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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6406 | Lawrence Joseph Florentine v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review judicial-discretion legal-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation variance-sentence | Does a district court's announcement that it would have imposed the same sentence as an "alternate variance sentence" insulate an erroneous legal ruli… |
| 25-5792 | Timothy Nesdahl v. C. Garrett, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment legal-error liberty-interest | Whether the due process clause of the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution requires an appellate court to address a purely legal error co… |
| 25-5696 | Anatole Mbe v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-22 | Pending | IFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure legal-error plea-agreement restitution sentencing | Did petitioner's appeal waiver as part of his plea agreement preclude an appeal challenging the amount imposed for restitution on grounds that the gov… |
| 25-5480 | Sean L. Hagins v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-08-27 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-precedent compassionate-release extraordinary-circumstances legal-error manifest-injustice sentence-classification | 1) Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals err by failing to address the misapplication of binding circuit precedents in Sean L. Hagins* Motion for com… |
| 25-5408 | Julio Aviles, Sr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-review judicial-discretion legal-error miscarriage-of-justice procedural-standard statutory-interpretation | aC Uxe ^resevAeX evidences?.V^beAker V>oV^5 0.ouvAk ciV>u£>e \Vs AisereVinn bnseA _As_ Vultvxo^ on on erroneous \/ieuJ oQ \o.ui AmaunA - in~CohArov££S… |
| 24-7523 | Sean Kerwin Bindranauth v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court deliberate-ignorance district-court jury-instructions legal-error | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Peitioner direct review where the district court erred when it instrcuted the jury o… |
| 24-7520 | Salvador Nolasco Romero v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court guilty-plea judicial-discretion legal-error | At a change of plea hearing, Mr. Romero's testimony established every element of his offense. Although Mr. Romero further testified that his motivatio… |
| 24-7377 | Jay J. Lin v. Hudson City Savings Bank, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-review district-court judicial-procedure legal-error supremacy-clause | The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit should review the case that it was the party to the violation of the Supremacy Clause of the … |
| 24-7296 | Karen Hylton v. United States | District of Columbia | 2025-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge judicial-discretion legal-error pro-se-plaintiff sentencing-appeal victim-rights | 1. Common grounds for appeal include legal errors, procedural errors, new evidence, inadequate representation, and unreasonable prejudice. When the pl… |
| 24-929 | Christine Solem v. Sarah Taylor | Virginia | 2025-02-27 | Denied | Relisted (2) | due-process judicial-review legal-error petition-for-rehearing procedural-claim supreme-court-of-virginia | Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred when it failed to address Petitioner Solem's due process claim, which was clearly highlighted in her Petit… |
| 24-6648 | James A. Wolfe v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-02-26 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure court-jurisdiction default-judgment federal-rules judicial-discretion legal-error | ^-ec> IdcdtS 6^ cP -fir- +hjum)d<5^ X05 -VW DOtfdoo^ 6 f P^n/T^U^o/c ■ On Mi da^L,J -fimt in error,\, 2. IM 0 4-W UrC,4c6 S-Mes c5 1 isMr? cJ- Co^rc-… |
| 24-6630 | Amado De La Mora Cardenas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-waiver criminal-defendant district-court legal-error plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | The question presented in this Petition for Writ of Certiorari is whether a criminal defendant may prospectively waive the right to appeal the Distric… |
| 24-748 | John Xavier Portillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-counsel constitutional-claim ineffective-assistance legal-error procedural-review strickland-standard | When a defendant claims ineffective assistance of appellate counsel for failing to pursue an issue on appeal and appellate counsel acknowledges that t… |
| 24-6111 | Junior Standly Martinez-Martinez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure indictment judicial-review legal-error motion-to-dismiss | Whether The Denial Of Mr. Martinez's Motion To Dismiss The Indictment Was Erroneous? |
| 24-5702 | James Robert Bailey v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-procedure district-court good-faith-exception legal-error void-ab-initio warrant-validity | Whether the district erred by applying the good-faith exception to a warrant that was void ab initio? |
| 24-5536 | Jose Reyes Ochoa v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellant-rights court-ruling criminal-procedure duress-defense judicial-discretion legal-error | Did the Court err in precluding Appellant's "duress" defense? |
| 23-7760 | Samreen Riaz v. Kaweah Health Medical Center, et al. | California | 2024-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bias conflicting-issues court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-error petition-for-writ-of-certiorari petition-review procedural-due-process standing | Did the Supreme court of California (S284004) in error, abuse discretion and show bias in denying Petition and application for stay on May 1st 2024 an… |
