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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6904 | Dawn Marie Guevara v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-25 | Pending | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination harmless-error sixth-amendment witness-testimony | 1. Whether a reviewing court can properly conclude a confrontation clause violation is harmless when it fails to consider the impact of the erroneousl… |
| 25-6891 | Juanito Marshall v. George A. Frederick, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-24 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-error fair-presentation habeas-corpus harmless-error manifest-miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default | 1. Whether a federal court violates the "party presentation principle " and exceeds its authority under United States v. Sineneng-Smith, 140 S. Ct. 1… |
| 25-6827 | Titus Coston v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-17 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines | Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines would make no diff… |
| 25-6791 | David Sano-Perez, aka David Sanot Perez v. United States | First Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules harmless-error rule-60b sentencing-guidelines | Whether a District Court's mere pronouncement at a criminal sentencing that it would have imposed the same sentence on a defendant without regard to t… |
| 25-6726 | William Lewis Reece v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2026-02-05 | Pending | IFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review coerced-confession constitutional-claims de-novo-review harmless-error | 1. Whether Oklahoma's application of the abuse of discretion standard violates Payne v. Arkansas, Chapman v. California, and Arizona v. Fulminante req… |
| 25A858 | Dawn Marie Guevara v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-30 | Application | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-admission harmless-error sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6478 | Jeremy Edward Johnson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2026-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error miranda-rights self-incrimination | 1. DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERR BY ASSUMING EVEN IF THERE WAS A MIRANDA VIOLATION, THE VIOLATION WAS HARMLESS? a. Did the Third Circuit err by not deter… |
| 25-6442 | Michael Hinds v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure harmless-error prior-offenses sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error | Does the ACCA occasions -different inquiry, requiring a detailed, multi- factored analysis of the facts surrounding at least three prior offenses— fac… |
| 25-6439 | Marquis Melton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines | Whether a district court's statement, asserting it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of any potential procedural error, renders that err… |
| 25-6416 | Omar Anthony Quintero-Arias v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Though district courts have discretion to impose appropriate conditions of supervised release, that discretion is limited by 18 U.S.C. § 3583. See Con… |
| 25A717 | Marquise Graham v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Application | armed-career-criminal-act harmless-error jury-finding occasions-different sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 25A651 | Alabama v. Michael Anthony Powell | Alabama | 2025-12-03 | Application | closing-arguments constitutional-violation fifth-amendment harmless-error prosecutorial-comments right-to-silence | Question not identified. | |
| 25A650 | Alabama v. Brandon Dewayne Sykes | Alabama | 2025-12-03 | Application | closing-argument fifth-amendment griffin-violation harmless-error prosecutorial-comment self-incrimination | Question not identified. | |
| 25-605 | James Maharg v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2025-11-24 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review bench-trial coerced-confession constitutional-error due-process harmless-error | Whether, in a criminal bench trial for murder, a trial judge who admits over objection a defendant's coerced confession to that offense may later insu… |
| 25-6141 | Mark Abercrombie v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines | Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's routine and boilerplate assertion … |
| 25-6090 | Derrick Lorenzo Casey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal charging-error fifth-amendment guilty-plea harmless-error structural-error | I. Whether the failure to indict a defendant with the elements of an aggravated offense in violation of the Fifth Amendment is structural error. II. … |
| 25-6040 | Gustavo Tijerina Sandoval v. Texas | Texas | 2025-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment state-law trial-counsel | 1. May a state court that reaches and decides an asserted violation of the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial that has not been waived or forfeited u… |
| 25-5998 | Shadon Demetric Edwards v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | firearms-offense guilty-plea harmless-error plain-error statutory-interpretation structural-error | Whether errors under Erlinger v. United States, 602 U.S. 821 (2024) are structural errors, or whether they are subject to harmless or plain error revi… |
| 25-5991 | Jairo Arnaldo Jacome v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction structural-error | I. Does a district court's failure to instruct a jury in open court result in structural error, automatically producing a violation of a defendant's s… |
| 25-524 | Cedric Ray Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-30 | Pending | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions structural-error | I. Does a district court's failure to instruct a jury in open court result in structural error, automatically producing a violation of a defendant's s… | |
| 25A456 | Marquis Melton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review circuit-split firearm-possession guidelines-calculation harmless-error sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5914 | Martins Inalegwu v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-10-20 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-error variance | Whether a district judge can render sentencing errors harmless by stating it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of any error, or by simpl… |
| 25-5895 | Rickey Johnson, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Neil Dawn Defarren v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment | L. Whether the acknowledged violation of a federal criminal defendant's right to a jury of 12, under Fed. R. Crim. P. 23(b), can be harmless, a questi… |
| 25-5877 | Samson Diamonte Xavior Smith v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure harmless-error non-elemental-facts presentence-report sentencing-review shepard-documents | Whether a reviewing court may properly rely on non-elemental facts in presentence reports and Shepard documents when conducting harmless-error review … |
| 25A394 | Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-06 | Presumed Complete | dna-evidence giglio-error habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-verdict trial-evidence | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5788 | Kalup Allen Born v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure downward-departure harmless-error sentencing-guidelines | A defendant who "demonstrates acceptance of responsibility" for the offense "shall" be awarded a deduction in the offense level. When a defendant's en… |
| 25-5743 | Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-doctrine charging-error criminal-sentencing harmless-error judicial-factfinding structural-error | I. Does the type of error that occurred in this case —sentencing a criminal defendant for an uncharged and untried offense —qualify as structural erro… |
| 25-5738 | Mark H. Wilson v. Florida | Florida | 2025-09-25 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review brown-v-sanders capital-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error | Where the trial court in a capital case allows the State to present and argue an invalid aggravating factor to the jury in support of a death sentence… |
| 25-5650 | Deangelus Thomas v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure harmless-error sentencing-guidelines shepard-documents sixth-amendment | (1) Does the ACCA occasions-different inquiry, requiring a detailed, multi-factored analysis of the facts surrounding at least three prior offenses—fa… |
| 25-5344 | Elliot Maurice Browning v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-determination sentencing-enhancement | DOES THE COURT'S DECISION IN ERLINGER V. UNITED STATES , 602 U.S. 821 144 S.CT. 1840 _ L.ED.2D_(2024) REQUIRING THAT A JURY PASS ON THE THREE SEPARATE… |
| 25A179 | EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google, LLC | Federal Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Presumed Complete | due-process expert-testimony federal-circuit harmless-error patent-law seventh-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5333 | Mark William Sain v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act fifth-amendment harmless-error plea-proceeding sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. When harmless-error review of Erlinger error requires consideration by appellate judges of facts neither intrinsic to nor relevant to the finding o… |
| 25-5267 | Antonio B. Nascimento-Depina v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2025-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process forensic-evidence harmless-error jury-determination | Whether, after a state supreme court expressly acknowledging that admitting surrogate DNA-analyst testimony violated the Sixth Amendment Confrontation… |
| 25-5252 | Eric David Marrufo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights evidence-admissibility harmless-error jury-deliberation jury-impartiality rule-606b | A. Whether the Petitioner was denied his constitutional right to an impartial jury and to a fair trial when the District Court: a. After denying the … |
| 25-5249 | Barry Gordon Croft, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-31 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-right entrapment-defense evidence-rules fifth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment | 1. Did the district court deny Petitioner's constitutional right to present a defense, and thereby commit a trial error of constitutional dimension, w… |
| 25-5151 | J. Ines Ruiz-Rivera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confession-admissibility criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error ninth-circuit supreme-court-precedent | Whether courts should follow the direction of Fulminante and use "extreme caution" before finding the admission of a confession is harmless error. |
| 25-32 | Mason Binion v. United States | District of Columbia | 2025-07-09 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-obligation criminal-competency defendant-rights due-process harmless-error trial-court-procedure | Whether a procedurally inadequate inquiry into a criminal defendant's competence is rendered constitutionally harmless if defense counsel does not con… |
| 25A31 | Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split constitutional-violation erlinger-standard harmless-error jury-trial-right supreme-court-review | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5041 | Geovani Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review due-process harmless-error mandate-recall sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a court of appeals violates- due process by declining to recall a mandate where a petitioner demonstrates that he was convicted of a non-e… |
| 25-5018 | Lakeith Lynn Washington v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-error armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error harmless-error judicial-review sentencing-error | Petitioner Lakeith Lynn Washington was sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) to 180 months of imprisonment, despite the fact that the i… |
| 24A1265 | Charles L. Payne, II v. Ohio | Ohio | 2025-06-23 | Presumed Complete | due-process fourteenth-amendment harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-vouching | Does a trial court violate a defendant's rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when it permits prosecutorial and police vouching for a witn… | |
| 24-1295 | Brandon Phillips v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-history expungement harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines | In 2022, the citizens of Missouri adopted an amendment to the Missouri Constitution that legalizes marijuana consumption and mandates the retroactive … |
| 24-1231 | Andrew Dowd v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-06-03 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | due-process harmless-error judicial-impartiality prosecutorial-conduct recusal restitution | 1. Whether a district judge impermissibly blends the judicial and prosecutorial roles such that "his impartiality might reasonably be questioned," 28 … |
| 24A1181 | Mark William Sain v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-06-02 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act double-jeopardy harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error | Question not identified. | |
| 24-7290 | Paul Curry, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-error armed-career-criminal-act criminal-law harmless-error second-amendment sentencing-procedure | First, whether as several courts of appeal have held, all Apprendi errors including Erlinger violations should be treated as trial errors subject to t… |
| 24-1156 | Maninder Singh, Individually and as Heir of the Estate of Jasvir Kaur, Kewal Singh, and Nirbhai Singh, et al. v. Nissan Motor Company, LTD., et al. | Nevada | 2025-05-12 | Denied | Response Waived | batson-challenge harmless-error jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination voir-dire | During voir dire, the trial court granted the defendant's peremptory challenge against Dinyal Khan, a man born in Pakistan, after expressing concern t… |
| 24A1039 | Mason Binion v. United States | District of Columbia | 2025-04-28 | Presumed Complete | competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-obligation defense-counsel-waiver harmless-error pate-v-robinson procedural-adequacy | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6942 | John Sexton v. Florida | Florida | 2025-04-08 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment court-witness harmless-error mitigation-specialist sixth-amendment structural-error | During John Sexton's capital penalty phase trial, after he presented his mitigation and rested, the trial court called the defense team's mitigation s… |
| 24-6886 | Jonathan Lynn Jenkins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review confession-admissibility criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jury-role | Whether an appellate court improperly displaces the jury's role to determine guilt by assuming error occurred when the district court improperly admit… |
| 24-951 | Sergeant Fred Cueto, et al. v. Hasmik Jasmine Chinaryan, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem for NEC, a Minor, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-05 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure harmless-error judicial-review standard-of-review | Given a jury verdict and resulting judgment in a civil case, does the appellant generally have the burden to show that any error was prejudicial to th… |
| 24-6657 | Leopoldo Villareal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines | Some sentencing judges routinely assert that they would have selected the exact same sentence regardless of any error in applying the Sentencing Guide… |
| 24-6204 | Ronald P. Hargrave v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error prescription-error ruan-standard | Can a physician be convicted of a violation of 21 U.S.C. §841, post-Ruan, when that physician's conduct in prescribing the controlled substance was bo… |
| 24-6038 | Robert Wharton v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix | Third Circuit | 2024-11-26 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | capital-case harmless-error juror-prejudice mitigation-evidence strickland-prejudice wiggins-standard | 1. How should the "one juror" standard of prejudice set forth in Wiggins v. Smith be applied where the mitigation that counsel failed to investigate w… |
| 24-5897 | Justin Jermaine Johnson v. Stephen Duncan, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2024-11-01 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-admission harmless-error mistrial witness-testimony | allowing investigator to testify via Skype video messenger 1: was Harmless Error? 2: Was statement to investigators freely and voluntarily given? 3:… |
| 24-5824 | Oscar Alvarado v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-10-25 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause harmless-error ineffective-counsel rule-60b1 sixth-amendment | DID THE COURT OF APPEALS COMMIT LEGAL ERROR IN DENYING PETITIONER'S CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY STATING THAT NO JURIST OF REASON WOULD NOT DEBATE THE… |
| 24-5747 | Elmer Dean Baker v. Indiana | Indiana | 2024-10-11 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment harmless-error non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment | Does it violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution when a State upholds a conviction after ruling it was not obtain… |
| 24-366 | Austin Kyle Lee v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | Response Waived | apprendi-violation circuit-split constitutional-error due-process harmless-error sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether, as several circuits have held, all Apprendi violations should be treated as trial errors and subject to the harmless-error test from Neder… |
| 24-5553 | Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-16 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | circuit-split constitutional-trial-error giglio-napue-claims habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether a habeas court must apply Brecht harmless-error analysis to Giglio/Napue claims intertwined in a proceeding marred by a pattern of egregious p… |
| 24-292 | Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., et al. v. Norwich Pharmaceuticals Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2024-09-13 | Denied | appellate-procedure evidence-standard factual-findings harmless-error judicial-review standard-of-review | This petition concerns core appellate procedure. In reviewing bench trials, the courts of appeals must "discuss" and "analyze" the district court's fi… | |
