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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6758 | Quintin Washington v. Jeff Tanner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-09 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process grand-jury indictment judicial-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction | I. WHEN A COURT LACKS SUBJECT-MATTER JURISDICTION, PROCEEDINGS ARE VOID AB INITIO. ARE THE CONVICTIONS/SENTENCES AGAINST MR. WASHINGTON VOID BECAUSE T… |
| 25-841 | Henry Troy Wade v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-15 | Pending | Response Waived | brady-violation constitutional-procedure due-process grand-jury sixth-amendment wire-fraud | 1. Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. §1343 must be vacated where the Government obtained a verdict under a theory materially broader than the indic… |
| 25-773 | Joseph John Slack v. Robert McHugh, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Pending | Response Waived | criminal-procedure felony-charges grand-jury pennsylvania-law probable-cause statewide-investigation | Whether the presentment of a statewide investigating grand jury in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania constitutes prima facie evidence of probable cause… |
| 25-6436 | Francisco Junior Louis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights covid-delay criminal-procedure grand-jury pro-se-motion speedy-trial | Is a criminal defendant's statutory and constitutional right to a speedy trial violated when the delay in obtaining an indictment arose from the gover… |
| 25-6171 | Aldo DiBelardino v. Jason S. Miyares, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury law-enforcement | 1. Does the systematic manipulation of our grand jury authority —contrary to its constitutionally intended role as a "protector of citizens [the Peo… |
| 25-5492 | Shedrick Givens v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Louisiana | 2025-08-28 | Denied | IFP | bill-of-information constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment grand-jury subject-matter-jurisdiction thirteenth-amendment | 1. Whether the trial court, in the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson, lacked subject matter jurisdiction where in United States v. Cot… |
| 25-5453 | George T. Rodgers, aka Gary Adams, aka Jeffrey Reid, aka Jim Johnson v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2025-08-22 | Denied | IFP | body-worn-camera exculpatory-evidence grand-jury identification-error perjury search-warrant | 1. Detective Josh Pavlov of the Bordentown Township Police Dept, applied for and obtained a search warrant for the home of the defendant's father unde… |
| 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… |
| 24-7462 | Henry Weaver v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | allen-charge due-process evidence-rule fifth-amendment grand-jury lay-opinion | 1. This Court has decided that the judicial system must take a "hands-off" approach to grand jury proceedings, and as a result, criminal defendants ha… |
| 24-7315 | Kenyon Lamonte Watson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bail-reform-act criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury pretrial-detention res-judicata | Both the Constitution and the Bail Reform Act presume pretrial release. This petition presents the question of whether, under the Fifth Amendment and … |
| 24-7070 | In Re Shawn Michael Chalifoux | 2025-04-24 | Denied | IFP | conspiracy controlled-substance false-testimony grand-jury prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution | 1) Does an Assistant U.S. Attorney have the authority to present perjurious testimony and/or false declarations before a grand jury and/or district co… | |
| 24-6910 | In Re Edward Greeman | 2025-04-01 | Denied | IFP | brady-violation due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus speedy-trial warrantless-arrest | Whether the arrest was warrantless and if the arresting officers had jurisdiction to execute an arrest.[Point 1. of my §2254 habeas petition.] A Sixth… | |
| 24-6590 | John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights declaratory-judgment grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-process void-indictment | 1. Whether a South Carolina Supreme Court's Order Declining to Entertain a Complaint for a Declaratory Judgment to Determine the Legality and Constitu… |
| 24-6458 | David C. Lettieri v. Federal Bureau of Investigation | Second Circuit | 2025-02-03 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-process constitutional-rights due-process false-arrest grand-jury probable-cause | 1. When a grand jury claims no probable cause is it an undisputed fact on a false arrest? 2. Can Due Process of law be affected by flase arrest" 3. … |
| 24-710 | Daniel D. Basile, III v. Illinois | Illinois | 2025-01-03 | Denied | Response Waived | confession-evidence constitutional-amendments due-process grand-jury judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the Illinois Supreme Court's holding in this case weakens the shield function of the grand jury process by inappropriately altering the standa… |
| 24-5960 | Christopher Patrick McGowan v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2024-11-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment grand-jury preliminary-hearing probable-cause | 1. DID THE FRANKLIN COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS VIOLATE THE PETITIONER'S FOURTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS BY FAILING TO ESTABLISH PROBABLE CAUSE BY REFUSING T… |
| 24A343 | Saaed Moslem v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-10-11 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights fraud-on-court grand-jury judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations | 1) Whether prosecutorial misconduct in misrepresenting material facts to a grand jury to circumvent the statute of limitations warrants dismissal of a… | |
| 24-407 | Bonnie Burkhardt v. Penney Azcarate, Chief Judge, Fairfax County Circuit Court | Virginia | 2024-10-11 | Denied | Response Waived | common-law constitutional-rights criminal-activity grand-jury official-misconduct public-safety | Does a citizen have a Constitutional and Common Law right to report evidence of felonious activity to the grand jury, especially when public safety of… |
| 24-5698 | Tony Moore, Jr. v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2024-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury jurisdictional-challenge wrongful-imprisonment | WHETHER PETITIONER'S CRITICAL DUE PROCESS RIGHTS UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT IS BEING CONTINUOUSLY DENIED/VIOLATED, AND HIS STATUTORY RIGHT ENTITLE… |
| 24A241 | John Dwayne Garvin v. Levern Cohen, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-06 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge declaratory-judgment due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus | Does a South Carolina Supreme Court's Decision Declining to Entertain a Complaint for a Declaratory Judgment to Determine the Legality and Constitutio… | |
| 24-5079 | John W. Patton v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence confrontation constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial grand-jury impartial-judge judicial-interference perjury pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment stand-by-counsel transcript | 1. What defense tools are Louisiana pro-se defendants entitled to when they choose to represent themselves pro-se at trial? a. Does it Violate Due Pro… |
| 23-7681 | Thomas George Craaybeek v. Texas | Texas | 2024-06-11 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights grand-jury habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief suppressed-evidence | ACCORNML Te THE Stare & TEAS in Ex Sante Tovaa, M6) 4¥I28 YBN 1 that tHE _Pundnse to SE Senvzo G4 A Pode cenvienon wear & daseas Cons 14 \wete ane hes… |
| 23-7278 | Kasheen Samuels v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment-modification jury-instructions sixth-amendment | Did the Second Circuit err in failing to find that Kasheen Samuels' Fifth Amendment rights to an indictment by a Grand Jury and due process and his Si… |
