choice-of-counsel
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5932 | Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota | South Dakota | 2025-10-22 | Denied | IFP | choice-of-counsel coram-nobis equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment structural-error | 1. Is a Sixth Amendment 'erroneous deprivation of choice of counsel ' structural error, an error of the most fundamental character, properly before t… |
| 23-6283 | Stacy Anthony Mitchell v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2023-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | choice-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion | Does a trial court's denial of an indigent criminal defendant's choice of privately retained counsel, who is ready, willing, and able to proceed to tr… |
| 23-6022 | Kevin Liu v. Marcus Pollard, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | choice-of-counsel constitutional-claim federal-constitutional-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel state-law state-procedural-bar | Is the Ninth Circuit's decision contrary to this Court's decision in Martin v. Walker? |
| 18-1103 | Paul Ross Evans v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability choice-of-counsel civil-rights due-process effective-assistance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel standing | Whether the right to choice of counsel or effective assistance is violated when counsel is appointed to represent fewer claims than the Government is … |
| 18-5351 | Payman Borhan v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability choice-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-choice-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether the trial court's refusal to allow the defendant to retain his own counsel of choice deprived him of his Sixth Amendment right to choose the f… |