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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-675 | Lawrence Rudolph v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-12-10 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-interpretation federal-prosecution forum-shopping prosecutorial-discretion tenth-circuit venue-statute | Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in interpreting a federal venue statute enacted by the First Congress to mean the government can prosecute a federal c… |
| 25-6041 | Kaleb Layne Nix v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifi… |
| 25A445 | Thomas Steven Sanders v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-17 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction death-penalty double-jeopardy executive-clemency federal-prosecution fifth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25A414 | Larry Householder v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Presumed Complete | federal-prosecution hobbs-act official-misconduct public-corruption quid-pro-quo sixth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5704 | Jeanie Reese v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc., et al. | California | 2025-09-24 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | aggregate-effects child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-authority federal-prosecution interstate-commerce | 1. Does-the "Aggregate Effects'! doctrine under Gonzales v Raich , 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits desi… |
| 25-5460 | Joseph Thompson, Sr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | common-law federal-prosecution homicide self-defense stand-ground violent-felony | In Beard v. United States, 158 U.S. 550 (1895) and Brown v. United States, 256 U.S. 335 (1921), this Court recognized the common law right to stand on… |
| 25-5400 | Andrew Charles Beard v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (11)IFP | constitutional-claim criminal-procedure federal-prosecution plea-waiver sentencing-enhancement statutory-construction | 1. Whether challenging an invalid 18 U.S.C. §924(c) conviction is a "constitutional claim" that extinguishes the government's power to enforce defenda… |
| 25-5306 | In Re Alexander Kawleski | 2025-08-08 | Denied | IFP | aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-limits fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce | 1. Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich , 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits desig… | |
| 25-5139 | In Re Michael Stevens | 2025-07-17 | Denied | IFP | aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-limits fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce | 1. Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich , 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits desig… | |
| 25A17 | Brandon Keith Thompson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | commerce-clause constitutional-challenge federal-prosecution firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5036 | Wilfredo Feliciano-Rodriguez v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-provisions federal-prosecution grand-jury interstate-commerce jurisdiction puerto-rico-statehood | Can a federal court attempt a prosecution without verifying, as the first step before any proceeding, jurisdiction? Can the Respondent take away jur… |
| 25-5032 | In Re John Alan Conroy | 2025-07-03 | Denied | IFP | aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-authority fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce | 1. Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich , 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits designa… | |
| 24-7453 | In Re Curtis Baldwin | 2025-06-17 | Denied | IFP | aggregate-effects child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits federal-prosecution interstate-commerce | 1. Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich , 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits designa… | |
| 24-7408 | In Re Stephen Brewer | 2025-06-12 | Denied | IFP | aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-limits fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce | 1. Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich, 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits designat… | |
| 24-7328 | In Re William Hopmeier | 2025-05-30 | Denied | IFP | aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-limits fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce | 1. Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich , 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits desig… | |
| 24-1220 | Mark Joseph Uhlenbrock v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-30 | Denied | Response Waived | cyberstalking emotional-distress federal-prosecution first-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation | 1. Can a Federal Cyberstalking prosecution pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2261A be used to target repeated communications on the sole basis that they would b… |
| 24-7321 | In Re Adolfo Herrera-Sustaita | 2025-05-29 | Denied | IFP | aggregate-effects commerce-clause constitutional-authority fair-notice federal-prosecution intrastate-activity | Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich, 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits designated … | |
| 24-7110 | In Re Phillip James Colwell | 2025-05-01 | Denied | IFP | child-pornography-prevention commerce-clause constitutional-authority fair-notice federal-prosecution interstate-commerce | Does the "Aggregate Effects" doctrine under Gonzales v Raich, 545 US 1 (2005) expand federal prosecution powers beyond the original limits designated … | |