| 23-7271 | Arthur Lomax v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-04-19 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial felony-prosecution grand-jury indictment preliminary-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction | When a states "Bill of Rights", calls for the prosecution of felonies *only by indictment whether prosecution by any other method conforms with the st… |
| 23-6966 | Alison Lee Gendreau v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-restitution fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-right jury-trial proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt reasonable-doubt restitution sixth-amendment | WHETHER THE FIFTH AMENDMENT GRAND JURY RIGHT AND THE SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL ON PROOF BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT APPLY NOT ONLY TO IMPRISON… |
| 23-6935 | Dennis James Gaede v. North Dakota | North Dakota | 2024-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment 8th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto excessive-punishment grand-jury north-dakota | 1. Whether Gaede's 8th and 14th Amendment Rights to Due Process and to be Free from Excessive Punishment were Violated when the State of North Dakota … |
| 23-6893 | Jacob A. Rubini v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjured-testimony perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct | Pro Se Post Conviction Petition On May 23, 2022, Rubini filed a pro se post conviction petition. (C. 680). In this petition, Rubini raised the follow… |
| 23-6789 | Randolph Maya v. Florida | Florida | 2024-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | evidence grand-jury grand-jury-testimony impeachment impeachment-evidence jury-instructions prior-inconsistent-statement substantive-evidence witness witness-testimony | 1. Can a party knowingly call a witness it expects to testify contrary to previous statements in order for those statements to entered as substantive … |
| 23-884 | Marco Antonio Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-16 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process grand-jury harmless-error judicial-interpretation release-violation sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | 1. Does an enhanced sentence pursuant to 18 USC § 3147 authorize a punishment exceeding the statutory maximum sentence for the underlying offense comm… |
| 23-6767 | Michael Samuel Hudson, Jr. v. Melissa Andrewjeski, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bill-of-rights citizenship due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause hurtado-v-california incorporation-doctrine privileges-and-immunities privileges-immunities | 1. Does the fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause, by means through the Hm% §liuii (which imlyiii the duil=©itiiiniMp elsuii, thi pfivilggii … |
| 23-6730 | Bryant Calloway v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility witness-testimony | Whether despite evidence that the fundamental witness of the prosecution, in the shape of violation passed on the divergeceptions of Thomas Valdez Gui… |
| 23-6556 | Robert Thrasher v. Georgia | Georgia | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment legal-record statutory-oath subject-matter-jurisdiction void-conviction witness-testimony | Where there is no record of grand jury proceedings, this means there were no grand jury proceedings. The criminal jury proceeding was never a grand ju… |
| 23-6360 | In Re Burt Setts | 2023-12-27 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | 5th-amendment capital-conviction civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment | Whether Petitioner was denied the right to a capital conviction without a Grand Jury's indictment, under the U.S.C., 5th Amendment, violating due proc… | |
| 23A559 | Colin Montague v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-12-18 | Presumed Complete | continuing-criminal-enterprise criminal-statute fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment predicate-violations | Question not identified. | |
| 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… |
| 23-379 | John S. Barth v. Department of Justice, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-10-11 | Denied | Response Waived | checks-and-balances civil-rights due-process executive-discretion grand-jury political-corruption racketeering rico sovereign-immunity | 1. Do federal agencies have discretion to collude in racketeering crime? 2. Do federal agencies have "sovereign immunity " in racketeering crime? 3.… |
| 23-5308 | James Renwick Manship v. Susan Beals, Commissioner | Virginia | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights election-integrity electronic-voting first-amendment free-speech grand-jury petition petition-rights voting-machines voting-rights | related to FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS of HONEST VOTE (FREE SPEECH) & PETITION for REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES to a GRAND JURY 1) Is an Election Expedited Injunc… |
| 23-5054 | Vitaly Burleovitsch Kolosha v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2023-07-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-access exculpatory-evidence grand-jury multiple-prosecutions post-conviction sentencing state-prison | U/frthT /S> P/XOpB/2 uJtTBM SPATE- cl*0<u*LFs AlBPtS£/~Af<5 TO tr&A-R- CLASS njtfSOJE A McecJpf Ceoc/MTY Or/L/HJd \Tcy/2^/ ppPc/spp TO /Mb7cT~ p&ri t… |
| 23-5042 | Daniel Robinson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-rule-of-evidence fifth-amendment grand-jury law-enforcement-testimony opinion-evidence prosecutorial-overreach | 1. Whether this Court's guidance on constructive amendments in conspiracy cases is necessary to protect criminal defendants' Fifth Amendment rights. … |
| 22-7581 | Michael D. Beiter, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-records chilling-effect court-precedent due-process government-action grand-jury legal-relief legal-rights penalization procedural-limitation prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution | Whether, under Borderkircher v. Hayes, 434 U.S. 357, 358-59 (1978); North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711 (1969); Chaffin v. Stynchcombe, 412 U.S. 17… |
| 22-1065 | John Paul Gosney, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-02 | Denied | Response Waived | asset-forfeiture asset-restraint counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-order forfeiture-statute grand-jury right-to-counsel traceability | I Whether United States v. Monsanto, 491 U.S. 600 (1989), and/or Kaley v. United States, 571 U.S. 320 (2014), should be overruled or at least modified… |
| 22-7087 | Michael James Hoffman v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-24 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence-manipulation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-misconduct trial-misconduct | 1. To secure its 2011 and 2012 false indictments, did the State violate Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and Due Process when it circumve… |
| 22-6966 | In Re Antwoyn Terrell Spencer | 2023-03-08 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-decisis constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause final-decisions grand-jury grand-jury-clause indictment jurisdiction statute-of-limitations | Question not identified. | |
| 22-6926 | Jesse Davenport, aka Draco John Flama v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-conviction due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury multi-count-indictment petit-jury | Whether a court violates a defendant's Fifth Amendment Grand Jury rights when it instructs a petit jury that it can convict him for a conspiracy consi… |
| 22-6877 | Ramone Wright v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure clerk-authority criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment-correction judicial-integrity judicial-process judicial-records prosecutorial-error public-confidence record-amendment | Does the clerk of court have the authority to correct the Record that was filed under oath and returned by the jurors concerning the indictment? Does… |
| 22-6864 | In Re Abdush S. DuBose | 2023-02-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-procedure criminal-defendant due-process grand-jury indictment judicial-discretion jurisdiction jury-selection standing trial-rights | Question not identified. | |
