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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…