| 24-5485 | Onofre Serrano v. California | California | 2024-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | critical-stage due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel waiver-of-counsel | 1. Whether reasonable jurist could debate the state court of appeals conclusion that Petitioner's waiver of the right to counsel was voluntary, knowin… |
| 24-124 | Brent Brewbaker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | 5th-amendment-6th-amendment'\n\n'Did the court of antitrust-law appellate-review article-1 constitutional-challenge constitutional-error criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error jury-instructions presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness | 1. Section 1 of the Sherman Act criminalizes "[e]very contract ...in restraint of trade." 15 U.S.C. § 1. This prohibition cannot be applied literally … | |
| 24-5225 | Nidal M. Hasan v. United States | Armed Forces | 2024-08-05 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review automatic-reversal criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error public-trial structural-error waller-v-georgia weaver-v-massachusetts | A violation of the public trial guarantee is structural error, defying harmless error review. Weaver v. Massachusetts, 582 U.S. 286, 299 (2017). In Wa… |
| 24-5216 | Ricky Mendoza v. William Sullivan, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief harmless-error sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying habeas relief on petitioner's claim that the state trial court deprived him of his Sixth Amendment right to… |
| 24-5212 | Clarence Wyatt Holland v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-01 | Denied | IFP | circuit-court due-process fundamental-justice harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-law | Did the Circuit Court reach its holding, after applying incorrect harmless-error standard and disregarding the compelling record evidence of prejudi… |
| 24-5189 | Brandon Alexander v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof direct-appeal evidence-admission harmless-error inadmissible-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard sixth-amendment | When a defendant asserts IAC on direct appeal in Ohio for failing to object to inadmissible evidence and is able to demonstrate deficient performance,… |
| 24A66 | Austin Kyle Lee v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-19 | Presumed Complete | apprendi-error drug-felony harmless-error jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | 1. This case concerns the standard of review for a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to a jury. The Sixth Amendment provides that, in all crimina… | |
| 24-5093 | David Nam v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default | Question not identified. |
| 24-5076 | Chi Meng Yang v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-15 | Denied | IFP | 18-U.S.C.-666 bribery certiorari-review federal-state-cooperation harmless-error joint-operations public-authority-defense statutory-interpretation United-States-v.-Snyder | Whether this court should Grant certiorari, vacate and remand, because the Ninth Circuit's harmless error holding was based on an interpretation of br… |
| 24-23 | Michael Bassem Rimlawi v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | certiorari confrontation-clause constitutional-error error-based-approach guilt-based-approach harmless-error sixth-amendment | I. On the important question of how courts are to decide whether constitutional error is harmless, this Court has, since 1967, given inconsistent and … |
| 23-7819 | LaShonda O'Neill v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion alleyne-v-united-states drug-quantities fifth-amendment harmless-error judicial-fact-finding plain-error sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | 1). Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it failed to employ the Plain error analysis to review, de novo, the District Court's abuse … |
| 23-7725 | Jimmie Lee Walton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion allen-charge coercion court-of-appeals criminal-procedure Did the Court of Appeals abuse it's discretion in Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in a directed-verdict double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion jury-instructions mistrial motion-for-acquittal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Did Walton receive effective assistance of counsel? Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in affirming the District Courts denial of the moti… |
| 23-7649 | Rodolfo Ortiz v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus harmless-error johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default section-2255 vagueness-challenge | 1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent precludes issuance of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. §… |
| 23-7605 | Rodrigo Alvarez-Quinonez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-31 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-court-split federal-rule-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jury-factfinding-role law-enforcement-witness law-enforcement-witnesses lay-opinion-testimony percipient-knowledge witness-testimony | May a law enforcement agent give lay opinion testimony under Federal Rule of Evidence 701 based on the agent's overall knowledge of an investigation, … |
| 23-1255 | Dephne Nguyen Wright v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-30 | Denied | certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas fourth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant | L Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and district court applied too demanding of a standard governing issuance of a certificate o… | |
| 23-7597 | William Hill v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2024-05-30 | Denied | IFP | appellate-court appellate-review california-v-champman constitutional-review conviction conviction-reversal due-process first-amendment harmless-error trial-procedure | When an appellate court concludes that a conviction for one offense violated the First Amendment, is the appellate court required to apply the harmles… |
| 23A1069 | Michael Bassem Rimlawi v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-30 | Presumed Complete | bruton-rule codefendant-statement confrontation-clause constitutional-error harmless-error sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7512 | Dallas M. Acoff v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-amendment guidelines harmless-error judicial-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether the district court committed error and imposed a procedurally unreasonable sentence on Mr. Acoff that exceeded the upper end of his United Sta… |
| 23-1218 | Alfredo Navarro Hinojosa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-16 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof circuit-split direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing harmless-error ineffective-assistance kotteakos-v-united-states preserved-nonconstitutional-errors sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence | Does the Fifth Circuit's harmless-error standard applied to preserved nonconstitutional errors—which asks whether there is a "reasonable probability" … |
| 23-1194 | Erik Hentzen v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-06 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal appellate-review child-pornography harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Can Strickland v. Washington's "prejudice prong," be satisfied by a showing that constitutionally inadequate representation at the trial-court level "… |
| 23-7341 | Ronald Leon Thompson v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-04-30 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review consent constitutional-error constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-definition jury-instructions legal-standard trial-court-discretion | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the trial court's error in failing to define the term consent was constitutional harmless error. |
| 23-6992 | Reynaldo Avila-Gonzalez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-review legal-reasoning presentence-report sentencing standard-of-review | Whether a federal court of appeals should vacate the sentence when the district adopts the invalid reasoning of a Presentence Report to resolve a fact… |
| 23-6938 | Frank Garcia v. Julie Wolcott, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2024-03-08 | Denied | IFP | accused-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exoneration harmless-error post-conviction | Can the might have reasonable possibility Harmless error doctrine be applied to DNA, that has the sole trifecta ability, to either: 1. Clear the Accu… |
| 23-6904 | Chance Joseph Seneca v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review categorical criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion due-process guidelines harmless-error judicial-procedure sentencing-guidelines | Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's routine assertion that the Guideli… |
| 23-928 | Yun Zheng, aka Wendy Zheng, and Yan Qiu Wu, aka Jason Wu v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | circuit-split harboring-aliens harmless-error immigration-law jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea neder-v-united-states | (i) Whether a jury instruction under 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(A)(ii), which prohibits the "harbor[ing]" of anyone who is in the United States illegally, … | |
| 23-6831 | Thomas E. Creech v. Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-26 | Denied | IFP | clemency clemency-hearing constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges due-process false-evidence harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct | (1) Does the State's intentional presentation of false evidence at a clemency hearing violate due process? (2) Under what circumstances, if any, does… |
| 23-6820 | Marvin Carcamo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure gang-membership harmless-error ninth-circuit procedural-error racketeering rico-conspiracy sentencing-guidelines | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit incorrectly affirm the district court's procedural error determining racketeering conduct was reasonably foreseeable under th… |
| 23-6809 | Warren Lee Mackey v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error judicial-precedent prejudice prejudice-standard trial-testimony witness-bolstering witness-testimony | Circuits are applying different tests to gauge prejudice resulting from testimony that improperly bolsters or vouches for the testimony of another wit… |
| 23-908 | Woojin Cho v. New York | New York | 2024-02-22 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-error due-process harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-possibility standard-of-review trial-procedure witness-credibility | I. Is it constitutional error for a prosecutor in summation to express her personal belief that the defendant lied on the stand? II. In reviewing sum… |
| 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… |
| 23-6711 | Ronnie Collins, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence harmful-error harmless-error witness-testimony | Whether the limits placed on Collins's right to cross-examine the central witness against him constituted harmful error. |
| 23-6673 | Lillian Akwuba v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-element jury-instruction jury-instructions medical-care mens-rea standard-of-care | In Ruan v. United States, 597 U.S. 450, 454 (2022), this Court held that to convict an authorized person of distributing a controlled substance under … |
| 23-6681 | Danny Lowe v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-intent due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea ninth-circuit sex-trafficking | Danny Ray Lowe was convicted of attempting to sex traffic two fictional minors in an undercover sing. As the Court of Appeals acknowledged, "The criti… |
| 23-6567 | Jonathan David Wilke v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2024-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture harmless-error lineup photo-array witness-identification | 1. The Wisconsin Court of Appeals held that Jonathan forfeited his argument about Detective Dolan's and T.J.'s testimony about T.J.'s reaction to Jon… |
| 23-6505 | Kheungkham Vongphakdy v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error miranda-rights self-incrimination | I. During a four-hour custodial interrogation, the interrogating officer never advised Vongphakdy of his Miranda rights. The government disputed neith… |
| 23A640 | Frank Garcia v. Joseph Noeth | Second Circuit | 2024-01-10 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-right dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence harmless-error post-conviction | To deny reversals: why are the lower Courts quick to claim Harmless error, to evidence that unrefutably has the sole power, to either: a). clear the a… | |
| 23-6420 | Orlando S. Burgos v. Martin Gamboa, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination habeas-corpus harmless-error motive-to-lie sole-evidence witness-bias | Petitioner Orlando Burgos was deprived of his Confrontation Clause right to cross-examine his accuser—the key prosecution witness—that he received a b… |
| 23-6330 | Raymond Ghaloustian v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule harmless-error harrison-v-united-states miranda-rights miranda-warning opening-brief | The Court has held that where a defendant's statements are admitted in the Government's case-in-chief in violation of Miranda v. State of Arizona, 384… |
| 23-6332 | Antonio Misael Rivera-Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure case-law circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review | Whether Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), applies to claims of procedural error? |
| 23-650 | Laura Jordan and Mark Jordan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | alternative-theory appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions structural-error sufficiency-of-evidence | I. Whether an appellate court's harmless-error analysis of constitutional alternative theory error in jury instructions must decline to find the erro… |
| 23-631 | Hollis Morrison Greenlaw, et al. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-12 | Denied | appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-to-defraud jury-instructions scheme-to-defraud structural-error | Petitioners were charged with fraud offenses, all of which had as an element "intent to defraud" and most of which also had as an element "scheme to d… | |
| 23-6146 | Catherine Denise Randolph v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-01 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech harmless-error ineffective-assistance obscenity standing state-court-decision surveillance | Question not identified. |
| 23-6106 | Damion Edward Cruz-Benavente v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-standard constitutional-error criminal-procedure criminal-trial cumulative-error cumulative-errors due-process harmless-error judicial-review procedural-fairness standard-of-review verdict-influence | To determine whether a criminal trial was unfair because of cumulative errors, does a court review whether the aggregate errors—both preserved and for… |
| 23-529 | Matthew Hayko v. Indiana | Indiana | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review credibility criminal-procedure evidence-weighing harmless-error sixth-amendment trial-by-jury witness-credibility | Whether an appellate court can violate a defendant's right to trial by jury under the Sixth Amendment by weighing evidence and judging the credibility… |
| 23-5993 | Jose Miguel Montemayor v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-error defendant's-guilt fourth-amendment harmless-error independent-evidence judicial-standard prejudicial-effect suppression-error | Whether an appeals court can conclude that a Fourth Amendment error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt without juxtaposing the error's prejudicial … |
| 23-5865 | Jason Dix v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error separation-of-powers sua-sponte | I. May an appellate court, consistent with due process, relieve a government party of its burden to show that a favorable error is harmless, decide th… |
| 23-5805 | Jeffrey Corporal v. Ronald Weber, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-16 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction filing-deadline harmless-error pro-se-litigant procedural-error standing statute-of-limitations | Does a federal district court harmlessly err when it erroneously extends a defendant's inexcusably neglectfully missed filing deadline to respond to a… |
| 23-5767 | Fidel Flores v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complainant-credibility credibility-determination expert-testimony harmless-error lay-testimony sixth-amendment strickland-prejudice strickland-standard | 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in its review of Petitioner's Sixth Amendment claim – and its evaluation of Strickland prejudice – when it determined tha… |
| 23-5686 | David Calhoun v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 5th-amendment civil-rights counsel-of-choice due-process fifth-amendment government-misconduct harmless-error kotteakos-v-united-states procedural-default sixth-amendment | Could jurists of reason debate the district court's resolution or conclude the issue presented is adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further… |
| 23-5645 | Robert Eugene Stallings v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge counterman-precedent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions procedural-error statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether Counterman v. Colorado, decided after the decision below, shows that 18 U.S.C. §1038(a) should be read to require proof that the defendant int… |
| 23-5459 | Maurice Turner v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause criminal-procedure douglas-v-alabama due-process harmless-error pretrial-statements sixth-amendment testimony | WHETHER THE VIOLATION OF THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE AS EXPLICATED IN DOUGLAS V. ALABAMA, 380 U.S. 415, 85 S.CT. 1074, 13 L.ED.2D 934 (1965) WAS HARMLESS… |
| 23-5440 | Roman Andreyevich Glukhoy v. California | California | 2023-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-instructions legal-theory prejudice prejudicial-error standard-of-review | 1. When a defendant is convicted after a trial court instructs a jury on two theories of guilt, one of which is legally correct and one legally incorr… |
