| 25-6876 |
Joquetta Riley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-23 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review conspiracy-liability constitutional-limits-on-punishment criminal-restitution mandatory-victims-restitution-act reasonable-foreseeability |
To what extent may a defendant be held liable for the losses caused by the conduct of their co-conspirators under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Ac… |
| 25A781 |
Joquetta Riley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Application |
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conspiracy joint-and-several-liability mail-fraud mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution vicarious-liability |
Does the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) of 1996 — as codified within 18 U.S.C. § 3663A — allow courts to confer vicarious restitution liabil… |
| 23-585 |
John Duncan Fordham v. Georgia Department of Administrative Services, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure equity equity-doctrine jurisdictional-challenge mandatory-victims-restitution-act money-had-and-received presidential-pardon restitution restitution-funds |
1. Do funds collected from a defendant under the
Mandatory Victims Restitution Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3664,
vest in a claimant when received or are such fun… |
| 22-1197 |
Jon Lawrence Frank v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
401k-plan consumer-credit-protection-act employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa garnishment lump-sum-distribution mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution retirement-plan-benefits |
1. Whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, pursuant to which retirement plan benefits "may not be assigned or alienated," 29 U.S.C. § 105… |
| 22-583 |
Evan Greebel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights compensatory-payments consumer-credit-protection-act consumer-protection due-process earnings-definition garnishment garnishment-limitations mandatory-victims-restitution-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether lump-sum compensatory payments to an individual, such as those made pursuant to a retirement plan, qualify as "earnings" subject to the CCPA's… |
| 22-5399 |
John Afriyie v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorneys-fees circuit-split corporate-expenses criminal-procedure criminal-restitution mandatory-victims-restitution-act noscitur-a-sociis restitution statutory-interpretation |
Section (b)(4) of the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act ("MVRA") requires a criminal defendant convicted of a wide variety of offenses to:
reimburse … |
| 21-6710 |
Prince Charles Nana Yaw Owusu Boateng v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy count-of-conviction court-of-appeals criminal-restitution loss-calculation mandatory-victims-restitution-act pattern-of-criminal-activity restitution scheme sentencing |
Under the Mandatory Victim s Restitution Act, when an offense does
not involve as an element a scheme, conspiracy, or pattern of criminal
activity, … |
| 21-5930 |
Albert M. Ranieri v. Vicky Moser, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3613(b) ex-post-facto mandatory-victims-restitution-act mvra plea-agreement restitution restitution-order sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation victim-witness-protection-act vwpa |
1) Is the VWPA the controlling law regarding payment of the
Order of Restitution in the underlying criminal action and is the
Ex Post Facto Clause of … |
| 21-58 |
Sassine Razzouk v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
categorical-approach circuit-split lagos-v-united-states mandatory-victims-restitution-act offense-against-property property-offense restitution-obligation statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether courts should apply the categorical approach in determining if an offense is an "offense against property" under the MVRA? |
| 19-8807 |
Cassandra Cean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-liability eighth-amendment intervening-cause mandatory-victims-restitution-act proximate-cause sixth-amendment |
Even after Robers v. United States, 134 S.Ct. 1854 (2014), the circuits remain dangerously divided over what method to apply when determining proximat… |
| 19-6511 |
Roberto Trinidad Del Carpio Frescas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fifth-circuit mandatory-victims-restitution-act preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence reliable-evidence restitution restitution-standard sentencing |
Whether this Court should clarify what "reliable evidence" means for establishing, by a preponderance of the evidence, the amount of restitution under… |
| 19-5336 |
John S. Benchick v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-reporting due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct mandatory-victims-restitution-act prosecutorial-misconduct restitution right-to-appeal trial-record trial-transcript unbiased-prosecutor witness-testimony |
1. Does the Defendant have a right to a true and correct record of his trial, that the Court Reporter failed to properly transcribe witness testimony,… |
| 18-7122 |
Jeffrey Thomas Gola v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ability-to-pay Ability-to-pay-restitution BOP-jurisdiction-over-payment-plan bureau-of-prisons Consideration-of-18-USC-3664-factors constitutional-liberties Delegation-of-authority-to-BOP financial-responsibility mandatory-victims-restitution-act payment-schedule plain-error Plain-error-in-restitution-order restitution restitution-payment |
Is the BOP's Financial Responsibility Program, 28 C.F.R §54510-11, voluntary when constitutional liberties are taken for non-participation?
Does the … |
| 18-6738 |
Jonathone J. Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-law-and-procedure criminal-law-procedure de-novo-review due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-victims-restitution-act presumption remand restitution sentencing |
This case raises two question of criminal law and procedure which have yet to be addressed by this Court. The first of which is whether a defendant is… |
| 18-6481 |
Jeremy Fontanez v. Joseph Coakley, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 bureau-of-prisons circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment inmate-financial-responsibility-program mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution restitution-order voluntary |
DOES THE SENTENCING COURT VIOLATE THE MANDATORY VICTIMS RESTITUTION..ACT (MV -RA) WHEN IT DELEGATES ITS RESTITUTION PAYMENTS TO THE BOP?
IS THE DUE P… |
| 18-195 |
William S. Poff v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
GVR |
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exemption exemptions federal-seizure-law government-seizure incarceration-payments mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution restitution-enforcement seizure service-connected-disability statutory-exemption statutory-interpretation substantial-resources veterans-disability-benefits |
Petitioner is a disabled military veteran currently serving a federal prison sentence. While incarcerated, Petitioner is entitled to approximately $13… |
| 18-29 |
Shailendra Bhawnani, et al. v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
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criminal-procedure criminal-restitution fraud judicial-discretion legal-scope mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution statutory-interpretation victim-compensation victim-definition |
Whether the definition of "victim" under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act, 18 U.S.C. 3663A(a)(2), includes all victims directly and proximately h… |