capital-defendants

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-7046 Valdamir Fred Morelos v. California California 2023-03-21 Dismissed IFP autonomy-right capital-defendant capital-defendants counsel-consent due-process guilty-plea mccoy-v-louisiana penal-code penal-code-section-1018 right-to-autonomy sixth-amendment Does California's Penal Code Section 1018 violate capital defendants' right to autonomy under the Sixth Amendment and McCoy v. Louisiana?
19-5968 Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez v. Mike Carpenter, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied IFP capital-case capital-defendants direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction procedural-bar public-defender trevino-v-thaler Where a state, through operation of its laws, requires some capital defendants to be represented by the same public defender at both trial and on thei…