| 23-7519 | Willie J. Williams, aka Willie Joe Williams v. Kelvin Malher, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-21 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts legal-error procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment | Did the Federal Court(s) and the Appellate Court(s) error by altering and omitting the Petitioners first allegation and denying the second docketed … |
| 23-6902 | Jeffrey Akard v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-error plea-bargain procedural-due-process retroactivity sentencing statutory-provisions | L S/muiJ Q U, S. Cour-L ZTurlge. P/ifnrr.e n pi PA. Qk^rejeMPsAr appeal Id at j/gr /a Fe. i»jIap.a 4 ^ l$4'Cr £//] ZTo/y ^ A1tLcL&- £t/l error -fo 1/t… |
| 23-6800 | Jorge Espinosa v. New York | New York | 2024-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | clear-cut-and-dispositive constitutional-right criminal-defense due-process error-and-prejudice ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error prejudice-analysis single-error Strickland strickland-standard | Whether all ineffective assistance of counsel claims are assessed under the Strickland error-and-prejudice rule, or whether such claims based on a sin… |
| 23-573 | Tina Bastian Veneskey v. Michael Keith Sulier | North Carolina | 2023-11-28 | Denied | custody custody-determination due-process error-of-law fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction jurisdictional-determination legal-error state-jurisdiction | 1. Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause precludes the enforcement of a State's jurisdictional determination when that very determination is based … | |
| 23-5723 | James Daryl West v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-10-05 | Denied | IFP | circuit-opinion civil-procedure civil-rights claim-dismissal due-process factual-assertion habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-error ninth-circuit prisoner-rights standing | Sp2uivcollv| uji'U Kgoy-cls Ixntr/ Morri 5^ VJa^clW\ Tek-Uow poses 4Xjl girsW) \o Ul5 Ccu^f ot bukj^Ujtr ^ £kw\4ji\ Crcuvf GcurV ok Aff-^Ls cUadUd 4-… |
| 23-247 | S. C., Mother v. Philadelphia Department of Human Services, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2023-09-14 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process factual-findings judicial-review legal-error misapplication-of-law state-court-opinion | 1) Did the Opinions of the Pennsylvania Courts constitute erroneous factual findings and / or misapplications of properly stated rules of law, as well… |
| 23-5349 | Elbert Johnson v. Florida | Florida | 2023-08-14 | Denied | IFP | conflict-of-interest due-process illegal-sentence judicial-bias judicial-conflict legal-error manifest-injustice sentencing trial-court witness-testimony | When a circuit court judge is called upon, to be a witness against a defendant in a case, and then later on, sentence the defendant in the same case r… |
| 23-114 | Sharon A. Finizie v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Third Circuit | 2023-08-04 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-procedure factual-findings judicial-procedure legal-error legal-errors misapplication-of-law rule-of-law standard-of-review third-circuit | 1) Did the decision of the of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit constitute erroneous factual findings and/or misapplication of … |
| 22-1216 | Dwayne Ferguson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons first-step-act habeas-corpus legal-error sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 limits a district court's discretion to consider—among other circumstancespecific factors—legal errors in prior proceedings a… |
| 22-7531 | Chykeetra Maltbia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | briefing circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-error mens-rea miscarriage-of-justice plain-error prejudice regulatory-provisions | Whether the Circuit Court erred in finding that the defendant had not established prejudice due to an omitted mens rea element based on what it believ… |
| 22-7322 | Tevaris Crawford v. Mack Bailey, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2023-04-19 | Denied | IFP | appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-error standing writ-of-certiorari | Did the Appeals Court of the Fourth Circuit error by denying a certificate of appealability? |
| 22-7178 | David Frazier v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2023-04-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-procedure state-courts | Whether Supreme Court for Tennessee ignored facts and procedure for correction of illegal sentence. Whether Criminal Appeals Court for Tennessee also… |
| 22-6968 | Thomas Marmolejos v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-error predicate-offense section-924(c) section-924(j) sentencing | Can a section 924(c) and 924(j) charge that alleges multiple predicates stand when one or more of the predicates no longer qualifies as a crime of vio… |
| 22-6935 | William Ingram v. Illinois | Illinois | 2023-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure legal-error standing trial-procedure | Did the trial Court violate Petitioner's Right to Choice of Counsel and the Appellate Court Stipulate to re om? Did the Texas Appellate Court Violate… |
| 22-6113 | Guillermo Garcia v. James Hill, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-21 | Denied | IFP | appeal appeal-denial civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-appointment district-court due-process legal-error motion-to-appeal petition petition-review standing | 1. WHETER THE LOowER cOvRT MADE A LECAL ERROR . 5 AFL WHEW DENYEW C HIS DPPEAL , WAE A OF? PETLZIOW SHARE CORE OF OF EGRATAOVE AYIETS DN COMMON WUT FH… |
