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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6487 | Derrick S. Lewis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-determination sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments are violated when a sentencing judge, rather than a jury, finds facts that otherwise alter the minimum and/o… |
| 25-5817 | Kyle Krill v. Ohio | Ohio | 2025-10-07 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights fifth-amendment jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | When a factual finding that multiple counts arose out of "separate acts or transactions" is necessary to authorize an increase in punishment, must thi… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 24-7197 | Darrin Alonzo Miller v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | content-analysis evidence-scope first-amendment jury-determination miller-test obscenity | Whether a jury, when determining whether a letter is "obscene," applying the test from Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973), can consider evidence… |
| 24-6553 | Ramon Caldwell v. Bryan Morrison, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process jury-determination prior-convictions recidivism sentence-enhancement | I. It was a Jurisdictional Defect of the proceedings, by not allowing the jury to find Petitioner guilty, with proof beyond a reasonable doubt, of a s… |
| 24-6474 | Leonard Morrison v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure jury-determination predicate-offense | Does the recent Supreme Court ruling in *Erlinger v. United States*, 602 U.S. (2024), render unconstitutional the enhancements imposed under the Armed… |
| 24-6276 | Robert Anthony Zaccaro v. Florida | Florida | 2025-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure defendant-rights judicial-discretion jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sentencing-facts | Whether there are any exceptions to a Defendant's right to a jury determination of any fact which raises his minimum or maximum sentence? |
| 24-5837 | Ruben Aguilera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure jury-determination section-2255 | [1] May a petitioner in his initial § 2255 stage who has preserved the claim that a jury must decide the "occasions" clause of the Armed Career Crimin… |
| 24-5366 | Marquise Thomas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-22 | Denied | IFP | child-exploitation criminal-punishment jury-determination mandatory-minimum restitution-order sixth-amendment | Does the Sixth Amendment require a jury to find the facts needed to justify a restitution order meeting or exceeding § 2259(b)(2)(B)'s $3,000 mandator… |
| 24-5287 | John Phillip Bender v. Texas | Texas | 2024-08-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | acquittal double-jeopardy federal-law jury-determination legal-proceedings record-review | 1. Whether this Court must immediately confront record truth of the federal double jeopardy law acquittal event: jury's actual historic 2009 nonculpab… |
| 24-25 | Mrugeshkumar Kumar Shah v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | apprendi-rule constitutional-rights criminal-fines criminal-penalty criminal-restitution hester-v-united-states jury-determination sixth-amendment southern-union-co-v-united-states | Whether the Sixth Amendment reserves to juries the determination of any fact underlying a criminal restitution order. |
| 23-7841 | Richard Schorovsky v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-01 | GVR | IFP | armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act burglary-statute fifth-circuit-interpretation jury-determination robbery-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement separate-occasions shepard-documents | 1. In light of Erlinger v. United States, No. 23-370, 602 U.S._ (June 21, 2024), was Petitioner Schorovsky properly sentenced as an armed career crimi… |
| 23-7783 | Joseph James Conkling v. Kansas | Kansas | 2024-06-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi-precedent apprendi-rule blakely-rule blakely-v-washington criminal-sentencing fact-finding jury-determination jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment unpled-facts | Does this Court's decision in Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004) establish an "unpled but admitted facts" exception to the rule set forth in A… |
| 23A1146 | Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Texas | Texas | 2024-06-24 | Denied | capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness jury-determination | When a state conditions a capital defendant's eligibility to be sentenced to death on a jury's determination of "future dangerousness," can the state … | |
| 23-7791 | Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Texas | Texas | 2024-06-24 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment capital-punishment-eligibility death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness jury-determination post-conviction-review | When a state conditions a capital defendant's eligibility to be sentenced to death on a jury's determination of "future dangerousness," can the state … |
| 23A1057 | Mrugeshkumar Kumar Shah v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-28 | Presumed Complete | anti-kickback-statute constitutional-fact-finding criminal-restitution healthcare-conspiracy jury-determination sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment reserves to juries the determination of any fact underlying a criminal restitution order. | |
