6th-Amendment

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25-5564 Agustin Garcia v. New Jersey New Jersey 2025-09-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment assistance-of-counsel constitutional-rights due-process state-court-order Whether the state court's orders deprived petitioner of due process and assistance of counsel as guaranteed by the 6th and 14th Amendments
24-6647 Oscar Stilley v. Cole Jester, Arkansas Secretary of State, et al. Arkansas 2025-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment assistance-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-judgment peaceful-petition voting-registration Is a void criminal judgment taken contrary to the 6th Amendment right to assistance of counsel legally sufficient to criminally punish the convicted p…
24-6566 Felix O. Brown, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2025-02-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation due-process jury-communication state-suppression Can newly discovered material evidence revealing an unauthorized communication with a deliberating jury violate a defendant's constitutional rights an…
24-5135 Timothy Kaler v. ESA Management, LLC Ninth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment ada ada-violation cares-act constitutional-violation due-process federal-cares-act federal-removal fiduciary-duty jurisdictional-conflict Jurisdiction-and-removal
24-5145 Antonio Tyree Gaskin v. Kentucky Kentucky 2024-07-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification law-enforcement legal-representation lineup procedural-safeguards right-to-counsel suspect-rights Whether the 6th Amendment of the US Constitution has guaranteed protections that safeguard against law enforcement showing a single photograph of a su…
24-5066 Lynual McElroy v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-07-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel constitutional-amendment constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-defender speedy-trial speedy-trial
23-7838 Davit Davitashvili v. United States Third Circuit 2024-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment mental-health-disclosure miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Were there violations of the 5th and 6th Amendments?
23-7834 Willie Medina v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force judicial-review law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant unlawful-detention Whether the officers had probable cause for the stop, whether there was a search warrant for the car, whether there was sufficient evidence to support…
23-7777 Robert King Via, Jr. v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment accomplice-testimony constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-rights due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence witness-testimony Does the uncorroborated testimony of alleged accomplices outweigh a defendant's 6th Amendment right to present evidence in his favor?
23-7745 Gustavo Galindez v. Michigan Michigan 2024-06-18 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal due-process michigan-constitution sentencing Does MCL 769.34(10) violate the defendant's constitutional right to due process and right to appeal?
23-7699 Levoyd A. Jones v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied IFP 6th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure direct-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment trial-counsel uncharged-crime witness-impeachment Whether evidence of an uncharged crime can be used as direct evidence
23-7610 David K. Horsley v. Ohio Ohio 2024-05-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment anders-review appellate-procedure constitutional-violation due-process procedural-safeguards right-to-counsel sixth-amendment stare-decisis time-limit Does Ohio's App. R. 26(B)(1) violate the 6th Amendment by applying a time limit to reopen an appeal when an applicant has proven counsel error in not …
23-7588 Ruben Mendezsales v. Florida Florida 2024-05-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial overrule sixth-amendment williams-v-florida Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7566 Brendon Tyre Garner v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
23-7504 Sergio Antonio Hood v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-20 GVR IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing Whether the Sixth Amendment, other than the Negatively Absolute Prohibition, allows for any fact that increases a reasonable doubt to a power before a…
23-7503 Christopher Michael Bullins Croce v. Florida Florida 2024-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment stalking-statute Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-7488 Jose Eliso Zavala v. Texas Texas 2024-05-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-bias constitutional-rights fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-bias prejudice sixth-amendment structural-error Whether the petitioner was deprived of his constitutional rights to a fair and impartial trial
23-7393 Gregory Shawn Mercer v. Virginia, et al. Virginia 2024-05-07 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-interpretation constitutional-rights due-process incorporation-doctrine privileges-and-immunities privileges-immunities state-court-procedure supremacy-clause Whether the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, Court of Appeals of Virginia, and Supreme Court of Virginia erred in denying Petitioner's U.S. Amendment …
23-7329 Alrick Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel premeditated-murder self-defense sixth-amendment whether-a-state-criminal-appellant-has-constitutional-right-to-fair-trial
23-7306 Ronnie Y. Conrad v. Rob St. Andre, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity sixth-amendment Whether the presumption of prejudice applies to conflict-of-counsel claims when the defense attorney is being prosecuted by the same agency prosecutin…
23-7230 In Re Alissa M. Peterson 2024-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process fair-trial gideon-v-wainwright judicial-misconduct legal-representation Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the Attorney Grievance Commission and Judicial Tenure Commission to remand the case issue to the low…
23-7087 Natasha Bates, aka Tasha Bates v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-03-27 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment Did the trial court commit reversible error by failing to grant Petitioner's post conviction relief due to introduction of evidence from a warrantless…
23-7008 Lawrence Martin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2024-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-court new-trial relief trial-rights Was Martin entitled to production of documents, did a Brady violation occur when favorable material evidence was withheld/discarded, was Martin entitl…
23-978 Loan Phuong v. Cong Van Nguyen Virginia 2024-03-07 Denied 6th-amendment bias due-process impartiality judicial-bias legal-procedure prejudice sixth-amendment supreme-court virginia-law virginia-supreme-court Whether the Virginia Supreme Court's decision caused the Petitioner to suffer damages when it refused to rehear her case against the Respondent in vio…
23-6887 Brenda B. v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2024-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-credibility hearsay-rules witness-credibility witness-testimony Do I have a right to confront alleged witnesses?
23-6879 Christopher Sean Burrus v. Washington Washington 2024-03-01 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-requirements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum mental-health sentencing-law Questions Presented
23-6857 Lamar Gibson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lower-courts post-conviction-relief statutory-violation trial-testimony Whether the petitioner's due process, fair trial, and 6th amendment rights were violated when the lower courts omitted, manipulated, and altered trial…
23-6787 Jerry Means v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-law-rights Whether an indigent pro se defendant in a state criminal case who is prohibited by state law from raising any claim of trial court error on direct app…
23-855 Richard Abbott v. Supreme Court of Delaware, et al. Delaware 2024-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause disbarment due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech pro-se professional-licensure Whether a pro se defendant in a confidential professional licensure disbarment proceeding has full 1st Amendment rights
23-6666 Jackie-Devere Allen Cole v. Colorado Colorado 2024-02-05 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure procedural-fairness speedy-trial standing Did the Col. Jyp. Cr err in holding my right to a speedy trial has been violated?
23-6637 Aruan Aleman Hernandez v. Palm Beach County State Attorney Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-31 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation Whether the 6th Amendment right to counsel extends to victims of a crime for purposes of Equal Protection
23-793 Isidro Javier Armenta v. California California 2024-01-24 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment automated-enforcement automated-traffic-enforcement confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause holding in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts extends to automated traffic enforcement system schemes
23-6532 Zerak Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment assistance-of-counsel certiorari criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Did the Framers intend that, in a criminal prosecution, a defendant is entitled assistance of counsel, under the 6th Amendment, for all criminal prose…
23-6542 Archie Cabello, aka Archibaldo Cabello, aka Archie Cabello, Jr., aka Archie P. Cabello, aka Arquimedes Cabello, aka Archie Palumbo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-counsel constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation Whether the Court Violated its duty Under the 6th Amendment, due process Clause and 6th Amendment counsel clause
23-6345 Jeffrey M. Spring, Sr. v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence procedural-due-process sixth-amendment substantive-due-process Is it a violation of substantive and procedural due process to deny the defendant an evidentiary hearing to develop newly discovered evidence?
23-6302 Robert Lee Crawford v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus legal-procedure preliminary-review prisoner-rights Is the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated when a prisoner's 28 USC §2255 habeas corpus raising Second and Sixth Amendment claims …
23-6277 Fidel Gutierrez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment court-interpreter-act due-process fundamental-fairness indigenous-rights language-comprehension sixth-amendment Did the proceedings against Gutierrez proceed in a language other than his primary language and inhibit his comprehension such that they were fundamen…
23-6162 James Williams v. United States Third Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure irreconcilable-differences judicial-discretion mckaskle-v-wiggins pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver When a defendant takes reasonable steps to remedy perceived irreconcilable differences with court-appointed attorney, does the 6th Amendment afford th…
23-582 Rollo A. Barker, aka Rollo Narker v. New Jersey New Jersey 2023-11-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment chain-of-custody confrontation-clause criminal-evidence evidence forensic-analysis lab-analysis lab-testimony melendez-diaz melendez-diaz-precedent sixth-amendment Does testimony from a lab analyst who did not perform the actual testing on Defendant's seized (alleged) contraband that was analyzed by a State Polic…
23-5956 Eriq R. McCorkle v. Norm Robinson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment barker-standard barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights material-witness pre-trial-delay prejudice sixth-amendment speedy-trial when-death-of-material-witness-occurs-during-pre-trial-delay
23-452 Michigan v. Anthony Joseph Veach Michigan 2023-10-30 Denied 6th-amendment child-rape child-victim courtroom-closure public-trial sixth-amendment technicality trial-court trial-procedure victim waller-standard Does the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial require subjecting the child rape victim to an automatic retrial based on a technicality when there a…
23-444 Steven Lee Moss v. Gary Miniard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment counsel-denial cronic-exception effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance prejudice sixth-amendment state-action strickland-standard strickland-v-washington united-states-v-cronic Whether, when counsel is physically present, state action is required before a court may find a complete denial of counsel under Cronic
23-5894 Myron Lee Brandon v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment consent criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fifth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment transportation-of-minors Exclusion of evidence on prostitution and lying by alleged victim
23-5833 Sean William Roulo v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fair-notice fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was the prosecutor's deliberate refusal to communicate with petitioner after filing formal charges, including withholding the court's summons and the …
23-5820 William H. Cornelius v. Florida Florida 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process federal-jurisdiction first-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sixth-amendment state-courts Whether the U.S. Supreme Court is obligated to resolve a dispute between Florida citizens and the state judiciary regarding the legislature's authorit…
23-5785 Joshua Aston v. Arizona Arizona 2023-10-16 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions reopening-of-case right-to-present-defense right-to-testify sixth-amendment trial-procedure unanimous-jury Where a defendant's right to testify was violated
23-5794 Joseph Aiken v. Florida Florida 2023-10-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5801 Jeffery Ducote v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Ducote's 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights were violated when his right to testify was taken from him
23-5692 Jose Ramon Andino-Morales v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct for which a jury has acquitted …
23-242 Jonathan M. Martinez v. United States Armed Forces 2023-09-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-unanimity military-conviction military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict uniform-code-military-justice Whether military convictions for serious offenses must be unanimous
23-5567 Carlos Gilbert Arellano-Ramirez v. Florida Florida 2023-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure felony felony-charges fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5575 Andrew Sposato v. Florida Florida 2023-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony?
23-5540 Michael Rinaldi v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial ratio-decidendi sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the use of acquitted conduct sentencing violates the Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial
23-5443 Scott Huss v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process equal-application equal-protection habeas-corpus Is it a federal due process, confrontation, and equal application violation as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments (U.S. Const.) when a st…
23-5453 Pedro Ramirez-Urbina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment alien-smuggling burden-of-proof causation causation-standard criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment sentence-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth or Sixth Amendments prohibit conduct for which Ramirez was acquitted from being used to enhance his sentence for alien-smuggling
23-5353 Chandra Modugumudi v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel language-barrier plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment-rights Whether the defendant's constitutional rights were violated due to lack of counsel, language barrier, prosecutorial misconduct, and other errors resul…
23-5300 Sandro Ramos v. Chris Rankins Tenth Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech ineffective-assistance jury-misconduct standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections
23-5248 Nikolas Gacho v. Tyrone Baker, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-negotiations sixth-amendment Should the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals have issued a certificate of appealability
22-7826 Ronell Watson v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment attempted-murder constitutional-rights fifth-amendment jury-instructions premeditation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Is premeditation an element of attempted murder under the federal system?
22-7829 James Platte, Jr. v. Sarah Schroeder, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process hybrid-representation judicial-discretion self-representation standing trial-court Did the trial court's substitution of hybrid representation over self-representation violate petitioners' constitutional rights?
22-7834 Marshall Henry Ellis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidentiary-hearings fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-hearsay sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Has the State of Oklahoma denied my rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments?
22-7801 Immanuel Christian Price v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-claim counsel-performance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mixed-representation plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing Whether the defendant was entitled to effective assistance of counsel during the plea bargaining stage in a mixed form of representation
22-7769 Tyrone Desante Morant v. Bill Stange, Warden Missouri 2023-06-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama sentencing-discretion Mandatory-life-without-parole-for-juvenile-offenders
22-7745 James William Walker v. Montana Montana 2023-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court coram-nobis due-process judicial-branch motion-for-relief supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-morgan Did the Montana judicial branch violate US Supreme Court precedent by denying petitioner relief under United States v. Morgan?
22-7672 Marcus D. Winston v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-05-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct racial-rhetoric Whether the Nebraska Court of Appeals has decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by the United States …
22-7674 John Paul Waldon v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's petition for writ of certiorari
22-7600 Randall Cooper, Jr., aka Randall Cooper, aka Randall Carl Cooper, Jr., aka Randall C. Cooper, Jr., aka Randall Carl Cooper v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-05-19 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing newly-discovered-evidence trial-rights Whether newly discovered evidence warrants a new trial
22-7564 Victor Wilson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-circuit 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment speedy-trial Can a 11th Circuit Court sua sponte deny a defendant's or petitioner's constitutional right to a public speedy trial
22-7515 Juan Andrade-Moreno v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Supreme Court's decision in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), is unconstitutional under the United States Constitution?
22-1075 James E. Hinkle v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-precedent impeachment impeachment-evidence witness-testimony Whether the right to confrontation was denied
22-7378 Patrick Ellis Cochran v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-negotiations sixth-amendment speedy-trial Was Petitioner's right to a speedy trial under the 6th Amendment denied?
22-7343 William Levi Oliver v. Texas Texas 2023-04-21 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance trauma-narrative videoconference-testimony witness Whether the Confrontation Clause permits out-of-state testimony via videoconference
22-7340 Damorius D. Gaines v. Geoffrey Benedict Eaton, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant Did the South Carolina courts err in denying relief on petitioner's claims that his constitutional rights were violated?