| 22-6064 | Laura Fettig v. Hilton Garden Inns Management, LLC, et al. | California | 2022-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-vehicle contract-preemption due-process federal-motor-carrier-safety-act legal-error preemption rule-60b1 tort-liability tort-negligence | 1. Whether the court of appeals correctly held that a contract claim preempts a tort cause of action for recovery from the negligence of a federally r… |
| 22-5618 | Ronald J. Brooking v. Prince George's County, Maryland | Maryland | 2022-09-20 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-court civil-procedure court-order due-process judicial-review legal-error maryland-law maryland-rules motion-to-dismiss relief-denial standing supreme-court | 1 - Did I'll £ G rcuuL CouLrt err when Orci-er De-dcudV? Did Dk«_ C\retted Court err o-kcI not CLp^t-y W^ lUary(aid ?i uDi o f Q w i l^r^ C-ec/ id. … |
| 22-5558 | Vince Edward LaSane v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure defense-knowledge due-process felony jury-conviction jury-instructions legal-error minor registration-requirements sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation | Whether the District Court erroneously denied Mr. Lasane's request that Jury instruction on Count Two (committing a felony offense involving a minor w… |
| 22-5499 | Scott James Repella v. Luzerne County Children and Youth Services, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-09-02 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review legal-error procedural-challenge standard-of-review standing | 1. DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ERROR IN DENYING THE COA AND NOT TAKING INTO THE COUNT THE COMPLEXITY AND SEVERITY OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS VIOLATION?… |
| 21-1392 | Abigail Simon v. Jeremy Howard, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-29 | Denied | Response Waived | actus-reus certiorari-review criminal-law criminal-sexual-conduct due-process jury-instructions legal-error sexual-assault standard-of-review trial-court | Whether this court should grant certiorari because the state trial court judge gave erroneous jury instructions on the critical actus reus element of … |
| 21-7724 | Anthony Fields v. United States | District of Columbia | 2022-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment court-of-appeals evidence-suppression Faretta-v-California fourth-amendment Koon-v-United-States legal-error precedent-interpretation self-representation traffic-stop | 1. Whether the court of appeals' decision affirming the denial of Petitioner's request to exercise his right to self-representation while ignoring com… |
| 21-7241 | Darrell Johnson v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2022-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alibi-instruction evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error pennsylvania-state-court state-court stipulations trial-counsel | Was the Pennsylvania State Court's ruling supported by the evidence and free from legal error when it held that Petitioner's trial counsel was not ine… |
| 21-7188 | Elishay Banks v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error ninth-circuit standard-of-review | Is it error by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to fail to consider the petitioner's argument concerning the ineffective assistance of counsel obvio… |
| 21-7000 | Dominic Dean Adams v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review conviction conviction-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing standard-of-review | Did the court of appeals err in affirming Mr. Adams' conviction? |
| 21-6491 | Lucas Montagne v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure exception illegal-sentence invited-error judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing | 1. Should an exception to the doctrine of invited error be recognized in a case in which an illegal sentence is imposed? 2. Should an exception to th… |
| 21-43 | Moe M. Al-Dolemy v. Michigan | Michigan | 2021-07-13 | Denied | appellate-review conviction conviction-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-error michigan-court-of-appeals record-contradiction record-evidence | Did the Michigan Court of Appeals commit reversible error through issuing a opinion affirming Petitioner 's conviction where the opinion is contradict… | |
| 20-8196 | William Severs v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-06-02 | Denied | IFP | appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error right-to-counsel supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court | 1) Whether the Decisions of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the District Court for the District of New Jersey were contrary to the United State… |
| 20-7314 | Willard Lee Moss, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law domestic-violence due-process firearm-possession firearms fourth-circuit legal-error mens-rea rehaif rehaif-error | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed Moss's conviction for possession of a firearm by a domestic violence offender, where the evidence in… |
| 20-7176 | Jeffrey S. Davis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arizona-law certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court habeas-petition judicial-review legal-error procedural-default | I. Did the Court of Appeals error by not addressing the Certified questions from the district Courts Certificate of Appeal of Inquiry (COD) as granted… |
