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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6856 | Jose O. Maes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2026-02-19 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment jury-instructions motion-to-suppress plain-error search-and-seizure | THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED PLAIN ERROR IN GIVING STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTIONS THAT - WHEN READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH ONE ANOTHER:- PROVIDED INCORRECT OR… |
| 25-6702 | Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process nichols-precedent plain-error sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation | Did the lower courts commit plain error requiring summary reversal by reinterpreting the elements of 18 U.S.C. § 2250, (construed by the unanimous Sup… |
| 25-6354 | Osric Tyrone Daise v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure plain-error punishment revocation sentencing supervised-release | Whether the district court committed plain error in revoking Mr. Daise's supervised release pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e) when the court's expressed… |
| 25-6300 | Anthony Jones v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-violations criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance plain-error structural-defects | I. Whether structural constitutional defects in indictments should be reviewed under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52's plain error standard when… |
| 25-6241 | Vincent Gerald Garcia v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-procedure jury-unanimity plain-error sixth-amendment vicar-prosecution | Whether a district court commits plain error and violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a unanimous jury verdict when it fails to give a spec… |
| 25-5998 | Shadon Demetric Edwards v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | firearms-offense guilty-plea harmless-error plain-error statutory-interpretation structural-error | Whether errors under Erlinger v. United States, 602 U.S. 821 (2024) are structural errors, or whether they are subject to harmless or plain error revi… |
| 25-5963 | Cesar Edgardo Castillo-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines | Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, 589 U.S. 169 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference… |
| 25A379 | Edin Anael Solis-Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split guilty-plea plain-error plea-colloquy rule-11 substantial-rights | Whether, under plain-error review, courts properly consider a defendant's failure to object to a Rule 11 plea colloquy error when determining if that … | |
| 25-5791 | Raymond White v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review charging-instrument criminal-procedure plain-error plea-review presentence-report | Whether, in conducting plain-error prejudice review of a plea taken in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, an appellate court may rely… |
| 25A204 | Jairo Arnaldo Jacome v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure fourth-circuit jury-instructions plain-error rico-conspiracy substantial-rights | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5383 | Oscar Barrios v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-discretion plain-error | Whether the absence of a binding, on-point decision of either this Court, or of the reviewing court of appeals, is enough to preclude the potential fo… |
| 25-5342 | Raymond Arthur Verrill v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard | Some sentencing judges routinely assert that they would have selected the exact same sentence regardless of any error in applying the Sentencing Guide… |
| 25-5117 | George P. Naum, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances jury-instructions medical-purpose mens-rea plain-error subjective-intent | In Ruan v. United States, 597 U.S. ___ (2022), this Court answered the question on whether a physician alleged to have prescribed controlled substance… |
| 25-5013 | Tawhyne M. Patterson, Sr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review firearms-conspiracy jury-instruction plain-error predicate-offense substantial-rights | A jury returned a general verdict finding Tawhyne M. Patterson, Sr., "guilty" of violating 18 U.S.C. §924(o) where only one of the two predicate offen… |
| 24-7247 | Tamika Seay v. Department of Justice, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error probable-cause substantive-rights | 1. What do the litigant and accused do when the state court and the appellant court says two different things? 2. Whether procedures the United State… |
| 24-7109 | Justin Miles Ness v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence-standard judicial-discretion jury-instruction plain-error temporal-scope | In this case, there was trial evidence presented regarding a bevy of days, times, and different implements in which the accused allegedly possessed fi… |
| 24-7081 | Michael Galluzzo v. Robin K. Edwards, Champaign County Treasurer | Ohio | 2025-04-28 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-requirement judicial-authority jurisdiction oath-of-office plain-error standing | 1. As a matter of Law, did the court commit plain error when it failed to adhere to the Constitutional requirement of an Oath of Office for persons ap… |
| 24-7011 | Donald Turner v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review de-novo-review plain-error rule-12 second-amendment sentencing-proceeding | Whether the standard for appellate review of a Second Amendment claim raised before a sentencing proceeding and decided on the merits by the district … |
| 24-6823 | Thomas Caves v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-review criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute plain-error second-circuit | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by applying its plain error standard to affirm the judgment of conviction and … |
| 24-6615 | Gregory P. Damm v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure federal-sentencing hearsay plain-error revocation-proceeding supervised-release | Can a federal supervised release defendant can ever obtain relief on plain error for the erroneous admission of hearsay in a revocation proceeding? |
| 24-6572 | Victor Rivera v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review breach-of-agreement plain-error plea-agreement second-circuit sentencing | 1. Did the Second Circuit err by requiring Petitioner to object with specificity at sentencing and identify a particular provision of the plea agreeme… |
| 24-6242 | Kent Booher v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anders-brief appellate-review criminal-procedure ex-post-facto plain-error substantial-rights | I. Did the Court of Appeals err when it failed to address the issues raised by the appellant after his appellate counsel filed an Anders brief and mov… |
| 24-6052 | Terius Thomas, aka Terius Brown, aka Terry Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict judicial-review plain-error prejudice-standard sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | Whether the Eleventh Circuit has created a new exception to Molina-Martinez's plain error prejudice standard which conflicts with the general rule tha… |
| 24-5968 | Brian Adkison v. Kelly Morriss, Acting Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2024-11-14 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance jury-trial plain-error strickland-standard | 1. This Court should grant certiorari to clarify that the content prong/proof of prejudice prong of the Strickland V. Washington Standard relative to… |
| 24-5951 | Manuel Moya v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge felon-ban firearm-possession plain-error second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Because the restriction contained in 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g)(1) implicates the right to bear arms and lacks historical analog, is the lifetime ban of poss… |
| 24-5947 | Ismail Salaam v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-08 | Denied | IFP | courtroom-closure judicial-review plain-error sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure | At trial, the district court committed structural error by closing the courtroom in the middle of trial during the adult victim witness's testimony, w… |
| 24-5819 | Oscar Robinson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure plain-error plea-agreement sentencing substantial-rights | When a criminal defendant demonstrates that, but for the plain error raised on appeal, his sentence as to each of two separate counts would be differe… |
| 24-58 | Lisa Gindi v. New York City Department of Education | Second Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | ada ada-violation civil-rights eeoc eeoc-retaliation employment-discrimination plain-error retaliation state-law timeliness whistleblower-protection workers-compensation workplace-harassment wrongful-termination | 1. The first question presented is which court could have jurisdiction in improving laws keeping an employee from being terminated for having reported… |
| 24-5047 | Pedro Terrazas v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-counsel constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-prejudice jury-selection plain-error rule-431b trial-court-error | Was Defendant 'Prejudiced' And Denied His Constitutional Right To The Effective Assistance Of Appellate Counsel On [Direct-Appeal] For Failing To Rais… |
| 24-5030 | Lani Lucas Limane, aka Lukasz Chad Limane v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-identity-theft criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error identity-theft indictment indictment-variance plain-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy predicate-offense rule-11 | Was it plain error for a District Court to convict Petitioner on his plea of guilty to a crime never charged in the governing Indictment? When the su… |
| 23-7819 | LaShonda O'Neill v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion alleyne-v-united-states drug-quantities fifth-amendment harmless-error judicial-fact-finding plain-error sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | 1). Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it failed to employ the Plain error analysis to review, de novo, the District Court's abuse … |
| 23-7682 | Daniel Loyola, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearms plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bruen | I. Mr. Loyola pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(o), which criminalizes the transfer or possession of a machinegun. On appeal, Mr. Loyola att… |
| 23-7670 | James Edward Young v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation | I. Mr. Young pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922( g)(1), which criminalizes the possession of a firearm by anyone previously convicted for a f… |
| 23-7565 | Juan Aguiera-Guzman v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-reasoning mitigation-arguments plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion silent-record | Does the holding in Molina -Martinez apply to non -Guidelines calculation sentencing errors, such as the clear Rule 32 violation here? If not, how doe… |
| 23-7430 | Timothy Edward Peterson v. James Salmonsen, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-rights due-process fairness judicial-fairness plain-error procedural-integrity summary-judgment willful-blindness | Plain Error; Summary Judgment; Willful Blindness; Abuse of Discretion; Fairness; Integrity and Public Reputation of Judicial Proceedings. |
| 23-7421 | Demarcus Deon Staples v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation | I. Mr. Staples pleaded guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 922( g)(1), which criminalizes the possession of a firearm by anyone previously convicted for a… |
| 23-7419 | Warren Ledominique Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation | Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1). |
| 23A941 | Rafael Cardona, Sr. v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-04-19 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-procedure forfeiture plain-error rule-12b8 waiver | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7277 | Benny Stewart v. Tom Green, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-rights fairness judicial-fairness judicial-integrity plain-error summary-judgment willful-blindness | Plain Error; Summary Judgment; Willful Blindness; Abuse of Discretion; Fairness; Integrity and Public Reputation of Judicial Proceedings; Ends of Just… |
| 23-7204 | Sean L. Hagins v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation court-discretion criminal-procedure defense-counsel-ineffectiveness habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plain-error-review pro-se pro-se-litigation sentencing | Did the lower court have the obligation to correct an illegal sentence, brought to its attention, regardless of the passage of time? Did the lower … |
| 23-7174 | Richard Lee David Brown v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure defense-instruction drug-convictions due-process evidence jury-instructions plain-error prior-convictions propensity-evidence | 1. Whether the admission of two prior drug convictions for the purpose of arguing in closing that "[t]he defendant possessed that crack cocaine, and h… |
| 23-7100 | Robert Merritt v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-review criminal-law due-process life-sentence plain-error RICO rico-statute sentencing | Whether Merritt's life sentence under RICO statutes violated Apprendi, and is plain-error reverse warranted. |
| 23-6900 | Bryan Reshad Hill v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure federal-rules fifth-circuit jury-verdict plain-error presentence-report rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Does a sentence twice that authorized by the jury's verdict constitute plain error? This Court's decision in Rosales-Mireles suggests so, but recent F… |
| 23-6680 | Mark Mayo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error rule-52(b) structural-error | Does a clear or obvious structural error always, or at least ordinarily, require relief under the plain-error standard of Federal Rule of Criminal Pro… |
| 23-6674 | Terry Eugene Hambrick v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-proceedings plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review standards-of-review supervisory-power | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT, IN EXPANDING THE CRITERIA REQUIRED BY PLAIN ERROR REVIEW ON APPEAL, HAS SO FAR DEPARTED FROM THE ACCEPTED AND USUAL COURSE… |
| 23-6596 | Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | board-of-immigration-appeals child-status-protection-act criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review fair-sentencing-act immigration-law plain-error priority-date retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 23-6441 | Marc Hernandez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure integrity-of-courts judicial-integrity plain-error structural-error substantial-rights | 1. The district court excluded the public, including family members, from the courtroom for the entirety of jury selection. Petitioner's counsel faile… |
| 23A579 | Deonte Marques Curry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review final-judgment plain-error preservation-of-error rule-52b sua-sponte | Does the exception to the contemporaneous-objection rule in Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) apply to claimed errors arising from a district court sua sponte am… | |
| 23-6130 | Sylvia Hofstetter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-standard ruan-v-united-states sixth-circuit | 1. On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated the opinion of the Sixth Circuit affirming Petitioner Sylvia Hofstetters convictions and remanded for furth… |
