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24-5113 Steven Alexander Mantecon v. Florida Florida 2024-07-18 Denied IFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense.
23-7581 Glenn D. Odom, II v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-counsel conflict-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-rights due-process jury jury-questioning pro-se-defense waiver witness witness-testimony Please help uS T The ComfnonweAlhh ©h !Aer\hucKy V\a$ ndophed aa unconshihuhioned pAhtern And pfAthic^ Allowing Cour4 Appealed UvuyerS ho lolurh ©uh…
23-7050 David Phillip Ryan v. Florida Florida 2024-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment standing Whether the jury guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments is a 12-person jury?
23-6806 Bruce Wayne Harp v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied IFP criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process jury jury-impartiality justice-system obstruction-of-justice penal-code pre-trial trial-rights WHEN DOES PENAL CODE 2I.OZ ADULTERATE THE Justice system ,jMstructir /a due process , A WRTRtAL AMD AN IMPARTIAL JURY ?r
23-721 Gayle Killilea v. Richard M. Coan, et al. Second Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) avoidance-action bankruptcy-law civil-procedure evidence expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence jury property-transfer rules-of-evidence statutory-interpretation trust This case arises out of a fraudulent conveyance action. It concerns whether certain real estate located in Ireland was held in trust—a question of fac…
23-6078 Timothy Ray Jones, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2023-11-21 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment insanity-defense jury jury-instructions not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity voir-dire 1. Whether the Due Process Clause and the Eighth Amendment require that a jury, as the sentencer in a capital case, be told the truth about the effect…
23-6013 Calvin Cogdill v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-15 GVR Relisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-procedure criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment indictment jury reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation May a district court judge properly find, by a preponderance of the evidence, the uncharged, non-elemental fact that a person committed three prior of…
23-5971 Kevondric Fezia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay jury non-testifying-witness prosecutorial-argument sixth-amendment witness-testimony Does the Confrontation Clause apply to statements made by a prosecutor during closing arguments that detail for the jury what a non-testifying witness…
23-5711 Mitchell D. Green v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-10-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP admissible-evidence constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury jury-impartiality mistrial trial-rights In Arizona v. Washington, 434 U.S. 497, 98 S.Ct. 824, 54 L.Ed.2d 717 (1978) this Court addressed under what circumstances the Double Jeopardy Clause p…
23-5088 Quinton Troy Hall v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process jury jury-finding methamphetamine methamphetamine-distribution preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment WAS IT A VIOLATION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, SIXTH AMENDMENT WHEN THE TRIAL COURT SENTENCED THE PETITIONER TO A TERM OF 360 MONTHS. THE JURY …
22-7155 Kalid Koron Ocean-Avent v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-errors fair-trial firearm firearm-possession jury reasonable-doubt I. Whether the Government proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Ocean-Avent possessed a firearm. II. right to a fair trial.
22-6651 Michael Vanous v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure guidelines ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion jury pretrial-proceedings sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Question 1: Was defense counsel ineffective in the pretrial proceedings? Question 2: Was it a violation of the Sixth Amendment to sentence outside th…
22-6477 Claudius English, aka Jay Barnes, aka Brent English v. United States Second Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction conviction-challenge due-process dunn-v-united-states fifth-amendment indictment indictment-theory interstate-commerce jury kidnapping-statute Whether the lower courts' affirmance of English's conviction on the basis of a theory not charged in the indictment or argued to the jury and advanced…
22-5733 Robert Brown, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial evidence fair-trial jury jury-bias perjury perjury-evidence rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment The Government here alleged the Seven Mile Bloods operated as an enterprise in Detroit, Michigan, in an area known as the "Red Zone." The Government a…
22-5458 Kenneth Lainell Davis v. Florida Florida 2022-08-29 Denied IFP criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eighth-amendment felony jury jury-composition juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense. 2. Whether the imposition of a …
22-5341 Ted Amparan v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-08-11 Denied IFP alleyene-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-sentencing due-process exhaustion habeas-corpus jury jury-determination sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment 1) Did the State Violate Supreme Court precedent of Apprendi v. New Jersey and Alleyne v. United States by having a sentencing judge not the jury make…