| 22-6858 | In Re Zumar H. Dubose | 2023-02-24 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment jury-selection personal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-rights | Question not identified. | |
| 22-777 | William E. Henry v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-17 | Denied | Response Waived | butterworth-precedent compelled-speech constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech grand-jury grand-jury-secrecy prior-restraint secrecy witness-testimony | Nearly 33 years ago, this Court decided Butterworth v. Smith, 494 U.S. 624 (1990), holding that grand jury secrecy laws restricting a grand jury witne… |
| 22-6382 | James A. Warren v. Florida | Florida | 2022-12-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | capital-crime capitol-crime constitutional-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment florida-constitution grand-jury indictment presentment | 1. Does Article I Section 15(a) of the Florida Constitution prohibit any person from being tried for a capitol crime without presentment or indictment… |
| 22-6335 | Timothy Michael Unzueta v. Texas | Texas | 2022-12-19 | Denied | IFP | clear-error criminal-justice criminal-procedure date-range due-process grand-jury legal-procedure material-element void-conviction | Is it not clear error to allow a void conviction to continue (i.e., to not be vacated) knowing that a material (date-range essential) element was impr… |
| 22-6202 | Peter Gakuba v. Illinois Prisoner Review Board | Illinois | 2022-12-02 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule grand-jury grand-jury-indictment jurisdiction jurisdictional-error privacy-protection statutory-rape video-privacy-protection-act void-judgment vppa-violation | Whether Gakuba's criminal indictment for 'statutory rape' was void ab initio due to the Illinois police and prosecutors' violation of the Video Privac… |
| 22-6201 | In Re Arthur James Lomax | 2022-12-01 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment bill-of-rights civil-rights due-process federalism grand-jury indictment state-constitution statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction uniformity-of-laws | Is it true that the Colorado Constitution specifies that the General Assembly of the State of Colorado? Colo. Const. art.V.8 18. Is the Colorado Cour… | |
| 22-6171 | Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States District Court for the District of Hawaii | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-30 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression government-misconduct grand-jury grand-jury-subpoena prosecutorial-misconduct subpoenas | } i>£» if"c\base piroeett av\<\ vVoletiicrvi o4- Pc\i-hcme-rt£> H4-U Ame^mcnl Coi^bb^birviei I Du FceHtrwsf | R_u It^s, o-f Cin ion i nei |a\r\ <=- E… |
| 22-433 | The Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General of the United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-11-08 | Denied | Response Waived | 11-Sep 9-11 article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-circuits federal-courts first-amendment grand-jury judicial-remedies standing | A. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Act Contrary to the Constitution and in Conflict with Decisions of the Supreme Court … |
| 22-5976 | Ricky Pendleton v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex | West Virginia | 2022-11-04 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction malicious-assault robbery sixth-amendment | Under the Constructive Amendment, any substantial amendment, direct or indirect, of an indictment must be resubmitted to the grand jury. Pendleton new… |
| 22-5980 | Arius Hopkins v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence grand-jury rule-404(b) trial-fairness | Whether the admission of evidence of prior alleged conduct similar to the crime on trial and dismissed by a grand jury, which was noticed for one purp… |
| 22-5921 | Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-26 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process grand-jury indictment mandamus personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Question not identified. |
| 22-5785 | Robert Alan Fratta v. Texas | Texas | 2022-10-07 | Denied | IFP | attorney-neglect constitutional-compliance criminal-procedure grand-jury habeas-corpus indictment pro-se state-courts state-procedure supreme-court-precedent | 1) IN LIGHT OF THE SHINN v. MARTINEZ RAMIREZ RULING, ARE STATE COURTS NOW REQUIRED TO ACCEPT AND RULE ON THE MERITS OF CLAIMS PRESENTED IN WRITS OF H… |
| 22-224 | Brent Stroman, et al. v. John Wilson, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights false-arrest franks-v-delaware franks-violation grand-jury law-enforcement pleading-standards qualified-immunity section-1983 | This case involves issues relating to the arrest of respondents on the charge of engaging in organized criminal activity and the sufficiency of respon… |
| 22-222 | Abelino "Abel" Reyna, et al. v. John Wilson, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 criminal-procedure due-process franks-rule franks-v-delaware grand-jury judicial-procedure probable-cause search-warrant section-1983 | In Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154 (1978), this Court announced a rule of "limited scope" which allowed a criminal defendant to attack the veracity o… |
| 22-5496 | Vance L. White v. Texas | Texas | 2022-09-01 | Denied | IFP | court-modification criminal-procedure grand-jury indictment-elements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-maximum | Can H)t Tudyz modipy the. essentiac elements set Qonth In the /'ndittment cn~ the. Plea CoUoquy? Coin -the. Court Armnd M indictment- (oithout dAt te… |
| 22-5352 | Travis Thomas, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment criminal-procedure factual-description factual-distinction fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause indictment-modification prescription-drug required-element trial-amendment | Does the Fifth Amendment's Grand Jury Clause prohibit a trial amendment altering a factually distinct description of a required element? |
| 22-5052 | Fox Joseph Salerno v. Arizona | Arizona | 2022-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment apprendi-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury incorporation precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction | I. Should the U.S. Constitutional Fifth Amend requiring indictments be applied to the States, thereby overturning precedence from 1884; Hurtado v. C… |
| 21-8254 | Bryant Calloway v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process grand-jury guilty-verdict judicial-review material-perjury perjury petit-jury precedent structural-error | 1. Whether this Court should consider material perjury before the grand jury as structural error that is not cured by the guilty verdict of the petit … |
| 21-1562 | Jermel Leon Reed v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Virginia | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment | A. Was Reed's right to a grand jury indictment secured by the Fourteenth and Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution was violated when Reed … |
| 21-7985 | Freddie Glover v. Florida | Florida | 2022-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal capital-crime constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury information-charging notice opportunity-to-be-heard state-counsel subject-matter | (1). Whether Glover is Due Process Rights were violated by not allowing him opportunity to Reply to State Counsel Answer Brief prior to making a rulin… |
| 21-7858 | Larry Lewis v. Mississippi | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions | Whether the indictment was defected in count 1 and two under See - on pale coun) cauck practice The in dickmeng fail +o e Cu 6 Spee ic dake and lace o… |
| 21-7806 | Mike Webb v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | covid-19 executive-privilege glomar-response grand-jury mandamus marbury-vs-madison public-interest supreme-court-rules | 1. Whether, pursuant to S.Ct.R. 11, see also 28 U.S.C. § 2101(e) 1, upon application for prejudgment relief, in "a case pending in a United States cou… |