| 24-6129 | In Re Jason Clark | 2024-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-ii categorical-approach federal-prosecution mandamus-writ sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | 1) Can Petitioner be denied Categorical approach relief on his 18 USCS 924, enhanced sentence under United States v. Taylor? 2) Can the US Attorney p… | |
| 24A472 | Joseph R. Johnson, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-11-12 | Presumed Complete | but-for-cause certificate-of-innocence exoneree federal-prosecution misconduct statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5763 | David Earl Boyd v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause congressional-power federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | L. Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 2251 and 2252A exceed Congressional commerce authority in authorizing conviction based only upon proof that materials — such a… |
| 24-5678 | Reginald L. Hopkins v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | IFP | federal-prosecution ruse-exception speedy-trial-act state-arrest statutory-interpretation third-circuit | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred as a matter of statutory interpretation in rejecting a "Ruse Exception" to the Speedy Trial A… |
| 24-5626 | Julio Reynaldo Rivera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-sanctions federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifi… |
| 24-284 | Andre Ricardo Briscoe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | criminal-conspiracy federal-prosecution overt-act statute-of-limitations substantive-offense tolling-doctrine | Prosecutors, judges, and defense lawyers know that the statute of limitations for almost all federal crimes is five years. 18 U.S.C. § 3282(a). Yet th… |
| 24-5419 | Jonathan Fitzpatrick Koen v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause congressional-power federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 exceeds Congressional commerce authority in authorizing conviction based only upon proof that materials — such as a cell phon… |
| 24-5176 | Antonio Santonastaso v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1001 criminal-law false-statements federal-prosecution judicial-review jurisdiction maslenjak-v-united-states materiality materiality-standard statutory-interpretation | Section 1001(a)(2) of title 18 only criminalizes the making of material false statements in a matter within the jurisdiction of the United States gove… |
| 23-849 | Louis Wayne Ratfield v. Ellen L. Cohen, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment authority biven's-claim civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-prosecution fraud prosecutorial-immunity statute-of-limitations | 1. Can each individual of the three federal prosecutors, to ensure that their government branch recognizes the limits of its own power by presenting… |
| 23-638 | Kenneth Wendell Ravenell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | Amici (2) | burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure federal-prosecution jury-instructions money-laundering non-overt-act-conspiracy statute-of-limitations | Whether, to comply with 18 U.S.C. § 3282(a) in a prosecution for a non-overt act conspiracy, the government bears the burden of proving to a jury that… |
| 23-6220 | Daniel Thomason Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights civil-rights-violations corporate-liability discriminatory-practices due-process federal-prosecution fraud medical-billing standing statutory-interpretation takings | ^ a*& UcbntftJjfe \davJ de)04) <4 in, 'ShoujJ, JT receive^ aid (Jb °r loatoc^a), e-fr a4_ pp f Ae create o-Pmv 'PreJC' ^«/ 1) 'toMX-ytflC -f,a£ynJ&'1 … |
| 23-6205 | Jeriah Scott Budder v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-jurisdiction due-process ex-post-facto federal-prosecution indian-country major-crimes-act mcgirt-v-oklahoma self-defense | Whether the Tenth Circuit contravened this Court's precedents in ruling that Petitioner was not denied due process of law — based on ex post facto pri… |
| 23-5960 | Brandon Keith Wright v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifie… |
| 23-5741 | Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2023-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction standing witness-testimony | Question not identified. |
| 23-5511 | Jay F. Elhage v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause congressional-power constitutional-interpretation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process enumerated-powers federal-prosecution federalism legislative-authority state-prosecution | Whether, despite years of Commerce Clause jurisprudence, the Court should now hold that Congress has no authority to criminally punish under the Comme… |
| 23-5074 | Juan Carlos Valles, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons federal-prosecution fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment selective-enforcement selective-prosecution statutory-obligations | I, Petitioner Juan Carlos Valles, Jr., state that this petition presents an issue of great public importance, addressed to the policy of Federal Prose… |
| 22-7722 | Félix Vega-La Torres v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ancestry constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing Does the State Court Decision to deny Petitioner's due-process economic-status equal-justice equal-protection 22-7721" ethnicity federal-prosecution federal-questions guidelines-interpretation judicial-bias national-origin petition-for-appeal puerto-rico-defendants race reversible-error sentencing-discrimination state-court-decision | Does a federal judge's increased sentence targeting a Puerto Rico defendant for higher punishment violate constitutional, statutory, and guidelines pr… |
