Taibu Grant appeals the District Court s denial of the habeas petition he filed under 28 U.S.C. 2254. We granted a certificate of appealability to allow Grant to appeal the District Court s rejection of his claim of prosecutorial misconduct without holding an evidentiary hearing and his claim...   MORE>>

Ron Ron Ron Collins participated in a drug-distribution conspiracy stretching from Mexico to Milwaukee that involved mass amounts of cocaine. For his role, Collins was found guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, in violat...   MORE>>

Sherry Washington appeals her conviction and sentence for money laundering and conspiracy to commit program fraud that arose out of her role in a business venture that ostensibly provided wellness services to the Detroit Public School ( DPS ) system. We discern no error in the sufficiency ...   MORE>>

For the first time on appeal, Defendant-Appellant Servando Alvarado-Casas challenges his federal guilty plea conviction of conspiracy to commit aggravated alien transporting, arguing principally that his plea lacks an adequate factual basis, and that the district court misadvised him as to his sente...   MORE>>

Ali Sina Karimi petitions this court for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") final order of removal. Karimi contends the BIA erred when it ruled that his Maryland second-degree assault conviction was for a "crime of violence" under 18 U.S.C. 16, and thus an "aggravated felony" under ...   MORE>>

This is a second appeal from the denial of Defendant-Appellant Mois s Candelaria-Silva's ("Mois s") motion for reduction of sentence under 18 U.S.C. 3582 (c)(2) and the retroactively amended crack-cocaine guidelines. The first time around, the district court found defendant ineligible for a red...   MORE>>

Appellant Jos Manuel Zavala-Mart ("Zavala") challenges the life sentence he received for his role in a large-scale drug operation that sold heroin, crack, cocaine, and marijuana at a public housing project in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. The second of forty-seven defendants charged in a ten-count super...   MORE>>

Perry A. McCullough brought a habeas petition requesting reconsideration of the Bureau of Prisons rejection of his application to the Second Chance Act s elderly offenders pilot program, which no longer exists. The district court, considering the merits of the case, denied McCullough s habeas...   MORE>>

Jeremiah W. Nixon, Chris Koster, James Corwin, and Colonel Ronald Replogle (the State Officials), and Colonel Tim Fitch and Robert P. McCulloch (the St. Louis County Officials) appeal the district court s August 25, 2011, order granting in part the plaintiffs motion for attorneys fees and gr...   MORE>>

A jury convicted defendantappellant Michael Roux of inducing or coercing a minor to create sexually explicit images, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2251(a). Roux appeals, contending that the district court erred in admitting certain evidence against him and that the government committed certain misste...   MORE>>