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25-878 Todd Jeffrey Rogers v. Ohio Ohio 2026-01-22 Pending constitutional-right impartial-jury ineffective-assistance juror-bias rehabilitation voir-dire Whether a prospective juror who admitted bias can be rehabilitated through silence or group answers in response to group questions.
25A670 Marzet Farris, III v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-09 Application certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction procedural-default Whether a state prisoner's habeas petition can be procedurally defaulted when the prisoner was denied effective assistance of counsel during state pos…
25A649 Denzel Chandler v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2025-12-03 Application constitutional-right equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance habeas-corpus mental-health statute-of-limitations Whether a federal habeas petitioner's mental health conditions can constitute an extraordinary circumstance warranting equitable tolling of the statut…
25A596 Eric W. Singleton v. United States Armed Forces 2025-11-20 Application appellate-review constitutional-right court-martial criminal-procedure military-justice unanimous-verdict Whether a military accused has a constitutional right to a unanimous verdict in a court-martial proceeding
25A407 Michael Clayton Woodruff v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-08 Presumed Complete appellate-review collateral-crime-evidence constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-prejudice Whether an appellate court's de novo review of a trial court's Strickland prejudice determination can disregard the trial court's express factual find…
25-5760 Darval Ledet v. Keith Cooley, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right district-court habeas-corpus miller-el reasonable-jurists slack-standard Whether Ledet made a substantial showing of denial of a constitutional right under MillerEl v. Cockrell, such that reasonable jurists would find the d…
25A361 Michael Rene Garrett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-prisoner post-judgment-motion pro-se Whether a federal prisoner's pro se 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion challenging a conviction can be procedurally dismissed without a certificate of appealabil…
25A331 Jacob Matthew Medina v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-23 Presumed Complete brady-claim certificate-of-appealability collateral-attack-waiver constitutional-right habeas-corpus pro-se Whether a district court may enforce a collateral attack waiver that prevents a pro se habeas petitioner from presenting a potentially meritorious Bra…
25A275 Benjamin Jakes-Johnson v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-09 Presumed Complete appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255 Whether a district court's summary denial of a certificate of appealability without substantive analysis violates a criminal defendant's right to mean…
25-5249 Barry Gordon Croft, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-right entrapment-defense evidence-rules fifth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment Did the district court deny Petitioner's constitutional right to present a defense by arbitrarily removing Evidence Rule 801(d)(2)(D) from the availab…
25-5241 Clarence Fry v. Timothy Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-30 Denied IFP capital-trial constitutional-right federal-courts mitigation state-courts waiver When the undisputed factual record demonstrates the denial of the constitutional right to testify at a capital trial, do federal courts err in affordi…
25A80 Dimitry Kuperschmidt v. Jeff Angradi, Chief Probation Officer, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard Question not identified.
