rule-of-lenity
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-817 | Charles W. Christopher v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Pending | Response Waived | criminal-law judicial-ambiguity legal-interpretation rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-standards | What degree of statutory ambiguity triggers the rule of lenity? |
| 25-6482 | Arianne Alexys Myles v. Florida | Florida | 2026-01-06 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation due-process florida-constitution indefinite-imprisonment judicial-oath rule-of-lenity | 1. What were the Framers' of the Florida Constitution trying to do when they wrote Article I, Section 17 that prohibits "indefinite imprisonment "? 2… |
| 25-6409 | Krystle Hoffman v. Illinois | Illinois | 2025-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | absurd-principles-doctrine due-process fourteenth-amendment rule-of-lenity sentencing-statute statutory-construction | Whether a defendant's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment are violated when a court refuses to apply the rule of lenity to an ambiguous … |
| 25-5476 | Leigh Valorie Ford v. Florida | Florida | 2025-08-27 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-interpretation florida-constitution indefinite-imprisonment judicial-oath life-sentence rule-of-lenity | 1. What was the Framers' of the Florida Constitution trying to do when they wrote Article I, Section 17 that prohibits "indefinite imprisonment "? 2.… |
| 25-5410 | Kyle Syphax v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split judicial-ambiguity penal-provision plain-text rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation | When Circuits split over a penal provision's meaning, with each side believing that its competing, rational interpretation is compelled by the provisi… |
| 25-5276 | David Leroy Earls v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment rule-of-lenity sexual-abuse-statute statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the failure of the Tenth Circuit to apply the rule of lenity to 18 U.S.C. § 2242(2)(A) resulted in an interpretation of ambiguous language … |
| 24A1266 | Kyle Syphax v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Presumed Complete | application-note circuit-split criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6848 | Derek Steven Trumbull v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-deference judicial-interpretation regulatory-ambiguity rule-of-lenity separation-of-powers statutory-construction | Do the separation of powers and the canons of statutory construction, most fundamentally the rule of lenity, permit the judiciary to defer to an agenc… |
| 24-6114 | Davis Ennis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy-statute drug-quantity judicial-fact-finding mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity sixth-amendment | This case presents a question whether judicial fact-finding of a greater type and quantity of a controlled substance, an element of the offense, requi… |
| 24-6112 | Dekeilon Marquel Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender circuit-split federal-sentencing predicate-offense rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines | I. Should Mr. Johnson be sentenced as a career offender under the United States Sentencing Guidelines based upon the current Circuit split of whether … |
| 24-5263 | Pedro Rodriguez v. Officer Fisher | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit rule-of-lenity state-court timeliness timeliness-rules | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that the California Supreme Court's summary denial of a habeas petition as untimely is beyond review by federa… |
| 24-5098 | Gerald Smith v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-07-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | actus-reus crime-of-violence criminal-law mens-rea rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation | I. Whether this Court should grant a writ of certiorari to determine whether 21 U.S.C. § 848(e)(1)(A) represents a qualifying "crime of violence" unde… |
| 24-5006 | Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-03 | GVR | IFP | 18-u.s.c-2250 34-u.s.c-20913 change-of-residence chevron-deference criminal-procedure jury-instructions rule-of-lenity sex-offender-registration smart-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court erroneously instructed the jury regarding a crucial element of the criminal offense of failure to register as a sex offende… |
| 23-7721 | Darren M. Reese v. Jay Forshey, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-14 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n\n'May a State Court of Last due-process legal-interpretation rule-of-lenity state-court state-law statutory-interpretation | 1. Is the Rule of Lenity a Constitutional Due Process guarantee that must be employed when a State Court construes ambiguous statutory language? 2. I… |
| 23-6546 | Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction | Whether an indictment that alleges only a non-offense or that accepts a plea to conduct falling outside the scope of a federal mail or wire fraud stat… |
| 23-6039 | Selbourne Waite v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924 aiding-and-abetting crime-of-violence criminal-law hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether aiding and abetting a Hobbs Act robbery, which may be completed without the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force, see 18 U.… |
| 23-6029 | Brianna Irene Bustam v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-history drug-offenses first-step-act rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether the "and" in § 3553(f)(1) means "and," so that a defendant satisfies the provision so long as she does not have (A) … |
| 23-5954 | Arthur Picklo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) consecutive-sentences consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the rule of lenity requires a sentencing court to impose a § 924(c) sentence consecutive to only the predicate crime of violence or drug offen… |
| 23-5782 | Tyrone Robinson, aka Tyrone R. Robinson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance federal-law grievous-ambiguity rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether the meaning of the term "controlled substance" in the Sentencing Guidelines includes any substance prohibited by state law, or instead only th… |