| 21-7522 | Jerry Wayne Phillips v. Martin Frink, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection sexual-battery standard-of-review | 1. CAN CONVICTIONS OF AGGRAVATED SEXUAL BATTERY BE SUSTAINED WHEN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE FAILED TO PROVE THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF THE CRIME AS DESCRI… |
| 21-1201 | Michael D. Smith v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-02 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury judicial-misconduct jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct | Will the Eastern District of Kentucky be allowed to ignore our federal laws, Constitution and Bill of Rights and have a 5 week, mock trial on innocent… |
| 21-7202 | In Re Mohammed Kwaning | 2022-02-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-procedure grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct unlawful-imprisonment | IS PETITIONER ENTITLED TO IMMEDIATE DISCHARGE, WHERE THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT TRIED AND IMPRISONED PETITIONER FOR INFAMOUS CRIMES WITHOUT PRES… | |
| 21-7119 | Victor Carlos Castano v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-02-15 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure enterprise fifth-amendment grand-jury jury-instructions proffer-agreement rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement | A. Whether the government was impermissibly relieved of its burden to prove each element of RICO Conspiracy when the court instructed the jury that an… |
| 21-6948 | Robert Earl Ramseur v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury indictment prosecutorial-vindictiveness self-surrender sentencing superseding-indictment | 1. Is it prosecutorial vindictiveness to have a superseding indictment after completion of the trial proceedings and sentencing without resubmission t… |
| 21-6910 | Juan Manuel Cruzado-Laureano v. W. Stephen Muldrow | First Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion attorney-for-government attorney-for-the-government criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure grand-jury grand-jury-procedure indictment indictment-validity judicial-discretion mandamus mandamus-petition | 1- An Indictment whose "True Bill" is only signed by the US District Attorney to arrest and criminally prosecute an accused is valid, even when the si… |
| 21-6718 | Gregory Chester and William Ford v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi apprendi-doctrine conspiracy-sentencing criminal-procedure grand-jury indictment presentment-clause sentencing statutory-sentencing superseding-indictment | Whether, where Apprendi and its progeny requires the petit jury to return special findings as to individual conspiracy defendants to justify an increa… |
| 21-899 | Lauren Rosecan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-17 | Denied | Response Waived | collateral-order-doctrine criminal-information criminal-procedure due-process felony grand-jury grand-jury-clause interlocutory-appeal jurisdictional-defect pretrial-motion | Whether the denial of a pretrial motion to dismiss a criminal information that charges, in violation of theGrand Jury Clause, felony offenses without … |
| 21-892 | Micah James Patterson v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-12-16 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-jurisdiction constitution constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury judicial-authority | Does any court have the authority to amend the United States Constitution by fiat and extinguish a defendant's Fifth Amendment rights? |
| 21-851 | Richa Narang v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-08 | Denied | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment jurisdiction mens-rea reinstatement statute | 1. Whether a district court has jurisdiction to try a defendant upon a finally dismissed indictment that the government has never sought to reinstate,… | |
| 21-6222 | Marc E. Bercoon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-09 | Denied | IFP | bank-of-nova-scotia-v-us chapman-v-california constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury harmless-error judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether Petitioners rights vnder the Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment were violated when: (a) a timely Fild moton under Federal Rules of Comin… |
| 21-6137 | Vassily Anthony Thompson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment sentencing | 1. Does it offend the Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury for a court to ignore legally relevant elements of an offense charged by a grand jury in a… |
| 21-580 | Vitaly Korchevsky v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process evidence grand-jury grand-jury-clause insider-trading material-nonpublic-information securities-exchange-act securities-fraud stock-trading | 1. The Grand Jury Clause of the United States Constitution states that "[n]o person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime… |
| 21-5997 | Jeremiah Ybarra v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process effective-counsel fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | WHETHER APPELLANT WAS DENIED HIS FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO A GRAND JURY PRESENTMENT OR INDICTMENT WHETHER APPELLANT WAS DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIG… |
| 21-5756 | Gettus Leroy Mintz v. Arizona | Arizona | 2021-09-22 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection false-testimony forensic-evidence grand-jury sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Question not identified. |
| 21-5669 | Thomas Woods v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk | First Circuit | 2021-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment adversarial-system compelled-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury racial-disparities self-incrimination | 1) Where a target of a grand jury investigation is compelled under threat of the pains and penalties of the law to appear to testify at the grand jury… |
| 21-5370 | Martha Aguirre v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process government-misconduct grand-jury material-misrepresentation material-testimony narcotics-conspiracy perjury prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony | Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when the only witness for the Government linking the appellant to a narcotics conspiracy commits perjury in… |
| 21-5252 | Jason Robert Twardzik v. North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-29 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus mental-competency pretrial-detention state-harassment | The Supfeme Court Was recognized three Ato Young relief Younger u. Harris ,H01 U,S, 37 ( M7I). _ ,W.»* of Ui fnltb orK-»rA™« e«tLyrt,teofhcwl S r«pwiU… |
| 20-8344 | Harry Sharod James v. Tom Brickhouse, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-17 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-admissibility ex-post-facto grand-jury impartial-jury indictment judicial-discretion trial-rights | Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment and presented to a grand jury in th… |
| 20-8165 | Mitchell N. Nicholas v. Territory of the Virgin Islands | Third Circuit | 2021-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exclusionary-rule federal-investigation fourth-amendment grand-jury miscarriage-of-justice standing unreasonable-searches | Question not identified. |
| 20-8067 | In Re Jeremiah Ybarra | 2021-05-18 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights conviction due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct | IS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN'S FIFTH-AMENDMENT VIOLATED WHEN HIS CASE IS NOT PRESENTED TO A GRAND JURY TO GAIN AN INDICTMENT ON THE ALLEGED OFFENSE? DOES A… | |
| 20-7991 | Bulmaro Contreras-Figueroa, aka Israel Contreras v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury sentencing statutory-interpretation | Is the Fifth Amendment right to a grand jury violated when a defendant enters a guilty plea to an indictment that alleges a conspiracy to commit an of… |
| 20-7738 | Elmer W. Grant, Jr. v. United States | District of Columbia | 2021-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment-14th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury grand-jury-selection judicial-precedent jurisdiction precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction | I.') IS THE PRECEDENT SET IN GAITHER V. UNITED STATES, 413 F.2d 1061 (D.C Cir. 1969), WHEN IT WAS MADE CLEAR AFTER THAT ANY INDICTMENT WITH JUST THE… |