| 22-7528 | Joshua Omar Garcia v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process federal-prosecution sixth-amendment sovereign-delay speedy-trial state-prosecution | After indicting Mr. Garcia on federal charges, the government delayed bringing him into federal custody for 23 months as it waited for the completion … |
| 22-7146 | Daren Bernard Razz, III v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3161 criminal-procedure due-process federal-prosecution government-delay indictment-timing sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-delay | Issue 1: Petitioner briefs the following point in an abundance of caution to preserve the issue regarding the denial of his second motion to dismiss t… |
| 22-6878 | Roger Keith Lunsford v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court double-jeopardy due-process federal-prosecution habeas-corpus hearing-requirement legal-relief | IX. Could Whe Stole Violate A Defendants Subshant! Ve And Procedural Right To Due Recess So Earegiously That Lt Would Bar A Future Federal, Rosecution… |
| 22-796 | Johnny Ellery Smith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | assimilative-crimes-act federal-prosecution general-crimes-act indian-country state-law-offenses treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty | Whether the Assimilative Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 13, applies to Indian country—either on its own or through the General Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1152—s… |
| 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… |
| 22-5371 | Darrell Harris v. Robert Hudgins, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-estoppel federal-court federal-offense federal-prosecution issue-preclusion res-judicata sixth-amendment speedy-trial | WHETHER PRINCIPLES OF "RES JUDICATA" TRIGGERED APPLI CATION OF ISSUE PRECLUSION AND COLLATERAL ESTOPPEL SO AS TO DEPRIVE THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUTHORI… |
| 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… |
| 22-5100 | Joshua Eric Townley v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-13 | Denied | IFP | burks-v-united-states constitutional-claim criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-prosecution insufficient-evidence reinstatement-of-convictions state-prosecution supreme-court-precedent trial-court-reversal | 1. Is there a constitutional claim of double jeopardy, reinstatement of convictions after acquittal, when a Federal or State trial court rescinds its … |
| 22-5097 | Hidey Diaz, aka Silvio Manuel Amador, aka Celio Alvarez-Carrasco v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 10th-circuit circuit-court-review criminal-sentencing federal-prosecution government-action guideline-range sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-directive substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparity | Did the Tenth Circuit err in concluding that it was barred from considering, on review for the substantive reasonableness of Mr. Diaz's sentence, the … |
| 21-8268 | Roger Acosta v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution indictment indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-standard structural-error | Petitioners were each convicted of possessing a firearm as a prohibited person. After their convictions became final, this Court held in Rehaif v. Uni… |
| 21-1487 | Brian Bilodeau v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-05-26 | Denied | Response Waived | appropriations appropriations-rider controlled-substances-act department-of-justice federal-prosecution medical-marijuana standing state-law | Whether and under what circumstances the rider prohibits the DOJ from spending federal funds to prosecute criminal defendants for medical marijuana-re… |
| 21-7623 | Mary Ann Lara v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Section 841 burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law drug-quantity drug-trafficking federal-prosecution mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether, in prosecutions brought under Title 21, Section 841, the Government must prove a defendant's knowledge of drug type and quantity? |
| 21-1135 | Goyko Gustav Kuburovich v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-16 | Denied | Response Waived | bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud criminal-procedure due-process false-statements federal-prosecution fraud jury-instructions jury-unanimity statutory-interpretation sua-sponte | Where a criminal defendant is prosecuted in federal court for a single count of bankruptcy fraud relying on multiple alleged false statements, each wi… |
| 21-6122 | Malek Lassiter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal rico rico-conspiracy sentencing standard-of-review | WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF LASSITER'S MOTION FOR JUDGMENT OF ACQUITTAL ON THE RICO CONSPIRACY CHAR… |
| 20-8292 | Pete Anthony Tyndale v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing divisibility due-process federal-prosecution reckless-conduct serious-violent-felony sovereign-authority state-prosecution statutory-interpretation three-strikes-statute Whether the life sentence imposed under the Federa | Does the government have the authority to dictate sovereign particular state, federal trial will be prosecuted other than the state according to the D… |
| 20-8143 | Merwin Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution evidence evidence-rule-404b federal-prosecution federal-rules-of-evidence gun-possession prior-convictions propensity-evidence rule-404(b) | Are prior gun possession convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to prove knowing or intentional gun possession on a later date when the government c… |