| 20-1131 | James C. Dimora v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery conviction criminal-conviction due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions lawful-conduct legal-error official-act statutory-interpretation | Whether a McDonnell error—i.e., defining the element of "official act" overbroadly in bribery counts and thereby enabling a jury to wrongly conclude t… |
| 20-7005 | Andre King v. Brian Kendall, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-01 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error motion-to-dismiss procedural-discretion standing summary-dismissal | A. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED AS A MATTER OF LAW IN ALLOWING THE DISTRICT COURT TO SUMMARILY DISMISS PETITIONER'S MOTION TO REOPEN A CASE PURS… |
| 20-6883 | Christopher Brent Garner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process federal-authority jury-trial legal-error sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release trial-by-jury | Whether 18 U.S.C. §3583(g) unconstitutionally deprives federal supervised releasees of the right to trial by jury? Whether courts of appeals reviewin… |
| 20-6760 | Adam Lee Thomas v. Texas | Texas | 2021-01-04 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence extraneous-offenses innocence-phase judicial-interpretation legal-error state-court texas-rules texas-rules-of-evidence | Question not identified. |
| 20-6230 | Ulis Howard Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | corpus-delicti criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-error punishment-phase sentencing | Did the Fi fth Ci rcuit err i n hol ding that the concept of corpus del icti shoul d not apply in the puni shment phase? |
| 20-331 | Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. District of Columbia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-14 | GVR | Amici (2)Relisted (2) | abuse-of-discretion district-court domestic-emoluments emoluments-clause foreign-emoluments interlocutory-appeal legal-error mandamus motion-to-dismiss presidential-immunity | 1. Whether a writ of mandamus is appropriate because, contrary to the holding of the court of appeals, the district court's denial of the President's … |
| 20-5633 | Darren M. Rowe v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-09 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence daubert-standard district-court due-process evidence-analysis expert-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-error new-evidence schlup-v-delo standard-of-review | Whether the district court committed error when it determined that newly presented evidence does not create for consideration under the Acosta factors… |
| 20-5614 | Derrick Anthony Felton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity defendant-status due-process judicial-determination leadership-role legal-error plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-court vagueness | Did the Trial Court error in finding that Mr. Felton was an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of the criminal activity? |
| 19-8616 | Anthony Helton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-error motion-to-dismiss standing | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Helton's motion to dismiss? |
| 19-8017 | Maria Mercedes Cancino, et al. v. Cameron County, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-circuit civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process legal-error state-created-danger | 1. The District Court and the 5th Circuit erred, as a matter of law, in failing to find that Appellants have a constitutional right to be free from st… |
| 19-7873 | Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process firearms judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error mens-rea standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction | Mr. Alexis appeal asked Justices Gorsuch and Kagan to overturn Defendant's knowledge of his two prior felony convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). Aff… |
| 19-7742 | Derrick Lamark Lewis, Sr. v. Walter Berry, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process exhaustion federal-courts federal-remedies habeas judicial-procedure judicial-review legal-error standing state-court-proceedings state-courts | What remedies are available for Petetioner when the State Courts habeas proceedings are erroneous and contrary to the laws of dustice? How is it poss… |
| 19-6996 | Myron L. Johnson v. Darren Settles, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review case-disposition civil-procedure constitutional-law court-disposition due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error legal-procedure lower-court-decisions standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation | DID THE LOWER COURTS ERR IN THEIR DISPOSITION OF PETITIONER'S CASE? |
| 19-6945 | Kevin Dameron v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-law civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence eyewitness-identification judicial-review legal-error neil-v-biggers standing state-court-interpretation state-court-review supreme-court-precedent | WHETHER THE ILLINOIS STATE COURT ERRED IN ITS APPLICATION OF WELL ESTABLISHED UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT DECLARED IN NEIL v. BIGGERS, 409 U… |
| 19-6373 | Casey Dullea Peppin v. Washington | Washington | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | art constitutional-interpretation copyright court-determination due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence file-sharing jurisdiction legal-error prejudice sexually-explicit-material source-code | 1. Did The Washington State Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Washington Error by granting as fact that the defendant shared files with the Pu… |
