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25A569 Eric Drake v. Texas Texas 2025-11-14 Denied deferred-adjudication due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment probation subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the Court may stay or render void, the entire state deferred probation order entered by a judge who lacked subject-matter jurisdiction, in …
25-5870 In Re Joshua Meadors 2025-10-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody-credits due-process probation statutory-error Comes Now trot petitioner and Mawnan' Sochus Meadors, moves Pio honorable Court im MUNG wahiiy Pray Constitution,| Righia has been deprived oP, on ari…
24-14 James R. Zuegel v. Marco Garcia, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-claim conviction conviction-challenge probation section-1983 spencer-v-kemna standing Does this Court's opinion in Spencer v. Kemna, 523 U.S. 1 (1998), permit an individual, who has completed his probation, to pursue a 42 U.S.C. section…
23-7748 Jacob W. Barron v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP compliance-check criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-expectation-of-privacy law-enforcement privacy-expectation probable-cause probation probation-search warrantless-search Mr. Jacob W. Barron's probation officers conducted a compliance check of Mr. Barron's home after they were contacted by Rapides Parish Sheriff's Offic…
23-7408 Melvin Warren Rivers v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure final-order judicial-review motion-denial probation probation-revocation procedural-appeal revocation Whether the denial of a motion to terminate probation made during a probation revocation hearing but prior to the final revocation hearing is a final …
23-7405 In Re Patrick Christian 2024-05-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy completed-sentence court-interpretation double-jeopardy legal-precedent lower-court-errors probation recidivism retroactive-punishment sentencing 1. In the eyes of the Court when is Punishment Retroactive? 2. Is the Legal Definition of Double Jeopardy described here? 3. In considering the reco…
23-6580 Charles Ramon, III, aka Charles Roger Ramon v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP evidence fourth-amendment privacy-expectation probation probation-conditions reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure supervised-release warrantless-search This Court's prior precedent in Griffin v. Wisconsin, 483 U.S. 868 (1987) and its progeny hold that a person's status as a supervised releasee, such a…
22-7561 In Re Christopher Vigliotti 2023-05-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process multiple-punishment plea-bargain probation probation-violation sentencing sentencing-scheme statutory-authority Petitioner humbly calls upon this Court to test the legality of his present 15 year state prison sentence which stemmed from violating probation, a pr…
22-7197 Bernard A. Brandon v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-04-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP coercion criminal-procedure custody juvenile-justice miranda-rights probation (1) Whether an interrogation in a secured facility between a probationer who is present on the orders of his probation officer, and armed law enforcem…
22-6580 Daniel J. Campbell v. Ohio Ohio 2023-01-19 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment cell-phone digital-devices digital-privacy fourth-amendment probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion search search-conditions state-supervision 1. Is a search reasonable under the 4th Amendment when a probation officer who lacks required reasonable suspicion and is in violation of Ohio Revised…
22-5305 Aileen Kogera Njoroge v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fraud identity-theft legal-appeal probation restitution sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court-discretion The Defendant, Aileen Kogera Njoroge, hereinafter "Kogera " appeals her conviction following a jury trial held on October 13th through October 16, 202…
21-7327 Tina Carol Ortega v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error probation probation-officer sentencing separation-of-powers 1. Did the district court plainly err when it delegated to a probation officer the authority to determine the duration of a residential treatment prog…
21-7230 Gemar Morgan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-standard probation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release Question not identified.