| 23-6122 | Courtney Newman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-v-united-states | On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated Petitioner Newman's conviction in light of Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370, 213 L. Ed. 2d 706 (2022) an… |
| 23-6120 | Demecia Shontres Washington v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | character-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony jury-bias plain-error profile-evidence | Whether the district court plainly erred by admitting expert testimony about the common characteristics of a particular type of offender, also known a… |
| 23-6116 | Cynthia Clemons v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-v-united-states sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent | On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated the opinion of the Sixth Circuit affirming Petitioner Cynthia Clemons' convictions and remanded for further pr… |
| 23-6062 | Holli Womack v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses jury-instructions plain-error ruan-standard sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent | On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated Petitioner Womack's conviction in light of Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370, 213 L. Ed. 2d 706 (2022) an… |
| 23-6058 | Liberty Anne Walden v. Jeremy Howard, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony judicial-error misconduct plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion trial-procedure witness-credibility | I. Did the trial court plainly error by allowing Dr. Mohr to testify outside the realm of her expertise thereby providing testimony to the ultimate is… |
| 23-6005 | Ehab Sadeek v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process plain-error procedural-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-wooden | In the admitted absence of established circuit precedent, was it plain error for the appellate court to affirm Petitioner's 405-month sentence based o… |
| 23-6002 | Justin Del Rio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review plain-error statutory-interpretation | This appeal concerns a challenge to the enforceability of a $5,000 fine under 18 U.S.C. § 3014. Petitioner, JUSTIN DEL RIO, submits the Fifth Circuit … |
| 23-5927 | Katerin Martinez-Alberto v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure cross-examination defendant-rights due-process evidence jury-instructions plain-error self-incrimination testimonial-evidence testimony | 1. Does display of a defendant's body part (a foot) to the jury constitute testimony that subjects the defendant to cross-examination? 2. In a multi-… |
| 23-5925 | Isaac Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 21-u.s.c.-§-851(c)(2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review predicate-offense prior-conviction rule-52(b) rule-52b sentencing-enhancement waiver | Does a criminal defendant waive Rule 52(b) plain error review pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851(c)(2) by failing to argue before the trial court that a cons… |
| 23A391 | Bernard Gadson v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Presumed Complete | administrative-law circuit-split kisor-deference loss-calculation plain-error sentencing-guidelines | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5896 | Frank Richardson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | §2255-motion 924(c) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process indictment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction | Did both the District Court and Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate Petitioner's constitutional rights by denying his motion to Vacate, Set aside, … |
| 23-5788 | Roberto Buendia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review davis fifth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review rosales-mireles sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent | Whether the standard the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals applied for determining if the sentencing Guidelines' error in Buendia's case was "plain" conf… |
| 23-5779 | Donovan Romo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review | Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,… |
| 23-5776 | Andrea Lamont Medlock v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure federal-authority imprisonment-review judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness revocation sentencing-review sentencing-standards standard-of-review supervised-release | Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness? |
| 23-5734 | Lawrence Flack v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-waivers constitutional-rights double-jeopardy guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel plain-error plea-agreement | Whether Appellant counsel Anders brief was inadequate were evidence exist that Appellant Constitutional rights were violated, double jeopardy rightsI.… |
| 23-5666 | Jeremy Aswegan v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure government-objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review | I.WHETHER PLAIN ERROR REVIEW APPLIES WHEN A DEFENDANT OPPOSES A GOVERNMENT' OBJECTION TO A SENTENCING ENHANCEMENT? II.WHETHER THERE WAS INSUFFICIEN… |
| 23-5629 | Rene Rigoberto Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-20 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-indictment fifth-circuit plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi | Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(n). |
| 23-5627 | Ronald Rene Deleon, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum plain-error revocation sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release | Whether application of a mandatory minimum term of supervised release following a revocation amounts to plain error? |
| 23-5177 | Kenneth Ragan-Armstrong v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release | Whether the district court plainly erred in imposing special conditions of supervision without explaining why such conditions were necessary or approp… |
| 23-5172 | Jose Antonio Deleon-Juarez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split plain-error plain-error-review plea-agreement prosecutor-breach prosecutorial-breach sentencing substantial-rights | Under plain error review, does a prosecutor's breach of a plea agreement affect a defendant's substantial rights unless the record contains evidence t… |
| 23-5095 | Marland Maynor v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge federal-statute plain-error second-amendment standing | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) is facially unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. First subsidiary question: Whether the plain-error standard … |
| 22-7847 | Colum Patrick Moran v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence judicial-precedent plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a conviction predicated on insufficient evidence can meet the plain error standard in the absence of explicit statutory language or on point, … |
| 22-7660 | Damon L. Buford v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act fifth-amendment judicial-factfinding occasions-clause plain-error predicate-offenses sixth-amendment | I. Whether a defendant's Armed Career Criminal Act sentence may be affirmed when the lower court fails to properly apply this Court's occasions clause… |
| 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… |
| 22-1097 | Don Fitzgerald Hancock v. United States | District of Columbia | 2023-05-10 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error religious-freedom religious-garment sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Petitioner was convicted of second degree murder based largely on the testimony of the sole witness to the killing, who placed Petitioner at the scene… |
| 22-7500 | Safara Echo Shortman v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | continuing-offense controlled-substances-act criminal-charging distribution drug-distribution plain-error plea-bargaining possession-with-intent possession-with-intent-to-distribute statutory-interpretation | 1. Does 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) permit the Government to charge a continuing offense of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance base… |
| 22-7352 | Samuel Jesus Avila v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rule plain-error precedent second-amendment standing | In Henderson v. United States, this Court held that "it is enough that an error be plain at the time of appellate consideration" to meet the second pr… |
| 22-7272 | Christopher Ernest Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure elements-of-crime factual-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining rule-11 sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-supreme-court | Where the record identifies no conduct that matches the clearly established and uncontested elements of the crime of conviction, is the district court… |
| 22-7235 | Adam Chism v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2023-04-06 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence interest-of-justice plain-error sentencing trial-court | WHETHER CHISM WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN PLAIN ERROR WAS COMMITTED BY THE TRIAL COURT IN IMPOSING AN ILLEGAL SENTENCE AS A MATTER OF LAW AND/O… |
| 22-7186 | Daniel Ray Mann v. Doug Clark, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-04-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct vouching | 1. Are AW "rUiW 2. \ 5 W-eof €_viWv\a: 11 Cjqyw AvAcvVvonW C$tl'*' iytK) fi'tjhA ftcccjnizej 3.5 AW. reWAW process ru^VA preseMeck unier "pWn errur V… |
| 22-6982 | Diogenes De Jesus Sierra v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender-statute circuit-split first-impression first-step-act inchoate-conspiracy mandamus-review plain-error plain-error-standard | WHETHER MANDAMUS REVIEW ON ISSUE OF FIRST IMPRESSION SHOULD HAVE BEEN APPLIED TO CLAIM THAT WAS CREATED BY WAY OF INTERVENING CHANGE OF FIRST STEP ACT… |
| 22-6846 | Christopher L. Corn v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure invited-error judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | Can an appellate court use the invited error doctrine to preclude review of a plainly erroneous sentence that exceeds the statutory maximum sentence a… |
| 22-6704 | Angel Vazquez-Figueroa v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure individualized-assessment judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review plea-agreement section-3553a-factors sentencing sentencing-discretion | Question not identified. |
| 22-6547 | Kashai Jones v. Illinois | Illinois | 2023-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process illinois-supreme-court judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-selection legal-principles plain-error trial-court wainwright-v-witt | 1) Illinois Supreme Court Rule 451 requires the West court and accepts' certain principles which are at the heart of certain oral accepts' certain pri… |
| 22-6359 | Leonid Gershman v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review collateral-consequence conspiracy-charges criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy merger plain-error sentencing sentencing-multiplicity | Isn't it plain error for a court to impose multiple punishments for multiple counts of conviction that for double jeopardy purposes amount to the same… |
| 22-6348 | Douglas James Schneider v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error procedural-violation rule-11 substantial-rights waiver | Whether the court of appeals erred in holding the failure to object to the violation of Rule 11(c)(1) provides dispositive evidence that the violation… |
| 22-530 | Daniel A. Bench v. United States | Armed Forces | 2022-12-08 | Denied | Response Waived | child-witness confrontation confrontation-right court-martial plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct remote-testimony sixth-amendment | Does a prosecutor's in-court lie to secure a witness's testimony constitute misconduct that materially prejudices an accused's Sixth Amendment right t… |
| 22-6192 | Dennis Dean Neff v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review different-outcome judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instruction-error plain-error prejudice reasonable-probability trial trial-procedure unpreserved-claims | In unpreserved claims of jury instruction error, what must an appellant show to demonstrate a "reasonable probability" of a different outcome at trial… |
| 22-6017 | Reginald Eugene Grimes, Sr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit false-testimony perjury plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-hearing | (1) DID THE HONORABLE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA COMMIT "PLAIN AND OBVIOUS ERROR" BY DENYING PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR A C… |
| 22-6013 | Damian Robert Guthary v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-922g criminal-law criminal-procedure guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error rehaif rehaif-error statutory-interpretation | Whether Petitioner satisfies Greer's plain error standard for relief from Rehaif error arising from his guilty plea under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) where the… |
| 22-5657 | Dawud Wilson v. Leon Hill, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-22 | Denied | IFP | and thus warrants Petitioner overcoming a state p appellate-analysis constitutional-issue constitutional-review federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure merits-review plain-error plain-error-analysis state-appeals-court state-procedural-bar | 1. Whether the state appeals court's plain error analysis amounted to a review of the merits, and thus warrants Petitioner overcoming a state procedur… |
| 22-5638 | Hector Martinez-Robos v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mandatory-minimum-sentences mens-rea plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether an instructional error is "plain" for purposes of Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) when the charge to the jury is erroneous under an opinion of this … |
| 22-5599 | Denzell Russell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | 1. Is the Sixth Circuit's application of plain error review under Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) in conflict with this Court's decisions? 2. Have the courts … |
| 22-5567 | Lamar Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-waiver waiver | 1. The question presented is whethe r sentencing issue is waived where the Defendant raises, but drops an issue as part of a sentencing or subject to… |
| 22-5490 | Nicholas Wukoson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 11th-circuit appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure clisby-v-jones davis-v-us federal-civil-procedure judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-review remand | Question 1 Whether it is acceptable for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the 11th Circuit to depart from its accepted and usual course of judici… |
| 22-5365 | David Steve Elias v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum plain-error retroactivity rule-11 sentencing | I. After Mr. Elias's plea but before his sentencing, the First Step Act amended § 924(c)(1) to clarify that the consecutive mandatory minimum sentence… |
| 22-5326 | Juan Samuel Rodriguez-Huitron v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-review limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantial-rights | This Court in Molina-Martinez v. United States advised that courts of appeals may order a limited remand to assess the impact of clear error on the de… |
| 22-5212 | Jonita Desirrae Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonableness reasonableness sentencing supervised-release | Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness, as United States v… |
| 22-5204 | Ramon Belducea-Mancinas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-conflict controlled-substance drug-trafficking federal-drug-conviction fifth-circuit plain-error sentencing-guidelines | Ramon Belducea-Mancinas was sentenced as a career offender based on pre-2018 federal convictions for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. In December 2… |