| 23-5619 | Jordan Winczuk v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-09-20 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity sentencing sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation | The federal criminal statute entitled Sexual Exploitation of Children provides a series of mandatory-minimum penalties. 18 U.S.C. §2251(e). The penalt… |
| 23-5438 | Fox Joseph Salerno v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | apprendi apprendi-rule blakely blakely-retroactivity certificate-of-appealability due-process jurisdiction retroactivity rule-of-finality rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction | ONE Does Apprendi decision apply to Arizona Defendants on the date that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Apprendi (June 26, 2000), or on the date that… |
| 23-5397 | Emanuel Beach v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act career-offender circuit-split drug-schedules federal-drug-schedules plain-error-doctrine rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the "serious drug offense" definition in the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(A)(ii), and the Career Offender enhancement s… |
| 23A120 | Edward Eugene Robinson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-10 | Presumed Complete | 924(c) attempted-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence hobbs-act-robbery rule-of-lenity | Question not identified. | |
| 22-1222 | Damien Guedes, et al. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-06-20 | GVR | Amici (1)Relisted (4) | 26-usc-5845 administrative-law atf-regulation bump-stock-prohibition bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-firearms-and-explosives chevron-deference machinegun-definition rule-of-lenity statutory-construction | (1) Whether the definition of "machinegun" in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b) includes non-mechanical bump stocks. (2) If the definition of "machinegun" in 26 U.… |
| 22-7807 | Chayna Holguin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-history federal-sentencing first-step-act rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The question presented is whether the "and" in § 3553(f)(1) means "and," so that a defendant satisfies the provision so long as she does not have (A) … |
| 22-6443 | Daquan Madrid Pridgen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation structural-error | I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED STRUCTURAL ERROR BY FINDING THAT THE SENTENCE FOR A VIOLATION OF 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e) SHOULD BE 10 YEARS TO LIF… |
| 22-6002 | Charles Morgan, Jr. v. United States | District of Columbia | 2022-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ambiguity-standard criminal-statute criminal-statutes grievous-ambiguity gundy-v-united-states liberty-deprivation nondelegation nondelegation-doctrine rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether the rule of lenity should apply to all ambiguous criminal statutes or only to those that are "grievously" ambiguous. 2. Whether the full C… |
| 22-340 | Mark E. Pulsifer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (3) | circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-history criminal-justice-reform first-step-act mandatory-minimum rule-of-lenity safety-valve sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | The "safety valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute requires a district court to ignore any statutory mandatory minimum and instead follow … |
| 22-339 | Pfizer Inc. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Amici (5) | advisory-opinion-process anti-kickback-statute criminal-intent healthcare-fraud medical-decision-making medicare mens-rea remuneration rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation | Whether the AKS is violated only if the person offering the "remuneration * * * to induce" the purchase of federally reimbursed healthcare intends to … |
| 22-5566 | Randly Irvin Begay v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | borden-precedent categorical-approach crime-of-violence extreme-recklessness federal-second-degree-murder ninth-circuit recklessness rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation targeted-use-of-force | As this Court held in Borden v. United States, 141 S. Ct. 1817 (2021), an offense must necessarily entail the targeted use of force against another to… |
| 21-8165 | Darryl Keith Rolle v. Florida | Florida | 2022-06-16 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection rule-of-lenity sentencing | Whether this Honorable Court should grant Certiorari where Florida Statute section 775.021(1) concerning the rule of lenity is being unconstitutionall… |
| 21-1551 | Jamar E. Plunkett v. Dan Sproul | Seventh Circuit | 2022-06-10 | Denied | ambiguity contract-interpretation criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-interpretation plea-agreement rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation | Whether a plea agreement that is subject to more than one reasonable interpretation must be interpreted in the defendant's favor. | |
| 21-7569 | Miguel Scott Arnold v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute human-trafficking jury-instructions rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation third-circuit-court third-circuit-court-of-appeals unit-of-prosecution | What is the allowable unit of prosecution for violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)? 2. Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals err by not remanding to th… |
| 21-1215 | Gun Owners of America, Inc., et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment administrative-law agency-interpretation bump-stocks chevron-deference criminal-law criminal-statute firearms machinegun-definition rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the definition of "machinegun" found in 26 U.S.C. §5845(b) is clear and unambiguous, and whether bump stocks meet that definition? 2. Whet… |
| 21-6278 | Joseph Fenelon Cooper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-15 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | attempted-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach clean-vehicle crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation use-of-force | The question presented is whether an attempted bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. § 2113, which may be completed even if it is abandoned before anyone knows… |
| 21-6212 | Anthony De La Torriente v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-08 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split consent criminal-liability intoxication physical-incapability physical-incapacity rule-of-lenity sexual-abuse sexual-abuse-statute statutory-interpretation | The federal sexual abuse statu te, 18 U.S.C. § 2242(2)(B) , criminalizes a " sexual act with another person if that other person is . . . physically i… |
