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24-6330 Michael R. Capps v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review claim-of-error court-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure legal-objection preservation-of-issues Rule 51(b) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure provides that a "party may preserve a claim of error by informing the court . . . of the action …
24-5191 Quentin Veneno, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (22)IFP constitutional-authority courtroom-closure criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure intratribal-conduct presley-v-georgia public-trial rule-51(b) rule-51b tribal-sovereignty 1. Presley v. Georgia, 558 U.S. 209 (2010), held that, before closing the courtroom during a criminal trial, "courts are required to consider alternat…
24-5166 Nicholas Joseph v. United States Second Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure impartial-jury newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment unconscious-bias voir-dire 1) Whether this Court should grant Certiorari to address whether a trial judge, when requested by defense counsel, must voir dire on implicit or uncon…
24-5133 Brian Wright v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court equitable-jurisdiction exceptional-circumstances federal-insurance federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure motion-to-return person ramsden-factors rule-41g standing 1. Did Federal Insurance Company have standing to file a motion under Fed. R. Crim. P. 41(g) when Federal Insurance Company is not a "person" for Fed.…
24-5028 Rafael Cardona, Sr. v. United States First Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure forfeiture good-cause motion-timeliness multiplicity plain-error-review rule-12 waiver Before 2014, Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure required certain enumerated types of motions to be filed before trial, and stated that…
23-7738 Terrill Goods v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure in-absentia presence sentencing waiver 1. Whether a defendant who does not clearly and expressly waive his presence at his sentencing hearing may be sentenced in absentia under Fed. R. Crim…
23-7433 Gary Allen Kachina v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus new-trial standard-of-review Question not identified.
23-6759 Hia-Keem Don'ae Rice v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing supervised-release written-judgment Whether Rule 43(a)(3) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which requires a defendant to be present at sentencing, permits the sentencing judge…
23-6680 Mark Mayo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error rule-52(b) structural-error Does a clear or obvious structural error always, or at least ordinarily, require relief under the plain-error standard of Federal Rule of Criminal Pro…
23-6494 Lewis Dean Armstrong v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split competency-standard competency-to-assist-counsel due-process excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure new-trial-motion pioneer-factors pioneer-investment-services-co-v-brunswick-associa rule-33 This petition is concerned with the denial of a new trial motion under Rule 33(b)(1) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, filed well after the …
23-6441 Marc Hernandez v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure integrity-of-courts judicial-integrity plain-error structural-error substantial-rights 1. The district court excluded the public, including family members, from the courtroom for the entirety of jury selection. Petitioner's counsel faile…
23-6298 Chet Smith v. Cook County, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied IFP criminal-charges federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment government-non-compliance grand-jury oath-requirement panel-defendant procedural-due-process rule-3 void-complaint void-indictment _YV\e re^urfi of a<\ \ ndi'cFrnecvV | w i-hhou-b c\ Whefhec ids -deems do bill, \/ioU-Ves dhe Fi^-^rb cjCani dur^ of inoA Procedure,\, VJheFVieC VO-V…
23-537 Faisal Ashraf, aka Sal v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Amici (1) appeal-waiver circuit-split computer-fraud-and-abuse-act criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement Whether the federal courts of appeals can refuse to consider a challenge to the sufficiency of the factual basis for a guilty plea when the plea agree…
22-7822 Darwin Powell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing standard-of-review withdrawal withdrawal-of-guilty-plea Whether the courts of appeals, by creating checklists of considerations for the district courts to follow, have improperly narrowed the "fair and just…
22-7566 Byron Keith Howard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP automatic-right-to-withdraw criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy right-to-be-informed rule-11 voluntary-plea Must a defendant be informed at the Rule 11 plea colloquy of a factual basis to support the defendant's plea of guilty before the court can accept the…
22-7386 Louis McIntosh, aka Lou D v. United States Second Circuit 2023-04-27 Judgment Issued Amici (2)IFP appellate-courts commerce-clause criminal-forfeiture federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federalism interstate-commerce jurisdiction rule-32.2 sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a district court may enter a criminal forfeiture order outside the time limitations set forth in Rule 32.2, Fed.R.Crim.P.? 2. Is the theft…
22-7272 Christopher Ernest Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure elements-of-crime factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining rule-11 sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-supreme-court Where the record identifies no conduct that matches the clearly established and uncontested elements of the crime of conviction, is the district court…
22-7130 Timothy Fletcher v. United States First Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP booker-decision criminal-procedure district-court-notice federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion mandatory-guidelines notice-requirement sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker Whether this Court's elimination of the mandatory sentencing guidelines pursuant to United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005) has rendered Fed. R. …
22-7116 In Re Ramone L. Wright 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 rule-52 1D cen a prosecutorenter additionc chorses in an indictment withoot the added counts bang Superceded or returned by the Grand Jry while cnder oxith of…
22-827 Carlos Herrera, Daniel Sanchez, and Anthony Ray Baca v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge post-trial-motion rule-12 waiver Whether, under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12, Petitioners were permitted to bring a facial constitutional challenge to their statute of convic…
22-6845 Jesus Lopez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-procedure plea-bargaining rule-11 seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit's stringent application of Rule 11(d)(2)(B) violates due process?