| 22-5125 | Mark A. Hill v. Ohio | Ohio | 2022-07-19 | Denied | IFP | 26(B)-application appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense plain-error post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process transcript | 1. Whether the 26(B) application for reopening proceeding was adequate and fundamentally fair in order to determine if appellate counsel was deficien… |
| 22-5137 | Clifford Raymond Salas v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process factual-errors plain-error prosecutorial-argument sentencing sentencing-variance tenth-circuit-review | Did the Tenth Circuit wrongly hold that the district court did not plainly err, where (a) the prosecutor argued that a factually untrue reason support… |
| 22-5035 | Irving Lisboa-Cupely v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice plain-error | Whether the Eleventh Circuit District Court deemed petitioner's due process of law under the Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by to issue a certific… |
| 21-8274 | Melvin Martinez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining plea-hearing virtual-proceedings | In light of the reduced reliability of virtual procedures employed during the pre-vaccine period of the COVID-19 pandemic, was the "reasonable probabi… |
| 21-8196 | Cody Andrew Anderson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonable reasonableness sentencing supervised-release | Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness, as United States v… |
| 21-8098 | Rocky Christian v. Florida | Florida | 2022-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | anders-review appellate-procedure appellate-review fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction plain-error self-defense self-defense-instruction sixth-amendment | Did the Fifth District Court of Appeal for the State of Florida conduct an adequate review of the record pursuant to Anders v. California 386 U.S. 738… |
| 21-8090 | Angelo C. Pearson, II v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-claim constitutional-claims equitable-remedies equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus merits-review plain-error procedural-default state-prisoner | 1) Considering that federal habeas courts maintain their power to fashion equitable remedies that allow for review and correction of otherwise barred … |
| 21-8033 | Jesus Francisco Fernandez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-06-02 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-cause plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions | Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(c)(3) provides that certain pretrial motions are "untimely" if not raised by the deadline set by the district co… |
| 21-8030 | Andre Marcus Buchanan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a career-offender criminal-procedure due-process plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness sentencing | WHETHER MR. BUCHANAN'S SENTENCE IS UNREASONABLE BECAUSE IT IS GREATER THAN NECESSARY TO ACCOMPLISH THE GOALS OF 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a). WHETHER PLAIN … |
| 21-7997 | Benjamin Green Robinson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion cocaine-trafficking criminal-procedure evidence judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion motion-in-limine motion-to-suppress plain-error prior-conviction | (1) Whether the lower courts abused their discretion in granting the Government's motion in limine to admit into evidence, Petitioner's prior State co… |
| 21-7944 | Linda A. Petralia v. American Express National Bank | New Hampshire | 2022-05-23 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion breach-of-contract civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process plain-error res-judicata superior-court | 1. Is it plain error when the N.H. Superior Court abused discretion and when it allowed for the malicious litigation of a second, same-named breach of… |
| 21-7927 | Lamar Reese v. Richard Bowen, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-05-19 | Denied | IFP | citizenship-misrepresentation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence fair-trial plain-error polygraph polygraph-evidence | X stipulated into a polygraph polygraph results S'housed Obv/ouS error and did not Comp /y Jurth Ohio e V ' dence Rule fOSL (c) . But th&re ouas no Ob… |
| 21-7876 | Matthew Alexander, III v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-05-16 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure motion-to-suppress plain-error suppression-motion waiver | When a defendant files a motion to suppress, then raises a new argument to support suppression in the court of appeals, is the new argument waived abs… |
| 21-7725 | Jeffrey Ndungi Sila v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appointed-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings plain-error plain-error-standard pro-se-motion summary-affirmance waiver | Whether the Fifth Circuit proceedings in petitioner's case "so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings," Sup. Ct. R. 1… |
| 21-7693 | Kenneth R. Heddlesten v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections | Tenth Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | IFP | appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus plain-error rule-60b4 timeliness | How does the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals policy of reviewing plain error only prevent appellate counsel from "raising all claims of error in a … |
| 21-7701 | Francisco Rosales Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court extraordinary-compelling-reasons judicial-discretion molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit plain-error remand remand 21-7700" rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sentencing-law sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation Whether a district court may consider nonretroacti | When should a case be remanded for resentencing under the plain-error standard of review if the district court failed to announce its calculation of t… |
| 21-7645 | Alimamy Barrie v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure federal-appeals federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review plain-error procedural-default re-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines successive-filing | Should an Error be Corrected in a Motion under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 52b, when the Conditions of US v. Olano are met, even if the I… |
| 21-7632 | Carlos Gotay-Guzman v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | application-note criminal-history criminal-history-points federal-jurisdiction first-circuit-decision plain-error plain-error-standard puerto-rico puerto-rico-convictions sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Did the First Circuit err when it held Mr. Gotay-Guzman could not establish plain error regarding the assessment of 2 criminal history points for his … |
| 21-7625 | Jonathan Scott May v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court enhancement federal-sentencing judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines | 1. Did the district court plainly err when applying an enhancement under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2G2.2(b)(5)? |
| 21-7351 | Miguel Angel Cruz-Polanco, aka Luis Hernandez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure federal-sentencing plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines | I- wheter the Federal SeNten cing Guidelines Manvel Reguire a Plea oF Guilty and PoiNt ReductioN three guarantee a ? For accePtaNCe OF ResPoN sability… |
| 21-7327 | Tina Carol Ortega v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error probation probation-officer sentencing separation-of-powers | 1. Did the district court plainly err when it delegated to a probation officer the authority to determine the duration of a residential treatment prog… |
| 21-7236 | Joseph Crocco v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-03-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender categorical-approach circuit-conflict circuit-split controlled-substance-offense plain-error sentencing-guidelines unsettled-law | Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it held that the district court's erroneous determination that Petitioner was a career offender, based on Peti… |
| 21-7157 | Richard Lucas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split cocaine cocaine-definition controlled-substances criminal-arrest criminal-procedure plain-error probable-cause statutory-interpretation | 1. If a state statue's definition of "cocaine " differs from the federal definition of "cocaine" based on the plain, unambigu ous language of the sta… |
| 21-6860 | Lanny Jay Lyerla, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law court-correction due-process harmless-error judicial-error manifest-injustice plain-error procedural-fairness witness-testimony | Oua aoAr©/\ court cao^z-5 a Uirivtle$.s err^<r +© become c< is 4^ere £>r -Ke <^^^;t_+o_a^L 4o "k'te cojrf aryj Uxye 4liK ^Uuvn ^rr^r corr^ crt<xi_3 >©… |
| 21-6542 | Juan Trujillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-discretion limited-remand plain-error remand-standard sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum substantial-rights | This Court in Molina-Martinez v. United States advised that courts of appeals may order a limited remand to assess the impact of clear error on the de… |
| 21-816 | Melvyn Gear v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | appellate-procedure burden-of-proof criminal-law due-process firearms greer-v-united-states legal-status plain-error rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | This case presents two questions for review. 1. In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court held in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. §… | |
| 21-6382 | Askia Mustafa Raheem v. Benjamin Ford, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | IFP | brain-damage cause-and-prejudice criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus incompetency plain-error seizure-disorder | 1 Whether the lower courts violated this Court's incompetency and "right to evidentiary hearing" habeas law when they summarily denied a hearing on in… |
| 21-6390 | Marcial Carrillo-Serna v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-error guidelines-calculation molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | When the district court fails to calculate the guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh… |
| 21-6347 | Justin Dwight Sholley-Gonzalez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process intimate-partner-violence plain-error rehaif-error restraining-order second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a new trial based on plain error is required where the defendant maintained at all times during his pre-Rehaif prosecution that the state cour… |
| 21-6323 | D'Arde Lee Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure escape halfway-house plain-error sentencing u.s.s.g.-2p1.1 | Whether the court of appeals failed to properly apply the plain error analysis to the question of whether the sentencing court erred by failing to gra… |
| 21-690 | Rodney Earl Cannady, aka Camp Earl v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-09 | Denied | career-offender cocaine-base-offense criminal-sentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act plain-error retroactive-amendment retroactivity sentencing-reduction | Did the district court error by denying defendant Cannady relief pursuant to the "First Step Act of 2018" retroactive, which made the "Fair Sentencing… | |
| 21-470 | Eric Lee Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rule-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-standard plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | Whether an error can be "plain" within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) based on established legal principles, or whether an er… | |
| 21-5801 | Carlos Benitez Penalosa v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice plain-error plea-agreement sentencing-error | Did the Ninth Circuit err when it failed to find that a sentencing error can amount to a "miscarriage of justice" allowing appellate review even if th… |
| 21-5804 | Kenneth Randale Door v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency judgment-of-acquittal jurisdiction plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states | Is review of a claim that the evidence was insufficient to establish the knowledge of status required by Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (201… |
| 21-5723 | Juan Manuel Pardo-Oseguera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure plain-error presentence-report safety-valve sentencing sentencing-reduction statutory-minimum weapons-enhancement | A defendant in a federal criminal case, under the appropriate circumstances, is eligible for a reduction of 2 offense levels and to be sentenced witho… |
| 21-5687 | Darrell Hochhalter v. Jason Clendenion, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process false-evidence impeachment plain-error recent-fabrication witness-impeachment | 1.) As some jurisdictions have rules regarding recent fabrication and others do not; does "recent fabrication " rise to the same significance as "fals… |
| 21-5641 | Conoly Freddie Franklin, III, and Andre Anthony Franklin, aka Tommy Martin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | charging-document circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review sufficiency | Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(3) bar reviewing the sufficiency of a charging document absent a showing of good cause as the Ninth Circ… |
| 21-5615 | Carlos Mora v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-preservation criminal-justice due-process importation mens-rea methamphetamine-importation plain-error plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | 1. Where counsel raised an issue in written Objections to the Addendum to the Presentence Report filed with the district court, and never withdrew or … |
| 21-5620 | Raymond L. Crum v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split plain-error prison-term rehabilitation rehabilitation-consideration sentencing-reform-act tapia-precedent tapia-v-united-states | In Tapia v. United States, 564 U.S. 319, 321 (2011), this Court held that the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 "precludes federal courts from imposing or… |
| 21-5548 | Brent Anderson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure double-counting firearm-possession plain-error reckless-endangerment sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines vehicular-flight | I. Did the district court plainly err when it applied a 2-level enhancement for "reckless endangerment during flight" after already applying a 4-level… |
| 21-5543 | Louis Matthews v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-charge federal-law indictment judgment-acquittal ninth-circuit plain-error | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in upholding a conviction for a conspiracy other than the conspiracy charged in the indictment, on a theory raised for th… |
| 21-5463 | Christopher Jonell Tyler v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review due-process fourth-circuit government-breach judicial-review plain-error plea-agreement sentencing | Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the "interests of justice" and this Court's ruling in Puckett v. United States, 556 U.S. 129, 143, 129 S. Ct. 1423… |
| 21-243 | James Warner v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-18 | Denied | bribery-statute constructive-amendment criminal-procedure indictment indictment-modification jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error substantial-rights | Whether the constructive amendment of an indictment by an erroneous jury instruction, stating that conspiracy counts alleged agreements to violate a d… | |
