| 24-710 |
Daniel D. Basile, III v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-01-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confession-evidence constitutional-amendments due-process grand-jury judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Illinois Supreme Court's holding weakens the shield function of the grand jury process by inappropriately altering the standard for establ… |
| 23-5038 |
Kurt Michaels v. Ron Davis, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (13)IFP |
aggravating-evidence appellate-review capital-case confession confession-evidence cumulative-error harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-deliberation jury-deliberations ninth-circuit-review |
Whether a court reviewing a cold record in a capital case may determine that the effect of an erroneously admitted confession and other improper aggra… |
| 21-6954 |
Robert Jurado v. Ronald Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment confession-evidence constitutional-amendments double-jeopardy mitigating-evidence ninth-circuit-review penalty-phase plea-bargaining skipper-standard |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that the California Supreme Court did not unreasonably apply federal law or unreasonably determine facts |
| 21-6285 |
Gary Hughbanks v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
admissibility-of-evidence appellate-review brady-materiality brady-v-maryland confession-evidence criminal-procedure due-process materiality-analysis sixth-circuit suppressed-evidence |
Are another individual's repeated statements confessing to the murders for which the defendant is on trial material for purpose of assessing the impac… |
| 19-8581 |
Marlon Deon Harmon v. Tommy Sharp, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson confession confession-evidence constitutional-error death-penalty habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence sentencing |
Should federal courts provide uniform guidance in analyzing harm from unconstitutionally obtained confessions in death penalty cases? |
| 18-6203 |
Larry Hayes v. Marvin Plumley, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment confession-evidence criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process false-confession miranda-rights miranda-waiver miranda-warning police-conduct police-interrogation voluntariness |
What constitutes a promise of leniency that destroys the voluntariness of a subsequent confession? |