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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6536 | C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Pending | IFP | article-iii due-process judicial-procedure magistrate-review report-recommendation substantial-rights | I. Motion for Affirmance of the Law of the Case on Prior Appeal in 4th Cir. App. Case No. 21-1470. II. The instant appeal contains novel questions of… |
| 25-6167 | Amir Golestan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | denaturalization guilty-plea immigration-consequences rule-11 substantial-rights wire-fraud | Whether the failure to give the Rule 11(b)(1)(O) warning affects the substantial rights of a naturalized United States citizen who could be denaturali… |
| 25A379 | Edin Anael Solis-Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split guilty-plea plain-error plea-colloquy rule-11 substantial-rights | Whether, under plain-error review, courts properly consider a defendant's failure to object to a Rule 11 plea colloquy error when determining if that … | |
| 25A346 | Caylon James Washington v. Texas | Texas | 2025-09-25 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure hearsay-objection rebuttal-witness sexual-assault substantial-rights trial-court-discretion | Question not identified. | |
| 25A296 | C. Holmes, aka Cynthia Elaine Collie v. James Kevin Holmes | South Carolina | 2025-09-15 | Presumed Complete | certiorari family-matter procedural-relief substantial-rights supreme-court time-extension | Question not identified. | |
| 25A204 | Jairo Arnaldo Jacome v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-20 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure fourth-circuit jury-instructions plain-error rico-conspiracy substantial-rights | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5013 | Tawhyne M. Patterson, Sr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review firearms-conspiracy jury-instruction plain-error predicate-offense substantial-rights | A jury returned a general verdict finding Tawhyne M. Patterson, Sr., "guilty" of violating 18 U.S.C. §924(o) where only one of the two predicate offen… |
| 24-6242 | Kent Booher v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anders-brief appellate-review criminal-procedure ex-post-facto plain-error substantial-rights | I. Did the Court of Appeals err when it failed to address the issues raised by the appellant after his appellate counsel filed an Anders brief and mov… |
| 24-6052 | Terius Thomas, aka Terius Brown, aka Terry Brown v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict judicial-review plain-error prejudice-standard sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | Whether the Eleventh Circuit has created a new exception to Molina-Martinez's plain error prejudice standard which conflicts with the general rule tha… |
| 24-5819 | Oscar Robinson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure plain-error plea-agreement sentencing substantial-rights | When a criminal defendant demonstrates that, but for the plain error raised on appeal, his sentence as to each of two separate counts would be differe… |
| 23-7043 | C. Holmes v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-21 | Granted | IFP | appeal appellate-procedure civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-neutrality judicial-review procedural-due-process standing substantial-rights | 1. Whether the lower appellate court misapprehends appealability and/or overlooks the request and denial in the district court for certification of ap… |
| 23A845 | C. Holmes v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-18 | Granted | constitutional-argument exceptional-importance page-limits procedural-justice substantial-rights supreme-court-rules | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6734 | C. Holmes v. Anne Milgram, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | appeal appellate-review article-iii certification certification-of-appeal civil-procedure de-novo-review judicial-procedure standing stay substantial-rights | 1. Whether the lower appellate court misapprehends appealability and/or overlooks the request and denial in the district court for certification of ap… |
| 23-6441 | Marc Hernandez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure integrity-of-courts judicial-integrity plain-error structural-error substantial-rights | 1. The district court excluded the public, including family members, from the courtroom for the entirety of jury selection. Petitioner's counsel faile… |
| 23-5172 | Jose Antonio Deleon-Juarez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split plain-error plain-error-review plea-agreement prosecutor-breach prosecutorial-breach sentencing substantial-rights | Under plain error review, does a prosecutor's breach of a plea agreement affect a defendant's substantial rights unless the record contains evidence t… |
| 23-5135 | Leonardo Burgos-Valencia v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-procedure ninth-circuit right-to-be-heard standing substantial-rights summary-affirmance | I. WHETHER THE LOWER COURT 'S SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE VIOLATED PETITIONER BURGOS-VALENCAI 'S RIGHT TO BE HEARD? II. WHETER THE DISPARITY IN COMPARISON T… |
| 22-7632 | Kristofer D. Garrett v. Ohio | Ohio | 2023-05-24 | Denied | IFP | capital-defendant plain-error-test public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error substantial-rights | Does a state court finding of structural error, based on a violation of a capital defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial, satisfy the pla… |
| 22-6348 | Douglas James Schneider v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error procedural-violation rule-11 substantial-rights waiver | Whether the court of appeals erred in holding the failure to object to the violation of Rule 11(c)(1) provides dispositive evidence that the violation… |
| 22-6209 | Mayeli Molina v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial dual-role-witnesses due-process expert-testimony jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-standards substantial-rights witness-testimony | 1. Whether Molina's substantial rights were affected when two-thirds of the Government's witnesses testified in dual roles as experts and fact witness… |
