| 25-5824 |
Luis Marrot Caceres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 automatic-reversal district-court habeas-corpus judicial-error motion-denial |
Whether the district court's misunderstanding of the record as evidenced in its order denying Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion was so fundamental … |
| 24-5225 |
Nidal M. Hasan v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review automatic-reversal criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error public-trial structural-error waller-v-georgia weaver-v-massachusetts |
Whether a court of appeals may afford no remedy for a public trial violation where the defendant objected to the closure at trial and raised the issue… |
| 23-6557 |
Frank R. Stevenson v. Lynn Lilley, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
automatic-reversal constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error unwanted-defense |
Whether the unconstitutionality of imposing an unwanted defense on the accused, over objection, has long been federally established and is a structura… |
| 23-5886 |
Phillip Charles Gibbs v. Becky Carl, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review automatic-reversal constitutional-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment state-practice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unconstitutional-state-practice |
Whether prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), is shown by an attorney's failure to preserve a claim that would result in an a… |
| 22-418 |
Gene Deveraux v. Montana |
Montana |
2022-11-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
automatic-reversal biased-juror constitutional-right for-cause-challenge jury-bias sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-discretion trial-procedure |
Whether a trial court commits structural error, requiring automatic reversal under the Sixth Amendment, when it seats a biased juror after erroneously… |
| 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… |
| 21-6409 |
Stephen Harmer v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney automatic-reversal conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure defendant due-process holloway-doctrine ineffective-assistance judicial-inquiry sixth-amendment trial-judge |
Does Holloway demand automatic reversal when a trial judge fails to inquire into a known conflict that a defendant could not object to because his att… |
| 21-603 |
Ohio v. George Brinkman |
Ohio |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
automatic-reversal boykin-advisement boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-review presumption-of-prejudice standard-of-review |
Does the Due Process Clause prohibit review of the entire record to determine whether a guilty plea was knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily enter… |
| 20-7868 |
Douglas Kelly v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
alleyne-precedent automatic-reversal direct-appeal drug-conspiracy jury-selection prejudice public-trial rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement structural-error |
Whether, in the context of a structural error involving a public trial violation during jury selection where no trial objection was made but the error… |
| 20-6802 |
Noel Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
automatic-reversal constitutional-defect criminal-liability criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process guilty-plea sentencing-enhancement structural-error |
If a criminal defendant pleading guilty to a drug conspiracy is required to admit to an enhancing drug quantity as part of his guilty plea but has bee… |
| 20-5852 |
Robert Louis Brandon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review automatic-reversal circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea prejudice-inquiry rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states structural-error |
Is a district court's error under Rehaif v. United States a structural error that warrants automatic reversal of a guilty plea? |
| 19-8516 |
Craig Mrazek v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
automatic-reversal brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-assistance sixth-amendment |
Whether the Court's denial of petitioner's assertion of a Brady claim, specifically per se conflict, violates the Sixth Amendment guarantee to reasona… |
| 19-515 |
Baldassare Amato v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
|
adverse-effect automatic-reversal conflict-of-interest cuyler-v-sullivan evidentiary-hearing holloway-v-arkansas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether Sixth Amendment analysis under Cuyler v. Sullivan applies to both successive and concurrent conflicts |
| 18-1571 |
Steve Kelly Moyer v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
automatic-reversal chapman-v-california constitutional-error constitutional-errors credibility-assessment due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel neder-v-united-states overwhelming-evidence stare-decisis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Kansas Supreme Court failed to consider the prejudicial constitutional errors committed by trial counsel and applied an incorrect standard… |
| 18-8564 |
Kelvin Wayne Heath v. Melinda K. Braman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
automatic-reversal compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct uniform-act-on-production-of-out-of-state-witnesse witness-tampering |
Whether the trial court erred in convicting the petitioner despite the lack of testimony from a key witness and the prosecutor's misconduct in handlin… |
| 18-8199 |
Michael DeVaughn Johnson v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
automatic-reversal constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure critical-stage critical-stages due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Was the Arizona state courts' decision that the absence of the petitioner's trial counsel during two 'critical stages' of the trial did not require au… |
| 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? |
| 18-7210 |
Gordon Prailow v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
automatic-reversal collateral-review constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions jury-verdict reasonable-doubt retroactivity sixth-amendment watershed-rule |
Whether state collateral review courts must retroactively apply the watershed/bedrock procedural rule of automatic reversal to jury findings that are … |