF
ILLITERACY AND/OR BEING TOO POOR TO … |
| 19-8472 |
Wyte Young, Jr. v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-default sentencing state-court-procedure |
1. Did the tral Count vio late petitroverts 5thybthiand i4th arendnvent rights, When it made a Judieial chetermunation,as tothe dangerous nature eleme… |
| 19-8474 |
Brittany Dawn Thomas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(e) 18-USC-3553e criminal-procedure district-court judicial-authority mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-discretion separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
i. DOES A DISTRICT COURTS INABILITY TO DEPART BELOW A MANDATORY MINIMUM UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e), FOR ANY FACTOR OTHER THAN DEFENDANT'S SUBSTANTIAL A… |
| 19-8478 |
John King v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure fact-finding judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-fact-finding mcmillan-v-pennsylvania preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts |
I. BY A JURY TO ENHANCE A SENTENCE?
AFTER THIS COURT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. ALLEYNE, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), NON-CONTROLLING, CAN THE PREPONDERAN… |
| 19-8481 |
Ronald D. Veteto v. Dewayne Estes, Warden, et al. |
Alabama |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-procedure standing statutory-provisions |
Did the trial judge violate Petitioner Vetero's Due Process and Equal Protection rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, United States Constitu… |
| 19-1293 |
Michael Ludwikowski v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from increasing a criminal defendant's sentence for conduct underlying a count on whic… |
| 19-8458 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Phillip Jordan, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection public-accommodations race-discrimination standing |
WHETHER HAS PETITIONER SUFFERED INTENTIONAL DISCRIMINATION BASED UPON HIS CRIMINAL RECORD and/OR;
WHETHER ACTING UNDER STATE LAW, COLOR OF DURHAM WHE… |
| 19-8463 |
Luis Ricardo Mayea-Pulido v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination heightened-scrutiny legitimacy marital-status ninth-circuit parents'-marital-status statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Ninth Circuit (and other courts of appeals) misinterpret the phrase "parents' marital status" by holding that it refers exclusively to "legiti… |
| 19-8421 |
Gilbert Tello v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-sentencing mental-health mental-health-records public-trial sentencing speedy-trial |
whether the trial court violated petitioners right to a speedy and public trial, Where petitioner was held in Webb County Jail for almmost seven and a… |
| 19-8435 |
Jerome Lemeal Williams v. Wendy Duffy, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel equal-protection judicial-bias procedural-due-process speedy-trial unlawful-touching |
I have a birth certificate .identification .social security card and was born in in the United States. I've went to prison for a crime I didn't commit… |
| 19-8438 |
Rodney Lyn Emil v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors burden-of-proof capital-sentencing constitutional-procedure death-penalty jury-finding jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt |
Nevada courts instruct juries that they may consider imposing a death sentence only after finding at least one statutory aggravating factor beyond a r… |
| 19-8443 |
George R. Young v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Does the State have the authority to commence prosecution after the twenty-year statute of limitations has expired when the alleged suspect is not kno… |
| 19-8445 |
Freddie Lee Curry, aka King of da Hood, aka Rat v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 alleyne alleyne-ruling criminal-procedure drug-quantity fair-sentencing-act first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court abused its discretion when it failed to to apply Alleyne to Appellant's sentence reduction under Section 404(b) of the First St… |
| 19-8447 |
Jeanette D. Davis v. Renee Thomas, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection excessive-force grievance-interference grievance-process |
1. Defendant Officer Renee Thomas inflicted crule an unusal punishnent when she excessively sprayed me with Chemical Agent directly in t^e eyes while … |
| 19-8448 |
Lamont Dantzler v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-law de-facto-life-sentence due-process juvenile-justice proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing |
I. In an action in which the sole claim is whether,in a case in which
an 18-year-old defendant who received a de facto life sentence does
that sente… |
| 19-1282 |
Avery Terry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-924c appeal-waiver constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-waiver due-process force-clause hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-vagueness vagueness-doctrine violent-crime |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DISMISSING THE APPEAL PURSUANT TO AN INVALID APPEAL WAIVER, AFTER MAKING ERRONEOUS FINDINGS, OVERLOOKING AND MIS… |
| 19-8430 |
Valery LaTouche v. New York |
New York |
2020-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process equal-protection post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURTS INVOCATION OF STATUE 440.10(3)(C) DENIED PETITIONER HIS INTEREST, DUE PROCESS RIGHTS, AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW.
WHETH… |
| 19-8432 |
Donald Randolph LaFlamme v. California |
California |
2020-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights disparate-impact due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fifth-amendment prison-conditions title-vii workplace-practices |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8426 |
Shawn M. Twitty v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amelioration-doctrine criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing doctrine-of-amelioration due-process fundamental-fairness res-judicata sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a sentence is manifestly erroneous because the Doctrine of Amelioration allows for that sentence to be controlled by a newly amended version o… |
| 19-8412 |
Lenroy McLean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review forfeiture plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
QUESTION I
Should the Second Circuit Court of Appeals exercise it's discretion
to correct the forfeited error of Petitioner's miscalculated guideline… |
| 19-8404 |
Jamaal Gittens v. Elizabeth Kelly, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Erie County, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Pursuant to Pa CSA 4342(e) 42 U.S 666 Common Pleas judge Kelly, Domestic Relations has authority to obtain personal jurisdiction over non residence of… |
| 19-8407 |
Mauro Ramirez v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection evidence fair-trial forensic-evidence scientific-reliability |
I. Whether the State must establish the reliability and accuracy of the ki liastruwtffefiirn used for electrophoresis and ether preliminocry pN/A anal… |
| 19-8400 |
Roy Allen Nichols v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process factfinding fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Whether a Court of Appeals violates a criminal defendant's right to Due Process, guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitutio… |
| 19-8403 |
Juan Miguel Lopez v. Stuart Sherman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-oversight jurisdictional-challenge retroactivity sentencing-review |
How can the Court be impelled to use its' all encompassing jurisdiction to redress the imposition of time added to a primary base term, as an aggravat… |
| 19-1265 |
Friends of Danny DeVito, et al. v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
assembly constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech police-powers takings |
Whether the Order exceeded the Governor's permissible scope of his police powers and as such violated Petitioners' rights guaranteed by the U.S. Const… |
| 19-8387 |
Robert C. Caldwell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carjacking constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy enhanced-penalty evidentiary-finding firearm public-choice-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation two-strike-statute |
The Government seehs to have defendants sentenced
under both the CarJacking
statute and the firearm statute.
The issue befire the Court is whether sen… |
| 19-8390 |
Do Kyun Kim v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 19-8368 |
Jamaal Gittens v. Transforce, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment standing |
Does the Rooker- Feldman doctrine bar district court subject matter jurisdiction from independent claims |
| 19-1251 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-04-28 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment access-to-courts appeal appeals civil-rights constitutional-violation discrimination due-process employment equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment official-discrimination school-district |
Whether School District of Philadelphia discharged the petitioner from his teaching position without due process of law when respondent denied the pet… |
| 19-8357 |
Jeffery J. Lout v. Montana |
Montana |
2020-04-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto intellectual-disability mental-illness procedural-challenges psychological-evaluation sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8361 |
Tyrone Price v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process firearms ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief racketeering sentencing sentencing-phase |
Does sy2uce) conretron smpport assault uith a dungerons weapon in aid of racketeering under 18 U.S.C19saca)c3).? Does the elements clause ofa 39luce) … |
| 19-8353 |
Curtis Stokes v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-equal-protection criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Stokes and his codefendants were charged with multifarious felonies. On appeal, Stokes ' codefendant had the most serious charge dismissed for insu… |
| 19-8355 |
Lancey Darnell Ray v. Kevin Stitt, Governor of Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection federal-grants federal-statute parole parole-eligibility prisoners-rights private-prisons sentencing-rules state-corrections truth-in-sentencing |
PREFACE TO QUESTIONS PRESENTED: Prisoners, by the very nature of their
circumstances, are more than merely similarly situated; they are exactly situat… |
| 19-8342 |
Dearieus Duheart v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit the use of acquitted conduct to enhance a defendant's sentence? |
| 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… |
| 19-8335 |
Mitchell Willoughby v. Deedra Hart, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-precedent capital-sentencing closing-argument death-penalty jury jury-instructions prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit state-law voir-dire |
"The uncorrected suggestion that the responsibility for any ultimate determination of death will rest with others presents an intolerable danger that … |
| 19-8339 |
Juan M. Santiago v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver booker booker-error criminal-procedure federal-sentencing mandatory-guidelines miscarriage-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver |
WHETHER AN ESTABLISHED BOOKER ERROR (MANDATORY APPLICATION OF THE USSG) CAN BE CONSIDERED PER SE A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE EXCEPTION THAT IS NOT WAIVED… |
| 19-8340 |
Christopher Scruggs v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law distribution distribution-intent file-sharing knowledge knowledge-standard mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
The Sentencing Commission promulgated Amendment 801, amending to only apply when a defendant 2G2.2(b) (3) (F) enhancement "knowingly engaged in distri… |
| 19-1243 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. Wilson County, North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment frivolous-complaint official-discrimination standing |
1. Did trial court deprive the petitioner of his constitutional rights when he denied petitioner total access to the court when he denied the petition… |
| 19-8332 |
Robert Boyd Rhoades v. California |
California |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination |
1. Whether, by hypothesizing reasons the prosecutors might have had to use half of their peremptory challenges to excuse all four prospective African-… |
| 19-8316 |
Dervanna H. A. Troy-McKoy v. New York City Department of Parks and Recreation |
New York |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8321 |
Charlie Ray Carney v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights court-records due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing state-courts |
WHETHER A STATE PRISONER'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS, SECURED BY THE FIFTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, AND MADE OBLIGATORY TO THE STATES T… |
| 19-8322 |
Joseph Augustus Dixon v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
"Whether the U.S. District Court and the Eleventh Circuit of Appeals, have abused their discretion by failing to accept Petitioner's timely amended § … |
| 19-8325 |
Qais Hussein v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is it reasonably debatable that Qais Hussein was deprived the effective assistance of counsel where his defense attorney failed to object to any insin… |
| 19-8308 |
Terry Gooden v. U.S. Navy/U.S. Marine Corps, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
7h) ^<<a /T\J c/tltrri.(j J. /brf) |
| 19-8312 |
Lazaro Candelaria v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure first-step-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement shepard-documentation |
1) Whether the First Step Act of U.S. in his Title 21 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(1) motion.
2) Whether CounselSenate Bill 756, applies to the Petitioner, ineff… |
| 19-8299 |
Matthan James Simons Pattioay v. Hawaii |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8305 |
Kinsley Ononuju v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-04-19 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigence indigent-defendant transcript transcript-cost |
On Equal Protection Clause; Whether Supreme Court of Virginia erred in refusing to find any unconstitutionality in VA Code § 19.2-165 that only mandat… |
| 19-8285 |
In Re David L. Williams |
|
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection federal-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing |
1. Was dismissal of Petitioner Appeal error by the Fifth Ciruit?
2. Does Appeal lie with Appeal court,when Petitioner claim he is in custody in viola… |
| 19-8289 |
Jose Yeyille v. Cecilia M. Altonaga, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure dismissal district-court-review due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment in-forma-pauperis jury-trial seventh-amendment standing |
1. Whether the district court appropriately resolved genuine issues of disputed facts; correctly applied legal conclusions; and provided any statement… |
| 19-8270 |
Earl Mayberry Johnson, Jr. v. The Florida Bar |
Florida |
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment attorney-discipline confrontation-clause disbarment due-process equal-protection florida-bar service-of-process |
1. Whether the State of Florida violated the Petitioner's 14th Amendment due process and equal protection rights when it summarily disbarred the Petit… |
| 19-8271 |
Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska |
Alaska |
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
equal-protection impartial-jury juror-bias jury-trial jury-trial-right no-impeachment-rule racial-bias sixth-amendment |
All states and the federal government have one version or another of an evidence rule that generally prohibits the introduction of juror testimony reg… |
| 19-8279 |
Jeffrey LaGasse v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
amendment-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto plea-bargaining police-misconduct severance |
Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals by-pass the petitioner's 5th, 6th and 14th Amendment rights by denying his petition for Certificate of Appealabi… |
| 19-1224 |
Jeremiah F. Manning v. Lucy J. Kim |
California |
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
|
campaign-contribution campaign-contributions disclosure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal |
I. The public record shows that Judge Susan Greenberg of the California Superior Court of San Mateo County accepted campaign contributions from Respon… |
| 19-8258 |
Denver Maxwell Goree, Jr. v. Michigan Parole Board |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commutation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto parole parole-board punishment |
Whether Petitioner's parole process was unconstitutional where (1) the Michigan Parole Board failed to proceed with a recommendation for commutation i… |
| 19-8260 |
Alvin Fulton v. New York |
New York |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fundamental-miscarriage judicial-discretion post-release-supervision sentencing sentencing-error sex-offenses |
1. the usages and principles of law Whether the State of New York Court of Appeals has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts w… |
| 19-8263 |
Larry Wesley Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-possession drug-trafficking felony-enhancement guidelines gun-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")-which held Mr. Brown was involved with drug traffic… |
| 19-8264 |
Paul M. Gordon v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure legal-standard mental-competency mental-incompetency sentencing |
I. Mental Incompetency
The law states that no person with mental diseare or defect shall be sentenced
for commission of an offence as long as such inc… |
| 19-8244 |
Frank Morgan v. Illinois Department of Corrections |
Illinois |
2020-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
chaplain-duties civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections detainee-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment religious-services standing takings |
1. Whothere the Illissis Dopnatnout ot
COLNELTION'S HAS HUTHONITY TO CHANBO
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| 19-8255 |
Emilio Medina-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jury-trial precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-8238 |
Morris Kent Thompson v. Jennifer Leppek Cerato, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Natalie A. Richards-Thompson |
Florida |
2020-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-override due-process equal-protection government-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-procedure legal-conspiracy separation-of-powers |
1. Have the attorney's and court committed a management override of the Constitution?
2. When fraud and attorney misconduct is present is the court r… |
| 19-8239 |
Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2020-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Under Nevada law, a jury may consider imposing a death sentence only after finding at least one statutory aggravating factor beyond a reasonable doubt… |
| 19-8231 |
Juvenile Male v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer prosecutorial-discretion rehabilitation sentencing transfer-hearing |
Whether the refusal of the United States Attorney to detail the defendants role in weighing his potential for rehabilitation in the interest of justic… |
| 19-8232 |
William Lynn Jackson v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-mapping due-process equal-protection jury-selection minority-representation racial-discrimination racial-gerrymandering standing voting-rights |
Whether this Petitioner is another example of such deprivation of the Equal Protection Clause which forbids the State's to exclude black persons from … |
| 19-8221 |
Feuu Fagatele v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process risk-of-injury sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a statute that criminalizes creating a risk of injury categorically satisfies the definition of a crime of violence? |
| 19-8197 |
Fred Furnish v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus hearing-impairment impartial-jury juror-bias juror-impartiality jury-selection right-to-fair-trial |
When a juror realizes that he has been in an identical situation vis-à-vis the defendant as the victims of the defendant's crimes, is that juror unqua… |
| 19-8203 |
Rashan J. Hunt v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement repeat-offender repeat-violent-offender sentencing sixth-amendment |
FIRST QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW: WAS PETITIONER'S PLEA AGREEMENT VIOLATED, AND HIS CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS PROTECTIONS VIOLATED, WHEN THE TRIAL… |
| 19-8210 |
Peggy Gordon v. Holy Cross Hospital Germantown, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8191 |
Benjamin Velasquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one
year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that
Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-
Booker… |
| 19-8192 |
John Bejarano v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors appellate-reweighing apprendi clemons-v-mississippi constitutional-rights death-penalty jury-trial reweighing sixth-amendment |
1. Should this Court overrule Clemons v. Mississippi as inconsistent with Apprendi and its progeny, to the extent that it allows an appellate court to… |
| 19-8193 |
John Purifoy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review booker booker-decision criminal-procedure downward-departure jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance |
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has held that an appellate court does not have the jurisdiction to review the denial of a dow… |
| 19-1199 |
Don Higginson v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
at-large-voting california-voting-rights-act civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-elections racial-polarization voting-rights voting-rights-act |
In Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U.S. 30 (1986), this Court held that a municipality's at-large voting system does not violate Section 2 of the Voting Rig… |
| 19-8174 |
Camille T. Mata v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination |
Massachusetts |
2020-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights-act due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination race-discrimination race-gender-discrimination superintendent-authority title-ix title-vi |
1. Should senior legal officers of the state court of last resort, such as the Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, be allowed to den… |
| 19-8175 |
Kitrich A. Powell v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances sixth-amendment |
Did the Nevada Supreme Court violate Mr. Powell's constitutional rights by making the outweighing requirement an afterthought for the jury, used only … |
| 19-8182 |
Edward Paul Moss v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8183 |
Jose Nogales v. California |
California |
2020-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juvenile-justice retroactive-legislation retroactivity sentencing |
The State of California recently passed legislation (Senate Bill
No. 1391) that effectively eliminated the practice of prosecuting 14 and 15
year ol… |
| 19-8157 |
Brian Richardson v. Joshua Moore |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8165 |
Tanya Winters v. Industrial Commission of Arizona, et al. |
Arizona |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection government-benefits medical-cannabis veterans-benefits |
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| 19-8170 |
Joe Robert Reynolds v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-1194 |
Jiahao Kuang, et al. v. Department of Defense, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act,civil-procedure,due-p due-process equal-protection injunctive-relief judicial-review military-affairs standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether courts can evade their constitutional and statutory duty to review military decisions under the so-called "Mindes test," or whether claims … |
| 19-8154 |
Jody Stamp v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure disabilities-act disability-accommodations due-process mental-health post-traumatic-stress sentencing sentencing-mitigation |
The question presented is should the District
Coust Judge forcloser of a down word
variance be based or the Judges Personal
interpcatation of the Defe… |
| 19-8141 |
Eric Jeffrey Cowan v. Josie Gastelo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights Constitutional-Challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment Judicial-Review jurisdiction Legal-Interpretation Petitioner-Rights standing |
Should Petitioner receive relief under United States Constitution Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection. |
| 19-8111 |
Todd James Broxmeyer v. L. Ray Ormond, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-protection due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence presumption-of-innocence sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Is the use of the preponderance of evidence standard to enhance at sentencing deemed unconstitutional when the presumption of innocence is restored, i… |
| 19-8115 |
Brenda R. White v. EDS Care Management, LLC, et al. |
Michigan |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-capacity medical-malpractice race-discrimination rico rico-claims standing |
1. Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend herself against attempted murder by doctor… |
| 19-8120 |
Jarvis Rodrick Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection false-statements fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-interest |
1. Was it "unreasonable" to be "seized" in violation of the
Fourth Amendment and re-arrested for the same offense to deprive .
the Petitioner of his … |
| 19-8126 |
Garry Wayne Wilson v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-03-27 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment indian-law state-prosecution treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty |
1. Whether the State of Oklahoma has jurisdiction to prosecute a Cherokee Indian whose alleged crime of murder occurred within the historic and treaty… |
| 19-8129 |
Charles Ben Bounds v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal bounds-case court-of-appeals criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the application of Obstruction-of-Justice Sentence Enhancement in United States of A… |
| 19-1174 |
John W. Kimbrough v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Is it an unreasonable application of federal law to
hold, for Strickland purposes, that there was no
reasonable probability that the state's appell… |
| 19-1168 |
Mirek Machala v. Libuse Kral, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-03-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment |
1. Whether Petitioner's due process right was
violated when the District of Columbia Court of
Appeals denied his petition for rehearing within
no t… |
| 19-8088 |
Antonio Rodrigues v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-due-process criminal-element due-process felony-murder judicial-determination judicial-fact-finding maximum-sentence predicate-felony sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-evidence |
Does the Constitution prohibit a State to define a crime to include an element that is to be decided by a judge without evidence; and where the State … |
| 19-8090 |
Joseph Weldon Smith v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances sixth-amendment |
Did the Nevada Supreme Court violate Mr. Smith's constitutional rights by making the outweighing requirement an afterthought for the jury, used only t… |
| 19-8096 |
Marvin D. Noble v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8097 |
Jay Eugene Reed v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-rule-52(b) criminal-rule-52b evidence-rule-103 expert-testimony forfeiture plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Under Evidence Rule 103 and Criminal Rule 52(b), once a party informs the court of the substance of the evidence at issue, and the court rules, counse… |
| 19-8098 |
Juan Carlos Rodriguez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-consequences |
This case concerns petitioner's claim that he was misled concerning the sentencing consequences of his guilty plea to a conspiracy charge.
The questi… |
| 19-8055 |
Corey Jones v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review sentencing supervisory-power |
Petitioner was sentenced to 15 years in prison for biting a finger. The Court of Appeals found that "highly unjust, and little short of absurd," and t… |
| 19-8066 |
Silvestre Lara-Cervantes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-remand criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of… |
| 19-8076 |
Alfredo Galindo v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federal-procedure habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-requirement |
Whether petitioner's claim that his 300-month sentence violates his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment meets the stat… |
| 19-8078 |
Brandon L. Banks v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-safeguards counsel due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment impartial-jury sixth-amendment |
Was Petitioner denied Due Process of law for trial by an impartial jury and for equal protection of the law when the Appellate Court applied an unreas… |
| 19-8080 |
Julio Solorzano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence-exception civil-rights collateral-attack criminal-procedure davis-ruling due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-challenge waiver-doctrine |
May a person who is actually innocent of a firearms offense under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) after United States v. Davis, 1389 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), seek habea… |
| 19-8081 |
Juan Isaac Flores v. California |
California |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
benefits constitutional-rights counsel-performance effective-counsel ineffective-assistance plea-agreement sentencing sixth-amendment |
(1) Was my Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel violated by Attorney Kovtun s ineffectiveness(2) Is the process that preceded the May 3, 2018 pl… |
| 19-1160 |
Robert J. Murphy v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel |
Pennsylvania |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech judicial-code pennsylvania-rules-of-professional-conduct pennsylvania-workers-compensation-act retroactive-application workers-compensation |
1. Whether petitioner, Robert Murphy, had fair warning as to reach of disciplinary proceedings and precise nature of charges that petitioner's adminis… |
| 19-8048 |
Collyer Goodman v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-court circuit-court-split conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process narcotics narcotics-conspiracy sentencing shared-objective supreme-court |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United … |
| 19-8044 |
Brian Vidrine v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
924(c) career-offender criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-enhancement section-924c sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1.
Are Vidrine's § 924(c) convictions invalid in light of this Court's decision in
Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and its progeny?
… |
| 19-8045 |
Raymond Mata, Jr. v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment legislative-veto nebraska nebraska-legislature referendum referendum-power standing veto |
Whether the citizens of Nebraska through improper use of their referendum power, or the trial court or Nebraska Supreme Court through erroneous approv… |
| 19-8047 |
Richard E. Daniel v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination right-to-trial |
(1) Is 1T LAWFUL FOR A DEFENDANT WNOH HAS WAIVED ARRAIGNMENT
IN WRITING WITH A PLEA OF NOT GUILTY T% BE BROUGHT BEFORE A TAIAL
SUDGE OVER THE SOURSE O… |
| 19-8016 |
Jaime Vega, aka Jimmy Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
To what extent does 18 U.S.C. § 3553 require a district court to specifically state the reasons for imposing a revocation sentence above the guideline… |
| 19-8036 |
Odis Lee Jackson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-resentencing district-court-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction first-step-act judicial-review mandatory-minimum post-sentencing-conduct sentencing sentencing-modification sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
I. What procedures does Section 404 of the First Step Act require a district court to follow when conducting its statutorily required "complete review… |
| 19-8039 |
Jeffrey Clark v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
counsel-conflict criminal-trial death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment faretta-waiver jury-trial right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation self-representation sixth-amendment |
Mr. Clark represented himself at trial because his lawyer planned to concede his guilt of second-degree murder. The Louisiana Supreme Court held the F… |
| 19-8009 |
Hooman Ashkan Panah v. Ron Broomfield, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process evidence-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure juror-contact juror-misconduct remmer sixth-amendment third-party-influence |
Question 1:
During deliberations, a juror contacted her preacher, who gave her an eye-for-an-eye Biblical passage, which made her "at peace" with voti… |
| 19-8013 |
Keith Alexander v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns criminal-sentencing due-process federal-appellate-review firearms ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation mandatory-minimum mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8021 |
Henry L. Jackson v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
destruction-of-evidence due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge vehicle |
Issue 1: DESTRUCTION of EVIDENCE
Whether the state violated petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and a fair trial when it released p… |
| 19-7986 |
Wesley Scott Hamm v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-injury conspiracy cooperation criminal-law-bodily-injury criminal-law-conspiracy criminal-law-cooperation criminal-law-sentencing criminal-law-withdrawal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquittal drug-distribution due-process evidence judgment-of-acquittal law-enforcement-cooperation sentencing withdrawal |
Question I . Shouldn't a judgment of acquittal have been granted where the government failed to
prove that Hamm, arrested on August 25, 2016, in jail… |
| 19-7998 |
Paul Anthony Montanez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Montanez? |
| 19-8001 |
Valery Vinarov v. CitiMortgage, Inc. |
Illinois |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights corporate-personhood corporate-power due-process equal-protection equality-before-law fraud-on-court judicial-independence property-ownership property-rights |
1. Whether US Constitution equally applicable to all entities in US, including large corporations - Banks.
2. Whether Property ownership rights are s… |
| 19-8005 |
Harrison Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal edwards-v-arizona first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018, enacted while Petitioner's case was pending on direct appellate review, apply where his sentence is… |
| 19-8011 |
James Anderson Dellinger v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
atkins-v-virginia constitutional-mandate death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability judicial-abdication legislative-inaction procedural-vehicle |
Mr. Dellinger has a full-scale I.Q. of 69; he never could read, write, figure out which restroom to use, buy bread, or measure a board. His adaptive d… |
| 19-7969 |
Embery J. McBride v. Walter Berry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conviction cruel-punishment due-process equal-protection fair-trial fraud fundamental-fairness indictment-challenge ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection presentment sentencing special-presentment standing |
WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD GRANT THE PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ON THE FOLLOWING Q… |
| 19-7980 |
Maechel Shawn Patterson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection retroactive-application statutory-interpretation victim-rights victims-rights |
IF PETITIONER ORDERS BEFORE OFFERING IS OCT. 10, 1998 AND THE N.C.G.S. THE-501 CONTINUE VICTIM RIGHTS ACTIONS ESTABLISHED FOR CRIMES THAT WERE COMMITT… |
| 19-7992 |
Glenn Sinatra Davis v. Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, as Trustee for Specialty Underwriting and Residential Finance Trust, Series 2005-BC3 |
Alabama |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights continuance court-motion discovery due-process equal-protection fair-trial fairness judicial-fairness justice legal-procedure notice notice-of-motions notice-of-rights |
Whether a Citizen of the United States, have a right to "Due Process " under the law.
Whether the fundamental principle of Fairness and Justice in al… |
| 19-7957 |
Damar D. Ruffin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law jury-instruction jury-trial reversible-error sentencing standard-of-review |
1. Sheer le Sul, Circle Cocer oF Aopeals Tiling \s \n direct Contes cartlkwothe Laws othe Svupreme CoURT™ Rex er ding . Pleas Eaor tor Kel cation OF —… |
| 19-7958 |
Anthony Quinones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard vagueness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one
year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that
Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-
Booker… |
| 19-7968 |
Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment standing takings |
Does Fourth (VI) Amendment protect the right of the people to be secure therein?
Does the Fifth Amendment (V) can't allowed accuser to defend himself… |
| 19-7971 |
William L. Lewis v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error prejudice prior-convictions reasonable-doubt robbery sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Did the trial Code And The Appellate Court error within entering a finding of quilt On a Single count Robbery when the government Cid net Prove pet… |
| 19-7973 |
Quincy Chisolm v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights conspiracy conviction criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder judicial-discretion mitigating-circumstances murder sentencing trial-court-error |
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| 19-7974 |
Jesse Moreno v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness-standard |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one
year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that
Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-
Booker… |
| 19-7976 |
Lonnie Victor Fleming v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-7977 |
Robert Morris Hoff v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard vagueness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one
year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that
Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-
Booker… |
| 19-7978 |
Ramon Delgado, aka Ramon Delgado-Pina v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law affection-influence civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process foreign-nationals foreign-relations security-clearance sentencing uncharged-conduct vagueness |
First, was it unconstitutionally vague to ask Petitioner in a security clearance questionnaire to name the foreign nationals with whom Petitioner had … |
| 19-7979 |
Leo Chadwick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
animal-fighting animal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias pre-sentence-report recusal sentencing |
I. Whether A Judge' Statements Demonstrating Extreme Bias Against Pit Bull Owners as a Class And Advocating the Elimination of Anyone Involved in Dogf… |
| 19-7981 |
Marcos Robert Castaneda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines timeliness void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre Booker … |
| 19-7943 |
J. H. v. E. R. S. |
Colorado |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review child-custody constitutional-facts constitutional-liberty de-novo-review due-process equal-protection parental-rights plain-error structural-error termination termination-of-parental-rights |
1. Whether, in order to ensure that basic constitutional guarantees define the framework of proceedings to terminate the fundamental constitutional li… |
| 19-7945 |
Zacharias Abab Aguedo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED AGUEDO'S CONVICTIONS WHERE THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT AGUEDO'… |
| 19-7955 |
Philip Berryman v. Randall Haas, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process precedent prison-litigation sixth-circuit stare-decisis |
In this case, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals holds that an essentiak part of the
MDOC's Grievance Process will only benefit a very few litigants … |
| 19-7961 |
Randall Duane Throneberry v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment oklahoma-law oklahoma-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether under the clear language of Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 1123, Petitioner's enhanced sentence under Oklahoma Statute Title 21, § 51.1A is i… |
| 19-7962 |
Rodney Jerome Womack v. James Robertson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions representation-by-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
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UUAS PETITIOMER REPRESENTED 6s? EQUNSEL X IVi
1*182. PRIOR… |
| 19-7966 |
Justin Odell Langford v. William G. Cobb |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 26-usc-1415 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause |
1) whether the Courts violated U.s. Const. Amend,14
clauses on Due Process and Equal Protection?
2) Whether the courts violated U.s. Const. Amend. 5
… |
| 19-7914 |
Lucas James Moss v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 19-7927 |
Jay Allen Newcomb v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation confrontation-rights double-jeopardy due-process oral-pronouncement sentencing sentencing-conflict written-judgment |
1. Is the 11th Circuit's conclusion that "any error the sentencing court made in orally pronouncing [Petitioner's] sentence was corrected by the writt… |
| 19-7930 |
Roderick Pearson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure criminal-justice-reform criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process finality first-step-act judicial-review retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether certiorari should be granted in order to vacate the decision below and remand to the Eleventh Circuit to consider whether § 403 of the First S… |
| 19-7933 |
Larry Donnell Bogard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-7937 |
Michelle Stopyra Yaney and Peter DeBellis v. Rebecca Mason, et al. |
California |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
association civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-expression religious-neutrality state-power |
This case is about an association between a Catholic priest, Peter DeBellis, and a single woman, Michelle Stopyra Yaney. This petition spans several y… |
| 19-7940 |
Luis Fernandez Morales v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 28-usc-1915 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-procedure federal-courts in-forma-pauperis merits-determination sentence-modification sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether defendant in a federal criminal case is entitled to appeal the district court's judgment denying motion to modify sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 19-7948 |
Omar N. Davis v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
The main question in this petition is whether a petitioner's due process rights were violated because he had ineffective assistance of counsel. Here, … |
| 19-7949 |
Kenneth Richard Devore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-public-trust criminal-law criminal-law,evidence,sentencing,fraud,public-trus evidence jurisdiction sentencing sophisticated-means |
I. Does sufficient evidence exist to support Mr. Devore's convictions for mail fraud, theft of public money, and wire fraud.
II. Did the trial court … |
| 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… |
| 19-1105 |
Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden v. Jimmy Dean Harris |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
|
death-penalty death-penalty-appeal deference-to-state-courts deferential-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability standard-of-review |
1. In holding that the OCCA made an "unreasonable determination of the facts," did the Tenth Circuit contravene this Court's repeated admonition that … |
| 19-1100 |
Leroy D. Cropper v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
capital-punishment death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions parole-eligibility parole-ineligibility simmons-v-south-carolina sixth-amendment |
Whether a death sentence may be carried out when defense counsel unreasonably fails to inform the jury of parole ineligibility under Simmons v. South … |
| 19-7903 |
Alfred Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent remand sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Ha… |
| 19-7911 |
Thomas William Cornelius, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion 28-usc-2255 appeal criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus physical-presence right-to-be-present sentencing |
With respect to a defendant who does not waive his right to be physically present during a re-sentencing hearing, held pursuant to a stipulated resolu… |
| 19-7900 |
Tanino Emon Miller v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
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t+jTevT To d?£&rr /3o^ f fi'U&… |
| 19-7902 |
In Re Darnell W. Moon |
|
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct qualified-immunity standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7878 |
Joseph Ramon Santillan v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction-classification criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing felony-conviction mandatory-minimum misdemeanor-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-federal-interaction state-federal-law statutory-interpretation |
Did defendant's State of California marijuana conviction constitute a "prior conviction for a felony drug offense," increasing defendant's mandatory m… |
| 19-7880 |
Nathaniel Woods v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-discrimination arbitrary-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection execution-method nitrogen-hypoxia suppressed-information |
1. Does the Eighth Amendment apply only to imposition of a death sentence, as the Eleventh Circuit held, or may a petitioner challenge, as arbitrary a… |
| 19-7883 |
Tyrone Harris, Sr. v. Arkansas |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing criminal-statute-conflict due-process habitual-offender judicial-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Mr. Harris alleges an obvious conflict between the criminal 16-93-609(b), and the habitual offender statute 5-4-501(d)(2), that prohibits the two from… |
| 19-7887 |
Juvenile Female v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adult-status congress-intent delinquency-prevention district-court-discretion due-process juvenile-justice juvenile-justice-and-delinquency-prevention-act juvenile-offenders juvenile-transfer sentencing supreme-court-precedent transfer-to-adult-status |
Whether a district court errs when it gives too much weight to the seriousness of charged offenses in deciding whether to transfer a juvenile to adult… |
| 19-7857 |
Chance Dechristian Adams v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes pretext prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review |
When a peremptory strike of a prospective juror is challenged under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), and a prosecutor offers multiple reasons f… |
| 19-7868 |
Steven B. Turner v. Mike Kemna |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-fairness |
In Missouri, it is an ensuing plea of guilty that implicates the constitution. A criminal defendant cannot succeed on a post-conviction claim of ineff… |
| 19-7869 |
Raymond David Wilson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender common-scheme criminal-scheme criminal-sentencing felony-disposition judicial-discretion misdemeanor-conviction misrepresentation-of-felony prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Why Did The DiStRiCt CouRt ERRONeouSLY
CLASSIFEd MR.WiLSON AS A CAREER OFFENdER WhEN IN FACT BOth PRiORS
AN INtERVeNiNg ARRESt.
LSO WAS The DiStRICt C… |
| 19-7876 |
Aaron Richardson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Did an unconstitutional "objective risk of bias," Williams v. Pennsylvania, 136 S. Ct. 1899, 1905 (2016), or "probability of actual bias on the par… |
| 19-1083 |
Jeffrey A. Clouser v. Kim Doherty, et al. |
Delaware |
2020-03-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection official-misconduct qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity state-tort-claims state-tort-claims-act whistleblower-protection |
I. A Delaware Department of Education official, sued in his official and individual-capacities, knowingly disregarded available results of a State Pol… |
| 19-1077 |
Chris Ann Jaye v. Oak Knoll Village Condominium Owners Association, Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-liability color-of-law due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-immunity separation-of-powers |
Are the circuit judges of the Third Circuit acting in violation of the US Constitution by providing different due process to citizens similarly situat… |
| 19-7829 |
Dale E. Phillips v. South Coast Plaza, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination class-action constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis jurisdiction pro-se-litigation standing state-actor vexatious-litigant |
Whether California's Vexatious Litigant Laws
(CCP § 391(b)) violate the 1st, 8th and 14th
Amendments of the US Constitution, particularly
when a gover… |
| 19-7835 |
Miguel Rodriguez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-authorization constitutional-law constitutional-suspension due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision in
McCarthan v. Dir. Goodwill Indus. Suncoast-Inc , 851
F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017), is in violation of the … |
| 19-7839 |
Christopher Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deterrence due-process imprisonment plain-error-review policy-statement policy-statement-range sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
I. Is a single-sentence explanation of "I believe this addresses the issues of adequate deterrence and protection of the public" procedurally reasonab… |
| 19-7854 |
Howronda Overstreet v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure Did Ms. Overstreet's waiver of appeal unenforceabl Did the district court commit plain error when it due-process guidelines guidelines-calculation plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver |
QUESTION 1: DID MS. OVERSTREET PRESERVE HER RIGHT TO
APPEAL THE DISTRICT COURT'S INAPPLICABLE
GUIDELINES CALCULATION ?
QUESTION 2: WAS MS. OVERSTR… |
| 19-7862 |
Wesley Paul Coonce, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment confrontation-clause eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment intellectual-disability moral-culpability sentencing-hearing |
1. Because the age at which a capital defendant became intellectually disabled does not bear on his moral culpability, did the Court of Appeals err in… |
| 19-7864 |
Derek Crosby v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process indictment jury jury-determination legislative-power sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-maximum |
Whether The Legislature Can Remove The Facts From The Jury That Increase The Statutory Maximum ?
Whether Defendant Was Properly Found Death Eligible … |
| 19-7815 |
Robert Grimsley v. Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights contractual-leniency custody due-process fraud fraud-in-the-facts habeas-corpus prison prison-contracts prisoner-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-judgment statutory-interpretation takings |
Can a state commit the crimes of fraud in the facta of its own Sentencing guidelines to renege on prison contracts
How can there be Habas Corpus reli… |
| 19-7833 |
Inocente Rodriguez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-7840 |
Victor Dewayne Jones v. Joe Errington |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance judicial-review mental-competency mental-evaluation post-conviction psychiatric-evaluation public-defender sentencing sentencing-petition trial-counsel |
whather Petitioner was denied his right to bue Process of Law
where the pike counts Circuit court convicted Petitioner with out a Mental
Evaluation an… |
| 19-7843 |
Tony Buck v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review punishment punishment-clause sentencing |
Whether the Judgment of Conviction should be vacated as a violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause because the Judgment punishes Mr. Buck for the exact… |
| 19-7844 |
Buck Otto White, aka Timothy Joseph Hoffman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing |
Was it an abuse of discretion to sentence Buck White when the Statutory Maximum is 10 years or 120 months?
Did the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals abuse… |
| 19-7846 |
Cemaludin Veseli, II v. Carla Hacker-Agnew, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7848 |
Barton Joseph Adams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
binding-plea-agreement criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11-c-1-c criminal-procedure-rule-32-2-e-1-a district-court-misconduct due-process forfeiture plea-agreement property-forfeiture property-rights protective-order rule-11 rule-32.2 sealed-court-order sealing-orders sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Whether the lower court violated the mandatory requirements of Rule 32.2(e)(1)(A) and breached the Rule 11(c)(1)(C) binding sentence, when the distric… |
| 19-7812 |
Lajbar Lajaward Khan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure declaration district-court drug-quantity drug-weight fatico-hearing objections probation-office role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the District Court's findings as to drug weight and role were clearly erroneous. |
| 19-7817 |
Maria de Lourdes Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court judicial-procedure plain-error pre-sentence-report prejudice procedural-error sentencing |
When the district court fails to either order a Pre-Sentence Report or make explicit on-the-record findings as to why a Pre-Sentence Report is unneces… |
| 19-7822 |
Harry J. Williby v. Mark Zuckerberg, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
A. Is Facebook subject to suit under the Civil Rights law(s) based upon the conduct |
| 19-7824 |
Dexter Fisher v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure firearm-brandishing hobbs-act section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Mr. Fisher's § 924(c) convictions for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence must be vacated because the Hobbs Act robbery offenses … |
| 19-7804 |
Ramon F. Flores v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 appeal criminal-procedure drug-quantity guideline-range guidelines procedural-bar sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-amendment |
In a sentence reduction application matter pursuant to 1 8
U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) under Amendment 782,to the Sentencing
Guidelines, if a defendant object… |
| 19-7806 |
Cherunda Lynn Fox v. United States Postal Service, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment attorney-general civil-procedure default-judgment due-process electronic-case-filing equal-protection federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure service-of-process |
Whether the defendants were served on 3-19-18 as verified by the court record, the Judge and receipt personally verified by the Attorney General, defa… |
| 19-7808 |
Richard Wayne Taylor v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-validity conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction oath-of-office sentencing |
WHETHER THE TRIAL JUDGE'S FAILURE TO RETAKE AND REFILE A VALID OATH OF OFFICE BEFORE PRONOUNCING SENTENCE, RENDERS A JUDGEMENT, CONVICTION AND SENTENC… |
| 19-7794 |
Jeremy Shane Fogleman v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
1) Does the SUPREME COURT of the STATE of MISSISSIPPI'S DECISION REVERSING the COURT Of APPEALS of the STATE Of MISSISSIPPI'S, 9-0 UNANIMOUS DECISION … |
| 19-7795 |
Robert Alan Foster v. Willis Chapman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discovery-violation due-process equal-protection fair-trial first-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance jury-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination school-desegregation sixth-amendment standing voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7801 |
James Benjamin Barstad v. Washington Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights constitutional-violation contract contract-breach due-process equal-protection inmate-rights punishment sandin-v-conner state-sanctions |
1) When STATE OF WASHINGTON repeatedly imposes sanctions back-to-back, i.e. , when
'temporary" restrictions become perpetual through various schemes,… |
| 19-7771 |
Christopher Benjamin Blanton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circu certiorari criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit haymond-precedent sentence-vacatur sentencing supreme-court supreme-court-review united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 19-7777 |
John Henry Hoyle v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction question-not-identified sexual-offender-registration standing statutory-interpretation takings telephone-disclosure void-for-vagueness |
Is West Virginia's sexual offender registration scheme, which requires the disclosure of any telephone number that a registrant "has" or "uses," uncon… |
| 19-7781 |
John Charles Fortner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-crimes felony-offense minor minor-involvement minors sentencing sentencing-enhancement sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation |
18 U.S.C. § 2260A is a penalty provision which provides for an additional 10 year consecutive sentence if the defendant is: (1) required to register u… |
| 19-7783 |
Billy J. Martin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection question-not-identified standing statutory-interpretation takings |
If a Florida U.S. Citizen is convicted of a crime by and through the perpetration of fraud on the trial Judge, and the jury by the assistant state att… |
| 19-7787 |
Vernon Wayne McNeal v. A. Ervin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7760 |
Jeremy Achey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substance-analogue criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy due-process federal-drug-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-penalties |
1. Whether, in cases where a drug conspiracy allegedly involves multiple substances, the government must prove that the defendant conspired to distrib… |
| 19-7776 |
Mickel L. Marzouk v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause fair-sentencing-act fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner Mickel L. Marzouk presents two questions for this Court's review:
1. Whether Petitioner's sentence on the second § 924(c) conviction and t… |
| 19-1054 |
Christa Gail Pike v. Gloria Gross, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
cumulative-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether a defendant who asserts that trial counsel failed to present key evidence is precluded from showing prejudice under Strickland v. Washingto… |
| 19-7738 |
H. K. V. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. |
Florida |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adoption civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus standing state-court-proceedings |
QUESTION ONE
Is a case involving a state habeas proceeding by a parent, on behalf of their child, who attacks the validity of the custody of his or he… |
| 19-7739 |
H. K. V. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. |
Florida |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-interpretation standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7745 |
Willie B. Smith, III v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
batson-challenge collateral-review death-penalty death-penalty-law hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas peremptory-strikes prosecutor-conduct prosecutorial-discretion retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rules |
1. Whether Hall v. Florida , 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014), and Moore v. Texas , 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017), announced new substantive rules that apply retroacti… |
| 19-7748 |
Kevin Souffrant v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari circuit-split civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-question habeas-corpus judicial-conflict legal-standard standing supreme-court-review |
i. Whether petitioner should be Granted Certiorari, where his claim not only affect him, but also hundreds of others?
ii. Whether the United States C… |
| 19-7749 |
Andrey L. Bridges v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-review res-judicata strickland-v-washington |
I: Does the State affirmative defense of Res Judicata defeats Amendment Fifth; Sixth; Eighth, and Fourteenth of the United States Constitution?
II: I… |
| 19-7758 |
Lin Ouyang v. Achem Industry America, Inc. |
California |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appeal civil-procedure civil-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourth-amendment indigent-defendant indigent-rights misdemeanor-conviction right-to-counsel |
Whether the state court's dismissal of the appeal from misdemeanor conviction, despite the lack of assistance of counsel on appeal, violates the Equal… |
| 19-7759 |
Lyarron T. Emers v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment aggravating-factor constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment pre-sentence-investigation right-to-remain-silent right-to-silence sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Is People v. Emers IL App (4th) 170254-0 parallel to People v. Maggio IL App (4th) 150287?
How is it not unconstitutional, if comments are made on a … |
| 19-7720 |
Lamont Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-circuit-court abuse-of-discretion co-conspirator-hearsay co-conspirator-hearsay-exception criminal-association criminal-history district-court-conviction hearsay-exception mental-health racketeering-conspiracy racketeering-conspiracy-18-usc-1962(d) sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-mental-health-treatment sufficient-evidence uncorroborated-confession |
I. Did the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals abuse.it's discretion in upholding
the District Court's conviction that the evidence against Jones was
suffi… |
| 19-7733 |
Gustavo Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-dismissal civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal district-court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment pre-sentencing-waiver sentencing substantive-due-process waiver |
Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to a substantive due process under the Fifth Amendment by the United States Co… |
| 19-7663 |
Ryan Douglas LaSalle v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review categorical-analysis congressional-definition criminal-procedure federal-regulations guidelines guidelines-miscalculation plain-error regulatory-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-categorical-analysis taylor-v-united-states |
Can a court of appeals successfully avoid undertaking plain error review of a Guidelines miscalculation by relying on a federal regulatory definition … |
| 19-7713 |
Ronelle Lamar Oudems v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing |
Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United … |
| 19-1041 |
Rostislav Khrapko v. Kristin Splain, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction government-corruption interlocutory-appeal standing |
1. Whether discrimination with no legitimate
rationale, motivated by government corruption
violates the Equal Protection Clause of the United
State… |
| 19-1036 |
Teresa Ann Waters v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment adam-walsh-act civil-liberties due-process equal-protection federal-funding sex-offender-registration substantive-due-process tier-classification tier-iii-sex-offender |
1. Whether Ms. Waters is a Tier III sex offender according to 18 U.S.C. § 2241(c).
2. Whether Ms. Waters is a Tier I sex offender according to Adam W… |
| 19-7694 |
Malcolm J. Sanders v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination stop-and-frisk voir-dire |
1. Whether qualified persons of color may constitutionally be stricken from juries based solely on prior experiences of being stopped for Driving Whil… |
| 19-7702 |
Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Leah Berean, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-retaliation court-access due-process equal-protection indigent-rights judicial-discretion pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation retaliation retaliation-claims standing |
1. WHETHER THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS AND U.S. DISTRICT COURT DECISIONS CONFLICT WITH THE FORMULATION DESCRIBING RETALIATION CLAIMS WITHIN THE U.S. CIR… |
| 19-7703 |
Terry Antonio Lee v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-counsel jury-instructions sentencing |
Does the 5th Amendment Release from illegal detention Convicted Against Double Jeopardy 5TH Amendment Petitioner WAS Counse/ Ineffective in Violation … |
| 19-7706 |
Tommy Adams, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender career-offender-guideline controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation taylor-descamps-mathis-precedent taylor-v-united-states |
DID THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS INCORRECTLY APPLY THE LINE OF AUTHORITY FROM THIS COURT BEGINNING WITH TAYLOR V. UNITED STATES, 495 U.S. 575 (… |
| 19-7709 |
John A. Toth v. Peter Antonacci, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance qualified-immunity treaty |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7711 |
John Patrick Vescuso v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravating-factor apprendi apprendi-error circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment prejudice sentencing |
When assessing if a defendant was prejudiced by a district court's imposing a sentence greater than the maximum authorized by the charge in the indict… |
| 19-7681 |
Howard Aron Washington, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-new-jersey guideline-departure procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rosales-mireles Rosales-Mireles-v-United-States sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
THE DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT IN UNITED STATES V. WASHINGTON IS INCONSISTENT WITH THIS COURT'S DECISION IN… |
| 19-7685 |
Dominic Lindsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-errors federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error plain-error-review precedent sentencing standard-of-review |
Does plain-error review under Federal Rule of
Criminal Procedure 52(b) include factual errors? |
| 19-7688 |
Ricardo Noble v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer miller-standard miller-v-alabama rehabilitation rehabilitation-needs sentencing sentencing-discretion transfer |
The fact, issues, and evidence related to a juvenile lifer's decertification (Transfer) decision are relevant to said Juvenile Lifer's Resentencing. T… |
| 19-7691 |
In Re Wilbert Norwood Starks |
|
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure-standing civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. WHETHER the County Court abused its Discretion and violated Due Process Under the
Fourteenth Amendment and Rule 13, Tex. Rule of Civil Procedure; … |
| 19-7696 |
In Re Nicholas Todd Sutton |
|
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus physical-restraints visible-jury |
In Deck v. Missouri, 544 U.S. 622, 629 (2005), this Court held that "the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the use of physical restraints visib… |
| 19-7677 |
Sandchase Cody v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca district-court due-process resentencing resentencing-hearing sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether Mr. Cody was denied due process when after the removal of his unlawful ACCA sentencing enhancement, following a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, the d… |
| 19-7679 |
Jonathan Brownlee v. Keith Hearns, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process probation-officer restitution sentencing supervised-release |
1th KNowINGLy fobricating and f/ing a FAKE Supervrsed Release violatron charge against
he Petthoner, which caused the Petitrorer's ijuries of loss of … |
| 19-7680 |
Samuel Howard v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review capital-punishment constitutional-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process hurst-v-florida judicial-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
1. Whether appellate reweighing is constitutional after Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016).
2. Whether Hurst is retroactive. |
| 19-1020 |
Florence Bikundi v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof continuance district-court-discretion due-process ends-of-justice ends-of-justice-continuance forfeiture fraud fraud-conduct restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines speedy-trial-act |
1. Whether a district court granting an ends-ofjustice continuance under the Speedy Trial Act of
1974, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), violates the require… |
| 19-7664 |
Yervin Keith Barnett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute categorical-approach criminal-law entry entry-element generic generic-statute predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation 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… |
| 19-7624 |
Jerome Shaw v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause fatico-hearing sentencing |
Whether the District Court violated Petitioner's Due Process
Rights when it erroneously found that the Government had
sustained its burden of proof … |
| 19-7625 |
Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-02-12 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment structural-error |
(1) Is it structural error when sentencing errors were corrected by appeals court on direct appeal without defense counsel, and a constitutional denia… |
| 19-7626 |
Lonnie Rarden v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-02-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentences due-process eighth-amendment non-violent-offense non-violent-offenses proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Is sentencing a defendant to a de facto life sentence for non-violent offenses fall within a violation of the eight amendment right of cruel and unusu… |
| 19-7642 |
Ann Karnofel v. Superior Waterproofing, Inc. |
Ohio |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence federal-evidence judicial-review jurisdiction lower-court standing |
Were Petitioner's due process rights denied, since she is a 97-year-old, female, PRO SE litigant?
Did Petitioner receive a fair day in court? |
| 19-7643 |
In Re Stephen Daniel Leonard |
|
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment administrative-hearing administrative-procedure article-iv compulsory-process constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceeding disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection judicial-proceedings liberty liberty-interest privileges-and-immunities witness-testimony |
1.) Did the State of Florida violate Petitioner's protected rights to Judicial Proceedings under Article IV. Section 1, and Amendment 6; of the United… |
| 19-7647 |
William P. Castillo v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
aggravating-factors appellate-review apprendi apprendi-line capital-punishment capital-sentencing clemons-v-mississippi death-penalty jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances mitigating-evidence mitigation-evidence reweighing |
Nevada courts instruct juries that they may consider imposing a death sentence only after finding at least one statutory aggravating factor beyond a r… |
| 19-7648 |
Otis Renaldo Harris v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-power district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-review sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION
WHEN IT FOUND THAT PETITIONER HARRIS WAS NOT ELIGIBLE
FOR A SENTENCE REDUCTION UNDER SECTION 404? |
| 19-7649 |
Socorro Susan Caro v. California |
California |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt (1) th… |
| 19-7612 |
Sha'Ron A. Sims v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection mortgage-foreclosure mortgage-securitization property-rights securitization standing standing-doctrine |
"Procedural due process imposes constraints on governmental decisions which deprive individuals of "liberty" or "property" interests within the meanin… |
| 19-7632 |
Joshua Allen Bolen v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation sentencing standing statute-of-limitations takings |
can a person really sign away the U.S. constitution's guaranteed rights, and amendment 14 the U.S. cnstition, that in ladder part is a right, as well … |
| 19-7635 |
Timothy Courtney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
1. Whether the holding in Almendarez-Torres creating an exception for not having to prove the existence of prior convictions when used to enhance a de… |
| 19-7615 |
William E. Vukich v. Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection incarceration judicial-interpretation mistrial probation sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7617 |
Donato Amaya-Rivas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-against-self-incrimination right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
I. Whether a defendant who raises for the first time on appeal that his plea is unconstitutional because it was entered unknowingly and involuntarily … |
| 19-7622 |
Samuel Elliott v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness |
Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines covering child pornography offenses, U.S.S.G. §S 2G2.1 and 2G2.2, is su… |
| 19-998 |
Vickie Cook, Individually and as Natural Mother to Deanna Cook, et al. v. Tonyita Hopkins, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-created-danger summary-judgment |
After making dozens of 911 calls concerning her abusive ex-husband during 2009-2012, and being promised assistance by police, in August 2012, Deanna C… |
| 19-7589 |
Michael M. Monzel v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-restitution paroline-factors proximate-cause restitution-methodology sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-compensation |
1. Whether — in the context of a criminal restitution request on behalf of a victim of child pornography — § 2259/ Paroline requires disaggregation of… |
| 19-7596 |
Julia L. McDuffy-Johnson v. Daniel A. Lane, III |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment-violations Amendments-I-IV-VIII-XIII-XIV appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-question fifth-circuit judicial-procedure sexual-assault standing Supervisory-power-of-SCOTUS |
I Julia Louise McDuffy Johnson, Appellant believe The United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit has entered a decision which is in conflict the fe… |
| 19-7600 |
Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC |
Georgia |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
effectively depriving pro se litigants of the sub equal-protection full-access-to-court judicial-estoppel private-property-without-just-compensation right-to-be-secured-in-papers with the specific and purposeful intent to defrau constitutional-rights document-tampering due-process equal-protection full-access-to-the-court judicial-and-or-equitable-estoppel judicial-misconduct private-property-without-just-compensation pro-se-litigation right-to-be-secured-in-one's-papers |
State of Georgia court officers have demonstrated a collective and relentless practice of knowingly removing or concealing documents and information f… |
| 19-7608 |
Juan Perez-Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-7577 |
Jason L. Brown v. Lisa M. Brown |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions systemic-discrimination |
1gb08m
1Slavery Cocerion, Desaceing
of
The United States Coorts, &Unisie Justice systemand citaziens. |
| 19-7584 |
Vina Yazzie v. Mohave County, Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection termination title-vii zero-tolerance |
- When was Ms. Yazzie hired into the Mohave County?
- What County Merit Rules were applied to Ms. Yazzie at the time of her termination? Zero toleranc… |
| 19-7537 |
Donald Alexander Spice v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal court-access due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant indigent-defendants transcript transcript-access transcripts |
QUESTION I
WHETHER ICR S.433(C) <3) IS UNCONSTTIOTTONAL AS IT VIOLATES THE EQUAL PROTECTION
M© DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OP THE FOURTEENTH AMENDME3ST AND T… |
| 19-7553 |
Gerald Humbert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
11th-circuit acca armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation summary-remand |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit should have granted COA as to whether Petitioner's Fla. Stat. § 893.13 drug off… |
| 19-7557 |
Lance Yarbough v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-activity double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy jointly-undertaken-criminal-activity relevant-conduct sentencing statutory-minimum substantive-offenses successive-prosecution |
1. Where a prosecution for drug conspiracy under 21 U.S.C. §846 is successive to separate sentences for substantive offenses that are included in the … |
| 19-7558 |
Freddie Lee Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction question-not-identified standing takings |
1) Is it the Unites States Supreme Court's duty to ensure that all United States Constitutional provided rights are protected when they are previously… |
| 19-7559 |
Elijah Jackson, Jr. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech school-discipline standing statutory-interpretation student-rights |
• DOES APPENDIX Q PERSONAL GUARANTOR/SURETY BOND 5-9-2017 SUFFICE TO DEFER FILING FEES?
• DID THE ARTICLE 3 COURT-U. S. DISTRICT COURT-MDF-TD ERROR I… |
| 19-7574 |
Luis Beltran v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment brain-development due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment juvenile-defendants juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-imprisonment proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing |
In Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), and Montgomery v. Louisiana, 136 S. Ct. 718 (2016), this Court held that sentencing a juvenile defendant (i… |
| 19-7575 |
Rashaun Scott Carter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining presentence-investigation sentencing |
Does an appellate waiver bar an appeal based upon a flawed, prejudicial presentence investigation report performed between the trial court's acceptanc… |
| 19-7541 |
Richard Hurles v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics recusal right-to-fair-trial |
1. Are the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments violated where a judge who has personally litigated against a defendant in the same case presides over his… |
| 19-7542 |
Noah-Wade Pelmear, et al. v. Maureen O'Connor, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights color-of-law due-process equal-protection free-exercise immunity judicial-immunity oath-of-office obstruction-of-justice |
1. Can state actors acting under color of state law, impair, impede, deny, discriminate, threaten or otherwise obstruct petitioners '/ plaintiffs ' fr… |
| 19-7548 |
Rudy Orlando Cabrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1326 Apprendi-v-New-Jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of… |
| 19-7526 |
Gregorio Segura-Resendiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overrule precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-7528 |
David Lee Smith v. Rick Jackson |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration innocence-claim legal-release parole recidivism rehabilitation sentencing |
IS APPELLANT ENITITLED TO
RELEASE ON HISWN
RECOGNANICES,AFTER DEMDNISTRATING NI.C.G.S.I4-7.I
IS PATENTLY UNCANLSTITUTI ONAL COLORABLY SHAINIING HIS IN… |
| 19-7531 |
Joey D. Wiseman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-sentencing direct-appeal due-process federal-sentencing first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether the First Step Act Must be Applied To Cases Pending on Direct Appeal?
2) Whether there is An Inherent Disparity In Congress Amending the R… |
| 19-967 |
Craig M. Wood v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Constitution requires that a jury, rather than a judge, weigh the aggravating and mitigating circumstances to determine whether a defendan… |
| 19-965 |
Kenin L. Edwards v. Michael L. Atterberry, et al. |
Illinois |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appeal conviction criminal-jurisdiction due-process illinois-supreme-court jurisdictional-challenge sentencing |
Whether it is a violation of due process for the Illinois Supreme Court, after being fully advised in the premises, to abstain from addressing whether… |
| 19-962 |
Travis Ray Norwood v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-review criminal-justice criminal-punishment drug-policy due-process equal-protection opioid-crisis opioid-sentencing recidivist-statute sentencing |
Whether, and under what circumstances, can defendants charged with crimes involving Schedule I opioids such as heroin be constitutionally treated diff… |
| 19-7499 |
Susan Skipp v. United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments discrimination due-process equal-protection fatherhood-initiative federal-funding multi-agency-agreement state-action |
(1) Does the implemented Section 17b-27a - John S. Martinez Fatherhood Initiative, Objectives, Reports, Funding, Grant program, programming and tenacl… |
| 19-7510 |
Francis Damien Block v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7515 |
Andy Nguyen v. California |
California |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-fact-finding preponderance-of-evidence sentencing stare-decisis |
Should the Court reconsider its majority opinion in Oregon v. Ice, 555 U.S. 160, 167-168, 173-177, 129 S.Ct. 711, 172 L.Ed.2d 517 (2009) (Ice) which p… |
| 19-7516 |
Mary Mosley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
1) DID THE PANEL ERR BY UPHOLDING THE APPLICATION OF AN ENHANCEMENT FOR BRANDISHING OR POSSESSING A FIREARM WHEN MISS MOSLEY WAS ACQUITTED BY A JURY O… |
| 19-7517 |
Mario Palacios-Cordero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent sentencing supreme-court |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-7523 |
Micah L. Lawson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prison-discipline standing takings |
Wheather the decision. bot the United States CouRt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circnit in LAwson √. Secratary Department of Corrections, Docket No. 17… |
| 19-7495 |
Abu Ala M. D. Badruddoza v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights covid-19 due-process employment equal-protection osha standing statutory-authority takings vaccination workplace-safety |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7502 |
Scott Peters v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7449 |
Jack Robert Smith v. Harry Oreol |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-mental-health-commitment-due-process- constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment involuntary-hospitalization mental-health mental-health-commitment patient-rights supreme-court-review |
1. Is OLONOVOR V. DONALDSON, 422 US. [?] a Valid Legal Precedent for Due Process?
2. Is FOURIER V. LOUISIANA, 504 US. 71 77-1780 (1992) still Valid?
… |
| 19-7450 |
George Maurice Steele v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment revocation-hearing sentencing supervised-release witness-testimony |
Whether the district court erred by allowing testimony at the revocation hearing that violated Mr. Steele's Fifth Amendment due process right to confr… |
| 19-7466 |
In Re Ricardo Jose Calderon Lopez |
|
2020-01-29 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights corporate-structure discrimination due-process equal-protection harmless-error judicial-prejudice mandamus standing writ-of-certiorari |
I. In Aid of its Appellate Jurisdiction, this Hon. Court is empowered to Compel the District Court to decide excessively delayed cases.
II. Appellate… |
| 19-7470 |
Agustin Martinez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing,appellate-review,18-usc-3553(a federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
L When conducting their substantive-reasonableness review of sentences, can appellate courts reweigh the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), as… |
| 19-7476 |
Timothy Wayne Kemp v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
brady-rule brady-violation criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation mitigation-investigation procedural-default professional-standards |
Must a court consider prevailing professional norms when determining whether a life history investigation was "thorough"?
Was an appeal warranted on … |
| 19-7479 |
Brian Price v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant's constitutional rights are abridged when a district court bases its sentence solely on acquitted conduct.
Whether a criminal con… |
| 19-7481 |
Patrick Henry Murphy v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 capital-murder capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty due-process enmund-v-florida federal-habeas jury-determination jury-trial sentencing tison-v-arizona |
Does Ring dictate that a jury determine whether a capital murder defendant is eligible for a sentence of death under Enmund and Tison, and, if so, is … |
| 19-7482 |
Victor Nunez v. Sean Bowerman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings |
I. QUESTION NUMBER ONE
Is it acceptable for a federal district court judge to deny a
pro se prisoner's motion for a reasonable extension of time to f… |
| 19-7488 |
Donnie Cleveland Lance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-selection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Was petitioner denied his rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments when he was sentenced to death following his indictment by a non-r… |
| 19-7429 |
Louis Mitchell, Jr. v. California |
California |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances aggravating-mitigating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se… |
| 19-7443 |
Charles Milton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7444 |
Ameen Abdullah Muhammad v. John Kozelski, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7448 |
Dennis Rydbom v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex |
West Virginia |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
Compulsory-Process Confrontation-Clause due-process Equal-Protection fourteenth-amendment-due-process fourteenth-amendment-equal-protection fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-probable-cause fourth-amendment-warrant-requirement sixth-amendment-compulsory-process sixth-amendment-confrontation state-sovereignty |
The affidavit for Search Warrant No. 96-166 gave no information linking the place to be searched, 911 East Medlock Drive, Phoenix, Arizona, with Rydbo… |
| 19-7454 |
Kenneth James Barfield v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32 due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states guidelines preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts |
According to Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007), every federal criminal sentencing must begin with a correctly calculated Guidelines range. Sen… |
| 19-7455 |
Ronson Kyle Bush v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-federal-law constitutional-standards death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-law fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decisions state-court-review unreasonableness |
1. Whether the "clearly established Federal law" provision of the Antiterrorism
and Effective Death Penalty Act renders state court decisions categori… |
| 19-7465 |
Jose Antonio Contreras v. Washington |
Washington |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-deference civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review patent procedural-rights racial-discrimination standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-943 |
Alireza Vazirabadi v. Denver Health and Hospital Authority, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
age-discrimination anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employee-selection employment equal-protection summary-judgment tenth-circuit |
Does the Tenth Circuit affirming in favor of Respondents' summary judgement conflict with Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., where in Tolan v. Cotton, t… |
| 19-7419 |
Timothy Shayne Hardin, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals arrest charge civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process dismissal due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment probable-cause probation revocation search-and-seizure sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7420 |
In Re Adrean Francis |
|
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-justice-system drug-crime due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit habeas-corpus second-amendment sentencing-enhancement state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation youthful-offender |
QUESTION ONE: Whether the continued application of a vacated New York "Youthful Offender" conviction constitutes an illegal sentence and creates separ… |
| 19-7422 |
Andre Antonio Fairley v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights colloquy constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction record self-incrimination sentencing waiver |
Whether trial court committed reversible structural error, by failing to conduct a mandated on-the-record colloquy into a waiver of counsel, before al… |
| 19-7425 |
Wylmina Louemna Hettinga v. Arcadia Management Services Co. |
California |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection insurmountable-security legal-remedy security-deposit standing takings vexatious-litigant |
Is the imposition of insurmountable security on a California Vexatious Litigant a violation of the Equal Protection or Due Process rights?
Is the imp… |
| 19-7434 |
Andrea Zambrano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c3b carjacking-statute crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
1. Whether United States v. Davis , 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B).
2. Whether "in… |
| 19-7437 |
Tony Sparks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fifth-circuit juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-rule miller-v-alabama montgomery-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in concluding that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), which was made retroac… |
| 19-7446 |
Enrique A. Echeverria-Benitez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-circuit illegal-reentry plain-error retribution sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
On direct appeal, Mr. Echeverria-Benitez argued his twenty-seven month sentence for illegal reentry after removal was unreasonable. Mr. Echeverria-Ben… |
| 19-7397 |
Bert Hudson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole |
Pennsylvania |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-mandate due-process equal-protection free-speech life-without-parole sentencing separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Here in these United States of America where we have all pledged "...justice for all", is this Honorable High Court's supervisory authority called for… |
| 19-7404 |
Joseph James Roe v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process enhancement-factors essential-factor guideline-interpretation guidelines judicial-discretion leadership-role lower-court-guidance sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-3b1.1(a) |
Whether a district court may impose a sentence enhancement under USSG § 3B1.1(a) for leadership role based on a factor not mentioned in the Sentencing… |
| 19-7413 |
Brennen Clancy v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-court-conflict classification due-process equal-protection felony misdemeanor probation probation-department sentence-classification sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Can a probation department change the classification of a sentence from MISDEMEANOR to FELONY for no reason and without any due process?
The 1l'h cir… |
| 19-7416 |
James P. Griffin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion calculation-error civil-procedure continuance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment financial-penalties forfeiture medical-hardship medical-issues restitution restitution-calculation sentencing sixth-amendment trial-continuance trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether the amount of restitution and forfeiture w |
I. Whether the trial court abused its discretion in arbitrarily denying a continuance of trial requested due to Petitioner's documented medical proble… |
| 19-7381 |
Percy Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii constitutional-interpretation constitutional-provisions-involved due-process equal-protection executive-authority executive-delegation judicial-review separation-of-powers standing |
Whether the appellate court's determination that the government has the final say on whether petitioner had the right to pursue his late-filed appeal … |
| 19-7390 |
Marshall Henry Ellis v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-material fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense newly-discovered-evidence procedural-bar sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Is a defendant serving Life for Murder I entitled to newly discovered
exculpatory material when that material would make it more likely that
the … |
| 19-7393 |
In Re David Gulbrandson |
|
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious death-penalty standing state-law successive-petition arbitrary-and-capricious death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit second-successive-petition state-law state-law-application successive-petition |
Whether transfer to the district court for a hearing pursuant to this Court's original habeas jurisdiction is warranted in this exceptional case where… |
| 19-7395 |
Jean Crump v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection false-arrest grand-jury-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination |
1. This is my second trial. At least five federal attorneys advised my new new attorney Dana Cephas, that Judge William Keller was a racist and he esp… |
| 19-922 |
Donnie Cleveland Lance v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
|
capital-punishment dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection extraordinary-motion fourteenth-amendment innocence-claim new-trial |
1. Was petitioner denied due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment by the state courts' imposition of extra-statutory requiremen… |
| 19-920 |
Boulder Young, aka Boulder Daniel McManigal v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-hearing sentencing waiver |
Whether the waiver of a right to appeal a judgment of conviction is controlled by the defendant's written waiver or the oral pronouncement of the cour… |
| 19-7356 |
James H. Griffin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claim criminal-procedure downward-departure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review law-enforcement procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-manipulation |
Did the lower federal courts deny Appellant's Brady Petition without affording a full and fair hearing concerning the claim that his counsel was ineff… |
| 19-7366 |
In Re Andrew J. Johnston |
|
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing takings |
Does the court of appeals' circuit precedent in United States v. Bilanzich, 771 F.2d 292 (7th Cir. 1985) accurately reflect the legislative intent/his… |
| 19-7369 |
David Keen v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
atkins-ruling atkins-v-virginia constitutional-mandate cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability judicial-abdication legislative-inaction standing |
Does the Constitution permit Tennessee to evade the mandate of Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002) by legislative inaction and judicial abdication… |
| 19-7379 |
Lee Samuel Capers v. California |
California |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con… |
| 19-7380 |
Dino Constance v. United States District Court for the Western District of Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-relief ninth-circuit post-conviction-review tenth-circuit |
I. Did the Ninth Circuit's unique five-part test for Mandamus relief cause a Fourteenth Amendment 'Equal Protection' violation? Are Equal Protection v… |
| 19-7349 |
Angel Osornio v. Supreme Court of the United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial impartial-tribunal judicial-review standing |
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| 19-7322 |
Gerardo Sanchez-Miranda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 19-7328 |
April Taylor v. City of Colonial Heights, Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-filing court-rules due-process equal-access equal-protection federal-courts federal-jurisdiction legal-procedure state-courts |
Does the federal Court of Appeals or Eastern District Court of VA erred and had conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court Rule 29.2, and U.S. Constitution … |
| 19-7331 |
Lavorice Dondrell Cunningham v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard pending-resolution remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
1. What is the appropriate standard for the determination of substantive reasonableness claim?
SUB SIDIARY QUESTI ON: Whether the Court should hold t… |
| 19-7332 |
Brian Dean King, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing |
I. Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or in ste… |
| 19-7333 |
Eduardo Luis Martinez-Paz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-7335 |
Chad Prodoehl v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law drug-conspiracy drug-crimes drug-trafficking due-process inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses overt-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
As statutorily defined, violating 21 U.S.C. § 846 is an inchoate offense, as it requires no overt act, but is complete upon the agreement. Because of … |
| 19-7336 |
Francisco Pena, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-judge fifth-amendment judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct |
imposing a sentence, based on a defendant's uncharged conduct found by the
judge by a preponderance of the evidence, higher than the sentence the judg… |
| 19-7337 |
Kinney Lee Palmer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault assault crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-law threat |
1. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat is a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B 1.2? |
| 19-7338 |
David P. Moran v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-charging same-conduct same-victim sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
1. Should two charges for the same episode of conduct and the same victim with
no temporal break whatsoever be sentenced to consecutive prison terms e… |
| 19-7341 |
Joey D. Wiseman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-intent criminal-law drug-crimes drug-felonies drug-policy drug-trafficking due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Honorable Court should re-evaluate the inherent inequity in Congress changing the level of the enhancement for prior drug felonies for 21… |
| 19-7342 |
Ray Turner v. Veronica Cadney, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
1983-complaint 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-act-1983 dismissal due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment section-1983 standing temporary-restraining-order |
1. DID THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT ERROR BY NOT APPLY THE FOUR AMENDMENT EQUAL PROTECTION TO THE PETITIONER CASE WHEN HE APPLY FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING… |
| 19-7343 |
Anthony Tawon Williams v. Hilton Hall, Warden |
Georgia |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process felony-murder homicide homicide-rule sentencing underlying-felony voluntary-manslaughter |
CAN VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER OR ANY OTHER HOMICIDE BE USED AS AN UNDERLYING FELONY TO SUPPORT FELONY MURDER?