| 22-5540 | David Villegas Pereznegron v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings plain-error-review right-to-allocution sentencing sentencing-allocution substantial-rights | Whether the plain and prejudicial denial of the right to allocution is an error that ordinarily warrants correction under the fourth prong of plain-er… |
| 22-5326 | Juan Samuel Rodriguez-Huitron v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-review limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantial-rights | This Court in Molina-Martinez v. United States advised that courts of appeals may order a limited remand to assess the impact of clear error on the de… |
| 21-7629 | C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-15 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | article-iii-judicial-officer civil-procedure de-novo-review diversity-jurisdiction due-process full-and-fair-review magistrate-referral report-and-recommendation standing substantial-rights summary-dismissal writ-of-certiorari | I. Whether this Court should grant writ of certiorari on appealability. II. Whether the district court should provide complete record on appeal (ROA)… |
| 21-7369 | Dannie Simon Parker, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law administrative-proceedings agency-action bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-instructions precedent statutory-interpretation substantial-rights | NAWIW e. AW. lJuog Wcm Cjol&A in WWz V. OoWA kWW, SSO U-W 25^, Zb&, 2io ^.c4. ZISS IT? L.ES ZS 20s(zooo^AWi ejcAWy' U.t>.d. hZWhi^s \l£Jjy\2uZ 'r^JDC{… |
| 21-6542 | Juan Trujillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-discretion limited-remand plain-error remand-standard sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum substantial-rights | This Court in Molina-Martinez v. United States advised that courts of appeals may order a limited remand to assess the impact of clear error on the de… |
| 21-6390 | Marcial Carrillo-Serna v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-error guidelines-calculation molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | When the district court fails to calculate the guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh… |
| 21-5410 | Joydeth Robinson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-procedure court-discretion district-court judicial-remand legal-procedure limited-remand plain-error substantial-rights | Whether courts of appeals should order a limited remand to determine whether a plain error has affected a party's substantial rights when that party h… |
| 21-243 | James Warner v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-18 | Denied | bribery-statute constructive-amendment criminal-procedure indictment indictment-modification jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error substantial-rights | Whether the constructive amendment of an indictment by an erroneous jury instruction, stating that conspiracy counts alleged agreements to violate a d… | |
| 20-8200 | Brandon Dante Brooks-Davis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court criminal-procedure fairness-integrity-public-reputation intervening-supreme-court-decision judicial-review plain-error-review substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record | Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters… |
| 20-1523 | Rolando Cruz, Jr., Marc Hernandez, and Roscoe Villega v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-30 | Denied | constitutional-rights drug-conspiracy integrity-of-courts jury-selection plain-error-review public-interest sentencing structural-error substantial-rights | 1. The district court excluded the public, including family members, from the courtroom for the entirety of jury selection. Petitioners' counsel faile… | |
| 20-7871 | Jemone Lawrence Walker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure criminal-indictment fairness-integrity-public-reputation federal-jurisdiction intervening-supreme-court-decision plain-error-review subject-matter-jurisdiction substantial-rights trial-record | I. Whether the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over Mr. Walker's case because the indictment failed to state an offense against the … |
| 20-7859 | Denver Lee v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-sufficiency due-process felon-in-possession jury-finding jury-trial knowledge-of-status old-chief-stipulation plain-error rehaif substantial-rights | This Court has made clear that the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights of a person accused of a crime to due process and to a trial by an impartial jury … |
| 20-7708 | Jose Noe Castro Orellana v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process fact-finding plain-error-review procedural-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Mr. Castro Orellana could not show an effect on his substantial rights on plain-error review even though … |
| 20-7414 | James Innocent v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | IFP | circuit-court criminal-procedure greer-v-united-states judicial-review plain-error rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record | Whether when applying plan-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters … |
| 20-7245 | Jeremy Kerr v. John Collier, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Henry County | Ohio | 2021-02-25 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment due-process notice notice-of-proceeding procedural-due-process receiver-appointment state-court substantial-right substantial-rights | Does a State Court violate an individual's right to procedural due process under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution, when it issues … |
| 20-7194 | Lamar Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record | "Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matter… |
