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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6906 | Namir White v. United States | Third Circuit | 2026-02-25 | Pending | IFP | controlled-substance-offense drug-offense prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Under the federal Sentencing Guidelines § 2K2.1(a)(2), a defendant previously convicted of a "controlled substance offense" is subject to a sentencing… |
| 25-6764 | Jerry Lee Flores v. Texas | Texas | 2026-02-10 | Pending | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process jury-verdict misdemeanor-enhancement prior-conviction state-court | "WHETHER PETITIONER HAD RECEIVED "WHETHER THE STATE CAN REPLACE A JURY VERDICT WITHOUT HAVING ANOTHER JURY TRIAL?" "WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS DENI… |
| 25-6514 | Epifanio Leos-Morales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres criminal-law notice-clause prior-conviction recidivism sixth-amendment | Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p… |
| 25-5334 | Billy Joe Russell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law modified-categorical-approach prior-conviction statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the categorical or modified categorical approaches must produce actual state court deci… |
| 25A124 | Steven Nicholas Fulton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Presumed Complete | appellate-reversal criminal-procedure felony-status jury-instruction prior-conviction standard-of-review | Whether a Court of Appeals may reinstate a jury verdict where the judge omitted a critical legal instruction to the jury on an element of the offense … | |
| 25-5226 | Nashaun Drake v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | When defining a controlled substance offense under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) do courts look to the substances that were controlled on the date of the prior … |
| 25A34 | Steven Pitts v. New York | New York | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | apprendi-rule jury-right prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment tolling-period | The question presented is whether, under Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000) and Erlinger v. United States, 602 U.S. 821 (2024), the purported… | |
| 24-7501 | Jacob Allen Judd v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law firearms-prohibition nonviolent-offense prior-conviction second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to an individual whose prior convictions for "crime[s] punishable by imprisonme… |
| 24-7086 | Bakari Abdul Brown v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-29 | Denied | IFP | appellate-conflict constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance prior-conviction trial-strategy | IWhen the prejudice effect of the name and nature of a prior r~~i i felony conviction in proving felon status, during the guilt phase of trial, can b… |
| 24-6396 | Ryan Perrin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-27 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-procedure prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions | I. When applying the categorical approach to determine whether a prior state conviction qualifies as a predicate for the Armed Career Criminal Act (AC… |
| 24-6077 | Christian Ricardo Carrillo Topete v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation | Chapter 110 of the U.S. Code provides for a statutory sentencing enhancement for any defendant convicted of a child pornography offense after a "prior… |
| 24-5862 | Ismael Hernandez-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 24-5479 | Nathan Steward v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-statute firearm-possession interstate-commerce prior-conviction second-amendment | (1) Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)—the statute that prohibits firearm possession by any person who was previously convicted of "a crime punishable by i… |
| 24-5457 | Larome Deon Waiters v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances drug-offense prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether a Florida controlled substances offense, which does not require proof that the defendant knew of the illicit nature of the controlled substanc… |
| 24A120 | Matthew Peddicord v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-01 | Presumed Complete | criminal-evidence evidence-404b felon-in-possession knowledge-inference prior-conviction propensity-reasoning | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7772 | Christopher L. Parker v. Darren Galloway, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-prisoner habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-court-remedies | Circumstances exist that render State Court Remedies in effective to Protect my 14th Frohts Pursuant to Clause 2254 HOG CY? 730205 613-63 0) QOD, AY,… |
| 23-1196 | Christopher Ryan Martin v. Tom Lawson, Chief, Nevada Division of Parole and Probation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Denied | apprendi certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim habeas-corpus jones judicial-enhancement jury-trial ninth-circuit prior-conviction prior-convictions | I. Whether Petitioner is entitled to a Certificate of Appealability (COA) from the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by his showing that reaso… | |
| 23-6941 | Ricardo Fortino Martinez-Munoz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation due-process jury-trial legal-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Can Almendarez-Torres be squared with the history undergirding the Sixth Amendment; and if not, should this Court overrule Almendarez-Torres? |
| 23-6866 | Cesar Abreu v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-02-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-404b federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment narcotics narcotics-distribution prior-conviction prior-convictions search-and-seizure | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, affirming Petitioner's conviction of narcotics distribution in the … |
| 23-6663 | Emmanuel Gil v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-831 | Constance Eileen Caswell v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | almendarez-torres apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process felony-enhancement jury-determination jury-trial misdemeanor-elevation prior-conviction sentencing sixth-amendment | 1. Whether a prior misdemeanor conviction that elevates a subsequent offense from a misdemeanor to a felony is an element of the subsequent offense th… |
| 23-6489 | Robert E. Harrison v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent-knowledge prior-bad-acts prior-conviction propensity-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b statutory-interpretation supreme-court | 1. Are prior gun possession convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to prove knowing or intentional gun possession on a later date when the governmen… |
