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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6883 | Francis James Acebo, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-02-24 | Pending | IFP | criminal-procedure evidentiary-notice-requirement federal-rules-of-evidence first-degree-murder reverse-404b self-defense | Mr. Acebo was tried for First Degree Murder (and other offenses) in connection with the shooting death of Derek Pappan. He asserted the defense of sel… |
| 25-997 | Sinnissippi Rod & Gun Club, Inc., et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. | Illinois | 2026-02-20 | Pending | firearm-regulation open-carry public-carry right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense | District of Columbia v. Heller 554 U.S. 570, 612-613 (2008) explained that the Second Amendment protects the "right to carry arms openly." New York St… | |
| 25A903 | Nima Moradi v. Florida | Florida | 2026-02-09 | Application | deadly-force ineffective-assistance jury-instructions prejudice-prong self-defense strickland-standard | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6749 | Colin Williams v. United States | Second Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-statute felony-possession firearms-restriction second-amendment self-defense | 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) imposes a lifelong prohibition, punishable by up to 15 years' imprisonment, on the possession of any firearm or ammunition, for … |
| 25-872 | Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Pending | Response Waived | constitutional-challenge firearm-restriction public-parks second-amendment self-defense sensitive-places | Fairfax County, Virginia, prohibits possession of firearms in its public parks, which consist of almost 24,000 acres of mostly wooded land across 420 … |
| 25-6581 | Michael David Dunn v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | AEDPA criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. What is the standard of review for a federal habeas court for analyzing a sufficiency-of-the evidence claim under the Anti-Terrorism and Effective … |
| 25A788 | Kriston Price v. Ohio | Ohio | 2026-01-08 | Application | fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment home-invasion self-defense sixth-amendment voluntary-manslaughter | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6479 | Leontis Cornelius v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-recklessness felon-in-possession jury-trial self-defense sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | 1.When the government seeks to aggravate the sentence of a felon in possession of a firearm (18 USC § 922 [g]) contending that he violated a State c… |
| 25-6378 | Kriston Price v. Ohio | Ohio | 2025-12-16 | Denied | IFP | aggravated-murder criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction self-defense sixth-amendment | 1. Whether sufficient evidence existed to reject the defense of self defense where the defendant was violently attacked, beaten, and through the a mir… |
| 25-6324 | Craig Edward Hunnicutt, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure factual-findings self-defense sentencing-discretion sixth-circuit supervised-release | I. Whether the Sixth Circuit decision affirming Mr. Hunnicutt's supervised release violation and new law convictions, improperly upheld the clearly er… |
| 25-6183 | Stephen C. Crawford v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fifth-amendment perjury reasonable-doubt self-defense sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. Whether this Court should adopt and encourage, when requested by a party, a definition of reasonable doubt to include "a doubt that would cause a r… |
| 25-6063 | Timothy LeBlanc v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-07 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | bruen-standard constitutional-rights felony-possession firearms-ban second-amendment self-defense | 1. Is the lifetime ban on possession of firearms by all felons, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), plainly unconstitutional on its face under New York… |
| 25A504 | Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-03 | Application | constitutional-challenge firearm-possession local-government public-parks second-amendment self-defense | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5961 | Eva Marie Gardner v. Maryland | Maryland | 2025-10-27 | Pending | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | concealed-carry due-process full-faith-and-credit interstate-travel second-amendment self-defense | 1. Does Maryland's prohibition on carrying a handgun without a state permit, as applied to an interstate traveler with a valid Virginia concealed carr… |
| 25-356 | Steven P. Mancuso v. New York | New York | 2025-09-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bruen-precedent constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment self-defense | The first question is whether New York's Penal Law § 265.03(3), § 265.02(1) and § 265.01-b(1), which prohibit the ownership of a firearm in the home o… |
| 25-5637 | Jeffrey Michel v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruen-test constitutional-challenge felony-disarmament firearm-possession second-amendment self-defense | Pursuant to the Second Amendment analysis dictated by New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), and clarified by United S… |
| 25-5460 | Joseph Thompson, Sr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | common-law federal-prosecution homicide self-defense stand-ground violent-felony | In Beard v. United States, 158 U.S. 550 (1895) and Brown v. United States, 256 U.S. 335 (1921), this Court recognized the common law right to stand on… |
| 25-5429 | Anthony Brian Walker v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense criminal-procedure jury-instructions self-defense sua-sponte substantial-evidence | 1. In a criminal prosecution, when an affirmative defense—such as imperfect self-defense—is supported by substantial evidence, does the trial court ha… |
| 25-5358 | Deontay Tyre Compton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | circuit-split constitutional-challenge felony-conviction firearm-possession second-amendment self-defense | The question presented in this case is whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)'s lifetime ban on firearm possession for all individuals previously convicted of … |
| 25-5208 | Jessie Bullock v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-statute felony-conviction firearm-prohibition second-amendment self-defense | Section 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) imposes a permanent, lifetime prohibition on possession of a firearm by a person previously convicted of any crime punis… |
| 25A91 | William Collins, III v. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-23 | Presumed Complete | as-applied-challenge felon-in-possession firearms-regulation gun-rights second-amendment self-defense | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5021 | Dajavan Speaks v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge gun-possession nonviolent-offense second-amendment self-defense | 1) Is § 922(g)(1) unconstitutional as applied to an individual when he was a victim of a drive by shooting and has been convicted of a non-violent pre… |
| 24-7369 | Shawn K. Bever v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruen-test constitutional-rights firearms-regulation law-abiding-citizen second-amendment self-defense | In New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022), this Court adopted a two-step approach for analyzing whether regulation of the pos… |
| 24-7367 | Timothy D. Leners v. Ryan Schelhaas, Interim Attorney General of Wyoming, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment-rights castle-doctrine jury-instructions no-duty-to-retreat prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense | ONE: Were Defendant's 2nd ((or 5th or 6th or 14th)) Amendment Rights violated when he was denied 'No Duty to Retreat' / ('Stand your Ground') Jury ins… |
| 24A1191 | Virginia Duncan, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-04 | Presumed Complete | en-banc-review firearms-regulation magazine-capacity second-amendment self-defense strict-scrutiny | Question not identified. | |
| 24-7257 | Alejandro R. Duarte v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2025-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance medical-evidence self-defense waiver | I. In a he-said-she-said case involving allegations of physical assault with self-defense being raised as an affirmative defense, is defense counsel i… |
| 24-6744 | Tia Lyn Nicole Sulu-Kerr v. Arizona | Arizona | 2025-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-code enumerated-rights legislative-restriction second-amendment self-defense | Whether a state legislature may completely eliminate the enumerated right to self-defense, which is the second amendment's "central component", by lim… |
| 24-936 | Andrew Hanson, et al. v. District of Columbia, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-02-28 | Denied | Amici (3) | arms-ban common-use constitutional-rights dangerous-weapons second-amendment self-defense | Whether the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution allows a categorical ban on arms that are indisputably common throughout the United Sta… |
| 24-6653 | John Douglas Alexander v. Jonathan Nance, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process implied-malice jury-instructions self-defense | Court err in finding that the Petitioner was not entitled to a due process review of the newly erased South Carolina Supreme Court procedure, governin… |
| 24-6527 | Hazhar A. Sayed v. Gilbert Caley, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-02-10 | Denied | IFP | competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se-litigant self-defense | 1) Whether The Doyle v. Ohio. 426 U.S. 610 (1976) violation had a substantial and injurious effect in determining the jury 's verdict? 2) Whether the… |