| 21-5410 | Joydeth Robinson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure court-discretion district-court judicial-remand legal-procedure limited-remand plain-error substantial-rights | Whether courts of appeals should order a limited remand to determine whether a plain error has affected a party's substantial rights when that party h… |
| 21-222 | Ferrell Walker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-16 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-3583(k) constitutional-provision double-jeopardy fifth-amendment plain-error sentencing | 1. Whether, on plain error review, the defendant's right not to be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the … |
| 21-5202 | Esteban Figueroa-Larrea v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | contested-element criminal-procedure district-court jury-charge jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-scope plain-error standard-of-review trial-court-error trial-procedure | Whether the district court plainly erred by misadvising the jury about the legal scope of the sole contested element at trial. |
| 21-5149 | Leobardo Barraza v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | eighth-amendment irreparable-corruption juvenile-sentencing miller-v-alabama plain-error sentencing-guidelines | In view of the foregoing, this petition presents this issue: Whether a federal court commits plain error by anchoring a sentence for a juvenile's cri… |
| 21-5141 | Terrance Tyrell Edwards v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commercial-sex-trafficking conclusive-presumption criminal-procedure due-process interstate-commerce jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error | 1. Is evidence that establishes only the use of cellular telephones, the Internet or hotels by a defendant, without any evidence of how the use of the… |
| 21-5062 | Ricardo Burgos v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights-restoration criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing felon-in-possession plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states | In Light of this Court's holding in United States v. Gary, (20-444) (S.Ct. June 14, 2021) regarding plain error under Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.C… |
| 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… |
| 21-5045 | Colvis Jerrod Higgins v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alcohol-prohibition criminal-procedure drug-treatment due-process judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-conditions special-conditions substance-abuse supervised-release | I. Did the district court plainly err when it imposed a special condition of supervised release requiring Mr. Higgins to abstain from alcohol and to a… |
| 21-5049 | Yancey J. Myers, aka Yam v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fatal-variance judicial-integrity plain-error reversible-error standard-of-review | When the ex post facto clause is breached and the error is obviously plain, does this Constitutionally forbidden error require a reversal of a crimina… |
| 21-5014 | John Bruce Fifield, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-history criminal-procedure judicial-notice plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Whether a court of appeals may consider judicially noticeable facts presented for the first time on appeal in deciding whether an error is plain? |
| 20-8439 | Francisco Coto-Mendoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-review guideline-range judicial-discretion objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments | Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, __U.S.__, 140 S.Ct. 762 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails t… |
| 20-8369 | Clarence Clark v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI as well as this Court's precedent, when it denied Mr. Clark's c… |
| 20-8103 | Sayda Powery Orellana and Manuel Porras Salas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure forfeiture jury-instructions plain-error procedural-default waiver | A. Whether agreement to a set of joint jury instructions as directed by a court order is a waiver completely precluding review of instructional errors… |
| 20-8063 | Darius Theriot v. Bob Vashaw, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-18 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | case-by-case-review constitutional-error federal-constitutional-error federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus merits-review plain-error state-court-ruling unpreserved-claim | Whether a state court's ruling that an unpreserved claim of federal constitutional error does not meet the requirements of the "plain error" standard … |
| 20-8036 | Antonio Kevin McKoy v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | continuing-criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure drug-penalties fourth-circuit-review jury-instructions plain-error sentencing-enhancements special-verdict | WHETHER THE JURY SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO RETURN A SPECIAL VERDICT FORM ADDRESSING ALL ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF CONTINUING CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE (CCE), IN THA… |
| 20-8002 | Jason Andrew Cavazos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing plain-error relevant-conduct sex-offense u.s.s.g.-§2g1.3(b)(4) | Whether the court of appeals failed to properly apply the plain error analysis to the question of whether the sentencing court erred by including a tw… |
| 20-7889 | Anthony Sistrunk v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-29 | Denied | IFP | plain-error plain-error-review public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment structural-error sua-sponte-closure voir-dire waller-v-georgia | In the context of direct appeal, when the district court sua sponte closes the courtroom for the entirety of voir dire and fails to make findings spec… |
| 20-7859 | Denver Lee v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-sufficiency due-process felon-in-possession jury-finding jury-trial knowledge-of-status old-chief-stipulation plain-error rehaif substantial-rights | This Court has made clear that the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights of a person accused of a crime to due process and to a trial by an impartial jury … |
| 20-7837 | Sam Bradford v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2021-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence miss-code-ann-47-314 murder plain-error sentencing trial-court | WheTher PeTiTionER's (Sam Bradford), Due Process of Law when plain error CommiTTed by The Trial CourT in was imposing SenTence for The naToral life a … |
| 20-1461 | Jairo Acosta, Police Officer for the City of Los Banos v. Tan Lam, as Successor-in-Interest to Decedent Sonny Lam, aka Son Tung Lam | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights due-process evidence officer-credibility plain-error police-use-of-force ptsd ptsd-evidence qualified-immunity reasonable-officer threat-assessment use-of-force | 1. Is it plain error to admit evidence of a police officer's remote PTSD diagnosis to challenge the officer's credibility and prove he was more likely… |
| 20-7673 | Atticus Sliter-Matias v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law fifth-amendment plain-error self-incrimination | Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's judgment of conviction and sentence by failing to find that the dis… |
| 20-7686 | Lonnie Alonzo Howard v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency felon-in-possession plain-error sufficiency-of-evidence trial-record | 1. Whether this case should be held pending this Court's decision in Greer v. United States, No. 19-8709, which will determine if a circuit court of a… |
| 20-1369 | Mohammed Jabateh v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-03-31 | Denied | appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-criminal-rule federal-criminal-rule-52(b) plain-error plain-error-rule sentencing statutory-construction | Does the plain error rule permit affirmance of a federal criminal conviction and sentence based on conduct that concededly does not violate the charge… | |
| 20-7604 | Christopher Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-31 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea indictment mens-rea plain-error rehaif | I. When an indictment fails to allege an essential mens rea element, may the appellate court assume the indictment still alleges a federal offense and… |
| 20-7580 | Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing individualized-circumstances judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines | whether Formal objection after pronouncement of Sentence is necessary to invoke appellate review of Sentence (Ground Four) and Sentence Prejudice the … |
| 20-7549 | Shane Arnold v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-24 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure defense district-court due-process evidence evidence-introduction knowledge-of-status plain-error rehaif-standard Rehaif-v-United-States trial-error | Whether a defendant satisfies the final two prongs of plain error review for a Rehaif v. United States, __ U.S. __, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), trial erro… |
| 20-1319 | Victor Manuel Solorzano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-22 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-review plain-error search-and-seizure unreasonable-search | For the first time on appeal, Mr. Solorzano raised a Fourth Amendment claim objecting to a state order to place a tracking device on his vehicle. He c… |
| 20-7486 | Carlos Guzman-Merced v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2106 appellate-remedy appellate-review criminal-procedure indictment indictment-dismissal judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review remedial-authority statutory-interpretation | Whether a Court of Appeals can, and should, order an indictment that omits an element of the crime dismissed as part of the appellate remedy given the… |
| 20-7473 | Ivan Dario Obregon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines | Are unforeseeable sentencing mistakes beyond the scope of federal appeal waivers? |
| 20-7408 | Trystan Keun Napper v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-interpretation plain-error standard-of-review statutory-interpretation | Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) permits courts of appeals to grant appellate relief in the absence of error shown by binding preceden… |
| 20-7410 | Edward McCain v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | case-remand certiorari concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-judgment jones-v-mississippi judicial-review juvenile-offenders plain-error sentencing supreme-court-procedure | I. Whether an invalid conviction affects a criminal defendant's substantial rights and must be vacated on plain error review, irrespective of whether … |
| 20-7405 | Jorge Rangel v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | direct-appeal drug-cases first-step-act mandatory-minimum plain-error rehaif | 1. Does the provision of the First Step Act, Pub. L. 115-391, 132 Stat. 5194 (Dec. 21, 2018), that amended 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1) to reduce mandatory-m… |
| 20-7414 | James Innocent v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | IFP | circuit-court criminal-procedure greer-v-united-states judicial-review plain-error rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record | Whether when applying plan-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters … |
| 20-7372 | Terry Lee Ockert, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error rule-12 rule-52 suppression-motion | Whether, under current Rule 12, after a defendant has made a timely motion to suppress evidence that did not include a particular argument, should the… |
| 20-7360 | Emmanuel Feaster v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1), "[i]t shall be unlawful" for certain individuals to possess firearms that have traveled in interstate… |
| 20-7300 | Robbull Bryant v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plain-error rehaif rehaif-error second-circuit standing | Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI and this Court's decision in Rehaif when it denied Bryant's co… |
| 20-7250 | Eunice Husband v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plain-error supervised-release united-states-constitution | The fortcommitted Federal hule of Criminal Procedure 52 (b) Plain Error I. Bias and Abandonment of judicial role by Distict Judge Appellate Court fa… |
| 20-7197 | Roberto Elias Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court due-process maximum-term plain-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether plain error resulted from the district court erroneously advising the client during plea colloquy that the maximum term of imprisonment was 10… |
| 20-7183 | Shameke Walker v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c armed-career-criminal-act crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery identification-evidence jury-instruction plain-error violent-crime | 1. Should the Court grant certiorari to review whether Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b), categorically fails to constitute "a crime of violence"… |
| 20-7145 | Rasheik Amond Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-12 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-offense jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error | Whether a defendant who was found guilty after a jury trial to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g), is automatically ent… |
| 20-7120 | Alfred Montgomery,III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-statute-interpretation felon-in-possession generic-burglary plain-error rehaif sentencing-enhancement state-burglary-offense | 1. Whether a state burglary offense is categorically broader than generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act when it can be committed withou… |
| 20-7072 | Jean Denis Paul v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-court double-jeopardy fairness-integrity felon-in-possession plain-error plain-error-review rehaif revocation substantial-rights supervised-release supreme-court-decision trial-record | Question One: This Court held in Rehaif v. United States , 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) , that in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g), 924(a)(2), the go… |
| 20-7036 | Emmanuel Ravell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-04 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | automatic-relief circuit-split criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-possession guilty-plea plain-error rehaif structural-error | Petitioner asks this Court to grant review to determine whether a guilty plea to possessing a firearm as a felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) a… |
| 20-7019 | Kourtney Williams v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury jury-finding mens-rea petit-jury plain-error | Does Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) grant an appellate court discretion to independently find an essential element of an offense for which the defendant was n… |
| 20-6966 | Charles Eloys Johnson, aka Adam White v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c appellate-review conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-procedure hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error substantial-rights | Charles Johnson was convicted of two counts of possessing a firearm during a crime of violence. 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). The district court instructed the … |
| 20-6942 | Juan Jose Camarena v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3583 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment gang-affiliation liberty plain-error sentencing-conditions supervised-release vagueness | Is this condition of supervised release a violation of the Fifth Amendment due process right against vague conditions of release and/or a greater depr… |