| 23-6469 | Eric Kimble v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-11 | Denied | IFP | capital-habeas capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health mitigating-evidence ninth-circuit-review prior-conviction rehabilitation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | 1. This case presents the same questions as Thornell v. Jones, Supreme Court Case No. 22-982 (cert. granted, Dec. 13, 2023): Whether the Ninth Circuit… |
| 23-6432 | Carlos Martinez v. California | California | 2024-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto first-step-act prior-conviction retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation takings | Question not identified. |
| 23-6410 | Pedro Pena-Talamantes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 23-6385 | Alfonso Garcia-Vela v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23-6377 | Ryan F. Duncan v. Florida Commission on Offender Review | Florida | 2023-12-28 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | \ x \t> ^c&kvVflVtOYN o^aaVn^V CbvJoW, ^ Torres o-f CoAt^WA0*V\\ \mrNUsmVv^ lA SecuT^A GlAAaAQV SVc3e_ acAc/v^s Uvyier -Wul \A^ /WW^er^'s or \ 0Ar-\iA… |
| 23-6271 | Tyrone Maddox v. Illinois | Illinois | 2023-12-15 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent intent-element judicial-discretion narcotics-charge prejudice prejudicial-evidence prior-conviction prior-convictions probative-value | The trial court should not have allowed the introduction of Tyrone Maddox's 20 year old prior Indiana Conviction for delivery of Narcotics on the issu… |
| 23-6217 | Ubaldo De La Cruz Leyva v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey historical-practices notice-clause prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception recidivism-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p… |
| 23-6176 | Faustino Garcia-Sanchez, aka Miguel Garcia-Sanchez, aka Miguel Zamora-Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 23A447 | Constance Eileen Caswell v. Colorado | Colorado | 2023-11-17 | Presumed Complete | apprendi-rule elements-of-offense jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing-factors sixth-amendment | This application does not contain a traditional "Question(s) Presented" section. The document is an Application for an Extension of Time to File a Pet… | |
| 23-6017 | Roberto Alaniz-Pimentel v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey historical-practices notice-clause prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception recidivism-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p… |
| 23-5979 | Daniel Vargas-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sixth-amendment | The Sixth Amendment protects the right "to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation." U.S. Const. amend. VI. In Apprendi v. New Jersey, t… |
| 23A396 | Robert E. Harrison v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-01 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rule-404b jury-trial prior-conviction propensity-evidence | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5936 | Hector Francisco Santos-Flores v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 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… |
| 23A375 | Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-10-25 | Presumed Complete | almendarez-torres apprendi-rule criminal-statute jury-finding prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's different-occasions element must be found by a jury rather than a sentencing judge. | |
| 23A362 | Carlos Martinez v. California | California | 2023-10-23 | Denied | constitutional-violation ex-post-facto habitual-criminal prior-conviction retroactive-law sentencing-enhancement | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5604 | Ernesto Ordunez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | career-offender controlled-substance crime-of-violence elements-clause preservation-of-error prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | (1) Whether an objection that a prior conviction is not a crime of violence and a district court's subsequent analysis of whether it meets the element… |
| 23-5392 | Angelo Joseph Fernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-law domestic-violence mens-rea prior-conviction recklessness sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supreme-court | 1. Does the petitioner's prior conviction for corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant under California Penal Code § 273.5(a) qualify as a crime of v… |
| 23-5364 | Christopher Alexander Nerius v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-16 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender-guideline controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines timing-question united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Whether, in determining if a prior offense is a "controlled substance offense" for purposes of the career offender guideline, U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b), sen… |
| 23-5164 | Ermin Adzemovic v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense criminal-sentencing decontrolled-substances drug-offense federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-range prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines ussg-4b1.2 | Does a prior drug conviction under a statute that included now decontrolled substances qualify as a "controlled substance offense" to enhance a defend… |
| 23-5062 | Alfredo Martinez-Rubio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-7902 | Saul Navarrete De La Cerda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey common-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure notice-clause prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment | Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p… |
| 22-7900 | David Wright, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process equal-protection federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-range prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines state-statutes statutory-interpretation | Whether the District Court erred by counting a prior conviction for violation of a state statute that had been changed to make the conduct not a crime… |
| 22-7882 | Sergio Delgado-Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-7837 | Carlos Delgado-Adame v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey historical-practices notice-clause prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception recidivism-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p… |
| 22-7689 | Jose Guadalupe Romero Torres v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure historical-practices notice-clause prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sixth-amendment | Whether the prior-conviction exception from Almendarez-Torres can be squared with the text of the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause and the historical p… |
