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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6814 Tony Minh Le v. United States Fourth Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending IFP continuance district-court fourth-circuit judicial-review procedural-fairness speedy-trial-act Whether the district court and Fourth Circuit made a fair and lawful Speedy Trial Act ruling denying relief, without properly assessing the timing of …
25A644 Markhel D'John Harris-Franklin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-02 Application circuit-split continuance criminal-procedure ends-of-justice reasonableness speedy-trial-act Whether open-ended ends-of-justice continuances under the Speedy Trial Act are permissible when district courts find them reasonable
25-6259 Sam Boyd v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuance criminal-procedure judicial-discretion speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-court-procedure Whether a trial court must make specific factual findings beyond restating statutory language when granting an 'ends of justice' continuance under 18 …
25A273 Thomas Bryon Cattell v. Victoria Deeks, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-09 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion autism continuance due-process mental-disability pro-se Whether a court abuses its discretion in denying a continuance or mistrial for a mentally disabled civil litigant without showing actual prejudice at …
24-6915 George Valentino Sloan v. Washington Washington 2025-04-02 Denied IFP constitutional-rights continuance due-process judicial-discretion speedy-trial trial-court Did the Trial Court violate the Petitioner's Constitutional right to a speedy trial by denying continuance motions over ten months before trial?
23-7485 William Glenn Chunn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP assistance-of-counsel constitutional-violations continuance continuance-denial discovery discovery-review due-process fair-trial right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion Whether a defendant's right to assistance of counsel and due process are upheld when he has no right to review discovery or confer with his attorney, …
23-5702 Ian A. Milaski v. Florida Florida 2023-10-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arbitrary-and-unreasonable continuance counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court Whether the trial court's arbitrary and unreasonable denial of a continuance violated the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights
23-349 Donald Esslinger, et ux. v. Shawn Bass, et ux. Idaho 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment citizen-citation civil-procedure civil-rights continuance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment parallel-proceedings self-incrimination summary-judgment Whether the 5th Amendment right to remain silent prevails over procedural considerations in a civil case when criminal charges are pending in a parall…
23-5116 Jeremy David Adams v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP bond-motion continuance continuance-exclusion party-presentation-principle plain-error-review pretrial-detention pretrial-release sixth-circuit-rule speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Question not identified
22-6152 Carlos Edward Kennedy v. Carla Jones Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure continuance discretion forensic-evidence pro-se Did the trial court abuse its discretion in denying Kenner's motion for continuance when Kenner, while acting pro se, requested only an additional 3 m…
21-949 George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. v. Samuel Randolph Third Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied continuance continuances counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure forfeiture right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court waiver Whether a criminal defendant can forfeit or waive his or her Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice
20-7812 Clive Patrick Bowen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuance criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment Does a district court violate the Sixth Amendment or otherwise err when it grants a defendant's motion to represent himself shortly before trial but, …
20-7509 Erik Santiago Leon Del Angel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuance criminal-procedure defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process immigration immigration-proceedings judicial-error jurisdiction procedural-fairness sentencing sentencing-continuance Did the District Court prejudicially err by denying petitioner's request to continue his sentencing so he may first appear in Immigration Court?
20-7029 Odell Kinard, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights continuance multi-defendant severance sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-rights trial-delay Does Petitioner sacrifice his Sixth Amendment and statutory rights to a speedy trial by the District Court's repeated denial of his motion to sever hi…
20-7012 Stanley Dan Reczko, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-court continuance district-court judicial-discretion legal-doctrine party-presentation sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-challenge united-states-v-sineneng-smith Does the Ninth Circuit's rule permitting it to decline to address a defendant's Sixth Amendment challenge (arising from the district court's denial of…
20-6294 Richard L. Sealey v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied IFP capital-trial continuance continuance-motion due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence penalty-phase prejudice trial-court-discretion Whether the denial of a defense motion for a continuance during the penalty phase of a capital trial violates due process
20-5325 Maurice Woodard v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law continuance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the Shane Cooknell conviction violates the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel when the court denied his request for a co…
19-7992 Glenn Sinatra Davis v. Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, as Trustee for Specialty Underwriting and Residential Finance Trust, Series 2005-BC3 Alabama 2020-03-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights continuance court-motion discovery due-process equal-protection fair-trial fairness judicial-fairness justice legal-procedure notice notice-of-motions notice-of-rights Whether a Citizen of the United States have a right to 'Due Process' under the law
19-1020 Florence Bikundi v. United States District of Columbia 2020-02-14 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof continuance district-court-discretion due-process ends-of-justice ends-of-justice-continuance forfeiture fraud fraud-conduct restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines speedy-trial-act Whether a district court granting an ends-of-justice continuance under the Speedy Trial Act violates the requirement to set forth reasons
19-7416 James P. Griffin v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion calculation-error civil-procedure continuance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment financial-penalties forfeiture medical-hardship medical-issues restitution restitution-calculation sentencing sixth-amendment trial-continuance trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether the amount of restitution and forfeiture w Whether the trial court abused its discretion in denying a continuance due to medical problems
19-7268 Acharayya Rupak v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP continuance criminal-procedure due-process plain-error-review plea-bargaining retained-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's request to substitute retained counsel
19-7085 Ratha Oeur v. County of Los Angeles, California California 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion child-support continuance de-novo de-novo-review due-process family-law income-expense-declaration standard-of-review unexpected-event Does this Court of Appeal's Opinion conflict with the Court of Appeal's decision in In re the Marriage of Tydlaska?
19-7026 James W. Guy v. Ohio Ohio 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material civil-procedure civil-rights continuance discovery-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial first-amendment free-speech self-representation self-representing-defendant standing untimely-discovery Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
19-587 Jimmie Eugene White, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied continuance criminal-procedure district-court-discretion ends-of-justice on-the-record-findings speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation stipulation time-exclusion Whether a district court may exclude time pursuant to a stipulation between the parties without making on-the-record findings under the Speedy Trial A…
19-556 Lucas Allen Newnam v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-10-29 Denied bad-faith-inquiry bright-line-test continuance continuance-request counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-delay Should this Court establish a bright-line test for determining whether a criminal defendant's right to retained counsel of his choice is violated, whe…
19-5010 Andrew Nelson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c) appellate-review continuance criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-52a federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-error prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing substantial-rights trial-continuance vagueness-doctrine Where the district court erroneously premises its denial of a meritorious, unopposed motion for continuance of the trial on a mistaken belief that the…
18-8572 Christopher Jones v. Florida Florida 2019-03-27 Denied IFP community-control-violations community-controller constitutional-interpretation continuance counsel-of-choice due-process judicial-review legal-procedure right-to-counsel speedy-trial statutory-analysis unconstitutional-conditions unrepresented-defendant violation-proceedings Whether there is a minimum set of guidelines to be considered by a Court, in violation proceedings, before denying an unrepresented Community controll…
18-6362 Edwin Darrell Lett v. Mississippi Mississippi 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights continuance counsel criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel sixth-amendment state-procedure trial Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial was violated when the Mississippi Supreme Court failed to properly review the trial cou…