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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5336 Terrell McCoy v. Stephen Duncan, Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process evidence Question not identified.
25-5216 Ricardo L. Noble v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-07-29 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion counsel discretion drug-addiction ineffective-assistance legal-representation Did the court abuse discretion by not addressing ineffective assistance of counsel claims against attorney Barbato and by failing to find his drug add…
24-7477 Arnold Wayne McCartney v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2025-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP bifurcated-trial certificate-of-appealability counsel ineffective-assistance mercy-phase structural-error Did the Court of Appeals err in denying the Petitioner a certificate of appealability on his constitutional claim related to structural error and/or i…
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…
24-5402 Craig Foote v. United States Third Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP counsel criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel
23-7529 Reginald Andrew Paulk, Sr. v. L. Benson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights counsel due-process federal-law judicial-review probable-cause qualified-immunity racial-animus sovereign-immunity standard-of-review Did the District Court and the Eleventh Circuit use the incorrect standard to review the issues and thus incorrectly apply the law?
23-7208 Abiy Yifru v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights consular-discretion counsel due-process employment-contract immigration immigration-law property-interest takings takings-clause Whether the government's intentional interference with an alien's valid employment contract that results in the alien's indefinite homelessness is a t…
23-1092 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-04-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights counsel counsel-representation direct-appeal due-process hobsons-choice nunc-pro-tunc post-conviction post-conviction-relief unitary-review Does Pennsylvania's allowance of unitary review require a grant of relief nunc-pro-tunc to individuals whose counsel wrongly imposed a Hobson's-choice
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?
23-7047 Renaire Roshique Lewis, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP coconspirator-hearsay counsel criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment miranda-warnings right-to-counsel Whether the presence of counsel obviates the need for Miranda warnings
23-898 Ryan Thornton v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2024-02-21 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof counsel criminal-procedure defendant due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-harm sixth-amendment When a defendant is harmed from Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, what is the appropriate burden of proof needed to correct this harm?
23A409 Jeffery Wooden v. Town of Eatonville, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-07 Presumed Complete counsel deadline financial-hardship pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether a criminal defendant's financial hardship constitutes good cause for an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari
22-6935 William Ingram v. Illinois Illinois 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure legal-error standing trial-procedure Whether the trial court violated petitioners' right to choice of counsel and the appellate court's failure to review the trial court's ruling
22-6918 Ralph Hall v. Darwin LeClaire, et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied IFP 6th-amendment administrative-law agency-decision appellate-review civil-rights contempt counsel due-process incarceration judicial-review procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require the appointment of counsel for indigent de…
22-6906 Joseph Johnson v. Casey Campbell, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation counsel due-process habeas-corpus judicial-prejudice legal-standard lower-court-error petition-review standing summary-judgment Did the lower court err in granting Defendants' motion to dismiss?
22-6632 Michael A. Benanti v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-challenge counsel criminal-defendant-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure lower-court-decision standing whether the Court failed to obtain a hearing and telling cost of Counsel
21-7743 Matthew J. Kidder v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing sixth-amendment state-court-jurisdiction Is the State Court required to hear and make a determination on the Petitioner's U.S. Constitutional Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to effective…
21-7737 Justin L. Douglas v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights counsel criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence search-and-seizure standing trial-strategy Did the Supreme Court of Wisconsin err in ruling on the defendant's right to effective counsel?
21-7668 Russell Haley v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights conviction-challenge counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a defendant who pleads guilty has the right to make a Sixth Amendment claim of ineffective assistance of counsel due to counsel's deficient pe…
21-7234 Dylann Storm Roof v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied IFP 6th-amendment capital-defendant constitutional-rights counsel counsel-authority defense-strategy due-process mental-health-mitigation mental-illness mitigating-evidence trial-procedure When a competent capital defendant and his counsel disagree on whether to present mitigating evidence depicting him as mentally ill, who gets the fina…
21-345 Manpreet Singh v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response Waived collateral-attack counsel due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy restitution writ-of-error-coram-nobis Is there no avenue for a collateral attack on a restitution award that was the result of ineffective assistance of counsel?
20-8271 Jess Howard Kriehn v. Lancer Insurance Nevada 2021-06-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel due-process fee-waiver poll-tax pro-se-litigation state-counsel Should a litigant be denied access to civil courts over monetary restrictions?