25-5125 Terrence Mack Booth v. Kevin McCoy, Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied IFP constitutional-right evidentiary-hearing fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default Did the Fourth Circuit err in deferring to the lower courts' findings that the petitioner was not entitled to an evidentiary hearing or relief on his …
25-5100 David Joseph Peterson v. Black Body Corporation, dba Antec, Incorporated, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right credibility-determination due-process jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the lower court erred in making credibility determinations in allowing Respondent's Motion for Summary Judgment thereby denying Petitioner his…
24A1273 Claudia C. Hoerig v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) permits federal habeas review of a state court conviction when the petitioner's clai…
24A1201 Pleadro J. Scott v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-06-05 Presumed Complete constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan post-conviction state-proceedings Whether Martinez v. Ryan creates a constitutional right for state prisoners to have counsel appointed in state post-conviction proceedings to effectiv…
24-7199 Alcenios Martinez, aka Aucensio Lopez v. Texas Texas 2025-05-14 Denied IFP constitutional-right counsel-appointment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-review trial-procedure Is a defendant constitutionally entitled to the appointment of counsel for the initial review of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim in a…
24A1038 Dominique Ashley Childs v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2025-04-28 Presumed Complete 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right district-court-review habeas-corpus procedural-grounds Whether a state prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability for a federal habeas petition when the district court denies relief on procedural g…
24-1032 Kay Ellison v. United States Third Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied Response Waived constitutional-right due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-test strickland-standard Is the loss of the opportunity to present an affirmative case due to Constitutionally-deficient representation during trial the loss of a 'proceeding'…
24-1023 Violet Love Ray v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-petition habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-court Whether a certificate of appealability should issue under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) where one or more judges in the state-court habeas proceedings has deter…
24-6843 Albert J. Townsend v. Jerry Spatny, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process Whether petitioner sufficiently demonstrated a substantial denial of a constitutional right to require the issuance of a certificate of appealability …
24-6853 Brett A. Sinkevitch v. Jamie Miller, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence ninth-circuit Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying a COA where a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right was demonstrated because reasonable jur…
24A858 Tiante Dion Scott v. Jason Schultz, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-03-07 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit post-conviction Whether a state court's denial of a certificate of appealability in a post-conviction proceeding violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right …
24-6663 Darrell Turner v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right fifth-amendment habeas-corpus sentencing-review statutory-interpretation vacatur Does a defendant meet the 'substantial denial of a constitutional right' standard under 28 USCS § 2253(c) when challenging a sentence based on a vacat…
24-6617 Cedric Dwayne Poore v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-02-21 Denied IFP constitutional-right counsel-appointment critical-stage dna-act hearsay-exception post-conviction-procedure Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruling on an excited utterance hearsay exception violates the constitutional right to counsel, and whet…
24-780 Anthony Blue v. New York New York 2025-01-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-right criminal-trial defendant-understanding right-to-counsel sentencing-range waiver Whether a valid waiver of the constitutional right to counsel at trial requires that the defendant understood, at the time of the waiver, the 'range o…
24A481 Ricky D. Ullman, Jr. v. Kentucky Kentucky 2024-11-14 Presumed Complete constitutional-right counsel due-process ineffective-assistance probation-revocation sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel applies to probation revocation hearings and what standard of r…
24A458 Corey Dequan Broome v. James R. Scheibner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-07 Presumed Complete constitutional-right constructive-denial ineffective-assistance legal-assistance pro-se sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a finding of constructive denial of counsel when an indigent defendant is denied meaningful legal assistance duri…
24-5872 Lauren Irene Gannon v. Texas Texas 2024-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-v-wingo constitutional-right criminal-appeal sixth-court-of-appeals speedy-trial texas-criminal-procedure Did the Sixth Court of Appeals of Texas misapply the Barker v. Wingo factors for determining whether a violation of a defendant's right to speedy tria…
24A402 Carl Ezekiel Woods v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-24 Presumed Complete constitutional-right extension-of-time federal-rules prisoner-litigation pro-se writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari should be granted when the litigant lacks profes…
24-5788 Nico Allen-Antonio Cogdill v. Texas Texas 2024-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-due-process trial-counsel Whether a prisoner has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provide the first occasion to raise a claim of ineffective assista…
24A326 James Franklin Snyder v. Glenn Armstrong, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-03 Presumed Complete appealability certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus procedural-ruling slack-standard Whether a certificate of appealability should be granted when a petitioner fails to demonstrate that jurists of reason would find the constitutional c…