22-6636 Mostafa Kamel Mostafa v. United States Second Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defense-counsel federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-trial-motion rule-33 1. Whether a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel may be raised under Rule 33(b)(1) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure? 2. Whether the …
22-6543 Miguel Angel Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 structural-error Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci…
22-6393 Xavier Milton Earquhart v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review mandate-rule motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment standing subject-matter-jurisdiction If subject matter jurisdiction does not affirmatively appear in the record, is the judgement valid? Does the court have an obligation to determine wh…
22-6348 Douglas James Schneider v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error procedural-violation rule-11 substantial-rights waiver Whether the court of appeals erred in holding the failure to object to the violation of Rule 11(c)(1) provides dispositive evidence that the violation…
22-274 Steven Donziger v. United States Second Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) appointments-clause criminal-contempt criminal-procedure executive-power federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure interbranch-appointments judicial-power separation-of-powers special-prosecutor In Young v. United States ex rel. Vuitton et Fils S.A., 481 U.S. 787 (1987), this Court endorsed the practice of appointing private lawyers to try cri…
22-5599 Denzell Russell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation 1. Is the Sixth Circuit's application of plain error review under Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) in conflict with this Court's decisions? 2. Have the courts …
22-5567 Lamar Harris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-waiver waiver 1. The question presented is whethe r sentencing issue is waived where the Defendant raises, but drops an issue as part of a sentencing or subject to…
22-5540 David Villegas Pereznegron v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings plain-error-review right-to-allocution sentencing sentencing-allocution substantial-rights Whether the plain and prejudicial denial of the right to allocution is an error that ordinarily warrants correction under the fourth prong of plain-er…
22-5529 Anthony H. Lett v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states standing 1. Did. Court of appeals error when denying Petitioner's Rehaif v.: United States , 139 S.Ct. 204. 2. Was Petitioner 's ineffective assistance claim …
22-5400 Maurice D. Bell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error-review preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-procedure Whether an appellate court errs under Fed. R. Crim. P. 51 by applying plain error review to a claim of procedural error brought to the sentencing judg…
21-8033 Jesus Francisco Fernandez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-cause plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(c)(3) provides that certain pretrial motions are "untimely" if not raised by the deadline set by the district co…
21-7876 Matthew Alexander, III v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure motion-to-suppress plain-error suppression-motion waiver When a defendant files a motion to suppress, then raises a new argument to support suppression in the court of appeals, is the new argument waived abs…
21-7866 Carlos Alberto Zamudio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining rule-11 standard-of-review withdrawal withdrawal-of-guilty-plea Whether the courts of appeals, by creating checklists of considerations for the district courts to follow, have improperly narrowed the "fair and just…
21-7648 Luis Fernando Ceja, aka Chako v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-04-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure foreign-citizen foreign-defendant jury-trial jury-trial-waiver oral-colloquy rule-23 waiver Whether courts may decline to enforce the plain language of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 23(a) requiring that a waiver of jury trial be in writi…
21-7645 Alimamy Barrie v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-appeals federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review plain-error procedural-default re-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines successive-filing Should an Error be Corrected in a Motion under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 52b, when the Conditions of US v. Olano are met, even if the I…
21-1319 Mark Nordlicht and David Levy v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Amici (1) credibility criminal-procedure discretion district-court-discretion evidence-weighing federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jury-verdict new-trial new-trial-motion rule-33 standard-of-review witness-credibility Whether district courts have discretion to weigh the evidence, including the credibility of witnesses, when deciding to grant a new trial under Rule 3…
21-7445 Juniel B. Rios v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-variance 1. Whether Constitutional Due Process requires that Irizarry v. United States, 553 U.S. 708 (2008) that limited the Notice requirement in Fed.R.Crim.P…
21-7353 Alejandro Chavarria v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-waiver criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-estoppel judicial-error plea-agreement rule-32 sentencing 1. Whether a trial judge's erroneous FED. R. CRIM. P. 32(j)(1)(B) advice regarding the defendant's right to appeal his sentence, and the Government's …
21-7183 Ruth Diaz-Burgos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment interrogation plea-bargaining plea-colloquy self-incrimination The district court, in conducting a change of plea hearing, failed to advise Petitioner of her right to be free from compelled self-incrimination befo…
