harmless-error-review

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5258 James Joseph Bryant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split harmless-error-review judicial-precedent statutory-interpretation 1. Whether, when applying the categorical approach required by the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), a court determines the elements of a prior convic…
25-5179 Gerald Lynn Campbell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act erlinger-error guilty-plea harmless-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment This case presents two important questions that impact countless defendants and have divided circuit judges. After Gerald Campbell pled guilty to bei…
25A16 Thomas Bradley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-07 Presumed Complete armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-error harmless-error-review jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-6658 Donald Conelious Voltz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act harmless-error-review judicial-finding preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-error structural-error Where a district court has erred in sentencing a defendant under the Armed Career Criminal Act based on a judicial finding by a preponderance of the e…
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 …
21-5813 Anthony Foster v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach general-verdict habeas-proceeding harmless-error-review predicate-offenses Stromberg-error (1) Should the categorical approach be used in a habeas proceeding to evaluate which of several predicate offenses support a jury's general verdict? …
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…
19-61 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…
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 …