| 24-6377 | Marland Henry Gibson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | citizenship-clause constitutional-rights due-process legislative-acts natural-rights self-defense | Whether the challenged legislative acts violate the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms for self-defense, as protected by the U.S. Constituti… |
| 24-6279 | Dickens Etienne v. Michelle Edmark, Warden | First Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-disclosure exculpatory-evidence first-degree-murder habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense | Where there was suppressed exculpatory evidence, in the form of a proffer letter demonstrating that a key prosecution witness who provided significant… |
| 24-6166 | Hector Arturo Campos v. Texas | Texas | 2024-12-17 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure deadly-weapon legal-standard provocation self-defense sudden-passion | In the review of a Sudden Passion case, is all evidence of former provocation immaterial? Trial transcript shows evidence was removed from the scene … |
| 24-6144 | Michael Roy Fuller v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-13 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-appeal habeas-corpus malice self-defense vehicle-shooting | 1. When does self-defense become malice? 2. When one is in a car and afraid for his life, how is it malice to shoot into the dashboard as a last reso… |
| 24-6049 | Mario Ray Childs v. Jeff Tanner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense | Was Petitioner Denied His Constitutional Right To Fair Trial And The Effective Assistance Of Counsel Where A Multitude Of Inactions On The Part Of Tri… |
| 24-6046 | Steven Eric Walker v. United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-prohibition government-power right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense weapons-regulation | Does the unqualified constitutional prohibition established by the Second Amendment delegate to government a free-floating power to infringe upon the … |
| 24-478 | Omnisun Azali v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-10-30 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence | Ohio's statutory law "allow ed" Petitioner Omnisun Azali ("Azali") to "act in self-defense[.]" Ohio Revised Code § 2901.05(B)(1) (effective Mar. 28, 2… |
| 24-5853 | Chad William Reed v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2024-10-29 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process procedural-protections second-amendment self-defense | i, Is if Mu thUihiL of cTujku ftOf q PfoSeciAthf h Prtvulty/y Cwmi)' \ 1Ziolihon It) fkny (X Citizen th'j StconJ /hmrtitHwf fijhf of Seif* htftnfi ■ … |
| 24A369 | Steven Walker v. United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-18 | Denied | constitutional-burden due-process government-power second-amendment self-defense weapons-regulation | 1. In District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, (2008), this Court rejected the government's belief that it has a plenary power over the individua… | |
| 24-5652 | Tiffany Smith v. Shannon Olds, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-09-27 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-discretion provocation self-defense | QUESTION 1 - Within the context of SUFFICIENCY of Jackson v. Virginia. 443 U.S. 307, at 317 n.10. When the defense of self-defense and provocation ha… |
| 24-253 | Avery Curry Archuleta, aka Avery Archuleta v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-06 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure jury-instruction legal-standard self-defense trial-court unanimity | The Petitioner, Avery Curry Archuleta, asks this Court to clarify that trial courts instruct juries that any decision on a self-defense must be unanim… |
| 24A174 | Omnisun Azali v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-08-14 | Presumed Complete | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment self-defense sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence | Does express statutory permission to act in self-defense call down the protections of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constit… | |
| 24-120 | David Schieferle v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-02 | Denied | 2nd-amendment atf-interpretation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearms firearms-silencer national-firearms-act second-amendment self-defense silencers | Whether items such as inline fuel filters and firearms solvent traps, which might be able to function to muffle or silence the report of a firearm, ca… | |
| 24-5171 | Jeffrey Wayne Ross v. Edward Bickham, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-30 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights defense-witnesses due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-homicide-case self-defense sixth-amendment | 1. Whether or not the trial court and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when they made a decision that Petitioner didn't receive ineffective assist… |
| 24-5036 | Dalvon Curry, aka Dale, aka Dalo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights combat-speech constitutional-protections deadly-force deadly-physical-force excessive-force law-enforcement penal-law retreat-duty self-defense use-of-force | \AjaS %txt 6o&tCi**vV cvi^wce, Vo 'pehhov'ter ko^c-cbbor Czq^ctA by }vleuJ YorK Pencx,\ Unuj VW Xa>V v 35 \6 txYOO "po-Yif\onef l5 -£outore Vo feVfe«&… |
| 23-1297 | Michael Roane v. Tina Ray | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Denied | clearly-established-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-seizure objective-reasonableness personal-property qualified-immunity self-defense summary-judgment unreasonable-seizure | 1. Whether Roane's act had to be the "necessary" or "unavoidable" act, rather than within a range of objective reasonableness, to be considered an act… | |
| 23-7673 | Aubrey Jiles Stanley, Jr. v. Bryan Morrison, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense severance sixth-amendment witness-testimony | 1.) WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILURE TO MOVE FOR A MISTRIAL, OR FILE A SEVERANCE MOTION IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, WHICH PREJUDICE HIS DEFENSE? FO… |
| 23A1058 | Ocean State Tactical, LLC, dba Big Bear Hunting and Fishing Supply, et al v. Rhode Island, et al. | First Circuit | 2024-05-30 | Presumed Complete | arms-regulation bruen-test historical-tradition large-capacity-magazine second-amendment self-defense | Whether Rhode Island's Large Capacity Feeding Device Ban Act of 2022, which criminalizes the possession of ammunition feeding devices capable of holdi… | |
| 23-7517 | Christopher L. Wilson v. Hawaii | Hawaii | 2024-05-21 | Denied | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP | 2nd-amendment bruen-test civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process licensing-scheme second-amendment self-defense standing supremacy-clause | Whether the Bruen test determines when a State's criminal prosecution for carrying a handgun without a license violates the Second Amendment? |
| 23-1219 | Colton Matthews v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-05-16 | Denied | chambers-precedent chambers-v-mississippi constitutional-rights due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial gun-evidence right-to-present-defense self-defense | Under the unique facts and circumstances of this self-defense case, does exclusion of any evidence regarding the gun found in the open center console … | |
| 23-7329 | Alrick Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel premeditated-murder self-defense sixth-amendment | I. The United States Supreme Court has held that a state criminal Appellant has Constitutional Right to a fair trial guaranteed by the Due Process Cla… |
| 23-7257 | Gavin G. Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-18 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-notice premeditated-murder self-defense use-of-force witness-testimony | A) Whether the jury used unreasonable facts to prove a premeditated design. Where there was sufficient [provocation] to find Petitioner not guilty. B… |
| 23-7207 | Dwayne K. Taylor v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-defect criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions necessity self-defense sentencing sentencing-enhancement | 0. 4he \ri &{ Cowri CammiM&c/ ernoTT clet^jfirg 4^ie. doferrs^. reaue*& -fe 'OSinW^( ne^ass^^ even Ahe^ um% Som© iq <Jrta4 'C&cmxl rg £>U4^Yve:wl, ^ir… |
| 23-1018 | Harold Jean-Baptiste v. City of New York, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-03-18 | Denied | Response Waived | 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conceal-carry due-process gun-rights law-enforcement licensing-restrictions second-amendment self-defense standing takings | Whether New York State Section 400 restrictions on conceal carry handgun license violate the Second Amendment. Under the provision of New York State S… |
| 23-878 | Javier Herrera v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-02-14 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (7) | 2nd-amendment arms-protection civil-rights due-process free-speech historical-tradition second-amendment self-defense semiautomatic-rifles standard-magazines standing takings | Whether semiautomatic rifles and standard handgun and rifle magazines do not count as "Arms" within the ordinary meaning of the Second Amendment's pla… |
| 23-863 | Dominic Bianchi, et al. v. Anthony G. Brown, in His Official Capacity as Attorney General of Maryland, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-12 | Denied | Amici (1) | 2nd-amendment bruen civil-rights common-use constitutional-rights due-process firearms-regulation gun-ownership heller individual-liberty second-amendment self-defense | Whether the Constitution allows the government to prohibit law-abiding, responsible citizens from protecting themselves, their families, and their hom… |
| 23-6559 | Marcus Johnson v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-deference confrontation-clause due-process expert-testimony expert-witness judicial-review prejudice prejudice-standard self-defense sixth-amendment testimonial-statements | 1. Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the District Court's finding that Mr. Johnson suffered no prejudice from the Confrontation violation that… |
