unit-of-prosecution

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5437 Carlos Demond Robinson v. Sean Janson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant declaratory-relief judicial-review statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution 1.) Whether a criminal defendant should be allowed to seek judicial review of a criminal statute for constitutional infringement if he seeks only dec…
23-6724 Terrence Michael Taylor, aka Terrance Michael Taylor v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-12 Denied IFP 18-usc-922g appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-claim double-jeopardy firearm-possession guilty-plea plea-colloquy statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution In Blackledge v. Perry, 417 U.S. 21 (1974), and Menna v. New York, 423 U.S. 61 (1975), this Court held that a defendant who pleads guilty can still ra…
23-6263 Freddy Abad v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c) 924(j) criminal-charging criminal-procedure double-jeopardy federal-criminal-law lora-v-united-states robbery-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution united-states-v-davis 1). Whether the two §§ 924(C), 924(J) Counts Five and Six, were based on a single "unit of prosectution ," this court should hold that they were; un…
21-7569 Miguel Scott Arnold v. United States Third Circuit 2022-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute human-trafficking jury-instructions rule-of-lenity statutory-interpretation third-circuit-court third-circuit-court-of-appeals unit-of-prosecution What is the allowable unit of prosecution for violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)? 2. Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals err by not remanding to th…
21-5631 Elton Vallare v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-09 Dismissed IFP child-pornography circuit-split criminal-law federal-statute interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution What is the unit of prosecution under § 2252A(a)(5)(B)?
20-5524 Ranau D. Johnson v. Ohio Ohio 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ohio-appellate-rule sixth-amendment unit-of-prosecution Can the State Court deprive the Appellant the fundamental right to effective assistance of Appellate Counsel by denying an Appellant/Defendant the opp…
18-1396 Dereck Pelletier v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Arkansas 2019-05-06 Denied Response Waived criminal-law double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment multiplicity retroactivity statutory-construction statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution A citizen of another state received a three-hundred-year sentence for sending, in one transaction, a single computer file containing thirty (30) image…
18-7830 Rheuben Johnson v. Kansas Kansas 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP blockburger-test constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy multiplicity same-offense schoonover-test single-statute unit-of-prosecution Question 1. To determine "same offense" in a single-statute case, regarding multiplicity that affects double jeopardy, does the directive set forth by…