reversible-error
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-7230 | Armani Davis-Malone v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | defendant-rehabilitation district-court judicial-discretion reversible-error sentence-reduction stipulation | Whether a district court commits reversible error by denying a stipulated sentence reduction without acknowledging the stipulation or and evidence of … |
| 24-5497 | Michael Scott Hoover v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-review reversible-error | Is the clause in 18 USC. §2235 that produces or transmitted using materials that have been mailed, shipped, or transported in or affecting interstate … |
| 23-7398 | Jamaal Parker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion new-trial new-trial-standard preservation-of-error reversible-error sentencing sentencing-explanation | This Petition implicates two splits in the Circuits. First, a district judge can grant a new criminal trial "if the interest of justice so requires."… |
| 23-6307 | Veronica McCluskey v. William Hendricks, et al. | California | 2023-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure cross-examination due-process fair-hearing jury-trial legal-conduct reversible-error standing trial-court witness-testimony | 1. The Court Should Grant Review To Clarify Whether The Trial Court Committed Reversible Error In Not Granting Respondent A Jury Trial In The First In… |
| 23-5644 | Robert Timothy Blake v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | coa-mandate constitutional-rights due-process government-witness ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargain record-evidence reversible-error strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | 1. Did Trial Counsel Fail to Adequately inform Defendant of the Consequences of Accepting the Plea Bargain? 2. Was the Strickland V. Washington stan… |
| 22-7722 | Félix Vega-La Torres v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ancestry constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing Does the State Court Decision to deny Petitioner's due-process economic-status equal-justice equal-protection 22-7721" ethnicity federal-prosecution federal-questions guidelines-interpretation judicial-bias national-origin petition-for-appeal puerto-rico-defendants race reversible-error sentencing-discrimination state-court-decision | Does a federal judge's increased sentence targeting a Puerto Rico defendant for higher punishment violate constitutional, statutory, and guidelines pr… |
| 22-7721 | William Whittman v. Prime Autotech, Inc., et al. | Virginia | 2023-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal civil-procedure due-process equal-justice equal-protection federal-questions petition-for-appeal reversible-error state-court state-court-decision | 1. Does the State Court Decision to deny Petitioner's Petition for Appeal on 2/27/23 on grounds that no reversible error occurred in the lower court v… |
| 22-829 | Marla Faith Crawford v. Richmond City School Board | Virginia | 2023-03-01 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court civil-procedure due-process idea-regulations jurisdiction pretrial-motion reversible-error sovereign-immunity standard-of-review subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-of-virginia | 1. Did the Supreme Court of Va. error in determining that the Circuit Court for Richmond City nonruling on a pretrial motion filed on April 2, 2019 wa… |
| 22-6688 | Danny Richard Rivers v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-02 | Denied | IFP | 2254(e)(2) due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exceptions pinholster procedural-default reversible-error | Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals violate due process and/or commit reversable error when it applied PINHOLSTER to bar evidentiary hearing? Unde… |
| 22-6606 | Henry Zabala-Zorilla v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | allen-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction reversible-error supplemental-instruction | Does the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection laws require a state judge be found to commit reversible error to give a supplemental charge - or an "A… |
| 22-6210 | Aaron Michael Crick v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance fourth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-discretion motion-denial reversible-error sentencing | A. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. CRICK'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY… |
| 22-5094 | Garfield D. Campbell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit marijuana-use reversible-error sentencing supervised-release | WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. CAMPBELL'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY… |
| 21-7674 | Jamie Allen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit reversible-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation | WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY REFUSING TO HEAR MR. ALLEN'S MERITORIOUS CLAIMS THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERRO… |
| 21-7581 | Ice Tee Hudson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines consecutive-sentences criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit reversible-error state-prosecution | WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY DENYING MR. HUDSON'S MERITORIOUS ARGUMENT THAT THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR BY I… |
