evidence-sufficiency
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6186 | Rashawn Lesley Grant v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2025-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process evidence-sufficiency eyewitness-testimony trial-record | Whether the State of North Carolina's conviction of Petitioner Grant for murder and the resulting life sentence violated the Due Process Clause of the… |
| 25-6030 | Terry Lee Miksell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance interstate-commerce jurisdiction sixth-amendment | 1. It is asked of this High Court as to whether the District Court had jurisdiction under Gozales v Raich , 545 US 1 (2005) to prosecute this case, … |
| 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… |
| 25-5922 | 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… |
| 25-5740 | Gregory Tucker v. Noah Nagy, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction dna-evidence evidence-sufficiency jackson-rule moveable-object reasonable-doubt | Whether any rational trier of fact could return a guilty verdict where the only evidence was a DNA hit of unknown type and quantity found on an easily… |
| 25-5619 | Michael Garrick Denson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure dangerous-weapon evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether there was sufficient evidence to sustain the jury verdicts. 2. Whether the court erred in applying a two-level sentencing enhancement for … |
| 25-5116 | Mark Ellis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession reasonable-doubt | I. DUE PROCESS REQUIRES SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO ALLOW A RATIONAL JURY TO FIND GUILT BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. WHERE THE EVIDENCE THAT A FIREARM WAS PO… |
| 24-7289 | Fidel Saldana Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction evidence-sufficiency inference-standard reasonable-doubt | Whether evidence that requires a series of inferences to reach an element of an offense, rather than showing the element directly or after a single in… |
| 24-7045 | Margaret Ann Sutton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction drug-trafficking due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether the evidence is sufficient as a matter of law to sustain Sutton's conviction for Drug Traffic Conspiracy. II. Whether the evidence is suff… |
| 24-7031 | Christopher William Kuehner v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation evidence-sufficiency in-concert-element predicate-offenses subpoena-disclosure user-profile-access | I. Is The Failure to Disclose Subpoena Returns that are Exculpatory and Directly Related to a Defense Theory Until Post-Trial and Only Upon Request a … |
| 24-5765 | Robert Lance Walker v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review court-of-appeals evidence-sufficiency judicial-interpretation legal-precedent standard-of-review | Whether the court of appeals misapplied well established precedent when determining sufficiency of the evidence presented. |
| 24-5464 | Jeromy Schiedenhelm v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance trial-counsel | QUESTION ONE. IF TRIAL COUNSEL FAILS TO, AND REFUSES A DEFENDANTS REPEATED DEMANDS TO FILE A MOTION TO SUPPRESS AND MAKE THE PROPER FOURTH AMENDMENT C… |
| 24-5270 | Patrick Douglas Johnson v. Texas | Texas | 2024-08-08 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment constitutional-review due-process evidence-sufficiency jackson-v-virginia witness-identification | QUESTION No. 1: Whether the use of selective evidence is an impermissible divide and conquer strategy for evaluating the sufidiciency of the evidence… |
| 23-7735 | Maria M. Faust v. Michael T. Faust | District of Columbia | 2024-06-17 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law court-jurisdiction domestic-violence due-process evidence-sufficiency judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure military-spousal-abuse | Why have the honorable Court of District of Columbia and the honorable District of Columbia Court of Appeals, not taken into consideration this case o… |
| 23-7669 | Anthony Bender, Jr. v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency police-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-sentence witness-testimony | 1. Whether the government's failure to disclose the dash camera video constituted a Brady violation? 2. Whether a conviction based solely on the test… |
| 23-7339 | Philip Shane Young v. Texas | Texas | 2024-04-30 | Denied | IFP | appeal criminal-procedure deadly-weapon evidence-sufficiency jury-finding jury-instructions standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | IS THE EVIDENCE SUFFI CIENT TO SUSTAI N THE JURY'S FINDING THAT A DEADLY W EAPON W AS USED? |
| 23-6652 | Don Meeker v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting carjacking criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-statutes intent rosemond-standard rosemond-v-us | 1. The government failed to prove by sufficient evidence as to the petitioner that the petitioner-appellant possessed the requisite intent to commit t… |
| 23-6341 | Tramaine Edward Martin v. Jay Forshey, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-process civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct | 1. Does habeas corpus stand to correct the abuse of process involved in deliberate deception of a court by presentation of known false evidence? 2. D… |
| 23-6211 | Bernard Antoine Hardrick v. Michigan | Michigan | 2023-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adjudication civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-enterprise due-process evidence-sufficiency exclusion jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden prosecutorial-misconduct self-representation trial-court-error | I. Did The Trial Court Violate Petitioner's Right To Be Present Right To Counsel, And Right To Self-Representation When It Improperly Excluded Petitio… |
