| 23-5319 |
Antoine L. Riggins v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brecht-exception brecht-v-abrahamson co-defendant-confession fair-trial fourteenth-amendment joint-trial sixth-amendment |
Is there an urgent need to further discuss the exception mentioned in Brecht v. Abrahamson 507 U.S. 619 (1993) where defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth … |
| 22-7029 |
Roger Keeling v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-procedure harmless-error kotteakos-v-united-states ninth-circuit non-constitutional-error standard-of-review weighty-evidence |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that a non-constitutional error was harmless when it found 'ample,' rather than 'weighty,' evidence of guilt c… |
| 21-6138 |
Armando B. Cortinas, Jr. v. Jo Gentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
Brecht-v-Abrahamson confession constitutional-error federal-habeas federal-review felony-murder habeas-corpus harmless-error premeditation-and-deliberation section-2254 state-court-decision |
Whether the state court's harmless error determination was unreasonable under 28-U.S.C-2254(d)(1)-and-(2) |
| 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… |
| 20-1605 |
Justin Terrell Atkins v. Timothy Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
aedpa brecht-v-abrahamson confrontation-clause habeas habeas-corpus harmless-error harmlessness preservation-rule sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the preservation rule applies to the State's forfeiture of harmlessness in AEDPA cases |
| 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? |
| 19-1307 |
Edward Thomas, Warden v. William Leroy Barnes |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-20 |
Denied |
|
actual-prejudice brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury jury-contact precedent-interpretation substantial-effect |
Did the Fourth Circuit misapply this Court's precedents by granting habeas relief where there was no evidence that a juror's contact with a third part… |
| 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… |