| 20-7668 | Mary Jo Weidrick v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. | District of Columbia | 2021-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-conference civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-dismissal due-process grand-jury legal-complaint republic standing terrorism terrorism-allegation | Whether the facts alleged in Petitioner's complaint are true and non-frivolous despite the bizarre and unusual nature of the case rather than "frivolo… |
| 20-7638 | Cesar Gomez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-01 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial grand-jury harmless-error indictment-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct | 1) In adopting the 12th Court of Appeals opinion, who used the State's 'harm analysis'' standard, did the U . S . Dis t. Court apply the harmless- err… |
| 20-7603 | In Re Bruce Allen Rutherford | 2021-03-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights discovery due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-delay prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255-motion | The district court Judge A. Marcia Crone, has unreasonably delayed the ruling on my 28 U.S.C. §2255 Motion for over Seventeen (17) months after the la… | |
| 20-7567 | Brent Douglas Cole v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-rights search-and-seizure standing | California instituted prosecution against the Petitioner January d6, 2014 during a warrant/ess search and seizure without probable couse for a "welfar… |
| 20-7330 | James Marcus Lloyd, III v. J. Hutchinson, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | IFP | 922(g) actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance rehaif right-to-trial structural-error | 1. Whether petitioners constitutional right to due process and his constitutional right to, "decide to proceed to trial or, plead guilty " was "denied… |
| 20-7166 | Charles J. Jordan v. United States | District of Columbia | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection grand-jury grand-jury-selection judicial-review jurisdiction | 1. Whether the D.C. Court of Appeals is interpreting D.C. Code § 1-204 right when it is allowing the D.C. Superior Court to modify Federal Rules and i… |
| 20-1127 | Joseph Louis Paduano v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury incorporation state-courts state-criminal-proceedings | A. Should Hurtado v. California be overruled? B. Does the right to a grand jury indictment conferred by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Cons… |
| 20-7133 | Anthony Reed v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion structural-defects | 1. Authority to File The Arkansas Constitutional Amendment No. 21 States: Section 1. Prosecution by indictment or Information - all offenses heretofo… |
| 20-7064 | Justin Lee Perry v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2021-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-amendment due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment grand-jury indictment sixth-amendment trial-modification | 1. Since the N.C. Constitution guarantees indictment by a grand jury for felony charges, does the N.C. Supreme Court decision conflict with Plveiff. D… |
| 20-7059 | Glen Thomas Dotson v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment grand-jury prosecutorial-misconduct right-against-self-incrimination witness-testimony | Was the petitioner deprived of a fair trial when the only Government witness to incriminate him lied to the jury that the defendant appeared before th… |
| 20-7019 | Kourtney Williams v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury jury-finding mens-rea petit-jury plain-error | Does Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) grant an appellate court discretion to independently find an essential element of an offense for which the defendant was n… |
| 20-6522 | Ricky Vincent Pendleton v. Terry C. Hamrick, et al. | West Virginia | 2020-12-03 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts appeal appeal-preparation constitutional-rights court-reporter due-process grand-jury grand-jury-transcripts indigent-prisoner transcripts | 1. WHETHER INDIGENT PRISONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED BY COURT REPORTER'S DENYING HIM ACCESS TO THE GRAND JURY TRANSCRIPTS REQUESTED TO P… |
| 20-6227 | Cameron Battiste v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury plain-error-review sixth-amendment | 1. If a grand jury indicts a defendant for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), but omits the statute's knowledge-of-status element, has the defective ind… |
| 20-6163 | Angelique Bankston v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement material-omissions professional-misconduct sixth-amendment | If the jury was presented with severe witness and evidence and witness presented where (Xanks-twls) Was no+ clowned -he in violcch'on - l-f "dhie (ooV… |
| 20-5898 | Roy Eugene Ussery v. Texas | Texas | 2020-10-02 | Denied | IFP | barker-test barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights defense-theory extraneous-offense-evidence grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prejudice speedy-trial witness-prejudice | 1) When giving weight to the prejudice factor in a 'Barker' test & the complained of prejudice is the death of a DEFENSIVE witness, but the Court erro… |
| 20-5844 | Horacio Santamaria, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-error constitutional-rights due-process grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct | WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT'S UNAVAILING DEFENSE OF THE INDEFENSIBLE WITH RESPECT TO THE INDICTMENT, INADEQUATE JURY INSTRUCTIONS, PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT… |
| 20-401 | Devan Pierson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-09-28 | Denied | circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights | 1. What test, if any, should be used to determine whether a constructive amendment impacted a defendant's substantial rights under Rule 52(b)? 2. Wha… | |
| 20-5815 | In Re Seth John Wilcox | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federalism fundamental-rights grand-jury hurtado-v-california supremacy-clause | I. CAN A STATE CREATE AND ENFORCE CONTRARY LAW, THAT DEPRIVES ITS CITIZENS OF THEIR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, GUARANTEED BY THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION? … | |
| 20-5709 | Rickey Cole v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | and proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? placed in the indictment burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing grand-jury indictment jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be found by a grand jury, placed in the indictment, and proven to… |
| 20-5540 | Ugunda Giovanni Sanders v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy-charge constructive-amendment double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion relevant-conduct | The Government charged Sanders with a conspiracy taking place on June 28, 2017. When Sanders pled guilty the Government reserved the right to charge h… |
| 20-5329 | Douglas Dean Scyphers v. Washington | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection grand-jury indictment indictment-procedure statutory-conflict vagueness | 1. When the Washington State Constitution, Article I, section 26, says, "No grand jury shall be drawn or summoned in any county, except the superior j… |
| 20-5287 | In Re Eddie Allen Jackson | 2020-08-06 | Denied | IFP | constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment indictment-modification judicial-error | Whether the district court constructively amended the indictment in petitioner's case and if so does it rise to a Fifth Amendment violation? | |
| 19-8642 | Christopher Davis v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency false-evidence grand-jury police-misconduct robbery-identification standing suppression-hearing | 1) Why was denied the Right to subpoeng Indianapalis Metro Dectective's to trfal thart falsified my criminal recond to the Grand Jury: Stating thart I… |
