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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A621 Chad Henry Jones v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-25 Presumed Complete appellate-review appointed-counsel extraordinary-circumstances petition-for-certiorari pro-se withdrawal Question not identified.
25-5456 Elbert Gaynor v. Extended Stay America Maryland 2025-08-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment appointed-counsel equal-protection mootness procedural-due-process service-of-process 1. Whether a state court of last resort erred in affirming a lower court decision to dismiss petitioners' appeals overlooking deprivation of petition…
24-7464 Shukeitha Jackson v. AbbVie, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2025-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel civil-rights due-process mental-illness pro-se-litigant title-vii I. Whether a pro se litigant with documented severe mental illness is entitled to appointed counsel in a civil rights employment matter under Title V…
24A707 Carlsel Alexander v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-01-17 Presumed Complete appointed-counsel criminal-justice-act deadline-extension federal-public-defender in-forma-pauperis petition-for-certiorari Question not identified.
24-6010 Carlos Cantizano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel briefing-schedule court-of-appeals due-process legal-procedure motion-denial May "the Court of Appeals } after approving a noilce of appeal } u)itbdrauJ the briefing schedule on Abe basis that X revested appointment of Counsel…
24-6001 Keith Brian Hunter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel criminal-justice-act escrow-account fifth-amendment sixth-circuit-court trust-account I. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by expanding the type of bank account that constitutes a client escrow/trust account contrary to …
24-436 Robert James Rainey v. Colorado Colorado 2024-10-18 Denied Response Waived appointed-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether, once counsel has been appointed for an indigent defendant, the Sixth Amendment guarantees the defendant the same right to continued represent…
24A321 Jawan Fortia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-02 Presumed Complete appointed-counsel criminal-justice-act federal-criminal-procedure indigent-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-5387 Justin Erskine v. Delaware Delaware 2024-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel due-process initial-review-collateral-proceeding legal-abandonment procedural-right state-obligation Whether a criminal defendant on an initial-review collateral proceeding ("IRCP") is entitled to the appointment of counsel when the state creates a pr…
23-1096 William Allen Davis v. Colorado Colorado 2024-04-09 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) affluent-defendants appointed-counsel constitutional-rights continuity-of-representation criminal-procedure indigent-defendant indigent-defendants lower-court-split right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether, once counsel has been appointed for an indigent defendant, the Sixth Amendment guarantees the defendant the same right to continued represent…
23-7119 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2024-04-02 Denied IFP appointed-counsel capital-murder conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights cuyler-v-sullivan flat-fee-contract ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland When Brian Dorsey faced capital-murder charges, he was appointed counsel who were paid a very low flat fee of $12,000 each. Chris Slusher, having rece…
23A860 Jeffrey Batio v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-03-25 Presumed Complete appointed-counsel certiorari criminal-justice-act petition-requirements seventh-circuit supreme-court Question not identified.
23-6669 S.C., et vir, v. Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services Texas 2024-02-05 Denied IFP appointed-counsel asfa-compliance dismissal-date due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel parental-rights procedural-fairness texas-family-code venue-transfer Whether the denial of appointed counsel for parents found to be indigent in the trial court despite multiple requests for an attorney to protect their…
23-5077 In Re Ronald Boyajian 2023-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court appeal-of-right appellate-procedure appointed-counsel court-access due-process legal-representation ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation supplemental-brief In a first appeal of right, did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ("Ninth Circuit") violate defendant-appellant Ronald Boyajian's ("Peti…
22-7023 Maria Orosco v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appointed-counsel civil-rights due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal procedural-default timely-filing Roe v. Glover v. Idaho, 126 S.Ct. Should my writ Certiorari be granted inasmuch as my appointed attorney failed to file a timely Notice of Appeal for…
22-6397 Alex Daniel v. Illinois Illinois 2022-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP ake-v-oklahoma appointed-counsel britt-v-north-carolina due-process fundamental-fairness griffin-v-illinois indigent-defendant self-representation sixth-amendment In Farretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 833-34 (1975), this Court recognized that the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees cr…
22-5644 Kevin Griffin v. Thomas P. DiNapoli, et al. Second Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appeal appointed-counsel constitutional-rights disability-claims due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence Was petitioner's appeal erroneously dismissed even though newly discovered evidence supports petitioner's disability claims, U.S. Const. Amend. XIV? …