| 23-7182 | Jonathan Wray v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi apprendi-rule civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination predicate-act rico rico-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Does this Court's decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), require that the Government prove beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury that … |
| 23-6849 | Juan Salazar-Grimaldo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-procedure criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6829 | Edward Joseph Parson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-abuse child-sexual-abuse credibility evidence-rule-702 expert-testimony jury-determination jury-role prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-evidence witness-credibility | In a prosecution for aggravated child sexual abuse in which the alleged victim has inconsistently reported abuses, may the prosecution present expert … |
| 23-831 | Constance Eileen Caswell v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | almendarez-torres apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process felony-enhancement jury-determination jury-trial misdemeanor-elevation prior-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment | 1. Whether a prior misdemeanor conviction that elevates a subsequent offense from a misdemeanor to a felony is an element of the subsequent offense th… |
| 23-6411 | Gilberto Salvador Cortez-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-determination jury-trial prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-5881 | In Re David Jah, Sr. | 2023-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-purpose conviction-standard due-process jury-determination legal-interpretation local-ordinance property-use standing takings zoning | Can a conviction stand on a jury's determination [a] subject property was used for a commercial purpose albeit according to the local ordinance in the… | |
| 23-5434 | Lamar Victor Moncrieffe v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct double-jeopardy fifth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether a district court violates a defendant's Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment rights by basing a substantial four-level sentencing enhancement o… |
| 23-92 | James Edwin Hoganson v. Colorado | Colorado | 2023-08-01 | Denied | aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment | Where a maximum prison term may be doubled upon a finding of "extraordinary … aggravating circumstances," does the Sixth Amendment require th e existe… | |
| 23-5140 | Ralph Castillo v. Richard Martinez, Warden, et al. | New Mexico | 2023-07-19 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-circumstances criminal-rights due-process jury-determination jury-trial plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment | 1. Was it proper for the State to intentionally mislead the court when it required that petitioner show the presumption of equality when the real issu… |
| 22-7516 | Adam Dean Brown v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-injury controlled-substance criminal-intent drug-offense due-process felony-statute jury-determination prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 21 U.S.C. § 841(A)(1) makes is a crime to "knowingly or intentionally .. . manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture… |
| 22-7397 | Daniel Kim v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2023-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-speech due-process fighting-words first-amendment free-speech jury-determination jury-instructions speech-protection state-court true-threats | 1. Whether a state court is prohibited from unilaterally determining whether a defendant's written speech on his blog is protected or criminal, withou… |
| 22-7373 | Victor M. Miranda-Guerrero v. California | California | 2023-04-26 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-circumstances apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-procedure | Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se… |
| 22-6879 | Bobby O. Williams v. Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District | Illinois | 2023-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravating-factors due-process fair-warning judicial-expansion jury-determination jury-findings retroactivity sentencing-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | On Petitioner's second direct appeal, in resolving Petitioner's sufficiency of evidence claim regarding the existence of a single statutory aggravatin… |
| 22-6813 | Joshua Glowacki v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial probable-cause restitution restitution-order search-warrant sentencing victim-rights | After Petitioner pled guilty to a child pornography offense the district court awarded restitution of $10,000 to one victim, over Petitioner's objecti… |
| 22-6721 | Jeffery T. Crystal v. Florida | Florida | 2023-02-07 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto jury-determination jury-trial sixth-amendment supremacy-clause trial-procedure verdict-form | Did the "verdict form " agreed upon by the jury failure to specify I. "GUILTY " as to Count 1 violate 6th Amendment right to a jury determination of G… |
| 22-6514 | Santiago Pineda v. California | California | 2023-01-11 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty jury-determination jury-fact-finding mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing-procedure | Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se… |