| 19-8576 | Franklin Mackensie Robinson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-record court-of-appeals criminal-case criminal-procedure federal-grand-jury federal-jurisdiction grand-jury jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge statutory-compliance title-40-usc-s-255 | Is the Petitioner, Mr. Franklin Robinson, entitled to review The Administrative Record in his criminal case used by The United States of America in or… |
| 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. |
| 19-8535 | Courtney Rashon Johnson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-review grand-jury habeas-corpus plea-bargaining standing | 1.) THE 11+CnCUIT conCEDES thAT JOhUSON SObSTANtiAl RinTS WERE NOT 3tAtOS ElEMENT ANd dENiEd JOHnSON RELEf. BUt ON thE othER hANd thE 4+ CIRCUt COnCED… |
| 19-8331 | Jose A. Rodriguez v. Thomas Griffin, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2020-04-22 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-error constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process felony-offense grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance penal-law right-to-counsel | 1. Whether the State Court constructively amended the indictment which charged petitioner on September 1, 2009 through September 1, 2010, before the N… |
| 19-8182 | Edward Paul Moss v. Arizona | Arizona | 2020-04-03 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 19-8051 | Jack Benjamin Hessiani v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment indictment-defect jurisdictional-challenge mens-rea sixth-amendment | 1. The Circuits are divided over whether federal courts have jurisdiction over a criminal matter when the charging document omits an essential element… |
| 19-7488 | Donnie Cleveland Lance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden | Georgia | 2020-01-29 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-selection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | Was petitioner denied his rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments when he was sentenced to death following his indictment by a non-r… |
| 19-7435 | In Re Robert N. Brooks | 2020-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process due-process-clause fdic-insured fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause indictment indictment-clause notice-clause sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether a manifest miscarriage of justice occurred on the face of Count One's conspiracy indictment to commit bank fraud in violation of the Grand Jur… | |
| 19-7348 | Raymond Alston, aka Raymond Austin v. New York | New York | 2020-01-21 | Denied | IFP | appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process grand-jury indictment judicial-discretion malicious-prosecution sentencing-standards standing | WAS APPELLANT DENIED DUE PROCESS BY THE COURTS SUA SPONTE DECISION, PURSUANT TO CPL DIVISION TO CONSIDER THE ERROR INCLUDED CHARGE OF BURGLARY IN THE … |
| 19-7330 | Michael P. Haldorson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-844h2 constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment statutory-interpretation stirone-v-united-states | Where a grand jury charges a defendant with violating 18 U.S.C. § 844(h)(2) based on the carrying of an "explosive, namely, smokeless powder," may he … |
| 19-7254 | John Garrett Smith v. Washington | Washington | 2020-01-13 | Dismissed | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-trial martial-law military-justice sixth-amendment | (1) Is it lawfully permissible for a State to knowingly breach three core Amendment V of the U.S. Constitution (ratified 12.15.1791) provisions by ind… |
| 19-772 | Albert Diaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-16 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process formal-charges grand-jury pre-indictment prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel sixth-amendment target target-designation | Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly held that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel does not attach once the United States has focused… |
| 19-6960 | Ulriste Tulin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-instruction | The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution requires a person to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, only if he is presented or indicted by… |
| 19-6532 | Pedro J. Amaro v. Hector Balderas, Attorney General of New Mexico, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights class-action constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction procedural-grounds | Involues: "Caprtal Offence" cases; Class Action HabeasCorpus; lack ofjuvisdiction claim Injudiclously predicated by the lower courts' striking refusal… |
| 19-6502 | Cory Dale Fields v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process federal-district-court federal-sentencing grand-jury no-bill prior-conduct reliability reliability-of-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-considerations uncharged-conduct | Is alleged prior uncharged conduct that had been no-billed by a Grand Jury sufficiently reliable for a federal district court to consider at sentencin… |
| 19-6135 | Kelvin Townsend v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process freedom-of-information government-transparency grand-jury indictment judicial-oversight sealed-records standing | IS THE EOVERNMENT REQUIRED TD DBTAIN A COURT BRDER FROM THE COURT TO UNSEAL A "SEALED CRiMiNAL INDICTMENT |
| 19-433 | Patrick Emanuel Sutherland v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Denied | 18-usc-1512 false-statements grand-jury nexus-requirement obstruction-of-justice obstruction-of-justice-18-usc-1512-c-2 plain-error plain-error-review prosecutorial-misconduct | 1. When a defendant makes false statements to a United States Attorney's Office in an effort to persuade that Office to decline prosecution, does the … | |
| 19-364 | Dwayne Lamar Williams, Sr. v. Virginia | Virginia | 2019-09-19 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury incorporation jurisdiction state-criminal-procedure state-indictment | A. Does the right to a grand jury indictment conferred by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution apply to state indictments via the Fou… |
| 19-5878 | Darries Leon Jackson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-reasonableness criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether sentences imposed upon Petitioner Constitutionally Unreasonable & greater than necessary to satisfy the ends of Justice? 2. Whether Petiti… |
| 19-307 | Stuart A. McKeever v. William P. Barr, Attorney General | District of Columbia | 2019-09-05 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | disclosure district-court-authority grand-jury grand-jury-secrecy historical-significance historically-significant inherent-authority judicial-discretion public-interest rule-6(e) rule-6e | Whether district courts have inherent authority to release grand jury materials in extraordinary circumstances, such as when the case is historically … |
| 19-5639 | Kirby D. Crawford v. Georgia | Georgia | 2019-08-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure deprivation-of-rights due-process evidence-of-proof evidentiary-standards fair-trial grand-jury indictment judicial-error legal-procedure petitioner standing trial-court | Whether the trial Court erred to charge my he UE n__I sued__ wot aves sAessed Aaa SS! N. tac. 1__Of8 Ye by "the _gaches prior 4s _oe at tetal 2 cach _… |
| 19-5635 | Shango Jaja Greer v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence | (1) Did the District Court improperly condone the prosecutor's profligate misconduct in not only failing to disclose to the defense before trial that … |
| 19-5510 | Maurice Patrick Fortune, III v. Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-prosecution grand-jury indictment magistrate-warrant sentencing substantive-due-process | (1) Mr. Fortune certifies the Commonwealth of Virginia err in deferring contents essential to the definition of a trial. A trial; as defined by Merria… |
