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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A858 | Dawn Marie Guevara v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-30 | Application | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-admission harmless-error sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5679 | Lewis Anderson v. California | California | 2025-09-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights deadly-weapon due-process evidence-admission propensity-evidence trial-procedure | A. SHOULD UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT GRANT CERTIORARI REVIEW ON ASSAULT WITH DEADLY WEAPON CHARGE AND VACATE STATE'S COURT'S CONVICTION ON PROPENSITY… |
| 25-5500 | Clarence C. Roland, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-admission fair-trial separate-sovereigns | 1. Whether eliciting the fact and details of a defendant's conviction in a separate sovereign —including that it was for the same conduct and that the… |
| 25A171 | Robert Monteiro v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-08-08 | Denied | drug-conspiracy due-process evidence-admission prior-bad-acts rule-404b sufficiency-of-evidence | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6979 | Gregory Hearns v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | district-court evidence-admission government-duty judicial-responsibility jury-instruction jury-note | When a jury note indicates a factual misunderstanding concerning a key piece of evidence admitted by the government, do the government and the distric… |
| 24-6692 | Barbara Kowal v. Department of Justice, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-03-04 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split evidence-admission freedom-of-information-act government-custody judicial-records public-access | Whether a judicial record admitted into evidence as an unsealed exhibit at a public trial ceases to be a public record if the Government takes custody… |
| 24-6690 | Arjune Ahmed v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidence-admission federal-rule-of-evidence sexual-assault | Petitioner Arjune Ahmed was convicted of two counts of kidnapping. The district court declined to give him separate trials on the two kidnapping alleg… |
| 24-6554 | Adriano Cortez v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission government-tolling statute-of-limitations | I» \vft«4W )B U.SXc^vBZ^O Violates Wt. HPfVi Amend men 4 CDue^lVoceSS^), ff ho Evidence U)a$ ^ resen 4«d fta,<Wt\04 fried 4o determine. -Vhe, 'jiorpo… |
| 24-6313 | Eric St. George v. Jason Lengerich, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-01-15 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness propensity-evidence | Does the admission of evidence that a criminal defendant possesses guns, weapons that are -'totally unrelated to the criminal allegation against him, … |
| 24-6043 | Patrick Michael Hackett v. Iowa | Iowa | 2024-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission misdemeanor-appeal public-safety sovereign-immunity | Such as an inferior cement mixer as shown during trial, are there circumstances that necessitate appeals of simple misdemeanors?: To safeguard Constit… |
| 24-5189 | Brandon Alexander v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof direct-appeal evidence-admission harmless-error inadmissible-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard sixth-amendment | When a defendant asserts IAC on direct appeal in Ohio for failing to object to inadmissible evidence and is able to demonstrate deficient performance,… |
| 24-5132 | Charles Fitzgerald Branch v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split evidence-admissibility evidence-admission federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-rule judicial-interpretation non-hearsay non-hearsay-probative-value probative-value procedural-standard | Should this Court resolve a split between the Ninth and Third circuits, where the Third Circuit has condemned the admission of evidence for a non-hear… |
| 24A38 | Cid C. Franklin v. New York | New York | 2024-07-12 | Presumed Complete | bail-hearing confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admission sixth-amendment testimonial-statement | 1. This case raises the fundamental question of when a statement is "testimonial" and thus subject to the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause. See … | |
| 23-6339 | Juan Guzman, aka Juan Villarreal-Guzman, aka Juan Guzman-Villareal, aka Victor Nava, aka Francisco Lara, aka Francisco Lara-Paramo, aka Ayala Ramoro, aka Carlos Solorio, aka Daniel Solorio, aka Flaco v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion assault-with-a-firearm criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion evidence-admission firearm-possession prior-allegation prior-bad-acts sixth-circuit | Does a District Court prejudicially abuse its discretion in a firearm possession case, as previously found by the Sixth Circuit, when that District Co… |
| 23-6056 | Talthia Sorbel v. South Dakota, ex rel. South Dakota Department of Social Services, et al. | South Dakota | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | adoption civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission family judicial-review standing | ttejio •e.Vidence. "to 'oe vo\\u no one. a\\ovoYc\a ^re^raJr\n\m -to rrv^ e^Sw°tS \v\ -\Vi\S GjOS^.?' ore \OY\u \joaS CA Qrankd uiHY'ioud «ru| due- o… |