22-5343 In Re Quelyory A. Rigal 2022-08-11 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process duplicitous-indictment fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jury non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment 1. Whether a non-unanimous verdict in C.D.FL. # 0:12-cr-60088-WPD, in violation of the Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment, is plain error, reversible…
22-5102 Nathaniel Louis Daniels v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 6th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge judicial-discretion jury jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Amendment requires that a jury, rather than a judge, resolve whether prior crimes were "committed on occasions different from one an…
22-5033 Curtis Chewning v. Florida Florida 2022-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-information court-fraud due-process fraud jury jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing unlawful-seizure Question (1) WHETHER DUE PROCESS OF LAW IS VIOLATED WHERE A SENTENCE IS INCREASED BASED UPON FACTS NOT INHERENT IN THE CHARGING INFORMATION OR PROVE…
21-8178 Jing Hua Wu v. Eric Arnold, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-fabrication habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-procedure I. Jury Misconduct In applying 28 USC § 2254 (d)(1)(2.), both the state Courts' and Federal Courts' decisions were based on an unreasonable determinat…
21-8076 Siva K. Durbesula v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure enhanced-punishment enhanced-punishments judicial-fact-finding jury sixth-amendment special-assessment speedy-trial-act supervised-release 1) WHETHER THE SIXTH AMENDMENT REQUIRES A JURY RATHER THAN A JUDGE TO DETERMINE FACTS WHICH ARE USED TO APPLY ENHANCED PUNSIHMENTS INCLUDING THE PERIO…
21-7355 Jon Charles Vance v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury reasonable-doubt Whether the Petitioner Jon Charles Vance was denied his fundamental right under the Fifth Amendment to Due Process when the Jury failed to find him Gu…
21-1225 The Estate of Dillon Taylor, et al. v. Salt Lake City, Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force jury law-enforcement material-dispute qualified-immunity summary-judgment tenth-circuit 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit impermissibly expanded the judicially-created doctrine of qualified immunity to shield an officer where there is a subs…
21-7296 Frank C. Gonzalez v. California California 2022-03-07 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment jury jury-finding sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt the ex…
21-6164 Julia Lagunas-Hernandez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof cell-phone-search constitutional-rights defense-counsel fair-trial jury marital-communication marital-communications prosecutorial-misconduct trial-strategy 1. Whether the United States committed prosecutorial misconduct, depriving Petitioner of a fair trial when it shifted burden of proof by stating that …
21-6132 Shelton Marbury v. United States District of Columbia 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process external-influence government-burden jury jury-influence presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment Whether under the Sixth Amendment, once a defendant has presented evidence that an external influence has reached his jury, a presumption of prejudice…
21-5918 Susan Lloyd v. Joshua Thornsbery, et al. Ohio 2021-10-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct jury jury-integrity oath-of-office state-judges 1. Are retired state judges constitutional? 2. Is a litigant given a fair trail by jury when judge has no oath of office, irrelevant facts are focuse…
21-5555 Ross Allen Hartwell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial jurisdictional-limits jury legal-interpretation sixth-amendment standing state-court statutory-interpretation Does the Supreme Court Sanction vs. Washington delete US 068 (4284) lower Courts to present defense atheists to Violate co defendants Cig to a fair an…
21-115 Ivan Rosario v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment judicial-factfinding jury jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's right to trial by jury protect criminal defendants from being sentenced bas…
21-5012 Brian David Johnsen v. California California 2021-07-06 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process jury reasonable-doubt ring-v-arizona sentencing Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt the ex…
20-7981 Stephen Nivens v. J. Phillip Morgan, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document constitutional-rights double-jeopardy duplicitous duplicitous-charging fifth-amendment jury jury-trial multiplicitous multiplicitous-charging Whether the Petitioner has a right to be free from Double Jeopardy, after the jury was sworn in and with the jury ruling upon Count 5 and Count 6 purs…
20-7959 Thomas J. Connerton v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process judicial-inquiry juror-discharge jury jury-selection reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment 1. Should certiorari be granted where the District Court discharged a juror, without "good cause" under rule 23(b)(3) of the Federal Rules of Criminal…
20-7765 Jared Andrew Martin v. California California 2021-04-14 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute culpability due-process evidence jury mens-rea standing statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
20-7579 Donald Phillips v. Texas Texas 2021-03-29 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct juror-misconduct jury prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Is it proper or a violation of the 6th Amendment due process law for a defense attorney to discover that during testimony in trial one of the juror…
