No. 24-6880

Charles Christopher Wendell v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2025-03-27
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-impeachment
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2025-05-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether failure to adequately impeach a witness, challenge other crimes evidence, investigate witnesses, request medical examination, and object to prosecutorial misconduct constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel violating the Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

GROUND ONE: WHETHER THE FAILURE TO ADEQUATELY IMPEACH A WITNESS, IN A WHOLLY CREDIBILITY CASE, CONSTITUTES A VIOLATION OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT ’S GUARANTEE OF COMPETENT REPRESENTATION OF COUNSEL AND A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL AS MADE OBLIGATORY UPON STATE COURTS BY THE FOUR TEENTH AMENDMENT. GROUND TWO: WHETHER FAILING TO PROPERLY CHALLENGE THE STATE ’S INTRODUCION OF EVIDENCE OF OTHER CRIMES, WRONGS, OR ACTS CONSTITUTES A VIOLATION OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENTS GUARANTEE OF COMPETENT REPRESENTATION OF COUNSEL AND A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL AS MADE APPLICABLE BY THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT GROUND THREE: WHETHER FAILING TO INVESTIGATE, INTERVIEW, AND/OR CALL WITNESSES TO TESTIFY AT TRIAL CONSTITUTES A VIOLATION OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENTS GUARANTEE OF COMPETENT REPRESENTATION OF COUNSEL AND A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIALAS MADE APPLICABLE BY THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT GROUND FOUR: WHETHER FAILING TO REQUEST THE COURT TO ORDER THE ALLEGED VICTIM TO UNDERGO A MEDICAL EXAMINATION CONSTITUTES A VIOLATION OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT'S GUARANTEE OF COMPETENT REPRESENTATION OF COUNSEL AND A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL AS MADE APPLICABLE BY THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT GROUND FIVE: WHETHER FAILING TO OBJECT TO THE PROSECUTOR'S IMPROPER COMMENTS DURING CLOSING ARGUMENT CONSTITUTES A VIOLATION OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT'S GUARANTEE OF COMPETENT REPRESENTATION OF COUNSEL AND A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL AS MADE APPLICABLE BY THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT 11

Docket Entries

2025-06-02
Petition DENIED.
2025-05-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/29/2025.
2025-01-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 28, 2025)

Attorneys

Charles Wendell
Charles C. Wendell — Petitioner
Charles C. Wendell — Petitioner