| 20-1110 | Sandoz Inc., et al. v. Immunex Corporation, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2021-02-12 | Denied | Amici (1) | biosimilar-product double-patenting exclusivity federal-circuit invention obviousness obviousness-type-double-patenting patent patent-exclusivity patent-ownership substantial-rights | Under federal patent law, a patent owner may receive only one period of exclusivity for its invention and may not obtain a second patent on the same i… |
| 20-7072 | Jean Denis Paul v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-court double-jeopardy fairness-integrity felon-in-possession plain-error plain-error-review rehaif revocation substantial-rights supervised-release supreme-court-decision trial-record | Question One: This Court held in Rehaif v. United States , 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019) , that in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g), 924(a)(2), the go… |
| 20-6975 | Cortez Maurice Crumble v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-court-conflict criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea outside-trial-record plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights trial-error | When evaluating Rehaif-derived trial errors under Rule 52(b) plain-error review, should prejudice under the "substantial rights" prong be presumed? 2… |
| 20-6966 | Charles Eloys Johnson, aka Adam White v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c appellate-review conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-procedure hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error substantial-rights | Charles Johnson was convicted of two counts of possessing a firearm during a crime of violence. 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). The district court instructed the … |
| 20-6862 | Montecarlos Gant v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review constitutional-error due-process guilty-plea plain-error prejudice reversal substantial-rights | (1) When it is undisputed that a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause, is automatic revers… |
| 20-6781 | Bernard Moore v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felon-status jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing substantial-rights | In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant knew he possess… |
| 20-6738 | Lisa Yvette Coffman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-law embezzlement federal-statute fifth-circuit fraud plain-error-review statutory-interpretation substantial-rights | I. Does the first paragraph of 18 U.S.C. § 641 – which makes it illegal to embezzle, steal, purloin, or knowingly convert to one's own or another's us… |
| 20-6714 | Jevonne Martell Coleman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-12-29 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review constitutional-error due-process guilty-plea plain-error prejudice reversal substantial-rights | (1) When it is undisputed that a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause, is automatic revers… |
| 20-6702 | Tomas Moreno-Turrubiates v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553 appellate-review mitigation-arguments plain-error-review procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentence-explanation sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | 1. Whether, when a defendant presents nonfrivolous mitigation arguments in favor of a lower sentence, a district court must address those arguments as… |
| 20-6657 | Ezer Rosembel Barrientos-Osorio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutes plain error affecting substantial rig for a defendant likely to be deported criminal-procedure deportation plain-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release | Where a district court commits plain error by failing to follow Section 5D1.1(c) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines by imposing, without expla… |
| 20-6585 | Bernard Moore v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Dismissed | IFP | appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession fifth-amendment jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights | One and Two In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant kn… |
| 20-6486 | Rakeem Asaad Davis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-01 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-history firearm-possession jury-instructions rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation substantial-rights | When determining whether a defendant's substantial rights were affected by an indictment and jury instructions that omitted an essential element of a … |
| 20-6098 | Lamont Owens v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure fairness-integrity-public-reputation intervening-supreme-court-decision judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error plain-error-review substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record | Whether plain-error review for failure to instruct on an element of the offense, base upon an intervening U.S. Supreme Court decision, allows courts t… |
| 20-444 | United States v. Michael Andrew Gary | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-07 | Judgment Issued | Amici (5) | criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea plain-error plain-error-rule plea-bargaining plea-colloquy substantial-rights | Whether a defendant who pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) and 924(a), is automatically entitled t… |
| 20-401 | Devan Pierson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-09-28 | Denied | circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights | 1. What test, if any, should be used to determine whether a constructive amendment impacted a defendant's substantial rights under Rule 52(b)? 2. Wha… | |
| 20-5037 | Bruce Zachary Pugh v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-07-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | criminal-procedure fairness-integrity judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error public-reputation substantial-rights supreme-court-precedent trial-record | (1) Whether plain-error review for failure to instruct on an element of the offense, based upon an intervening U.S. Supreme Court decision, allows cou… |
