malice

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6144 Michael Roy Fuller v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-12-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-appeal habeas-corpus malice self-defense vehicle-shooting 1. When does self-defense become malice? 2. When one is in a car and afraid for his life, how is it malice to shoot into the dashboard as a last reso…
21-7267 William Roy Thietje v. Ken Clark, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied IFP due-process harmless-error intervening-cause jury-instructions malice malice-aforethought provocative-act-murder sixth-amendment 1. Where petitioner received a conviction based on erroneous jury instructions, were such petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to Due …
21-6532 Mary Noel Kruppe v. California California 2021-12-06 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process homicide malice murder-prosecution recklessness retroactive-law An People v. Watson(1481)30 Cal. 3d 240,4he Appellate covurt IAvamatically exoanded du law of homicides a dafendait Whost Joonductwould once hove WC n…
21-298 Bobby Wilson v. Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., et al. Arizona 2021-08-30 Denied Response Waived context defamation false-publication first-amendment freedom-of-press freedom-of-speech malice media-liability speech-protection 1. Is a per se false publication that was proven fabricated solely by the defendant sufficient proof alone of malice? Liability for the publication of…
20-981 Fidelis Agbapuruonwu v. NBC Subsidiary (WRC-TV), LLC, dba NBC4 Washington, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights defamation due-process federal-pleading-standards malice malice-standard media-defendant pleading-requirements private-individual qualified-privilege 1. Whether Twombly and Iqbal require heightened factual pleading of allegations of malice in a common law defamation complaint brought by a private in…
19-7183 Malcolm William v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP causation criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-arrest-of-judgment due-process elements-of-crime evidence evidence-sufficiency hearsay insufficient-evidence malice motion-in-limine murder murder-charge new-trial sixth-amendment third-degree 1. Whether Appellant should be awarded an arrest of judgement on the charge of Murder in the Third Degree, as *there is insufficient evidence to sust…
19-6330 Vicki Corona v. Mariyam Gasparyan California 2019-10-22 Denied IFP 1st-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial first-amendment judicial-misconduct legal-remedy malice petition-clause remedy standing Where actors of a Superior Court, including the Judge, defense attorney, and clerks, violate the rule of law as announced in the Due Process Clause, a…
19-326 Melinda Mitchell, et al. v. City of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights fourth-amendment malice material-facts objective-reasonableness perjury police-misconduct qualified-immunity trespass wrongful-seizure 1. Did the Second Circuit err in applying District of Columbia v. Wesby, 138 S. Ct. 577 (2018), to grant qualified immunity to the police defendants w…
19-5525 Erika Jacobs v. Atlanta Police Department, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-offense cruel-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment homeless-rights judicial-conspiracy malice police-misconduct standing state-law Is this case presenting issues of importance beyond the particuler falts and parties inudved? well does a case of judicia consinyad malie o overt Hhe …
18-9530 Terry Margheim v. Kenneth Buck, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied IFP favorable-termination fourth-amendment innocence legal-process malice probable-cause supreme-court-precedent unlawful-seizure Are malice and favorable termination indicative of innocence, necessary elements to prove a violation of the Fourth Amendment? If the legal process i…