| 23-5391 | Walter Raul Maguina v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence extrinsic-evidence harmless-error judicial-procedure prejudice prejudicial-evidence remand | Whether a district court's failure to address the prejudicial nature of extrinsic evidence requires remand. |
| 23-5371 | Judith Tompson v. New Hampshire | New Hampshire | 2023-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | body-camera-evidence due-process fair-trial harmless-error legal-licensing police-misconduct police-prosecution privacy-rights rsa-105-d:2 statutory-violation | 1. Whether theNH Supreme Court should allow a NH district court judge to prosecute cases from, the bench; as a former Conway prosecutor, while using … |
| 23-5131 | Xavier Dominique Garris v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rehaif-error remand standard-of-review trial-probability | 1. WHETHER, IN A CASE WHERE REHAIF ERROR OCCURRED, THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN FAILING TO REMAND THE CASE TO THE DISTRICT COURT TO MAKE THE DETERMINAT… |
| 23-5101 | Christopher Wade v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states harmless-error judicial-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-guzman-rendon | I. Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of harmless error doctrine pursuant to United States v. Guzman-Rendon, 864 F.3d 409 (5th Cir. 2017) violate… |
| 23-5059 | Savon Hardaway v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-procedure felon-in-possession guilty-plea harmless-error mens-rea plea-agreement rehaif-advisement rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-error | I. Mr. Hardaway pleaded guilty to a felon in possession charge. The district court arraigned Mr. Hardaway after this Court's decision in Rehaif v. Uni… |
| 23-5049 | Marcus O. Singleton v. Scott Eckstein, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2023-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vouching trial-misconduct wisconsin-courts witness-credibility | 1. Whether the Wisconsin courts failed to address the issue presented to them that the prosecutor vouch for their witnesses. 2. Whether the prosecuto… |
| 23-5038 | Kurt Michaels v. Ron Davis, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Relisted (13)IFP | aggravating-evidence appellate-review capital-case confession confession-evidence cumulative-error harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-deliberation jury-deliberations ninth-circuit-review | Whether a court reviewing a cold record in a capital case may determine that the effect of an erroneously admitted confession and other improper aggra… |
| 22-7784 | Demarcus Donte Ivey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-14 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure cumulative-error-doctrine evidentiary-errors harmless-error standard-of-review | When, on direct appeal from a conviction in a federal criminal trial, an appellate court identifies multiple evidentiary errors, should each of those … |
| 22-7754 | Maurice Hunt v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause commercial-sex-acts congressional-authority constitutional-review criminal-liability due-process harmless-error sex-acts statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supervisory-power | I. Whether Congress Lacked Congressional Authority Under the Commerce Clause (1505 U.S.C.) To Enact Statutes With the Intent That A Ton Page In Convic… |
| 22-7308 | Jose Alfredo Solis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals guidelines-range harmless-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof | The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines "are not only the starting point for most federal sentencing proceedings but also the lodestar." Molina-Martinez v. Uni… |
| 22-7284 | Herbert Bernard Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure harmless-error indictment indictment-amendment interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation structural-error | I. Should this Court grant the Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to resolve whether the statutory language of 18 U.S.C. §2252A(a)(5)(B)'s alternative … |
| 22-7288 | Gilberto Gonzalez-Enriquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process error-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review u.s-sentencing-guidelines | Whether a sentencing court can insulate a substantial error in calculating the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines range from appellate review simply by assert… |
| 22-7262 | Alfred Coppage v. Illinois | Illinois | 2023-04-12 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review appellate-standard civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion standing | Whether trial Court abused discretion by hearing a motion for Substitution of Judge of Counsel. Whether Appellate Court overlooked the Correct Standa… |
| 22-980 | Neil Paul Noble v. Texas | Texas | 2023-04-10 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-right harmless-error indictment-notice notice sixth-amendment state-courts | A. Indictment A(l). Notice Is a Fundamental Federal Constitutional Right Is the Sixth Amendment right to be informed of the na ture and cause of the … |
| 22-966 | Cavanta McLilly v. Adam Douglas, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-05 | Denied | Response Waived | alleyne-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error jury-instructions jury-verdict police-testimony sentencing-review standard-of-review surveillance-video | I. Whether police testimony identifying Mr. McLilly as the perpetrator seen on a surveillance video from the crime scene had a substantial and injurio… |
| 22-7035 | Brian Keith Person, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-circuit harmless-error mitigating-arguments procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review supervised-release | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit Erred By Applying a "Plainly Unreasonable" Standard of Review for Mr. Person's Supervised Release Violation Sentence ins… |
| 22-7029 | Roger Keeling v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-procedure harmless-error kotteakos-v-united-states ninth-circuit non-constitutional-error standard-of-review weighty-evidence | Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that a non-constitutional error was harmless when it found "ample," rather than "weighty," evidence of guilt c… |
| 22-7030 | John Gabriel Trevino v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review court-compliance criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether non-compliance with Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i)(1)(A) may be excused where the defendant fails to show that he or she would have … |
| 22-7014 | Michael Hucks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternate-sentence appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-notice criminal-procedure fourth-circuit guideline-errors harmless-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure | I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's reliance on an announced alternate variant sentence to assume as harmless all G… |
| 22-6853 | Joshua Seekins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-possession due-process federalism harmless-error interstate-commerce jurisdictional-issue second-amendment sentencing-guidelines | (1) Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of ammunition solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into the d… |
| 22-6835 | Deon'te Reed v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924c-conviction brecht-standard conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions robbery-conspiracy stromberg-error | In applying harmless error review under Brecht, may a federal court disregard the prejudice resulting from Stromberg error, i.e., the jury's considera… |
| 22-6840 | David Omar Caraballo v. Florida | Florida | 2023-02-22 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review case-review civil-procedure court-decision due-process harmless-error judicial-procedure legal-interpretation legal-review petitioner-claims standard-of-review standing | WIHETHER THE INSTANT STATE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS AS PRESENTED ON DIRET APPEAL. |
| 22-6751 | Ernest Kyle Dyer v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-02-10 | Denied | IFP | appeal appellate-review conditional-guilty-plea federal-criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-11(a)(2) harmless-error motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining prevail | When a defendant enters a conditional guilty plea, reserving the right to appeal an adverse decision on a motion to suppress, what harmless-error stan… |
| 22-710 | James D. Pieron, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-31 | Denied | chapman-v-california circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions sixth-circuit statute-of-limitations | I. Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling merits summary reversal where the court found constitutional error but deemed it harmless under the far less sea… | |
| 22-6543 | Miguel Angel Mota v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 structural-error | Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci… |
| 22-6534 | Terry Lynn King v. Tony Mays, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-13 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment capital-trial constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-error due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment harmless-error judicial-review | (1) Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that courts consider the aggregate effect of multiple legal errors, as the Fir… |
| 22-6519 | Thomas Alan Arthur v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-defense defendant-rights due-process evidence-exclusion free-speech harmful-error harmless-error judicial-review miller-test obscenity obscenity-standard | 1. Should this Court adopt the Seventh Circuit's rule that where a district court erroneously excludes evidence that makes up the entirety of a defend… |
| 22-6490 | Wayne Johnson v. Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, et al. | California | 2023-01-09 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-fabrication unpublished-opinion void-order void-restraining-order | Can it ever be harmless error for a State to force a Defendant to stand trial on multiple felonies while admitting into evidence as the foundation of … |
| 22-6491 | Eric Romero-Lobato v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-error due-process eyewitness-identification gatekeeping gatekeeping-function harmless-error law-enforcement reliability reliability-standard suggestive-identification | Due process prohibits any "suggestive and unnecessary identification procedure" that does not possess "sufficient aspects of reliability." Manson v. B… |
| 22-6467 | Louis Antonio Zayas v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-trial directed-verdict due-process evidence-disclosure harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-conduct | 1. Should the Supreme Court grant certiorari to consider whether the erroneous decision of the Trial Court to instruct the jury that the United States… |
| 22-6424 | Trevis Thompson v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-defendant deliberation-misconduct external-information federal-rule-of-evidence-606(b) harmless-error jury-bias post-conviction-proceeding sixth-amendment unbiased-jury | In a post-conviction proceeding challenging a criminal conviction, two jurors testified that one or more jurors had made statements, during deliberati… |
| 22-6394 | Van Raymond Brollini v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review conflicting-evidence credibility-of-witnesses evidence-preclusion harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial tax-prosecution willfulness | L. In conducting harmless-error review, an appellate court may not resolve conflicting evidence or assess the credibility of witnesses. Neder v. Unite… |
| 22-6316 | Kalvin Walker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines | Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are automatically rendered harmless by a district court's statement that the correctness of th… |
| 22-488 | Darrell Hemphill v. New York | New York | 2022-11-22 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appeal confrontation-clause constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling harmless-error judicial-review out-of-court-statement supreme-court-precedent | Whether the improper admission of the out-of-court statement by the alternative suspect in Hemphill v. New York, 142 S. Ct. 681 (2022), was "so unimpo… |
| 22-5917 | In Re John David Stahlman | 2022-10-26 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence habeas-corpus harmless-error | 1.) DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT VIOLATE PETITIONER'S SUBSTANTIAL RIGHTS; TO INCLUDE HIS RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL, HIS RIGHT TO DU… | |
| 22-5788 | Martin Elliott Brooks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-07 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error rule-52 sentencing-courts sentencing-guidelines | Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines would make no diff… |
| 22-246 | Centripetal Networks, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2022-09-15 | Denied | Amici (4) | blind-trust financial-interest harmless-error judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-recusal liljeberg-v-health-services-acquisition-corp stock-divestment | 28 U.S.C. §455(f) aims to preserve judicial resources and avoid the harsh consequences of recusal when a minor financial interest is discovered after … |
| 22-242 | Cyrano R. Irons v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure | Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines woul… |
| 22-5541 | Edwin Pawlowski v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review compulsory-process due-process harmless-error judicial-process re-cross-examination sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-error | Did the Trial Court error by improperly restricting the examination in light of newDefendant's right to re-cross and evidence presented by the Prosecu… |
| 22-5450 | Jermaine Crump v. Joe Errington, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-disclosure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review | Question not identified. |
| 22-5429 | Omar Shariff Cash v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland circuit-split due-process harmless-error impeachment-evidence materiality standards-of-review suppressed-evidence witness-credibility | Should this Court resolve the division among the Courts of Appeals and determine the appropriate standard for a court to apply in determining whether … |
| 22-5218 | Reginald Dexter Carr, Jr. v. Kansas | Kansas | 2022-07-28 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment automatic-reversal due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment structural-error | 1. Was the denial of Reginald Carr's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to testify structural constitutional error requiring automatic rever… |
| 22-5028 | Damien Dre Gonzales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adam-walsh-act appeals commerce-clause criminal-procedure district-court federal-kidnapping federal-sentencing guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-guidelines | IL Is a district court's Guidelines error always harmless when the court states that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guideli… |
| 21-8288 | William Jack Parkerson v. Oregon | Oregon | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-instructions court-of-appeals due-process federal-standard harmless-error oregon-court-of-appeals trial-evidence trial-procedure | Did the Oregon court of appeals apply the correct federal harmless error standard violating Due Process, when viewing the evidence at trial when it de… |
| 21-7943 | Anthony Gerald Wernsman v. Colorado | Colorado | 2022-05-23 | Denied | IFP | colorado-courts confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process harmless-error self-incrimination witness-intoxication | WHETHER THE COLORADO COURTS WRONGLY CONCLUDED THAT A DENIAL OF CROSS-EXAMINATION ON WITNESSES INTOXICATION DID NOT IMPLICATE PETITIONER 'S CONFRONTATI… |
| 21-7913 | William Earl Sweet v. Florida | Florida | 2022-05-19 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection faretta-standard fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error self-representation timeliness | 1. Whether the Petitioner's right to self-representation was violated when the trial court denied the Petitioner's request to proceed pro se and the F… |
| 21-7918 | Jaime Gonzalo Castiblanco Cabalcante v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error jury-deliberations jury-instructions knowledge-element | 1. In Connecticut v. Johnson , 460 U.S. 73, 88 (1983) (plurality opinion), the court held that instructions 1"permitt[ing] the jury to convict [a def… |
| 21-7870 | Greg Cantoni v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-split circuit-court-standards daubert discovery-violation expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jencks-act prosecutorial-discretion | 1. Which standard, among those currently in use at the circuit court level, must be applied to determine whether a government attorney's violation of … |
| 21-7853 | Gregory Spiros Demetrulius v. Ron Broomfield, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-12 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-claim cumulative-error due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus harmless-error ninth-circuit state-concessions state-court-error state-court-findings | In 1995, a California state-court jury sentenced petitioner Gregory Demetrulias to death after finding him guilty of first-degree murder and finding t… |
| 21-7694 | Jason Paul Maple v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion | Third Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review constitutional-error constitutional-trial-error due-process harmless-error pro-se-litigant standard-of-review supreme-court-standard third-circuit trial-procedure | Whether the Third Circuit Appellate Court adhered to the terms of harmless-error review, judged by the standard set-forth by the United States Supreme… |
| 21-7696 | In Re Stephen Harmon | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment appeals civil-rights constitutional-error court-of-appeals due-process federal-statutory-authority harmless-error standing statutory-authority substantive-rights | 1.) (?)- The Ninith Circuit Court of Appeals "lost" the Subject Matter Jurisdiction "Authority" and "resulting in" the Court "lacking of Subject Matte… | |