| 23-6521 | Shawn Reeves v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2024-01-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment-comparison new-jersey-law permit-requirement second-amendment self-defense standing takings | Does prosecuting a person for possessing a firearm without a permit violate the Second and Fourteen Amendments when that person was unable to receive … |
| 23-6270 | Tony French v. Washington | Washington | 2023-12-15 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence police-misconduct property-rights search-and-seizure self-defense state-action vehicle-destruction vehicle-seizure | Question not identified. |
| 23-6205 | Jeriah Scott Budder v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-jurisdiction due-process ex-post-facto federal-prosecution indian-country major-crimes-act mcgirt-v-oklahoma self-defense | Whether the Tenth Circuit contravened this Court's precedents in ruling that Petitioner was not denied due process of law — based on ex post facto pri… |
| 23-6092 | Joe Lawrence Gallegos v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-enterprise criminal-law federal-courts gang-status gang-violence purpose-doctrine self-defense self-preservation statutory-interpretation vicar-murder | Whether acting on the immediate instinct for self-preservation constitutes acting for the purpose of "maintaining or increasing position in an enterpr… |
| 23-526 | Charles Nichols v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process firearms-rights fourteenth-amendment second-amendment self-defense standing | 1. Does the Second Amendment protect the keeping and bearing of loaded and unloaded rifles, shotguns, and handguns, in case of confrontation, for th… |
| 23-6030 | Gregory P. Burleson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confession corroborating-evidence defense-of-others excessive-force federal-law law-enforcement reasonable-doubt self-defense supreme-court | 1. Is a citizen entitled to act in self-defense or defense of others against law enforcement officers if he has a reasonable belief that there is an i… |
| 23-5994 | James Jordan McClain v. Tammy Campbell, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation equitable-tolling first-degree-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct second-degree-murder self-defense voluntary-manslaughter | 1. In assessing whether extraordinary circumstances stood in a petitioner's path for equitable-tolling purposes, do those circumstances need to make e… |
| 23-5868 | Nicky S. Keo v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2023-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-penalty due-process felony firearm-licensing licensing mandatory-minimum second-amendment self-defense | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts requires its citizens to get permission from their local police departments before they can exercise their right to … |
| 23-5423 | Andre Monteek Edwards v. Kim Cargor, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accident accident-defense criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice prejudice-analysis second-degree-murder self-defense strickland-standard | 1(a). DOES A SECOND DEGREE MURDER CONVICTION PRECLUDE A SHOWING OF PREJUDICE WHEN COUNSEL'S ERRORS WHICH PRECLUDED THE JURY'S CONSIDERATION OF MICHIGA… |
| 23-5230 | Steven Poppo v. Illinois | Illinois | 2023-07-28 | Denied | IFP | assistance-of-counsel attempted-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-intent deadly-force due-process equal-protection fair-trial homicide self-defense use-of-force | Question not identified. |
| 23-82 | Joshua Isaiah Joyner v. Texas | Texas | 2023-07-27 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-violations criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense | Did the TCCA deny petitioner procedural due process by summarily rejecting his substantial constitutional claims without requiring the trial court to … |
| 22-7788 | Deandre J. Baskerville v. Tim McConahay, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense | Question #1: Was Petitioner's due process and equal protection of law rights to a fair trial under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution violate… |
| 22-7687 | James Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-01 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion retroactive-application self-defense statutory-interpretation verbal-threat | Question not identified. |
| 22-971 | Glenn Henderson v. Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., et al. | North Carolina | 2023-04-07 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process employment-dispute first-amendment free-speech legal-threat pro-se-litigation self-defense threat | Is it legal to say you will attempt to defend yourself if attacked? Does it make a difference if the persons warned committed several or many felonie… | |
| 22-7227 | Jared B. Goudy v. Jennifer E. Caluori | Florida | 2023-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-action civil-immunity constitutional-rights criminal-activity driving-under-the-influence due-process immunity self-defense stand-your-ground statutory-interpretation | Florida's Second District Court of Appeal affirmed the Twelfth Judicial Circuit's dismissal of Petitioner's case. Following an evidentiary hearing, th… |
| 22-7070 | Kenneth Douglas Clark, III v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2023-03-22 | Denied | IFP | 6th and 8th Amendment rights by refusing to drop char and allowing a biased jury verdict excluding his self-defense claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-bias jury-exclusion prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-procedure | 1. Is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in violation of the Petitioner's 5th and 8th amendment by refusing not to drop all charges against the Petition… |
| 22-848 | James Douglas Fox v. Mark Campbell, et ux. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | county-of-sacramento-v-lewis excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure self-defense unreasonable-force | Petitioner James Fox performed a welfare check at the home of Respondents Mark Campbell and Sherrie Campbell. Mark stated through the closed front doo… |
| 22-6752 | Enrique Nunes Lopez v. Josie Gastelo, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 2nd-amendment certificate-of-appealability home-defense justifiable-homicide self-defense | I. Given the Second and Fourteenth Amendment rights to possess a firearm in the home for self-defense, and where the evidence tended to favor a verdic… |
| 22-563 | Randall Greer, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Christopher Greer, Deceased v. James Haman, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response Waived | deadly-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor jury-instruction law-enforcement probable-cause self-defense tennessee-v-garner use-of-force | A law enforcement officer's use of deadly force in self-defense is not constitutionally unreasonable. Courts throughout the nation universally agree t… |
| 22-5924 | Carl Jones v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2022-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard legal-sufficiency self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | I. Does the well-settled standard and scope of review governing sufficiency-of-the-evidence claims - a standard and scope of constitutional dimension … |
| 22-325 | Adam Bruzzese v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Second Circuit | 2022-10-07 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law adverse-employment-action constitutional-rights due-process employment-action ex-parte-statements government-employment preponderance-of-evidence procedural-fairness self-defense | Can the adverse employment action against Adam Bruzzese stand if it was administered in a manner which does not satisfy due process requirements? Can… |
| 22-5438 | Winfred Scott Simpson v. North Carolina Department of Public Safety | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-24 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | and ineffective assistance of counsel unlawful detention compulsory-process due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jencks-act miranda-rights right-to-present-defense self-defense sixth-amendment | Violation of Petitioner's 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights of due process and the right to present an effective defense regarding suppressed eviden… |
| 22-5243 | Grover D. Cannon v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2022-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actus-reus constitutional-law criminal-procedure defense-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana mens-rea right-to-autonomy self-defense sixth-amendment | Did Louisiana's courts violate Grover D. Cannon's Sixth Amendment rights recognized in McCoy by allowing Mr. Cannon's defense counsel over Mr. Cannon'… |
| 22-5019 | Amber Renee Guyger v. Texas | Texas | 2022-07-01 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia legal-sufficiency mistake-of-fact self-defense | 1. Under the legal sufficiency standard of Jackson v. Virginia, does a court violate due process by concluding that self-defense and mistake-of-fact a… |
| 21-8098 | Rocky Christian v. Florida | Florida | 2022-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | anders-review appellate-procedure appellate-review fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction plain-error self-defense self-defense-instruction sixth-amendment | Did the Fifth District Court of Appeal for the State of Florida conduct an adequate review of the record pursuant to Anders v. California 386 U.S. 738… |
| 21-1485 | In Re Eileen Vey | 2022-05-25 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct retaliation self-defense | WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD ORDER APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS TO CLEAR HER RECORD OF ALL CHARGES SINCE SHE WAS DEPRIVED OF "REASONABLE DOUBT" AND CLEAR EVIDEN… | |