24A270 David Lesh v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-09-17 Presumed Complete blanton-precedent constitutional-right criminal-prosecution jury-trial petty-offense sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a jury trial for petty offenses carrying six months or less imprisonment
24-5487 Michael Ravy v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-09-09 Denied IFP collateral-attack constitutional-right criminal-proceeding critical-stage due-process sixth-amendment Whether an evidentiary hearing following a collateral attack on a conviction constitutes a critical stage of a criminal proceeding requiring counsel u…
24A240 George L. Fields v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-05 Presumed Complete constitutional-right exhaustion-requirement ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-default strickland-standard Whether a state court's denial of a prisoner's ineffective assistance of counsel claims constitutes a violation of due process when the claims involve…
24A217 Tyron Felder v. United States Second Circuit 2024-08-28 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-appeal habeas-corpus post-conviction pro-se Whether a pro se criminal defendant can obtain a certificate of appealability after the district court and appellate court have denied relief on post-…
24A188 Troy A. Minter v. Alexander Falconi, et al. Nevada 2024-08-21 Presumed Complete closure-rules constitutional-right court-proceedings family-law judicial-discretion public-access Whether a state statute and local court rules that automatically close family court proceedings upon a party's request, without judicial discretion or…
24-5113 Steven Alexander Mantecon v. Florida Florida 2024-07-18 Denied IFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense
24-5048 Bernard Celestine v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process first-step-act resentencing sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether Congress incorporated a Constitutional right under the Due Process Clause to a plenary resentencing for an eligible Defendant under Section 40…
23A1079 John Thomas v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-06-03 Presumed Complete appeal-standard constitutional-right district-court federal-prisoner post-conviction section-2255 Whether a federal prisoner can successfully challenge a district court's denial of a post-conviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 through a certifica…
23-7567 Michael David Carruth v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied IFP alabama appellate-counsel constitutional-right criminal-procedure death-penalty exhaustion ineffective-assistance procedural-bar right-to-counsel state-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether a defendant-appellant has a right to counsel through the filing of a petition for a writ of certiorari
23-7530 Deandre Lenier Neal-Hill v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-right due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus meaningful-review merits-denial procedural-denial reasonable-jurists standing whether-certificate-of-appealability-denial-requires-explanation
23-7464 Michael Grady v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split conflict-of-interest constitutional-right constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice disqualification-of-counsel eighth-circuit Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision to uphold the disqualification of Petitioner's counsel of choice deprived him of his constitutional right to rep…
23-7397 Diamond L. Barnes v. Felicia Adkins, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure concealed-carry constitutional-right due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure procedural-rule second-amendment standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Question not identified
23-7409 Fernando Ramirez v. New York New York 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure demeanor-observation due-process fair-trial impartiality jury-selection right-to-counsel sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the Constitution requires that a defendant have a simultaneous, unobstructed view of a prospective juror's facial expression to observe their …
23-7088 Brian T. Hill v. Josie Gastelo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied IFP constitutional-right counsel due-process equal-protection jury-trial ninth-circuit parole parole-hearing quorum Does a two-judge panel constitute a quorum?
23-7039 Everett Dale Webb v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied IFP appeals appellate-counsel constitutional-right constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-exhaustion procedural-default Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that Petitioner's double-jeopardy claim was unexhausted or procedurally-defaulted
23A776 Cynthia L. Montoya v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete constitutional-right due-process oral-pronouncement remedial-approach sentencing-conditions supervised-release Whether a district court's failure to orally pronounce standard conditions of supervised release during sentencing requires a full resentencing or onl…
23-6800 Jorge Espinosa v. New York New York 2024-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP clear-cut-and-dispositive constitutional-right criminal-defense due-process error-and-prejudice ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error prejudice-analysis single-error Strickland strickland-standard Whether all ineffective assistance of counsel claims are assessed under the Strickland error-and-prejudice rule, or whether such claims based on a sin…
23A640 Frank Garcia v. Joseph Noeth Second Circuit 2024-01-10 Presumed Complete constitutional-right dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence harmless-error post-conviction Whether a state court's application of the harmless error doctrine to post-conviction DNA evidence violates a criminal defendant's constitutional righ…
23A588 Justin Willis v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-challenges strickland-standard Whether trial counsel's failure to object to a limitation on peremptory challenges constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under the Strickland …