| 21-7487 | Dion Fisher v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure discovery district-court-order evidentiary-ruling harmless-error motion-to-suppress suppression-hearing trial-witness-list witness-disclosure witness-testimony | Whether petitioner is entitled to a new trial based on the district court's order denying his motion to suppress. Whether petitioner is entitled to a… |
| 21-1273 | Frank D. Lazzerini v. Ohio | Ohio | 2022-03-21 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error right-to-be-present structural-error trial-proceedings voir-dire | Over objection that it violated his constitutional right to be present at all critical stages of his trial on two hundred seventy-two felony charges, … |
| 21-7364 | In Re David Lopez | 2022-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | certiorari civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fraud-on-court habeas harmless-error judicial-misconduct original-jurisdiction standing supreme-court-jurisdiction writ-of-prohibition | Question not identified. | |
| 21-7346 | Avian Brule v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion revocation-standard sentencing supervised-release | (1) What is the appellate standard of review applicable to sentences imposed following revocation of supervised release? (2) Is a district court's er… |
| 21-7276 | Julio Rodriguez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus harmless-error residual-clause standing unconstitutional-vagueness | 1. Whether a certificate of appealability can be issued despite controlling circuit authority to the contrary. 2. Whether a general verdict that was … |
| 21-7267 | William Roy Thietje v. Ken Clark, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-03 | Denied | IFP | due-process harmless-error intervening-cause jury-instructions malice malice-aforethought provocative-act-murder sixth-amendment | 1. Where petitioner received a conviction based on erroneous jury instructions, were such petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to Due … |
| 21-7214 | Mark Anthony Taylor v. Anna Valentine, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief reasonable-diligence standard-of-review | DOES AHA MELTER AUA" CLAL{OOF ACTUAL leholEWACE OURLEY AL ACL AMA ME ACTIAL lb byl CEWe LE Tht SAME STATED faked. . OF THE STATUTE: ACTUALLY Maio Ell … |
| 21-1179 | Eric Lund v. Jeffrey Datzman, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment harmless-error heck-v-humphrey | Whether the Heck v. Humphrey bar on § 1983 suits is categorically inapplicable when a convicted individual brings a Fourth Amendment claim seeking dam… |
| 21-1082 | Tarresse Leonard v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-04 | Denied | criminal-procedure essential-element harmless-error indictment judicial-review motion-to-dismiss structural-error | Whether the erroneous denial of a timely raised motion to dismiss an indictment omitting an essential element is structural error requiring dismissal … | |
| 21-7033 | Oscar Alvarado v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence | I. Whether the United States Court of Appeal's for the Third Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of several other United States C… |
| 21-6970 | Nigel Kinte Wright v. Steven Rivard, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-trial cumulative-errors due-process evidentiary-errors fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness harmless-error judicial-review sixth-amendment | To what extent is the test for analyzing whether cumulative evidentiary errors created a fundamentally unfair criminal trial coextensive with the test… |
| 21-6902 | Daliyl Raaid Muhammad v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-01-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa aedpa-standard circuit-split collateral-review criminal-procedure federal-prejudice-standards harmless-error jury-verdict jury-verdicts supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether the Third Circuit erred, in conflict with decisions of the Second and Ninth Circuits, when it held that this Court's decision in United St… |
| 21-6860 | Lanny Jay Lyerla, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law court-correction due-process harmless-error judicial-error manifest-injustice plain-error procedural-fairness witness-testimony | Oua aoAr©/\ court cao^z-5 a Uirivtle$.s err^<r +© become c< is 4^ere £>r -Ke <^^^;t_+o_a^L 4o "k'te cojrf aryj Uxye 4liK ^Uuvn ^rr^r corr^ crt<xi_3 >©… |
| 21-6844 | Pedro Rafael Caraballo-Martinez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction multiple-theory-error predicate-offense statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-vagueness united-states-v-davis vagueness | Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) may be sustained based on the reviewing court's finding that the jury relied equally on a valid pr… |
| 21-993 | Willard Anthony v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2022-01-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10) | confrontation-clause confrontation-right due-process fair-trial harmless-error presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-testimony structural-error witness-credibility | Whether the presumption of innocence, the right to confrontation, and the right to a fair trial permit a court to allow the grand jury prosecutor to t… |
| 21-6772 | Jerry Lee Canfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-06 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-error due-process harmless-error jury-bias jury-impartiality jury-selection structural-error voir-dire | QUESTION NUMBER ONE: The Fifth Circuit has announced a newly created rule under the principle of "interpretati logica," and dclared: "Once a panelist… |
| 21-6736 | Steven R. Henson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-28 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | actual-knowledge appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instructions medical-practitioner prescription-liability statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence willful-blindness | 1. Whether the erroneous issuance of a deliberate ignorance or willful blindness instruction is harmless as a matter of law and beyond appellate revie… |
| 21-6587 | Marcus Termaine Darden v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-expert harmless-error hearsay hearsay-testimony sixth-circuit | I DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR BY HOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT'S ERRORS IN ADMITTING POLICE "GANG EXPERT" AND OTHER HEARSAY TESTIMONY WERE… |
| 21-6534 | Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict harmless-error jury-verdict residual-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether a conviction obtained in reliance on an unconstitutionally vague residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) may be sustained based on a revie… |
| 21-6492 | Jaime Galvez v. William Muniz, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-02 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure defendant-rights directed-verdict due-process federal-law harmless-error insanity-defense right-to-remain-silent trial-court-error | 1. Is it clearly established federal law within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) that a trial court's error, of forcing a criminal defendant to t… |
| 21-6334 | Christopher Jason Henry v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review booker-standard circuit-court harmless-error molina-martinez-v-united-states procedural-error procedural-reasonableness rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker | I. In the opinion below, a divided panel of the Eleventh Circuit held that the sentencing adjustment in U.S.S.G. § 5G1.3(b) is completely advisory, ev… |
| 21-6272 | Igor Perlov v. California | California | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | credibility credibility-determination criminal-charge due-process harmless-error jury-instruction reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment | A jury convicted petitioner of unlawful possession of ammunition, which police found in a cardboard box in the trunk of his car. Petitioner testified … |
| 21-6240 | Michael Roger Clemons, aka Chinaman v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review district-court guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-error standard-of-review | Whether any procedural sentencing error can be deemed harmless if the district court announces, without further explanation, that it would have impose… |
| 21-6200 | Jesus Ruiz v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | collateral-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-conviction harmless-error non-concurrent-sentence sentencing | 1. Whether a conviction carrying a non-concurrent prison sentence for an act the law does not make criminal can ever be considered harmless. 2. Wheth… |
| 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… |
| 21-6217 | Alberto Grajales v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process general-verdict harmless-error judicial-review residual-clause sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether a general verdict that was obtained in reliance on the unconstitutionally vague residual clause in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(B) may be sustained b… |
| 21-6171 | Carlos Granda v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-03 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924c3b circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure harmless-error harmless-error-review johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default | 1. Whether the Court should resolve the three-way circuit split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default may be … |
| 21-6123 | Antonio Rene Martinez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 sentencing structural-error | Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci… |
| 21-6138 | Armando B. Cortinas, Jr. v. Jo Gentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-01 | Denied | IFP | Brecht-v-Abrahamson confession constitutional-error federal-habeas federal-review felony-murder habeas-corpus harmless-error premeditation-and-deliberation section-2254 state-court-decision | Should the Court hold this petition pending disposition of Brown v. Davenport, No. 20-826, which will likely address how 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) and Brecht… |
| 21-637 | William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility v. James Garlick | Second Circuit | 2021-11-01 | Denied | autopsy-report confrontation-clause deference habeas-corpus harmless-error testimonial | 1. In granting habeas corpus relief to a state court prisoner, did the Second Circuit create a circuit split and deny the state court judgment the def… | |
| 21-6115 | Jaime Mayorga v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chapman-v-california criminal-conviction criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-to-defraud jury-instruction jury-instructions ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-neder | Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's instructional error claim, which did not examine evidence Petitioner proffered regarding his lack … |
| 21-6116 | Christopher David Cobb v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-law civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process harmless-error oath-of-office public-employment standing | 1) Whether the conflict between Mechanik and Bank of Nova Scotia invite arbitrary decisions from the lower courts. 2) Whether it was a mistake of fac… |
| 21-6002 | Mario Bachiller v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-conviction jury-instructions predicate-offense statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | "It has long been settled that when a case is submitted to the jury on alternative theories the unconstitutionality of any of the theories requires th… |
| 21-5989 | Jeffrey G. Boyd v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split contested-element criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions knowledge-element standard-of-review | Based on this Court's harmless error jurisprudence and that of seven other circuits, the government must establish beyond a reasonable doubt that an e… |
| 21-5826 | Armel Baxter v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-09-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt structural-error | Whether an erroneous reasonable-doubt instruction that would be structural error on direct appeal warrants a presumption of prejudice when raised in a… |
| 21-5758 | Bobby Martin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law harmless-error statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A), that was obtained in reliance on the unconstitutionally vague residual clause invalidated in Unit… |
| 21-391 | Paul Alexander, aka David Paul Hayes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-search derivative-evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit harmless-error suppression supreme-court-precedent | 1. Is the Fourth Circuit in violation of Supreme Court precedent and in conflict with other circuits when, in conducting a harmless error review, i… |
| 21-5635 | Jamail D. Hairston v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2021-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error miranda-rights miscarriage-of-justice police-testimony right-to-remain-silent right-to-silence sufficiency-of-evidence | DID THE APPEALS COURT ERR IN HOLDING THAT NO SUBSTANTIAL RISK OF A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE RESULTED FROM OFFICER PAGAN'S ERRONEOUS TESTIMONY ABOUT HAIR… |
| 21-5554 | Joseph H. Gibbs v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2021-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process federal-courts fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus harmless-error standing state-court-process state-courts | Abrogated constitutional holdings/ in its application of the legal standard/ (...fundamental fairness shocking to universal justice ) in Butler V Stat… |
| 21-5539 | James Takchuan Woo v. Colorado | Colorado | 2021-08-31 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights continuance-request discovery-violation discovery-violations effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial harmless-error right-against-unlawful-search unlawful-search video-surveillance | Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals erred in concluding that Woo's Constitutional rights to effective assistance of counsel and a fair trial were no… |
| 21-5324 | Michael Dasean Robinson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process harmless-error rule-32 sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review | At sentencing, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i)(3)(B) gives a district court two options for addressing any "controverted matter": "rule on th… |
| 21-183 | Gas Pipe, Inc., et al. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-09 | Denied | appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud constitutional-error criminal-law defraud-clause government-function harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 371's defraud clause, which in relevant part prohibits conspiracies "to defraud the United States," reaches any conspiracy whos… | |
| 21-5318 | Beatrice Munyenyezi v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 brecht-standard chapman-standard federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instruction post-conviction-relief supreme-court-review | When reviewing a habeas corpus claim under 28 U.S.C. §2255, where the court is considering for the first time whether an erroneous jury instruction on… |
| 21-5142 | Michael Angelo Williams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit withdrawal-of-plea | Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether Mr. Williams should have been permitted to withdraw his guilty plea, which requ… |
| 21-5016 | Salvador Acosta v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-06 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-knowledge criminal-law drug-statutes evidence harmless-error mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement testimony | 1. Whether a federal court of appeals can reject a defendant's testimony denying the requisite criminal knowledge as implausible in determining that a… |
| 21-5009 | Eddie Tarver v. Maryland | Maryland | 2021-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review authentication cell-phone-evidence civil-procedure evidence evidence-authentication harmless-error judicial-discretion photographic-evidence | 1. Whether the Court of Special Appeals abused its discretion by deciding that the Circuit Court's error, admitting in evidence certain pictures from … |
| 20-8424 | James Erik Godiksen v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure expert-testimony harmless-error judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-note prejudice trial-procedure | Did the Court of Appeals improperly conclude that the District Court's mishandling of a jury note and replaying only a portion of the defense expert's… |
| 20-8350 | Curtis Lee Holliman v. Texas | Texas | 2021-06-21 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence harmless-error standing | Did the court of Appeals misapply the holding in Ray v. state in holding that the error was harmless? Did prosecutors mislead the jury and fail to tu… |
| 20-8346 | Juan Anibal Patrone v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922 criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error immigration-status rehaif rehaif-standard sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | First, whether the district court's violation of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) — when it omitted the knowledge of immigration status… |
| 20-1709 | David Ming Pon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-10 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-standard government-case harmless-error judicial-review presumption-of-innocence standard-of-review | Whether an appellate court reviewing a cold criminal trial record may determine that an error at trial was harmless by applying an "overwhelming evide… |
| 20-8264 | Jeremy Hough v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-procedure procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review | Whether, through "assumed error harmlessness review," appellate courts may affirm a criminal sentence without addressing allegations of significant pr… |
