punishment
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6354 | Osric Tyrone Daise v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure plain-error punishment revocation sentencing supervised-release | Whether the district court committed plain error in revoking Mr. Daise's supervised release pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e) when the court's expressed… |
| 25-5168 | John E. Jackson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process punishment sentencing | John Jackson fully completed his sentence while the government's second appeal was still pending. He argued at the third and fourth sentencings that t… |
| 24-395 | William Edward Neilly v. Michigan | Michigan | 2024-10-09 | GVR | Response RequestedRelisted (8) | constitutional-law criminal-sentencing ex-post-facto legal-interpretation punishment restitution | Whether restitution ordered as part of a criminal sentence is punishment for purposes of the Ex Post Facto Clause. |
| 23-7714 | Derek Gerrish v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bail bail-conditions circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion law-enforcement-searches punishment search-and-seizure | Does a bail condition that allows searches by law enforcement officers without probable cause or reasonable suspicion qualify as punishment for purpos… |
| 23-5753 | Ben J. Latham v. Alaska | Alaska | 2023-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment punishment punitive-law retroactivity right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment | 1. Is AS 12 72 020CK BMA) Punitive EV Pest forp, 2. IS AS 12 72 626(W@ Punitive E¥ Post Lavy Prok- bi ted Stylo te 2. Wes Lottan dened of the Swovin… |
| 22-5994 | Kevin Leon Lucien v. Texas | Texas | 2022-11-04 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure duty-to-investigate ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mitigating-evidence punishment standard-of-review trial-counsel voluntary-intoxication | 1. Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to investigate and present evidence of voluntary intoxication as mitigating evidence at punishment? 2. W… |
| 21-1401 | John Doe v. Colonel Gary T. Settle, Superintendent, Virginia Department of State Police | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-02 | Denied | Response Waived | 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment punishment punishment-analysis sex-offender-registry smith-v-doe state-restrictions | Whether a state sex offender registry that imposes restrictions on individuals beyond mere registration with state or local law enforcement constitute… |
| 20-7902 | John Laponte v. California | California | 2021-04-30 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-punishment incarceration plea-agreement plea-bargaining punishment sentencing | Is petitioner entitled to enforce the terms of his plea agreement; 1 . Is indefinite incarceration constitutional; 2 . What constitutes excessive pu… |
| 20-5941 | Charles Victor Thompson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-07 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | 28-U.S.C-2254(e)(2) aedpa-deference capital-punishment constitutional-claim federal-habeas habeas-corpus Massiah-claims punishment Sixth-Amendment state-court-review Williams-v-Taylor | I. Did the circuit court err in holding that a federal habeas court may never hold a hearing on a punishment issue without first considering 28 U.S.C.… |
| 20-5491 | M. C. v. Indiana | Indiana | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment delinquent-acts due-process eighth-amendment imprisonment juvenile-detention juvenile-justice punishment | 1. Is a child imprisoned for delinquent acts "punished" within the meaning of the Eighth Amendment? |
| 20-5122 | Maximo Flores-Lezama v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3583(e) criminal-conduct criminal-punishment due-process precedents punishment revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Whether a supervised release revocation sentence may be imposed to punish a defendant for his underlying criminal conduct, or whether a punitive revoc… |
| 19-8258 | Denver Maxwell Goree, Jr. v. Michigan Parole Board | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commutation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto parole parole-board punishment | Whether Petitioner's parole process was unconstitutional where (1) the Michigan Parole Board failed to proceed with a recommendation for commutation i… |
| 19-7843 | Tony Buck v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review punishment punishment-clause sentencing | Whether the Judgment of Conviction should be vacated as a violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause because the Judgment punishes Mr. Buck for the exact… |
| 19-7801 | James Benjamin Barstad v. Washington Department of Corrections, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arbitrary-and-capricious civil-rights constitutional-violation contract contract-breach due-process equal-protection inmate-rights punishment sandin-v-conner state-sanctions | 1) When STATE OF WASHINGTON repeatedly imposes sanctions back-to-back, i.e. , when 'temporary" restrictions become perpetual through various schemes,… |
| 19-7049 | In Re Antwoyn Spencer | 2019-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance personal-liberty pro-se-petition punishment standing strickland-standard undue-delay | 1. Whether Appellant is being deprived of his civil right of personal liberty against law contrary to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. | |
| 19-6721 | Christopher Ray Parrish v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-6552 | Darrell Tykwan Atkinson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-6269 | Eduardo Romero Martinez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-conduct double-jeopardy federal-court federal-government punishment sentencing supervised-release | Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits a federal court from revoking supervised release and sentencing someone based on criminal conduct for whi… |
| 19-5558 | Frank Stephon Johnson v. Correct Care Solutions, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-care medical-conditions punishment | was the defendonts conduct de\ therately ,Pucposely Knowing nd cbjecluely yu intera' in Respect to Vv ialating Johnson rcHottonal Vio S Fourteen 1 Ame… |
| 18-542 | John E. Hamilton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-25 | Denied | Response Waived | charging criminal-procedure defendant-standing due-process extradition extradition-treaty international-law punishment rule-of-specialty sentencing standing treaty treaty-interpretation | Under our extradition treaty with Poland, Agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Poland on the Application of the Extradit… |
| 18-39 | Jason Lee Boyd v. Washington | Washington | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-convictions criminal-registration due-process ex-post-facto in-person-appearance offender-registration punishment punitive-law registration-statutes retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Whether the requirement of frequent, in-person reporting renders an offender-registration law punitive, such that applying the law retroactively viola… |