23A554 Joshua James Duggar v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-15 Presumed Complete complete-defense constitutional-right criminal-defendant due-process eighth-circuit federal-criminal Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to present a complete defense was improperly restricted during trial proceedings
23A526 Jacob Smith v. Nethanjah Breitenbach, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-11 Presumed Complete constitutional-right criminal-procedure faretta-right preliminary-hearing self-representation sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to self-representation established in Faretta applies to preliminary hearings in state criminal proceedings
23A460 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-right court-appointed-counsel ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief unitary-review Whether a court-appointed criminal defense counsel violates a defendant's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel by forcing the defen…
23A461 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-right court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief unitary-review Whether a court-appointed criminal defense counsel can constitutionally deny an indigent defendant representation by forcing a choice between direct a…
23-5488 Dywane Tousant v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-denial ninth-circuit standard-of-review substantial-showing Whether the Ninth Circuit Erred in Denying Tousant's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
23A172 Bradley Wayne Berry v. Kirt Guerin, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-08-25 Presumed Complete collateral-review constitutional-right jury-verdict retroactive-application sixth-amendment unanimous-jury Whether the Sixth Amendment requires retroactive application of the Ramos v. Louisiana unanimous jury verdict rule to state criminal convictions on co…
23-5306 Kenneth Ray Holbert, Sr. v. Texas Texas 2023-08-09 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-right direct-appeal ineffective-assistance legal-burden state-court state-court-procedure strickland-standard strickland-test summary-reversal two-pronged Where a Strickland claim is appropriately raised on direct appeal, may a state court add to the two-pronged Strickland test a burden of showing the tr…
22-7713 Javier Giovanni Araujo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process federal-custody fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion section-2255-motion Whether the Fifth Circuit Erred in Denying Araujo's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
22-7623 Arquimedes Mendoza v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargaining reasonable-defendant reasonable-person Whether a defendant claiming ineffective assistance of counsel in the plea context must show that an objective 'reasonable person' or 'reasonable defe…
22-7579 Keith Grant Schneider v. Florida Florida 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP anders-brief anders-v-california appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-right counsel-appointment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the appellate court has a duty to conduct a full review of the record under Anders v. California when appointed counsel files an Anders brief …
22-7195 Jerry Lynn McGavitt v. Texas Texas 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment collateral-proceedings collateral-review constitutional-right due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel trial-counsel Whether a prisoner has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provide the first occasion to raise a claim of ineffective assista…
22-7036 Michael Lawrence Cassidy v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default statute-of-limitations If a habeas petitioner seeks to expand a previously granted COA on a petition that was denied for procedural reasons, is it necessary for him to make …
22-6985 Lisa Bergman v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witness prosecution-evidence right-to-counsel scientific-evidence scientific-expert Whether the Due Process Clause requires an impoverished criminal defendant to be appointed a scientific expert that is essential to confront scientifi…
22-418 Gene Deveraux v. Montana Montana 2022-11-04 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) automatic-reversal biased-juror constitutional-right for-cause-challenge jury-bias sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-discretion trial-procedure Whether a trial court commits structural error, requiring automatic reversal under the Sixth Amendment, when it seats a biased juror after erroneously…
22-5938 Carrington K. Joseph v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard procedural-review standard-of-review substantial-showing supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals decision to deny Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability conflicts with the standard articulated by this Court and its …
22-5862 Gregory Ramos v. United States Second Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-circuit sixth-amendment Whether the Second Circuit's determination that Petitioner was not denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel consistent with the Sixth A…
22-5619 Deonte Lewis v. Ohio Ohio 2022-09-20 Denied IFP competency-challenge constitutional-law constitutional-right due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-presumption performance-competency strickland strickland-standard trial-strategy Whether the presumption of reasonable trial strategy in Strickland creates an irrebuttable bar to performance competency challenges in ineffective ass…
22-5546 Jhon Albert Carrizales Pretell v. Florida Florida 2022-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense
22-5244 Charles M. Torrence v. Hazel Peterson, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process legal-representation mental-competency right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statewide-importance Whether a mental competency hearing is a critical stage of a criminal prosecution requiring representation by counsel under the Sixth Amendment
22-5172 Glen Torres v. Illinois Illinois 2022-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-counsel constitutional-right counsel-of-choice disqualification indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-representation Does the Sixth Amendment right to choose one's attorney apply to private and pro bono co-counsel?
