brecht-standard
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-5963 | Cameron Davon Wright v. James R. Schiebner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting brecht-standard constitutional-error jury-verdict sufficiency-of-evidence trial-procedure | Whether the lower court misapplied Brecht v. Abrahamson standard by using an incorrect sufficiency of evidence test that denied fundamental justice in… |
| 22-6835 | Deon'te Reed v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924c-conviction brecht-standard conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions robbery-conspiracy stromberg-error | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in disregarding the prejudice resulting from Stromberg error and instead applying a per se harmless error test based o… |
| 21-5318 | Beatrice Munyenyezi v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 brecht-standard chapman-standard federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instruction post-conviction-relief supreme-court-review | Which harmless error standard applies to a habeas corpus challenge under 28 U.S.C. §2255? |
| 20-8101 | Joseph Weldon Smith v. Perry Russell, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-21 | Denied | IFP | brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson capital-sentencing harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment stromberg-error stromberg-v-california | Whether a federal court may disregard the prejudice resulting from Stromberg error and instead ask only what a hypothetical jury instructed on a valid… |
| 19-8581 | Marlon Deon Harmon v. Tommy Sharp, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2020-06-02 | Denied | IFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson confession confession-evidence constitutional-error death-penalty habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence sentencing | Should federal courts provide uniform guidance in analyzing harm from unconstitutionally obtained confessions in death penalty cases? |
| 19-7353 | Enamiden Celestine Okon v. Nate Knutson, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-23 | Denied | IFP | brecht-standard constitutional-error due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review magwood-v-patterson procedural-default sanders-v-united-states standing successive-petition successive-petitions | Whether Petitioner filed 'a second or successive' application by re-raising a claim in his second habeas petition that was not fully addressed and/or … |
| 19-642 | Shawntele Cortez Jackson v. Kathy Litteral | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response Waived | brecht-standard chapman-standard esparza-standard habeas-corpus habeas-review harmless-error self-defense sixth-circuit | Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in applying the Esparza harmless error standard, instead of the Brecht harmless error standard on federal habeas revie… |
| 19-573 | Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson closing-arguments constitutional-error fifth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct substantial-defense | Did the Eleventh Circuit improperly determine that the Prosecution's pattern of deliberate and egregious improper comments in closing arguments did no… |
| 18-8482 | Lourdes Margarita Garcia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brecht-standard constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage Cronic cronic-rule cronic-standard defense-counsel direct-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit hybrid-error prejudice structural-error trial-procedure | Did the Eleventh Circuit err by holding this 'startling, intentional' violation of the defendant's constitutional and statutory rights did not constit… |