plain-error-review
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6848 | Dennis Lenin Carranza-Clavel v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | IFP | appellate-review deportable-alien plain-error-review sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Whether a district court violated 18 U.S.C. § 3583(c) and U.S.S.G. § 5D1.1(c) by imposing a term of supervised release on a deportable defendant witho… |
| 25-6563 | Gary Craig Stephens v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | court-of-appeals plain-error-review procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-range supervised-release | 1. Whether a court of appeals may affirm a sentence when the district court never calculated or identified the applicable Sentencing Guidelines range,… |
| 25-6368 | Luis Garza-Gomez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament firearm-possession plain-error-review second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Petitioner Luis Garza-Gomez challenged the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which makes it a crime for a person convicted of a felony to po… |
| 25A203 | Derrick Lorenzo Casey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal drug-offense fifth-amendment plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 24-7304 | Eric Alonzo Windham v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure judicial-participation plain-error-review plea-negotiations safety-valve-eligibility | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's plain error review properly considered the full record under United States v. Davila, 569 U.S. 597 (2013), or wrongly l… |
| 24A1041 | Qinghua Zhang, et al. v. Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka | Tenth Circuit | 2025-04-28 | Presumed Complete | employment-discrimination federal-rule-of-evidence-408 jury-instructions plain-error-review pretext-evidence settlement-negotiations | Question not identified. | |
| 24-7053 | Valente Brito, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari-petition fifth-circuit firearms-conviction plain-error-review second-amendment supreme-court-precedent | Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment under plain erro… |
| 24-6740 | Royel Page v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-03-11 | Denied | IFP | buyer-seller-relationship circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy party-presentation plain-error-review | I. Whether the Seventh Circuit, sitting en banc, erred as a matter of law in holding that, pursuant to Direct Sales Co. v. United States, 319 U.S. 703… |
| 24-6061 | Chadwick Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure fifth-circuit-review firearms-conviction plain-error-review second-amendment | Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that petitioner's argument that his federal firearms-related conviction violated the Second Amendment, both on it… |
| 24-5714 | Gerardo Farias-Contreras v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | circuit-court-variation criminal-procedure government-breach plain-error-review plea-agreement sentencing-recommendation | Does "plain-error review" of a defendant's claim that the government breached a plea agreement focus on the "scope of the Government's commitments" to… |
| 24-5028 | Rafael Cardona, Sr. v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure forfeiture good-cause motion-timeliness multiplicity plain-error-review rule-12 waiver | Before 2014, Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure required certain enumerated types of motions to be filed before trial, and stated that… |
| 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… |
| 23-7419 | 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). |
| 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… |
| 23-7204 | 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 … |
| 23-6674 | 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… |
| 23-6648 | Anthony Christopher Mendonca v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-02-01 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment jury-selection plain-error-review public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment structural-error | The Constitution requires "public" criminal trials. U.S. Const. amend. VI. The First Amendment and Sixth Amendment guarantee the community and the def… |
| 23-6025 | Deunta Finch v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure guidelines plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit | Has the Sixth Circuit erred by creating a novel doctrine that says, to avoid plain-error review, a criminal defendant must object after the sentencing… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 23-5762 | Isaiah Whitefox Redbird v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | where context made the basis of his objection to criminal-procedure evidence-preservation federal-rules-of-evidence plain-error-review preservation-requirement propensity-evidence tenth-circuit | Did the Tenth Circuit incorrectly hold that Mr. Redbird's claim was not preserved, where context made the basis of his objection to exclude the prosec… |
| 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… |
| 23-5116 | Jeremy David Adams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bond-motion continuance continuance-exclusion party-presentation-principle plain-error-review pretrial-detention pretrial-release sixth-circuit-rule speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | (I). Is the Sixth Circuit's new rule, in opposition to 7 other Courts of Appeals - that the protections of Speedy Trial Act 18 USC § 3161(h)(l)(H)'s 3… |
| 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… |
| 22-6704 | 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. |
| 22-5599 | 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… |
| 22-5540 | David Villegas Pereznegron v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings plain-error-review right-to-allocution sentencing sentencing-allocution substantial-rights | Whether the plain and prejudicial denial of the right to allocution is an error that ordinarily warrants correction under the fourth prong of plain-er… |
| 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… |
| 22-5400 | Maurice D. Bell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error-review preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-procedure | Whether an appellate court errs under Fed. R. Crim. P. 51 by applying plain error review to a claim of procedural error brought to the sentencing judg… |
| 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… |
| 21-8109 | Eric Ray Smith v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | or whether the court of appeals should first cons ambiguity contract-interpretation cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure government-as-drafter judicial-construction plain-error-review plea-agreement statutory-interpretation | Whether a reasonable ambiguity in a cooperation or plea agreement necessarily defeats a defendant's claim of breach on plain error review, or whether … |