22-7267 Lloyd Leslie Kindred v. T. Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance interest-of-justice outcome-determination prejudicial-error reasonable-probability sixth-amendment Whether the 6th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was violated by the state court's finding that the petitioner's trial counsel was reasonably effect…
22-7271 Gregg Haden v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review supreme-court-precedent texas-procedure Whether Texas's procedure for failing to apply the Bullcoming standard and violating the 6th Amendment right to confrontation that is incorporated aga…
22-7195 Jerry Lynn McGavitt v. Texas Texas 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment collateral-proceedings collateral-review constitutional-right due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel trial-counsel Whether a prisoner has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provide the first occasion to raise a claim of ineffective assista…
22-7221 Carlotta Susann Kutschenreuter v. Lagreta McClain, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment state-post-conviction-procedures Whether Alabama's procedural rules and courts' rulings have denied review of petitioner's Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel claims, wa…
22-7187 Jody Lynn Ward v. South Carolina South Carolina 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment certiorari-denial due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct juror-bias juror-impartiality remmer-hearing Was petitioner prejudiced when the South Carolina Supreme Court denied his writ of certiorari on oral arguments
22-7136 Terry Froman v. Ohio Ohio 2023-03-29 Denied IFP 6th-amendment capital-punishment due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-selection jury-impartiality racial-bias right-to-counsel trial-procedure Whether a capital defendant is denied his right to an impartial jury when admittedly racially biased jurors were allowed to determine his guilt and pu…
22-7134 Christopher L. Whitaker v. Ohio Ohio 2023-03-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-defendant capital-punishment eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mitigation-evidence self-incrimination sixth-amendment Is a capital defendant's offer to plead guilty and waive all post-trial procedures in exchange for a life sentence admissible as mitigating evidence?
22-7027 Lester Barnett v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-03-16 Denied IFP 10th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment pre-trial-detention sentencing state-prisoner Was it unconstitutional for them to convict petitioner for a safecracking that happened while petitioner was confined at Mecklenburg County Jail on th…
22-899 Jason Smith v. Arizona Arizona 2023-03-16 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial expert-testimony forensic-analysis sixth-amendment subpoena testimonial-evidence Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to present testimony by a substitute expert conveying the testimonial statements of a nontest…
22-7022 LeAnthony T. Winston v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-prosecution trial-in-absentia Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial is violated when a state prosecution continues in the accused's absence after the accused has plea…
22-6959 Thurston Rickey-Lee Davis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment anders-brief certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statute-of-limitations summary-judgment Whether the 5th Circuit abused its discretion in denying habeas relief based on the statute of limitations and summary judgment issues
22-6942 Kwame Burrell v. Willis Chapman, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea judicial-discretion right-to-counsel state-constitution Did the trial court fail to protect the petitioner's fundamental due process right to substitute appellate counsel after the original appellate counse…
22-6918 Ralph Hall v. Darwin LeClaire, et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied IFP 6th-amendment administrative-law agency-decision appellate-review civil-rights contempt counsel due-process incarceration judicial-review procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require the appointment of counsel for indigent de…
22-841 Christopher H. West v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-rights cronic-standard due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sandin-v-conner sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Question not identified
22-6861 Jairo Francisco Solano v. Texas Texas 2023-02-24 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay judicial-procedure trial-court-error Did the trial court err by admitting hearsay testimony over the objection of Mr. Solano?
22-6828 Luis Espinoza v. Tammy Foss, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-testimony Were Mr. Espinoza's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights violated?
22-749 Andre Dow v. Nevada Nevada 2023-02-09 Denied 6th-amendment attorney-client-privilege counsel-of-choice due-process fair-trial first-amendment prejudice sixth-amendment us-v-gonzalez-lopez Whether Mr. Dow's Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice was violated
22-6714 Wilson Laboriel v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern New York Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-substitution due-process effective-assistance federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standard-of-review trial-court Whether the United States Court of Appeals can sanction the district court's recharacterization of a petitioner's claim after such claim has been libe…
22-6678 Cortez Watts v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraneous-evidence impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-bias jury-selection trial-procedure Whether the trial court properly applied the Darden test of Juror Misconduct
22-6531 Timothy Edwards v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights comprehension-disability constitutional-rights due-process garza-ruling post-conviction-relief ptsd retroactivity statute-of-limitations Whether the ruling in GARZA V. IDAHO 139 S. CT 739 (2019) applies to Plaintiff's Constitutional guarantee?
22-6504 Donald Herrington v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process free-speech grand-jury-fraud ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-framework Did the Commonwealth of Virginia adopt a trial framework that allows elected officials to brake their oath by presenting, publicizing and spreading di…
22-6493 Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit preponderance-of-evidence sentencing supervised-release trial-by-jury Does 18 U.S.C. § 3583(g) unconstitutionally deprive federal supervised releasees of the right to trial by jury?
22-6451 Dwayne Edmond Wilson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process incarceration judicial-delay liberty speedy-trial Whether the Sixth Amendment's Speedy Trial Right is violated when a defendant is incarcerated for 56 months without a trial
22-6460 Davonte DeJean v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights court-responsibility criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-trial right-to-jury-trial sentencing sixth-amendment Was counsel ineffective for not enforcing the 6th Amendment right to a jury trial in the sentencing proceeding and is the court also responsible?
22-6401 William Clyde Culberson, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2022-12-28 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause crawford-vs-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law medical-records sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence Is medical records considered as confrontation clause covered under Crawford vs. Washington?
22-6353 Furlonzo R. Moran v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial juror-disqualification jury-selection social-media-evidence trial-court-discretion Is it unconstitutional to disqualify a juror from service without just cause?
22-6357 Clifton Raye v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Was Petitioner's rights under 6th Amendment to the United States Constitution violated when trial counsel was ineffective?
22-6329 Phosavan Khamnivong v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment bodily-injury due-process fifth-amendment firearm-enhancement jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment is violated when courts impose sentences that, but for a judge-found fact, would be reversed for substantive unreasonablen…
22-6331 Lance Green v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-confrontation confrontation-clause daubert dna-evidence due-process firearm-possession sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act 6th-amendment-confrontation,due-process,speedy-trial-act,6th-amendment,daubert,dna-evidence
22-6297 Kevin W. Malone v. Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics sixth-amendment trial-bias Does the trial counsel's fraudulent behavior and conflict of interest violate the Petitioner's 6th & 14th Amendment right to conflict free counsel?
22-6292 Ryan L. Bessert v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process maryland-v-craig ohio-v-roberts two-way-video witness-testimony Does testimony taken using two-way video violate the Confrontation Clause?
22-6241 Clarence Lee Hooker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-interpretation procedural-due-process Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit erred by denying petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, due-process, equal-pr…
22-6204 Ronnie L. Famous v. Larry Fuchs, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claims discretionary-review district-court due-process exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default stay-and-abeyance Whether the district court violated the rule announced in Caines v. Dewac by denying petitioner's motion to stay and abeyance, thereby depriving him o…
22-6208 Jason Ross Gilley v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process evidence-standards fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Question not identified.
22-6185 Brent William Bogseth v. James R. Schiebner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jury-verdict sixth-circuit unreasonable-evidence Was the District Court's order denying petitioner's §2254 petition legal?
22-6088 Tupoutoe Mataele v. California California 2022-11-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment aggravating-circumstances constitutional-requirements criminal-sentencing death-penalty jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement that every fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increase the statutory m…
22-6051 Arriba Lewis v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment career-offender criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress racial-profiling selective-enforcement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
22-6037 Spencer Jean v. United States Second Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 6th-amendment criminal-procedure disclosure-requirements due-process expert-witness fair-trial government-misconduct rule-16-disclosure sixth-amendment whether-the-jury-verdict-was-metaphysically-impossible
22-421 D. A.. v. Portage County, Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-11-04 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 6th-amendment children-in-need-of-protection civil-rights cross-examination due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing witness-testimony Whether a natural father is entitled to basic Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process during Wisconsin Children in Need of Protection or Services p…
22-5986 Raymond Howard v. United States Third Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness late-notice Whether the District Court's decision to allow the testimony of the Government's key expert witness over the Petitioner's objection based on late noti…
22-5955 Christopher Wade v. Florida Florida 2022-11-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel-rights due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel petitioner-claims trial-court Did the petitioner's 14th Amendment rights to effective assistance of counsel under the U.S. Constitution and 6th Amendment due process rights under t…
22-377 Steven Elmer Hinds v. Texas Texas 2022-10-24 Denied Relisted (2) 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment policing-for-profit sixth-amendment Is Texas Penal Code (T.P.C.) § 42.105 repugnant to the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution?
22-378 Steven Elmer Hinds v. Texas Texas 2022-10-24 Denied Relisted (2) 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment policing-for-profit sixth-amendment state-prosecution Is Texas Penal Code (T.P.C.) § 42.105 repugnant to the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution?
22-5863 Arlandis Shy v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment apprendi-v-new-jersey due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment jury-instruction probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment unreasonable-search Whether the district court clearly erred by failing to properly instruct the jury, in violation of Apprendi v. New Jersey, and by admitting Defendant …
22-5829 Montana Barronette, Brandon Wilson, John Harrison, Linton Broughton, Terrell Sivells, Taurus Tillman, Timothy Floyd, and Dennis Pulley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process family-attendance family-friends public-trial public-trial-clause sixth-amendment Does the Public Trial Clause require heightened protection for courtroom access for defendants' family and friends?
22-5784 Kevin Antonio Watson v. Virginia Virginia 2022-10-06 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Whether Petitioner's trial counsel's actions violated the 6th and 14th Amendments of the Federal Constitution
22-318 Ronald Tai Young Moon, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-05 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure forfeiture public-trial sixth-amendment waiver What is the standard for finding a waiver (as opposed to mere forfeiture) of the Sixth Amendment right to a 'public trial?'
22-5760 Philip Joseph Spear v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review breach-of-promise constitutional-violation due-process judicial-error presumed-prejudice Did the appellate court err by overlooking a 5th Amendment Constitutional wrong, and by omission, fail to note, by the record, a breach of promise res…
22-5738 Vernon J. Mills v. Virginia Virginia 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence civil-rights compulsory-process due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the appellate court erred in possessing the legal significance of the exculpatory material of the three sworn affidavits tending to exonerate …
22-5684 Victor Gavillan Martinez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment warrantless-search Whether Petitioner's Fourth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to the United States Constitution Require this Court to vacate Petitioner's convic…
22-5612 Luis F. Gomez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct reversal statutory-interpretation witness-credibility Does a prosecutor's improper vouching for a witness unduly prejudice the defendant and require reversal under the 6th Amendment?
22-5564 Michael Muthee Munywe v. Washington Washington 2022-09-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-interrogation miranda-rights sixth-amendment trial-rights Question not identified
22-5502 In Re Artis Carroll 2022-09-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus involuntary-commitment legal-representation mental-health right-to-counsel Whether the involuntary commitment of a defendant to a psychiatric hospital without the assistance of counsel violates the defendant's constitutional …
22-5486 Hillary Best v. New York City Police Department Sex Offender Unit Second Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process Whether the State Statute, under New York Criminal Procedure Law §100.30(1)(d), is unconstitutional by allowing arrest and detention upon unsworn crim…
22-5467 Antonio B. Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied IFP 6th-amendment amendment-violation appellate-record civil-procedure constitutional-rights fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-warrant Did the Chief Deputy District Clerk err in excepting the search warrant and return without a prior stamp file on its-face and then file it into the ap…
22-5362 Agustin Garcia v. New Jersey New Jersey 2022-08-16 Denied IFP 6th-amendment complete-defense constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment technological-advances Whether the petitioner was deprived of the right to a fair trial and present a complete defense
22-5300 Michael G. Peters v. Andrew S. Hanen Fifth Circuit 2022-08-05 Dismissed IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection public-trial Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to jury selection proceedings
22-5282 Cory Mingo v. Florida Florida 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrantless-search Whether the Petitioner was deprived of the effective counsel
22-5271 Jose Erbo, aka Tito, aka Pinguita, aka Miguel Garcia v. United States Second Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment autopsy-reports confrontation-clause due-process legal-conflict supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents testimonial testimonial-evidence Whether Autopsy Reports Are Testimonial For Purposes Of The Confrontation Clause, And Whether The Unreasonable Application Of Clearly Established Supr…
22-5218 Reginald Dexter Carr, Jr. v. Kansas Kansas 2022-07-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment automatic-reversal due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment structural-error Was the denial of Reginald Carr's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to testify structural constitutional error requiring automatic reversal…
22-5177 William Eugene Moon v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial statute-of-limitations trial-delay Was the Defendant denied a speedy trial?
22-5123 Kevin Brazelton v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment courtroom-decorum due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment sixth-amendment stun-belt Were the Petitioner's federal due process rights violated when the trial court denied a mistrial after the Petitioner was electrically shocked in fron…
22-5102 Nathaniel Louis Daniels v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 6th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure judge judicial-discretion jury jury-determination sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Amendment requires that a jury, rather than a judge, resolve whether prior crimes were 'committed on occasions different from one an…
22-5071 Daniel Toney v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment circumstantial-evidence due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment habitual-offender ineffective-assistance montgomery sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's 6th and 14th Amendment rights to due process are being violated by denying claims based on assumption and not facts
22-5066 John Cody, aka Bobby Thompson v. Tim McConahay, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied IFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim debatability-review equal-protection-clause habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether a certificate of appealability (COA) debatability review under 28 U.S.C. §2253(c)(2) allows a circuit court to deny debatability of a constitu…
21-8184 Michael Kelly v. Jeremy Larson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights disproportionate-sentence ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance plea-colloquy postconviction-counsel sentencing-proportionality whether-effective-assistance-of-counsel-was-denied
21-1553 Ramin Khorrami v. Arizona Arizona 2022-06-10 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (5) 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process felony fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-trial original-public-meaning precedent sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony
21-8091 Jermaine Jackson v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the defendant's constitutional rights were not violated and in not granting a new tri…
21-7858 Larry Lewis v. Mississippi Fifth Circuit 2022-05-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions Whether the indictment was defective in count 1 and 2 under state law, whether the indictment failed to specify the date and place of the alleged crim…
21-7842 Tommy Dean Bullcoming v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment access-to-evidence constitutional-rights crime-scene-access criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-gathering fair-trial property-rights Does an accused have a constitutional right to access a private crime scene?