| 20-5005 | Archie Lee Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error plea-withdrawal substantial-rights | Did the Eleventh Circuit err in affirming the district court's denial of the Petitioner's motion to withdraw his plea and was it was it an abuse of di… |
| 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… |
| 19-8709 | Gregory Greer v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-15 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | circuit-court-of-appeals circuit-court-review criminal-procedure fairness-integrity-public-reputation judicial-fairness plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record | Last year, this Court held in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), that, in a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2), the gov… |
| 19-8683 | Edgardo Grande v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a appeal-waiver fairness-integrity-public-reputation judicial-proceedings plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-factors substantial-rights unconscionability unconscionable-contract | 1. Whether the waiver of appeal rights contained in the Plea Agreement is unenforceable since the Plea Agreement is invalid because it is an unconscio… |
| 19-8679 | Dan Reed v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states status-knowledge statutory-interpretation substantial-rights united-states-v-reed | In Rehaif v. United States, this Court held that 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924(a)(2) require the government to prove that "the defendant knew he possess… |
| 19-1362 | Jason Laut v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-06-11 | Denied | circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights | The Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment demands "that a court cannot permit a defendant to be tried on charges that are not made in the indictmen… | |
| 19-8412 | Lenroy McLean v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review forfeiture plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | QUESTION I Should the Second Circuit Court of Appeals exercise it's discretion to correct the forfeited error of Petitioner's miscalculated guideline… |
| 19-8237 | Fernando Romero-Salgado v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error plain-error-review sixth-amendment substantial-rights | Does Rehaif error per se affect a defendant's substantial rights under the third prong of plain-error review? |
| 19-7630 | Paris Hollingshed v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fairness-integrity judicial-review jury-instructions plain-error public-reputation substantial-rights supreme-court-precedent trial-record | (1) Whether plain-error review for failure to instruct on an element of the offense, based upon an intervening U.S. Supreme Court decision, allows cou… |
| 19-844 | Sabrina Graham v. Thomas S. Wininger | Indiana | 2020-01-06 | Denied | appellate-review bias due-process findings-and-conclusions fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process quantum-meruit quantum-meruit-unjust-enrichment rule-52 substantial-rights unbiased-tribunal | 1) Whether Graham's substantial rights and right to procedural due process and fundamental fairness guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment were violat… | |
| 19-6127 | Steven Justin Villalona v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest counsel-concession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings law-of-the-case mootness plain-error presumption-of-prejudice substantial-rights | (1) What effect, if any, does a concession made by the U.S. on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim have on the court's ability to ajudicate the… |
| 19-6079 | Guillermo Vega-Botello v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-procedure limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing statutory-maximum substantial-rights | Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 19-5949 | Marcelino Martinez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-16 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error plea-bargaining plea-negotiations rule-11 substantial-rights | 1) When a district court violates Rule 11(c)(1) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure by interfering in plea negotiations, can a defendant ordina… |
| 19-5905 | Ricky Davis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-11 | Denied | IFP | fairness-integrity federal-sentencing guideline-calculation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proportionality sentencing-uniformity statutory-maximum substantial-rights uniformity-proportionality USSG-5G1.1(a) | When this Court held in Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1897 (2018) that a failure to correctly calculate the guideline range, which anch… |
| 19-5201 | Kenneth Medenbach v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3561 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-authority district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction probation probation-term sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation substantial-rights supervised-release | Did the District Court err in finding that it has authority under 18 USC §3561(a)(3) to impose a sentence of six months imprisonment and a 5 year term… |
| 19-5010 | Andrew Nelson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-28 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(c) appellate-review continuance criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-52a federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-error prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing substantial-rights trial-continuance vagueness-doctrine | 1. Where the district court erroneously premises its denial of a meritorious, unopposed motion for continuance of the trial on a mistaken belief that … |
| 18-9365 | Jose Antonio Ramirez-Jaramillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-error statutory-interpretation statutory-range substantial-rights | Whether an error in selecting the defendant's statutory range of imprisonment affects his or her substantial rights within the meaning of Federal Rule… |