| 20-8066 | James Hill v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law due-process federal-prosecution federalism firearm-possession interstate-commerce standing statutory-interpretation | The federal government has committed petitioner James Hill to prison for a term of years based on testimony he briefly possessed a handgun on the fron… |
| 20-7900 | Monique A. Lozoya v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aircraft-crime airspace aviation constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution trial-procedure venue venue-statute | 1. Is the airspace above a State part of that State, and thus the federal district or districts including that State, for purposes of the Constitution… |
| 20-7680 | Jonathan Beasley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether, in a federal prosecution for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(1) that occurred after the dec… |
| 20-7438 | Christopher Stegawski v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | addiction chronic-pain chronic-pain-treatment criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-enforcement due-process federal-prosecution medical-licensing medical-practice-standard medical-prescribing opioid-prescribing | # 1 - When pain of more than three months duration becomes chronic pain (Ohio definition) and dependence (ie. addiction) forms after three months of o… |
| 20-1241 | Michael Paul Miselis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Amici (1) | anti-riot-act civil-rights constitutional-validity criminal-prosecution due-process federal-prosecution first-amendment free-speech overbreadth protest-rights standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2101, the Anti-Riot Act, is facially invalid under the First Amendment. 2. If so, are the constitutionally infirm provisions o… |
| 20-7340 | Christopher Welshans v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-prosecution oath-of-office positive-law standing | 01.) Show cause that in light of the facts presented by Congressman of Ohio James Traficant to the joint session of congress on March 17, 1993, as re… |
| 20-5615 | Michael Gordon v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-prosecution juror-impartiality jury-impartiality jury-selection marijuana-legalization marijuana-prosecution voir-dire | 1. When empaneling a jury for a federal marijuana prosecution in a state where marijuana is legal, does a voir dire inquiry focusing on whether the po… |
| 19-1409 | Howard B. Bloomgarden v. California | California | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split crime-of-violence double-jeopardy extortion federal-prosecution interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation travel-act unlawful-activity | In part, the Travel Act makes it a crime to "travel[] in interstate or foreign commerce….with the intent to…[(a)(2)] commit any crime of violence to f… |
| 19-7916 | Mark Gelazela v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3282 continuing-offense criminal-indictment criminal-procedure federal-prosecution lulling statute-of-limitations time-barred wire-fraud | Whether after-the-fact "lulling" allegations extend the statute of limitations for wire fraud beyond the five-year period authorized by 18 U.S.C. § 32… |
| 19-7536 | James Henry Simpson v. Martesha Bishop, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure criminal-liability criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution federal-rules immunity judicial-docketing prisoner-filing standing statutory-interpretation | 1. Should a U.S. District Court docket a Criminal Complaint filed pursuant to Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure as a civil action and subjected to t… |
| 19-7361 | Edward Shevtsov v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | IFP | actual-decisionmaker circuit-split civil-procedure decisionmaker-test federal-fraud federal-prosecution fraud fraud-statute materiality materiality-standard private-victim reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard | The federal mail, wire, and bank fraud statutes proscribe material misrepresentations. The circuits are divided over the standard for proving material… |
| 19-5664 | Curtis Lee Sheppard, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-motivation criminal-procedure Does the application of the 'enterprise profits' t double-jeopardy due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction pecuniary-gain rico-enterprise standing standing-issue statutory-interpretation vcar-statute | 1. IF THE TRIAL COURT LACKED JURTEDICTIOON DECTION TO SETTHE CONVECTION -JUDGMENT AEIDE AND DEEMISETHELAUSE. 2. THE TREAL COURT /THE COURT OF CREMONA… |
| 18-9183 | Zachary Wayne Jones v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach civil-procedure due-process federal-law federal-prosecution fifth-amendment generic-federal-standard predicate-offense state-statute | Is it a violation of Due Process under the Fifth Amendment for the federal government to utilize a state statute in the prosecution of a federal law a… |
| 18-9001 | Steven P. Reed v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | campaign-finance due-process fair-notice federal-power federal-prosecution mcdonnell-v-united-states money-laundering state-campaign-finance-law state-regulation wire-fraud | In Louisiana, the only body of law regulating state campaign finance expenditures (a) a political campaign The holding of a public office is vaguely d… |