| 21-6176 | Dwaine Collymore, aka Twin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-11-04 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924(c)(8)(A) attempted-hobbs-act-robbery attempted-robbery crime-of-violence exceptional-importance federal-criminal-law hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery, which may be completed through an attempted threat alone, see 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), falls outside the definition o… |
| 21-159 | W. Clark Aposhian v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-08-04 | Denied | Amici (7)Relisted (21) | administrative-law agency-interpretation agency-regulation chevron-deference constitutional-concerns criminal-law rule-of-lenity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Since this Court's 1984 decision in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), federal courts have deferred… |
| 20-1681 | Shelton Barnes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-04 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-intent due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit medicare-billing obstruction obstruction-statute rule-of-lenity sufficiency-of-evidence | (1) Does the Panel Decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, rendered October 28, 2020 (979 F.3d 283 (5th Cir. 2020), WL 6… |
| 20-8094 | Corey L. Johnson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | covered-offense criminal-law drug-conspiracy federal-sentencing first-step-act multi-object-conspiracy rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation | Where there is ambiguity as to which penalty applies in a multi-object conspiracy that is a "covered offense" pursuant to the First Step Act of 2018, … |
| 20-7778 | Gerald Scott v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-04-15 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute federal-sentencing physical-force physical-inaction rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation use-of-force | Does a crime of physical inaction, in which the inaction is deemed the cause of injury or death, have as an element the "use of physical force against… |
| 20-7010 | Israel Santiago-Lugo v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ambiguity amendment-782 criminal-procedure federal-rules forfeiture molina-martinez-v-us peugh-v-us rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines | 1) WHETHER THE SENTENCE WAS IMPOSED UNDER U.S.S.G. §2Dl.l(c) TO ESTABLISH THE BASE OFFENSE, THE GUIDELINES ARE IN REAL SENSE THE BASIC FOR THE SENTEN… |
| 20-836 | Marcus Broadway v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-22 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | agency-deference due-process judicial-interpretation kisor-v-wilkie rule-of-lenity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines stinson-deference | (1) Do courts owe deference to the Sentencing Commission's commentary when it expands the scope of the Sentencing Guidelines? (2) Do the rule of leni… |
| 20-6596 | Kevin S. Abney v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal due-process legislative-history rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether the legislative history dealing with 18 USC § 924(e)(1) supports all the lower courts' rulings concerning offenses committed on different occa… |
| 20-6153 | Jurmaine A. Jeffries v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law drug-statute drug-trafficking proximate-causation proximate-cause rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Whether the "death enhancement" of 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(C) requires proximate causation when the statute's language is ambiguous - triggering the rul… |
| 20-551 | Jack Witt Voris v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | 18-usc-111 assault assault-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute firearm-use multiple-offenses rule-of-lenity sentencing-interpretation statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether firing multiple gunshots in a single assaultive act can be construed as multiple, distinct offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 111 as the Ninth Circ… | |
| 20-5648 | Damien Guidry v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines imprisonment-aggregation probation-modification probation-revocation rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the Federal Sentencing Guidelines permit the aggregation of a prior sentence of imprisonment with a subsequent probation modification imposed … |
| 20-5302 | Edwin Daniel Gongora-Baltan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-interpretation criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-application judicial-construction rule-of-lenity sentencing-guidelines statutory-analysis statutory-interpretation | In the interpretation of a sentencing guideline enhancement pro vision to determine whether it applies to extraterritorial or merely domestic criminal… |
| 19-8890 | Richard Antonio Hodge, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-sentencing first-step-act resentencing retroactivity rule-of-lenity sentence-enhancement sentencing-provisions statutory-interpretation | Whether the ameliorative sentencing provisions of the First Step Act apply to defendants who were initially sentenced pre-First Step Act, but whose se… |
| 19-7776 | Mickel L. Marzouk v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c) crime-of-violence criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process elements-clause fair-sentencing-act fourth-circuit hobbs-act rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation | Petitioner Mickel L. Marzouk presents two questions for this Court's review: 1. Whether Petitioner's sentence on the second § 924(c) conviction and t… |
| 19-7732 | Jerad Hanks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | bank-robbery circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-split constitutional-interpretation crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-statute due-process elements-clause federal-bank-robbery federal-statutes firearm-use rule-of-lenity use-of-force vagueness-doctrine | I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), which criminalizes the use of a firearm during a "crime of violence," in this case, the federal bank robbery statute… |