| 20-6862 | Montecarlos Gant v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review constitutional-error due-process guilty-plea plain-error prejudice reversal substantial-rights | (1) When it is undisputed that a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause, is automatic revers… |
| 20-6817 | Jerry Lee Quinn v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split codefendant codefendant-testimony evidence-admission fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-statement plain-error prior-consistent-statements prosecutorial-misconduct tome | I. THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI BECAUSE THE FIFTH CIRCUIT'S MISAPPLICATION OF THE PLAIN ERROR DOCTRINE TO BAR REVIEW OF QUINN'S CLAIM THAT THE P… |
| 20-6743 | Neil Dussard v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | Whether the Supreme Court should correct the Second Circuit's split from other Circuit Courts in addressing the recurring question of the validity of … |
| 20-6714 | Jevonne Martell Coleman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review constitutional-error due-process guilty-plea plain-error prejudice reversal substantial-rights | (1) When it is undisputed that a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause, is automatic revers… |
| 20-6688 | Arthur Tyrone Lee, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-23 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether, on plain error review and following this Court's decision in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), a defendant's stipulation at tr… |
| 20-6656 | Jose Armando Bazan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fifth-circuit plain-error role-adjustment sentencing | Whether the Fifth Circuit properly applied the plain error standard of review in determining that petitioner failed to establish plain error regarding… |
| 20-6657 | Ezer Rosembel Barrientos-Osorio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutes plain error affecting substantial rig for a defendant likely to be deported criminal-procedure deportation plain-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release | Where a district court commits plain error by failing to follow Section 5D1.1(c) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines by imposing, without expla… |
| 20-6569 | Quincey Frye v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-12-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review felon-in-possession judicial-proceedings jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit trial-record | Should the Court of Appeals have looked beyond the trial record to Frye's presentence investigation report to decide that there was no plain error tha… |
| 20-6526 | Kendesia Juinize May v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buy-sell-defense buy-sell-transactions conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-procedure judgment-of-acquittal jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error rule-29 | 1. Whether the trial court committed plain error in refusing to grant a "buy-sell" defense jury instruction when the government's evidence of a conspi… |
| 20-6510 | Lawrence W. Ford v. Anita L. Budde | Nevada | 2020-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process judicial-discretion judicial-integrity judicial-review plain-error pro-se | In United States v. Olano, this Court held that, under the fourth prong of plain error review, "[t]he Court of Appeals should correct a plain forfeite… |
| 20-6388 | Joel Latrent Fletcher v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-19 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | I. Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States… |
| 20-6372 | Willie E. Ashe, Jr. v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights counsel-assistance geders-precedent geders-v-united-states plain-error presumptive-prejudice right-to-counsel sequestration sequestration-order sixth-amendment trial-interruption | Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals erred in failing to reverse petitioner's convictions pursuant to the Sixth Amendment to the United S… |
| 20-6373 | Cordarrius Bonds v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession knowledge-of-status plain-error plea-bargaining sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-precedent structural-error | I. When a defendant pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), and the plea was neither knowing no… |
| 20-6347 | Christopher Mikelinich v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-11-17 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-possession knowing-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-agreement plea-bargaining rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-elements | Where a defendant claims his plea was not knowing and intelligent because he was unaware of all the elements of the offense, does it matter whether he… |
| 20-6363 | Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence appellate-review civil-procedure due-process magistrate magistrate-recommendation plain-error plea-agreement report-and-recommendation statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court commits plain error by not waiting the fourteen days allotted by 28 U.S.C. § 636 prior to adopting a magistrate's Report and … |
| 20-6305 | Roosevelt Leon Cooper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea plain-error sentencing sentencing-error | Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitle… |
| 20-6291 | Christopher Stacy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-statute guilty-plea mens-rea plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitle… |
| 20-6213 | J. Santos Mondragon-Benitez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-authority imprisonment-revocation plain-error reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release | Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness? |
| 20-6226 | Carlos Maez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings jury-instructions jury-verdict olano-standard plain-error plain-error-test sixth-amendment standard-of-review | The Sixth Amendment requires that no person be convicted of a felony except on a finding by a jury that the government has proved its case beyond a re… |
| 20-6188 | Joshua Chiazor Ezeka v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2020-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona miranda-warning plain-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | I. The Fifth Amendment, in coordination with Miranda v. Arizona, requires police officers to notify suspects of their right to remain silent and their… |
| 20-6192 | Jamal Aikeem Hutchinson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearms guilty-plea henderson-v-morgan plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation | In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that "in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and § 924(a)(2), the Government must prove both that the d… |
| 20-6129 | Matthew R. Jones v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-10-26 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review due-process jury-instructions plain-error | The Fifth Amendment requires that no person be held to answer for a felony unless on indictment of a grand jury or without due process of law. The Six… |
| 20-6098 | Lamont Owens v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure fairness-integrity-public-reputation intervening-supreme-court-decision judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error plain-error-review substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record | Whether plain-error review for failure to instruct on an element of the offense, base upon an intervening U.S. Supreme Court decision, allows courts t… |
| 20-5958 | Jimmy Kit Fields v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alcohol-abuse criminal-sentencing due-process liberty-deprivation plain-error statutory-reasonableness supervised-release | I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine if it was plain error for a court to impose, without explanation, a condition of supervised… |
| 20-5959 | Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-split commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | I. Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States… |
| 20-444 | United States v. Michael Andrew Gary | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-07 | Judgment Issued | Amici (5) | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea plain-error plain-error-rule plea-bargaining plea-colloquy substantial-rights | Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitled t… |
| 20-5854 | Trumaine Muller v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses intervening-act jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error proximate-cause | I. THE TRIAL COURT COMMITTED PLAIN ERROR IN FAILING TO INSTRUCT THE JURY THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD TO PROVE MENS REA AS TO EACH DRUG OFFENSE AND THE RES… |
| 20-401 | Devan Pierson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-09-28 | Denied | circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights | 1. What test, if any, should be used to determine whether a constructive amendment impacted a defendant's substantial rights under Rule 52(b)? 2. Wha… | |
| 20-5816 | Jose Antonio Acevedo-Lemus v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error probable-cause search-warrant suppression-motion waiver | 1. When a defendant raises a new theory on appeal in support of a suppression motion filed in district court—in this case, a lack of probable cause fo… |
| 20-5742 | David Tachay Heard v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure cross-racial-identification due-process eyewitness-identification federal-standard jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error standard-of-review | 1. Should federal district courts be required to give a cautionary jury instruction, upon a defendant's request, to guide the jury's evaluation of eye… |
| 20-5639 | TJ Cain, aka Thomas J. Cain v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-09-09 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure involuntary-confession miranda-rights plain-error pretrial-motion suppression-of-evidence | When a criminal defendant does not timely file a pretrial motion raising a claim covered by Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(8), is his claim … |
| 20-5558 | Anthony Smith v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession firearms jury-instruction jury-instructions knowledge-element mens-rea plain-error prohibited-possession | 1. Whether the district court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury that the evidence must establish both that appellant Anthony Smith… |
| 20-5407 | Dominique Mack v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process evidence jailhouse-informant mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing plain-error sentencing statements-against-interest | 1. Should the Court should grant certiorari in order to consider whether this Court's jurisprudence concerning the admission of statements against int… |
| 20-5346 | Jerry Lee Thompson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing substance-abuse-treatment supervised-release | I. Does a district court commit reversible plain error when, in a sentence revoking supervised release, it imposes a condition of supervised release r… |
| 20-5326 | Jose Alonso Garcia v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment career-offender categorical-approach due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Were Mr. Garcia Due Process Rights violated under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment when he was: A.) Incorrectly sentenced under U.S.S.G. 4Bl-2(c) Te… |
| 20-5300 | Victor Santana-Gonzalez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure | Does plain error apply to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 32(i)(4)(a)(ii) when the error is caused by the sentencing court |
| 20-5238 | Wilbert Hayes v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court circuit-court-of-appeals criminal-procedure extra-record-material extrarecord-material olano-analysis olano-standard plain-error post-rehaif | Whether, on a post-Rehaif claim, the Circuit Court of Appeals should not consider extrarecord material in its assessment of the fourth prong of the Ol… |
| 20-5216 | Brent Anderson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-30 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fact-review federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure gvr judicial-procedure plain-error questions-of-fact standard-of-review | Are questions of fact cognizable on plain error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b)? [Petitioner requests GVR in light of Davis v. U… |
| 20-5037 | Bruce Zachary Pugh v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-07-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | criminal-procedure fairness-integrity judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error public-reputation substantial-rights supreme-court-precedent trial-record | (1) Whether plain-error review for failure to instruct on an element of the offense, based upon an intervening U.S. Supreme Court decision, allows cou… |
| 20-1 | Nicholas E. Davis v. United States | Armed Forces | 2020-07-09 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review court-martial criminal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error supreme-court-precedent waiver | Whether the failure to object to a pattern jury instruction erroneously describing the elements of the offense constitutes affirmative waiver such tha… |
| 19-8911 | Lee Montez Thompson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states district-court due-process habeas-corpus plain-error pleading-defendant reasonable-probability rehaif-v-united-states sentencing | I. Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light… |
| 19-1443 | S. O., Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Son, B. O. v. Hinds County School District, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-01 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fifth-circuit-review judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-review standing supreme-court-precedent unpreserved-argument unpreserved-arguments | 1. Whether Fifth Circuit has again refused to follow the United States Supreme Court Per Curiam as found in Charles Earl Davis v. United States, cites… |
| 19-8787 | Wayne A. G. James v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-objection circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admission forfeiture plain-error trial-record waiver | If an attorney mistakenly remains silent and fails to object to inadmissible evidence, a later challenge is forfeited and subject to review only for p… |
| 19-1362 | Jason Laut v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-06-11 | Denied | circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights | The Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment demands "that a court cannot permit a defendant to be tried on charges that are not made in the indictmen… | |
| 19-8562 | Alexander Rosenblatt v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court paroline-analysis plain-error restitution total-loss victim-loss | Does a district court's failure to determine the total loss to the victims and its failure to conduct a Paroline analysis before entering an order of … |
| 19-8566 | John Charles Thompson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggregate-imprisonment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process imprisonment plain-error revocation sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Was it plain err for the Western District of North Carolina to not aggregate Mr. Thompson's multiple revocation active imprisonment sentences then red… |
| 19-8502 | David Beverly v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | admissibility criminal-procedure facebook facebook-evidence fair-trial other-crimes-evidence plain-error plain-error-doctrine prior-bad-acts prior-conviction rap-lyrics | 1. To determine whether petitioner was denied a fair trial when the State presented irrelevant evidence that he posted on Facebook violent rap lyrics… |