| 23-5718 | Adam Neftali Santana v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment conspiracy-charge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession motion-to-suppress search-warrant standing | 1. Did the Court err when it denied Petitioner's Motion to Suppress the evidence obtained through the execution of the contingency search warrant? 2.… |
| 23-5314 | Joe Crawford v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency felony-conviction jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-doubt rehaif-standard réhaif-v-united-states | WHETHER IN LIGHT OF Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 204 L.Ed.2d (2019), WAS THE EVIDENCE INSUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION WHEN THE GOVERN… |
| 23-5289 | Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-04 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance pleadings sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Is it a violation of the Fourteen th Amendment right to Due Process to allow a conviction to stand where some of the elements of the crime were not… |
| 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 … |
| 22-7670 | Lonnie Burdette Porter v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | In Thompson v. Louisville, 362 U.S. 199 (1960) and Garner v. Louisiana, 368 U.S. 157 (1961), this Court held that it is a violation of due process to … |
| 22-7620 | Timothy Sean Coogle v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment evidence-sufficiency fabricated-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard | Why was a Sixth Amendment violation not addressed in the Lower courts where defendant's lawyer failed utter the Strickland standards? How is the defe… |
| 22-7344 | Oscar Jesus Salais v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder evidence-sufficiency habeas habeas-corpus jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review ninth-circuit sufficiency-of-evidence summary-reversal | In this federal habeas case, petitioner Oscar Salai s challenge s his California convictions on three counts of attempted murder, all premised on one … |
| 22-6912 | Michael Wright v. J. Pickett, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Can the Federal court deny a Certificate of Appealability on the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel for his failure to raise a constitution… |
| 22-6837 | James Randolph Sherman v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-fairness criminal-conspiracy drug-offense due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-speculation loose-practice non-incriminating-evidence unfairness-to-defendant | Does the U.S. Constitution embrace a criminal conspiracy conviction when the government presents non-incriminating evidence of innocent conduct regard… |
| 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… |
| 22-6555 | 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… |
| 22-5779 | James Michael Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions money-laundering standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by finding that the evidence was sufficient to convict Mr. Johnson of wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money l… |
| 22-205 | Demetrios Stavrakis, aka Dimitrios Stavrakis, aka Jimmy v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-09-07 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-court judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rule-of-equipoise sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a federal court, assessing the sufficiency of the evidence in a criminal case based wholly on circumstantial evidence, must apply the "rule of… |
| 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… |
| 21-7911 | 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 | I. 15 ^ MS SUPREME COURT'S decision ta ConPlich loVhd PMTSOU )(. KENTUCKY RTG UXXI in which 4de S-hade. used all dr •hs'percmnPdarv cRalWneVshrikeS/ … |
| 21-7858 | Larry Lewis v. Mississippi | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions | Whether the indictment was defected in count 1 and two under See - on pale coun) cauck practice The in dickmeng fail +o e Cu 6 Spee ic dake and lace o… |
| 21-7459 | Robbie Catchings, aka Robert Brown, aka Robbie Catching v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-law firearm-possession firearms jury-instructions jury-verdict knowingly-possessed statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether sufficient evidence supported the jury's verdict that petitioner knowingly possessed a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). |
| 21-7280 | Sammie Carroll v. Maryland | Maryland | 2022-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review court-of-special-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jail-call-evidence standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | 1) Did the Gourt of Special Appeals of Maryland err,in ruling that the evidence adduced at trial was sufficient to sustain a conviction? 2) Did the … |
| 21-6668 | Shane Patrick Sprague v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | animal-welfare-act conspiracy due-process eleventh-circuit evidence-sufficiency insufficient-evidence jury-deliberation jury-deliberations supervisory-jurisdiction | Whether in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the United States Courts, this Court should correct the correctable injustice that occurr… |
| 21-6670 | Eric Beverly v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice bank-robbery beyond-reasonable-doubt criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit jury-conviction standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | I. On Appeal ERIC BEVERLY nged the sufficiency of the evidence for the following jury convictions: (1) four counts of aiding and abetting bank robbery… |
| 21-6233 | Joe Lenard Rodriguez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-trial methamphetamine | 1. Did the courts below err when they determined that there was sufficient evidence to convict the Petitioner of Conspiracy to Distribute Methampheta… |