| 20-8203 | Dasheme Kareme Hosley v. Rick Hill, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | closing-argument due-process harmless-error judicial-ratification jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-misstatement prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court trial-procedure | In a prosecutorial misconduct claim based upon a misstatement of law during closing argument, should courts presume that the jury followed the trial c… |
| 20-8119 | Peter Anthony Ciraulo v. Oregon | Oregon | 2021-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error unanimous-verdict | Whether a trial court commits structural error for purposes of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, when the trial court instructs a… |
| 20-8101 | Joseph Weldon Smith v. Perry Russell, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-21 | Denied | IFP | brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson capital-sentencing harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment stromberg-error stromberg-v-california | In applying harmless error review under Brecht, may a federal court disregard the prejudice resulting from Stromberg error, i.e., the jury's considera… |
| 20-8075 | Damantae Graham v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-05-19 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error trial-procedure victim-impact victim-impact-testimony | This Court ruled that, before a federal constitutional error can be deemed harmless, the prosecution must establish by proof beyond a reasonable doubt… |
| 20-1605 | Justin Terrell Atkins v. Timothy Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | aedpa brecht-v-abrahamson confrontation-clause habeas habeas-corpus harmless-error harmlessness preservation-rule sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether, as concluded by every circuit that has considered the issue, the preservation rule applies to the State's forfeiture of harmlessness in AEDPA… |
| 20-8021 | Jason Scott Pedro v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-maximum | Can a significant procedural error be deemed harmless when the sentencing judge uses the statutory maximum as the baseline for imposition of sentence? |
| 20-7931 | Oscar Segura-Resendez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal constitutional-due-process due-process ex-post-facto fifth-circuit guidelines harmless-error post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-retroactivity | Is vidlation of the ex past Lacte clause of the 0.5, _ | Constitukion harm ess if the sogefic definition of 2x | DoS CackO Was done by the Coote |
| 20-7918 | Jasper Pollini v. Amy Robey, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-counsel habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lockhart-v-fretwell sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review smith-v-robbins strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | 1. Whether Lockhart v. Fretwell's suggestion that "mere outcome determination" is not sufficient to establish prejudice under Strickland v. Washington… |
| 20-7899 | Christopher Middleton v. Georgia | Georgia | 2021-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements harmless-error indictment-sufficiency jury-disbelief self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a finding of guilt can be predicated on the jury's disbelief of a defendant's statements where the defendant does not testify and the State fa… |
| 20-7872 | Jeremy Darnell Morton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appeal attempt-offense career-offender controlled-substance criminal-procedure guideline-range harmless-error search-and-seizure sentencing | I. Did the court of appeals err in using the harmless error rule to resolve the illegal search and seizure of $8,300? II. Was the career offender gui… |
| 20-7856 | Dennis Ayala v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review court-of-appeals district-court drug-quantity harmless-error judicial-discretion molina-martinez preponderance-standard sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it held, contrary to this Court's holding in Molina-Martinez, that any error in the District Court's choice be… |
| 20-7782 | Ronald W. Greer v. Sherie Korneman, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights cuyler-v-sullivan doyle-v-ohio doyle-violation harmless-error ineffective-counsel miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona newly-discovered-evidence state-court-deference | I. HAS A PETITIONER SUBSTANTIALLY SHOWN THE DENIAL OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT WARRANTING ISSUANCE OF A COA WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT AFFORDS DEFERENCE … |
| 20-7757 | James L. Toliver v. Florida | Florida | 2021-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection harmless-error jury-instructions standard-of-review | The question(s) presented in this case is whether similarly situated criminal defendants should be treated equally in pipeline cases where erroneous j… |
| 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… |
| 20-7611 | Jamar Garrison v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-30 | Denied | IFP | brady-rule brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-obligations due-process harmless-error rule-16 sixth-circuit | I. Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue to Revi ew the Brady and Rule 1 6 Due Process Viol ations in Defendant's Case Because the Sixth Ci rcuit Found No… |
| 20-7556 | Terrence A. McKnight v. R. Johnson, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error hearsay-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standards-of-review | 1. Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) (1)& (2), did the California Court of Appeal unreasonably determine that the established prosecutorial misconduct in rely… |
| 20-7528 | Jonathan Figueroa-Serrano v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-22 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review conditional-plea criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-rules harmless-error plea-bargaining sentencing | Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(a)(2), a defendant may enter a guilty plea conditioned on the right to appeal an adverse pretrial ruling. … |
| 20-7492 | Justice Towan Roundtree v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternative-sentence appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a Guidelines error is harmless when the district judge issues an alternative sentence by stating that she would impose the same sentence even … |
| 20-7341 | James Coddington v. Jim Farris, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error material-evidence mens-rea right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment | On direct appeal, the state court found that constitutional error marred the trial, which ended with a death sentence for petitioner. The error—barrin… |
| 20-1161 | Edward J. Kosinski v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review confidentiality-agreement constitutional-vagueness criminal-fraud fiduciary-duty harmless-error insider-trading trust-and-confidence vagueness | 1. Whether a simple agreement to keep information confidential by itself can establish the fiduciary or similar relationship of "trust and confidence"… |
| 20-7189 | Bernard Thomas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | brief-filing counsel-assignment criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-defenders fourth-amendment harmless-error local-rule search-and-seizure standing | Question not identified. |
| 20-7126 | Dominic Anthony Davis, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c aiding-and-abetting armed-bank-robbery circuit-split fact-based-harmless-error-review harmless-error jury-verdict modified-categorical-approach predicate-offense section-924c shepard-documents | I. Where an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) conviction rests on more than one possible predicate offense, the Shepard documents must conclusively establish that a … |
| 20-1057 | Oracle America, Inc. v. United States, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-law administrative-record agency-deference bid-protest conflicts-of-interest criminal-statute federal-law harmless-error procurement procurement-law | 1. Whether a bid protest that establishes a violation of federal law may be denied for "harmless error" based on a rationale not present in the admini… |
| 20-992 | John Vigna v. Maryland | Maryland | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review character-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process fair-trial harmless-error | In this criminal case, the Maryland court, in a trial for sexual abuse of a child, excluded evidence of the petitioner's character trait of appropriat… |
| 20-6631 | Aaron Sebastian Redmond v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-sentencing constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing fifth-circuit guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines | The Fifth Circuit agreed with Mr. Redmond that the district court erred when it applied the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, which resulted in a higher adv… |
| 20-6624 | Aaron Michael Aguilera v. California | California | 2020-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights due-process fair-trial harmless-error jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence right-to-testify structural-error | 1. Consistent with a criminal defendant's fundamental right to testify in his or her own defense — as well as the right to present a complete defense,… |
| 20-6494 | Jose Andres Vera-Gutierrez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-error harmless-error witness-credibility | WHETHER ERRONEOUSLY ADMITTED EVIDENCE CRITICAL TO PROVING AN ELEMENT OF THE CHARGED OFFENSE CAN BE DEEMED HARMLESS BASED ON THE APPELLATE COURT'S DETE… |
| 20-6409 | Hugo Humberto Perez Rangel v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | IFP | advisory-opinions appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-error harmless-error incentive-to-object judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines | Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a… |
| 20-6374 | Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-law drug-conspiracy fourth-circuit harmless-error sentencing united-states-v-harchulik | WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLIED THE HARMLESS ERROR DOCTRINE ANNOUNCED IN UNITED STATES v. HARDING WHEN IT AFFIRMED DEFENDANT'S SENTENCE FOR DR… |
| 20-6336 | Eric Troy Snell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-16 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit gall-standard gall-v-united-states harmless-error harmlessness-standard sentencing-guidelines | 1. Does the Fourth Circuit's practice of not addressing erroneous Sentencing Guidelines calculations but affirming a sentence under "assumed error har… |
| 20-6185 | Bryan Lamar Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruton bruton-rule co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error | A suspect in a burglary and homicide called a detective to cooperate. The detective asked him which vehicle he and the others had taken to commit the … |
| 20-6191 | Daniel Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions ninth-circuit sexual-abuse victim-age | 1. The Ninth Circuit held that for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2241(c) (aggravated sexual abuse), the government must prove, and the jury must be i… |
| 20-6179 | Hai Duong v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation doyle-v-ohio due-process equal-protection harmless-error miranda-rights post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct | Under the particularized need doctrine, indigent defendants are allowed to file applications for post-conviction relief without supporting documentati… |
| 20-6097 | Francisco J. Martinez v. Adolfo Gonzalez, Chief Probation Officer, San Diego, California | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commodities-fraud criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions scienter | reasonable doubt in this commodities fraud prosecution. |
| 20-502 | Ken Mascara, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of St. Lucie County, Florida, et al. v. Viola Bryant, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gregory Vaughn Hill, Jr. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-16 | Denied | civil-police-liability civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-admissibility harmless-error judicial-review police-liability probation probationary-status rules-of-evidence standard-of-review | Whether this Court should adopt a more flexible standard of admissibility of evidence than what is required by Huddleston v. U.S., 485 U.S. 681 (1988)… | |
| 20-5783 | Chia Jean Lee v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review chapman-v-california circuit-split constitutional-standard criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review | The government requested and received a deliberate indifference instruction in the criminal jury charge, over Lee's objection. The Fifth Circuit Court… |
| 20-5792 | Ronald Leslie Pierce, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentencing conviction-review criminal-monetary-penalties fourth-circuit harmless-error independent-sentences judicial-precedent sentencing-doctrine summary-reversal | Whether concurrent sentence harmless error doctrine is not appliable to multiple convictions and sentences with criminal monetary penalties on each si… |
| 20-5730 | Jimmie Butler v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review | I. The district court improperly designated Mr. Butler as a career offender, and this was not harmless error. The district court made a rote, less tha… |
| 20-5619 | James Allen Minyard v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | competency-hearing due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment harmless-error prejudice structural-error trial-rights | There was a bona fide doubt as to Petitioner's competence to be tried, due to him becoming stuporous and non-responsive in the second day of his two-d… |
| 20-5453 | Jose Luis Sanchez-Rosado v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-24 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy standard-of-review | Whether an unconstitutional conviction based on a plea colloquy that omitted an element of the offense must be reversed where the defendant objected t… |
| 20-5466 | John Eldridge Cone, Jr. v. Janet Dowling, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2020-08-24 | Denied | IFP | appellate-discretion circuit-split constitutional-claim constitutional-claims factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-petition harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel | When a petitioner supplements his Constitutional claim on appeal with a colorable showing of factual innocence that was not raised in his habeas petit… |
| 20-127 | Douglas Jason Way v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-05 | Denied | Response Waived | drug-analogue federal-regulation harmless-error knowledge knowledge-standard mcfadden-precedent ninth-circuit rebuttal state-law state-law-compliance | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals contradicted the holding of McFadden v. United States 576 U.S. 186 (2015) by ruling irrelevant petitione… |
| 20-5235 | Michael D. Bikundi, Sr. v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure discovery district-court due-process federal-rule-criminal-procedure harmless-error legal-obligation material-violation prejudice prejudicial-error sanction sanctions | Whether a district court has an obligation to impose a meaningful sanction for a material and highly prejudicial violation of Federal Rule of Criminal… |
| 20-5217 | David Kelsey Sparre v. Florida | Florida | 2020-07-30 | Denied | IFP | adolescent-brain-development brain-development constitutional-rights first-degree-murder harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing prejudice trial-strategy | 1. Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and execute the defense trial strategy, which would have significantly undermined the State's case f… |
| 20-5223 | Jorge Madrid-Uriarte v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review | I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light… |
| 20-5231 | S. T., et al. v. Vermont Department for Children and Families, et al. | Vermont | 2020-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | best-interests-of-the-child child-welfare constitutional-error due-process family-law harmless-error parental-rights termination | May the State of Vermont, along with a minority of other states, apply the "reasonable probability" harmless error standard in assessing due process e… |
| 20-5183 | Keith Hoglund v. Ron Neal, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2020-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment harmless-error hearsay-evidence procedural-rights sixth-amendment | Issue I: Whether the lower court(s) violated Keith Hoglund 's substantive and procedural due process rights by their holding(s) that there was no rea… |
| 20-60 | Sheldon Silver v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-07-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | appeals-court bribery criminal-law due-process extortion harmless-error hobbs-act public-official | (1) Can a public official be convicted of bribery absent proof of an agreed exchange with the alleged bribe payor, based solely on his unexpressed, un… |
| 20-5150 | Ernest R. Jenkins v. Daniel Clarke, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2020-07-22 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-right habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review jurisdiction standing state-prosecution | 1. Was the Circuit Court's denial of the petitioner's request for a certificate of apealability (COA) erroneous? 2. Does the petitioner have a fundam… |
| 20-5090 | Ronald Lynn Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a… |
| 20-5073 | Gilberto Martinez-Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure clear-error evidentiary-errors harmless-error judicial-review judicial-standard legal-sufficiency standard-of-review | Whether the court of appeals committed clear error by concluding that significant evidentiary errors were harmless. |
| 20-5078 | Vagan Adzhemyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | contested-element contested-elements due-process federal-kidnapping-statute harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions kidnapping-statute sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether the Sixth Amendment allows a district court to refuse to instruct jurors on the only contested element of the federal kidnapping statute after… |
| 20-5005 | Archie Lee Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error plea-withdrawal substantial-rights | Did the Eleventh Circuit err in affirming the district court's denial of the Petitioner's motion to withdraw his plea and was it was it an abuse of di… |