| 21-1440 | Mark T. McCloskey v. Missouri Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel | Missouri | 2022-05-13 | Denied | Response Waived | 2nd-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment moral-turpitude pardon professional-misconduct right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense | Whether the Second Amendment and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution permit an attorney to be sanctioned … |
| 21-1422 | Brett Ferris v. Chrystal Scism, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Joshua Scism | Second Circuit | 2022-05-05 | Denied | Amici (2) | 2nd-amendment civil-rights deadly-force due-process fourth-amendment lethal-force police-procedure qualified-immunity self-defense standing use-of-force | Does the doctrine of qualified immunity shield a police officer from suit (not merely from judgment) where his/her split-second decision to deploy let… |
| 21-1341 | Wysingo Turner v. Christine Brannon-Dortch, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2022-04-11 | Denied | Response Waived | 2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-law firearm-possession murder-trial self-defense standing state-court | Whether a state court's decision that a criminal defendant can be falsely accused during his state criminal murder trial of "illegally" possessing out… |
| 21-7458 | Derek Williamson v. Jason Clendenion, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split due-process jury-trial-rights lenient-standard self-defense summary-remand | I. Does the failure to give a self-defense jury instruction contradict, or is an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law regardin… |
| 21-7362 | Kyle Kurtz v. David W. Gray, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto free-speech habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt rules-of-court self-defense | Are the rules promulgated by the United States Supreme Court not being enforced by the judges representing the Kingdom of Judah or are the law enforce… |
| 21-7249 | Jacob Ivan Hill v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | capital-punishment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel self-defense sentencing-phase sixth-amendment | Question not identified. |
| 21-1194 | Virginia Duncan, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-02 | GVR | Amici (5)Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process magazine-ban property-rights scrutiny-standard second-amendment self-defense standing takings takings-clause | In District of Columbia v. Heller, this Court held that the Second Amendment protects arms that are "typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for l… |
| 21-6740 | Teddy Chiquito v. United States, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection indian-civil-rights-act restitution-damages self-defense tribal-bill-of-rights tribal-law | 1. Whether the Government and a Tribal Law Enforcement Employer can arbitrarily convict a Tribal Police Officer, by violating his due process rights a… |
| 21-910 | David Zaitzeff v. City of Seattle, Washington | Washington | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response Waived | 2nd-amendment blade-length civil-rights constitutional-rights fixed-blade-knives knife-carry municipal-code second-amendment self-defense standing | The city of Seattle has a municipal code. This code prohibits the public carry of knives by ordinary, law-abiding citizens, speaking of knives which a… |
| 21-902 | Dominic Bianchi, et al. v. Brian Frosh, Attorney General of Maryland, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-12-20 | GVR | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 2nd-amendment arms-possession civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearms firearms-regulation heller-precedent second-amendment self-defense standing takings | Whether the Constitution allows the government to prohibit law-abiding, responsible citizens from protecting themselves, their families, and their hom… |
| 21-6662 | Bryant Christopher Watts v. Texas | Texas | 2021-12-17 | Denied | IFP | affirmative-defense appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process reasonable-doubt self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court | DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN AFFIRMING THE TRIAL COURT WHERE EVIDENCE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT THE AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE OF SELF DEFENSE BEYOND A R… |
| 21-6586 | Mark James Martinez v. California | California | 2021-12-13 | Denied | IFP | california-law civil-rights common-law constitutional-right deadly-force due-process fundamental-right governmental-interest heightened-scrutiny imminent-harm self-defense | Whether California's rule that self-defense is not available when a person does not act out of fear alone impermissibly infringes on the constitutiona… |
| 21-6120 | Javier Perez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearms heller-interpretation immigration second-amendment self-defense standing undocumented-immigrants | 1. Whether an undocumented immigran t like Javier Perez, who came to the United States over 15 years ago and de veloped substantial ties to this count… |
| 21-6044 | Kenneth Jay Still v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmative-defense criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit firearm-possession firearms justification justification-defense police-contact prohibited-person self-defense | Several circuits have held that justification is a cognizable affirmative defense to the charge of being a prohibited person in possession of a firear… |
| 21-6063 | Jason William Custer v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-6th-14th-amendments due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions miranda-rights pauper-defendant postconviction procedural-bar self-defense | This is a First Degree Murder case, which resulted in the finding of guilt on all charges and a Life Without the Possibility (LWOP) sentence plus and … |
| 21-5931 | Noe Lopez Suchite v. New York | New York | 2021-10-08 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-information penal-law right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense trial-transcripts | NY-PENAL'LAW' '35.15 JUSTIFICATION . I reasonably believes to defend myself,when I am risk of peril, whenever can be in my defense. I. AM JUSTIFY 4.CO… |
| 21-5905 | Mitchell L. Christen v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment alcohol-intoxication civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession self-defense standing state-regulation takings | Wisconsin Statute §941.20(1)(b) criminalizes possessing a firearm while under the influence of alcohol. Mitchell Christen had five drinks over an even… |
| 21-5878 | Linaker Charlemagne v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-05 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing newly-discovered-evidence self-defense service-of-process | 1. Whether District Court, departed from essential requirements of law, by not perfecting service on Petitioner in a timely manner, which denied cons… |
| 21-5765 | Tyrus D. Coleman v. Ron Neal, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder constitutional-review double-jeopardy habeas-corpus judicial-procedure murder retrial self-defense state-court-review | 1. Whether, even after Wilson v. Sellers, 584 U.S. ___, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), when the last state court to decide a prisoner's federal claim explain… |
| 21-5596 | Carl William Frazier v. California | California | 2021-09-08 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment criminal-negligence due-process involuntary-manslaughter jury-instructions knife-assault lesser-included-offense self-defense sua-sponte-instruction | In a murder case, may a defendant's inherently assaultive felonious conduct - ie, the use of a knife for the purpose of unreasonagle self-defense - af… |
| 21-5464 | Steven Eric Walker v. United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-regulation individual-liberty second-amendment self-defense standing supremacy-clause | In District of Columbia v. Heller, this Court acknowledged that the Second Amendment protects a pre-existing fundamental right to armed self-defense w… |
| 21-215 | Barry J. Smith, Sr. v. United States Congress, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-08-13 | Denied | Response Waived | 13th-amendment 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction due-process government-consent petition-for-redress second-amendment self-defense thirteenth-amendment | Does petitioner need the government's consent to petition the government for redress of his grievance that the government has held him in Thirteenth A… |
| 21-5371 | James Roland Henderson v. California | California | 2021-08-13 | Denied | IFP | criminal-intent criminal-procedure evidence-exclusion familial-violence first-degree-murder homicide imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions parental-relationship religious-beliefs self-defense special-circumstances | Question not identified. |
| 21-5257 | Jermaine Latwone Haynes v. Willis Chapman, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial ineffective-assistance self-defense sentencing-mitigation | Was Petitioner Denied His Constitutional Right To The Effective Assistance Of Counsel and A Fair Trial Proceeding, Pursuant To U.S. Const., Amends Vi,… |
| 20-1819 | Lawrence B. Hughes v. Georgia | Georgia | 2021-06-30 | Denied | 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-clarity jury-charge jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense standard-of-review | Is it a requirement within State Statute of Fed eral law for an indictment to be clear and precise within accusation? In review of deliberation stag… | |
| 20-1783 | Jacob Christine v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-06-23 | Denied | and an ex-post-facto violation jury instruction errors ada-pleading-5th bagley-exception brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process jury-instruction pcra-hearing pinholster self-defense unavailable-declarant | Certiorari is sought re the erroneous denial of a C.O.A. or Reergument in the 3rd Cir. Ct. of Appeals, perhaps most notable among the questions presen… | |