| 19-8412 | Lenroy McLean v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review forfeiture plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | QUESTION I Should the Second Circuit Court of Appeals exercise it's discretion to correct the forfeited error of Petitioner's miscalculated guideline… |
| 19-8389 | Edward Yarbrough, Jr. v. J. Sullivan, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bill-of-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-error federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct remarks-authentication reversible-error trial-court | 1. Whether a prosecutor's uninvited inflammatory remarks made in summation, absent a timely/explicit curative instruction, so infected the trial with … |
| 19-8376 | Carlos M. Guerrero-Castro v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure enterprise essential-element judicial-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error RICO rico-conspiracy | Whether a district court commits plain error by refusing to properly instruct the jury that the existence of an actual enterprise is always an essenti… |
| 19-1218 | Marcus Lee Robinson v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-04-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-trial plain-error prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-prejudice | Petitioner is an African-American man who was tried for sexually assaulting a white woman. During the prosecutor's opening statement, she gratuitously… |
| 19-8237 | Fernando Romero-Salgado v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error plain-error-review sixth-amendment substantial-rights | Does Rehaif error per se affect a defendant's substantial rights under the third prong of plain-error review? |
| 19-8097 | Jay Eugene Reed v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-rule-52(b) criminal-rule-52b evidence-rule-103 expert-testimony forfeiture plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-procedure | Under Evidence Rule 103 and Criminal Rule 52(b), once a party informs the court of the substance of the evidence at issue, and the court rules, counse… |
| 19-8056 | Brian Alan Matalka v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administration-of-justice criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutes fifth-circuit-review indigency indigent-status plain-error plain-error-review special-assessment standard-of-review | Did the Fifth Circuit's cursory review of the district court record reached the wrong conclusion that Matalka was not indigent under the standard pros… |
| 19-7943 | J. H. v. E. R. S. | Colorado | 2020-03-11 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review child-custody constitutional-facts constitutional-liberty de-novo-review due-process equal-protection parental-rights plain-error structural-error termination termination-of-parental-rights | 1. Whether, in order to ensure that basic constitutional guarantees define the framework of proceedings to terminate the fundamental constitutional li… |
| 19-7942 | Daniel Dale Parsons v. R. Blades, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adverse-witness co-defendant-guilty-plea co-defendant-statement compulsory-process compulsory-process-clause confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination harmless-error plain-error waiver | I. Has the accused's right of confrontation been converted from the prosecutor's duty under Confrontation Clause into the accused's privilege under th… |
| 19-7879 | Luis D. Rivera-Carrasquillo, et al. v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1959 18-usc-924 categorical-approach crime-of-violence first-degree-murder penal-code plain-error puerto-rico-penal-code racketeering sentencing-enhancement violent-crimes-in-aid-of-racketeering | 1. Is first degree murder, as broadly and idiosyncratically defined under the 2004 Puerto Rico Penal Code: (a) included in the category of "murder" as… |
| 19-7854 | Howronda Overstreet v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure Did Ms. Overstreet's waiver of appeal unenforceabl Did the district court commit plain error when it due-process guidelines guidelines-calculation plain-error plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver | QUESTION 1: DID MS. OVERSTREET PRESERVE HER RIGHT TO APPEAL THE DISTRICT COURT'S INAPPLICABLE GUIDELINES CALCULATION ? QUESTION 2: WAS MS. OVERSTR… |
| 19-7817 | Maria de Lourdes Acosta v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court judicial-procedure plain-error pre-sentence-report prejudice procedural-error sentencing | When the district court fails to either order a Pre-Sentence Report or make explicit on-the-record findings as to why a Pre-Sentence Report is unneces… |
| 19-7663 | Ryan Douglas LaSalle v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review categorical-analysis congressional-definition criminal-procedure federal-regulations guidelines guidelines-miscalculation plain-error regulatory-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-categorical-analysis taylor-v-united-states | Can a court of appeals successfully avoid undertaking plain error review of a Guidelines miscalculation by relying on a federal regulatory definition … |
| 19-7685 | Dominic Lindsey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-18 | GVR | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-errors federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error plain-error-review precedent sentencing standard-of-review | Does plain-error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) include factual errors? |
| 19-7675 | Alonzo Lamar Johnson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus incarcerated incarcerated-petitioner plain-error pro-se pro-se-litigant section-2255-motion standing | WHETHER the us court of Appeals for the Third circuit improperly denied petitioner's request for a certificate of Appealability by failing to grant hi… |
| 19-7630 | Paris Hollingshed v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fairness-integrity judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error public-reputation substantial-rights supreme-court-precedent trial-record | (1) Whether plain-error review for failure to instruct on an element of the offense, based upon an intervening U.S. Supreme Court decision, allows cou… |
| 19-7446 | Enrique A. Echeverria-Benitez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-circuit illegal-reentry plain-error retribution sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | On direct appeal, Mr. Echeverria-Benitez argued his twenty-seven month sentence for illegal reentry after removal was unreasonable. Mr. Echeverria-Ben… |
| 19-7173 | Kenneth Rose v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | address-discrepancy affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-fact plain-error search-warrant suppression | 1) Reasonable jurists would debate that appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to raise a plain error of fact material to Leon's third exceptio… |
| 19-7112 | Gabriel Galindo-Serrano v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | IFP | confession confession-suppression court-of-appeals criminal-procedure delay magistrate-judge motion-to-suppress plain-error standard-of-review waiver | Whether the standard of review on appeal of an untimely motion to suppress a confession, based upon the failure to bring the defendant before a magist… |
| 19-7116 | Eddie Estuardo Galindo-Mendez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review | Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review? |
| 19-7059 | John Kenneth Schiefer v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning plain-error procedural-error respect-for-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure | Did the district court plainly procedurally err when it selected and imposed sentence based on its desire to promote the defendant's respect for the l… |
| 19-6972 | Tarsis Guillermo Sanchez-Mora v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice plain-error rico-conspiracy statutory-interpretation | The lower court's ruling fail ed to correct a miscarriage of justice by allowing a conviction to stand, where the trial court's jury instruction on th… |
| 19-6825 | Jorge Guerrero v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error pretrial-motions rule-12 rule-52 suppression-motion | Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(c)(3) provides that certain pretrial motions are "untimely" if not raised by the deadline set by the district co… |
| 19-6747 | Josue Emmanuel Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-25 | Denied | IFP | allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default sentencing | 1. Whether allocution error is subject to plain error review in the absence of objection? |
| 19-6554 | Brandon Gregory Leal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apportionment criminal-procedure judicial-procedure paroline-analysis paroline-v-united-states plain-error proximate-cause restitution victim-compensation | Whether failure to conduct a proximate cause and apportionment analysis as required by this Court's decision in Paroline v. United States, 572 U.S. 43… |
| 19-6527 | Ruben Patrick Valdes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim criminal-history evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sentencing-guidelines | 1. WAS TRIAL COUNSEL CONSTITUTIONALLY INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO INVESTIGATE, FACT-CHECK, AND OBJECT TO ERRONEOUS INCLUSION OF JUVENILE PRIORS DURING … |
| 19-6534 | Saad Bahoda v. Sherman Campbell, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure Bunkley-v-Florida conflict-of-interest effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing forged-affidavits ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions michigan-law People-v-Triplett plain-error self-defense sixth-amendment witness-conflict | I. Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment Right to the effective assistance of counsel at trial due to counsel's failure to request a self-defense … |
| 19-6431 | Jose Armando Bazan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-29 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure fact-question guidelines plain-error role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Petitioner, JOSE ARMANDO BAZAN, was charged with and pleaded guilty to a single count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine. The District Co… |
| 19-6318 | Damon Tracy Locke v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-sentencing drug-statute drug-statutes mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Is the Eighth Circuit interpretation and application of drug statutes as qualifying offenses for career offender status in opposition to Mathis v. Uni… |
| 19-6320 | Nalen Pierre Williams v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922g1 criminal-law criminal-statute due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession legal-status mens-rea plain-error reasonable-doubt rehaif-precedent rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2… |
| 19-6177 | Valerie Flores v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court government-admission government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing seventh-circuit supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine | I. By Disregarding the Government's Failure to Brief a Waiver Argument, Did the Seventh Circuit Errantly Look Past the Government's Waiver of Waiver a… |
| 19-433 | Patrick Emanuel Sutherland v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Denied | 18-usc-1512 false-statements grand-jury nexus-requirement obstruction-of-justice obstruction-of-justice-18-usc-1512-c-2 plain-error plain-error-review prosecutorial-misconduct | 1. When a defendant makes false statements to a United States Attorney's Office in an effort to persuade that Office to decline prosecution, does the … | |
| 19-6127 | Steven Justin Villalona v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest counsel-concession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings law-of-the-case mootness plain-error presumption-of-prejudice substantial-rights | (1) What effect, if any, does a concession made by the U.S. on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim have on the court's ability to ajudicate the… |
| 19-6099 | Khalil Stafford v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2019-10-01 | Denied | IFP | appeals appellate-review due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error time-barred | 1. If the evidentiary hearing was based upon the challenges ' being time barred, yet the Appellate Court concurred that the fourth and fifth convicti… |
| 19-6113 | Jose Armando Bazan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-01 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review cocaine-conspiracy criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing downward-adjustment fact-question guidelines plain-error plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | Petitioner, JOSE ARMANDO BAZAN, was charged with and pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. T… |
| 19-6079 | Guillermo Vega-Botello v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-procedure limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing statutory-maximum substantial-rights | Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 19-6073 | Glen T. Jones, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-interpretation plain-error structural-error | 1) SUpEme COuRt ViEWS As to hAMlESSnES of ChAm ERRoR in stAtEcRimiNAl tal .foR puRpOSE of SubSEQuENt+ hAbEAS CORpUS REVEW UNd BeEChT v.AbRAhAMSON 507U… |
| 19-6034 | Tomas Liriano Castillo v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appointments-clause attorney-general-succession-act civil-procedure federal-government federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-vacancies-reform-act notice plain-error procedural-forfeiture rule-52b social-media social-media-notice | Can announcements made via the President's personal social media be sufficient to put litigants against the Federal Government on notice so that litig… |
| 19-6050 | Jose Vizcarrondo-Casanova v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c)(3)(a) categorical-approach circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure davis-precedent plain-error puerto-rico-law sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-davis | 1) Whether' murder under Puerto Rico law categorical approach fails to qualify as a "crime of violence" under remaining force clause of 924(C)(3)(A)… |
| 19-5959 | Loretta Fergerson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 appeals clear-error clear-error-standard federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-to-vacate plain-error plain-error-standard post-conviction-relief standard-of-review | Did the Appeals Court err in applying clear error rather than plain error standard when deciding District Court's denial of Petitioner's 2255? |
| 19-5962 | David Tjader v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine | I. By Disregarding the Government's Failure to Brief a Waiver Argument, Did the Seventh Circuit Errantly Look Past the Government's Waiver of Waiver a… |
| 19-5963 | Jesus Yugopicio-Rojas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-consistency criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-review molina-martinez non-calculation plain-error sentencing-guidelines | Does failure to calculate the applicable Sentencing Guidelines attract the same protocol for plain error as set out in Molina-Martinez v. United State… |
| 19-5949 | Marcelino Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-16 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining plea-negotiations rule-11 substantial-rights | 1) When a district court violates Rule 11(c)(1) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure by interfering in plea negotiations, can a defendant ordina… |