20-7586 Phillip Blough v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-conduct due-process judicial-error jury jury-instructions legal-prejudice right-to-fair-trial trial-by-jury trial-procedure A common-sense extension of the right to a trial by jury is the right to a jury informed of relevant and non-confusing jury instructions. Here, the tr…
20-7353 Fivea Sharipoff v. Rob Persson, Superintendent, Coffee Creek Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence habeas-corpus jury meaningful-defense non-unanimous-jury retroactivity sixth-amendment I. Whether, in a case where the jury question was whether Petitioner acted with extreme indifference to the value of human life when she made a drivin…
20-7031 Jose Diaz, aka Cano v. United States Second Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial juror-deliberations juror-misconduct jury jury-instructions jury-misconduct trial-court-inquiry trial-procedure Should this Court, in order to safeguard a defendant's rights to due process and a fair and impartial jury, clarify the extent to which a trial court …
20-1025 Juan Francisco Vega v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process florida-constitution florida-rules-of-court florida-statutes involuntary-commitment jury jury-verdict mental-abnormality 1. WHETHER THE JURY'S VERDICT MUST BE REINSTATED BASED ON THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, FLORIDA CONSTITUTION, STATUTES, AND FLORIDA RULES OF COURT? …
20-6811 Jesus Eder Moreno Ornelas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP attempted-murder due-process felon-in-possession firearms jury plain-error-review rehaif-standard sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment A. The government failed to overcome the presumption of innocence when the jury could not reach a verdict on an attempted murder count. Did it violate…
20-910 Anthony M. Lee v. Heath Parshall Seventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion jury jury-selection racial-bias section-1983 standing voir-dire 1. Whether the district court's refusal to probe potential jurors for bias or prejudice was an abuse of discretion under Rule 47(a). 2. Whether the d…
20-6762 James W. Knipfer v. Reed A. Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jury jury-trial procedural-due-process I. CAN THERE BE A "PERPETUAL JURY", "PHANTOM JURY", "FOREVER JURY" or a "JURY on a JUDGES WHIM", in the UNITED STATES? II. DID THE 7th CIRCUIT CASE L…
20-860 Ryan Randall Gilbertson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-restitution due-process jury jury-determination procedural-due-process reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment prohibits a court from imposing criminal restitution on a defendant based on facts not found by the jury beyond a reasonab…
20-5727 Martez LaJuan Edwards v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jury probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
20-5689 Orlando Bell v. United States District of Columbia 2020-09-14 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a defendant's sentence on conduct for which the jury acquitted the defenda…
20-5693 In Re Terron Garhard Dizzley 2020-09-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights double-jeopardy fifth-amendment hung-jury jury mistrial trial-procedure unanimous-verdict 1. Whether the judges ruling that the jury's failure to reach a unanimus decision was not a failure on the jury's part, (" That's actually a strong me…
20-5646 Sean Justin Owens v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-conviction firearm-possession jury prior-conviction prior-convictions rehaif-v-united-states sentencing serious-drug-offense 1. Whether, in cases charged and tried to a jury before this Court decided Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), courts of appeals may affi…
20-5613 Keith Bernard Smith v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing extraneous-contact fair-trial juror-misconduct jury remmer-v-united-states sixth-amendment trial-fairness DID THE TRIAL COURT INTERFERE WITH PETITIONER'S STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO A FAIR JURY TRIAL WHEN SHE REFUSED TO HOLD AN EVIDENTIARY H…
20-5059 Christopher Goodin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-protection constitutional-rights criminal-penalty criminal-punishment jury jury-trial mandatory-restitution mandatory-statute restitution sexual-exploitation sixth-amendment Does the Constitution's guarantee of trial by jury extend to awards of restitution under the Mandatory Restitution For Sexual Exploitation of Children…
19-8755 Levi West v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment The Armed Career Criminal Act enhances the statutory penalty for a firearms offense when the offender has three predicate convictions for crimes that …
19-8601 William Cornell Walker v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination civil-rights due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence false-testimony jury jury-composition peer-selection police-misconduct racial-bias 1. Whether jurors twice your age can be considered your peers, the jury of 12 were not my peers except for one or two 11 has nothing to do with being …
19-8545 Duane Blake v. Florida Florida 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-witness jury post-conviction-relief procedural-default P/D Pf/L 'S'Tfifg. /2o/£/£/<* l/foiATTZ fi((s>ti'T ^ pftdC&SS pf A LLo^Ji AJ& AAJ SPIRIT/of) 7s /(~i&~ csfi-csj of/ Appz '/t'pp7/£-P /i/)an s£/\ti(p…
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?