IS THE HIGHEST STATE COURT OBLIGATED TO HO… |
| 19-7304 |
Anthony Michael Salazar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure-appeal due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence incarceration judicial-review sentencing sentencing-error united-states-v-haymond |
The Court of Appeals erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability when Petitioner is incarcerated on an illegally-imposed sentence in light of Unit… |
| 19-7324 |
Lonnie Greer, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-procedure different-occasions generic-burglary recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-judge sixth-amendment sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-precedent statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether Sixth Circuit precedent that counts Tennessee aggravated burglary
as "generic burglary" for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act is in… |
| 19-7325 |
Hope K. Kantete v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-process post-conviction-relief right-to-trial section-2255 sentencing trial-strategy |
1.) Whether the lower courts erred by foiling to rule or even consider on the record whether Ms Kantete was advised of her "risk factors " in proceedi… |
| 19-881 |
Joseph Smith, et al. v. Pamela Motley, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anecdotal-evidence burden-of-proof civil-rights discriminatory-policing disparate-treatment equal-protection government-treatment ninth-circuit statistical-analysis |
Under existing Ninth Circuit and United States Supreme Court authority, a plaintiff can establish an Equal Protection Clause violation in the context … |
| 19-880 |
Yisrael M. Kemp v. Georgia State University Admissions Office, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
admission-criteria civil-rights-act civil-rights-act-1964 constitutional-law education-policy equal-protection georgia-constitution title-vi university-admission university-system-georgia |
Whether the Eleven Circuit Court error not to determine the equal protection clause, and the civil rights act of 1964, Title VI, authorize Georgia con… |
| 19-871 |
Raheem Chabezz Johnson v. Jeffery Kiser, Warden |
Virginia |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
ake-v-oklahoma due-process indigent-defendant mcwilliams-v-dunn mental-health mental-health-expert sentencing sentencing-phase |
Whether an indigent defendant who seeks the appointment of a mental conditions expert to assist in the sentencing phase of his trial is denied due pro… |
| 19-7281 |
Clifton A. Grant v. MTGLQ Investors, L.P. |
District of Columbia |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment access-to-courts due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-petition |
1) Whether the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denial of Petitioner's timely and duly filed Appeal, without any lawful judicial reasonin… |
| 19-7294 |
Mohammed Kwaning v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence fair-trial hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-error jury-trial material-evidence preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the Government officials conduct violated constitutional rights? where;Petitioner's
(a) The District Court failed to disclose material eviden… |
| 19-7298 |
James Lee Bell v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-precedent blakely-rule criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury jury-trial mandatory-minimum recidivism recidivist-treatment sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Q 1: Was the limitation of Almendarez-Torres and the dictates of Apprendi and Blakely violated? Florida in deciding whether Petitioner qualified for r… |
| 19-7299 |
John Joseph Barrera v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process false-information fourteenth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus sentencing sentencing-accuracy sixth-amendment townsend-v-burke |
WHERE A STATE CRIMINAL DEFENDANT HAS BEEN SENTENCED ON THE BASIS OF INACCURATE/FALSE INFORMATION USED BY THE SENTENCER TO INCREASE HIS PUNISHMENT, FOL… |
| 19-7300 |
Billy J. Booker v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-provisions |
DOES A MNLLY HALDULELT MANLNACULED IDITMENT COLPEL CREMIHAL JURISDICTIDLL BL A STAE MIAL CUAT.
(Q)OOES A COUICTIOLUUDER A FAUDLLELTT LUDICTMEITT BINI… |
| 19-7301 |
Michael Goodrum v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER IT'S A DUE PROCESS VIOLATION, PROSCRIBED IN JACKSON V. VIRGINIA, FOR PETITIONER'S CONVICTION TO BE BASED ON ASSUMPTIONS WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE T… |
| 19-7311 |
Alphonso Vernell Frazier, II v. City of Omaha Police Department, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment search-and-seizure section-1983 unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure |
This case is here by upon writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States. Honoring the life, liberty and property of CORPORATION ex-rel … |
| 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… |
| 19-7268 |
Acharayya Rupak v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
continuance criminal-procedure due-process plain-error-review plea-bargaining retained-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
1. This Court has held that the right to the retained counsel of one's choice is the "root meaning" of the Sixth Amendment guarantee. Here, the distri… |
| 19-7282 |
John Anthony Arnold v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress ninth-circuit search-warrant standing warrantless-arrest |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7284 |
Bobby Y. Wallace, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federalism gross-disproportionality habitual-offender insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review no-evidence proportionality-review sentencing state-court-decisions |
The Supreme Court of Louisiana has a demonstrable, decades-long history of substituting in word and deed a "no evidence" standard for the "insufficien… |
| 19-7286 |
Leah S. Caldwell v. Doris Downs, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-jurisdiction petition-for-certiorari pro-se standing summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7226 |
Tony Robinson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment patent qualified-immunity standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7258 |
Jamal Marquise Collins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez judicial-review legal-standard objections remand sentencing timeliness timely-objection |
1. Whether parties to a criminal proceeding must make timely objections to the unreasonableness of a sentence?
Subsidiary question: whether the case … |
| 19-7243 |
Joshua Wolf v. Cindy Griffith, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juvenile-offenders mandatory-life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing resentencing sentencing-procedures sixth-amendment |
Joshua Wolf has been serving an unconstitutional sentence since he was sentenced to mandatory life without parole for a homicide offense committed whe… |
| 19-7249 |
Herbert Evans v. J. Hollingsworth, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction parole revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Illegal Sentence
After
Revocati
Of supervised Release-Extended past
Originol Sentence Expiration Date. |
| 19-7251 |
William McNeal v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Apprendi apprendi-standard apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure degree-classification due-process essential-element essential-elements jury-trial reclassification sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether, when determining if a defendant's offense can be reclassified to the next highest degree, Florida's interpretation of "essential element" as … |
| 19-7253 |
Fabrizio DeFrancisci v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-60(b)(6) due-process post-conviction-relief rule-60b-motion second-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg |
I. WAS THE DISTRICT COURT AND APPEALS COURT WRONG TO DENY
THE RULE 60(b) MOTION AND CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY,
REPSECTIVELY, WHEN THIS COURT HAS … |
| 19-865 |
Marian S. A. Tipp v. JPMC Specialty Mortgage, LLC |
Alabama |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
door-closing-statutes due-process equal-protection foreign-corporation foreign-corporations jurisdiction legal-standing property-rights res-judicata |
Where "life, liberty & property" are fundamental rights equally protected, does a 'decision' with no opinion or legal authority depriving a person of … |
| 19-857 |
GPI Distributors, Inc. v. Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District |
Ohio |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
|
court-access due-process equal-protection indigent-litigants judicial-review property-rights property-takings |
Do the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses prohibit states from imposing substantial financial burdens on indigent parties seeking judicial revie… |
| 19-7220 |
Francisco Guerrero-Saucedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-7222 |
Timothy Richardson v. Edward Thomas, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60(b) rule-60b state-law |
Timothy Richardson's death penalty case raises a significant issue of national importance: whether our criminal justice system tolerates the execution… |
| 19-7230 |
In Re Arthur Lopez |
|
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings |
Father and Minor Children are eligible and afforded United States Constitutional Civil Rights the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees including the Equal … |
| 19-7234 |
Denzel Chisholm, aka Den, aka Din v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anti-drug-abuse-act anti-drug-abuse-act-1986 anti-drug-abuse-act-of-1986 congressional-intent criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-offense proportionality retail-level-manager sentencing sentencing-reasonableness statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a 342-month sentence for a retail-level manager is substantively reasonable where it far exceeds a sentence that properly accounts for Congres… |
| 19-7206 |
Robert W. Johnson v. Law Offices of Jennifer S. Adams, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-fine-improvement-act criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process insurance-fraud second-circuit sentencing standing statutory-interpretation white-collar-crime |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7215 |
Jerry Jabbari Rhodes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-sentencing jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment watts-decision |
Is it reasonable and constitutional to sentence a defendant on facts for which a jury found the same defendant not guilty? |
| 19-7191 |
Janice Baker v. Macy's Florida Stores, LLC |
Florida |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment same-sex-marriage standing takings |
1. Whether the Appendix A has discretionary jurisdiction to review A decision expressly and directly conflicts with a decision of the Appendix B on th… |
| 19-7192 |
Keith Edward Walker v. Ronda Pash, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-review finality-of-judgment habeas-corpus standing state-court-decision statute-of-limitations |
DOES THE READING OF 28 U.S.C. § 2244(A) CREATE AMBIGUITY IN 28 U.S.C. § 2244(D)(A) READ IN PART "A ONE YEAR PERIOD OF LIMITATION SHALL APPLY TO AN APP… |
| 19-7197 |
Darryl William Young v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery colloquy constitutional-law constitutional-question-of-procedural-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 criminal-procedure-rule-20 direct-appeal district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-of-statutory-law federal-rules-criminal-procedure jurisdictional-venue overbroad-interpretation plea-agreement plea-validity procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-law venue waiver |
1. The United States Supreme Court is asked to resolve a federal question of jurisdictional law, whether the district court for the Eastern District o… |
| 19-7198 |
B. T. D. v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection juvenile-justice juvenile-transfer serious-physical-injury standing vagueness |
I. Does a child have due process rights to a judicial determination of whether his/her case should remain in juvenile court or should be transferred t… |
| 19-7204 |
Eric Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
batson certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal strickland |
SHOULD PETITIONERS NOTICE OF APPEAL HAVE BEEN CONSTRUED AS A REQUEST FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ON GROUNDS 1-12 AND 14-15, AND WAS FAILURE TO … |
| 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… |
| 19-7142 |
General P. Haymon v. Michael Johnson |
California |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
7th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights dred-scott due-process equal-protection jury-trial race racial-discrimination seventh-amendment standing |
Given the above-mentioned 19th century U.S. Supreme Court's ruling and opinion in the Dred Scott case, the question presented to Chief Justice John Ro… |
| 19-7148 |
Jimmy Lee Boston v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
28-usc-2244 acca acca-elements-clause armed-robbery criminal-law due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus second-or-successive-motion second-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether, categorically, a Florida conviction for principal to armed robbery, in violation of Fla. Stat. §§ 777.011 and 812.13, is a "violent felony" u… |
| 19-7164 |
Dominic Howard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-circuit fourth-amendment in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review pro-se probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7172 |
Larry Antonio Simmons v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-judiciary first-step-act judicial-ethics political-bias sentencing sentencing-reduction standing statutory-interpretation trump |
Whether the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina the Honorable Bruce H. Hendricks, Judge, Assistant United States District … |
| 19-7179 |
Roxanne Ari v. California |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitution due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings |
1. Sue Conna ofned Officers be allowed to contine
0
Shoull Public
tuse their Positionto commit Crimes forhim?
and Conatitutional Right?
Should I conti… |
| 19-7181 |
Anna Bell v. Oregon Health & Science University |
Oregon |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 7th-amendment access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-trial pro-se-representation right-to-counsel right-to-jury-trial self-representation |
1) Does denying a pro se individual or public a proper course of justice by
a Court violate prior U.S. Supreme Court rulings and The Ninth
Amendment t… |
| 19-7153 |
Ronald Johnson v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment-representation capital-representation death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability plea-bargaining |
1) Whether counseling an intellectually disabled client to plead to life without parole to avoid the death penalty is ineffective assistance, when ple… |
| 19-7158 |
Isaac Montanez v. McDean, LLC |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection free-speech retaliation voting-rights wrongful-termination |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7161 |
Aaron Michael Murray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-protections criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether third-party affidavits filed with a motion to withdraw a guilty plea before sentencing, claiming ineffective assistance of counsel, overcomes … |
| 19-7123 |
Sean Gregory Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury criminal-sentencing intentional-causation omission physical-force sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a criminal statute that prohibits the intentional causation of bodily injury to another "by any means," including omissions, is a violent felo… |
| 19-7144 |
James Brandon Strouse v. Warden, USP Coleman II |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 conviction-challenge federal-prisoner habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective post-conviction-relief section-2241 section-2255 sentence-challenge sentencing |
CAN A FEDERAL PRISONER CHALLENGE THEIR SENTENCE
OR CONVICTION UNDER 28 U.S.C. SECT. 2241 MOTION
WHEN THEIR POST SECTION 2255 MOTION IS INADEQUATE
OR I… |
| 19-7146 |
David Rapoport v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns death-penalty due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance life-without-parole plea-bargaining sentencing waiver-of-appeal-rights |
1. Was the petitioner's counsel ineffective in pre-trial stages?
2. Was the petitioner's counsel ineffective during the plea-bargaining process?
3. … |
| 19-837 |
Jerome Kunkel, et al. v. Northern Kentucky Independent Health District, et al. |
Kentucky |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech religious-freedom retaliation substantive-due-process |
Does a Health Department and its employees violate the United States Constitution when they disparately treat and target private Catholic Elementary a… |
| 19-7099 |
Paul David Storey v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intentional-concealment prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-review state-habeas |
Whether it violates due process for a state court to deny substantive review of a constitutional violation in a death penalty case, when the state hab… |
| 19-7108 |
Devell Moore v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection ninth-circuit peremptory-challenges purkett-v-elem trial-procedure |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability on Moore's claim he was denied equal protection of the law, and a fair trial… |
| 19-7114 |
Joe Lewis Finley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-habeas federal-sentencing habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-career-offender sentencing statute-of-limitations vagueness |
1. Under the statute of limitations applicable to federal habeas proceedings, are habeas petitions challenging sentences fixed by the mandatory career… |
| 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… |
| 19-7126 |
Ronald Damon v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 5th-amendment appeal appellate-waiver circuit-split due-process due-process-clause plea-agreement post-conviction-waiver sentencing supervised-release |
Whether an appellate and post-conviction waiver in a plea agreement barring challenges to the "sentence imposed" precludes an appeal of the denial of … |
| 19-7130 |
Fabio Morel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-law circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-precedent plea-agreement plea-bargaining precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S DECISION IS IN CONFLICT WITH FREEMAN V. UNITED STATES, 564 U.S. 522 (2011); AND HUGHES V. UNITED STATES, 138 S. Ct. 1765 … |
| 19-7132 |
Ric Thomason, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure defendant-presence defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure modified-sentence resentencing sentencing |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN FAILING TO HOLD A RESENTENCING HEARING, WITH THE DEFENDANT, PRESENT PRIOR TO IMPOSING A MODIFIED S… |
| 19-7136 |
Karen Lynn McClaflin v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit appeal appellate-procedure cja-appointment counsel-appointment criminal-justice-act criminal-justice-act-1964 criminal-procedure due-process fee-waiver in-forma-pauperis prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 19-821 |
Isaac M. Nsejjere v. Reuben Smith, et ux. |
Washington |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-law constitutional-rights deprivation deprivation-of-rights due-process equal-protection legal-principles state-action unequal-protection |
1. Is a state action constitutional when it leads to deprivation by denying a process that is "due", and premised on unequal protection under the law?… |
| 19-7083 |
Leroy L. Perdue v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
851-enhancement criminal-procedure due-process enhancement federal-statute notice role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-compliance statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the sentence should be vacated for failure comply with the requirements of 21 U.S.C. § 851(b).
2. Whether the court erred in assessing a f… |
| 19-7086 |
Walter Daniel Prezioso v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether reliance on acquitted conduct in imposing sentence violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? |
| 19-7088 |
Marcos Cortez-Rogel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-7095 |
David Lee Smith v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-relief criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standards pro-se sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 19-7102 |
Ruben Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-precedent legal-procedure precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review writ-of-certiorari |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 19-7104 |
Julio Cesar Pacheco-Astrudillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-7111 |
Robert W. Johnson v. Kevin S. Portnoy, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection insurance rico standing statutory-interpretation texas-department-of-insurance |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7068 |
Janice Baker v. Macy's Florida Stores, LLC |
Florida |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing takings |
1. Whether the Appendix A has discretionaiy jurisdiction to review a decision expressly and directly conflicts with a decision of the Appendix B on th… |
| 19-7070 |
Gary R. Tomey, II v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-instructions material-variance self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-hearing |
1. Whether a constructive amendment and/or material variance of the indictment occurs when a court instructs the jury for the first time — during its … |
| 19-7071 |
Joseph A. Williams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act certification criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-certification sentencing serious-drug-offense state-convictions statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's "serious drug offense" definition is limited to only those state convictions that are the same or narrower … |
| 19-7059 |
John Kenneth Schiefer v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning plain-error procedural-error respect-for-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Did the district court plainly procedurally err when it selected
and imposed sentence based on its desire to promote the
defendant's respect for the l… |
| 19-7063 |
Leeton Jahwanza Thomas v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Were Petitioner's rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution violated by a Pennsylvania statutory sch… |
| 19-7047 |
In Re Antwoyn Spencer |
|
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process pro-se sentencing |
Whether Appellant was deprived of his civil right of personal liberty against law contrary to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. |
| 19-7050 |
In Re Charlene Rosa |
|
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sanctions statutory-interpretation witness-testimony |
Wter the Foh ct con pel bue i
1. discretion in sanction the petitioner
Whether the Founth OcH Erceed it Authonty in sancion The petitioner.
A Disco… |
| 19-7051 |
Adan Reyes-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by ruling that Mr. Reyes-Martinez waived the right to appeal his sentence because of the Waiver of Appeal provision in… |
| 19-7055 |
In Re Charlene Rosa |
|
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether mewly Discovened Evidence From the American socity % crime Laboratory Advise to the sate scuntficand the oNA Evidence dunng tnal, thatwas S… |
| 19-7056 |
Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court judicial-objection objection preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure |
I. Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate "reasonableness" objection in district court? |
| 19-799 |
Streambend Properties II, LLC, et al. v. Ivy Tower Minneapolis, LLC, et al. |
Minnesota |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal-with-prejudice due-process equal-protection failure-to-state-claim jury-trial jury-trial-rights pleadings standing |
The first question presented is whether the lower court erred in dismissing with prejudice Petitioners' claims for failing to state a claim for which … |
| 19-7028 |
Jess Lee Green v. Joe Errington |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing statutory-provisions |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7031 |
Allen James Hancock v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection land-use property-rights regulatory-takings standing statutory-interpretation takings-clause |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7042 |
Christian Rosado v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-law guidelines judicial-interpretation judicial-opinions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines state-law state-law-offense statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
The question presented is whether, as the court of appeals in this case held, a state-law offense qualifies as a "crime of violence" for purposes of t… |
| 19-7044 |
Darmarcus Fisher v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence and erred by imposing a 4-level enhancement for aggravated assault. |
| 19-7013 |
Kenneth M. Gray v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confession criminal-procedure due-process false-confession false-promises ineffective-assistance interrogation no-merit-report parent-attorney post-conviction-counsel sentencing sentencing-error waiver waiver-petition |
Whether post-conviction counsel failed to file a "no-merit" report.
Whether detectives made false promises to illicit a confession during the interro… |
| 19-7021 |
Otis Hunter and Deshawn Evans v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination jury-instructions jury-nullification mandatory-minimum nullification sentencing sixth-amendment witness-cooperation |
Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause is violated when a court bars a defendant from eliciting the mandatory minimum sentence a prosecution… |
| 19-7022 |
Jesus D. Cruz v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rehaif-v-united-states search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing toxicology-report |
1. Whether Counsel was ineffective for not showing the Petitioner and or verifying to the Petitioner producted a valid search warrant, once they broke… |
| 19-6991 |
Lei Ke v. Drexel University |
Pennsylvania |
2019-12-18 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
contract-clause dual-proceedings-waiver due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-power res-judicata |
1. Asa legal doctrine, the dual proceedings waiver is an important component of due process and
equal protection of the laws and is there to ward off… |
| 19-6965 |
Vondale Lamar Kincaide v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-sentencing gvr-order sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act requires the same categorical approach used in the determina… |
| 19-6976 |
James Clayton Johnson v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
arizona capital-punishment constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-findings meaningful-opportunity standing |
Does a court deprive a capital defendant of his due process right to a meaningful opportunity to be heard when the defendant challenges the constituti… |
| 19-6977 |
Samuel T. Pitts v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adult-victims character-evidence constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection propensity-evidence sexual-battery sexual-offenses |
Whether constitutional equal protection and due process principles require that a defendant charged with a sexual offense on an adult alleged victim b… |
| 19-775 |
In Re Philippe Buhannic |
|
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts appeal appeal-rights bias constitution constitutional-rights due-process due-process-clause-of-the-14th-amendment equal-protection federal-court foreign-litigant judicial-bias prejudice pro-se-litigant pro-se-representation |
Whether the Federal court has the right based on an obvious prejudice and bias to refuse due process to a foreign pro se litigant. The denial is so ob… |
| 19-780 |
Willie Newton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure custis-v-united-states drug-offense due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief prior-conviction proposition-47 sentence-enhancement sentencing state-law state-sentencing |
In Johnson v. United States, 544 U.S. 295 (2005), and Custis v. United States, 511 U.S. 485 (1994), this Court held that a defendant who "successfully… |
| 19-6948 |
Michael Eugene Spry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3553 criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervised-release |
I.
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SENTENCE WAS UNREASONABLE AS IT WAS GREATER THAN
NECESSARY AND AS SUCH, FAILS TO COMPLY WITH TITLE 18,
… |
| 19-6953 |
Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding critical-stage direct-appeal new-trial new-trial-motion right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
The Constitution guarantees the assistance and choice of counsel for a critical-stage in a criminal proceeding. Ancient statute guarantees every indiv… |
| 19-6957 |
Venise Metayer v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-hearing |
DID THE TRIAL/LOWER COURT CREATE A MANIFEST INJUSTICE WHEN IT ALLOWED THE PETITIONER TO PLEA TO CHARGES THAT VIOLATED DOUBLE JEOPARDY LAWS, WHEN THE T… |
| 19-6960 |
Ulriste Tulin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-instruction |
The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution requires a person to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, only if he is presented or indicted by… |
| 19-6922 |
Charles Edward Bates v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-punishment forfeiture sentencing |
1) Did the lower courts err in their interpretation even as Chuck Bates' offense did not result in substantial forfeiture? Courts interpretation Cond … |
| 19-6933 |
Elmuiz Abdu v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-general-opinion criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection good-time-credit habeas-corpus jail-credit legislative-intent sentencing statutory-interpretation time-calculation time-served |
Base upon the case laws, rules, and the authority provided by the Genral Assermbly and the Attorney General, petitioner alleged the his jail good time… |
| 19-6935 |
Rickie James King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-procedure united-states-v-haymond |
I. Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate "reasonableness" objection in district court?
II. Whethe… |
| 19-6943 |
Sheila Annette Cunningham v. Florida Credit Union |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights curtilage discrimination due-process employment equal-protection fourth-amendment investigative-authority law-enforcement search-and-seizure standing summary-judgment |
Whether the District Court erred in holding that Cunningham failed to provide evidence of racial discrimination.
Whether the District Court erred in … |
| 19-6913 |
Neal Benjamin v. Jennifer Saad, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-error constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-review lower-court-error sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
1) Does the Petitioner have a Sixth Amendment Booker error?
2) Does the Petitioner have a Harmless Error ground?
3) Did the Lower Court overlook the… |
| 19-6920 |
Courtney Omar Boyd v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-discretion motion-denial sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION AND VIOLATED MR. BOYD'S
CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS RIGHTS WHEN IT DENIED BOYD'S FIRST STEP ACT MOTION… |
| 19-6927 |
Tony Egbuna Ford v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-state-action criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus merits-consideration state-action state-created-right state-created-rights statutory-criteria subsequent-application subsequent-habeas-application |
Whether the Tex as Court of Criminal Appeals' unex plained dismissal of claims raised in
a subsequent application for writ of habeas corpus, where the… |
| 19-6928 |
Lee Dale Lofton, Jr. v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment standing |
1. By the exception of Martinez V. Ryan (32 S.Ct. 1309 (2012), Petitioner's inability to meet the one year time limitation under CAEDPA in Habeas corp… |
| 19-755 |
Robert C. Steiner, et ux. v. Utah State Tax Commission |
Utah |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
dormant-commerce-clause double-taxation equal-protection foreign-commerce interstate-taxation state-residency state-tax-credits state-taxation tax-credit tax-credits |
Utah's tax code extends a credit for income taxes paid to other States but does not extend a similar credit for income taxes paid to foreign countries… |
| 19-746 |
Oliver Ray Carbutt v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-bargaining presentence-investigation self-incrimination sentencing sex-offense sex-offenses |
I. When a court is in the process of accepting a guilty plea for a sex offense that will require an intrusive presentence investigation including ques… |
| 19-6906 |
Datanya Damon Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, __U.S.__, 139 S.Ct. 2773 (June 28, 2019)?
Whether t… |
| 19-6907 |
Robert Hendricks v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error criminal-trial due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-admission harmless-error racial-bias structural-error |
The Court of Appeals agreed that the District Court erred when at petitioner's trial for credit union robbery it permitted over objection one of the c… |
| 19-6908 |
Margarito Olvera-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law reckless-mental-state sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court 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… |
| 19-6915 |
Andrew Lee Thompson, II v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
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| 19-6917 |
In Re Sherri Jefferson |
|
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights disbarment due-process due-process-clause equal-protection equal-protection-clause fifth-amendment professional-conduct self-incrimination |
For fifty-three years under this Court's precedent in Spevack v. Klein, 385 U.S. 511 (1967,) lawyers cannot be disbarred for exercising their privileg… |
| 19-6888 |
In Re Roger A. Libby |
|
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2244-b-3-a jurisdiction jurisdictional-issues standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
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| 19-6894 |
Vamsidhar Vurimindi v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ashe-v-swenson blockburger-v-united-states brown-v-ohio compounding-charges constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment pro-se-appellant successive-prosecution |
1. Whether State prosecuting an accused under pretense of successive prosecution
based upon temporally distinct conduct from prior prosecution, and co… |
| 19-6895 |
John William Williams v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-bias due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-elections judicial-independence separation-of-powers state-judicial-elections state-judiciary supremacy-clause |
1. Based upon the claims and supporting evidence presented in Petitioner's state post-conviction habeas corpus petition to the Pennsylvania Supreme Co… |
| 19-6876 |
Mauricio Aguirre, aka Mauricio Aguirre-Orcutt, aka Peter Holston-Aguirre, aka Peter Holston, aka Miller Aguirre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-modification sixth-amendment supervised-release |
Whether a federal defendant may suffer additional imprisonment
on the basis of facts that have never been placed in an indictment,
nor proven to a jur… |
| 19-6884 |
Glen B. Clay, aka Glenn B. Clay v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act district-court-review due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-motion |
Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's decision that it could not consider on the merits Mr. Clay's successive motion ba… |
| 19-6855 |
Jose Luis Morales v. G. D. Lewis, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-discretion res-judicata supreme-court supreme-court-directives |
I. Is it an abuse of discretion when the federal courts do not follow directives
from the United States Supreme Court on how to apply res judicata?
… |
| 19-6875 |
Travis Trevino Runnels v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process expert-testimony expert-witness false-expert-testimony false-testimony prosecution-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct texas-death-penalty |
WHETHER CERTIORARI SHOULD BE GRANTED TO RECOGNIZE (AS HAS BEEN DETERMINED BY TWO CIRCUITS) THAT IT IS A DUE PROCESS VIOLATION WHEN THE PROSECUTION USE… |
| 19-6881 |
April Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion parole probation reasonableness revocation sentencing supervised-release |
I. Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable revocation sentence upon Ms. Torres? |
| 19-717 |
Michael J. Sands v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection medical-diagnosis medical-fraud mental-health postal-service termination |
1. Did the United States Postal Service violate
my Constitutional Rights when the Postal Service
chose my mental diagnosis (difference of Medical Op… |
| 19-719 |
Dami Hospitality, LLC v. Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Workers' Compensation |
Colorado |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
|
ability-to-pay civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-fines criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines excessive-fines-clause proportionality sentencing |
How is an offender's ability to pay relevant in determining whether a fine is unconstitutional under Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment? |
| 19-720 |
United States v. Riley Briones, Jr. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure discretionary-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment life-without-parole parole sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether Miller v. Alabama, which "h[e]ld that the Eighth Amendment forbids a sentencing scheme that mandates life in prison without possibility of par… |
| 19-6856 |
James W. Riley v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
capital-punishment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-considerations fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Should this court extend Its Hurst v. Florida ruling to the pre-trial and trial stages of capital murder case where it is shown that the Judge's sente… |
| 19-6861 |
Tony L. Henderson v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process equal-protection jury-selection race-conscious venire |
Does a discretionary, race-conscious selection process for the venire called in a particular criminal trial violate the 6th and 148 Amendments to the … |
| 19-6865 |
Delante L. Lunn v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but-for-causation but-for-test causation criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-offenses drug-overdose mandatory-minimum overdose-causation sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Honorable Court should re-evaluate the but-for test established by Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014) for mixed drug overdoses… |
| 19-6870 |
Kenny Brown v. Mental Health Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6871 |
Justin Vazquez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
GVR |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission ineffective-assistance jury-selection professional-conduct sentencing speedy-trial trial-procedure |
Whether in-chief, ineffective of assistance in violation of 6th Amendment (U.S. Const.) is
Whether assigned counsel (M. Blagojevich) violated Code of… |
| 19-716 |
Zhi Gang Zhang v. Dan Rasmus, et al. |
South Dakota |
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment attorney-fraud attorney-misconduct civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-hearing fraud legal-malpractice |
Whether differences in the acquittal process between fraud committed by an attorney and fraud committed by a non-attorney in some but not all federal … |
| 19-6844 |
Fabian Santiago v. Arthur F. Hill, Associate Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County |
Illinois |
2019-12-05 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-adjudication ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-representation right-to-counsel |
A.) The Petitioner presents the inquiry into the U.S.Ct, whether the refusal of the legftl rep
resentative (sic) of the ftetitioner durirg arraignment… |
| 19-6838 |
Joshua Smith v. Sandra Butler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review caselaw federal-procedure guideline-range habeas-corpus incorrect-guideline-range mandatory-guidelines savings-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Courts of Appeals have incorrectly interpreted the 'savings clause', found in 28 USC 2255(e), to require that a defendant be sentenced und… |
| 19-6839 |
Patrick R. Smith v. Barbara D. Underwood, Attorney General of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination standing |
Did the INTEGRITY COURTS BELOW UNDERMINE the Court's Ruling in BATSON v. KENTUCKY and FLOWERS v. MISSISSIPPI, thus VIOLATING ALTON CHISHOLM and JASMIN… |
| 19-6847 |
Lawrence Keith Johnson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights discovery-rights due-process due-process,civil-rights,standing,civil-procedure, equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review standing witness-testimony |
Does any court that does not follow the well established law violate an individuals Constitutional rights, by simply denying without stating the reaso… |
| 19-6849 |
Cedric Sharrod Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review controlled-substance criminal-law drug-crimes due-process firearm-proximity firearms fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether the fourth circuit court of appeals erred in concluding that, despite the controlled substance [heroin] in this matter having been locked in a… |
| 19-6851 |
Lena Lasher v. Nebraska State Board of Pharmacy, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-agency administrative-discretion civil-rights due-process equal-protection ethnic-discrimination independent-agency independent-review licensing pharmacist pharmacy-licensing state-board-of-pharmacy witness-credibility |
1. Did the Nebraska Board of Pharmacy (NE BOP) erred by not acting independently in considering the matter at hand concerning the appellant's pharmaci… |
| 19-6858 |
David Lamont Liddell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery constitutional-law criminal-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mississippi-state-law prior-conviction resentencing section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether, under the law established by this Court in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), Mr. Liddell should be resentenced without applyin… |
| 19-697 |
James Dwight Pavatt v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
aggravating-factor aggravating-factors arbitrary-application capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-ruling |
A divided panel of the Tenth Circuit, sitting en banc, vacated a panel opinion that reversed a capital sentence on the ground that the sentence rested… |
| 19-6798 |
Corey Eugene Gill v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure habeas-corpus mathis-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6799 |
Aamir A. Hafiz-Thompson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
1. Nationally, where counsel admittingly is inaccurate, misinforms and fails, to. make specific inquiry regarding Petitioner's prior predicates (ACCA)… |
| 19-6802 |
Gary Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification identification-process judicial-circuit jurisdiction precedent sentencing standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
1) Did the State of Florida within the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court in and Broward County, Florida and the Fourth District Court of Appeal as we… |
| 19-6806 |
Anthony J. Stokes v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felony jurisdictional-conflict military-law predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trial-modification |
I.
WHETHER A CONVICTION ON A CHARGE CONTAINING AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT NOT CHARGED IN THE INFORMATION IS A "DUE PROCESS" VIOLATION.
II.
WHETHER THE DOUB… |
| 19-6809 |
Jason Michael Strubberg v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process entrapment jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment undercover-operations |
1. Whether the Sixth Amendment and Due Process Clause allow a court to instruct the jury, over objection, that "Undercover agents may properly make us… |
| 19-6810 |
Duane Gregley v. Douglas Fender, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process firearm-specification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict res-judicata sentencing sixth-amendment |
I. WHETHER THERE IS PRETENSE THAT THE STATUTES AND LAWS OF THE STATE UNDER WHICH MR. GREGLEY IS CONVICTED OF, ARE REPUGNANT TO THE CONSTITUTION AND LA… |
| 19-6813 |
Lenore Luann Albert v. State Bar of California |
California |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines legal-costs license license-suspension reinstatement state-bar state-bar-costs |
Whether the California State Bar's conditional suspension that conditions the time suspended to payment of State Bar costs and other amounts ordered d… |
| 19-6815 |
Blake Wingate v. New York |
New York |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-application pro-se pro-se-representation |
WHERE THE RIGHT TO PROCEED PRO SE IS CONSTITUTIONAL# EVEN ON APPEAL OR A
POST CONVICTION APPLICATION , IS IT A VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS AND OR THE
EQ… |
| 19-6817 |
Anthony Wheeler v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process expungement ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
I. Did the Seventh Circuit err under Miller-El v. Cockrell , 537 U.S. 322, 336–38
(2003) and Buck v. Davis , 137 S. Ct. 759, 773–74 (2017), when it de… |
| 19-6818 |
John D. Ward v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidelines, USSG § 4B1.2(a)(2)?
II. Whethe… |
| 19-6822 |
Guy Cozzi v. American Stock Exchange, et al. |
New York |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-law article-8-a due-process equal-protection judicial-review rb-89 separation-of-powers stare-decisis workers-compensation |
1. Were the Workers ' Compensation Board (WCB) rulings denying my Article 8-A claim
and RB-89 rehearing request, arbitrary, capricious and an abuse o… |
| 19-6833 |
Gregory Alan Rowe v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aedpa aedpa-limitations dna-testing due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-relief state-court-interpretation state-federal-conflict |
If the highest court of a State, such a Pennsylvania's Supreme Court, holds that the State's post-conviction DNA testing provision constitutes a "post… |
| 19-6792 |
Victor Sanchez v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator East Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-intervention plea-bargaining procedural-due-process right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-review |
Where trial counsel admits to ineffective advice that lead to this petitioner being sentenced to (5) five years more time than he would have received … |
| 19-6795 |
Abraham Conde-Herrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-6796 |
Valentin Castanon-Renteria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6765 |
Anthony Lee McNair v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief standing state-court-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6773 |
Edgar Ortega-Limones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-6774 |
Albert Allen, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum mens-rea prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Application for a Certificate of Appealability to Appeal the District Court's Denial of His… |
| 19-6775 |
James Marione Butchee v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender controlled-substance criminal-history due-process federal-sentencing ineffective-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
The Federal Minimum Mandatory sentence for Career offender clause [21 USC 841(b)] is at question in this petition, Do having one violent felony and on… |
| 19-6776 |
William Dawson v. Bryan K. Wells |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force good-faith habeas-corpus jurisdiction police-misconduct qualified-immunity sentencing voluntary-manslaughter writ |
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T/\1HERE. FLElEiM& VX&TXAA XLQLLAPAt/SSS ft klh &ZB£ AS dRSMBL
SEEM EL - XAlST EA b QF… |
| 19-6777 |
Iris Lamar Anderson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-court-procedure |
HAS THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT IMPLEMENTED PRATICES FOR
FLORIDN'S JUDIUAL SYSTEM THAT CONTRADICTS THE U.S. CONSTITUTIONS
T LTH AND IT AMENOMENT RGHIS F… |
| 19-6779 |
Mitchell Stevens v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction free-speech procedural-standards retaliation standing |
(1) Did the district Court misRepresent the Facts
(2) Did the district Court have Jurisdiction to hear this matter
(3) Did the Appeals Court overlook … |
| 19-6786 |
Carol Johnene Morris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-action habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review property sentencing standing takings |
Whether the Western District of Texas' District Courts lawfully uses Carol Johnene Morris, C# 57931, 1988 for conviction to try granted home confineme… |
| 19-687 |
League of United Latin American Citizens, et al. v. Edwards Aquifer Authority, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights electoral-districts equal-protection franchise-elections local-government one-person-one-vote rational-basis-review salyer-ball-exception voting-rights |
In its Avery U. Midland County, Hadley U. Junior College District, and Morris U. Board of Estimate line of cases, this Court has held that political u… |
| 19-6758 |
Michael Tryance Anderson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing sentencing-review standing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's substantive reasonableness review satisfies the standards set forth in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), Gall… |
| 19-6759 |
James A. Lackey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's "debatable among jurists of reason" standard for a certificate of appealability.
2. Whether the … |
| 19-678 |
United States, ex rel. Laurence Schneider v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law appeal circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process false-claims-act false-claims-act-fca-qui-tam-government-deference- government-dismissal habeas-corpus Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference qui-tam sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Government is entitled to absolute deference regarding its decision to dismiss an FCA action under section 3730(c)(2)(A), or whether the q… |
| 19-665 |
John Doe v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-35 rule-35b sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-factors substantial-assistance |
1. May a district court deny a government's Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b) motion for reduction of sentence based on substantial assistance … |
| 19-6738 |
William Ardas Sarringar v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-competence procedural-default statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment |
When does the fundamental constituional right to be tried by a court of competent jurisdiction cease to operate as a right, or is forfieted by a party… |
| 19-6742 |
Jorge Prieto v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Florida |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process finality judicial-discretion jurisdiction sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-court |
1. Did the state trial court have jurisdiction to vacate petitioner's (20) Twenty year sentence, and then re-impose a sentence of life imprisonment, s… |
| 19-6745 |
Joseph S. Paul v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing |
WHETHER THE ORDER ENTERED ON JULY 24, 2019, BY THE THREE JUDGE PANEL, PER CURIAL AFFIRMED THE TRIAL COURT'S ERRONEOUS RULING CREATED A CONFLICT WITH O… |
| 19-6746 |
Michael Anthony Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process equal-protection fair-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity sentencing-review unwarranted-sentence waiver-of-rights |
Does a waiver of direct appeal rights and collateral rights excepting claims premised on ineffective assistance of counsel violate a defendant's "due … |
| 19-6747 |
Josue Emmanuel Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default sentencing |
1. Whether allocution error is subject to plain error review in the absence of objection? |
| 19-6749 |
Bryan Keith Johnson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection government-liability standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6750 |
Ronnie R. Ceasar v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-power civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct protected-class racial-animus |
Public Issue Timely prosecution of cases by local district attorney. Lay and affect cause able cause No Preparation harm law-abiding citizens Appellan… |
| 19-6751 |
DeAngelo Pantalion Williams v. California |
California |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court arbitrary-denial constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-appellate-court state-law |
1. Whether a state appellate court's arbitrary denial of a defendant's request for the retroactive application of a new state law constitutes a violat… |
| 19-6694 |
Tim Sundy v. Martha C. Christian, Judge, et al. |
Georgia |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-court civil-rights constitutional-rights court-officer criminal-activity due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigants property-rights state-court-officers takings |
Whether pro se litigants are immune from criminal activity, undue interference
and/or transgressional acts by State of Georgia court officers, with th… |
| 19-6714 |
Keith D. Goodman v. Eddie Pearson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus procedural-rule section-2254 sentence-aggregation sentencing sentencing-calculation statutory-interpretation |
Is a federal district court (or a § 2254 petitioner) permitted to disregard or evade Rule 2(e) (of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases in the Unite… |
| 19-6719 |
Mauro Castaneda Palacio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-supervised-release sentencing standing supervised-release vagueness |
whether the U.S. Fifth Circuit supports the conflicting
whether the U.S. Fifth Circuit supports some unconstitutional and vague special conditions un… |
| 19-6721 |
Christopher Ray Parrish v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking
supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-6727 |
Tyrone Marvin Andrews v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alibi-defense civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT SANCTION DECISIONS OF THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS AND FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT THAT CONFL… |
| 19-6729 |
Cedric Gray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion legal-standard mental-competency miranda-rights procedural-error sentencing suppression-hearing trial-rights |
1. Did the District Court violate my Fifth Amendment rights to remain silent?
2. Could the District Court use my 19% year old priors as proof of show… |
| 19-6730 |
Cameron A. Harinarain v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6734 |
Arthur Lopez v. Cheryl Lopez |
California |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction domestic-relations due-process equal-protection family-law habeas-corpus indigent right-to-counsel standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6638 |
Yannier Arias v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-counsel |
1. Whether conflicting affidavits require an evidentiary hearing for ineffective assistance of counsel.
2. Counsel was ineffective for not objecting … |
| 19-6712 |
Adam Scott Caward v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-interpretation miscarriage-of-justice sentencing standing |
Whether the Court should adopt the rule espoused in the First, Third, Fourth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits, which hold that an appellate court can decline… |
| 19-650 |
Melissa L. Barnette v. PROF-2013-M4 Legal Title, by U.S. Bank National Association, as Legal Title Trustee |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure fourteenth-amendment fraud judicial-procedure property-rights standing |
On August 21, 2019, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (alternatively, "DCCA"), affirmed the Superior Court's August 27, 2018 order denying Pet… |
| 19-6659 |
In Re Arturo Rodriguez Ornalez |
|
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations rule-11 sentencing structural-error |
WHETHER CONSTITUTION AND STATUTORY PROVISIONS AND RULE 11 VIOLATIONS MAY HAVE RENDERED ARTURO RODRIGUEZ ORNALEZ'S SENTENCE AND CONVICTION CONSTITUTION… |
| 19-6686 |
Darren Kevin Hunter v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard |
Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car… |
| 19-6689 |
Frank Fernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines pre-booker residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-purposes |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-6693 |
Chris Rayvon Starks v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge-finding jury jury-decision jury-determination predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-penalty |
The fact that the defendant committed three predicate offenses "on occasions different from one another" an element of the ACCA for the jury to decide… |
| 19-6696 |
Barbara Myers-McNeil v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent-defense language-access right-to-counsel transcript |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6703 |
Shondor Janell Arceneaux v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2113(a) 924(c) aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting bank-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense generic-crime-definition generic-definition remand sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I.
If §924(c) applies to predicate crimes, 1 whose Elements are
no Broader than a Federal Generic Definition of that crime , is...
remand required i… |
| 19-6706 |
Ramsin Jonathan Malek v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery federal-crimes federal-criminal-procedure force-clause ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to review the Ninth Circuit's decision because armed robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d) does not categorical… |
| 19-6658 |
Booker Terry Simmons v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-6667 |
James Anthony Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER A UNITED STATES CITIZEN SHALL BE HELD IN PRISON FOR AN |
| 19-6673 |
Lashon Browning v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act illinois-armed-robbery illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit seventh-circuit-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony |
Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6678 |
Joseph Van Sach v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca circuit-split criminal-law illinois-armed-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony |
Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6680 |
Tony Lipscomb v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-acca illinois-armed-robbery illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court-review violent-felony |
Is Illinois armed robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-6662 |
Shane E. Jones v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judicial-determination jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right statutory-interpretation |
Does the judicial determination of crimes committed on occasions different from one another" at sentencing under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S… |
| 19-6663 |
Jose Hernandez-Martinez, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3582c2 28-usc-991b 28-usc-994 due-process equal-protection guidelines-policy rational-basis-scrutiny retroactive-amendment retroactive-sentence-reduction sentence-reduction sentencing-commission sentencing-commission-authority sentencing-reform-act |
Is the Sentencing Commission's delegated authority over retroactive sentence reduction proceedings constrained by the general purposes of the Commissi… |
| 19-6664 |
Steven Klikno v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act illinois-robbery sentencing sentencing-enhancement seventh-circuit seventh-circuit-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states violent-felony |
Is Illinois robbery an ACCA violent felony after this Court's decision in Stokeling v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 544 (2019)? |
| 19-636 |
Estate of Earnest Lee Boyland, et al. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-action civil-rights claims-framework discrimination due-process equal-protection racial-classification racial-discrimination standing strict-scrutiny |
Is it a denial of Equal Protection for the United States Department of Agriculture ("USDA" or "the Department") and Epiq Class Action & Claims Solutio… |
| 19-640 |
Andrew Clarke, et al. v. Ray D. Goodson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation legal-theory standing substantive-due-process |
Does substantive due process really mean anything, or is it mere mythology? Does equal protection of the law, apply to everyone, or not? |
| 19-6643 |
John Forrest v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactive-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-correction sentencing-review successive-motion supreme-court |
A successive motion to correct a sentence under 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(2) must contain a "new rule of constitutional law, made retroactive to cases on col… |
| 19-6644 |
Darrell Freeze v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit judges to find the facts necessary to support an otherwise substantively unreasonable federal sentence. |
| 19-6647 |
Michael J. Baxter v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-watts |
1. Whether the striking of two out of three black veniremembers demonstrates a "pattern of discrimination" as necessary to satisfy the first step of t… |
| 19-6650 |
Fidel Rios, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a 8th-circuit criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court downward-variance guidelines judicial-discretion life-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines u-s-code |
Whether the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and District Court for the Southern District of Iowa failed to adequately consider the sentencing factors set… |
| 19-6634 |
Kathryn Woodin Markle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-objection |
Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or instead, … |
| 19-6636 |
Gregory Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-reasonableness |
I. WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT VIOLATED MR. WILLIAMS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL, IN IT'S IMPROPER DIRECT QUESTIONING AND ILL-ADVISED POINTING OF … |
| 19-6589 |
Alicia Norman, Kendra Brantley, and Deenvaughn Rowe v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-relationship criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 due-process federal-rules judicial-interference plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
KENDRA BRANTLEY:
I.
Was the D.C. Circuit's affirmance of Petitioner Brantley's convictions
erroneous and in conflict with other federal jurisdictions … |
| 19-6593 |
Deshay D. Ford v. Timothy P. White, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
42-usc-1981 access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech racial-discrimination |
1. Violation of the Petitioner's Constitutional and Civil Rights
to prevent the Petitioner from filing a law suit against the
Respondent (s) which w… |
| 19-6598 |
Robert Hercenberger v. Gary A. Martin |
Oregon |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-policy legal-equality state-government state-jurisdiction |
Where Equal Protection of the laws definition apply for all:
A phrase in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
requiring that st… |
| 19-6601 |
Kevin Battle v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-prosecution categorical-approach categorical-match circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction realistic-probability sentencing state-conviction state-court state-crime |
Whether a defendant who seeks to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sentencing purposes must point to an actua… |
| 19-6606 |
Ryan T. Root v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-errors double-prosecution due-process ineffective-counsel law-and-fact merger-doctrine miscarriage-of-justice money-laundering plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
I. WHETHER CUMULATIVE ERRORS OF LAW AND FACT LED TO A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND A CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION?
II. WHETHER A DEFENDANT MAY BE CONVICTED… |
| 19-6616 |
Alberino Magi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-procedure criminal-fines criminal-penalty criminal-restitution due-process jury-finding jury-findings jury-trial sentencing southern-union southern-union-v-united-states |
In Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 490 (2000), the Court held that "[o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the pen… |
| 19-6620 |
John Kevin Waldrip v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute fifth-circuit judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
I. In a consolidated Appeal JOHN KEVIN WALDRIP argued that the district court erroneously applied 18 U.S.C. § 3014 when it imposed a total of $15,000 … |
| 19-6627 |
Andre Williamson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-standard boykin-v-alabama due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness mental-health mental-health-defendant mental-health-defendants plea-agreement plea-agreements plea-bargaining sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Will the Supreme Court just step aside or now step in for the current and future generation of mental health defendants that desperately need this cou… |
| 19-611 |
Rene A. Boucher v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeal below-guideline-sentence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-appeal waiver waiver-of-rights |
1. Did the government waive its right to appeal the defendant's sentence when it expressly agreed that the defendant would be free to argue for a belo… |
| 19-612 |
Hassan Abpikar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-split conflict-with-other-circuits criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process original-indictment sentence-increase sentencing sentencing-enhancement speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation superseding-indictment |
1. Whether the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling on petitioner's claim to his Rights under the Speedy Trial Act is IN CONFLICT WITH OTHER CIRCUITS, … |
| 19-615 |
Elaine Ward v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection municipal-liability service-of-process state-court-proceedings transparency |
1. Is there a violation of due process and equal protection under the 5th and 14th amendments as related to 42 U.S.C. 1983, when a municipality, fails… |
| 19-6575 |
Dorothy Williams Elliott v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights court-proceedings criminal-procedure due-process expungement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing |
1. On March 11, 2010, at the Felony Sounding Hearings The State of Florida was ready, and made the "Ore R." Why wasn't Attorney Robert L White, prepar… |
| 19-6577 |
John Garrett Smith v. Ronald Haynes |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
accomplice-to-felony civil-procedure civil-rights computer-fraud-abuse-act constitutional-accountability criminal-concealment due-process due-process-violation equal-protection government-misconduct judicial-misconduct judicial-usurpation misprision-of-felony official-crimes standing |
(i) Is it lawfully permissible for State and federal officials, including judges, to commit crimes, legally aver their commission, and yet repetitivel… |
| 19-6582 |
Roberto Carlos Martinez-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 19-6583 |
Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment eleventh-circuit graham-v-florida gross-disproportionality proportionality sentencing statutory-limits |
I. What is the proper analysis to determine whether there is a threshold showing of an inference of gross disproportionality on an Eighth Amendment cl… |
| 19-6590 |
Antwon Whitten v. Atif Atyia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts jurisdiction standing takings |
Whether the district court's grant of summary judgment on the basis of defendants' on Whitter's material disputed claims of State and Federal constitu… |
| 19-6548 |
Julian Marcus Raven v. United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-disclosure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction parties standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6562 |
Carlos J. Avena v. Kevin Chappell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability cronic cronic-standard death-penalty due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit per-se |
Petitioner alleged that his conviction and death sentence were caused by per se ineffective assistance under United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (19… |
| 19-6567 |
Danny Lee Hill v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
bite-mark-evidence constitutional-rights conviction death-penalty death-sentence due-process expert-testimony fair-trial habeas-corpus scientific-evidence |
Bite-mark comparison evidence was the foundation of the State's case that convicted Petitioner Danny Lee Hill of murder and sentenced him to death. Th… |
| 19-6511 |
Roberto Trinidad Del Carpio Frescas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fifth-circuit mandatory-victims-restitution-act preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence reliable-evidence restitution restitution-standard sentencing |
Whether this Court should clarify what "reliable evidence" means for establishing, by a preponderance of the evidence, the amount of restitution under… |
| 19-6523 |
Pasqual Andres McMurry v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings |
Why was Counsel for the Petitioner allowed to withdraw prematurely when a request to the filing advocate for a Writ of Justiciare was made? |
| 19-6536 |
Patt McGuire v. St. Louis County, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-justice civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights pro-se |
Should a Petitioner/Pro Se be granted the fundamental right to counsel which is essential
to fairness in a civil case? The working poor citizens of t… |
| 19-6539 |
Dwayne Dumont Haizlip v. Joseph Valliere |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourteenth-amendment habitual-felon-law habitual-offender mandatory-sentencing sentencing |
I. The Federal Court, Question Presented is whether a Sentential Mandatory Sentence + Drug Trafficking Conviction; Sentence Versus N.C. Gen. Stat. 90-… |
| 19-6543 |
Peter Gakuba v. Michelle Neese |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing structural-error structural-errors |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6545 |
Bradly M. Cunningham v. Washington County, Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence parole-board section-1983 sentencing torture |
1. Am I able to pursue relief under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 against the Defendants/Respondents for pre-trial Torture?
2. Am I able to pursue relief under … |
| 19-6552 |
Darrell Tykwan Atkinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-6555 |
Courtney Johnson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ability-to-pay appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fine-imposition fines indigent-defendant judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT ERRS BY IMPOSING A FINE UPON AN INDIGENT DEFENDANT, REPRESENTED BY APPOINTED COUNSEL, WITHOUT MAKING ANY INQUIRY INTO THE DEF… |
| 19-599 |
Samuel C. Mohorne v. Beal Bank, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection foreclosure free-speech homestead-property property-rights standing state-court statutory-interpretation writ |
What is the appropriate procedure when the Court uses a service of foreclosure order for one property and takes two properties in one foreclosure?
2W… |
| 19-590 |
Michael Anthony Deem v. John P. Colangelo, et al. |
New York |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
|
child-custody child-custody-rights custody-dispute due-process equal-protection family-law first-amendment forensic-evaluator free-speech parental-rights right-to-privacy |
1. Whether a court appointed FE's examination of a fit parent's children over that fit parent's objection violates that fit parent's right to control … |
| 19-591 |
Chestnut Hill Sound Inc. v. Apple Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-transparency patent reasoned-opinions rule-of-law summary-affirmation summary-affirmations |
1. Can a court ever choose to write reasoned opinions for one class of losing appellants and not another under the Due Process and Equal Protection Cl… |
| 19-6497 |
David Morillo-Cruz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the sentence imposed by the Court was reasonable? |
| 19-6502 |
Cory Dale Fields v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-district-court federal-sentencing grand-jury no-bill prior-conduct reliability reliability-of-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-considerations uncharged-conduct |
Is alleged prior uncharged conduct that had been no-billed by a Grand
Jury sufficiently reliable for a federal district court to consider at sentencin… |
| 19-6509 |
William Gaudet v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2423(a) appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-sentencing district-court evidence-exclusion evidence-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines judgment-of-acquittal motion-in-limine prior-testimony sentencing standard-of-review whether-the-appeals-court-erred-in-upholding-the-d |
I. WHETHER THE APPEALS COURT ERRED IN UPHOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF THE PETITIONTER'S MOTION IN LIMINE SEEKING TO EXCLUDE THE PRIOR TESTIMO… |
| 19-6510 |
Timothy L. Douglas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255f3 career-offender criminal-law criminal-sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1-4b1.2 due-process guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6518 |
Eric Burgie v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process jurisdiction mental-fitness mental-health parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-scheme |
Mr. Bugie filed a section lugo-ill ca petition to corfense and ane appled Miller to an 18-year old. Mr. Burgse sk this court to anwer whether or not t… |
| 19-6519 |
Charles M. Ray v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-statement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-conclusion standing statutory-provisions takings writ-reasons |
Why pursuant to the provisions of sec. 5 amend. by to the U.S. Const. the deprivation of any right, privileges or immunities secured by the constituti… |
| 19-6521 |
Marcus T. Simmons v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender criminal-justice criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 guidelines johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6525 |
Sean Trent Barnes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plain-error-review plea-bargaining pro-se-representation self-representation sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
The issue subsuming all other issues in this appeal is whether I.
or not, Mr. Sean Trent Barnes, while incarcerated in pre-trial cus
tody as a federal… |
| 19-6532 |
Pedro J. Amaro v. Hector Balderas, Attorney General of New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights class-action constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction procedural-grounds |
Involues: "Caprtal Offence" cases;
Class Action HabeasCorpus; lack ofjuvisdiction claim
Injudiclously predicated by the lower courts' striking refusal… |
| 19-6496 |
David Elijah Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-05 |
GVR |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-statute haymond-v-united-states mens-rea sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
(1) DID THE PETITIONER'S SENTENCE FOR 18 U.S.C. 922(g) VIOLATE THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM IN VIOLATION OF BLAKELY V. WASHINGTON, 542 U.S. 296, 304; APPREND… |
| 19-6500 |
Horacio Dominguez-Villalobos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6480 |
Dario Rodriguez v. Rick Scott, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-review legal-dismissal procedural-fairness qualified-immunity retaliation standing |
1.) This Country built on Free speech and A55was ates Corstitution 15t, 4t2, 8114th. Anerchent.The right to protection against crnel & uushal paurshme… |
| 19-6481 |
Harold B. Rotte v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection government-misconduct illegal-immigration irs judicial-review reputation standing tax tax-dispute |
1.Whether the laws protect Plaintiffs reputation, due process, and are
real, or a front, discretionary as if friend or foe.
2.Whether the FBI knew o… |
| 19-6482 |
Demetrius Dewayne Smith v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
2254-review 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-habeas habeas-corpus subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. When a death-sentenced inmate obtains punishment-phase relief from the district court during federal habeas proceedings conducted pursuant to 28 U.… |
| 19-6489 |
Clifford Gene Wallace v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines texas-criminal-law texas-law threat ussg-4b1.2 |
1. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault by threat is a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2?
2. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated r… |
| 19-580 |
Jun Xiao v. Regents of the University of Minnesota, et al. |
Minnesota |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process Fourteenth Amendment equal-protection qualified-immunity civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment property-rights qualified-immunity section-1983 standing takings |
Whether the state district court erred in dismissing Petitioner's 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Fourteenth Amendment equal protection claim for failure to state a… |
| 19-6472 |
Arthur Lopez v. California |
California |
2019-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-custody civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-protective-orders due-process equal-protection family-law latino-fathers parental-rights |
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| 19-6477 |
Charles Russell Rhines v. Darin Young, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3599 ayestas-v-davis clemency-request death-penalty exhaustion-requirement expert-services federal-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction indigent-defendant state-remedies |
In 18 U.S.C. § 3599, Congress created a right for indigent death-sentenced state prisoners to obtain legal and expert services, including services in … |
| 19-6479 |
In Re Charles Russell Rhines |
|
2019-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juror-bias sexual-orientation |
Should this Court exercise its original habeas jurisdiction to transfer this petition to the district court for a hearing regarding Petitioner's subst… |
| 19-6462 |
Stephen L. Bush v. David W. Gray, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6465 |
Quintin Phillippe Jones v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3599 6th-amendment death-penalty federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-funding martinez-v-ryan meaningful-representation sixth-amendment |
This Court has unanimously ruled that Congress' intent in enacting 18 U.S.C. § 3599 was to provide high quality representation to qualifying prisoners… |
| 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… |
| 19-6421 |
Ralph Herman Fox, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fairness government-misconduct judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentencing statutory-maximum supervisory-powers |
Whether in affirming the imposition of the statutory maximum sentence of 360 months on Ralph Fox, where (1) Petitioner Fox entered a guilty plea and (… |
| 19-6445 |
Lewellyn Charles Cox, IV, aka Sho, aka Showtime, aka Showtyme v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance right-to-self-representation self-representation self-representation-at-sentencing sentencing structural-error |
(1) Whether denial of a right to self-representation during sentencing is subject to harmless error analysis as held by the Ninth Circuit, or subject … |
| 19-6451 |
Lori Zarlenga v. Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals |
Rhode Island |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure capable-of-repetition-yet-evading-review civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-impression mootness mootness-doctrine public-interest public-interest-exception |
The Rhode Island Supreme Court erred by not allowing Petitioner's appeal to proceed on the merits. The Rhode Island Supreme Court erred by dismissing … |
| 19-6454 |
Corey Morris v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel extended-sentences federal-review multiple-indictments plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether defendants have a Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of Counsel when Contemplating Plea offers. Morris was charged at multiple indi… |
| 19-566 |
Devan Pierson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
GVR |
|
922(g)-felon-in-possession criminal-procedure direct-appeal firearm-possession first-step-act first-step-act-2018 rehaif rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing status-based-possession statutory-interpretation |
1. Section 401(c) of the First Step Act of 2018, Pub. L. No. 115-394, provides: "This section, and the amendments made by this section, shall apply to… |
| 19-564 |
Michigan v. Eric Lamontee Beck |
Michigan |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
|
acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-circuit-courts preponderance-of-evidence presumption-of-innocence sentencing |
Whether, when imposing a sentence within the statutory range for the offense of conviction, due process permits a sentencing court to consider conduct… |
| 19-6424 |
Anthony Darnell Stokes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review conviction court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-statute obstruction-of-justice sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLIED 18 U.S.C.S. § 1512(c)(1)
(LAWYERS EDITION 2008) WHEN IT AFFIRMED STOKES'S CONVICTIONS
FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTI… |
| 19-6431 |
Jose Armando Bazan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fact-question guidelines plain-error role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Petitioner, JOSE ARMANDO BAZAN, was charged with and pleaded guilty to a single count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine. The District Co… |
| 19-6438 |
Jose Luis Tapia-Fierro v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-diligence due-process evidence-removal federal-jurisdiction innocence-claim procedural-limitations removal standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the State of Arizona's statute of limitations found in the Arizona Revised Statute ("A.R.S." 812-542) applies to a federal action in a distric… |
| 19-6407 |
Derran Smiley v. California |
California |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance penal-code post-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing state-court-ruling |
1) APPELLANT OFFENSES WERE COMMITTED IN 2004, BUT, IN 2006 PENAL CODE § 667.6(d) WAS AMENDED AND INCREASED THE PUNISHMENT WHILE CHANGING THE VIOLATING… |
| 19-6417 |
Doran Wilburn Walker v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing cumulative-sentences double-jeopardy due-process oral-pronouncement-of-sentence presence-of-defendant sentencing statutory-authority trial-court-authority written-judgment |
1. If a trial court wishes to cumulate sentences, must it so order at the time and place that sentence is orally pronounced? See Grays v State, 291 S.… |
| 19-552 |
William A. Salzwedel v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-challenge disability-rights due-process equal-protection rehabilitation-act rooker-feldman-doctrine standing third-party-standing title-ii-ada |
1. Does an attorney in the practice of representing
proposed adult conservatees/wards have direct
standing , associational standing, or traditional th… |
| 19-6360 |
George C. Pugh v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process felony florida-law habitual-felony-offender habitual-offender precedent release-date sentencing statutory-interpretation time-calculation |
Is it lawfol for the Petittioner For be decmed an Habitual fetorry offe whereas the Petitioner was one day outside of the B years of dor of conviction… |
| 19-6389 |
Quincy Dennis v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 categorical-approach drug-offense federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief-28-usc-2241 intervening-change mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence presidential-commutation presidential-pardon retroactive-application retroactively-applicable-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
QUESTION # ONE: Whether petitioner Dennis is entitled to seek
federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the ground
that 28 U.S.C. § 225… |
| 19-6396 |
Charles Jordan v. John H. Magill, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-law-enforcement due-process equal-protection jurisdiction just-compensation standing takings-clause |
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| 19-6405 |
Ernest Vereen, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act divisible-statute due-process felon-in-possession innocent-transitory-possession record-ambiguity sentencing sentencing-court transitory-possession violent-felony |
(1) Whether a sentencing court may look to disputed facts in the record to determine whether a prior conviction qualifies as a violent felony under th… |
| 19-6363 |
David Pearson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal-rights armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-analysis drug-offense drug-offenses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
1. Did the court of appeals, in rejecting petitioner's claim that his sentencing counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to challenge his a… |
| 19-6376 |
Josue Osvaldo Solis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal construction criminal-procedure due-process fairness fairness-doctrine plea-agreement sentence-appeal sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights |
1. Whether, consistent with the Due Process Clause, a defendant can knowingly waive the right to appeal his sentence when his purported waiver occurs … |
| 19-6378 |
Raymond Gentile v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 21-usc-846 criminal-justice-system due-process equal-protection federal-statute geographic-classification geographic-disparity geographic-location marijuana-legalization marijuana-offenses prima-facie prima-facie-claim prosecutorial-discretion selective-prosecution |
Is geographic location an arbitrary classification in the application of prosecutorial decisions for marijuana-related offenses under 21 U.S.C §§ 841 … |
| 19-6385 |
Neil Grenning v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals certificate-of-appealability consecutive-sentencing due-process habeas habeas-corpus notice oregon-v-ice sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review straw-man |
Mr. Grenning's life sentence upon post-trial allegation of aggravating elements raises a significant issue: Integrity of appeals that circumvent Supre… |
| 19-6386 |
Xue Jie He v. Guttenberg NJ Police, et al. |
New York |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights conflict-with-constitution conspiracy-against-rights deprivation-of-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection legal-procedure state-court-orders |
1. US visa:.0187, legal short-term stay, US visa:.0012, legal study abroad ,
life injury, can Petitioner get The Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourte… |
| 19-6388 |
Cary VanDerMeulen v. Charles L. Ryan, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection judicial-access judicial-review legal-standing procedural-due-process remedies rights-enforcement standing |
Why is a citizen not allowed to bring a valid claim (claims) for civil rights violations before the court and have them heard?
When one cannot exerci… |
| 19-6390 |
Edward L. Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial miranda-rights self-incrimination sixth-amendment |
Was the Petitioner's right to due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and right to a jury trial under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment… |
| 19-6347 |
Rafael Alvarado v. Frank Lawrence, Warden |
Illinois |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6350 |
Maurice Antoine-Hake Dobson-El v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing speedy-trial standing |
Was Petitioner's constitutional right to a speedy trial violated? |
| 19-6358 |
In Re Morris J. Warren |
|
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole-eligibility retroactive-application sentencing sentencing-regulations statutory-interpretation |
DOES DANIEL v. FULWOOD, CASE NO. 12-5327/CITATION 766 F. 3d 57 (D.C. CIR. 2014), APPLIES TO MY PAROLEBLE SENTENCE, WHERE WHICH WAS GIVEN DECEMBER 18, … |
| 19-6364 |
Eduardo Duffy, aka Eduardo Duffy-Carrasco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship-definition citizenship-laws constitutional-challenge conviction-review due-process equal-protection illegal-reentry judicial-precedent morales-santana severability statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision below conflicts with the Court's instruction in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 137 S. Ct. 1678, 1699 n.24 (2017), that a defendant … |
| 19-527 |
Paul Huskisson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
|
direct-appeal exclusionary-rule first-step-act fourth-amendment independent-source independent-source-doctrine police-misconduct retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform |
1. Does the independent source exception to the exclusionary rule, like all other exclusionary rule exceptions, take into account the flagrancy and de… |
| 19-6315 |
John David Stahlman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-2422(b) |
1.) DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA, AND SUBSEQUENTLY THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT, VIOLATE T… |
| 19-6322 |
Kelvin Miles v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne alleyne-vs-united-states apprendi confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial hearsay sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors |
1. DID THE PRE-TRIAL DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE BY THE STATE
DENY THE PETITIONER HIS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AND A FAIR
TRIAL, THUS DENYING HIM THE ONLY EV… |
| 19-6328 |
Antonio Leonard Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection federalism habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue jury-selection mandatory-minimum state-criminal-procedure |
Does A State Constitutional violation Rise to the same severity As A United States Constitutional violation?
If a majority of en banc Justices in A s… |
| 19-6331 |
Joseren Deshune Delancy v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-framework Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-challenge equal-protection mccleskey-v-kemp prima-facie-case racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-bias supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should overrule McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), and adopt the Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), framework that a defe… |
| 19-6336 |
Eddie Jennings v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-law johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing new-right retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
1. Whether this Court's rulings in Johnson and Welch , retroactively invalidating the residual clause of the ACCA because it was unconstitutionally va… |
| 19-6341 |
Charles Raymond Stagner v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment intent methamphetamine-possession sentencing sentencing-reduction sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Fifth Amendment Guarantees the Petitioner the Right to a Judgment of Acquittal If the Government Fails to Prove the Petitioner Intended to… |
| 19-6314 |
Ralph Willard Savoie v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process haymond-v-united-states parole plea-agreement precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation suborned-perjury supervised-release supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-watts waiver-of-appeal |
[1] Can United States v. Watts stand in light of recent holdings in Haymond v. United States?
[2] Does a waiver of appeal, in light of Garza v. Idaho… |
| 19-6326 |
Michael K. Verble v. City of San Diego, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antitrust civil-procedure civil-rights computer-software constitutional-rights copyright discretionary-process due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection patent patent-infringement standing state-review takings trade-secret volunteer-firefighter |
Pub L 100-352 102.5 Public Safety Threat to the $ Cmeut With Computerization Analysis Cincuits Built with cincutry 9 inthe A5 a volume tegnety Propert… |
| 19-6327 |
Lorenzo Lorta v. Stuart Sherman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendments california-penal-code circumstances civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent modification-of-sentence parole sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 19-514 |
Nikko A. Jenkins v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (3) |
capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-illness mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment solitary-confinement |
(1) Whether the sentencing court violated the requirement of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment that capital sentencers give meaningful consideration… |
| 19-6302 |
James Philip Douglas v. Margaret Gilbert, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech jurisdiction standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-499 |
Henry Posada v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals-court-error appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure district-court-error evidence government-evidence government-surveillance healthcare-billing loss-amount loss-calculation medical-fraud patient-records sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals erred in determining that the district court did not clearly err in accepting the government's assertion that Mr. Posada … |
| 19-493 |
James J. Maksimuk v. Connor Sport Court International, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
cafc corporate-representation court-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause legal-counsel legal-representation overturning-decisions supreme-court-rulings trademark-cancellation trademark-law |
1. Did the CAFC, District Court, 10th Cir., TTAB Orders and Judgments and referenced Supreme Court rulings —that required corporations to be represent… |
| 19-6281 |
Donald R. Sanders v. Barack Hussein Obama, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure. civil-rights constitution due-process free-speech standing administrative-law agency-discretion border-policy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech immigration-enforcement standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6284 |
Jose L. Cabrera-Cosme v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acquitted-conduct due-process jury-trial mcmillin-v-pennsylvania sentencing sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct united-states-v-watts |
1. Whetehr a reasonable jurist could find debatable Petitioner s Sixth Amendment was violated when the district court sentenced him to life without an… |
| 19-6290 |
Servando Pineda-Castellanos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6265 |
Alex Knight v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and/or Sixth Amendments are violated when a district court increases a criminal defendant's sentence based upon conduct for which a … |
| 19-6272 |
Mauricio Lara-Bonilla v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike trial-court-discretion |
For claims that a party had a discriminatory intent in using a peremptory strike against a prospective juror under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (19… |
| 19-6269 |
Eduardo Romero Martinez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking
supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-487 |
Kevin W. Culp, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (7) |
2nd-amendment concealed-carry constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection firearm-rights illinois non-resident-licensing second-amendment standing state-restrictions |
Whether the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms requires that the State of Illinois allow qualified non-residents to apply for an Illinois co… |
| 19-6247 |
In Re Donald Lee McDonald |
|
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-sexual-assault due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habitual-criminal-act habitual-criminal-statute pro-se sentencing seventh-circuit vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether Petitioner is being held unlawfully in state custody in violation of the Constitution of the United States where his natural life sentence und… |
| 19-6253 |
Adam Strege v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority due-process judicial-discretion law-enforcement-discretion mental-competence mental-disease mental-health reasonable-cause sentencing standing vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Question Presented is 18 USCS 4246 4248 4241(d) Unconstitutionally Vague lacking definitive standards by failing to aprise;persons of Ordinary intelli… |
| 19-6254 |
Christopher T. Shanahan v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-sentencing life-sentence mitigating-factors parole parole-eligibility |
1. Does a juvenile life sentence, with parole eligibility after a lengthy term for years, in a state with no guarantee that the mitigating qualities o… |
| 19-6256 |
Jason Simon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct due-process false-accusation habeas-corpus-relief judicial-discretion prejudice presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct |
Did the lower courts err by relying on a false accusation listed in the PSR, that was verified as false, as the sole basis for not only imposing a sta… |
| 19-6264 |
Orane Nelson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure direct-appeal first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Petitioner was convicted of three 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offenses in a
single proceeding and was sentenced to enhanced minimum penalties
under § 924(c)(1)… |
| 19-6235 |
Scott Thomas Erskine v. California |
California |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection jury-trial jury-unanimity narrowing-requirement sentencing |
I.
Does California's death penalty statute violate the Fifth,
Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States
Constitution by failing to… |
| 19-6245 |
Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. Stanislaus County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus immunity ninth-circuit parental-rights pro-se procedural-default standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation |
IS a Family Law Divorce Proceeding in which Parental, Custody Property and Financial rights are at issue a Bona Fide Civil Access to Courts Action war… |
| 19-473 |
Timothy Dasler v. Jennifer Dasler |
Vermont |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment best-interest-of-the-child child-custody domestic-violence due-process due-process-14th-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-14th-amendment parental-rights |
Is it a violation of 14th Amendment right of equal protection when a single self serving accusation by Ms. Dasler is used as the basis to permanently … |
| 19-6199 |
Emeterio Espino Ramirez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-6216 |
Maxcium Herring v. L. S. McEwen, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission jury-instructions jury-misconduct sentencing standard-of-review trial-errors waiver |
If a self represenTed defendanT Taks THE wiTNss sTNd in hiso heR detense whether oNe continves To represent her or himself or whethr The Trial COT mU … |
| 19-6219 |
C. B. v. Thomas N. Fischgrund |
Florida |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jim-crow judicial-fairness public-accommodation race-discrimination racial-discrimination res-judicata segregation standing |
1. Is it legally sound, to hold de facto segregated evidentiary hearings, although the dejure Jim Crow laws, which enabled and legalized segregation w… |
| 19-6223 |
Kermit B. Harris v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment charging-offense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody-without-charge due-process equal-protection finality finality-of-sentence fourteenth-amendment police-officer police-shooting |
1.CAN A STATE TRIAL COURT DISREGARD A DEFENDANT'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW UNDER THE lAthuAMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIO… |
| 19-6229 |
John Joseph Douglas v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca aggravated-robbery aiding-and-abetting armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law overbreadth-doctrine predicate-offense sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation stokeling sudden-snatching |
I. IF A STATES AIDING AND ABETTING STATUTE IS BROADER
THAN THE FEDERAL GENERIC DEFINITION; DOES AIDING
AND ABETTING AGGRAVATED ROBBERY QUALIFY AS A … |
| 19-6230 |
Claudius L. Fincher v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process factual-question jury-determination jury-trial mandatory-minimum safety-valve safetyvalve-statute sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does the district court's resolution of a contested factual question under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f) (safety-valve statute) for the purpose of determining w… |
| 19-6193 |
Franklin C. Smith v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law cell-phone-data civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment incident-to-arrest judicial-review legal-procedure privacy search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation takings warrant-requirement |
g the Court to put i halt to the Intrmant systen as esteuctive and inherently Bangerons
And
droxen Censing the life of at jeust one aw enfoscement off… |
| 19-6209 |
John Hudson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-appellate-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions resentencing section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review violent-felony |
The specific question presented for review is whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by denying Mr. Hudson a Certifica… |
| 19-6212 |
Melissa Edwards v. Attorney Grievance Commission |
Michigan |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts administrative-investigation attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process disability-rights due-process equal-protection government-transparency judicial-review judicial-transparency standing state-court-procedure |
1. Is it unconstitutional for a state court to deny relief without explaining why relief was denied.
2. Is it unconstitutional for the Attorney Griev… |
| 19-461 |
Eleazar Corral Valenzuela v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-denaturalization civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-issues denaturalization discovery due-process equal-protection laches-doctrine procedural-due-process rule-12c standing summary-judgment |
1. Whether the equitable doctrine of laches applies in civil denaturalization proceedings?
2. Whether the District Court erred in refusing Petitioner… |
| 19-6168 |
Edward Robinson v. DeWayne Burton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-provisions takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6175 |
K. S. v. Contra Costa County Children & Family Services Bureau |
California |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
california-welfare-and-institution-code civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federalism fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment santosky-v-kramer sixth-amendment standing supreme-court-precedent welfare-code |
Whether the application of California Welfare and Institution Code, in this case, violated petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fifth, Sixth a… |
| 19-6177 |
Valerie Flores v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court government-admission government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing seventh-circuit supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine |
I. By Disregarding the Government's Failure to Brief a Waiver Argument, Did the Seventh Circuit Errantly Look Past the Government's Waiver of Waiver a… |
| 19-6181 |
Mark Robertson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3599 6th-amendment death-penalty federal-courts habeas-corpus investigation judicial-review meaningful-representation representation representation-services sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
(1) Did the district court deny Mr. Robertson the meaningful representation informed by investigation to prepare a habeas corpus application to which … |
| 19-6183 |
Reginald Chatman v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection florida-law plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing state-prosecution |
1. The Defend aat Reginald chatman entered into a negotiated agrerment uith the Florida State Attorneys office Ast Nathan Prince. for a ten Year D.oc.… |
| 19-6190 |
Jermaine Gerald Cook, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination racial-quotas sixth-amendment |
Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioners' Batson claim, which minimized the constitutional import of the government prosecutor's offer to em… |
| 19-6194 |
William Edward Sneed v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky certificate-of-appealability equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intentional-discrimination juror-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination third-circuit-court-of-appeals |
In light of the post-conviction court's finding of intentional discrimination—a finding that has not been challenged by any reviewing court—did the Th… |
| 19-6195 |
Alejandro Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c3b civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure equal-protection federal-appeals pro-se-petition retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-review unconstitutionally-vague united-states-courts united-states-v-davis vagueness |
(1) DOES THIS COURTS DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. DAVIS 588 U.S. 139 S.Ct.2319 (2019) HOLDING THAT 18.U.S.C S 924()(3)(B) IS ALSO UNCONSTITUTIONALLY V… |
| 19-6147 |
James Sardakowski v. Mike Romero, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights disabilities disability-rights due-process equal-protection housing-assistance mental-health mental-health-disability non-discrimination parole parole-hearing reoffending-risk |
Does Mr. Sardakowski have a constitutional right to non-discrimination at a parole hearing with regards to a mental health disabilities?