| 22-6434 | Elvis Harold Reyes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-restitution fifth-amendment jury-determination restitution sentencing-fact sixth-amendment southern-union-co-v-united-states | Whether the Sixth and Fifth Amendments are violated by the imposition of restitution based on the sentencing judge's determination of a fact (other th… |
| 22-6071 | Manuel Bracamontes v. California | California | 2022-11-16 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt | Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se… |
| 22-6049 | Kenneth Eugene Smith v. Alabama | Alabama | 2022-11-14 | Denied | IFP | capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination jury-override state-federal-practice | Does executing a condemned person contrary to a capital sentencing jury's determination that he should be sentenced to life imprisonment without the p… |
| 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… |
| 22-5102 | 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… |
| 21-1445 | Ellen T. Thatcher v. Department of Veterans Affairs | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-16 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-rights due-process jury-determination materiality perjury summary-judgment veterans-administration | Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals make a clear error when they termed perjury "meritless," failed to consider the materiality of Thatcher's perjur… |
| 21-7223 | Angel DeLara v. California | California | 2022-02-28 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-trial penal-code sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law, by permitting sentencing Judges to impose enhanced sentences based on their determination of facts no… |
| 21-1126 | Taylor Arnett, et al. v. Kansas | Kansas | 2022-02-15 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-punishment criminal-restitution due-process jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing-facts sixth-amendment | In a series of decisions beginning with Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), the Court has held that the Sixth Amendment (incorporated against… |
| 21-6974 | Alfredo Gonzalez v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction | Connecticut | 2022-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accessory-liability burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement firearms jury-determination manslaughter sentencing | Does Connecticut's statutory scheme of accessory to manslaughter in the first degree with a firearm violate Due Process, in that it allows for an incr… |
| 21-6669 | Robert Walter Scully v. California | California | 2021-12-21 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-circumstances beyond-reasonable-doubt constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances statutory-maximum | Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se… |
| 21-6530 | Tyreese Thompson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Almendarez-Torres constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial precedent-review reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum | Do any facts that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum need to be submitted to a jury, and proved beyond a reason… |
| 21-6510 | Luis Solis-Vasquez v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense federal-statute jury-determination jury-instructions mandatory-victim-restitution RICO rico-offense state-law state-law-predicates | 1. Whether state law RICO predicates are elements of a RICO offense that must be found by the jury. 2. Whether aggravated RICO conspiracy is properly… |
| 21-6450 | Steven Zinnel v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure gall-v-united-states jury-determination sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness | Any fact that increases the penalty to which a defendant is exposed constitutes an element of a crime under and must be found by a jury, not a judge. … |
| 21-6286 | Patrick Lawrence Henderson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | Whether Henderson's revocation sentence violates Apprendi and its progeny because he has been forced to serve a sentence beyond the statutory maximum … |
| 21-6256 | Macario Andrew Gomez, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing jury-determination jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether facts that affect the minimum or maximum reasonable federal sentence must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 21-5302 | Roosevelt Rico Dahda v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states criminal-sentencing drug-quantity jury-determination mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence sixth-amendment statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-sentence | 1. Whether a finding on the issue of drug quantity that increases the statutory maximum sentence requires the jury to make an individualized determina… |
| 21-5233 | Abel Guillermo Godoy v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process elements-of-crime jury-determination legal-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-factors sixth-amendment | In Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), the Court held that in a prosecution for 8 U.S.C. § 1326, the fact of a prior conviction n… |
| 21-5114 | Mario Daniels v. Florida | Florida | 2021-07-16 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-assault criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination separation-of-powers sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-rights | Whether the First District Court of Appeals unauthorized abrogation of an Essential Element of the statutory offense of Aggravated Assault deprived Da… |