| 19-5423 | Antonio Rashawne Carr v. Texas | Texas | 2019-08-01 | Denied | IFP | appeal arraignment arraignment-hearing criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury grandjury-indictment indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sexual-assault | ISSUE NUMBER ONE: Appeal Counsel only raised one point of error. It was a question regarding the Complainant. That she had been ISSUE NUMBER TWO: App… |
| 19-5344 | Felix Adriano Chujoy, aka Felix Chujoy Alvarado v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | corrupt-intent criminal-procedure false-testimony grand-jury human-trafficking immigration-violations intent plea-bargain plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation witness-tampering witness-tampering-18-usc-1512(b)(1) | Whether the evidence was sufficient to convict the Petitioner for witness tampering in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)(1) and two interrelated charge… |
| 19-5333 | Charles York Walker, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-25 | GVR | IFP | abuse-of-discretion case-specific-factors criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 discretion district-court district-court-discretion felon-in-possession grand-jury incorrect-assumptions opioid-crisis plea-agreement plea-bargaining policy-disagreement rehaif-standard rule-11 | Whether a district court abuses its discretion by determining whether to accept or reject a plea agreement under Rule 11 of the Rules of Criminal Proc… |
| 19-5240 | James Butler v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-18 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act district-court-discretion due-process equity equity-jurisdiction fraud-on-the-court government-misconduct grand-jury rule-6(e) rule-6e-violation | 1. Did the district court abuse its discretion when it filed suit in equity under civil law docket. 2. Did the district court abuse its discretion by… |
| 19-95 | Linda Bolton, et vir v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-18 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment government-misconduct grand-jury judicial-precedent perjured-testimony tax tax-prosecution | 1. Whether tax prosecutions can be now be authorized by the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service for investigation by a grand jury and approve… |
| 19-5034 | Leland Dudley v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-07-02 | Denied | IFP | ' 'civil-rights" ' 'criminal-procedure" ' 'due-process" ' 'police-misconduct" ' 'post-conviction' ' 'sentencing" civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review grand-jury judicial-review police-misconduct post-conviction-relief sentencing wrongful-conviction | IN THIS CASE THE GRAUD JURY GRAND JURY IMPEDED THE STATES ATORNEY SPECCALLY WAS IMPE-DED(BY) MURDER AND THE TRCTICO IMPLOPED (BY) CHICAGO POLUICE ATER… |
| 18-1581 | Michael Lowry, Robert Mulgrew, and Thomasine Tynes v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-06-26 | Denied | 18-usc-1623 ambiguous-questioning ambiguous-questions bronston-rule bronston-v-united-states false-declaration false-statements grand-jury grand-jury-testimony literal-truth perjury perjury-statute prosecutorial-questioning statutory-interpretation | Can responses to fundamentally ambiguous questions - or literally truthful answers to unambiguous questions - constitute "false declarations" before a… | |
| 18-9617 | Randolph Harris Austin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cocaine cocaine-base constitutional-rights constitutional-safeguards democratic-constraints due-process grand-jury grand-jury-indictment indictment jury-instructions procedural-rights procedural-safeguards | Whe re the grand jury alleged c ocaine base and the jury was instructed that it didn't matter whether it was c ocaine b ase or cocaine and the judgme… |
| 18-9625 | Lawton Frederick Tyson v. Texas | Texas | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial grand-jury habeas-corpus jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct | WERE PETITIONER'S "DUE PROCESS & EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS" RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES & IMMUNITIES VIOLATED, WHEN THE TRIAL COURT HAD "TRIED, CONVICTED AN… |
| 18-1522 | Doe v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-10 | Denied | Relisted (2) | adverse-spousal-testimony adverse-testimony compelled-testimony criminal-investigation document-authentication document-compulsion document-production fifth-amendment grand-jury spousal-privilege witness-testimony | Whether a grand jury witness may invoke the privilege against adverse spousal testimony where the target of the grand jury investigation is the witnes… |
| 18-9369 | Wade Travis Webb v. County of Pima, Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | citizen-rights civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process government-accountability grand-jury grand-jury-system legal-accountability prosecutorial-misconduct standing | A check on the government's power to prosecute its own citizens minus no check does not equal zero. A check on the government's power to prosecute it… |
| 18-9220 | Earl C. Handfield, II v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-05-10 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury immunity legitimate-source self-incrimination use-immunity witness witness-rights | WILL NOT THE GOVERNMENT CONTINUE TO DOUBLE-CROSS GRAND JURY WITNESSES AND RUN AMUCK OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT'S RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT IF THIS COURT DOES… |
| 18-9178 | Matthew Oliver Alford v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Safety, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction grand-jury habeas-corpus indictment jurisdictional-constraints procedural-limitations standing state-court-conviction | 1) Did the DistRict CouRt (W.D.N.C.A.D. and the 4 CiR. L.D.A.s Violate PetitiOnERS Right to aces feal Coun&Rght to oces yapplg the o Ro ceduRal Rules/… |
| 18-9134 | Joe Clopton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | amending-indictment brady-violation burden-of-proof child-support cps-records criminal-procedure defense-strategy double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence false-allegations grand-jury ineffective-assistance lesser-included-offense medical-records nolo-contendere plain-error sixth-amendment social-worker-testimony | I. WHY WAS THE MEDICAL RECORDS NEVER INTRODUCED INTO EVIDENCE? 2. WHY WAS PETITIONER DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSIST. OF COUNSEL? A VIOLATION OF SIXTH AMENDM… |
| 18-9108 | Milton Mitchell v. Glen Johnson, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-of-law equal-protection equal-protection-of-law grand-jury guilty-plea habeas-corpus indictments ineffective-assistance | WHEATHER TRE LOWER COURTS ERRED IN : Falling to oRdDER THE RESPONDENT +o Show - CAUSE And PROVIDE. LNDOIctments, TRIaL . TRiaL TRANSCRIPTS, Habeas CO… |
| 18-9094 | Marty J. Hebert v. Louisiana | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autopsy-findings autopsy-testimony constitutional-error criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct second-degree-murder sixth-amendment | The State expert witness Dr. Emile Laga testified before the grand jury concerning his findings of the autopsy of the murder victim and the state secu… |
| 18-9030 | Juan Reyes Rivera v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-29 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-rights constructive-amendment due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause indictment ineffective-assistance | 1. Did trial counsel render ineffective assistance for failure to quash or dismiss Constructive Amended Indictment, amended by the trial court on thir… |
| 18-8999 | Mark Richard Hillstrom v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-threat due-process elonis-standard elonis-v-united-states grand-jury harmless-error indictment intent mens-rea mental-state statutory-interpretation | Whether, in light of this Court's holding in Elonis v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2001 (2015), that, to obtain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), t… |
| 18-8720 | Rodney Reep v. Department of Justice, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-records agency-referrals civil-procedure exemption-7(c) exemption-interpretation foia foia-request government-disclosure government-misconduct grand-jury improper-conduct judicial-procedure statute-of-limitations | 1. Does 28 U.S.C. §2401 (a) apply to FOIA?" The government is using 28 U.S.C. §2401(a) to claim that Plaintiff passed the six (6) year statute of limi… |