21-7116 Victor Armando Acevedo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure notice sentencing supervised-release Whether, under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 43(a)(3), a district court can lawfully impose the thirteen "standard" supervised-release conditions…
21-6955 Erica Umbay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-commerce plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines Whether a Criminal Defendant Can Withdraw a Plea Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) if the Plea Lacked an Adequate Factual Basis? Whet…
21-6652 Salatheo Fluid v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion attorney-representation criminal-procedure district-court federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-standing motion-for-new-trial WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED THEIR RESPECTIVE DISCRETION BY DISMISSING PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL (Fed.R.Crira.P. 33(b)), BASED ON A MOTIO…
21-6123 Antonio Rene Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 sentencing structural-error Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci…
21-6004 Olufolajimi Abegunde v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conspiracy-charges criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure indictment indictment-allegations rule-8-joinder venue venue-impropriety In determining the propriety of Joinder of offenses and/or defendants under Rule 8 Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, there is a profound circuit sp…
21-5844 James Malcolm Hale v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-disposition federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion pretrial-motion pretrial-motions procedural-waiver waiver Whether, in a federal criminal prosecution, a defendant who has not reserved in writing his right to appellate court review of an adverse determinatio…
21-5641 Conoly Freddie Franklin, III, and Andre Anthony Franklin, aka Tommy Martin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review sufficiency Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(3) bar reviewing the sufficiency of a charging document absent a showing of good cause as the Ninth Circ…
21-288 Lancy White, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied Response Waived computer-forensics criminal-procedure cronic-standard e-mail-evidence email-manipulation expert-testimony federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missing-evidence strickland-standard 1. Whether under the Strickland standards of deficient performance and prejudice, trial counsel was ineffective by failing to file a proper notice und…
21-5489 Jerris M. Blanks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied IFP circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence good-cause judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudicial-evidence pretrial-motion 1. Whether, in direct conflict with decisions of other circuits, the Eighth Circuit correctly held that under Fed. R. Crim. P. 12(c), a defendant who …
21-5340 Gerald Allen Hiler v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure district-court factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-agreement sentencing Does a federal criminal defendant's valid waiver of appeal in a plea agreement bar the defendant from an appeal that challenges the sufficiency of the…
20-8189 Heather Dawn Griffith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-distribution federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether, in a prosecution under 21 U.S.C. § 846, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(b)(3) requires a statement sufficient to show an agreement to d…
20-7372 Terry Lee Ockert, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error rule-12 rule-52 suppression-motion Whether, under current Rule 12, after a defendant has made a timely motion to suppress evidence that did not include a particular argument, should the…
20-7250 Eunice Husband v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plain-error supervised-release united-states-constitution The fortcommitted Federal hule of Criminal Procedure 52 (b) Plain Error I. Bias and Abandonment of judicial role by Distict Judge Appellate Court fa…
20-7199 Maurice Duncan Burks v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure motion-for-new-trial new-trial standard-of-review trial-court-discretion witness-credibility Whether Using a Different, More Stringent, Standard of Review When a Trial Court Grants a Motion for New Trial than Utilized When a Trial Court Denies…
20-924 David G. Bowser v. United States District of Columbia 2021-01-11 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1001 criminal-concealment dismissal-with-prejudice false-statement federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judgment-of-acquittal legal-duty material-fact motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal Whether the legal duty to disclose, required for a criminal concealment of a material fact, 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(1), can be created by coupling a volun…
20-5816 Jose Antonio Acevedo-Lemus v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error probable-cause search-warrant suppression-motion waiver 1. When a defendant raises a new theory on appeal in support of a suppression motion filed in district court—in this case, a lack of probable cause fo…
20-5692 Johnathon Nico Wise v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure error-preservation federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit judgment-of-acquittal legal-motion preservation-of-error rule-29 standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether specific grounds must be identified in a Rule 29 motion for judgment of acquittal to preserve error?