21-1576 Timothy J. Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-21 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) acquittal circuit-split constitutional-right criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process reprosecution retrial trial-remedy venue Whether the proper remedy for the government's failure to prove venue is an acquittal barring reprosecution of the offense
21-8029 Hunter Adam Melnick v. Colorado State Board of Parole Tenth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-circuit caprice-and-arbitrariness constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-review parole parole-hearing statutory-guidelines Did the Petitioner present enough evidence to show the denying of a constitutional right
21-7875 Freya D. Pearson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-right direct-appeal due-process effective-counsel ineffective-assistance notice-of-deficiency notice-of-withdrawal notice-requirement prosecutorial-misconduct tax-deficiency Right To Counsel
21-7746 David Piper, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion aedpa aedpa-deadline certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-petition Whether the Court of Appeals denying Piper's 2255 motion to vacate, set aside, or correct his sentence for a Certificate of Appealability reasons were…
21-7661 Antron Adon Tucker v. Virginia Virginia 2022-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment barker-v-wingo constitutional-right due-process prosecutorial-delay sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-interpretation statutory-right virginia-constitution Whether Petitioner's Constitutional right to a speedy-trial has been violated
21-7540 In Re Rufus Paul Harris 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right fair-trial in-absentia pro-se-defendant pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment stand-by-counsel trial-court Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a trial court to permit existing stand-by counsel to assume representation for an 'in absentia' pro-se defendant?
21-7497 In Re Willie T. Murphy 2022-03-30 Denied IFP collateral-proceeding collateral-review constitutional-right due-process ineffective-assistance legal-counsel martinez-v-ryan prisoner-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does a prisoner have a right to effective assistance of counsel in a collateral proceeding which provides the first occasion to raise a claim of ineff…
21-7374 William A. Noguera v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-right counsel-representation cuyler-v-sullivan holloway-v-arkansas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment successive-representation Did the Ninth Circuit's opinion create a conflict with relevant decisions of this Court in concluding that Sullivan's standard applies only when a def…
21-7328 Glen S. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2022-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-canvassing probation-violation right-to-testify testimony-rights trial-court-duty waiver waiver-of-rights Should an affirmative duty be imposed on trial courts to canvass criminal defendants about their right to testify?
21-6634 Roy Cornell Johnson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP assistance-of-counsel constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-standard ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-stage Was the Petitioner afforded his Constitutional Right to accurate assistance of Counsel in his sentencing stage
21-6586 Mark James Martinez v. California California 2021-12-13 Denied IFP california-law civil-rights common-law constitutional-right deadly-force due-process fundamental-right governmental-interest heightened-scrutiny imminent-harm self-defense Whether California's rule that self-defense is not available when a person does not act out of fear alone impermissibly infringes on the right to self…
21-754 Travis Levi Parrott v. Murray Tatum, Warden Georgia 2021-11-22 Denied Response Waived appeal-denial certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-probable-cause constitutional-right effective-assistance-of-counsel extraneous-evidence georgia-supreme-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions procedural-default Whether the Georgia Supreme Court Erred in Denying Mr. Parrott's Application for Certificate of Probable Cause to Appeal the Denial of His Petition fo…
21-6134 Victor Rosales v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-proceedings collateral-review constitutional-right constitutional-rights direct-appeal douglas-v-california due-process evitts-v-lucey indigent-prisoner ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Does a Texas prisoner have a constitutional right to appointment of effective assistance of counsel in collateral proceedings
21-604 Stephen Kantos v. Leonard Major, et al. Michigan 2021-10-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-right court-of-appeals dismissal-with-prejudice due-process jury-trial legal-sanction sanctions standing vicencio-v-ramirez Did the court of appeals err in denying plaintiff's right to a jury trial
21-6059 Terry Jonathan Phillips v. Florida Florida 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense
21-5702 Ronald Webster v. Scott Dauffenbach, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights district-court habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling procedural-rulings Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in failing to issue a Certificate of Appealability