| 22-7663 | Aaron David Waldon v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2023-05-30 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission fair-trial horn-v-state prejudicial probative propensity-evidence sexual-assault trial-court-discretion | I. THE TRIAL COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY ALLOWING THE ADMISSION OF EVEIDENCE OF A RECORDING BELIEVED TO BE PETITIONER AND AN UNKNOWN MALE AS PROPEN… |
| 22-7642 | Julio Angel Torrez, Jr. v. California | California | 2023-05-25 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | doyle-v-ohio due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence-admission fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial people-v-medina right-to-silence sixth-amendment | Question not identified. |
| 22-6861 | Jairo Francisco Solano v. Texas | Texas | 2023-02-24 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay judicial-procedure trial-court-error | DID THE TRIAL COURT ERRED BY ADMITTING HEARSAY TESTIMONY OVER THE OBJECTION OF MR. SOLANO? WAS THIS EVIDENCE ADMITTED IN VIOLATION OF THE CONFRONTATI… |
| 22-6058 | Justin David Martin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-of-record criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admission federal-prosecution procedural-error record search-warrant structural-error waiver | 1. As Courts of the United States are Courts of Record, is it structural error for the federal Prosecution to rely upon a state search warrant for the… |
| 22-6014 | Herbert G. Green v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment evidence-admission exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search independent-source-doctrine police-procedure search-warrant | Does the independent source doctrine permit the admission of evidence found during an illegal search of a home if police later obtained a search warra… |
| 22-5966 | Malachi Henessey Rodriguez v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2022-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof character-evidence civil-rights coercion consent constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission reasonable-doubt | 1. The state failure to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the petitioner used coercion where there was no evidence that NC communicated lack of con… |
| 22-5840 | Joseph Shook v. Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-14 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-admission evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection life-sentence prejudice prejudicial-testimony right-to-remain-silent | Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied his constitutional rights do to trial court err by: A… |
| 22-5795 | Kevin White, Jr. v. Michigan | Michigan | 2022-10-07 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission judicial-discretion jurisdiction trial-procedure venue | Question not identified. |
| 22-5487 | Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas | Texas | 2022-09-01 | Denied | IFP | capital-murder criminal-procedure evidence-admission massiah-v-united-states penalty-phase right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-action state-agent | Did the TCCA err in holding that the State upheld its "affirmative obligation to not act in a manner that circumvents the [Sixth Amendment] protection… |
| 22-155 | Hiral M. Patel v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2022-08-18 | Denied | Response Waived | bourjaily-v-united-states confrontation-clause confrontation-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure davis-v-washington due-process dutton-v-evans evidence-admission michigan-v-bryant penal-interest testimonial-statement | Whether a statement against penal interest— e made by an inmate/declarant who was moved into the cell of an inmate/informant, who was then outfitted … |
| 22-5327 | Lavone Ganithus Dixon, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-procedure court-record due-process evidence-admission federal-prosecution record-of-court search-warrant structural-error | 1. As Courts of the United States are Courts of Record, is it structural error for the federal Prosecution to rely upon a state search warrant for the… |
| 22-5154 | Myron Baker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-record criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-admission federal-prosecution record-of-court search-and-seizure search-warrant state-search-warrant structural-error | As Courts of the United States are Courts of Record, is it structural error for the federal Prosecution to rely upon a state search warrant for the ad… |
| 21-7316 | Richard Duerson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | absent-witness confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-discretion judicial-proceedings just-conclusion officer-testimony | OF THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE? |
| 21-7312 | Daniel Viveiros v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complaint-testimony due-process evidence evidence-admission expert-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault trial-error trial-procedure uncorroborated-allegations | 1. Whether the trial court erred be admitting, without'expert medical testimony, evidence of the complainant's stomachaches and bladder pain puporti… |
| 21-6961 | Mauro C. Palacio v. Justin Caraway, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion procedural-error | Question not identified. |
