motion-for-acquittal

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24-1057 Jerry Peoples v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure drug-dealing hobbs-act interstate-commerce motion-for-acquittal rule-29-motion 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by affirming the district court's decision to deny Mr. Peoples' Rule 29 Motion for Acquittal where the Government…
23-7725 Jimmie Lee Walton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion allen-charge coercion court-of-appeals criminal-procedure Did the Court of Appeals abuse it's discretion in Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in a directed-verdict double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion jury-instructions mistrial motion-for-acquittal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Did Walton receive effective assistance of counsel? Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in affirming the District Courts denial of the moti…
22-5992 Andre Jenkins v. United States Second Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process joint-defense motion-for-acquittal severance trial-procedure witness-credibility 1. In a case where the proof against petitioner was wholly circumstantial and the eyewitnesses that were necessary to assign his conduct to those circ…
22-5804 In Re David Kevin Lewis 2022-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquittal-standard affirmative-defense civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure motion-for-acquittal statute-of-limitations trial-motion Is the Law of the United States for Statute of limitations a matter of jurisdiction and by Lewis raising the issue in trial as well as filing the tria…
21-5140 Gabriel Elijah Kane Arkinson, aka Daniel Elijahkane Arkinson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-testimony acquittal-standard criminal-procedure due-process evidence motion-for-acquittal ninth-circuit-review rule-29-motion witness-credibility witness-identification In response to Petitioner's third and final motion for acquittal under Rule 29(c) Fed. R. Crim. P. the district court ruled that standing alone the go…
20-8288 Anthony L. Ingram v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1201(a)(1) criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency federal-kidnapping jury-instructions motion-for-acquittal 1. Are the due process rights of a defendant in a criminal case violated when the government fails to present evidence at trial as to each element of …
20-7171 Luis Javier Correa-Figueroa, aka Barney, aka Gordo v. United States First Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-procedure district-court-ruling evidence evidence-exclusion federal-property intent motion-for-acquittal procedural-error self-defense use-of-force (A) WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED A PROCEDURAL ERROR WHEN IT EXCLUDED EVIDENCE THAT PETITIONER WAS SHOT 11 TIMES, AND AS HE WAS TRYING TO EVADE…
20-6465 Damontaze Montrell Tillery v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP convicted-felon criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-guidelines sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's decision to overrule Petitioner's motion for acquittal when the evidence at trial…
20-294 Lamont Kortez Gaines v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process equipoise evidence evidence-standard hobbs-act motion-for-acquittal standard-of-review statutory-interpretation 1. Whether a trial court must grant a motion for acquittal when, in viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, the evidence …
19-8256 Jerry Browdy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judicial-review motion-for-acquittal sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence I. CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED BROWDY'S CONVICTIONS WHERE THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT BROWDY'…
19-7620 Bradley Campbell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce judgment-of-acquittal kidnapping motion-for-acquittal motion-to-dismiss Where there was no evidence that Petitioner used an instrumentality of interstate commerce in furtherance of a kidnapping, whether Petitioner's motion…
19-7080 Stanley Jaboin v. Florida Florida 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,federal-law,supreme failure-to-render-aid federal-law florida-statute-316.193 judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal standard-of-proof statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent I. Petitioner ask did the First District Courts of Appeals apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and un…
18-9465 Beth Galloway v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting criminal-intent criminal-law eighth-circuit evidence evidence-sufficiency financial-transaction financial-transactions insurance-fraud judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial new-trial I. WHETHER A JUDGMENT OF ACQUITTAL SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED ON COUNTS 1 AND 2 BECAUSE THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT MS. GALLOWAY KNEW THAT THE MARTELLE H…
18-9235 Richard McMillan, III v. Florida Florida 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence inconsistent-evidence inconsistent-testimony judicial-discretion motion-for-acquittal motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal petitioner-defense state-evidence trial trial-court trial-court-evidence As to ISSUE I of this application, QUESTION # 1: Can the Trial Court forbid Submission of Evidence at trial that supports Petitioner's Defense, when…
18-6910 Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fraud-allegations judicial-discretion jury-instructions motion-for-acquittal prosecutorial-misconduct rule-29-motion sufficiency-of-evidence I. Whether The District Court Improperly Denied Musa's Rule 29 Motion Because The Government Did Not Properly Present The Case To The Jury And Left Ma…
18-609 Joseph David Robertson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-09 GVR Amici (6) appellate-review clean-water-act criminal-procedure motion-for-acquittal navigable-waters rapanos-v-united-states sackett-v-epa united-states-army-corps-of-engineers-v-hawkes-co void-for-vagueness Petitioner Joseph David Robertson is an elderly Navy veteran who ran a fire fighting support truck business deep in the Montana woods. He dug some wat…
18-6180 Brian Deronceler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence I. CERTIORARI REVIEW SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED DERONCELER'S CONVICTIONS WHERE THE EVIDENCE WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT DER…
18-5885 Kenneth Kennedy Shannon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence heroin-quantity motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence title-iii-wiretap verdict-acquittal 1. Did the trial court err in denying the Petitioner's Motion for Verdict of Acquittal and for New Trial, because the evidence taken in the light most…
18-5855 Derrick Knight v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure brady-violation constitutional-rights effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial withholding-evidence Was Petitioner denied his constitutional right to effective assistance of appellate counsel when his appellate counsel failed to raise an issue of tri…
18-5804 Abdoulaye Diallo v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence fraud indictment-delay insufficient-evidence loss-calculation motion-for-acquittal prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sentencing snap-fraud statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence I.- Whether the District Court failed where did not granted his motion for acquittal because the Government failed to produce sufficient evidence to s…
18-5482 Jose Guadalupe Zepeda-Ramirez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment marijuana-distribution motion-for-acquittal possession-with-intent-to-distribute presumption-of-innocence sufficiency-of-evidence 1. Whether the Presumption of Innocence and Fifth Amendment's Right to Due Process are violated when the district court denies a motion for acquittal …