| 24-6514 |
Phillip Jason Garrett v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confession-voluntariness fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation-deception law-enforcement-tactics miranda-warnings |
Whether law enforcement quasi-legal representations about a truth verification machine's accuracy, combined with deceptive interrogation tactics and m… |
| 22-6900 |
Tony Deng v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-search coercion confession-voluntariness deception-tactics due-process habeas-corpus law-enforcement-interrogation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy right-to-counsel will-overborne-standard |
Whether the 'will overborne' standard or analysis should be used to evaluate the voluntariness of a confession obtained by trickery and deception |
| 22-5781 |
Joseph Isaiah Woodson, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights confession-voluntariness custody-determination due-process law-enforcement-procedure miranda miranda-rights race racial-discrimination voluntariness |
Whether a court can take a defendant's race into account to determine whether the defendant's custody, and thus his subsequent un-Mirandized confessio… |
| 21-6563 |
Hector Sanchez-Torres v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-12-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
coerced-confessions coercive-police-activity colorado-v-connelly confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement-threats motivating-cause police-misconduct probable-cause quid-pro-quo voluntariness |
Whether the appropriate interpretation of Colorado v. Connelly's 'essential link' between coercive police activity and a suspect's confession is a 'mo… |
| 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 |
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, rende… |
| 20-6708 |
Tony Decloues v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confession confession-voluntariness due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Whether the court of appeal should have granted COA where the district court employed a constitutionally impermissible standard in evaluating the volu… |
| 19-7310 |
Michael Charles Smith v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-confession medication-effects medication-impairment mental-capacity narcotic-medication physical-condition psychological-coercion voluntariness |
Whether a conviction resulting from a confession that was not freely and voluntarily given due to the accused's physical condition and impact of narco… |
| 18-6432 |
Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confession confession-voluntariness consent-to-search due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment interrogation interrogation-circumstances involuntary law-enforcement-tactics totality-of-the-circumstances young-adult |
Whether Due Process allows federal agents to obtain a confession and a consent to search from an immature, young adult that has been startled awake by… |
| 18-6258 |
Steven Lazar v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aedpa aedpa-standard confession confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-adjudication reliability standard-of-review third-circuit-review voluntariness |
Did not the Pennsylvania state courts and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals convolute the difference between a confession's voluntariness and its rel… |