| 21-5715 | Ronald George Whitehouse v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof co-defendant criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process fifth-circuit probation-officer reversible-error sentencing | 1. THE PETITIONER OBJECTED TO THE PROBATION OFFICER'S CONCLUSION THAT THIS DEFENDANT WAS RESPONSIBLE TO 10 KILOS OF METHAMPHETAMINE AS A RESULT OF GIV… |
| 21-5049 | Yancey J. Myers, aka Yam v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fatal-variance judicial-integrity plain-error reversible-error standard-of-review | When the ex post facto clause is breached and the error is obviously plain, does this Constitutionally forbidden error require a reversal of a crimina… |
| 20-1186 | Dynasty Group, Inc. v. Stephen Smith, Trustee for Bankruptcy Estate of Heritage Real Estate Investment Corporation | Alabama | 2021-02-25 | Denied | criminal-procedure jury-selection prejudicial-statements reversible-error trial-judge voir-dire | Whether the Trial Judge The Trial Judge Committed Reversible Error When He Refused to Strike the Jury Venire Due to the Taint of Prejudicial Statement… | |
| 20-6861 | Justin Lee Sanders v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eighth-circuit factual-disputes federal-jurisdiction federal-writ habeas-corpus reversible-error | The United States District Court, Southern District of Iowa - and the Eighth Circuit Court should have issued a COA to review the denials of the Petit… |
| 20-443 | United States v. Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev | First Circuit | 2020-10-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (10)Relisted (7) | capital-sentences district-court penalty-phase pretrial-media-coverage reversible-error voir-dire | 1. Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that respondent's capital sentences must be vacated on the ground that the district court, during … |
| 20-5804 | Bobby Burghart v. Sarah Beyer | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights counsel discovery district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-standard reversible-error standing | Did the District Court err, and did the Fourth Circcit Court of Appeals Compound the error, when petitioner's request For counsel was denied, because … |
| 19-8389 | Edward Yarbrough, Jr. v. J. Sullivan, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bill-of-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-error federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct remarks-authentication reversible-error trial-court | 1. Whether a prosecutor's uninvited inflammatory remarks made in summation, absent a timely/explicit curative instruction, so infected the trial with … |
| 19-7957 | Damar D. Ruffin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law jury-instruction jury-trial reversible-error sentencing standard-of-review | 1. Sheer le Sul, Circle Cocer oF Aopeals Tiling \s \n direct Contes cartlkwothe Laws othe Svupreme CoURT™ Rex er ding . Pleas Eaor tor Kel cation OF —… |
| 19-6515 | Andre Verlin Anderson v. Vicki Janssen, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-eyewitness-identifi criminal-procedure-habeas-corpus-certificate-of-ap Did the district court commit reversible error whe Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eig due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus motion-to-suppress photographic-lineup reversible-error | QUESTION ONE: Did the district court commit reversible error by denying Petitioner's motion to suppress the unduly suggestive photographic lineup? QU… |
| 19-6232 | Jason James Neiheisel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure demeanor due-process jury-verdict prosecutorial-questioning reversible-error substantive-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the Eleventh Circuit, on review for sufficiency of evidence, can affirm a conviction citing the verdict itself; on the supposition the jury co… |
| 18-9442 | Donald Loston v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-efficiency judicial-integrity reversible-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-trial-court trial-court-discretion | Whether a state trial court denial of counsel of choice is reversible error when no threat against the interest of judicial integrity and efficiency w… |
| 18-8944 | Timmy W. Doucet v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-deliberation jury-deliberations louisiana-criminal-code reasonable-doubt reversible-error sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Whether reasonable jurists determine that it was reversible error for the district court to permit the jury, over defense counsel's objections, to vie… |
| 18-8657 | Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Maricopa Commissioners | Arizona | 2019-04-01 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure dismissal evidentiary-ruling judgment judgment-of-dismissal jurisdiction reversible-error rule-38.1(n) special-commissioner | a ReVErSible Error. in the JUDGMENT OF DISMISSAL, a ISSued pursuant to Rule 38.1 (d)C2), (AriZ.R. Civ. PrOO)? Whether Or not, the SPECIAL COMMISSIONE… |
| 18-7356 | Jack Gossett v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial-procedure defendant-rights due-process expert-testimony government-agent-testimony jury-influence prejudice reasonable-doubt reversible-error substantial-rights untendered-expert-testimony | Did the testimony of a government agent, having not been tendered as an expert witness after interpreting and explaining events that he DID NOT observ… |
| 18-6497 | Dexter Watson v. Raymond Byrd, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing factual-disputes intent reversible-error | Did the pury reasonably, logically and legally infer from the evid1. ence presented, that petitioner was guilty of violating the statue beyond a reaso… |