19-1307 Edward Thomas, Warden v. William Leroy Barnes Fourth Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied actual-prejudice brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury jury-contact precedent-interpretation substantial-effect Did the Fourth Circuit misapply this Court's precedents by granting habeas relief where there was no evidence that a juror's contact with a third part…
19-8335 Mitchell Willoughby v. Deedra Hart, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied IFP caldwell-precedent capital-sentencing closing-argument death-penalty jury jury-instructions prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit state-law voir-dire "The uncorrected suggestion that the responsibility for any ultimate determination of death will rest with others presents an intolerable danger that …
19-1172 Mark Targowski v. Zachary Lee Rawlins Eighth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Response Waived 8th-circuit civil-procedure civil-rights direct-appeal due-process evidence evidence-standard jury per-curiam reasonable-jury standing verdict writ-of-certiorari Whether no reasonable jury could have reached the same verdict based on the evidence submitted.
19-7864 Derek Crosby v. Illinois Illinois 2020-03-03 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process indictment jury jury-determination legislative-power sentencing separation-of-powers statutory-maximum Whether The Legislature Can Remove The Facts From The Jury That Increase The Statutory Maximum ? Whether Defendant Was Properly Found Death Eligible …
19-7690 Devell Short v. Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greensburg, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-rights castle-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct jury jury-contamination jury-misconduct WHETHER A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE OCCURRED, DUE TO A MISTAKE AND BECAUSE OF A BREAKDOWN IN THE JUDICIAL OPERATION OF THE FEDERAL COURTS, WHEN IT FAILE…
19-7475 Douglas Edwin Ball, Jr. v. Michigan Michigan 2020-01-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeal civil-rights conviction dna-evidence due-process evidence insufficient-evidence jury jury-instructions unanimous-verdict % - '^eTxTXctJEE' ? Dkt T&cceiz? iZx&Hvz uvfrsF- The Tv\>FTetoJTH 4^fwMiSvr hbf'E\ZXoC4TtO B>ECAr 1/5£T -Z~5 -2^W (p<s>5'5jr&^£' TO TAETFRM^tj & IaJH…
19-7298 James Lee Bell v. Florida Florida 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-precedent blakely-rule criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury jury-trial mandatory-minimum recidivism recidivist-treatment sentencing sentencing-enhancement Q 1: Was the limitation of Almendarez-Torres and the dictates of Apprendi and Blakely violated? Florida in deciding whether Petitioner qualified for r…
19-7255 Fernando Duran v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP acknowledgment criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process evidence evidence-standard jury narcotics-law reasonable-doubt This case raises a fundamental question about the government's burden to prove a defendant's guilt beyond all reasonable doubt. The jury here convicte…
19-7096 David Lee Smith v. Rick Jackson Fourth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fingerprint fingerprint-analysis jury jury-confusion probable-cause standing wrongful-conviction ARE 92954 PETITLONER(S\ ENTITLLEA TO REAAAND, INILTH INSTRUCTIONS FOR AISTRICT COURT TQ ORDER CASE ATSMISSED AITTH PREAUDICERECAUSE OF PROSEC.UTIPS ON…
19-786 Willie Kipyego Butia v. Virginia Virginia 2019-12-19 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-discretion jury jury-instructions statutory-interpretation Is due process violated where the trial judge instructs the jury using words not found in the statute and in such a way that clearly expands the statu…
19-6693 Chris Rayvon Starks v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge-finding jury jury-decision jury-determination predicate-offense predicate-offenses prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-penalty The fact that the defendant committed three predicate offenses "on occasions different from one another" an element of the ACCA for the jury to decide…
19-6699 Andrew McWhorter v. Indiana Indiana 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal amended-charges charging-information criminal-procedure deadly-weapon double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment barred the State of Indiana from "retrying" Petitioner for the 1) knowing 2) killing 3) of A…