21-340 Orlando Carter v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2021-09-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment constitutional-right court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process groppi-precedent groppi-v-wisconsin impartial-jury venue venue-change Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals' categorical prohibition on changes of venue deprives defendants of the right to trial by an imparti…
21-5363 Christopher Cope v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP client-autonomy constitutional-right criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy Whether petitioner was denied his constitutional right to have effective assistance of counsel
21-5339 Joseph Miller v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-right due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant-evidence slack-v-mcdaniel Whether an attorney's failure to advise a client of the adverse ramifications of raising claims of ineffective assistance of counsel on direct appeal …
20-8324 Ricardo Valdez v. Walker, C.O., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-right due-process exceptional-circumstances final-judgment fourteenth-amendment klapprott-v-us liberty-interest procedural-mechanism relief speedy-trial Whether a state-created liberty interest in a spee Can Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) be used for the purpose of obtaining relief from the operation of a subsisting, final judgment, when exceptional circumstanc…
20-8129 Joseph Miller v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel slack-v-mcdaniel Whether an attorney's failure to advise a client of the adverse ramifications of raising certain claims on direct appeal constitutes a substantial den…
20-7949 Terry Kent Holcomb, II v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-right due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling federal-court habeas-corpus probative-evidence section-2254 state-court tenth-circuit Did the Tenth Circuit err in holding that the admitted evidence at trial established the same probative facts as the rejected evidence, without determ…
20-1371 Bart Posey, Sr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-counsel constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process duty-to-consult habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel Whether the duty to consult about an appeal requires the effective assistance of counsel
20-7367 Sherwood Laran Bostic v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court constitutional-right constitutional-rights counsel due-process evidentiary-hearing post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings right-to-counsel state-court-proceedings state-proceeding Did the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal err when it denied (COA) status on the point raised that the U.S. District Court erred when it sustained that pet…
20-7050 Mustafa Muhammad v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process indiana-courts ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the Indiana courts erred in denying the petitioner's request for post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel
20-929 Neil J. Gillespie v. Florida Florida 2021-01-11 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california forced-counsel habeas-corpus right-to-self-representation self-representation state-proceedings Can a writ of habeas corpus free a criminal defendant in state criminal proceedings from being restrained by forced appointment of counsel prohibited …
20-6634 In Re Karen Denise Chades 2020-12-15 Denied IFP collateral-proceedings constitutional-law constitutional-right due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity strickland-v-washington teague-v-lane trial-counsel whether a prisoner has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provide the first occasion to raise a claim of ineffective assista…
20-670 Jill Dillard, et al. v. Kathy O'Kelley, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split constitutional-right constitutional-rights digital-age informational-privacy precedent-analysis qualified-immunity sexual-abuse supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court's opinion in National Aeronautics and Space Administrator, et al. v. Nelson diverged from its previous holdings in Whalen v. Roe and…
20-5676 Leon Venegas, Jr. v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence faretta-inquiry ineffective-assistance jury-selection self-representation timely-request Does a state trial court deprive a criminal defendant of their constitutional right to self-representation?
20-5590 Manuel Chacon-Lara v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fast-track fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-trial-proceedings pre-trial-stage sentence-reduction sentencing Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining there was no 'Substantial Showing of Denial of a Constitutional Right' when Chacon-Lara argu…
20-5155 Charles E. Coughlin v. United States District of Columbia 2020-07-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 constitutional-right constitutional-rights district-court-discretion evidentiary-hearing expert-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-expert-witnesses strategic-decision unreasonable-determination Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
20-5130 Antonio Lozano Solis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts appeal-review civil-rights constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Was petitioner denied meaningful access to the court?