20-5639 TJ Cain, aka Thomas J. Cain v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure involuntary-confession miranda-rights plain-error pretrial-motion suppression-of-evidence When a criminal defendant does not timely file a pretrial motion raising a claim covered by Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(8), is his claim …
20-5300 Victor Santana-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2020-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure Does plain error apply to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 32(i)(4)(a)(ii) when the error is caused by the sentencing court
20-5192 Scott Allan Moser v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied IFP appellate-counsel federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel invited-error-doctrine martinez-framework martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment Under the Sixth Amendment, are procedurally defaulted claims of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel excusable under the framework established …
20-5239 Junior Griffin v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-misconduct joinder severance 1. Whether courts must consider allegations of "bad faith" by the government when deciding motions to join counts pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 8(a), o…
20-5216 Brent Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-30 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fact-review federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure gvr judicial-procedure plain-error questions-of-fact standard-of-review Are questions of fact cognizable on plain error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b)? [Petitioner requests GVR in light of Davis v. U…
19-8902 Rafael Antonio Patino-Villalobos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP acknowledgement criminal-procedure defense-counsel district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure invited-error legal-doctrine procedural-waiver rule-52(b) sentencing Whether defense counsel's acknowledgement of the district court's statement during sentencing constitutes an affirmative, intentional, deliberate, and…
19-1432 Charles Rainer Sinek v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-29 Denied Response Waived appeal criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jury-instructions prejudice rule-30 summation When a district court violates Fed. R. Crim. P. 30 and delivers a jury instruction different than what the parties were told to expect, must a defenda…
19-8829 Anastasia Purnell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation pro-se rule-of-law standing SHOULDENT A COURT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS ABUSE OF DESCRETION WHEN IT FAILS TO FOLLOW THE RULE OF LAW AS IT IS WRITTEN??? SHOULDENT A RULE OF LA…
19-1328 Department of Justice v. House Committee on the Judiciary District of Columbia 2020-06-01 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure grand-jury impeachment impeachment-trial judicial-proceeding legislative-body rule-6(e) rule-interpretation Whether an impeachment trial before a legislative body is a "judicial proceeding" under Rule 6(e)(3)(E)(i) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
19-8411 Charles Burton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment structural-error 1. Whether mailing a verdict to a criminal defendant through his counsel in violation of the Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment and Federal Criminal Rul…
19-8385 Enrique Lopez Quintero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure hughes-v-united-states plea-agreement sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines type-c-agreement l.Is a sentence imposed pursuant to a Type-C agreement, Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(c)(1)(C), is based on the defendant's United States Sentencing Guidelines …
19-8228 Kirk Russell Marsh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP claims-processing criminal-procedure direct-appeal equitable-tolling federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure mandatory-claims-processing-rule procedural-error unique-circumstances Whether a trial court's violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(j)(1) is subject to redress on direct appeal. II. Whether an untimely crim…
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 …
19-7782 Stephen Mayer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP absolute-immunity contempt-of-court-18-usc-401 contempt-proceedings criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-42-a-2 federal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction-28-usc-1331 federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-misconduct immunity judicial-immunity statutory-interpretation I. WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT'S OPINION DECLINING JURISDICTION OVER CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS UNDER 18 U.S.C. §401, VIOLATES FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL P…
19-7722 Audrel Jack Watson, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-appeals due-process federal-procedural-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure standing state-court-rules state-statutes statutory-interpretation supreme-court-error ARE ALL STATES MANDATED BY ANY U.S. PROVISIONS TO COMPLY WITH FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE RULE 11 BY ADOPTING THEIR OWN SIMILAR OR IDENTICAL R…
19-7685 Dominic Lindsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-18 GVR IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-errors federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error plain-error-review precedent sentencing standard-of-review Does plain-error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) include factual errors?