19-6591 In Re Kenneth Uncapher 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury jury-bias jury-misconduct mistrial newly-discovered-evidence victim I. Was the Petitioner denied a fair trial where a member of the jury told the judge he was accosted outside of the courtroom by members of the victim'…
19-6528 Royce C. Gouveia v. Nolan Espinda, Director, Hawaii Department of Public Safety, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied IFP acquittal constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,criminal-procedure,jury,verdict,ac jury jury-verdict retrial verdict Does a jury's execution of a verdict form acquitting the defendant, and announcement that it has reached a verdict, suffice to erect a double jeopardy…
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…
19-468 Keesha Elayne Frye v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-redaction jury jury-deliberation jury-instructions meaningful-review redaction standard-of-review What is the correct standard to determine whether a criminal defendant is denied meaningful appellate review when the district court destroys the only…
19-5924 James Hennessee v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apprendi-doctrine armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court constitutional-interpretation conviction-records criminal-procedure jury predicate-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment The Armed Career Criminal Act enhances the statutory penalty for a firearms offense when the offender has three predicate convictions for crimes that …
19-5719 Robert Keith Ray v. Colorado Colorado 2019-08-27 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-review apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey boyde-standard boyde-v-california capital-case due-process jury jury-instructions sixth-amendment In light of this Court's recent Sixth-Amendment jurisprudence emphasizing the constitutional primacy of the role of the jury, should this Court revisi…
19-5442 Shanta G. Phillips-Berry v. Kenner Police Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process due-process evidentiary-requirements fair-trial judicial-discretion jury jury-trial legal-standards standing trial-procedure 1. What if district court abused its discretion by not relying on the erroneous legal premise that a citizen(s) of the state of Louisiana and this gre…
19-5481 Jomo Williams v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-rule-of-evidence fifth-amendment jury sixth-amendment 1) Were Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment due process rights obliterated where the district court, not only permitted the prosecution to insert i…
19-141 Jeffrey Fairbanks v. Indiana Indiana 2019-07-30 Denied Response Waived criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules ex-post-facto judicial-construction jury jury-instructions propensity-evidence reasonable-doubt vague-statute vagueness 1. Whether the judiciary violated the Ex Post Facto Clause when it created a new evidentiary holding to excuse the impermissible use of propensity evi…
19-5340 Carl Prostell v. David Zook, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury post-conviction-relief reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DEFERRING TO THE STATE COURT FINDING THAT THE EVIDENCE WAS SUFFICIENT TO FIND INTENT TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION OF AG…
19-5177 James Alvin Chaney v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment impartial-jury inter-circuit-split juror-allegation juror-misconduct jury sixth-amendment trial-court trial-procedure Is a criminal defendant's Fifth Amendment right of due process and Sixth Amendment right to a trial by an impartial jury violated when the trial court…
18-9738 Francisco Gonzalez Jose v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-juror criminal-procedure deliberations due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation jury jury-deliberation jury-instructions mistrial third-circuit united-states-v-sotelo When a juror cannot continue deliberations and an alternate juror is empaneled, Fed. R. Crim. P. 24(c)(3) dictates proceedings to follow. Does the Thi…
18-9698 Ruben Perez Gomez v. California California 2019-06-18 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sentencing-standard sixth-amendment statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-punishment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior co…
18-9594 Brian L. Davis v. 7-Eleven, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury jury-trial standing Question not identified.