| 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 … |
| 21-1352 | Vivian Tat, aka Vivian Lnu v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fundamental-rights jury-instructions plain-error-review rogers-error rogers-v-united-states standard-of-review | Does plain error review govern claims of Rogers error on appeal, as the Ninth Circuit held below, or are such claims reviewed for harmlessness beyond … |
| 21-7126 | Quincy Deshan Butler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-15 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | aggravated-offense constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions plain-error-review procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-enhancement texas-law | 1). Wither CjLrVihczJre- APPEALA&XAXTy SHoul D 1W^ GrtAuTtml 3L). WHETHER Due 1WE5S WAS V/I<d(At6D Wfetf Cj)UKlS£L Fazlejs to te&jLEST LESSE/X TWELU… |
| 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… |
| 21-5641 | 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 … |
| 21-5530 | Luis Gomez-Castro v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process judicial-findings obstruction-of-justice perjury plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines | I. Sentencing Guideline §3C1.1 provides a 2-level enhancement for obstruction of justice and applies if a defendant testifies untruthfully about a mat… |
| 21-5230 | Maurice Stewart v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split felon-in-possession knowledge-of-status plain-error-review protective-sweep rehaif-v-united-states | Recently the Court recognized that the elements of the offense of possessing a firearm as a felon, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), includes that the defendant … |
| 20-8200 | Brandon Dante Brooks-Davis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court criminal-procedure fairness-integrity-public-reputation intervening-supreme-court-decision judicial-review plain-error-review substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record | Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters… |
| 20-1522 | United States v. Malik Nasir | Third Circuit | 2021-04-30 | GVR | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession plain-error-review statutory-interpretation | Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction following a trial for possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U… |
| 20-1523 | Rolando Cruz, Jr., Marc Hernandez, and Roscoe Villega v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-30 | Denied | constitutional-rights drug-conspiracy integrity-of-courts jury-selection plain-error-review public-interest sentencing structural-error substantial-rights | 1. The district court excluded the public, including family members, from the courtroom for the entirety of jury selection. Petitioners' counsel faile… | |
| 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… |
| 20-7871 | Jemone Lawrence Walker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure criminal-indictment fairness-integrity-public-reputation federal-jurisdiction intervening-supreme-court-decision plain-error-review subject-matter-jurisdiction substantial-rights trial-record | I. Whether the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over Mr. Walker's case because the indictment failed to state an offense against the … |
| 20-7800 | Jacqueline Moore v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-19 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness-standard federal-criminal-law indictment mens-rea plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states supreme-court-decision trial-record | I. When applying plain error review based on an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, may an appellate court consider information outside … |
| 20-7708 | Jose Noe Castro Orellana v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process fact-finding plain-error-review procedural-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Mr. Castro Orellana could not show an effect on his substantial rights on plain-error review even though … |
| 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… |
| 20-1295 | United States v. Timothy Zachary Green | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | GVR | Relisted (2) | circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession plain-error-review prejudice-standard statutory-interpretation | Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction for possessing a firearm following a felony conviction, in violation of 18 … |
| 20-1167 | Jose Susumo Azano Matsura v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | firearm-possession guilty-knowledge plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment-rights statutory-exceptions unconstitutionally-vague visa-holder | 1. Should the Court grant review to clarify that the guilty knowledge of status element under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(B), means knowledge that one's leg… | |
| 20-7194 | Lamar Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record | "Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matter… |
| 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… |
| 20-7038 | David Paul Martinez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-05 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-921-a-33 criminal-law criminal-statute domestic-violence firearms firearms-possession mens-rea misdemeanor-domestic-violence plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether Mr. Martinez's convictions for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), possession of a firearm after a conviction for a "misdemeanor crime of dome… |
| 20-6975 | Cortez Maurice Crumble v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-court-conflict criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea outside-trial-record plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights trial-error | When evaluating Rehaif-derived trial errors under Rule 52(b) plain-error review, should prejudice under the "substantial rights" prong be presumed? 2… |
| 20-6854 | Jose Armando Bazan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-sentencing fact-question plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fifth Circuit properly applied plain error review in rejecting Petitioner's argument that he should have received a minor or mitigating ro… |
| 20-6811 | Jesus Eder Moreno Ornelas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | attempted-murder due-process felon-in-possession firearms jury plain-error-review rehaif-standard sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | A. The government failed to overcome the presumption of innocence when the jury could not reach a verdict on an attempted murder count. Did it violate… |