19-7568 Theodore Michael Brewster v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-interpretation discretionary-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers supreme-court-precedent united-states-court-of-appeals Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal…
19-7539 Shamir Kane v. United States Third Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-indictment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-joinder federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence hobbs-act joinder severance witness-tampering 1. Did the Court of Appeals err in upholding the District Court's joinder, under Fed. R. Crim. P. 8, of counts in an indictment related to one Hobbs A…
19-7512 Jose Luis Urias-Marquez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation rule-11 supervisory-powers united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-v-lee Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal…
19-7454 Kenneth James Barfield v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32 due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states guidelines preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts According to Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007), every federal criminal sentencing must begin with a correctly calculated Guidelines range. Sen…
19-7235 Trevon Gross v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP daubert due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay prosecutorial-discretion 1. Should the Government be able to convert an expert witness into a summary witness by supplying one of several possible accounting methodologies, an…
19-7189 Kevin D. Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-08 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bias civil-rights criminal-indictment due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-bias judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal standing 1) Did the United States District Court (USDC) judge Reed Charles O'Connor abuse his discretion when he refused to recuse himself/ in violation of the…
19-7201 Casey Lee Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal…
19-7180 Rafael Leonhard Wolfga Beier v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-impairment motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief rule-33 standard-of-review standards-for-new-trial trial-standard 1. Does a criminal defendant's discovery of a recognized mental impairment after conviction at trial constitute newly discovered evidence under Federa…
19-7161 Aaron Michael Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-protections criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing withdrawal-of-plea Whether third-party affidavits filed with a motion to withdraw a guilty plea before sentencing, claiming ineffective assistance of counsel, overcomes …
19-6905 John Alan Conroy v. Cliff Harris, Sheriff, Pecos County, Texas, et al. Texas 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court-consideration-of-evidence appointment-of-counsel brady-v-maryland brady-violation continuing-duty-of-federal-government criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rules dismissal-with-prejudice due-process evidence-withholding federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure in-camera-review michael-morton-act plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-16-federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure state-law-enforcement state-law-enforcement-compliance (1) After a. criminal defendant's plea of guilty, if it is later found that the government did not live up to the requirements - of discovery, is the…
19-6890 Kevin Lamont Pearson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure final-revocation-hearing magistrate-judge probable-cause procedural-review revocation-hearing rule-32.1 standing Does the plain text of Rule 32.1 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure bar a district court from considering an alleged violation at a final revo…
19-6825 Jorge Guerrero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error pretrial-motions rule-12 rule-52 suppression-motion Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(c)(3) provides that certain pretrial motions are "untimely" if not raised by the deadline set by the district co…
19-665 John Doe v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-35 rule-35b sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-factors substantial-assistance 1. May a district court deny a government's Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b) motion for reduction of sentence based on substantial assistance …
19-6674 Margarita Mora v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal…
19-6572 Derrick Hills v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-proceeding coram-nobis criminal-matter federal-criminal-matter federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge united-states-v-morgan Whether Rule 12(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure is applicable to coram nobis civil proceedings that challenge jurisdiction in a feder…
19-6471 Diego Alonso Lozano-Perez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-determination constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining rule-11 standing voluntariness voluntary-plea Whether the Court made the Constitutionally required determination that the guilty plea was truly voluntary, whereas it failed to comply with the rigi…
19-6202 Manuel Rodriguez-Santana v. United States First Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP affidavit constitutional-procedure criminal-complaint criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment magistrate magistrate-review probable-cause No. 1 Whether the District Court Violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendment; Federal jlule Criminal Procedure(Rules 3-4) When it Accepjted; an Accusation…
19-6086 Luis Alberto Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error sentencing sentencing-error standard-of-review In recent years, the Court has granted certiorari to clarify how the plain-error standard of review applies to unpreserved claims of sentencing error.…