18-9579 James D. Tench v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-07 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty' 'When a reviewing court independen due-process evidence-admission guilty-verdict hurst-v-florida jury jury-verdict mitigating-factors prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment 1. Does the admission of improper and prejudicial evidence violate a capital defendant's right to due process where the record indicates that the jury…
18-9512 Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conspiracy criminal-culpability double-jeopardy dry-conspiracy due-process guilt indictment jury reasonable-foreseeability subject-matter-jurisdiction What is the Jury to finding in order to establish guilty Criminal Culpability in all Drug Conspiracy crimes? Answer! is the drug quantity to each defe…
18-9400 Charlie Russell Martin v. Arizona Arizona 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission false-testimony fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury legal-standard miranda-warnings procedural-due-process state-procedure trial Question not identified.
18-9347 Sherrick A Sims v. Kansas Kansas 2019-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-violation conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jury limine limine-orders prejudicial-testimony violation Was Mr. Sims denied due process of law when the District Court and Kansas Supreme Court upheld a conviction obtained by the State's violation of Three…
18-9189 Vernell Conley v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-offense due-process evidence hicks-v-oklahoma jury jury-trial sentencing PETITIONER WAS CONVICTED OF THREE DRUG OFFENSES AND SENTENCED BY THE JURY TO A TOTAL TERM OF 90 YEARS. THE ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT FOUND INSUFFICIENT E…
18-8732 Leonoris Miller v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-victim criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus jury jury-deliberations video-evidence video-interview 1. Whether permitting the jury to review child victim's video interview during deliberations, which included, the child's description of a hopeful fri…
18-8753 Carl Devon Powell v. California California 2019-04-10 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-fact-finding mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt (1) th…
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…
18-8544 Keith J. Myles v. Florida Florida 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial impartial-jury jury standing DA). Wthy was a"sketch" made up, after there was negative Is or noI's rom the photo line-up? This represents a departuve from a Far Trtal" a ~,λ ror S…
18-8442 Marc Dutch v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment apprendi criminal-procedure indictment jury prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Given that the Sixth Amendment and Apprendi prohibit a sentencing judge from finding facts about a prior conviction, does 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)'s requ…
18-8432 Kelly Foust v. Ohio Ohio 2019-03-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty hurst-precedent hurst-v-florida jury jury-waiver sixth-amendment Does Ohio's death penalty scheme in which a jury's death verdict is a mere recommendation and in which a death sentence may not be imposed unless a ju…
18-8031 William Bolden v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum WAS PETITIONER SENTENCED UNDER A STATUTE THAT VIOLATE DUE PROCESS OF LAW UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY PERMITTING A TRIAL COURT TOIMPOSE AN …
18-1064 In Re Octavious DeMont Williams 2019-02-13 Denied 21-usc-841 burden-of-proof constitutional-due-process constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-crime fifth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury jury-finding jury-trial Whether petitioner's constitutional due process was violated when he was deprived of the fundamental right that a jury find him guilty of all elements…
18-7912 Eriese Alphonso Tisdale v. Florida Florida 2019-02-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process jury jury-vote statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's failure to apply a statutory amendment, Chapter 2016-13, Laws of Florida, which required a vote of no less than…
18-7651 Eric Steve Anderson v. California California 2019-01-29 Denied IFP antagonistic-defenses conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fair-trial jury jury-trial severance severance-motion Did this trial court's denial of petitioner's severance motion as to co-defendant Randy Lee and its subsequent acquittal of Lee on the conspiracy char…
18-7553 Elmos D. Hopkins v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied IFP civil-rights confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury jury-instructions right-to-counsel witness Can a defendant be convicted where two witnesses (owners of the home) who observed two males from 15 feet in broad daylight come out of their house an…
18-7457 Charles Edward Case v. California California 2019-01-16 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-amendment criminal-sentencing death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con…
18-7291 Dillon Wade Thompson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberation digital-cameras due-process evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion jury jury-deliberations lewd-exhibition prosecutorial-misconduct trial Is it a violation of a defendant's Due Process rights if, while deliberating, the fact-finder viewed evidence that was not shown at trial, even if sai…
18-7050 Javier Portillo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP border-crossing border-search criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence jury knowledge-standard mens-rea narcotics-possession ninth-circuit standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence trial-sufficiency Whether the Ninth Circuit's analysis of the facts was inadequate and whether, when the entirety of facts presented at trial was considered, there was …