| 20-6738 | Lisa Yvette Coffman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-law embezzlement federal-statute fifth-circuit fraud plain-error-review statutory-interpretation substantial-rights | I. Does the first paragraph of 18 U.S.C. § 641 – which makes it illegal to embezzle, steal, purloin, or knowingly convert to one's own or another's us… |
| 20-6702 | Tomas Moreno-Turrubiates v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 appellate-review mitigation-arguments plain-error-review procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentence-explanation sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | 1. Whether, when a defendant presents nonfrivolous mitigation arguments in favor of a lower sentence, a district court must address those arguments as… |
| 20-6662 | Ian D. Goolsby v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | specifically allowing review beyond the trial rec circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process element-of-offense jury-instruction plain-error-review presentence-report rehaif-v-united-states scope-of-review supreme-court-decision | In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191, 2194 (2019), this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove not o… |
| 20-6572 | Deshawn Legrier v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-consideration felon-in-possession judicial-proceedings jury-instructions plain-error-review rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence trial-record | In Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 2191 (2019), this Court held that knowledge-of-status was an element of the crime set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 922(g… |
| 20-6460 | Reginald Hollie v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-27 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-offense interstate-commerce jury-trial plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether, in cases charged and tried to a jury before this Court decided Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), courts of appeals may rely… |
| 20-6212 | Carlos Miguel Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924 circuit-split criminal-procedure felon-in-possession plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether This Court Should Grant the Petition to Resolve a Circuit Split Regarding Whether Under Plain Error Review, a Defendant's Conviction for Felon… |
| 20-6227 | Cameron Battiste v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury plain-error-review sixth-amendment | 1. If a grand jury indicts a defendant for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), but omits the statute's knowledge-of-status element, has the defective ind… |
| 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… |
| 20-6098 | 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… |
| 20-5939 | Kadeem Burden v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-07 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment firearm-possession jury-instructions plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sixth-amendment | In a conviction for violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g), after a jury trial held prior to this Court's ruling in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. … |
| 20-5747 | Ryan Nicholas Haynes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement passenger-rights passenger-search plain-error-review search-and-seizure traffic-stop | (1) Whether a traffic stop of a bus for a minor traffic violation allows law enforcement to order all passengers off the bus to be searched? (2) Whet… |
| 20-5711 | David Smith-Garcia, fka David Garwood Atwood, II v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release | 1. Whether the district court erred by ordering two terms of imprisonment to run consecutive in the subject third supervised release revocation procee… |
| 20-5645 | Virgil Nickens v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-courts criminal-law federal-courts federal-courts-of-appeals jury-instructions jury-verdict plain-error-review rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states united-states-v-olano | In Rehaif, v. United States, this Court held that the government establishes that a defendant aided and abetted an 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) offense only if … |
| 20-5489 | Rodney Lavalais v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | 2k2.1(b)(4)(a) appellate-review due-process guilty-plea plain-error-review plea-voluntariness prejudice sentencing-guidelines stolen structural-error | 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 reversa… |
| 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… |
| 19-8783 | Alfredo Gonzalez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-851 dimaya-v-sessions due-process felony-drug-offense first-step-act johnson-v-united-states jury-selection plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness | I. Whether the definition of "felony drug offense" for the pur poses of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vaguene ss after Johnson, Dimaya, and Da vis. II. … |
| 19-8709 | Gregory Greer v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-15 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | circuit-court-of-appeals circuit-court-review criminal-procedure fairness-integrity-public-reputation judicial-fairness plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record | Last year, this Court held in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), that, in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2), the gov… |
| 19-8681 | Sung Hong, et ux. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affinity-fraud aggravating-factors civil-rights constitutional-law due-process establishment-clause free-exercise holguin-hernandez-v-united-states plain-error-review religious-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Is it permissible for courts to consider religion as an aggravating factor in determining sentences, or to favor a religion by sentencing defendant… |
| 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… |
| 19-7839 | Christopher Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure deterrence due-process imprisonment plain-error-review policy-statement policy-statement-range sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines | I. Is a single-sentence explanation of "I believe this addresses the issues of adequate deterrence and protection of the public" procedurally reasonab… |
| 19-7705 | Michael Roman Burghardt v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-waiver direct-appeal element-of-offense elements-of-offense indictment plain-error-review plea-colloquy rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent waiver | 1. Whether a criminal defendant has waived a claim that the indictment failed to charge an element of the offense where the claim arose while his case… |
| 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? |
