| 24-5184 |
Alexander Kates v. Julie Wolcott, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-law constitutional-validity habeas-corpus-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review lackawanna-v-coss legal-procedure plea-agreement statutory-interpretation strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit should have issued the petitioner a Certificate of Appealability |
| 21-7563 |
Alexander Kates v. New York |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
civil-rights criminal-procedure custody-determination district-court-discretion due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-law state-law-precedent |
Are district courts allowed to disregard State law and controlling federal precedent when handling state habeas corpus petitions? |
| 19-8230 |
Alexander Kates v. New York |
New York |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
access-to-courts due-process fourth-amendment illegal-seizure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement property-return prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity |
Whether a plea agreement to return illegally seized property in exchange for a guilty plea, induced by the prosecutor, is breached when the prosecutio… |
| 19-6566 |
Alexander Kates v. New York |
New York |
2019-11-08 |
Denied |
2nd-amendment actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-possession-of-a-weapon criminal-possession-of-weapon criminal-procedure due-process home-exception ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loaded-firearm penal-law penal-law-265.15(4) standing void-for-vagueness |
Whether New York State residents are always actually innocent of felony and attempted felony criminal possession of a weapon offenses if they possess … |