capital-crime
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24A290 | Prosecuting Attorney, 21st Judicial Circuit, ex rel. Marcellus Williams v. Missouri | Missouri | 2024-09-23 | Denied | Amici (1) | capital-crime death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay innocence-project new-evidence | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate who has presented new evidence potentially exculpating him from the underly… |
| 23-6508 | Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2024-01-18 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | capital-crime civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury standing state-courts systemic-bias trial-bias | Whether the state trial courts' failure to address and dispose of the Tumey biased trial judges issue constituted an error of law and an abuse of disc… |
| 22-6382 | James A. Warren v. Florida | Florida | 2022-12-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | capital-crime capitol-crime constitutional-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process fifth-amendment florida-constitution grand-jury indictment presentment | Does Article I Section 15(a) of the Florida Constitution prohibit any person from being tried for a capitol crime without presentment or indictment by… |
| 21-7985 | Freddie Glover v. Florida | Florida | 2022-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal capital-crime constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury information-charging notice opportunity-to-be-heard state-counsel subject-matter | Whether Glover's Due Process Rights were violated by not allowing him opportunity to respond to State Counsel Answer Brief prior to the court making a… |
| 21-7013 | Michael John Wolfe v. Oregon | Oregon | 2022-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | capital-crime constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto legislative-amendment retroactivity | Does the ex post facto prohibition preclude a state from charging a defendant with a newly defined capital crime under a retroactivity provision |
| 18-6207 | Manuel Ernesto Paiz Guevara v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion capital-crime capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourth-circuit-split mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-discretion statutory-interpretation | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying the defendant's request for two attorneys in a capital case |