Does Mr. Sar… |
| 19-6170 |
Lyndal D. Ritterbush v. Larry Benzon |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings |
1. DIO THE STATE ULOCETE THE EX NOST fOCTO COUSE BU AEROUETING. PETTLOMEL'S OHfONDE BADEO SOEr ON A PRiON COMUICTiON
2). DiD TtE "AlelrCNeTEO" "EEMEN… |
| 19-449 |
In Re Arthur Edward Ezor |
|
2019-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment writ-of-mandate |
1. Was it was a denial of procedural and substantive due process for the lower Court to not order dismissal of the subject criminal case with prejudic… |
| 19-6130 |
George W. Fisher v. John Gregory Mermelstein, et al |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment disability due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection free-speech media-access medical-treatment prison prisoner-rights state-liability |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6132 |
Christian Joseph Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement sentencing |
The Fifth Circui t Court of Appe als has held that to determine
whether an appea l of a sente nce is barred by an appe al wai ver pro vision
in a plea… |
| 19-6146 |
Hector Rosario-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process due-process,sixth-amendment,fifth-amendment,ineffe fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment |
Whether the Petitioner's Fifth and Six Amendment Rigths 1.
violated by plain error made in calculating petitioner's were
and the numerous ways that Pe… |
| 19-6149 |
Desmond Williams v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting civil-procedure civil-rights commentary conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legal-analysis legal-citation legal-issues legal-research legal-terminology legal-writing sentencing-commission standing |
Whether the Sentencing Commission violated the separation-of-powers doctrine when it added the offenses of conspiring, aiding and abetting, and attemp… |
| 19-6131 |
Derrick Estell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 bodily-harm crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-offense due-process federal-criminal-law negligence sentencing statutory-interpretation threat-of-bodily-harm unintentional |
Can a criminal offense that involves as an element an unintentionally or negligently communicated threat of bodily harm qualify as a "crime of violenc… |
| 19-6092 |
Jonothan E. Prather v. Robert Gilmore, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana petition-timeliness retroactivity timeliness |
I - The lower courts and the respondents claim that the Petitioner's petition is
untimely and should be dismissed as such.
II - The lower courts and … |
| 19-6102 |
Roosevelt Brian Moore v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-review due-process graham-v-florida habeas-corpus juvenile-offenders legal-standards prisoner-rights resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure standing state-court-decision |
GRANTED PETITSONER A CERTI FICATE of APPEAlAbIty PORSUANT TO MILlER -EL V.COCKER, 537 U.S.3a2 ON. QUESTIONS OF HIS THE U.S. CONSTITUIONAl RIGHTS? PERT… |
| 19-6113 |
Jose Armando Bazan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review cocaine-conspiracy criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing downward-adjustment fact-question guidelines plain-error plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Petitioner, JOSE ARMANDO BAZAN, was charged with and pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. T… |
| 19-6115 |
Jose Manuel Aguirre-Ganceda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence collateral-attack criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conviction due-process federal-law federal-state-comity mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-court-reduction state-law |
Whether a defendant is actually innocent of a mandatory life sentence once a prior state drug conviction relied upon by the District Court is set asid… |
| 19-6120 |
Raul Rodriguez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) categorical-approach circuit-precedent crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process gvr sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-ruling third-circuit vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether this petition should be granted, the judgment of the Third Circuit vacated, and the case remanded (GVR) to the court of appeals for a determin… |
| 19-6093 |
In Re Barbara Stone, et al. |
|
2019-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process elder-abuse equal-protection habeas-corpus retaliation state-detention unlawful-detention vulnerable-adults |
I. The facts herein irrefutably demonstrate:
A. Willful violation of protected rights under the Constitution to life, liberty, property, and the pursu… |
| 19-6097 |
Clarence Duke Reynolds v. Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appointment-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hearing-procedure parole parole-board selection-process separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation victim-impact |
Is §53.1-134, the law used for the selection of parole board members, unconstitutional?
Is the Virginia Parole Board Manual that mandates the use of … |
| 19-6101 |
Raymond Eugene Johnson v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing death-penalty factfinder harm lockett-v-ohio mitigating-circumstances prejudice |
1. Should the Court recalibrate the frameworks for judging the prejudice or harm of capital sentencing errors in jurisdictions where the factfinder ma… |
| 19-421 |
In Re William Henry Hamman |
|
2019-09-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights-education dual-enrollment due-process education equal-protection florida-statute home-education procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation substantive-due-process |
1) Florida 's public colleges and universities each
require a high school GPA in order to participate in
the Dual Enrollment program. But law states… |
| 19-424 |
Joel Howard James v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-09-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
class-of-one criminal-investigation due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment nonresident-tolling nonresident-tolling-provision privileges-and-immunities Privileges-and-Immunities-Clause Rational-Basis statute-of-limitations |
1. Based on a "class of one" analysis, does the
Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment to the United States Constitution bar application … |
| 19-6086 |
Luis Alberto Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error sentencing sentencing-error standard-of-review |
In recent years, the Court has granted certiorari to clarify how the plain-error standard of review applies to unpreserved claims of sentencing error.… |
| 19-6088 |
Julian Madero-Diaz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship citizenship-classification citizenship-laws constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection illegal-reentry immigration morales-santana morales-santana-precedent severability standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision below conflicts with the Court's instruction in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, 137 S. Ct. 1678, 1699 n.24 (2017), that a defendant … |
| 19-6089 |
Joseph Signore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure criminal-procedure declaration department-of-justice due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-of-perjury sentencing service-of-process solicitor-general |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6094 |
Andres Herrera-Segovia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6078 |
Terreall McDaniel v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c appeal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
I. Does Section 403 of the First Step Act , which dramatically clarifies the
applicable penalties for which a defendant may be sentenced for gun rela… |
| 19-6079 |
Guillermo Vega-Botello v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-procedure limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 19-6080 |
Marcus H. v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent indigent-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-discretion |
Was the indigent petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to have appointed counsel represent him at his criminal jury trial violated when the trial court f… |
| 19-6042 |
Gerardo Tajonar Cortes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6043 |
Larry Craig Cash v. Vance Laughlin, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process effective-assistance fourteenth-amendment jury-selection murder-trial racial-discrimination standing state-action trial-duty |
1. Were The Rights Of A Defendant Under The Due Process Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment Of The United States Constitution Properly Observed When Th… |
| 19-6056 |
Michael Renee Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
§-2255 28-U.S.C-2244(b)(4) 28-U.S.C-2255(h) 28-usc-2244b4 28-usc-2255h armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner gatekeeping-standard johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states jurisdictional-hurdle sentencing successive-motion |
(1) Once a federal prisoner secures appellate-court authorization to file a successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h), must the prisoner satisfy a s… |
| 19-6057 |
Shane Austin Peters v. Eric Arnold, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights costs court-access due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-status juvenile-justice legal-proceeding parole poverty poverty-affidavit redress security sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6065 |
Emilio Fusco v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct article-iii article-three constitutional-rights due-process judicial-power sentencing standing |
WHETHER PETITIONER RAISED SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF DENIAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT ON THE ISSUE OF WHETHER ACQUITTED CONDUCT SENTENCING UNDERMINES DUE PR… |
| 19-401 |
Lamont Dejuan Higgs v. Warden Wilson |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appeal appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether the saving clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) allows defendants to seek relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the grounds that a subsequent statutory in… |
| 19-399 |
Barry C. Garcia v. North Dakota |
North Dakota |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
discretionary-sentencing juvenile-offenses juvenile-offenses-sentencing life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole resentencing-hearing sentencing |
1. Whether the constitutional standard announced in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012),—that sentences of life without the possibility of parole f… |
| 19-6033 |
Christopher Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
GVR |
IFP |
claim-preservation claim-preservation-yee-v-city-of-escondido crime-of-violence federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-32 federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure moncrieffe-v-holder ninth-circuit rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines yee-v-city-of-escondido |
I. Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously find Johnson forfeited his sentencing claim, disregarding this Court's claim preservation holdin… |
| 19-6050 |
Jose Vizcarrondo-Casanova v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c)(3)(a) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent plain-error puerto-rico-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
1) Whether' murder under Puerto Rico law categorical approach
fails to qualify as a "crime of violence" under remaining
force clause of 924(C)(3)(A)… |
| 19-6021 |
Ricardo Valles De La Rosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
braxton-precedent braxton-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit nelson-v-colorado plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS' AFFIRMANCE OF THE PETITIONER'S GUILTY-PLEA SENTENCE VIOLATED PETITIONER'S DUE PROCESS RIGHTS UNDER, AND TH… |
| 19-6022 |
Angel Rodriguez v. Laura Heit, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment access-to-justice administrative-remedies civil-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-interpretation legal-remedy medical-privacy retaliation state-court statutory-construction |
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| 19-6027 |
Jordan Combs v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment child-pornography constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment possession sentencing |
WHETHER JORDAN COMBS' DUE PROCESS RIGHTS UNDER THE FIFTH
AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WERE VIOLATED
WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT SENTENCED J… |
| 19-6029 |
Frank Jeffs v. Michael Overmyer, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus jurisdiction premeditated-murder prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sentencing sentencing-order |
1. Is not the Pennsylvania Supreme Court required in its Per Curiam conclusions of law with respect thereto. If the court finds that...[2] the sentenc… |
| 19-383 |
Joseph Raimondo v. Denise Page Hood, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech government-action political-affiliation political-discrimination taxation |
Question 1. Can the United States Federal Government signal out citizens and demand taxation and then deprive the citizens, Constitutional Equal Prote… |
| 19-374 |
Floyd Hamilton Byrns, Jr. v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law criminal-record due-process ex-post-facto expungement forgery legal-remedy plea-bargaining post-facto-punishment retroactivity sentencing |
Should a person who pled guilty to forgery of a check less than $100.00 in 1987, be punished Post Facto and denied due process for an expungement 32 y… |
| 19-6014 |
In Re Lee R. Comier, Jr. |
|
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process jurisdiction reparations slavery 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus slavery state-law |
(1). What branch of law authorizes the State of Arizona to apply and slave label of a Black )40 any person , of African descent after 1865?
(2). Are … |
| 19-6015 |
Roque Arias-De Jesus v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-analysis sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-6019 |
Marco Antonio Murillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-defendants indictment indictment-right mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-haymond |
1. Whether federal defendants enjoy the right to indictment as to some facts that alter the likely sentence within a mandatory range of punishment? Su… |
| 19-6005 |
Robert L. Malone v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history drug-quantity due-process jury-instructions mandatory-minimum methamphetamine-distribution prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power |
1.) Did the lower courts err when they imposed and affirmed Mr. Malone's sentence based on overreliance on his Criminal History?
2.) Is Mr. Malone's … |
| 19-6006 |
Nicholas Wilkerson v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-hearing |
The Eighth Amendment prohibits life-without-parole sentences for all but the rarest juvenile s who exhibit a lack of rehabilitative potential due thei… |
| 19-365 |
John Barth v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights copyright copyright-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction seizure sovereign-immunity takings takings-clause |
1. Violation of Constitutional Rights
Did acts of a federal court in publishing sealed documents of investigation rather
than returning them, violate… |
| 19-362 |
Patrick Kent Lindsey Jones v. Allen Jones |
Louisiana |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment appeal civil-procedure contested-funds due-process equal-protection finality-of-judgment fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-judgment right-to-appeal standing state-court state-court-jurisdiction |
Under the 14th Amendment, Section 1, how can a state court deny the right to appeal, by deeming a judgment which distributes contested funds to be a n… |
| 19-360 |
Frances K. Konieczko, et al. v. Adventist Health System/Sunbelt Inc., et al. |
Florida |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
1. This Court, the Supreme Court of the United States, granted enemy combatants the right to be heard, therefore, shouldn't we, American-born citizens… |
| 19-5985 |
Leeroy Cesar Carballo v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit-review fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sentencing sentencing-phase |
During Petitioner's sentencing hearing, Petitioner took the stand, maintaining his innocence, and expressed his desire to tell the jury his side of th… |
| 19-5986 |
Brian Whitaker v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment aedpa aedpa-standard arbitrary-governmental-action constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection postconviction-relief procedural-bar |
Do the guarantees of equal protection and due process of law, per the Fifth and
Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution; extend to ind… |
| 19-5987 |
Ronald Richard Brown v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce presumption-of-vindictiveness reversed-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act state-courts supreme-court washington-state |
1. Can the Washington State Courts refuse to adhere to this Courts holding in North Carolina v. Pearce?
2. Since Washington State's Sentencing Reform… |
| 19-5988 |
Tyrone Chalmers v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability iq-score moore-v-texas procedural-vehicle roper-v-simmons |
Where a petitioner establishes uncontested proof that despite effort he repeated the first grade and was enrolled in special education in the second g… |
| 19-5989 |
Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-09-18 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provision direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitutional-law thirteenth-amendment verdict-retroactivity |
1.
Whether it denies defendant's Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendment Rights while on
direct review not to retroactively vacate a non-unanimous jury ve… |
| 19-5991 |
Howard Lee White v. Romeo Aranas, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judgment lower-court-decisions qualified-immunity standard-of-review standing summary-judgment |
(1) Did the lower Courts err in granting Summary judgment to the Defendants |
| 19-5996 |
Michael J. W. Potter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-imprisonment mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing |
Whether entry of a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment violated Appellant's rights under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
| 19-5946 |
Anthony Carl Spence v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritoriality federal-sentencing foreign-conduct guidelines offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether, absent a clear indication of extraterritoriality, a federal sentencing court is permitted to enhance a defendant's offense level under the se… |
| 19-5956 |
Adrian Apodaca v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-jurisdiction crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process federalism interstate-action jurisdiction sentencing |
I. Whether the Defendent, Mr. Apodaca
and sentence can not be upheld' under the definition of "crime
of violence" for count five of the indictment o… |
| 19-5962 |
David Tjader v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine |
I. By Disregarding the Government's Failure to Brief a Waiver Argument, Did the Seventh Circuit Errantly Look Past the Government's Waiver of Waiver a… |
| 19-5964 |
In Re Dwight Carter, Sr. |
|
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c 2255-motion constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-2255-habeas-corpus davis-rule due-process habeas-corpus hobbs-act-robbery merits-analysis prima-facie-standard retroactivity second-or-successive-motion sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
1.) Because Petitioner's 18 U.S.C.j924(c) conviction identified conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act Robbery, 18 U.S.C. 1951, predicate to support his 924(c… |
| 19-5965 |
Robert Jessie Hill v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-consequences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sentencing |
(A). When a defendant pleads guilty to a charge, in addition to the "direct" and "collateral" consequences of the party does the Fourteenth Amendment … |
| 19-5969 |
Tawoine Aquil Frank Banks v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process revocation revocation-sentence section-3624e sentencing supervised-release |
Did the Court of Appeals err in affirming of a supervised revocation sentence that ran consecutively to other supervised release revocation sentence? |
| 19-5977 |
Kerry Lyn Dalton v. California |
California |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con… |
| 19-5979 |
Rodrigo Pablo Lozano v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey conspiracy conspiracy-offense criminal-restitution deliberate-avoidance due-process hester-v-united-states mental-state ninth-circuit sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000) applies to the imposition of criminal restitution, as suggested in Hester v. United States, 139… |
| 19-356 |
Samuel Collin Robinson v. Katherine Lyman Robinson |
Colorado |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
|
best-interests-standard child-custody constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-law parental-rights |
Where divorce involves children, where shared parenting has been declared to be in the best interests of all, and where criteria for exception have no… |
| 19-5944 |
Jerry D. Scott v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-circuit appeal certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-justice criminal-procedure domestic-assault due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus legal-standard missouri-robbery sentencing violent-crime |
WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN NOT. GRANTING
A "CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY" WHEN EVEN AFTER UNITED STATES
v. SWOPES , 892 F.… |
| 19-5926 |
Refugio Quintanar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines timely-objection |
1. Whether the defendant has the burden to deny and discredit the factual allegations of a Presentence Report that increase his or her sentence?
2. W… |
| 19-5927 |
Cuitlahuac Tahua Rivera v. California |
California |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to… |
| 19-5928 |
Marcos Santiago v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process first-step-act retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress decision to not make its recent clarification of 924(c) fully retroactive, creates a significant risk that thousands of prisoners sta… |
| 19-5933 |
Julian Alejandro Mendez v. California |
California |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors constitutional-amendments criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment trier-of-fact |
Whether the California death penalty scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by permitting the trier of fact to impose a sentence o… |
| 19-5937 |
Raymond Johnson v. Credit One Bank, et al. |
Maryland |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-admissibility free-speech judicial-discretion patent standing takings trial-procedure |
Did the trial court wrongfully deny Johnson's Fourth Amendment rights when the trial court failed to allow Johnson to present his motions to enforce S… |
| 19-5940 |
Scott Peters v. Young Sun Kim |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-13 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit post-conviction standing state-court |
Petitioner Questions whether Discrimination of Equal Opportunity Because of Social Economic To Defend Petitioner Right to Appeal.
Petitioner Question… |
| 19-5912 |
Jesus Oscar Meraz Leon v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence arizona-courts arizona-law civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing |
WHETHER THE STATE COURTS REFUSAL TO GRANT LEONS REQUEST FOR D.N.A, TESTiNG, BECAUSE DENIAL VIOLATES HISRIgHTTO DUE-PROCESS ANd EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE… |
| 19-5913 |
Sammie Lee Smith, IV v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-crime aggravated-offense alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-charging criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sexual-felony |
Whether the facts triggering a mandatory minimum sentence under Florida's Dangerous Sexual Felony Offender Act, § 794.0115, Fla. Stat. (2016), togethe… |
| 19-5923 |
Jamaar Danglo Hayes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether the determination of a "serious drug offense" under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA or Act) requires the same categorical approach used… |
| 19-5924 |
James Hennessee v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
The Armed Career Criminal Act enhances the statutory penalty for a firearms offense when the offender has three predicate convictions for crimes that … |
| 19-336 |
Keith Chester Hill v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
capital-sentencing discretionary-sentencing fifth-circuit glover-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-probability sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that, to demonstrate that counsel was ineffective at a state, non-capital, discretionary sentencing proc… |
| 19-5861 |
Louise K. Saine v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-denial appeals career-offender court-of-appeal crime-of-violence criminal-procedure drug-law due-process federal-case federal-classification federal-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure prior-convictions rehabilitation-programs rule-35 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act state-officer |
When can Rule 35 be used error?
Can a state case be classified as a federal case if defendant has never been convicted of prior felonies?
What is th… |
| 19-5907 |
Luis Castaneda-Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-5916 |
Juan Matias Torres v. Ralph M. Diaz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process free-speech habeas-corpus intellectual-disability patent standing takings |
1. IS PETITIONER ENTITLED TO A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ON ALL HIS AMENDED CLAIMS AND ORIGINAL CLAIMS?
a. Did The Court Violate Defendant's 5th, … |
| 19-5878 |
Darries Leon Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-reasonableness criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether sentences imposed upon Petitioner Constitutionally Unreasonable & greater than necessary to satisfy the ends of Justice?
2. Whether Petiti… |
| 19-5889 |
Jonathan Torres-Arroyo v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure judicial-findings jury-trial mandatory-minimum ring-v-arizona sentencing sentencing-court state-v-kiriakakis |
Did the New Jersey Courts make an invalid distinction from Alleyne v. United States, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), in holding that the defendant's right to a ju… |
| 19-5892 |
Charles Titus, et ux. v. Mohammed Alaeddin, et al. |
Illinois |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-parties procedural-due-process standing trial-proceedings |
Whether the trial court's actions - rushing petitioners straight into trial proceedings without affording them with the mandatory procedural due proce… |
| 19-5893 |
Melissa Pfeiffer v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
conscious-disregard-for-risk criminal-law felony-murder inherent-dangerousness inherently-dangerous inherently-dangerous-felony judicial-determination judicial-fact-finding jury-instructions malice-aforethought massachusetts-law presumption-of-malice sentencing |
Is it unconstitutional for the courts, as a matter of common law, to withdraw the third element of felony murder from the jury's consideration by labe… |
| 19-5898 |
Danny Howell v. Duane Southerland, et al. |
Tennessee |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prison-conditions racial-discrimination standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5900 |
David Earl Ison v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-v-alabama civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment plea-bargaining self-incrimination sentencing |
1. Wasn't it a threat or promise by the State: Prosecutor wilhelm when he drafted up a document, gave the document to my Attorney him giving it to me … |
| 19-5865 |
Pablo Sauste Balderas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-5869 |
Jaime Enriquez-Hernandez, aka Jaime Enriques-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5870 |
Shakeem Heratio Crawford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto first-step-act parole retroactivity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Did the Judge Abuse his Discrection under He sth Amendment Due procecc clause by Cotegorically Dening all career orfenders when he stated that career … |
| 19-5872 |
Philip Hugh Wentzel v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-rights conviction criminal-charge criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error |
1. Were petitioner's double jeopardy and due process rights violated by the sponte filing (at petitioner's sentencing) of an additional criminal charg… |
| 19-5875 |
Alfredo Gonzalez-Terrazas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5877 |
Damion D. Faulkner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion proportionality proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness sex-offense sex-offenses substantive-due-process |
Is it substantively unreasonable to impose an effective sentence of life on a 30-year-old defendant who committed a "reprehensible" sex offense that c… |
| 19-5840 |
Andre Kenneth Stuckey v. California |
California |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-supreme-court civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial sentencing supreme-court-review |
WHETHER MR. STUCKEY IS ENTITLED TO HABEAS CORPUS RELIEF WHEN ATTACKING HIS CONVICTION AND SENTENCING ON GROUNDS OF TITLE II A.D.A. AND A.D.A.A.A. VIOL… |
| 19-5855 |
Flenoid Greer v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-suppression government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct public-officials standing state-officials |
I.
WHETHER MICHIGAN PUBLIC OFFICIALS
FAILED TO
PERFORM THERE
DUTIES AND DEPRIVED
PETITIONER
OF DUE PROCES
OF LAW?
II.
WHETHER DUE PROCESS IS DENIED WH… |
| 19-315 |
Endre Glenn v. Brennan H. Moss, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights docketing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether U.S. District Court violated client's right to jury trial under U.S. Const. Amend VII, and XIV due process, equal protection of the laws when … |
| 19-304 |
Ranger American of the V.I., Inc., et al. v. Frederick J. Balboni, Jr. |
Virgin Islands |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bill-of-rights congressional-power due-process equal-protection federal-legislation federal-statute guam-v-guerrero judicial-interpretation kepner-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent territorial-courts territorial-law |
Is the Virgin Islands Supreme Court bound by this Court's Equal Protection decisions where Congress explicitly applied the Equal Protection Clause to … |
| 19-5809 |
Lloyde Dubry v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-history descamps-v-united-states discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment state-v-wetrich |
1. Whether the petitioner, Lloyde Dubry, was denied his remedy by due course of law -- in violation of the Sixth or Fourteenth Amendment to the United… |
| 19-5829 |
Yoni Castro-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-5833 |
Wesley G. Copeland, Sr. v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-law, equal-protection harmless-error speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
Question A:
Did the Kansas Court of Appeals err in their analysis of the undisputed violation of a criminal defendant's
Constitutional Due Process Ri… |
| 19-5839 |
Randall Wayne Mays v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty delusions due-process eighth-amendment ford-hearing junk-science lay-stereotypes mental-competency mental-illness panetti-v-quarterman |
1. May a state court rely on junk science and lay stereotypes of the severely mentally ill to adjudicate a Ford claim ?
2. If an inmate acknowledges … |
| 19-5807 |
Thedrick Edwards v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment state-law |
Whether Louisiana's non-unanimous jury requirement for crimes requiring life sentences violates the Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the Un… |
| 19-5813 |
Alejandro Plaza-Montecillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16 aggravated-robbery appellate-review crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-code federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-law violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. §16? |
| 19-5778 |
Hosam Maher Husein Smadi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel equal-protection manifest-injustice plea-agreement right-to-effective-counsel rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
1). Whether Smadi in this Case would suffer a manifest injustice and an extreme hardship by serving several extra years in prison absent such relief i… |
| 19-5783 |
Monica Nicole Townsend v. Erik Allen Vasquez |
Texas |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-code fourteenth-amendment free-speech parties proceeding standing |
1. Did the State of Texas contravene the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by ignoring T… |
| 19-5788 |
James Nunley, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-law ussg-4b1.2 violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a "crime of violence" under USSG §4B1.2? |
| 19-5792 |
Randall Turner v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
bias-adjudicator capital-adversary-procedures conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations structural-defect term-1 term-2 term-3 term-4 term-5 term-6 |
(1) Whether the appellate court appeal process was fundamentally unfair and a denial of due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amend… |
| 19-5794 |
Dazzle Young v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-tampering fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sentencing |
evidence in violation of due process and violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments Rights.
(2) Could Mr. Young be sentenced over the maximum 1… |
| 19-5796 |
Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split confrontation-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
After pleading guilty to federal narcotics charges, Petitioner was sentenced to life imprisonment based entirely on unverified in-court testimony by a… |
| 19-5747 |
Jamall Gibson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
QUESTION # ONE: Whether Petitioner Gibson's counsel provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel by failing; to effectively investiga te his HY… |
| 19-5761 |
Javon Laren Martin v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence jury-selection mistrial peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5762 |
Stevrick Tavah Jackson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus life-sentence parole sentencing twenty-one |
Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d… |
| 19-5763 |
Jose Lara-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-law federal-law federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law mens-rea reckless-mental-state recklessness sentencing 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… |
| 19-5770 |
Danny Lee Banks v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment johnson-precedent residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment unconstitutional unconstitutional-sentencing |
1) DID THE APPEALS COURT AND DISTRICT COURT VIOLATE BANKAS
FIFTH, SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS BY UPHOLDING
A SENTENCE THAT WAS BASED ON TH… |
| 19-275 |
Frederic C. Schultz v. John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process electoral-college equal-protection equal-suffrage international-law international-treaties presidential-election treaty-law voting-rights |
1. Do citizens of the United States of America have the right to "equal and universal suffrage"?
2. Do we have the right to be governed by whom we el… |
| 19-265 |
Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary v. Laycelle Tornee White |
Oregon |
2019-08-29 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mandatory-sentences miller-v-alabama non-mandatory-sentence non-mandatory-sentences sentencing |
Respondent received a 67-year non-mandatory sentence 25 years ago, when he was 15 years old, for the murder of an elderly couple.
Does the Eighth Ame… |
| 19-5727 |
Trayvon Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-interpretation state-law |
1) Whether, when determining whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence, a federal court is bound by the decision of the state's highest… |
| 19-5738 |
Carlos Manuel Perez-Crisostomo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process identity name obstruction-of-justice plea-agreement puerto-rico sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-3c1.1 |
I.- Whether the Sentencing Court erred in founding Petitioner obstructed
justice, pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 3C1.1, when Petitioner did not correct
the … |
| 19-5741 |
Jose Marin Saldana-Reyes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure sentencing-standard |
In contrast with the Ninth Circuit, at least seven other circuits apply a standard which requires a sentencing judge provide some express treatment to… |
| 19-5749 |
Juan Manuel Perez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
against-the-person-of-another crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-court federal-law federal-recidivism intentional-conduct mens-rea negligence recidivism recidivism-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether, when determining whether a state offense qualifies as a crime of violence, a federal court is bound by the decision of the state's highest… |
| 19-5750 |
Felix A. Okafor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c)(1)(A) criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment firearms-offense first-step-act sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER PETITIONER'S 3167 MONTH SENTENCE IMPOSED AS A RESULT OF THIS COURT'S MISINTERPRETATION OF THE STACKING PROVISIONS OF 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(1)(A)(i)… |
| 19-5752 |
Jimmie Kyle Anderson v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment apprendi-rule cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentences eighth-amendment public-safety sentencing sex-offender-law sex-offenders |
1. Does the public safety interest in incapacitating and deter
ring certain types of sex offenders with extremely long
sentences run afoul of the 8t… |
| 19-5754 |
Charmar Brown v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines collateral-attack constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure cross-reference double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus magwood magwood-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Magwood extended to challenges to the original undisturbed conviction, following a new judgment?
Whether Murder Cross-reference U.S.S.G. 2D1.… |
| 19-5723 |
Melvin Bernard Thompson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
Almendarez-Torres Apprendi-v-New-Jersey criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment stare-decisis |
1. Can a Florida Law permit a trial court to exercise judicial discretion to make
new findings of fact of an escalating pattern of criminal conduct b… |
| 19-5733 |
Latasha Boyd v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection freedom-of-expression freedom-of-religion jurisdiction life-liberty-property standing |
Is it Okay for Me to be deprived
From Life Liberty
and home?
My life styk is a zone of
interests? |
| 19-5743 |
Michael Dewayne Hegwood v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 binding-precedent career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-resentencing federal-jurisdiction first-step-act jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the First Step Act authorize a court to "impose" a reduced
sentence in accordance with such statutes as 18 U.S.C. §§ 3553(a) and
3582(a), or d… |
| 19-5665 |
Douglas Harold Doyle v. David Baughman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole retroactivity sentencing standing |
Parsuant to U.S. Sup. C. ruke 1H. 1(a). In 2o08, Pefitioner was convictedf ofa'misdemeanor' D.U.I.(V.C.823152). This was elevated to a felory ander P.… |
| 19-5710 |
Chidi Ezeobi v. Jamal Jamison, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
credit criminal-procedure due-process extradition foreign-incarceration incarceration international-law sentence-credit sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-credit statutory-interpretation |
1. Is Mr. Ezeobi entitled to seven months of credit toward his sentence for the time he was incarcerated in England awaiting extradition to the United… |
| 19-5605 |
Stephen Alan Macomber v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment state-action use-of-force |
1. 'Olb'THE COURTS, "Tb fe'DE '
ft 9^)ec\Ficl OS^-DF-'C )'=k'vx-^' FftRCe: -ceirsw^ncO
X^stb'Actic^ lower Ttt^ l5u£D£b or orocF
TOR "YHE STf^S /Fb \… |
| 19-5606 |
Ndokley Peter Enow v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment plea-bargaining probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing |
Did the trial court erred by admitting into evidence of the illegally obtained wiretapped tape recording of the defendant's oral conversations with th… |
| 19-5681 |
Raphael Person, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether, when a district court imposes a sentence based on several factors, one of which is improper, the court of appeals should affirm the sentence … |
| 19-5692 |
Larry Dean Cochrun v. Bob Dooley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation court-flexibility criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection error-correction habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review miscarriage-of-justice standing statutory-authority wrongful-conviction |
Congress conshained orgivenflexibility
Has U.S.ofA'S
for U.S.A Judges or Courts to deny or delay a miscarriage of
juicesurfd wtnts reac to be codanexa… |
| 19-5666 |
Roger Charles Day, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings |
Whether Rule 41 post conviction motion for a motion is treated as a Civil action governed by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure.
2) Whether the district… |
| 19-5672 |
Gary Ray Bowles v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability procedural-obstacles |
Gary Ray Bowles is an intellectually disabled man on Florida's death row. Despite this Court's holding in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304, 321 (2002)… |
| 19-5673 |
Dennis Calo v. Annette Chambers-Smith, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. |
Ohio |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fairness-doctrine judicial-discretion judicial-review ohio-constitution parole parole-board standing state-constitution state-courts |
ARE OHIO'S COURTS PERFORMING A 'FRONT OPERATION TO SHIELD OHIO'S PAROLE BOARD AND DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION AND CORRECTION FROM EXPOSURE FOR CORRUP… |
| 19-5682 |
In Re Gary Ray Bowles |
|
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment death-penalty habeas-corpus intellectual-disability successive-habeas-petition successive-petition writ-of-certiorari |
Petitioner Gary Ray Bowles is an intellectually disabled man who is scheduled to be executed by the State of Florida on August 22, 2019, at 6:00 p.m. … |
| 19-236 |
Achashverosh Adnah Ammiyhuwd v. Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine dred-scott due-process equal-protection foreign-sovereign-immunity functional-immunity habeas-corpus standing state-action-immunity yick-wo |
1) Whether orders denying state-action immunity; functional immunity; foreign sovereign immunity; are immediately appealable under the collateral-orde… |
| 19-235 |
Richard Jordan, et al. v. Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
|
burden-of-proof civil-rights corrections-department death-penalty discovery discovery-rights due-process eighth-amendment glossip-standard glossip-v-gross lethal-injection method-of-execution section-1983 standing |
1. Whether the burden of proof demanded by Glossip in method-of-execution challenges requires commensurately broad discovery rights to provide plainti… |
| 19-5655 |
Chadwick N. Barner v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial illinois-supreme-court-rule-431(b) impartial-jury jury-selection post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment voir-dire |
1) CAN A SPECIFIC TRIBUTE TO KILL BE INFERRED BASED ON THE ACT OF PUSHING A PERSONS HEAD UNDERWATER?
2) CAN THE STATES PRESENTATION OF NONCUMULATIVE … |
| 19-5628 |
Charles Rochester v. New York State Division of Human Rights, et al. |
New York |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion abuse-of-power administrative-law anti-injunction-act civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination-claims due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction investigative-misconduct state-court-proceedings tampering-with-evidence |
I. Does the United State District Court as well as the United States Second Circuit of Appeals have a duty to protect jurisdiction and join, a State c… |
| 19-5629 |
Al-Malik Fruitkwan Shabazz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act-1984 categorical-approach connecticut-general-statutes-53a-133 connecticut-robbery florida-robbery force-clause resentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states stokeling-vs-united-states supervised-release violent-felony |
I. Whether robbery under Connecticut General Statutes § 53a‐133 categorically qualifies as a "violent felony" under the force clause of the Armed Care… |
| 19-5630 |
Roosevelt Stolden v. California |
California |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines stare-decisis |
Should the Court reconsider its majority opinion in Oregon v. Ice, 555 U.S. 160, 167-168, 173-177, 129 S.Ct. 711, 172 L.Ed.2d 517 (2009) (Ice) which p… |
| 19-5634 |
Daniel Marquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-adjustment minor-role ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-adjustment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 ussg-3b1.2 |
Petitioner contends that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit erred in affirming the lower Court decision deny minor role after failing to pr… |
| 19-5640 |
In Re Larry Swearingen |
|
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 death-penalty due-process false-testimony forensic-evidence habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition innocence innocence-standard schlup-v-delo scientific-evidence scientific-testimony successive-petition |
1) What is the scope of the evidence for a court's assessment of innocence under 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (b)(2)(B)(ii) ? Is a court of appeals ' consideratio… |
| 19-5651 |
Gary Ray Bowles v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3599 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-enforcement clemency clemency-proceedings death-penalty due-process federal-counsel federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus intellectual-disability right-to-counsel section-3599 |
Can state officials bar a death-sentenced individual's 18 U.S.C. § 3599 counsel from representing him in state clemency proceedings, and if not, is th… |
| 19-5626 |
In Re Vinodh Raghubir |
|
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5627 |
In Re Vinodh Raghubir |
|
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5638 |
Jeffrey E. Lee v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
betterman-v-montana constitutional-rights criminal-procedure delay due-process indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-delay standard |
I.
IN THE WAKE OF THE QUESTION LEFT OPEN BY
THE COURT IN BETTERMAN v. MONTANA . 136 S.CT.
1609 (2016), DOES THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE
CREATE AN ENTITL… |
| 19-5641 |
David Anthony Gordon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver due-process government-breach judicial-assignment judicial-procedure mandatory-minimum plea-agreement safety-valve sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether, in reaching the decision to affirm in part and to dismiss in part, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from the accepte… |
| 19-5612 |
Steven Wayne Isbel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-claims discretionary-review document-production due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instructions separation-of-powers standard-of-review state-court-exhaustion |
Question One: Whether the district Court and the 5 th Circvit was correct that Isbel did not properly preserve and exhaust his ineffective assistance … |
| 19-5613 |
Luis Samayoa-Castillo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines gall-v-united-states harmless-error molina-martinez-v-united-states rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-error |
When the district court expressly relies upon a clearly erroneous fact in selecting its sentence, is the error harmless if there are other factors in … |
| 19-5616 |
Russell Rope v. Facebook, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fraud judicial-integrity legal-standing pro-se-litigation standing |
Whether The Law Extends to All Citizens & Corporations in Modern Times?
How can an unwritten, nonexistent, and unified appeal be labeled or described… |
| 19-5617 |
Gary Ray Bowles v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-prohibition execution-risk florida-supreme-court intellectual-disability procedural-bar standing state-procedural-bar state-procedure unacceptable-risk |
1. Can a state procedural bar override the Eighth Amendment prohibition against executing the intellectually disabled?
2. Does the Rodriguez procedur… |
| 19-5622 |
Cairo Lopez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment booker cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process executive-power mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing separation-of-powers standing |
1. This Court should consider whether combining in the Executive Branch the power to charge and the power to control sentences in statutory mandatory … |
| 19-203 |
David Greenberg v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-court-review cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-of-sentence reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparity |
Did the Second Circuit err in affirming Petitioner David Greenberg's sentence without addressing (1) the sentencing court's failure to consider the pr… |
| 19-5587 |
In Re Levar Lee Spence |
|
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection false-imprisonment federal-courts federal-habeas-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction liberty-rights |
1.) Whether the courts can refuse and/or feign review of habeas corpus claims asserting constitutional violations, would warrant habeas corpus relief?… |
| 19-5590 |
Levar Lee Anthony Spence v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-courts legal-document petition pro-se standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
an attorney, denied due process and equal protection of the law when the federal courts refused (mandatory) de novo review? |
| 19-5591 |
Kirk Saintcalle v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the district court's denial of Kirk Saintcalle's petition for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that th… |
| 19-5599 |
Lisa J. Gillard v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine judicial-review jurisdiction state-courts |
1. Does the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution apply in the Illinois State Courts? |
| 19-5603 |
Jonathan Javier Aleman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver certificate-of-appealability collateral-review constitutional-counsel criminal-case-defendant-rights criminal-defense evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. This Court provides that a defense attorney must consult with case defendant concerning the defendant's right to appeal and the of waiving that rig… |
| 19-5589 |
Marlon Leroy Porch v. T. Watson, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fundamental-defect maximum-sentence saving-clause sentence-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
I. WHETHER A FUNDAMENTAL DEFECT IS SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE SAVING CLAUSE WHERE PETITIONER ERRONEOUS ENHANCE SENTENCE FELL BENEATH THE STATUTORY MAXI… |
| 19-193 |
Rodney Hogen, et al. v. Steven C. Hogen |
North Dakota |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure north-dakota personal-representative property-rights supreme-court |
1. Does the decision of the Supreme Court of North Dakota deprive the Petitioners of established property rights in violation of the Due Process and E… |
| 19-194 |
Daniel Delacruz, Sr. v. State Bar of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine racial-discrimination rooker-feldman-doctrine |
Does a dismissal of claims based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and First Amendment rights under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine violate the equal prote… |
| 19-5552 |
Kevin Devon Sutton v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-review legal-rights sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
WHETHER SUTTON IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER?
DOES THE COURT OF APPEALS' DECISION VIOLATE SUTTON'S RIGHTS TO EQUAL PROTECTION AND DUE P… |
| 19-5565 |
Carlos Miguel Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
GVR |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-possession rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Mr. Perez respectfully requests that his 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) conviction be reversed and remanded in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (J… |
| 19-5573 |
Monte Whitehead v. Greg Marcantel, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1997e civil-rights court-access due-process equal-protection first-amendment grievance-process physical-injury prison-litigation-reform-act redress-of-grievances standing |
1. Do Federal Statutes 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a) & (e) abridge the First Amendment rights of prisoners by requiring them to meet certain standards before t… |
| 19-5575 |
Antwaine Enta Yarbrough v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court supreme-court-review |
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)? |
| 19-5576 |
William Taylor v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion boone-county constitutional-rights hearsay hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-effective-counsel sentencing |
I. WHETHER THE ADDITIONAL SIXTY (60) YEARS TAYLOR RECEIVED AT TRIAL WHEN ATTORNEY ALLEN LIDY FAILED TO COMMUNICATE THE BOONE COUNTY TWENTY (20) YEAR P… |
| 19-5535 |
Julius Omar Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-indictment circuit-split death-penalty death-penalty-cases due-process juror-interview juror-interviews post-conviction-relief post-verdict racial-bias structural-error |
1. Whether district courts may validly prohibit death-sentenced inmates from interviewing their trial jurors post-verdict concerning racial bias durin… |
| 19-187 |
Kalim A. R. Muhammad v. AT&T, Inc., et al. |
Alabama |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitrability civil-procedure civil-rights contract-construction contract-immunities due-process equal-footing equal-protection federal-arbitration-act judicial-bias jurisdictional-challenge state-courts |
QUESTION 1: Does it violate the Federal Arbitration Act or otherwise undermine "equal footing" and
contract immunities when State Courts construe
the
… |
| 19-5539 |
Nicholas Gilbert Beattie v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
breach-of-contract contract-law criminal-procedure due-process ethics plea-agreement prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-recommendation |
Whether the prosecutor's conduct in speaking out of both sides of his mouth with respect to a sentencing recommendation they had agreed to make is a b… |
| 19-5540 |
Thomas Edward Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessment standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability… |
| 19-5542 |
Robert Maloy v. New York |
New York |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legal-assistance post-release-supervision sentencing state-court unusual-punishment |
The OCR text provided is severely degraded and largely illegible in the "QUESTION(S) PRESENTED" section. While a section header labeled "QUESTION(S) P… |
| 19-5549 |
Anthony Dion Collins v. Francisco Lara, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-defect habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum |
I. WHETHER A FUNDAMENTAL DEFECT IS SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE SAVING CLAUSE WHERE PETITIONER ERRONEOUS SENTENCE FELL BENEATH THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM? |
| 19-5505 |
Jose Hernandez-Carbajal v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
I. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights to the Effective Assistance of Counsel Was Violated in the Follow?
a) When Counsel Failed to file a Not… |
| 19-5506 |
Darrel R. Fisher v. J. Doe |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-immunity jurisdiction standing |
Can a federal court's judge just make-up his own rules that implementation of violate civil, constitutional and all legal rights and privileges protec… |
| 19-5510 |
Maurice Patrick Fortune, III v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-prosecution grand-jury indictment magistrate-warrant sentencing substantive-due-process |
(1) Mr. Fortune certifies the Commonwealth of Virginia err in deferring contents essential to the definition of a trial. A trial; as defined by Merria… |
| 19-5514 |
In Re Charlene Terry-Ann Walker Rosa |
|
2019-08-08 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction public-defender wrongful-conviction |
1. Whother this Entine Cake hat resulted in a Wongu Lack of Knci ledge and underAanding g The Law, facts, Meles and Aatute constitute a centigy questi… |
| 19-5516 |
Rayshawn Roshard Robertson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-relief federal-procedure retroactive-application retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
I. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statut… |
| 19-5528 |
Robert Anthony Chester v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant co-defendants constitutional-proportionality criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disparate-sentencing disproportionate-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection first-degree-robbery sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Was Petitioner's One Hundred Eighty Year Sentence For His Conviction Of Two Counts Of First Degree Robbery Disparate To The Twenty Year Sentence Impos… |
| 19-169 |
Jane Doe v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
court-fees criminal-record due-process equal-protection expungement indigent-rights poverty |
In Iowa, as in nearly every state, a person who has been charged with an offense, but not convicted, is entitled to have the record of the charge expu… |
| 19-172 |
Edina Harsay v. University of Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
academic-deference academic-freedom civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review |
Whether a rule-like application of federal case law that accords a nearly-insurmountable level of deference to academic administrators in breach-of-co… |
| 19-5455 |
Jesus Rios-Garza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-5460 |
Jose Ortega v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c categorical-approach court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure grant-vacate-remand residual-clause section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand Mr. Ortega's case in light of United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), after the Court of Ap… |
| 19-5493 |
David Ray Taylor v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-moratorium extrajudicial-information juror-misconduct jury-instructions moratorium standing state-action voir-dire |
First Question Presented: The Eighth Amendment bars a jury from imposing a death sentence if it "has been led to believe that the responsibility for d… |
| 19-5494 |
Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander v. Dean Borders, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-rules-of-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-reconsideration newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief sentencing standing |
MR. ISKANDER WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON ON FEBRUARY 3, 2018 AFTER SERVING SIXTEEN YEARS (INCLUDING 2 CONCORDANT TO 6 CONCORDANT YEARS WITHOUT SUBSTRACTI… |
| 19-5500 |
Michael Woolls v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights code-of-law disability-rights due-process equal-protection mental-capacity mental-retardation political-concerns standard-of-review standing |
My question in the forma of my documents, is am I entitled by law of confusing of high standard issue of Law of the Court 's as A disabled person of t… |
| 19-5480 |
Andrew Dorsey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acca cocaine criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses florida florida-statute possession sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether a Florida conviction for selling cocaine, delivering cocaine, or possessing cocaine with the intent to sell or deliver it, in violation of … |
| 19-5482 |
Joann Jefferson v. OneWest Bank, FSB |
New Jersey |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation discovery due-process equal-protection estate-rights fair-trial foreclosure foreclosure-proceeding pro-se-representation procedural-due-process property-rights standing trial-procedure |
1. Can Pro Se Legatees, Heirs, Executors, Estate Representatives, Devisees, successors,
in a foreclosure pendency, (a new defendant, in an ongoing lit… |
| 19-171 |
In Re Jack R. Finnegan |
|
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment goldberg-v-kelly government-redress judicial-procedure |
Was Petitioner denied his Constitutional guaranteed rights, power, privilege, or immunity guaranteed under the Constitution, and of Due Process and Eq… |
| 19-167 |
Galen J. Suppes v. Curators of the University of Missouri |
Missouri |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment invention-rights Jurisdiction Patent-Law patent-misuse standing takings university-ownership |
1. Was the Judgment's demand of perpetual (no
limit in time or geography) and unconditional
payment of remunerations of sixteen years of
Defendant … |
| 19-162 |
Michael Richards v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation pena-rodriguez pena-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
Should this Court's decision in Pena-Rodriquez v. Colorado, 187 S. Ct. 855 (2017) be applied retroactively to Petitioner's collateral attack? |
| 19-5447 |
Erbey Botello, aka Erbey Botello-Alanis, aka Javier Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plea-hearing plea-revocation reasonableness-of-sentence revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-review supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit-which refused to unequivocally recognize the constitutional right to … |
| 19-5465 |
Isela Alejandra Campos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
When the district court fails to calculate the Guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh… |
| 19-5426 |
Leonard Stansberry v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-review due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure police-misconduct racial-discrimination standing statutory-provisions takings writ wrongful-death |
Whether a Medical Examiner's Opinion as to the cause and manner of death is admissible in a criminal trial when the Opinion given is information obtai… |
| 19-5433 |
In Re Steven Bleau |
|
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence collateral-review death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment |
1) Under circumstances involving a second collateral petition presenting an actual innocence claim; is Bleau deprived of his Constitutional Rights pro… |
| 19-5434 |
Juan Fletcher Gordillo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirements constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-impression judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether this Court should review the decision of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to determine whether the decision in this case of apparent firs… |
| 19-5413 |
John Thomas Rooney v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-jurisdiction unconstitutional unconstitutional-conviction |
Can convictions and sentences imposed by a State Trial Court without Constitutional or Statutory subject-matter jurisdiction or due to an Unconstituti… |
| 19-5410 |
Charles Borden, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (7)Relisted (4)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process mens-rea recklessness retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation use-of-force |
1. 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 … |
| 19-5412 |
Jean Claude Phillip McKenzie v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 6th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court history-and-characteristics judicial-discretion nature-and-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance |
WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS SUFFICIENTLY DETERMINED THAT THE DISTRICT COURT'S UPWARD VARIANCE IN ITS SENTENCING OF PETITIONER BY 31 MON… |
| 19-5420 |
Kendrick Terrell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error prior-charges sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights were violated by plain error made in calculating Petitioner's sentence, and the numerous ways that Pet… |
| 19-5422 |
Michael A. Webb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adam-walsh-act adam-walsh-child-protection-and-safety-act constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Was petitioner, Michael A. Webb, subjective to ineffective assistance of counsel or deficient representation by defense counsel in a prosecution?
Was… |
| 19-5380 |
In Re Charles L. Cox |
|
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
community-supervision criminal-procedure deferred-adjudication due-process equal-protection jurisdiction separation-of-powers vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Is Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Article 42.12§5(a) deferred Adjudication Community Supervision void for vagueness? Where the term 'deferred adjud… |
| 19-5391 |
Dan Carmichael McCarthan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process notice-of-predicate-convictions retroactive-constitutional-decisions retroactivity section-2255 sentencing statutory-maximum |
Both questions presented by this petition involve circuit splits.
I. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on … |
| 19-5394 |
Michael Leon Bell v. California |
California |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment constitutional-procedure death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-fact-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-standards sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt (1) th… |
| 19-5401 |
Thomas Lewis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-371 18-usc-924c ambiguous-record circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure-retroactivity due-process federal-conspiracy mandatory-sentencing retroactive-invalidation retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
1. Does this Court's ruling in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), striking as unconstitutionally vague the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 19-5402 |
Tatyana Ivanovna Mason v. John Arthur Mason |
Washington |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration-status indigent-parents indigent-status language-interpreter limited-english-proficiency parental-rights trial-language-interpreter |
Whether the State violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in the previous trial court proceedings, by ignoring the 2016 findings i… |
| 19-5407 |
Fabian Delgado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consideration contract contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-benefit due-process legal-principle plea-agreement sentencing |
1. Whether principles of contract law require consideration (benefit to the defendant) to support a valid plea agreement. |
| 19-5365 |
Michael Joseph DeMarco, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
color-of-state-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection government-misconduct prisoner-rights property-rights property-seizure retaliation witness-defense |
1. Whether a prisoner has due process and equal protection under the Constitution when a guard deliberately, willfully and maliciously seizes a prison… |
| 19-5367 |
Ralph Arthur Duarte v. California |
California |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus hicks-v-oklahoma liberty-interest people-v-vargas retroactive-application retroactivity three-strikes three-strikes-law |
WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS OF LAW* WHEN
THE STATE COURT COURT SENTENCED HIM TO SPEND 30 YEARS TO LIFE
IN STATE PRISON, UNDER A "THREE… |
| 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)? |
| 19-5356 |
Rashad Washington v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
black-codes class-v-united-states equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jim-crow procedural-default racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause territorial-application |
Was Mr. Washington convicted under a statute, Neb Rev. Stat. § 28-1212.04 that is void on its face by using territorial definitions of application tha… |
| 19-5358 |
Victor Manuel Collazo-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review precedent-analysis sentencing supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 19-5359 |
Kent Vu Phan v. Colorado Legal Services, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1981 7th-amendment ada-discrimination ada-violation americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection intentional-indifference judicial-misconduct racial-discrimination rehabilitation-act |
QUESTION(S) PRESENTED FOR THE COLORADO LEGAL SERVICES
1- Defendants who have known about petitioner 's disabilities status, but he or she
intentional… |
| 19-5362 |
Kasine Deleston v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and Ultimately Breached if it Contains an Unfulfi ambiguity breach-of-contract criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process government-breach government-misconduct plea-agreement plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-stipulation withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether a Plea Can be Ambiguous, and Ultimately Breached if it Contains an Unfulfillable Sentencing Stipulation and the Government Fails to Offer the … |
| 19-5363 |
Richard Curtis v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden |
Ohio |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review merger sentencing void-for-vagueness |
Whether separately imposed sentences prior to merge, constitutes multiple sentences in violation of the Double Jeopardy clause; and
Whether this make… |
| 19-130 |
In Re Randolph George |
|
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
coram-nobis costs-of-imprisonment custody due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restitution section-2255 sentencing writ-of-error-coram-nobis writ-of-mandamus |
In light of the fact that the First, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits disagree on the question whether in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petiti… |
| 19-5300 |
Fremo Santana v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination guideline-range ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proceedings |
WHETHER DEFENSE COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE WAS CONSTITUTIONALLY INEFFECTIVE FOR ERRONEOUSLY MISCALCULATING PETITIONER'S GUIDELINE RANGE WHICH WAS THE DECID… |
| 19-5301 |
Aaron Orlando Richards v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-07-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection first-degree-murder jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-verdict legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict prosecutorial-discretion unanimous-verdict |
Did the appellate court err in its interpretation of Apodaca Bad Bertrand? In this first degree murder prosecution, the jury returned an eleven-to-one… |
| 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… |
| 19-5329 |
James Lester Williams, Jr. v. Jamai F. Samuels |
Florida |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-review due-process equal-protection family-law-dispute petition-for-redress pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-petition |
1) Whether Florida's Appellate Court(s) denial of
Petitioner's timely and duly filed Petition's for Appeal, without any
judicial reasoning or analysis… |
| 19-5337 |
Arthur Shermaine Bussey v. Marty Allen, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5346 |
Jose Martinez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
acquitted-conduct burden-of-proof buyer-seller-defense criminal-conviction cross-examination drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether this Court's decisions to allow district courts to use acquitted conduct in imposing sentenc… |
| 19-5297 |
Esterlin Appolon v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law judicial-review jurisdiction post-conviction second-amendment sentencing standard-of-review state-court sufficiency-of-evidence unreasonable-application |
Whether, Arizona Supreme Court abuse it's discretion by dismissing the Petition For Special action and Motion For Stay?
Whether, the Superior court w… |
| 19-5303 |
Mario Benitez-Pineda v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law constitutional-challenge constitutional-law controlled-substances criminal-law due-process federal-law penalty-provision sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841 et. seq., is unconstitutional because it contains no penalty provision ? |
| 19-5307 |
James D. Brigman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
I.
Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in
Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-5310 |
Rodolfo Cantu, Jr., aka Lil Rudy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-right crawford-v-washington due-process fifth-amendment hearsay sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-proceedings sixth-amendment |
Was the enhancement for a credible threat improper considering the district court's partial reliance on hearsay facts outside the record, which violat… |
| 19-5318 |
Marilee Brown v. David Bernhardt, Secretary of the Interior, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process employment equal-protection federal-employment federal-jurisdiction hostile-work-environment personnel-actions retaliation standing suicide whistleblower workplace-discrimination wrongful-removal |
Although More Lengthy than what is Standard, Petitioner Respectfully seeks Leave of the Court to Provide this More Detailed Response Because of the Im… |
| 19-5323 |
Edwardo De Juan v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-jurisdiction new-trial post-conviction procedural-rights standing state-court statutory-provisions |
WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED WHEN POSTCONVICTION MOTION WHERE CASE ELEMENTS FILED OR EXIST8 AND (B) CONFLICT EXISTS IN DEC… |
| 19-116 |
Heather Marlowe v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
and whether a systemic failure to investigate rap 42-U.S.C.-§-1983 42-usc-1983 accrual civil-rights discriminatory-policy equal-protection monell Monell-claim rape-investigation statute-of-limitations |
I. When does a Monell-based equal protection claim brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 accrue for statute of limitations purposes? Specifically, does… |
| 19-112 |
S. Bruce Hiran, et al. v. Jelinis, LLC |
Texas |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
|
appellate-court appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-of-texas temporary-injunction |
Whether Petitioners' Constitutional Rights of Due Process and Equal Protection of Laws are violated while the Appellate Court reversed the Temporary I… |
| 19-5273 |
Wendolyn Lee v. Amy P. Weirich, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech patent sentencing standing takings |
SHeLby counTy CRIMINAL COURT LACKS VueisdicTon inTHS CASe AgAInST THis PeTiTioner, WHere THe ViETiM TATyAnA MCgeR Testifiedhopen COURT And UNSER OAT P… |
| 19-5288 |
In Re Otis B. Brascom |
|
2019-07-23 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5289 |
Pharoah Brazell v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process evidence forged-guilty-plea guilty-plea habitual-offender miranda-rights plea-bargaining right-to-attorney-during-questioning right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sentence-enhancement sentencing |
I. Can the State use a forged Guilty Plea form from a Florida predicate offense
and used it to enhance his sentence as a Habitual Offender?
II. Is Pe… |
| 19-5247 |
Charles Michael Hedlund v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eddings-v-oklahoma habeas-corpus jury-trial sentencing |
1. Whether the correction of error under Eddings v. Oklahoma, 455 U.S. 104 (1982), requires resentencing, particularly where the error originated in t… |
| 19-5262 |
Eulos Ceasar Knight v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error criminal-record due-process guidelines johnson-v-united-states ninth-circuit residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker welch-v-united-states |
Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth… |
| 19-5269 |
Reginald Christopher Gilbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction objection reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 19-5270 |
Phyteaf Phequan McCormick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
GVR |
IFP |
case-remand criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-law fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's judgment should be vacated and this case remanded for further review in light of this Court's recent opinion in Rehaif v.… |
| 19-5274 |
Anthony James Hill v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-relief constitutional-error criminal-record due-process misinformation ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-tucker |
Where sentencing is imposed based on misinformation of constitutional magnitude regarding the import of the defendant's criminal record, did the Ninth… |
| 19-5275 |
Richard Michael Mathisen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's denial of the Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability of the District Court's … |
| 19-5276 |
Marvin F. Taylor v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection standing |
Under My current clatm of vindictiveness against Myself, the Deferdant, by judidal and prose cntortal figures, I an questtoning volated my Indiana Con… |
| 19-5278 |
Duryane Lewis Chaney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca categorical-approach criminal-law davis drug-offense sentencing serious-drug-offense statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
WHETHER THE DETERMINATION OF A SERIOUS DRUG OFFENSE UNDER THE ACCA REQUIRES THE SAME CATEGORICAL APPROACH USED IN THE DETERMINATION OF A VIOLENT FELON… |
| 19-5279 |
Miguel Esparza-Salazar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure illegal-entry prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-factors sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
This case presents the issue of whether a criminal defendant charged with illegal entry, pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b)(1) and (2), is entitled to not… |
| 19-107 |
Vincent Asaro v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial-right sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct underlying a charge for which t… |
| 19-5221 |
Richard Potts v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-claim constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Does Honeycutt v. United States, 137 S.Ct. de (2o1) apply retoactively o frfeiture judgment, that have been final foryears, on collateral review?
Can… |
| 19-5243 |
Larry Marvel v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-law criminal-offense double-jeopardy double-punishment due-process legislative-definition multiple-punishments sentencing state-prosecution statutory-interpretation |
Where the State General Assembly legislatively defined in two separate statutes the same identical "conduct" for two criminal offenses mandating the s… |
| 19-5244 |
Larry David Davis v. Brian Daniel, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection evidence-tampering habeas-corpus sentencing standing trial-fairness |
Does the Prosecutor assessment of Probable cause Standing alone meet the requirements of the Fourth Amendment and is it enough to Justify Pending tria… |
| 19-5245 |
Michelle Renee Lamb v. Joe Norwood, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
1. This case represents a public issue to thousands of transgenders confined to state and federal institutions whom are being denied treatment despite… |
| 19-5246 |
Jason Rosado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-1203 924(c) certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis |
Whether, in light of this Court's most recent decision, in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), which abrogated the Eleventh Circuit Court … |
| 19-5251 |
Thomas Cascio v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
below-guidelines below-guidelines-sentence criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion due-process prison-time rehabilitation rehabilitative-needs sentencing sentencing-guidelines tapia-error tapia-v-united-states |
1. Should certiorari be granted to find that a Tapia error occurs anytime a district court considers rehabilitative needs in imposing prison time, eve… |
| 19-5260 |
Michael Levon Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-922g acquittal constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process element-of-crime jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Question One
The Constitution requires that a jury find every element of the crime
beyond a reasonable doubt. The district court, however, did not pro… |
| 19-5230 |
Stephen B. Wlodarz v. Shawn Phillips, Warden |
Tennessee |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alford-plea criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence parole plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether Petitioner's Alford guilty plea resulting in a sentence length of life in prison without the possibility of parole judgment IS legal? |
| 19-5231 |
James D. Thomas, Jr., aka Wayne Thomas v. New York |
New York |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial jury-instructions prejudicial-error prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court |
.Should this court vacate the conviction where the petitioner failed to preserve the issue and the trial court denied defendant's Motion to set aside … |
| 19-5234 |
Stephen P. Dowdney, Jr. v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
anders-procedure anders-v-california appellate-review direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection mccoy-v-court-of-appeals |
1. DOES WASHINGTON STATE USE THE ANDERS v. CALIFORNIA (386 U.S. 738) PROCEDURE TO CIRCUMVENT A MEANINGFUL DIRECT (FIRST) APPEAL, EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE … |
| 19-5242 |
Charles Clary v. Lynn Guyer, Warden |
Montana |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection free-speech standing takings |
1) Does, Montana condition, Article 2, Section 1, the Amation die, 2nd Amendment To the United States Constitution?
2) Is AN Author 3 Ti affidavit by… |
| 19-96 |
Lincoln Rymer v. Robert Lemaster, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct sovereign-immunity standing void-judgments |
Circuit Judge Andrew Kleinfeld considers it to be capital punishment when teachers destroy students' career prospects as punishment for the students' … |
| 19-85 |
LC v. MG |
Hawaii |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-parentage consent-rebuttal due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment marital-status marriage-equality parentage parental-presumption presumption-of-paternity spousal-rights |
While LC—a U.S. Navy officer —was deployed overseas, her wife MG became pregnant by assisted reproduction . MG had not sought LC's consent to having a… |
| 19-5208 |
Ruth Torres v. Court of Appeals of Texas, Fifth District, et al. |
Texas |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights court-records due-process equal-protection inability-to-pay injunction judicial-misconduct mandamus pro-se-litigation prohibition |
Should US Supreme Court resolve denial of due process and equal protections when full release of requested clerk records was denied, then Writs of Man… |
| 19-5214 |
Beatrice Downs v. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1964-civil-rights-act adverse-medical-treatment civil-rights civil-rights-act-1964 due-process eeoc-claim employment-discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights harassment medical-treatment retaliation right-to-work state-agency title-vii |
Under Title VII Civil Rights Act 1964
42 U.S.C. 1981-1991
1. AS a citizen of United states does the civil rights act of
1964 gives me the right to f… |
| 19-5217 |
Lavares Detroen Watkins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
GVR |
IFP |
ACCA-enhancement actual-innocence AEDPA armed-career-criminal-act due-process habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-maximum time-bar |
WHETHER DUE PROCESS IS VIOLATED WHEN A COURT SENTENCES A DEFENDANT TO
A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT THAT EXCEEDS THE OTHERWISE-APPLICABLE STATUTORY
MAXIMUM… |
| 19-5171 |
Victor Hugo Saldano v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Amici (3)IFP |
biased-jury buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness mental-competency racial-bias vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
At M r. Sal daño's first death penalty trial, in 1996, a n expert for th e State of
Texas testified that Mr. Sa ldaño wa s more likely to present a fu… |
| 19-5182 |
Geovanny Antonio Loyola-Villegas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review empirical-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's se… |
| 19-5195 |
Cleo Hines v. Cindy Griffith, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-of-appeal civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-case-law legal-uniformity |
The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution requires the law to treat identically situated persons in the same… |
| 19-5197 |
Eric T. Roden v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal article-iii-judge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver |
WHETHER THE NINTH CIRCUIT PANEL CORRECTLY CALCULATED GUIDELINES RANGE FOR USE AT A FEDERAL SENTENCING HEARING. |
| 19-5202 |
Doroteo Zambrano-Ruiz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-authority circuit-split federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of plain-error review in Molina-Martinez v. United States when… |
| 19-81 |
Vivian L. Rader, et vir v. Citibank, N.A., et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection foreclosure-procedure fourteenth-amendment non-judicial-foreclosure property-rights standing takings |
Is Colorado's system of non-judicial foreclosure (Co. Rev. Stat. §38-38-101 (2016) in conjunction with Rule 120) unconstitutional under the Due Proces… |
| 19-5175 |
Gregory Green v. Alan Wilson, Attorney General of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review standing |
Whether South Carolina Appellte Court Rule 243 Voltes de prcss andegual protedtion of laby not entiting petitioner the right to be heard on appeal, Co… |
| 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… |
| 19-5184 |
Kristopher Courtney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel poverty sentencing standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5189 |
Michael Tyler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence guidelines liberty post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers sentencing standing statutory-interpretation takings |
ISSUe ONE
whether the u.s. supreme cart should great certiorcc
to cesdve the Circuit Canflict, whether schlup gateway
lnquir require neusly Presented … |
| 19-5159 |
Quinetta Grant v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
should this Court vacate and remand for reconside was Ms Grant denied her rights under U.S.S.G. § 1 binding-authority criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-sentencing-right-to criminal-procedure-supervisory-power-conviction-se due-process judicial-discretion mail-fraud plain-error right-to-be-present sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-relevant-conduct-scope-of-cr sentencing-procedure Where Ms Grant's sentence was enhanced by attribut Where multiple additional errors affected petition |
1) Where the Court of Appeals failed to consider binding authority holding that a defendant's absence from a material sentencing proceeding constitute… |
| 19-5160 |
Jamie D. Geer v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeal appeal-procedure due-process equal-protection post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings prison-officials prisoner-rights |
WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS, EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW AND RIGHT TO ACCESS TO THE COURTS WHEN PRISON OFFICIALS MISHANDLED HIS APPEAL P… |
| 19-5162 |
Frederick Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review plain-error plainly-unreasonable post-revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard supervised-release |
What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release? |
| 19-5165 |
Michelle Stopyra Yaney v. Superior Court of California, San Bernardino County |
California |
2019-07-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection personal-liberty privacy privacy-rights procedural-due-process ssi-discrimination |
Should this court review this case because all citizens of our country must have the freedom to find their own individual way of accessing the constit… |
| 19-64 |
Heidi C. Lilley, Kia Sinclair, and Ginger M. Pierro v. New Hampshire |
New Hampshire |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech gender-discrimination intermediate-scrutiny public-exposure public-nudity |
1. Does an ordinance expressly punishing only women, but not men, for identical conduct—being topless in public—classify on the basis of gender?
2. D… |
| 19-5147 |
Flordeliza A. Hawkins v. SunTrust Bank, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech public-forum standing |
Why I was denied fer money daage? |
| 19-5148 |
Vinodh Raghubir v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standing procedural-irregularities standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5149 |
Luis Rojas-Marceleno v. Kansas |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment case-statement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue legal-review sentencing standing statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5150 |
Irvin Junior Phillips v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924e apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process indictment-requirements prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
1. Whether the Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of … |
| 19-5129 |
Kendell Lee Starks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-relief-28-usc-2255,retroactive- florida-conviction-resisting-with-violence,violent retroactive-constitutional-decision sentencing statutory-maximum Whether a Florida conviction for resisting with vi |
Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statutory… |
| 19-5130 |
Tammie McConico v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-courts circumstantial-evidence equal-protection federal-circuit-courts reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt, even in a circumstantial case? And whether the Equal Protections Clause is viola… |
| 19-5135 |
Joseph Ballard v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections |
Louisiana |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts automatic-stay centralized-inmate-banking dismissal due-process equal-protection meaningful-access-to-courts prison-litigation-reform-act statutory-automatic-stay |
1. Is Louisiana obligated to implement and maintain a Centralized Inmate Banking System capable of withdrawing and forwarding timely accurate state pr… |
| 19-5137 |
Albert Duval Gray v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fifth-amendment revocation-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's revocation sentence violated the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Un… |
| 19-5138 |
Jesus Alonso Gonzalez Gonzalez, aka Jesus Gonzalez, aka Jesus Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Roberto Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error procedural-review rule-51b sentencing |
1. Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure … |
| 19-5141 |
William Wade v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924c-sentencing circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process johnson-dimaya physically-restrained-enhancement residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1. The 10th Circuit has already declared that the 924(c) "residual" clause is unconstitutional in light of this Courts Johnson v US and Sessions v Dim… |
| 19-5109 |
Wayne English v. Roadhouse Holding Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure first-amendment-rights mail-delivery notice notice-of-appeal usps |
Thousands of individuals, both debtors and creditors, are having their due process rights violated by the Delaware Bankruptcy Court. The Court, withou… |
| 19-5110 |
Barry Bays v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance-analog controlled-substance-analogue controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment fraud scienter scienter-requirement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
I. Whether a defendant's sentence for fraud offenses that applied 21 U.S.C. § 802(32), USSG § 2B1.1(b)(1), and USSG §2D1.1 and treated Bays as a "cont… |
| 19-5112 |
Rafael Jacob Stoffel v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-victim mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sexual-assault sexual-offense sexual-offenses |
Whether a minimum mandatory sentence of twenty-five years' imprisonment imposed for the offense of touching a minor's breast violates the prohibition … |
| 19-5118 |
Jason Paul Mathison v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea judicial-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing sentencing-conditions time-limits treatment-program vagueness |
1. Are constitutional rights of due process violated when a court
imposes a condition that requires a defendant to "successfully
complete" a treatme… |
| 19-5119 |
Johana Cabantac Arucan v. Cambridge East Healthcare Center, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
age-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection fourth-amendment police-misconduct summary-judgment title-vii |
1. In a case brought under the Title VII
Discrimination in Employment Act, Age
Discrimination as illegal termination &
harassment with police miscon… |
| 19-5123 |
Richard Parrish v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-support gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion legal-reliability reliability sentencing townsend-v-burke united-states-v-tucker united-states-v-watts |
Sentences based on unreliable information violate Due Process, see United States v. Tucker, 404 U.S. 443, 447 (1972); Townsend v. Burke, 334 U.S. 736,… |
| 19-5125 |
Francisco Gallegos-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553a 3553(a)-factors abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-recommendation statutory-factors |
Does urging a sentencing recommendation lower than that ultimately imposed, and grounded in the statutory factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), suffice to p… |
| 19-5127 |
William D. Dunne v. G. J. Bissett, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregated-sentences consecutive-sentences federal-prisoner federal-prisoners habeas-corpus mandatory-parole mandatory-release parole parole-eligibility pre-SRA sentence-calculation sentencing sentencing-reform-act statutory-interpretation |
Does pre-Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA)--"old law"
— parole statute 18 USC §42.06(d) mandating federal prisoners'
lease on parole absent certain… |
| 19-57 |
Donald Dewees v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines international-tax international-taxation streamlined-filing-compliance-procedures tax-assessment tax-collection tax-compliance tax-convention tax-penalties |
1. Did the lack of a meaningful review of the assessment and collection of a tax under the Convention violate Dewees' right to due process?
2. Did th… |
| 19-5108 |
Donald Covington v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines special-assessments standing statutory-claims |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in granting the government's motion to dismiss by denying the Petitioner the ability… |
| 19-5105 |
Rudy Espudo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-conviction criminal-justice criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-statute firearms sentencing statutory-interpretation underlying-offense |
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… |
| 19-5100 |
Matthew Karahalios v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 28-usc-2255 armed-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation |
1. Does unarmed bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) serve asa
predicate offense for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) of using … |
| 19-5099 |
James Thompson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court-of-appeal due-process equal-protection florida-supreme-court fraud per-curiam-affirmance supreme-court-jurisdiction unelaborated-affirmance |
The question presented involves the Florida practice and rule which do not permit litigants to seek review in the Florida Supreme Court when the distr… |
| 19-5095 |
Fox Joseph Salerno v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining racial-discrimination retroactivity right-to-counsel school-desegregation supreme-court |
Petitioner Salerno hereby moves this court to issue a ruling on whether the following two cases are applied retroactively.