21-7826 Dexter Durrell Cooper v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-error court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard petition-review standing Whether or not the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in its constitutional analysis regarding the petitioner's bail motion
21-7763 Randolph Ashford v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction Was Petitioner's 5th, 6th, and 14th, Amendment Rights of the U.S. Constitution, Due Process Rights violated
21-7739 Kendall Whitaker v. Patricia A. Coyne-Fague, Warden First Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment aiding-and-abetting civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel due to failure to object and preserve for appeal jury instructions on the elements o…
21-7730 Justin L. Martin v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment strickland-standard Was Defense Counsel ineffective for failing to object to the states known use of false testimony in Petitioners trial, violating his Constitutional Du…
21-7731 Alonzo Bell v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-discretion proportionate-penalties sentencing Whether the Appellate Court abused its discretion in admitting social media evidence
21-7686 Robert Maillet v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process sex-offender-registry supervised-release Question not identified
21-7661 Antron Adon Tucker v. Virginia Virginia 2022-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment barker-v-wingo constitutional-right due-process prosecutorial-delay sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-interpretation statutory-right virginia-constitution Whether Petitioner's Constitutional right to a speedy-trial has been violated
21-7605 Lwane A. Mansell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2254 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights discovery-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-bar sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the district court erred in denying claim one of the petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 as procedurally barred
21-7567 Cornell Devore Rhymes v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-confrontation credibility criminal-defendant-rights evidence-rule-412 federal-rule-of-evidence-412 prior-sexual-history sex-trafficking witness-testimony Does a court violate a defendant's constitutional right to confront witnesses against him when, the court relies on Federal Rule of Evidence 412 to pr…
21-7536 Ramonta Forte v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment counsel-of-choice discretion due-process federal-law habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sentencing Whether the right to counsel at sentencing is clearly established federal law
21-7553 Larry David Davis v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment administrative-procedure civil-rights discretionary-relief due-process immigration-law ineffective-assistance judicial-review motion-to-reopen speedy-trial Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the delayed issuance of an arrest warrant and probable cause affidavits
21-1282 Christopher Ryan Martin v. Nevada Nevada 2022-03-23 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment apprendi-doctrine civil-rights criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-factors sixth-amendment Whether this Court should overrule AlmendarezTorres in light of Apprendi and its progeny
21-7402 Brandon Leon Bibbs v. Don Barnes, Sheriff, Orange County, California Ninth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-procedure Whether the petitioner's conviction was unconstitutional due to provisional circumstances surrounding his arrest and detention
21-7348 Andrew Prescott v. Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District Illinois 2022-03-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process ex-parte-communication fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal self-representation sixth-amendment Do the 6th Amendment; Section1 and Section 5 of the 14th Amendment; 28 U.S. Code § 1654, and state laws or provisions, grant individuals the right to …
21-7296 Frank C. Gonzalez v. California California 2022-03-07 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment jury jury-finding sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement that every fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increase the statutory m…
21-7234 Dylann Storm Roof v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied IFP 6th-amendment capital-defendant constitutional-rights counsel counsel-authority defense-strategy due-process mental-health-mitigation mental-illness mitigating-evidence trial-procedure When a competent capital defendant and his counsel disagree on whether to present mitigating evidence depicting him as mentally ill, who gets the fina…
21-7211 Theodore William Taylor v. The Kendall Law Group, P.L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-ethics misconduct statutory-interpretation Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's order dismissing the plaintiff's civil complaint without considerin…
21-7128 Cornelius Riley v. United States Third Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Should the reasoning of Apprendi, Alleyne, and Peugh be extended to cases where a defendant's sentencing guideline range increases significantly due t…
21-7096 Daniel Lee Reed v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-bar sixth-amendment Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability
21-1083 Jay Hoon Choi v. Virginia Virginia 2022-02-04 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process law-enforcement-contact miranda-rights right-to-attorney right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment state-magistrates Miranda-rights-after-assertion
21-6975 David James Lola v. Rick Ramsay, Sheriff, Monroe County, Florida Florida 2022-01-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech incarceration legal-resources prisoner-access Does an innocent citizen representing themselves against criminal allegations, also known as pro se, and incarcerated prior to trial have a due proces…
21-6920 Perry Cousins, aka Pzo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process jury-trial sentencing Whether the Sentencing provision of Statute 1963 violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments by denying the right to a Trial by Jury
21-6895 Marshaun Boykin v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-18 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-interpretation discovery-violation double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel individual-rights judicial-review legal-standing lineup-identification statutory-construction Whether the lineup identification procedure employed violated the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment and the right to effective assistance of co…
21-6774 Brandon Shane Harris v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-01-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process ex-post-facto Whether petitioner's 27-year sentence for trafficking should be vacated or reduced to the 20-year statutory maximum
21-6779 Troy Allen Hite v. Michigan Michigan 2022-01-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel michigan-state-courts procedural-default right-to-counsel Is-certiorari-appropriate-where-Michigan-state-courts-refused-to-address-petitioner's-denial-of-his-constitutional-right-to-counsel
21-6761 Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment mlat mlat-evidence search-warrant sixth-amendment Whether this Court should visit the issue of allowing law enforcement to gather information initiated by the United States to use a Mutual Legal Assis…
21-6745 Anthony Tyrone Garrett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3583g 5th-amendment 6th-amendment jurisdiction supervised-release transfer-order Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction to revoke supervised release
21-6721 Tyrone Anderson v. Delaware Delaware 2021-12-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction standard-of-review trial-counsel Does it constitute ineffective assistance of counsel to fail to object to a state's chief witness's testimony that a non-testifying declarant stated t…
21-6638 Michael Lewis Gibbons v. Missouri Missouri 2021-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment alleged-victim contradictory-testimony criminal-procedure due-process impartial-juror inconsistent-statements judicial-impartiality no-physical-evidence physical-evidence sixth-amendment witness-testimony Question not identified
21-882 Esteban Gaspar-Felipe v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived 5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether acquitted-conduct sentencing violates the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause or the Sixth Amendment's right to jury trial
21-6405 Ashley McArthur v. Florida Florida 2021-11-24 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment involuntary-confession law-enforcement miranda-rights self-incrimination waiver-of-rights Whether a law enforcement officer's violation of a defendant's rights set forth in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), renders a subsequent waive…
21-6391 Hai A. Duong v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Can Louisiana's 1997 and 1998 legislative amendments to La. R.S. 14:42 (C) and (D) qualify, absent a constitutional amendment, as the attendant provis…
21-6363 Diane Arellano v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-effect-of-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights sixth-amendment Does it violate her right to a speedy trial
21-6250 Joel Rivera-Alejandro v. United States First Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process excessive-delay fifth-amendment indictment multi-defendant sixth-amendment speedy-trial trial-delay Whether Petitioners Constitutional Fifth Amendment's Right to Due Process of Law and his Sixth Amendment Right to a Speedy Trial were violated
21-6152 Keith Arthur Vinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance criminal-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain sixth-amendment Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability over trial counsel's potential ineffectiveness in the plead-vs-trial decision?
21-6021 Elroy William Robinson v. David Holbrook, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process jurisdiction military-law Whether the military court-martial jurisdiction extends to a civilian spouse of an active-duty service member
21-5924 In Re Jose Victor Hernandez-Cuellar 2021-10-08 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment immigrant-status immigration judicial-misconduct sixth-amendment Does a immigrant in the United States of America, whether here legally with visa or illegally, receive Constitutionally guaranteed Rights?
21-5936 Allen Fong v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-forfeiture in-personam-forfeiture jury-trial reasonable-doubt statutory-authority Whether the Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to a jury finding beyond a reasonable doubt any fact necessary to the imposition of a mandatory crimi…
21-5910 Carlos Sauzo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights credibility due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment inconclusive-record judicial-review sixth-amendment Does the Fifth and Sixth Amendment require the lower court to address an evidentiary hearing when the record before the court is inconclusive as to wh…
21-5798 Willie Israel Navarette v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence evidence-law impeachment suppression-hearing trial-testimony Whether testimony from a suppression hearing may be used for impeachment purposes if a defendant testifies at trial
21-5755 Kevin L. Frost v. Kansas Kansas 2021-09-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-factors constitutional-rights due-process mitigating-factors sentencing sentencing-procedure Whether the sentencing court's improper weighing of mitigating and aggravating facts at sentencing resulted in a violation of the petitioner's due pro…
21-5677 Randolph Armstead v. Keith Deville, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing Did the state trial court, la. appellant, la. Supreme Court and US District Court, Eastern violate the petitioner's Constitutional Rights (1st Amendme…
21-5666 William Marcellus Campbell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied IFP 6th-amendment abuse-of-discretion appellate-review confrontation-clause cooperating-witness criminal-procedure de-novo-review sentencing Whether a Defendant's 6th Amendment Confrontation Clause Rights are violated when a district court judge prohibits questions to a cooperating accompli…
21-5617 Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-protections civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment government-seizure Does the Federal Government have the authority to seize individuals' bank accounts?
21-340 Orlando Carter v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2021-09-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment constitutional-right court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process groppi-precedent groppi-v-wisconsin impartial-jury venue venue-change Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals' categorical prohibition on changes of venue deprives defendants of the right to trial by an imparti…
21-5538 Michael Joseph Edmondson v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus self-representation sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel Whether the trial Judge fulfilled his duty of determining whether there was an intelligent and competent waiver of accused's right to assistance of co…
21-5487 Norman Michael Achin v. Virginia Virginia 2021-08-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment impersonation law-enforcement-conduct privacy privacy-rights warrant-requirement Does intercepting private electronic messages and cell phone communications without a warrant by impersonating another adult or by impersonating an im…
21-5482 Michael Deshon Matthews v. John Davids, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights court-costs due-process restitution right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial substitute-counsel Did trial court err in denying defendant's motion for substitute counsel?
21-5486 Scott Sanford v. Virginia Virginia 2021-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights intelligent-waiver jury-trial knowing-waiver sixth-amendment voluntary-waiver waiver Minimum requirements for waiving jury trial right
21-5427 Kushawn Miles-El v. Connie Horton, Warden Michigan 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment capital-case civil-rights competency competency-hearing due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-be-present right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the state court has denied petitioner any right, privilege or immunity
21-5403 Charles Edwin Tumlinson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice pro-se-petition standing Should lower federal courts be allowed to violate Supreme Court case law and deny pro-se applicants relief for fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice clai…
21-5406 Bryson Tuesno v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay impartial-jury sixth-amendment testimony Question not identified
21-197 Yvonne Reignat-Vodi v. Motor Vehicle Administration Maryland 2021-08-11 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-petitioner procedural-due-process sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari Did the courts follow the Procedural Due Process subject to the 14th Amendment due process protection?
21-5278 Kevin T. Heard v. Illinois Illinois 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-testimony fair-trial sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the defendant's Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights were violated when his attorney was 'not functioning as counsel' d…
21-5248 Davion L. Jefferson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment crime-of-violence directed-verdict due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Did the district court violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's Jury Trial Clause
21-5257 Jermaine Latwone Haynes v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial ineffective-assistance self-defense sentencing-mitigation Was Petitioner Denied His Constitutional Right To The Effective Assistance Of Counsel and A Fair Trial Proceeding
21-115 Ivan Rosario v. United States Second Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment judicial-factfinding jury jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's right to trial by jury protect criminal defendants from being sentenced bas…
21-5145 Richard Demon Donaldson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment state-court-deference statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred and abused its discretion in refusing and/or declining to issue a certificate of appealability
21-5085 David James Lola v. Florida Florida 2021-07-13 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights competence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-system Does due process under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require a presumption of competence for a criminal defendant to proceed pro se, such that a…
21-23 Brenda Cook v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-07-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-impartiality sixth-amendment voir-dire Has the Petitioner's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment right to an impartial jury been violated?
21-5053 Hernando Javier Vergara v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-challenge constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process jury-trial retroactive-application retroactivity supervised-release Should the Haymond ruling be considered retroactive?
21-5055 Bobby Wilson, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement Can a criminal defendant's appeal be dismissed based on a written waiver even though the government breached its plea agreement that induced the plea …
20-8435 Vladimir Eugene v. Florida Florida 2021-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment hearsay ineffective-assistance non-hearsay-purpose Whether otherwise inadmissible nontestimonial hearsay admitted for non-hearsay purpose and thereafter used for their truth as substantive evidence vio…
20-8421 Braulio Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 911-call armed-career-criminal body-camera body-camera-footage constitutional-rights'\n'Issue 4 criminal-history criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 2 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 3 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 4 enhancement evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment firearm fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statements statutory-interpretation witness witness-testimony Issue 1
20-1777 Willard Hall v. Edward Bickham, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied 6th-amendment community-representation due-process effective-assistance fair-cross-section fair-trial fifth-circuit impartial-jury jury-composition probable-cause Whether the petitioner was deprived of his right to a fair and impartial trial due to his jury not representing a fair cross-section of his community
20-8411 C. T. v. Orange County Social Services Agency California 2021-06-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment child-endangerment child-welfare civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment medical-privacy medical-treatment parental-rights sixth-amendment Does the act of forcefully administering psychotropic medications to a child before trial violate the IV and VI amendments in the absence of a court o…
20-8266 Eric Lucas v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's Constitutional Rights Under The 5th, 6th And 14th Amendments Were Violated
20-8267 Christopher Jermaine Kelley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process essential-element guilty-plea judicial-review parties plea-bargaining Question not identified
20-8184 Ronald Centeno v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constructive-amendment mens-rea specific-intent whether-aiding-and-abetting-can-be-submitted-to-jury-when-not-charged
20-8139 Mark W. Blond, Jr. v. New York New York 2021-05-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus state-court-procedure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state court denied his request for a writ of error coram nobis without a hearing
20-7955 Alton D. Pelichet v. Wayne Circuit Court Judge, et al. Michigan 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence due-process equal-protection felony-murder fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was denied his right to a fair trial, due process and equal protection
20-7859 Denver Lee v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP 6th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-sufficiency due-process felon-in-possession jury-finding jury-trial knowledge-of-status old-chief-stipulation plain-error rehaif substantial-rights Whether, when applying plain-error review based on the Court's intervening decision in Rehaif, a circuit court of appeals errs in relying on a petitio…
20-7873 Kenneth McBride v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-duress criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process pro-se-representation right-to-counsel Whether a state can force a U.S. citizen to face criminal charges without the assistance of counsel
20-7881 Steven Lynn Oppel v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-04-28 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-misconduct judicial-reputation wrongful-conviction Are Minnesota courts more interested in protecting a judge's reputation than the constitutional rights of the people?
