| 25-6726 |
William Lewis Reece v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2026-02-05 |
Pending |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review coerced-confession constitutional-claims de-novo-review harmless-error |
1. Whether Oklahoma's application of the abuse of discretion standard violates Payne v. Arkansas, Chapman v. California, and Arizona v. Fulminante req… |
| 25A638 |
William Lewis Reece v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-12-02 |
Application |
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coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-techniques self-incrimination |
Question not identified. |
| 25-605 |
James Maharg v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2025-11-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review bench-trial coerced-confession constitutional-error due-process harmless-error |
Whether, in a criminal bench trial for murder, a trial judge who admits over objection a defendant's coerced confession to that offense may later insu… |
| 23A271 |
Atif Ahmad Rafay v. Eric Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-27 |
Presumed Complete |
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AEDPA coerced-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary-statements undercover-police-techniques |
Whether a state court applies law "contrary to" this Court's precedents under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 when it resolv… |
| 22-7712 |
Gustavo Xavier v. Patricia Thompson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
coerced-confession due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice murder-weapon right-to-effective-counsel suppression-of-evidence third-circuit-review trial-counsel |
Mr. Xavier alleged that his trail counsel was ineffective for failing to conduct any type of investigation before advising him to take a plea of the m… |
| 22-6649 |
Dee Walter Mitchell, Jr. v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coerced-confession coerced-testimony due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment juvenile-interrogation juvenile-rights miranda-rights police-interrogation |
1. Where police interrogators induce an unwilling 15-year-old murder suspect to
incriminate another by (1) omitting to advise him of his Miranda righ… |
| 22-624 |
Zafar Iqbal v. Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, State Board of Medicine |
Pennsylvania |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
coerced-confession constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-witness perjury right-to-due-process testimony |
1. Did the ruling(s), by disregarding testimony of material witness, proven to lie
under oath violated petitioner 's right to due process enshrined i… |
| 21-7964 |
Estevan Saucedo v. California |
California |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
coerced-confession confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule law-enforcement-conduct miranda-rights police-misconduct police-tactics |
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| 21-6996 |
Robert Stivers v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights coerced-confession confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation-procedure police-interrogation right-to-silence |
Is a suspect's Constitutional Amendments V as well as XIV rights violated when a clear and unambiguous invocation to remain silent is ignored? Additio… |
| 21-6806 |
Armin Wand, III v. Gary Boughton, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability coerced-confession confession-suppression constitutional-provisions due-process manifest-injustice newly-discovered-evidence plea-withdrawal stay-of-proceedings unreliable-confession |
1. SHOULD ARMIN WAND, III S SEPTEMBER 9, 2012 STATEMENT HAVE BEEN SUPPRESSED?
2. DOES THE COERCED UNRELIABLE CONFESSION PROVIDE A MANIFEST INJUSTICE … |
| 21-6502 |
Bobby Griffin v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coerced-confession coercive-interrogation constitutional-rights due-process exclusionary-rule false-confession fourth-amendment interrogation-tactics probable-cause warrantless-search |
1) Whether Griffins Constitutional rights were violated by the Trial courts admittance of the evidence (e.g the firearm) at the defendants trial. |
| 21-820 |
Louisiana v. Christopher Alexander |
Louisiana |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split coerced-confession due-process fifth-amendment fruits-doctrine miranda-violation |
Whether a later voluntary statement must be suppressed as the fruits of statement taken in violation of Miranda? |
| 20-8259 |
Peter James Sorokaput v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement plea-bargaining sentencing wrongful-conviction |
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| 20-8135 |
Gregg McNamara v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-impairment sixth-amendment |
1) Under the Sixth Amendment right to know the nature and the cause of the action against a
person, can a person convicted while suffering from sever… |
| 20-7174 |
Antonio Lopez v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coerced-confession confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process family-coercion family-member interrogation police-interrogation probable-cause truthful-statements |
1. Whether a threat to arrest, or a promise not to arrest, a member of a suspect's family, depending only on his willingness to confess to a crime, re… |
| 20-6106 |
Rafael Cruz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance mental-disability plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment voluntariness |
When the District Court denied to issue a Certificate of Appealability, then a jury picked Court abused its discretion when the Defendant was forced t… |
| 19-8112 |
Mustafa Ali v. Derek Oberlander, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability coerced-confession coerced-statement criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction-challenge pretextual-arrest right-to-counsel unwanted-counsel |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals denying Application for Certificate
of Appealability and Petition for Rehearing/Rehearing en Banc is
contrary to this … |
| 19-7290 |
Tamarkqua Garland v. New York |
New York |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
1. Defendant challenge and "impugned the integrity," of the denial of his CPL § 30.30 speedy trial consitutional rights, which includes 409 days in ex… |
| 18-9823 |
Freddie Lee Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea manifest-injustice paid-informant procedural-grounds right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's sixth amendment right to the assistance of counsel |
| 18-9097 |
Freddie L. Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coerced-confession criminal-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea jail-cell right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the state of Florida violated petitioner's sixth amendment right to the assistance of counsel |
| 18-9081 |
Scott Books v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brooks-v-tennessee coerced-confession confession-suppression criminal-procedure due-process impeachment right-to-counsel self-incrimination self-incrimination-5th-amendment |
Under Brooks v. Tennessee, did the district court's ruling permitting impeachment with the coerced confession and its physical fruit impermissibly int… |
| 18-9013 |
Michael P. Crenshaw v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment coerced-confession constitutional-claim due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review miranda-rights procedural-bar statute-of-limitations substantive-evidence |
Whether the use of a coerced confession as substantive evidence at trial violates due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-7312 |
Danny D. Tran v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process in-re-gault ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-confession juvenile-rights postcard-denial strickland-standard williams-v-taylor |
Question not identified |
| 18-7223 |
Jesse Lloyd Hall v. Daniel Paramo, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 barefoot-standard coerced-confession due-process federal-review habeas-corpus police-misconduct recantation state-writ-petition victim-recantation victim-rights witness-intimidation |
Whether federal courts must take the allegations of a state writ petition as true when weighing if the state's denial was objectively unreasonable |
| 18-6610 |
Mark Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence actual-perpetrator coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusion-of-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution successive-petition |
Whether the petitioner should be allowed to present newly discovered evidence of actual innocence in a successive post-conviction petition, despite th… |