| 22-7516 | Adam Dean Brown v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-injury controlled-substance criminal-intent drug-offense due-process felony-statute jury-determination prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 21 U.S.C. § 841(A)(1) makes is a crime to "knowingly or intentionally .. . manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture… |
| 22-7129 | Thomas P. Thayer v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-conviction federal-law minor minor-protection prior-conviction registration-requirement sex-offender-registration sex-offense statutory-interpretation | This Court has held that, where Congress makes the application of federal law turn on a prior "conviction" that, "by its nature," "involves" certain "… |
| 22-6983 | Bernardino Berrun-Torres v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-10 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-716 | Alexander Dockery v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split constitutional-challenge custody-requirement federal-habeas habeas-corpus no-fault-of-petitioner prior-conviction sentence-enhancement | Is the federal habeas custody requirement met where a petitioner makes a constitutional challenge to a previously unchallenged conviction that was use… |
| 22-6436 | Timothy D. Robertson v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-12-30 | Denied | IFP | due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-petition prior-conviction reversal sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment | 1). Did Petitioner Robertson Establish and Show "Cause" for filing a Successive Post Conviction Petition by Advancing an Overwhelmingly Substantial "M… |
| 22-6407 | Steven L. Haden v. California | California | 2022-12-28 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach criminal-sentencing descamps-v-united-states elements-test mathis-v-united-states prior-conviction prior-conviction-enhancement retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-doctrine | Are the Sixth Amendment holdings of Descamps v. United States, 570 U.S. 254 (2013) and Mathis v. United States, 579 U.S. 500 (2016) fully retroactive,… |
| 22-6344 | Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense criminal-procedure drug-conviction fourth-circuit mandate-rule prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines | Whether the Fourth Circuit erroneously refused to apply its intervening case law to Furlow's case, incorrectly applying the mandate rule. Whether the… |
| 22-5977 | Bonerge Benitez-Marquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5892 | Shamar Cortez Womack v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach federal-counterpart generic-offense gonzales-v-duenas-alvarez nongeneric-conviction overbroad-statute prior-conviction state-prosecution statutory-elements | When a state statute is facially broader than its federal counterpart, must a defendant still offer examples of overbroad state prosecutions to confir… |
| 22-5810 | Martin Perez-Barrios v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5448 | Roger C. Cassidy v. Florida | Florida | 2022-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-defendant due-process equal-protection judicial-fact-finding judicial-review mandatory-sentencing preponderance-of-evidence prior-conviction sentencing-exposure standing | Question 1: May a state legislature require a state court to increase a criminal defendant's sentencing exposure based on judicial fact-finding by pre… |
| 22-5337 | Carlos Vazquez-Tellez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 22-5020 | Eduardo Che Rodriguez v. Gena Jones, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-provisions due-process elements judicial-interpretation prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement | A year after he was discharged from the Army with a disability pension following brain, spinal, and psychological injuries from a scud missel attack w… |
| 21-8229 | Juan Jesus Barrieta-Barrera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split collateral-estoppel criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process immigration immigration-law judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing statutory-interpretation | Section 1326(b)(2) of Title 8 provides an elevated penalty for illegally re-entering the country following an "aggravated felony." Does a district cou… |
| 21-8075 | Ricky Bagola v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-801 advisory-range controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances-act criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines federal-statute prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation ussg-4b1.2(b) | Is the term "controlled substance" in § 4B1.2(b) limited to those substances defined and regulated under the federal Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S… |
| 21-8083 | In Re Frank Jarvis Atwood | 2022-06-07 | Denied | IFP | capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-conviction state-ground statutory-elements | Question not identified. | |
| 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… |
| 21-7574 | Danyel Black v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-procedure fourth-amendment prior-conviction probation-search sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search | Whether a Florida controlled substances offense, which does not require proof that the defendant knew of the illicit nature of the controlled substanc… |
| 21-7448 | Edgar Garza-Limones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 21-7293 | Jose Rodriguez-Vasquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-7266 | Fredy Zamora-Reyes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure notice-clause prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. Can a court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior conviction ne… |
| 21-7191 | Rosa Leija-Peralta v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-7006 | Juan Jaime-Guzman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure indictment prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. Can a court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior conviction never alleged in t… |
| 21-6944 | Juan Coreno-Garay v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-6746 | Adan Ramirez-Rubio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-6657 | Joshua Reshi Dudley v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-17 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure occasions-different occasions-test prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement shepard-v-united-states sixth-amendment | I. Whether the Sixth Amendment limits a sentencing court, when determining whether a defendant's prior offenses were "committed on occasions different… |
| 21-6631 | Jorge Ivan Vazquez-Medrano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-6590 | Terry Lynn King v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2021-12-14 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment categorical-approach constitutional-vagueness death-penalty death-sentence due-process elements-based-approach johnson-precedent prior-conviction prior-violent-felony sentencing-aggravator vagueness | (1) Is the 'prior violent felony conviction' aggravating factor in Tennessee's death penalty statutes unconstitutional under Johnson v. United States,… |