| 18-9007 | Nicholas D. Weir v. Montefiore Medical Center, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 district-court employment-discrimination frcp-rule-60(b) frcp-rule-61 frcp-rule-62.1 harmless-error retaliation retaliation-claim rule-60b substantial-rights | Does a district court judge's misunderstanding of the initial timeline that establishes a retaliation claim (under 42 U.S.C.. § 2000e) not considered … |
| 18-8665 | Michael Benanti v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit criminal-activity fed-evid-r-403 fed-evid-rule-403 fourth-amendment harmless-error nexus nexus-requirement place-to-be-searched search-warrant substantial-rights | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires the affidavit supporting a search warrant to show a nexus between the criminal activity at issue and the plac… |
| 18-8558 | Jorge Edwin Rivera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release | When a district court imposes a term of supervised release double that of the Guidelines range without first calculating the range or providing an exp… |
| 18-8512 | DaRen Kareem Gadsden v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-integrity judicial-proceedings multiplicitous-sentence plain-error remand rosales-mireles-standard sentencing sentencing-review substantial-rights | In light of Rosales-Mireles v. United States, 138 S.Ct. 1897, 201 L. Ed. 2d 376 (2018), which, states, "[{fJailure to correct plain error that affecte… |
| 18-8349 | Daverne Michael Foy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-waiver civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-proceedings plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights waiver | 1. In Rosales-Mireles, this Court struck down the court of appeals' heightened "shock the conscience" standard for a Rule 52(b) plain error review, an… |
| 18-8314 | Jose Nino-Carreon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion guidelines plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain Guideline error should ordinarily find an effect on the defendant's substantial rights if the district c… |
| 18-8044 | Lois Brooks v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure government-rights judicial-integrity judicial-proceedings mandatory-minimum plain-error sentencing sentencing-error substantial-rights | in derogation of them may constitute "plain error" under Fed. R. Crim. Pro. 52(b)? If so, did the imposition of a sentence of post-release supervisio… |
| 18-7356 | Jack Gossett v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial-procedure defendant-rights due-process expert-testimony government-agent-testimony jury-influence prejudice reasonable-doubt reversible-error substantial-rights untendered-expert-testimony | Did the testimony of a government agent, having not been tendered as an expert witness after interpreting and explaining events that he DID NOT observ… |
| 18-7004 | Miguel Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights | Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 18-6853 | Noe Garcia-Lima v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-52(b) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | When the "record is silent as to what the district court might have done had it considered the correct Guidelines range," Molina-Martinez v. United St… |
| 18-6829 | Jimmy Walter Fuentes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights | 1. Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited rema… |
| 18-6391 | Matthew Vaughn Hawks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-disability plain-error sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-reasonableness substantial-rights united-states-v-olano | I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Misapplied Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) and United States v. Olano, 507 U.S. 725 (1998) by Failing to Grant Relief for Plain… |
| 18-6358 | Alj Hilton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | and Are Plain and Affect Petitioner's Substantial -and-Are-Plain-and-Affect-Petitioner's-Substantial 18-usc-3661 5th-amendment appeal-waiver appeal-waiver,sentencing-guidelines,criminal-histo criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum plain-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights trial-court-error Whether the mandatory five-year minimum sentence u | Whether Petitioner's Appeal Waiver Is Inapplicable to Issues of Trial Court Error in Applying Sentencing Guidelines' Enhancements or in Calculating Cr… |
| 18-5618 | Tae H. Chon v. Barack H. Obama, former President of the United States, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness integrity judicial-proceedings plain-error preservation-of-error remand substantial-rights tenth-circuit | Where the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit leaves open the question of whether or not a plain error affects the petitioner's subst… |
| 18-5373 | Otis Sykes v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process guidelines guidelines-range harmless-error judicial-error molina-martinez-v-us rosales-mireles-v-us sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights | DEFENDANT SEEKS THIS SUPREME COURT'S REVIEW OF HIS ABOVE GUIDELINES SENTENCE IMPOSED WITHIN AN INCORRECT GUIDELINES RANGE UTILIZING "ADDITIONAL EVIDEN… |
| 23A1144 | C. Holmes v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | Presumed Complete | certiorari in-forma-pauperis motion-for-reconsideration substantial-rights supreme-court time-extension | Question not identified. | ||
| 23A915 | C. Holmes v. Anne Milgram, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration | Fourth Circuit | Presumed Complete | certiorari court-procedure in-forma-pauperis motion-for-reconsideration substantial-rights time-extension | Question not identified. | ||
| 23A382 | C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. | Fourth Circuit | Presumed Complete | certiorari in-forma-pauperis procedural-relief substantial-rights supreme-court time-extension | Question not identified. |