racketeering-conspiracy

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7429 Randy Torres v. United States Second Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-standard circuit-split constructive-amendment racketeering-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement special-sentencing-factor 1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether the district court's final instruction to the jury for the indictment's Special Sentencing F…
24-5664 Christian Pabon v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction due-process enterprise-membership legal-sufficiency murder-in-aid racketeering-conspiracy POINT 1: Whether the evidence was legally insufficient to establish that the petitioner was a member of an enterprise and whether any rational fact fi…
23-6498 Kevin Clayton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment jury-instructions jury-trial murder racketeering racketeering-conspiracy sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the Jury Trial guarantees contained in the Sixth Amendment were violated when the District …
23-5997 James Baxton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-enterprise ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interdependence jury-instructions predicate-acts racketeering-conspiracy The U.S. Constitution demands that a conviction may stand only on evidence of each element of the offense proved beyond a reasonable doubt. When an el…
20-8018 Deshaun Tisdale v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault assault-with-dangerous-weapon common-law-self-defense criminal-law firearms-offense jury-instruction michigan-common-law michigan-law racketeering racketeering-conspiracy self-defense use-of-firearm In a racketeering conspiracy case involving convictions for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon in Aid of Racketeering and Use of a Firearm During a Crime…
19-7720 Lamont Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-circuit-court abuse-of-discretion co-conspirator-hearsay co-conspirator-hearsay-exception criminal-association criminal-history district-court-conviction hearsay-exception mental-health racketeering-conspiracy racketeering-conspiracy-18-usc-1962(d) sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-mental-health-treatment sufficient-evidence uncorroborated-confession I. Did the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals abuse.it's discretion in upholding the District Court's conviction that the evidence against Jones was suffi…
18-7802 Michael Hopson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aid-of-racketeering attempted-murder constitutional-claims criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-circuit insufficient-evidence murder pattern-of-racketeering racketeering-conspiracy Whether the evidence at trial was insufficient to convict Petitioner of the racketeering conspiracy where the United States failed to prove Petitioner…
18-892 Mark N. Kirsch v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights coercion due-process extortion extortion-statute property-transfer racketeering-act racketeering-conspiracy scheidler-precedent scheidler-v-now sekhar-precedent transferable-property union-contract Whether pressuring a construction contractor to enter into a union contract meets the definition of generic extortion such that a racketeering act pre…