| 21-6568 | Manuel Nunez-Gonzalez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 21-6419 | Roberto Aguilar-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-6282 | Tannous Fazah v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy due-process federal-sentencing mandatory-minimum misdemeanor-reclassification prior-conviction prior-convictions retroactive-reclassification sentence-enhancement | I. In August 2013, petitioner was indicted in federal court, in part, on charges of conspiring to distribute controlled substances. Petitioner was all… |
| 21-6255 | Ofelio Arvizu-Loredo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 21-6006 | Cory Wayne Kilgore v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment address-connection appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure fourth-amendment prior-conviction probable-cause search-warrant | Did the Tenth Circuit, on review of the denial of Petitioner's motion to suppress, err in holding that the search warrant affidavit provided adequate … |
| 21-5970 | Fredrick Devone Flemming v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-delinquency prior-conviction sentencing-factor sentencing-factors sixth-amendment stare-decisis | In Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), this Court held that the fact of a prior conviction was a "sentencing factor," not an "ele… |
| 21-5754 | Cedrin Farodd Carter v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure different-occasions judicial-fact-finding jury-fact-finding prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Is a different-occasions finding, like other ACCA determinations about prior convictions, confined to matters essential to the fact of a prior convict… |
| 21-5574 | Walter Manuel Marques-Mejia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Almendarez-Torres burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 21-5233 | Abel Guillermo Godoy v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process elements-of-crime jury-determination legal-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-factors sixth-amendment | In Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), the Court held that in a prosecution for 8 U.S.C. § 1326, the fact of a prior conviction n… |
| 21-5240 | Carlos Elias Cruz-Bermudez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 21-5122 | Juan Angel Velasquez-Canales v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion felony-enhancement guideline-interpretation immigration prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancements sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court erred in applying a six-level enhancement under Section 2L1.2(b)(2)(C) of the Sentencing Guidelines where Mr. Velasquez-Can… |
| 20-8384 | Pedro Rodriguez-Calderon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-8152 | Miguel Martinez-Figueroa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-7950 | Antonio Serrano-Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process felony-offense illegal-reentry immigration-law prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation supreme-court | The default penalty range for ill egal reentry in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) is a sentence of "n ot more than 2 years" in prison. Petitioner was … |
| 20-7761 | Andrew Indelicato Peterson v. S. Butler, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-14 | Denied | IFP | conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements evidence-admissibility felon-in-possession knowledge-of-status plea-agreement prior-conviction prior-misconduct sentencing statutory-interpretation | Can the distriet Court Use Post offenic conduct for crimes that a defendant never Served Overa Year in Prison to assume ai defendant knew his status P… |
| 20-7591 | Herminio Perales-Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-7456 | Rafael Ayala-Solorio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-7006 | Jacquere Doran, aka Jacare Gorman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level controlled-substance criminal-sentencing district-court-error enhancement felony-conviction felony-enhancement marijuana-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines | Did the District Court err in treating Mr. Doran's prior California conviction for sale of marijuana as a felony conviction and using it to enhance hi… |
| 20-6884 | Luis Alberto Andrade-Salas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-6794 | Oscar Guevara Salamanca v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights due-process federal-sentencing illegal-reentry judicial-discretion prior-conviction revocation-of-probation right-to-be-heard sentencing-enhancement state-sentencing | The state of South Carolina provided Oscar Guevara Salamanca no notice of the date, location, or time of a hearing to revoke his probation. Then, in h… |
| 20-6736 | Salvador Diaz v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals due-process jurisdiction prior-conviction sorna-violation statutory-interpretation supervisory-power venue venue-selection | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals' failure to remedy the District Court's improper venue selection conflicts with this Court's decisions in Nichols v. U… |
| 20-6559 | Jesus Villarreal-Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-6408 | Jose Hilario Fernandez-Vargas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-6389 | Tomas Martinez-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-6326 | Adam Donald Bennett v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2251 child-exposure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deferred-adjudication prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sexual-abuse statutory-interpretation texas-law | I. Is a Texas deferred adjudication a "prior conviction" for purposes of the sentencing enhancement in 18 U.S.C. § 2251(e)? II. Does the Texas crime … |
| 20-6088 | Miguel Angel Baez-Castillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights criminal-procedure indictment prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. Can a court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior conviction never alleged in t… |
| 20-5872 | Jesus Sanchez-Chacon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-5772 | Michael Portanova v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the "categorical approach," which this Court has repeatedly held must be applied in assessing whether a prior state conviction qualifies as a … |
| 20-5743 | Johnny Melendez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-criminal-act constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance narcotics-possession prior-conviction right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Should a writ of certiorari should be granted to determine if counsel rendered ineffective assistance when it allowed the court to rely on a prior con… |