| 21-6230 | In Re Billy John Roberson | 2021-11-10 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment aggravated-assault conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency judicial-conflict jury-instructions penal-code texas-penal-code | How could I receive an Guilty Verdict of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon at the time of this supposed incident, I, Billy John Rooerson, did no… | |
| 21-6162 | Antwain T. Sales v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2021-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-authority standing state-courts state-law-interpretation | 1. Sheer this Cowal skaisld issue this kt of Contionani LAdhetee the lonler Couets in Tennessee exceeded the jueisdidtion conteaeed and acted illegall… |
| 21-6090 | Olry Maurival v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy crawford-confrontation criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency false-tax-return false-tax-returns hearsay-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence tax-fraud | I. 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… |
| 21-6045 | Melissa Richardson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency involuntary-confession judicial-error miranda-rights motion-to-suppress right-to-counsel | Whether the 5th Circuit erred in denying Richardson's motion to suppress. Whether the 5th Circuit erred in affirming that there was sufficient eviden… |
| 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… |
| 21-5804 | Kenneth Randale Door v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency judgment-of-acquittal jurisdiction plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states | Is review of a claim that the evidence was insufficient to establish the knowledge of status required by Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (201… |
| 21-475 | Deanna Brookhart, Warden v. Kenneth Smith | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | 28-usc-2254 appellate-review evidence-sufficiency evidence-weighing federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt standard-of-review state-court-deference | Respondent Kenneth Smith has been tried and convicted on three separate occasions for Raul Briseno's murder. During the last two trials, the jury hear… |
| 21-5315 | Rafael Arturo Coto Chinchilla v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2021-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence trial-error | 1. WAS THE EVIDENCE IN THE INSTANT CASE INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT A GUILTY VERDICT ON ALL THREE COUNTS OF THE BILL OF INFORMATION? 2. DID THE TRIAL COU… |
| 21-5054 | Kevin Antonio Watson v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-07-08 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence | L. Vjke-tlwi Obfhr -tine m //sA-A/^ s-P Pku&rafat lb PfoS^ec-U-hcun j as\^ ra-h 4iri €/r> oF'' '. P4< l4 £ouI 4 kat/e-f'kut'id *ffhe_ Vc&afAfaaf^ tfnT… |
| 20-8288 | Anthony L. Ingram v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1201(a)(1) criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency federal-kidnapping jury-instructions motion-for-acquittal | 1. Are the due process rights of a defendant in a criminal case violated when the government fails to present evidence at trial as to each element of … |
| 20-7903 | Jerry W. Green, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy-objective criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-finding jury-findings predicate-acts RICO-conspiracy | Whether sufficient evidence exists to sustain a RICO conspiracy conviction when the Government charges specific predicate acts in the indictment, the … |
| 20-7686 | Lonnie Alonzo Howard v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency felon-in-possession plain-error sufficiency-of-evidence trial-record | 1. Whether this case should be held pending this Court's decision in Greer v. United States, No. 19-8709, which will determine if a circuit court of a… |
| 20-7485 | Wilbern Woodrow Cooper v. Willis Chapman, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest standing state-agents state-deference sufficiency-of-evidence | Would the Supreme Court of the United States disregard a Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violation that the sixth circui.t court had re… |
| 20-7087 | Brian James Holland v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2241 conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency force-definition statutory-interpretation witness-credibility | i) What is the definition of the term force Under Statute 18. USCS. 2241? What is the proper Criminal law and procedure used to determine sufficient e… |
| 20-7066 | William Echols v. Douglas Fender, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | allied-offenses case-joinder confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence-sufficiency fair-trial joinder trial-fairness | WHETHER ECHOLS WAS DENIED A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL DUE TO SEVERAL MAJOR CONSTITUTIONAL AND DUE PROCESS VIOLATIONS THAT INCLUDED AN IMPROPER JOINER O… |
| 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… |
| 20-6951 | Julio Torres Palomo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony hearsay hearsay-objection indictment indictment-insufficiency jury-instructions sexual-abuse sufficiency-of-evidence | FORMAL REQUISITE OF AN INDICTMENT: THE INDICTMENT FAILED TO PROPERLY ALLEGE THE OFFENSE,AS WRITTEN IN THE TEXAS PENAL CODE ANN. § 21.02. INSUFFICIEN… |
| 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… |
| 20-6384 | Owen McCants v. Steven Silva | First Circuit | 2020-11-19 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-law-violation ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-review pretrial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review | #1 : WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT, APPEALS COURT, AND SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION? #2: WHETHER THE EXCLUSION OF THE DEFENDANT FROM TH… |