21-7073 Nathaniel Collins v. Alabama Alabama 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process electronic-hearing in-person-hearing probation trial-court-objection video-conference virtual-hearing Whether a virtual, video conference, or other hearing that takes place using an electronic or computer medium is sufficient to meet the due process re…
21-6319 Eric Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conviction crime federal-law probation sentencing state-law When federal law compels the use of state law to define and punish crime, and the state allows probation in lieu of a conviction, does federal law als…
20-8121 Andy Kejadi Onwuka v. California California 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process probation self-incrimination sentencing I. Whether the Trial Court Violated petitioner's 5th & Fourteenth Amendment Maximum Sentence Exposure while presenting and basing he him lenient Guilt…
20-1124 Michael Don Leatherwood v. Jeorld Braggs, Jr., Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied affidavit criminal-procedure due-process fair-warning ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion probation probation-conditions statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Was Petitioner subject to the release conditions of probation while he was in prison? Does the statute which defines probation as "a procedure by whi…
20-7157 David Smith-Garcia v. Paula Burke Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment bivens civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-need prison-healthcare probation U Indies cw\ QjnoJaV'K AfAendmtnV clWiwi (b Vq a ^enoo^ vv\€d\Ca\ need Ck<^o,\ a'SV (X deO "vS'Nen^ ConVe*V-'\r\ vde\'i bf<~afe indiW-erencc. Ov 0-…
20-6300 Bryan Mitchell Lietzau v. Arizona Arizona 2020-11-13 Denied IFP cell-phone cell-phone-privacy fourth-amendment privacy-rights probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion search warrantless-search Does the Fourth Amendment require reasonable suspicion for a probation officer to conduct a warrantless search of a probationer's person or property? …
20-6058 Lacey Renee Baxter Moore, aka Lacey Kittrell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process liberty-deprivation probation probation-condition sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release 1) Is a standard condition of supervised release which requires a person to "permit a probation officer to visit [her] at any time athome or elsewhere…
20-502 Ken Mascara, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of St. Lucie County, Florida, et al. v. Viola Bryant, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gregory Vaughn Hill, Jr. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied civil-police-liability civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-admissibility harmless-error judicial-review police-liability probation probationary-status rules-of-evidence standard-of-review Whether this Court should adopt a more flexible standard of admissibility of evidence than what is required by Huddleston v. U.S., 485 U.S. 681 (1988)…
20-6001 Antranette Canady v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3583(d)(2) civil-rights criminal-procedure liberty-deprivation probation probation-condition sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release 1) Is a standard condition of supervised release which requires a person to "permit a probation officer to visit [her] at any time athome or elsewhere…
20-5307 Rebecca H. Gallogly v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-responsibility civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-deprivation criminal-procedure due-process expungement probation property-rights 1. Is it a Constitutional deprivation to put a person found not guilty on community supervision or probation for the charge! or, to permit states to a…
19-1309 Kari Janae Phipps v. Idaho Idaho 2020-05-21 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment detention detention-authority fourth-amendment michigan-v-summers probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion residence-check search-and-seizure search-warrant summers-doctrine Whether the "limited authority to detain" during the execution of a judicially approved search warrant for contraband, Michigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 6…
19-8393 Joshua Tucker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause probation probation-rights search-and-seizure warrantless-searches Whether a probationer has a right to be free from warrantless searches and seizures conducted by law enforcement officials without reason or purpose p…
19-7944 In Re Steven Beebe 2020-03-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-order double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,united-states-v-di fifth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-developments legal-precedent probation probation-condition publish-opinion united-states-v-dixon I - Whether this Court should issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus. II - Whether the Fifth Amendment Double Jeopardy holding of United States v. Dixon, 509 …
19-7838 Anthony Shockey v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP addiction-treatment criminal-justice criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-addiction drug-test due-process parole probation sentencing-guidelines supervised-release violation-classification 1.When an addict on supervised release fails a drug test should the failure be treated as crime, a grade B violation under Sentencing Guideline § 7B1.…
19-1059 Angela Hamm, et vir v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-02-26 Denied Amici (1) 4th-amendment fourth-amendment home-invasion home-search law-enforcement-search privacy privacy-rights probation probation-condition reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether police violate the Fourth Amendment when they conduct a suspicionless search of a probationer's home.
19-7712 Luis Ray Jaramillo, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied IFP appeal appellate-counsel competence due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain probation probation-revocation prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel 1. Where Petitioner's state-trial court counsel did not pursue Petitioner's wishes, commands, and orders to file a second-perfected-appeal after Petit…
19-7615 William E. Vukich v. Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection incarceration judicial-interpretation mistrial probation sentencing Question not identified.
19-7438 Javion Scott v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment griffin-v-wisconsin law-enforcement-action parole post-release-supervision probation probation-supervision search-and-seizure special-needs-search united-states-v-knights warrantless-search In March 2017, a United States Marshal Service search of probationers and supervisees known as "Operation Spring Sweep" involved nearly 200 local, sta…
19-7419 Timothy Shayne Hardin, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied IFP appeals arrest charge civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process dismissal due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment probable-cause probation revocation search-and-seizure sentencing Question not identified.
