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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5375 | Arturs Spila v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent eleventh-circuit evidence-standard felony-proceeds money-laundering statutory-interpretation | 1. Was there "insufficient evidence" presented by the United States to convict Spila of money laundering conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)(B)(i)… |
| 24A1182 | Ayana Saunders v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-06-02 | Presumed Complete | constructive-variance criminal-justice-act money-laundering sixth-circuit venue wire-fraud | Question not identified. | |
| 24-7072 | Du Truong Nguyen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split concealment criminal-law federal-statute money-laundering statutory-interpretation | What is required to prove concealment money laundering? |
| 24-6994 | Dwayne W. Sherman v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute knowledge-requirement money-laundering statutory-interpretation | To sustain a conviction for money laundering under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(2)(B)(i), there must be proof, among other things, that a defendant knew that t… |
| 24-6264 | Suresh Munshani v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-conviction due-process merger-doctrine money-laundering wire-fraud | 1. The following question is presented here. Does the merger of Petitioner's money laundering conspiracy conviction with Petitioner's wire fraud consp… |
| 24-5172 | Hassan Abbas v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-charges criminal-prosecution first-circuit money-laundering overt-acts venue venue-constitutional-protection wire-fraud | Has the First Circuit impermissibly narrowed the constitutional protections as to venue when it comes to wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy pr… |
| 23-7404 | William Maxwell v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process firearm-transfer money-laundering obstruction-of-justice rico-conspiracy wire-fraud | I. The Supreme Court in Ciminelli, Bruen, Rahimi, Cleveland, Kelly, and Fischer, issued (or will issue) post conviction/post Maxwell's Third Circuit P… |
| 23-7284 | Neal Merrell Walker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent due-process ex-post-facto money-laundering sentencing sentencing-enhancement | (1).Does the fatal Variance from the indictment violate Mr.Walkers' Due process rights, v ;i*. i when he is convicted of and imprisonment for "Contro… |
| 23-6794 | Isaac Cardona v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent double-jeopardy due-process merger-problem money-laundering specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-doctrine | I. Whether the promotional money laundering provision of Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, 18 U.S.C.A. § 1956 (a)(1)(A)(i), violates the due proce… |
| 23-638 | Kenneth Wendell Ravenell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | Amici (2) | burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure federal-prosecution jury-instructions money-laundering non-overt-act-conspiracy statute-of-limitations | Whether, to comply with 18 U.S.C. § 3282(a) in a prosecution for a non-overt act conspiracy, the government bears the burden of proving to a jury that… |
| 22-7797 | Anurag Dass v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice due-process fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Petitioner Anurag Dass prays that this Honorable body of Judges of the Supreme Court of these United States will acknowledge and consider her submissi… |
| 22-7476 | Michael D'Antonio v. Borough of Allendale, New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-housing foreclosure money-laundering municipal-misconduct racketeering sheriff-sale | 1. Petitioner questions the essence 2. Petitioner questions the lack of finding by the Rehearino of against the Respondent Borough of Allendale for v… |
| 22-945 | Jonathan Dean Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-procedure criminal-statute misrepresentation money-laundering restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation victim-loss wire-fraud | 1. Is proof of misrepresentations by a defendant in 2014 alone sufficient to establish that wire transfers occurring years later in 2016 and 2017 were… |
| 22-6790 | Alexis Jaimez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process gang-membership guilt-by-association money-laundering | Whether the Ninth Circuit's holding that a defendant is guilty of money laundering conspiracy because he was a "foot soldier" in a gang and therefore … |
| 22-6343 | Rossen Iossifov v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bitcoin-exchange criminal-venue due-process extradition extraterritorial-jurisdiction money-laundering racketeering venue wire-fraud | The Petitioner, Rossen Iossifov ("Iossifov"), was indicted on July 5, 2018, and charged with one count of conspiring to engage in racketeering activit… |
| 22-6108 | Jose Luis Ramirez, Jr., aka Zachary Matthew Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-conviction criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-agreement plea-bargaining securities-fraud | 1. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DISMISSING THE PETITIONER'S MERITORIOUS APPEAL OF HIS CONVICTION OF SECU… |
| 22-5779 | James Michael Johnson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions money-laundering standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by finding that the evidence was sufficient to convict Mr. Johnson of wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money l… |
| 22-5460 | Bradley Lane Croft v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-29 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | aggravated-identity-theft circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-question identity-theft money-laundering sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud | Whether an accused commits the crime of aggravated identity theft by merely uttering, mentioning, or reciting someone else's name when committing frau… |