1. Missouri v. Frye, 566 U… |
| 19-5088 |
Quancidine Hinson-Gribble v. Office of Personnel Management, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts attorney-representation civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-5087 |
Willie Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3559 categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing enumerated-list-of-offenses enumerated-offenses essential-nature federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federal-three-strikes-law prior-state-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-law |
1. Whether the categorical approach permits a court to compare "the essence" of a prior state crime of conviction to the "essential nature" of a speci… |
| 19-5085 |
Darren L. Lee v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure divisible-offense federal-sentencing full-faith-and-credit modified-categorical-approach physical-force plea-bargain sentencing shepard-documents united-states-v-horse-looking violent-felony |
Where a divisible offense may be committed two ways, one of which satisfies the "violent felony" element of physical force, and one of which does not,… |
| 19-5043 |
Justin Panus v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-enhancement double-jeopardy due-process elemental-fact equal-protection offense-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether it violates the 14th Amendment for the same elemental fact to be used as an element of on offense and also to enhance that offense to a greate… |
| 19-34 |
Paul Maravelias v. David DePamphilis |
New Hampshire |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process equal-protection extraordinary-sanction findings-of-fact first-amendment original-jurisdiction pre-deprivation-hearing retaliation rule-of-law standing supreme-court vagueness |
1. Did the NHSC violate the Due Process Clause to deny Petitioner's requested pre-deprivation hearing and by failing to make a single finding of fact … |
| 19-35 |
Brandon Lee Mojica v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-statute habeas-corpus heightened-pleading post-conviction-relief sentencing standard-of-proof united-states-v-davis |
1. Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand this case to the Eleventh Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Davis, 2019 W… |
| 19-5076 |
William J. Daugherty v. Randy L. White, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction pleadings standing |
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A SUMMONS ON SOME ONE, AWd ThEy DONOt RESPOASS At ANT
To It, ThEw Tadgment should be beought a… |
| 19-5060 |
Derrick Washington v. Carol A. Mici, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Correction |
First Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment anti-terrorism anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus incarceration life-without-parole sentencing |
1: Is Congress' 1996 Anti-Terrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) unconstitutional, as it unnecessarily snuffs out convicted persons abilities t… |
| 19-5053 |
Brandon M. Hicks v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct plea-bargaining sentencing separation-of-powers sixth-amendment |
1) Whethe tn heen o Conion
in context with his intent at sentenciny, is a violatiken of the Separation of
powers doctrine, in the United States Consti… |
| 19-5039 |
Carlos Ortiz v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
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| 19-36 |
Lourdes Fontanillas Lopez v. Morell Bauza Cartagena & Dapena, LLC, et al. |
Puerto Rico |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure claim-preclusion due-process equal-protection federal-common-law res-judicata supplemental-jurisdiction |
In Semtek Int 'l Inc. v. Lockheed Martin Corp., 531 U.S. 497 (2001), this Court reaffirmed that the claim-preclusive effect of a federal court judgmen… |
| 19-5042 |
Charles Edward Jones, Sr. v. Josephine T. Griffin, Circuit Clerk, Chicot County, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-civil-procedure first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-remedy petition-filing standing |
IF THE ORDER FROM THE DISTRICT COURT DOCUMENT SEVENTEEN ALLOWED PETITIONER TO PROCEEDED WITH HIS COLORABLE CAUSE OF ACTION OF ACCESS TO THE COURT WHEN… |
| 19-5047 |
Cathy L. Toole v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-justice equal-protection federal-courts judicial-independence separation-of-powers standing |
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are any of thegustices in the totalof nine gustices located at ther suprem
Lourt Of The Unitedstates honest?
lo thegustices employed … |
| 19-5041 |
Matthew Jamison v. Levern Cohen, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review conflict-with-other-states constitutional-law due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto federal-constitutional-rights federal-question retroactive-application vested-rights |
Did S.C. Supreme Court decide on an important federal question in ways conflicting with decision of other state?
Did S.C. Supreme Court and U.S. Cour… |
| 19-5036 |
Craig Alan Toaz v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentences concurrent-sentencing criminal-conduct criminal-procedure federal-convictions habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-review procedural-grounds sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-5g1.3 |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT AND CIRCUIT COURTS ERRONEOUSLY DISMISSED PETITIONER'S HABEAS PETITION UNDER PROCEDURAL GROUNDS, AND IF SO THEN;
II. WHETHER T… |
| 19-5034 |
Leland Dudley v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
' 'civil-rights" ' 'criminal-procedure" ' 'due-process" ' 'police-misconduct" ' 'post-conviction' ' 'sentencing" civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review grand-jury judicial-review police-misconduct post-conviction-relief sentencing wrongful-conviction |
IN THIS CASE THE GRAUD JURY
GRAND JURY IMPEDED
THE STATES ATORNEY SPECCALLY
WAS IMPE-DED(BY)
MURDER AND THE TRCTICO IMPLOPED (BY) CHICAGO POLUICE
ATER… |
| 19-5030 |
Michael D. Mathew v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
Whether the twenty-one year sentence imposed by the state trial court violated the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishments? |
| 19-5029 |
Frederick Tyrone Calhoun v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process eminent-domain equal-protection just-compensation private-property standing statutory-interpretation takings |
The Constitution requires the federal government to obtain an indictment and jury verdict before imprisoning a person. While on federal supervised rel… |
| 19-5027 |
Eddie David Cox v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
GVR |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rehaif-v-united-states,sentenci double-jeopardy eighth-circuit guidelines-calculation procedural-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states resentencing section-2241 sentencing sentencing-review |
1. Should the Court GVR the judgment of the Eighth Circuit so the appeals court may consider, in the first instance, whether Cox is entitled to relief… |
| 19-5026 |
Melvin Lewis Andrews v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court crime-of-violence criminal-law guidelines johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-powers |
1. Should this Court exercise its supervisory powers where a circuit court of appeals continues to allow trial courts to apply "crime of violence" ana… |
| 19-5023 |
Jason Keith Walker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-united-states brady-violation due-process fifth-amendment giglio-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-v-illinois plea-bargaining plea-negotiations prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the petitioner, Jason Keith Walker, is entitled to a certificate of appealability on his claim that his trial counsel provided ineffective … |
| 19-5021 |
Oliver M. Boling v. United States Parole Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights district-of-columbia due-process equal-protection federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure personal-capacity preclusion section-1983 |
1. WETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEAL FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IS IN "CONFLICT" WITH THE CIRCUT COURTS CASE IN[ MICHAEL D. HURD V. DISTRICT … |
| 19-5017 |
Shanta Phillips-Berry v. Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process equal-protection evidence-presentation fair-trial judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure standing |
1. The district court abused its discretion by not relying on the erroneous legal premise that a citizen(s) of the state of Louisiana and this great c… |
| 19-12 |
Kevin Sewell v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
compelled-speech confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment-self-incrimination first-amendment first-amendment-compelled-speech overbreadth self-incrimination sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause |
1. Whether Maryland's law imposing a
duty to report suspected child abuse or
neglect on all persons in the State
violates the First Amendment where it… |
| 19-1 |
Karen Khan v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-procedure plausibility-standard standing |
Federal Circuit's Application of the Plausibility Standard to Weigh Evidence Against Plaintiff Conflicts With This Court's Precedent In Twombly and Iq… |
| 19-5010 |
Andrew Nelson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) appellate-review continuance criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-52a federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-error prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing substantial-rights trial-continuance vagueness-doctrine |
1. Where the district court erroneously premises its denial of a meritorious,
unopposed motion for continuance of the trial on a mistaken belief that … |
| 19-5003 |
Roberto Cruz-Olavarria v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process heightened-scrutiny judicial-discretion offense-seriousness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-maximum supervised-release |
1. Whether there is a need for extensive justification and heightened scrutiny when imposing and reviewing sentences at the statutory maximum.
2. Whe… |
| 18-9803 |
Salvador Galvan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process guidelines procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-2b1.1 victim victim-definition victim-impact |
Whether, in a case involving embezzlement from a municipality, it is procedural error for a district court to consider every resident of the city a vi… |
| 18-9804 |
Michael Zachariah Gomez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-revocation plain-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
I. Whether the standard of review in appeals of federal revocation sentences is limited to review for "plain unreasonableness"? |
| 18-9811 |
Eli Sloan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction indian-law indigent-counsel native-american-rights sixth-amendment standing tribal-sovereignty uncounseled-conviction |
#1. Are (Navajo Indians)' Native American Indians U.S. citizens within the jurisdictions of 18 U.S-C.S § 1153) (Indian Country)? As reconized US. citi… |
| 18-9824 |
Steven G. Patten v. California |
California |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection flight-instruction fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination self-defense |
1. Whether Petitioner can establish a prima facie case of discrimination
under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when the pro- … |
| 18-9826 |
In Re Ellis Keyes |
|
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
ballot-access bar-association bar-exam civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-candidates licensing open-government right-to-work standing state-licensing voting-rights |
Under what authority is license to practice law or not?
Is the BAR a Union for purpose of Kentucky Right to Work Law?
Since Certificate issued from … |
| 18-9827 |
Donald Wayne Lamoureaux v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism fundamental-rights marriage-equality standing takings |
1. Can a person acting under the mandate of a federal statute be criminally prosecuted under another federal statute for such actions if this prosecut… |
| 18-9830 |
Michael Franklin Einfeldt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-petition burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony |
Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied on th… |
| 18-9832 |
Patrick H. Murphy v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
civil-rights death-penalty death-row due-process establishment-clause free-exercise free-exercise-clause pastoral-accompaniment religious-liberty rluipa |
1. When a death-sentenced inmate informs prison authorities a month in advance of his scheduled execution date of his desire to be accompanied during … |
| 18-9834 |
Carlos Alberto Ochoa-Orozco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-error cumulative-error due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct rule-18 sentencing sixth-amendment venue venue-challenge |
1. Whether the district court violated Appellant's right to due process, and his Sixth Amendment right to affair trial, where' the district court 'lac… |
| 18-9837 |
Ernest Bustos v. Bexar Appraisal District, et al. |
Texas |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-code property-tax standing subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-law |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals was correct in disregarding the clear language of Texas Property Code § 42.08 (d).
2. Whether Court of Appeals was co… |
| 18-9838 |
Cedric Floyd v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fifth-amendment remorse right-to-remain-silent |
1. In a capital case in which the defendant exercises his right not to testify, are the Fifth and Eighth Amendments violated when the State argues in … |
| 18-9839 |
Robert E. King v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice post-conviction-relief racial-discrimination |
Did Oklahoma 's Appellate Court "The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals " deprive
Robert E. King the right to equal protection of the law afforded to … |
| 18-9840 |
Kevin Fernandez v. Nevada, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment interstate-compact interstate-corrections-compact liberty-interest minimum-custody-status pro-se-litigation property-interest settlement-agreement |
1. Whether a settlement agreement entered into by an inmate and
a State, which incorporates the mandatory language of the Interstate
Corrections Comp… |
| 18-9844 |
Garner Wood v. Les Parish, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-relief postsentencing-motion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-error trial-counsel |
The trial court denied Petitioner Wood's due process right under the Fourteenth Amendment by not granting his jail credit for 1930 days after assuring… |
| 18-9846 |
Bradford Metcalf v. S. Kallis, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice wrongful-conviction |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1585 |
Kassim M. Nagi v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-06-27 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
8th-amendment controlled-substances cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender lockyer-v-andrade money-laundering proportionality proportionality-test racketeering sentencing solem-v-helm |
1. A sentence, even within range, is excessive when it imposes punishment grossly disproportionate to the severity of the evidence, or constitutes not… |
| 18-9807 |
Robert Wilson, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-enumerated-offense-clause acca-statute criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony |
(1) Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied o… |
| 18-9779 |
Xue Jie He v. Trinity Church, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy defamation discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment personal-injury racial-discrimination standing visa-status |
1. US visa : 0187, legal short-term stay , Personal Injury , can Petitioner get The Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment to the United … |
| 18-9776 |
Irineo Ponce-Recendiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing |
1. Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure … |
| 18-9778 |
Xue Jie He v. Office of the New York City Comptroller |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1985 civil-rights conspiracy discrimination due-process equal-protection immigration national-origin-discrimination racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-act |
1. US visa: 0187, legal short-term stay , Personal Injury , can Petitioner get The Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment to the United S… |
| 18-9797 |
Mark Anthony Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review procedural-due-process right-of-appeal standing |
Was the petitioner improperly denied his right of appeal? |
| 18-9790 |
Alexander Monzoni v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-calculation guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review for Guideline error as set ou… |
| 18-9789 |
Dan Pizarro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal drug-offenses drug-trafficking first-step-act prior-convictions prior-felony-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-minimum |
Because Pizarro is still in the direct appeal process, is he entitled to the application of the First Step Act amendments to the statutory minimum sen… |
| 18-9785 |
Wayne A. Hussar, II v. James C. Reynolds, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure self-defense sentencing standing warrantless-search |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9784 |
Antoaneta Iotova, et al. v. Dr. Demisa, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction opinions-below standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9782 |
Carlous Lindell Daily v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c constitutional-rights crime-of-violence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Johnson johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states resentencing sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum USSG-4B1.2 |
(1). Whether The Lower Court(s) Erred In Concluding
That Petitioner Did Not Suffer Ineffective
Assistance Of Counsel At His Resentencing
On Appeal … |
| 18-9786 |
Luis Francisco, et ux. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-fees appeals civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights indigent indigent-litigant notice parental-rights poverty |
In a State that provides appeals as a matter of right from adverse lower court decisions terminating parental rights, may the States, consistent with … |
| 18-9780 |
Christopher Hannigan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3551 component-parts criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judgment judgment-parsing judicial-discretion rule-32 sentencing sentencing-rules statutory-interpretation |
Does the language of Rule 32(k) and 18 U.S.C. §3551 allow for the court to parcel the judgment into component parts? |
| 18-1572 |
Matthew D. Priset v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence mental-illness sentencing |
Does a mandatory minimum Life Sentence for one who is convicted under The Guilty-But-Mentally-Ill designation constitute cruel and unusual punishment? |
| 18-9770 |
Lionel Toye v. Steven Racette, Superintendent, Great Meadows Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining plea-negotiations right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-exposure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD REVISIT THE CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF TRIAL COUNSEL DURING PLEA NEGOTIATIONS WHEN COUNSEL FAILS TO DISCUSS THE PROS… |
| 18A1349 |
Pennsylvania v. Milton Montalvo |
Pennsylvania |
2019-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-recommendation mental-health-mitigation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9760 |
Andrew D. Dixon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca acca-sentence-enhancement acca-statute armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure elements-clause johnson-precedent post-johnson precedent predicate-prior residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Did the court error denying claims that the residual clause didn't apply to defendant by using Post-Johnson precedent claims and raising elements clau… |
| 18-9740 |
Myron Gregory Jessie v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission judicial-error life-imprisonment prior-misconduct resentencing sentencing |
1. Was the evidence insufficient to convict defendant -
Appelart MyRon JEssle as an aider and abetter to armed
bery and ist degree home invasion?Did h… |
| 18-1562 |
Lisa Fisher v. Bessie Huckabee |
South Carolina |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights conservatorship constitutional-rights due-process elder-abuse equal-protection fifth-amendment property-rights standing standing-civil-procedure-due-process-elder-abuse-f takings will-reformation |
1. Did petitioner, in her capacity as conservator, have Standing to assert the Due Process rights of the decedent when she had knowledge that an under… |
| 18-9746 |
Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial intent jury-instructions prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Whether a prosecutor may secure a death sentence by presenting knowingly false and/or misleading argument to the jury that argues falsehoods about the… |
| 18-9745 |
Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-punishment dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection forensic-evidence procedural-issues procedural-safeguards |
1. Was Petitioner denied due process by the state court's refusal to provide a hearing that was mandated by Georgia's DNA statute, particularly given … |
| 18-9742 |
Mikle Anthony Butler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion mental-health mental-illness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9705 |
Leonard Moore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Should the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals have issued a Certificate of Appealability in the instant case to resolve an open question in the Sixth Circ… |
| 18-9725 |
Jose Munoz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-rule hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement vagueness |
Whether the definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague.
Whether a Hobbs Act robbery is categorically a… |
| 18-9704 |
Andre Javion Portee v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights contract contract-breach contract-law discrimination due-process equal-protection government-agency-misconduct governmental-agency standing takings title-insurance |
1. Did the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) or Agency officials located in Beckley, West Virginia discriminated against the Petitioner on… |
| 18A1340 |
Manohar Jain, as Trustee, and its Successors or Successor Trustees Under the Manohar Jain Trust Dated July 1, 2000, et ux. v. Bay Hill Property Owners Association, Inc. |
Florida |
2019-06-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1333 |
Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-06-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-sufficiency guilty-plea plea-withdrawal sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9724 |
Clifford Marcus Winkles v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing statute-of-limitations successive-habeas |
WHETHER AN UNSOLICITED AND UNAPPOINTED ATTORNEY'S
FILING TRUMP.S A PRISONER'S PRO SE FILING WHEN BOTH
FILINGS RELATE TO THE SAME ISSUE BUT RELY ON DIF… |
| 18-9729 |
Odell Lameche Overby v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 3553(c) appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-obligation due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning nonfrivolous-arguments sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court fulfilled its obligation under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to announce the reasons for its sentencing decision where the court neve… |
| 18-9733 |
Bobby F. McReynolds v. Preston Glenn, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus medical-treatment prisoner-rights procedural-default scheduling standing state-court-review surgery |
I wish the cout to review
my medial file shewng
Iunstill Needingy Surgery
from the fall in Nevada County Jail.
This incident hoppered ON Novenber 30th… |
| 18-9715 |
Johnny Curtis Bedgood v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure critical-stage evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pre-trial-counsel section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancements |
WHETHER THE US DISTRICT COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION FOR FAILURE TO CONDUCT [A]N EVIDENTIARY HEARING PURSUANT TO 28 SECTION 2255(b) IN LIGHT OF A FACTU… |
| 18-9698 |
Ruben Perez Gomez v. California |
California |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-requirement death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sentencing-standard sixth-amendment statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-punishment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior co… |
| 18-9699 |
Jose Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation strict-liability |
I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |
| 18-9701 |
Antoine Gause v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing supervised-release |
Whether the lower courts fundamentally erred through a mis- carriage of justice, by unconstitutionally sentencing the Petitioner to a longer sentence … |
| 18-9710 |
Lee Turner, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis discrimination due-process equal-protection johnson-v-california jury-selection prima-facie-case prima-facie-discrimination prosecutorial-strikes racial-bias racial-discrimination standard-of-proof |
1. Whether "mere statistics" are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination under Batson v. Kentucky, 475 U.S. 79 (1986) and Johns… |
| 18A1326 |
Lisa Montgomery v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge death-penalty federal-habeas section-2255 |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1324 |
Tina L. Morin v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel |
Montana |
2019-06-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection legal-representation petition-for-certiorari supreme-court-order |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9691 |
Dwayne Lee Stallings v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32-violations criminal-rule false-statement false-statements federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure obstruction-of-justice plain-error plain-error-analysis sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review structural-error |
Whether the Court's plain error analysis is properly applied to violations of Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(1)(A), and, if so, whether such violations are st… |
| 18-9692 |
Jody Lanardo White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review |
Whether challenges to the reasonableness of a sentence must be preserved by specific objection? |
| 18-9656 |
In Re Lexter K. Kossie |
|
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
character-evidence character-witness constitutional-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence mitigation right-to-testify sentencing sentencing-phase |
Can a trial counsel render constitutionally performance and not prejudice the defense by (1) proceeding to the sentencing trial 45 minutes after the j… |
| 18-9658 |
Eric Daniel Doyle v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grouping guidelines judicial-discretion legal-calculation procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum total-punishment |
Whether due process requires the correct calculation of
Doyle's Guidelines sentencing range. |
| 18-9689 |
Robert Joseph King v. Robert R. Neall, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
accessibility-law ada civil-rights disability-access disability-rights due-process equal-protection federal-buildings public-buildings public-facilities reasonable-accommodation |
1. Must State and Federal Buildings be required to provide readily and reasonable access to restroom facilities to those who have a physical disabilit… |
| 18-9688 |
Emanuel Rivera-Martinez v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment habeas-corpus standing |
Whether the trial judge's pending unrelated lawsuit or egregious violations by the Chicago Police Department in an unrelated criminal case constituted… |
| 18-9681 |
Tracey Godfrey v. United States District Court for the District of Montana |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment montana-supreme-court sentencing statutory-interpretation |
MONTANA
SUPREME COUT
IMPOSOD A 10 VEAR SONTENCE
DURSUANT D0 MCA 46-18-SO2.
ON OCT 16T LO13 TH8 21ST JUICDAL DITRICT
COURT, RAMAI
CO.MT., IMPOSED A GO … |
| 18-9677 |
Martin Arreola Zavala v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility contested-cases criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-determination federal-courts federal-sentencing legal-sufficiency quantity-determinations sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI TO ADDRESS THE PROPER APPLIATION OF LAW TO FACT RELATING TO SUFFICIENCY OF THE EVIDENCE FOR QUANTITY DET… |
| 18-9674 |
Terence Tramaine Andrus v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-06-14 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (24)IFP |
death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Does the standard for assessing ineffective assistance of counsel claims, announced in Strickland v. Washington, fail to protect the Sixth Amendment r… |
| 18-9671 |
In Re Frank J. Ashley |
|
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing takings |
Did Ashley receive a fair trial, based on the South Dakota Supreme Court's decision - In Re Formal Inquiry Concerning Fuller 2011 SD 22? |
| 18A1307 |
James Destry Hamm v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection jury-instructions stalking-statute sua-sponte |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9663 |
In Re Lorcan Kilroy |
|
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act disabled-plaintiffs employment-discrimination equal-protection mixed-motives nassar nassar-test protected-class retaliation title-vi title-vii |
1. Whether the retaliation protection provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in regard to it's current application to §504 protected … |
| 18-9659 |
In Re Quisi Bryan |
|
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus hurst-claim hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-trial retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
Bryan's habeas petition presents exceptional circumstances that, if left unresolved, will result in disparate interpretations of the federal Constitut… |
| 18-9653 |
Todd Ricks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th… |
| 18-9616 |
Rocky Riojas-Ordaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 18-9648 |
Jamelle Edward Armstrong v. California |
California |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
african-american batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection federal-question jury-selection peremptory-challenges race-neutrality supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Did the California Supreme Court improperly decide the issue of the race-neutrality of respondent's exercise of its trial peremptory challenges to exc… |
| 18-9615 |
Shawn Russell Sorensen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal conflict-among-courts-of-appeals drug-felony drug-felony-offenses drug-offenses eighth-amendment first-step-act mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement simple-possession |
THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT MR. SORENSEN's PETITION FOR CERTIORARI TO RESOLVE A CONFLICT AMONG THE UNITED STATES COURTS OF APPEALS AS TO WHETHER PETITIONE… |
| 18-9633 |
Manuel Gonzalez-Reyes v. William P. Barr, Attorney General |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizenship citizenship-status constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination immigration marital-status morales-santana-precedent statutory-interpretation |
(1) Will the distinction drawn within the former Section 1432(a)(3), based on marital status and the gender of his father violate the equal protection… |
| 18-9634 |
Destyn David Frederick v. Bryan Collier, Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-challenge right-to-counsel sentencing |
ISSUE NO ONE AND TWO whether the United States District court and the Fifth Circuit court of appeals have denied Petitioner his rights to challenge th… |
| 18-9635 |
Carlos Antonio Flores v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adequate-deference co-defendant-sentences deference due-process just-punishment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparities substantive-reasonableness |
Is the Sentence Substantially unreasonable because if creates unwarranted Sentence Disparities for deterrence and in light of the fact that the Senten… |
| 18-9637 |
Robert Travis Jenkins v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights compliance-burden constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-regulations judicial-review jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
[I] On appeal, Jenkins contendsthe verdictshould be set aside because the prosecutor antialevidence. The inquiry advances in three staqes. If these st… |
| 18-9641 |
Clifford Brigham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the imposition of the statutory maximum, 60-month term was substantively unreasonable. |
| 18-9644 |
Jeffrey Castleberry v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-disabilities mental-disability reasonable-accommodations retroactive-application sentencing state-courts |
1) Does the Americans with Disabities Act (ADA) require State Trial Courts to make reasonable accommodations for persons with mental disabilities?
2)… |
| 18-9605 |
Don Ferguson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
7th-amendment compelled-speech content-neutrality criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial first-amendment free-speech government-regulation jury-instructions private-entities |
Whether A Great Public Importance Exists Of Florida Courts' Denied Pro Se Petitioner's Representing Himself At Jury Trial, Of His (7th) Amendment Cons… |
| 18-9608 |
Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-interpretation plain-error procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Does the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with decisions of the Supreme Court in United States v. Molina-Martinez, United States v. R… |
| 18-9612 |
Gregory Rayford v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing |
1.) The State failed to prove defendant Bayfard quilty beyond a reasonable doubt because it did not show that defendant Constructively possessed the n… |
| 18-9623 |
Robert William Wazney v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-relief asset-freezing constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidence indigent-defendant |
PREFACE: In tFis case Defendant argues tFe Plaintiff refused mortgage payments from Defendants wife tFen came after tFe Defendant for tFe Money. TFe D… |
| 18-9625 |
Lawton Frederick Tyson v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial grand-jury habeas-corpus jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct |
WERE PETITIONER'S "DUE PROCESS & EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS" RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES & IMMUNITIES VIOLATED, WHEN THE TRIAL COURT HAD "TRIED, CONVICTED AN… |
| 18-9628 |
Ella W. Horn v. CRC Health Group, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process employment-law equal-protection race-discrimination retaliation section-1981 sexual-harassment |
Whether the District court and Ninth Circuit violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment of the due process clause for equal protection by failing to … |
| 18A1289 |
Walter Barton v. Cynthia Griffith, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1527 |
Rattan Nath v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights criminal-liability due-process equal-protection ordinance-enforcement property-rights racial-discrimination revenue-generation selective-enforcement takings vague-ordinance |
Can New Jersey courts provide cover to racial discrimination by imposing strict criminal liability—even when there is no public nuisance or any compro… |
| 18-9594 |
Brian L. Davis v. 7-Eleven, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury jury-trial standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9601 |
Lawrence J. Strickland v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Does it violate the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment for the district court to make a finding that two "armed career crim… |
| 18-9568 |
Roderick Mullins v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process imprisonment indefinite-imprisonment life-imprisonment life-sentence sentencing sentencing-scheme state-constitution |
Does the Florida "Life Means Life" sentence scheme violate the State Constitution's ban on indefinite imprisonment and the 14th Amendment Due Process … |
| 18-9570 |
Cody Joseph Morgan v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce retrial sentencing sentencing-package texas-v-mccullough |
Did Texas v. McCullough, 475 U.S. 134 (1986) create a brightline rule that anytime a jury returns a sentencing verdict at the original trial it become… |
| 18-9578 |
James Jacob Parrish, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-conviction procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-departure sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-variance sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Parrish's sentence was procedurally and substantively unreasonable because the district court imposed an unsupported departure and/or variance… |
| 18-9581 |
Marcus Arenell Evans v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-rights booker booker-remedy booker-v-us constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines-interpretation |
I. Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpreta… |
| 18-9589 |
Nicholas Bradley Gilbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-penalties criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion felon-possession interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
1. Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to "substantively second guess" the district court and/or to "r… |
| 18-9562 |
Shawn Michael Simms v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence pennsylvania-courts post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio |
Ground I. Did the Pennsylvania Courts err in 'denying the instant Post Conviction Relief Act Petition for failing to recognize that the P.C.R.A. statu… |
| 18-9563 |
Cody Shane Sorrels v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum |
1. Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the
statutory minimum is "not greater than necessary " to ach… |
| 18-9564 |
Brian Suniga v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions mitigation-evidence moral-blameworthiness tennard-v-dretke tex-code-crim-proc-art-37-071-section-2-f-4 |
1) Tennard v. Dretke, 542 U.S. 274 (2004) disavowed any requirement of a nexus between evidence introduced in mitigation of sentence in a death penalt… |
| 18-9573 |
Ernesto Betancourt-Carrillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18A1276 |
Karen Khan v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split civil-rights equal-protection fifth-amendment money-mandating sovereign-immunity |
Federal Circuit's Application of the Plausibility Standard to Weigh Evidence Against Plaintiff Conflicts With This Court's Precedent In Twombly and Ig… |
| 18-9513 |
Rhonda Reid v. Walter Donnelly, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection racial-discrimination sentencing standing |
I'm asking Judge Sign a Why diol Prior restitution Order in my name on 4-12-11 Why did the trial judge make a decision on Under 0.C.G.Aq17-14.7(0) hyo… |
| 18-9534 |
Femi Alexander Mewase v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jury-selection due-process federal-rules-of-evidence jury-selection sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the improper removal of Juror 20.
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by upholding the admission of evidence… |
| 18-9556 |
Charles R. Willard v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability inconsistent-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-illness prejudice prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-mitigation trial-counsel witness-credibility witness-impeachment |
1. Is the low threshold for a certificate of appealability ("COA") met on a claim that trial counsel provided prejudicially deficient performance when… |
| 18-9558 |
Oladimeji Ayelotan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jury-selection sentencing shackling |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by allowing Petitioner to be shackled in the courtroom during his trial; allowi… |
| 18-9532 |
Lemuel Clayton Bray v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection feres-doctrine military-compensation retaliation sovereign-immunity veterans-affairs veterans-rights |
Are U.S. War Veterans and active duty military separate and unequal citizens under the Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 14, despite the 1… |
| 18-9545 |
Robert Hercenberger v. Kathy Proctor |
Oregon |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment government-policy legal-equality state-action state-jurisdiction |
Where Equal Protection of the laws definition apply for all:
A phrase in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
requiring that s… |
| 18-9549 |
Mauricio Lucas-Lopez v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment federal-court-decisions federal-courts guidance-needed mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence proportionality sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
A. IS PETITIONER'S TWENTY-FIVE YEAR MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE DISPROPORTIONATE TO THE OFFENSE COMMITTED VIOLATING THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED … |
| 18A1263 |
Keith D. Nelson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability constitutional-standards death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1258 |
Michigan Senate, et al. v. League of Women Voters of Michigan, et al. |
Michigan |
2019-06-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
equal-protection first-amendment justiciability partisan-gerrymandering redistricting vote-dilution |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9510 |
Rasaq Aderoju Raheem v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure conviction criminal-procedure defendant-conviction due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jurisdiction legal-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming Defendant's Raheem conviction. |
| 18-9519 |
Michael Wesley v. New York |
New York |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
alvarez-v-united-states constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-witness-perjury griffin-v-united-states petitioner's right to have newly-discovered-eviden sixth-amendment united-states-v-biberfeld washington-v-texas witness witness-perjury |
(1). A Petitioner Rights to have a Witness in his favor is protected by the "Due Process of Law Clause" and the Fifth ,Sixth, Fourteenth, amendment. S… |
| 18-1503 |
Nagel Rice, LLP, et al. v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorneys-fees circuit-split class-action class-action-litigation class-action-settlement conflict-of-interest constitutional-infirmity counsel-fees due-process equal-protection lead-counsel pre-appointment-work unequal-plaintiff-classes |
This Court has never addressed two important questions in class action litigation. First, whether nonclass counsel is entitled to an award of counsel … |
| 18-1500 |
Jonsha Bell v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing life-expectancy nonhomicide-offense sentencing sentencing-proportionality |
Does the Eighth Amendment forbid an aggregate sentence that exceeds the life expectancy of a juvenile nonhomicide offender? |
| 18-9493 |
Jose Santillan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United … |
| 18-9494 |
Matthew Mounir Awad v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice ninth-circuit procedural-ruling sentencing |
1. Whether the Ninth Federal Circuit Court of Appeals correctly denied Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability (hereinafter, "COA"). A Ce… |
| 18-9495 |
Jason Jones v. Martha Underwood, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-remedy intervening-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence post-conviction-relief retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-construction |
Whether petitioner is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the ground that 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is "inadequate or ineff… |
| 18-9497 |
Lloyd E. Austin, IV v. Bridgitte Amsberry |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
why petitioner the except a stipulated facks would trial plea agreement to the Worst per. Case scenerio without right trying ot trirl o he was in his … |
| 18-9499 |
Chad Austin v. Timothy Stewart, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal bureau-of-prisons civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-review retroactive-application sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-bar |
1.) Hows Can the Bureay of Prisons make petitioners Federal
Sentence, when petitioner was sentenced on 11/iz/1999
under manttory sentencing Gidelines"… |
| 18-9502 |
Christian Vazquez Capistran v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-9506 |
Kenyon Raheen Gadsden v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
1. Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, filed within one year of, Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) and claiming that Johnson inval… |
| 18-9453 |
Vincent Pisciotta v. D. J. Harmon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review buck-v-davis due-process due-process,equal-protection,habeas-corpus,buck-v- equal-protection federal-prisoners fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals state-prisoners |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of appeals err when it denied Mr. Pisciottas appeal in violation of The Supreme Court decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct.… |
| 18-9473 |
Jose Antonio Contreras v. Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9488 |
Nasedra K. Lumpkin v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights default-judgment dismissal due-process equal-protection federal-court procedural-default standing |
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| 18-9491 |
William A. Trudeau, Jr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acquitted-conduct article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process further-review procedural-default sentencing |
WHETHER PETITIONER RAISED SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF DENIAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT ON ISSUE OF WHETHER THE LOWER COURT'S CORRECTLY CONCLUDED THAT HIS ROs… |
| 18-9434 |
Juan Carlos Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
404(b) 4th-amendment co-defendant-consent consent-search consent-to-search fourth-amendment jury-instructions prior-bad-acts prior-bad-acts-404(b) rule-404b search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-variance standing-4th-amendment-search-and-seizure standing-to-suppress variance warrantless-search |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred when it adjudged that Petitioner had no standing to request suppression of evidence obtained from a warran… |
| 18-9456 |
Gary Giovon Lynn v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-sentencing nunc-pro-tunc procedural-error sentencing sentencing-authority sentencing-procedure-error separation-of-powers setser-v-united-states ussg-5g1-3c |
I. When the district court failed to follow the Court's ruling in Setser v. United States, 566 U.S. 231 (2012) at sentencing did it engage in an imper… |
| 18-9459 |
Trinidad Nanez-Rivera v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-common-law mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness tenth-circuit within-guideline-sentences within-range-sentence |
Have the length of within-guideline sentences become effectively unreviewable in practice, and is Mr. Nanez-Rivera's sentence near the top of the rang… |
| 18-9462 |
Daniel H. Kilgore v. Ronda J. Pash, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus missouri-law plea-bargaining sentencing sex-offender |
1. Is Mr. Kilgore entitled to appeal the district court's decision that Missouri did not violate Mr. Kilgore's right to due process of law when he was… |
| 18-9464 |
Charles William Finney v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors capital-murder capital-sentencing death-penalty florida-constitution jury-trial jury-unanimity mitigating-circumstances sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment requires that a jury unanimously find all facts necessary to impose a death sentence in Florida, and whether Florida's cap… |
| 18-9466 |
Paulito Govea-San Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law disability senior-victim sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-2l1.2 statutory-interpretation stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states texas-robbery ussg-2l1.2 |
Whether, after Stokeling v. United States, _U.S._, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2019), the Texas offense of robbery by inflicting injury against a senior or disable… |
| 18-9431 |
William Maurice Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice-reform criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-retroactivity,sentencing-reform drug-distribution due-process first-step-act griffith-v-kentucky ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Does Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, (1987) apply to First Step Act of 2018?
If so did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals fail to apply Griffith … |
| 18-9439 |
Danea M. Addison v. Indiana, dba Family and Social Services Administration |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ada civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jurisdiction medicaid standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9445 |
Volvick Vassor v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternate-theories constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection griffin-v-united-states jury-instructions sufficiency-of-evidence yates-v-united-states |
DOES THE HOLDING IN GRIFFIN V UNITED STATES, 502 U.S. 46, 112 S.CT 466 (1992), WHICH MODIFIED YATES V. UNITED STATES, 354 U.S. 298, 77 S.CT 1064 (1957… |
| 18-1476 |
Randy Lee Carney v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alternative-sentence alternative-sentencing appellate-review career-offender circuit-split collateral-consequences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error judicial-discretion judicial-error legal-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error united-states-v-vonn |
When sentencing defendants, some district courts announce that they would impose the same length of imprisonment even if their conclusions of law and … |
| 18-1461 |
Dawn Marie Delebreau v. Cristina Danforth, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 bivens civil-rights constitutional-equality domestic-dependent-nations due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction native-american-rights section-1983 sovereign-immunity territorial-jurisdiction tribal-law tribal-sovereignty |
Are tribal laws considered territorial laws under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 such that Native Americans must also have an equal § 1983 remedy when Indians are c… |
| 18-1470 |
Jim Feehan v. Rick Marcone, et al. |
Connecticut |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
|
bush-v-gore constitutional-rights due-process election-integrity election-law equal-protection equal-protection-clause retroactive-standard right-to-vote voting-rights |
(1) Whether the Connecticut Supreme Court erred in disregarding the equal protection principles applied in Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000) and requir… |
| 18-1472 |
In Re Christopher Hadsell |
|
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
access-to-courts civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct jurisdiction mandamus standing unauthorized-practice-law unauthorized-practice-of-law vexatious-litigant vexatious-litigant-statutes |
In contrast to appellate-jurisdiction cases normally presented to this Court, the courts below provided no trial, and permitted no appellate review. T… |
| 18-9418 |
D. M. Indika Bandara v. Dan Mann, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment cab-companies civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment due-process equal-protection fort-jackson-base fourteenth-amendment immigrant-owned-businesses standing |
The questions are presented to be review based on the violation of the 14th amendment under equal protection. The CAE airport has terminated non-white… |
| 18-9419 |
Mario Laron Waiters v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment |
Whether the Virginia Statute 1.2-72 violates due process and equal protection and is unconstitutional as it applied to this case. The requirements are… |
| 18-9423 |
Ayanna Angle v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-procedure equal-protection harmless-error judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination |
When a court of appeals finds that a district court, in overruling an objection to the prosecution's use of peremptory juror strikes, failed to comple… |
| 18-9425 |
Kevin Contreras v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924(a) aggravated-assault criminal-law criminal-liability due-process equal-protection generic-offense interstate-movement physical-force recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation use-of-physical-force vagueness voisine-v-united-states |
I. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated assault is equivalent to the "generic" form of that offense?
II. Whether this Court's holding in Voisine v… |
| 18-9430 |
Bobby Ray Turner v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-misconduct sentencing standards-of-review |
Felony conviction? |
| 18-9391 |
Josephine McGowan v. Walmart Stores |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing takings |
WHAT TREATMENT WAS I CAUSED TO BE TREATED IN THIS MANNER BY WAL-MART AND ALL OF THESE DOCTORS AND LAWYERS. WAS IT BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF MY SKIN? WAS… |
| 18-9396 |
Bobby Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment lethal-injection res-judicata section-1983 stay |
WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN HOLDING THAT MR. LONG WAS NOT ENTITLED TO A STAY BECAUSE OF INEXCUSABLE DELAY IN BRINGING HIS L… |
| 18-9404 |
Devon Lona Lunn v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech jurisdiction standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9407 |
Humberto Verduzco-Magana v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-waiver circuit-court conformity judgment-correction oral-pronouncement sentence-modification sentencing written-judgment |
Whether a written appellate waiver giving up the right to appeal any portion of the sentence waive the right to ask the Circuit to conform the written… |
| 18-9408 |
Freddie J. Hennington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-procedure dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-review procedural-error sentencing standing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Hennington's appeal without considering the merits of his arguments. |
| 18-9415 |
Michael Don Neely v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-interpretation illegal-sentence johnson-v-united-states judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional |
Michael Neely is serving an illegal sentence after Johnson v. United States. However, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that he is not entitled … |
| 18-9365 |
Jose Antonio Ramirez-Jaramillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation statutory-range substantial-rights |
Whether an error in selecting the defendant's statutory range of imprisonment affects his or her substantial rights within the meaning of Federal Rule… |
| 18-9375 |
Saleem Elamin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment armed-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
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| 18-9377 |
John Patrick Donohue v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction parole probation sentencing standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9383 |
Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection erroneous-decisions first-amendment judicial-misconduct patent-law patent-rights |
Whether the lower court vacating hearings and arbitrarily ordering Petitioner to amend her complaint and the Judge acting as attorney to Defendants or… |
| 18-9384 |
In Re Freya Pearson |
|
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel legal-standards mandamus pro-se standing takings writ-of-relief |
1. Whether the Petitioner's Direct Appeal, warrants the issuance of a Writ of Mandamus to compel action by the Court.
2. Whether the Petitioner shoul… |
| 18-9387 |
Mary Elizabeth Schipke v. Connecticut, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act civil-gideon civil-rights constitutional-rights disability due-process equal-protection extension-of-time homelessness inheritance inheritance-rights speedy-trial |
Connecticut has long been known to be a hotbed of white-collar crime and corruption and countless poor citizens and legitimate heirs have been cheated… |
| 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.… |
| 18-9363 |
Michael Lee Robinson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing constitutional-waiver due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-constitutional-rights hurst-rule penalty-jury retroactivity waiver |
1. Can a defendant in a state capital sentencing proceeding voluntarily, knowingly, and
intelligently waive a federal constitutional right that was bo… |
| 18-9370 |
Mark A. Blankenship v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court district-court-determination fed-r-crim-p-35(b) federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review reduced-sentence sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-factor sentencing-factors |
Does appellate jurisdiction lie from a district court's determination that a particular sentencing factor is relevant to the imposition of a reduced s… |
| 18A1204 |
Usha Jain, et vir v. David Barker, et al. |
Florida |
2019-05-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment pro-se |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1449 |
Harold Lee Harvey, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-decisions retroactive-application retroactivity ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision denying retroactive application of the Hurst decisions to Mr. Harvey violate the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 18-1452 |
Jose A. Perez v. Physician Assistant Board, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 amendment civil-procedure constitutional-amendment constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection federal-rules-civil-procedure pro-se-litigant statute-of-limitations takings williamson-county |
Whether Mr. Perez can amend his complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1653 and 15(c) F.R.C.P., to allege that a State cannot exclude a person from the pra… |
| 18-9339 |
Anthony Dajuan Yates v. California |
California |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure disparate-impact equal-protection juror-selection jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges race-neutral-explanation racial-profiling |
I. Does a prosecutor's peremptory challenge of a prospective African-American juror based on the juror's perception of racial profiling by law enforce… |
| 18-9348 |
Willie Joe Williams v. Stephen Welch, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing |
Whether or not the State Court And Federal Courtis) error in sending Petitioner to prison after dismissing crimels) and charge (s). |
| 18-9356 |
Robert Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-jurisprudence evolving-standards-of-decency mental-illness |
1. Whether an individual who suffers from severe mental illness is exempt from execution under the Eighth Amendment and the evolving standards of dece… |
| 18-9357 |
Mondrick Bradley v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection false-arrest habeas-corpus malicious-prosecution sentencing standing unlawful-search |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9318 |
Darnell Dunlap v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment griffin-v-illinois indigent-appellant right-to-appeal standing statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE STATE COURTS REFUSAL TO PROVIDE INDIGENT APPELLANTS WITH A COMPLETE COPY OF THE RECORD/TRANSCRIPTS FROM ALL PRE CONVICTION PROCEEDINGS … |
| 18-9319 |
Robert Gray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-9320 |
Domenick James Howard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-state-relations lockhart-v-united-states mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states ninth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty |
WHETHER A PRIOR SEXUAL ASSAULT CONVICTION
SHOULD BE USED TO INCREASE THE STATUTORY PENALTY
WHERE THE PRIOR STATE CONVICTION IS OVER-INCLUSIVE
VIS-A… |
| 18-9321 |
Jesus Cornelio Dolmo-Alvarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-9322 |
Edward Ray Crosby v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law disability judicial-review senior-victim sentencing sentencing-guidelines stokeling-precedent stokeling-v-united-states united-states-sentencing-commission ussg-4b1.2 |
Whether, after Stokeling v. United States , __U.S .__, 139 S.Ct. 544 (2019), the Texas offense of
aggravated robbery by inflicting injury against a se… |
| 18-9323 |
Donald Duhart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge constitutional-law crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Is the residual clause definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-9328 |
Diego Portocarrero Valencia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process high-seas-offense jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing stateless-vessel |
1. Is the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act ("MDLEA") unconstitutional because no minimum contacts between the accused and the United States are requi… |
| 18-9330 |
Thomas Anthony Hammond v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender-guideline circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-law-sentencing due-process due-process-clause ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
The United States Court Of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with the decisions of the United States Courts of Appeals for the First and Seco… |
| 18-9332 |
In Re Nawaz Ahmed |
|
2019-05-17 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus mandamus prohibition standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9340 |
Anes Subasic v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit No. 18-7047 make an error in denying my motion for a certificate of appealability and dismissing … |
| 18-1440 |
Marby Hogen, et al. v. Steven C. Hogen, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Arline H. Hogen, Deceased, et al. |
North Dakota |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure north-dakota probate property-rights state-action takings vested-interests |
1. Does the decision of the Supreme Court of North Dakota deprive the Petitioners of established property rights in violation of the due process and e… |
| 18-9285 |
Dean A. Schwartzmiller v. California |
California |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment free-speech overbreadth penal-code sixth-amendment vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Is California Penal Code § 288 void for vagueness and over-breadth and contrary to the First, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Con… |
| 18-9299 |
Frankie Karen Washington v. Deborah Johnson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split constitutional-review harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Under Apprendi v. New Jersey 530 U.S. 466 (2000), it violates the Sixth Amendment to sentence a defendant to a higher statutory maximum term based on … |
| 18-9300 |
Devon Waters, aka Devon Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-defendant-appeal-waiver criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-distribution-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I.
DOES A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT'S WAIVER OF HIS
RIGHT TO APPEAL A WITHIN GUIDELINE'S SENTENCE
BAR APPELLATE REVIEW WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT
IMPROPERLY SE… |
| 18-9301 |
Skip Earnest Ralph Lomax v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant criminal-enhancement criminal-law felon-possession firearms firearms-trafficking intent knowledge mens-rea sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-use |
Did the court below err in finding that the firearms-trafficking enhancement applied when Mr. Lomax did not know that that confidential informant purc… |
| 18-9302 |
Xing Lin v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924 appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
1. Is the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) void for vagueness?
2. Should this Court hold petitioner's case for a ruling in United States v… |
| 18-9303 |
Larry Ray Lincks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver booker booker-remedy constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines-interpretation plea-agreement plea-bargaining public-policy sentence-appeal-waiver sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Does a sentence-appeal waiver that purportedly precludes a challenge to the sufficiency of enhancement evidence and the district court's interpreta… |
| 18-9306 |
Shawn Sayer v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process maximum-sentence probation-report procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance |
I. Whether the district court erred by imposing a sentence without adequate explanation pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c), and the length of which sente… |
| 18-9252 |
Kevin Foster v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-findings jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt unanimous-verdict |
1. Whether Mr. Foster's death sentence is unconstitutional because it violates the Eighth Amendment and the Due Process Clause where the jury did not … |
| 18-9288 |
In Re Sherman Lamont Fields |
|
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appeals constitutional-rights death-penalty death-row due-process immediate-relief ineffective-counsel judicial-bias miscarriage-of-justice wrongful-conviction |
Under Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corp. (1988) 486 U.S. 847, 100 L..Ed .2d 855, 108 S.Ct. 2194 ( A Judge(s) refusal to disqualify himself… |
| 18-9289 |
In Re Michael Leon Haley, Sr. |
|
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing third-strike |
WHETHER PETITIONER IS ACTUALLY INNOCENT OF BEING ELIGIBLE FOR A THIRD-STRIKE SENTENCE UNDER 42 PA. C. S. §9714(g)?
WHETHER PETITIONER'S SENTENCING WA… |
| 18-9290 |
Albert J. Hamilton v. Jurban, RN, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment-interpretation civil-rights constitutional-conflict criminal-law disability due-process equal-protection legal-classification rational-basis sentencing standing state-interest takings |
1. Does the State of California create a ton Flav. Under the US. Const. 5th and 14th Amend. By not Providing a Rational Relationship Between a leatti … |
| 18-9291 |
Adrian Green v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment career-offender criminal-history due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plea-agreement prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-error |
Was defense counsel ineffective or deficient in their representation of the defendant?
Whether the district court committed reversible plain error in… |
| 18-9296 |
In Re Allen J. Dannewitz, Jr. |
|
2019-05-15 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment ada-violation civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment guardianship guardianship-rights judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing |
Whether ward was ever incapacitated.
Whether ward was served with paperwork when guardianship was ordered.
Whether ward was provided with opportunit… |
| 18-9246 |
Anthony G. Bryant v. Department of Education, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-procedure asset-seizure civil-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines first-amendment fourteenth-amendment tenth-amendment |
Petitioner cites Errors by US Court of Appeals for the Fourth District clear of Eighth Amendment regarding excessive fines Tyson Timbs v State of Indi… |
| 18-9254 |
Larry B. Rubin v. Hector Sanchez, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment qualified-immunity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9255 |
Santosh Ram v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea mental-competency mental-disease-defect plea-agreement plea-bargaining search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether there was violation of due process of law by the failure of the trial court to order the mental competency evaluation and/or conduct mental co… |
| 18-9257 |
Lonnie Rarden v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judgment merits mitigating-evidence opinion petition search-and-seizure sentencing state-court state-courts writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9258 |
Bernard Roosevelt Shaw v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
carjacking crime-of-violence criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge |
"Whether the lower court(s) erred in its interpretation as to the "vagueness challenge" of Section §924(c)(3)(B), and the meaning as to what is consid… |
| 18-9260 |
Frederick E. Braxton v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coram-nobis due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause eyewitness perjury trial-judge witness-credibility |
Is Due Process and/or Equal Protection Clauses of the XIVth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution violated when the sole eyewitness to a crime is the vic… |
| 18-9262 |
David Wood v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-violation habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas |
Do the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments tolerate the execution of a person whose claim of intellectual disability has been expressly decided under an … |
| 18-9267 |
John Loveman Reese v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity |
In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t… |
| 18-9272 |
Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Nancy Dahlstrom, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections |
Alaska |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction juror-bias jury-bias no-impeachment-rule right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment |
1. Does the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require courts to apply a Sixth Amendment constitutional exception to a no-impeachment… |
| 18-9274 |
William Lee Thompson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection retroactivity sentencing-procedure teague-v-lane |
In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t… |
| 18-9242 |
Joel Hayden v. Maine |
Maine |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ethnicity fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-selection-process language-barrier race-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire |
"WHEN A PARTY MOVES TO STRIKE A PROSPECTIVE JUROR FOR CAUSE BECAUSE OF A 'LANGUAGE BARRIER' WHAT SORT OF RECORD MUST THE COURT MAKE IN ORDER TO ENSURE… |
| 18-9243 |
Chima Edozie Aligwekwe v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial restitution sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the right to a jury trial as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment is violated when a district court increases the defendant's prison sentence and… |
| 18-1420 |
Timothy Burns v. Alabama |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment citizenship civil-rights constitution constitutional-protection court-procedure court-reporting custody damages discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-conduct legal-damages standing |
Are Plaintiff and minor child A.B. citizens of the United States?
Are minor child A.B. and Plaintiff guaranteed protection under the United States Co… |
| 18-9234 |
Rudy Mendoza v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
GVR |
IFP |
constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-procedure jury-determination second-amendment section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-davis vagueness |
1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague. (This question is presently before the Court in United States v. Davis, No. 18-431.)
… |
| 18-9238 |
Reshaud Todd Brown v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment habitual-offender habitual-offender-statute life-without-parole mandatory-sentencing proportionality-review sentencing sentencing-court youthful-adult youthful-offender |
Whether imposition of a mandatory sentence of life without parole under a habitual offender statute violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition against … |
| 18-9233 |
Michael Perales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process plain-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error?
Mu… |
| 18-9217 |
Kirk Lurton Grummitt, et al. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations |
(1) Whether the "right" in Johnson, which invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, triggers this statute of limitations for a… |
| 18-9156 |
Joseph Vincent Sisneros v. Eric Arnold, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions sentencing state-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9166 |
Travis Michael Ortiz v. David Baughman, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing state-action takings |
Can California violate my freedom, and "Double Jeopardy Clauses?
Can California violate The lawyer-client privilege?
Can California () Framing of Th… |
| 18-9168 |
Melissa Owens v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights controlled-substances criminal-history drug-trafficking due-process equal-protection plea-agreement racial-discrimination school-desegregation sentencing sentencing-guidelines voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9178 |
Matthew Oliver Alford v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Safety, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction grand-jury habeas-corpus indictment jurisdictional-constraints procedural-limitations standing state-court-conviction |
1) Did the DistRict CouRt (W.D.N.C.A.D. and the 4 CiR. L.D.A.s Violate PetitiOnERS
Right to aces feal Coun&Rght to oces yapplg the o Ro
ceduRal Rules/… |
| 18-9185 |
Bobby Martin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-16 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process residual-clause sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether reasonable jurors could debate whether Sessions v. Dimaya 188 S. Ct. 1204 (2018) and Johnson v United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015) invalid… |
| 18-9186 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
2019-05-08 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
ada ada-discrimination cruel-and-unusual-punishment discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-consideration proposition-57 retroactive-credits sentencing time-credits |
Did the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) policies and procedures violate the Petitioner's U.S.C.A. 14' Amendment and the… |
| 18-9189 |
Vernell Conley v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-offense due-process evidence hicks-v-oklahoma jury jury-trial sentencing |
PETITIONER WAS CONVICTED OF THREE DRUG OFFENSES AND SENTENCED BY THE JURY TO A TOTAL TERM OF 90 YEARS. THE ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT FOUND INSUFFICIENT E… |
| 18-9190 |
Parnell Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Florida |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure court-appointed-counsel direct-appeal due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-denial unlawful-imprisonment |
WHETHER REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED BECAUSE STATE COURT'S SUMMARY DENIAL OF PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS, SEEKING BELATED DIRECT APPEAL OR REINSTAT… |
| 18-9194 |
Noah Espada v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-law criminal-procedure death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process federal-law perjury reversal |
Whether a Brady violation, that results in the reversal of a death sentence because of perjury stemming from the Brady violation, implicates the Doubl… |
| 18-9195 |
Keith Walter Bullard v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection index-of-authorities jurisdiction reasons-for-granting-certiorari standing statement-of-case statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
expert related services, non-psychiatric, what is the threshold determination to be made, and what does that consist of? |
| 18-9205 |
Antonio Ballesteros v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-6th-amendment criminal-procedure importation machine-generated-data sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strict-liability |
I. Whether GPS Data prepared specifically for an ongoing investigation and culled from several databases is machine generated data that implicates the… |
| 18-9206 |
Mitchell Felix Brooks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-compliance rule-11 sentencing supervisory-powers supervisory-powers-of-lower-courts |
(1) Whether the District Court Judge abused its discretion in violation pursuant to Rule 11, United States v. McCarthy "62 interrogation questions" ma… |
| 18-9154 |
Jeffrey William Smith v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure-criminal constitutional-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instructions life-imprisonment life-sentence mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
ATEPTED CAPITAL CASE
THE INSTRUCTON ANO GIVE IT IN THE PROPER FORM; CITEDIN) "WHALEY V. COMMONDEALh, 214 VA.353 (1973) AND IN " FI5hBACK v. COMMONWEG… |
| 18-9173 |
Paul Hillard Posey, Sr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
counsel-on-appeal due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Should the Sixth Amendment's constitutional guarantee to counsel on appeal, extend to habeas corpus when habeas corpus is the first opportunity to rev… |
| 18-1403 |
Jehan Zeb Mir v. Sharon Levine, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-proceeding due-process equal-protection fair-notice issue-preclusion license-revocation medical-license notice-requirement procedural-protections supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether Petitioner was denied Due Process when the Respondents revoked his license by operation of law without adequate procedural protections, con… |
| 18-1399 |
Geoffrey Parker Damon v. Cincinnati Bar Association |
Ohio |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment-14th-amendment attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violation disbarment disciplinary-process disparate-treatment due-process equal-protection legal-profession race-discrimination racial-discrimination reinstatement reverse-discrimination reverse-race-discrimination |
Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio issued an order of permanent disbarment against Petitioner as a result of reverse race discrimination against Caucas… |
| 18-9127 |
Kathleen C. Hampton v. PROF-2013-S3 Legal Title Trust, et al. |
Virginia |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights consent-orders constitutional-standards due-process equal-protection foreclosure fraud loan-auction property-rights standing takings |
Whether Virginia courts have violated the constitutional standards of due process and equal protection? And have the trial courts entertained the suit… |
| 18-9138 |
Taquan Rahshe Gullett-El v. Timothy J. Corrigan, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9142 |
Joshua Neil Harrell v. California |
California |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction patent standing statutory-interpretation takings |
1. Did the insefient ecod fal to stalish a Kowing, whiver of attelhints to Amerament right and Voluntaly andVor was Structural revessible enor coussel… |
| 18-9146 |
Kenan Ivery v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection heat-of-passion homicide state-judiciary sudden-provocation |
IS A PETTIONER DENIED DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW WHEN A STATE JUDICIARY REFUSES-AGAINST COMMON SENSE, REASON, LEGISLATIVE INTENT AND … |
| 18-9149 |
John David Brookins v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
equal-protection evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct |
[I] THE PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW WERE VIOLATED WHEN THE LOWER STATE AND FEDERAL COURT DENIED … |
| 18-9164 |
Antonio Muro, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction objection procedural-requirement reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 18-9070 |
Gabriel Urzua Sanchez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure direct-appeal district-court fifth-amendment first-step-act mandatory-minimum privilege sentencing witness-testimony |
I.
Whether the district court abused its discretion in failing to properly determine
that Mr. Sanchez's proposed witnesses Nino Tanzini and Shawn Hous… |
| 18-9100 |
Corry Mency v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington blakey-v-washington constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum trial-judge |
Mr. Mency contended Florida Statutes (2004) section 775.084(3)(a)6 was unconstitutional under Apprendi v. New Jersey and Blakey v. Washington as appli… |
| 18-9108 |
Milton Mitchell v. Glen Johnson, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-of-law equal-protection equal-protection-of-law grand-jury guilty-plea habeas-corpus indictments ineffective-assistance |
WHEATHER TRE LOWER COURTS ERRED IN :
Falling to oRdDER THE RESPONDENT +o Show
- CAUSE And PROVIDE. LNDOIctments, TRIaL
. TRiaL TRANSCRIPTS, Habeas CO… |
| 18-9114 |
Nolan George v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-commitment contract-law due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-promise plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion statute-of-limitations |
IS IT A VIOLATION OF THE FIFTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION FOR STATE OR FEDERAL COURTS AND PROSECUTORS TO IGNORE, ALTE… |
| 18-9118 |
Emanual Deleon Fields v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination standing |
IN TIS CASE FIELDS' OUESTITONED PRESENTED WEITON THIS CASE. WAS IS U.S. CONSITUTIONEL LIGTTS NELE DENTED IN TRIAL COULT NIHEN LOSECUTION DENIED MIS U.… |
| 18-9124 |
Garland D. Miller v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coram-nobis criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence judicial-jurisdiction restitution rule-35 sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation title-18 |
DOES JURISDICTION EXIST TO CORRECT AN ILLEGAL SENTENCE AT ANY TIME. |
| 18-9136 |
J.T., the Father v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. |
Florida |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-cases dependency-cases due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty-interest indigent-population parental-rights |
The first question involves the Florida Practice and Rule which do not permit litigants to seek review in the Florida Supreme Court when the District … |
| 18-9084 |
Edward JoRodge Gladney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure diminished-capacity due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness sentencing sentencing-mitigation |
I. Whether the district court erred or abused its discretion by failing to hold an evidentiary hearing after grant of COA on contested factual allegat… |
| 18-9090 |
Virginia Howard v. San Diego County Counsel, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-preemption homestead homestead-exemption lis-pendens mechanic-liens municipal-liability property-recording real-property supremacy-clause supremacy-of-federal-law title-42 title-42-section-1983 |
Question #1
Are the Recorders failure omissions to register, record, docket or index documents
regarding real property) make offices, counties, paris… |
| 18-9091 |
Antwayne Tremayne Lowry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-9096 |
Douglas A. Glaser v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment jurisdiction qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9104 |
Kurt Zamor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure common-carrier criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-16 evidence evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony firearms firearms-regulation mens-rea sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT FAILED TO PROPERLY APPLY TITLE 18 U.S.C. SECTION 922(e) IN DETERMINING WHETHER THE EVIDENCE WAS SUFFICIENT TO ESTABLIS… |
| 18-9105 |
Samuel Eugene Geddie v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-crimes alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states court-of-appeals criminal-classification criminal-law due-process north-carolina north-carolina-law sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE NORTH CAROLINA COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY HOLDING THERE ARE "NO AGGRAVATED CRIMES", SUCH AS AGGRAVATED COMMON LAW ROBBERY, IN NORTH CAROLIN… |
| 18-9107 |
In Re Garvester Bracken |
|
2019-05-02 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction question-not-identified standing takings |
THE QUESTION IS WHETHER AFTER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS THE DISTRICT COURT AND THE STATE SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO EXERCISE JURISDICTION WHICH… |
| 18-9111 |
El-Sayyid Nosair v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hurst-v-florida judicial-review muslim-arab-prisoners prisoner-rights pro-se-litigation sentencing terrorism united-states-v-o'brien wrongful-conviction yick-wo-v-hopkins |
WHETHER THE DENIAL OF EQUAL JUSTICE BY LOWER COURTS IS STILL WITHIN THE PROHIBITION OF THE CONSTITUTION AS THIS COURT HELD IN YICK WO v. HOPKINS IN 18… |
| 18-9117 |
Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona sentencing sixth-amendment |
"The Sixth Amendment requires a jury, not a judge, to find each fact necessary to impose a sentence of death." Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616, 619 (… |
| 18-1376 |
Fernando Gabriel Irazu v. Margarita O. |
Connecticut |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-process constitutional-law contempt-of-court divorce-judgment due-process enforcement-of-us-judgments equal-protection exequatur-proceedings international-law international-private-law jurisdictional-dispute parental-rights unequal-treatment-under-law |
Did the lower court infringe the Petitioner's parental rights and due process by ignoring the Court's unanimous precedent, in re, Chafin v. Chafin, as… |
| 18-9038 |
Scott Peters v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ada appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights courtroom-access disability-accommodation disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion reasonable-accommodation standing trial-procedure |
Petitioner Questions the Trial Court's Failure Concerning Post 618, Property of Petitioner's Shoes as Qualified Moving and His Rights to be Handicappe… |
| 18-9054 |
Sandra Forquer v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
Maryland |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts court-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection legal-remedy maryland-court-of-appeals replevin replevin-action writ-of-certiorari |
1. Whether the:
Maryland Court of Appeals erred when they denied accepting a
Petition for Writ of Certiorari regarding the improper dismissal of
the P… |
| 18-9056 |
Calvin D. Fox v. The Florida Bar |
Florida |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious attorney-privilege constitutional-rights disciplinary-counsel-misconduct due-process equal-protection florida-bar florida-bar-trust-accounting-rules legal-privilege trust-accounting |
The due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that:
"No State shall. . .deprive any person of life, l… |
| 18-9061 |
Joseph B. v. Nebraska, on Behalf of Brooklyn H. |
Nebraska |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights visitation visitation-rights |
Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a State from forbidding visitation between a noncustodial p… |
| 18-9062 |
Derek Ray King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process indictment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing supervised-release |
1. Whether violations of supervised release that require or permit additional imprisonment must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt, place d… |
| 18-9073 |
Maurice Grayton v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-proceedings third-party |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9031 |
In Re Michael Brandon Samra |
|
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
brain-development capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards habeas-corpus juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders neurological-development neuroscience |
In Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, 578 (2005), this Court held that the Eighth Amendment forbids the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who … |
| 18-9033 |
Michael Brandon Samra v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
brain-development capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards evolving-standards-of-decency juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders neuroscientific-research |
In Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, 578 (2005), this Court held that the Eighth Amendment forbids the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who … |
| 18-9034 |
Norman Lee Shillings v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
alias-name civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence fourteenth-amendment identity tampering-with-evidence |
Can the presentation of an ( Alias ), or Gender specific name used during arrest, booking, and bonding procedures be charged ias Tampering with Eviden… |
| 18-9043 |
Bryan Binkholder v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights due-process plea-bargaining sentencing victim-rights victims-rights writ-of-mandamus |
1. Did the Crime Victims Rights Act, 18 USC 3771 (CVRA), and its 72 hour review requirement for a petition of Writ of Mandamus violate the Constitutio… |
| 18-9049 |
Jackie Madore v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-waivers contract-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity |
I. Whether the Supreme Court of the United States should review appellate waivers in criminal cases under principles of contract law. A concatenation … |
| 18-1365 |
Mogul Media, Inc., et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
commercial-speech content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions equal-protection first-amendment free-speech government-speech municipal-government public-forum public-property zoning-resolution |
The Second Circuit affirmed, en banc, the Second Circuit's prior affirmance of the district court's dismissal, at the pleading stage, of the Amended C… |
| 18-1359 |
William Shannon Gresham v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
(1) Whether a trial court may use acquitted conduct by a jury that rejected the State's proof on a particular issue in order to enhance a defendant's … |
| 18-9003 |
Ariel Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and whether false allegations in a Presentence In burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process government-burden presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement weapons-enhancement weapons-possession |
1. When a defendant submits a sworn Declaration attached to her objections to a
Presentence Report, which denies certain key required elements of the … |
| 18-9004 |
Vaughn S. Archer v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-advisement criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-trial sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation statutory-reduction trial-court-advisement |
(1) Whether Archer knowingly and voluntarily entered into a guilty plea
where the trial court failed to advise him as to the potential application of
… |
| 18-9024 |
Michael J. Littles v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9026 |
Arrez Meliton-Salto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guidelines-range molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error prejudice record-silence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
When the district court fails to calculate the guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh… |
| 18-9029 |
Tyron James v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal apprendi civil-rights constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment unconstitutional-error upward-departure |
1. May a conviction baded dn a unconstitutional hard o life
Senfence be overturned at any time?
2. May this Courts decisionin Apprendi ar to what con… |
| 18-8932 |
Vickie L. Sanders v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights drug-offense due-process due-process-clause equal-protection federalism recidivist-provisions recidivist-sentencing retroactive-reclassification sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. If a state retroactively reduces a felony drug conviction to a misdemeanor, can the government rely on that newly-reclassified misdemeanor convicti… |
| 18-9010 |
Joel Augutuk Mayokok v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error re-sentencing sentence-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unsupported-enhancement |
I. Did the District Court's decision at re-sentencing to re-impose the
same 240-month sentence it initially imposed, where the Court had
erred in its … |
| 18-9016 |
Henry Earl Miller v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 4th-circuit-court-of-appeals 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-equal-protection constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law fourth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus procedural-due-process procedural-law wood-v-milyard |
Does The Fourth Circuit's Widespread Practice Of Issuing Virtually Indistinguishable Production-Line Manufactured Rubber Stamped Opinions Violate Mill… |
| 18-9017 |
Ronald R. Myles v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction review standing |
q1) IF EDVIDENCE IS INHERITED BY THE GOVERNMENT FROM THE PETI. TIONER! RONALD R MYLES, JR'S STATE OF OHIO, AGGRAVATED, 29?
ROBBERY CASE, 16-CR-0337, T… |
| 18-9020 |
Michael Marshall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit guilty-plea jurisdictional-grounds plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's guilty plea was valid. |
| 18-8992 |
Charles Lorraine v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-verdict sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida |
Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
| 18-8995 |
Maurice Anderson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
breach-of-contract due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure first-amendment judicial-discretion legitimate-government-purpose plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing type-c-agreement |
1. When a judge induces a defendant to plead guilty by reassuring him that if his plea is accepted the court is bound to impose a sentence specified i… |
| 18-8996 |
Zack Zafer Dyab v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amount-of-loss appellate-review court-discretion criminal-sentencing illegal-sentence judicial-discretion legal-error loss-calculation plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-limitation statutory-limitations |
1 - Does the miscalculation of the amount of loss as applied to the sentencing guidelines represent an illegal sentence, and plain error that the Cour… |
| 18-8963 |
Jose Cobian v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
730-ilcs-5-5-9-1-1 apprendi constitutional-challenge criminal-fines due-process guilty-plea sentencing southern-union-co-v-united-states standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Southern Union Co. v. United States, 567 U.S. •-. has clarified that criminal fines are subject to the … |
| 18-8974 |
Stanley Bruce Roberson v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence scientific-evidence scientific-reliability statistical-extrapolation statistical-sampling unvalidated-methods |
Does the unvalidated method of statistical extrapolation used to confirm quality and quantity of controlled substances constitute scientifically relia… |
| 18-8975 |
Derran Smiley v. William Muniz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto kidnapping kidnapping-enhancement one-strike-statute penal-code retroactive-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) WAS PETITIONER SMILEY WRONGFULLY CHARGED, CONVICTED AND SENTENCED WITH BREAKING A SPECIFIED STATUTE, (PC:607, GCD)), WHICH CHANGED THE LEGAL CONSEQ… |
| 18-8978 |
Rico Montell Reid v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-11 defendant-rights district-court due-process judicial-coercion judicial-discretion plea-agreement plea-bargaining presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11 prohibits a district court from discussing sentencing options with a defendant at the sentencing hearing… |
| 18-8983 |
Patrick Edwards v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 18-8948 |
Angel Morales De-Jesus v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment conspiracy due-process leadership-enhancement mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. At Sentencingthe District Court calculated a higher oftense tevel than the plea to the united states Constitution?
2. Angel morates-De Jesus agree… |
| 18-8953 |
Carol J. Morris v. Noel Francisco, Solicitor General of the United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction just-compensation standing statutory-interpretation takings veterans-benefits |
MUR OF HER ENTITLEM ENT TO JUST COMPENSATUOU: PUESUAUT
TO.TITIE 28 USC 13.58, EMWENT DOMAW STATUTE (RE:MCAD
V. CREOL JOHNENE MORRIS, TP13106, FUOO OCT… |
| 18-8960 |
In Re Robert Winkel |
|
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection legal-issues legal-terms petition scotus standing takings writ-of-certiorari |
(a) Deprived of Advocacy (United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (1984), and Speedy Trial (Barker v. Wingo, 407 U.S. 514 (1972)), Instead of putting th… |
| 18-8964 |
Artemio Miranda-Manuel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1326 almendarez-torres apprendi criminal-procedure due-process immigration indictment prior-conviction sentencing |
1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of… |
| 18-8966 |
Eric Drake, aka E. V. Drake v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection free-speech pro-se-litigation standing vexatious-litigant |
Petitioner is a citizen of the United States of America. Pursuant to the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, he has rights to bring lawsuits, de… |
| 18-8970 |
John William King v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel teague-analysis teague-v-lane watershed-rule |
1. Whether McCoy applies when a defendant's attorneys concede, against his wishes, his guilt to a lesser-included offense during final argument, and i… |
| 18-8938 |
Elza Budagova v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-procedure criminal-fines criminal-restitution judicial-discretion jury-findings sentencing sentencing-exposure southern-union-co |
Should Apprendi's rule apply to the imposition of criminal restitution? |
| 18-8913 |
Esteban Aguilera-Alvarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 18-8915 |
Jonathan Zepeda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3006a appellate-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process fifth-amendment independent-counsel judicial-manipulation sentencing sixth-amendment standing waiver |
As matters of first impression:
Whether a n individual 's challenge to the constitutionality of his sentence and case proceedings in a criminal prose… |
| 18-8919 |
In Re Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva |
|
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-order due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-review mandamus procedural-due-process standing |
Does any Court have a legal right to issue a dispositive Order without a detailed explanation about why this decision was reached?
Does any Court hav… |
| 18-8922 |
In Re Efrain Campos |
|
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fraud habeas-corpus parole parole-eligibility plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Was Petitioner Efrain Campos Denied A Fundamentally Fair Guilty Plea Procedural Execution, By The With Holding Of Information By The Assistant Distric… |
| 18-8923 |
Ryan Watkins v. Norm Robinson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief re-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit successive-petition |
Whether Petitioner was entitled to present his claims after re-sentencing to the United States District Court of appeals.
Whether the Sixth Circuit C… |
| 18-8925 |
Charles Reginald Cooks v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing |
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DeFEndAnT In TheIR TRUe Names, WiTh STAteMeNTS
ThAT ARE TRUE. (a) ThE WoRdS "CoMperENT CoURT." WhEn US… |
| 18-1324 |
Moses Watts, Sr., et ux. v. Entergy Arkansas, Inc. |
Arkansas |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process eminent-domain equal-protection ex-parte ex-parte-order judicial-procedure pro-se property-rights severance-damages takings |
1. Whether petitioners were denied due process of law by an ex parte Circuit Court order enabling an electric utility to seize, without service of not… |
| 18-1320 |
Renee Baker, Warden v. Alquandre H. Turner |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2244 amended-judgment civil-rights conviction conviction-challenge due-process federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus new-judgment sentence sentencing successive-petition successive-petitions time-served-credit |
1. Whether an amended judgment of conviction containing only nominal changes—that do not disturb the original conviction and sentence—should be consid… |
| 18-8883 |
James E. Jessup v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment prisoner-rights racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8886 |
In Re James Rodgers, Jr. |
|
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness. aggravating-circumstances criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection facial-unconstitutionality gang-relation-element jurisdiction legislative-intent statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction void-for-vagueness |
WHETHER ACTR NO. 92-601, AS ENROLLED, IS FACIALLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL (CODIFIED AS SUBSECTIONS (15), (16), (17), AND (18), OF SECTION 13A-5-40(a), CODE O… |
| 18-8890 |
Carl Lee Jones v. Willie Smith, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection medical-treatment standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent transgender-rights |
medical Knee And Her Disease And medical Denial Tredtment
The united states court of appedls has entered a decision in Conflict with the decision of … |
| 18-8896 |
Richard J. Volis v. Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights disability-discrimination disability-rights disparate-impact equal-protection fair-housing housing-discrimination protected-class public-housing reasonable-accommodation |
Whether the Housing Authority of the City of Lo Angeles' (HACLA) Administrative Plan required to accommodate all disabled voucher holders is unreasona… |
| 18-8899 |
Eric Richard Eleson v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation due-process due-process-equal-protection equal-protection federal-statute judicial-discretion legal-definition non-violent-offense-classification penal-code-definition reasonable-jurist-standard state-constitution-interpretation state-federal-judge-duties state-law supremacy-clause violent-felony |
Does the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause (Article VI, §2) require the Judge(s) (both State & Federal) within STATE OF CALIFORNIA (as well as an o… |
| 18-8900 |
Juan Garcia Herrera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. The enhanced-penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b) and 851 expressly require that the district court, not a jury, make factual findings which i… |
| 18-8903 |
Owen W. Barnaby v. Bret Witkowski, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fraud law-of-the-case res-judicata |
Should Res judicata and Collateral, Estoppel Doctrines be able to
Barr an Independent or an Original Action in Federal Court when;
the Defendants Witt… |
| 18-8905 |
Anthony G. Bryant v. Army Corps of Engineers, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process first-amendment sixth-amendment 10th-amendment 14th-amendment administrative-procedure asset-seizure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourth-amendment |
Petitioner cites Errors by US Court of Appeals for the Fourth District clear of Eighth Amendment regarding excessive fines Tyson limbs v State of Indi… |
| 18-8851 |
Lester James Smith v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempt-to-elude criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-punishment due-process equal-protection evidence-collection federalism investigative-techniques law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing single-incident single-jurisdiction |
M. Smith alleges that the State of Geargia has illeggally sentenced him to 25 years for five counts Single incident, and a single jurisdiction for pro… |
| 18-8864 |
Joseph B. v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights visitation visitation-rights |
Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a State from forbidding visitation between a noncustodial p… |
| 18-8872 |
In Re Samuel Lewis Surles |
|
2019-04-17 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation judicial-interpretation sixth-amendment |
I.
PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS UNALIENABLE RIGHT OF DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT FAILED TO RULE ON THE MERITS OF PETITIONER'S APP… |
| 18-8876 |
Nickie R. Logan v. District Attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8879 |
Olusola Arojojoye v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction jurisdiction restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) Does 18 Usc §3664(0) and USC H3742 give the district court jurisdiction to review a sentence which the restitution was calculated in violation of t… |
| 18-8819 |
Jorge Rogelio Reveles-Santana v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-8845 |
Abel Revill Ochoa v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-punishment death-penalty due-process federal-funding funding habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation procedural-standard statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether, in light of Ayestas v. Davis, 138 S. Ct. 1080 (2018), a court applies an overly burdensome standard for funding under 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f)… |
| 18-8846 |
Silvio Lopez Cuellar v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-appeal sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
Does a defendant's plea agreement waiver of the statutory right of a sentencing appeal preclude appellate review of the sentence even where the distri… |
| 18-8855 |
Eric A. Hicks v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure guidelines molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice prejudice-standard procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the court of appeals' decision conflicts with this Court's decision in Molina-Martinez v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1338 (2016), in concluding… |
| 18-8857 |
Jeffrey A. Weisheit v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-circumstances penalty-phase strickland-standard strickland-v-washington williams-v-taylor |
1. Whether the Indiana Supreme Court contravened Strickland by acknowledging counsel made mistakes, but not finding them to be deficient performance e… |
| 18-8860 |
David Clum, Jr. v. Gene Beasley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process due-process,fifth-amendment,habeas-corpus,pro-se,a equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-litigation sixth-amendment supervisory-powers |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals violated the Fifth Amendment-Due Process Rights of the Petitioner by applying different standards and meth… |
| 18-1306 |
Fred Anderson, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
advisory-jury capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty florida-supreme-court harmless-error hurst-v-florida judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error |
1. Whether a judge-imposed death sentence that violates Hurst is a structural error requiring reversal of the sentence.
2. Whether a Hurst violation … |
| 18-1310 |
Charmaine Clement v. Thomas Durban, et al. |
New York |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts burden-on-access civil-procedure constitutional-law court-access discrimination equal-protection fundamental-rights non-resident-discrimination privileges-and-immunities privileges-and-immunities-clause residency-requirements standard-of-review state-courts |
Whether Article 85 is consistent with the Privileges and Immunities Clause despite its discrimination against nonresidents of New York and the materia… |
| 18-1298 |
Mario Dion Woodward v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
|
arbitrary-and-discriminatory cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override jury-sentencing repealed-statute sentencing sixth-amendment |
Pursuant to Ala. C. § 13-A-5-47(e)(1975), Alabama previously allowed trial judges to override a jury's vote for a life sentence and, based on new evid… |
| 18-1300 |
Nevenka Obuskovic v. Kathleen L. Wood, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,equal-protection,family-l color-of-law divorce due-process equal-protection family-court family-law forced-labor fourteenth-amendment involuntary-servitude peonage pro-se-representation |
Was Federal law violated under color of law, for violations of Fourteenth Amendment substantive and procedural Due Process and Equal Protection Under … |
| 18-1304 |
Richard Ashbaugh v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burrage-decision burrage-v-united-states collateral-review criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-rule |
In 2006, Petitioner Richard Ashbaugh pleaded guilty to distributing heroin, which, because of the "resulting-in-death" sentence enhancement contained … |
| 18-8806 |
Marguerite Dutton v. Nikkisha P. McCrea |
Pennsylvania |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection frivolous-litigation medical-malpractice pa-constitution pennsylvania-constitution us-constitution-14th-amendment |
Pa Titk 231 Ride Civil Procedure.
Do rule 231.1 (frivolous litigation) violates Ar ide
Section 26 of Pennsylvania Constit ution
(No discrimination by … |
| 18-8807 |
Francisco Quintero-Corral v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey aprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process illegal-reentry indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
1. Whether all facts- including the facts of a prior conviction- that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and e… |
| 18-8820 |
Carman L. Deck v. Richard Jennings, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability death-penalty district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-standard reasonable-jurists standard-of-review |
Mr. Deck filed a petition for habeas corpus relief from his convictions and death sentences. The district court granted relief as to two grounds, but … |
| 18-8824 |
Darren Gonzales v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis money-laundering plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing |
After the Court's decision in Cuellar v. United States, does a defendant who merely parrots the language of the concealment money laundering statute s… |
| 18-8825 |
Timeiki Hedspeth v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial federal-sentencing-guidelines offense-level reasonable-doubt restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Did the District Court use an incorrect criminal history category to sentence Ms. Hedspeth?
2. Did the District Court use an incorrect offense lev… |
| 18-8827 |
David McShan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
berger-standard berger-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-fabrication jury-bias nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing trial-fairness |
I. Where the government's case against a defendant is extremely weak, does the prosecutor's persistent misconduct during trial by making improper insi… |
| 18-8834 |
José Amaya-Vasquez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion prior-bad-acts reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review |
1. Whether the Court erred by considering the prior bad acts in the determination of the appropriate sentence?
2. Whether the sentence imposed by the… |
| 18-8803 |
Raymond Ramirez v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-violation conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment judgment-of-conviction jurisdiction jurisdictional-rule sentence sentencing state-court |
Whether the State of Florida / State Court violated the 14th Amendment of United States Constitution by enlarging a jurisdictional rule without author… |
| 18-8812 |
James Barr v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing preliminary-injunction race racial-discrimination standing |
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| 18-8814 |
Michael Perales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure district-court due-process objection preservation-of-error sentencing substantial-arguments |
I. Whether parties to a criminal action must lodge a separate objection to the failure of a district court to address substantial arguments for a diff… |
| 18-1294 |
Michael D. Lynch, et ux. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
business-records circuit-split due-process equal-protection erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-testimony national-mortgage-settlements summary-judgment supervisory-power |
This case presents clear conflict on a pure question of law, regarding the Federal Rules of Evidence. According to the Eleventh Circuit, the hearsay s… |
| 18-1297 |
New Doe Child #1, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
atheism currency-inscription due-process equal-protection establishment-clause monotheism political-disenfranchisement religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act |
(1) Whether Congress violates the Establishment Clause when it makes laws respecting an establishment of Monotheism, thus perpetuating and exacerbatin… |
| 18-8789 |
Roy Easterwood v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2019-04-11 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prison-conditions res-judicata |
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| 18-8792 |
Mario Devant Cheers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-robbery career-offender constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-precedent mandatory-guidelines mandatory-minimum residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) this Court initiated a twisting journey by holding unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.… |
| 18-8799 |
Robert Gordon Lockwood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery bank-robbery-statute categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law descamps-ruling due-process firearms johnson-ruling mathis-ruling ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent violent-crime |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violate the Johnson, Mathis, Descamps, and Dimaya Supreme Court rulings because Prince confirmed that the Bank … |
| 18-8802 |
Eli Vernon, III, aka Eli Mims v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
counsel-objection criminal-procedure due-process duren-analysis duren-v-missouri equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges strickland-standard strickland-v-washington systematic-exclusion |
DOES THE FIRST PRONG IN DUREN V MISSOURI, 439 U.S. 357, 364, 99 5.Ct.664, 668, 58 L.E.cf.2c1 579 (1979), IF MET ESTABLISH A SYSTEMATIC EXCLUSION FOR C… |
| 18-8731 |
Carlos Noguera v. Greg Smith, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection excessive-force medical-care prison-conditions standing takings |
With the Record Reflecting that the alleged victim consented to engaging in Sexual intercourse—Should Noguera have been convicted of Sexual Assault?
… |
| 18-8733 |
Russell T. McElvain v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection federalism self-incrimination statutory-interpretation |
I. Can a state enact a statute that combines the use of older, established
statates as the ways and means to commit the new statutes crimne,
thereby e… |
| 18-8753 |
Carl Devon Powell v. California |
California |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances constitutional-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-fact-finding mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt (1) th… |
| 18-8755 |
Matthew Ryan Murdoch v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-restrictions due-process first-amendment freedom-of-speech liberty liberty-interest sentencing sex-offender statutory-interpretation |
Whether a lifetime prohibition on going to "locations where any form of pornography, sexually stimulating performances, or sexually oriented material,… |
| 18-8781 |
Kerri L. Kaley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-fines criminal-procedure criminal-restitution due-process jury-finding jury-findings jury-trial sentencing southern-union-co-v-united-states |
In Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 490 (2000), the Court held that "[o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the pen… |
| 18-8782 |
Cesar Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-8784 |
DiAngelo Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct pretextual-stops racial-profiling traffic-stops whren-v-united-states |
Because Whren v. United States1/ permits pretextual
traffic stops, it has become notorious for its effective
legitimation of racial profiling . Whren … |
| 18-1286 |
Brian D. Baur v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
castle-doctrine chain-of-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-preservation ineffective-counsel law-of-the-case prosecutorial-misconduct reassignment sentencing standing use-of-force |
1. Whether the Law of the Case Doctrine is an
issue in this case since two Judges have made
rulings concerning the Constitutional Rights of the
Pet… |
| 18-1282 |
David Lee Sanders v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process illegal-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation reversal sentencing speedy-trial |
1. Whether a criminal defendant who pleads guilty pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement and serves a five-year, split sentence, which is subsequentl… |
| 18-8721 |
Kelvin Reed v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-access-to-courts equal-protection error-coram-nobis poverty racial-discrimination |
The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals and the Tennessee Supreme Court have decided that before an evidentiary hearing will be granted to an Error Co… |
| 18-8743 |
Arturo Torres-Cabrera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process immigration-offense indictment-requirements prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-8747 |
Valentin Aguilar-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-8748 |
Dajuan A. Alridge v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-04-09 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-selection jury-unanimity juvenile-sentencing non-unanimous-jury prima-facie prima-facie-case racial-discrimination |
1. Whether statistics alone are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination in the first step of a Batson analysis?
2. Whether lif… |
| 18-8749 |
Marvin Earl Blanks, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court fulfilled its obligation under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to announce the reasons for its sentencing decision where the court neve… |
| 18-8761 |
Arthur Jones v. California |
California |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial sentencing |
(1) WhEthER A CoNdUet ENHANCEMENT. StAtUTE"CAif PENAl COdE SER.1192.7(2) ThAt "REMOVES, ASSESSMENt" of FALT FROm Jury USEd TO INREASE PUNISHMENT" 1s U… |
| 18-8763 |
Terry Walker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process judicial-fact-finding jury-finding jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining recharaterization sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1) Can a sentencing court consistent with the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution recharaterize a defendant's conviction into conduct th… |
| 18-8718 |
Anthony C. Barrett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness |
Whether a second or successive habeas petitioner asserting that his sentence is invalid under Johnson II must show that the sentencing court relied ex… |
| 18-8719 |
Ciaran Paul Redmond v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice jurisdictional-element jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing standards-of-review statutory-interpretation |
1. A jury convicted petitioner of federal assault offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 113. Pursuant to Fed. R. Evid. 201, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit … |
| 18-8723 |
Miles Sterling Bench v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment affidavit civil-rights competency costs criminal-appeals death-penalty declaration due-process filing-fees in-forma-pauperis indigent indigent-status mental-illness oklahoma-law supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8725 |
Saiydin Abdullan Muhammad v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender common-law-robbery criminal-law north-carolina north-carolina-law predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether North Carolina common law robbery qualifies as a predicate offense to support a designation of career offender |
| 18-8726 |
In Re Stetory Calhoun |
|
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
alabama capital-offenses constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law death-penalty due-process gang-related-murder legislative-intent legislative-process statutory-interpretation |
I. WHETHER ACT NO. 92-601, AS ENROLLED, AND APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, (CODIFIED AS SUBSECTIONS (15), (16), (17), AND (18), OF … |
| 18-8675 |
Joshua Sedillo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance variance |
Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with… |
| 18-8711 |
Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-record due-process family-law parole probation sentencing |
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| 18-8712 |
John Hummel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
character-and-record death-penalty future-dangerousness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence pretrial-incarceration sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
1. In Skipper v. South Carolina, 476 U.S. 1 (1986), the trial court ruled as irrelevant the testimony of two jailers and a "regular visitor" that Skip… |
| 18-8713 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
2019-04-05 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment code-of-civil-procedure constitutional-violation counsel-of-choice due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance marsden-hearing plea-bargaining procedural-rights right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does a Defendant have a right to replace his privately retained choice of counsel at anytime during the trial court proceeding even up to and at the a… |
| 18-8714 |
Kenneth Whigham, Jr., aka Kenneth Pringle v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jury-submission jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which held that the allegation of a prior conviction need no… |
| 18-8698 |
Marcel A. Walton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clear-error clear-error-analysis criminal-procedure due-process false-and-misleading government-assertions material-facts non-record-facts sentencing |
1. Consistent with Due Process, can a sentencing court rely upon government assertions concerning material, non-record facts—first raised at the sente… |
| 18-8700 |
Dorian Givens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing standard-of-review supervised-release |
What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release? |
| 18-8703 |
Alan Wade Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner legal-background procedural-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement silent-record successive-habeas-motion successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that, due to a silent record and the relevant legal background, the sentencing court may have relied on the Armed… |
| 18-8704 |
Brandon Keith Alexander v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing non-homicide-offense non-homicide-offenses parole parole-eligibility sentencing |
Whether sentencing a juvenile non-homicide offender to 60 years without the possibility of parole violates the 8th Amendment prohibition against cruet… |
| 18-8679 |
John James Bell v. South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-procedure legal-representation |
1-ID PETTIONER RECEIVE EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW ACCORDING TO THE"DUE PROCESS"ELEMENT OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION?… |
| 18-8683 |
James Aren Duckett v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection retroactivity |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose limits… |
| 18-8692 |
Jerry Adams, Jr. v. Robert Neuschmid, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review batson-challenge batson-claim equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review state-court-review |
After the prosecutor admitted misrepresenting her actual reasons for striking a prospective juror, the trial judge was "troubled by" some of the prose… |
| 18-1268 |
Paras Jhokke v. City of Los Angeles, California |
California |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-violation domestic-violence due-process equal-protection gender-bias gender-discrimination hate-crime police-misconduct section-1983 |
1. Whether States, Cities or its Police Officers knowingly or unknowingly Commit Hate Crime Acts motivated by Gender Bias while Enforcing Domestic Vio… |
| 18-8662 |
Howard Lawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history-classification criminal-law due-process florida-criminal-law predicate-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Petitioner's prior aggravated assault under Fla. Stat. § 784.021 and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon pursuant to Fla. Stat. 784.045 qu… |
| 18-8664 |
Rodney Tyrone Lowe v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-violation harmless-error hurst-v-florida jury-instructions |
I. Does the Florida Supreme Court's exclusive reliance on a unanimous recommendation of death to find harmless error for violations of Hurst v. Florid… |
| 18-8666 |
Tremane Wood v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court-review death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-test |
Tremane Wood was one of four defendants charged with crimes related to the death of Ronnie Wipf, which occurred in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on January … |
| 18-8670 |
Demetrius Terrence Frazier v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-fact-finding jury-fact-finding jury-sentencing jury-trial retroactive-rule retroactivity sixth-amendment |
1. Does Alabama's insistence that a judge, not a jury, can weigh the mitigating and aggravating factors and sentence a person to death directly confli… |
| 18-8673 |
Jamael Stubbs v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
133 S.Ct. 2151 (2013) 6th-amendment alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states constructive-amendment due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-challenge sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Whether trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to preserve either a sentencing challenge or a constructive amendment claim under All… |
| 18-8639 |
Anthony Franklin v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection faretta-hearing faretta-v-california habeas-corpus pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment third-circuit third-circuit-law |
Whether the district court err in denying a Writ of Habeas Corpus to Petitioner, and by Holding that Petitioner's multiple interjections did not amoun… |
| 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… |
| 18-8646 |
Norman Hampton v. Gregory McLaughlin, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing state-courts |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8648 |
Undraneckio Brassfield v. Ron King, Superintendent, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis indigent-defendants standing |
Is accessing Indigent Petitioner's full costs of courts after petitioner has been determined to be granted Informa Pauperis Paupersby way of of being … |
| 18-8649 |
Bradley Cobbler, aka B-Rad v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether the District Court erred by partially denying Mr. Cobbler's Amended Motion to Withdraw Plea of Guilty? |
| 18-8653 |
Tavares J. Wright v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment adaptive-functioning atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's adaptive functioning analysis of intellectually disabled individuals, which requires post-conviction defendants to pr… |
| 18-8654 |
Karyea Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach collateral-review descamps mathis Mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states modified-categorical-approach retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines teague Teague-exception |
Did The Court Of Appeals err by dismissing the appeal of the District Court's reasoning that Mathis was inapplicable to Karyea Williams on Collateral … |
| 18-8660 |
Tyree Mansell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether the use of acquitted conduct to increase Mr. Mansell's Sentencing violates the Sixth Amendment jury trial right. |
| 18-8608 |
William Ramirez, et ux. v. Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment precedent pro-se state-court statutes |
Should a pro se petitioner reasonably expect that a state court at the county level follow precedent as a part of due process under the Fourteenth Ame… |
| 18-8618 |
Umadean Hatch v. Dr. Wilson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8619 |
In Re Derrell L. Gilchrist |
|
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process first-step-act habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation |
CAN PETITIONER SEEK RELIEF PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C § 2241
TO ADDRESS CLARIFICATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C) IN
THE FIRST STEP ACT OF 2O18. |
| 18-8623 |
Justin Cole Milam v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing standard-of-review |
I.
Are appeal waivers presented in federal criminal plea agreements an
unconstitutional overreach by the Government preventing review of
constitutiona… |
| 18-8627 |
Frank Martinez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
disclosure fifth-amendment gardner-v-florida probation sentencing confidential-recommendation disclosure due-process fifth-amendment gardner-v-florida probation probation-officer sentencing |
The sentencing court failed to disclose the "Confidential Recommendation" of the Probation Officer in regards to the sentencing of the Petitioner. The… |
| 18-8628 |
Deon Tremell Lee v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment citizenship citizenship-rights civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction nationality naturalization property-rights |
How the word "Buack" can Find no tormal place within the
nationalities of the human tamily and Stillcan bemade citizen of
any Iree national and consti… |
| 18-8629 |
Rogelio Barajas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process search-and-seizure sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8636 |
Brian Hoskins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure custis-v-united-states federal-guidelines federal-sentence federal-sentences federal-sentencing-guidelines habeas-corpus plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-conviction state-convictions |
Whether, this Court's decisions in Custis v. United States, 511 U.S. 485 (1995), Daniels v. United States, 532 U.S. 374 (2001), and Johnson v. United … |
| 18-8599 |
Antwon D. Jenkins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail bail-reform-act due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-verdict-bail resentencing sentencing stare-decisis statutory-right statutory-rights |
DOES A PETITIONER, AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY BY A JURY, HAVE A STATUTORY DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO POST-VERDICT BAIL, AND TO BE TREATED AS A DEFENDANT BEING… |
| 18-8604 |
Ivan Vazquez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 appeals criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel rule-35 sentence-modification sentencing statute-of-limitations |
I. May a district court's modification of sentence under Rule 35, Fed. R. Crim. P., be treated as resetting the one-year clock under 28 U.S.C. §2255(0… |
| 18-8605 |
Gregory Swecker, et ux. v. Department of Agriculture, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination discrimination-case due-process equal-protection judicial-bias motion-to-dismiss race-gender-discrimination recusal renewable-energy |
Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim up… |
| 18-8615 |
In Re Patrick Henry Murphy |
|
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment civil-rights due-process equal-protection establishment-clause execution-protocol first-amendment free-exercise religious-accommodation religious-freedom state-procedure |
When a State permits members of some faiths (e.g., Christians) to be accompanied in the execution chamber during the execution by a clergyperson of th… |
| 18-8616 |
Parley Drew Hardman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conclusion constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection felon-in-possession index second-amendment sentencing statutory-provisions table-of-contents |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8617 |
Kristen Patrick Doyle v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeals circuit-court-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-motion-type mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err in its denial of Defendant - Appellant's Motion to be granted relief under the clari… |
| 18-1251 |
Sandy Annabi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-deprivation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing standing |
Whether petitioner has established a colorable claim of constitutional deprivation such that the Court of Appeals should have issued a certificate of … |
| 18-1250 |
Corey Lea v. Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedures-act agricultural-law civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause exhaustion-requirements fifth-amendment foreclosure moratorium-relief usda |
Is it a violation of the Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause of the Fifth Amendment for the United States Department of Agriculture to prom… |
| 18-8573 |
Early A. Atterberry v. John Varga, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure-rule-52b due-process equal-protection fair-trial harmless-error jury-prejudice new-trial other-crimes-evidence rule-52b standing |
Whether the Court erred in properly applying Rule 52(b) to the issue of Harmless Error raised by the petitioner during the numerous appeals pursued.
… |
| 18-8582 |
Malvin Nater-Ayala v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing |
WHETHER THIS CASE PRESENTS THE COURT WITH AN
OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THE CRITERIA UNDER
WHICH SUMMARY JUDGMENT IS WARRANTED? |
| 18-8593 |
Dontae Callen v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty fourth-amendment jury-unanimity probable-cause search-warrant separate-affidavit |
I. Where an affidavit does not support a finding of probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant, does the Fourth Amendment allow a reviewing c… |
| 18-8598 |
Saundra Magana v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for the Benefit of Certificate Holders of Asset Backed Pass Through Certificate Series 2004-MCW, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights class-action discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-protection indigent-rights legal-accountability standing |
Should the courts be required to uphold laws that are created, by Congress, to specifically protect the rights of underprivileged, federally protected… |
| 18-8544 |
Keith J. Myles v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial impartial-jury jury standing |
DA). Wthy was a"sketch" made up, after there was negative Is or noI's
rom the photo line-up? This represents a departuve from a Far Trtal" a
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| 18-8546 |
Gerald Delane Murray v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence batson-v-kentucky batson-violation brady-violation civil-rights conflict-counsel constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jailhouse-informant post-conviction post-conviction-relief |
THE COURT SHOULD GRANT THE WRIT TO CORRECT AN INJUSTICE IN STATE COURT WHERE POST-CONVICTION COUNSEL UNDERMINED CLAIMS, ABUSED THE PROCESS, WASTED JUD… |
| 18-8552 |
Herman Gaines v. Brad Busnardo, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-interpretation medical-treatment procedural-rights standing statutory-provisions |
$3.000 pay an expert to provide the affidarit. Is it unconstitutional violation of the De Process Clause to exclude indigent priners from pursving neg… |
| 18-8557 |
Ignacio Ruiz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
GRou oNE: Houston Police Department Detective, Jhn Brooks, testified during
the state's case -in-chief concerning ownership of a cll phone involved
in… |
| 18-8558 |
Jorge Edwin Rivera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release |
When a district court imposes a term of supervised release double that of the Guidelines range without first calculating the range or providing an exp… |
| 18-8561 |
Jeffery Lee Wood v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
culpability death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness law-of-parties tison-v-arizona |
Jeffery Wood is on death row in Texas despite the fact that he did not kill anyone. Mr. Wood was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death un… |
| 18-8563 |
Melvin Grayer v. James Filliyaw, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
35-usc-101. civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing |
Why under the prison, liligation Reporm Ket, pursuant to 28U.SC 9150) State tht any couit moy authere te the finding oftheir deision Challeng "Baugh" … |
| 18-8529 |
Michael Craig Smith v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment |
Whether counsel on appeal from dismissal of post-conviction petition provided ineffective assistance in violation of Petitioner's Sixth amendment righ… |
| 18-8538 |
Rufus Spearman v. Mary Parson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings |
Whether a prisoner's sincere religious belief that he should not be psychologically evaluated, involuntarily placed on psychiatric medication and prog… |
| 18-8540 |
Eric David Bennett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3742 appellate-review booker booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release united-states-v-booker |
Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the "plainly unreasonable " standard once … |
| 18-8550 |
Ernest M. Flowers v. Laura Uriarte, et al. |
Florida |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing trial-procedure |
WHETHER PETITIONER IS BEING UNLAWFULLY RETAINED IN THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS CONTRARY TO FLORIDA SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT AND HAS THEREFORE… |
| 18-1242 |
Endre' Glenn v. Nordic Services, Inc. |
Washington |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
|
arbitration arbitration-procedure due-process equal-protection material-evidence material-testimony reasonable-opportunity reasonable-opportunity-to-prepare subpoena subpoena-duces-tecum washington-state-law |
Whether a contractor and subcontractor violated homeowner's rights to due process when they ignored subpoena duces tecum, and failed to comply with ar… |
| 18-1236 |
S. Bruce Hiran, et al. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. |
Texas |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
|
amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure mandamus standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment |
Whether Petitioners' due process right was violated when the Supreme Court of Texas summarily denied their petition for writ of mandamus within no tim… |
| 18-8489 |
Danny R. Moore v. Gene Beasley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-precedent mathis-decision retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) should apply.
Whether the Saving Clause Of § 2255 Applies to claim |
| 18-8495 |
Leroy Scott v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation conflict-of-interest death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel |
WHETHER COUNSEL'S INEFFECTIVENESS CONFLICTS WITH THE HOLDING IN MISSOURI v FRYE, FOR FAILING TO ADVISE PETITIONER OF THE MEANS TO SET FORTH IN THE DEA… |
| 18-8496 |
Anthony Swatzie v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 constitutional-decision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure district-court-judgment due-process federal-statute federal-statutory-provision habeas-corpus retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactive-relief retroactivity section-2255 sentencing silent-record statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is entitled to relief under a… |
| 18-8512 |
DaRen Kareem Gadsden v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-integrity judicial-proceedings multiplicitous-sentence plain-error remand rosales-mireles-standard sentencing sentencing-review substantial-rights |
In light of Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S.Ct. 1897, 201 L. Ed. 2d 376 (2018), which, states, "[{fJailure to correct plain error that affecte… |
| 18-8524 |
Tony Kalumba Tshiansi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process factual-claims judicial-discretion objection presentence-report presumption-of-reliability reliability sentencing unjust-incarceration |
Whether the factual claims of a Presentence Report are presumed reliable in the face of objection? |
| 18-8530 |
Steven Dennis Young v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8490 |
Bernard Mitchell v. California |
California |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-street-gangs discretion due-process evidence gang-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-exposure jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-review |
1. Did the court abuse its discretion in permitting the jury to be exposed to the nicknames "Crip" and "'Scrap,"' which have been taken as a suggestio… |
| 18-8504 |
John Whaley v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether, on remand, imposition of the same twenty-five year term of imprisonment and maximum ter superviselease was bot procurally n ubstantively rabl… |
| 18-8511 |
Victoria Carlson, et vir v. Emily Johnson Piper, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Minnesota |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abstention administrative-appeal breast-cancer breast-cancer-treatment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection federal-rights medicaid medicaid-benefits |
Whether the Minnesota Supreme Court erred by concluding in In re Victoria and Stephen Carlson (A18-1578, Minn. 2018)--in conflict with the decision of… |
| 18-8458 |
Oniel Winston Scarlett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-reasoning merits-analysis merits-review reasonable-jurist sentencing |
Should the Eleventh Circuit provide a sufficient explanation of its order denying a COA in order that a reasonable jurist could ensue its reasoning di… |
| 18-8476 |
Anthony Grandison v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-sentencing collateral-consequences constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process harmless-error jury-instructions mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof |
1. Since Maryland Law Prohibits Imposition Of The Death Penalty Without Considering The Presentencing Investigation Report Convictions As Evidence The… |
| 18-8491 |
Ernest Marquis Flowers v. Laura Uriarte, et al. |
Florida |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal civil-rights civil-rights-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sixth-amendment unlawful-detention |
WHETHER PETITIONER WAS ILLEGALLY DETAINED IN THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS UNDER FULLY ENFORCEABLE VERDICTS CONTRARY TO FLORIDA SUPREME COURT … |
| 18-8493 |
Jeremel Remymartin Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-921 18-usc-922 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-firearm-statute criminal-law-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms juvenile-delinquency juvenile-justice sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation youthful-offender |
WHETHER A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER CONVICTION CAN BE USED FOR PURPOSES OF A STATUTE UNDER 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) WHERE THE PREVIOUS ADJUDICATION WERE JUVENILE… |
| 18-8498 |
Oryan Yazzie v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Is a supervised release revocation sentence of a length more than double the top of the advisory Guideline range substantively unreasonable if the dis… |
| 18-1226 |
Clinton County Children and Youth Services v. A. A. R., Natural Mother, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-protective-services child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment preemption prenatal-injury standing state-law supremacy-clause |
1. Whether a state violates the constitutional guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution when it denies the protections… |
| 18-8444 |
Primo C. Novero v. Duke Energy Florida, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts administrative-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims document-delivery due-process equal-access equal-protection right-to-jury-trial right-to-petition rules-of-court standing trial-by-jury |
Does the district court erred and had conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court Rule 29.2, and U.S. Constitution Amendment 14 due proces in defining "timel… |
| 18-8445 |
Tommy McAdoo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-bank-robbery federal-statute intimidation physical-force sentencing violent-physical-force |
The Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits broadly interpret "intimidation" as used in the federal bank robbery statute for sufficiency purposes,… |
| 18-8452 |
In Re Harold B. Mason |
|
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection mandamus standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8453 |
Dusty Ray Spencer v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
binding-precedent capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process federal-constitutional-rights jury-instructions jury-responsibility jury-verdict sentencing-process structural-error unanimous-verdict |
1. Whether structural error occurs when, after having been affirmatively misled
regarding its role in the sentencing process so as to diminish its sen… |
| 18-8462 |
William James Truesdale v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence fabricated-evidence fabrication-of-evidence fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-error |
Whether the erroneously admitted evidence reviewing sufficiently material to provide the basis for conviction or to remove a reasonable doubt that wou… |
| 18-8467 |
Abukar Osman Beyle v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Did the Court Of Appeals create a Procedural Error, when it determined Petitioner, Abukar 0. Beyle, in a "Capitol Murder Case", did not make a claim t… |
| 18-8468 |
Alfredo Mendez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretion district-court-authority due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors |
Whether a federal district court is permitted boundless discretion at sentencing to weigh established factors at sentencing, as the Ninth Circuit has … |
| 18-8470 |
Tommy Lee Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial judicial-conduct sentencing |
Tommy Lee Jones was convicted of advertising, distribution, and receipt of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. §2251(d) and 2252A(a)(2), and h… |
| 18-8472 |
James Allen Eapmon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act life-imprisonment mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY CONCLUDED THAT IT WAS OBLIGATED TO IMPOSED. A STATUTORY MANDATORY MI… |
| 18-8441 |
Gaetan Dinelle, aka Gates v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-justice cruel-and-unusual-punishment disproportionate-sentence eighth-amendment first-time-offender marijuana-trafficking non-violent-offender non-violent-offense proportionality sentencing |
Whether a life-sentence for a non-violent, first-time offender, who trafficked in marijuana, is unreasonable, disproportionate, and amounts to cruel a… |
| 18-8442 |
Marc Dutch v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment apprendi criminal-procedure indictment jury prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Given that the Sixth Amendment and Apprendi prohibit a sentencing judge from finding facts about a prior conviction, does 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)'s requ… |
| 18-8451 |
Luciano Garcia v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance tenth-circuit variance |
Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with… |
| 18-1214 |
Wilbur L. Ross, Secretary of Commerce, et al. v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act apportionment-clause census-act census-citizenship-question census-data commerce-department commerce-secretary constitutional-authority constitutional-provisions district-court-injunction due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-injunction standing statutory-interpretation voting-rights-act |
Whether the district court erred in enjoining the Secretary of Commerce from reinstating a citizenship question to the 2020 decennial census. |
| 18-8404 |
Adrian Laroy Seymore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process evidence evidentiary-standard government-evidence presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a District Court erred in applying a guideline enhancement based solely on allegations contained in the Presentence Investigation Report after… |
| 18-8432 |
Kelly Foust v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-03-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
capital-defendant capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty hurst-precedent hurst-v-florida jury jury-waiver sixth-amendment |
Does Ohio's death penalty scheme in which a jury's death verdict is a mere recommendation and in which a death sentence may not be imposed unless a ju… |
| 18-8408 |
Renee L. McCray v. John E. Driscoll, III, et al. |
Maryland |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure-action remand standing standing-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Court of Appeals of Maryland erred when it denied the Petitioner's petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals, stating there … |
| 18-8409 |
Anthony Mungin v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteent… |
| 18-8410 |
Marshall Ray Miller v. Joseph L. McFadden, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement-statements personal-jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability where Petitioner demonstrated a substantial showing of a con… |
| 18-8431 |
David Kelly Brewster v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof compensation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent restitution wrongful-incarceration |
Nelson v. Colorado, 581 U.S.__, 137 S. Ct. 1249 (2017) tore down the wall Colorado had built to prevent persons from receiving their valid returns of … |
| 18-8436 |
David Fehr Harder v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-8437 |
Garceia Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District I |
Wisconsin |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights conviction-standards criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction jury-verdict standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-writ |
Whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court failure to grant a Wis.Stat.5(Rules) 809.71 Supervisory Writ to change Jurisdiction of cases 2013AP714 and 2012AP1… |
| 18-1195 |
Kendra Espinoza, et al. v. Montana Department of Revenue, et al. |
Montana |
2019-03-14 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (64)Relisted (2) |
constitutional-law equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise religion-clauses religious-schools school-choice student-aid |
Does it violate the Religion Clauses or Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution to invalidate a generally available and religiously … |
| 18-1198 |
Westley A. Albright v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-defendant criminal-procedure diversion due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment nolo-contendere plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the Supreme Court of Tennessee erred when it held, as a matter of first impression, that due process rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Am… |
| 18-1178 |
Christopher Paige, et ux. v. Lerner Master Fund, LLC, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
|
bankruptcy-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-discrimination judicial-review procedural-fairness speedy-trial |
When the lower courts deny important substantive and procedural rights to protected minorities, may they simply refuse to explain their rationale(s) f… |
| 18-8414 |
Dennis E. v. Matthew J. D'Emic, Administrative Judge, Supreme Court of New York, 2nd Judicial District, et al. |
New York |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process equal-protection jackson-v-indiana standing state-law |
1. Whether the State may compel relief under Jackson, over a defendant's objection, claiming in substance that the State law is unconstitutional, and … |
| 18-8415 |
John L. Lotter v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Does Nebraska's capital sentencing scheme requiring a three-judge panel, rather than a jury, to impose a sentence of death violate the Eighth Amend… |
| 18-8424 |
Keith Jenkins v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-punishment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-offender sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is The Trial Court In Error By Denying The Motion To Quash Based On Errors In The Multiple Offender Charng, Pleading And Proof? Did The Multiple Bill … |
| 18-8388 |
Brian Wright v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-tracking due-process fourth-amendment overbreadth search-and-seizure sentencing supervised-release tapia-error vagueness warrantless-search |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that there was no "egregious violation" of Mr. Wright's Fourth Amendment rights when Mr. Wright's cellular pho… |
| 18-8390 |
Jose Salvador Lantigua v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C.-455(a) 28-usc-455 court-victim criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal sentencing sentencing-guidelines victim-of-crime |
Whether, consistent with due process and 28 U.S.C. § 455(a), a sentencing judge should recuse himself when he expressly views his own court as a "vict… |
| 18-8391 |
Nam Nhat Ngo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8394 |
Asim Shakir Daniels v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-definition criminal-law due-process equal-protection federal-crime federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation legal-interpretation sentencing statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can the courts of appeals define the crime of federal bank robbery differently for purposes of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge than for a cate… |
| 18-8397 |
Michael Victory v. California Board of Parole Hearings, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
balisok civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection impartial-decision-maker larkin mcclure murchison murchison-v-michigan parole parole-hearing peremptory-challenge quasi-judicial quasi-judicial-immunity |
DID DEFENDANTS ENGAGE IN A SUB-ROSA POLICY THAT SYSTEMICALLY
AND/OR INDIVIDUALLY IMPOSE PRE-DETERMINED & PRO FORMA DECISIONS
DENYING PAROLE BY A QUASI… |
| 18-8399 |
Randall Scott Jones v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula, designed to limit the class of condemned prisoners obtaining a life-or-death jury d… |
| 18-8401 |
Justin D. Burgess v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, dba Christiana Trust, as Trustee for Premium Mortgage Acquisition Trust |
Texas |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
automatic-stay civil-procedure court-rules due-process equal-protection judgment judgment
18-83" lawsuit Question not identified. rules standing |
Is it an error and an impermissible denial of due process of law and equal protection of law for a court to ignore its own rules which would impose an… |
| 18-8360 |
Fernando Castillo-Quintanilla v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa flores-figueroa-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif sentencing strict-liability |
I. In light of Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U.S. 646 (2009), does the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea contained in 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) … |
| 18-8368 |
Desmond Martin v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing |
I. Did the United States court of appeals err in denying relief when trial court unreasonably applied BATSON?
II. Was there sufficient evidence prese… |
| 18-8371 |
Martin E. Grant v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection first-degree-murder life-imprisonment motion-for-relief-from-judgment plea-bargaining sixth-amendment |
Whether Petitioner has been denied the effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by the 6th Amendment to the United States Constitution, during the p… |
| 18-8375 |
Zebadiah Holland v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing |
1.
WHETHER ZEBADIAH HOLLAND IS ENTITLED TO NEW TRIAL BASED ON
NEWLY DISCOVERED EVIDENCE THAT NOT ONLY COMPLETELY
EXONERATES HIM, BUT ALSO SPECIFICALLY… |
| 18-8339 |
Joshua E. Shepherd v. Jeffrey E. Krueger, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca-prior-conviction acca-purposes constitutional-interpretation constitutional-issue criminal-law due-process federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts prior-conviction sentencing state-case-law state-courts state-statute state-statute-analysis statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is "generic" for ACCA purposes based solely on another federal co… |
| 18-8342 |
Edward Spears v. R&R Cleaning Services, et al. |
South Carolina |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause equal-protection-of-the-law judicial-process legal-review petition standing supreme-court |
Did the Supreme Court deprive me of my constitutional rights of equal protection of the law? |
| 18-8343 |
Jose Luis Mattes Baez Carmona Lopez Cordero v. Connecticut Department of Correction, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitution constitutional-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection native-american-rights native-rights treaty-rights |
Did the lower court breach any treaties between the native Taino Indian tribe and the Government of the United States of America, pursuant to Article … |
| 18-8346 |
Danilo Velasquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure diminished-capacity due-process evidence expert-testimony fundamental-rights life-sentence ninth-circuit sentencing |
Did the Ninth Circuit fail to protect petitioner's fundamental due process right to present his complete defense when it approved the district court's… |
| 18-8349 |
Daverne Michael Foy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-proceedings plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights waiver |
1. In Rosales-Mireles, this Court struck down the court of appeals' heightened "shock the conscience" standard for a Rule 52(b) plain error review, an… |
| 18-8355 |
Mario Chester Tabron v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary burglary-element criminal-enhancement criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Did the Fourth Circuit and the Middle district Of North Carolina (Greensboro) err in affirming the USSG 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) 4-Level enhancement without … |
| 18-8356 |
In Re Steven Eason |
|
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitations procedural-bars prosecutorial-misconduct state-law successive-habeas successive-petitions |
Cra the petitioner's Chan, that LAE conuretang aon JO have jucitdrctira ty prosedute him on count ¢
Of his indichaven? becauce the state dalaot charge… |
| 18-8307 |
Dockery Cleveland v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment-search-and-seizure 6th-amendment-jury-trial appellate-review cell-phone cell-phone-search equal-protection fourth-amendment jury-selection ongoing-intrusion peremptory-challenge race-neutral-basis search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence time-limitation warrant warrant-limitation whether-defendant-must-renew-objection-to-perempto |
I. Because of the unique nature of a cell phone, the intrusion into the owner of the device will be ong oing as long as the device has the ability to … |
| 18-1168 |
Carolyn J. Florimonte v. Borough of Dalton, Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure continuing-trespass due-process equal-protection equal-protection-14th-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court just-compensation land-taking res-judicata standing takings unconstitutional-government-taking |
WHEN THE LOWER FEDERAL COURTS ABANDON THE IMPERATIVES OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT TO PROVIDE JUST COMPENSATION AND THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT TO PROVIDE EQUA… |
| 18-8323 |
Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-review eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-recommendation newly-discovered-evidence |
1. Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require
the law of Hurst v. State to be factored into the analysis of
the likelihood of a less severe … |
| 18-8324 |
Johnny Madison Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)?
2. C… |
| 18-8325 |
Amaury Villa v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-procedure u-s-sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether appellant received the effective assistance of counsel?
2. Whether appellant's sentence was properly calculated? |
| 18-8329 |
Aristides Duartez, Jr., aka Aristedes Duartez, Jr. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a "crime of violence" under the elements cause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(A). |
| 18-8334 |
Ada A. Gonzalez v. Alfredo Ernesto Gonzalez |
Florida |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandamus-writ standing state-court-review state-courts writ-of-mandamus |
Whether Petitioner's is entitled to a writ of mandamus directed to Hon. Judge Rudisill to be discharge in accordance with Administrative Order 15-57-S… |
| 18-8241 |
Andrew Guy Moret v. Pat Garrett |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-review lower-court-decision standing supreme-court-petition |
1. Does the o criminal seriousness charges obviate the states' governments' obligation the to uphold Constitutional rights of the accused?
2. I's the… |
| 18-8269 |
Alejandro Casillas Prieto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-782 chapter-5-part-a criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range guidelines life-imprisonment notice offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does the sentencing judge's oral pronouncement of the offense level 43 control?
Is the sentencing judge require to give notice, to Chapter 5, Part A,… |
| 18-8301 |
Michael Daniel Cuero v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals court-of-appeals-interpretation district-court due-process judicial-review mandate plea-agreement remand rule-21 sentencing sentencing-consequences state-court supreme-court-mandate writ-of-mandamus |
This Court previously reversed and remanded petitioner's case to the court of appeals. The judges of that court, however, have different interpretatio… |
| 18-8303 |
Thomas T. Alford v. Stephen S. Carlton, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8306 |
Billy Gene Howard v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca acca-clause armed-career-criminal-act concurrent-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-felony |
(1) Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied o… |
| 18-8309 |
Darwin Zoch v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acca-interpretation armed-career-criminal-act due-process due-process,sentencing,acca,johnson-v-united-state habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
(1) Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied o… |
| 18-8314 |
Jose Nino-Carreon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion guidelines plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain Guideline error should ordinarily find an effect on the defendant's substantial rights if the district c… |
| 18-8267 |
Vincent Green v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ACCA acca-offender armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-procedure enumerated-offense o.c.g.a.-16-7-1 sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
PETITIONER'S SENTENCE AS AN ACCA OFFENDER MUST BE SET ASIDE, WHEREAS O.C.G.A. § 16-7-1 IS NOT A VIABLE ENUMERATED OFFENSE PREDICATE, BASED UPON THIS C… |
| 18-8274 |
Avniel Awan Anthony v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue obstruction-of-justice probation-department reckless-endangerment sentencing sentencing-enhancement Sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines unproven-conduct Upward-variance |
The Probation Department assessed the Movant with two separate enhancements under USSG 3C1.1 and 3C1.2 for obstruction of justice and Reckless Endange… |
| 18-8275 |
Brian Sawyers v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection implicit-bias jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-selection racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire |
Whether the federal district court should give an implicit bias jury instruction upon request where other courts have recognized that implicit bias is… |
| 18-8280 |
Darrell J. Williams v. Cecilia Reynolds, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blakely-v-washington circumstantial-evidence due-process fifth-circuit jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8284 |
Matthew Winters v. City of West Jordan, Utah, et al. |
Utah |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appeal-restrictions appeals constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction jurisdictional-bars pro-se standing |
Does it violate the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the 14 Amendment for pro se parties to have less time and more restrictions to file ap… |
| 18-8287 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Uttam Dhillon, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure-standing-patent-takings-due-proce administrative-law civil-rights controlled-substances-act due-process equal-protection standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8288 |
Derrick Allen v. Envirogreen Landscape Professionals, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court-conflict civil-rights conflict-of-circuits due-process eeoc-decision employment-discrimination equal-protection federal-question judicial-discretion judicial-proceedings judicial-review lower-court-review supervisory-powers |
Can the US Supreme Court review at their judicial discretion for the compelling reason:
The EEOC/Louisiana HCR; Louisiana Middle District; and Louisi… |
| 18-8289 |
Kwame Asafo-Adjei v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure mandatory-disclosure maryland-rule-4-342(d) maryland-rules plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing void-sentence |
Is the failure of the Maryland Court of Appeals to enforce the Maryland Rule 4-342(d) a denial of a citizen's equal protection right under the Fourtee… |
| 18-8294 |
Demetrius Fitzgerald v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law deadly-weapon federal-sentencing-guidelines florida-law florida-statute sentencing sentencing-guidelines violent-crime violent-felony |
I. Whether the Florida offense of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in violation of Fla. Stat. § 784.045, is a violent felony as defined by the … |
| 18-1147 |
Deron Brunson v. L. Douglas Hogan, et al. |
Utah |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure constitutional-disregard due-process equal-protection equitable-maxim fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion object-principle-of-justice precedent precedent-contradiction precedent-interpretation standing |
5. Whether the United States Supreme Court has set a precedence, under the doctrine of equitable maxim, that contradicts its own precedence's by freel… |
| 18-8235 |
Arthur Lopez v. California |
California |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias racial-discrimination |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8237 |
Harry Eugene Briscoe v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-se-petition stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment |
Whether this U.S.S. Ct. will certify the conflict of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, not only with itself concerning its ruling that subject-matter … |
| 18-8239 |
Negus Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure crosby-remand district-court intervening-change-in-law jacobson-remand law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine manifest-injustice new-evidence reasonableness reasonableness-review resentencing sentencing |
On a Crosby remand, the district court decided not to resentence the defendants. On a Jacobson remand, the district court again decided not to resente… |
| 18-8253 |
Jamie Kenmont Kerien Brown v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus intellectual-disability mental-health post-conviction-relief |
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| 18-8254 |
Eddie Earl Phillips v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender indictment jury-instructions sentencing statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions |
Whether Phillips' Conviction and Sentence stems from a defective indictment, a violation of his due process rights?
Whether phillips' indictment was … |
| 18-8260 |
Kenton Deon Harrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation takings |
This Court's holding and 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b) require a § 2255 court to conduct an evidentiary hearing unless the record and filings conclusively prove… |
| 18-8264 |
Guadalupe Avendano-Vasquez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure deportation due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether an appeal waiver precludes review of the sentence of supervised release when the defendant has been deported.
Whether an appeal waiver is enf… |
| 18-8206 |
Robert L. Clark v. Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General of Georgia |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law imminent-danger in-forma-pauperis standards standing |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals violated clearly established federal laws by denying the petitioner forma pauperis in U.S. Court of Appeals case no:… |
| 18-8210 |
Mahogany Taquilla Alexander v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-discretion |
1. DID TRIAL COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION BY CONSIDERING A NOLLE PROSSED CHARGE OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER IN SENTENCING PETITIONER TO THE 20-YEAR PLEA CAP,… |
| 18-8211 |
Russell Berger v. James Gibson, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
ada civil-rights criminal-law disability discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-statute judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-safeguards standing statutory-interpretation |
1) Can a persons height be a disability under Tithe II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42U.s.C.8 12102(1)(A)-(C)?
2) Can a "Strike" be access… |
| 18-8222 |
Desi A. Lewis v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-court virginia-code |
Was the Trail Court in error when the Court therefore find that it is without jurisdiction to conduct a resentencing or modify the Defendant's sentenc… |
| 18-8225 |
Barry Druilhet, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-enhancement witness-testimony |
obstruction of justice where the defendant was seeking out witnesses to
testify on his behalf? |
| 18-1136 |
Beverly L. Hennager v. Troutman Sanders LLP |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees charging-liens civil-procedure civil-rights client-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-ethics legal-fees pro-se-representation standing |
1. Whether the rules and laws governing how charging liens are imposed and executed in Federal District Courts should be clarified so as to uniformly … |
| 18-1126 |
Mufasa Wilson Sejour v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution hobbs-act interstate-commerce jurisdictional-reach local-business robbery sentencing |
In today's world, there is no such thing as a purely local business. All businesses use credit card machines, access the internet, and purchase out-of… |
| 18-8174 |
Jack D. Hall v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
brady-violation cheney-v-u.s.district-court due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus magistrate-judge townsend-v-sain writ-of-mandamus written-order |
Should this Supreme Court Grant Certiorari, to determine this question of first impression "Dose the specific langauge of Federal Habeas Corpus Rule 8… |
| 18-8176 |
Anthony James Brightwell, Jr. v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment |
Petitioner's Constitutional Rights were violated when he guilty plea was not knowingly and intelligently made when the details of the guilty plea were… |
| 18-8179 |
Keith Dwayne Lewis v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing state-criminal-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence |
WHETHER A STATE CRIMINAL CONVICTION SHOULD STAND WHEN A STATE HAS INCORRECTLY CONCLUDES THE SUFFICIENCY OF EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE CONVICTION OF AIDIN… |
| 18-8181 |
Feliciano Soto-Lugo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-leniency district-court-discretion due-process judicial-response preservation-of-error reasonableness reasonableness-objection sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
Must challenges to the district court's failure to respond to a
defendant's non-frivolous grounds for leniency be preserved
by a separate "reasonablen… |
| 18-8187 |
Kelley Toney v. David Stock, Warden |
Illinois |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights corrections-department due-process sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
1) Shoud A CONVcd PERN b FL ANishEd A SENENING?
2) Is A SENtence Not AuthoRizEd by StAtUte Void?
3) IS AN IPRPER SENtENCE in ViOLATiON OF UNiTESAtES… |
| 18-8188 |
Jermaine C. Williams v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law contract contract-clause criminal-procedure due-process judgment judicial-review lower-tribunal plea-agreement sentencing united-states-constitution |
WHETHER THE PLEA AGREEMENT AFFIRMED BY THE LOWER TRIBUNAL VIOLATED THE CONTRACT AND DUE PROCESS CLAUSES OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION |
| 18-8190 |
Edgar Alonso Pineda-Pineda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1326 almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of… |
| 18-8194 |
Jerome Henderson v. Terry Collins, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
due-process equal-protection post-conviction-remedies statutory-law suspension-clause due-process equal-protection federal-statutory-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ohio-public-defender-commission post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies procedural-default |
Whether, or to what extent, appointed counsel pursuant to Harbison v. Bell, 556 U.S at 194 (2009) .. REBUFFED his demands to Brief and Raise the ineff… |
| 18-8195 |
Malcolm Bolden v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8196 |
Larry R. Tart v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection forensic-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medication medication-consent mental-health pretrial-detention solitary-confinement |
Where in pre trial confinement Petitioner was unknowingly
admnistered3 three different mental health psychologica
"twenty nine
medication's and not hi… |
| 18-8197 |
Tommy Earl Boone, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-28 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-code criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-parte-review habeas-corpus incarceration incarceration-period parole sentencing sentencing-statute texas-criminal-procedure texas-law |
Whether Texas Penal Code Article 42.082 BEVACCP, as interpreted by the Texas Court in EX PARTE KUESIER, 24 SW3d 247 (2000), is unconstitutional.
The … |
| 18-8198 |
Brandon Lisi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure curcio-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-challenge |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit committed reversible error by denying Petitioner's timely filed Petition for Reheari… |
| 18-8204 |
Eduardo Molina Bracero v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies patent qualified-immunity standing takings |
any statutoriol or constitutional obligation related tothe protec2. it isnot the obligation of Dept. of corrections officials to vespond grievances an… |
| 18-8205 |
Elamin Bashir v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process individualized-jury-finding jury-finding jury-instructions mandatory-minimum sentencing |
I. WHETHER THE MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE WAS IMPROPERLY IMPOSED FOR DRUG-TRAFFICKING CONSPIRACY, BECAUSE INDIVIDUALIZED JURY FINDING AS TO QUANTITY O… |
| 18-8145 |
Desmond Farmer v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-782 assault criminal-classification criminal-history drug-abuse drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection family-member judicial-discretion non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction violent-offender |
The District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Western Division denied the petitioner a reduction in his sentence under 3582 and Amend… |
| 18-8148 |
Johnathan Hawthorne v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation due-process first-step-act new-law pipeline resentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the "New Law" of the First Step Act, sign into law on Dec. 18, 2018 made this an appeal "Pipeline" case, that fall under the First Step Act ne… |
| 18-8149 |
Michael Achilles Fries v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial free-speech fundamental-fairness judicial-review legal-precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Does the State have a Constitutional duty to bear the burden of proving that an error in enforcement in order to obtain a conviction, and/or a fair vo… |
| 18-8151 |
Loren Williamson, III v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254a 28-usc-2254d conflict-of-interest due-process due-process-equal-protection-disparity equal-protection parties-to-the-proceeding post-conviction post-conviction-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel |
Whether a Certificate of Appealability should issule below to allowthe Ninth Circuit to determine whether. Lowrence v.Florida, 549 0.5.3.27, 33y(2007,… |
| 18-8156 |
In Re Dennis Bowden |
|
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado retroactive-application retroactivity sentence-enhancement sentencing united-states-v-watts |
Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado, has been or should be made retroactively applicable to c… |
| 18-8161 |
Kali Lord v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
above-guidelines-sentence appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness |
Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error?
Mu… |
| 18-8162 |
Eric V. Bartoli v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-recusal mandate-recall sentencing stare-decisis |
1) Did the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals go against Supreme Court precedent (Peugh v. U.S., 569 US 530; Class v. U.S., 2018 LEXIS 1378; Calderon v. Tho… |
| 18-8164 |
Geoffrey W. Freeman v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden |
Illinois |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-application civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8169 |
In Re Alfredo Aguirre |
|
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado, has been or should be made retroactively applicable to c… |
| 18-8170 |
In Re William Edward Cloninger |
|
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeal civil-rights congress-legislation constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection legal-reform prison-litigation pro-se-litigant procedural-dismissal statute-of-limitations |
Did ThE E/EVENTh CIRCIRt COURt OF AppEAl, CASE NOMbER: 18. 1O9O5 ViOlAtE ThE PEtitiONER's CONstituFiONAl Right UndER AMEndrEt 5. 14. OF ThE UnitEd-StA… |
| 18-1119 |
The Richman Group of Florida, Inc. v. Pinellas County, Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment class-of-one comparative-analysis difference-in-treatment due-process equal-protection florida fourteenth-amendment legislative-decision property-rights rational-basis selective-enforcement similarly-situated |
Does Florida's failure to consider the "difference in treatment" between a plaintiff and its similarly situated comparators conflict with this Court's… |
| 18-1109 |
James Erin McKinney v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-02-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Relisted (2) |
aggravating-evidence arizona-supreme-court criminal-procedure death-penalty eddings-precedent eddings-v-oklahoma mitigating-evidence resentencing sentencing sentencing-review |
1. Whether the Arizona Supreme Court was required to apply current law when weighing mitigating and aggravating evidence to determine whether a death … |
| 18-1112 |
Alvin S. Kanofsky v. Bethlehem Area School District |
Pennsylvania |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-v bill-of-rights civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection freedom-of-speech government-action religion religious-discrimination takings taxation taxation-dispute |
Was Kanofsky denied Due Process, as required in Article V of the Bill of Rights?
Was Kanofsky being discriminated against in the legal proceedings be… |
| 18-8107 |
Dheadry Loyd Powell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-error drug-quantity due-process grouping grouping-of-counts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-1b1 ussg-calculation |
Did the District Court err with its finding of a new inaccurate drug quantity?
Did the District Court err by not performing separate calculations und… |
| 18-8133 |
Daryl Mingo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining drug-trafficking due-process firearm-offense firearms plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-construction |
When Congress enacted and amended 18 U.S.C. Section 924(C)(1)(A) periodically, did Congress give federal criminal courts discretion to make their own … |
| 18-8142 |
Michael Williamson v. Karen Slusher, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech jurisdiction official-misconduct prisoner-lawsuit standing |
Is the holding of the 6th Circuit court of appeals in King v. Zatdara, 733 F. no 1 (80 W. 201.5), cert. Sen., Z&niaray.King, 20115 U.S. LSXtS IS? (201… |
| 18-8063 |
Shaun Mark Lawler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-assault constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing deadly-weapon due-process equal-protection family-violence guilty-plea heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder sentencing statutory-punishment |
In Texas, a person who commits aggravated assault - family violence by causing serious bodily injury to his girlfriend with a deadly weapon is subject… |
| 18-8087 |
Joseph Michael Kurz v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof capital-trial criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error standard-of-review statute-of-limitations time-limitations witness-testimony |
Reasonable jurists would determine that the district court erred in allowing the State to prosecute Mr. Kurz for an allegations that the time limitati… |
| 18-8124 |
Tony Gross v. John Havlin, Warden |
Ohio |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright judicial-jurisdiction right-to-counsel rothgery-v-gillespie-county sixth-amendment state-jurisdiction zerbst-v-johnson |
Might the states and especially Ohio be required to accept and enforce the 6th and 14th amendment mandates of Gideon vWainwright, 772 U.S. 335, (196),… |
| 18-8130 |
Eduardo Segoviano-Briseno v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consideration contract-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-interpretation legal-consideration plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
1. Whether principles of contract law require consideration (benefit to the defendant) to support a valid plea agreement. |
| 18-8084 |
Warren Scott Taylor v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8090 |
Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity savings-clause substantive-law |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State, 202 So. 3d 40 (Fla. 2016), which retroactively changed the elements necessary for impo… |
| 18-8093 |
John Ferreira v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault-definition civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legislative-amendment legislative-deference statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Did The State of Georgia err, and law violate the Fourteenth Amendment and Eighth Amendment by upholding Libel and Slander and Concludes that 'the Sta… |
| 18-8095 |
Enrique Gamino-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER A CLARIFYING AMENDMENT UNDER UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES SHOULD APPLY RETROACTIVELY UNDER 18 USCS 3582(C) |
| 18-1105 |
Samuel Pierce v. Yale University, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affirmative-action civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection higher-education race-based-discrimination stare-decisis university-admissions |
Whether the Court should overrule its holdings
in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
and Grutter v. Bollinger that professional school
a… |
| 18-8044 |
Lois Brooks v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure government-rights judicial-integrity judicial-proceedings mandatory-minimum plain-error sentencing sentencing-error substantial-rights |
in derogation of them may constitute "plain error" under Fed. R. Crim. Pro. 52(b)?
If so, did the imposition of a sentence of post-release supervisio… |
| 18-8047 |
Randy L. Pope v. Steve Franke |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction-nullification convictions criminal-procedure disposition due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion nullification re-sentencing relief-standard sentencing state-law |
WHEN THE STATE CONCEDES IN HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDINGS AND
ASKS THE COURT TO VACATE SOME OF THE CONVICTIONSCHALLENGED, WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT MUST G… |
| 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… |
| 18-8051 |
Yeison Valencia Torres v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure drug-enforcement drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
The exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection, because there … |
| 18-8052 |
Michael Duane Zack, III v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity retroactivity |
Does the partial retroactivity formula for Hurst u. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), claims designed by the Florida Supreme Court, as applied to a pris… |
| 18-8055 |
Kevin Ventura v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process jury-consideration jury-instructions jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Is Mr. Ventura is serving two life sentences imposed in violation of Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), bec… |
| 18-8057 |
Duane Allen Short v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defense capital-punishment death-penalty death-row effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation mitigation-evidence plea-bargaining sixth-amendment |
1. Is a capital defendant's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel violated where, but for counsel's intervention and unfounded … |
| 18-8037 |
Jerry Anthony Brandon, aka Jerry L. Brandon v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-02-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance involuntary-absence medical-emergency new-trial sixth-amendment trial-absence voluntary-absence |
Was the Petitioner's 5th 6th & 14th amendment rights, to the Constitution of the United States violated when?
ONE.
Petitioner's defense counsel faile… |
| 18-8009 |
Ernesto Aguirre v. Ken Clark, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights collateral-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure state-court-rules |
May a state court ignore its own exception rules to barring untimely or successive petitions without violating the Constitution to Equal Protection of… |
| 18-8016 |
James Goff v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty hurst-v-florida judicial-fact-finding jury-trial mitigation-evidence resentencing sentencing sixth-amendment |
Is a trial judge's independent weighing of new mitigation evidence and imposition of the death penalty at a resentencing hearing unconstitutional unde… |
| 18-8027 |
Michael Eugene Sample v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-remand collateral-review criminal-justice death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review montgomery-v-louisiana moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent welch-v-united-states writ-of-certiorari |
1. Does Moore v. Texas, 581 U.S. ___, 137 S.Ct. 1039 (2017) apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
2. Should this Court grant certiorari,… |
| 18-8031 |
William Bolden v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
WAS PETITIONER SENTENCED UNDER A STATUTE THAT VIOLATE DUE PROCESS OF LAW UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY PERMITTING A TRIAL COURT TOIMPOSE AN … |
| 18-1077 |
Akil Jahi, aka Preston Carter v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
|
atkins-v-virginia collateral-review constitutional-protection death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
1. Does Hall v. Florida, 572 U.S. 701 (2014) apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
2. Does Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017) apply … |
| 18-7969 |
Willie Ed Smith v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error |
WHETHER SMITH'S CONVICTION AND SENTENCE DERIVED FROM JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT?
PETITIONER ANSWERS - YES.
WHETHER SMITH'S CONVICTION AND SENTENCE DERIVED … |
| 18-7994 |
Daniel H. King v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure custody-transfer district-of-columbia due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether someone serving a sentence imposed by the District of Columbia whose physical custody was transferred to the Bureau of Prisons is "in the cust… |
| 18-7995 |
Rodney Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion procedural-error reasonableness-of-sentence section-3553a sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
L The trial court sentenced Mr. Martin to 168 months in prison, but the court did not adequately address Mr. Martin's arguments or the Section 3553(a)… |
| 18-8002 |
Brad Hunter Smith v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstance aggravating-circumstances arbitrary-imposition capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigating-circumstance mitigating-circumstances |
Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court's holding that a capital-sentencing jury permissibly declined to weigh an existent statutory mitigating circumstanc… |
| 18-8004 |
Henry Lee Craig v. Jody Bradley, Warden, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct judicial-oath prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial |
Did the trial court err - violate the petitioner Henry lee Crag # 26383 United States 14th Constitutional Amendment Equal Protection And Due Process t… |
| 18-7955 |
Antoine Deshawn Barnes v. David Baughman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentences criminal-sentences-parole due-process early-release non-violent-offenders parole parole-considerations-hearings parole-eligibility parole-hearings sentencing statute violent-offenses |
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT "NON-VIOLENT" OFFENDERS, SO STIPULATE EARINGS, AN PAROLE CONSIDERATION FOR WHO RECIEVE A DETERMINATE SENTENCE, DO NOT NEED A … |
| 18-7968 |
Joseph Ragland v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection postconviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment state-statute |
WHETHER A STATE STATUTE THAT GIVES SENTENCING JUDGES UNLIMITED, UNCHALLENGEABLE AND UNREVIEWABLE DISCRETION TO IMPOSE CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES, VIOLATE T… |
| 18-7974 |
Carlos Cruz-Rivera, aka Chiqui, aka Cano, aka Cano Llorens v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal federal-statute first-step-act pending-cases retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(C), as amended and clarified by the First Step Act of 2018, which provides for aggravated punishment for second violatio… |
| 18-7986 |
Maurin Chacon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
794 amendment-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law judicial-review plain-error plain-error-standard rosales-mireles rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-olan |
Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 585 U.S. - (2018). Clar -
ified the Plain Error Standard in United States v.Olan, 507 U.S.
725, 736 (1993). Does a… |
| 18-7894 |
Roszetta McNeill v. Wayne County Third Circuit Court, et al |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
7th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection fraud fraud-exception fraud-exception-rooker-feldman judicial-activism rooker-feldman-doctrine statute-of-limitations superintendent-control |
Is it appropriate to request "Superintendent Control" from the higher courts (in accordance to Article 3, section 2 of the Constitution) when the lowe… |
| 18-7938 |
Alex Quintana-Torres v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-history criminal-sentencing drug-addiction drug-offense presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
In Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), this Court held that an appellate court could presume that a procedurally-reasonable, within-Guidelines… |
| 18-7941 |
Trevor Little v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause restitution sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
the lower Courts, Fourth Circuit. Violated The Petitioner's
st Facto Clause of The Cluted States Constituton, Artice,
on 9 Clause 3, When It Still Enf… |
| 18-7944 |
Jerkeno Wallace v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence judicial-discretion non-testifying-defendant remorse remorse-consideration right-to-silence sentencing sentencing-error |
WHEN COURT CONSIDERED OBSERVATIONS OF
THE NON-TESTIFYING
DEFENDANT AS BASIS OF PROVING
NO REMORSE |
| 18-7945 |
Carl Allen Watts v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-question criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-bias legal-standard michigan-court-of-appeals procedural-conflict standing |
WHETHER THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS
DECISION TO REVERSED AND REMANDED FOR
A NEW TRIAL IN TWO SIMILARLY SITUATED
CASES AS PETITIONERS CASE, CONFLICT … |
| 18-7948 |
Cesar Carapia Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 18-7949 |
In Re Reginald Watson |
|
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2241-motion career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241 jurisdiction sentencing standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
QUESTION #1- Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Watsons 2241 motion for lack of jurisdiction?
QUESTION #2- Whether in light of Decamps v … |
| 18-7954 |
Stephen Blanton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdictional-claim procedural-default slayton-v-parrigan |
Pursuant to Slayton v. Parrigan, 215 Va. 27 (1974), a prisoner in Virginia is not permitted to raise a "non-jurisdictional" claim in a state habeas co… |
| 18-7890 |
In Re Jose Joaquin Ramirez |
|
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment mental-health procedural-safeguards standing state-government |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7907 |
John Hassan v. Lawrence K. Marks, Chief Administrative Judge, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
arbitration civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct property-dispute property-rights standing state-court-proceeding takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7910 |
Richard Fuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act johnson-v-united-states maximum-imprisonment maximum-sentence revocation-sentence sentencing statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Can a prison sentence imposed upon revocation of supervised release ever be substantively reasonable when: 1) it was authorized by virtue of the fact … |
| 18-7911 |
Albert Miklos Kun v. State Bar of California |
California |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
11th-amendment 14th-amendment bankruptcy-clause bankruptcy-discharge bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-preemption federalism fourteenth-amendment sovereign-immunity standing state-bar Whether petitioner's right to protection by the Eq Whether petitioner's rights protected by the Due P Whether the California Supreme Court may order pay |
Whether California waived its sovereign immunity to the Bankruptcy Clause.
Whether the California Supreme Court may order payment of a debt that has … |
| 18-7912 |
Eriese Alphonso Tisdale v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process jury jury-vote statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's failure to apply a statutory amendment,
Chapter 2016-13, Laws of Florida, which required a vote of no less than… |
| 18-7913 |
Travis Thomas v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender due-process expert-reports expert-testimony harmless-error jailhouse-call johnson-analysis johnson-v-us sentencing sentencing-error |
(1) Whether the District Court's failure to conduct the analysis required by the Supreme Court in Johnson v. U.S., 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015) before determ… |
| 18-7916 |
Jimmy Lee Wren v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection post-conviction-relief rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Whether a state court has the right to bar a litigant of having access to the courts?
Whether due process violations toll the state's statute of limi… |
| 18-7926 |
Hubert Babb v. Clara Smith, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution determinative-motive due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination sentencing |
WHETHER INOIGENT ANO/OR PRO SE DEFENDANTS IN CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS
HAVE OR ARE ENTITLED TO CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION FROM THE PRESENCE OP
SOCIOLECONOM… |
| 18-7932 |
Dale Allen Hamer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights court-record criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-bargaining pre-trial-hearing sentencing transcript warrant-review |
That counsel's conduct fell below the wide vanse of Attorney iciet
Thut the record vevealed no reasouable strategy in counsel's 7 failure to investis… |
| 18-7883 |
Daniel Arthur Carter v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c) armed-bank-robbery bank-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause general-intent intent intimidation retroactivity sentencing |
1. Given this Court's holding in Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255, 268 (2000), that federal armed bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d) … |
| 18-7891 |
Leslie Ann Haymond v. Helmand Investment, LLC |
Virginia |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction parrish-v-federal-nat-mortg-association pro-se-litigation standing stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction unlawful-detainer |
Did the Court error when disregarding the maxim of stare decisis et non quieta movere: "to stand by decisions and not disturb the undisturbed." when t… |
| 18-7798 |
Steven Floyd Voss v. Second Judicial District Court of Nevada, Washoe County |
Nevada |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sentencing state-court state-court-jurisdiction |
1. Do the imposition of and discharge from the subsequently invalidated Judgment of Conviction violate the constitutional principles of Double Jeopard… |
| 18-7823 |
Edward Nolan Norwood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights comity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federalism sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation |
A. Resolving the issue explicitly left open by this Court in McNeil v. United States, 563 U.S. 816 (2011): Whether it violates the United States Const… |
| 18-7856 |
In Re John Peyton Alexander |
|
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act commutation-and-reduction-of-sentence due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue parole-revocation sentence-expiration successive-writ suspension-clause time-sensitive |
1. Since, in the drafting of the AEDPA, the U.S. Congress omitted successive-writ exceptions for a prisoner in state custody seeking federal habeas co… |
| 18-7857 |
Calvin Raymond Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-concerns courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process retribution sentencing supervised-release |
Title 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e) lists the factors district courts should consider when responding to a defendant's violation of the conditions of supervised… |
| 18-7861 |
Gary Don Boyd Graves v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3014 criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion future-earning-capacity future-earnings indigency mandatory-assessment mandatory-special-assessment non-indigent sentencing statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether district courts can consider future earing capacity in determining whether a person is "non-indigent" for the purposes of assessing the $50… |
| 18-7863 |
Jeffrey Burris v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing due-process firearms firearms-possession reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation unregistered |
Whether a sixty-month sentence for the simple possession of unregistered firearms, without any evidence suggesting the defendant was doing anything il… |
| 18-7864 |
Prince Charles Cotton, Sr. v. Ghae Harris, Warden |
Ohio |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus illegal-confinement imprisonment ohio-law parole sentencing sentencing-entry standing supreme-court-ruling |
Is it Lawful, For The State 01 4 Ohio To Hoid The Herein FetitionerIn Illegal Confinemen United States Supreme Court Has Ruled UnconstitutioiiaI. On T… |
| 18-7872 |
Steven Torres v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights guidelines habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit upward-departure |
I. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY … |
| 18-7874 |
Richard Booze v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection separation-of-powers standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-1034 |
Jefferson A. McGee v. City of Sacramento, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-review civil-rights conspiracy discrimination discrimination-claims due-process equal-protection federal-financial-assistance racial-discrimination standing |
Whether the appeal in this action is so insubstantial as not to warrant further review and should not be permitted to proceed? |
| 18-1041 |
Frances K. Konieczko, et al. v. Adventist Health System/Sunbelt, Inc., et al. |
Florida |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice parties processes |
This court, the Supreme Court of the United States, granted enemy combatants the right to be heard, therefore, shouldn't we, American-born citizens of… |
| 18-1029 |
Sujit Ghosh v. DISH Network L.L.C. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arbitration arbitration-process arbitration-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial non-party non-party-participation party personal-guaranty standing |
Can a "Non-Party" of an Arbitration Process get equal Privileges and Rights like a "Party" as per the laws of the United States and its Constitution, … |
| 18-7788 |
Sunny Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether the District Court and the Fifth Circuit erred in not granting relief under Title 18 U.S.C… |
| 18-7803 |
Dennis Hegstrom v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
eighth-amendment homicide late-adolescent late-adolescent-offender mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama neuroscience-evidence parole parole-eligibility sentencing |
Is It Time to Extend the Eighth Amendment Protections Enunciated in Miller v. Alabama to Late Adolescent Homicide Offenders Like Hegstrom (i.e., 18 to… |
| 18-7804 |
Denandias Watson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-7809 |
James Were v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis competency-hearing death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores racial-bias |
1. Did the Supreme Court of Ohio violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it refused to reopen Petitioner's direct appeal to consider evidenc… |
| 18-7814 |
William E. Brown v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights drug-quantity due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining standing strickland-standard takings |
I. (i) WHETHER COUNSEL. RENDERED INEFFECTIVENESS FOR FAILING TO OBJECT
TO THE DRUG QUANTITY CALCULATION IN THE PSR, USED THREATS TO CORCE
PETITIONER T… |
| 18-7817 |
Andrew Paul Ceballos v. California |
California |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights disparate-impact due-process equal-protection jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination scotus |
Courts often reject Batson claims where the prospective juror at issue has a relative with a criminal conviction, a reason that has a disparate impact… |
| 18-7818 |
Marcos Castaneda v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-finding jury-trial mandatory-minimum preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Marcos Castaneda admitted by his plea to the elements of conspiring to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixfure or substance containing methamphetami… |
| 18-7821 |
Darryl Mixon v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment formal-complaint jurisdiction jurisdiction-over-persons jurisdiction-over-subject-matter procedural-defect sentencing standing subject-matter |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT LACKED JURISDICTION OVER THE PERSONS AND THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS CAUSE, IN ABSENCE OF A SIGNED FORMAL COMPLAINT?