19-8571 Derrick Martin King v. Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Ohio 2020-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP budgetary-reasons constitutional-right constitutional-rights disability-benefits due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment state-assistance state-constitutions Does the U.S. Constitution recognize a constitutional right of safety?
19-8470 Raymond K. Walker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-right counsel-refusal court-order due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance judicial-review procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Refusal of Price Counsel to Comply with U.S.C. 5 Continual request and Court orders to file a brief with allegations of ineffectiveness conceded the c…
19-7939 Robert James Pope, Jr. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-03-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel forfeiture ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-prejudice pro-se pro-se-appeal right-to-appeal sixth-amendment trial-counsel Where trial counsel's ineffectiveness in failing to initiate an appeal results in a defendant's loss of appellate rights, can the constitutional right…
19-7503 Michael Bernard Bell v. Florida Florida 2020-01-31 Denied IFP buck-v-davis constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-trial ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-animus racial-bias retroactive-application strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does the decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), which rejected the improper injection of racial animus, bias, or prejudice into a criminal t…
19-7048 Bernardo Costa v. Missouri Missouri 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-right due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-evidence post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief state-criminal-procedure Whether a defendant has a federal constitutional right to effective assistance of first post-conviction counsel
19-6978 Isaac Naranjo v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurists-of-reason merits notice-of-charges post-conviction-review procedural-default Whether to make a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right a habeas applicant for a C.O.A. need not show that he will prevail on th…
19-6994 Christopher William Manikowski v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights debatable due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)
19-6845 David Steward v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-12-05 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment substantive-decision supreme-court-precedent Whether the newly established constitutional right announced in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct. 1500(2018), created a substantive decision that applies …
19-6738 William Ardas Sarringar v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-25 Denied IFP constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-competence procedural-default statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment When does the fundamental constitutional right to be tried by a court of competent jurisdiction cease to operate as a right, or is forfeited by a part…
19-6717 Jess Lee Green v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-proceedings trial trial-procedure trial-rights Is the right to due process of trial and/or during guilty plea process a fundamental constitutional right?
19-6535 Clarence Fry v. Ohio Ohio 2019-11-06 Denied IFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas self-representation sixth-amendment trial-counsel Is it unconstitutional for any Court to deny the Constitutional right to testify in one's own defense by placing the burden of making such desire know…
19-5700 Maximo Brito-Tejeda v. United States First Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP client-request constitutional-right due-process garza-v-idaho habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice notice-of-appeal procedural-default right-to-appeal sixth-amendment Whether Garza v. Idaho, 139 S. Ct. 738 (2019), applies to petitioner's claim that his defense counsel was ineffective by failing to file a notice of a…
19-5473 Samuel Benzant v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)
19-5264 Joseph Hyungseop Shim v. Michael Sexton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus standing Whether Petitioner has made a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right to authorize the granting of a certificate of appealability un…
19-5049 Michael Wilson v. Shawn Hatton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling sixth-amendment standing Whether jurists of reason would find it debatable whether the petition states a valid claim of a denial of a constitutional right, and whether jurists…
18A1208 Herron Kent Duckett v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-22 Presumed Complete batson-challenge constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-selection state-court-review Whether ineffective assistance of counsel claims involving failure to investigate and challenge jury selection require federal habeas relief when the …
18-9326 David Marshall v. Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling seventh-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit erred in failing to issue a Certificate of Appealability
18-1316 Beverley R. Nettles v. Cynthia C. Bullington, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment probable-cause protected-class retaliation retaliatory-claim Whether the existence of probable cause should be a factor to preclude a retaliatory-claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a person's prior exercise of the…