| 21-940 | Kentucky v. Jared McCarthy | Kentucky | 2021-12-27 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | blood-test criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourth-amendment impaired-driving mandatory-minimum search-and-seizure | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the admission of a defendant's refusal of a blood test in an impaired-driving prosecution. 2. Whether the F… |
| 21-6327 | Frank Paul Ferrara v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission expert-testimony fair-trial free-exercise standing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure | 1. Should this matter been allowed to progress to a civil commitment trial since the Respondent incarcerated the Petitioner for exercising his Constit… |
| 21-460 | April Diane Myres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourth-amendment probable-cause self-incrimination warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the Government to introduce testimony, based only on the defendant's not consenting to warrantless fingerprinting… |
| 21-5570 | Richard Boyle v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court due-process evidence-admission federal-rules-of-evidence prior-convictions stare-decisis undue-prejudice witness-testimony | Whether the federal courts are free to withdraw the protection from undue prejudice which emanates from the required four-step process as set forth in… |
| 21-5255 | Nathaniel B. Appleby-El v. Maryland | Maryland | 2021-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence evidence-admission right-to-counsel witness-testimony | 1. Whether such extensive reliance on transcripts, denied Mr. Appleby-El's federal right of confrontation, because doing so effectively prevented him … |
| 20-8363 | Outhdorm Ros v. California | California | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment miranda-rights prosecutorial-argument self-incrimination | 1. In a criminal prosecution, can a suspect's silence after he is arrested, but before he is questioned or read his rights under Miranda v. Arizona, 3… |
| 20-8014 | Kelvin Baez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence-admission exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-doctrine police-procedure search-and-seizure unlawful-search warrant-requirement | Did the Court of Appeals err in expanding the inevitable discovery doctrine to affirm the admission of evidence obtained during an unlawful search, wh… |
| 20-7169 | Lawrence Nunley v. Richard Brown | Seventh Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-witness criminal-trial evidence-admission ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error prosecutor structural-error testimony trial-counsel witness-testimony | During the criminal trial, the prosecutor orchestrated a stunt to have a child witness write down the most critical portion of her testimony while on … |
| 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 … |
| 20-6817 | Jerry Lee Quinn v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split codefendant codefendant-testimony evidence-admission fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-statement plain-error prior-consistent-statements prosecutorial-misconduct tome | I. THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI BECAUSE THE FIFTH CIRCUIT'S MISAPPLICATION OF THE PLAIN ERROR DOCTRINE TO BAR REVIEW OF QUINN'S CLAIM THAT THE P… |
| 20-6433 | Byron Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault-with-dangerous-weapon criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy evidence-admission fifth-circuit-court jury-instructions murder-in-aid-of-racketeering pattern-of-racketeering rico-conspiracy rico-enterprise witness-intimidation | 1. Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it found that Byron Jones was guilty of a RICO conspiracy? 2. Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appea… |
| 20-5935 | Frank Allen Levi Holland v. Michigan | Michigan | 2020-10-07 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof compulsory-violations confrontational-violations constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct | Is leaving allowance for a defendant's Sixth and Federal Constitutional right to due process of law to be violated by denying erroneous instructions a… |
| 20-79 | Cedric L. Daniels v. Dave Davey, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-27 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause due-process evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment hearsay impeachment-evidence jury-instructions sixth-amendment three-strikes-law | Could a jurist of reason find that petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine witnesses and Fourteenth Amendment ri… |
| 19-8887 | Maria Pena-Rivera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-admissibility evidence-admission evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-error rule-403 rule-404(b) | Is it error by the district court to fail to enumerate the specific basis for allowing evidence pursuant for Federal Rule of Evidence section 404(b) s… |
| 19-1421 | Michael Wilford LaFlamme v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-25 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 6th-amendment bias constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission expert-testimony judicial-discretion jury-selection jury-selection-bias law-enforcement law-enforcement-bias trial-procedure voir-dire | 1. ) Was Petitioner prejudiced When Several Prospective furors Withheld Crucial Information Pertaining To Employment As Law Enforcement When Asked D… |