WHETHER M… |
| 18-7827 |
Roger L. Kaufman v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto federal-guidelines parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers state-prisoner |
Whether a state prisoner is entitled under the Due Process Clause, and the Separation of Powers Doctrine of the United States and Wisconsin Constituti… |
| 18-7828 |
Robert Largo v. New York |
New York |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-law-section-440.10 due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penal-law-section-70.02 persistent-violent-felony sentencing void-for-vagueness |
Did the New York State Supreme Court err in holding that as-applied, the part of Penal Law Section 70.02, subdivision one (2), challenged as being voi… |
| 18-7831 |
Curt Lockett v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mandamus sentencing standing |
Should a circult Court be legally bound to hear a petitioner's motion to Correct illegal sentence after the petitioner has been prose barred from that… |
| 18-7835 |
Iouri Mikhel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-judiciary hostage-taking judicial-discretion mental-health recusal standard-of-proof treaty-power trial-procedure |
1. Due process requires the trial court to order a competency hearing
whenever the uncontradicted evidence raises a doubt as to the defendant's
compet… |
| 18-7839 |
Eric Mario Byers v. E. K. White, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appeals-court case-dismissal civil-rights district-court due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
1.Did the Fourth:CuEcuit:Coutt 6 1f, appeals in dismissing 1.the district Court case, violated petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process to redress the… |
| 18-7842 |
Brian Michael Burton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
emotional and physical dominion and control over 5th-amendment confidential-informant downward-departure due-process government-misconduct plea-agreement psychological-control sentencing statutory-minimum-sentence |
Whether a downward departure from a statutory minimum sentence is warranted when the abusive tactics of the Government acting in concert with a Confid… |
| 18-7769 |
Demetrius Hill v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel new-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment witness-credibility witness-vouching |
Do exculpatory recordings that were purposefully withheld by the government warrant a new trial?
Did the district court err in failing to determine t… |
| 18-7776 |
Miguel Angel Olvera-Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8-usc-1326 apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-7785 |
David Derringer v. Isidro Saenz |
New Mexico |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct rico rico-acts standing supremacy-clause |
Whether any court can deprive Constitutional 1st 2nd 4th 5th 8th 13th and 10 Amendment rights and violate the Supremacy Clause Constitution Article VI… |
| 18-7795 |
Markus D. Lanieux v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Blakely Blakely-v-Washington Booker Booker-v-United-States criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender habitual-offender-law jury-trial mandatory-minimum-sentence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Reasonable jurists would determine that the sentencing scheme by the State of Louisiana's Habitual Offender Law, LSA-R.S. 15:529.1 A(3)(b) [formally e… |
| 18-7800 |
Rene Antonio Aguilar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-justice procedural-obligations rita-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-arguments |
Following Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007), can a district court at sentencing fail to respond to a party's non-frivolous sentencing argumen… |
| 18-7801 |
Calvin Fitzgerald Tannehill v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Denial of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding is appropriate only where "reasonable jurists would consider [it] to be beyo… |
| 18-1014 |
In Re Rex E. Russo |
|
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-right due-process equal-protection equal-rights florida-constitution judicial-administration judicial-records judicial-transparency mandamus public-records public-records-access |
Florida's Constitution provides every person with the right to inspect or copy any public record made or received by the judicial branch, except recor… |
| 18-1026 |
William Kinney, et ux. v. Anderson Lumber Company, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
|
anti-trust antitrust-law-sherman-act concurrent-jurisdiction due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act sherman-antitrust-act unlicensed-practice-of-law |
Whether Tennessee's law for the unlicensed practice of law violates the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by restraining free market trade and competition withou… |
| 18-1022 |
Julius Jerome Murphy v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
|
brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus witness-testimony |
I. Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
misapplied established federal law when it held that
the State's failure to disclose threats and promis… |
| 18-7735 |
Michael Kenta Davis v. Justin Andrews, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process mathis-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Question One:
WHETHER THE S. C.. CODE ANN 44-53-370 IS OVERLYBROD AND INDIVISBLE
AND NO LONGER QUALIFIES IN LIGHT OF BOTH MATHIS V US AND DESCAMPS? … |
| 18-7737 |
Tyshawn Simmons v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process federalism sentencing standing statutory-interpretation tenth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7739 |
Gonzalo Holguin-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction objection procedural-requirement reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 18-7748 |
James Freeman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability COA due-process Eleventh-Circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits procedural-claims section-2255 sentencing substantive-claims underlying-2255-claims |
Question #1 - Did the Eleventh Circuit exceed the limited scope of 28 USC §2253, the Certificate of Appealability (COA) statute, by deciding Petitione… |
| 18-7709 |
John B. Laschkewitsch, as Administrator for the Estate of Ben Laschkewitsch v. Lincoln Life and Annuity Distributors, Inc., dba Lincoln Financial Group |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appeals attorneys-fees breach-of-contract civil-rights contract costs diagnostic-disclosure due-process equal-protection insurance insurance-policy policy-contestability producer-agreement standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether contestability precedent from this Court, see Hurni, Enelow, Stewart, Pickering, Wallerstein and Button; the N.C. Supreme Court, see American … |
| 18-7714 |
Anthony Grandison v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blockburger-test common-law-murder commutation cumulative-punishment double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process felony-murder handgun-use jury-instructions legislative-intent merger-of-offenses non-merger-rule prosecutorial-discretion required-evidence-test sentencing statutory-construction statutory-offenses |
I. Whether the Maryland Court of Appeals erred in holding in light of Missouri v. Hunter convictions for common law first degree murder did not merger… |
| 18-7715 |
Jose Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-quantity due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure minor-role minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-3b1.2 |
Was the District Court's failure to determine a factual basis, and to insure that defendant understood the nature of the charges, in violation of Rule… |
| 18-7716 |
Jesse Ingram, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors 5th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-review retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1). Is it a Fifth Amendment violation when Petitioners are sentenced to a higher guidline sentence when 18 U.S.C. statute 3553(A) warrants a below gui… |
| 18-7723 |
Randy Dempsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-prisoner residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th… |
| 18-7726 |
Carlton Williams v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach criminal-law federal-criminal-law pattern-of-racketeering predicate-crime racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Is a sentencing court limited to applying a categorical approach when determining whether a conviction for violating the Federal Racketeer Influence a… |
| 18-7727 |
Gregory Hatt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea heroin-distribution ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-causation plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether failure to convey unbiased, complete, or correct information to a defendant during plea bargaining by defense counsel invalidates a guilty ple… |
| 18-7729 |
Earnest S. Harris v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-discipline civil-rights court-rules disbarment due-process election-law equal-protection habeas-corpus incarceration professional-conduct suspension voting voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7730 |
Clark Derrick Frazier v. Randy Lee, Warden |
Tennessee |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
35-usc-101 civil-procedure due-process patent standing takings civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7620 |
Emmanuel Adeyinka v. Harris County Jail, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights competency criminal-conviction cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eleventh-amendment immunity mental-illness monetary-damages personal-involvement rational-understanding section-1983 standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7621 |
Jacoby Burns v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act career-offender categorical-analysis criminal-law elements-clause physical-force sentencing sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
I. Does a conviction under Georgia's felony obstruction-of-an-officer statute, OCGA § 16-10-24(b), qualify as either a "crime of violence" under the e… |
| 18-7680 |
Hector Cirino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c3b armed-bank-robbery categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process elements-clause johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation unconstitutional |
1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)?
2. C… |
| 18-7690 |
Thomas Phillip Bell v. Kiah Demarias Leigh, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review mental-competency record-correction sentencing standing |
I am Thomas Phillip Bell and I would like to know how serious is the court compaired to the Federal Court's and does the Fact matter about a Case a ot… |
| 18-7692 |
Byron Anthony Horn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining pleading reasonable-doubt reasonable-sentence sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of "reasonable" federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-7697 |
Duane Yates v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2019-01-31 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment postconviction prison-discipline self-defense sixth-amendment whether-inmates-who-file-a-postconviction-under-io |
Whether inmates who file a postconviction under Iowa Code 822 in the Iowa District Court's are denied the equal protection of law under the Sixth and … |
| 18-7699 |
Facundo Ruiz-Ruiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process recidivism sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court |
Should the Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998)? |
| 18-7700 |
Luther Gene Ray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process federal-statute force-requirement human-trafficking interstate-commerce mens-rea sentencing sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation |
Whether a conviction resulting in a fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 1591 requires, as the statute says, that force "was used… |
| 18-7617 |
Talbert Hinton v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech sentencing standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7622 |
Kendrick Bernard Demus v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
accomplice-witness accomplice-witness-rule criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
GROUND ONE
When the State had Petitioner's codefendant testify against Petitioner and claim that the codefendant had received no promises of leniency… |
| 18-7641 |
Arturo Huerta v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7658 |
Julius Darius Jones v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juror-bias post-conviction post-conviction-review racial-prejudice sixth-amendment |
1. Whether newly-discovered evidence establishes that racial prejudice influenced the decision of at least one juror to convict Mr. Jones and sentence… |
| 18-7668 |
Patricio Paladin v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-element criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-guarantee prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements |
Whether the contested fact of prior conviction entering into the sentence to increase a defendant's penalty for the instant offense, must be treated a… |
| 18-7669 |
Bertulio Moreno-Alvarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment firearms second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
L. Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5) violates the Second and Fifth Amendments? |
| 18-7673 |
In Re Roda Hiramanek |
|
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts ada-accommodations civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection federal-court-procedure judicial-interference judicial-misconduct standing |
The issue here goes beyond a miscarriage of justice. It's lower courts' blatant and outright refusal to administer justice, when law warrants otherwis… |
| 18-7679 |
Jeriton Lavar Curry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) appeal-waiver appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction unconstitutional-sentence |
Did the Appeals Court err by granting the Government's motion to enforce an invalid appeal waiver, after determining that Currys' issue was non-frivol… |
| 18-7681 |
In Re Erasmo Aguinaga |
|
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2241 actual-innocence circuit-split due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-writ manifest-miscarriage-of-justice procedural-framework saving-clause |
Has the Eleventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals effectively suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, without authorization, where the Court… |
| 18-7624 |
Mario Griffin v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-law illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-integrity manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice sentence-enhancement sentencing |
Does the sentence imposed constitute an illegal
sentence under federal law and represent a
manifest injustice calling in question the
integrity of … |
| 18-7625 |
Thomas Florence v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction sentencing standing |
CAN THE STATES OF THE UNDTED STATES OBTAIN UALID CONKOICTDON BASED A ON A ONA REPORT THAT DOES NOT PROVE BEYOMD A RAONAIGUE DOUIBT TO SUPPORT ADJUDIUT… |
| 18-7636 |
Ernest Lee Glover, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
26-usc-2244 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 due-process equal-protection federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
i. Does court of Appeals violate Due Process and Equal protection of law by applying 28 usc 2244(d)(1) to deny review of C.O.A. Challenging District c… |
| 18-7637 |
Fidencio Valdez v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-case-review-habeas-corpus-due-process-equa criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus mccoy-claim mccoy-v-louisiana standing texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-law |
Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas misapplied this Court's decision in McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U.S. _ (No. 16-8255; May 14, 2018): by dete… |
| 18-7639 |
Caster Delaney Whetstone v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-waiver armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split illegal-sentence plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether a defendant's challenge to his status as an armed career criminal, where the sentence is in excess of the otherwise applicable statutory maxim… |
| 18-7642 |
Kirk Lassend v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca accomplice-liability armed-robbery circuit-split non-dangerous-weapons sentencing strict-liability violent-felony |
1. Whether This Court Should Grant This Petition To Resolve The Circuit Split As To Whether A Crime Which Does Not Require The Actual Use Of Violent F… |
| 18-7643 |
Billy Leon Kearse v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst v. … |
| 18-7646 |
Jesse Sawyer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-procedure judicial-mandate judicial-power mandate sentencing standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
1. Whether the powers of federal appellate courts are diminished and whether a defendant is deprived of his fundamental right to appellate review when… |
| 18-978 |
Josephenie Robertson v. Republic of Nicaragua, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process due-process,equal-protection,first-amendment,sixth equal-protection first-amendment political-question-doctrine sixth-amendment standing |
Whether the Petitioner was deprived of an independent, neutral, and impartial tribunal in violation of the First and Sixth Amendments under the Equal … |
| 18-982 |
In Re Beverly L. Hennager, et al. |
|
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection limited-partnership mandamus non-discretionary-action pre-filing-injunction property property-rights sanctions standing writ-of-appeal |
Whether the enforcement of an appellant mandate affirming the plain, unambiguous language of a previous order compelling specific non-discretionary ac… |
| 18-968 |
Andrew C. Najda v. Nikolaos J. Paterakis |
Massachusetts |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment manifestly-erroneous meaningful-appeal precedent state-supreme-court |
When a state affords a right of appeal, does a state supreme court denying appellate review, before it, to parties that raise an error of law that is … |
| 18-973 |
In Re Lee Chatfield, et al. |
|
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-procedure-abuse-of-discretion civil-rights district-court due-process emergency-motion equal-protection gerrymandering judicial-discretion judicial-economy jurisdictional-issues mandamus standing stay-of-trial |
Did the three-judge panel in the Eastern District of Michigan abuse its discretion when it denied the Congressional and Legislative Defendants-Interve… |
| 18-975 |
Mark Stuart v. Jim Lane, et al. |
Arizona |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
|
due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech petition petition-rights rule-68 |
Whether Sanctioning Stuart under Rule 68, Arizona rules of civil procedure, and taxing him with the city of Scottsdale's costs, violated his First Ame… |
| 18-980 |
Bismark Kwaku Torkornoo v. Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection estoppel fourteenth-amendment fraud res-judicata rooker-feldman |
Whether the District Court's decisions based Upon Estoppel to Dismiss Petitioner's civil lawsuit against the State of Maryland violate the Constitutio… |
| 18-7579 |
David L. Price v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-enterprise drug-conspiracy drug-distribution due-process felon-in-possession heroin-conspiracy money-laundering restitution sentencing straw-purchaser |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7593 |
Richard Michael Sanchez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-waiver consecutive-sentence criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process legal-interpretation plea-agreement sentencing |
1. Does a plea agreement's limited appellate waiver preclude a defendant's challenge of a decision to impose a consecutive sentence where the appellat… |
| 18-7594 |
James Randall Rogers v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
capital-cases civil-rights death-penalty equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination racial-exclusion standing |
Does Lanier's systematic discrimination against African Americans violate Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U.S. 303 (1880), Swain v. Alabama, 380 U.S. 2… |
| 18-7601 |
Joseph Chhim v. Golden Nuggett Lake Charles, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
age-discrimination civil-rights computer-assessment due-process eligibility-requirements employment-discrimination equal-protection facility-supervisor hiring-practices pretext pretext-claim |
Did Defendant Golden Nugget discriminate against Plaintiff when it hired 300 employees with different eligibility requirements based on a discriminato… |
| 18-7607 |
Bruce White v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-actions criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-withdrawal plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing voluntary-plea withdrawal-of-plea |
IF A PLEA WAS NOT ENTERED VOLUNTARY, INTELLIGENTLY, OR KNOWINGLY WILL THAT BE CONSIDERED GROUNDS TO FILE A MOTION FOR WITHDRAWAL OF A PLEA AGREEMENT P… |
| 18-7609 |
Merlin Alston v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 18-usc-926b criminal-law-enforcement-officer-exemption criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession firearms law-enforcement sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
1. Is the conviction of a local poli ce officer, required to carry a service pistol when off duty, excluded from prosecution for violating 18 U.S.C. 9… |
| 18-7549 |
Bonnie Robles v. Brookwood Terrace Apartments |
Kansas |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-fairness lower-court-rulings procedural-violations statutory-procedure |
Why should it be lawful for the lower court to ignore "STATUTORY PROCEDURE" violations by the Respondents during a lower court hearing and then questi… |
| 18-7568 |
Richard Earl Shere, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
co-defendant constitutional-review death-penalty equal-protection equal-protection,death-penalty,sentencing,retroact hurst-v-florida mccloud-v-state retroactivity ring-v-arizona sentencing-disparity |
1. Whether Mr. Shere's case is no longer one of the most aggravated and least mitigated following Hurst v. Florida and he should have been convicted o… |
| 18-7569 |
Paul William Scott v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
codefendant-comparison constitutional-proportionality cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection sentencing-disparity |
Whether Florida's refusal to consider the disparity between the 15-year prison term of his equal or more culpable codefendant and Scott's death senten… |
| 18-7570 |
Anthony Eugene Hardeman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful basis to enhance his sentence, but fails… |
| 18-7572 |
Vernon Montrell Webster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
alternative-means armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process generic-burglary generic-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether the locations under Wisconsin's burglary statute are alternative means——a question pending resolution from the Wisconsin Supreme Court—mak… |
| 18-7574 |
Libby Haines-Marchel v. Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board |
Washington |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights community-property community-property-law criminal-liability-transfer due-process equal-protection fundamental-right-of-marriage fundamental-right-to-earn-a-living fundamental-rights marriage-rights right-to-earn-living spousal-liability state-licensing |
1. Can the transfer of the criminality of one spouse, be legally shifted to another innocent spouse, to deny the innocent spouse, a state license? Can… |
| 18-7576 |
Jordaan Stanly Creque v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder constitutional-rights credibility death-penalty due-process law-enforcement-testimony law-enforcement-witness reliable-process summation summation-and-bolstering trial-by-jury witness-credibility |
Where a law enforcement witness who has been seated at counsel table throughout trial gives testimony bolstering other witnesses' credibility and summ… |
| 18-7577 |
Roland Castro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process habitual-offender johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states prior-convictions residual-clause sentencing sentencing-ambiguity statutory-maximum united-states-v-herrold united-states-v-johnson violent-felony |
Whether it is inconsistent with Welch v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1257 (2016), for a court to require a prisoner who files a second or successive mot… |
| 18-7584 |
Pamela Marberry v. State Bar of California |
California |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
ada civil-procedure civil-rights disability due-process employment equal-protection reasonable-accommodation standing takings |
Why do injured workers have to suffer needlessly due to lack of care, medication and treatment?
Why is a specialist's request for treatment denied be… |
| 18-7588 |
Frank Odom, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver district-court due-process fourth-circuit mitigation mitigation-arguments plea-agreement remand sentencing |
Does a plea agreement with an appeal waiver waive the right to obtain a remand requiring the district court to actually consider the defendant's mitig… |
| 18-7502 |
Edjuan Payne v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-rights competency criminal-procedure due-process mental-fitness mental-health right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel sentencing trial-errors |
Question not identified. |
| 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 … |
| 18-7515 |
Jafaria Deforrest Newton v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-penalty due-process equal-protection establishment-clause first-amendment presumption religious-worship statutory-presumption |
1. Whether the presumption in § 407(b)(2) —that structures with traditional characteristics associated with churches or synagogues are places used pri… |
| 18-7536 |
Jason M. Reeves v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden |
Louisiana |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case racial-discrimination side-by-side-comparison voir-dire |
In jury selection for the second trial in this case, the State used 7 of its 12 peremptory challenges on African-Americans, removing only 5 of the 23 … |
| 18-7540 |
David Dewayne Riley v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-post-conviction-proceedings capital-proceedings collateral-review death-penalty death-sentence effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan murray-v-giarratano post-conviction-counsel precedent state-court |
David Riley filed a pro se state post-conviction petition because, unlike every other state, Alabama does not provide counsel to death-sentenced inmat… |
| 18-7543 |
Rodney Landingham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-law due-process residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime void-for-vagueness |
1. Did Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively void as unconstitutional the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B)?
2. C… |
| 18-7544 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
2019-01-24 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-record due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargain prejudice statute-of-limitations strickland-standard |
When the Appointed Counsel on Direct appeal is a thorn to the perfection of that appeal and falls below the standard of Strickland vs. Washington (198… |
| 18-7545 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
2019-01-24 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection plea-bargain right-to-counsel statute-of-limitations 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargain record statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
When the Appointed Counsel on Direct appeal is a thorn to the perfection of that appeal and falls below the standard of Strickland vs. Washington (198… |
| 18-7547 |
Michael Joseph Mulder v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty dementia eighth-amendment intellectual-disability memory-loss |
Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically excludes from the death penalty an individual who, because of a stroke that caused dementia, is functionall… |
| 18-7551 |
Joel Gomez v. Mary Berghuis, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure contract-formation contract-interpretation contract-law contract-validity due-process equal-protection legal-standards standing state-law statutory-interpretation |
DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERR IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY? |
| 18-7558 |
Brandon Lamar Hawkins v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-competency criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-competency mental-health resentencing sentencing trial-court trial-court-discretion |
WHETHER PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO DISCHARGE, NEW TRIAL, AND/OR RESENTENCING BASED ON THE TRIAL COURT FAILING TO CONDUCT A COMPETENCY HEARING AFTER IT … |
| 18-7559 |
Shomari Daley v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
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| 18-7562 |
Donald Jodiah Isaiah v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection life-liberty-property standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7565 |
Michael Fuller v. Lashann Eppinger, Warden |
Ohio |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggregate-sentence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus maximum-term sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-detention |
Whether Petitioner's maximum aggregate sentence has expired and he is being held unlawfully. |
| 18-7567 |
Ron Collins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-sentencing-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I.
Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for a certificate
of appealability to appeal the district court's denial of … |
| 18-7490 |
Dan Reed v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment criminal-law due-process felon-in-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the "knowingly" provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2) applies to both the possession and status elements of a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) crime? This C… |
| 18-7522 |
Freddie B. Kennedy, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-consistency judicial-decision-making legal-error precedent rehearing rehearing-request |
Did the lower Court commit error by not adhering to its prior decisions when it denied Petitioner's request for rehearing without discussion of the fa… |
| 18-7523 |
Charles James v. Jeffrey Krueger, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection felony-murder jury-instruction jury-instructions retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
1.)THE IOWA STATE COURT DECISION IN STATE V. HEEMSTRA, THAT IT IS AN INTERPRETATION OF THE STATUTE IS CONTRARY TO THE DECISION IN STATE V. GOOSMAN, TH… |
| 18-7529 |
Andre Almond Dennison v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights dangerous-crimes dangerous-crimes-against-children due-process enhancement fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Does Arizona's Sentencing Scheme Violate Due Process Clause, 6th Amendment, And Apprendi v New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348 (2000) When Petiti… |
| 18-7533 |
Shawn Canada v. Eddie Miles, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation-clause cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing |
1. DID CANADA RECEIVE EFFECTIVE ASISTANCE OF COUNSEL
2. WAS THERE AN ABUSE OF DISCRETION TO BRINGING OF CANADA MENKAL HEALHL INJUSTICE DUNNG SENTENUN… |
| 18-7513 |
Nelson Cobas v. Kevin Lindsey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts free-speech sentencing standing state-courts statutory-interpretation |
Under Which Standard of Review This Case Shall Be Determined Actual Innocence Injective Assistance of Counsels, The AEDPA Limitations, or After Guilma… |
| 18-7516 |
Joseph Adam Mora v. California |
California |
2019-01-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-sentencing death-penalty jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt statutory-maximum |
Does the California death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that any fact, other than a prior co… |
| 18-7503 |
Abdur Rahim Ambrose v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
contemporary-standards-of-decency cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment geographic-arbitrariness racial-arbitrariness |
I. Does the death penalty in and of itself violate the Eighth Amendment in light of contemporary standards of decency and the geographic and racial ar… |
| 18-7484 |
Nimon Naphaeng v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing |
WHETHER THIS CASE PRESENTS THE COURT WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE A STANDARD BURDEN OF PROOF TO ESTABLISH WHETHER A MONETARY LOSS AND ITS AMOUNT IS A… |
| 18-7491 |
Scott Anthony Crow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing |
District Judge Juneillm Ronvusly"nuled that I am icarcerate
Q Are My Equal Prokchins under the 14th Amend. and Due Process rights violated when; loth… |
| 18-7498 |
Eddie Hall v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender career-offender-enhancement controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense due-process fundamental-defect habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition miscarriage-of-justice section-2241 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the District and Circuit Courts erred in the denial of Hall's § 2241 Petition where, as here, Hall sufficiently demonstrated that the decision… |
| 18-7467 |
Phillip E. LaPointe v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment atkins-precedent atkins-v-virginia brain-development criminal-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole sentencing |
Does this Court's 8th Amendment protections extend to a just turned eighteen year old who received life without parole, where the evidence shows he wa… |
| 18-7468 |
Robert Charles Jones v. Jack Palmer, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-advice criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-without-parole parole plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether Jones received ineffective assistance of counsel when his trial counsel advised him to stipulate to a sentence of life without the possibility… |
| 18-7473 |
William Dale Albright v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne alleyne-decision alleyne-v-united-states apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
QUESTION 1: DOES THIS COURT'S DECISION IN ALLEYNE V. UNITED STATES, 570 US 99 (2013) ANNOUNCE A NEW RULE OR WAS IT DICTATED BY APPRENDI V. NEW JERSEY,… |
| 18-7475 |
Aldona B. v. Nicholas S. |
West Virginia |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
biological-father child-custody civil-rights custodial-rights custody due-process equal-protection family-law parental-rights standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements unwed-parent |
Whether an unwed biological father who meets none of the statutory requirements of caretaking, providing for, legally acknowledging, and forming a par… |
| 18-7478 |
Lloyd Michael Blair v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect jury-trial post-conviction-relief relief resentencing sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
1. Are the sentencino proceedinos that was found to be urconstitutionel made to be invalid?
2. Did the 'trial court ebuse its discretion by refusinn … |
| 18-7417 |
Omari Robinson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process illinois illinois-law mandatory-minimum sentencing statutory-vagueness vagueness weapon-enhancement |
1. Is the mandatory 25-year-to-life weapon enhancement imposed by Illinois courts unconstitutionally vague? |
| 18-7442 |
Kevin Underwood v. Mike Carpenter, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey beyond-reasonable-doubt capital-punishment capital-punishment-scheme capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-findings jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's decision – that the "beyond the reasonable doubt" standard does not apply to the critical and prerequisite finding by Okla… |
| 18-7446 |
Anthony Jujuan Hopkins v. Warden, Ventress Correctional Facility |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-proceeding ninth-circuit petition-for-review sentencing standing |
I.
IS THE UNitEd dTATES ApPEALy COURt FOR THE EleVENth CiRCUit iN
ERROR, beCAUSE it DENIES PETITiONERg C.O.A, WhEN PETiTIONERS
CLAiMg ARE JURiSSICTION… |
| 18-7452 |
Herminio Garcia-Carillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process due-process,equal-protection,immigration,prejudice equal-protection fair-trial free-speech immigration immigration-bias impartiality jury-selection prejudice voir-dire |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in rejecting Garcia's proposed voir dire questions regarding potential racial and ethnic bias against… |
| 18-7454 |
Tyshaun St. Vallier v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) constitutional-statutory-provisions district-court district-court-discretion lodestone lodestone-principle sentence-reduction sentence-reductions sentencing sentencing-decisions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation third-circuit |
Are district courts required to maintain the Sentencing Guidelines as
the lodestone of the sentencing decision when ruling on motions for
sentence red… |
| 18-7457 |
Charles Edward Case v. California |
California |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-amendment criminal-sentencing death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con… |
| 18-7408 |
Stephen Daniel Leonard v. George Washington University Hospital, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process effective-remedy equal-protection standing takings |
1a
Petitioner Appolitment of Pobono Counsel?
2.
sumay afimance hen the Chim on Appea clary ied that Distoet
Caunt Judge acted Dith Vindictiveness and… |
| 18-7412 |
Keith Kennedy v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections |
Louisiana |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing standing |
Why did Judge Gail Shenp force Keith Ray Kewmekj who guilty plea?
Is my attorney Charles Kw en Be. abandoned?
Is that ss, fo ron +4 \\ Mancl. If So,… |
| 18-7418 |
Derrick T. Seals v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
851-enhancement ambiguous-plea contract criminal-procedure due-process enhancement government-breach ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Did government breach plea agreement/contract when defendant never agreed to. enhancement?
Was Defendant mislead into plea agreement provisions inclu… |
| 18-7419 |
Fausto Becerra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accountability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process maximum-punishment plea-agreement plea-bargain prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Because the stipulation in the plea bargain which limited the amount and type of drugs was not followed or advocated by the Government, Mr. Becerra wa… |
| 18-7420 |
Joe Ray Alires v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing federal-criminal-law generic-burglary generic-crime residential-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Whether a conviction for residential burglary under N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-16-3(A) falls within the generic crime of burglary in the Armed Career Crimin… |
| 18-7421 |
Torrence Allen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-provision certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing-guidelines retroactivity retroactivity-of-supreme-court-decisions sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
I. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), applies retroactively to a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion attacking a sentence imposed under man… |
| 18-7428 |
Harry Jones v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 18-7431 |
Teddrick Batiste v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 death-penalty due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance organic-brain-damage procedural-bar state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers |
The post-conviction state court process in Batiste's case was inadequate for ascertaining the truth and lacked critical components of an adjudication … |
| 18-7433 |
Hamid R. Ardaneh v. Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-discrimination discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias judicial-review pro-se-petition refugee-rights refugee-status |
1.I AM A ALONE IRANIAN REFUGEE STATUS MY ENGLISH IS NOT GOOD, I WITHOUT RIGHTS TO COUNSEL FOLLOW JUSTICE TO TOP LEVEL IN U.S.A. IF SUPREME COURT DOES … |
| 18-7384 |
Michael Deuschel v. USC Faculty Dental Practice, et al. |
California |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ada-accommodation ada-requests-for-accommodation court-reporter disabilities disability-rights due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-access multiple-disabilities pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-petitioner record-on-appeal |
Whether the trial court denials of ADA requests for accommodation from in forma pauperis pro se Petitioner with multiple disabilities, receiving multi… |
| 18-7390 |
Martin R. Stancik v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-circuit waiver |
Whether a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a sentence includes a waiver of the right to appeal a later, unforeseen constitutional du… |
| 18-7397 |
Jackie Breeden, Jr. v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Arkansas |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-exercise free-speech racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing |
Mr. Breeden alleges that had his trial counsel argued under Arkansas Law that his case should fall under the "first offender act" ,as a first time off… |
| 18-7399 |
Gene Donta Carter v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
consecutive-sentences criminal-conspiracy drug-delivery drug-offenses due-process non-violent-crime offense-gravity offense-gravity-scores sentence-proportionality sentencing sentencing-error |
THE SENTENCING CURT ERRED IN APPLYING INCORRECT OFFENSE GRAVITY SCORES IN VIOLATION OF APPELLANT'S DUE PROCESS RIGHTS BASED UPON THE UNPROVEN WEIGHT O… |
| 18-7376 |
Scott Peters v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence standing |
FOuND to Be cleasly And UWMistakABly EeRoNeoUS, Is Evough
11
TO CAst DouBt ANd' stton the trutHt And Fact of All RetitioNers
.SLAdEMENAS.
PETISTONER … |
| 18-7382 |
Jervon L. Herbin v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sixth-amendment structural-defect |
Did the Lower Court(s) Err in refusing to grant retroactive application to Fishback v. Commonwealth?
Did the Virginia Supreme Court Err in holding th… |
| 18-903 |
Robbie Perry, et al. v. Coles County, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
28-usc-2201 comity-doctrine declaratory-relief equal-protection equal-protection-clause equitable-jurisdiction property-tax property-tax-assessment state-court-remedies |
Did the Seventh Circuit err under the exception to the comity doctrine by holding Illinois state court remedies "adequate" and "complete" even though … |
| 18-7348 |
Edgar Arnold Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 18-USC-3582c2 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dillon-v-united-states district-court-discretion due-process legal-error sentence-modification sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-methodology statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
WHETHER, DILLON v. UNITED STATES, 560 U.S. 817 (2010), REQUIRES A DISTRICT COURT TO REEVALUATE ITS ORIGINAL SENTENCING METHODOLOGY IN STEP TWO OF THE … |
| 18-7351 |
Rahmad Lashad Geddes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-review apprendi civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
1). Can a court of appeals sanction a lower courts depature from this court's well established percedents that effectively conflates the standard of r… |
| 18-7353 |
Nathaniel Jackson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida |
Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
| 18-7357 |
David T. Frazier v. Stephen Crump, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
1983-suit civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,civil-procedure,standing, due-process equal-protection favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pro-se-litigant section-1983 time-bar |
(1). Is petitioners claims Time Barred Under The Favorable Termination Rule Founded under Heck V. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) When he brought the 19… |
| 18-7358 |
Aaron Ford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255,ineffective-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error presentence-investigation-report section-2255-motion sentencing |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying to issue a certificate of appealability to review Petitioner's denied motion under 28 U… |
| 18-7359 |
Billy Joe Greenwood v. Tennessee Board of Parole |
Tennessee |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights discrimination discriminatory and illegal application of its par due-process hence causing them to serve more time than those parole violate the equal-protection arbitrary-and-capricious constitutional-rights discrimination discriminatory-application due-process equal-protection judicial-review offense-severity parole parole-system sentencing |
Does Tennessee's arbitrary, discriminatory and illegal application of its parole review and release consideration utilizing the seriousness of the off… |
| 18-7360 |
Peter Mathis, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process final-judgment grand-jury insufficient-evidence sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
Did Congress' enactment of 18 USC § 3742 (a), allow for the review of an otherwise final sentence, if a defendant could showaviOlatiôn ofi1aw?
Did th… |
| 18-7365 |
Robert Allen DeVore v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Oregon |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus minimum-sentences sentencing |
1. Does the combined sentence totaling of 495 years with a 247½/ year minimum violate the Eight Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment?
2. Do… |
| 18-7366 |
Frederick Gray v. Patricia Sorrels, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prison-conditions |
THGMSELUES ARE MST ARMS OF THE STATE AMO THE STATE OR
DEPARTMENT WAS NOTLIST GD AS A DEFEUOANT
EO EEE E DT
PLAINTIFF CRAY WMEN WE REFUSED TS MEDICATE… |
| 18-7301 |
J. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-standard due-process equal-protection parental-rights standard-of-review |
THE COURT EALS ERRED BY EMPLOYING AN UNCONSITITUTIONAL STANDARD TO REVIEW THIS PARENTAL RIGHTS TERMINATION DECISION.
The Fourteenth Court of Appeals … |
| 18-7307 |
Yoni Rayo-Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-7315 |
James Gregory Armistead v. Jennie Bowen, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights contracts-clause criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto fourth-amendment hearing-rights informal-hearing program-eligibility termination |
L. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT WITN OBLINK AGENC
___ MS. TENNTE ROWEN, DENTED P TONER HIS DUE PROCESS OF LAV
On [UTIONAL RIGHTS AY R NG TO ALLOW HIM AN I… |
| 18-7323 |
Robert Willis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum violent-felony |
GROUND (I) WHETHER PETITIONER WILLIS'S 'B&E OCCUPIED' IS A VIOLENT FELONY UNDER ACCA?
GROUND (II) WHETHER PETITIONER WILLIS'S DRUG TRAFFICKING CONVIC… |
| 18-7331 |
Ishmael Douglas v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
categorical-analysis circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process legal-precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the residual clause of 18 U. S. C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague. |
| 18-7332 |
James Dellinger v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas procedural-vehicle roper-v-simmons |
Where a petitioner establishes uncontested proof that despite effort he never progressed beyond the first grade level and dropped out of third grade a… |
| 18-7337 |
Gary D. Martin v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden |
West Virginia |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
change-of-venue constitutional-error due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias right-to-counsel venue |
GROUND ONE: Did the State of West Virginia and subservient Circuit Court of Fayette County, West Virginia "abuse its discretion" and commit 'clear err… |
| 18-7339 |
Earl Reyes v. Michael Duggan, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-amendments court-access due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment intentional-discrimination judicial-discretion seventh-amendment |
Whether the alleged facts that Defendant Duggan intentionally discriminated against Reyes (suspect class) whereby impeding the timely filing of his pe… |
| 18-7340 |
Eric Dillon v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process federal-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-battle |
SINCE 18 U.S.C. 924(j) Is A DISCRETE OFFENSE THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN A MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCE OR REQUIRE A CONSECUTIVE S,DID THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT APP… |
| 18-7278 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection plea-bargain record-on-appeal statute-of-limitations appellate-counsel appellate-record due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations strickland-standard |
When the Appointed Counsel on Direct appeal is a thorn to the perfection of that appeal and falls below the standard of Strickland vs. Washington (198… |
| 18-7282 |
Benjamin Edward Henry Bradley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process factual-findings objection presentence-report sentencing sixth-circuit |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals errer in affirming the district court's sentencing judgment where the district court adopted the Presentence Re… |
| 18-7284 |
Roger Leon Barlow v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-pa-c-s-a-9541 constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence pennsylvania pennsylvania-courts post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act re-sentencing sentencing void-ab-initio |
Ground I. Did the Pennsylvania Courts err in denying the instant Post Conviction Relief Act Petition for failing to recognize that the P.C.R.A. statut… |
| 18-7285 |
Brenda J. Burch v. Atlanta City Court, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights corruption due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct local-government state-courts state-government |
I have not been justified. I want Equal Protection under the laws, there have been much corruption under the Practice of Oath under the Staff and the … |
| 18-7287 |
Lamont LaPrade v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c appeal collateral-attack crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process firearm-offense predicate-offense sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1) To Charge with 924c) (crime of violence) must sustain Conviction with connection, with Predicate Offense.
2) That, if on Collateral Attack (2255),… |
| 18-7290 |
Muhamet Ajvazi v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence judicial-review prior-conviction prior-convictions remand reversal sentencing |
(I). WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD REVERSE AIAD REMAND DUE TO THE ADMISSION OF EVIDEHCE OF PRIOR COVVICTION USEN AS EHHANCEMENT THAT WAS MOT FIMAL.
I). RI… |
| 18-7292 |
Marco Whitley, Sr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-privilege attorney-client-relationship crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit prejudice second-degree-robbery sentencing sixth-amendment violent-crime |
Did the Eighth Circuit err by holding Missouri's Second Degree Robbery is always considered to necessarily be a crime of violence?
Did the Eighth Cir… |
| 18-7293 |
Neil Walker v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process jurisdiction sentencing standing venue |
1. WHERE THERE ONLY BEED ONE PRONOCNIEMENT IN COURT, WHAT SENTENCE IS THE LEGAL SENTENCE, NATURAL LIFE, OR 5?
2. DID THE COUDT HAVE TURISDICTION TO P… |
| 18-7304 |
Juan Rodriguez-Mantos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-circuit judicial-review reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervisory-power |
Whether the impositi on of an outside Guideli nes sentence is reasonabl e
when the district court more than triples the already enhanced Guideli nes
s… |
| 18-7311 |
Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. Paul Gonzalez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process equal-protection standing |
Does The Reasoning of This Court Asserted in Buck v Davis (2017) 137 S.Ct.759 also apply to Civil Appeals? (i.e. when all is before the Court is wheth… |
| 18-7313 |
Lewis Templeton v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-crimes firearms sentencing spatial-connection sufficiency-of-evidence u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) waiver |
Whether the Tenth Circuit correctly concluded that Mr. Templeton had waived his argument that the evidence was insufficient to support increasing Mr. … |
| 18-7242 |
Dauntorian Lyndel Sanders v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment precedent sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Arizona follows the precedent of Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 (1994), as set forth in Lynch v. Arizona, 136 S. Ct. 1818 (2016). |
| 18-7249 |
John Doe v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3582 circuit-court-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dillon-v-united-states federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Whether the holding in Dillon v. United States, 560 U. S. 817 (2010) applies to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(B) in the same manner it applies to 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 18-7252 |
Eddie Ray Wiese, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner fifth-circuit johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful substantive basis to enhance his sentenc… |
| 18-7255 |
In Re Andre Barnes |
|
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-disclosure courts due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction parties relief standing |
1. Is petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including prohibition from this Court, to protect the privilege of a Loyal Citizen and Natrual Person f… |
| 18-7257 |
Amadou Diakite v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection personnel policy sentencing standing |
The Pivotal Guestion here is, diol the olenial of Petihoner's Oral request for in camera review of the prosecution's Star woitness personnel file, ole… |
| 18-7260 |
In Re Vernon Shawn Daniels, Jr. |
|
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
11th-circuit 4th-circuit actual-innocence due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus saving-clause writ-of-certiorari |
Has the Eleventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals effectively suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus, without authorization, where the Court… |
| 18-7266 |
Dymond Charles Brown v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
Did the United States Sentencing Commission exceed their statutory authority under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, in Amendment 268, by replacing 1… |
| 18-7269 |
Larry Allison v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review legal-procedure plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Can one be sentenced for a crime to which no plea of guilty has been entered and no trial resulting in a conviction has been held?
2. Will this Co… |
| 18-7272 |
Juan Pablo Arreola v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cocaine-trafficking criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence due-process evidence evidence-admission indictment-scope jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standards-of-review |
Whether evidence of uncharged cocain trafficking was, admitted erroneously because it was not inextricable intertwined with the charges in the indictm… |
| 18-867 |
Matthew E. Jackson, Jr., et al. v. Frances Edith Jackson |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-sanctions criminal-sanctions due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection evidentiary-standards jurisdictional-limitations precedent procedural-protections sanctions supreme-court |
Whether the failure of a court to comply with the jurisdictional limitations, procedural and due process protections, evidentiary standards, the prece… |
| 18-851 |
Bryan Christopher Marshall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment law-enforcement predicate-offense sentencing speech-protection statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including one which does not meet the definition of a drug … |
| 18-852 |
Anne L. Precythe v. Ernest Johnson |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
GVR |
|
administrative-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-method feasible-alternative glossip-v-gross method-of-execution nitrogen-gas pentobarbital pleading-requirements |
Inmates who wish to challenge a method of execution under the Eighth Amendment must plead and prove an alternative method that is "feasible, readily i… |
| 18-7227 |
Antonio Ledon Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a 18-usc-3553a6 due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment judicial-review sentencing sentencing-disparities unwarranted-sentence-disparities |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit decided the opinion below based on inaccurate information and thereby betrayed the due process guarantees of the Fifth… |
| 18-7228 |
Dashawn D. Brown v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency excited-utterance excited-utterances hearsay hearsay-evidence prior-identification residual-hearsay-exception sentencing sentencing-error supervised-release |
1. WHETHER THE SENTENCING COURT ERRED IN ADMITTING
HEARSAY STATEMENTS AS EXCITED UTTERANCES.
2. WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN ADMITTING HEARSAY
STATEMEN… |
| 18-7230 |
Antwain D. Ashley v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel open-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether Ashley Was Denied His Sixth Amendment Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel Where Counsel Advised Ashley that if He Made an Open Plea to th… |
| 18-7239 |
Daniel P. Cannon v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-precedent due-process mandatory-sentencing mandatory-term post-booker sentencing seventh-circuit |
1) Should this Court GRANT this Write because the decision of the Seventh Circuit violates Petitioner's Due Process Right, whereas sentencing occurred… |
| 18-7240 |
Charles Jermaine King, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-rights criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process guidelines habeas-corpus recidivism recidivist sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
IN ROSALES MIRELES V US, JUSTICE ALITO ASKED DURING THE ORAL ARGUMENTS... "SUPPOSE THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER A DEFENDANT WAS PROPERLY TREATED… |
| 18-7244 |
Vidal Licea Morales v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech jurisdiction racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing voting-rights |
Whether Petitioner was denied a fair trial when a government expert witness provided improper testimony that informed the jury that Petitioner was in … |
| 18-7226 |
Omar Blanco v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights death-penalty due-process retroactivity supremacy-clause |
1. Did Hall v. Florida , 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014), announce a substantive rule of constitutional law?
2. May a state court hold that a substantive rule… |
| 18-843 |
Ivan Pena, et al. v. Martin Horan, Director, California Department of Justice Bureau of Firearms |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Relisted (7) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection firearm-regulation firearm-restrictions handgun-regulation intermediate-scrutiny microstamping second-amendment self-defense standing takings |
California's "Unsafe Handgun Act," Cal. Penal Code § 31900 et seq., violates the Second Amendment by banning handguns of the kind in common use for tr… |
| 18-7207 |
In Re Andrew Johnston |
|
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7216 |
Jason Duhamel v. Michelle Miller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment affidavit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty declaration due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis intellectual-disability miller-el-standard poverty redress sixth-circuit threshold-merits |
Whether the Sixth Circuit correctly applied this court's guidance from Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 326 (2003) and Buck v. Davis, 137 S. Ct. 7… |
| 18-7217 |
C. G., a Minor v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial juvenile-justice state-law |
Does a state law that completely bans jury trials for juveniles charged with crimes violate the federal constitutional rights to a jury trial, due pro… |
| 18-7196 |
Edward Allen McElroy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process faretta-hearing faretta-v-california pro-se-representation self-representation sentencing supervised-release waiver-of-counsel |
Where a defendant is charged in federal court with possession and production of child pornography, the maximum punishment for which carries a lifetime… |
| 18-7180 |
Miguel Antonio Urquia-Melendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres appellate-procedure apprendi case-law certiorari constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 18-7181 |
Antonio Amar White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dismissed-conduct district-court due-process judge-found-facts sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation unreasonable-sentence |
Whether Petitioner's sentence violated the Sixth Amendment because the district court's factual findings, based on dismissed conduct, provided the leg… |
| 18-7185 |
Santos Orlando Diaz-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres-precedent constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review precedent-reconsideration recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which holds that a prior conviction that increases the maxi… |
| 18-814 |
Maurice Walker, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. City of Calhoun, Georgia |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
bail bail-policy civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights misdemeanor poverty pretrial-detention |
1. Whether heightened scrutiny under the Fourteenth Amendment applies to a government policy that keeps misdemeanor and traffic-offense arrestees in j… |
| 18-819 |
Victoria Vasconcellos v. Debra Hamlin |
Illinois |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-union civil-unions constitutional-interpretation dissolution-action due-process equal-protection property-rights retroactive-application retroactive-legislation same-sex-couples same-sex-marriage same-sex-relationship statutory-recognition |
Whether, under the Illinois State and U.S. Constitutions, where a same-sex couple did not enjoy the legally recognized rights and benefits of civil un… |
| 18-809 |
Curtis T. Lovelace v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
acquittal bail-bond bail-bond-forfeiture clerk-of-courts due-process due-process,excessive-fines,equal-protection,bail- equal-protection excessive-fines fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
Whether charging a person who was tried and acquitted a $35,000 bail bond forfeiture, not related to individualized costs or compliance with bail bond… |
| 18-7170 |
Jonathan Yancey v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection exculpatory-evidence first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing takings |
THIS APPEAL IS SUCH IMPORTANCE TO THE PUBLIL
CITIZEN'S THAT ARE X SEX OFFENIDERS UNDER (ASORCNA)
AS TO JUSTIFY DEVIATION FROM NORMAL APPELLATE
PRACTIC… |
| 18-7139 |
James Castleman Gipson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review presentence-report sentencing |
Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United … |
| 18-7140 |
Tommy Ray Hull, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
chavez-meza-precedent chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion due-process fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-standard mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
I. This Court should grant certiorari to resolve the apparent conflict between the Fifth Circuit and this Court's decision in Chavez-Meza v. United St… |
| 18-7141 |
Luis Rey Gonzalez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-analysis constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-precedent overruling precedent recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Should this Court overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998)? |
| 18-799 |
Deborah J. Davis v. Mehul Bhatt |
Georgia |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law battery-claims civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection expert-witness georgia-state-law legal-procedure medical-malpractice standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-807 |
Randolph S. Baskins, et ux. v. Oklahoma Tax Commission |
Oklahoma |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
capital-gains commerce-clause constitutional-law dormant-commerce-clause due-process equal-protection state-taxation tax-deduction |
Does the Oklahoma Capital Gains Deduction tax scheme as set forth in 68 O.S. 2011, § 2358(F) as applied to Randolph S. Baskins and Beverly J. Baskins … |
| 18-791 |
Kyle James Moesch v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collateral-proceedings collateral-review constitutional-rights douglas-v-california due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
In Douglas v. California, 372 U.S. 353, 357 (1963), this Court held that prisoners are entitled to counsel on their as-of-right direct appeal because … |
| 18-793 |
Marion Quinton Brewster v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
armed-career-criminal-act cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment different-occasions legislative-intent sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
Whether the interpretation of the Armed Career Criminal Act's "different occasions" provision has become overly broad and vague as to constitute cruel… |
| 18-796 |
Bruce Alexander v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
accountability attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process equal-protection government-accountability investigation judicial-procedure municipal-governance official-accountability standing |
Did the Western District Court erred in not allowing ALL parties to respond to the original complaint?
Did the Western District Court erred in not al… |
| 18-785 |
Eshed Alston v. Administrative Office of the Courts, Delaware Judiciary, et al. |
Delaware |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights court-order court-order-violation due-process equal-protection equal-rights institutional-racism name-change religious-expression |
Given that the first fourth and fourteenth RELIGIOUS guaranties are the law stated with specificity in Constitutional and legal RIGHTS that are respec… |
| 18-7135 |
In Re Walter Edward Harrington |
|
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection key-terms legal-issues petition precedent scotus standing statutory-interpretation topic-areas writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 18-7094 |
Floyd Daniel Smith v. California |
California |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination |
This case involves the killing of a white teenager by a black defendant. The case was so racially charged that the defense attorneys – who were also b… |
| 18-7101 |
John Samuel Ghobrial v. California |
California |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to increa… |
| 18-7104 |
Axel Irizarry-Rosario v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct government-obligation government-obligations judicial-ethics plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-argument statutory-interpretation |
May the government avoid its obligation to scrupulously observe the terms of a plea agreement by including in its sentencing argument information not … |
| 18-7106 |
Ramiro Plascencia-Orozco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal breach breach-of-contract commerce-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-power plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether the District Court Erred When it Declared, Petitioner Breached His 2011 Plea Agreement and Thus Allowed the Government to go Forward on Charge… |
| 18-7107 |
Naeem-Lateef Odums v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment-due-process,6th-amendment-right-to-c 5th-amendment-due-process,sentencing-discretion,me 6th-amendment attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intentional-deception mental-health-evaluation sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does it violate the 6th Amendment Constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel when a defendant's lawyer intentionally, willfully and knowi… |
| 18-7118 |
Richard E. Lynch v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-fact-finding sixth-amendment |
Whether the State of Florida violated Petitioner's rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution by deny… |
| 18-7119 |
Stanley Grigsby v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-sentence judicial-error jurisdiction louisiana-law sentencing sentencing-review subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Louisiana Court's have erred in determining that the sentence was not excessive?
Whether the Louisiana Court's have erred in failing to n… |
| 18-7126 |
Ishmael Abdullah v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault court-of-appeals crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-guidelines federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-criminal-statute state-statute statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's holding that New Jersey Statute §2C:12-1(b)(2), one of the subsections of New … |
| 18-7127 |
Christopher French v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-burglary armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-court-review divisibility non-generic-crime sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute |
Can a Tennessee Aggravated Burglary conviction serve as an armed Career Criminal Act predicate?
May a federal circuit court change a statutory burden… |
| 18-7074 |
Gennaro Mattiaccio v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. The convictions on Count two must be vacated because the evidence at trial was insufficient to establish guilt and also conflicts with the law of o… |
| 18-7079 |
Franklyn Morillo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-waiver certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure district-court due-process first-impression first-impression' 'Should certiorari be granted i judicial-discretion knowing-intelligent-voluntary legal-standard plea-bargaining procedural-rights role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review' 'Should certiorari be granted |
1. Should certiorari be granted to decide whether a district court can only ask a Petitioner a single question about an appellate waiver, even though … |
| 18-7084 |
Anthony Steven Young v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion child-pornography close-scrutiny criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion internet-access relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2g2.2 |
1. What standard of review applies to the district court's decision to use
the guideline for receiving or distributing child pornography to sentence … |
| 18-7085 |
Larry A. McGhee v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
affirmative-action civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-constitution free-speech jurisdiction public-education standing state-constitution |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN FINDING THAT PETITIONER FAILED TO SHOW ENTITLEMENT TO RELIEF PURSUANT TO MCR 6.508 WHERE TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIV… |
| 18-7086 |
Alex Joe Hernandez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-retroactivity due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states judicial-interpretation prior-convictions residual-clause sentencing sentencing-error standing welch-v-united-states |
The question in this case has arisen with great frequency in the wake of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-7039 |
Alexander Ndaula v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 5th-amendment 6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing loss-amount sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
The 5th & 6th amendments to the Constitution guarantee fairness in criminal proceedings to the accused. When the verification of a sentence enhancemen… |
| 18-7061 |
Francisco Reza v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-crime federal-crimes felon-in-possession firearms-possession ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing state-misdemeanor |
Issue 1: Did Petitioner's prior crimes for which he spent less than 1 year and a day imprisonment: qualify as Federal Crimes for enhancement?
Issue 2… |
| 18-7065 |
Fabio Porfirio Lobo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process inaccurate-information judicial-discretion life-sentence sentencing |
1. Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated when the United States District Court relied on inaccurate information sentencing him to a de… |
| 18-7067 |
Derrick Christopher Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-law divisible-statute drug-offense modified-categorical-approach plain-error prior-state-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
WHETHER PETITIONER'S "PRIOR STATE DRUG OFFENSES" QUALIFIED AS ENUMERATED OFFENSES UNDER THE "CAREER CRIMINAM" PROVISION OF THE UNITED STATES SENTENCIN… |
| 18-7034 |
Shawn Sadik v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty developmental-disability eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing parole |
Does the Eighth Amendment bar individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities from mandatory life without parole sentences? |
| 18-7037 |
Gerald L. Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b-6 criminal-law district-court due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ii johnson-v-united-states judicial-procedure retroactivity rule-60b sentencing welch-v-united-states |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND EIGHTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER'S TRUE RULE 60(B) (6), WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO ADDRESS PETITIONER'… |
| 18-7044 |
Andrew John Yellowbear, Jr. v. Robert O. Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections |
Wyoming |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-court-jurisdiction federal-court-review federal-jurisdiction federal-laws-and-statutes habeas-corpus indian-treaties indian-tribes-and-reservations state-habeas-corpus |
Whether the Wyoming Supreme Court's reliance on precedent derived
from the state-friendly deferential standard of the Antiterrorism and
Effective Deat… |
| 18-7054 |
Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. |
Michigan |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion disciplinary-records due-process equal-protection medical-malpractice race racial-bias racial-discrimination rico rico-claims standing vulnerable-citizens |
Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case aga… |
| 18-7022 |
Ryan Lee Zater v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence circuit-split federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
What is the scope of the §2255(e) saving clause? And is it permissible for Zater to proceed thereunder? |
| 18-7023 |
Webster Douglas Williams, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection exclusionary-rule forced-entry fourth-amendment restitution ruse search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel third-party |
When police officers attempt to gain voluntary admittance to a residence by use of a ruse, which fails, and are peacably asked to present a search war… |
| 18-7029 |
Jorge Ruelas-Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-7007 |
Ronald T. Spoor v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2256 child-pornography civil-rights due-process equal-protection lascivious-exhibition racial-discrimination rule-414 school-desegregation sexual-proclivities standing uncharged-crimes |
1. Must a video be considered in its totality, as opposed to a brief isolated snippet, in determining whether it is a "lascivious exhibition of the ge… |
| 18-7016 |
Tuad Damonn Washington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-claims discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination sixth-amendment standing |
1. Would jurists of reason find the district courts assesment of Washington's constitutional claims debatable or wrong; or that the petition should ha… |
| 18-7018 |
Luis Santos LaGaite, Jr. v. James Foley, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
3-strikes 8th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-fairness magna-carta standing |
1. IS THE 3 STRIKES PROVISIONS OF 28 USC SECTION §1915 (G) IS IN VIOLATION OF THE MAGNA CARTA 3 DUE PROCESS RULING OF DANGER OF IMMINENT SERIOUS BODIL… |
| 18-7019 |
Jeff Jones v. Quentin Byrne, Warden |
Nevada |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-justice parole parole-board probation sentencing |
Does The U.s, supreme court's holdins in Goraham U.Florida, 176L.Ed,2d 825. Dealins WiTh Juvenilt Ofrtnders only apply to The sentencins of a Juvenile… |
| 18-755 |
Illinois Liberty PAC, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
buckley-standard buckley-v-valeo campaign-finance civil-rights contribution-limits due-process equal-protection first-amendment political-contributions political-speech strict-scrutiny |
1. Should political contribution limits that favor one type of speaker over another receive strict scrutiny?
2. Should the holding in Buckley v. Vale… |
| 18-7000 |
Luis Rolando Bueno Jimenez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) circuit-split criminal-law drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law
Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minimum
senten… |
| 18-7004 |
Miguel Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 18-7005 |
Denis Aviles Salguero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment sentencing |
Whether Petitioner's convictions for receipt and possession of child pornography violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment. |
| 18-7008 |
Daniel Lee White v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-disclosure due-process equal-protection judicial-review precedent standing takings |
1) Whether the District Court's failure to address Petitioner's constitutional
claims, based on Giglio v. United States, 92 S.Ct. 763, 405 U.S. 150 (1… |
| 18-6968 |
Alejandro Quinones Leyva v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel language-barriers notice-of-appeal plea-bargaining prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-rights sixth-amendment |
ALEJANDRO QUINONES-LEYVA, being duly sworn deposes as true; 1- I am the defendant herein, (2) In comection with pleading and sentencing I received ine… |
| 18-6972 |
Manuel Pereira-Gomez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause force-clause physical-force robbery sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the New York State offense of robbery is a "crime of violence," that is, an offense that "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threate… |
| 18-6973 |
Andy Edward Minor v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prisoner-rights racial-discrimination school-desegregation standing state-court-appeals |
A.oo
SHOULD MINOR'S
CONVICTION BE VACATED
AND SENTENCE SET ASIDE DUE TO HIS
ACTUAL INNOCENCE?
PeTiTioner says Yes!
B..
SHOULD MINOR'S
CONVICTION BE V… |
| 18-6974 |
Dannye T. McIntosh v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-precedent due-process mandatory-sentencing post-booker sentencing |
1) Should this Court GRANT this Write because the decision of the Seventh Circuit violates Petitioner's Due Process Right, whereas sentencing occurred… |
| 18-6985 |
Dwayne Barrett, aka Sealed Defendant 3, aka Tall Man v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process federal-statute sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
Whether the residual clause at 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness, a question that evenly divides six Courts of Appeals. |
| 18-6992 |
Brandon Bernard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-misconduct-allegations standing |
1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in its reading of Gonzalez , given that five other
Circuits read Gonzalez to allow Rule 60(b) motions to remedy a wide r… |
| 18-6995 |
Ashley Owens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant co-defendant-disparity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection loss-calculation plea-agreement sentencing |
1. Did the Lower Courts violate the Due Process Clause when they sentenced Owens based on an unproven and inflated loss?
2. Did the Lower Courts viol… |
| 18-6996 |
Jonathan R. Curshen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
WAS THE PETITIONER DENIED HIS SUBSTANTIAL RIGHTS TO ACCESS TO THE COURTS, DUE PROCESS, AND EQUAL PROTECTION, WHEN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS F… |
| 18-6997 |
T. H. -H. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment involuntary-termination parental-rights right-to-counsel |
1. May a State, consistent with the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, condition the statutorily granted right to c… |
| 18-733 |
1A Auto, Inc., et al. v. Michael Sullivan, Director, Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance |
Massachusetts |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
association campaign-finance contribution-limits equal-protection first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech intermediate-scrutiny political-contributions strict-scrutiny |
1. Should Beaumont be overruled because it conflicts with more recent decisions of this Court and insufficiently protects freedom of speech and associ… |
| 18-734 |
Daniel G. Szmania v. E-Loan, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure foreclosure-dispute jurisdiction-challenge ninth-circuit-review procedural-error property-rights res-judicata standing trustee-sale |
Did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT (Ninth) error when not enforcing a ruling of the U.S. District Court Western District of … |
| 18-736 |
Carl Lawson, et ux. v. Bell Sports USA |
New Jersey |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-action civil-procedure conference court-rules due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hearing state-court witness-testimony |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits a State court from directly violating one of its own court rules, by failing to pro… |
| 18-6921 |
Stevie J. Stevenson v. Craig Richman, Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
discovery-materials discovery-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus liberty-interest post-conviction postconviction-relief postconviction-writ section-1983 statutory-interpretation |
Does California Penal Code Section §1054.9 create a Liberty Interest under Kentucky v. Thompson, 490 U.S. 454, 460-63 (1989)? If so, what process is d… |
| 18-6941 |
John Leslie Chapman v. Robert Lampert, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. |
Wyoming |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion legal-advisement plea-bargaining sentencing void-judgment |
I. Whether or not the strictures of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 1 1 and
the Fourteenth Amendment due process were met concerning persona… |
| 18-6958 |
Benjamin D. Velayo v. John Talamayan, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6960 |
Craig Mack v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6962 |
In Re Walter E. Kostich |
|
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection jurisdiction magistrate-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements |
Question #1), Whether, the State prosecution or Courts has the authority to prosecute a criminal case, in the absence of a statutory required signed "… |
| 18-6914 |
Daniel Rojas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-law force hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states physical-force section-2255 section-924c sentencing violent-crime |
I. What amount of force satisfies this Court's definition of "physical force," that is, force capable of causing physical pain or injury to another pe… |
| 18-6915 |
Carlton Robinson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender career-offender-guideline collateral-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law-procedure johnson-precedent residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing supreme-court-retroactivity vagueness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker career offender g… |
| 18-6919 |
Marcelo Joel Santos-Cordero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
batson batson-challenge circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
Following a remand, must a trial court that is retrospectively analyzing whether a peremptory strike violated Batson's prohibition against discriminat… |
| 18-6920 |
Clyde Retiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indictment plea-bargaining reasonable-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of "reasonable" federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-6925 |
Warren Tarver v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-felony detention due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment noncapital-offense pro-se-claim |
WHETHER IT IS A VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS UNDER THE FOURTHEENTH AMENDMENT FOR A PERSON TO BE DETAINED FOR AN OFFENSE THAT IS LEGISLATIVELY DESIGNATED A… |
| 18-6929 |
Asia Johnson v. Queen Elizabeth |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights climate-change constitutional-crisis due-process environmental-law equal-protection gender-discrimination political-feud racial-discrimination restoration |
Asia Johnson v. Queen Elizabeth case number 2-18-cv-00611
Was submitted for possible dismissal as frivolous pursuant. |
| 18-6931 |
Asia Johnson v. Rothschild |
Third Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6934 |
Bobby Evans v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-treatment federal-procedure purposes-of-supervised-release revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Whether revoking the supervised release term of a defendant who is in need of drug treatment, after he initially failed in a drug treatment program, i… |
| 18-6946 |
Sergio Louis Trevino v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining presentencing-waiver right-to-appeal sentencing sentencing-procedure waiver waiver-of-appeal waiver-validity |
Constitutionally, when a presentencing waiver of appeal is not bargained for in exchange for an agreed upon sentence, can that waiver be knowingly and… |
| 18-6898 |
Joseph C. Garcia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-u.s.c.-§-3599 18-usc-3599 certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit imposed an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) stand… |
| 18-6907 |
Robert J. Kulick v. Leisure Village Association, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process equal-protection freedom-of-speech home-owners-association legal-procedure rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Is 9th Cir; Case#18-56000, Dismissal, 11-29-18, null & void because of defective Defendant-Appelle, when correct was Leisure Village Association, Inc.… |
| 18-6911 |
Adrian Pineda-Orozco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility affirmative-defense criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure duress-defense family-member fifth-circuit miscarriage-of-justice sentencing |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion permitting Pineda-Orasco's conviction to stand resulted in a miscarriage of justice given the lo… |
| 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… |
| 18-6916 |
Troy Lincoln Powell v. California |
California |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-illness sixth-amendment |
1) DOES THE IMPOSITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY ON A SEVERELY MENTALLY ILL DEFENDANT VIOLATE THE FIFTH, SIXTH, EIGHTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS? |
| 18-6917 |
Rodolfo Portela v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal competency-hearing conspiracy controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing drug-conspiracy drug-trafficking evidence-suppression firearm-possession sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Whether The District Court, Erred When It Found That There was
Sufficient Evidence That the Appellant had Committed the Acts
Alleged in Count I, Co… |
| 18-6895 |
Michael Clark v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bureau-of-prisons circuit-court classification criminal-history habeas-corpus judicial-review relief revocation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief seventh-circuit |
Since a defendant's criminal history category establishes the U.S Sentencing Guidelines' policy range of imprisonment upon revocation and can result i… |
| 18-6896 |
Jeffrey S. Wingate v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentment presentment-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing strickland strickland-standard uncharged-conduct |
Does a substantially greater sentence imposed based primarily on a count for which a grand jury refused to indict and which did not appear in a supers… |
| 18-6897 |
Victor Solorzano Tavia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blakely-rule consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy grade-c-violation illegal-reentry sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum supervised-release |
I. Whether sentence for illegal reentry and sentence for violation
of supervised release should have run concurrent to avoid
double jeopardy clause … |
| 18-6901 |
Enoch D. Hall v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
advisory-panel aggravating-circumstances Caldwell-v-Mississippi civil-rights constitutional-due-process death-penalty due-process harmless-error hurst-decision jury-instructions jury-role jury-sentencing sentencing sentencing-process unanimous-recommendation |
On remand from the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. Florida, the Florida Supreme Court held, as a state constitutional consequence, that a… |
| 18-6902 |
Scott Mansfield v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process fact-finding findings-of-fact jury-findings jury-instructions notice procedural-due-process sentencing unnoticed-defendant |
Whether a conviction and death sentence may stand where a jury made no specific findings of fact that subjected an unnoticed individual to conviction … |
| 18-6904 |
Oree Roberson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof chavez-meza chavez-meza-v-united-states circuit-conflict due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review mitigation presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
I. Whether the defendant bears the burden to establish that objected to information in the Presentence Report is materially untrue, or whether, instea… |
| 18-6906 |
David E. Miller v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
coercion cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment ex-post-facto execution-method lethal-injection waiver waiver-of-rights |
(1) When an inmate alleges that both his original and later-imposed punishments for the same crime violate the Eighth Amendment but the later-imposed … |
| 18-6882 |
Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
remedies prior constitutional defects in capital which requires unanimous jury findings of aggrava advisory-sentencing-panel aggravating-circumstances caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-error death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process harmless-error Hurst-decision hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-role jury-unanimity mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-procedure |
On remand from the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. Florida, the Florida Supreme Court held, as a state constitutional consequence, that a… |
| 18-6884 |
Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-trial mitigating-circumstances ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment |
After invalidating one of four (4) aggravating factors found by the jury, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals reweighed the remaining aggravating c… |
| 18-6888 |
Kathy Glenn Clay v. Peace Officer Papik |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6889 |
Stephen Todd Booker v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity |
1. Does the partial retroactivity formula for Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), claims designed by the Florida Supreme Court, as applied to a p… |
| 18-6890 |
In Re Joseph C. Garcia |
|
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-row eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process psychological-stress |
1. Whether Joseph Garcia's extended stay on Texas' death row for nearly 16 years has resulted in his suffering additional severe psychological stress … |
| 18-6891 |
Joseph C. Garcia v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights criminal-intent cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intent-to-kill mens-rea non-triggerman state-execution |
Whether the Eighth Amendment now forbids a State from executing a person when there is no evidence that he killed or intended to kill another person. |
| 18-709 |
Maria Bentley, et al. v. Victoria Vooys, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law cost-bond due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause judicial-procedure non-resident-plaintiff privileges-and-immunities privileges-and-immunities-clause rational-basis-review security-bond virgin-islands |
Whether a statute requiring a court, upon a defendant's request, to order a non-resident plaintiff to post a minimal security bond for costs violates … |
| 18-702 |
Rajeshwar Singh Yadav, et ux. v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection |
New Jersey |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-discrimination pro-se-rights property-rights standing takings |
"Am I a second class citizen? 2. Are subjections of pro se party to government's willful discriminatory behavior "Constitutional"?
Is judiciary's bel… |
| 18-6873 |
Angela Armenta v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment-6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment jury reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Is a defendant deprived of due process where the absence of evidence constitutes probative evidence of proof beyond a reasonable doubt?
2. Are the… |
| 18-6877 |
Richard Earl Shere, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-rights retroactivity |
In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital-sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t… |
| 18-6878 |
Shomari Salim Daley v. Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6839 |
Billy A. Robin v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction opinions reasons-for-granting-the-writ standing statement-of-the-case statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions |
DOES INVALIDATE LAW WHILE ARMED ALGRAVATED ASSAULT CONUILTIONS MENS REA BECAUSE HE LACKED THE REQUISITE TME CRIME TD COMPLETE
(2) WAS APPELLATE WHEN … |
| 18-6840 |
John H. Rosky v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process economic-wipeout equal-protection fifth-amendment habeas-corpus property-rights standing takings-clause |
AMEVDMEST DOUBSLE JEOPARDY CLAUSE BAR BETRAL WGEO, UPON
DIRECT APPEAL, THE COOLCLUSLOH OF THE APPELLATE COURT IS;
OVERLVELMING EUIDEHCE DUES HOT SURPO… |
| 18-6855 |
Antonio DeJesus Perez-Martinez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indictment indictment-variance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining proportionality sentencing sentencing-proportionality sentencing-reasonableness |
APPELLATE COUNSEL WAS GROSSLY INEFFECTIVE, BY ARGUING A MATERIAL VARIANCE IN THE INDICTMENT, INSTEAD OF THE MORE EGREGIOUS CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT OF T… |
| 18-6860 |
Johnny Ray McCloud v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process dwelling-definition dwelling-vs-storage-building equal-protection florida-law florida-statutes habeas-corpus perkins-vs-state young-vs-state |
Was Perkins v State, 682 So. 2d 1083 (Fla. 1996) correctly applied? See Johnny Ray McCloud's 2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus.
Does the Young … |
| 18-6867 |
Alberto Jorge Silva-Ibarra v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-700 |
Tiby J. Saunders-Gomez v. Rutledge Maintenance Corporation |
Delaware |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-law contract contract-law due-process equal-protection fair-debt-collection-practices-act jurisdiction statute-of-limitations |
Whether it is a violation under the Constitution 5th and 14th Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection Under the Law Clauses that the Delaware Super… |
| 18-6790 |
Clarence Otworth v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appeal appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights equal-protection federal-jurisdiction final-order jurisdiction notice-of-appeal oath-of-office presidential-nonfeasance standing |
I. Is an appeal of a final order and a notice of appeal the same thing?
Did Judge Cooper have the authority to send plaintiff's dismissed case to a c… |
| 18-6833 |
Jose Ramon Zuniga, aka Josue Ararel Zuniga-Zaragoza, aka Jose Ramon Zuniga-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discretion due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion offense-level residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standards statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a Guideline which incorporates by reference § 16(b)'s residual clause may serve as the basis for increasing the defendant's offense level u… |
| 18-6834 |
Dexter Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-death-penalty federal-habeas federal-procedure final-judgment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus rule-58 |
WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS UNDER RULE 58 FOR A FINAL
JUDGMENT IN DISTRICT COURT FOR A FEDERAL DEATH
PENALTY HABEAS PETITION UNDER THE EIGHTH AND
FOURTE… |
| 18-6842 |
Matthew Davis, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Matt v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3500-material brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct newly-discovered-evidence sentencing witness-testimony |
1. Whether the Government failed to properly discharge its obligations under Brady v. Maryland, when it produced an exculpatory chart prepared by an u… |
| 18-6843 |
James Milton Dailey v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-error hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retro activity decision, which lim its the class of deathsentenced individuals entitled to a jury de termi… |
| 18-6846 |
Luis A. Pena v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-v-stumpf collateral-consequences coram-nobis due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-validity ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-hearing plea-record sentencing voluntariness |
I. Whether The Maryland Appellate Courts In Concluding Pena Failed To Sustain His Burden Of Proving He Did Not Voluntarily And Knowingly Enter A Guilt… |
| 18-6848 |
Robert Mitchell Jennings v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty equal-protection habeas-corpus penry procedural-default subsequent-habeas |
1. Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals deny Jennings equal protection of the law by dismissing on procedural grounds subsequent habeas corpus appl… |
| 18-691 |
Lonnie Snelling v. Kevin Segbers, et al. |
Missouri |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
Did the State of Missouri through its Judicial Officials, deny Petitioner, one of its Citizens, and a Citizen of the United States, Rights Guarantees … |
| 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… |
| 18-6802 |
Patrick Kitlas v. F. B. Haws, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-reason actual-reasons batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing jury-selection ninth-circuit peremptory-strike prosecutor-reasons prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination |
Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) requires prosecutors to provide their actual reasons for striking jurors. The prosecutor here provided reasons … |
| 18-6807 |
Larry M. Slusser v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum waiver-of-rights |
Whether a defendant's waiver of the right to collateral attack in a plea agreement bars a claim that the sentence exceeds the statutory maximum for th… |
| 18-6812 |
Jack Ferranti v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines good-time-credits life-expectancy post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b sentencing |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT IMPOSED A DEF'AC']X) LIFE SENTENCE THAT WAS NOT AUTHORIZED BY THE STATUTE OF CONVICTION BY CALCULATING THE DEFENDANT'S LIFE… |
| 18-6815 |
Micheal Jerrial Ibenyenwa v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining procedural-default right-to-counsel sentencing |
QUESTION 1:
IS A COA MANDATED IF A PETITIONER DEMONSTRATES
THE STATE ARRIVED AT A DECISION CONTRARY TO AND A UNREASONABLE
APPLICATION OF STRICKLAND AN… |
| 18-6817 |
Michael Albert Focia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process judge-vs-jury judicial-fact-finding jury-instructions jury-trial obstruction-of-justice pro-se sentence-enhancement sentencing separation-of-powers sixth-amendment |
Where is the second and fifth amendments to apply the statutory scheme of 18 USC § 922 (a)(1)(A) and 18 USC § 922(b) to a Non-Federal Firearm Licensee… |
| 18-6818 |
Ruben Rangel v. California |
California |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing |
1.