20-7811 Danny R. Pennebaker v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process public-trial standing Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial was violated when the trial court closed the courtroom to the public during the testimony of certa…
20-7802 Michael Green v. Illinois Illinois 2021-04-19 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-doctrine precedent public-policy standing statutory-interpretation Whether there exists a factual basis to support petitioner's conviction
20-7791 Shalamar Carmon v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-homicide due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-defect sixth-amendment specific-offense vague-statement Was Petitioner denied due process of law
20-7727 Hasan Shareef v. Brian Palko, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-13 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-selection legal-reasoning public-trial statutory-provisions writ Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to jury selection proceedings
20-7664 Jessie Willie Green v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process exculpatory-evidence identification-evidence identification-procedures ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments were violated due to issues with identificati…
20-7649 Robert Earl Jackson v. Florida Florida 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-challenge due-process frequency-of-orgasms ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rape-victim-testimony sexual-battery uncorroborated-statement witness-testimony Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the testimony of the state's witness when she testified to the frequency of orgasms occ…
20-7607 Perry Burris v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. Third Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance Did attorney Douglas P. Earl violate Perry Burris' constitutional right of his 5th amendment right to due process of law subsequently violating his 6t…
20-1367 Ethan Johnson Spruill v. Jeorld Braggs, Jr., Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied 5th-amendment 6th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-law miranda-warnings right-to-counsel unreasonable-application Is the admission at trial, over objection, of Petitioner's statement error that lies beyond any possible fairminded disagreement?
20-7579 Donald Phillips v. Texas Texas 2021-03-29 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct juror-misconduct jury prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure Is it proper or a violation of the 6th Amendment due process law for a defense attorney to discover that during testimony in trial one of the jurors w…
20-7572 Jim Bass Holden v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion procedural-default right-to-counsel Whether the use of a Brecon ment / wmnte wukecwautt Seven s\\k ¢ QQ violates the Sixth Amendment right to counsel
20-7573 Merrickio D. Harris v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process fundamental-fairness judicial-review self-representation structural-error Whether the Nebraska State Courts committed structural error and violated the Petitioner's Federal Constitutional Rights to Self-Representation and Du…
20-7574 Robert K. Rymer v. United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Seventh Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied IFP 6th-amendment brady-violation civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Rymer's state trial violated his right to effective assistance of counsel and due process under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
20-7583 Thomas Mark Hild v. Colorado Colorado 2021-03-26 Denied IFP 6th-amendment autonomous-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-justice defendant-rights due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel habitual-criminal plea-bargaining plea-negotiations prior-convictions Whether there is a constitutional requirement that counsel engage in plea negotiations with prosecuting authorities to provide effective assistance an…
20-1321 John Ching En Lee v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 18-usc-1001 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-the-case materiality sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner is entitled to a Certificate of Appealability
20-1308 Roger D. White v. Super Gasoline, Inc., et al. Virginia 2021-03-19 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection racial-discrimination voir-dire Does the trial court's actions in tainting the jury violate the defendant's right to a fair trial and an impartial jury?
20-7392 James Jermaine Woodfork v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-03-09 Denied IFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence appeals constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-claim oklahoma Did the Oklahoma Appeals Court violate the petitioner's 6th Amendment right to due process by refusing to acknowledge the petitioner's claim of actual…
20-1239 Edward Smith v. Ohio Ohio 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-protection constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-procedure state-court stealthy-encroachment Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio violated the Petitioner's constitutional rights under the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments by refusing to enforce their…
20-7249 Derrick Miles v. Illinois Illinois 2021-02-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-appeal due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-identification Whether the State of Illinois Appellate Court ruling denying petitioner's claim
20-1136 Peter Capote v. Alabama Alabama 2021-02-19 Denied 6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances capital-punishment death-penalty judicial-fact-finding judicial-weighing jury-trial mitigating-circumstances sentencing-scheme sixth-amendment Whether the Alabama death penalty sentencing scheme violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial
20-1125 Antonio Devoe Jones v. Alabama Alabama 2021-02-17 Denied 6th-amendment alabama-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence mitigation-investigation Was Petitioner deprived of his constitutional right to effective counsel?
20-7118 Terry Allen Miles v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Did the trial court violate the 5th and 6th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States in overruling Petitioner's objection to the inclusion …
20-1098 Tod Houthoofd v. Les Parish, Warden Michigan 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-error trial-jurisdiction venue venue-challenge Does Petitioner's convictions violate the U.S. Constitution and prior decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court?
20-7082 Edward Bishop v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment 924(c)-prosecution constitutional-violation constructive-amendment deficient-performance drug-trafficking-crime due-process habeas-corpus indictment-defect ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice vagueness-challenge Whether Trial Counsel's performance was deficient and whether any errors were prejudicial?
20-7050 Mustafa Muhammad v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process indiana-courts ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the Indiana courts erred in denying the petitioner's request for post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel
20-7057 Romario Waller v. Arkansas Arkansas 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-factors amendment-violation constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-sentencing plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement Did the Trial Judge violate Petitioner's constitutional rights
20-1071 West Virginia, ex rel. June Yurish, et al. v. Laura V. Faircloth, Judge, Circuit Court of West Virginia, 23rd Judicial Circuit, et al. West Virginia 2021-02-05 Denied 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process joint-representation sixth-amendment standing supremacy-clause Whether a state precedent violates the Supremacy Clause and the 6th Amendment
20-7002 Ryan C. Lander v. United States Second Circuit 2021-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech government-seizure plea-bargaining search-and-seizure warrantless-search Is it constitutional to prosecute citizens for cybercrime under the interstate-commerce clause
20-6981 Phillip Jay Walter, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2021-01-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment appellate-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-appeal pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment venue Is an Appellate Court duty bound to ensure that an Appellant - whether Represented or Pro Se - is afforded a full, fair, and meaningful appeal
20-6925 Leonidas Iraheta and Eduardo Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judge-found-facts judicial-discretion jury-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit severe increases to the sentences of criminal defendants using judge-found facts rejected by the jury
20-6916 Stephen M. Patterson, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process edwards-standard indiana-v-edwards mental-competency self-representation sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel Whether Edwards' heightened competency standards apply when a court grants a borderline competent and mentally ill defendant's request to represent hi…
20-6885 David Alan Vogel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 2255-appeal 2255-motion 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-precedent constitutional-grounds sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent tenth-amendment Did the 5th Circuit violate the precedent of this Supreme Court and the legal standard of every other circuit when it denied Certificate of Appealabil…
20-6892 Vashaun Williams v. Illinois Illinois 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment compelled-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions self-incrimination sixth-amendment Whether the State violated the Petitioner's rights under the 5th and 6th Amendments by compelling the testimony of a witness who invoked the 5th Amend…
20-6893 Patrick Wallace v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-court habeas-corpus recusal right-to-be-present section-2255 Did the courts commit reversible error denying petitioner's COA, to resolve the factual disputes
20-6821 Matthew Jamal Jackson v. Texas Texas 2021-01-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudice pretrial-incarceration public-trial sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether petitioner was denied his Constitutional right to a Speedy Public Trial pursuant to the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
20-6823 Robert Buttery v. Ohio Ohio 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-rights juvenile-adjudication sex-offender-registration Whether an adult felony conviction under Ohio's failure to register statute violates due process and jury trial rights
20-929 Neil J. Gillespie v. Florida Florida 2021-01-11 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california forced-counsel habeas-corpus right-to-self-representation self-representation state-proceedings Can a writ of habeas corpus free a criminal defendant in state criminal proceedings from being restrained by forced appointment of counsel prohibited …
20-6805 Michael M. Williams v. Josh Stein, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-violation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief state-law-relief trial-counsel Did the trial court err in reviewing prisoner Williams' initial motion for post-conviction relief for violations of the 6th Amendment right to effecti…
20-6798 Henry Christopher Stubbs v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon Third Circuit 2021-01-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment AEDPA appellate-review civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Whether, during review of the Petitioner's habeas corpus application in the United States District Court, the Petitioner was entitled to de novo revie…
20-6748 Edward David v. Eloy Ituarte, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence witness Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause was violated
20-835 Warren Rosenfeld v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment article-iii ausa-appointment certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit miller-el presidential-commission sixth-amendment-right standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability was unreasonable
20-6616 In Re Theresa Romain 2020-12-14 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certiorari-petition civil-procedure constitutional-fairness due-process fairness finality-of-legal-process legal-process standing state-interest void-order Whether a void order within the meaning of the Constitution can automatically restrain a petition to Certiorari?
20-6548 Tamral Guzman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief Whether the district court deprived the defendant of her Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by denying her ineffective assistance of counsel claim …
20-6567 Kedrio Lekeis Summerville v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-withdrawal post-conviction-relief Was the post-conviction counsel ineffective?
20-721 Katie Garding v. Montana Montana 2020-11-24 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment accident-reconstruction effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-testimony ineffective-assistance professional-norms sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether trial counsel's failure to consult and call an expert witness in the field of accident reconstruction was objectively unreasonable under preva…
20-6366 James W. Riley v. Delaware Delaware 2020-11-18 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation Whether the Delnusace Supceme Court's rule that alu lnoligent defendanct must accept his teal counsel's decision to plea coutty to ficst degcee capita…
20-6368 In Re Richard J. Ramsey 2020-11-18 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights court-martial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial military-justice plea-bargain separation-of-powers sixth-amendment ucmj Whether military plea-bargains procedures are unconstitutional
20-6254 Roberto Yoquigua Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confidentiality criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process duress-defense fair-trial fifth-amendment pre-trial-disclosure sixth-amendment testimonial-confidentiality Whether and to what extent the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit a defendant to keep all of the details of his duress confidential before trial, or wh…
20-6188 Joshua Chiazor Ezeka v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona miranda-warning plain-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's custodial statements should be suppressed due to lack of Miranda warning
20-548 Jessie Eugene Shelton v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process improper-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-filing prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a pro se filing by petitioner in 2012 to the District Court, alleging ineffective assistance of counsel and an invalid plea would deny a secon…
20-6129 Matthew R. Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review due-process jury-instructions plain-error Whether a conviction after (a) an incomplete indictment, (b) incorrect jury instructions, (c) failure of the petit jury to make a finding on an essent…
20-6138 Jerry Walker v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2020-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure declaratory-judgment due-process evidence procedural-error sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner was denied due process in his criminal trial
20-6112 Oscar Pena Trujillo v. Arizona Arizona 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment alleyne apprendi apprendi-rule due-process ex-post-facto-clause fact-finding jury-trial sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment southern-union Does the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial require submitting to the jury questions of fact that mandate sex offender registration?
20-6102 Dontayous Tonard Cameron v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment parole revocation-sentence sentencing-scheme sixth-amendment statutory-maximum supervised-release Is 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e) unconstitutional as applied?
20-6037 David Williard v. Illinois Illinois 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-Amendment 5th-Amendment 6th-Amendment Alibi-Witnesses constitutional-rights Due-Process Eyewitness-Identification ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Ineffective-Assistance-of-Counsel
20-5978 Yoder Austin Blalock v. Alaska Alaska 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection self-incrimination unreasonable-search Whether the decisions of the State of Alaska and the Alaska Court of Appeals are inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution's protections against double …
20-5961 Lemar Gant v. Brian Williams, Sr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-duty criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice state-court-review strickland-v-washington witness-investigation Whether the Ninth Circuit erroneously concluded Gant could not establish ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
20-5966 Keven A. Morgan v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment attorney-general authorization-order criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial law-enforcement wire-tapping wiretapping Whether law enforcement and the district attorney failed to attach the United States Attorney General's special designated authorization order and aut…
20-5875 Terrence D. Marsh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 6th-amendment criminal-procedure defense-right evidence firearm-prosecution firearms rosemond-precedent rosemond-v-united-states section-924c sixth-amendment statements-against-interest Whether the Court violated Rosemond v. United States, 572 U.S. 65 (2014), when finding Marsh had advance knowledge of the presence of a firearm in his…
20-5821 Calvin Simpson v. Illinois Illinois 2020-09-28 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault Whether the defendant's 6th Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when his trial counsel failed to present evidence of the e…
20-5814 Anthony Kinta Webb v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jury-selection probable-cause public-trial search-and-seizure Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to jury selection proceedings
20-5788 Edward James Wilkins v. Washington Washington 2020-09-24 Denied IFP 6th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief Whether Mr. Wilkins' 6th Amendment constitutional right to a constitutionally sufficient trial was violated
20-5605 In Re Eric Wallace Koehl 2020-09-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial racial-bias sixth-amendment Does a criminal defendant have a constitutional right to a public trial under the 6th Amendment to the United States Constitution?