| 18-8456 | Roberto Miramontes Roman v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | IFP | 18-USC-924(c)(1)(A) acquittal conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy Double-Jeopardy-Clause drug-trafficking due-process federal-prosecution Firearm-Possession firearm-statute Prosecution state-court-acquittal state-federal-prosecution statutory-interpretation | 1. Did it violate the Double Jeopardy Clause for the United States to prosecute Mr. Roman for the same offense and conduct for which he was acquitted … |
| 18-1126 | Mufasa Wilson Sejour v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response Waived | commerce-clause criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution hobbs-act interstate-commerce jurisdictional-reach local-business robbery sentencing | In today's world, there is no such thing as a purely local business. All businesses use credit card machines, access the internet, and purchase out-of… |
| 18-7721 | Laron Darrell Carter, aka Birdd, aka Gardena Pimpin Birdd, aka Garr Birdd, aka Pi Birdd, aka Pi Pimpin Birdd v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty-doctrine federal-prosecution prejudice prejudice-showing rule-48(b) rule-48b separate-sovereign-doctrine separate-sovereign-exception state-prosecution | In Gamble v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 2707 (2018), this Court is considering whether the separate sovereign exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause s… |
| 18-989 | United States v. Marvin Lewis | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (3) | 18-usc-924 constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-prosecution federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-offense firearms statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether the subsection-specific definition of "crime of violence" in 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(3)(B), which applies only in the limited context of a federal cr… |
| 18-7451 | Shane Cox v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | affirmative-defense criminal-procedure due-process due-process-right-to-present-defense federal-preemption federal-prosecution firearms-regulation kansas-law second-amendment short-barreled-rifles silencers state-rights | I. Did the district court deny Mr. Cox his due process right to present a defense when it precluded Mr. Cox from arguing to the jury that his reliance… |
| 18-7143 | Derian Eidson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1956 18-usc-1956-a-3 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution government-sting money-laundering proceeds-definition specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation | Whether the criminal prohibitions against money laundering contained in 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1) based on financial transactions that "in fact involvel]… |
| 18-7152 | Yosnel Bonet v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | IFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-power federal-prosecution firearm-possession firearms intrastate intrastate-commerce legal-authority possession second-amendment standing supreme-court-review | Question not identified. |
| 18-7133 | Paul Burks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-tax due-process elements federal-courts federal-prosecution indictment indictment-elements pretrial-motion statutory-interpretation substantive-law tax-law uncertainty | Contrary to the rule in James v. United States, 366 U.S. 213 (1961), is the substantial existence of uncertainty in the governing substantive tax law … |
| 18-762 | Jaime Valente Pina, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Relisted (2) | conflict-of-interest criminal-indictment federal-prosecution plea-bargaining pre-indictment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-charges state-prosecution | Petitioner Jaime V. Pina, Jr., and his younger brother Angel were charged in state court with possession with intent to deliver cocaine. An attorney h… |
| 18-6222 | Donte Timothy Bacon v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenges class-v-united-states commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure de-novo district-of-colombia-v-heller federal-criminalization federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-regulation guilty-plea interstate-commerce intrastate-firearm-possession intrastate-firearm-sale plain-error second-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unconditional-guilty-plea united-states-v-lopez | Consistent with Class v. United States, 583 U.S. _, 138 S.Ct. 798 (2018), are as-applied constitutional challenges to statutes of conviction waived by… |
| 18-5858 | Lance Edward Gloor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-31 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | 10th-amendment due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-prosecution medical-marijuana rohrabacher-farr-amendment separation-of-powers states-rights tenth-amendment | Were the Tenth Amendment, Due Process Clause, and the separation of powers doctrine violated where Congress expressed its clear intent to respect stat… |
| 18-5788 | James Everett Dutschke v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | biological-agents bioweapon-offenses civil-rights constitutional-separation-of-powers due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction jurisdictional-ambiguity plea-agreement select-agents separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation statutory-validity subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction treaty treaty-enactment | 1-Is it constitutional for an Article III judge to act as an Article I lawmaker by rewriting or nullifying existing written law, writing new law or as… |