three-strikes-law

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1183 Antonio Lamont Lightfoot v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) categorical-approach circuit-split federal-criminal-law predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement three-strikes-law Whether there is a categorical mis match whe n the elements of the predicate state offense, by their plain language , criminalize conduct outside the …
24-5730 In Re Carlos Martinez 2024-10-09 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review three-strikes-law Whether the indeterminacy of the wide-ranging inquiry required by the determinative clause in subdivision (A) of California Penal Code Section 170.14,…
23-6512 Douglas Wayne Sokell v. David Pedro, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review life-sentence prisoner-detention recidivism sentencing three-strikes-law Question not identified.
23-5442 Wayne Jerome Johnson v. California California 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-vagueness criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual double-jeopardy due-process felony-misdemeanor penal-code-interpretation three-strikes three-strikes-law vagueness Whether it is unconstitutional, i.e., cruel and unusual, double jeopardy, and a violation of the due process clause to impose two separate strikes on …
20-79 Cedric L. Daniels v. Dave Davey, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause due-process evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment hearsay impeachment-evidence jury-instructions sixth-amendment three-strikes-law Could a jurist of reason find that petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine witnesses and Fourteenth Amendment ri…
20-5176 Nicholas Harris v. California California 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment penal-consequences resentencing serious-felony three-strikes-law witness-dissuasion Does California's Three Strikes Reform Act of 2012 ("the Reform Act"), as interpreted by California's Supreme Court, violate the Ex Post Facto Clause …
19-7374 In Re John Wallace 2020-01-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appeals civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-authority judicial-discretion mandamus procedural-error sanctions standing three-strikes three-strikes-law three-strikes-statute Congress Enacted The 28$ 1'U.S.£ 1915$g) Three Strikes StafemfeeoOf 1996 To Prevent Prisoner's From Filing FRIVOLOUS,MALICOUS,or VEXATIOUS Lawsuits. …
19-5367 Ralph Arthur Duarte v. California California 2019-07-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus hicks-v-oklahoma liberty-interest people-v-vargas retroactive-application retroactivity three-strikes three-strikes-law WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS OF LAW* WHEN THE STATE COURT COURT SENTENCED HIM TO SPEND 30 YEARS TO LIFE IN STATE PRISON, UNDER A "THREE…
19-5087 Willie Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3559 categorical-approach circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing enumerated-list-of-offenses enumerated-offenses essential-nature federal-jurisdiction federal-statute federal-three-strikes-law prior-state-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation three-strikes-law 1. Whether the categorical approach permits a court to compare "the essence" of a prior state crime of conviction to the "essential nature" of a speci…
18-9394 Ward T. Evans v. Delaware Delaware 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge constitutionality-of-statute criminal-law criminal-offenses criminal-procedure criminal-statute double-jeopardy due-process in-forma-pauperis indictment indictment-counts statutory-interpretation three-strike-rule three-strikes-law Whether Delaware's 11 Del. Crim. C. sec. 773(2) as it was written when Petitioner was charged and convicted, define three distinct and separate crimin…
18-5559 Travis Michael Easter v. Brigitte Amsberry, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-enhancement due-process factual-innocence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel legal-innocence miscarriage-of-justice recidivism recidivist-enhancement recidivist-statute sentencing-error three-strikes three-strikes-law WHETHER THE STATE OF OREGON'S IMPOSITION OF A TRUE LIFE SENTENCE UNDER A THREE STRIKES SENTENCING RECIDIVIST ENHANCEMENT STATUTE IS A MISCARRIAGE OF J…
18-5496 Alfredo Perez, Jr. v. California California 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-doctrine apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-findings jury-trial resentencing sentencing sixth-amendment three-strikes-law Does the federal constitution, as construed in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), permit a court charged wi…
24A1029 In Re Stanley Howard Solvey Presumed Complete due-process-violation fundamental-jurisdiction habeas-corpus three-strikes-law unlawful-detention wrongful-conviction Question not identified.