20-229 Michael Woolen v. California California 2020-08-26 Denied 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-error mental-illness prosecutorial-misconduct Whether petitioner, 1 of 60 million Americans with mental illness, was deprived of Bill of Rights protections of Amendment 1, V, VI-IX and XIV
20-5344 Christopher Taylor v. Illinois Illinois 2020-08-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP 6th-amendment autopsy-report cause-of-death confrontation-clause criminal-procedure knowing-murder lesser-included-offense murder-charge sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence Whether a defendant is denied his Sixth Amendment right to be confronted with the witnesses against him
20-5327 Thyochus A. Huggins v. California California 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appointment-of-counsel civil-rights due-process faretta-v-california self-representation Did the trial court violate Petitioner's rights under the Sixth Amendment as set forth in Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975) when it told Peti…
20-5212 In Re Allen Fitzgerald Calton 2020-07-29 Dismissed IFP 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-law due-process fact-finding factual-findings habeas-corpus judicial-discretion trial-court Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and individual judges thereof acted as the ultimate fact-finders (a Texas habeas corpus proceeding) by den…
20-5179 Alberto Guillen v. Patrick McTighe, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-involuntariness witness-investigation Question not identified
20-5135 James Bowell v. State Bar of California California 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy habeas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-revocation parolee sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-maximum Whether a court-appointed attorney's refusal to present an issue on habeas where the court could impose no sentence other than the statutory maximum f…
20-5084 Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-claim civil-rights due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-prejudice racial-bias sentencing sixth-amendment was-ellis-prejudiced
19-8886 Jon Edward Erickson v. Thomas E. Collins, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Cochise County, et al. Arizona 2020-07-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process trial-record trial-records Did the trial court err in violating the Petitioner's 5th and 6th Amendment rights, by failing to provide/produce the records and transcripts of the f…
19-1438 George Abernathy v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment free-speech property-forfeiture standing summary-judgment takings Whether the Court has abandoned the principle that 'one constitutional right should not have to be surrendered in order to assert another'
19-1418 Zoie H. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-06-25 Denied Amici (1) 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment collateral-consequence constitutional-rights due-process firearm-rights jury-trial juvenile-court second-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the Second and Sixth Amendments permit a state to deprive an individual of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms based on the commi…
19-1421 Michael Wilford LaFlamme v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Relisted (2) 6th-amendment bias constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission expert-testimony judicial-discretion jury-selection jury-selection-bias law-enforcement law-enforcement-bias trial-procedure voir-dire Was Petitioner Prejudiced When Several Prospective Jurors Withheld Crucial Information Pertaining To Employment As Law Enforcement When Asked During V…
19-8808 Randolph Ashford v. Michael Stephan, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering evidence-withholding ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel Was the State of South Carolina City of Columbia violate Ashford's 4th, 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights by withholding evidence
19-1396 Richard C. Stephens v. Chad F. Kenney, et al. Third Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process elder-abuse judicial-immunity property-theft real-property sixth-amendment Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred in affirming the Dismissal on Complaint; in violation of the Petitioner's Const…
19-8730 Westley Kennedy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment adversarial-process conflict-of-interest guilty-plea right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error Did the denial of Westley Kennedy's right to conflict-free counsel constitute a structural error or a breakdown of the adversarial process that requir…
19-8705 Barry Arkim, aka Edward Mason v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility New York 2020-06-15 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel Did the court violate the petitioner's right to confront witnesses against him?
19-1372 Angel M. Ayala-Vazquez v. United States First Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fifth-amendment judicial-proceedings perjured-testimony sixth-amendment standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower courts circumvented the standard of review for issuing a certificate of appealability
19-8691 Jardiel Infante-Caballero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process sentencing supervised-release Whether imposing a supervised release term violates the right to a jury trial
19-8470 Raymond K. Walker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-right counsel-refusal court-order due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance judicial-review procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Refusal of Price Counsel to Comply with U.S.C. 5 Continual request and Court orders to file a brief with allegations of ineffectiveness conceded the c…
19-8475 In Re Tarvares James Watson 2020-05-15 Dismissed IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief Whether petitioner's conviction resulted in the conviction of one who was actually innocent
19-8344 Brett Combs v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression false-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjured-testimony perjury Whether the state court's fact-finding process was undermined by ignoring evidence supporting the petitioner's claim
19-8337 Jermaine Ruffin v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-04-22 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-verdict non-unanimous-jury sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments
19-8177 Christopher Kyle Keys v. Florida Florida 2020-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment cellular-phone-data character-evidence collateral-crimes criminal-procedure due-process evidence sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion warrantless-search Does the trial court abuse its discretion, within the confines of substantive and procedural due process in the U.S. Constitution's 6th and 14th Amend…
19-1159 Michael Bouchard v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment brady-giglio-jencks brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto false-statements false-statements-statute ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mortgage-lending retroactivity sixth-amendment Whether the 2009 amended version of 18 U.S.C. §1014 was retroactively applied in violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause
19-7984 Danny Pereda v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process government-discretion government-procedures jury-trial sentencing-guidelines Whether it is unconstitutional to provide such discretion to courts to deny defendants their Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial and instead impose …
19-7925 Ronald O'Rourke v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppressed-evidence trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court abused discretion in denying petitioner's request for counsel
19-7858 Todd Darrell Ballard v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief post-sentencing procedural-rights sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substantive-rights waiver waiver-doctrine Whether the Act of the General Assembly [42 Pa.C.S. § 9543 and 9544] is in violation of Appellant's substantive and procedural rights; and whether sai…
19-7823 Seth A. Weaver v. Illinois Illinois 2020-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment conviction due-process guilty-plea illinois-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining post-conviction-petition sixth-amendment unknowing-and-involuntary-plea Does Illinois ignorance-of-the-law theory deny successive-post-conviction-petitioners relief-from-constitutionally-unsound-guilty-pleas?
19-7762 Galen LeMar Amerson, et al. v. Atlas Law Firm, P.C., et al. Colorado 2020-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-contempt civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process hearing hearing-requirements judicial-procedure judicial-sanctions kidnapping liberty property warrantless-search If the right to a hearing is assured under due process, according to the 6th and 14th amendments, before a person can be deprived of life, liberty or …
19-7769 Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment competency competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation law-enforcement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct self-representation Whether the petitioner's 6th Amendment right to a fair trial was violated due to ineffective assistance of counsel, prosecutorial misconduct, and lack…
19-7749 Andrey L. Bridges v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment actual-innocence constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-review res-judicata strickland-v-washington Does the State affirmative defense of Res Judicata defeats Amendment Fifth; Sixth; Eighth, and Fourteenth of the United States Constitution?
19-7668 Darlene Kay Herran v. Indiana Indiana 2020-02-14 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-rights appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process home-detention indigent-client indigent-rights pro-bono-counsel sixth-amendment standing transcript-costs Did the Indiana Court of Appeals err by ruling that when a trial court states that pro-bono counsel may be charged for costs of a transcript for an in…
19-7643 In Re Stephen Daniel Leonard 2020-02-12 Denied IFP 6th-amendment administrative-hearing administrative-procedure article-iv compulsory-process constitutional-rights disciplinary-proceeding disciplinary-proceedings due-process equal-protection judicial-proceedings liberty liberty-interest privileges-and-immunities witness-testimony Did the State of Florida violate Petitioner's protected rights
19-7636 Gerald W. Eiland v. United States District of Columbia 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment auto-shop-business certificate-of-appealability effective-assistance-counsel expert-testimony franks-challenge ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informant pen-register section-2255 sixth-amendment wiretap-challenge wiretaps Did the district court abuse its discretion in denying Eiland's motion Pursuant to 28 USC Section 2255 without a hearing?
19-7611 D'Marlo Levonne Faulk Johnson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-02-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appeal-process appellate-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal post-conviction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the 6th Amendment right to counsel extends to the appellate process and requires the effective assistance of counsel when petitioner's attorne…
19-7545 Willie Palmer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment abandonment effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions postconviction-relief rule-3.850 sixth-amendment unreasonable-determination-of-facts Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court
19-7513 Omar Smith v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2020-02-03 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel preliminary-hearing severance suppression-of-evidence trial-procedure trial-severance virginia-supreme-court witness-testimony Whether the Virginia Supreme Court erred in its rulings on ineffective assistance of counsel claims
19-7518 Baltazar Reyes Garcia, Angel Serrano Carreno, and Hector Contreras Ibarra v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process juror-bias juror-inquiry juror-safety jury-bias jury-inquiry ninth-circuit-precedent standing Whether a district court must hold a requested jury inquiry after a juror makes statements indicating the juror has a potential source of bias because…
19-7451 David Keith Rogers v. California California 2020-01-30 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-hearing constitutional-rights court-discretion discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial hearing judicial-procedure juror-misconduct legal-review When a court is presented with admissions of clear juror misconduct is it constitutionally compelled to conduct a hearing to determine the extent and …
19-7429 Louis Mitchell, Jr. v. California California 2020-01-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances aggravating-mitigating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se…
19-7377 Gerald Adger v. New York New York 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-argument procedural-error right-to-counsel trial-counsel weight-of-evidence Was the appellate attorney ineffective assistance of counsel?
19-7272 Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment trial-fairness Whether the petitioner received constitutionally effective assistance of counsel at trial
19-877 Asmerom Gebreselassie v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability counsel-of-choice due-process fifth-amendment right-to-counsel right-to-present-evidence self-representation sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in failing to grant a certificate of appealability on fundamental Fifth and Sixth Amendment violations?
19-7187 Tyree Miles v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights court-review due-process federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge legal-interpretation post-conviction-relief pre-arrest-delay procedural-requirements speedy-trial statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when trial counsel failed to raise certain evidentiary clai…
19-7175 Curry Robinson v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment alibi alibi-claim federal-review fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance procedural-bar sixth-amendment Whether the federal question of ineffective assistance of trial counsel as the preserved claim of an alibi was vague and/or unexhausted thereby proced…
19-7069 Lee Alvin Vincent v. Brian E. Williams, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment actual-bias co-defendant due-process evidence-presentation fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-jury implied-bias juror-bias jury-bias sexual-infatuation Whether a juror's love for an adverse party (co-defendant) constitutes actual or implied bias and thus violates the defendant's right to an impartial …
19-7066 Evaristo Toscano v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-26 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-tampering harmless-error judicial-bias prejudice-comments redacted-statement right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment Whether a violation of petitioner's right granted by the Confrontation Clause of the United States Constitution was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt
19-6970 Monty Dwayne Sullivan v. Wyoming Wyoming 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment access-to-courts brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct Was Sullivan deprived of his Constitutional rights?
19-6963 Roland A. Prenatt v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment attorney-accountability civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment mental-health probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-speedy-trial,due-process,right-to- speedy-trial Whether the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the accused the right to a speedy trial, and why the judge and attorney can waive this…
19-6914 Levi Rockefeller v. California California 2019-12-11 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights collusion conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-ethics sixth-amendment trial-procedure Did the court err by failing to inquire, explore, and/or avoid potential conflicts of interest by creating a scenario equivalent to collusion or couns…
19-6889 In Re Joel Law 2019-12-10 Denied IFP 18-usc-2422b 6th-amendment confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-6th-amendment,false-imprisonm constitutional-rights false-imprisonment habeas-corpus immediate-relief judicial-review section-2255 sixth-amendment Am I entitled to immediate relief from this Court, to protect myself and others similarily situated, from being falsely imprisoned pursuant to 18 U.S.…
19-6861 Tony L. Henderson v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process equal-protection jury-selection race-conscious venire Does a discretionary, race-conscious selection process for the venire called in a particular criminal trial violate the 6th and 14th Amendments to the…
19-6871 Justin Vazquez v. United States Second Circuit 2019-12-05 GVR IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission ineffective-assistance jury-selection professional-conduct sentencing speedy-trial trial-procedure Whether assigned counsel were ineffective in violation of the 6th Amendment
19-6843 James Rice v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment barker-factors barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice sixth-amendment speedy-trial unreasonable-application Was Petitioner James Rice denied the right to a speedy trial?
19-6809 Jason Michael Strubberg v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process entrapment jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment undercover-operations Whether the Sixth Amendment and Due Process Clause allow a court to instruct the jury, over objection, that 'Undercover agents may properly make use o…
19-6830 Don Emmery Wilson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment ambiguous-plea constitutional-rights criminal-matter cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus hearsay illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief profiling sentencing-guidelines Was petitioner subject to ineffective or deficient assistance of counsel in a criminal matter?
19-6754 Cesareo Vizcarra Medina v. California California 2019-11-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to prosecutorial misconduct that violated petitioner's constitutional rights under the 6th…
19-6691 Robert H. Smith v. Indiana Indiana 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-review sixth-amendment state-court-conflict strickland-standard Whether the Indiana Supreme Court/Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with other decisions previously made in the United States Suprem…
19-6684 Rakeem Asaad Davis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-19 GVR IFP 18-usc-922g 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-right-to-jury-trial charged-theories-of-prosecution criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felon-in-possession jury-unanimity knowledge-element rehaif-v-united-states richardson-standard richardson-v-united-states sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict uncharged-theories-of-prosecution Does the failure to require a unanimous jury verdict on either charged or uncharged theories of prosecution violate the Sixth Amendment right to a ver…
19-6644 Darrell Freeze v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-sentencing fifth-amendment judicial-fact-finding sentencing sixth-amendment substantive-reasonableness Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit judges to find the facts necessary to support an otherwise substantively unreasonable federal sentence
19-6637 Gregory Cooper v. Katy Poole, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-counsel judicial-discretion right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction takings Whether the 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides for due process when the State compels a defendant to testify against himself by threat of…
19-6550 Christian James Gieseke v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-U.S.C-2255 28-usc-2255 6th-amendment counsel-misfeasance defenses duty-to-mitigate evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction pretrial-detainee When a post-conviction movant proceeding under 28-U.S.C-2255 raises claims which would entitle him to relief, does the lack of proffered evidence nega…
19-6591 In Re Kenneth Uncapher 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury jury-bias jury-misconduct mistrial newly-discovered-evidence victim Was the Petitioner denied a fair trial?
19-6561 Maurice D. Joseph v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-interrogation right-to-privacy secret-recording self-incrimination unlawful-interrogation warrantless-recording Whether a detective's interrogation of a suspect at the suspect's home and secret recording of the suspect without consent, court authorization, or a …
19-6465 Quintin Phillippe Jones v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3599 6th-amendment death-penalty federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-funding martinez-v-ryan meaningful-representation sixth-amendment When has a qualifying prisoner been denied meaningful representation informed by investigation to prepare a federal habeas corpus application?