| 19-8787 | Wayne A. G. James v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-objection circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admission forfeiture plain-error trial-record waiver | If an attorney mistakenly remains silent and fails to object to inadmissible evidence, a later challenge is forfeited and subject to review only for p… |
| 19-8706 | Lester Thomas Butcher v. Texas | Texas | 2020-06-15 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial texas trial-fairness | Question 1. WILL THIS SUPREME COURT PERMIT TEXAS PROSECUTORS ' CLAIMS OF "MISTAKE AND INADVERTENCE ", MADE BY PROSECUTORS BENEFITING FROM SUCH CLAIMS,… |
| 19-8440 | Katherine O'Neal v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-error evidence-admission harmless-error jury-trial overwhelming-evidence sixth-amendment | In determining whether constitutional error in the admission of evidence is harmless, should a reviewing court focus on whether the error contributed … |
| 19-8020 | Walter Freeman Jordan, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure evidence-admission federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence standard-of-review | I. On Appeal WALTER JORDAN argued that the erroneous admission of hearsay evidence that he was the brother of one of the co-defendants caught leaving … |
| 19-7773 | James Curtis Denton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavits business-records confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay-exception sixth-amendment | Whether the introduction of unconfronted affidavits establishing the foundation for admission of business records violates the Confrontation Clause of… |
| 19-7662 | Juan Orellana v. Raymond Madden, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-violation admissibility-of-statement criminal-procedure criminal-trial custodial-interrogation due-process evidence-admission fifth-amendment obstruction right-to-counsel unambiguous-request | Whether Orellana's Fifth Amendment right to counsel was violated when, in the course of custodial interrogation, the detective obstructed Orellana's u… |
| 19-7521 | Elisha Paul Harley v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-admission free-speech judicial-discretion law-of-case law-of-the-case legal-review magistrate-judge magistrate-procedure racist-comments review standing | Whether a trial court may depart from the law of the case on an evidentiary ruling after a mistrial when the initial legal ruling was not clearly erro… |
| 19-7174 | John H. Stewart v. William Honsal, as Public Administrator of Humboldt County, California, et al. | California | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | domestic-violence due-process evidence-admission fair-trial hearsay judicial-notice property-rights | 1. Was Petitioner's federal constitutional right to due process of law violated by an unfair trial in which the trial Judge ruled "that any documents … |
| 19-7151 | Erick David Lopez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment free-speech ninth-circuit prejudice rap-poem sixth-amendment | Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the admission of a vile and obscenity-laced rap poem found inside the purse of a 16-year-old girl and not w… |
| 19-7089 | Jonathan Cruz-Ramirez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment first-amendment juvenile-evidence prejudice prejudicial-error sixth-amendment | Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the admission of a vile and obscenity-laced rap poem found inside the purse of a 16-year-old girl and not w… |
| 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… |
| 19-6901 | Alonso Barrera-Montes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-10 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure department-of-state due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay hearsay-rule jurisdiction jury-trial | I. THE COURT OF APPEALS CLEARLY ERRED IN UPHOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING ADMITTING EVIDENCE AT DEFENDANT'S TRIAL WHICH VIOLATED BOTH THE HEARSAY… |
| 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… |
| 19-6301 | Jerry W. Jenkins v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment due-process presumed-innocent sentencing testimony trial 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process evidence-admission ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment | 2# WhetheR MR.JenKiNS RighTs to ThE uNited StAZE CONSTituTION WEeE ViOlAted When The GoveRMent INFRiNged uPon His Rights to BE PRiOR CrimiNAL HiStORy … |
| 19-6201 | Ronn Darnell Sterling v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal bank-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission evidentiary-issues false-evidence improper-cross-examination ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-conviction-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct | Could reasonable jurists disagree whether the District Court's refusal of 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion before pre-trial trial, and Appellant counsel was co… |
| 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 … |
| 19-5806 | John Bradham v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-transaction due-process evidence evidence-admission sixth-amendment | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S ERRONEOUS ADMISSION OF A VIDEO OF AN ALLEGED DRUG AND FIREARM TRANSACTION BETWEEN THE CI AND THE DEFENDANT VIOLATED THE C… |