19-6033 Christopher Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-24 GVR IFP claim-preservation claim-preservation-yee-v-city-of-escondido crime-of-violence federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-32 federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure moncrieffe-v-holder ninth-circuit rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines yee-v-city-of-escondido I. Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously find Johnson forfeited his sentencing claim, disregarding this Court's claim preservation holdin…
19-6034 Tomas Liriano Castillo v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointments-clause attorney-general-succession-act civil-procedure federal-government federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-vacancies-reform-act notice plain-error procedural-forfeiture rule-52b social-media social-media-notice Can announcements made via the President's personal social media be sufficient to put litigants against the Federal Government on notice so that litig…
19-5949 Marcelino Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining plea-negotiations rule-11 substantial-rights 1) When a district court violates Rule 11(c)(1) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure by interfering in plea negotiations, can a defendant ordina…
19-5861 Louise K. Saine v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-denial appeals career-offender court-of-appeal crime-of-violence criminal-procedure drug-law due-process federal-case federal-classification federal-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure prior-convictions rehabilitation-programs rule-35 sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act state-officer When can Rule 35 be used error? Can a state case be classified as a federal case if defendant has never been convicted of prior felonies? What is th…
19-5856 Amando Villarreal Heredia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 18-usc-3582c2 drug-quantity fed-r-crim-p-11 federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines-range modification-proceeding plea-agreement sentence-recalculation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification QUESTION #1: In a " Modification Proceeding pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2)," as to a retroactively applicable amendment to the U.S. Sentencing Gu…
19-5781 Yong S. Cha, aka Edward Cha v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-waiver federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence plea-bargaining proffer-statements prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment I. When the Government has agreed not to use a defendant's statements except to refute a defense at trial, may the Government only use those proffer s…
19-5697 Felipe Vinagre-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure detention detention-motion federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure indictment judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-timing pretrial-motion speedy-trial-act Whether a motion for detention filed before an indictment or information charging a person has been obtained is a pretrial motion within the meaning o…
19-5563 Ian Alexander Bowline v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions timeliness waiver Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12 no longer provides that the consequence of not timely making a required, pretrial motion is a waiver. Can an app…
19-5396 Vincent Anzalone v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-faith-exception government-policy judicial-authority jurisdiction procedural-violation warrant warrant-application 1. Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule is categorically inapplicable to a warrant issued in violation of Federal Rule of Crimina…
19-5357 Daniel Eugene Cookson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights exclusionary-rule federal-magistrate federal-magistrates-act federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-judge search-warrant territorial-jurisdiction When a warrant authorizes a search beyond the issuing judge's territorial jurisdiction, does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply t…
19-5269 Reginald Christopher Gilbert v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction objection reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente…
19-5216 Nicholas Pagliuca v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining rule-11 vonn-v-united-states Whether the plain error standard of Vonn/Dominguez Benitez applies in the context of violations of Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(b)(1)(N), where the defendant rais…
19-5182 Geovanny Antonio Loyola-Villegas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied IFP appellate-review empirical-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines 1. Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's se…
19-5138 Jesus Alonso Gonzalez Gonzalez, aka Jesus Gonzalez, aka Jesus Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Roberto Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error procedural-review rule-51b sentencing 1. Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure …
19-5010 Andrew Nelson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c) appellate-review continuance criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-52a federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-error prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing substantial-rights trial-continuance vagueness-doctrine 1. Where the district court erroneously premises its denial of a meritorious, unopposed motion for continuance of the trial on a mistaken belief that …
18-9834 Carlos Alberto Ochoa-Orozco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error cumulative-error due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct rule-18 sentencing sixth-amendment venue venue-challenge 1. Whether the district court violated Appellant's right to due process, and his Sixth Amendment right to affair trial, where' the district court 'lac…
18-9776 Irineo Ponce-Recendiz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing 1. Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure …
18-9780 Christopher Hannigan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3551 component-parts criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judgment judgment-parsing judicial-discretion rule-32 sentencing sentencing-rules statutory-interpretation Does the language of Rule 32(k) and 18 U.S.C. §3551 allow for the court to parcel the judgment into component parts?