| 20-5720 | Martin Garcia-Moreno v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense immigration-law jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing-factors sixth-amendment | In Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), the Court held that in a prosecution for 8 U.S.C. § 1326, the fact of a prior conviction n… |
| 20-5710 | Jaime E. Coca-Ortiz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 20-5646 | Sean Justin Owens v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-conviction firearm-possession jury prior-conviction prior-convictions rehaif-v-united-states sentencing serious-drug-offense | 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 affi… |
| 20-5653 | Hermenegildo Margarito Espinoza Espinoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | 1) Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eith… |
| 20-5528 | Miguel Romero v. California | California | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourteenth-amendment jury-trial juvenile-adjudication prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude a trial court from using a prior juvenile adjudication to increase a defendant's maximum sentence… |
| 20-5479 | Santos Mondragon Benitez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-indictment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 20-5226 | Jose Flores-Dominguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 20-5161 | Roberto Gonzalez-Gatica v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 19-8825 | Edgardo Navarro v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres apprendi criminal-procedure indictment notice-clause prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. Can a sentencing court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment's Notice Clause, impose a statutorily enhanced sentence based on the fact of a prior co… |
| 19-8788 | Travis Job v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review prior-conviction prior-criminal-conduct sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum statutory-minimum | Whether the Court should overrule the holding of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which provides an exception to the rule of A… |
| 19-8561 | Jesus Julian Corona-Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-05-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | crime-of-violence criminal-procedure indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 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… |
| 19-8414 | Ashford James Simmons v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-07 | Denied | IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance-offense fourth-circuit prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense | Since 1990, this Court has required the lower courts to use the "categorical approach" in courts' evaluation of a criminal defendant's prior convictio… |
| 19-8275 | Robert L. Swinton v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automatic-exclusion complex-motion due-process pretrial-detention prior-conviction selective-prosecution sixth-amendment speedy-trial structural-error | (1) Was there error in the U.S. Sixth Amendment Speedy Trial and Speedy Trial Act assessment of this case due to an unverified prior conviction, struc… |
| 19-7972 | Javier Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4b1.1 career-offender categorical-approach drug-offense fourth-circuit modified-categorical-approach predicate-drug-offense prior-conviction records-of-conviction sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-4b1.1 south-carolina-code | Pursuant to Section 4B1.1 of the United States Sentencing Commission Guidelines, following a conviction for a narcotics offense, an offender who has a… |
| 19-7869 | Raymond David Wilson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender common-scheme criminal-scheme criminal-sentencing felony-disposition judicial-discretion misdemeanor-conviction misrepresentation-of-felony prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Why Did The DiStRiCt CouRt ERRONeouSLY CLASSIFEd MR.WiLSON AS A CAREER OFFENdER WhEN IN FACT BOth PRiORS AN INtERVeNiNg ARRESt. LSO WAS The DiStRICt C… |
| 19-7833 | Inocente Rodriguez-Juarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-7608 | Juan Perez-Roman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-7548 | Rudy Orlando Cabrera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1326 Apprendi-v-New-Jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of… |
| 19-7472 | Tymaine Akeen Lewis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-29 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(e) armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach controlled-substance drug-offense firearm-possession prior-conviction qualifying-offense robbery statutory-interpretation texas-robbery violent | Whether Petitioner is an Armed Career criminal under 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)? |
| 19-7388 | Aaron Perez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | IFP | actual-prosecution categorical-match categorical-overbreadth circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency federal-sentencing felon-in-possession insufficient-evidence prior-conviction prior-felony-conviction rehaif | I. Whether a defendant who seeks to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sentencing purposes must point to an ac… |
| 19-7322 | Gerardo Sanchez-Miranda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-21 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 19-7333 | Eduardo Luis Martinez-Paz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-7260 | Darin Kaufmann v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-01-13 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2252 categorical-approach child-pornography federal-criminal-law first-amendment predicate-offense prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation | 1. Did the Seventh Circuit err in holding that the categorical approach does not apply when determining whether a state conviction triggers a sentenci… |
| 19-7220 | Francisco Guerrero-Saucedo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-7088 | Marcos Cortez-Rogel v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-7104 | Julio Cesar Pacheco-Astrudillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-30 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-7007 | Bryshun Genard Furlow v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-19 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach collateral-challenge controlled-substance-offense due-process fourth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines serious-drug-offense state-conviction u.s.s.g.-4b1.1 | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit should be required to use the categorical approach, applying the parameters set by this Court, to its determination that… |