18-739 Trevor Wallace v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived appellate-review case-revival constitutional-compliance dismissal-with-prejudice double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury jury-trial lee-v-us res-judicata May a state appellate court revive a case that was dismissed with prejudice after a jury was sworn merely because the appellate court disagrees with t…
18-6873 Angela Armenta v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment-6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment jury reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment 1. Is a defendant deprived of due process where the absence of evidence constitutes probative evidence of proof beyond a reasonable doubt? 2. Are the…
18-6726 Billy Brantley v. Indiana Indiana 2018-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment burden-of-proof charged-offense constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jury jury-instructions reasonable-doubt Where the State must present "some" evidence of a particular fact before a jury may find a defendant guilty of a charged offense, does the Due Process…
18-6683 Cody Sakoman v. California California 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jury jury-deliberation readback sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether a defendant was denied his rights to a fair trial and to due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when the trial co…
18-6697 Kevin Marquette Bellinger v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction jury jury-instructions malice-aforethought mens-rea murder murder-conviction statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether there was sufficient evidence presented to the jury in Bellinger's case to convict Bellinger of murder as alleged in Counts One and Two, where…
18-551 Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Elaine Jordan Florida 2018-10-26 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure class-action constitutional-law due-process engle-progeny findings issue-preclusion jury jury-findings legal-precedent preclusion prior-proceeding tobacco Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule of preclusion that permits plaintiffs to invoke the preclusive effect of a prior jury's findings …
18-552 Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Mary Brown, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Rayfield Brown Florida 2018-10-26 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process engle-progeny findings jury jury-findings legal-precedent preclusion prior-proceeding standing tobacco Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule of preclusion that permits plaintiffs to invoke the preclusive effect of a prior jury's findings …
18-6341 John William Lieba, II v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury legal-standard standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence WHETHER, SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE EXISTED TO CONVICT MR. LIEBA?
18-6054 In Re Michael Boone 2018-09-20 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights double-jeopardy judge jury sentencing separation-of-powers statute-of-limitations statutory-offense substantive-due-process Is Petitioner Boone serving an unlawful/void sentence because it is a Substantive Due Process, Double Jeopardy violation for a defendant to be punishe…
18-6008 Anibal Pagan-Romero v. United States First Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-trial dictionary dictionary-use due-process fifth-amendment first-circuit jury jury-instructions presumption-of-prejudice remmer-presumption remmer-v-united-states A. Whether the Petitioner was denied due process of law where the District Court, over the objection of Defendant provided the jury with a dictionary …
18-5894 Lawrence Eugene Shaw v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1344 bank-fraud jury jury-instructions legal-interest legal-property-interest mixed-question mixed-question-of-law-and-fact property trial-court The Court previously considered this case in Shaw v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 462 (2016), where it held that a scheme to defraud a financial institut…
18-5686 Dwight Mundle v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-875-c awareness-of-threat criminal-intent criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency intent jury prejudicial-effect prior-conduct statutory-interpretation threatening-communication uncharged-conduct witness-testimony Was their enough or even any evidence to prove the conviction of transmitting a threatening communication. in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875 (c), was th…
18-5651 Samuel W. Swoopes v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-law criminal-procedure defendant defendant-exclusion due-process ex-parte jury jury-question mid-deliberation sixth-amendment 1. Does it violate Due Process and the Sixth Amendment to exclude a defendant from the court's consideration and answering of a jury question? 2. Did…
18-5513 My Van Tran v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fair-trial interpreter jury language-access manifest-weight-of-evidence other-acts-evidence Did the trial court err in failing to sanction the state for failing to timely provide Appellant with discovery essential to Appellant's case? Did th…
18-82 Tamara Cotman and Angela Williamson v. Georgia Georgia 2018-07-17 Denied Response Waived acquittal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment sixth-amendment,criminal-procedure,jury,due-proces unanimous-verdict Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Am 1. Whether it is a Violation of the Sixth Amendment for a jury in a criminal case to return a nonunanimous verdict. 2. Whether the Double Jeopardy Cl…