| 19-8743 | Jeremiah Lee Guerra v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-instruction legal-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review | Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of… |
| 19-8719 | Brown Laster, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-precedent kotteakos-standard kotteakos-v-united-states sentencing uniformity | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit entered a decision that conflicts with this Court's precedent in Kotteakos v. United States, 328 U.S. 750, 66 S.Ct. 12… |
| 19-8706 | Lester Thomas Butcher v. Texas | Texas | 2020-06-15 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial texas trial-fairness | Question 1. WILL THIS SUPREME COURT PERMIT TEXAS PROSECUTORS ' CLAIMS OF "MISTAKE AND INADVERTENCE ", MADE BY PROSECUTORS BENEFITING FROM SUCH CLAIMS,… |
| 19-8670 | Rosalio Ramos Tapia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-review legal-standard precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review | I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light… |
| 19-8658 | Garian King v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | __U.S.__ 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020). court-reconsideration criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review lower-court-decision precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent | I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light… |
| 19-8555 | James Troiano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states structural-error | The Fourth Circuit has held that error under Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), is structural; the Ninth Circuit and other courts routine… |
| 19-8542 | Brian Lamar Brown v. Nevada, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | closing-arguments criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial harmless-error jury-instructions legal-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the prosecutor committed prejudicial misconduct during closing arguments? |
| 19-8547 | Joseph D. Blueford v. Timothy Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2020-05-27 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review due-process fair-trial harmless-error impartial-tribunal judicial-discretion jury jury-competence sixth-amendment | Does a petitioner have the right to a fair and impartial trial when a juror does not hear or understanding the evidence being provided? |
| 19-8529 | Darryl Cain v. Randee Rewerts, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance judicial-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility | ftlMWS ckifij MfyCuloi Opim&if) $ VwVmj -for M Woj UirWw todibili^ m \m\4 mpws/VVnWbd fip^ 1mtm mm ■«4iwfie OounSe 'ivauiYi^t. 3* WWW 4W personal Dpmi… |
| 19-8440 | Katherine O'Neal v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-error evidence-admission harmless-error jury-trial overwhelming-evidence sixth-amendment | In determining whether constitutional error in the admission of evidence is harmless, should a reviewing court focus on whether the error contributed … |
| 19-8411 | Charles Burton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment structural-error | 1. Whether mailing a verdict to a criminal defendant through his counsel in violation of the Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment and Federal Criminal Rul… |
| 19-8360 | Juan C. Parra-Interian v. Mike Obenland | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence harmless-error joinder-of-charges probable-cause standing witness witness-testimony | Is it lawful to have a witness testify in a case where they have NO Direct knowledge of the facts? Can a State Court Joinder of Dissimilar charges, w… |
| 19-8158 | Lucas Heindenstrom v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 causation causation-standard fentanyl fentanyl-death harmless-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-sentencing upward-departure | Is applying the wrong causation standard when upwardly departing under the sentencing guidelines or upwardly varying under the statutory sentencing fa… |
| 19-8066 | Silvestre Lara-Cervantes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-remand criminal-procedure harmless-error holguin-hernandez judicial-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent | Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of… |
| 19-8025 | Kwasi McKinney v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression harmless-error involuntary-statement miranda-rights search-and-seizure search-warrant | IF ectojal Mukwons te Soppiess Stabe ment aud Sean wocrant for | untimely, The Arkousas Courk of Mppoale cevecsed and cewmanded We clecuct Couct order… |
| 19-8033 | In Re Jonathan A. Hampton | 2020-03-18 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instructions lesser-included-offense prosecutorial-appeal state-law structural-error | CAN I, JONATHAN ANDREW HAMPTON, AN INDIGENT PRISONER, SIGSI(A) PETITIONER ANA 42 USCS SI983 CIVIL RIGHTS PIAINTIFF, APPEARING IN PROPRIA PERSONA BEFOR… | |
| 19-8020 | Walter Freeman Jordan, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure evidence-admission federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence standard-of-review | I. On Appeal WALTER JORDAN argued that the erroneous admission of hearsay evidence that he was the brother of one of the co-defendants caught leaving … |
| 19-7988 | Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence harmless-error hearsay hearsay-standard standard-of-review | Where hearsay, consisting of an inculpatory, out-of-court statement made other than to law enforcement, is erroneously introduced to the defendant's p… |
| 19-7942 | Daniel Dale Parsons v. R. Blades, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adverse-witness co-defendant-guilty-plea co-defendant-statement compulsory-process compulsory-process-clause confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination harmless-error plain-error waiver | I. Has the accused's right of confrontation been converted from the prosecutor's duty under Confrontation Clause into the accused's privilege under th… |
| 19-7779 | Freddy Garcia v. Texas | Texas | 2020-02-26 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-erro harmless-error indictment indictment-variance jury-conviction jury-trial standard-of-review | A jury convicted Freddy Garcia for a felony arising from a different incident than the one for which he was indicted. The State gave no pretrial notic… |
| 19-7492 | Inger L. Jensen v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-28-usc-2255 harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review | A. 28 U.S.C. § 2255 states that "Unless the motion and the files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitled to no relief… |
| 19-7466 | In Re Ricardo Jose Calderon Lopez | 2020-01-29 | Denied | IFP | appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights corporate-structure discrimination due-process equal-protection harmless-error judicial-prejudice mandamus standing writ-of-certiorari | I. In Aid of its Appellate Jurisdiction, this Hon. Court is empowered to Compel the District Court to decide excessively delayed cases. II. Appellate… | |
| 19-7480 | David Paul Lynch v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-error eleventh-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-statements jury-trial precedent sixth-amendment weight-of-evidence | 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit violate this Court's precedent on harmless error when it focused its harmless error analysis solely on the weight of the u… |
| 19-7452 | Jeffrey R. Golin, et ux. v. San Andreas Regional Center, et al. | California | 2020-01-28 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-violation developmental-disability due-process government-officials governmental-duties governmental-immunity harmless-error jury-determination qualified-immunity standing | Whether persons who are not government officials and not performing governmental duties can claim qualified immunity from suit in a civil rights actio… |
| 19-7453 | Nancy Delaney v. San Andreas Regional Center, et al. | California | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 constitutional-violation developmental-disability due-process government-officials governmental-duties harmless-error involuntary-confinement jury-determination qualified-immunity standing | 1. Whether persons who are not government officials and not performing governmental duties can claim qualified immunity from suit in a civil rights ac… |
| 19-920 | Boulder Young, aka Boulder Daniel McManigal v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-23 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-hearing sentencing waiver | Whether the waiver of a right to appeal a judgment of conviction is controlled by the defendant's written waiver or the oral pronouncement of the cour… |
| 19-7238 | Jerry Reginald Burkes v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure dismissal due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis indictment-dismissal mandatory-language money-laundering speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation tennessee-local-rule-10.03 tennessee-rules-of-criminal-procedure tennessee-rules-of-evidence trial-rights | 1. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT'S DENIAL OF A MOTION TO DISMISS AN INDICTMENT FOR A VIOLATION OF THE SPEEDY TRIAL ACT'S 70 DAY TIME LIMIT FOR BRINGING A DE… |
| 19-7228 | Jerry Carter v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | chain-of-custody confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-8th-amendment-confrontation-cla criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns eighth-circuit evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-violation strickland-standard Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in rejecting the | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by "We also find no abuse of discretion in entering the decision the admission, with a limiting ins… |
| 19-824 | Lonnie Lee Owens v. Mike Parris, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response Waived | blakely-error compromise-verdict disputed-facts harmless-error judicial-fact-finding sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit-review subjective-assessment witness-credibility | In the decade since this Court ruled in Washington v. Recuenco, 548 U.S. 212 (2006), that errors under Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004), can… |
| 19-7116 | Eddie Estuardo Galindo-Mendez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review | Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review? |
| 19-7066 | Evaristo Toscano v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-tampering harmless-error judicial-bias prejudice-comments redacted-statement right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment | Whether a violation of petitioner's right granted by the Confrontation Clause of the United States Constitution was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt… |
| 19-6923 | Adrian Alaniz v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-violation due-process harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence justifiable-homicide manslaughter prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment self-defense standard-of-review | I. Where the evidence tended to favor a verdict of justifiable homicide or a lesser verdict of manslaughter, has Petitioner presented a "debatable " i… |
| 19-6913 | Neal Benjamin v. Jennifer Saad, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review booker-error constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-review lower-court-error sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review | 1) Does the Petitioner have a Sixth Amendment Booker error? 2) Does the Petitioner have a Harmless Error ground? 3) Did the Lower Court overlook the… |
| 19-6907 | Robert Hendricks v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error criminal-trial due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-admission harmless-error racial-bias structural-error | The Court of Appeals agreed that the District Court erred when at petitioner's trial for credit union robbery it permitted over objection one of the c… |
| 19-6747 | Josue Emmanuel Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-25 | Denied | IFP | allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default sentencing | 1. Whether allocution error is subject to plain error review in the absence of objection? |
| 19-6715 | Brandon Lashon Ingram v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Does Title 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b) automatically require an evidentiary hearing when an affidavit presented by a defendant alleging a breakdown in communi… |
| 19-6735 | Kwok Cheung Chow, aka Raymond Chow, aka Ha Jai v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-principles counsel-of-choice courtroom-closure government-interest governmental-interest harmless-error overriding-interest public-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | 1. In Presley v. Georgia, 558 U.S. 209 (2010), this Court held the right to a public trial in criminal cases extends to the entire trial, and any clos… |
| 19-642 | Shawntele Cortez Jackson v. Kathy Litteral | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response Waived | brecht-standard chapman-standard esparza-standard habeas-corpus habeas-review harmless-error self-defense sixth-circuit | 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in applying the Esparza harmless error standard, instead of the Brecht harmless error standard on federal habeas re… |
| 19-573 | Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson closing-arguments constitutional-error fifth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct substantial-defense | Under Brecht v. Abrahamson, a federal court cannot grant habeas relief unless a constitutional error had a "substantial and injurious effect or influe… |
| 19-572 | Ravneet Singh v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-31 | Denied | civil-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error jury jury-instructions standard-of-review standing sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Whether, upon invalidating one of two alternative theories of liability presented to a jury, the reviewing court should ask if there is "sufficient… | |
| 19-6445 | Lewellyn Charles Cox, IV, aka Sho, aka Showtime, aka Showtyme v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance right-to-self-representation self-representation self-representation-at-sentencing sentencing structural-error | (1) Whether denial of a right to self-representation during sentencing is subject to harmless error analysis as held by the Ninth Circuit, or subject … |
| 19-6375 | Giam Nguyen, Anna Bagoumian, and Donovan Simmons v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process deliberate-ignorance due-process harmless-error jury-instructions medicare-fraud reverse-404(b) reverse-404b-evidence | 1. Whether the Petitioners were deprived of their Fifth Amendment right of Due Process to present a defense by the District Court's exclusion of the r… |
| 19-6280 | Jose Soto v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-criminal-procedure harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct | Should the government bear the burden of establishing the harmlessness of a properly preserved claim of prosecutorial misconduct in a federal criminal… |
| 19-6277 | Mario Ruvalcaba-Garcia v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-16 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split daubert daubert-standard evidentiary-reliability expert-testimony harmless-error judicial-gatekeeping make-initial-daubert-decision relevance-and-reliability remand remand-for-new-trial standard-of-review | When a trial court errs by failing to exercise its "gatekeeping" role of determining whether expert testimony is relevant and reliable under Daubert v… |
| 19-456 | John Buncich v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-10-07 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review chapman-error credibility credibility-assessment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard harmless-error judicial-discretion rule-404(b) | Where there is a finding of Chapman error, does the appellate court err by relying on its own assessment of the credibility of the defendant's testimo… |
| 19-6086 | Luis Alberto Torres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error sentencing sentencing-error standard-of-review | In recent years, the Court has granted certiorari to clarify how the plain-error standard of review applies to unpreserved claims of sentencing error.… |
| 19-6070 | Malcom McClenon v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-26 | Denied | IFP | appeals appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. IS RELIEF DUE. TO AN CONVICTION I DEVOIN OF THE RUDIMENTARY DEMANDS OF FAIR PROCEDURE ? 2. DOES BATSON" DEFY A HARMLESS-ERROR ANALYSIS? BJ DOES A… |
| 19-6068 | Michael S. Sites v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2019-09-25 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure critical-proceedings due-process harmless-error jury-deliberations right-to-be-present | Did the West Virginia Supreme Court violate the Petitioner's Constitutional Rights to be Present at ALL Critical proceedings, including the answering … |
| 19-6073 | Glen T. Jones, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-interpretation plain-error structural-error | 1) SUpEme COuRt ViEWS As to hAMlESSnES of ChAm ERRoR in stAtEcRimiNAl tal .foR puRpOSE of SubSEQuENt+ hAbEAS CORpUS REVEW UNd BeEChT v.AbRAhAMSON 507U… |
| 19-5998 | Eric Matthew Frein v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-09-19 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure harmless-error police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-integrity | When the Sixth Amendment right to counsel has attached, do efforts by police and prosecutors -- the victims of one or more of the defendant's charges … |
| 19-5947 | Michael Patrick Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-16 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement perception-of-guilt substantial-guilt trial-defense witness-tampering | If defense counsel omits the necessary trial defense and thereby sustains a perception of substantial guilt so that the substantial guilt mas dependen… |
| 19-5948 | Maria Margarita Valdez-Araiza v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review conflicting-evidence criminal-procedure-review evidence evidentiary-error harmless-error harmless-error-review judicial-precedent jury-factfinding sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-credibility | In conducting harmless-error review, an appellate court may not resolve conflicting evidence, assess the credibility of witnesses, or view the evidenc… |