| 18-8581 | Robert Nicholas Brooks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-fraud commerce-clause constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-fraud venue wire-fraud | Question 1: Whether the Supreme Court is obliged to address and determine whether the District and Appellate Courts violated Petitioner's Fifth and Si… |
| 18-8364 | James D. Sullivan v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-procedure evidence-rule-414 evidentiary-hearing federal-rules-of-evidence grand-jury plea-agreement plea-withdrawal prosecutorial-discretion rule-104 rule-414 | In a prosecution of a child pornography case under Title 18 U.S.C., Chapter 110, the government may seek to admit evidence of prior similar acts under… |
| 18-8171 | Omar Alarcon Fuentes, aka Omar Fuentes Alarcon, aka Omar Ramales Quintero v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel false-testimony grand-jury grand-jury-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial right-to-counsel uncorroborated-admission uncorroborated-extrajudicial-admission | WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WAS VIOLATED BY HIS TRIAL ATTORNEY'S FAILURE TO MOVE THE DISTRICT COURT T… |
| 18-7885 | Christopher VanGuilder v. Daniel Martuscello, Superintendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process entrapment-defense grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supplemental-instructions supplemental-jury-instructions | QUESTION (1) Whether United States District Second Circuit Court Of Appeals and or said Lower Court's Erred in Failing to grant Petitioner's Ineffecti… |
| 18-7461 | In Re Brandon Lee | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | affirmative-proof civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure grand-jury indictment judicial-review judicial-supervision legal-standing prosecutorial-misconduct | WILL THE SUPREME COURT INVOKE ITS JUDICIAL SUPERVISORY POWER AS A BASIS TO PRESCRIBE STANDARDS OF PROSECUTORIAL CONDUCT BEFORE THE GRAND JURY IF AFFIR… | |
| 18-7372 | Santos Cuevas v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Prison | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech grand-jury jurisdiction presumption-of-innocence standing | Question not identified. |
| 18-7360 | Peter Mathis, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeals appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process final-judgment grand-jury insufficient-evidence sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation | Did Congress' enactment of 18 USC § 3742 (a), allow for the review of an otherwise final sentence, if a defendant could showaviOlatiôn ofi1aw? Did th… |
| 18-7305 | William Hilts v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury hearsay hearsay-testimony indictment witness-testimony | Whether a criminal defendant's right to be prosecuted on an indictment voted by a Grand Jury under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constituti… |
| 18-7121 | Donald Higgs, aka Kyle Beachum v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-elements | was states failure to subpoena victim to grand jury for first hand knowledge,but relied on known fabricated police reports and testimony of officer im… |
| 18-6983 | Sholam Weiss v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | and a Certificate of Appealability should have is where the government had committed itself to pros adversary-system adverse-positions certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury prosecutorial-commitment prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel | This Court implicitly held in Kirby v. Illinois, 406 U.S. 682 (1972), that the right to counsel can attach before formal charges are made, or before a… |
| 18-6896 | Jeffrey S. Wingate v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentment presentment-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing strickland strickland-standard uncharged-conduct | Does a substantially greater sentence imposed based primarily on a count for which a grand jury refused to indict and which did not appear in a supers… |
| 18-6841 | Robert K. Stewart v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment true-bill | (1) As used in an indictment, is the name ofthe defendant, the date of the affense, And the rame of the County, where the ALLeged offense Was committe… |
| 18-6800 | Robert Ryan Powell v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-amendment double-jeopardy fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-instructions jury-unanimity plain-error sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations | Where jury instructions lack the dates and timeframes specified in the indictment, do the jury instructions constructively amend the indictment, and t… |
| 18-6744 | Wesley Wayne Schaefer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Criminal Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | IFP | consequences criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,lesser-included-offense,state-law, due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,plea-bargaining,eff due-process,equal-protection,fourteenth-amendment, due-process,grand-jury,fifth-amendment,fourteenth- effective-assistance-of-counsel,plea-bargaining,du federal-courts,state-courts,de-novo-review,mixed-q grand-jury guilty-plea ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity plea-bargaining silent-record sixth-amendment,jury-trial,unanimous-verdict,due-p | Whether a Court may assume, from a silent record, the defendant was sufficiently made aware of the consequences of his guilty plea? Whether the Unite… |
| 18-6676 | Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment wire-fraud | 1) WHETHER, MR. WILMORE'S RIGHT TO BE TRIED ON CHARGES ACCEPTED BY A GRAND JURY, AND MR. WILMORE'S RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, WERE VIOL… |
| 18-6552 | Thomas A. Woods v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2018-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compelled-testimony constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury self-incrimination self-incrimination-protection | Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government from introducing evidence of a defendant's grand jury testimony which was taken when th… |
| 18-6536 | Lewis Waters v. Charles L. Lockett, Warden | District of Columbia | 2018-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-safeguard court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus jurisdiction unindicted-crime | Where the Fifth Amendment guarantees that no person shall be held to answer for a crime unless upon presentment of a Grand Jury's indictment, does the… |
| 18-6316 | Willie Gene Wilks, Jr. v. Ohio | Ohio | 2018-10-15 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof due-process false-testimony grand-jury indictment jury-instructions plain-error-review prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error | 1. Is a defendant denied due process when a prosecutor presents and relies upon false testimony in order to secure an indictment in grand jury proceed… |
| 18-6283 | Brent Douglas Cole v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-safeguards fifth-amendment grand-jury individual-rights liberty prosecutorial-interference prosecutorial-misconduct separation-of-powers structural-error structural-protections | Whether the indictment in this case should have been dismissed because the structural protections of the grand jury designed to safeguard individual r… |
| 18-6065 | In Re Eric M. Richardson | 2018-09-24 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition sentencing standing | Question not identified. | |
| 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… | |
| 18-5183 | Christopher M. Holmes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-security-officer due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-be-present right-to-confrontation right-to-counsel solitary-confinement standing testimony | MEt, IF CURT -AppoatEd TRIAL CWNSEl ADMITTS ThAT ShE D NEyleCtEC To woNfeR nith client ABout Peremptory staikes befire oR durins peremptory Strike ses… |