19-7413 Brennen Clancy v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-conflict classification due-process equal-protection felony misdemeanor probation probation-department sentence-classification sentencing statutory-interpretation Can a probation department change the classification of a sentence from MISDEMEANOR to FELONY for no reason and without any due process? The 1l'h cir…
19-6881 April Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion parole probation reasonableness revocation sentencing supervised-release I. Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable revocation sentence upon Ms. Torres?
19-6575 Dorothy Williams Elliott v. Florida Florida 2019-11-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights court-proceedings criminal-procedure due-process expungement ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing 1. On March 11, 2010, at the Felony Sounding Hearings The State of Florida was ready, and made the "Ore R." Why wasn't Attorney Robert L White, prepar…
19-6573 Garron Gonzalez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probation probation-search search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence unreasonable-search Whether the Fourth Amendment required suppression of evidence found during Warrantless interception of Cell phone? Did the Probationer's search condi…
19-6356 Gary E. Larock, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,due-process,civil-rights,liberty, home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision statutory-reasonableness vagueness warrantless-search Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit …
19-6165 Ricky G. Davis v. Virginia Virginia 2019-10-04 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process pro-se pro-se-representation probation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment standing CAN VIRGINIA CONSTITUTIONALLY HALE A PERSON INTO ITS CRIMINAL COURTS AND THERE FORCE A LAWYER UPON HIM, EVEN WHEN HE INSIST THAT HE WANTS TO CONDUCT H…
19-6082 Chase Matheny v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty liberty-interest overbreadth overbroad probation probation-supervision reasonableness reasonableness-standard supervised-release supervision vagueness Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit …
19-6059 Serrah Arnold, aka Kristen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision reasonableness reasonableness-standard supervised-release vagueness Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit …
19-6048 Franklin Pillier v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights due-process government-intrusion motion-to-withdraw-plea plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal probation probation-condition probation-conditions strict-scrutiny withdrawal-of-plea I. WHETHER, WHEN THE COURT ASKS A DEFENDANT IF HE IS GUILTY THIRTY-FIVE TIMES BEFORE INFORMING HIM OF THE RIGHTS HE IS FORFEITING AND THE CONSEQUENCES…
19-5838 Glenn Ray Smith v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,supervised-release,probation,four home-search liberty liberty-interest probation probation-supervision search-and-seizure supervised-release whether-this-court-should-grant-certiorari-vacate- I. Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to vis…
19-5785 Raul Zapata-Dominguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment home-search indictment jury-trial liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision statutory-maximum statutory-reasonableness supervised-release supervision vagueness I. Whether this Court should grant review to consider whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to vis…
19-5355 Benny Ray Regalado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment hearing-neutrality judicial-procedure neutral-hearing-body parole plea-bargaining probation probation-revocation revocation-hearing waiver-of-rights Whether a defendant waives his right, under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, to a neutral and detached hearing body at his probation-rev…
19-5201 Kenneth Medenbach v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3561 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-authority district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction probation probation-term sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation substantial-rights supervised-release Did the District Court err in finding that it has authority under 18 USC §3561(a)(3) to impose a sentence of six months imprisonment and a 5 year term…
19-5118 Jason Paul Mathison v. Washington Washington 2019-07-09 Denied IFP collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea judicial-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing sentencing-conditions time-limits treatment-program vagueness 1. Are constitutional rights of due process violated when a court imposes a condition that requires a defendant to "successfully complete" a treatme…
19-5008 Jamie B. Johnson v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP digital-age digital-data fourth-amendment gps gps-tracking location-data privacy privacy-rights probation probation-conditions search warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search, unsupported by any individualized suspicion of criminal wrongdoing, of a former probationer's historical GPS location …
18-9478 David Rothenberg v. Florida Florida 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process mens-rea plea-bargaining probable-cause probable-cause-affidavit probation prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Is the use by the presecutor of a "probable cause affidavit" containing averments contradictory to the alleged victim's own sworn statement to char…
18-1490 Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Bucks County, et al. v. Jason Piasecki Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied circuit-split custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody probation sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-conviction state-criminal-convictions third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously concluded, in conflict with all other circuit courts to have addressed this issue, that Respond…
18-9402 David Lester Jackson v. California California 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probation probation-search search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement warrantless-search I.Were:appellates Fourth Amend. rights violated when his backpack searched without a bona-fide warrant under the::auspice of probation searh of Raquel…
18-9377 John Patrick Donohue v. Virginia Virginia 2019-05-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction parole probation sentencing standing Question not identified.