| 19-5810 | Daniel Lopez DeJesus v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error in-re-winship ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions presumption winship | Mr. Dejesus alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to a jury instruction that effectively aided the state to surpass the… |
| 19-5833 | Wesley G. Copeland, Sr. v. Kansas | Kansas | 2019-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-law, equal-protection harmless-error speedy-trial statutory-interpretation | Question A: Did the Kansas Court of Appeals err in their analysis of the undisputed violation of a criminal defendant's Constitutional Due Process Ri… |
| 19-5767 | Virgil Lee Bailey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea harmless-error judicial-standard plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency sullivan-v-louisiana | I. Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review, or whether, under Sullivan v. Louisiana,… |
| 19-5681 | Raphael Person, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether, when a district court imposes a sentence based on several factors, one of which is improper, the court of appeals should affirm the sentence … |
| 19-208 | Mark A. Beckham v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-19 | Denied | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-review | Because only a jury, acting on proof beyond a reasonable doubt, may take a person's liberty, when, if ever, is it constitutionally permissible for a… | |
| 19-5631 | Joe Fernandez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c aider-and-abettor aider-and-abettor-liability aiding-and-abetting criminal-liability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error-analysis harmless-error jury-instruction rosemond-standard rosemond-v-united-states statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Whether the failure to give an instruction on aider and abetter liability for a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) that comported with this Court's de… |
| 19-5613 | Luis Samayoa-Castillo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines gall-v-united-states harmless-error molina-martinez-v-united-states rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-error | When the district court expressly relies upon a clearly erroneous fact in selecting its sentence, is the error harmless if there are other factors in … |
| 19-5566 | Reilies Wayne Miller v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chapman-v-california closing-arguments darden-v-wainwright due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense sixth-amendment | 1. Consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment and Chanman v. California . 386 U.S. 18, 87 S.Ct. 824, 17 L.Ed.2d 705 (1967) could the harmless error anal… |
| 19-5446 | Michael Thomas Balint v. Kelly Santoro, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instructions ninth-circuit right-to-be-present right-to-counsel | During deliberations, the jury issued a compound question as to the elements of Balint's trial defense, duress, as well as the defense of necessity. T… |
| 19-5458 | Samantha Winter v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation evidence evidence-admission harmless-error miranda-warnings motion-to-suppress rule-404b search-and-seizure warrantless-search | QUESTION 1: WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY DENIED MS. WINTER'S MOTION TO SUPPRESS HER STATEMENTS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, WHERE ATF AGENTS… |
| 19-5436 | Martin Araiza-Jacobo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-02 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-sufficiency standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the standard for assessing the harmlessness of an erroneously submitted deliberate-ignorance instruction turns only on the legal sufficiency o… |
| 19-5432 | Kevin Michael-Dorman Beltowski v. Shawn Brewer, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-01 | Granted | Response WaivedIFP | credibility-determinations criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error due-process evidence-sufficiency harmless-error instructional-error judicial-review jury-instructions newly-discovered-evidence right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sufficiency-of-evidence | I., THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT, TEDERAL DISTRICT COURT, AND STATE TRIAL COURT ALL HAVE DECIDED AN IMPORTAN7 TEDERAL QUES… |
| 19-5411 | Kirk Patrick Keshler v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency standard-of-review sullivan-v-louisiana | Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review, or whether, under Sullivan v. Louisiana, 50… |
| 19-5421 | Charles Earl Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-31 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-standard legal-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review procedural-review standard-of-review | Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review? |
| 19-5370 | Pedro Medina Castillon v. California | California | 2019-07-29 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction harmless-error heat-of-passion jury-instructions penal-code preemption standing state-law-claim subject-matter-jurisdiction vagueness | presentedquestion (s)IV.this Honorable from theand/or petition sCastillon wishesPetitioner Pedro Medina review this Stateand in distinguishing and/or … |
| 19-5317 | Alonzo Vernon v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial harmless-error jones-v-stinson sixth-amendment | Whether the Second Circuit's decision in the instant case created a conflict with the Court's decision in Chapman, supra? Further, whether the Second… |
| 19-5204 | Jesus Loya Quezada v. Rick Raemisch, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal citizenship civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error paper-foundation standing state-court uncorroborated-evidence | I wish for the court to review the errors Comitted in vidence Was allowed nowever I do not agree on the basis that now I have a criminal record and wi… |
| 19-5232 | Ricky Ray Malone v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-18 | Denied | IFP | chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis federal-law harmless-error harmlessness-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-component | 1. Where plain error review includes a built-in prejudice component, is subjecting an acknowledged plain error to a second round of harmlessness revie… |
| 19-61 | Maritime Life Caribbean Limited v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appointment attorney-general attorney-general-power civil-procedure department-of-justice district-court-discretion federal-government harmless-error harmless-error-review litigation-authority representation separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation united-states-code | Title 28, section 516, of the United States Code, vests the authority to litigate on behalf of the United States in the Department of Justice, under t… |
| 19-5058 | In Re Artur Tchibassa | 2019-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-violation extradition habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-discretion jurisprudence savings-clause statutory-interpretation structural-error | WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION BY REFUSING TO APPLY THE REYES-REQUENA/SAVINGS CLAUSE JURISPRUDENCE. | |
| 19-5010 | Andrew Nelson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-28 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(c) appellate-review continuance criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-52a federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-error prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing substantial-rights trial-continuance vagueness-doctrine | 1. Where the district court erroneously premises its denial of a meritorious, unopposed motion for continuance of the trial on a mistaken belief that … |
| 18-9824 | Steven G. Patten v. California | California | 2019-06-27 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection flight-instruction fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination self-defense | 1. Whether Petitioner can establish a prima facie case of discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when the pro- … |
| 18-1571 | Steve Kelly Moyer v. Kansas | Kansas | 2019-06-24 | Denied | Response Waived | automatic-reversal chapman-v-california constitutional-error constitutional-errors credibility-assessment due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel neder-v-united-states overwhelming-evidence stare-decisis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Whether the Kansas Supreme Court Who Affirmed the Remand Court's Analysis and Findings on Moyer'sCounsel's Effectiveness under Strickland v. Washingto… |
| 18-1528 | Jake Paul Heiney v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-06-10 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-finding-of-guilt jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error sullivan-v-louisiana winship | This Court has held that Due Process in criminal cases requires that a State prove every element of an alleged crime beyond a reasonable doubt. In Re … |
| 18-1476 | Randy Lee Carney v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-28 | Denied | Response Waived | alternative-sentence alternative-sentencing appellate-review career-offender circuit-split collateral-consequences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error judicial-discretion judicial-error legal-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error united-states-v-vonn | When sentencing defendants, some district courts announce that they would impose the same length of imprisonment even if their conclusions of law and … |
| 18-9423 | Ayanna Angle v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-procedure equal-protection harmless-error judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination | When a court of appeals finds that a district court, in overruling an objection to the prosecution's use of peremptory juror strikes, failed to comple… |
| 18-9382 | Joshua Wofford v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-construction harmless-error prosecutorial-evidence standard-of-review | Whether the federal court of appeals, while determining whether potential constitutional error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt pursuant to the … |
| 18-9299 | Frankie Karen Washington v. Deborah Johnson, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split constitutional-review harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Under Apprendi v. New Jersey 530 U.S. 466 (2000), it violates the Sixth Amendment to sentence a defendant to a higher statutory maximum term based on … |
| 18-9227 | Robert Sparks v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-10 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment cross-examination due-process expert-testimony expert-witness false-testimony harmless-error jury-impartiality prosecutorial-misconduct | QUESTION ONE: Does cross-examination of a prosecution's expert cure all harm from that expert's repeated false testimony during a capital punishment p… |
| 18-9120 | Russell Frey v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault cumulative-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-issues fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial prejudice right-to-counsel | 1.)Does the defendant Russel' Frey deserve a new trial or conviction vacated based on counsels overall health and his performance overall violated def… |
| 18-9079 | Steven Dedual, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternate-sentences appellate-review district-court guideline-range harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-procedure unsupported-alternate-sentences unsupported-claims | Can a district court that has erroneously applied a sentencing enhancement shield itself from appellate review by claiming, without providing specific… |
| 18-9007 | Nicholas D. Weir v. Montefiore Medical Center, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 district-court employment-discrimination frcp-rule-60(b) frcp-rule-61 frcp-rule-62.1 harmless-error retaliation retaliation-claim rule-60b substantial-rights | Does a district court judge's misunderstanding of the initial timeline that establishes a retaliation claim (under 42 U.S.C.. § 2000e) not considered … |
| 18-8998 | Juan Garcia v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process governmental-bad-faith governmental-misconduct harmless-error material-witness sixth-amendment witness-deportation | I. Whether a defendant must prove governmental bad faith to establish a compulsory process clause violation? II. Whether, if a showing of governmenta… |
| 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… |
| 18-1306 | Fred Anderson, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Amici (3) | advisory-jury capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty florida-supreme-court harmless-error hurst-v-florida judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error | 1. Whether a judge-imposed death sentence that violates Hurst is a structural error requiring reversal of the sentence. 2. Whether a Hurst violation … |
| 18-8773 | Emmanuely Germain v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error essential-elements harmless-error jurisdiction jury-instructions statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence uncharged-offense venue venue-error | 1. Is the error of omission of an essential element of an offense from jury instructions rendered harmless by the sufficiency of evidence to support a… |
| 18-8738 | Noe Machado-Erazo and Jose Martinez-Amaya v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-law-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-trial physical-force sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Whether a state statute can be said to require the "use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of anoth… |
| 18-8664 | Rodney Tyrone Lowe v. Florida | Florida | 2019-04-02 | Denied | IFP | caldwell-v-mississippi death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-violation harmless-error hurst-v-florida jury-instructions | I. Does the Florida Supreme Court's exclusive reliance on a unanimous recommendation of death to find harmless error for violations of Hurst v. Florid… |
| 18-8665 | Michael Benanti v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit criminal-activity fed-evid-r-403 fed-evid-rule-403 fourth-amendment harmless-error nexus nexus-requirement place-to-be-searched search-warrant substantial-rights | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires the affidavit supporting a search warrant to show a nexus between the criminal activity at issue and the plac… |
| 18-8677 | Patrick Lloyd v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error plea-bargaining rule-11 standing united-states-v-dominguez-benitez | Whether Dominguez BenItez's harmless error rule applies to Rule 11(b)(1)(G)'s requirement that before a guilty plea can be accepted the district court… |
| 18-8652 | Ammar Asimfaruq Harris v. Nevada | Nevada | 2019-04-01 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment capital-case constitutional-error due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury sixth-amendment | Whether Mr. Harris' rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth amendments to a fair trial by jury were violated when the Nevada Supreme Court incorr… |
| 18-8573 | Early A. Atterberry v. John Varga, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-27 | Denied | IFP | appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure-rule-52b due-process equal-protection fair-trial harmless-error jury-prejudice new-trial other-crimes-evidence rule-52b standing | Whether the Court erred in properly applying Rule 52(b) to the issue of Harmless Error raised by the petitioner during the numerous appeals pursued. … |
| 18-8565 | Evender Gene Jackson v. Texas | Texas | 2019-03-26 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-error direct-appeal harmless-error ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-test strickland-v-washington | IF A TRIAL ATTORNEY'S FAILURE TO OBJECT TO THE OMMISION OF A REQUIRED INSTRUCTION FROM THE JURY CHARGE RAISES THE BURDEN OF PROOF ON DIRECT APPEAL, WH… |
| 18-8570 | Damien Preston v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-decisions confrontation-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-violation harmless-error ineffective-assistance jury-determination prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | THE QUESTIONS PRESENTED WAS CREATED AS A RESULT OF THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS THREE JUDGE PANEL, MADE A PRECEDENTIAL DECISION, THAT THE PETITI… |
| 18-8476 | Anthony Grandison v. Maryland | Maryland | 2019-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | capital-sentencing collateral-consequences constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process harmless-error jury-instructions mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof | 1. Since Maryland Law Prohibits Imposition Of The Death Penalty Without Considering The Presentencing Investigation Report Convictions As Evidence The… |
| 18-8462 | William James Truesdale v. Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence fabricated-evidence fabrication-of-evidence fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-error | Whether the erroneously admitted evidence reviewing sufficiently material to provide the basis for conviction or to remove a reasonable doubt that wou… |
| 18-8374 | Naykima Tinee Hill v. Shawn Brewer, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fair-trial findings-of-fact habeas-corpus harmless-error identification-expert ineffective-assistance right-to-present-defense strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Whether the Michigan Supreme Court was objectively unreasonable in application of harmless error analysis and made objectively unreasonable findings o… |
| 18-8331 | Jeffrey Bowers v. Frank Lawrence, Acting Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-separation plain-error | Whether a conflict exists between the holding of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Appellate Court in case at bar where jury separation after d… |
| 18-8300 | Paul Glen Everett v. Florida | Florida | 2019-03-06 | Denied | IFP | capital-case capital-punishment constitutional-defect harmless-error harmless-error-review hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-error structural-defect structural-error trial-mechanism | 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment error identified by this Court in Hurst v. Florida is a structural defect that infects the entire constitutionality of … |