| 20-8235 | Kory Christian Pedersen v. Oregon Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit post-conviction post-conviction-review self-defense sixth-amendment trial-counsel | Was Mr. Pedersen denied the effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, when his trial counsel failed to understand the applica… |
| 20-1639 | George K. Young, Jr. v. Hawaii, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-25 | GVR | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-rights concealed-carry due-process home-defense right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense standing | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding, in direct conflict with the holdings of the First, Seventh and D.C. Circuits, that the Second Amendment… |
| 20-8035 | James W. Moore v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-05-14 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment burden-of-proof castle-doctrine due-process duty-to-retreat effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions self-defense | (1) Is Ohio's Castle Doctrine unconstitutional as it does not include one's entire property as the residence while a person acting in self-defense is … |
| 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… |
| 20-7899 | Christopher Middleton v. Georgia | Georgia | 2021-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements harmless-error indictment-sufficiency jury-disbelief self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a finding of guilt can be predicated on the jury's disbelief of a defendant's statements where the defendant does not testify and the State fa… |
| 20-7897 | Steve L. Stanaland, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence firearm-possession right-to-counsel second-amendment self-defense | This may very well be in this case and across the Nation . the most important and the biggest question is. (Specifically) [If] y°u live in the middle … |
| 20-7714 | Dario Reyes-Torres v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-13 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process immigration individual-rights right-to-bear-arms second-amendment self-defense standing undocumented-immigrants | Whether resident undocumented immigrants are part of the people whose right to keep and bear arms for individual self defense the second amendment pro… |
| 20-1419 | Reb Russell, II v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2021-04-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-carry home-defense intermediate-scrutiny second-amendment self-defense standing takings | In District of Columbia v. Heller, this Court held that the Second Amendment protects "the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of co… |
| 20-1298 | Demetreus A. Keahey v. Dave Marquis, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment clearly established federal law regarding a defen criminal-procedure jury-trial or is an unreasonable application of self-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-trial self-defense sixth-amendment | Whether the failure to give a self-defense jury instruction contradicts, or is an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law regardi… |
| 20-7500 | Christopher Nathaniel Brown v. Florida | Florida | 2021-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-evidence self-defense state-courts victim-history | Does Florida state courts deny defendants their Due Process Rights when the courts exclude extrinsic evidence which would corroborate defendant's know… |
| 20-7318 | Alex Warren Klinger v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2021-03-03 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-liability double-jeopardy due-process jackson-standard search-warrant self-defense treaties | 1. Whether an appellate court must apply the standard laid out in this Court's decision in Jackson v. Virginia to determine whether the State has disp… |
| 20-1151 | Libertarian Party of Erie County, et al. v. Andrew M. Cuomo, Individually and as Governor of the State of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process heller licensing-discretion may-issue-law mcdonald pistol-permit second-amendment self-defense standing | This case presents one big issue that necessarily requires the resolution of a number of critical subsidiary issues. 1. Should the State of New York,… | |
| 20-7171 | Luis Javier Correa-Figueroa, aka Barney, aka Gordo v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-procedure district-court-ruling evidence evidence-exclusion federal-property intent motion-for-acquittal procedural-error self-defense use-of-force | (A) WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT COMMITTED A PROCEDURAL ERROR WHEN IT EXCLUDED EVIDENCE THAT PETITIONER WAS SHOT 11 TIMES, AND AS HE WAS TRYING TO EVADE… |
| 20-7011 | Hemmingway Mukora Saisi v. Carolyn Murray, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process equal-protection protection-claim self-defense stare-decisis state-criminal-procedure state-officials | A. Were my conshene} wighks do the & pr ok echion clayse Vielahed, r " aval Rs Were ny Due Process sjahks VialakeSu wh ~ Bet enblonk by Het en A) OMI… |
| 20-1040 | Michael Aaron Strickland v. Oregon | Oregon | 2021-01-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 2nd-amendment constitutional-rights due-process prior-experiences reasonable-person second-amendment self-defense state-of-mind | Did the Oregon courts err in holding that there is no Constitutional right of self-defense except for when someone like the judge would have behaved t… |
| 20-6958 | Luis C. Paulino v. Thomas Griffin, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection justification-defense self-defense standing takings | WHETHER A DEFENDANT IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS MAY BE UPON PRESUMPTION OF VINDICTIVENESS FOR EXERCISING RIGHT TO TRIAL WHETHER PRO-SE PLEADINGS IN THE UNI… |
| 20-997 | Arlane James, et al. v. Noah Bartelt | Third Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | civil-procedure civil-rights deadly-force johnson-v-jones law-enforcement officer-involved-shooting qualified-immunity self-defense summary-judgment third-circuit use-of-force | 1. Whether the Third Circuit's decision to exercise jurisdiction over an appeal of the District Court's denial of qualified immunity on a motion for s… |
| 20-843 | New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc., et al. v. Kevin P. Bruen, in His Official Capacity as Superintendent of New York State Police, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-12-23 | Judgment Issued | Amici (89)Relisted (4) | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-prohibition handgun-carry heller law-abiding-citizens mcdonald second-amendment self-defense standing | Whether the Second Amendment allows the government to prohibit ordinary law-abiding citizens from carrying handguns outside the home for self-defense. |
| 20-840 | Kenneth Knowles v. Officer Jason Michael Hart | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-22 | Denied | 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force due-process fourth-amendment police-entry second-amendment self-defense standing use-of-force | 1. Does the Fourth Amendment authorize a police officer to use deadly force against a citizen exercising her Second Amendment right to wear a holstere… | |
| 20-6675 | Augustine L. Cavitte v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2020-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility law-enforcement-conduct miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense self-incrimination voluntariness | 1) Did the lower courts err in finding Ms. Cavitte's statements admissible contrary to present Miranda standards? a. Did the Nebraska Court of Appeals… |
| 20-812 | Lisa M. Folajtar v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-12-15 | Denied | Amici (5) | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights felons felony-prohibition firearm-possession nonviolent-crimes second-amendment self-defense tax-fraud | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits nearly all felons—even those convicted of nonviolent crimes—from possessing firearms for se… |
| 20-775 | Clifford Williams v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-12-07 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment right-to-present-defense self-defense sixth-amendment | Clifford Williams was convicted of murder in New Orleans, Louisiana, after the trial court denied him the right to introduce evidence showing he was r… |
| 20-6275 | William Ford v. Mike Parris, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-12 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-counsel prejudice-prong procedural-default self-defense sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-counsel | 1. WOULD JURIST OF REASON DISAGREE AND FIND DEBATABLE THE CORRECTNESS OF THE SIXTH AND DISTRICT COURTS' FINDING OF EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHE… |
| 20-6276 | Arek R. Fressadi v. Arizona, et al. | Arizona | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-violations court-rules due-process equal-protection first-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct judicial-review oath-of-office procedural-default self-defense state-law supreme-court trial-counsel venue-transfer venue-transfer 20-6275" Would a jurist of reason find debatable the correc | 1) Whether failures to apply mandatory language of the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Supreme Court rulings, state law, and court rules are violations of the… |
| 20-6277 | Percy Allen Stucks v. Florida | Florida | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | castle-doctrine civil-rights criminal-law domestic-violence due-process florida-law imminent-danger residential-defense self-defense stand-your-ground | 1. Does a resident have the right to stand their ground in their residential property in Florida? 2. Is a resident required to leave their residentia… |
| 20-5884 | Charles Chad Giese v. California | California | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-defense self-defense self-incrimination | I. Did Police Violated Giese's Miranda Rights by Interrogating Him While He was in Custody? II. By Excluding Evidence of the Decedent's Drug Use, Was… |