21-8248 Lorenzo Newborn, Karl Darnell Holmes, and Herbert McClain v. California California 2022-06-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appointed-counsel court-appointment criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process in-forma-pauperis indigent-defendant indigent-status right-to-counsel supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
21-7725 Jeffrey Ndungi Sila v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings plain-error plain-error-standard pro-se-motion summary-affirmance waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit proceedings in petitioner's case "so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings," Sup. Ct. R. 1…
21-6000 Marius A. Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel criminal-procedure fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree miranda-rights probable-cause search-warrant wanton-endangerment Section 61-7-12 of the West Virginia Code provides that the offense of wanton endangerment is committed if a person "wantonly performs any act with a …
21-5531 Garlin Raymond Farris v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-principles appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process excusable-neglect indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pioneer-investment-services procedural-hurdles sixth-amendment The question presented, on which the federal appellate courts are currently divided, is whether appointed counsel's misconduct can serve as excusable …
20-6341 Jason Harriman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-inquiry appointed-counsel appointment-of-counsel civil-rights court-inquiry criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether a defendant's 6th Amendment right to counsel of choice extends to an indigent defendant who has appointed counsel. 2. The extent of the ad…
20-6009 Lamar Thornton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel criminal-justice-act due-process in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-leave-to-proceed-in-forma-pauperis petition-for-writ-of-certiorari pro-se-filing sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
20-5151 Antoine Reed v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel clear-error compulsory-process credibility federal-district-court material-witness police-manipulation procedural-bar standard-of-review state-law state-law-error I Did the federal distf\ct_ccuov commit-clear error. Whan it deemed Mr. secVvonj2.zs4 compulsoryprocess viola- ti_QO_cV&lmaoJbe_anAn cognizable lA…
20-5121 Brayan Gutierrez-Diaz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-warning right-to-counsel self-incrimination Whether and to what extent a mistranslated Miranda warning, which does not reasonably convey the right to appointed counsel during interrogation, fail…
19-8134 James Ricky Ezell v. Damon Hininger, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-31 Denied IFP access-to-courts appointed-counsel appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-remedies pro-se-plaintiff retaliation Whether the Tenth Circuit has jurisdiction to consider Denying of plaintiff prisoner in custody of Department of Corrections housed in private prison …
19-6547 Kevin Sterling v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmance appeal appointed-counsel cja-18-usc-3006 criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-44 federal-rules-criminal-procedure gideon-v-wainwright inability-to-pay legal-representation right-to-counsel writ-of-certiorari Whether defendant should have been appointed counsel too assist him in filing a writ of Certiorari, pursuant to the CJA 18 U,S.C, § 3006.. . and FED,…
19-6555 Courtney Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP ability-to-pay appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fine-imposition fines indigent-defendant judicial-discretion sentencing statutory-interpretation WHETHER A DISTRICT COURT ERRS BY IMPOSING A FINE UPON AN INDIGENT DEFENDANT, REPRESENTED BY APPOINTED COUNSEL, WITHOUT MAKING ANY INQUIRY INTO THE DEF…
19-6271 Gary Patrick Lewis v. Michigan Michigan 2019-10-16 Denied IFP affidavit-of-indigency appointed-counsel arson-conviction criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process in-forma-pauperis indigency indigent-defendant michigan-court right-to-counsel state-appellate-defender state-court-appeal Question not identified.
19-5784 Michael Villecco v. Daniel W. Stark, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appointed-counsel appointment-of-counsel civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine counsel-appointment district-court-order due-process interlocutory-appeal standing Whether the collateral order doctrine permits the immediate appeal of a district court order denying the appointment of counsel in civil cases.
19-5014 Ricardo Donate-Cardona v. United States Third Circuit 2019-07-01 GVR IFP affidavit appointed-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review court-filing defendant-dissatisfaction due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel in-forma-pauperis indigent-status legal-redress poverty-affidavit sixth-amendment standing substitute-counsel Question not identified.
18-8818 Cornell D. Reynolds v. Randall Hepp, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appeal appellate-rights appointed-counsel attorney-client attorney-compensation conflict-of-interest due-process indigent-defendant indigent-defense statutory-provisions Should the conflict of interest doctrine be extended to include financial conflicts between attorney and client; and/or Whether a state creates a fat…
18-7203 Francisco Salazar v. Texas Texas 2019-01-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appointed-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-record-on-appeal free-transcript in-forma-pauperis indigent standing trial-court-order Question not identified.