| 18-8087 | Joseph Michael Kurz v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof capital-trial criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error standard-of-review statute-of-limitations time-limitations witness-testimony | Reasonable jurists would determine that the district court erred in allowing the State to prosecute Mr. Kurz for an allegations that the time limitati… |
| 18-8049 | Ramon Montero v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit harmless-error harmlessness-standard molina-martinez molina-martinez-precedent molina-martinez-v-united-states preserved-error preserved-errors rule-52a sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Is the Fifth Circuit correctly conducting its harmlessness inquiry when reviewing preserved Guidelines-calculation errors arising under Rule 52(a) of … |
| 18-7913 | Travis Thomas v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender due-process expert-reports expert-testimony harmless-error jailhouse-call johnson-analysis johnson-v-us sentencing sentencing-error | (1) Whether the District Court's failure to conduct the analysis required by the Supreme Court in Johnson v. U.S., 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015) before determ… |
| 18-7774 | Cecil Boyett v. Dwayne Santistevan, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | ake-v-oklahoma circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-error due-process federal-review gerstien-v-pugh habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel petition-denial procedural-due-process sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington | I WHETHER PETITIONER BOYETT WAS DENIED EFFECTINEASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL UNDER THE SIXTA AMENDMENT BECAUSE THE CNRLUIT OPINION CONFLICTS WITH CLEARLY EST… |
| 18-7427 | Abdirahman Yasin Daud v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment specific-intent | Whether the Court of Appeals' application of "harmless error" analysis to an erroneous jury instruction regarding the critical, specific intent elemen… |
| 18-7430 | Mohamed Abdihamid Farah v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions specific-intent trial-by-jury witness-credibility | 1. WHETHER THE FAILURE TO INCLUDE IN JURY INSTRUCTIONS THE REQUIRED ELEMENT OF SPECIFIC INTENT IS SUBJECT TO HARMLESS ERROR ANALYSIS WHERE THE ELEMENT… |
| 18-7193 | Bryan D. Collins v. Nancy A. Berryhill, Acting Commissioner of Social Security | Seventh Circuit | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law chenery-doctrine civil-procedure disability due-process harmless-error medical-opinion social-security social-security-disability substantial-evidence treating-physician | When determining the weight given to the medical opinion of a treating doctor who has stated that an applicant for social security benefits on the bas… |
| 18-7072 | Kenneth Harper v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error judicial-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing-guidelines | Has United States v. Vonn, 535 U.S. 55 (2005), and its progeny stripped the Courts of Appeal of the ability to meaningfully supervise the plea colloqu… |
| 18-6982 | Jerry Walden v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 28-usc-994 career-offender district-court due-process federal-sentencing guideline-application harmless-error johnson-v-united-states molina-martinez molina-martinez-precedent molina-martinez-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error | Whether the petitioner is entitled to resentencing, where due to Guideline application error, the district court incorrectly applied the more severe c… |
| 18-6971 | Zachery Joseph Cooley, aka Red v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states guideline-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness | When a defendant appeals his sentence on the grounds that his Guideline range was miscalculated, may an appellate court disregard any error in the gui… |
| 18-6909 | Albert Andrew Lucero v. Kim Holland, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruton-rule bruton-v-united-states co-defendant confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-rights crawford-analysis crawford-v-washington harmless-error joint-trial sixth-amendment testimonial-statement | Was the California Court of Appeal's decision contrary to, or an unreasonable application of, this Court's jurisprudence holding that the Sixth Amendm… |
| 18-6901 | Enoch D. Hall v. Florida | Florida | 2018-12-03 | Denied | IFP | advisory-panel aggravating-circumstances Caldwell-v-Mississippi civil-rights constitutional-due-process death-penalty due-process harmless-error hurst-decision jury-instructions jury-role jury-sentencing sentencing sentencing-process unanimous-recommendation | On remand from the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. Florida, the Florida Supreme Court held, as a state constitutional consequence, that a… |
| 18-6882 | Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2018-11-30 | Denied | IFP | remedies prior constitutional defects in capital which requires unanimous jury findings of aggrava advisory-sentencing-panel aggravating-circumstances caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-error death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process harmless-error Hurst-decision hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-role jury-unanimity mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-procedure | On remand from the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. Florida, the Florida Supreme Court held, as a state constitutional consequence, that a… |
| 18-6876 | Pierre Donte Joshlin v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-29 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-v-ayala federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus harmless-error ninth-circuit supreme-court | Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied the federal habeas harmless error analysis in light of this Court's recent decision in Davis v. Ayala, 135 … |
| 18-6806 | Eliana Sarmiento v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-speedy-trial-act dismissal harmless-error indictment-dismissal judicial-discretion prejudice speedy-trial-act statute-interpretation statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a district court's denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment for a violation of the Speedy Trial Act's 70 day time limit for bringing a d… |
| 18-6791 | Benjamin Bland v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence evidence-admissibility government-evidence harmless-error hearsay sixth-amendment social-security-administration trial-procedure | Whether petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him was violated where a spreadsheet (Government's Exhibit MD-313) created by… |
| 18-6775 | Edward Joseph Kehoe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment harmless-error impartial-judge judicial-error racial-bias racial-discrimination reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure structural-error warrantless-search | At the suppression hearing in this federal criminal case, the district court explicitly relied on Petitioner's race to conclude that there was reasona… |
| 18-6754 | Domonic McCarns v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-amendment criminal-procedure harmless-error indictment plain-error-review speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Cryptic Letter, Number Codes are Sufficient to Satisfy the Speedy Trial Act Requirement that Reasons Justifying Delay of a Criminal Trial M… |
| 18-605 | Mitchell J. Stein v. California | California | 2018-11-08 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-litigation civil-procedure constitutional-law declaratory-relief due-process due-process-clause harmless-error judicial-review prejudice structural-error | When a fundamental structural error results in an invalid judgment against a civil litigant in violation of the Due Process Clause, is the error per s… |
| 18-6629 | William Randolph Harloff v. Craig Koenig, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chapman-harmless-error confrontation-clause constitutional-rights courtroom-presence criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error prejudice right-to-be-present witness-credibility witness-testimony | Whether the state court applied Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 (1967) in an objectively unreasonable manner or made an unreasonable determination … |
| 18-6524 | Brian Thomas, aka O'Brian A. Thomas, aka Thomas A. O'Brian v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-standard berger-standard berger-v-united-states berger-v-us due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-review jury-bias jury-misconduct procedural-violation prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review | WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURTS VIOLATED BERGER V !JS AFTER IT CONCEDED THAT THE VIOLATIONS HAD OCCURED BUT DECIDING THAT IT WAS "IMPLAUSIBLE THAT IT… |
| 18-6361 | Bob Lee Jones v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fair-trial harmless-error hearsay hearsay-exception involuntary-intoxication judicial-bias judicial-ethics present-sense-impression specific-intent standard-of-review | Whether the District Court's demonstration of bias against the defense in violation of the Judge's ethical canons and in front of the jury impeded Mr.… |
| 18-6307 | Lorenzo Micquell Latimer v. Jeff Macomber, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-record due-process evidence evidence-code harmless-error ineffective-assistance plain-error prior-criminal-record | QUESTION 1: .When UNACCEPTABLE INCUFFICIENT evidence is portrayed upon the Defendant within a criminal case, by way of prior criminal record; does "ha… |
| 18-6216 | Musonda Mulenga v. United States | District of Columbia | 2018-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carpenter-v-united-states criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-procedure district-of-columbia due-process fourth-amendment harmless-error judicial-precedent legal-conflict second-degree-murder superior-court supreme-court-review | 1. Whether the opinion from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals is in conflict with opinion of this Court in Carpenter v. United States, 136 S.C… |
| 18-6046 | Michael Skillern v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | access-to-counsel constitutional-error due-process extraterritorial-effect geders-v-united-states harmless-error mail-fraud perry-v-leeke sixth-amendment structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-recess wire-fraud | DID THE DISTRICT COURT'S ORDER PROHIBITING DEFENDANT SKILLERN, FROM CONFERRING WITH TRIAL COUNSEL DURING AN OVERNIGHT RECESS, REGARDING DEFENDANT SKIL… |
| 18-343 | Raiden J. Andrews v. United States | Armed Forces | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-error constitutional-provision-involved constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error harmless-error-standard military-justice military-justice-system prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the lower court erred in failing to apply the harmless error standard to the prosecution's improper arguments. |
| 18-6021 | Patricia Burney v. Debbie Aldridge, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | IFP | brady-v-maryland due-process exculpatory-evidence false-testimony federal-due-process harmless-error jailhouse-informant state-court-denial state-law trial-prejudice | Whether the prosecutor failed Brady violation, wherein the state failed to disclose clandestine offer to codefendant Petitioner's and signs vently den… |
| 18-298 | Michael Vernon Beaty, Jr. v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2018-09-07 | Denied | Response Waived | chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,constitutional-law, due-process,criminal-procedure,harmless-error,chap harmless-error judicial-review right-to-respond standard-of-review supreme-court-standard | I. Does the South Carolina Supreme Court's standard for determining harmless constitutional error depart from this Court's mandates in Chapman v. Ca… |
| 18-5793 | Ray Lamar Johnston v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-28 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment capital-punishment-system death-penalty due-process equal-protection florida harmless-error hurst-relief hurst-v-florida jury-trial sixth-amendment | 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's holding that a Hurst error is per se harmless where a jury issues a generalized unanimous recommendation for death… |
| 18-5726 | Ruben Cazares v. Texas | Texas | 2018-08-23 | Denied | IFP | accomplice-statements bruton-error bruton-evidence bruton-v-united-states confrontation-clause crawford crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility harmless-error prejudice prejudicial-evidence separate-trials special-prejudice trial-procedure | Fifty years ago, this Court began the Bruton era by making two points perfectly clear. One, Bruton evidence is "devastating" to the accused. Bruton v.… |
| 18-5682 | Landon Trevor Anderson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment harmless-error plain-error reasonable-suspicion supervised-release supervised-release-conditions | 1. Must searches conducted as conditions of federal supervised release be supported by at least reasonable suspicion? 2. Is the Fifth Circuit wrong t… |
| 18-5623 | Garland E. Williams v. United States, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeals appellate-rules circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process harmless-error motion-practice motion-rules notice notice-service panel-assignment standing | Whether inadvertent failure Circuit Court Panel Assignment and failure notice service of all alleged court contending deficiencies notices conflict di… |
| 18-5533 | Brandon Maurice Shannon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-remand plain-error post-conviction-relief retroactivity rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light 2018), an authority that post-dated the opinion below? |
| 18-5518 | Norman Mearle Grim v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-08 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | advisory-jury burden-of-proof caldwell-v-mississippi capital-case death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation sixth-amendment sullivan-v-louisiana | 1. Can a violation of Hurst v. Florida , 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), be ruled harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, based solely on a pre-Hurst "advisory " j… |
| 18-146 | Veronika Marcoski v. Jan Rath | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response Waived | ' 'credibility-determinations" ' 'habitual-residence" ' 'hague-convention" ' 'multi-circuit-split' ' 'newborn-child" appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations district-court habitual-residence hague-convention harmless-error multi-circuit-splits newborn-children | Does the harmless-error rule apply to clearly erroneous findings of fact if a district court expressly based its credibility determinations (and its u… |
| 18-138 | Brian Huffman v. Kirstjen M. Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security | District of Columbia | 2018-07-31 | Denied | administrative-law agency-procedure agency-regulations circuit-conflict circuit-split due-process harmless-error remand right-to-counsel | Whether a court must remand a matter for a new board hearing when an administrative board's failure to follow its own regulations implicates a petitio… | |
| 18-5373 | Otis Sykes v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines guidelines-range harmless-error judicial-error molina-martinez-v-us rosales-mireles-v-us sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | DEFENDANT SEEKS THIS SUPREME COURT'S REVIEW OF HIS ABOVE GUIDELINES SENTENCE IMPOSED WITHIN AN INCORRECT GUIDELINES RANGE UTILIZING "ADDITIONAL EVIDEN… |
| 18-5228 | Quawn M. Franklin v. Florida | Florida | 2018-07-13 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | caldwell-error constitutional-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation individualized-review jury-recommendation sullivan sullivan-v-louisiana | Whether the per se harmless-error rule adopted by the Florida Supreme Court, pursuant to which violations of Hurst v. Florida, 136 S.Ct. 616 (2016) ar… |
| 18-5184 | Ahmad Sayed Hashimi v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-10 | GVR | IFP | appeal criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-maintain-innocence sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent trial-strategy | Whether the case of United States v. Ahmad Hashimi, (No. 16-4846 - Fourth Cir.) should be remanded for review and decision by the Fourth Circuit Court… |
| 18-5160 | Michael Anthony Tanzi v. Florida | Florida | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment harmless-error hurst-v-florida hurst-violation judicial-procedure per-se-rule supreme-court-precedent | 1. Does the Florida Supreme Court's application of a per se harmless–error rule to violations of Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), in every pre… |
| 18-30 | Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-innocence coram-nobis due-process equitable-approach federal-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-equity laches legal-standard morgan-decision procedural-delay statute-of-limitations time-delay writ-of-error writ-of-error-coram-nobis | In an application for a writ of error coram nobis should it be denied based on an unintentional time delay (where laches was not an issue) and the del… |
| 18-16 | Larone Frederick Elijah v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing-guidelines-harmless- district-court federal-sentencing harmless-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness variance-sentence | In Rosales-Mireles, 138 S. Ct. 1897 (2018), this Court held that "before a court of appeals can consider the substantive reasonableness of a sentence,… |
| 18-5053 | Andres A. Lopez-Martinez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-right criminal-procedure defense-presentation due-process harmless-error judicial-review police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense structural-error | Whether it is time to revisit the harmless error standard when a defendant is deprived of his constitutional right to present a defense. |
| 18-5020 | In Re Lewis Brown | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-violation due-process harmless-error judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal standard-of-review structural-error | Is an individual, who is named an adverse party opponent, allowed to sit as a Judge over the very proceeding in which he is named a defendant, or is h… |