20-1544 Felicia Ross v. Peregrine Health Services, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel counsel-request district-court-dismissal due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process standing Did the District Courts err by not allowing Due Process?
20-7431 Anthony O. Wint, Jr., By and Through His Next Friend, Oral Wint v. Ric Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights counsel due-process federal-court-procedure incompetent incompetent-litigant legal-standing parental-representation pro-se-representation standing Where a federal case is brought by a non-lawyer parent on behalf of an incompetent who cannot represent him or herself pro se, should no issues concer…
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…
20-7196 Kristy Renee Rasnick v. Dickenson County Department of Social Services Virginia 2021-02-23 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protection counsel counsel-representation due-process parental-rights state-court state-court-appeal statutory-interpretation Whether Petitioner was deprived her constitutional right affording her due process
20-6380 China Hester v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari counsel criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-proceeding remand reversal-and-remand right-to-counsel standards-of-review Whether Ms. Hester may have received ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
20-5804 Bobby Burghart v. Sarah Beyer Fourth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights counsel discovery district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-standard reversible-error standing Did the District Court err, and did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals compound the errors, when petitioner's request for counsel was denied, because…
20-12 Sheri Speer v. Seaport Capital Partners, LLC Connecticut 2020-07-13 Denied constitutional-rights counsel court-access due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearing injunctive-relief liberty-interest property-interest Did the Trial Court improperly deny the Petitioner due process of law?
19-8078 Brandon L. Banks v. Illinois Illinois 2020-03-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-safeguards counsel due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment impartial-jury sixth-amendment Whether petitioner was denied due process of law, a fair trial by an impartial jury, and equal protection of the laws
19-7925 Ronald O'Rourke v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppressed-evidence trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court abused discretion in denying petitioner's request for counsel
19-6914 Levi Rockefeller v. California California 2019-12-11 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights collusion conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-ethics sixth-amendment trial-procedure Did the court err by failing to inquire, explore, and/or avoid potential conflicts of interest by creating a scenario equivalent to collusion or couns…
19-6637 Gregory Cooper v. Katy Poole, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-counsel judicial-discretion right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction takings Whether the 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides for due process when the State compels a defendant to testify against himself by threat of…
19-5366 Robert Curry v. Illinois Illinois 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogatory patent post-conviction standing Whether petitioner was denied reasonable and/or adequate opportunity of assisting counsel during appeal process
19-5360 Curtis Nairn v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights counsel counsel-assistance due-process exhaustion-of-remedies florida-corrections florida-department-of-corrections futility-doctrine habeas-corpus prisoner-rights spencer-sanction spencer-sanctions standing state-court-exhaustion state-courts Whether it would be futile for a prisoner to return to State Courts to have unexhausted claims exhausted with the assistance of counsel Under Florida …
18-8676 Ronald Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Whether the district court violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights by failing to return him to his original position absent the ineffective assis…
18-8396 Mary Jo Weidrick v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States District of Columbia 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-right-to-counsel 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-right-to-counsel adversarial-process civil-rights constitutional-violation counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment investigation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing terrorism terrorism-investigation Whether Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to counsel are violated
18-7682 Stacie Demers v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review circuit-court counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-claim sixth-amendment Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals should have decided Ms. Demers's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
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…
18-794 Ronald R. Shea v. Winnebago County Sheriff's Office, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment bail civil-rights constitutional-amendments counsel due-process fundamental-rights petition-clause prisoner-rights telephone-access Whether a prisoner's right to a telephone call is a necessary inference of the fundamental rights of bail and counsel under the Sixth, Eighth and Four…
18-6869 Mario Andrette McNeill v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-11-29 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-defendant-instructions capital-punishment counsel counsel-decision-making cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mitigating-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment allow a state to give binding force …
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…
18-5326 Mario Howard Lloyd v. Scott Moats, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights counsel counsel-recruitment district-court-discretion due-process eighth-amendment fundamental-error intercircuit-conflict jury-trial medical-care standing summary-judgment Whether the District Court's 'persuasive authority' test order this case to be trial by a jury trial on February 27, 2017, and than less then two mont…