| 21-6775 | Temne Adah Hardaway v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure financial-transactions money-laundering sixth-amendment specified-unlawful-activity venue venue-jurisdiction | In United States v. Cabrales, 524 U.S. 1, 2 (1998) this Court and the Eighth Circuit held in a substantive money laundering charge that venue is impro… |
| 21-6383 | Harinder Singh v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split concealment criminal-conviction drug-proceeds federal-statute insufficient-evidence money-laundering regalado-cuellar statutory-interpretation | Where the evidence at trial was insufficient was insufficient to prove that the design or purpose of the cash transmittals was to "conceal or disguise… |
| 21-6142 | John Gregory Alexander Herrin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-theft criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-indictment indictment interstate-transportation jurisdiction money-laundering statute-of-limitations | WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT WAS ENTITLED TO ESTABLISH PETITIONER'S GUILT AT TRIAL FOR FEDERAL OFFENSES IT DID INDICT (INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF STOLEN M… |
| 21-5879 | Dheadry Powell v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion first-step-act guidelines justification money-laundering resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines | I. UNDER THE FIRST STEP ACT, DID THE DISTRICT COURT FAIL TO PROVIDE A SUFFICIENTLY COMPELLING JUSTIFICATION THAT THOROUGHLY EXPLAINS IT'S ABOVE THE GU… |
| 21-5418 | Sergio Bucio v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-role money-laundering role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 | I. Whether the district court erred in calculating the amount of laundered funds attributable to Mr. Bucio. II. Whether the district court erred by f… |
| 21-5098 | Hal Herring Brown, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel money-laundering plea-agreement plea-bargaining securities-fraud | WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DISMISSING THE PETITIONER'S MERITORIOUS APPEAL OF HIS CONVICTION FOR SECURI… |
| 21-5042 | John Shields v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence guilty-plea money-laundering plain-error waiver waiver-doctrine | I. Whether the Sixth Circuit's blanket policy of relying on the waiver doctrine as justificatio n for refusing to review an insufficiency of the evide… |
| 20-1671 | Chi Ping Patrick Ho v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-06-02 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure federal-courts foreign-corrupt-practices-act indictment money-laundering prosecution-exemption reference-canon statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a federal court may decline to apply the reference canon, recently reaffirmed by this Court in Jam v. Int Fin. Corp., --- U.S. ---, 139 S. … |
| 20-1370 | Nidal Ahmed Waked Hatum v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-31 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | concealment-money-laundering criminal-forfeiture forfeiture-money-judgment honeycutt-limitation honeycutt-v-united-states mirror-image-transactions money-laundering no-loss-to-bank return-of-tainted-property statutory-interpretation substitute-property tainted-property | Whether a criminal defendant's legitimate, untainted property is subject to an extra-statutory forfeiture money judgment or substitute property forfei… |
| 20-6651 | Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, et al. | California | 2020-12-18 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights contempt-of-writ court-securities CUSIP cusip-number due-process human-trafficking money-laundering standing subpoena-compliance tort-claims | Courts across this Republic have systematically become vehicles for pedophiles, MS 13, sex, human traffickers and drug cartels to launder monies using… |
| 20-6410 | Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, et al. | California | 2020-11-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conspiracy due-process judicial-misconduct legal-conspiracy mental-competency money-laundering national-security power-of-attorney standing | 1) whether this court should continue to allow lower courts to be used by international drug cartels, pedophiles, sex and human traffickers and MS 13 … |
| 19-8399 | Reshon Tolliver v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute drug-payment drug-trafficking evidence federal-law money-laundering statutory-interpretation | To resolve a circuit split, whether mere payment for drugs constitutes sufficient evidence for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1956? |
| 19-7757 | Babatunde Popoola v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bank-fraud consent criminal-law criminal-procedure financial-crimes identity-theft money-laundering predicate-crime statutory-interpretation | WHETHER A PERSON WHO WITH THE CONSENT OF A BANK ACCOUNT HOLDER PROVIDES IDENTIFYING INFORMATION TO A THIRD PARTY TO DEPOSIT FUNDS INTO THE ACCOUNT W… |
| 19-1000 | Heon-Cheol Chi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Denied | bribery corrupt-intent criminal-intent foreign-bribery intent-to-influence mcdonnell-v-united-states money-laundering official-act public-official statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether "an offense against a foreign nation involving . . . bribery of a public official" under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(c)(7)(B) requires generic bribery… | |
| 19-7364 | Ernest William Singleton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-schedules drug-scheduling general-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-pain-clinic money-laundering surveillance-footage | I WHEN A JURY FOUND SINGLETON GUILTY OF COUNT 10 OF THE IMDICTMENT, WHICH ALLEGED THAT HE DISTRIBUTED "ULTRAM "; HOW CAN IT BE DETERMINED THAT THE J… |
| 19-7238 | Jerry Reginald Burkes v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure dismissal due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis indictment-dismissal mandatory-language money-laundering speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation tennessee-local-rule-10.03 tennessee-rules-of-criminal-procedure tennessee-rules-of-evidence trial-rights | 1. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT'S DENIAL OF A MOTION TO DISMISS AN INDICTMENT FOR A VIOLATION OF THE SPEEDY TRIAL ACT'S 70 DAY TIME LIMIT FOR BRINGING A DE… |
