evidentiary-sufficiency

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5685 Anthony Lemicy v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-exploitation constitutional-violation criminal-procedure evidentiary-sufficiency specific-intent statutory-interpretation I. CAN THE GOVERNMENT PROVE THE SPECIFIC INTENT OF "USE" "FOR THE PURPOSE" WITHOUT THE MINORS TESTIFYING(direct evidence), OR CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE…
23-7564 Ricky T. Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-hearsay due-process evidentiary-sufficiency sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit 1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that the uncorroborated and unreliable dou…
23-5866 James Allen Brickley, Jr. v. Marie Laurence Gloria Joseph-Stephen Texas 2023-10-24 Denied IFP best-interest best-interest-standard civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-discretion parental-rights pro-se-litigation standing termination termination-proceedings In a parental-rights termination case, when deciding the sufficiency of the evidence to terminate, must the court have evidence to of every element re…
22-5492 William Wallace v. Florida Commission on Offender Review Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-review reasonable-doubt sentencing standing witness-testimony (1) Is it abuse of false evidence to convict a petitioner for a crime, where there has never been any proof of deception that does use / in this case?…
22-170 Daniel Beckwitt v. Maryland Maryland 2022-08-24 Granted Response Waived common-law-liability due-process evidentiary-sufficiency field-preemption gross-negligence judicial-criminalization preemptively-regulated-industries retroactive-criminalization In Bouie v. City of Columbia, 378 U.S. 347 (1964), this Court proscribed "unexpected and indefensible" retroactive judicial criminalization of primary…
21-8141 Christopher G. Poeschl v. Foundation Building Materials, LLC, et al. Colorado 2022-06-15 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency expert-testimony judicial-discretion legal-fraud perjury prejudice structural-error trial-procedure trial-procedures Whether or not fraud, solidified the Colorado Appeals Affirmation specific but not limited to, transcripts and the number of pages thereof; and Its fu…
21-7122 Thomas Warner v. Illinois Illinois 2022-02-15 Denied IFP aggravated-battery criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency firearm-discharge jury-instructions sentencing state-testimony witness-credibility Whether Thomas Warner's convictions for Aggravated Battery with Discharge of a Firearm should be reversed where they were not supported by credible te…
21-6897 Ramon Torres Ruelas v. Troy Bowser, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-sex-case child-sex-crimes credibility-of-witnesses criminal-defense evidentiary-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lack-of-admissions lack-of-eyewitness-testimony lack-of-physical-evidence trial-strategy witness-credibility Whether it is an unreasonable determination of the facts and the law to conclude that trial counsel need not investigate witnesses with critical infor…
20-6030 Byron A. Wyatt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidentiary-sufficiency interest-of-justice interests-of-justice material-evidence newly-discovered-evidence rule-33 standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-standard Whether F.R.Crim.P. Rule 33's standard for granting a new trial based on newly discovered evidence "if the interest of justice so requires" cannot be …
20-5551 Ohio, ex rel. Jeremy Kerr v. Robert Pollex, et al. Ohio 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency jurisdiction state-court state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-evidence Does a state court's judgment of conviction violate the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution when the record of the case is wholly devoid …
19-8261 Sean Ath v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-standard standard-of-review substantial-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-rahseparian I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly applied the "substantial evidence" test in concluding there was sufficient evidence to affirm P…
18-9202 Edilberto Maso Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-statements jury-instructions standard-of-review trial-procedure 1) Did the Fifth Circuit err by affirming the district court admission of hearsay statements made by an unindicted co-conspirator over the objection o…
18-6910 Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fraud-allegations judicial-discretion jury-instructions motion-for-acquittal prosecutorial-misconduct rule-29-motion sufficiency-of-evidence I. Whether The District Court Improperly Denied Musa's Rule 29 Motion Because The Government Did Not Properly Present The Case To The Jury And Left Ma…
18-6641 Antonio Fahie v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal-motion prosecutorial-misconduct rape-charges right-to-counsel sentencing Why did'nt the judge let he take. back my plea,When my counsel told the court the i never admitted to any of the (RAPE) charges. When i found out tha…