| 19-780 | Willie Newton v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-17 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure custis-v-united-states drug-offense due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief prior-conviction proposition-47 sentence-enhancement sentencing state-law state-sentencing | In Johnson v. United States, 544 U.S. 295 (2005), and Custis v. United States, 511 U.S. 485 (1994), this Court held that a defendant who "successfully… |
| 19-6906 | Datanya Damon Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-11 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether this Court should hold the instant petition in light of Shular v. United States, 15-1498, __U.S.__, 139 S.Ct. 2773 (June 28, 2019)? Whether t… |
| 19-6858 | David Lamont Liddell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aggravated-assault armed-career-criminal-act armed-robbery constitutional-law criminal-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states mississippi-state-law prior-conviction resentencing section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation violent-felony | Whether, under the law established by this Court in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), Mr. Liddell should be resentenced without applyin… |
| 19-6800 | Rodney Dewayne Mitchell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | IFP | almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states armed-career-criminal-act jury-determination maximum-punishment prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement standing texas-criminal-law violent-felony | 1. Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery is a "violent felony " under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. §924(e)? Subsidiary question:… |
| 19-6795 | Abraham Conde-Herrera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-02 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-6796 | Valentin Castanon-Renteria v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-02 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6773 | Edgar Ortega-Limones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-6601 | Kevin Battle v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-prosecution categorical-approach categorical-match circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-law federal-sentencing prior-conviction realistic-probability sentencing state-conviction state-court state-crime | Whether a defendant who seeks to demonstrate that a prior conviction is not a categorical match for federal sentencing purposes must point to an actua… |
| 19-6582 | Roberto Carlos Martinez-Mendoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-12 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 19-6500 | Horacio Dominguez-Villalobos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-05 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6290 | Servando Pineda-Castellanos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6199 | Emeterio Espino Ramirez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-09 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-6094 | Andres Herrera-Segovia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-27 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-6042 | Gerardo Tajonar Cortes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-5907 | Luis Castaneda-Torres v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-5865 | Pablo Sauste Balderas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 19-5829 | Yoni Castro-Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-5601 | Clinton Devone Hicks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-16 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-law criminal-penalties due-process felony felony-status firearms firearms-possession indictment-requirements interstate-commerce knowledge mens-rea prior-conviction statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(a) provides for criminal penalties for felons who possess firearms in interstate commerce absent proof that they knew of th… |
| 19-5455 | Jesus Rios-Garza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 19-5150 | Irvin Junior Phillips v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924e apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process indictment-requirements prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | 1. Whether the Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of … |
| 18-9842 | Alpidio Gonzalez v. Ralph Hanson, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2241 2241-petition 2255 2255-motion habeas-corpus judicial-review mathis-v-united-states prior-conviction saving-clause savings-clause sentence-enhancement | 1. How can a person show that a Writ of Habeas Corpus 2241 is the proper way to demostrate he is entitled relief when the lower courts Deny a motion… |
| 18-9616 | Rocky Riojas-Ordaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 18-9578 | James Jacob Parrish, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-enhancement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-conviction procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-departure sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-variance sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness | Whether Parrish's sentence was procedurally and substantively unreasonable because the district court imposed an unsupported departure and/or variance… |
| 18-9573 | Ernesto Betancourt-Carrillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-9502 | Christian Vazquez Capistran v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-9354 | Donald Reddick v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2113(a) alamendarez-torres-apprendi apprendi categorical-approach constitutional-rights crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-bank-robbery mathis mathis-doctrine prior-conviction sentencing-guidelines | Is federal bank robbery as defined in 18 U.S.C. §2113(a) categorically a crime of violence, where the statute does not require an intentional use, att… |
| 18-9320 | Domenick James Howard v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-law due-process federal-crime federal-state-relations lockhart-v-united-states mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states ninth-circuit prior-conviction sentencing sexual-assault statutory-interpretation statutory-penalty | WHETHER A PRIOR SEXUAL ASSAULT CONVICTION SHOULD BE USED TO INCREASE THE STATUTORY PENALTY WHERE THE PRIOR STATE CONVICTION IS OVER-INCLUSIVE VIS-A… |
| 18-9321 | Jesus Cornelio Dolmo-Alvarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-1379 | Jeremy J. Godwin v. David Davey, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment certificate-of-appeal constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus prior-bad-acts prior-conviction profile-evidence propensity-evidence | Was the decision of the Ninth Circuit to deny a Certificate of Appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) under the standards set forth in Miller-El v. Co… |