Does California's death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth
Amendments to the United States Constitution by failing to… |
| 18-6819 |
Keith Tharpe v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability collateral-review death-penalty due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury-selection pena-rodriguez racial-bias racial-bias-in-jury retroactivity |
1. Does Pena-Rodriguez apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
2. The Eleventh Circuit first denied a certificate of appealability ("COA")… |
| 18-6822 |
Mark Anthony Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute lesser-included-offense notice-requirement prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
The plain language of 21 U.S.C. § 851 requires the United States to, "before trial," file an "information" if it intends to seek enhanced statutory pe… |
| 18-6823 |
James Douglas Williams, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights civil-rights-act disparate-treatment due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fourteenth-amendment title-vii |
Was the Plaintiff, under The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the Constitution, and The Fair Employment and Housing Act and The Civil Rights Ac… |
| 18-6825 |
In Re Alonzo Dean Shephard |
|
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6826 |
Carlos David Caro v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
§-2255-claim bop-data brady-violation criminal-procedure-brady death-penalty due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-prison government-misconduct procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-procedure suppression-of-evidence |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in ruling Caro was procedurally barred from raising a § 2255 claim that the Government's suppression of available exc… |
| 18-6829 |
Jimmy Walter Fuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
1. Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited rema… |
| 18-6830 |
Francisco Heredia-Silva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
california-penal-code circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-law-sentencing due-process federal-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation terrorist-threats violent-crime |
Should this court resolve the split between the Fifth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit about whether California terrorist threats convictions under Calif… |
| 18-687 |
Auriel Devon Frett v. Territory of the Virgin Islands |
Virgin Islands |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
|
chambers-v-mississippi co-defendant-testimony confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cumulative-error-doctrine due-process jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the instruction to not consider the specific length of sentence a testifying co-defendant faced absent cooperation violates a defendant's s… |
| 18-676 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Ryan Karnoski, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
due-process equal-protection first-amendment gender-dysphoria military-service military-service-policy transgender transgender-individuals transgender-policy |
Whether the district court erred in preliminarily enjoining the military from implementing the Mattis policy nationwide. |
| 18-677 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Jane Doe 2, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection gender-dysphoria military-policy military-service preliminary-injunction transgender transgender-military-service |
In 2018, Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced a new policy concerning military service by transgender individuals. Under the Mattis policy, tra… |
| 18-678 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Aiden Stockman, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection gender-dysphoria military military-policy military-service preliminary-injunction standing transgender transgender-military-service transgender-policy |
Whether the district court erred in preliminarily enjoining the military from implementing the Mattis policy nationwide. |
| 18-6780 |
Joan E. Farr v. Daryl Davis, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech homeowners-association retaliation section-1983 |
Whether the Huckleberry Homeowners Association and its individual members denied Joan Farr her rights under 42 Usc 1983 and retaliated against her to … |
| 18-679 |
Erick Virgil Hall v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-standards death-penalty felony-murder heinous-atrocious-cruel jury-sentencing narrowing-requirement propensity-to-commit-murder sentencing-guidance utter-disregard |
To prevent arbitrary imposition of the death penalty, this Court has required use of "'clear and objective standards' that provide 'specific and detai… |
| 18-6794 |
Charlton Bradshaw v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation takings |
DO A TIMELY FILED MOTION FOR REHEARJNG OF AN PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REUIEW THAT IS NEVER RECEIVED, RECEIUE THE BENIFIT OF THE MAILBOX RULE |
| 18-680 |
Erica Huss, Warden v. Loren Robinson |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure due-process federal-law habeas habeas-corpus jury-right parole-eligibility sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether it is clearly established federal law, as is required to grant relief in a federal habeas case, that the Sixth Amendment jury right applies… |
| 18-6747 |
Gibran Richardo Figueroa-Beltran v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure divisibility-analysis divisibility-inquiry due-process federal-courts federal-divisibility-doctrine federalism mathis-doctrine mathis-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court-certification state-courts state-statutes three-part-test |
When applying the federal divisibility doctrine to state statutes, may federal courts terminate the three-part test set forth in Mathis v. United Stat… |
| 18-6766 |
David Gulbrandson v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-ruling second-in-time-petition statutory-aggravating-factors statutory-aggravator successive-petitions |
(1) Whether reasonable jurists would debate the correctness of the district
court's procedural ruling that Gulbrandson's second-in-time § 2254 petitio… |
| 18-6767 |
Brent Galbreath v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process error johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-error violent-felony violent-felony-definition |
When a Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), movant would not be an armed career criminal if sentenced today, how can he show that his sent… |
| 18-6770 |
David Nino-Flores v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-6773 |
Tito Knox v. David Plowden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process due-process-clause equal-protection life-liberty-property standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6774 |
Jimmy L. Thompson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process felon-in-possession firearm-charges predicate-felony sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation void-ab-initio void-statute |
Whether a conviction based on a statute that has been held void ab initio can be used to increase punishment as a predicate felony pursuant to 18 U.S.… |
| 18-6776 |
Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity state-court |
In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's
longstanding capital-sentencing procedures because they authorized
a judge, rather than a jury, t… |
| 18-6777 |
Kenya Ali Hyatt v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination juvenile-life-without-parole juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-statute sixth-amendment |
I. Whether Michigan's Miller v. Alabama sentencing statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, under the Sixth and Four… |
| 18-6785 |
Christopher Scott v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
1st degree murder charges Count 23.
Whether Petitoner
PriNt, while Also Killed in the Course of Another Felny"
5/18-2 & 5/19-3, Violated the Joiner of… |
| 18-663 |
Fredric Russell Mance, Jr., et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Relisted (8) |
2nd-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-firearms-licensees firearm-sales firearms-regulation handgun-sales interstate-commerce second-amendment standing |
Federal law bars consumers from acquiring handguns outside their home state. This prohibition limits choice and price competition, and forces many han… |
| 18-650 |
Miguel Cabrera-Rangel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response Waived |
acquittal-impact acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether, or under what circumstances, the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial prohibits a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on… |
| 18-6735 |
Perry Alexander Taylor v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection flawed-scientific-testimony hurst-retroactivity medical-examiner-testimony non-unanimous-jury retroactivity |
Perry Alexander Taylor was denied relief under Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) in the State of Florida because his case was one of many that b… |
| 18-6758 |
Michael Bordman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-pornography constitutional-vagueness continued-dissemination due-process harm-disaggregation initial-abuse restitution sentencing supervised-release |
(1) Whether the restitution award in child pornography sentencings must disaggregate the harm caused by the initial abuse from the harm caused by the … |
| 18-6763 |
Luis Antonio Bonilla, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appeal-waivers brady-standard brady-v-united-states circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-agreements sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-uniformity |
I. WHAT STANDARDS OTHER THAN THE KNOWING AND VOLUNTARY WAIVER STANDARD OF BRADY V. UNITED STATES SHOULD GOVERN THE ENFORCEMENT OF APPEAL WAIVERS IN PL… |
| 18-6723 |
Robert Noel v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-bias racial-discrimination recusal structural-error |
WHEN THE DISTRICT JUDGE HAS "A DIRECT, PERSONAL, SUBSTANTIAL, PECUNIARY INTEREST" IN THE OUTCOME OF THE PROCEEDING IS PETITIONER'S RIGHTS TO DUE PROCE… |
| 18-6730 |
William Ramirez, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, El Dorado County, et al. |
California |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure default default-judgment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment merits-based-adjudication pro-se pro-se-litigant relief-from-default state-court state-court-procedure |
Should a pro se petitioner reasonably expect relief from default as a part of due process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitu… |
| 18-6731 |
In Re James D. Sudberry |
|
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Deginded n atto o y Duepuse or Mitgatn Ciramstanes Not guity
by Beaon oR Insanty which define s f enotal trauma or s.
Dhere wao mo intnt to kill my un… |
| 18-6736 |
James E. Whitney v. Cindy Glover, Clerk, Circuit Court of Lincoln County, Arkansas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech religious-freedom standing |
Should and Individuals secured and protected Constitutional Right under the First Amendment to redress the Government for wrongs perpetuated against t… |
| 18-6737 |
Jose Lopez-Castillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
booker booker-decision constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent title-21 |
Whether the mandatory-sentencing regime of Title 21 has been abrogated by
United States v. Booker and its progeny. |
| 18-6738 |
Jonathone J. Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-law-and-procedure criminal-law-procedure de-novo-review due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-victims-restitution-act presumption remand restitution sentencing |
This case raises two question of criminal law and procedure which have yet to be addressed by this Court. The first of which is whether a defendant is… |
| 18-6740 |
Lena Lasher v. Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, Pennsylvania State Board of Pharmacy |
Pennsylvania |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights discrimination discriminatory-actions due-process equal-protection fair-notice judicial-review license-revocation perjury pharmacy-board |
An important function of the Supreme Court is to resolve disagreements among lower courts about specific legal questions, especially with respect to c… |
| 18-6714 |
Maikel Suarez Plasencia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion judicial-procedure sentencing trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6716 |
Jerry Walker, aka Jerry Richmond v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court conviction conviction-reversal conviction-vacatur criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-preclusion sentencing superseding-indictment |
Whether The Seventh Circuit Contravened The Holding Of Griffith By Concluding That Booker And Pepper Were NOT Retroactive To The Petitioner's Case Wit… |
| 18-6717 |
Lei Yin v. Thermo Fisher Scientific |
First Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-court-rules federal-courts judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-rights standing summons summons-issuance |
1. Whether a ProSe shall share the sareright ast hose represéntedby lawyers. -that are protected by United States Constitution?
2 Whether the Federal… |
| 18-637 |
Donald C. Marro v. Caesar's Entertainment Operating Company |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-158 access bankruptcy-court-clerk bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-deprivations" due-process equal-protection equal-protection-and-access frbp judicial-access mail-filing-rules pro-se-litigation pro-se-status property-deprivation USPS-mail-filings |
Does it violate equal protection and access, is it a property deprivation (i.e., the civil action for damages) and FRBP and 28 Usc 158 violation when … |
| 18-640 |
Nicholas Bernard Acklin v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
attorney-client-relationship conflict-of-interest criminal-defense death-penalty fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment third-party-payment |
Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to conflict-free counsel when his lawyer is paid by a third part… |
| 18-6684 |
Arika Matelyan v. Fox 11 |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-justice civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection free-speech standing |
Why do't the highest coort in the land put copy right to Conbent
I would like to ask wny dont the supeme count go by the law and follow wnat the lowe… |
| 18-6708 |
Clifford D. Williams v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sentencing-phase sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida |
Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
| 18-6709 |
Lawrence Alfred Landrum v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-discretion jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida |
In Hurst u. Florida, _ U.S. _, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), this Court: (a) overruled
(1989), (b) invalidated Florida's capital punishment statute, and (c) … |
| 18-6713 |
Donald Anthony Grant v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty eddings-precedent eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment lockett-rule lockett-v-ohio mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigating-evidence moral-culpability |
Whether Oklahoma's "moral culpability" jury instruction, which restricts consideration of mitigating evidence of a defendant's mental health and backg… |
| 18-6680 |
Roberto Moreno Ramos v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
calderon-v-thompson circuit-court conflict-of-interest counsel-conflict death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice standard-of-review |
Given that Petitioner Moreno Ramos requested the circuit court recall its mandate solely to address a defect in the integrity of his habeas proceeding… |
| 18-6693 |
Victor M. Mangual-Rosado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split conclusions-of-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court findings-of-fact opportunity-to-object procedural-error role-behavior role-in-crime sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-error |
I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED PROCEDURALLY AND SUBSTANTIVELY BY IMPOSING AN EXCESSIVE SENTENCE IN TERMS OF THE DEFENDANT-APPELLANT'S ROLE BEHAVI… |
| 18-6700 |
Michael DePietro v. Allstate Insurance Co., et al. |
New Jersey |
2018-11-14 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal case-law civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial judicial-bias legal-reconsideration motion-denial new-trial reconsideration standing trial-fairness |
Judge Jose Fuentes his opinions of my case are all denials. The first one on October 26, 2015 he denied me case law. Then on October 20, 2017 he denie… |
| 18-6673 |
Tracy Lebron Vick v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dna-testing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-bargaining post-conviction post-conviction-review wrongful-conviction |
WHETHER, AS HERE, TENNESSEE'S REFUSAL TO EXTEND DNA POSTCONVICTION PROTECTIONS TO THOSE WHO PLED GUILTY VIOLATES THE EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW AS PR… |
| 18-6675 |
In Re Ryan Lee Zater |
|
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus residual-clause section-2244 section-924c sentencing supervisory-powers vagueness |
Considering this circuit split that has developed, does the Fourth Circuit's denial of Zater's §2244 application, which would have been granted in oth… |
| 18-6677 |
Clarence Darnell Marshall v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment appeal booker-standard career-offender certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied a heightened standard to the Defendant's request for Certificate of Appealability in violation of the Supreme … |
| 18-6658 |
Ronald D. Veteto v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Alabama |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection indigent pro-se standing |
May a State arbitrarily deny an indigent prisoner pro se effective and meaningful access to the courts?
May a State arbitrarily deny an indigent pro … |
| 18-6669 |
Gernard Denez Chestnut v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-justice due-process equal-protection public-health standing civil-rights criminal-justice discrimination due-process equal-protection standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-611 |
John J. Tatar v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-claim burden-of-proof civil-procedure due-process equal-protection frivolous-claims rule-of-law tax-evasion tax-refund |
Did Petitioner—Tatar when he filed his Form(s) 843, Claim(s) for Refund concerning the tax years 1996 through and inclusive to 2010, with the Responde… |
| 18-612 |
CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) |
commerce-clause csx-transportation discrimination discriminatory-taxation dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection interstate-commerce motor-carrier motor-carrier-tax preemption railroad-fuel state-taxation supreme-court-precedent tax-discrimination tax-jurisprudence |
Whether, as the Eleventh Circuit held, Alabama's imposition of a motor fuels tax on the fuel used by interstate motor carriers sufficiently justifies … |
| 18-614 |
In Re George Houston |
|
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
|
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey collateral-review conspiracy conspiracy-liability criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-quantity jurisdictional-error mandatory-minimum retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether it is the individualized drug quantity that is a fact that increases the mandatory minimum sentence or whether the amount of drugs attributabl… |
| 18-6598 |
Darryl A. Robinson v. Tony Baynes |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection property-rights standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6611 |
Sherif Philips v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law fraud fraud-upon-court medical-license medical-statute right-to-honest-services summary-suspension vagueness-doctrine |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6614 |
Willie Rose v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-violations court-records-access due-process elkins-v-united-states equal-protection exhaustion-of-state-remedies exhaustion-requirements griffin-v-illinois ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-accountability judicial-misconduct legal-documents reasonable-bail speedy-trial state-remedies |
WHETHER THE U.S. SUPREME COURT SHOULD SET PRECEDENCE TO CUARIFY
AND GUIDE THE UOWER COURTS ON HOW TO PROCEED WHEN FACED WITH THE
SITUATION IN THIS CAS… |
| 18-6624 |
Farris Genner Morris v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge-review batson-v-kentucky collateral-review due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
Where the trial prosecutor's rationale for striking the lone black juror applied "just as well" to two white jurors, Foster v. Chatman, 136 S. Ct. 173… |
| 18-6633 |
Keith Fremin v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
castration civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process good-time guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-district plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the 22nd Judicial District Court failed to uphold the plea agreement in exchange for a guilty plea?
Whether Counsel for the Petitioner was in… |
| 18-6641 |
Antonio Fahie v. Neil McDowell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal-motion prosecutorial-misconduct rape-charges right-to-counsel sentencing |
Why did'nt the judge let he take. back my plea,When my counsel told the court the i never admitted to any of the (RAPE) charges.
When i found out tha… |
| 18-6642 |
Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights consent constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fees judicial-review probation probation-conditions probation-officer revocation right-to-counsel |
A defendant always has the vight to Centact an attorney at his own expense. It is a violation of the U.S. Constitution to punish defendants for exerci… |
| 18-6578 |
Elebert Fox v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction standing state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6592 |
Andres Pavon v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment appeal appeals castro-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment habeas-corpus lee-v-us padilla-v-kentucky sentencing standing |
Were this Petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights according to the United States Constitution violated by the United States Court of Appeal for the Eleven… |
| 18-6595 |
John Smith v. Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-dismissal due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis mental-incompetence prisoner-rights |
Does treating a dismissed appeal of a mentally incompetent prisoner's case, who in good faith, untimely filed a motion to proceed in forma pauperis, c… |
| 18-6603 |
David Johnson v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing takings voting-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6604 |
Joseph Jenkins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights court-reporters-act court-transcript due-process judicial-misconduct perjury perjury-by-exclusion qualified-retirement retirement-savings sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Can "catchall phrases" form a basis for a 'perjury by exclusion' indictment and conviction in the absence of precise questioning, open court transcrip… |
| 18-6608 |
William Charles O'Neil v. FCC Coleman, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue retroactive-law retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e), or the savings clause correct in McCarthan v. Director of Goodwill Industries - Sunco… |
| 18-6564 |
Cephus Hollis v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process due-process,criminal-law,statutory-interpretation, sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation unauthorized-vehicle-use vehicle-theft |
Whether the DC Court of Appeals' erroneous statutory interpretation of the DC statute criminalizing unauthorized taking, use or operating a vehicle "t… |
| 18-6581 |
Larry Hailey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-enhancement crimes-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines virginia-prior-convictions |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Appeal from Denial of His Motion Under 28 US.C. § 2255 Wherein Petitioner… |
| 18-6582 |
Kareem Glass v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-rights capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-circumstances penalty-phase sixth-amendment waiver waiver-of-rights |
WHERE CAPITAL COUNSEL INDUCED PETITIONER INTO A WAIVER OF HIS ENTIRE PENALTY PHASE AND A WAIVER OF HIS APPELLATE RIGHTS IN RETURN FOR A GUARANTEED LIF… |
| 18-6588 |
Lesley Eugene Warren v. Edward Thomas, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment character-evidence circuit-split civil-rights death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness parole parole-ineligibility prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-procedure simmons-v-south-carolina |
Is it an unreasonable application of Simmons v. South Carolina for a State court to deny a parole ineligibility instruction where the prosecution repe… |
| 18-6589 |
Liddon Young v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court criminal-law criminal-procedure false-statement false-statements materiality obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-enhancement stipulation |
1. When a defendant admits to all the elements of an offense/enhancement, does a prevarication on details not effecting the question of guilt render t… |
| 18-6591 |
Leslie Chin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process equal-protection federal-courts new-trial newly-discovered-evidence standard-of-review trial-procedure |
Whether the Equal Protections Clause is violated when there is a conflict amongst the federal circuit courts of appeal dealing with what a defendant i… |
| 18-6561 |
In Re Jesus Denova Lopez |
|
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-discretion guidelines-range section-3553(a) section-3553a sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
WHETHER THE PANEL OF THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY THE RUBBERSTAMP OF THE ERRONEOUS AND IMPERMISSIBLE CONCLUSION OF ERST… |
| 18-6569 |
Mark Lee Murray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-consecutive-sentence residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), retroactively invalidates the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B).
2. Whether ge… |
| 18-583 |
Kenneth Mayle v. United States, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
compelled-speech compelling-governmental-interest equal-protection free-exercise free-speech government-burden least-restrictive-means minority-rights religious-beliefs religious-freedom-restoration-act sincerely-held-religious-beliefs standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court's ruling violates the Supreme Court's precedents by improperly substituting its own view that carrying currency bearing a reli… |
| 18-587 |
Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Regents of the University of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (5) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa deferred-action-for-childhood-arrivals-daca department-of-homeland-security-dhs dhs-policy due-process equal-protection executive-power immigration immigration-enforcement immigration-law judicial-review standing |
1. Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable.
2. Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is lawful. |
| 18-588 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (5) |
administrative-law administrative-law-review administrative-procedure-act agency-action deferred-action due-process equal-protection executive-discretion executive-power homeland-security immigration immigration-policy judicial-review standing |
1. Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable.
2. Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is lawful. |
| 18-6541 |
Michael Stoller v. Wilmington Trust |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights disability discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6553 |
Michael Founier Dixon, aka Michael Fournier Dixon v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing |
PlEA AgReemeNts At "ANy" stagE duRinNg the CRimiNs pRocess CAUSE the defendant Harm; considering that they All contrined a factually iNsufficint deadl… |
| 18-6512 |
Jabril Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appeals cell-phone-privacy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule false-imprisonment Fourth-Amendment jurisdiction jury-trial probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest sentencing standing warrantless-search |
(1) HAVE petitioner BEEN ARREStEd − without PRobabolE CAUSE
(2) whether MOUANTS ARREST WARRANT ViolAtE the SECoNd ClAUSE JO The Fourth AmendmeNt
(3)… |
| 18-6530 |
Edmund Zagorski v. Bill Haslam, Governor of Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-protections constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-challenges due-process involuntary-waiver method-of-execution procedural-technicalities state-secrecy stewart-v-lagrand |
1. Did Glossip v. Gross, 135 S.Ct. 2726 (2015), modify centuries-old jurisprudence prohibiting involuntary waiver of constitutional protections in the… |
| 18-6532 |
Austin Myers v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-statute eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida |
Did Hurst v. Florida render Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional? |
| 18-6535 |
Rodney Williams v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment due-process fourth-amendment-violation jurisdictional-defect jury-trial-rights restitution right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment-right void-judgment void-restitution-order void-sentence |
WAS DEFENDANT DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO COUNSEL AT HIS SENTENCING AND RESTITUTION HEARING; CONSTITUTING A VOID SENTENCE AND RESTITUTION ORDER… |
| 18-6537 |
In Re Gerald Phillip Wooten |
|
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus nelson-v-colorado retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts |
Whether the Court should issue a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Nelson v. Colorado, has been or should be made retroactieiy applicable to ca… |
| 18-6548 |
Salvatore Leone v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-habeas-motion welch-v-united-states |
Are federal courts precluded from granting a federal prisoner's successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate an illegal sentence based on Johnson wher… |
| 18-6513 |
Byron Christopher Chinchilla v. Greg Lewis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment attempted-murder criminal-gang due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mental-health sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of habeas relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims. |
| 18-6516 |
Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Happy Valley Municipal Court, Oregon |
Oregon |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-error jurisdiction municipal-court sentencing zoning-violation |
Was the trial court Clackamas State of Oregon's judgment sentence Municipal Court dated 01/26/2017 in favor of respondent Happy Valley Municipal Court… |
| 18-6517 |
Aretha D. Brown v. Elite Modeling Agency |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights discrimination employment-discrimination equal-employment equal-protection exemption fashion-industry protected-classes title-vii |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6518 |
Gregory Crum v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-crimes drug-offense drug-offenses foreign-origin leadership-enhancement methamphetamine relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
I. Whether the district court abused its discretion in determining relevant conduct.
2; Whether Greg Crum should receive a leadership enhancement.
3… |
| 18-6520 |
Jesus L. Arnett v. Patrick Covello, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process false-conviction forged-bills ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause sentencing speedy-trial speedy-trial-rights structural-error |
Should Petitioner be granted a Certificate of Appealability when Petitioner was obviously and falsely convicted of possessing forged bills, and then g… |
| 18-6523 |
Renee D. Bell v. Orlando Health, Inc., dba Winnie Palmer Hospital |
Florida |
2018-10-31 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-procedure-dismissal constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection pre-trial-conference procedural-due-process procedural-rights right-to-redress substantive-rights |
1. Whether dismissal base on fail to meet a pre-trial conference is a drastic action, and where court access is barred prior to the dismissal that the… |
| 18-6527 |
Jedediah C. v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment home-incarceration pre-trial time-served west-virginia |
Has the Petitioner's Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Rights been violated when the Courts of West Virginia refused to grant cred… |
| 18-6528 |
Shaheen Cabbagestalk v. Bryan P. Sterling, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection free-speech habeas-corpus standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6493 |
Steven D. Burke v. Neil Turner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection standard-of-proof state-court |
DOES CHANGING THE STANDARD OF PROOF IN
THE STATE COURT DENY A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT'S
DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAW? |
| 18-6498 |
Gildardo Majalca-Aguilar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 amendment-782 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process equal-protection sentence-reduction sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines |
The United States District Court of New Mexico denied the motion for reduction the sentence, Amendment 782 §3582(c)(2) spite the quantity of drugs inv… |
| 18-6500 |
In Re Sandra Rumanek |
|
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-power pro-se-litigation procedural-rules standing |
Did the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware usurp this Court's judicial power in violation of FRCP Rule 8, Rule 4(a)(b), Rule 15(a)(1)(B)… |
| 18-6507 |
Alice Brown v. Del Norte County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-discrimination dereliction-of-duty due-process equal-protection fraudulent-concealment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-disqualification jurisdiction magistrate-judge ninth-circuit |
THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT DECIDED IN BERGER THE JUDGE TO RETIRE FROM THE CASE WHEN THE AFFIANT BELIEVES THAT THE JUDGE HAS A PERSONAL BIAS OR PR… |
| 18-559 |
Meteku Negatu v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
|
african-american-defendants civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure judicial-process mortgage mortgage-foreclosure standing summary-judgment |
The Mortgage Industry in the United States is a ten trillion dollar enterprise. Sixty-five percent of homes in America are owned and carry mortgages. … |
| 18-553 |
Juliet Yackel v. South Dakota, et al. |
South Dakota |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
|
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia conflict-of-interest counsel-representation death-penalty death-penalty-appeal eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability moore-v-texas |
1. Was Rodney Berget arbitrarily deprived of his entitlement to conflict free counsel in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment when his counsel determ… |
| 18-6472 |
James Gibson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres criminal-procedure drug-offenses jury-trial mandatory-minimum prior-convictions reasonable-doubt recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Whether the Petitioner's sentence violated his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial when the district court imposed a minimum mandatory sentence of l… |
| 18-6473 |
Jeremy Bernard Harrison v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing |
1. Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure … |
| 18-6482 |
Roger Alfred Anchundia-Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-safety-valve united-states-v-mosquera-murillo |
Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim… |
| 18-6483 |
Armando Chavez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing indictment indictment-requirements judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether facts that alter the range of "reasonable" federal sentences must be pleaded in the indictment in federal cases? |
| 18-6490 |
Lyman S. Hopkins v. Language Testing International, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-u.s.c.-1983 42-usc-1983 certification civil-rights discrimination discrimination-claim due-process employment employment-discrimination employment-website equal-protection parent-organization retaliation state-actor |
Is language certification testing agency Language Testing International, Inc. (LTI) immune from discrimination and retaliation charges despite it's tw… |
| 18-6438 |
Oscar Kenneth Moreno v. Alana Butler |
California |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause dna-evidence dna-testing due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment remand scientific-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment |
Question 1.
The
Trial Presentation Violated My Sixth
and fourteenth Amendment Rights to Confront
and Cross-Examine His Accussers.
Scientific Evidence … |
| 18-6441 |
Roderick McKissick v. Nathan Deal, Governor of Georgia, et al. |
Georgia |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prejudice retaliation standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6447 |
Eullis Monroe Goodwin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did Counsel ' Failure to properly develope and present Objections to Petitioner's designation as an career offender, render Ineffective Assistance und… |
| 18-6448 |
In Re Michael Quattrocchi |
|
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-forfeiture administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-approval judicial-review procedural-violations property-rights statutory-interpretation trial-delay unborn-rights |
WHETHER "ACTUAL INNOCENCE" REQUIRES THE ACCUSED UPON MOTIONS "ACTUAL AND |
| 18-6459 |
Cliserio Balmes-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
In contrast with the Ninth Circuit, at least seven other circuits apply a standard which requires a sentencing judge provide some express treatment to… |
| 18-6461 |
Gerren K. Love v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines causation-element circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-classification criminal-law force-definition sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-castleman violent-crime violent-force |
If a statute has a causation-of-harm element, does it also necessarily have an element of violent force for purposes of classifying the crime as a vio… |
| 18-6415 |
Amalya Cherniavsky, aka Amalya Surenovna Yegiyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review sua-sponte sufficiency-of-evidence theory-of-defense trial-procedure |
Under what circumstances must a district court sua sponte instruct the jury on a theory of defense presented and relied upon at trial where the theory… |
| 18-6433 |
Robert Norman Smithback v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,standing,civil-procedure, constitutional-guarantees cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection farmer-v-brennan prison-conditions prisoner-rights supreme-court-precedent |
Issue #1. Whether Texa. Jurisprudence.enforcés constitutional
guarentees, especially and specifically this Court's
Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (19… |
| 18-6445 |
Tracy Lebron Vick v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review plea-bargaining public-interest sentencing sentencing-procedure unconstitutional |
I. WHETHER THE PROVISIONS OF RULE 36.1 OF THE TENNESSEE RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, TENNESSEE CODE ANNOTATED § 29-21-101, AND TENNESSEE LAW ARE UNCON… |
| 18-542 |
John E. Hamilton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
charging criminal-procedure defendant-standing due-process extradition extradition-treaty international-law punishment rule-of-specialty sentencing standing treaty treaty-interpretation |
Under our extradition treaty with Poland, Agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Poland on the Application of the Extradit… |
| 18-6402 |
Elroy William Robinson v. California |
California |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection jurisdiction qualified-immunity standing statutory-provisions |
(1) WHEN A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER DELIBERATELY DELAYS AN ARREST IN ORDER TO BRING A SPOUSE BRING A PERSON OF INTEREST IN TO FOR QUESTIONING AND IN CO… |
| 18-6410 |
Michael McKinzy v. Carletha Gaston (McKinzy) |
Missouri |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection legal-notice notice procedural-fairness service service-of-process state-action state-court |
The Missouri Division of Child Support Enforcement (DcsE) was
required under sections 464.4705 and 454.475.5 RSMo(2000) +omall
a copy of its final Ord… |
| 18-6411 |
Ennis Reed v. California |
California |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire |
HAS CALIFORNIA AGAIN DEPARTED FROM THE FEDERAL
STANDARDS GOVERNING DETERMINATIONS OF RACIAL BIAS
DURING JURY VOIR DIRE? |
| 18-6416 |
Briand Williams v. California |
California |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-record due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargain registration-requirements sentencing transcripts |
Is a Plea Agreement considered to be terminated or full-filled fifteen (15) years later upon the destruction or lost of the actual sentencing plea agr… |
| 18-6421 |
Alexis D. Negron-Cruz v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel internet-access internet-restrictions plea-agreement plea-bargaining pornography-ban sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-conditions |
Whether District Court erred in imposing overbroad conditions of Supervised Release, limiting Petitioner's access to the Internet, for the term of sai… |
| 18-6407 |
Ong Vue v. Frank X. Henke, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection judicial-review parole parole-procedures section-1983 standing |
Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that Petitioner Vue "failed to state a claim" is in contrary to the holding of Wilkinson v. Dotson, … |
| 18-6413 |
Joshua Jackson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
21-usc-841 controlled-substances conviction criminal-adjudication criminal-law due-process federal-statute recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation youthful-offender |
Is an Alabama youthful-offender adjudication a "conviction" for purposes of sentencing enhancement under 21 U.S.C § 841(b)(1)(A)? |
| 18-6394 |
Jimmy Steele v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances gatekeeping-provision habeas-corpus intervening-change-in-law retroactivity second-motion successive-petitions |
In denying Steele's Second-in-time §2255 motion, did the lower court(s) err in there finding that the district court lacks jurisdiction to hear Steele… |
| 18-6395 |
Alex D. Ramos v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-offense sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
1) Did the lower Court err, and concomitantly violate the United States Constitution, Amendments V and VI, where it determined that Petitioner's prior… |
| 18-513 |
Lee Mulcahy v. Aspen Pitkin County Housing Authority |
Colorado |
2018-10-22 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act class-of-one due-process equal-protection exhaustion-doctrine material-facts property-rights |
Can a governmental agency initiating litigation, by virtue of the exhaustion doctrine, be relieved of its obligation to prove the elements of its clai… |
| 18-6377 |
Rashad Woodside v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-presence criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process limited-remand open-court resentencing right-to-be-present right-to-counsel sentencing |
Whether a defendant has the right to be present with counsel at a resentencing hearing where the reasons for the sentence are stated in open court aft… |
| 18-6389 |
Anthony Lomax v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder buyer-seller career-offender conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-history drug-quantity heroin-attribution relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
I. Despite the dismissal of Anthony Lomax's conspiracy charge, during sentencing the district court assigned 16.8 kilograms of heroin to him. While a … |
| 18-6391 |
Matthew Vaughn Hawks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-disability plain-error sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-reasonableness substantial-rights united-states-v-olano |
I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Misapplied Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) and
United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725 (1998) by Failing to Grant Relief
for Plain… |
| 18-6372 |
Michael Small v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default procedural-rules sentencing state-court sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred when it agreed with the district court "that the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel was witho… |
| 18-6378 |
Robert Ira Peede v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 18-6387 |
Spencer Bowens v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) 28 U.S.C. §2255(£)(3) 28 U.S.C. §2255(f)(3) extend to pre-Booker mandatory career-offender gu that has been newly recognized by the United Stat career-offender career-offender-guidelines collateral-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,sentencing,retroactivity,collat Johnson-right johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines Supreme-Court-precedent |
Whether the right in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), that has been newly recognized by the United States Supreme Court and made retr… |
| 18-502 |
William Kinney, et ux. v. Anderson Lumber Company, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
|
attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fraud post-removal-statute remand remand-order removal vacatur |
Does the post removal statute, Title 28 Section 1447, bar the vacatur of a remand order obtained by attorney misconduct and fraud? Plaintiffs were uns… |
| 18-6355 |
Christian Dominique Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence parole revocation sentencing supervised-release |
I. Whether supervised release revocation defendants enjoy a limited right of cross-examination as to facts that increase the sentence imposed followin… |
| 18-6362 |
Edwin Darrell Lett v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights continuance counsel criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel sixth-amendment state-procedure trial |
WHETHER THE MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT'S DECISIONS AND JUDGMENTS ARE FINAL UNDER 28 U.S.C. SECTION 1257.
WHETHER CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT OF THE INDICTM… |
| 18-6368 |
Dean Edward Calhoun v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection evidence standing state-law texas-criminal-justice |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6306 |
Amy Hebert v. James Rogers, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
comparative-juror-analysis due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination ineffective-assistance-of-counsel j.e.b.-v.-alabama jury-discrimination miller-el-v.-dretke peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes |
1. When reviewing a claim of gender discrimination in violation of J.E.B. v. Alabama, is comparative juror analysis appropriate even where the male an… |
| 18-6315 |
David Ivy v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas procedural-mechanism roper-v-simmons state-procedure |
Where this Court has declared, "States may not execute anyone in 'the entire category of [intellectually disabled] offenders." Moore v. Texas, 137 S. … |
| 18-6331 |
Vernon Robinson v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
did the 1st Diothict Count of appeal departiment from the essentinl reluinement of law ts Mandate By the uvited States Supreme the count muotmake A ex… |
| 18-6334 |
Ahkeem Wiggins v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process enhancement-penalty guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing |
The 1st Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo, State of Louisiana was without jurisdiction to accept guilty plea to enhancement penalty under Louis… |
| 18-6338 |
Briand Williams v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel contract contract-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge plea-bargain statute-of-limitations |
Is a Plea Bargain Agreement in essence a contract between the defendant and the prosecutor on behalf of the StateRWA And if so, can the defendant be r… |
| 18-6342 |
Jaime Rene Lopez-Vaal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability aggravated-felony criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing immigration immigration-law ninth-circuit-review sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether Section 1326(b), which does not define "misdemeanors involving drugs or violence against the person," "felony," or "aggravated felony," is unc… |
| 18-483 |
Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Relisted (15) |
14th-amendment abortion civil-rights disability due-process equal-protection fetal-remains medical-regulation |
1. Whether a State may require health care facilities to dispose of fetal remains in the same manner as other human remains, i.e., by burial or cremat… |
| 18-6300 |
Cheryl Singleton v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure joint-stipulation presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing |
Does the filing of joint stipulation(s) as to the presentence investigation report entitle the defendant to allocution on the (A)(i), (ii) ? |
| 18-6317 |
Desmond DeWayne Turner v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach eleventh-circuit mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states predicate-offense sentencing united-states-v-ovalles |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the convictions for Burglary in the first degree under Alabama law qualified as a … |
| 18-6289 |
Bruce L. Small v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
and justice from incarceration civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto incarceration justice liberty civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-law incarceration justice-system legal-application sentencing |
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Eyal application of ano pu Fac bos th enhance my
KentenceS
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| 18-6303 |
Jeffrey Joseph Pendleton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law fifth-amendment force-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Is the Force Clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) invalid under the Fifth Amendment void-for-vagueness doctrine? |
| 18-6308 |
Edwin Hernandez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process duress-defense jury-instructions second-circuit sentencing |
1. Did the Second Circuit err in finding that the district court's charge correctly stated the requirements for the duress defense.
2. Did the Second… |
| 18-6309 |
Warren Justin Hardy v. California |
California |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
comparative-analysis equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination racial-overtones sixth-amendment |
Whether, in a case with racial overtones, the California Supreme Court's refusal to conduct a meaningful comparative analysis, or infer a likelihood o… |
| 18-6313 |
Lacoya Washington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal conviction criminal-evidence criminal-law due-process evidence judicial-discretion sentencing sex-trafficking trial trial-severance |
Whether there was sufficient evidence presented at trial to convict Lacoya Washington of the sex trafficking crime.
Whether the Honorable Trial Court… |
| 18-6314 |
Vilaychith Khouanmany v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appointment-of-counsel career-offender civil-rights,due-process,criminal-procedure,senten criminal-procedure due-process excessive-sentences habeas-corpus pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process right-to-bail right-to-counsel sentence-enhancements sentencing speedy-trial |
Is Dertyincj Appealbity of case no.17-1243 when the issues of career offender, enhancements of my priors and excessives sentences, and was unfairly de… |
| 18-6276 |
Marcus Anthony Terrell v. Walter Berry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif please include the full text of the petition. appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus standing state-courts |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6293 |
Alfredo Martinez-Rey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-454 |
Derek L. Dinger v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
bouie-v-city-of-columbia court-martial due-process ex-post-facto military-justice precedent-overruling retired-personnel retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing sentencing-rules |
After petitioner's offenses, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces overruled two precedents without fair warning and held that a court-martial can… |
| 18-456 |
Michael J. Persico v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
apprendi due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness |
1. Does Petitioner's sentence, which would have been deemed substantively unreasonable in the absence of the district court's factual findings, violat… |
| 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… |
| 18-447 |
Alabama Department of Revenue, et al. v. CSX Transportation, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (2) |
commerce-clause discrimination dormant-commerce-clause equal-protection fuel-exemption interstate-commerce preemption state-taxation statutory-interpretation tax-discrimination tax-exemption transportation-carriers |
Under 49 U.S.C. § 11501(b)(4), when can a
State justifiably maintain a sales-and-use
tax exemption for fuel used by vessels to
transport goods interst… |
| 18-6271 |
Sonny Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness-challenge reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-booker |
(1) When—if at all—must a defendant object to the reasonableness of a sentence to preserve that argument for appellate review?
(2) What is the proper… |
| 18-6286 |
Lisa Jo Chamberlin v. Pelicia E. Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP |
batson batson-v-kentucky civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination |
1. Whether a court reviewing a Batson claim may consider reasons distinguishing stricken jurors from those accepted by the prosecutor when the disting… |
| 18-6233 |
Stephan Schuermann v. Jubilie Anqui |
Florida |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment child-custody civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction relocation |
1. Whether the Supreme Court of Florida erred in not vacating Judge Michael Flowers Orders Granting the Respondent's Verified Petition to "wrongfully … |
| 18-6237 |
Jacob L. Smith v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process gall-v-united-states plain-error plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-variance |
In order to preserve a § 3553(c) challenge to the adequacy of the district court's sentencing explanation, must a party, who is given no opportunity t… |
| 18-6240 |
Darryl Johnson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-rights constitutional-error due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing |
Was Petitioner's guilty plea sustained in violation of due process warranting habeas relief where the district court failed to advise the petitioner c… |
| 18-6248 |
Antonio Mercedes-Rijo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-power criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-jurisdiction high-seas mitigating-role sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-3b1.2 statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-commission |
Whether the Petitioner's Mitigating Role Should of Been Adjusted In Accordance With The United States Sentencing Guidelines § 3B1.2
Whether Congress … |
| 18-6252 |
Hersie Wesson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-right death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-due-process state-courts threshold-showing |
Question #1: When a capital defendant can make a substantial threshold showing of intellectual disability, are the state courts constitutionally requi… |
| 18-6256 |
William Wise Mock v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender categorical-approach criminal-sentencing presentence-investigation-report sentencing separate-occasions shepard-documents statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, in applying the categorical approach to determine if a defendant is a career offender, the sentencing court can use a Presentence Investig… |
| 18-6262 |
Richard Penunuri v. California |
California |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to… |
| 18-6215 |
Leonard Nathaniel Peragine, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion child-enticement child-pornography congressional-intent criminal-sentencing empirical-evidence guideline-calculation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court's utilization of the child pornography guideline in Section 2G2.2 to determine the sentence for a defendant whose primary o… |
| 18-6230 |
Harvey L. Shoate v. Jason Lewis, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plea-agreement post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing sua-sponte |
Question not identified. |
| 18-438 |
Carllene M. Placide v. Supreme Court of Washington, et al. |
Washington |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-client-relationship attorney-disbarment attorney-discipline bar-discipline constitutional-rights due-process due-process,civil-rights,equal-protection,legal-pr equal-protection legal-ethics legal-practice legal-procedure procedural-fairness racial-discrimination |
Whether an attorney can be deprived of his/her constitutionally protected right to practice law pursuant to an order of disbarment by the Court below … |
| 18-6224 |
Lamond Latney v. Anthony Parker |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment incorporation standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6169 |
Tracy L. Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c)-statute conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process firearm-possession informant-testimony law-enforcement-conduct mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a defendant should be subject to a mandatory 25 year consecutive 924(c) sentence for the same drug Conspiracy based on the facts that in a two… |
| 18-6181 |
Michael Patino v. Rhode Island |
Rhode Island |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and does not contain a full petition for writ of but the text you've provided appears to be incomp I cannot extract a meaningful Question Presented I will respond with: Question not identified. administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether, in a murder trial, under the Rhode Island general murder statute, there was a
deprivation of the accused's right to Due Process provided i… |
| 18-6201 |
Nicholas DeAngelis v. Bruce Plumley, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-habeas federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars time-limits |
The criteria in 28 U.S.C.S. §2244(d)(1) is identical to 28 U.S.C.S. §2255(f). The former per this courts holding in MóQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383… |
| 18-6205 |
Eliseo Guevara-Guevara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-rule alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-punishment immigration-law indictment judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing |
Whether a prior conviction must be alleged in the indictment before a defendant is subjected to enhanced punishment under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b), thereby … |
| 18-6206 |
Jason Randall Howard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness variance-sentence |
1. Is Howard's 457% above-guideline variance sentence procedurally unreasonable because the District Court failed to consider the need to avoid unwarr… |
| 18-6207 |
Manuel Ernesto Paiz Guevara v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion capital-crime capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-split mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously held - in conflict with the plain language of 18 U.S.C. § 3005 and in conflict with a 45-year split between … |
| 18-6212 |
Thomas Burgess v. Nicole English, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255e amendment-782 criminal-procedure intervening-arrest mandatory-minimum miscarriage-of-justice precedent-change savings-clause sentencing sentencing-modification sentencing-relief-28-usc-2255e |
IF A DEFENDANT DID TRY TO PERSUADE THE COURT OF APPEALS TO CHANGE
ITS BINDING PRECEDENT BUT WAS UNSUCCESSFUL, WOULD THE DEFENDANT BE
ABLE TO SEEK RELI… |
| 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… |
| 18-409 |
Lewis Y. Liu v. Paul Ryan, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights comity-clause congress constitutional-standing due-process electoral-college equal-protection equal-voting-right equal-voting-rights fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review standing voting-rights |
Whether Petitioner has the standing to "invoke a right to constitutional protection when he or she is harmed... even if the legislature refuses to act… |
| 18-412 |
Jael Watts v. Michael Allen, et al. |
Virginia |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts court-access due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment state-law tort-immunity |
Whether the Virginia Supreme Court's dismissal of the Petitioner's appal, without reaching the merits of the case, violates the Petitioner's fundament… |
| 18-6167 |
Ronald Wayne Clark, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-case,eighth-amendment,cruel-and-unusual-pu capital-punishment codefendant-culpability codefendants cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty death-sentence eighth-amendment proportionality-review reliability-of-death-sentence |
1. Whether an assessment of the relative culpability of codefendants in a capital case in Florida is required pursuant to the Eighth Amendment in orde… |
| 18-6171 |
Dion Terry Taylor v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review district-court-discretion district-court-proceedings inter-circuit-inconsistency pinney-dock proof-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-standard standard-of-proof standard-of-review u-s-sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§5k2.1 unraised-claims |
1. Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to clarify the Sixth Circuit's "Pinney Dock" standard governing review of claims which were no… |
| 18-6175 |
Victor Tony Jones v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
1981-homicide 1990-homicide capital-murder criminal-law death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing,hurst-v-state,jury-unanim hurst-v-state jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-criminal-law |
1. Given that the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State are being applied in a prosecution for a 1981 h… |
| 18-6180 |
Brian Deronceler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED DERONCELER'S CONVICTIONS WHERE THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT DER… |
| 18-6157 |
Sealed Appellee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-3553 due-process government-appeal individualized-hearing liberty-interest plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-waiver |
Whether, under the rules governing the construction of plea agreements and in light of due process fairness considerations, sentencewaiver provisions … |
| 18-6158 |
Makandi L. Terry v. Larry Abraham, Chief, Dillon County Detention Center |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining standing |
Queston(2.)
Should Petitoner Terry's
case should be reversed and remanded
based upon
direct evidence of IneffectveAsistance of Connelin
Question(2.)
… |
| 18-6159 |
Charlise Williams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence loss-calculation sentencing sixth-amendment victim-count |
Was the Petitioners Sixth Amendment right, under the Confrontation Clause violated?
Was the Petitioners potentially violated Sixth Amendment Right, u… |
| 18-6150 |
Noel Aquino-Florenciani v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion child-pornography criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process internet-access internet-access-ban sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the court's imposition of a total ban of internet access as a condition of supervised release is an overly broad and restrictive and without a… |
| 18-6154 |
Donald Lee Easley v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitution due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech lack-of-counsel lack-of-evidence life-liberty |
(1) Seltdefence SOB Inability to testidy= lack of Doepnociss My Constitiounal rights dimuished. sllard representation - expenos? Nat 8luen,
(S) Duepr… |
| 18-6156 |
Hector Medina v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
career-offender career-offender-guidelines criminal-classification criminal-law dangerous-instrument first-degree-robbery new-york-penal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
SHOULD FIRST DEGREE ROBBERY WITH USE OF A DANGEROUS INSTRUMENT UNDER NEW YORK PENAL LAW § 160.15(3) QUALIFY AS A CRIME OF VIOLENCE FOR PURPOSES OF THE… |
| 18-6110 |
Mikal Mahdi v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appointment-of-counsel capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence habeas-corpus indigent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-history right-to-counsel sixth-amendment south-carolina-supreme-court state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6112 |
Opherro G. Jones v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness |
Due process precludes a district court from relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant, requiring instead accuracy and reliability… |
| 18-6130 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of New York |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights damages due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus notice standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6131 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Leslie M. Arp |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection government-misconduct standing takings |
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| 18-6133 |
Bernardo Olivares-Cepeda v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-notice notice service-of-process supervisory-power |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6138 |
Lance Fox v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-defendant due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness |
Due process precludes a district court from relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant, requiring instead accuracy and reliability… |
| 18-6142 |
Joseph Dingler v. Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fetal-personhood parental-rights standing ubi-jus-ibi-remedium unborn-child |
Under Roe and Casey's "Age of Viability" holding that limits a timeframe for a mother's right to chose; if after expiration of that holdin whether by … |
| 18-6113 |
Frank J. Ballesteros v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines criminal-procedure fairness fairness-doctrine integrity judicial-proceedings judicial-review post-conviction-relief pro-se-applicant public-reputation resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Should this Court grant review of the court of appeals' decision based on this Court's subsequent decision in Rosales-Mireles v. United States that… |
| 18-6115 |
Jose Antonio Jimenez v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process elements-of-offense hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retrospective-application |
1. Given that the elements of capital murder set out by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State will govern as to whether James Card is guilty of … |
| 18-6120 |
Jose Ramon Pulido-Nolazco v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure prior-conviction sentencing sex-offender sex-offender-treatment supervised-release |
The decision of the Eleventh Circuit that Mr. Pulido -Nolazco's thirty year old sex offense is a factor for the Court to consider when determining whe… |
| 18-6121 |
Benjamin Vega-Garcia, aka Carlos Moreno Molina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-standard constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent precedent precedent-overruling recidivism sentencing stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether the Court should overrule Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which holds that a prior conviction qualifying an enhanced … |
| 18-393 |
Aura Moody v. National Football League |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
ada civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection rehabilitation-act standing standing-doctrine |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURTS DISMISSAL OF THE COMPLAINT AND THE CIRCUIT COURT'S AFFIRMATION OF SAME DEMONSTRATED THE FAILURE OF THE COURTS TO PROPERLY … |
| 18-6089 |
Marie Therese Assa'ad-Faltas v. City of Columbia, South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-expenses due-process equal-protection indigent-criminal-defendant indigent-defense pro-se pro-se-defense sovereign-immunity takings |
Does South Carolina's Defense of Indigents Act, SC Code of laws 17-3-5 et seq., without rational basis, deny equal protection between criminal defenda… |
| 18-6092 |
Robert Dion Ables v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-review empirical-analysis empirical-foundation-of-guidelines guideline-2g2.2 judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-of-sentences |
I. Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review?
II. Whether sentences arising under Guideline 2G2.2 tend to produce substan… |
| 18-6103 |
Fernando Valdez-Cejas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining prior-conviction sentencing statutory-enhancement statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-6104 |
Wayne Thomas, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law federal-jurisdiction johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states robbery-statute sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation stokeling-v-united-states supreme-court supreme-court-review use-of-force violent-crime |
1) Does the Florida Robbery 812.13 "meet use of force" as defined in Johnson v. United States U.S. (2010)? Petitioner requests a GVR in light of Stoke… |
| 18-6091 |
In Re Steven A. Walcott, Jr. |
|
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
bail civil-rights criminal-procedure detention due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pretrial-detention release speedy-trial |
1. Did thE distriet cout Enr in Not granting thE AcauksEd
A probAble cAUsE to hotd hEAriNg
AF ATAIMEN?
WithDIT (DURKE/?
3. MAy thE SHAtE FMEE I LAWy… |
| 18-6096 |
Michael Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca armed-career-criminal-act case-law evidentiary-record johnson johnson-ruling predicate-conviction residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
I. May a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition challenging his sentence under Johnson when the evidentiary record is silent as to whether the pe… |
| 18-6097 |
Leonard G. Marquez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-definition circuit-split mens-rea predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement tenth-circuit violent-felony |
I. Did the Tenth Circuit determine a New Mexico residential burglary is "burglary" under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in a way that contravenes this C… |
| 18-383 |
Jesse J. Davis, Jr., et ux. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank National Association |
Connecticut |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process Due-process-of-law,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amen equal-protection Equal-protection-of-the-laws,fourteenth-amendment Excessive-fines,foreclosure free-speech impartial-court petition-clause Right-to-impartial-court,sixth-amendment,seventh-a right-to-petition Right-to-petition-government,first-amendment right-to-public-trial Right-to-public-trial,right-to-information,sixth-a sanctions |
All of the following Constitutional Rights violations were raised to the Connecticut Supreme Court on the Motion for Certification to Appeal dated 01-… |
| 18-381 |
Donald C. Marro v. New York State Teachers' Retirement System |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-settlement class-action class-representation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fees fees-and-expenses frcp-23 notice property-rights public-policy settlement-fairness |
Amendments V and XIV provide equal access to courts, equal protection of law and sanctity of property, including bankruptcy distributions, for all lit… |
| 18-382 |
Raji Rab v. Superior Court of California, Sacramento County, et al. |
California |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
ballot-designation ballot-position constitutional-rights due-process election-code election-codes equal-protection federal-candidate federal-election trademark trademark-violation |
Whether the California Secretary of State has mandatory duties to preserve equal protection of constitutional rights of Federal candidate's ballot des… |
| 18-6065 |
In Re Eric M. Richardson |
|
2018-09-24 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition sentencing standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6076 |
Wilton Eugene Sandifer, Sr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-law mandamus standing state-court third-party-guilt trial-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6082 |
Jeffrey Eugene Lee v. R. C. Cheatham, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
betterman-v-montana braden-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-circuit sentencing sentencing-obligation speedy-trial state-constitutional-obligations state-obligations state-procedure |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS BELOW ERRED IN REJECTING THE PETITIONER"S CLAIM UNDER BRADEN V. 30th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF KENTUCKY, 410 U.S. 484 (1973) an… |
| 18-6083 |
Jesus Manuel Laureano-Perez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process government-prosecution plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review uncharged-conduct |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether the district court erred in enhancing Laureano's sentence based on uncharged conduct not c… |
| 18-6085 |
Gerald Daniels v. Janet Dowling, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-issue constitutional-law constitutional-review equal-protection evasion federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus race-discrimination state-court state-law state-law-interpretation |
1. WHETHER A FEDERAL HABEAS COURT MAY REEXAMINE A STATE COURT'S INTERPRETATION OF STATE LAW WHEN IT IS AN OBVIOUS SUBTERFUGE TO EVADE CONSIDERATION OF… |
| 18-6086 |
In Re Daniel Clate Acker |
|
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment false-evidence habeas-corpus new-evidence state-liability state-repudiation wrongful-conviction |
Whether an original writ of habeas corpus is appropriate in the case of a death-sentenced individual who was convicted and sentenced to death on a the… |
| 18-6050 |
Timothy L. Rodriguez v. DeWayne Burton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause subject-matter-jurisdiction Void-for-Lack-of-Jurisdiction warrantless-arrest |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6057 |
Omar Sosa-Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule first-circuit fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6067 |
Edward Lee Lewis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process overserved-sentence plainly-unreasonable reasonableness revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard standard-of-review supervised-release |
1. Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the "plainly unreasonable" standard onc… |
| 18-6069 |
Joel Cadena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal case-holding circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus legal-deferral pending-litigation petition-for-writ sentencing statutory-interpretation stay supreme-court supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should hold the instant Petition until the resolution of Stokeling v. United States, 138 S.Ct. 1438 (April 2, 2018), and/or United … |
| 18-6072 |
Cristian Gamez Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-6075 |
Daniel Clate Acker v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
adversarial-testing capital-punishment criminal-justice-system-legitimacy criminal-liability death-penalty due-process fairness false-theory-of-liability miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-review |
This case weaves these threads together and asks whether due process requires a state post-conviction review process in those rare instances where a S… |
| 18-374 |
Wuilson Estuardo Lemus Castillo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-3553(f) 21-usc-960 circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim… |
| 18-6035 |
Zachary Chambers v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-exposure sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
1. Whether the lower court abused its discretion in ruling that trial counsel's erroneous advice about petitioner's sentencing exposure if he proceed … |
| 18-6054 |
In Re Michael Boone |
|
2018-09-20 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy judge jury sentencing separation-of-powers statute-of-limitations statutory-offense substantive-due-process |
Is Petitioner Boone serving an unlawful/void sentence because it is a Substantive Due Process, Double Jeopardy violation for a defendant to be punishe… |
| 18-6056 |
Harley Blevins, Sr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment-code due-process jury-trial jury-verdict prior-conviction sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Is Florida's Prison Releasee Reoffender Act, which nullifies a Criminal Punishment Code (CPC) sentence, unconstitutional and a violation of the Sixth … |
| 18-6059 |
Cedric Carter v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sentencing-phase sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida |
Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida ? |
| 18-6063 |
Craig Alexander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-history criminal-procedure disciplinary-infractions due-process judicial-discretion judicial-interpretation section-3582 sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Supreme Court should resolve spilt decisions in the lower court -as to how far a Judge must explain and/or elaborate on a decision to gran… |
| 18-6030 |
Jason M. Smith v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-waiver collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement public-policy sentencing |
In the decision under review, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that an appellate waiver provision in petitioner's plea a… |
| 18-6034 |
In Re Gregory Wayne Burwell |
|
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-grand-jury federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment firearm-offenses forged-indictment grand-jury indictment-validity non-existent-crimes non-existent-offenses sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the District Court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's had subject matter jurisdiction over the criminal case entitled United States of Ameri… |
| 18-6040 |
Daniel Lee Thornberry v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing standing |
Does The Petition state a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right? Cognizable on 28 use 2254 and Uudr 28 Usc 225314)(2)?.
Does a … |
| 18-6042 |
Ronald Eric Ary v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deferred-adjudication due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum |
I. Whether this Court should grant review to determine whether a Texas deferred adjudication can qualify as a "prior conviction" for the purposes of t… |
| 18-6043 |
Patrick Wayne Manning, II v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-court civil-rights claim-construction court-access discrimination due-process equal-protection prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-claims pro-se-litigants recharacterization-of-claims |
Names v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 519, 520, 92 S. -Ct. 594, 30 L. Ed. 2d 652 (1972), allows a court unfettered authority to construe pro se prisoner claims. S… |
| 18-6045 |
Corey Levon Beckham v. Darrell Miller, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
drug-abuse equal-protection fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-illness sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington unprofessional-conduct |
Did the Fourth Circuit erred in holding District Court decision for failing to accept the showing of the two (2) prong test in' Strickland v. Washingt… |
| 18-5978 |
John Robert Register, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plain-error prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
A. Did the court commit a plain error by applying a career offender enhancement to petitioner, even though his prior convictions (to wit: possession o… |
| 18-6013 |
Richard Carl Wyatt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
acca armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-vagueness due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-v-united-states presumption presumption-of-regularity residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
(1) Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA.
(2… |
| 18-6014 |
Javier Vega-Orozco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi Certiorari criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-amendment Supreme-Court |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 18-6016 |
Fabian Sandoval-Ramos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process enhancement-factor mandatory-minimum-sentence mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation |
In order to trigger a mandatory minimum sentence, must the government allege and prove that an enhancement factor was the object of the conspiracy, or… |
| 18-6026 |
James Ray Booth v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendments appeals circuit-court-decision civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction ministerial-correction procedural-relief sentence-amendment sentencing |
The question presented is whether the Circuit Court's decision which held that the term "ministerial correction" nullified amendments to Petitioners' … |
| 18-6027 |
Hayden Beaulieu v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment extradition juvenile-justice plea-deal prosecutorial-discretion sentencing transfer-hearing |
Is it permissible under the 8th amendment of the Constitution to impose an adult sentence upon a minor who has been convicted of a non-dangerous, non-… |
| 18-6028 |
Maurice Baum v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-amount drug-crimes due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment |
Was Trial Counsel's failure to object to the District Court's determination and findings of the drug amount attributable to the Petitioner objectively… |
| 18-352 |
South Carolina v. Raymond Lewis Young |
South Carolina |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure deference-to-trial-court discretionary-review equal-protection federal-question jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination trial-court-deference |
Whether, upon reversing Respondent's conviction on grounds that: "The trial court erred in failing to conduct a proper analysis under the third step o… |
| 18-341 |
Billie Faye Keyes, et al. v. Philip Gunn, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-disenfranchisement civil-rights due-process election-integrity election-interference equal-protection federal-jurisdiction legislative-misconduct standing voting voting-rights |
If state legislators intentionally discard ballots to swing an election, may the disenfranchised voters bring suit in federal court to enforce the gua… |
| 18-6007 |
Valerie Louise Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-procedure downward-variance federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether The Court Should Grant Certiorari to Provide Further Clarification as to the Presumption of Substantive Reasonableness for Downward Variances … |
| 18-5985 |
Jeffery Dana Sparks v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Oregon |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination death-penalty evidence-presentation expert-testimony expert-witnesses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecution-experts prosecution-theory trial-strategy |
Whether defense counsel in a death penalty trial provided effective assistance where that counsel failed thoroughly to prepare to cross-examine forese… |
| 18-5994 |
Ricky Wayne White v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error legal-relief maximum-sentence misdemeanor-enhancement sentencing sentencing-error state-court-jurisdiction state-courts |
Question One:
Is an error of a lower State Court in
exceeding the maximum sentence legally
allowed, cognizable for relief at any time?
Question Tw… |
| 18-5996 |
Gene Lemay Barris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing unreasonable-sentence |
1.How ion a sentencing Coust sentenct a defeadent cutside of the
Gui delines orainally out lindd in Tue defendents pka @gret moat. Dots
2. Hou Or can… |
| 18-5997 |
Francisco Burciaga v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-classification drug-policy due-process heroin-hydrochloride innocence legal-ambiguity pharmaceutical-industry prosecutorial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness |
All University Englh Dictionaries define/describe as follows:
heroin— a derivative of morphine
morphine— a derivative of opium
What is heroin hydro… |
| 18-6000 |
Angel Barreiro v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights de-facto-life-sentence due-process equal-protection florida-supreme-court life-sentence parole parole-eligibility parole-process sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-scheme |
Whether all 4,626 pre-1994 parole eligible Inmates in the State of Florida whom all are equally situated under the statutory schemes and criteria's of… |
| 18-336 |
Thaddeus Jones, et al. v. Michelle Markiewicz-Qualkinbush, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
|
15th-amendment 1st-amendment class-of-one constitutional-challenge Engquist equal-protection first-amendment municipal-referendum political-animus referendum-rights strict-scrutiny |
1. Whether the reasoning and decision of Engquist v. Oregon Department of Agriculture, 553 U.S. 591 (2008), extends to the political context, where po… |
| 18-329 |
Landry Rountree v. Troy Dyson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
|
amended-complaint circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection mootness motion-to-dismiss standing sua-sponte-dismissal wrongful-arrest |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuit's opinion in this case causes a circuit split to whether the filing of an amended complaint moots a pending motion to dis… |
| 18-5966 |
Joseph Faulkner v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy fifth-amendment law-of-case-doctrine law-of-the-case prosecution sentencing sentencing-enhancement uncharged-conduct witte-v-united-states |
(1) Whether the use of uncharged conduct to increase a sentence means the conduct was used to punish, and a subsequent prosecution for the same conduc… |
| 18-5974 |
Levon Spaulding v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2018-09-13 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech qualified-immunity standing |
I.
IMPARTLALITY. WHERE STATE AND FEDERAL JUDGE'S
ANO JUSTICES IMPARTIALTYCAN REASONABLY BE AND 28U.S.C.
4SS(A). SIINCE APRIL I9I5 THE LINITED STATES … |
| 18-5930 |
Timothy Walker v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender double-jeopardy drug-offense due-process guideline-amendments guideline-range post-sentencing-litigation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g. |
Does it comport with the Due Process Clause and the prohibition against Double Jeopardy to, for all practical purposes, simultaneously impose two (2) … |
| 18-5944 |
Rafael Tanco-Pizarro v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3583 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discovery due-process revocation revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release title-18-usc |
I.
Whether the punishment factor of the federal sentencing statute, Title 18
U.S.C §3553(a)(2)(A), is a permissible or prohibited factor in sentencing… |
| 18-5947 |
Stevie Andre Roberson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure procedural-due-process standing state-court-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations texas-supreme-court |
1.) WHETHER DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION TO DENY PETITIONER'S HABEAS PETITION AS BARRED BY STATUTE OF LIMITATION OF THE ANT-TERRORISM AND EFFECTIVE DEATH… |
| 18-5948 |
Patrick Henry Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
conspiracy criminal-conspiracy death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida-tison-v-arizona felony felony-murder jury-findings sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth or Eighth Amendment require that before a party may be sentenced to death as a conspirator (rather than a trigger-person), the jury mus… |
| 18-5952 |
In Re Samuel H. Williams |
|
2018-09-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection free-speech jurisdiction standing takings |
I PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS FIRST CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT RIGHTS
2 PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS FORETEEN CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT RIGHTS
3 PETITIONER … |
| 18-5958 |
Kevin Wilmot v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing |
FLonida Violate State Ard Federal
CAN the State oF
Constitstional Amendments. And ProviSions ThAt Are
GUArAnteEd becAuse the Prisorer is Poor Ard CArN… |
| 18-5924 |
Evangelisto Ramos v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2018-09-11 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine racial-discrimination sixth-amendment stare-decisis unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict? |
| 18-5934 |
Deborah M. Wagner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-procedure criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process mandatory-victim-restitution-act mvra plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in granting the Government's Motion to Dismiss the Petitioner's Appeal? |
| 18-5937 |
Charles Lee Burton v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing capital-sentencing-scheme constitutional-review death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-recommendation mitigating-factors |
1. Under Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), and Caldwell v. Mississippi , 472 U.S. 320 (1985), is Alabama's capital sentencing scheme constituti… |
| 18-305 |
Kenda Kirby v. Office of the Attorney General of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
|
ada civil-rights due-process educational-amendments eleventh-amendment equal-protection first-amendment retaliation sex-based-characteristics sex-discrimination standing title-ix |
Broadly, questions raised by the case include whether Plaintiff has a right to redress (both for discrimination and retaliation) under Title IX of the… |
| 18-5907 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Mary Ellen Elia, Commissioner, Office of Professional Discipline, Board of Regents, Education |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech retaliation standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5908 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Howard A. Zucker, Commissioner, New York State Department of Health, Office of Professional Medical Conduct |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction medical-treatment standing takings |
WHY DIDN'T 18291 AND
MAKE THÉ FOLLOUSING
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FIVEMEDTCAL
DOCTORS 1735H4.
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PRESURIPTIONS OF MEDICINE TO CURE
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MUCUS… |
| 18-5914 |
Jeffrey Scott Finney v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acca acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing violent-felony |
Whether the District Court erred in denying Jeffrey Finney's post-Johnson motion for relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 18-5892 |
Andre Jackson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment |
Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
| 18-5904 |
Donavan Cross v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constructive-delivery constructive-possession controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-delivery due-process intent sentencing sentencing-guidelines testimonial-evidence |
(1) Whether a statute that criminalizes a constructive delivery of drugs without bona fide intent to transfer possession is a felony "controlled subst… |
| 18-5873 |
Milorad Teodor Olic v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
behavioral-credits civil-rights due-process parole prison-conditions rehabilitation sentence-reduction sentencing |
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| 18-5880 |
Virginia S. Caudill v. Janet Conover, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circumstantial-evidence civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-discrimination racial-discrimination sixth-amendment standing |
Virginia Caudill stands convicted of capital murder. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky dismissed her Petition for Habeas Co… |
| 18-5885 |
Kenneth Kennedy Shannon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence heroin-quantity motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence title-iii-wiretap verdict-acquittal |
1. Did the trial court err in denying the Petitioner's Motion for Verdict of
Acquittal and for New Trial, because the evidence taken in the light
most… |
| 18-5895 |
Justin Lyle Izatt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-question gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-for-writ-of-certiorari post-conviction-relief sentencing |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals committed error by denying the Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2255 petition ? |
| 18-5896 |
Beverly Allen Baker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-conspiracies sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
1. Should BAS cov exercise YS Super visecy authority to reverse Nig Bakers cangpiracy comvichon ®
By the end th trial, the government concluded that … |
| 18-5897 |
Arthur Braddy v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court deprivation deprivation-of-rights due-process florida-statutes legal-procedure minimum-mandatory-sentence sentencing trial-court |
DID THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS BY FAILING TO CORRECT THE TRIAL COURT'S IMPOSITION OF A MINIMUM MANDATORY SENTENCE … |
| 18-5900 |
Juan Carlos Martinez-Barrientos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process precedent-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review |
Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Ap… |
| 18-5902 |
Terrence Javon Allen, Sr. v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection pro-se sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
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| 18-286 |
Abhijit Prasad v. Will Lightbourne, et al. |
California |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
|
administrative-hearing child-abuse-reporting child-welfare due-process employment equal-protection family-privacy fundamental-rights privacy-rights reputation reputation-harm separation-of-powers |
In 2010, Petitioner Abhijit Prasad was investigated by Defendants' California child welfare agency, who told Prasad he was reported to the Child Abuse… |
| 18-288 |
Philip A. Mearing v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
appellate-review appellate-waiver criminal-appeal criminal-defendant-waiver criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining restitution restitution-order sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant's waiver in his plea agreement of the right to appeal his "sentence" covers an appeal of… |
| 18-5863 |
Corey E. Johnson v. Butler Law Firm |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation court-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-error statute-of-limitations |
IS THERE HIELP FOR A LONE PETITIONER AND DTHERS SIMI-
LARLY SITUATED;
DENIED" THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS DUE TO
NO FAULT OF HIS OWN, ABANDONED BY A DC … |
| 18-5864 |
Benjamin Patrick Lee v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection free-exercise habeas-corpus right-to-counsel state-laws |
Can State actors and stite Court Violate the due process and equal protection clanses of the United States Constitution and the sfate's own enumerated… |
| 18-5869 |
Duane Montgomery v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection government-liability standing takings trial-by-jury |
1. Inordinste delay tween indrctment Anch Verdict Porm may under RtE CIFCUMStANCES Apptor Constitute Rifth Anendrent to the Urited states Constifution… |
| 18-5872 |
Miguel Medina-Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a) drug-trafficking federal-criminal-justice-system pre-sentence-report sentencing 3553(a) 3553(a)-factors 3553a-factors abuse-of-discretion amendment-782 criminal-procedure drug-amount drug-quantity-attribution drug-trafficking-conspiracy due-process pre-sentence-report sentencing sentencing-discretion threshold |
Whether Petitioner's due process rights were violated where the district court erred by failing to determine whether, at sentencing, Petitioner was in… |
| 18-5876 |
Steven Sanford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson when the sentencing judge never specified - an… |
| 18-5840 |
George Stoney v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c3a categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-jurisdiction hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
1. Under the categorical approach, rather than the Third Circuit's outlier contemporaneous act approach, does a conviction under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S… |
| 18-5841 |
Juan David Rodriguez v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
1981-homicide capital-murder death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process hurst-v-state jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt retroactivity substantive-criminal-law |
1. Given that the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State are being applied in a prosecution for a 1981 h… |
| 18-5852 |
In Re Sontay T. Smotherman |
|
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing |
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| 18-5854 |
Joe Leonard Lambright v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process incarceration-credit life-sentence parole sentencing statutory-interpretation |
When a defendant's death sentence is vacated and a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 25 years imposed in its place, is the Due Proces… |
| 18-5861 |
Danny Lopez Chavez v. Joel Martinez, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment proportionality sentencing |
(1) Whether appellant's sentence is grossly disproportionate to the crimes of conviction in violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cr… |
| 18-5817 |
Jermaine Moorer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus qualified-immunity standing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5818 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Harika Kondaveeti |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech patent standing takings |
WHY DID 1T4O21 REFUSE TO CAVE PRO-SE PHAINTIFF THE PRESCRIPTFONS CON SISTINE OF LIQVID VIAL MEDICINE AND DISPOSABLE HYPO DERMIC NEEDIE SYRINGES
WHH S… |
| 18-5834 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Keith Robinson |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction medical-treatment patent prison-conditions standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5837 |
David Lee Roberts v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty federal-law hurst-v-florida judicial-findings jury-sentencing jury-verdict retroactivity ring-v-arizona |
David Roberts was sentenced to death based solely on findings by a judge after his sentencing jury voted that he should live. In Hurst v. Florida, 136… |
| 18-5846 |
Dustin Xavier Wilkins, aka Dxavier Wilkins, aka Xavier Wilkins, aka Chosen Wilkins v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appeal court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-hearing |
I.
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine whether the Petitioner should have been allowed to withdraw his guilty plea based on ineffe… |
| 18-5847 |
Jaime Shakur Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certiorari-petition chavez-meza circuit-split criminal-procedure en-banc en-banc-review plain-error reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-reasonableness |
I. Should this Court hold this Petition until the court below renders its forthcoming en banc decision in United States v. Reyes-Contreras, 892 F.3d 8… |
| 18-5848 |
Darrell Darcell Darby v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional criminal-appeals cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process prison-conditions search-and-seizure sentencing standing takings |
[SEE APPENDIX D] WHO IS UNABLE HIMSELFWITH
HOBEOS CORPUS POSTCONUICTION PETI TION TO THE COURTS ).--
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO HELP BY ANOTHER INMATE
"W… |
| 18-263 |
Sheryl Faust v. Illinois Workers Compensation Commission, et al. |
Illinois |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure arbitrary-barriers bodily-integrity due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment redress workers-compensation |
Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prevent states from using arbitrary barriers to deprive workers of th… |
| 18-5808 |
Rafael Angel Rondon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924c 6th-amendment constitutional-law crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-law jury-instructions residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-crime |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) pattern jury instruction violates the Sixth Amendment because it concludes that the crutial question… |
| 18-5810 |
Laureano Chirino Rivera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence government-error government-misconduct judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement standing |
VIOLATION OF ALL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ILLEGAL SENTENCE AND DETAINED THE DISTRICT COURT AND THE GOVERNMENT ERRED BY NOT EVIDENCE OR ARGUMENTS AT SENTE… |
| 18-5811 |
Eusebio Escobar De Jesus v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process gall-v-united-states guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states offense-level procedural-error rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Appeals Court erroneously concluded Petitioner failed to state a claim, reasoning for want of a substantial question..., he asserts that (… |
| 18-5815 |
Jose Francisco Puentes v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment arizona-statute civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing |
Whether Arizona Penal statute 13-1410 was applied in violation of Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment Right to the Federal Constitution?
Ground TWO: Wa… |
| 18-5821 |
Thomas Lee Farmer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2255-relief collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states multiple-sentences retroactive-constitutional-rule retroactive-review retroactivity section-2255 sentencing sentencing-law |
(1) Whether the concurrent sentence doctrine should be applied to deny § 2255 relief when one of a set of multiple sentences is now invalid because of… |
| 18-5826 |
John C. Carter v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure critical-stage-of-appeal due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel state-criminal-trial-court state-law-limitations |
Number One = Is the hiatus between the termination of a criminal
jury trd and the begining of an aecal e citical stage of crininal
froeeding in the 5… |
| 18-5770 |
John Denton Rouse, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
but no text of a SCOTUS petition was provided in I cannot generate a question presented or identif please include the full text of the petition. chapman-v-united-states criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process mandatory-minimum market-oriented-approach sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government may commingle substances that pose an identifiable danger of misidentification to produce an aggregate mixture or substance con… |
| 18-5786 |
Donell A. Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2255-motion certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loss-calculation rule-59(e)-motion rule-59e section-2255-motion sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Petitioner in his 2255 Motion and Rule 59(e) motion prove his claim that the the Petitioner's trial and appellate counsel's failure to object … |
| 18-5787 |
Danyale Sharron Tubbs v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency competency-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency mental-illness plain-error procedural-default sentencing sentencing-error strickland-standard |
WAS MICHIGAN'S APPLICATION OF STRICKLAND V WASHINGTON UNREASONABLE WHERE DEFENSE COUNSEL FAILED TO INVESTIGATE AND PRESNT A COMPETENCY DEFENSE IN LIGH… |
| 18-5793 |
Ray Lamar Johnston v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment capital-punishment-system death-penalty due-process equal-protection florida harmless-error hurst-relief hurst-v-florida jury-trial sixth-amendment |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's holding that a Hurst error is per se harmless where a jury issues a generalized unanimous recommendation for death… |
| 18-5797 |
Carlos Gutierrez-Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-review |
The Circuits are split on whether a defendant has to re-object to the district court's explanation of its sentencing rationale in order to preserve th… |
| 18-5798 |
C. B. v. Thomas N. Fischgrund |
Florida |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adoption adoption-law civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud fraud-allegations negligence notary-misconduct notary-public |
Should the Supreme Court of Florida decline to accept jurisdiction, when the claims brought before the court, strongly expresses as well as clearly an… |
| 18-5804 |
Abdoulaye Diallo v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence fraud indictment-delay insufficient-evidence loss-calculation motion-for-acquittal prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sentencing snap-fraud statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
I.- Whether the District Court failed where did not granted his motion for acquittal because the Government failed to produce sufficient evidence to s… |
| 18-251 |
Sheldon Schwartz v. HRI Hospital, Inc., et al. |
Massachusetts |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional constitutional-law due-process employment employment-rights equal-protection free-speech retaliation state-law whistleblower |
Whether Massachusetts' post-employment retaliation statute violates the principles of equal protection, due process and free speech?