19-6445 Lewellyn Charles Cox, IV, aka Sho, aka Showtime, aka Showtyme v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance right-to-self-representation self-representation self-representation-at-sentencing sentencing structural-error Whether denial of a right to self-representation during sentencing is subject to harmless error analysis or structural error
19-6454 Corey Morris v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel extended-sentences federal-review multiple-indictments plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether defendants have a Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel when contemplating plea offers
19-6366 Spencer Kerry Curtiss v. North Dakota North Dakota 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel standing statutory-interpretation Can a state's duty to provide guarantee of counsel in a criminal action be duly fulfilled when supplied representation is in violation of conflict-of-…
19-6380 Emerson L. Beverly v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fair-trial-14th-amendment fair-trial-6th-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct red-herring sentencing-review sixth-amendment Did the prosecutor's repeated reference to petitioner's defense as a 'red hearing' constitute misconduct thereby denying petitioner a fair trial in vi…
19-6350 Maurice Antoine-Hake Dobson-El v. Michigan Michigan 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction sentencing speedy-trial standing Whether the Warden Sons Coase tooncd C) abe to a Speedy
19-6301 Jerry W. Jenkins v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process presumed-innocent sentencing testimony trial 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process evidence-admission ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to due process, presumption of innocence, and effective assistance of counsel were violated
19-6234 Kelvin Melton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process self-representation Whether an appellant has the right to self-representation under the Sixth Amendment or the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment
19-6181 Mark Robertson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 18-usc-3599 6th-amendment death-penalty federal-courts habeas-corpus investigation judicial-review meaningful-representation representation representation-services sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Did the district court deny Mr. Robertson the meaningful representation informed by investigation to prepare a habeas corpus application to which he i…
19-6165 Ricky G. Davis v. Virginia Virginia 2019-10-04 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process pro-se pro-se-representation probation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment standing Can Virginia constitutionally hale a person into its criminal courts and there force a lawyer upon him, even when he insist that he wants to conduct h…
19-6137 William Trampas Widmyer v. David Ballard, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights police-interview right-to-counsel self-incrimination Were the Petitioner's Constitutional Amendment Rights violated when Petitioner's Police interview was used in trial although Petitioner requested Coun…
19-6081 Robert Wayne Gillman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-proceedings due-diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance initial-review standing statute-of-limitations Does a prisoner have a right to effective counsel in initial-review collateral proceedings?
19-5973 Wilfred Warren Sheppard v. Texas Texas 2019-09-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-trial sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent united-states-constitution Whether the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals has ruled in a manner which conflicts with the Fifth and Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
19-5977 Kerry Lyn Dalton v. California California 2019-09-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con…
19-5897 Carlos German Lema Nogales v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-circuit-precedent 6th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-violations criminal-informant due-process eavesdrop effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance multiple-conspiracies search-and-seizure warrant warrant-reliability WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL
19-5902 Sharvelt Mister v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-hearing judicial-process jurisdiction procedural-fairness standing supremacy-clause Whether the actions taken by law enforcement, including arrest and detention without a judicial determination of probable cause, violate the petitione…
19-5917 Matthew A. Castro v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fact-finding federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeal for the Eleventh Circuit erred by unreasonably determining the facts based on a misreading of the state reco…
19-5879 Timothy L. Joe v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment cross-examination due-process evidence evidentiary-law impeachment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel opioid-addiction police-misconduct sixth-amendment Can Florida's evidentiary laws constitutionally preclude impeachment evidence of opioid-addicted police officers?
19-5847 Dennis White v. Ohio Ohio 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment hospital-records ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-evidence pre-indictment-delay reasonable-probability sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was the State Appellate court decision contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law, Strickland-v-Washingt…
19-5719 Robert Keith Ray v. Colorado Colorado 2019-08-27 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-review apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey boyde-standard boyde-v-california capital-case due-process jury jury-instructions sixth-amendment Whether the Court should revisit the 'reasonable likelihood' test adopted in Boyde v. California and instead return to the previous standard where app…
19-5696 Adrian Francis Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights custody discovery due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-law Whether the petitioner's speedy trial rights were violated by the delay in bringing him to trial
19-5698 Eduardo Orozco v. California California 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights confession-elicitation custodial-interrogation due-process edwards-v-arizona law-enforcement-tactics miranda-rights pre-charge-investigation right-to-counsel undercover-agent May law enforcement use an undercover agent to elicit a confession from a suspect before charges have been filed but after a suspect has already invok…
19-5703 Eric Massey v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-effectiveness critical-stage effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was the real question before the court counsel's effectiveness?
19-5537 Benjamin Escobedo v. Texas Texas 2019-08-09 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects-indictment due-process indictment jurisdiction motion-to-close motion-to-quash sixth-amendment trial-court Did the Trial Court err when it overruled Appellants Motion to Quash the Amended Indictment?
19-5545 Todd Allen Wheeler v. Michigan Michigan 2019-08-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error severance sixth-amendment trial-joinder Whether Mr. Wheeler was denied his constitutional right to due process and effective assistance of counsel
19-5481 Jomo Williams v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-rule-of-evidence fifth-amendment jury sixth-amendment Were Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment due process rights obliterated
19-5293 Frank Le'Dell Owens v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offense pardon-power plea-bargaining right-to-counsel Does pretrial counsel's failure to advise accused of favorable plea offer constitute denial of effective assistance of counsel?
19-107 Vincent Asaro v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 5th-amendment 6th-amendment acquitted-conduct criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial-right sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct underlying a charge for which t…
19-5275 Richard Michael Mathisen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment Whether the district court and Fourth Circuit erred in denying Mr. Mathisen's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion based on ineffective assistance of counsel
19-5142 Charles Anthony Ball v. Mike Slagle Fourth Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-appeal federal-rule free-speech judicial-conflict meloy standing statutory-interpretation Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err on an important federal question by entering its decision/judgment, which is in conf…
19-5053 Brandon M. Hicks v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct plea-bargaining sentencing separation-of-powers sixth-amendment Whether the judge's extra language in the judgment of conviction, in context with his conduct at sentencing, is a violation of the Separation of Power…
18-9825 Shepell Orr v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 14th-amendment-equal-protection 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-seizure 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-due-process 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-fair-trial 8th-amendment-cruel-punishment circuit-court-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sudden-heat Whether the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision conflicts with another circuit court decision and a state court decision, and whether the petitione…
18-9845 Bradley Joseph Vanzant v. Keith Yordy, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error Did petitioner make an involuntarily unknown and unintelligent plea through ineffective assistance of counsel and violations of his 6th Amendment righ…
18-9762 Kwame A. Insaidoo v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied IFP 18-usc-666 5th-amendment 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process federal-benefit jury-determination jury-trial second-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred, in violation of U.S. Const. V and VI, when it held that the government need not prove to a jury the…
18-9764 Adnan Ibrahim Harun A. Hausa v. United States Second Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment circuit-court-conflict circuit-split faretta faretta-inquiry pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver waiver-of-counsel Should a defendant be found to have waived his right to counsel and proceed pro se even if he declines to answer the district court's questions?
18-9767 LaShawn Johnson v. Randy L. White, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-factors constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process indictment jury-instruction jury-instructions Does submitting aggravating factors of a crime in a jury instruction that wasn't charged in the indictment violate Due Process
18-9736 Darius Kinney v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrant warrantless-search Were Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights violated?
18-9705 Leonard Moore v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. §1959(a)(3) qualifies as a crime of violence for the purpose of §924(c)(3)(A) element clause
18-9654 Carl Javan Ross v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process public-trial public-trial-rights self-incrimination speedy-trial Was the petitioner's 6th Amendment right to a speedy trial violated as well as public trial rights?
18-9603 Michael Anthony Steel v. Arizona Arizona 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment arizona-constitution civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process speedy-trial state-v-vasko state-vs-federal-law Whether the court abused its discretion in denying the appellant's motion for a speedy trial under the 6th Amendment and Article 2, Section 24 of the …
18-9630 Michael Mancil Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment 6th-amendment,effective-counsel,mistrial,closing-a closing-arguments constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel mistrial sixth-amendment trial trial-rights Was the Petitioner's 6th Amendment Rights to effective counsel violated when Petitioner's Attorney refused a mistrial offer by the Court without consu…
18-9529 Anibal Del Valle-Hiraldo v. United States First Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining rosemond-v-united-states sixth-amendment Whether an attorney's advice to a defendant to plead guilty to aiding and abetting the carry, use and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crim…
18-9533 Shua Tilahun v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon 2019-06-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment equitable-tolling fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment successive-post-conviction Whether Martinez v. Ryan allows a case to be overturned if the plaintiff can show a high probability of a substantially different outcome at the trial…
18-9541 Darius Leigh Gilkey v. DeWayne Burton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment adequate-provocation attorney-client-relations attorney-client-relationship consensual-sex criminal-law due-process felony-murder homicide provocation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Should this Court grant Certiorari to determine if consensual sex that later turned into a homicide, resulting from adequate provocation amounts to fe…
18-1502 Brian Mark Burmaster v. Eli Lilly and Company Sixth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights drug-marketing due-process free-speech government-action government-intervention government-overreach government-regulation medical-ethics pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-liability pharmaceutical-litigation sixth-amendment If a company's manufactured and marketed product is cited by the US Government as a 'miracle drug' to restore a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment r…
18-9474 Irving Madden v. Michael Melvin, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision is consistent with Strickland v. Washington
18-9490 Daniel George Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment criminal-prosecution deportation illegal-reentry immigration-law right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether an alien's Sixth Amendment right to counsel is violated in a criminal prosecution for illegal reentry following deportation, where the United …
18-9460 Quentin Perry v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness Does the judicial determination of crimes 'committed on occasions different from one another' under the Armed Career Criminal Act violate the Sixth Am…
18-9442 Donald Loston v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-efficiency judicial-integrity reversible-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether a state trial court denial of counsel of choice is reversible error when no threat against the interest of judicial integrity and efficiency w…
18-1480 Jason Caissie, aka Jason Cullen Caissie v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-05-28 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment cheek-v-us constitutional-rights due-process right-to-counsel state-prosecution state-statute state-statutes traffic-ticket traffic-violation uniform-traffic-ticket Whether the State of Mississippi is in direct conflict of the due process protections provided in the 14th, 5th, and 6th Amendments
18-9414 Donald Stewart Royce v. Florida Florida 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence impeachment law-enforcement witness witness-testimony Whether a trial court abuses its discretion, within the confines of procedural due process in the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment, by limiting cros…
18-9419 Mario Laron Waiters v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment Whether the Virginia Statute 19.2-72 violates due-process, equal-protection, 1st-amendment, 4th-amendment, 5th-amendment, 6th-amendment
18-9308 Clarence Scranage, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner waived his Fifth and Sixth Amendment Rights
18-9281 Randy Burke v. Diane Prosper, Acting Warden, et al. Virgin Islands 2019-05-15 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law expert-testimony ineffective-assistance jury-instructions right-to-confrontation trial-counsel Whether the counsel's failure to cross-examine the main witness Beatrice Lawrence constituted ineffective assistance of counsel
18-9291 Adrian Green v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment career-offender criminal-history due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error plea-agreement prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-error Was defense counsel ineffective or deficient in their representation of the defendant?
18-9225 Michael Otho Raihala v. Michigan Michigan 2019-05-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-detention due-process pre-accusation-detention probable-cause state-agent-liability Whether it is constitutional for state and local agents to detain a citizen indefinitely without probable cause or process as a pre-accusation detaine…
18-9236 Amy Gonzalez and David Thomas Matusiewicz v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2261a,overbreadth,free-speech,first-amendme 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-unanimity,criminal-procedure,jury-in 6th-amendment,5th-amendment,sentencing,jury-trial, actus-reus criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,evidence,character-evidence,pre criminal-procedure,evidence,polygraph,crane-v-kent criminal-procedure,jury-instructions,causation,act criminal-verdict due-process jury-instruction jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2261A is unconstitutionally ov Whether a person can be convicted for stalking res Whether Crane v. Kentucky 476 U.S. 683 690 (1986 Whether sentencing courts may continue to violate Whether the admissibility of a civil judicial opin Whether juries must unanimously agree on the actus reus element of offenses
18-9169 Andre McDaniels v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255 6th-amendment appeal appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-reporter due-process fifth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment standing transcripts Does a pro-se petitioner forfeit his constitutional rights when denied opportunity to have merits heard?
18-9151 Blake Joseph Sandlain v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-counsel capital-punishment criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice successive-petition Does the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel require a showing of prejudice to establish a claim that appellate counsel was ineff…
18-9147 Donald G. Flint v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment boykin-admonishments constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea judicial-precedent sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Was the federal district court's finding and the Fifth Circuit Court's finding contrary to the precedent of the Supreme Court, as well as a violation …
18-9042 Kingy Ossarius Holden v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence search-and-seizure Whether the district court erred in denying the appellant's claims related to an unconstitutional search and seizure, ineffective assistance of trial …
18-9074 Aaron Francois v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-constitution sufficiency-of-evidence trial-error Whether the evidence was sufficient to establish that the murder and underlying felony of armed robbery formed a continuous transaction without a sign…
18-9045 Kevin Robinson v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison Third Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-impartiality self-incrimination sixth-amendment Are trial attorneys obligated to protect every fundamental right entitled to defendants under the United States Constitutional Amendments?
18-9000 Johnnie Sterling, Jr. v. Ronda Pash, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1257 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process post-conviction-relief skinner-v-switzer subject-matter-jurisdiction Should the United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals have granted the Certificate of Appealability in case no. 18-2519, where no reasonable jurist…
18-8948 Angel Morales De-Jesus v. United States First Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment conspiracy due-process leadership-enhancement mandatory-minimum sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the court erroneously applied a four-level leadership enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.1(a) in violation of Morales-De Jesus' Fifth and Sixth …
18-8952 Boris Murphy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest deficient-performance direct-appeal due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Did the Fourth Circuit review the District Court's error in denying petitioner's 28 U.S.C. 2255 claim de novo that was based on conflict of interest a…
18-8955 Gregory Butler v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions other-crimes-evidence sixth-amendment trial-fairness witness-confrontation Whether the district court and the third circuit erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability
18-8871 Roy L. Rambo v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act asset-freezing counsel-of-choice criminal-prosecution due-process personal-assets sixth-amendment state-court-ruling Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice was violated
18-8876 Nickie R. Logan v. District Attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires a court to appoint new counsel when a defendant expresses dissatisfactio…
18-8823 Omer Al Obaidy v. Kevin K. McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process false-arrest fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration immigration-removal self-incrimination sixth-amendment tenth-amendment unlawful-seizure Whether a long-term legal resident with no criminal record who was removed from the U.S. based on falsified records has due process rights
18-8762 Jason Curtis Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment indictment remand standing superceding-indictment superseding-indictment Whether Brown's Fifth Amendment right to double jeopardy, due process and the expressed terms of the 6th Cir. Court of Appeals limited remand order we…
18-8691 Eugene C. Boisvert v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 13th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights counsel-ineffective due-process government-misconduct Whether the petitioner's 5th, 6th, 8th, and 13th Amendment constitutional rights were violated by the United States government and the petitioner's co…
18-8713 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-04-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment code-of-civil-procedure constitutional-violation counsel-of-choice due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance marsden-hearing plea-bargaining procedural-rights right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Does a defendant have a right to replace his privately retained counsel at any time during trial court proceedings?