| 19-5458 | Samantha Winter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation evidence evidence-admission harmless-error miranda-warnings motion-to-suppress rule-404b search-and-seizure warrantless-search | QUESTION 1: WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY DENIED MS. WINTER'S MOTION TO SUPPRESS HER STATEMENTS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, WHERE ATF AGENTS… |
| 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… |
| 18-9602 | Colby L. Simmons v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | admissibility-of-evidence criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination | Did the district court violate petitioner's Fifth Amendment right as set forth in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 444, 86 S.Ct 1602, 16 L. Ed. 2d 69… |
| 18-9579 | James D. Tench v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-06-07 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-circumstances capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty' 'When a reviewing court independen due-process evidence-admission guilty-verdict hurst-v-florida jury jury-verdict mitigating-factors prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment | 1. Does the admission of improper and prejudicial evidence violate a capital defendant's right to due process where the record indicates that the jury… |
| 18-1491 | Kaitlyn Nguyen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-admission fifth-amendment inflammatory-evidence medical-clinic patient-deaths prejudicial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether petitioner's right to due process of law under the 5th Amendment, U.S. Constitution was violated by the prosecution's introduction of highly i… |
| 18-9400 | Charlie Russell Martin v. Arizona | Arizona | 2019-05-23 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission false-testimony fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury legal-standard miranda-warnings procedural-due-process state-procedure trial | Question not identified. |
| 18-8577 | Gerald W. Long v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury sixth-amendment trial trial-procedure | I. Did the Trial Court err when it concluded that Gerald Long's Fourth Amendment right proscribing unreasonable searches and seizures was not violated… |
| 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… |
| 18-8129 | Charles Russell v. Texas | Texas | 2019-02-25 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission reasonable-doubt social-media social-media-evidence witness-testimony | Did the Trial Court relieve the state of its burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt when it allowed the state to show the jury photos found o… |
| 18-7318 | Jesus Gomez v. California | California | 2019-01-09 | Denied | IFP | burglary criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment uncharged-burglaries | Whether admission of evidence of uncharged burglaries violated petitioner's rights to a fair trial and due process of law under the Fifth and Fourteen… |
| 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… |
| 18-6750 | Rita Pultro v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | codefendant codefendant-confession confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay redaction sixth-amendment | Should a court look beyond the four corners of a nontestifying codefendant's confession to determine if introduction of the confession violates the Co… |
| 18-6651 | Antonio Cobb v. Florida | Florida | 2018-11-13 | Denied | IFP | criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness right-to-fair-trial statement-against-interest trial-procedure | WHETHER FLORIDA ERRONEOUSLY DECIDED THAT THE TRIAL JUDGE DID NOT DENY PETITIONER A TRIAL IN ACCORD WITH FUNDAMENTAL STANDARDS OF DUE PROCESS, GUARANTE… |
| 18-6636 | James Edward Griffin v. Eric Arnold, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-08 | Denied | IFP | due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang jury-instructions misconduct motorcycle-gang prosecutorial-misconduct | 1.Was appellant deprived of a fair trial and due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the trial court … |
| 18-6155 | Christian Lemus Cerna, aka Leopardo, aka Bago, aka Vago, aka Gatito, aka Christian Josue Lemus Alfaro v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-evidence-disclosure brady-violation brady-violations court-of-appeals criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-sentencing evidence-admission false-testimony jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses mandatory-life-sentence severance-of-defendants uncharged-conduct-evidence uncharged-murder-evidence | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's decision to deny the renewed motion for a new trial and in refusing to conduct… |
| 18-6124 | Sherman Washington, aka Sherman Lance Washington v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fair-trial-denial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mre-404b other-bad-acts other-bad-acts-testimony res-gestae sixth-amendment | WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED A FAIR TRIAL BY THE ADMISSION OF IRRELEVANT OTHER BAD ACTS TESTIMONY; THE EVIDENCE WAS NOT ADMISSIBLE UNDER EITHER MRE 4… |
| 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… |
| 18-5281 | Vincent Craig Mosley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-conspiracy due-process evidence evidence-admission plea-agreement plea-bargaining witness-testimony | The question presented is: Whether a criminal defendant in a drug conspiracy trial is entitled to see the plea agreements of non-testifying co-defenda… |