| 20-650 | Stadtwerke Frankfurt am Main Holding GmbH v. RWE Trading Americas Inc. | Second Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure corporate-control discovery discovery-compliance document-search evidence-sufficiency judicial-discretion possession-custody-control reasonable-search subpoena subpoena-standard | 1. The district court quashed a subpoena after concluding that the subpoena's target conducted a reasonable search and did not have any responsive doc… |
| 20-6094 | Sean Alonzo Bush v. Florida | Florida | 2020-10-22 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency florida-supreme-court legal-precedent precedent standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | WHETHER THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT DENIED THE PETITIONER DUE PROCESS WHEN IT ABANDONED A CENTURY OF PRECEDENT AND APPLIED A NEW AND LESS STRICT STANDAR… |
| 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 … |
| 20-5177 | Rolando Felix-Carrazco v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency holdout-juror judicial-inquiry judicial-interference juror-dismissal jury-deliberation jury-deliberations scotus-guidance trial-court-discretion | Whether this Court should decide that the repeated questioning of jurors who have complained about one juror (who is obviously a holdout) is tantamoun… |
| 20-5171 | Cedric Watkins v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-24 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights credibility-of-witnesses due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment witness-credibility | This case presents two important nationwide issues. The first issue concerns an inappropriate application of a U.S. Supreme Court precedent and whethe… |
| 19-8885 | Juan Leonardo Cadenas-Urena v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-manufacturing due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict premises-liability sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence | 1) DID THE PANEL ERR BY HOLDING THAT THE EVIDENCE IS SUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN THE JURY'S GUILTY VERDICT? 2) DID THE PANEL ERR BY UPHOLDING THE APPLICATI… |
| 19-8642 | Christopher Davis v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency false-evidence grand-jury police-misconduct robbery-identification standing suppression-hearing | 1) Why was denied the Right to subpoeng Indianapalis Metro Dectective's to trfal thart falsified my criminal recond to the Grand Jury: Stating thart I… |
| 19-8546 | Annamalai Annamalai and Parvathi Sivanadiyan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-fraud constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency federal-jurisdiction judicial-error new-trial procedural-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct | A. whether the Eleventh circui+ court of Appeals has so Far departed from the accepted and usual course of Judicial pvoceedings and/ox sanctioned Such… |
| 19-8338 | Charles P. Mayeux, Jr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-04-22 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-amendments criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment | Whether a conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? Whethe… |
| 19-8326 | Charles Brandon Martin v. Maryland | Maryland | 2020-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation burden-of-proof confrontation-clause evidence-sufficiency materiality materiality-standard sufficiency-of-evidence voir-dire witness-availability | When a Brady violation (Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963)) occurs, must the Court take into account the effects of the Brady violation, or simply … |
| 19-8106 | Salvador Arteaga Aragon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency judicial-review petitioner standard-of-review | Whether the court of appeals erred in finding sufficient evidence to sustain petitioner's conspiracy conviction. |
| 19-7987 | Ashley R. Hambright v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure driving-while-intoxicated due-process dui evidence evidence-sufficiency federal-appeals intoxication magistrate-review military-jurisdiction stare-decisis sufficiency-of-evidence | Petitioner, ASHLEYR. HAMBRIGHT, appealed her twelve months of supervised probation for driving while intoxicated ("DWI") on the grounds of a military … |
| 19-7768 | Jibriil A. Hersi v. Harold May, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency judicial-misconduct jury-trial police-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal transcript trial-irregularities | 1) Whether I am entitled to get the missing records from my trial in Medina County, Ohio for statements made by the judge outside the hearing of the j… |
| 19-7388 | Aaron Perez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | IFP | actual-prosecution categorical-match categorical-overbreadth circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-sentencing felon-in-possession insufficient-evidence prior-conviction prior-felony-conviction rehaif | I. Whether a defendant who seeks to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sentencing purposes must point to an ac… |
| 19-7183 | Malcolm William v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | causation criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-arrest-of-judgment due-process elements-of-crime evidence evidence-sufficiency hearsay insufficient-evidence malice motion-in-limine murder murder-charge new-trial sixth-amendment third-degree | 1. Whether Appellant should be awarded an arrest of judgement on the charge of Murder in the Third Degree, as *there is insufficient evidence to sust… |
| 19-7167 | Harshadkumar Nanjibhai Jadav v. Virginia | Virginia | 2020-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency first-degree-murder identity-of-defendant identity-of-perpetrator jury-instructions possession-of-weapon premeditation sufficiency-of-evidence | I. Contrary to precedent set in Yeager v. Commonwealth , 16 Va. 433 S.E.2d 248 (1993) and rule 3A:16 of the Rules of App. 761 Supreme Court of Virgini… |