| 20-5721 | Sheyna Douprea v. Janel Espinoza, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | battered-woman-syndrome ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health post-traumatic-stress-disorder prejudice prejudice-analysis self-defense strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Sheyna Douprea was convicted of first degree murder after she stabbed her boyfriend with a pocketknife while he tried to strangle her. At trial, Doupr… |
| 20-5644 | Jonathan Limary v. Maine | Maine | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights defense-of-others fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection self-defense sixth-amendment voir-dire | Did the lower court deny Jonathan Limary the right to a fair and impartial jury under the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution, by denyin… |
| 20-5462 | Smith Ellison, Jr. v. Robert Neuschmid, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-28 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure complete-defense constitutional-rights due-process evidence-preclusion motion-for-reconsideration remorse self-defense standing | Whether Petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability to appeal a denial of the Motion for Reconsideration. |
| 20-5430 | Anthony G. Meyers v. Cathy Jess, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2020-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law duty-to-retreat first-degree-reckless-homicide homicide ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense utter-disregard | 1. Was there sufficient evidence of utter "utter disregard for human life" to support a first degree reckless homicide conviction? 2. Should addition… |
| 20-5313 | Melquan Tucker v. New York | New York | 2020-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-of-columbia-v-heller due-process felony-penalties home-protection second-amendment self-defense strict-scrutiny takings | Whether New York's Penal Law § 265.01-b(1) is unconstitutional as applied where it imposes criminal, felony penalties when citizens fail to ask for th… |
| 20-5299 | Antonio Benson v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2020-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense | I. Whether the ruling of the Tennessee Supreme Court, which reversed the opinion of the Tennessee intermediate appellate court, that the Petitioner wa… |
| 20-5265 | Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | competency competency-evaluation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions post-arrest-silence right-to-remain-silent self-defense | Whether the trial court violated Sayed's constitutional right to remain silent and reversibly erred when it allowed the government to question a DOC i… |
| 20-5169 | Randy A. Thomas v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-07-24 | Denied | IFP | developmental-delay fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel low-iq mental-capacity self-defense sixth-amendment social-security | Ohio places the burden of proof and persuasion in a self defense case on the person asserting self defense. A person's state of mind is relevant in a … |
| 20-5025 | Eddie Matthew Amos v. Tommy Bowen | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | convicted-felon criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial felon-in-possession firearm-possession ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense | (Ground One): Is a criminal defendant, who is also a previously convicted felon, denied a fair trial and the effective assistance of counsel when de… |
| 19-8882 | George Donald Hatt, Jr. v. Washington | Washington | 2020-07-02 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof due-process first-aggressor jury-instruction self-defense sua-sponte substantial-rights sufficiency-of-evidence | Did the First Aggressor Jury Instruction, issued sua sponte, violate due process by relieving the state of its burden to disprove self-defense? 2. Do… |
| 19-8727 | Felton Ladell Humphries, Jr. v. S. Sherman, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder jury-instruction self-defense voluntary-manslaughter | DOES HUMPHRIES HAVE A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT GUARANTEED BY THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO A PROPERLY INSTRUCTED JURY DETERMINING THAT ALL E… |
| 19-1303 | Earnest Cassell Woods, II v. California | California | 2020-05-20 | Denied | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process mens-rea murder-conviction natural-probable-consequences resentencing retroactive retroactivity self-defense senate-bill-1437 sentencing statutory-interpretation | 1. DOES SENATE BILL 1437 ADDED SECTION 1170.95, WHICH PERMITS PERSONS CONVICTED OF MURDER UNDER THE NATURAL AND PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES THEORY TO PETITI… | |
| 19-8314 | Reginald Ward v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections | Tenth Circuit | 2020-04-21 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence circumstantial-evidence constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-evidence jurisdiction self-defense statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 19-7889 | Walter Rosario-Colon v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence insufficient-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-jurist second-degree-murder self-defense | 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Walter Rosario-Colon acted in self-defense when he struck Antonio Aguado. In the alternative, there was Ins… |
| 19-7750 | Russell Patrick Brown v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 1st-degree-murder constitutional-due-process constitutional-violation conviction criminal-conviction due-process insufficient-evidence jackson-v-virginia jury-instruction premeditation self-defense supreme-court-precedent | (1) Whether it's a U.S. constituion Due Process violation proscribed by this court in Jackson v. Virginia, for Mr. Brown's 1st degree murder convictio… |
| 19-7378 | Octavio Diaz v. San Bernardino County, California, et al. | California | 2020-01-22 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation circuit-conflict civil-rights civil-rights-violation discriminatory-arrest due-process free-speech manuel-v-city-of-joliet probable-cause second-amendment self-defense | Petitioner 's case was wrongly affirmed by the California Court of Appeal for reasons of "probable cause ", despite the fact that Manuel v. City of J… |
| 19-7232 | Francisco Argenis Parra v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | IFP | accomplice-statements-corroboration alibi-instruction bruton-v-united-states co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses self-defense sixth-amendment supplemental-credibility-instruction | I. Did Trial Counsel Render Ineffective Assistance by Failing to Request an Adequate Supplemental Credibility Instruction? II. Did Trial Counsel Rend… |
| 19-6923 | Adrian Alaniz v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-violation due-process harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence justifiable-homicide manslaughter prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment self-defense standard-of-review | I. Where the evidence tended to favor a verdict of justifiable homicide or a lesser verdict of manslaughter, has Petitioner presented a "debatable " i… |
| 19-704 | Matthew D. Wilson, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (7) | 2nd-amendment civil-rights common-use common-use-test due-process firearms-regulation heller heller-precedent local-government-restriction second-amendment self-defense standing takings | This Court has held that the Second Amendment "guarantee[s] the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation." District of C… |
| 19-694 | Heather Baker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Kyle Baker, Deceased v. City of Trenton, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-02 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment home-invasion police-conduct police-procedure search-and-seizure second-amendment self-defense standing warrantless-search | I. 1. Whether, consistent with the Second Amendment right to bear arms, police can conduct a warrantless search of a private home based on the residen… |
| 19-642 | Shawntele Cortez Jackson v. Kathy Litteral | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response Waived | brecht-standard chapman-standard esparza-standard habeas-corpus habeas-review harmless-error self-defense sixth-circuit | 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in applying the Esparza harmless error standard, instead of the Brecht harmless error standard on federal habeas re… |
| 19A536 | Octavio Diaz v. San Bernardino County, California | California | 2019-11-14 | Presumed Complete | due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity self-defense summary-judgment | Question not identified. | |
| 19-6621 | Jaquan Walters v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 9th-circuit criminal-law deadly-force due-process federal-common-law imperfect-self-defense manslaughter murder murder-mitigation self-defense unreasonable-belief voluntary-manslaughter | Does "imperfect self-defense," which mitigates murder to voluntary manslaughter where the defendant "intend[ed] to use deadly force in the unreasonabl… |
| 19-6534 | Saad Bahoda v. Sherman Campbell, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure Bunkley-v-Florida conflict-of-interest effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing forged-affidavits ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions michigan-law People-v-Triplett plain-error self-defense sixth-amendment witness-conflict | I. Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment Right to the effective assistance of counsel at trial due to counsel's failure to request a self-defense … |