| 19-6990 | King Bush v. Kannika Say | Michigan | 2019-12-18 | Denied | IFP | benefits civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-procedure due-process false-documents fourth-amendment fraud green-card immigration immigration-fraud law-enforcement marriage money-laundering probable-cause search-and-seizure | I want to void marrdige based on immig vation fraud? Kannika say shewas married to heruncle during the time she was living withme 8127/2oob, wasmy mar… |
| 19-6899 | Jose Luis Meza-Lopez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concealment constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cuellar-v-united-states due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel money-laundering transportation | Does the Court's holding in Cuellar v. United States, Require more than a finding of concealing something for transportation to show money laundering;… |
| 19-6797 | Hal Mark Kreitman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | business-expenses business-services criminal-activity criminal-liability criminal-offense criminal-procedure employee-liability employee-services employment federal-jurisdiction legal-culpability money-laundering payment-structure | Does an employee's facilitation of a criminal offense, by providing services to a business engaged in criminal activity, make the employee guilty not … |
| 19-6606 | Ryan T. Root v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-errors double-prosecution due-process ineffective-counsel law-and-fact merger-doctrine miscarriage-of-justice money-laundering plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | I. WHETHER CUMULATIVE ERRORS OF LAW AND FACT LED TO A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AND A CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION? II. WHETHER A DEFENDANT MAY BE CONVICTED… |
| 19-5466 | James Michael Farrell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-defense criminal-defense-lawyer criminal-prosecution drug-distribution-organization due-process money-laundering willful-blindness | In the context of a criminal prosecution of a criminal defense lawyer who was charged with functioning as the "consiglieri" of a drug distribution org… |
| 18-1585 | Kassim M. Nagi v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-06-27 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 8th-amendment controlled-substances cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-time-offender lockyer-v-andrade money-laundering proportionality proportionality-test racketeering sentencing solem-v-helm | 1. A sentence, even within range, is excessive when it imposes punishment grossly disproportionate to the severity of the evidence, or constitutes not… |
| 18-9001 | Steven P. Reed v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | campaign-finance due-process fair-notice federal-power federal-prosecution mcdonnell-v-united-states money-laundering state-campaign-finance-law state-regulation wire-fraud | In Louisiana, the only body of law regulating state campaign finance expenditures (a) a political campaign The holding of a public office is vaguely d… |
| 18-8824 | Darren Gonzales v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis money-laundering plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing | After the Court's decision in Cuellar v. United States, does a defendant who merely parrots the language of the concealment money laundering statute s… |
| 18-7579 | David L. Price v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-enterprise drug-conspiracy drug-distribution due-process felon-in-possession heroin-conspiracy money-laundering restitution sentencing straw-purchaser | Question not identified. |
| 18-7247 | In Re Dennis Roger Bolze | 2019-01-07 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review money-laundering plea-bargain plea-bargaining | Question not identified. | |
| 18-7231 | Mark J. Avery v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial good-faith good-faith-defense money-laundering specific-intent trust trustee-liability wire-fraud | Where the defendant, trustee of a private trust charged with wire fraud and money laundering based on his non-disclosure and misspending involving tru… |
| 18-7143 | Derian Eidson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1956 18-usc-1956-a-3 criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-prosecution government-sting money-laundering proceeds-definition specified-unlawful-activity statutory-interpretation | Whether the criminal prohibitions against money laundering contained in 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1) based on financial transactions that "in fact involvel]… |
| 18-6772 | Donovan Grant v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | IFP | appeals appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process financial-transaction guilty-plea money-laundering plain-error plain-error-doctrine specified-unlawful-activity trial-court | The First Circuit affirmed a conviction for money laundering based on a financial transaction that was a different financial transaction from the one … |
| 18-5877 | Levi Lapp Stoltzfoos v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | cash-deposit civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-mens-rea due-process financial-institution financial-institutions mens-rea money-laundering overbreadth overbroad-statute statutory-interpretation | Is 18 Pa. C.S. § 5111(a)(8) unconstitutionally overbroad where the statute criminalizes the depositing of lawfully acquired cash into financial instit… |
| 18-5157 | In Re Jose Luis Arevalo | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice cause-and-prejudice-doctrine certificate-of-appealability drug-crimes due-process eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment jurisdiction money-laundering reasonable-doubt | WHETHER THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT WAS VIOLATED IN THE CASE OF AREVALO, BECAUSE HIS PROSECUTION FAILED TO PROVE BEYOND A REASONABLE… |