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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…