| 19-7268 | Acharayya Rupak v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | continuance criminal-procedure due-process plain-error-review plea-bargaining retained-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review | 1. This Court has held that the right to the retained counsel of one's choice is the "root meaning" of the Sixth Amendment guarantee. Here, the distri… |
| 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? |
| 19-6747 | 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? |
| 19-6525 | Sean Trent Barnes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plain-error-review plea-bargaining pro-se-representation self-representation sentencing sentencing-enhancement | The issue subsuming all other issues in this appeal is whether I. or not, Mr. Sean Trent Barnes, while incarcerated in pre-trial cus tody as a federal… |
| 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 … | |
| 19-6113 | 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… |
| 19-5962 | 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… |
| 19-330 | Harshad Shah v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bribery-trial civil-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury plain-error-review racial-animus sixth-amendment structural-error trial-by-jury | 1. Is it structural error and a denial of the Sixth Amendment right to "trial by an impartial jury" when the government expressly uses racial animus i… |
| 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,… |
| 19-5563 | 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… |
| 19-5465 | 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… |
| 19-5421 | 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? |
| 19-5351 | Johnny Lee Johnson v. William Sperfslage | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error-review shackling sixth-amendment | WHETHER THE DUE PROCESS PROVISIONS OF THE FIFTH AND SIXTH AMENDMENTS REQUIRE A PLAIN ERROR REVIEW WHEN A DEFENDANT IS SHACKLED IN VIEW OF A JURY OR IF… |
| 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… |
| 19-5202 | Doroteo Zambrano-Ruiz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-authority circuit-split federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of plain-error review in Molina-Martinez v. United States when… |
| 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… |
| 18-8842 | Michael Demon Nixon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law-922g firearm-possession interstate-commerce mens-rea plain-error-review plea-agreement statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g) authorizes conviction upon proof that a firearm once crossed state lines at an unspecified prior occasion, when there is … |
| 18-8810 | Pedro Martinez-Negrete v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guideline-range clear-error criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-appellant government-response plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines | Where a criminal defendant shows that the district court made a clear legal error when applying the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, but the government res… |
| 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… |
| 18-8366 | Anthony Eudean Woollis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography constitutional-limits criminal-sanctions due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2251 authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an unspecifi… |
| 18-8292 | Julius Greer v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure forfeiture judicial-review motion-to-dismiss plain-error-review speedy-trial-act standard-of-review waiver | What is the correct standard of review for a Speedy Trial Act violation where a motion to dismiss under the Act was filed, but the particular time per… |
| 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… |
| 18-7440 | Christopher Whitman v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure conflict-of-interest disqualification due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion juror-bribery plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines standing | Question One The Constitution guarantees a person the effective assistance of counsel for a first appeal of right. Effective counsel necessarily cont… |
| 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… |
| 18-6853 | Noe Garcia-Lima v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-52(b) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | When the "record is silent as to what the district court might have done had it considered the correct Guidelines range," Molina-Martinez v. United St… |
| 18-6754 | Domonic McCarns v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-amendment criminal-procedure harmless-error indictment plain-error-review speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Cryptic Letter, Number Codes are Sufficient to Satisfy the Speedy Trial Act Requirement that Reasons Justifying Delay of a Criminal Trial M… |
| 18-6666 | Oscar Sosa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process expert-testimony plain-error-review prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-credibility | 1. Isa federal agent's testimony about an out-of-court agent's report of drug trafficking by an unindicted coconspirator, when linked to and used agai… |
| 18-6316 | Willie Gene Wilks, Jr. v. Ohio | Ohio | 2018-10-15 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof due-process false-testimony grand-jury indictment jury-instructions plain-error-review prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error | 1. Is a defendant denied due process when a prosecutor presents and relies upon false testimony in order to secure an indictment in grand jury proceed… |
| 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… |
| 18-6237 | 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… |
| 18-6173 | Carlos Tiznado-Valenzuela v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split federal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing-guidelines | Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review in Molina-Martine… |
| 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… |
| 18-5969 | Carlos Alberto Fuentes-Canales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burglary burglary-offense crime-of-violence criminal-history plain-error-review sentencing-disparities sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities | In Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1897 (2018), this Court held that, in the ordinary case, proof of a plain Sentencing Guidelines error … |
| 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… |
| 18-5304 | Raymond Sanchez Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography commerce-clause constitutional-limits criminal-law criminal-sanctions due-process interstate-commerce plain-error-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence sullivan-v-louisiana | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. §2252A(5)(B) authorizes conviction upon proof that materials used to produce child pornography once crossed state lines at an uns… |