18-1282 David Lee Sanders v. Alabama Alabama 2019-04-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process illegal-plea plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation reversal sentencing speedy-trial 1. Whether a criminal defendant who pleads guilty pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement and serves a five-year, split sentence, which is subsequentl…
18-8711 Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-record due-process family-law parole probation sentencing Cati a CO(Ar -tde~l y ô -fo cahF1& w/#<'Jiis orherd1;/J arid -N,,te, a i R5 o o n rvbJio ri 0 Pacole,,51 'y/Y becau~z Ac,aer farwf h", ior / On y CV/…
18-8641 Willie Houston, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel objective-record plea-bargaining postconviction-proceedings probation probation-eligibility record-of-trial trial-record unintelligent-waiver waiver-of-rights QUESTION ONE IN A CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL BASED ON TRIAL COUNSEL'S MISADVICE THAT PETITIONER WAS ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE PROBATION WHE…
18-8627 Frank Martinez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP disclosure fifth-amendment gardner-v-florida probation sentencing confidential-recommendation disclosure due-process fifth-amendment gardner-v-florida probation probation-officer sentencing The sentencing court failed to disclose the "Confidential Recommendation" of the Probation Officer in regards to the sentencing of the Petitioner. The…
18-1078 James Dawson, et al. v. Joshua Brennan Sixth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) 4th-amendment circuit-split curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement probation probation-condition probation-conditions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit misapply this Court's authority and create a conflict among Circuits by holding that a law enforcement officer violates the Four…
18-759 Matthew D. Sample v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Amici (3) criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-authority district-court-discretion imprisonment income-earning probation restitution sentencing-discretion victim-compensation Whether a district court may reduce a prison sentence, or impose a probationary term in lieu of imprisonment, to enable a defendant to earn income to …
18-7019 Jeff Jones v. Quentin Byrne, Warden Nevada 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-justice parole parole-board probation sentencing Does The U.s, supreme court's holdins in Goraham U.Florida, 176L.Ed,2d 825. Dealins WiTh Juvenilt Ofrtnders only apply to The sentencins of a Juvenile…
18-6642 Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Arizona Arizona 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights consent constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fees judicial-review probation probation-conditions probation-officer revocation right-to-counsel A defendant always has the vight to Centact an attorney at his own expense. It is a violation of the U.S. Constitution to punish defendants for exerci…
18-6137 Steven Doyle Burton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probation probation-search probation-searches reasonable-suspicion search search-condition standing A. Whether the Fourth Amendment allows probation searches without reasonable suspicion. B. Whether the Fourth Amendment allows probation searches wit…
18-5899 Rashod Lewis v. United States Second Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment probation self-incrimination 1. Should certiorari be granted to resolve a conflict amongs t the Circuits on whether a probation er can be ordered to truthfully answer questions po…
18-5715 Thomas A. Sweeney v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment griffin-v-wisconsin law-enforcement parole parole-search-and-seizure privacy-rights probation probation-supervision samson-v-california search-and-seizure stalking-horse This Court has held that persons on parole have a "lesser" expectation of privacy than the general public, due to the "special needs" of the state in …
18-5614 Alexander Jesus Santiago v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission probable-cause probation prosecutorial-burden resentencing sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-revocation Did the district court improperly revoke Mr. Santiago's supervised release and resentence him despite a lack of evidence that he violated supervised r…
18-5601 Jose Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-right due-process federal-sentencing fifth-amendment good-cause parole probation revocation sentencing-hearing witness-confrontation Does the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause confer at least a limited right to confront witnesses at federal sentencing hearings absent a showing, a…