| 25-6135 |
Sonya Fuller v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2025-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting criminal-conviction due-process felony-murder jackson-standard sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a conviction for felony murder is permissible under Jackson where the prosecution presented no evidence that the defendant planned, knew about… |
| 25-554 |
Shawn Edward Shaffer v. James Hill, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus jackson-standard ninth-circuit state-procedural-rule |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability where the petitioner alleged a violation of the 14th Amendment's Due Proc… |
| 25A302 |
Sonya Fuller v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2025-09-16 |
Presumed Complete |
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constitutional-review criminal-conviction felony-murder jackson-standard reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7613 |
Tre' Anthony James v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review due-process factual-sufficiency jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia law-of-the-case legal-sufficiency new-trial |
Is it reversible error when an appellate court overturns a trial court's grant of a new trial when, first, the decision to grant or deny a motion for … |
| 23-5808 |
Rodney Jennings v. Shawn Phillips, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability doyle-rule doyle-v-ohio habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia legal-sufficiency strickland-test strickland-v-washington |
Did the court of appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability and in evaluating petitioner's claim under Jackson v. Virginia, Doyle v. Ohio, … |
| 23-5654 |
Daquail Ramon Johnson v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence virginia |
In Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), this Court held that the Due Process Clause requires the following standard of review for appellate claim… |
| 23-5334 |
Mario Iglesias-Villegas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidence grand-jury-transcripts habeas-corpus jackson-standard reasonable-doubt rule-6e sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. The Court has held that the due process clause requires the government to prove each element of a criminal offense beyond a reasonable doubt. In re… |
| 23-5043 |
Coby Quinton Ceaser v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance jackson-standard jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense right-to-testify trial-fairness |
Can the Jackson standard be satisfied when relevant, material, and appreciable evidence is impermissibly kept from the juiy?
Was Ceaser's trial rende… |
| 22-7344 |
Oscar Jesus Salais v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder evidence-sufficiency habeas habeas-corpus jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review ninth-circuit sufficiency-of-evidence summary-reversal |
In this federal habeas case, petitioner Oscar Salai s challenge s his California convictions on three counts of attempted murder, all premised on one … |
| 22-6387 |
Kenakil Gibson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fair-presentation federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jackson-standard procedural-default standing state-court state-court-proceedings |
Does state prisoner "fairly present " federal nature of his claim on direct appeal where he cites to a lone Florida Supreme Court case that cites to, … |
| 22-6021 |
George Guo v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
capital-murder criminal-procedure delayed-death-homicide due-process ex-post-facto fair-warning jackson-standard statute-of-limitations structural-error |
1. Under the Jackson standard and per Garrett v. U.S. 471 U.S. 779,1791, is this conviction of
Texas Penalty code §19.03 (a) (2) capital murder a "Vo… |
| 21-8218 |
Ramik Banks v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict due-process federal-appellate-review habeas-corpus jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia legal-precedent standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence third-circuit |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit entered a dicision in this case that conflicts with its decision in Travillion v. Sup… |
| 21-7687 |
Earl Jones v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-review fact-inference jackson-standard reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-ohio |
Whether a reviewing court must consider all the evidence in determining whether inferences from basic facts to ultimate facts are reasonable to prove … |
| 21-6720 |
Ali Al-Maqablh v. Daniel Cameron, Attorney General of Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa appellate-jurisdiction due-process federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-relief jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia mixed-question state-law |
i. When enacted the AEDPA, did Congress intend to grant habeas petitioners, who surmount AEDPA's strict standards, a complete habeas relief, or just t… |
| 21-5837 |
Carlos Amezcua v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review child-molestation corpus-delicti due-process insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia state-court-decision |
Can appellant be convicted of three charges of child molestation when the testimony received in trial was totally and materially different than the th… |
| 21-269 |
Anthony Carter v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
controlled-substances criminal-conviction drug-possession jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia molecular-structure statutory-interpretation sufficiency-analysis technical-elements |
In a sufficiency analysis under Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), may a reviewing court uphold a conviction where the offense is defined by te… |
| 20-7318 |
Alex Warren Klinger v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-liability double-jeopardy due-process jackson-standard search-warrant self-defense treaties |
1. Whether an appellate court must apply the standard laid out in this Court's decision in Jackson v. Virginia to determine whether the State has disp… |
| 20-5070 |
Joaquin Shadow Rams v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia sufficiency-of-evidence virginia |
In Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), this Court held that the Due Process Clause requires the following standard of review for appellate claim… |
| 19-7284 |
Bobby Y. Wallace, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federalism gross-disproportionality habitual-offender insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review no-evidence proportionality-review sentencing state-court-decisions |
The Supreme Court of Louisiana has a demonstrable, decades-long history of substituting in word and deed a "no evidence" standard for the "insufficien… |
| 19-5802 |
Travis Wade Matthews v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process identification jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia mccoy-v-louisiana victim-identification witness-identification |
I. In a case where the identity of the person who brandished a gun is central to the case, is the choice of whether to ask for DNA testing of the gun,… |
| 19-5007 |
Jonathan Paul Sikes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence credibility-of-witnesses criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia juvenile-offender reasonable-doubt sexual-offenses standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-credibility |
Question #1:
The Northern District Court reasoned that because K.S. told '
other people (speculating what K.S. told other witnesses ), "there
was ab… |
| 18-8392 |
Obinna Obiora v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law controlled-substance criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. When the evidence that links a defendant to a charged drug conspiracy is based on his participation in an isolated series of alleged transactions w… |
| 18-5604 |
Joe Fidel Flores v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-expert-testimony jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Under the standard clearly established by this Court in Jackson v. Virginia, can a rational juror find an essential fact beyond a reasonable doubt bas… |
| 18-5161 |
Marvin Waddleton, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
aedpa burden-of-proof constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard plain-error pro-se right-to-counsel state-court-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
The plain error of the State of Texas Appeals Courts on direct collateral review. The use of Jackson standard of view in the light most favorable to t… |