| 19-5767 | Virgil Lee Bailey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea harmless-error judicial-standard plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency sullivan-v-louisiana | I. Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review, or whether, under Sullivan v. Louisiana,… |
| 19-5722 | Moses Shepard v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 30-70-day-clock circuit-split constructive-amendment due-process grand-jury-clause indictment-clause plain-error speedy-trial-act subsequent-indictment superseding-indictment | Whether (as the Eleventh Circuit holds), under § 3161(d)(1), a "subsequent replacement indictment " "restarts the clock regardless of how the prior in… |
| 19-5597 | Randall B. Lord v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law agency-deference agency-discretion agency-regulation bitcoin-exchange chevron-deference civil-procedure due-process money-transmission plain-error regulatory-deference statutory-interpretation | I. Is it a plain error for the District Court to regulatory deference to an agency's regulation before identifying ambiguity in the plain meaning of a… |
| 19-5563 | Ian Alexander Bowline v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions timeliness waiver | Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12 no longer provides that the consequence of not timely making a required, pretrial motion is a waiver. Can an app… |
| 19-5545 | Todd Allen Wheeler v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-08-09 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error severance sixth-amendment trial-joinder | WHETHER MR. WHEELER WAS DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS UNDER THE 14TH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY THE TRIAL COURT'S… |
| 19-5465 | Isela Alejandra Campos v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines | When the district court fails to calculate the Guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh… |
| 19-149 | Fort Bend Mechanical, Limited, et al. v. Gil Ramirez Group, L.L.C., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-31 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-review federal-rules-civil-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error rule-50 sufficiency-challenge sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to follow its own precedent when declining to conduct a plain error review of the sufficiency challenge due to inc… |
| 19-5403 | Randy Charriez-Rolon v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-ineffectiveness criminal-procedure defendant-silence due-process due-process,self-incrimination,plain-error,ineffec first-circuit-review free-speech plain-error prosecutorial-commentary rule-29-motion silence | 1. Whether the First Circuit's op/order affirming Petitioner's sentence and conviction finding no plain error when the United States commented on Pe… |
| 19-5411 | Kirk Patrick Keshler v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency standard-of-review sullivan-v-louisiana | Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review, or whether, under Sullivan v. Louisiana, 50… |
| 19-5420 | Kendrick Terrell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error prior-charges sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | Whether the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights were violated by plain error made in calculating Petitioner's sentence, and the numerous ways that Pet… |
| 19-5421 | Charles Earl Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-31 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-standard legal-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review procedural-review standard-of-review | Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review? |
| 19-138 | First State Community Action Agency v. Tamra N. Robinson | Third Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure invited-error jury-instructions plain-error trial-court waiver | 1. Whether a party that first raises an issue on appeal has per se waived plain error review because it did not raise the issue in the trial court or … | |
| 19-5272 | Pereneal Kizzee v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-appeals criminal-procedure-error-correction criminal-sentencing federal-appeals federal-law felony-offense fifth-circuit firearm-possession guidelines-enhancement judicial-discretion judicial-integrity plain-error plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it refused to exercise its discretion to correct the forfeited error that seriously affected the f… |
| 19-5232 | Ricky Ray Malone v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2019-07-18 | Denied | IFP | chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis federal-law harmless-error harmlessness-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-component | 1. Where plain error review includes a built-in prejudice component, is subjecting an acknowledged plain error to a second round of harmlessness revie… |
| 19-5216 | Nicholas Pagliuca v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining rule-11 vonn-v-united-states | Whether the plain error standard of Vonn/Dominguez Benitez applies in the context of violations of Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(b)(1)(N), where the defendant rais… |
| 19-5182 | Geovanny Antonio Loyola-Villegas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-16 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review empirical-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's se… |
| 19-5159 | Quinetta Grant v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | should this Court vacate and remand for reconside was Ms Grant denied her rights under U.S.S.G. § 1 binding-authority criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-sentencing-right-to criminal-procedure-supervisory-power-conviction-se due-process judicial-discretion mail-fraud plain-error right-to-be-present sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-relevant-conduct-scope-of-cr sentencing-procedure Where Ms Grant's sentence was enhanced by attribut Where multiple additional errors affected petition | 1) Where the Court of Appeals failed to consider binding authority holding that a defendant's absence from a material sentencing proceeding constitute… |
| 19-5162 | Frederick Johnson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review plain-error plainly-unreasonable post-revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard supervised-release | What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release? |
| 19-5138 | Jesus Alonso Gonzalez Gonzalez, aka Jesus Gonzalez, aka Jesus Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Roberto Soto v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error procedural-review 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 … |
| 19-5077 | Carlton P. Cabot v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-findings olano plain-error rule-52(b) sentencing-variance standard-of-review | A district court's factual determinations are generally reviewed for clear error. In rejecting petitioner's appeal in this case, the Second Circuit ad… |
| 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 … |
| 18-9790 | Alexander Monzoni v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-calculation guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review for Guideline error as set ou… |
| 18-9703 | Milton Terry Kelton v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER THE HONORABLE JUDGE BRIAN C. WIMES AND THE U.S. ATTORNEY JAMES BOHLING UTILIZE TWO-INAPPLICABLE STATUTORY ENHANCEMENTS ENACTED BY THE UNITED S… |
| 18-9691 | Dwayne Lee Stallings v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32-violations criminal-rule false-statement false-statements federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure obstruction-of-justice plain-error plain-error-analysis sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review structural-error | Whether the Court's plain error analysis is properly applied to violations of Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(1)(A), and, if so, whether such violations are st… |
| 18-9692 | Jody Lanardo White v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review | Whether challenges to the reasonableness of a sentence must be preserved by specific objection? |
| 18-9608 | Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-interpretation plain-error procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review | Does the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with decisions of the Supreme Court in United States v. Molina-Martinez, United States v. R… |
| 18-9365 | Jose Antonio Ramirez-Jaramillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation statutory-range substantial-rights | Whether an error in selecting the defendant's statutory range of imprisonment affects his or her substantial rights within the meaning of Federal Rule… |
| 18-9291 | Adrian Green v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment career-offender criminal-history due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plea-agreement prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-error | Was defense counsel ineffective or deficient in their representation of the defendant? Whether the district court committed reversible plain error in… |
| 18-9233 | Michael Perales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process plain-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure | Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error? Mu… |
| 18-1383 | James M. Hale v. United States | Armed Forces | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response Waived | 10-usc-802 court-martial court-martial-jurisdiction general-verdict judicial-deference jurisdictional-defects jurisdictional-limits legal-sufficiency military-discipline military-discipline-jurisdiction military-law overt-acts plain-error rostker-v-goldberg sufficiency-of-evidence weiss-v-united-states | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in relying on factual sufficiency of the evidence to resolve a question of plain error, where the alleged error … |
| 18-9134 | Joe Clopton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | amending-indictment brady-violation burden-of-proof child-support cps-records criminal-procedure defense-strategy double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence false-allegations grand-jury ineffective-assistance lesser-included-offense medical-records nolo-contendere plain-error sixth-amendment social-worker-testimony | I. WHY WAS THE MEDICAL RECORDS NEVER INTRODUCED INTO EVIDENCE? 2. WHY WAS PETITIONER DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSIST. OF COUNSEL? A VIOLATION OF SIXTH AMENDM… |
| 18-9026 | Arrez Meliton-Salto v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guidelines-range molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error prejudice record-silence sentencing sentencing-guidelines | When the district court fails to calculate the guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh… |
| 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… |
| 18-8869 | Jesse Davenport, aka Draco John Flama v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial plain-error shackling sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Is shackling a defendant during his or her jury trial for no asserted or actual reason proper, and thus not even an "error" under the plain error t… |
| 18-8769 | Hilton Rios-Rivera v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-questions constitutional-review due-process first-impression plain-error plain-error-standard standard-of-review | 1. WHETHER THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES SHOULD REVIEW AND REVERSE THE FIRST CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL'S OPINION HOLDING AN APPELLANT IS WITHOU… |
| 18-1283 | Joseph Montano v. Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response Waived | consent consent-requirement cross-examination double-jeopardy fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-privilege judicial-discretion mistrial oregon-v-kennedy plain-error united-states-v-olano | If the underlying reason for a sua sponte declaration of mistrial was in plain error, does Olano v. United States override the consent requirement of … |
| 18-8632 | Marcos Lopez-Guzman v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion plain-error retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-reduction,18-usc-3582,amendm sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | Whether the United States Court of Appeals committed a clear error denying Appellant's two-level reduction pursuant to § 3582(C)(2) and Amendment 782;… |
| 18-8558 | Jorge Edwin Rivera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release | When a district court imposes a term of supervised release double that of the Guidelines range without first calculating the range or providing an exp… |
| 18-8512 | DaRen Kareem Gadsden v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-integrity judicial-proceedings multiplicitous-sentence plain-error remand rosales-mireles-standard sentencing sentencing-review substantial-rights | In light of Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S.Ct. 1897, 201 L. Ed. 2d 376 (2018), which, states, "[{fJailure to correct plain error that affecte… |
| 18-8349 | Daverne Michael Foy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-waiver civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-proceedings plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights waiver | 1. In Rosales-Mireles, this Court struck down the court of appeals' heightened "shock the conscience" standard for a Rule 52(b) plain error review, an… |
| 18-8331 | Jeffrey Bowers v. Frank Lawrence, Acting Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-separation plain-error | Whether a conflict exists between the holding of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Appellate Court in case at bar where jury separation after d… |
| 18-8314 | Jose Nino-Carreon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion guidelines plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain Guideline error should ordinarily find an effect on the defendant's substantial rights if the district c… |
| 18-8185 | Anthony Alexander Ferrari v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-overbreadth fourth-amendment liberty-deprivation overbreadth overbroad plain-error probation-officer statutory-reasonableness supervised-release vague vagueness | I. This Court should grant certiorari to resolve a split in circuit authority regarding whether it is plain error to require as a condition of supervi… |
| 18-8161 | Kali Lord v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | above-guidelines-sentence appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness | Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error? Mu… |
| 18-8132 | Anthony D. Phillips v. Bonita Hoffner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | adjudication-on-the-merits AEDPA aedpa-standards constitutional-error due-process evidence-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia plain-error plain-error-review sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence | During Petitioner Anthony D. Phillips state appellate court proceedings., the appellate panel addressed several constitutional errors and determined t… |
| 18-8075 | Godwin Oriakhi v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining pro-se-filing strickland-v-washington | Whether Lafler v. Cooper is violated when trial counsel advises a defendant to enter a guilty plea to an indictment that, on its face, violates the Fi… |
| 18-8044 | Lois Brooks v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure government-rights judicial-integrity judicial-proceedings mandatory-minimum plain-error sentencing sentencing-error substantial-rights | in derogation of them may constitute "plain error" under Fed. R. Crim. Pro. 52(b)? If so, did the imposition of a sentence of post-release supervisio… |
