wrongful-incarceration
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-7423 | Glenn Francis v. Thomas Scarantino, Warden, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights immunity immunity-doctrine jury-trial probable-cause punitive-damages writ-of-certiorari wrongful-incarceration | Can you deny me a jury trial for civil rights violations and wrongful incarceration and punitive damages based only on immunity of defendants that I t… |
| 23-104 | Granville S. Watson v. Connecticut, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-08-03 | Denied | 18-usc-242 civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act fraudulent-concealment sovereign-immunity wrongful-incarceration | Federal Tort Claims Act's (F.T.C.A.) discretionary function exception does not immunize the government from liability for actions proscribed by federa… | |
| 20-5549 | Javier Lopez-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations fact-finding factual-issues federal-sentencing judicial-standard precedent reasonableness-review standard-of-review wrongful-incarceration | Whether review for reasonableness in federal sentencing requires a separate, more deferential, standard of review for credibility determinations than … |
| 19-756 | Louis Taylor v. Pima County, Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-12 | Denied | Amici (4) | civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-damages due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct wrongful-imprisonment wrongful-incarceration | In Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), this Court held that federal habeas corpus is the sole avenue by which a "state prisoner" may bring a claim … |
| 18-8431 | David Kelly Brewster v. Florida | Florida | 2019-03-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof compensation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-precedent restitution wrongful-incarceration | Nelson v. Colorado, 581 U.S.__, 137 S. Ct. 1249 (2017) tore down the wall Colorado had built to prevent persons from receiving their valid returns of … |
| 18-931 | David Christopher Hesse v. Jason Kane Howell | Texas | 2019-01-17 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 abuse-of-process civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-of-law due-process false-arrest legal-procedure prosecutorial-immunity state-law-immunity texas-civil-practices-and-remedies-code wrongful-incarceration | 1. Are acting as a witness by swearing to facts, abusing process and committing crimes, acts that are foreign to the duties of a prosecutor? If so, is… |
| 18-818 | Hubert Thompson v. James C. Rovella, Chief of Police, City of Hartford, Connecticut, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-12-27 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process equitable-tolling prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation wrongful-incarceration | Whether the statutory requirement that the petitioner show his criminal case was dismissed based on innocence or grounds consistent with innocence as … |