| 21-5082 | Benjamin Michael Dubay v. Stephen King, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggregation-of-traits character-protection character-traits comic-book-characters constitutional-rights copyright-infringement copyright-law copyright-protection expert-testimony fact-question jury-determination | 1. The Copyright Act defines statutorily eligible works in 17 U.S.C. § 102(a). While § 102(a) does not list Comic Book Characters, some Circuit Courts… |
| 20-8460 | Marcus Snipes v. Florida | Florida | 2021-06-30 | Denied | IFP | Apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-determination jury-trial sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | WHETHER THE STATE CAN AVOID APPRENDI'S REACH BY WRITING ITS PENAL STATUTES SO THAT A FACT THAT INCREASES THE PENALTY FOR A CRIME INSTEAD BECOMES A FAC… |
| 20-1642 | Brian Doty v. Tappan Zee Constructors, LLC | Second Circuit | 2021-05-25 | Denied | circuit-court circuit-court-split construction-site jones-act jury-determination maritime-worker seaman-status supreme-court-precedent vessel-navigation | 1. Where, in this case, it is undisputed that the injured worker spent 90% of his working time on vessels in navigation, operating cranes and excavato… | |
| 20-7961 | Antonio Olmeda v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-possession jury-determination jury-trial multiplicitous-conviction sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether a Judgment and Conviction oh two counts, § 2K2.1.(a)., for unlawful "receipt", of a firearm and "Possession" of that firearm is multiplicitou… |
| 20-7591 | Herminio Perales-Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-1257 | Aaron Jensen v. West Jordan City, Utah | Tenth Circuit | 2021-03-11 | Denied | civil-rights damages-apportionment equitable-relief jury-determination multiple-claims pecuniary-losses pension-benefits statutory-caps statutory-damages-caps title-vii | It is well understood that plaintiffs can and should, for strategic reasons, bring claims under every theory of liability that may apply to a defendan… | |
| 20-7315 | Ursula Owens v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation criminal-law due-process felony-murder jury-determination mens-rea merger-doctrine reckless-homicide strict-liability | Under the common law felony-murder rule, if a person kills another while committing or attempting to commit a felony, the killing is murder. The rule … |
| 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… |
| 20-6709 | Lance Hundley v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-12-28 | Denied | IFP | capital-defendant capital-sentencing constitutional-review death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mental-health self-representation sixth-amendment | 1.Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution forbid a trial court from allowing a capital defendant with a questionable mental he… |
| 20-6559 | Jesus Villarreal-Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-6060 | Benjamin Davis Smiley, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2020-10-19 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-factors capital-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mitigating-circumstances sentencing | 1. Does the decision of the Florida Supreme Court in Smiley v. State , 295 So.3d 156 (2020), violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual pun… |
| 20-5872 | Jesus Sanchez-Chacon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-5562 | Jeffrey Hessler v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2020-09-03 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-circumstances constitutional-amendments death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-panel jury-determination post-conviction-relief ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment | Are the Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as Ring and Hurst, violated when eligibility for the death penalty is asserted to be decided … |
| 20-5479 | Santos Mondragon Benitez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-87 | George Lee Nobles v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2020-07-29 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction indian-law indian-status jury-determination jury-instructions major-crimes-act statutory-interpretation | I. How does one determine whether a defendant is an Indian? II. Is Indian status a jury question? |
| 20-5161 | Roberto Gonzalez-Gatica v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 19-1358 | Michigan v. William Larenzo Shoulders | Michigan | 2020-06-11 | Denied | Response Waived | alleyne-v-us criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing indeterminate-sentencing jury-determination jury-trial michigan-law michigan-supreme-court parole parole-eligibility sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | In Michigan's "indeterminate" sentencing scheme, judgments of sentence contain two numbers: the minimum number of years the defendant will have to ser… |
| 19-8561 | Jesus Julian Corona-Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | crime-of-violence criminal-procedure indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-8478 | John King v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure fact-finding judicial-discretion jury-determination jury-fact-finding mcmillan-v-pennsylvania preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement united-states-v-watts | I. BY A JURY TO ENHANCE A SENTENCE? AFTER THIS COURT'S DECISION IN UNITED STATES V. ALLEYNE, 570 U.S. 99 (2013), NON-CONTROLLING, CAN THE PREPONDERAN… |