| 19-423 | Brian Kirk Malpasso, et al. v. William M. Pallozzi, in His Official Capacity as Maryland Secretary of State Police | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-30 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) | 2nd-amendment carry circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process handgun-carry heller law-abiding-citizens mcdonald second-amendment self-defense | Whether the Second Amendment allows the government to prohibit typical, law-abiding citizens from carrying handguns outside the home for self defense … |
| 19-404 | David Seth Worman, et al. v. Maura T. Healey, Attorney General of Massachusetts, et al. | First Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | Amici (7)Relisted (7) | 2nd-amendment caetano civil-rights due-process firearms-ban heller heller-standard individual-right intermediate-scrutiny mcdonald second-amendment self-defense | Does Massachusetts' ban unconstitutionally infringe the individual right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment? |
| 19-6029 | Frank Jeffs v. Michael Overmyer, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2019-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder habeas-corpus jurisdiction premeditated-murder prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sentencing sentencing-order | 1. Is not the Pennsylvania Supreme Court required in its Per Curiam conclusions of law with respect thereto. If the court finds that...[2] the sentenc… |
| 19-5740 | Jeffrey L. Miller v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-08-28 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure deprivation-of-rights due-process false-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense wrongful-conviction | Americans for conduct Not in violntioN of statute's, ANd is it Ok to knowingly bring frlse witnesses to A Americans justifiable conduct ? Post Oct, 19… |
| 19-5716 | Karl Heinz Dupuy v. Unknown | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-27 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-opinion fair-trial innocence medical-records mental-state post-conviction-discovery self-defense standing | was the life of my Pregnant comfanion & being protected from imminent danger trom burg lary& Abducic with real threat by two YoUne men in their posses… |
| 19-5566 | Reilies Wayne Miller v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chapman-v-california closing-arguments darden-v-wainwright due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense sixth-amendment | 1. Consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment and Chanman v. California . 386 U.S. 18, 87 S.Ct. 824, 17 L.Ed.2d 705 (1967) could the harmless error anal… |
| 19-121 | Kenneth Miller v. Robert Ferguson, Attorney General of Washington | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 2nd-amendment 351 (1973) which satisfies the habeas-corpus 411 US. 345 civil-rights custody-requirement due-process standing 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process firearm-prohibition fundamental-rights habeas-corpus liberty-interest second-amendment self-defense severe-restraint-on-liberty standing | Is the following question one that jurists of reason would find debatable? Does the total prohibition on the exercise of a person's fundamental Secon… |
| 19-114 | Douglas F. Ciolek v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2019-07-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) | 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process handgun-carry justifiable-need permit-requirement permit-restriction public-carry public-safety second-amendment self-defense standing takings | In order to obtain a permit to carry a handgun in the public, the State of New Jersey requires a showing of "justifiable need" which, as defined, does… |
| 19-5146 | Isiah Edward Gilliam v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-07-11 | Denied | IFP | discovery discovery-violation due-process fair-trial habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions mistrial prior-convictions prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense | WAS MR. GILLIAM DENIED DUE PROCESS AND A FAIR TRIAL WHEN THE PROSECUTION FAILED TO PROVIDE TIMELY DISCOVERY AS REQUIRED? WAS MR. GILLIAM DENIED THE R… |
| 19-3 | Ryan Begay v. New Mexico | New Mexico | 2019-06-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | blockburger-test blockburger-v-united-states constitutional-protection double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment reckless-abuse reckless-child-abuse self-defense | 1. Whether the "same elements" test articulated in Blockburger v. United States, 284 U.S. 299 (1932), adequately protects in dividuals from multiple p… |
| 18-9824 | Steven G. Patten v. California | California | 2019-06-27 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection flight-instruction fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination self-defense | 1. Whether Petitioner can establish a prima facie case of discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when the pro- … |
| 18-9785 | Wayne A. Hussar, II v. James C. Reynolds, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure self-defense sentencing standing warrantless-search | Question not identified. |
| 18-9670 | Charles L. Trice v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment 9th-amendment conflict-in-circuits constitutional-rule due-process due-process-interpretation eleventh-circuit-conflict griffith-v-kentucky ninth-amendment second-amendment self-defense self-defense-right weiand-decision | The Florida Post-conviction Court Unreasonably Applied Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, 107 S. Ct. 708 (1987), in Determining That Trice's Convicti… |
| 18-9474 | Irving Madden v. Michael Melvin, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2019-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense sixth-amendment strickland-standard | I. Whether or not the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision in this case is consistent with this court's holding in Strickland v. Washington, 466 … |
| 18-9479 | In Re Percy Allen Stucks | 2019-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | castle-doctrine civil-rights due-process florida-law imminent-danger property-rights residential-defense self-defense stand-your-ground | Does a resident have the right to stand their ground in their residential property in Florida? Is a resident required to leave their residential prop… | |
| 18-9397 | Miguel Angel Barron v. Raymond Madden, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fair-trial fourth-amendment jury-instructions probable-cause relevance search-and-seizure self-defense warrantless-search | 1. CAN A STATE TRIAL COURT INSTRUCT A JURY WITH AN INSTRUCTION THAT REDUCES THE FAIRNESS CONTAINED IN THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSES? 2. CAN A STATE TRIAL C… |
| 18-9268 | Manuel Antonio Mejia Rivera v. Donna Kay McKinney, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-15 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel self-defense sixth-amendment void-conviction witness-testimony | PETITIONER Mr. RIVERA ALLEGED THAT HIS TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO CALL A WITNESS OF WHOM Mr RIVERA MADE HIM AWARE. PETITIONER WAS CO… |
| 18-9228 | David D. Ewing v. Ronda Pash, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review claims-barred due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-admission merits-consideration procedural-default self-defense state-court-appellate state-court-proceedings | Whether a petitioner's claims are barred from federal review when the underlying claims have been considered on the merits during state court appellat… |
| 18-1272 | Michael Gould, et al. v. Andrew Lipson, in His Official Capacity as Chief of the Brookline Police Department, et al. | First Circuit | 2019-04-04 | Denied | Relisted (7) | 2nd-amendment circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-restrictions good-reason intermediate-scrutiny right-to-bear-arms right-to-carry second-amendment self-defense standing takings | In District of Columbia v. Heller, this Court held that the Second Amendment protects "the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of co… |
| 18-8590 | Harlin Argelio Ramos v. Utah | Utah | 2019-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice self-defense | Did the utah appellate Caurt err in holding that the erroneous jury instruetion, which impermissibly shifted the biurden of proof onto Petitioner/Defe… |
| 18-8450 | Randall Alan Carder v. California | California | 2019-03-18 | Denied | IFP | assault assault-with-deadly-weapon constitutional-rights counter-attack criminal-procedure deadly-weapon due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense | Did the trial court violate petitioner's due process rights by failing to sua sponte instruct the jury on self-defense to a charge of assault with a d… |
| 18-1128 | Curtis Minchuk v. Craig Strand | Seventh Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split deadly-force deadly-force-justification excessive-force fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity self-defense totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force | 1. Whether evidence of a dangerous and violent suspect's sudden and unexpected gesture of surrender immediately and objectively terminates the deadly … |
| 18-8058 | Joel Elias Sanchez v. Jeffrey A. Beard, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 9th-circuit aedpa constitutional-rights crane-v-kentucky criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-exclusion ninth-circuit-review right-to-present-defense self-defense | The constitution guarantees criminal defendants "a meaningful opportunity to present a complete defense." Crane v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 683, 690 (1986).… |
| 18-8067 | Arthur Nop Lew v. California | California | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions jury-trial self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-by-jury | In aggravated assault prosecutions where self-defense is at issue, California juries are instructed that state law requires only a danger of a battery… |
| 18-7935 | Kahri Smith v. Bonita J. Hoffner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari criminal-procedure felony jurisdiction michigan-law reasonable-jurists self-defense sixth-circuit | IS CERTIORARI APPROPRIATE WHERE THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECIDED THE MERITS OF PETITIONER'S SELF DEFENSE CLAIM WITHOUT JURISDICTION AND IS I… |