| 18-9106 | Daqone Lentell Williams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender career-offender-predicate felony-complaints modified-categorical-analysis modified-categorical-approach prior-conviction sentencing-court sentencing-court-consideration sentencing-guidelines shepard-analysis shepard-v-united-states sixth-amendment unadopted-assertions | Whether a sentencing court may consider felony complaints, with unadopted assertions, under Shepard v. United States, 544 U.S. 13 (2005), when that co… |
| 18-9006 | Donald Ray Boles v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment | Whether the holding of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which created a carve-out to the rule later adopted in Apprendi v. New… |
| 18-8964 | Artemio Miranda-Manuel v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1326 almendarez-torres apprendi criminal-procedure due-process immigration indictment prior-conviction sentencing | 1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of… |
| 18-8900 | Juan Garcia Herrera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1. The enhanced-penalty provisions of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(b) and 851 expressly require that the district court, not a jury, make factual findings which i… |
| 18-8819 | Jorge Rogelio Reveles-Santana v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-8807 | Francisco Quintero-Corral v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey aprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process illegal-reentry indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | 1. Whether all facts- including the facts of a prior conviction- that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and e… |
| 18-8782 | Cesar Lopez-Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-8743 | Arturo Torres-Cabrera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process immigration-offense indictment-requirements prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-8747 | Valentin Aguilar-Lopez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-8714 | Kenneth Whigham, Jr., aka Kenneth Pringle v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Almendarez-Torres-v-United-States constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process jury-submission jury-trial prior-conviction prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent | Whether this Court's decision in Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 224 (1998), which held that the allegation of a prior conviction need no… |
| 18-8506 | Jose Jaime Lopez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 21-usc-846 7th-circuit 7th-circuit-precedent 851-colloquy abuse-of-statute appellate-review attempt-charge attempt-conviction civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-deal due-process indigent indigent-defendant indigent-status prior-conviction reasonable-doubt right-to-counsel seventh-circuit speculation standing substantial-step | WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF THE RIGHT TO COUNSEL BY THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT'S FAILURE TO APPOINT COUNSEL AFTER PETITI… |
| 18-8499 | Nestor David Vasquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-fairness courtroom-prejudice courtroom-security defendant-rights defendant-specific-security fair-trial fair-trial-rights inherent-prejudice inherently-prejudicial judicial-procedure ninth-circuit-review prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancements trial-security | 1. In Holbrook v. Flynn , 475 U.S. 560, 570-72 (1986), the Court held that the mere presence of guards at a trial was not so inherently prejudicial th… |
| 18-8436 | David Fehr Harder v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts - including the fact of a prior conviction - that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-8339 | Joshua E. Shepherd v. Jeffrey E. Krueger, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca-prior-conviction acca-purposes constitutional-interpretation constitutional-issue criminal-law due-process federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts prior-conviction sentencing state-case-law state-courts state-statute state-statute-analysis statutory-interpretation | Whether the Constitution permits a federal court to conclude that a prior conviction is "generic" for ACCA purposes based solely on another federal co… |
| 18-8190 | Edgar Alonso Pineda-Pineda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1326 almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether this Court should consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of… |
| 18-8031 | William Bolden v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | WAS PETITIONER SENTENCED UNDER A STATUTE THAT VIOLATE DUE PROCESS OF LAW UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY PERMITTING A TRIAL COURT TOIMPOSE AN … |
| 18-7948 | Cesar Carapia Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eithe… |
| 18-1054 | Jason Allen Jackson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | admissibility circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution drug-crimes drug-possession due-process evidence evidence-admissibility knowledge-intent prior-conviction prior-convictions | Whether the mere fact of a prior drug possession conviction is admissible to show knowledge and intent in a subsequent drug distribution prosecution. | |
| 18-7934 | Seaun Llwellyn Farthing v. Dara Watson, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules-of-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense perjury prior-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-burglary witness-testimony | Under Jackson v. Virginia 443 U.S. 307 (U.S.Va.1979) Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to prevent the prosecuting attorney of Newport News, Va… |
| 18-7776 | Miguel Angel Olvera-Cruz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8-usc-1326 apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-7668 | Patricio Paladin v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-element criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-guarantee prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements | Whether the contested fact of prior conviction entering into the sentence to increase a defendant's penalty for the instant offense, must be treated a… |
| 18-7572 | Vernon Montrell Webster v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-25 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | alternative-means armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process generic-burglary generic-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether the locations under Wisconsin's burglary statute are alternative means——a question pending resolution from the Wisconsin Supreme Court—mak… |
| 18-7307 | Yoni Rayo-Espinoza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-7323 | Robert Willis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum violent-felony | GROUND (I) WHETHER PETITIONER WILLIS'S 'B&E OCCUPIED' IS A VIOLENT FELONY UNDER ACCA? GROUND (II) WHETHER PETITIONER WILLIS'S DRUG TRAFFICKING CONVIC… |
| 18-7290 | Muhamet Ajvazi v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process enhancement evidence judicial-review prior-conviction prior-convictions remand reversal sentencing | (I). WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD REVERSE AIAD REMAND DUE TO THE ADMISSION OF EVIDEHCE OF PRIOR COVVICTION USEN AS EHHANCEMENT THAT WAS MOT FIMAL. I). RI… |