18-9738 Francisco Gonzalez Jose v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-juror criminal-procedure deliberations due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation jury jury-deliberation jury-instructions mistrial third-circuit united-states-v-sotelo When a juror cannot continue deliberations and an alternate juror is empaneled, Fed. R. Crim. P. 24(c)(3) dictates proceedings to follow. Does the Thi…
18-9703 Milton Terry Kelton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP base-offense-level criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines WHETHER THE HONORABLE JUDGE BRIAN C. WIMES AND THE U.S. ATTORNEY JAMES BOHLING UTILIZE TWO-INAPPLICABLE STATUTORY ENHANCEMENTS ENACTED BY THE UNITED S…
18-9691 Dwayne Lee Stallings v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32-violations criminal-rule false-statement false-statements federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure obstruction-of-justice plain-error plain-error-analysis sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review structural-error Whether the Court's plain error analysis is properly applied to violations of Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(1)(A), and, if so, whether such violations are st…
18-9590 Stephen Mayer v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-33-b-1 criminal-procedure-33-b-2 federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure giglio giglio-violations napue napue-violations new-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct I Whether evidence of Giglio/Napue violations can be utilized as new evidence under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 33(b)(1) or if it is limited t…
18-9365 Jose Antonio Ramirez-Jaramillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation statutory-range substantial-rights Whether an error in selecting the defendant's statutory range of imprisonment affects his or her substantial rights within the meaning of Federal Rule…
18-9370 Mark A. Blankenship v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure district-court district-court-determination fed-r-crim-p-35(b) federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review reduced-sentence sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-factor sentencing-factors Does appellate jurisdiction lie from a district court's determination that a particular sentencing factor is relevant to the imposition of a reduced s…
18-9304 Abel De Leon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea pre-acceptance right-to-withdraw rule-11 withdrawal Whether a formal motion to withdraw a guilty plea is required to invoke the protections of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(d)(1), which provides…
18-9206 Mitchell Felix Brooks v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-compliance rule-11 sentencing supervisory-powers supervisory-powers-of-lower-courts (1) Whether the District Court Judge abused its discretion in violation pursuant to Rule 11, United States v. McCarthy "62 interrogation questions" ma…
18-9132 Earlie Dickerson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-witness government-witnesses motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence perjury trial-motion witness-credibility witness-testimony Question One: Whether new evidence that Government witnesses provided untruthful statements during a trial can ever satisfy the requirements for a mot…
18-8995 Maurice Anderson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure first-amendment judicial-discretion legitimate-government-purpose plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing type-c-agreement 1. When a judge induces a defendant to plead guilty by reassuring him that if his plea is accepted the court is bound to impose a sentence specified i…
18-8868 Amilcar C. Butler v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP clerical-error commitment court-filing criminal-procedure fed-r-crim-p-36 federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judgment judgment-correction judicial-error procedural-rule record I. Is It Error For The District Court To File An Order Granting A Petition To Correct A Clerical. Error In The Judgment Under Fed. R. Crirn. P. 36, Bu…
18-8558 Jorge Edwin Rivera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release When a district court imposes a term of supervised release double that of the Guidelines range without first calculating the range or providing an exp…
18-8568 David Piper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion compulsory-process criminal-procedure defense-witnesses due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-rights witness-production I. Whether Petitioner was deprived of compulsory process under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and the Compulsory Process Clause of the …
18-8049 Ramon Montero v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit harmless-error harmlessness-standard molina-martinez molina-martinez-precedent molina-martinez-v-united-states preserved-error preserved-errors rule-52a sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Is the Fifth Circuit correctly conducting its harmlessness inquiry when reviewing preserved Guidelines-calculation errors arising under Rule 52(a) of …
18-7859 Frank D. Monsegue, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement standing subpoena warrantless-arrest Whether eudence used to Secure a True Bill from a defective summons /subpena (No Authorizing Authority Name or Signature) attached hereto render the i…
18-7715 Jose Flores v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-quantity due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure minor-role minor-role-reduction plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-3b1.2 Was the District Court's failure to determine a factual basis, and to insure that defendant understood the nature of the charges, in violation of Rule…