18-8317 Robert Gering v. Florida Florida 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-right due-process florida-constitution florida-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial liberty-interest trial-by-jury Whether the constitutional right to a trial by jury in a civil commitment case can be circumvented by a Florida rule of civil procedure nullifying the…
18-8155 Benjamin E. Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-right constitutional-rights courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus federal-prisoner habeas-corpus legal-scholars standing state-prisoner Does a state and/or federal prisoner have a constitutional right to raise a freestanding claim of actual innocence, in a federal habeas corpus proceed…
18-1098 Daniel E. Witte v. Jayden H. Huynh, nka Jayden Scacco Utah 2019-02-22 Denied 14th-amendment civil-litigation civil-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process faretta-v-california first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech pro-se-representation self-representation strict-scrutiny Is a pro se civil litigant's right of self-representation in state court protected as a fundamental federal constitutional right subject to the strict…
18-7947 Tyrone Garden v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure dispositive-motion effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pretrial-motion pretrial-motions sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Where trial counsel failed to update his research on a dispositive pretrial motion to dismiss before the defendant pleaded guilty, did Garden have the…
18-1014 In Re Rex E. Russo 2019-02-06 Denied 14th-amendment access-to-courts constitutional-right due-process equal-protection equal-rights florida-constitution judicial-administration judicial-records judicial-transparency mandamus public-records public-records-access public-records-access,judicial-transparency,equal-protection,due-process,mandamus,florida-constitution
18-7599 Jesus E. Moreno Ornelas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-right criminal-procedure defense-witness discovery discovery-order due-process exclusion non-disclosure sixth-amendment tactical-advantage willful-nondisclosure Whether the Compulsory Process Clause of the Sixth Amendment precludes exclusion of an undisclosed defense witness to enforce a discovery order if the…
18-7521 Freddie King, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-right counsel douglas-v-california habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-criminal-procedure martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-review procedural-default right-to-counsel state-procedure Whether a defendant in a Louisiana state criminal case has a constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel in a first post-conviction procee…
18-7120 Carlos Zuniga Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-d constitutional-right district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing gonzalez-v-crosby rule-60-motion rule-60(d) standing successive-claim Whether a Rule 60(d) motion challenging only the District Court's failure to hold an evidentiary hearing presents a successive claim within the meanin…
18-7131 Andreco Lott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard procedural-fairness standard-of-review standing Whether the lower courts applied the correct legal standard at the certificate of appealability stage?
18-6285 Mady Chan, aka Maddy, aka Mandy, aka Manny v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right constitutional-rights counsel-advice criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-precedent padilla-v-kentucky sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act Should the holding in Padilla v. Kentucky extend to the attorney's failure to advise a client that under Speedy Trial Act a violation cannot be waived…
18-6252 Hersie Wesson v. Ohio Ohio 2018-10-09 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-right death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-due-process state-courts threshold-showing When a capital defendant can make a substantial threshold showing of intellectual disability, are the state courts constitutionally required to provid…
18-6235 Michael Rocky Lane v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell standard-of-review Whether, under this Court's precedent in Miller-El v. Cockrell and Buck v. Davis, it is sufficient for obtaining a Certificate of Appealability under …
18-6078 Carlton B. Springer v. Ohio Ohio 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel outcome-determinative prejudice-prong sixth-amendment standing Do Ohio Courts err when they insist that the prejudice prong of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim requires proof that counsel's deficient per…
18-5244 Josef Michael Jensen v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-right counsel-assistance due-process habeas-corpus indigent-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigant right-to-counsel standing state-post-conviction state-procedural-framework Does an indigent pro se prisoner have a constitutional right to counsel and necessary financial assistance in an initial-review-collateral-proceeding?
18-5053 Andres A. Lopez-Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-right criminal-procedure defense-presentation due-process harmless-error judicial-review police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense structural-error Whether the denial of a defendant's constitutional right to present a defense should be considered structural error that is not subject to harmless er…