| 18-7098 | Amos Junior Scott v. Heriberto H. Tellez, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas-corpus federal-statute habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective ineffective-assistance ineffective-remedy mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence nonexistent-prior-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement | Whether Petitioner is Entitled to Seek Federal Habeas Corpus Relief Under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, From an Erroneous Mandatory Minimum Sentence, That Was Bas… |
| 18-7068 | Nelson Figueroa v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-rule constitutional-protections due-process due-process-clause federal-sentencing-guidelines jury-trial prior-conviction prior-conviction-exception sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | The first question for the Court is, in light of the Guidelines' development into the de facto range of punishment in all but a very small percentage … |
| 18-7029 | Jorge Ruelas-Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-6867 | Alberto Jorge Silva-Ibarra v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-6770 | David Nino-Flores v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment jury-determination jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either … |
| 18-6371 | Tyrell Henderson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | credibility criminal-procedure evidence jury-instructions mistrial prior-conviction | Whether a mistrial should have been declared after the prosecutor improperly introduced evidence of the defendant's prior federal conviction where the… |
| 18-6293 | Alfredo Martinez-Rey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-6205 | Eliseo Guevara-Guevara v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-rule alleyne-v-united-states almendarez-torres almendarez-torres-v-united-states apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process enhanced-punishment immigration-law indictment judicial-precedent prior-conviction sentencing | Whether a prior conviction must be alleged in the indictment before a defendant is subjected to enhanced punishment under 8 U.S.C. § 1326(b), thereby … |
| 18-6120 | Jose Ramon Pulido-Nolazco v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure prior-conviction sentencing sex-offender sex-offender-treatment supervised-release | The decision of the Eleventh Circuit that Mr. Pulido -Nolazco's thirty year old sex offense is a factor for the Court to consider when determining whe… |
| 18-6103 | Fernando Valdez-Cejas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining prior-conviction sentencing statutory-enhancement statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-386 | Joshua Vasquez, et al. v. Kimberly Foxx, State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois | Seventh Circuit | 2018-09-25 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-due-process criminal-law criminal-penalty due-process ex-post-facto geographic-limitation home-occupation prior-conviction residency-restriction residency-restrictions substantive-due-process takings | Whether, as the court below held, the constitutionality of laws that impose criminal penalties for blameless action or inaction—such as maintaining a … |
| 18-6072 | Cristian Gamez Mendez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts — including the fact of a prior conviction — that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and … |
| 18-6056 | Harley Blevins, Sr. v. Florida | Florida | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-punishment-code due-process jury-trial jury-verdict prior-conviction sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Is Florida's Prison Releasee Reoffender Act, which nullifies a Criminal Punishment Code (CPC) sentence, unconstitutional and a violation of the Sixth … |
| 18-6042 | Ronald Eric Ary v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deferred-adjudication due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum | I. Whether this Court should grant review to determine whether a Texas deferred adjudication can qualify as a "prior conviction" for the purposes of t… |
| 18-5839 | James Frederick Rebmann v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-classification plain-reading possession-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation | The Federal Sentencing Guidelines require a base offense level of 43 if the defendant is "convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A), (b)(1)(B), or (b)(… |
| 18-5624 | Feliciano Villa-Sariana, aka Feliciano Villa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey criminal-procedure due-process indictment plea-bargaining prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts B including the fact of a prior conviction B that increase a defendant =s statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and… |
| 18-5474 | Heriberto Garcia-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5405 | Fortino Pimentel-Soto v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-maximum | Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5378 | Alejandro Chavez-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum | I. Whether all facts —including the fact of a prior conviction —that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and ei… |
| 18-5317 | Jose Villanueva-Cardenas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-trial prior-conviction prior-conviction-enhancement sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether all facts – including the fact of a prior conviction – that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and eit… |
| 18-5127 | Martinez Orlando Black v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2018-07-05 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process felony-classification habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-delinquency prior-conviction recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Did the failure of defense counsel to object to the increase in Petitioner's sentence into the "aggravated range" at Felony Class C, by use of a prior… |
| 18-5073 | Victor Armando Cruz-Colocho v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres apprendi apprendi-rule criminal-procedure due-process prior-conviction recidivism sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | 1. Should the Court consider the continuing validity of Almendarez-Torres v. United States, 523 U.S. 244 (1998), in light of the reasoning of Apprendi… |
| 18-5056 | Joshua D. Bouziden v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924e armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing divisibility juror-unanimity modified-categorical-approach predicate-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether a predicate prior conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), is divisible for purposes of the modified categorical ap… |