18-7607 Bruce White v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-actions criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-withdrawal plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing voluntary-plea withdrawal-of-plea IF A PLEA WAS NOT ENTERED VOLUNTARY, INTELLIGENTLY, OR KNOWINGLY WILL THAT BE CONSIDERED GROUNDS TO FILE A MOTION FOR WITHDRAWAL OF A PLEA AGREEMENT P…
18-7035 Eminiano A. Reodica v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court evidentiary-hearing federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-withdrawal rule-11 Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(d) governing motions to withdraw a guilty plea establishes a liberal standard which precludes the distri…
18-7009 Jimmy Davis v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure notice notice-requirement procedural-due-process supervised-release third-circuit Whether Mr. Davis was denied procedural due process as required under the Constitution of the United States and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedur…
18-6853 Noe Garcia-Lima v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-52(b) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights When the "record is silent as to what the district court might have done had it considered the correct Guidelines range," Molina-Martinez v. United St…
18-6746 Joseph Haymore, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent severance severance-motion waiver waiver-rule Whether failure to renew a severance motion at the close of evidence waives the issue, such that it precludes appellate review. Only the Ninth Circuit…
18-6473 Jeremy Bernard Harrison v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing 1. Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure …
18-6434 Craig Martin Shults v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ninth-circuit precedent rule-52(b) severance severance-motion waiver waiver-rule Whether failure to renew a severance motion at the close of evidence waives the issue, such that it precludes appellate review. Only the Ninth Circuit…
18-6401 James Gabriel Smith v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review competency criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure informed-consent judicial-process plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11-procedure FED. R. CRIM. P. 11 requires district courts to engage in a specific, on-the-record plea colloquy. In reviewing a plea colloquy, is it sufficient for …
18-6391 Matthew Vaughn Hawks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-disability plain-error sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-reasonableness substantial-rights united-states-v-olano I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Misapplied Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) and United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725 (1998) by Failing to Grant Relief for Plain…
18-6300 Cheryl Singleton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP allocution criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure joint-stipulation presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report sentencing Does the filing of joint stipulation(s) as to the presentence investigation report entitle the defendant to allocution on the (A)(i), (ii) ?
18-421 Jose Luis Cepeda-Cortes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived co-defendant criminal-procedure extraneous-criminal-acts federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure joint-trial jury-reliability prejudice rule-14a severance spill-over-effect zafiro-v-united-states Does a fair and consistent application of Rule 14(a) require this Court to re-examine its decision in Zafiro and clarify the factors to be considered …
18-6034 In Re Gregory Wayne Burwell 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-grand-jury federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment firearm-offenses forged-indictment grand-jury indictment-validity non-existent-crimes non-existent-offenses sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal's had subject matter jurisdiction over the criminal case entitled United States of Ameri…
18-5979 Malik Derry v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment law-of-case right-to-be-present right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence A. Whether the Fifth or Sixth Amendments, or Rules 43 and 44 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, are violated when neither a criminal defendan…
18-237 Gary Thomas and Felix Parrilla v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment civil-procedure conspiracy-venue constitutional constitutional-venue cooperating-witness criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-witness manufactured-venue prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment venue venue-determination venue-manipulation venue-provisions witness-cooperation 1. Whether it is permissible under the venue provisions of the U.S. Constitution Article III, § 2, cl. 3; the Sixth Amendment; and Federal Rules of Cr…
18-5182 Carlton Butler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied IFP circuit-split count-of-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-authority federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure illegal-sentence reallocation reallocation-of-sentences rule-35 scope-of-judicial-power sentencing split-among-circuits Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(a) grants a district court authority to reallocate the illegal portion of a term of imprisonment levied …