| 18-8033 | Luis Alberto Montalvo Borgos v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk | First Circuit | 2019-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-dealer due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure miscarriage-of-justice plain-error Prosecutor-elicited-testimony-about-witness-fear,c Prosecutor-stated-petitioner-was-known-drug-dealer prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony | ISSUE #1: THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE PETITIONER WAS UNREASONABLY SUGGESTIVE CAUSING PLAIN ERROR PP. 5-12 ISSUE 42: THERE WAS PLAIN ERROR WHEN THE PROS… |
| 18-7986 | Maurin Chacon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 794 amendment-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law judicial-review plain-error plain-error-standard rosales-mireles rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-olan | Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 585 U.S. - (2018). Clar - ified the Plain Error Standard in United States v.Olan, 507 U.S. 725, 736 (1993). Does a… |
| 18-7717 | Byrion Demeco Ferguson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 1B1.3 amendment appellate-review constitutional criminal-procedure evidence judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-commission u.s.-sentencing-commission | Whether the trial court committed plain error pursuant to Rule 52(b) by admitting insufficient evidence applied by the preamendment 1B1.3 version of t… |
| 18-7679 | Jeriton Lavar Curry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924(c) appeal-waiver appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction unconstitutional-sentence | Did the Appeals Court err by granting the Government's motion to enforce an invalid appeal waiver, after determining that Currys' issue was non-frivol… |
| 18-7385 | Cheng Le v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | biological-weapons biological-weapons-act commerce-clause constitutional-law-commerce-clause-treaty-power-bi criminal-law-biological-weapons-anti-terrorism-act criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-standard-of-review-plain-error- federalism plain-error standard-of-review treaty-power Whether federalism principles preclude holding Le Whether the Biological Weapons Act 18 U.S.C. §175 | Whether a less demanding standard of review than plain error should be applied where the issue is one of law and defendant gained no possible tactical… |
| 18-7358 | Aaron Ford v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255,ineffective-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error presentence-investigation-report section-2255-motion sentencing | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying to issue a certificate of appealability to review Petitioner's denied motion under 28 U… |
| 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 … |
| 18-7077 | JC Christopher Pulham v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review district-court legal-standard plain-error plain-error-review presumption presumption-of-correctness presumption-of-knowledge sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review | When a district court does not articulate the legal standard it is applying, may an appellate court presume that the district court knew and correctly… |
| 18-7087 | Daniel Lopez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plain-error plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the District Court committed plain error by allowing the prosecutor to commit prosecutorial misconduct by breaching the plea agreement. The Te… |
| 18-7067 | Derrick Christopher Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-law divisible-statute drug-offense modified-categorical-approach plain-error prior-state-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines | WHETHER PETITIONER'S "PRIOR STATE DRUG OFFENSES" QUALIFIED AS ENUMERATED OFFENSES UNDER THE "CAREER CRIMINAM" PROVISION OF THE UNITED STATES SENTENCIN… |
| 18-7004 | Miguel Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights | Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 18-6862 | John Thomas v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states plain-error standard-of-review time-of-appeal time-of-law unsettled-law | (1) When the governing law is unsettled at the time of trial but settled-in defendant's favor by the time of appeals. See: Carpenter v. United States,… |
| 18-6800 | Robert Ryan Powell v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-amendment double-jeopardy fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-instructions jury-unanimity plain-error sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations | Where jury instructions lack the dates and timeframes specified in the indictment, do the jury instructions constructively amend the indictment, and t… |
| 18-6829 | Jimmy Walter Fuentes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights | 1. Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited rema… |
| 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 … |
| 18-6695 | Zafar Mehmood v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review court-interpreters-act due-process judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-standard right-to-interpreter sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-procedures waiver waiver-of-right-to-interpreter | Whether the plain error standard applies to appellate review of a claim that the district court's acceptance of a waiver by defense counsel of his cli… |
| 18-616 | Roger Nepal v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law criminal-procedure de-novo-review direct-appeal Griffith-v-Kentucky plain-error retroactivity standard-of-review substantive-law | Where the Supreme Court has changed the substantive law governing a criminal case that is on direct appeal, must Griffith v. Kentucky be applied to th… |
| 18-6473 | Jeremy Bernard Harrison v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-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 … |
| 18-6391 | Matthew Vaughn Hawks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-disability plain-error sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-reasonableness substantial-rights united-states-v-olano | I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Misapplied Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) and United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725 (1998) by Failing to Grant Relief for Plain… |
| 18-6358 | Alj Hilton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | and Are Plain and Affect Petitioner's Substantial -and-Are-Plain-and-Affect-Petitioner's-Substantial 18-usc-3661 5th-amendment appeal-waiver appeal-waiver,sentencing-guidelines,criminal-histo criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum plain-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights trial-court-error Whether the mandatory five-year minimum sentence u | Whether Petitioner's Appeal Waiver Is Inapplicable to Issues of Trial Court Error in Applying Sentencing Guidelines' Enhancements or in Calculating Cr… |
| 18-6356 | Earl Reyes v. Dale Artus | Second Circuit | 2018-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure-appeal court-of-appeals federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure final-decision frap-rule-24 in-forma-pauperis indigent-appellant indigent-rights motion-to-vacate plain-error standing Whether the court of appeals abused its discretion Whether the court of appeals was correct to requir | WHETHER IT WAS PLAIN ERROR FOR A COURT OF APPEALS TO DENY IN FORMA PAUPERIS RELIEF TO AN INDIGENT APPELLANT WHO LIKE THE PETITIONER IN THIS CASE-WAS I… |
| 18-6307 | Lorenzo Micquell Latimer v. Jeff Macomber, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-record due-process evidence evidence-code harmless-error ineffective-assistance plain-error prior-criminal-record | QUESTION 1: .When UNACCEPTABLE INCUFFICIENT evidence is portrayed upon the Defendant within a criminal case, by way of prior criminal record; does "ha… |
| 18-6271 | Sonny Scott v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness-challenge reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-booker | (1) When—if at all—must a defendant object to the reasonableness of a sentence to preserve that argument for appellate review? (2) What is the proper… |
| 18-6273 | Antoine Davis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fair-trial fifth-amendment government-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sixth-amendment | Whether the Lower Court Misapprehended its Abuse of discretion when the lower court excluded evidence of the Government witness, which evidence was pu… |
| 18-6237 | Jacob L. Smith v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3553 appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process gall-v-united-states plain-error plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-variance | In order to preserve a § 3553(c) challenge to the adequacy of the district court's sentencing explanation, must a party, who is given no opportunity t… |
| 18-6230 | Harvey L. Shoate v. Jason Lewis, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2018-10-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plea-agreement post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing sua-sponte | Question not identified. |
| 18-6222 | Donte Timothy Bacon v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenges class-v-united-states commerce-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure de-novo district-of-colombia-v-heller federal-criminalization federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution firearm-regulation guilty-plea interstate-commerce intrastate-firearm-possession intrastate-firearm-sale plain-error second-amendment standard-of-review statutory-interpretation unconditional-guilty-plea united-states-v-lopez | Consistent with Class v. United States, 583 U.S. _, 138 S.Ct. 798 (2018), are as-applied constitutional challenges to statutes of conviction waived by… |
| 18-6092 | Robert Dion Ables v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-review empirical-analysis empirical-foundation-of-guidelines guideline-2g2.2 judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-of-sentences | I. Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review? II. Whether sentences arising under Guideline 2G2.2 tend to produce substan… |
| 18-5978 | John Robert Register, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plain-error prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | A. Did the court commit a plain error by applying a career offender enhancement to petitioner, even though his prior convictions (to wit: possession o… |
| 18-6006 | Gerson Gonzalez Tovar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions criminal-statute due-process interstate-commerce plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materia ls used to produce child pornog raphy once crosse d state lines at an unspeci… |
| 18-5957 | Raul Arcila v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-841 criminal-procedure drug-statute due-process evidentiary-issues jury-evidence jury-instructions plain-error proximate-cause sentencing-factor unfair-prejudice | Whether the District Court committed plain error by allowing the government to convert a sentencing factor, "resulting in death," under 21 USC §841(b)… |
| 18-5875 | John Vivo, III v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2018-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure plain-error plain-error-doctrine state-court-review statement-of-the-case statutory-exception statutory-interpretation | 1. DID THE STATE COURT OF LAST RESORT ERROR BY DECLINING TO REVIEW THE PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR REVIEW UNDER PLAIN ERROR DOCTRINE THE APPLICATION OF §… |
| 18-5847 | Jaime Shakur Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari-petition chavez-meza circuit-split criminal-procedure en-banc en-banc-review plain-error reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-reasonableness | I. Should this Court hold this Petition until the court below renders its forthcoming en banc decision in United States v. Reyes-Contreras, 892 F.3d 8… |
| 18-5831 | Willie Riley Curry v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 6th-circuit age-of-victim byrd-v-united-states carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gvr plain-error scienter search-and-seizure sixth-circuit-review statutory-interpretation | The Fourth Amendment has continuously been applied to cases like the one here. The Sixth Circuit failed to follow that jurisprudence. Does Carpenter a… |
| 18-5787 | Danyale Sharron Tubbs v. Michigan | Michigan | 2018-08-28 | Denied | IFP | competency competency-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency mental-illness plain-error procedural-default sentencing sentencing-error strickland-standard | WAS MICHIGAN'S APPLICATION OF STRICKLAND V WASHINGTON UNREASONABLE WHERE DEFENSE COUNSEL FAILED TO INVESTIGATE AND PRESNT A COMPETENCY DEFENSE IN LIGH… |
| 18-5797 | Carlos Gutierrez-Torres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-review | The Circuits are split on whether a defendant has to re-object to the district court's explanation of its sentencing rationale in order to preserve th… |
| 18-5682 | Landon Trevor Anderson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment harmless-error plain-error reasonable-suspicion supervised-release supervised-release-conditions | 1. Must searches conducted as conditions of federal supervised release be supported by at least reasonable suspicion? 2. Is the Fifth Circuit wrong t… |
| 18-5618 | Tae H. Chon v. Barack H. Obama, former President of the United States, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness integrity judicial-proceedings plain-error preservation-of-error remand substantial-rights tenth-circuit | Where the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit leaves open the question of whether or not a plain error affects the petitioner's subst… |
| 18-5533 | Brandon Maurice Shannon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-remand plain-error post-conviction-relief retroactivity rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light 2018), an authority that post-dated the opinion below? |
| 18-5397 | Alejandro Parra-Ramos v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure defendant-prejudice due-process government-misconduct judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement plea-agreement-breach prejudice prosecutorial-breach sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-recommendation sentencing-variance upward-variance | Whether a defendant suffers prejudice when the government breaches a plea agreement by calling its agreed-upon recommendation irrational, and the cour… |
| 18-5280 | Patrick Lanier v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings judicial-review manifest-miscarriage plain-error plain-error-review restitution rule-52b sentencing sentencing-error | 1. In Puckett v. United States, 556 US 129, 135 (2009) this Court held that under the fourth prong of plain error review, "[t]he Court of Appeals shou… |
| 18-5188 | James Wilks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553(a) abuse-of-discretion district-court judicial-discretion plain-error plainly-unreasonable revocation revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-factors supervised-release unreasonable-sentence | Did the District Court enter a plainly unreasonable sentence for revocation of supervised release when it did not properly balance the sentencing fact… |
| 18-5161 | Marvin Waddleton, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | aedpa burden-of-proof constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard plain-error pro-se right-to-counsel state-court-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | The plain error of the State of Texas Appeals Courts on direct collateral review. The use of Jackson standard of view in the light most favorable to t… |
| 18-5014 | Marcus Allen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process due-process,equal-protection,brady-violation,2255- equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity petition-for-rehearing plain-error | Did lower court violate petitioner's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment of Equal Protection under the law, when petitioner provided evidence the Go… |