| 19-7520 | Edward Steven Feeney, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit judicial-precedent lowest-level-conduct lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-7207 | Mohamed Elshinawy, aka Mojoe, aka Mo Jo v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-construction statutory-interpretation vcclea | Did the Courts-violate the Separation of Powers and Due Process when the enhancement § 3Al.4 was applied without examining Congress' explicit directiv… |
| 19-6688 | Robert Joseph Fisher v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | IFP | categorical-approach circuit-split eighth-amendment eighth-circuit fifth-circuit lowest-level-of-conduct rule-of-lenity state-law statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit properly considered the "lowest level of conduct" as required under this Court's precedent for the categorical approach, an… |
| 19-6418 | Wayne Neville Morris v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constructive-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error due-process fatal-variance fifth-amendment modified-categorical-approach rule-of-lenity sixth-amendment | 1. Whether, a conviction based on an erroneous legal theory, interpretation or a mistake about the law, can continue to be sustained, once the petitio… |
| 19-6353 | Bekir Buluc, aka Celebi Buluc, aka Bekir Celibi v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-penalties deportation due-process immigration immigration-law residual-clause rule-of-lenity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Whether the general, residual phrase "takes any other action" in 8 U.S.C. § 1253(a)(1)(C) must be interpreted to embrace only actions like those in th… |
| 19-296 | Damien Guedes, et al. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Amici (7)Relisted (5) | administrative-law chevron-deference criminal-law deference due-process judicial-review overrule rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation waiver | 1. Whether Chevron deference, rather than the rule of lenity, takes precedence in the interpretation of statutory language defining an element of vari… |
| 19-5556 | Regina Lewis v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-magistrate federal-state-balance procedural-violation rule-of-lenity standing statutory-interpretation title-18-usc-115 | Did United States Magistrate Gabriel Gorenstein violate the Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 4 (b) Did my arrest and prosecution violate the narrow federal-state… |
| 18A1352 | Damien Guedes, et al. v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-06-21 | Presumed Complete | administrative-procedure-act chevron-deference criminal-enforcement machinegun-definition rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 18A1336 | Robert Rang v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-law physical-contact rule-of-lenity sexual-activity statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 18-1511 | Ajay S. Ahuja v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-06-04 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law article-iii-standing civil-penalties controlled-substances-act opioid-epidemic record-keeping-requirements rule-of-lenity standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation | Does 21 U.S.C. § 842(c)(1)(B)(i) of the Controlled Substances Act permit the United States to impose a fine for each and every technical violation of … |
| 18-9019 | Lony Tap Gatwas v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-29 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-identity-theft circuit-split criminal-law felony mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentence mandatory-sentencing rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation | Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in interpreting 18 U.S.C. § 1028A's prohibition on the "use" of another's identity without lawful authority as unambi… |
| 18-7557 | Terveus Hyppolite v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3582 career-offender constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether Title 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) is unconstitutional in light of Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886, 895 (2017)(holding the guidelines are u… |
| 18-6831 | David Errol Willock v. William Sperfslage, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability direct-appeal habeas-corpus postconviction-relief remand rule-of-lenity statute-of-limitations | WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD PROCEED TO ESTABLISH A PRECEDENT AS TO THE CORRECT CALCULATION OF THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IN A HABEAS CORPUS ACTION UNDER… |
| 18-6677 | Clarence Darnell Marshall v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment appeal booker-standard career-offender certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit applied a heightened standard to the Defendant's request for Certificate of Appealability in violation of the Supreme … |
| 18-6397 | Angel Rosario v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence advisory-guidelines amendment-709 career-offender due-process ineffective-assistance johnson-rule rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement void-for-vagueness | Were the Appellant's right to Due Process of Law violated and proceedings unfair considering that the Second Circuit granted both summary affirmance t… |
| 18-6036 | Donald S. Harden v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | causation criminal-statute drug-trafficking mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing proximate-cause racial-disparities rule-of-lenity sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation strict-liability | This Court granted certiorari in Burrage v. United States, 569 U.S. 957 (2013), to decide two questions concerning the "death results" sentencing enha… |
| 18-5194 | Teofil Brank v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-875d criminal-law extortion hobbs-act reputation reputational-harm rule-of-lenity scheidler-v-now statutory-interpretation | Does Hobbs Act extortion encompass threats to reputation, as opposed to threats of physical injury or economic harm, as suggested strongly by the stat… |
| 18-5043 | Guy St. Amour v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-interpretation administrative-law aviation-law criminal-statute due-process faa-regulation fair-notice over-criminalization rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation | Title 49, United States Code, Section 46306 (b)(9), makes it a felony offense to knowingly "operat [e] an aircraft with a fuel tank or fuel system tha… |