| 18-7933 | Keith Charleston v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure-miranda due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights premeditated-murder probable-cause self-defense self-incrimination warrantless-arrest | I. PETITIONER'S STATEMENT WAS UNCONSTITUTIONALLY OBTAINED AS HIS INTOXICATION AND LACK OF SLEEP PREVENTED A KNOWING AND INTELLIGENT WAIVER OF HIS MIRA… |
| 18-7826 | Curtis R. Leachman v. Thomas Winn, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-determination jury-instruction jury-instructions michigan-self-defense-act psychological-expert self-defense self-defense-statute | WAS PETITIONER DENIED THE RIGHT TO COMPULSORY PROCESS WHEN THE TRIAL COURT FAILED TO GRANT FUNDS FOR A PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERT TO AIDE THE JURY IN DETERM… |
| 18-7766 | Rishawn Lamar Reeder v. Cecelia Reynolds, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | alibi-witnesses criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-presentation eyewitness-testimony gunshot-residue impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense surveillance-video trial-counsel witness witness-testimony | Did the court erred in finding trial counsel ineffective for failing to present the Spartanburg Regional Hospital security surveillance camera video … |
| 18-7697 | Duane Yates v. Iowa | Iowa | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment postconviction prison-discipline self-defense sixth-amendment whether-inmates-who-file-a-postconviction-under-io | Whether inmates who file a postconviction under Iowa Code 822 in the Iowa District Court's are denied the equal protection of law under the Sixth and … |
| 18-7626 | Gregory Haynes v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial legal-standards miscarriage-of-justice second-degree-murder self-defense trial-court-error | Whether the Petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to due process and a fair trial when the trial court made multiple comments that reflected… |
| 18-843 | Ivan Pena, et al. v. Martin Horan, Director, California Department of Justice Bureau of Firearms | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-03 | Denied | Amici (4)Relisted (7) | 2nd-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection firearm-regulation firearm-restrictions handgun-regulation intermediate-scrutiny microstamping second-amendment self-defense standing takings | California's "Unsafe Handgun Act," Cal. Penal Code § 31900 et seq., violates the Second Amendment by banning handguns of the kind in common use for tr… |
| 18-824 | Thomas Rogers, et al. v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-01-02 | Denied | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) | 2nd-amendment carry circuit-split constitutional-carry firearm-rights heller-v-dc intermediate-scrutiny licensing second-amendment self-defense | 1. Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry a firearm outside the home for self-defense. 2. Whether the government may deny categoric… |
| 18-7089 | Esau Milliner v. Kathy Litteral, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver closing-argument confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-burglary ineffective-assistance-of-counsel initial-aggressor procedural-bar right-to-appeal right-to-testify self-defense trial-counsel | Whether Petitioner was denied the effective assistance of counsel to which he was constitutionally entitled when trial counsel failed to present readi… |
| 18-6721 | Gavin Cullens v. Cindi Curtin, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense trial-counsel | DID THE TRIAL COURT ERR WHEN IT GAVE OUT SELF DEFENSE INSTRUCTION FOR COMPLAINANTS WHO WERE NOT ACCUSED OF ANY CRIMES TO WARRANT A DEFENSE? ALTERNATIV… |
| 18-6663 | Esau Escobar v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-11-13 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-instructions murder murder-conviction prior-acts provocation provocation-defense self-defense substantial-evidence | I. The Appellate Court holding the Petitioner a bar ce ae =e led To 4 Secinos Provocation lastcvetion tio. Becanse He Tstified that He Anted cust Opoc… |
| 18-6352 | Joseph Kelvin Aberant v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder cross-reference firearm firearm-offense fourth-circuit imperfect-self-defense indictment self-defense sentencing-guidelines | I. WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN FINDING THAT THE CROSS REFERENCE UNDER SECTION 2K2.1(C)(l) OF THE UNITED STATES SENTENCING GUIDELINES WAS AP… |
| 18-6325 | Adrian Contreras-Rebollar v. Mike Obenland, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability co-counsel criminal-procedure-6th-amendment-right-to-counsel- criminal-procedure-6th-amendment-self-defense-inef defense-of-another due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instruction right-to-counsel self-defense sixth-amendment | where petitioner's defense in the trial court was based on Self-Defense, petitioner did not fully trust his Dept. of Assigned counsel lawyer, and thus… |
| 18-6189 | Eduardo Salgado v. California | California | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment carry-outside-home civil-procedure civil-rights concealed-carry concealed-carry-license due-process federal-circuit-split firearm-rights good-cause-requirement level-of-scrutiny scrutiny-standard second-amendment self-defense standing | Whether the Second Amendment protects the right to carry a firearm outside the home for self-defense, and what level of scrutiny applies to laws that … |
| 18-361 | Lael J. Alleyne v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-09-19 | Denied | appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions manslaughter self-defense supreme-court-pennsylvania trial-court-error voluntary-manslaughter | Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania erred in denying a Petition for Allowance of Appeal despite the trial court's improper exclusion of voluntar… | |
| 18-5783 | Robert A. Cotton v. County of San Bernardino, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-28 | Denied | IFP | brady-evidence brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process issue-preclusion judicial-immunity jury-trial manuel-v-city-of-joliet ninth-circuit preliminary-hearing qualified-immunity self-defense | Was the Ninth Circuit in conflict with now, the Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Tenth Circuits, and the California Court of Appeal, First an… |
| 18-5625 | Arrion Lee Crew, Jr. v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-16 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offense self-defense voluntary-manslaughter | DID THE TRIAL COURT PREJUDICIALLY ERR BY FAILING TO INSTRUCT THE JURY ON THE LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE OF SUDDEN QUARREL/HEAT OF PASSION VOLUNTARY MANSL… |
| 18-5564 | Travis Colby Curry v. Oregon | Oregon | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct self-defense surveillance-video | Whether the police act in bad faith in contravenes of the Due process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment if they fail to collect and preserve surveill… |
| 18-5502 | Susan Joy Jacobson v. Arizona | Arizona | 2018-08-09 | Denied | IFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process expert-testimony ptsd ptsd-diagnosis self-defense sixth-amendment | Does preclusion of an accused citizen's PTSD diagnosis, proffered to support her self-defense claim, unconstitutionally impinge on her Due Process gua… |
| 18-5467 | Virginia Denise Wyche v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | and whether jury instructions misstating self-def 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homicide homicide-statute second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the First District's expansion of the scope of Florida's homicide statute could be used to affirm Wyche's conviction and sentence in light … |
| 18-121 | James Rothery, et al. v. Lou Blanas, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry discretionary-licensing discretionary-permit due-process equal-protection law-enforcement-exemption licensing-discretion second-amendment self-defense self-defense-rights standing takings | (1) Does California's general prohibition to carry a loaded handgun outside the home, coupled with an arbitrary and capricious licensing scheme for ci… |
| 18-5337 | Shawn Johnson v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence brady-violations certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-concession prosecutorial-misconduct recantation recanted-testimony self-defense witness-recantation | Shawn Johnson was arrested inmg, in self-defense for shoot in grz jjYj a, k4 wccu#'$ He has credible evidence that he is actually innocent of this cri… |
| 18-5338 | DeLawrence A. King v. Ronald Erdos, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance mens-rea procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence | Did the Sixth Circuit Court error when it failed to grant Petitioner a Certificate Of Appealability after previously ruling in his favor, by stating t… |
| 18-5167 | Levar Brown v. California | California | 2018-07-06 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-regulations second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation | Law sstéz Farwe GUESS wo, CeLLed TWAt MAN: Nou 2eALLY waat 1p utes, oH DID IAS» AWE SALANGEYL wort THE Gun store fia Tow Home, ALse, A was. HANDED 7D … |
| 18-5015 | Edwin Aponte v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sixth-amendment state-appellate-procedure | A. Was petitioner's prosecutorial misconduct claim procedurally defaulted for failing to present it in state appellate procedure rule when the highest… |
| 18-5031 | Jabbar Wallace v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder-conviction self-defense self-defense-right sixth-amendment | THE PETITIONER IN THIS CASE ACTED IN SELF, DEFENSE WHEN ATTACKED BY THE DECEDENT AND HIS FRIENDS WHILE IN THE RESTROOM. THE PETITIONER WAS IN DANGER O… |