| 19-8239 | Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. | Nevada | 2020-04-10 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-factors constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-procedure | Under Nevada law, a jury may consider imposing a death sentence only after finding at least one statutory aggravating factor beyond a reasonable doubt… |
| 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 … |
| 19-7707 | Elijah Loren Arthur v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-fines criminal-restitution due-process jury-determination jury-trial sentencing-guidelines southern-union-co-v-united-states statutory-maximum | This Court held in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 490 (2000), that "[o]ther than the fact of a prior conviction, any fact that increases the pe… |
| 19-967 | Craig M. Wood v. Missouri | Missouri | 2020-02-03 | Denied | Relisted (2) | capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment | Whether the Constitution requires that a jury, rather than a judge, weigh the aggravating and mitigating circumstances to determine whether a defendan… |
| 19-7481 | Patrick Henry Murphy v. Texas | Texas | 2020-01-29 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2254 capital-murder capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty due-process enmund-v-florida federal-habeas jury-determination jury-trial sentencing tison-v-arizona | Does Ring dictate that a jury determine whether a capital murder defendant is eligible for a sentence of death under Enmund and Tison, and, if so, is … |
| 19-7429 | Louis Mitchell, Jr. v. California | California | 2020-01-28 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances aggravating-mitigating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment | Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se… |
| 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… |
| 19-7242 | Bryan Whitehead v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c 5th-amendment conviction conviction-and-sentence crime-of-violence due-process fifth-amendment jury-determination residual-clause sentence sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | I. Whether the Petitioner was denied his Fifth Amendment right to due process of law by virtue of his conviction and sentence under the residual claus… |
| 19-6906 | Datanya Damon Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-11 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, __U.S.__, 139 S.Ct. 2773 (June 28, 2019)? Whether t… |
| 19-6910 | Alfred T. Moliere v. Texas | Texas | 2019-12-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apprendi apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey article-42.013 constitutional-rights criminal-penalties criminal-penalty family-violence firearm-possession jury-determination jury-trial right-to-bear-arms unconstitutional | Generally, Apprendi v. New Jersey requires that any fact serving to increase a criminal penalty be found by a jury. Article 42.013, Texas Code of Crim… |
| 19-6896 | Jeffrey Antonio v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | congressional-action criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-element jury-determination land-claims preliminary-finding pueblo-lands pueblo-lands-act statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-the-evidence | I. Whether, when Congress relinquished all federal claims and extinguished all interest of the Pueblo of Sandia in privately held lands within pueblo … |
| 19-6800 | Rodney Dewayne Mitchell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | IFP | almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act jury-determination maximum-punishment prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement standing texas-criminal-law violent-felony | 1. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery is a "violent felony " under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. §924(e)? Subsidiary question:… |
| 19-6795 | Abraham Conde-Herrera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-02 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 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… |
| 19-6230 | Claudius L. Fincher v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-10-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process factual-question jury-determination jury-trial mandatory-minimum safety-valve safetyvalve-statute sentencing sixth-amendment | Does the district court's resolution of a contested factual question under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f) (safety-valve statute) for the purpose of determining w… |
| 19-6104 | Freya D. Pearson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-1001 district-court due-process duty-to-speak false-statement government-knowledge government-misconduct jury-determination jury-instruction jury-instructions materiality prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | 1) Can a conviction stand under 18 U.S.C. 1001 (2) without a "Materiality" determination, and should that Determination come from the District Court o… |
| 19-5913 | Sammie Lee Smith, IV v. Florida | Florida | 2019-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-crime aggravated-offense alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-charging criminal-procedure due-process jury-determination jury-trial mandatory-minimum sentencing sexual-felony | Whether the facts triggering a mandatory minimum sentence under Florida's Dangerous Sexual Felony Offender Act, § 794.0115, Fla. Stat. (2016), togethe… |
| 18-9762 | Kwame A. Insaidoo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-666 5th-amendment 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-benefit jury-determination jury-trial second-circuit statutory-interpretation | Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI, when it held that the government need not prove to a jury the… |
| 18-9659 | In Re Quisi Bryan | 2019-06-13 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus hurst-claim hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-trial retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-amendment sixth-circuit | Bryan's habeas petition presents exceptional circumstances that, if left unresolved, will result in disparate interpretations of the federal Constitut… | |
| 18-9234 | Rudy Mendoza v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-05-10 | GVR | IFP | constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process federal-procedure jury-determination second-amendment section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-davis vagueness | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague. (This question is presently before the Court in United States v. Davis, No. 18-431.) … |
| 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… |
| 18-7826 | Curtis R. Leachman v. Thomas Winn, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-determination jury-instruction jury-instructions michigan-self-defense-act psychological-expert self-defense self-defense-statute | WAS PETITIONER DENIED THE RIGHT TO COMPULSORY PROCESS WHEN THE TRIAL COURT FAILED TO GRANT FUNDS FOR A PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERT TO AIDE THE JURY IN DETERM… |
| 18-7745 | Alrick A. Evans v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense alleyne-precedent criminal-statute element jury-determination mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment united-states-v-alleyne | Whether a state court may interpret a criminal statute so that a fact that triggers a mandatory minimum is termed an "affirmative defenses" rather tha… |
| 18-952 | Christopher Anthony Mountjoy, Jr. v. Colorado | Colorado | 2019-01-24 | Denied | Amici (1) | apprendi-precedent apprendi-v-new-jersey colorado-sentencing colorado-sentencing-system constitutional-interpretation jury-determination legal-elements sentencing-factors sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-precedent united-states-v-gaudin | Whether the rule of United States v. Gaudin, 515 U.S. 506 (1995)—namely, that the Sixth Amendment requires juries to find not just historical facts bu… |
| 18-7496 | Nemiah Allan v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2019-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense alleyne-precedent criminal-statute element jury-determination mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment united-states-v-alleyne | Whether a state court may interpret a criminal statute so that a fact that triggers a mandatory minimum is termed an "affirmative defenses' rather tha… |
| 18-6818 | Ruben Rangel v. California | California | 2018-11-26 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-determination jury-trial sentencing | 1. Does California's death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution by failing to… |
| 18-6770 | David Nino-Flores v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-6777 | Kenya Ali Hyatt v. Michigan | Michigan | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination juvenile-life-without-parole juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-statute sixth-amendment | I. Whether Michigan's Miller v. Alabama sentencing statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, under the Sixth and Four… |
| 18-6782 | Tia Marie-Mitchell Skinner v. Michigan | Michigan | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-determination juvenile-life-without-parole juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing-statute sixth-amendment | I. Whether Michigan's Miller v. Alabama sentencing statute requires a jury determination and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, under the Sixth and Four… |
| 18-6668 | Michael Tory, Jr. v. Whited, RNB, et al. | Virginia | 2018-11-13 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure common-knowledge due-process jury-determination jury-selection legal-standard medical-malpractice procedural-rights state-authority state-regulation | Can the State of Virginia in all medical malpractice cases determine the common knowledge and experience of a jury? |
| 18-5037 | Richard Eugene Hamilton v. Florida | Florida | 2018-06-29 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment capital-sentence capital-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination retroactivity supremacy-clause | Does the Florida Supreme Court's decision limiting the retroactivity of Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), to convictions final after the date o… |
| 18-5040 | Henry Perry Sireci v. Florida | Florida | 2018-06-29 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment,four eighth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,death-penalt fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity | 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision that limits the class of death-sentenced individuals entitled to a jury determin… |
| 18-5042 | Jack Sliney v. Florida | Florida | 2018-06-29 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-sentencing retroactivity ring-v-arizona | 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity decision, which limits the class of death-sentenced individuals entitled to a jury determ… |