18-8673 Jamael Stubbs v. United States Third Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 133 S.Ct. 2151 (2013) 6th-amendment alleyne-precedent alleyne-v-united-states constructive-amendment due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-challenge sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance
18-8661 Eddie Lee Jackson v. Sandy McCain, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-medical-condition counsel-misconduct due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation misconduct procedural-error right-to-counsel suspension Whether the Petitioner was denied the right to assistance of counsel
18-8585 Zhordrack Bloodywone v. Joseph Bellnier, Superintendent, Marcy Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process privacy right-to-counsel 6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel trial-court Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the prosecution's misconduct and the trial court's denial of his request for appointment …
18-8596 Jose Bernazard v. Joseph Koch Second Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appeals-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review legal-procedure procedural-error qualified-immunity section-1983 Did The Coork of Appeals not granting Ped, boner Access to Enter Appeal WAS ow Abvse of dixre lion by diswuss:
18-8543 Anthony Peoples v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process filed-mon-ogy-2018 fraud maps-to-eet-ve-asssiamle-of-counsel pleading pleading-to-b-pabudolent-zhlolip-tion standing verindes-cousriruriaal Was Verindes Cousriruriaal, Maps TO EET VE ASSSIAMLE OF COUNSEL. UNO THE 6° PIVIEMLARERT AMP DUC ULES, STV AID [8 AAVEMOTEN ViQATED BY, PLEADING TO B …
18-8526 Marcel Henderson v. United States First Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment circuit-court-split criminal-procedure dixon-standard due-process fifth-amendment imminent-threat justification-defense sixth-amendment Were the petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights violated by the ambiguity of the Dixon standard as applied regarding what constitutes a 'well-f…
18-8484 Gregory Donzell Bailey v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied IFP 6th-amendment caseload caseload-management civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance public-defender public-defenders right-to-counsel Whether the defendants' representation and resources should be limited due to public defenders in trial courts being overwhelmed with caseloads
18-8442 Marc Dutch v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment apprendi criminal-procedure indictment jury prior-convictions sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Does 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1)'s requirement that prior convictions be 'committed on occasions different from one another' require such facts to be allege…
18-1202 Pedro Montalvo, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2019-03-15 Denied 6th-amendment child-pornography computer-age constitutional-rights criminal-procedure doyle-violation due-process massiah-doctrine obscenity right-to-defense scienter sixth-amendment strict-liability Whether Ohio's strict liability for inadvertent child pornography dissemination violates due process, whether defendant's right to mount a defense was…
18-8396 Mary Jo Weidrick v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States District of Columbia 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-right-to-counsel 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-right-to-counsel adversarial-process civil-rights constitutional-violation counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment investigation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing terrorism terrorism-investigation Whether Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to counsel are violated
18-8371 Martin E. Grant v. Michigan Michigan 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection first-degree-murder life-imprisonment motion-for-relief-from-judgment plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner has been denied the effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by the 6th Amendment to the United States Constitution, during the p…
18-8232 Jesus Rosales v. Texas Texas 2019-03-04 Denied IFP 6th-amendment allen-charge coercion criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-deliberation jury-instruction jury-instructions trial-procedure At what point should a court grant defense's request for an Allen charge, so that the lack of one, in itself, does not become coercive?
18-8235 Arthur Lopez v. California California 2019-03-04 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias racial-discrimination Whether the deprivation of Alo's civil rights under the United States Constitution Amendments 1 and 6 violates his constitutional rights to free speec…
18-8221 Jonathan Judkins v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-01 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-performance due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-petition post-conviction-relief standing subpoena Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel by counsel's failure to adequately investigate the facts of the case, interview eyew…
18-8225 Barry Druilhet, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-enhancement witness-testimony Can a federal court consider enhance a defendant's sentence for obstruction of justice where the defendant was seeking out witnesses to testify on his…
18-8149 Michael Achilles Fries v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial free-speech fundamental-fairness judicial-review legal-precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court's order denying the petitioner's request for a fair review of court and jury proceedings violated the petitioner's constitutio…
18-8124 Tony Gross v. John Havlin, Warden Ohio 2019-02-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright judicial-jurisdiction right-to-counsel rothgery-v-gillespie-county sixth-amendment state-jurisdiction zerbst-v-johnson Whether states are required to appoint counsel in death penalty cases for all hearings before a judicial officer to sustain a valid conviction
18-8053 Malcolm Roland Allen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3006a 6th-amendment career-offender due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-proceedings notice-of-appeal prejudice sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines Whether ineffective counsel failed to file a notice of appeal and object to career offender sentencing guideline
18-8028 Ronald Reel v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions reasonable-doubt self-representation speedy-trial Whether petitioner was deprived of his 5th Amendment right to the Reasonable Doubts Clause
18-8072 John J. Wilson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2019-02-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-counsel constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process pro-se-representation sixth-amendment transcripts Can appellate counsel be denied, forcing a criminal defendant to represent himself in a direct appeal to the state district courts of appeal?
18-8020 Benjamin Besteder, Jr. v. Sean Bowerman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment access-to-evidence appeal civil-rights due-process excessive-punishment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the trial court dismissed his motion for a new trial based on the denial of his righ…
18-8032 Edgar Arellano v. California California 2019-02-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance pre-trial-investigation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Ineffective assistance of counsel
18-8011 Kevin Kerr v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Eighth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1988 6th-amendment civil-rights competency criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech pardon pro-se-appearance psychological-evidence self-representation sixth-amendment standing Does 42 U.S.C. § 1988(a) confer jurisdiction on the respondent, the United States District Court, and the United States Court of Appeals conveying to …
18-7979 Eric K. Watkins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether the subsection-specific definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S:C. 924(c)(3) (B) is unconstitutionally vague
18-7982 Obelin Jaimes-Aviles v. Florida Florida 2019-02-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a person's vehicle and its contents violates the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable sea…
18-7912 Eriese Alphonso Tisdale v. Florida Florida 2019-02-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights death-penalty double-jeopardy due-process jury jury-vote statutory-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Florida Supreme Court's failure to apply a statutory amendment violates due process and double jeopardy
18-7933 Keith Charleston v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure-miranda due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights premeditated-murder probable-cause self-defense self-incrimination warrantless-arrest Whether petitioner's statement was unconstitutionally obtained due to intoxication and lack of sleep preventing a knowing and intelligent Miranda waiv…
18-7880 Terrance Jerome Clarke v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias mental-health plea-bargaining right-to-counsel Were the charges filed at the same time and no other firearm was involved during the offense?
18-7886 Akeen Ocean v. United States First Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure deliberate-elicitation government-informant informant-testimony massiah-doctrine massiah-v-united-states post-indictment-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does 'deliberate elicitation' for purposes of Massiah v. United States occur only in cases where the government has expressly directed its informant t…
18-7859 Frank D. Monsegue, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plea-agreement standing subpoena warrantless-arrest Whether defective summons/subpoena (without authorizing authority, name or signature) attached herein render the indictment defective?
18-7870 Jeremiah W. Balik v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment armed-forces-status civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-bias judicial-review removal removal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment Whether harmful legal error occurred in the lower court proceedings
18-7876 Jordie L. Callahan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competency mental-evaluation sixth-amendment Whether a Mentally Deficient Defendant is Entitled to a Competency Hearing or Mental Evaluation
18-7771 Tommy Wayne Brotherton v. Jay Cassady, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment suppression-hearing videotaped-statements Whether petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial when the state court overruled his motion to suppress statements and allowed videotaped sta…
18-7734 Joe Willie Cannon v. Iowa District Court, Des Moines County Iowa 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Did the State of Iowa violate the petitioner's 5th, 6th, & 14th Amendment confrontation and due process rights to be present during a critical stage o…
18-7756 Roscoe Chambers v. Nicholas Sarcone Eighth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-selection public-trial standing Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to a criminal defendant's exclusion from the courtroom during jury selection
18-1006 Michael Kevin Adams v. Texas Texas 2019-02-01 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment impoundment interrogation law-enforcement minor-offense probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search Michael-Kevin-Adams
18-7702 George Reese v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violations due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct vouching Whether the prosecutor committed misconduct
18-7719 Cesar Gomez v. Texas Texas 2019-02-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment-rights standing texas-penal-code Whether Texas Penal Code § 21.02, is Constitutional under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution?
18-7655 Michael R. Spengler v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-standard civil-rights coercion constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process miranda-warnings police-lineup undercover-operations witness-identification Whether the widespread policy of the L.A. Superior Court and the L.A. Sheriff's Department, known as the Perkins Operation, which allows undercover ag…
18-7590 Joshua Jacobs v. Texas Texas 2019-01-28 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment bias constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-and-impartial-jury fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-selection trial-counsel trial-procedure voir-dire When trial-judge-imposed limitations on voir dire interfere with trial counsel's ability to identify veniremembers whom may be challengeable for cause…
18-7614 Michael Jacoby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment circuit-court-review circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit reasonable-jurist reasonable-jurist-standard sixth-amendment strickland-standard undermining-of-confidence-in-verdict Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-7571 Gabriel Cervantes Valencia v. Dave Davey, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction Whether the Civcurh, Districk and Strode Courts denials and akesmissals of Petihwners BRADY VIOLATION Claim violate pebbroners bye Process Rights Guav…
18-7545 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-01-24 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection plea-bargain right-to-counsel statute-of-limitations 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargain record statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-7556 Michael James Horton v. Clark E. Ducart, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-trial-stages due-process pro-se-representation right-to-be-present right-to-counsel self-representation standing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure Whether the unequivocal right to represent oneself or have counsel should be left ambiguous
18-7561 Juan Guzman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process standing Whether the Constitution of the United States protects against arbitrary actions of government
18-7563 Lynce P. Foster v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment united-states-constitution Whether counsel were ineffective for not representing petitioner according to a counsel guaranteed to the petitioner by the Sixth Amendment of the Uni…
18-7529 Andre Almond Dennison v. Arizona Arizona 2019-01-23 Denied IFP 6th-amendment apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-rights dangerous-crimes dangerous-crimes-against-children due-process enhancement fourteenth-amendment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing Does Arizona's Sentencing Scheme Violate Due Process Clause, & Amendment, And Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348 (2000) When Petitio…
18-7516 Joseph Adam Mora v. California California 2019-01-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-sentencing death-penalty jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt statutory-maximum Does the California death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that any fact, other than a prior co…
18-7469 David Valenzuela Arzate v. James Robertson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process fair-trial gang-evidence insufficient-evidence judicial-review legal-interpretation statutory-provisions Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals abuse discretion or err in denying petitioner's certificate of appealability?
18-7480 Karreem Tislam Jabar Wiley v. Larry Cartledge, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Did Trial Defense Counsel violate the Petitioner's 6th Amendment rights?
18-7446 Anthony Jujuan Hopkins v. Warden, Ventress Correctional Facility Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-proceeding ninth-circuit petition-for-review sentencing standing Whether the U.S. Appeals Court for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying petitioners' COA, when petitioners raise jurisdictional issues that can be ra…
18-7429 Adam Lee Lopez v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment coercion constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation due-process law-enforcement-interrogation miranda-rights police-interrogation self-incrimination suspect-waiver Whether officers may, when a suspect mentions a desire to wait for an attorney, follow up a reading of the Miranda warnings with soft persuasion and e…
18-7389 Scott Smith v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-proceedings manifest-injustice sixth-circuit supervisory-power Was petitioner denied his fundamental and constitutional right to due process?
18-7402 Robert Shapiro v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial public-trial right-to-counsel speedy-trial What is the meaning of the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of the right to a criminal prosecution, including the right to a speedy and public trial, by an…
18-7383 Jennifer Feldman v. Adoption Star Agency, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment adoption adoption-fraud adoption-law adoption-proceedings child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-bonds family-separation jurisdictional-challenge standing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court erred in denying jurisdiction over the District Court's decision, in light of this Court's precedents recognizing t…
18-7330 Michael Anthony Garrett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-theory due-process evidence fifth-amendment jury-instructions right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment trial-evidence Whether a defendant's constitutional right to present a defense encompasses the right to have the jury instructed on a theory of defense that constitu…
18-7344 Tony Dickinson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-defense entrapment fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-indictment-delay sixth-amendment structural-error Whether the 6th Amendment permits the introduction of a criminal defendant's pre-indictment delay caused by the government as substantive evidence of …
18-7254 Alvin E. Thomas v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment actual-prejudice automatic-reversal collateral-review counsel-of-choice fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error Is automatic reversal required where a defendant was denied counsel of choice due to the ineffective assistance of counsel?
18-7202 Fidel Rios Soto v. California California 2019-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment custodial-interrogation custodial-interview due-process edwards-rule incriminating-statements incriminatory-statements law-enforcement-questioning miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona right-to-counsel smith-v-illinois When a suspect invokes the right to counsel during a custodial interview, can law enforcement officers continue to question the suspect if their post-…
18-7155 Alfredo Provencio v. Joe Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aedpa custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus miranda-rights sixth-amendment Whether defendant's incriminating statements and body language should be excluded as custodial interrogation without Miranda advisement
18-794 Ronald R. Shea v. Winnebago County Sheriff's Office, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment bail civil-rights constitutional-amendments counsel due-process fundamental-rights petition-clause prisoner-rights telephone-access Whether a prisoner's right to a telephone call is a necessary inference of the fundamental rights of bail and counsel under the Sixth, Eighth and Four…
18-7107 Naeem-Lateef Odums v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment-due-process,6th-amendment-right-to-c 5th-amendment-due-process,sentencing-discretion,me 6th-amendment attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intentional-deception mental-health-evaluation sentencing sixth-amendment Does it violate the 6th Amendment right to effective-assistance-of-counsel when a defendant's lawyer intentionally-deception
18-7039 Alexander Ndaula v. United States First Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 5th-amendment 6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing loss-amount sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether the 5th and 6th Amendments require an evidentiary hearing on disputed sentencing factors and an adequate explanation for an enhanced sentence …
18-763 Chaka Fattah, Sr. v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure deliberations due-process evidence judicial-discretion juror-removal jury-unanimity misconduct-standard standard-of-review Whether a district court must determine that there is no possibility that allegations of juror misconduct stem from the juror's view of the evidence t…
18-6968 Alejandro Quinones Leyva v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel language-barriers notice-of-appeal plea-bargaining prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-rights sixth-amendment Whether the defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel due to counsel's failure to file a notice of appeal
18-6953 Jesus Jaime Jimenez v. Texas Texas 2018-12-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect post-conviction-writ texas-constitution Whether the Trial Court, as well as, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, abused their discretion (violating Applicants Constitutional Rights) by f…
18-6961 In Re Michael D. Johnson 2018-12-07 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-reduction jury-selection right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment demand the assistance of counsel for a defendant during jury selection or jury reduction?
