plain-error-standard
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6431 | Edin Anael Solis-Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error-standard rule-11 sentencing | Does a defendant's failure to object to a Rule 11(b)(1)(H)-(I) error count against him twice, not only by subjecting him to the rigorous plain-error s… |
| 23-7762 | Christopher McPherson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure-appeal drug-trafficking felon-in-possession firearm-possession fourth-circuit-review plain-error-standard rehaif-test sentencing sentencing-discretion sufficiency-of-evidence | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to reverse the conviction on Count V of the Superseding Indictment - Possession of a Firearm in Further… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 21-7632 | 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 … |
| 21-5977 | In Re Rigoberto Melero Aguirre | 2021-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constructive-denial counsel-rights criminal-procedure due-process fraud-on-the-court fraud-upon-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings miscarriage-of-justice plain-error-standard standard-of-review | WHETHER THE CONSTRUCTIVE DENIAL OF COUNSEL DURING MELERO AGUIRRE'S JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS, COUPLED WITH THE WHOLESALE ADOPTION BY THE FIFTH CIRCUIT, OF … | |
| 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? |
| 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… |
| 18-7986 | 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… |
| 18-6695 | 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… |