| 19-6964 | David Russell Posey v. Scott Middlebrooks, Warden, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kidnapping-statute standing trial-rights | Does "PUBLIC INTEREST" AND "JUSTICE SO REQUIRE" IMPANELING OF A "SPECIAL GRAND JURY", WHEN TRIAL PROSECUTORS COMMIT "MULTIFARIOUS FRAUD" ON THE JURORS… |
| 19-5934 | Bruce Randol Merryman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence AEDPA-statute-of-limitation constitutional-claim equitable-tolling evidence-insufficiency evidence-sufficiency federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence right-to-be-present statute-of-limitations | 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals Fyrfth Civeultr erred w affir ming the lewer tribunals ruling and denied petitroner 4 gateway tlaim ef a… |
| 19-5432 | Kevin Michael-Dorman Beltowski v. Shawn Brewer, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-01 | Granted | Response WaivedIFP | credibility-determinations criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error due-process evidence-sufficiency harmless-error instructional-error judicial-review jury-instructions newly-discovered-evidence right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sufficiency-of-evidence | I., THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT, TEDERAL DISTRICT COURT, AND STATE TRIAL COURT ALL HAVE DECIDED AN IMPORTAN7 TEDERAL QUES… |
| 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. | |
| 18-9678 | Binika L. Hankton v. Frederick Boutte, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,evidence,jackson-v- evidence evidence-sufficiency fifth-amendment fourth-amendment jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Is a conviction constitutionally suspect when the evidence used to convict does not meet the standards of Jackson? 2. Is a conviction constitution… |
| 18A1306 | Latif Shamsuddin v. New York | New York | 2019-06-13 | Denied | burden-shifting criminal-trial due-process evidence-sufficiency prosecutorial-misconduct summation-comments | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9465 | Beth Galloway v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-sufficiency financial-transaction financial-transactions insurance-fraud judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial new-trial | I. WHETHER A JUDGMENT OF ACQUITTAL SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED ON COUNTS 1 AND 2 BECAUSE THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT MS. GALLOWAY KNEW THAT THE MARTELLE H… |
| 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… |
| 18-9082 | Arion D. Andrews v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-investigation evidence-sufficiency fourth-amendment independent-evidence judicial-review police-investigation probable-cause residence search-warrant | Can a search warrant properly issue under the Fourth Amendment when the police-officer-affiant states that the address to be searched is the residence… |
| 18-8981 | John Bowling v. Maryland | Maryland | 2019-04-24 | Denied | IFP | appeal civil-procedure civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency free-speech jury-instructions standing | I AN ERRONEOUS INSTRUCTION ON FORCE WAS GiVN tO the fuy AThe uns No eene whatse, of fale And Feudulent epesentations amounting substantally to a frau… |
| 18-8858 | Aspen Warren v. Texas | Texas | 2019-04-16 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-unanimity manner-and-means murder murder-conviction state-criminal-law state-statutes statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | IN A MURDER CASE WHERE UNDER STATE STATUTES A JURY NEED NOT BE UNANIMOUS AS TO MANNER AND MEANS AND ARE ALLOWED TO CHOOSE FROM THREE SEPARATE MANNER A… |
| 18-8681 | Jamal James Carmouche v. Jason Kent, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fifth-circuit-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review malicious-prosecution standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel trial-record | Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Carmouche of a crime? Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the State Court findings that Mr… |
| 18-8132 | Anthony D. Phillips v. Bonita Hoffner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | adjudication-on-the-merits AEDPA aedpa-standards constitutional-error due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia plain-error plain-error-review sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence | During Petitioner Anthony D. Phillips state appellate court proceedings., the appellate panel addressed several constitutional errors and determined t… |
| 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… |
| 18-6792 | Christopher W. Fillmore v. Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Inc. | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court circuit-split civil-procedure cross-motions district-court equitable-remedies evidence evidence-sufficiency evidentiary-insufficiency judicial-discretion representation-resources summary-judgment | The District Court affirmed, and the Seventh Circuit agreed, that both Respondent ('Indiana Bell") and Petitioner ("Fillmore") submitted "sparse" — or… |
| 18-6618 | Jessie Jesus Marquez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-burden constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-case evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence government-proof recorded-phone-call | Are statements made during a recorded phone call, standing alone, sufficient to sustain the Government's constitutional burden of proof in a drug case… |
| 18-5686 | Dwight Mundle v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-875-c awareness-of-threat criminal-intent criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency intent jury prejudicial-effect prior-conduct statutory-interpretation threatening-communication uncharged-conduct witness-testimony | Was their enough or even any evidence to prove the conviction of transmitting a threatening communication. in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875 (c), was th… |