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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6164 Shannon Bernard Jackson v. Texas Texas 2025-11-19 Denied IFP anders-brief appellate-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-brief Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of Fourteenth Amendment rights when appointed counsel files an Anders brief without providing the defendant a…
24-7186 Albertico C. Cruz v. Texas Texas 2025-05-13 Denied IFP anders-brief appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se-response Did the Eleventh Court of Appeals deny Petitioner's due process by ordering a pro se response under Anders when the appeal was not an Anders proceedin…
24-6242 Kent Booher v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-review criminal-procedure ex-post-facto plain-error substantial-rights Did the Court of Appeals err in its plain error review when it held that appellant had not suffered an effect on his substantial rights that may have …
22-7579 Keith Grant Schneider v. Florida Florida 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief anders-v-california appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-right counsel-appointment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the appellate court has a duty to conduct a full review of the record under Anders v. California when appointed counsel files an Anders brief …
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
20-1059 Roy H. Murry v. Washington Washington 2021-02-03 Denied Response Waived anders-brief court-of-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se pro-se-briefing right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was Mr. Murry denied his Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process?
20-6880 Victor Esquivel, aka Youngster v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief constructive-denial criminal-procedure direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel no-merit-brief preserved-objections right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel Whether Esquivel's Right to Counsel Was Constructively Denied
20-5736 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-counsel fla-r-app-p-9-141(d) habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-review pro-se-litigant standing writ-of-review Does the United States Supreme Court have the authority to review the underlying merits of an issue when the action being challenged is a petition for…
19-7385 Arthur Lee Kimbel v. Texas Texas 2020-01-23 Denied IFP anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-claims right-to-counsel When an Appellant files an Appellate Brief raising Pro Se claims after appointed counsel submits an Anders Brief, is the reviewing appellate court con…
19-5775 Richard James Soldan v. Michigan Michigan 2019-09-03 Denied IFP anders-brief anders-procedure appellate-counsel appellate-review court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process first-tier-review indigent-defendant michigan-court-of-appeals michigan-procedure plea-bargaining right-to-counsel Whether the trial court may refuse to appoint substitute appellate counsel to an indigent defendant convicted on his plea who seeks access to first-ti…
18-8589 Demetrius S. Rankin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-law court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance legal-ethics legal-standards procedural-review right-to-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied and ignored the procedural pronouncements made in Anders v. California
18-6837 Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied IFP anders-brief appellate-review collateral-attack due-process extraordinary-writ federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment state-court-review If the merits of an appeal exist and are not evaluated by a State or Federal Court of review, should a Federal court address Ineffective Assistance of…