2. Must the stat… |
| 18-5748 |
Rory Allen Meeks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states appellate-review constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses jury-instructions mccoy-v-louisiana mens-rea sentencing sixth-amendment |
QUESTION I:
Whether reasonable jurists might debate the following three questions:
- In light of Alleyne v. United States., 135 S. Ct. and Apprendi v.… |
| 18-5768 |
Ercil K. Rayford v. Blair Leibach, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5773 |
Michael Delancy v. Jorge L. Pastrana, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017) Inc. unconstitutionally forecloses habeas-corpus-acces which is in conflict with opinions of nine other 28-usc-2241 circuit-split constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-inmates florida-state-convictions habeas-corpus mathis-v-us sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding in McCarthan v. Dir. of Goodwill Indus.-Suncoast, Inc., 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017), which… |
| 18-5775 |
William Christopher Hogan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conflict-of-circuits criminal-history fifth-circuit ninth-circuit sentencing shop-lifting shoplifting texas-state texas-state-law u.s.-supreme-court-rule-10 |
Whether the District Court erred in sentencing Petitioner by adding one point to his criminal history score based on a Texas State shop lifting convic… |
| 18-5777 |
Rodney S. Pederson v. Arctic Slope Regional Corporation |
Alaska |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-decision alaska-supreme-court appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federalism judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-due-process standing statute-of-limitations takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5779 |
Ray Cobia v. Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2004-conviction 2012-conviction civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
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| 18-5764 |
Richard Joseph Crane v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus life-sentence parole parole-consideration sentencing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Supreme Court intended for the opinion of California Department of Corrections v. Morales (1995) 514 U.S. 499; and Garner v. Jones (U.S.Ga… |
| 18-5739 |
Terril Kinchen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-fraud civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the trial court plainly erred when it accepted the defendant's guilty plea to Conspiracy to commit robbery and two 924(c) charges where the… |
| 18-5742 |
Solomon David Roberts v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus life-without-parole mandatory-minimums miller-v-alabama sentencing simple-robbery standing |
Whether CAJ NEw Rule oF Lonsttitonal law by the Supreme Lourt to the Dnited states Made [RJe troactive to the statEs is Subsect Previsus filings.?
Pe… |
| 18-5750 |
Santos Cuevas v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Oregon |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto free-speech sex-offender-registration standing |
May a cart convict and sentence a defendant fetitioner or any aceused for statatay sexud offense statuter based on accusations and eidentiary facts tr… |
| 18-5754 |
Ivan Rodrigo Campillo Restrepo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus jurisdiction mandate-recall penal-term retroactivity sentencing statutory-maximum supreme-court-ruling writ-of-certiorari |
WHETHER RECALL OF THE MANDATE SHOULD ISSUE TO REMEDY A PENAL TERM IMPOSED BEYOND THE STATUTORY MAXIMUM WHEN ABROGATED CIRCUIT PRECEDENT CONTROLS BASED… |
| 18-5757 |
Michael L. Berry v. Walter Nicholson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus jury-instructions sentencing standing |
I. THIS COURT SHOUID CONSIDER WHETHER PETONER FARLY PRESENTED
HIS CLAIMS AT EACH LEVEL OF THE STAIE'S COURS FOR FEDERAL
REVEW.
A.PETITIONER HAS CEARLY… |
| 18-5714 |
Jose A. Rivera-Quinones v. Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Under Our United States Constitution, Amendment VI., Can A Trial Court Posess Subject Matter . Jurisdiction On A Criminal Offense Not Charged Within. … |
| 18-5722 |
Keith Robert Lugo v. California |
California |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-procedures-act board-of-prison-terms constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-offender juvenile-parole parole senate-bill-261 some-evidence standard-of-proof |
Whether the Board of Prison Terms Violated Senate Bill 261 for Failing to Apply the Legally Correct Standard of Analysis; and, in Doing so, Failed to … |
| 18-5723 |
Larry J. Kushner v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
complex-case constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-precedents judicial-review prosecutorial-delay prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial |
Did the State of New Jersey violate the defendants constitutional right to a speedy trial by its delay of 16 months from arrest to indictment?
Did th… |
| 18-5724 |
Juan Concepcion v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
brown-vs-board case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-judgment due-process Equal-protection Gideon-v-wainwright gideon-vs-wainwright ineffective-counsel legal-petition Self-representation speedy-trial statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari |
Did the court of common pleas acquire jurisdiction ab initio?
Did the state provide purported representation resulting in gross ineffective counsel?
… |
| 18-5725 |
Alfred Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-calculations circuit-split criminal-sentencing double-counting firearms-offense sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(b)(6)(b) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c) u.s.s.g.-5k2.6 upward-departure |
Whether the Second Circuit, disagreeing with the Seventh Circuit, correctly held that it is permissible in sentencing a defendant for a firearms offen… |
| 18-5735 |
Harry Lonzo-Bolton Ervin v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-alleyne-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rule criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity sentencing sentencing-range sixth-amendment teague-v-lane |
Pursuant to the intervening Constitutional rule announced in Montgomery v Louisiana, 577 US ; 136 S Ct 718 (2016), which clarified the retroactivity j… |
| 18-228 |
Western Radio Services Company, Inc. v. John Allen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedures-act agency-discrimination bivens-claim class-of-one equal-protection first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation permitting-actions retaliation |
Where a company alleges that, after it began filing legal challenges against Forest Service decisions, the agency singled it out for delay and inactio… |
| 18-239 |
Arick Justin Rinaldo v. Bryan Mahan, et al. |
Colorado |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights colorado-supreme-court-rules court-access due-process equal-protection filing-system pro-se pro-se-litigant structural-error |
DID THE DEPRIVATION OF ACCESS TO COLORADO'S ICCES FILING SYSTEM (Integrated Colorado Court E-File System) FOR PRO SE LITIGANTS CAUSE REVERSIBLE STRUCT… |
| 18-224 |
Luke O. Pickens v. Brevard Police Testing and Selection Center |
Florida |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada-discrimination-perceived-disability,civil-righ ada-discrimination-perceived-disability,public-pro ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-administration law-enforcement-training public-programs reasonable-accommodation |
Whether 42 USC §12132 bars a state agency from discriminating against a qualified individual, perceived by the agency as disabled, by excluding the in… |
| 18-5688 |
Joseph Emanuel v. Department of Justice |
District of Columbia |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1915 access-to-courts civil-rights consent-to-collection-of-fee-form constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fee-collection in-forma-pauperis proceedings-in-forma-pauperis |
Is a "consent to collection of fee form" that is not an inmate account form or an inmate trust-fund account statement (or institutional equivalent) co… |
| 18-5692 |
Melvin Jordan, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability enumerated-clause habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing violent-felony |
(1) Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA.
(2… |
| 18-5693 |
Arlow Antone Kay v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
making robust appellate review unnecessary appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
Have the departure provisions of the United States Sentencing Guidelines been rendered "obsolete" and "superfluous" by this Court's opinion in United … |
| 18-5698 |
Devonte Brown v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment irreparable-corruption juvenile-justice juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana sentencing |
Whether this Court's precedent requires a trial court's record to reflect specific consideration of irreparable corruption before sentencing the child… |
| 18-5707 |
Anthony Curtis Flowers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
3-strikes armed-career-criminal-act career-offender due-process due-process,johnson-v-united-states,18-usc-924,18- habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
(1) Whether the district court deprived Flowers due process by denying his
§ 2255 petition challenging his sentences under Johnson v. United States, 1… |
| 18-5708 |
Thomas J. Arnold v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-proceedings due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest manifest-injustice sentencing sentencing-correction state-collateral-proceedings |
WHETHER PETITIONER HAS BEEN DENIED DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AMENDMEN XIV, IN HIS STATE COLLATERAL PROCEEDINGS OF R… |
| 18-5711 |
Edwin C. Coleman v. Carrie M. Ward |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection government-guidelines government-regulations property-rights standing |
Right to kquat peotectin And due process oF /AW.
deFedAnt boT mAte A Request FonAheing uder locAd Rule 105.6
8F the Maytod Code shauld not A heang beh… |
| 18-5670 |
Margaret Campise v. New York Commissioner of Labor |
New York |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
article-vii civil-rights constructive-termination due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-environment hostile-work-environment sexual-harassment workplace workplace-rights |
Are the lower courts above the law as they do not see that Article VII does constitute constructive termination?
Does that Article not include sexual… |
| 18-5671 |
In Re Kenneth Simpson |
|
2018-08-21 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conditions-of-release due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus parole sentencing standing supervised-release |
which is unconstitutional for any reason, can a Court refuse to address that claim under conditions available at revocation hearings under Johnson v U… |
| 18-5673 |
Eugene Smalls v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing lochner sentencing sentencing-commission-guidelines sixth-amendment state-federal-relations statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5681 |
Dexter Leemon Johnson v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-error jury-instructions jury-trial jury-verdict reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum trial-error |
1. PETITIONER WAS DENIED THE RIGHT TO A JURY VERDICT OF GUILTY BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT
2. PETITIONER WAS DENIED EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS
3. TR… |
| 18-5640 |
Fredrick A. Laux v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process dysfunctional-childhood ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington |
Did the Indiana Court of Appeals, the United States Southern District Court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals unreasonably apply, or reach a decisi… |
| 18-5648 |
Anthony Lamarca v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-case death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity ring-v-arizona |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 18-5654 |
Willie Lee Daniels v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 collateral-review constitutional-challenge controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-law descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity retroactivity-of-new-rules sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether Mathis v. United States, is retroactive to cases on collateral review, where the principles set forth in Motgomery v. Louisiana, dictate that … |
| 18-5655 |
Cory D. Foster v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
a question that has split the circuits 10-1 18-usc-924c categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts federal-criminal-provision federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-definition statutory-interpretation |
Whether the categorical approach applies in determining whether an offense is a "crime of violence" supporting conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), a … |
| 18-5656 |
Venise Metayer v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-misadvice counsel-role due-process illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing trial-court-denial waiver waiver-of-rights |
I. WERE THE PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS VIOLATED WHEN THE TRIAL COURT DENTED HER MOTION FOR ILLEGAL SENTENCE BASED UPON THE PETITIONER'S REFERE… |
| 18-5658 |
Tracey L. Brown v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender commerce commerce-clause-jurisdiction,interstate-commerce,d criminal-procedure Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that the pret Did the Ninth Circuit err when it sentenced Mr. Br due-process due-process,pretrial-identification,suggestive-ide predicate-crime sentencing sentencing,career-offender,predicate-offense,viole |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that there was sufficient evidence for interstate commerce when the underlying acts did not have even a "de mi… |
| 18-5662 |
Myrna Diaz v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-misconduct criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment unauthorized-practice-of-law |
DID THE STAFF OF THE "PROJECT FREEDOM FUND" WHO PROVIDED
FAULTY LEGAL ADVICE TO PETITIONER, AND THUS INDUCED HER TO
WITHDRAW A GUILTY PLEA FOR WHICH S… |
| 18-5663 |
Curtis Lee Dale v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing,mandatory-minimum,ju drug-quantity due-process eighth-circuit-error fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,drug-sniffing- fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,reasonable-exp jury-findings jury-rejection mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals For The Eighth Circuit err when it increased the Defendant's mandatory minimum sentence on the basis of a drug quantity … |
| 18-5669 |
Peter Cruz v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process due-process,fifth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,s fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment life-without-parole massachusetts-law sentencing |
Whether, pursuant to the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the petitioner can be punished with a sentence of life wit… |
| 18-5614 |
Alexander Jesus Santiago v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission probable-cause probation prosecutorial-burden resentencing sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-revocation |
Did the district court improperly revoke Mr. Santiago's supervised release and resentence him despite a lack of evidence that he violated supervised r… |
| 18-5620 |
Mario Zuniga v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244(b) 28-usc-2255(h) attempted-murder criminal-law habeas-corpus mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states second-or-successive-2255-motion second-or-successive-motion section-2255 section-924e sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
I.
Did the Seventh Circuit error in sentencing the Petitioner Mario Zuniga as a career criminal under 18 U.S.C. §924(e), without considering Mathis v.… |
| 18-5628 |
John Richard Tacquard v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights compulsory-process due-process equal-protection evidentiary-standards post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent |
2. Did Arizona State Reviewing Courts refuse to determine trial court's intentional Plain Error abuses of discretion to be perjurous ruling proved by … |
| 18-5638 |
Deborah A. Purnell v. St. Mary's Hospital, et al. |
California |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process elder-abuse equal-protection freedom-of-information judicial-discrimination life-threatening-conditions medical-negligence reckless-medical-care reporter's-transcript |
Whether statutory elder abuse inherently includes acts of violence and brutalization, reckless medical care that causes life-threatening conditions su… |
| 18-5644 |
Gesner Delva, aka Ti Blan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-review circuit-court-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion precedent sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Contrary to Its Own Precedent Affirmed the District Court's Judgment Order Whereby Denying the Pet… |
| 18-5603 |
In Re Mark Kilmartin |
|
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-trial sentencing structural-error |
WHETHER A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT CAN BE CONVICTED AND SENTENCED
TO LIFE FOR A SEPARATE, NEW AND DISTINCT CRIME WITH WHICH HE HAD
NOT BEEN ON TRIAL FOR AND… |
| 18-5607 |
Friday Ogunyemi James v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discretion due-process evidence fair-instruction jury-instructions restitution sentencing sentencing-discretion tax tax-offense theory-of-defense trial-exhibit willfulness |
1. Whether the Petitioner was entitled to a fair instruction to support the verdict in his favor on the theory of defense that has the basis in the ev… |
| 18-5615 |
Joel Chavira-Nunez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-modification tenth-circuit-review |
Reasonable Jurist would find it debatable Whether the District Court Erred When it Ignored Undisputed Facts Establishing that The Prosecution Violated… |
| 18-5621 |
Bismark Kwaku Torkornoo v. Nina Helwig, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud fraud-vitiates res-judicata |
Does fraud vitiates every judicial proceedings, if so, did the Fourth Circuit Court's decision [at App. 1] affirming the district court's reasons base… |
| 18-5624 |
Feliciano Villa-Sariana, aka Feliciano Villa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment plea-bargaining prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts B including the fact of a prior conviction B that increase a defendant =s statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and… |
| 18-5585 |
Karen Mackey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
border-patrol due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment gender-discrimination traffic-stop unreasonable-search-and-seizure unreasonable-seizure vehicle-search |
I. The Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a driver's gender may be a factor in the U.S. Border Patrol's decision to stop and search the person's vehi… |
| 18-5586 |
William Knight v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-authority appellate-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habitual-offender illegal-sentence judicial-abuse judicial-authority jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
WHETHER TRIAL COURT ABUSED THEIR AUTHORITY BY ALLOWING
THE STATE ATTORNEY OFFICE TO IMPOSE A SENTENCE CONTRARY
TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW ON DOUBL… |
| 18-5594 |
Cory Devon Washington v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence judicial-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement unconstitutional |
Cory Washington is serving an illegal sentence. However, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that he is not entitled to relief. The question is wh… |
| 18-5599 |
Anson Chi v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus plea-bargaining pro-se sentencing standing |
(1) Is the risk-of-force/residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) unconstitutionally vague in the light of Sessions v. Dimaya, 332 U.S. 584, 138 S.… |
| 18-5606 |
Hagop Demirjian v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 amendment-782 circuit-split civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion section-3582 sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Issue #1 THERE IS A DIVISION AMONG THE CIRCUITS REGARDING ANY STATUTORY PRECLUSION FOR SUCCESSIVE §3582 MOTIONS, EMPLOYING U.S. v. Beard, 745 F.3d 288… |
| 18-202 |
Haynes Timberland, Inc. v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal-waiver collateral-attack criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining pre-sentence-waiver sentencing waiver waiver-of-rights |
Whether a defendant, by executing a pre-sentence waiver of the right to a direct appeal of his conviction and sentence, implicitly waives his right to… |
| 18-203 |
Joey Montrell Chandler, aka Joey M. Chandler, aka Joey Chandler v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-amendment incorrigible juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole permanent-incorrigibility rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-discretion state-supreme-courts |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment requires the sentencing authority to make a finding that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sent… |
| 18-192 |
J. B. R. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
|
age-of-criminal-responsibility constitutional-limits constitutional-punishment criminal-prosecution death-penalty due-process first-degree-murder juvenile-justice juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders life-imprisonment prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation statutory-punishment |
Whether the Due Process Clause forbids the Government from prosecuting an individual who was a juvenile at the time of the crime under a statute that … |
| 18-193 |
John Cannici v. Village of Melrose Park, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process employment-context employment-law equal-protection government-procedure municipal-ordinance property-rights random-and-unauthorized state-procedure |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause requires a government agency to provide due process before depriving a citizen of his property where the deprivation… |
| 18-5580 |
In Re Camaron Thorn Kye-El |
|
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
13th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection human-rights involuntary-servitude jurisdiction legal-personhood property-rights property-status racial-classification racial-discrimination slavery standing |
1) How is it that Negroes, Blacks, Colored People,etcwbo were deemed three fifths of all other Persons pursuant to Art. (1) sec. (2) of the U.5. Const… |
| 18-5533 |
Brandon Maurice Shannon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-remand plain-error post-conviction-relief retroactivity rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light
2018), an authority that post-dated the opinion below? |
| 18-5552 |
Victoriano Vega-Jimenez, aka Jose Raul Hernandez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582(c)(2) circuit-split conflict-with-precedent criminal-sentencing drug-amount drug-quantity drug-sentencing eligibility sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-amendment-782 |
Whether the United States, Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Has Entered a Decision that Is in Conflict with Its Own Precedent and the Decisio… |
| 18-5572 |
John E. Wells, Sr. v. David Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus illegal-sentence judicial-power jury-trial res-judicata state-court-record void-judgment |
QUESTION 1: Does a Federal Court of Appeals deny Due Process by refusing to issue a Certificate of Appealability where the Petitioner's claims exceed … |
| 18-5506 |
Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. |
Georgia |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection in-rem in-rem-proceeding intervention third-party-plaintiff |
In this case, proceedings were removed from a State court to the Federal court. While pending in the Federal court, the Petitioner was granted interve… |
| 18-5537 |
Alla Opengeym v. Heartland Employment Services, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
civil-rights complaint-procedures employment-policies hostile-work-environment retaliation whistleblower-protection civil-rights due-process employment equal-protection hostile-environment retaliation |
1. Whether nyf employer's policies and complaint paocedukes are pRObu!fom hostile WORKing a environment of employee and hee community?
2) Whether the… |
| 18-5544 |
Van Le v. Debbie Aldridge, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection language-access right-to-counsel state-funding translation translation-services |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5547 |
Jose Estrada-Corrales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appeal certiorari criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals remand retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court |
Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light of Chavez-Meza v. United States, __U.S.__, 138 S.Ct. 1959 (June 18, 2018)… |
| 18-180 |
Jesus E. Tirrez v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline, et al. |
Texas |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
burden-of-proof disbarment disbarment-proceedings due-process equal-protection in-re-ruffalo professional-license professional-licenses quasi-criminal quasi-criminal-proceeding |
Rules promulgated by the Supreme Court of Texas decree that disbarment proceedings against attorneys are civil and that the burden of proof in those p… |
| 18-188 |
Ivy T. Tucker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-deficiency constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum offense-of-conviction out-of-circuit-precedent procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-counsel |
I. Whether trial counsel's failure to make an
argument that courts of appeals outside the circuit
have accepted (and the circuit has not addressed) ma… |
| 18-5501 |
Donald Jones v. Bank of America, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection florida-law foreclosure jury-trial property-rights state-law viamendment |
Did the petitioner receive the same equality decision from Florida state law 702.1 as he would had from a jury trial under the Viamendment of the cons… |
| 18-5521 |
Miguel Antonio Ramos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourth-amendment procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-enhancement supervised-release |
WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS DENIED PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS BY
ENHANCEMENTS TO HIS GUIDELINES SENTENCE WITHOUT ANY PROOF
TO SUPPORT THOSE ENHANCEMENTS?
… |
| 18-5528 |
Brian Thurman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sixth-amendment united-states-constitution |
Whether the District Court violated Mr. Thurman's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights under the United States Constitution when it increased his sentence… |
| 18-5538 |
Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states peugh-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit volina-martinez-v-united-states |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously speculated in conflict with the principles enunciated by this Court in Mo… |
| 18-5484 |
William N. Washington v. California |
California |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-sentencing custody-credits due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus original-sentence penal-code penal-code-1170.18 proposition-47 resentencing safe-neighborhoods-act sentencing sentencing-discretion |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN FAILING TO RECALCULATE
ALL DAYS OF CUSTODY FROM THE DATE OF ORIGINAL JUDGMENT, AND ONLY
AWARDED CUSTODY CREDITS FROM … |
| 18-5491 |
Glen Hughie Lovin, Jr. v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-evidence sentencing |
(1) Ground 1: The evidence was not sufficient to prove the State charged the offense of an irrelevant and constitutionality of the conviction, duly as… |
| 18-5504 |
William Lem Posey, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing descamps-approach divisibility element-analysis element-based-approach grammar-based-approach mandatory-guidelines non-generic-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
To decide whether a non-generic offense is divisible under Descamps v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 2276 (2013), does a sentencing court need to take a g… |
| 18-5512 |
George Clinton Wilson v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment. 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process standing takings civil-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing state-court-proceedings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5518 |
Norman Mearle Grim v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
advisory-jury burden-of-proof caldwell-v-mississippi capital-case death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation sixth-amendment sullivan-v-louisiana |
1. Can a violation of Hurst v. Florida , 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), be ruled harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, based solely on a pre-Hurst "advisory " j… |
| 18-5474 |
Heriberto Garcia-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5480 |
Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary burglary-enhancement criminal-conviction criminal-history due-process evidence-interpretation fifth-amendment-due-process juvenile-offenses points-scoring prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment-effective-assistance-of-counsel ussg-2k2.1(b)(3) ussg-4a1.1 victim-testimony |
1. Did the court err in applying an offense level enhancement under U.S.S.G 2K2,1(a)(3) for having a prior crime of violence" conviction When said con… |
| 18-5481 |
John K. D. Watson v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
' 'colloquy" ' 'due-process" ' 'evidentiary-review' ' 'guilty-plea" ' 'ineffective-assistance-of-counsel" ' 'learning-disability" civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process mental-competency plea-bargaining sentencing |
1)IN HIS CASE, THE GUILTY PLEA WAS NOT ONLY INCOMPREHENSIVE, BUT COERCE AND MADE THROUGH DURESS BY RELYING ON GROSSLY MISINFORMATION BY COUNSEL. I WOU… |
| 18-5494 |
Blaine Keith Milam v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability judicial-review mitigating-evidence procedural-default right-to-counsel |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in not granting a certificate of appealability on the claims presented in violation of the holding of Buck v. Davis, 137 S. … |
| 18-5495 |
In Re Billy Ray Irick |
|
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency fourteenth-amendment mental-illness personal-culpability sentencing |
Does the imposition of the death penalty on a person who was severely mentally ill at the time of the offense constitute cruel and unusual punishment … |
| 18-5496 |
Alfredo Perez, Jr. v. California |
California |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-findings jury-trial resentencing sentencing sixth-amendment three-strikes-law |
Does the federal constitution, as construed in Apprendi v. New Jersey,
530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), permit a court charged
wi… |
| 18-5449 |
In Re Michael D. Smith |
|
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appeals civil-procedure confrontation criminal-procedure district-court-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus indictment motion-to-vacate post-conviction-relief self-incrimination sentencing speedy-trial standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5455 |
In Re Deborah Elizabeth Gouch-Onassis |
|
2018-08-06 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
but the text you've provided appears to be incomp fragmented I cannot extract a meaningful question presented I will respond with: 'Question not identified." legible text of a SCOTUS petition for writ of cer or unreadable. Without a clear civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment incorporation jurisdiction standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5466 |
Lawrence E. Wilson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment nunc-pro-tunc open-court right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-requirements sixth-amendment void |
WHETHER A TRIAL COURT'S FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS WHEN IMPOSING A SENTENCE RENDERS THE ATTEMPTED SENTENCE VOID.?
WHETHER THE TRIA… |
| 18-5473 |
Justin Michael Credico v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions sentencing subjective-intent" |
After a colorable attack was made to the government's case-in-chief evidence, an audio forensics expert was provided to the petitioner, causing the go… |
| 18-5452 |
Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure conspiracy-liability conviction-validity drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Is it the District Court's duty or to determine under 4 ) the dg quantity Atributable to, D reasonably "Pinkertan" instructions on Co-conspirater when… |
| 18-5459 |
Zachary David Warnell v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure douglas-v-california due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection evitts-v-lucey ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation right-to-counsel |
CAN A STATE, SUCH AS THE STATE OF TEXAS, WHICH HAS AN ESTABLISHED SYSTEM OF APPEAL WITH THE CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEE OF APPELLATE COUNSEL WITH AN ADEQ… |
| 18-157 |
James H. Brady v. Barbara Underwood, Attorney General of New York |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
air-rights attorney-general civil-rights contract contract-enforcement contract-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-equal-protection judicial-misconduct standing takings |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law give Petitioner standing for the protection of his contract by the Attorney … |
| 18-5423 |
Seungjin Kim v. United States Customs and Border Protection |
District of Columbia |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
asylum asylum-seekers border-entry constitutional-law criminal-activity detention detention-conditions due-process equal-protection immigration-detention immigration-law presidential-authority presidential-powers visa-restrictions |
Whether under 8 U.S.C. §1225(b)(1)(B)(ii), inadmissible aliens who are Asylum Seekers include immigrant victim who is not an applicant for, or is not … |
| 18-5425 |
Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. Joseph Aponte, et al. |
New York |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-detention standing |
1. Is thr Nru Yok Stute Bil Lav as appli-d (530.40) a bill of Attuinder 272
2. Is denyin horing, not risprdhny to mations, prporly keeping accyse out… |
| 18-5434 |
Troy Victorino v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-punishment criminal-punishment death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fifth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment jury-sentencing resentencing statutory-interpretation |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court ruling that the automatic-resentencing-tolife provision of Florida Statutes Section 775.082(2) applies only if death… |
| 18-5437 |
Gary Richard Whitton v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
advisory-jury capital-sentencing capricious due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-clause jury-trial jury-trial-rights retroactivity |
1. whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose lim… |
| 18-5441 |
Milford Wade Byrd v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty ex-post-facto hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity |
1, Given that the elements of capital murder which were identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State will be applied to determine if Jame… |
| 18-5405 |
Fortino Pimentel-Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5407 |
Mladen Mitrovic v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay right-to-present-defense standing statutory-interpretation witness-unavailability |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY EXCLUDED THE STATEMENTS OF
UNAVAILABLE WITNESSES, THEREBY DENYING PETITIONER THE RIGHT TO
PRESENT A COMPLETE DE… |
| 18-5409 |
In Re Daniel Riley |
|
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights drug-reimbursement due-process erisa-preemption habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pharmacy-benefit-managers rate-regulation sentencing state-regulation statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supreme-court-precedent time-limitation time-limits Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that A |
1. Should this Court use its general supervisory authority to rectify an abuse, when the exceptional time of over two years has lapsed since Petitione… |
| 18-5412 |
Robert Eugene Johnson, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
1) Cvr re \e.S*
rc\c e.-e \j.. oLeiy
t'o e. \ |
| 18-5422 |
Dedrick T. Garrett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
career-offender circuit-split collateral-review constitutional-law mandatory-guidelines pre-booker retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-vagueness vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Samuel Johnson), this Court declared the Armed Career Criminal Act's (ACCA) residual clause uncon… |
| 18-5431 |
Melvin Andrew Morris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process residual-clause sentencing standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5390 |
Khalil Abu Rayyan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uncharged-conduct upward-variance |
(1) Several United States Courts of Appeals have suggested that the use of defendants' uncharged, unproven conduct in deciding their sentences may vio… |
| 18-5402 |
Thomas Dewey Pope v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's determination that the jury findings required by Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State enhance the reliability of de… |
| 18-5408 |
Norberto Serna v. California |
California |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bodily-harm criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection extortion kidnapping sentencing sentencing-disparity |
I. Whether California violates the Equal Protection Clause by imposing a harsher maximum sentence on kidnapper-extortionists—who harm their victims an… |
| 18-5415 |
Louis B. Gaskin v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-trial retroactivity unconventional-rules |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of capricious capital sentencing impose lim… |
| 18-139 |
Thomas E. Freeman, Jr. v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services |
North Carolina |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-authority arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights due-process equal-justice equal-protection exceeded-authority judicial-review prejudiced-rights procedural-rights state-action state-agency state-employee |
May a court deny due-process of Law and equal justice under the Law of a State employee, when it is suspected that a State agency, may have: prejudice… |
| 18-129 |
W. S. v. S. T., et al. |
California |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
|
biological-father child-custody custody-determination due-process equal-protection family-law liberty-interest parental-rights paternity standing vagueness |
1. Whether California's Family Code § 7611(d) is impermissibly vague, as applied, when the Court of Appeal holds "[t]here are no specific factors that… |
| 18-5387 |
John Garrett Smith v. Washington |
Washington |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violations civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus malicious-prosecution standing |
(1) Cana State intertionally fail to vires hostility State of its scienter of fraud, yet procead against MS sans-jurisdictional aothority to falsely o… |
| 18-5388 |
Albert William Roberts, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acquittal acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure double-jeopardy-clause due-process relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-amendment united-states-v-watts watts-precedent |
Question Number One: We hold that an acquitted count that incorporates all of the
succeeding counts of an indictment retains its acquitted status whe… |
| 18-5389 |
Torrick Johntrelle Rodgers v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree fruits-of-poisonous-tree ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing warrant |
WHETHER: THE DISTRICT COURT SHOULD HAVE SUPPRESSED ALL OF THE FRUITS OF THE POISONOUS TREE BASED UPON THE FOUND TO BE CORRUPTED OFFICIALS AND THE ILLE… |
| 18-5392 |
Quitman Carter v. B. E. Blackmon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act foreclosed-claims habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing |
The underlying issue presented in this § 2241 case is whether Mr. Carter is entitled to resentencing under this Court's holdings in Johnson v. United … |
| 18-5395 |
Wayne Clyde Mezzles v. John N. Katavich, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure-forfeiture defense-counsel due-process federal-claims forfeiture-bar jury-admonitions jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-proportionality state-procedural-bar trial-court |
Before trial, the court ruled that defense expert Robert Owen could testify about Mezzles's PTSD but not about his capacity to form the specific inten… |
| 18-5397 |
Alejandro Parra-Ramos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-prejudice due-process government-misconduct judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement plea-agreement-breach prejudice prosecutorial-breach sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-recommendation sentencing-variance upward-variance |
Whether a defendant suffers prejudice when the government breaches a plea agreement by calling its agreed-upon recommendation irrational, and the cour… |
| 18-5398 |
Kenneth Floyd Prutting v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause samuel-johnson section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
In 1993, Mr. Prutting was convicted of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA") to 264 mon… |
| 18-5373 |
Otis Sykes v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines guidelines-range harmless-error judicial-error molina-martinez-v-us rosales-mireles-v-us sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
DEFENDANT SEEKS THIS SUPREME COURT'S REVIEW OF HIS ABOVE GUIDELINES SENTENCE IMPOSED WITHIN AN INCORRECT GUIDELINES RANGE UTILIZING "ADDITIONAL EVIDEN… |
| 18-5374 |
Adrian Demond Hyman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-system appellate-procedure claim-processing-rule claim-processing-rules criminal-appeal equitable-exception equitable-exceptions federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure jurisdictional-deadline jurisdictional-deadlines non-jurisdictional-deadline non-jurisdictional-rule sentencing sixth-amendment |
1. Whether an appellate court acts without authority when it enforces the non-jurisdictional deadline for a direct criminal appeal under Fed. R. App. … |
| 18-5375 |
Christopher Henriquez v. California |
California |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process equal-protection jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt |
Whether the California death penalty scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by permitting the trier of fact to impose a sentence o… |
| 18-5376 |
Mark Allen Geralds v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 18-5378 |
Alejandro Chavez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum |
I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-120 |
Leila Hernandez v. Guy Bailey, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-vagueness disciplinary-record due-process equal-protection faculty-employment fourteenth-amendment higher-education tenure tenure-rights tenured-professors unconstitutionally-vague university-merger vagueness |
I. Whether Fourteenth Amendment due process rights should be denied to tenured professors when two universities (The University of Texas-Pan American … |
| 18-121 |
James Rothery, et al. v. Lou Blanas, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry discretionary-licensing discretionary-permit due-process equal-protection law-enforcement-exemption licensing-discretion second-amendment self-defense self-defense-rights standing takings |
(1) Does California's general prohibition to carry a loaded handgun outside the home, coupled with an arbitrary and capricious licensing scheme for ci… |
| 18-123 |
In Re Citizens for Fair Representation, et al. |
|
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2284 chief-circuit-judge civil-rights district-court district-judge due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legislative-apportionment mandamus motion-to-dismiss redistricting standing standing-doctrine three-judge-district-court three-judge-panel voting-rights |
1. In a case challenging the constitutionality of the apportionment of legislative districts, may a district judge, sitting alone, decide a motion to … |
| 18-126 |
Paul Grimstad v. Deschutes County, Oregon, et al. |
Oregon |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
citizenship-privileges constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure oregon-appellate-courts right-to-petition self-representation state-court-procedure |
While appealing an Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals decision in the Oregon Appellate Courts, I, Paul Grimstad, have experienced several abuses of my c… |
| 18-128 |
Mohamed Abouelmagd v. Debra Newell |
California |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
|
business-transaction business-transactions civil-procedure commerce-clause commerce-clause-violation constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection interstate-commerce midwesco-precedent nonresident-tolling out-of-state-residents personal-jurisdiction procedural-defense statute-of-limitations |
1) Is the California tolling statute that suspends statutes of limitations protection for out-of-state residents, unconstitutional and violative of Be… |
| 18-5362 |
Omar Qazi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment judicial-review miranda-warnings standing unpublished-decisions |
(1) Could binding authority from the Ninth Circuit's published opinions in United States v. San Juan-Cruz, 314 F.3d 384 (9th Cir. 2002) and United Sta… |
| 18-5358 |
Brigitte Reynolds v. Anthony Stewart, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion pro-se-plaintiff procedural-prejudice retaliation sixth-circuit-review standing summary-judgment |
1. DID THE DISTRICT COURT IMPROPERLY DECIDE DISPUTED FACTUAL ISSUES AND DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE; AND DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT IMPROPERLY AGREE WIT… |
| 18-5359 |
Ernest D. Suggs v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-responsibility jury-instructions jury-recommendation |
Does a Florida death sentence imposed pursuant to the capital sentencing scheme overruled in Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), in a case where … |
| 18-5360 |
Curtis L. Clinton v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure eighth-amendment equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment racial-stereotype racial-stereotypes racial-stereotyping sixth-amendment |
1. Whether a defendant's rights to the effective assistance of counsel, a fair and impartial jury, to be free from cruel and unusual punishment, and t… |
| 18-5369 |
Baboucar B. Taal v. St. Mary's Bank, et al. |
First Circuit |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-455 appeal conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest due-process equal-protection fair-adjudication federal-claims judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal |
May a party who is denied Fair and Impartial adjudication of his (federal) claims, deprived of his basic due process and equal protection rights, in a… |
| 18-5370 |
Thomas Juresic v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-commitment custody due-process equal-protection liberty-interests null-and-void personal-jurisdiction sentencing-court statutory-provisions |
Does a Department of Corrections (DOC) or sentencing court retain constitutional custody and personal jurisdiction over a person until the expiration … |
| 18-5372 |
James J. Bagwell v. Southern National Assets, LLC |
Georgia |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
banking-rules bankruptcy civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure lien-priority misappropriation-of-funds tax-sale |
Whether the decisions of the lower courts erred by denying the pro se Petitioner his U.S. constitutional rights of equal protection and due process of… |
| 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… |
| 18-5340 |
Roger Wilson v. Federal Correctional Institution at Cumberland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure-rules-standing-jurisdiction-due-p access-to-courts civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5341 |
Roger Wilson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure default-judgment due-process equal-protection jurisdiction service-of-process standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5342 |
Roger Wilson v. Delta Airlines, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech judicial-delay judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5345 |
Roger Wilson v. United States, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process equal-protection fabricated-court-order free-speech standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5346 |
Roger Wilson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-bail free-speech pretrial-detention speedy-trial standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5349 |
Tyron Young v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause confrontation-right cross-examination due-process government-informant hearsay out-of-court-allegations reliability sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment unsworn-testimony |
I. Whether the Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine adverse witnesses applies at a sentencing hearing where the court bases the sentenc… |
| 18-5352 |
Paul Anthony Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-cutoff capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 18-5354 |
Darryl Brian Barwick v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 18-113 |
Jeremiah Rodgers v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process hurst-v-florida jury-trial jury-waiver retroactivity sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment waiver |
Does waiving a state-law right to have a jury make an advisory sentencing recommendation constitute a knowing and intelligent waiver of the federal co… |
| 18-5311 |
Jack Reid v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure drug-forfeiture drug-offenses due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines property-rights property-seizure sentencing standing substantial-connection |
Under 21 U.S.C. §853 (a)(2), a person convicted of violating a federal drug law must forfeit to the government "any of the person's property used, or … |
| 18-5312 |
Gregory Alan Rowe v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa-limitations aedpa-tolling circuit-court-split circuit-split dna-testing due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling federal-habeas-review finality habeas-corpus post-conviction-dna post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-review statutory-tolling |
Does a properly filed application for post-conviction DNA testing constitute "a properly filed application for state post-conviction or other collater… |
| 18-5313 |
Joseph Steele v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-sentencing elements-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in contrast to every other federal circuit except for the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circ… |
| 18-5319 |
Timothy Galen Tolbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 bureau-of-prisons drug-treatment due-process liberty liberty-deprivation post-release-conditions revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by re-sentencing Petitioner to incarcerat… |
| 18-5324 |
Anastasio N. Laoutaris v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1030 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process evidence fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal malicious-code perjury perjury-standard reasonable-doubt sentencing strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence |
Has the Fifth Circuit erred and its decision is in conflict with this Court's holding in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d … |
| 18-5325 |
Lena Lasher v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
but no text was provided for analysis. Without th I cannot generate a question presented or identif please provide the full text of the petition. civil-rights collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus racial-discrimination school-desegregation sentencing voting-rights |
1. Once a prisoner requests relief under Motion 2255, must a District Court grant an evidentiary hearing on the prisoner's claims?
2. If the evidenti… |
| 18-5331 |
Ralph Simon Jeremias v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-circumstances confrontation-clause constitutional-standard death-penalty due-process hurst-v-florida jury-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances ring-v-arizona |
1. Whether the Consti tution requi res – i n a state i n whi ch a jury i s
requi red to fi nd that mi tigating ci rcumstances do not outwei gh the
agg… |
| 18-5298 |
Reuben Stewart v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g 18-usc-924 18-usc-924e2bii 8th-amendment aggravated-assault criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states means-rea mens-rea recklessness sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
Does a prior conviction predicated on a means rea of recklessness qualify as a violent felony under 18 U.S.C. section 924(e)(2)(B)(ii) in light of Joh… |
| 18-5299 |
Derek Antonio Smith v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence sentencing standing transcripts |
If the tIh exually?
. Grounds for dismissal of my caseywere brought dn y trial by the district attorney due to the lack of widence. The Judge denied i… |
| 18-5317 |
Jose Villanueva-Cardenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-conviction-enhancement sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5321 |
Salvador Ortiz-Uresti v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
categorical-approach circuit-split colorado-drug-statute criminal-law divisibility drug-statute federal-predicate federal-sentencing immigration-consequences nationwide-impact sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
When deciding whether a conviction under Colorado's primary drug statute qualifies as a federal predicate for an increased sentence, should a court tr… |
| 18-100 |
Leonard Maurice Drane v. Eric Sellers, Warden |
Georgia |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence constitutional-review death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus proportionality wrongful-conviction |
1. When a prisoner under a sentence of death has acquired compelling and undisputed evidence of his actual innocence after his trial that the state co… |
| 18-102 |
Stacey White, et vir v. Joseph Foster, et al. |
New Hampshire |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
animal-cruelty civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection executive-discretion prosecutorial-discretion standing veterinary-malpractice victim-rights |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment of the
United States Constitution gives victims of crimes
committed by veterinarians standing to seek the same
pro… |
| 18-104 |
Robert Philip Tuerk v. The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-disbarment attorney-discipline constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection freedom-of-travel freedom-to-travel prior-restraint reciprocal-discipline |
1. Whether the reciprocal upon reciprocal
discipline of disbarment of an attorney by his home
state that originally disciplined him for one (1) year
a… |
| 18-98 |
Jerrard T. Cook, aka Jerrad T. Cook, aka Jerrard Cook aka Jerrard Tramaine Cook, aka J-Fat v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-prohibits juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole montgomery-v-louisiana permanent-incorrigibility sentencing sentencing-authority |
The Court stated in Montgomery v. Louisiana that the Eighth Amendment prohibits life without parole sentences "for all but the rarest of juvenile offe… |
| 18-5262 |
In Re Edward McLaughlin |
|
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court independent-action judicial-delay judicial-procedure mandamus third-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
1. WHETHER A WRIT OF MANDAMUS IS THE PROPER
REMEDY TO COMPEL THE THIRD CIRCUIT
COURT OF APPEALS TO RULE ON HIS INDEPENDENT ACTION
FRAUD ON THE COURT"T… |
| 18-5280 |
Patrick Lanier v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings judicial-review manifest-miscarriage plain-error plain-error-review restitution rule-52b sentencing sentencing-error |
1. In Puckett v. United States, 556 US 129, 135 (2009) this Court held that under the fourth prong of plain error review, "[t]he Court of Appeals shou… |
| 18-5282 |
Perry V. Moss v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, et al. |
California |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-rating due-process equal-protection life-pension occupational-variant property statutory-conduct takings workers-compensation |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5284 |
Bruce L. Small v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus sentencing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional right to due process and appellate review was violated by the trial court's denial of his ex post facto violat… |
| 18-5287 |
Luis Salas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-5294 |
Herbert Pridgen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adjudication appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-error civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-judgment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-adjudication procedural-defect sentencing |
1. Did the Circuit Court error in its opinion when it failed to properly address the four issues raised on appeal for adjudication giving a insufficen… |
| 18-5297 |
Allen Jamel Robinson v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5303 |
Maurice Mason v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-decision jury-recommendation ohio-death-penalty ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment |
A capital sentencing jury in Ohio has the responsibility of finding that one or more statutory aggravating circumstances were proven to exist beyond a… |
| 18-5305 |
Aubry Rae Johnson v. Paul Copenhaver, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-counting due-process federal-custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus habeas-petition jurisdiction primary-jurisdiction sentencing state-custody time-served |
1. commencing where federal authorities do not have primary jurisdiction of the inmate?
2. May a state's primary jurisdiction over an inmate only be … |
| 18-5256 |
Brandon Wade Moragne-El v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection guilty-plea judicial-precedent pennsylvania plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal precedent sentencing supreme-court |
1. Does the denial of the Petitioner's Motion to Withdraw his Guilty Plea contradict Precedent case law from the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, the S… |
| 18-5259 |
Olin Ray Nowlin v. Joe Shannon, Jr., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legal-deprivation liberty-interest procedural-law state-jurisdiction |
To Be Confronted with The witnesces against Him: To have
Compulsory Process For Obtaining Witnesses In His Favor?
dbesordoes it Not guaranter In Our C… |
| 18-5261 |
Vester L. Patterson v. California |
California |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto statute-of-limitations |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5276 |
William Clark v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-majority age-of-maturity brain-development criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection juvenile-justice montgomery-line sentencing sentencing-considerations |
Whether the Montgomery Line of decisions apply to those under 18-years-old?
Whether the Equal Protection clause is violated where other courts have a… |
| 18-5277 |
Roger Charles Day, Jr. v. Office of the President |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-19 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedures-act agency-action due-process equal-protection executive-office-of-president federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review standing title-18-usc-3192 title-5-usc-551 |
Whether the Executive Office of the President is required, as an agency of the Federal Government to provide hearing and adjudication to the aggrieved… |
| 18-5254 |
Matthew Young v. Oregon Department of Corrections, et al. |
Oregon |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy due-process equal-protection judicial-review standing |
Is it an important issue of Law and Fact For the Purpose of Review at court when the highest court failed to uphold its own prior precedent case Law d… |
| 18-5257 |
Frederick E. Melvin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Florida |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto parole prisoner-rights retroactive-application sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
(1) Would it be unconstitutional if the Florida Commission on Offender Review formerly the Florida Parole Commission knowingly operate Florida's Conso… |
| 18-5258 |
Howell Miller v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process en-banc-review judge-found-facts judicial-fact-finding sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment uniformity-of-decisions united-states-v-booker |
WHETHER A DRASTICALLY INCREASED SENTENCE (FROM ROUGHLY 10 YEARS TO 12 YEARS) THAT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN REASONABLE BUT FOR JUDGE-FOUND FACTS VIOLATES TH… |
| 18-5265 |
In Re Brandon Lee |
|
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
consent consent-requirements criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indictment-procedure indictments indigent-defendants judicial-standard prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-jury-trial standard |
1. SHOULD THE STATE BE PERMITTED TO ISSUE TRUE BILL MISREPRESENTATION OF THE CHARGING INSTRUMENT FOR ALL CRIMINAL MATTERS PERTAINING TO INDIGENT DEFEN… |
| 18-5266 |
Michael Ferguson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines arrest-records bare-arrest-records dismissed-charges due-process evidence-reliability hearsay hearsay-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
(1) What standard of scrutiny does Due Process require courts to use when evaluating the reliability of evidence courts rely on to impose a sentence?
… |
| 18-5268 |
Jeremiah T. Sailor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 acca burden-of-proof collateral-review johnson johnson-v-united-states record residual-clause sentencing |
1.) Whether a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson when the sentencing judge never specified … |
| 18-5271 |
Roger W. Murray v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
batson batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit racial-discrimination voir-dire |
1. Whether the Arizona courts unreasonably applied Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) and unreasonably determined the constitutionally significant… |
| 18-87 |
Ludwig P. Samson, Trustee for the Heirs and Next of Kin of Christine R. Samson, Deceased v. Jack W. Gordon, et al. |
Minnesota |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-decision procedural-decisions retroactive-application retroactivity state-court state-court-rules state-statute |
1)
Is a litigant denied due process in the primary
sense of having an opportunity to present his
case when a state's highest court overrules a
consist… |
| 18-80 |
Pamela Melvin v. Peter O'Rourke, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion due-process equal-protection inherent-power judicial-review search-and-seizure standard-of-review statutory-interpretation veterans-affairs veterans-law waived-arguments |
Whether 38 USC §7292 prohibits review of the Veterans Court's decision and evidence.
Whether the Federal Circuit's decision conflicts with this Court… |
| 18-5230 |
John Parker Murphy v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error due-process johnson-movant johnson-v-united-states retroactivity sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states |
The question in this case has arisen with great frequency in the wake of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-5245 |
Jesus M. Rios-Ramos v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-law due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Whether this Court should address the application and contours of the residual clause of the Career Offender guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2, in light of … |
| 18-5246 |
Warren Darrell Rivers v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individualized-sentencing sentencing sentencing-determination |
WHETHER PROSECUTION EVIDENCE THAT A CAPITAL DEFENDANT HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH ONCE BEFORE IN THE SAME CASE IMPERMISSIBLY UNDERMINES THE SENTENCING… |
| 18-5237 |
Sharon K. Bland v. Gellman, Brydges & Schroff, et al. |
New York |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection standing takings workers-compensation |
Is New York State Workers' Compensation Law Constitutional? Does the government have the right to take away my cause of action and substitute it with … |
| 18-5242 |
Kenneth Martin, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fifth-circuit-law plea-bargain sentencing testimony witness-credibility |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's law that allows a conviction based solely
on the uncorroborated testimony of a co-conspirator should be abandoned, or at
l… |
| 18-76 |
Tracey E. George, et al. v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 declaratory-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-action section-1983 state-actors |
(1) Whether state actor defendants may defend and foreclose a federal action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by suing civil rights plaintiffs in a subs… |
| 18-5228 |
Quawn M. Franklin v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
caldwell-error constitutional-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation individualized-review jury-recommendation sullivan sullivan-v-louisiana |
Whether the per se harmless-error rule adopted by the Florida Supreme Court, pursuant to which violations of Hurst v. Florida, 136 S.Ct. 616 (2016) ar… |
| 18-5233 |
Edgar Alejandro Radillo, et al. v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment jury-selection minority-jurors non-minority-jurors peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-motivation racial-discrimination Sixth-Amendment |
1. In a case where the prosecutor has exercised peremptory challenges against minority panelists citing traits shared by non-minority panelists who we… |
| 18-5234 |
Marcos Rodriguez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-13 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-924c3b co-defendant-motions criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-procedure legal-joinder second-amendment sentencing statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether the 'risk of force' clause of 18 U.S.C. §924(c)(3)(B) is void for vagueness.
Whether the granting of a request to join in motions of a co-def… |
| 18-5205 |
Tony D. Littles v. Trudie Roundtree |
Florida |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction property property-rights standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5216 |
Johnny Allen Martin v. Gregory McLaughlin, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-violation counsel-right criminal-appeal direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance statutory-provisions threshold-determination |
DOES THE PETITIONER HAVE A NONWAIVABLE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF THE LAW? DIRECT APPEAL FROM HIS OR HER CONVICTION, AND ON THE MERIT OF H… |
| 18-5217 |
Audy Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-2255-motion successive-habeas vagueness welch-v-united-states |
In Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. __, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), this Court declared unconstitutionally vague the "residual clause" of the Armed Care… |
| 18-5218 |
Allen Robertson, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia criminal-behavior death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-misconduct moore-v-texas racial-bias sixth-amendment |
I. Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decisions in Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct 1039 (2017), Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (201… |
| 18-5221 |
Aquilino Guizamano-Cortes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law rational-basis safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction |
The exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcemen Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection, because there i… |
| 18-5222 |
Corvain T. Cooper, aka CV v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-statute habeas-corpus invalidated-convictions life-without-parole resentencing sentencing state-convictions |
1. Whether a Petitioner Who Was Sentenced to Life Without the Possibility of Parole, Which was Enhanced By Two Later Invalidated State Convictions, Ma… |
| 18-69 |
Yan Ping Xu v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process employee-retaliation equal-protection federal-defendants federal-jurisdiction legal-remedy municipal-authority municipal-liability retaliation |
Whether no remedy for the former municipal employee injured directly from her supervisors, federal defendants clothed with municipal authority power, … |
| 18-5188 |
James Wilks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) abuse-of-discretion district-court judicial-discretion plain-error plainly-unreasonable revocation revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors supervised-release unreasonable-sentence |
Did the District Court enter a plainly unreasonable sentence for revocation of supervised release when it did not properly balance the sentencing fact… |
| 18-5204 |
Jose Luis Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence fact-finding immigration immigration-law judicial-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation undocumented-aliens |
WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRORED BY DENYING THE RELIEF UNDER SECTION 3E1:1 FOR ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY ?
WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ERRORED IN ENHAN… |
| 18-5206 |
Gary Dewayne Oatman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy due-process enhanced-sentence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-mistrial sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5210 |
Robert A. Espinoza v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) attempt-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law elements-clause federal-statute johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense sentencing sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation |
Illinois attempt offenses have two elements: an intent to commit an offense and a substantial step towards commission of the offense. The substantial … |
| 18-5177 |
Herman Majors v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentence criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process foreseeable-drug-quantity ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-prejudice sixth-amendment |
I. Whether a defendant in a drug conspiracy case suffers prejudice when his attorney fails to argue at sentencing that foreseeable drug quantity is li… |
| 18-5182 |
Carlton Butler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split count-of-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-authority federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence reallocation reallocation-of-sentences rule-35 scope-of-judicial-power sentencing split-among-circuits |
Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(a) grants a district court authority to reallocate the illegal portion of a term of imprisonment levied … |
| 18-5187 |
Verissimo Tavares v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
beckles-v-united-states career-offender congressional-directive crime-of-violence criminal-sentencing-guidelines due-process johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-error residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation violent-felony |
1. Whether application of the residual clause of the definition of "crime of violence" in U.S.S.G. §4Bl.2(a)(2), a clause identical to that of the res… |
| 18-5189 |
Glenvert Green v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment victim-impact-statement victim-impact-statements |
A. Do the Sixth and Fifth Amendments provide a criminal defendant with a right to cross-examine a government witness who testifies during a sentencing… |
| 18-5192 |
Mark McLaughlin v. Ohio Department of Job & Family Services |
Ohio |
2018-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process equal-protection financial-assistance government-benefits standing state-court-appeal |
Question not identified. |
| 18-56 |
Tim Shoop, Warden v. Danny Hill |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
GVR |
Relisted (9) |
aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia clinical-judgment clinical-judgments death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas |
Did the Sixth Circuit properly use the Moore decision from 2017 to find that an Ohio court unreasonably applied Atkins in 2008, even though the Ohio c… |
| 18-5156 |
D'Angelo Battis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness pro-se pro-se-brief pro-se-representation sentencing standard-of-review unconstitutional-sentence |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it ignored Petitioner's pro se brief, in its entirety.
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of… |
| 18-5160 |
Michael Anthony Tanzi v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation judicial-procedure per-se-rule supreme-court-precedent |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's application of a per se harmless–error rule to violations of Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), in every pre… |
| 18-5168 |
Jose Palacios, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing de-novo-resentencing due-process remand remand-rule resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
The Fifth Circuit, and two other circuits, have interpreted the mandate rule in a "restrictive" or "waiver" approach, meaning that when a case is rema… |
| 18-5179 |
Ronnie Johnson v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection hurst-v-florida jury-trial retroactivity ring-v-arizona |
WHETHER THE BLACK LINE DRAWN BY THE FLORIDA SUPREME
COURT IN ASAY v. STATE, 210 S0.3d 1 (Fla. 2016), LIMITING THE
RETROACTIVE EFFECT OF HURST v. FLORI… |
| 18-5181 |
Michael Gordon Reynolds v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment hurst-error jury-instructions ring-v-arizona structural-error |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's plurality decision rejecting Mr. Reynolds' Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320 (1985) claim is error. The jur… |
| 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… |
| 18-5129 |
Rodolfo Trejo v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection immigration sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
I.- Whether Petitioner's Sentence Constitutes Impermissible Double Counting.
Whether Petitioner's Sentence is Substantively Unreasonable Under the th… |
| 18-5130 |
Marlon L. Watford v. Erik Fossum, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection patent qualified-immunity standing takings |
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| 18-5131 |
Tu My Tong v. New Mexico, et al. |
New Mexico |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-action qualified-immunity standing state-action |
Was petitioner Curny Coy deprived of Due Process, Equal protection of The law and the privileges and immunities guaranteed to all us citizens by the i… |
| 18-5139 |
Donald Keith Runnels v. Presley Bordelon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus new-trial sentencing |
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| 18-5145 |
Chauncey Bennett v. John Wolfe, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection public-facilities standing |
Did the lower court erred by failing to supply diet meals when petitioner was placed on lockdown?
Did the lower court erred in petitioner being filed… |
| 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… |
| 18-5149 |
Francisco Cubero v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability collateral-relief collateral-review conflicting-results due-process plea-hearing procedural-default sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-term |
I. During Francisco Cubero's plea hearing , the magistrate judge told him that his
supervised-release term could not exceed five years but, at sentenc… |
| 18-5152 |
Rodney Howard v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prima-facie prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
1. Does a black defendant make a prima facie showing of discriminatory use of peremptory strikes under Batson's first step when he demonstrates that t… |
| 18-5162 |
Ellord Wells v. Mary Potter, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process guilty-plea mandatory-sentence sixth-amendment trial-court appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether appellate counsel rendered ineffective assistance by not arguing that the trial court failed to inform the appellant of the mandatory nature o… |
| 18-5166 |
Darrell Taylor v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne-retroactivity alleyne-v-united-states collateral-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation retroactivity sentencing supreme-court-precedent time-limitations |
Did the Lower Courts incorrectly hold that Alleyne v. United States did not affect time limitations and held not retroactive on collateral review when… |
| 18-5065 |
Manuel Antonio Rodriguez v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment furman-v-georgia hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's per se harmless-error rule, which deems Hurst errors harmless in every case in which the defendant's pre-Hurst … |
| 18-5114 |
Nigel L. Faison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines standing statutory-interpretation takings |
failed to review 4CCA when entered Claim .5 hualidated due to that 0lea insufficlent factuar basis. e founs whea it 4CCA that shcofret erned drug quan… |
| 18-5115 |
Stanley Lee Hayward v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault crime-of-violence due-process equal-protection essential-elements habeas-corpus sentencing-guidelines statute |
WHETHER THE LOWER TRIBUNAL ABUSED IT'S DISCRETION IN DENYING PETITIONER THE RIGHT F TO DUE PROCESS EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAW IN HOLDING THAT HIS PRIOR 1… |
| 18-5118 |
Shane K. Floyd v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fairness jury-deliberations jury-selection presumption-of-innocence racial-bias sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Implicit bias threatens the very foundation of the criminal justice system. Wasn't the judicial system built on fairness; the right to a fair trial; t… |
| 18-5121 |
Leslie Dominic Musgrove v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acquitted-conduct drug-quantity due-process jury-verdict nelson-v-colorado preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-amendment |
Question # 1
Whether it is a Sixth Amendment and Due Process violation for a judge
at sentencing to attribute acquitted and relevant conduct by a pr… |
| 18-5122 |
Thomas Overton v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst … |
| 18-5124 |
Norberto Pietri v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection hurst-standard hurst-v-florida hurst-v-state retroactivity supremacy-clause |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's determination that the jury findings required by Hurst v. Florida and Hurst v. State enhance the reliability of de… |
| 18-5126 |
Jamal Hamilton v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-barahona void-for-vagueness |
Whether Lynch v. Dimaya, No. 15-1498, 2016 WL 3232911 (U.S. Sept. 29, 2016), to determine whether the identical language in the residual clause of 18 … |
| 18-5127 |
Martinez Orlando Black v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process felony-classification habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-delinquency prior-conviction recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Did the failure of defense counsel to object to the increase in Petitioner's sentence into the "aggravated range" at Felony Class C, by use of a prior… |
| 18-5128 |
In Re Gigi Fairchild-Littlefield |
|
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process due-process,fair-trial,false-evidence,directed-ver equal-protection fair-trial false-evidence judicial-misconduct jury-verdict prosecutorial-misconduct trial-manipulation |
Is the deliberate manufacturing of false evidence and manipulation of trial transcripts, and court documents, including the jury verdicts, to support … |
| 18-5138 |
Kevin Pennington v. Arkansas Game & Fish Commission |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights discrimination due-process due-process-violation employment employment-discrimination equal-protection hostile-work-environment minorities state-agency-discrimination veterans veterans-rights |
Does the state government have a due process of laws and why wasn't it applied?
Why did the state agency ignored all the veterans and minorities that… |
| 18-5140 |
M. P. F. v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appeal-rights constitutional-rights court-transcripts due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default procedural-rules void-judgment |
Dues Your Petitioner have a Constitutional Right to his Guilty Plea Hearing transcripts to perfect an appeal ?
Does a Circuit Court Clerk have a cons… |
| 18-5144 |
Julio Gutierrez-Jaramillo v. Warden, FCI Gilmer |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3585 bureau-of-prisons bureau-of-prisons-program-statement criminal-procedure due-process extradition federal-bureau-of-prisons foreign-detention judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-guidelines time-credit time-served united-states-v-wilson |
I. Whether prior credit for time held in foreign detention can only be given by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and to do so by the district court at se… |
| 18-34 |
Pablo San Martin v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
|
capital-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-cutoff-formula ring-v-arizona |
Does the retroactivity formula created by the Florida Supreme Court pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S.Ct. 616 (2016) violate the Eighth and Fourteen… |
| 18-5075 |
Felix A. Okafor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
beyond-reasonable-doubt-standard Blockburger-test blockburger-v-united-states Brady-v-Maryland concurrent-sentence criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exculpatory-evidence glover-v-united-states in-re-winship kyles-v-whitley ray-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-determination sixth-amendment |
MAY A CONVICTION THAT IS ADMITTEDLY A VIOLATION OF THE CONCURTRENT SENTENCE DOCTRINE BE ALLOWED TO STAND IN LIGHT OF RAY V. UNITED STATES, ,481 U.S. 7… |
| 18-5077 |
Frankie L. McCoy v. Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
ada ada-compliance administrative-remedies civil-rights correctional-facility-conditions disability-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies medical-evidence personal-injury rehabilitation-act |
Did the trial court Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erroneously abuse its discretion in dismissing the instant case bought by a multip… |
| 18-5078 |
Bruce Pace v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-application capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourte… |
| 18-5081 |
Alvin Leroy Morton v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
binding-precedent capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing federal-constitutional-rights judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-responsibility jury-role sentencing-procedure structural-error unanimous-verdict |
1. Whether structural error occurs when, after having been affirmatively misled regarding its role in the sentencing process so as to diminish its sen… |
| 18-5088 |
Emanuel Johnson v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-review retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause |
Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Emanuel Johnson's judicially-… |
| 18-5103 |
Jeffery Day Rieber v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection ineffective-assistance judicial-override lesser-included-offense mitigating-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
1. Did Mr. Rieber's trial counsel provide constitutionally ineffective assistance by failing to pursue a lesser included alternative defense and faili… |
| 18-5108 |
Jaime Davila-Reyes, aka Peluche, aka Pai, aka Jaime, aka Chezina v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-sentencing dismissed-charges due-process judicial-discretion preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness unproven-allegations |
Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable because the district court violated due process when it enhanced Petitioner's sentence ba… |
| 18-5109 |
Reggie Rankins v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction jury-trial sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation |
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| 18-5111 |
Lynette Gregory v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-forfeiture drug-case due-process illegal-sentence money-judgment plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-waiver statutory-authorization statutory-maximum |
1. Is a question of the legality of a federal criminal sentence subject to waiver by plea agreement? In avoidance of this question, should an agreemen… |
| 18-5072 |
Jill M. Evans v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility burden-on-court-system criminal-procedure due-process efficient-punishment federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines unrelated-offenses |
Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, should a defendant be entitled to credit under the acceptance of responsibility guideline (USSG §3E1.1) if sh… |
| 18-5073 |
Victor Armando Cruz-Colocho v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
1. Should the Court consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Apprendi… |
| 18-5084 |
Daniel Burns v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-decision hurst-v-florida retroactivity sixth-amendment supremacy-clause |
Did the Florida Supreme Court violate the Supremacy Clause and the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments in affirming Daniel Burns' judicially-dete… |
| 18-5091 |
Kevin Don Foster v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity approach providing
for relief pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) and Hurst … |
| 18-14 |
Carlos Donjuan v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
coram-nobis criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining due-process equal-protection false-document-employment humanitarian-exception immigration-deportation immigration-removal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargain strickland-ineffective-assistance strickland-v-washington vagueness |
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in review, sustained the Federal District Court Judge's (FDDJ) denial of Petitioner's Petition for Wr… |
| 18-5033 |
Johnny L. Dawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing due-process eleventh-circuit modified-categorical-approach prior-convictions prior-offenses sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing,criminal-law,statutory-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding Petitioner's prior offenses qualified him under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA… |
| 18-5037 |
Richard Eugene Hamilton v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentence capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination retroactivity supremacy-clause |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision limiting the retroactivity of Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), to convictions final after the date o… |
| 18-5038 |
Neil Sweeney v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law child-pornography circuit-court-split civil-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence-403 federal-rules-of-evidence-414 standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Honorable Court should resolve the differing applications of the Circuit Courts as it applies to the use of Federal Rule of Evidence 414 … |
| 18-5040 |
Henry Perry Sireci v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment,four eighth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,death-penalt fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision that limits the class of death-sentenced individuals entitled to a jury determin… |
| 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… |
| 18-5042 |
Jack Sliney v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity ring-v-arizona |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision, which limits the class
of death-sentenced individuals entitled to a jury determ… |
| 18-5045 |
Vernon L. Brown v. United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fair-housing freedom-of-speech retaliation standing takings |
Where is the EVICTION Order to EVICT Court Notice?
When and Where was this eviction filed and forern sened??
Wht were lchschned Justices aidin th u … |
| 18-5046 |
Giezi Magno Zamora v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus international-law judicial-review maritime-law sentencing sentencing-reasonableness writ-of-certiorari |
In United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), United States v. Rita, 551 U.S. 338 (2007) and United States v. Gall, 552 U.S. 38 (2007), this Court … |
| 18-5047 |
Keith Lamont Tutt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion acceptance-of-responsibility corporate-liability criminal-procedure-due-process discretion due-process environmental-regulations fair-opportunity officer-responsibility plea-bargaining regulatory-compliance sentencing statutory-interpretation withdraw-guilty-plea withdrawal-of-plea |
1) Whether the district court Prejudiced the defendant by denying him due process of a concerning his reasons for Wanting to withdraw his guilty plea … |
| 18-5049 |
Leroy Lamont Wells v. Collette Peters, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction opinions standing takings |
1) In USCA9 NO. 17-35696, Wells v. ReteRS, etal DOeS ORDER FILOD MAY25, 2018 and ORDOR FILED JanvaRy 24, 2018 comply with FedeRal Rulas of Appellate P… |
| 18-5051 |
Samuel Jason Derrick v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity sentencing |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 18-5054 |
Brandy Bain Jennings v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
arbitrary-sentencing capital-punishment capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity |
1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's application of only partial retroactivity of Hurst v. State and Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourte… |
| 18-5060 |
Konstantinos X. Fotopoulos v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-clause hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona state-court |
In Hurst v. Florida this Court struck down Florida's longstanding capital-sentencing procedures because they authorized a judge, rather than a jury, t… |
| 18-8 |
Samuel Cohen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5012 |
Ian Deco Lightbourne v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing disparate-treatment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactivity |
Whether Florida's limited retroactive application of its Eighth Amendment decision in Hurst v. State violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments bec… |
| 18-5013 |
Gina Brasher Langley v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure claims-process due-process equal-protection federal-tax government-response interest marital-tax-liabilities solicitor-general standing tax-refund tax-transcripts |
The United States Solicitor General waived his right to respond on 11-23-2015 in this Court's Case 15-6929 to the Petitioner's claim for refund for ta… |
| 18-5014 |
Marcus Allen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process due-process,equal-protection,brady-violation,2255- equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity petition-for-rehearing plain-error |
Did lower court violate petitioner's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment of Equal Protection under the law, when petitioner provided evidence the Go… |
| 18-5016 |
George Eli Brown, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment driver's-license due-process fourth-amendment inchoate-hunch law-enforcement motorist-rights police-investigation reasonable-suspicion sentencing traffic-stop |
DOES A POLICE OFFICER'S BELIEF THAT HE ALLEGEDLY HAS REASONABLE SUSPICION A MOTORIST DOES NOT HAVE A DRIVER'S LICENSE DIMINISH TO AN INCHOATE HUNCH OR… |
| 18-5018 |
Kenneth Darcell Quince v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia death-penalty diagnostic-criteria eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards moore-v-texas |
Did Florida violate Atkins v. Virginia, Hall v. Florida, Moore v. Texas, and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution wh… |
| 18-5021 |
Paul Alfred Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-retroactivity hurst-v-florida retroactivity ring-v-arizona supremacy-clause supreme-court-review |
1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity formula, designed to limit the
class of condemned prisoners obtaining a life-or-death jury d… |
| 18-5024 |
William Robert Dixon v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation court-access due-process equal-protection exhaustion-of-remedies illegal-sentencing jurisdiction standing |
1} Does violation of right to access the court measure constitutional violation? [Alone before review.]
2} If a violation to access the court takes p… |
| 18-5026 |
Fernando Yates v. West Contra Costa Unified School District |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights disability-benefits discrimination due-process employment equal-protection judicial-review social-security standing |
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| 18-5027 |
Mark O. Wright v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-defendant criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judgment-enforcement legal-procedure lesser-included-offense sentencing sixth-amendment state-supreme-court void-ab-initio void-judgment |
1. Can a state Supreme Court enforce a judgment against a criminal defendant for an offense that was never charged and which was not a lesser included… |
| 18-5001 |
John Theodore Hancock v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burrage-standard but-for-causation causation criminal-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-resulting due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does a jury instruction that submits the question of whe-
ther a death was the result of the accused's offense by simply
tracking the statutory lang… |
| 18-5002 |
John Gray v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus illegal-confinement judicial-misconduct retroactivity sentence-expiration sentencing standing unlawful-confinement vindictiveness |
Whether certiorari is warranted to correct disobedience by the state courts and lower federal courts if their decisions are contrary to clearly establ… |
| 18-5010 |
Christine Chang v. Robin Andrews |
California |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights collusion due-process equal-protection evidence-suppression evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct legal-ethics subpoenaed-evidence |
Does collusion between the superior court judge and lawyer, covering up petitioner's evidence of: (1) subpoenaed surveillance photos and, (2) petition… |
| 23A423 |
R. J. Kulick v. Patrick Soon-Shiong, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-interpretation disability-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review pro-se |
Question not identified. |
| 25A191 |
Kayle Barrington Bates v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay fourteenth-amendment legal-review |
Question not identified. |
| 25A216 |
Curtis Windom v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
capital-counsel death-penalty evolving-standards ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 25A356 |
Victor Tony Jones v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
atkins-v-virginia death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 25A335 |
In Re Blaine Milam |
|
|
Denied |
|
actual-innocence death-penalty eighth-amendment forensic-evidence intellectual-disability junk-science |
Question not identified. |
| 25A280 |
David Joseph Pittman v. Florida |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
atkins-claim death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability time-bar |
Question not identified. |
| 25A532 |
Bryan Frederick Jennings v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment postconviction-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 25A568 |
Leroy Thomas Joyner, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Application |
|
ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment transcript-access trial-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 25A577 |
Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment irreparable-harm mental-competency method-of-execution |
Question not identified. |
| 25A669 |
Harold Wayne Nichols v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
due-process equal-protection execution-protocol fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution |
Question not identified. |
| 25A693 |
Frank A. Walls v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
atkins-claim constitutional-interpretation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability |
Question not identified. |
| 25A698 |
Frank Walls v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment lethal-injection medical-vulnerability pulmonary-edema |
Question not identified. |
| 25A897 |
Kendrick Simpson v. Christe Quick, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection execution-stay judicial-access rooker-feldman |
Question not identified. |
| 24A948 |
Michael Tanzi v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
constitutional-law death-penalty federal-review jury-trial procedural-bar sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 24A723 |
Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
South Carolina |
|
Denied |
|
death-penalty ineffective-assistance racial-bias sixth-amendment strickland-standard trial-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 24A771 |
James D. Ford v. Florida |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
death-penalty developmental-age due-process eighth-amendment mental-impairment roper-exclusion |
Question not identified. |
| 24A1037 |
Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Florida |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
death-penalty diminished-moral-culpability eighth-amendment gulf-war-illness postconviction-relief traumatic-brain-injury |
Question not identified. |
| 24A592 |
Tahina Corcoran, as next friend on behalf of Joseph E. Corcoran v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
competency death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay mental-illness schizophrenia |
Question not identified. |
| 24A284 |
Freddie Owens v. Bryan Stirling, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
capital-punishment competency cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment mental-illness |
Question not identified. |
| 24A286 |
Marcellus S. Williams v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
|
Denied |
|
batson-violation equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
Whether the trial prosecutor's use of a peremptory strike against a Black venireperson based on the prosecutor's stated belief that the venireperson l… |
| 24A294 |
In Re Kesean Calvin Wilson |
|
|
Presumed Complete |
|
bail-pending-appeal bank-robbery equal-protection federal-crime habeas-corpus tenth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 24A302 |
Garcia Glen White v. Texas |
Texas |
|
Denied |
|
atkins-claim death-penalty dna-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability |
Question not identified. |
| 24A409 |
Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections |
South Carolina |
|
Denied |
|
batson-challenge death-penalty equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1160 |
Ruben Gutierrez v. Luis Saenz, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
article-iii-standing death-penalty dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief |
Whether the Fifth Circuit panel majority's analysis of Article III standing conflicts with this Court's decision in Reed v. Goertz, 598 U.S. 230 (2023… |
| 24A50 |
Lidia M. Orrego v. Kevin Knipfing, aka Kevin James, et al. |
Second Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias legal-misconduct |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in the interest of justice, recognizes the mitigating effects of upholding the Cons… |
| 24A202 |
Loran Cole v. Florida |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection lethal-injection parkinson's-disease |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1346 |
Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment clemency death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay prosecutorial-misconduct |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1345 |
Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Georgia |
Georgia |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
clemency constitutional-rights death-penalty dna-testing execution-stay forensic-evidence |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1216 |
Bobby Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment federal-review irreparable-harm |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1202 |
Robert Joe Long v. Florida |
Florida |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
cruel-and-unusual death-penalty eighth-amendment etomidate lethal-injection medical-condition |
Question not identified. |
| 18A1200 |
Robert Joe Long v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment constitutional-violation death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |