legal-ambiguity
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-6774 | Tremayne Silas v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ambiguity appeal-waiver circuit-court criminal-appeal guilty-plea involuntary involuntary-plea legal-ambiguity summary-reversal | Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Eighth Circuit's dismissal of Silas's appeal when the appeal waiver is ambiguous as to whether it appl… |
| 22-7422 | Darrell Gunn v. New York | New York | 2023-05-02 | Denied | IFP | conflicting-precedent criminal-law due-process equal-protection home-invasion legal-ambiguity murder-statute new-york-penal-law statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE COURT OR LEGISLATURE DID NOT EXPRESSLY SWEEP WITHIN NEW UNLAWFULLY YORK PENAL LAW § 125.27 ALL KILLINGS IN WHICH THE MURDERER ENTERED THE … |
| 21-7329 | Von Lester Taylor v. Robert Powell, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2022-03-09 | Denied | IFP | certification comity federal-court federalism judicial-certification legal-ambiguity state-law state-law-interpretation tenth-amendment | Does a federal court violate principles of federalism and comity enshrined in the Tenth Amendment by selecting one possible interpretation of an ambig… |
| 20-8297 | Michael Doyle Ruggles v. David Y. Ige, Governor of Hawaii, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-responsibility due-process equal-protection legal-ambiguity medical-cannabis patient-rights state-law state-responsibility vague-laws | Does the State of Hawaii have a constitutional responsibility to draft laws that do not stand silent and create ambiguities? Hawaii's medical cannabis… |
| 19-8132 | Antoine T. Chest v. Michael P. Bald, Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Stephenson County | Illinois | 2020-03-31 | Denied | IFP | bodily-harm consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion legal-ambiguity sentence-enhancement sentencing-interpretation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | THE HONORABLE JUDGE MICHAEL BALD IMPROPERLY IMPOSED CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES WHEN CONCURRENT SENTENCES ARE MANDATED BY THE STATUTE, PETITIONER WAS FOUND … |
| 18-5997 | Francisco Burciaga v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-classification drug-policy due-process heroin-hydrochloride innocence legal-ambiguity pharmaceutical-industry prosecutorial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation vagueness | All University Englh Dictionaries define/describe as follows: heroin— a derivative of morphine morphine— a derivative of opium What is heroin hydro… |