18-6779 Guy Heffington v. Pamela Puleo, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment 7th-amendment amendment-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process judicial-conspiracy legal-representation property-rights Whether Guy Heffington was denied due process, right to attorney, right to jury trial, and equal protection
18-6781 Joan E. Farr v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Tenth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment 7th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-conspiracy legal-representation sixth-amendment Whether Joan Farr was denied constitutional rights
18-6793 Derrick Lamont Booth v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2018-11-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fire-investigation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel nfpa-921 sixth-amendment standard-of-review standard-protocols trial-strategy Whether the state court violated Mr. Booth's 6th Amendment rights
18-6742 Albert Uriah Mathis v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct Can a judge order a mistrial in a case simply, so he may attend a Dr. appointment?
18-6655 Andrew John Miller v. Duncan MacLaren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence preliminary-examination right-to-counsel sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the admission of a Preliminary Examination transcript violated the Petitioner-Appellant's 6th Amendment right to confront the witness
18-6615 Eugene Riley, III v. Stephanie Dorethy, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP 6th-amendment criminal-justice due-process evidence jury-instructions law legal-assessment legal-principles separateness-of-events Whether Ritey was denied his 6th Amendment right to have his jury assessed with instructions on the application of legal principles to the evidence an…
18-6637 Harold E. Grist, Jr. v. Terema Carlin, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause credibility due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel juror-misconduct jury-trial self-incrimination truthfulness Whether the Petitioner had a constitutional right to confront his accusers at trial and impeach them before a jury to challenge their credibility and …
18-6565 Charles C. Gore v. Illinois Illinois 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment adversarial-proceedings constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure critical-stage-of-trial defendant-rights jury-deliberations public-accountability public-trial right-to-public-trial Whether the right to a public trial is violated when the trial court closes the courtroom while addressing questions posed by the jury during delibera…
18-6544 Robert Joe McNemar v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment competency competency-evaluation criminal-defendant due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-bargain plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Does due process require an express competency determination?
18-574 Joseph Rachal v. United States First Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment bifurcated-trial bifurcation criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prejudicial-evidence Is it unduly prejudicial for a jury to be exposed to the toxic evidence that the defendant is a convicted felon before even determining whether the de…
18-6555 Lester Barnett v. City of Gastonia, North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal constitutional-violation due-process judicial-proceedings record record-preservation Was it unconstitutional to not preserve the record of the judicial proceedings in violation of due process of law of the 5th and 14th Amendment of the…
18-6510 Frank Pruitt v. New York New York 2018-11-01 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 6th-amendment courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-inquiry public-trial removal-from-trial right-to-attend-trial right-to-observe sixth-amendment Was the right to a Public trial, and the right of the Public to attend trial, abrogated when the trial judge failed to conduct careful inquiry 'before…
18-6535 Rodney Williams v. Michigan Michigan 2018-11-01 Denied IFP 6th-amendment due-process fourth-amendment-violation jurisdictional-defect jury-trial-rights restitution right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment-right void-judgment void-restitution-order void-sentence Was defendant denied his constitutional right to counsel at his sentencing and restitution hearing; constituting a void sentence and restitution order…
18-6479 In Re Evan P. Galvan 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing Whether the State Court failed to advise petitioner of his 6th Amendment right to counsel, inquire into petitioner's desire for counsel, and inquire i…
18-6485 Richard Elliott Cain v. Washington Washington 2018-10-29 Denied IFP 6th-amendment character-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence due-process evidence fair-trial jury-instruction jury-instructions propensity-evidence search-warrant Whether the trial court erred in failing to give the jury a limiting instruction after permitting character and propensity evidence
18-6395 Alex D. Ramos v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-offense sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation Did the lower Court err, and concomitantly violate the United States Constitution, Amendments V and VI, where it determined that Petitioner's prior co…
18-6362 Edwin Darrell Lett v. Mississippi Mississippi 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights continuance counsel criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel sixth-amendment state-procedure trial Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial was violated when the Mississippi Supreme Court failed to properly review the trial cou…
18-485 Edward G. McDonough v. Youel Smith, Individually and as Special District Attorney for the County of Rensselaer, New York, aka Trey Smith Second Circuit 2018-10-16 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-proceedings due-process fabrication-of-evidence section-1983 statute-of-limitations When does the statute of limitations begin to run on a Section 1983 claim based on fabrication of evidence in criminal proceedings?
18-6325 Adrian Contreras-Rebollar v. Mike Obenland, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability co-counsel criminal-procedure-6th-amendment-right-to-counsel- criminal-procedure-6th-amendment-self-defense-inef defense-of-another due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instruction right-to-counsel self-defense sixth-amendment Where petitioner's defense in the trial court was based on Self-Defense, petitioner did not fully trust his Dept. of Assigned Counsel lawyer, and thus…
18-6304 Alex Lenard McCoy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment article-iii confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 self-incrimination sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the Defendant's rights under Article III, Section 2, Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment were violated when the Defendant is induced to enter a p…
18-6247 Roy Parker v. Burl Cain, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied IFP 6th-amendment competency conflict-of-interest constitutional-provisions due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment Did the petitioner receive effective assistance of counsel?
18-6176 Michael Lucero v. California California 2018-10-02 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment prior-acts propensity propensity-evidence Whether the admission of prior acts of domestic violence to establish the petitioner's propensity to commit such crimes violated his right to due proc…
18-6076 Wilton Eugene Sandifer, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-law mandamus standing state-court third-party-guilt trial-rights Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment by the state court's denial of his petition for a writ of …
18-372 Ryan Joe Coddington v. Nevada Nevada 2018-09-21 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality prosecutor-conflict prosecutorial-conflict prosecutorial-misconduct recusal Is a criminal defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial before a fair and impartial tribunal denied when the tribunal is linked by marriage to …
18-6055 Willie Triplett, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 state-created-impediment supervisory-authority Whether Lower Court's denial of Motion for Reconsideration pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) based on intervening law was an abuse of discretion
18-6017 William Robey v. Washington Washington 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act conspiracy-against-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-mandate void-ab-initio Is the KING COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT mandated to obey the Washington State Supreme court ruling of 1988- CrR 3.1(b)(2)?
18-5979 Malik Derry v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment law-of-case right-to-be-present right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence Whether the Fifth or Sixth Amendments, or Rules 43 and 44 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, are violated
18-5924 Evangelisto Ramos v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-09-11 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine racial-discrimination sixth-amendment stare-decisis unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict?
18-5928 Ricardo Limon-Urenda v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment ambiguous-answer criminal-procedure hearing impartial-jury impartiality ineffective-assistance juror-impartiality jury-selection prospective-juror right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance under the 6th Amendment
18-5910 Curtis Dee Packard v. Barry Goodrich, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment assistance-of-counsel confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation public-defender right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court withdrawal-of-counsel Whether both the trial court and the State's Public Defender''s Office invited error and erroneously denied the Petitioner his 6th Amendment rights to…
18-5891 James Edward Whitney v. Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, et al. Arkansas 2018-09-06 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 9th-amendment administrative-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct jurisdiction legal-pleadings standing Whether courts can deny individuals' secured, guaranteed, and protected rights to due process
18-5892 Andre Jackson v. Ohio Ohio 2018-09-06 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing judicial-sentencing jury-recommendation jury-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
18-5846 Dustin Xavier Wilkins, aka Dxavier Wilkins, aka Xavier Wilkins, aka Chosen Wilkins v. United States District of Columbia 2018-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appeal court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-hearing Whether the petitioner should be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea based on ineffective assistance of counsel
18-5808 Rafael Angel Rondon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c 6th-amendment constitutional-law crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-law jury-instructions residual-clause sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent violent-crime Whether the Eleventh Circuit's 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) pattern jury instruction violates the Sixth Amendment
18-5815 Jose Francisco Puentes v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment arizona-statute civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing Does the Arizona statute 13-1410 violate the petitioner's 14th Amendment rights?
18-5790 Uiki Teaupa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 5th-amendment 6th-amendment discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment government-misconduct pro-se pro-se-defendant section-2255 sixth-amendment Does the Fifth and Sixth Amendment entitle a pro se defendant the right to conduct discovery and have an evidentiary hearing on claims of government m…
18-237 Gary Thomas and Felix Parrilla v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment civil-procedure conspiracy-venue constitutional constitutional-venue cooperating-witness criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-witness manufactured-venue prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment venue venue-determination venue-manipulation venue-provisions witness-cooperation Whether it is permissible under the venue provisions of the U.S. Constitution Article III, § 2, cl. 3; the Sixth Amendment; and Federal Rules of Crimi…
18-5719 Alan Bartlett v. Susanna C. Pineda, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2018-08-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment arizona-constitution arizona-criminal-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process interstate-agreement-on-detainers mandamus speedy-trial standing Whether Respondent Judge denied Petitioner Bartlett's Motion to Dismiss the lack of speedy trial in violation of the 6th Amendment to the United State…
18-5689 George Bridgette v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-requirements right-to-counsel substitute-counsel Whether the district court violated petitioner's constitutional rights by failing to appoint substitute counsel to continue representing him in the ha…
18-5704 Robert Austin v. District Attorney of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice rule-60b6-motion Does the district court commit error in denying a Rule 60(b)(6) motion for not showing a constitutional violation when the unreasonable determination …
18-5616 Robert Earl Clayborne, Jr. v. Nebraska Eighth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights competency competency-hearing criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disability mental-health prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner was denied due process and effective assistance of counsel when the state court refused to hold a competency hearing despite ev…
18-5581 George Jenewicz v. New Jersey New Jersey 2018-08-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay Was the petitioner denied the right of cross-examination and due process under the 6th and 14th amendments?
18-5587 Bobby Joe Rosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the denial of the motion to suppress evidence under the good faith exception despite the lack of probable…
18-5524 Farrell Rochelle v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying C.O.A. to trial counsel being ineffective for failing to file a motion for continuance to pr…
18-5543 In Re Andre David Leffebre 2018-08-10 Dismissed IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel Should the government's use of a confidential informant to elicit incriminating statements from a defendant violate the defendant's Sixth Amendment ri…
18-5490 Mark Madison Lowe v. Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion sixth-amendment stun-belt trial-procedure Whether the imposition of a RACC Stun belt with secret instructions to compel testimony, alter testimony, and remain silent during trial infringed upo…
18-5419 Kevin Griffin v. Thomas DiNapoli Second Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis sixth-amendment standing Was petitioner erroneously denied in forma pauperis, appointment of counsel, and appeal dismissal?
18-5403 Leroy Dean Dennis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-07-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment capital-case constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial false-testimony jurisdiction oklahoma-constitution-article-2-section-20 reasonable-doubt title-18-usc-section-3432 witness-endorsement Whether a defendant's constitutional rights are violated when the prosecution fails to endorse trial witnesses as required by state law
18-5339 Tyron James v. Paul Snyder, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining retroactive-application sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the conviction and not applying the Santobello decision on counsel's performance retroact…
18-5318 Makandi L. Terry v. Donnie Stonebreaker, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-07-23 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea jury-trial Whether Appellant Terry Should Have Been Denied a Certificate of Appealability as Evidence Exists in the Record That His Trial Attorney Was Clearly In…
18-5291 Martin Louis Ballard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP deprived him of his right under the Sixth Amendme without any hearing 5th-amendment 6th-amendment bank-account bank-account-seizure civil-rights counsel-of-choice due-process fifth-amendment pretrial-seizure procedural-due-process seizure sixth-amendment Whether the pretrial seizure of petitioner's bank account, without any hearing, deprived him of his right under the Sixth Amendment to the United Stat…
18-5259 Olin Ray Nowlin v. Joe Shannon, Jr., et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied IFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legal-deprivation liberty-interest procedural-law state-jurisdiction Does the 6th Amendment guarantee the right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation, to be confronted with the witnesses against him, …
18-5247 James McCray v. S. L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial minimum-sentence plea-bargaining reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Circuit decision is objectively unreasonable as a matter of due process, because McCray's sentencing guidelines offense variable(s) …
18-5201 Henry Bryan Lowe v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression expert-witness fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-5206 Gary Dewayne Oatman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied IFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability double-jeopardy due-process enhanced-sentence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-mistrial sentencing Whether a defendant can be actually innocent of a sentence in a non-capital case, whether a prior mistrial renders nugatory all prior proceedings, and…
18-5212 Markentz Blanc v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-flight-instructions district-court due-process elements flight-instructions prejudice prior-decisions sufficiency-of-evidence wiretap wiretap-evidence Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's rulings on the flight instructions, the necessity requirement for the wiretap, an…
18-5179 Ronnie Johnson v. Florida Florida 2018-07-09 Denied IFP 6th-amendment 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection hurst-v-florida jury-trial retroactivity ring-v-arizona Whether the retroactive application of Hurst v. Florida was unconstitutionally limited
18-5132 Jonathan Arn Bryant v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury right-to-counsel self-incrimination self-incrimination-rights sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the State of Florida's use of Bryant's custodial statements against him violated his Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights
18-5031 Jabbar Wallace v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder-conviction self-defense self-defense-right sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's conviction for third-degree murder should be overturned due to self-defense, violation of the Confrontation Clause, and ineff…