| 25A485 |
Matthew Borges v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Application |
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certiorari co-defendant criminal-procedure due-process extension-of-time petition |
Whether a criminal defendant's due process rights are violated when a co-defendant seeks and receives an extension of time to file a petition for cert… |
| 24-5452 |
Dustin Sierra, aka Dustin Sierro v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit kidnapping severance |
Whether the defendant's case should have been severed from his co-defendant brother's case and whether the government sufficiently proved kidnapping c… |
| 23A1001 |
Amadi Sosa v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2024-05-09 |
Presumed Complete |
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co-defendant confrontation-rights due-process perjury severance trial-procedure |
Whether a state court's procedural rules permitting a co-defendant to testify in a potentially perjurious manner violate a criminal defendant's due pr… |
| 23-5459 |
Maurice Turner v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause criminal-procedure douglas-v-alabama due-process harmless-error pretrial-statements sixth-amendment testimony |
Whether the violation of the Confrontation Clause as explicated in Douglas v. Alabama was harmless error |
| 22-7905 |
Tikisha Upshaw v. California |
California |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-location co-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility expert-witness fair-trial jury-instructions police-testimony scientific-reliability witness-testimony |
Can a court allow unsupported opinion evidence from a police officer, who does not hold a higher science-engineering degree, about a novel cell phone … |
| 22-7026 |
Erin F. Graham, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-offense criminal-procedure domestic-incident hearsay hearsay-statements law-enforcement ongoing-criminal-offense |
Whether the introduction of a co-defendant's inculpatory hearsay statements violated the Confrontation Clause |
| 21-6089 |
Edward N. Daniels v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruton-precedent bruton-v-united-states co-conspirator co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-admissibility precedent |
Did the lower court err when they refused to apply this court's precedent in Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123 (1968) when the co-conspirator / co… |
| 21-491 |
William T. Schmitt, et al. v. Craig M. Stephens, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights co-defendant due-process final-judgment preclusion preclusive-effect res-judicata |
Whether the successful appeal of a final judgment by a 'closely interwoven' co-defendant equitably relieves a non-appealing defendant of the preclusiv… |
| 21-5715 |
Ronald George Whitehouse v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof co-defendant criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process fifth-circuit probation-officer reversible-error sentencing |
Whether the district court committed reversible error in holding the petitioner responsible for 10 kilos of methamphetamine based on the probation off… |
| 21-5039 |
Gavin Wayne Wright v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
co-conspirator-statements co-defendant criminal-conspiracy due-process entrapment false-statements federal-rules-of-evidence government-agent jury-instruction materiality testimony |
Was the quantum and character of this evidence in the record sufficient to entitle him to a jury instruction on entrapment? |
| 20-7114 |
Aesha Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant confrontation-clause constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence invited-error plea-agreement |
Does the admission of a non-testifying co-defendant's plea agreement implicating the defendant violate the Confrontation Clause? |
| 19-7827 |
Terry O'Nell Hall v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-trial cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process evidentiary-inconsistency fundamental-fairness inconsistent-testimony right-to-fair-trial sentencing-disparity victim-testimony witness-testimony |
Did the court of appeals err in deciding petitioner's right to due process was not violated, where the victim testified one way during his trial and t… |
| 19-7069 |
Lee Alvin Vincent v. Brian E. Williams, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment actual-bias co-defendant due-process evidence-presentation fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-jury implied-bias juror-bias jury-bias sexual-infatuation |
Whether a juror's love for an adverse party (co-defendant) constitutes actual or implied bias and thus violates the defendant's right to an impartial … |
| 19-5667 |
John J. Blodgett v. Erin Gaffney, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center |
First Circuit |
2019-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence brady-issue brady-violation certificate-of-appealability co-defendant co-defendant-statements co-defendant-testimony confrontation-clause due-process first-circuit-court habeas-corpus |
Did the First Circuit err by refusing to entertain Blodgett's two meritorious issues, and shut out the possibility of certificate of appealability; wh… |
| 19-5528 |
Robert Anthony Chester v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant co-defendants constitutional-proportionality criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment disparate-sentencing disproportionate-sentencing eighth-amendment equal-protection first-degree-robbery sentencing sentencing-disparity |
Was Petitioner's One Hundred Eighty Year Sentence For His Conviction Of Two Counts Of First Degree Robbery Disparate To The Twenty Year Sentence Impos… |
| 19-5167 |
Christian Don'tae Hood v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cellular-phone co-defendant compelled-testimony compulsory-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights jury-instruction post-arrest-interview search-and-seizure self-incrimination sixth-amendment |
Whether the trial court erred in admitting the appellant's post-arrest interview when the government violated his Fifth Amendment rights by forcibly u… |
| 19-5069 |
Chapel Thompson v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation buck-v-davis civil-procedure co-defendant court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus incriminating-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard procedural-analysis standing |
Whether the court of appeals followed the dictates of this court's decision in Buck v. Davis, explaining that the COA stage is not coextensive with a … |
| 18-8514 |
Jonathan Leroy Homedew v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion co-defendant co-defendants criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion plea-arrangement plea-bargaining procedural-rights right-to-be-present speedy-trial waiver |
Whether Petitioner waived Speedy-Trial-Rights based on Co-defendants-Plea-arrangements |
| 18-7568 |
Richard Earl Shere, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
co-defendant constitutional-review death-penalty equal-protection equal-protection,death-penalty,sentencing,retroact hurst-v-florida mccloud-v-state retroactivity ring-v-arizona sentencing-disparity |
Whether Mr. Shere's case is no longer one of the most aggravated and least mitigated following Hurst v. Florida and McCloud v. State |
| 18-6995 |
Ashley Owens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant co-defendant-disparity criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection loss-calculation plea-agreement sentencing |
Did the Lower Courts violate the Due Process Clause when they sentenced Owens based on an unproven and inflated loss? |
| 18-6909 |
Albert Andrew Lucero v. Kim Holland, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruton-rule bruton-v-united-states co-defendant confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-rights crawford-analysis crawford-v-washington harmless-error joint-trial sixth-amendment testimonial-statement |
Was the California Court of Appeal's decision contrary to, or an unreasonable application of, this Court's jurisprudence holding that the Sixth Amendm… |
| 18-421 |
Jose Luis Cepeda-Cortes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
co-defendant criminal-procedure extraneous-criminal-acts federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure joint-trial jury-reliability prejudice rule-14a severance spill-over-effect zafiro-v-united-states |
Does a fair and consistent application of Rule 14(a) require this Court to re-examine its decision in Zafiro and clarify the factors to be considered … |
| 18-5281 |
Vincent Craig Mosley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-conspiracy due-process evidence evidence-admission plea-agreement plea-bargaining witness-testimony |
Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to see the plea agreements of non-testifying co-defendants and admit them into evidence |