| 24A545 |
Bartholomew Granger v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-04 |
Presumed Complete |
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capital-murder constitutional-deficiency critical-stage ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires reversal of a capital murder conviction where trial counsel allegedly pr… |
| 23-7498 |
Lawrence Byron Watson v. Pamerson Ifill, Commissioner of Probation, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-prevention-order civil-rights constitutional-deficiency custody due-process in-custody legal-standing matthews-v-eldridge parental-rights |
Whether an individual who is a defendant of an abuse prevention order and whose parental rights are restricted or terminated is 'in custody' |
| 22-7468 |
Donatus O. Mbanefo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection minority-rights selective-prosecution sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Whether the lower courts erred by lending themselves to a prosecution that intentionally selected minority physicians for prosecution in violation of … |
| 22-487 |
Douglas Tyrone Armstrong v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ABA-standards capital-murder constitutional-deficiency criminal-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prevailing-norms professional-competence |
Whether an incarcerated inmate's trial counsel provided constitutionally deficient representation |
| 19-7407 |
Paula Bennett v. Shawn Brewer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
closeness-of-case constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns cumulative-errors cumulative-prejudice ineffective-assistance prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-likelihood sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard strickland-v-washington sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-counsel |
Whether a court may conduct a prejudice analysis that focuses solely on the sufficiency of the evidence presented, or must instead consider the closen… |
| 19-6959 |
Jasmine F. v. Department of Child Safety, et al. |
Arizona |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-deficiency court-appointed-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether the State of Arizona failed to terminate mother's parental rights by at least clear & convincing evidence as required by the due process claus… |
| 18-8624 |
Bruce Elliott Miller v. Alabama |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aedpa-procedural-bar constitutional-deficiency due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-test |
Whether trial counsel's failure to make a timely objection or file a pretrial motion to dismiss a fatally flawed indictment can validate a 'constituti… |
| 18-7210 |
Gordon Prailow v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
automatic-reversal collateral-review constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions jury-verdict reasonable-doubt retroactivity sixth-amendment watershed-rule |
Whether state collateral review courts must retroactively apply the watershed/bedrock procedural rule of automatic reversal to jury findings that are … |
| 18-185 |
Connecticut v. Michael Skakel |
Connecticut |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-deficiency due-process ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation overall-performance performance-evaluation single-error sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether a court must evaluate counsel's overall performance in determining whether a single error is sufficiently egregious to render counsel's repres… |
| 18-188 |
Ivy T. Tucker v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-deficiency constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum offense-of-conviction out-of-circuit-precedent procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-counsel |
Whether trial counsel's failure to make an argument that courts of appeals outside the circuit have accepted amounts to constitutionally deficient ass… |