| 24-213 |
Willis Franklin v. California |
California |
2024-08-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
client-autonomy counsel-of-choice fourteenth-amendment mccoy-v-louisiana sixth-amendment trial-continuance |
Was petitioner denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to retained counsel of choice and client autonomy when the trial court failed to conti… |
| 21-1146 |
Gary McClain v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
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client-autonomy criminal-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel fundamental-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-strategy |
Whether defense counsel's concession of guilt during the guilt phase of trial, without the client's permission, violates the client's Sixth Amendment … |
| 21-5363 |
Christopher Cope v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
client-autonomy constitutional-right criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy |
Whether petitioner was denied his constitutional right to have effective assistance of counsel |
| 20-7808 |
James R. W. Mitchell v. California |
California |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
client-autonomy mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment structural-error voluntary-manslaughter |
Did defense counsel's alternative argument for voluntary manslaughter in defiance of petitioner's wishes violate petitioner's Sixth Amendment right of… |
| 18-8113 |
Troy Arnaud v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client client-autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-testify self-representation sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Whether Arnand was denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel |
| 18-7678 |
Alfonso Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
client-attorney-relationship client-autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel sixth-circuit speedy-trial-act trial-counsel |
Can a defense lawyer, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, contravene his client's wishes to object to a violation of the Speedy Trial Act? |
| 18-6701 |
Roger Dale Epperson v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
client-autonomy closing-argument concession-of-guilt criminal-procedure defense-strategy ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-control-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Is a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel, and the right to control the objective of the defense, violated, under the Court's recent decision … |
| 18-5289 |
Stephen Dale Barbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
client-autonomy ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana post-conviction prejudice prejudice-standard sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington structural-error |
Did the Fifth Circuit impose an improper ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard, which required him to show prejudice, to Barbee's claim that his … |