| 19-380 | Alfred Lam, et al. v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-20 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure-60b civil-rights discrimination disparate-treatment federal-court federal-rule-civil-procedure harassment hostile-work-environment judgment legal-error motion-for-relief ongoing-discrimination pro-se-plaintiffs retaliation | This case poses multiple questions due to on going and continuous instances of conduct rising to a level of discrimination, harassment, intimidation,… |
| 19-5408 | Gregory Daniels v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-dismissal dismissal due-process fourth-circuit jurisdiction legal-error notice-of-appeal standard-of-review standing | WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED AS A MATTER OF LAW BY DISMISSING PETITIONER'S NOTICE OF APPEAL. |
| 19-5406 | Ronald Lee Coleman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-law district-court due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error petitioner-rights procedural-due-process standing takings | Whether the District Court erred in failing to address Petitioner's constitutional es |
| 19-5022 | Brian K. Banks v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 404(b)-evidence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-error louisiana-supreme-court prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review | I. Did the Louisiana Supreme Court Error, when it allowed the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to contradict its own prior rulings by overruling the Dis… |
| 18-9776 | Irineo Ponce-Recendiz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing | 1. Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure … |
| 18-1476 | Randy Lee Carney v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-28 | Denied | Response Waived | alternative-sentence alternative-sentencing appellate-review career-offender circuit-split collateral-consequences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error judicial-discretion judicial-error legal-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error united-states-v-vonn | When sentencing defendants, some district courts announce that they would impose the same length of imprisonment even if their conclusions of law and … |
| 18-8996 | Zack Zafer Dyab v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amount-of-loss appellate-review court-discretion criminal-sentencing illegal-sentence judicial-discretion legal-error loss-calculation plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-limitation statutory-limitations | 1 - Does the miscalculation of the amount of loss as applied to the sentencing guidelines represent an illegal sentence, and plain error that the Cour… |
| 18-8261 | Cordell Berry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-enhancement certificate-of-appealability collateral-review federal-rules-civil-procedure legal-error mathis-retroactivity mathis-v-united-states procedural-reasonableness rule-59-motion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sentencing-guidelines-miscalculation | Whether the court of appeals committed clear legal error when it denied a certificate of appealability (COA), on my challenge to the application of a … |
| 18-7829 | Joe Homer Mark v. Amy Rabeau | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review civil-procedure counsel-performance custodial-interrogation district-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error miranda-warning procedural-default self-incrimination standing | Whether Petitioner Joe Mark's Fifth Amendment Rights were violated when Mr. Mark was subject to custodial interrogation without Miranda warning having… |
| 18-7676 | Louis Hill v. Cynthia Link, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus legal-error reasonable-jurists standard-of-review standing substantial-showing third-circuit | Does the Third Circuit Court of Appeals denial of a Certificate of Appealability in the instant matter constitute legal error given it is debatable am… |
| 18-7550 | Marbin Rene Reyes-Ruiz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law court-of-appeals due-process due-process,civil-procedure,standing,immigration,r error-correction fundamental-fairness immigration-law immigration-status judicial-review legal-error procedural-due-process removal-proceedings unlawful-status | This petition presents a request for error correction. The Ninth Circuit held that the entry of a prior administrative-removal order against Petitione… |
| 18-7541 | Adrian G. Rangel v. Tippecanoe County, Indiana, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | absolute-immunity appeals civil-procedure civil-rights complaint court-of-appeals dismissal due-process federal-court federal-trial-court immunity jurisdiction legal-error standing | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh and the Hammond Indiana Federal Trial Court err in dismissing Petitioner's Complaint based sole… |
| 18-7522 | Freddie B. Kennedy, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-consistency judicial-decision-making legal-error precedent rehearing rehearing-request | Did the lower Court commit error by not adhering to its prior decisions when it denied Petitioner's request for rehearing without discussion of the fa… |
| 18-7348 | Edgar Arnold Garcia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 18-USC-3582c2 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing dillon-v-united-states district-court-discretion due-process legal-error sentence-modification sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-methodology statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | WHETHER, DILLON v. UNITED STATES, 560 U.S. 817 (2010), REQUIRES A DISTRICT COURT TO REEVALUATE ITS ORIGINAL SENTENCING METHODOLOGY IN STEP TWO OF THE … |