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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 Court abuse discretion by Not agreeing With Fact that, at Juvenile Lifer appellant's Resentencing iN 2ol8, pesenten cing gudge Yecanted the only F…
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 …
24A481 Ricky D. Ullman, Jr. v. Kentucky Kentucky 2024-11-14 Presumed Complete constitutional-right counsel due-process ineffective-assistance probation-revocation sixth-amendment Question not identified.
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 1. Was Petitioner denied the 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 under Tolau v. Cott…
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 A consular officer issued a visa to an alien, without executing the application under oath as required by statute. Nevertheless, the officer exacted h…
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 1) Do a t2): ; judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit constitutes a quorum within the meaning of 28 United States Code Section…
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 L. Whether the presence of counsel obviates the need for Miranda warnings; and I. Whether Bourjaily v. United States permits the affirmance of the ad…
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 Did the Wisconsin Supreme Court err by Denying-without-response (App.23) RYAN's 2023AP769 [5/12/2023 Petition For Review] and issuing no response (App…
23A409 Jeffery Wooden v. Town of Eatonville, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied counsel deadline financial-hardship pro-se supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
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 Did the trial Court violate Petitioner's Right to Choice of Counsel and the Appellate Court Stipulate to re om? Did the Texas Appellate Court Violate…
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 CIRCUIT COURT FAILED TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE WRONGFUL CONVICTION AND SENTENCE REVIEW OF PRO-SE PLEADINGS WERE SELECTIVE RATHER THAN THE REQUIR…
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 1. Did the lower court err in granting Correctional Defendants' motion to dismiss? 2. Did the lower court err in granting Defendant Wexford's motion …
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 /. VA£. Csh.<jlA: fcu.(-t£2- ~i~e o^A'A A fK^ecots-k j /i^S? IaJcuuUs cP CeuA isxL 2. 0jk<l4{\fo, iCc£ (3>cmJt fcJ-li £} 'k> MAIC&, 1\a1 /MCjj.u.txj …
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 ihe. 5^cde Coor-t re^c,;fed ie Keo^ c*/\ci rwxYe. o. cleAe.fi*' no. S'V+k. cxvdi ft)odee.r\Ui p£jM fs effective G S3'S^nce c? Cocosel cIcm S Tflue …
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 1. Supreme Court of Wisconsin error in not ruling on my right to have counsel 2. Supreme Court of Wisconsin error in ruling on my attorney ineffectiv…
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 Does a guilty plea waive a defendant's right to make a Sixth Amendment claim of ineffective assistance of counsel where counsel's failure to investiga…
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 1. When a competent capital defendant and his counsel disagree on whether to present mitigating evidence depicting him as mentally ill, who gets the f…
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 These following questions of Certiorari mostly contain three main unconstitutional scenarios, of which, require judicial clarity, and httpefully, vir…
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? Did the District Courts err by not considering the rights of a protected citizen in the rule…
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 her self pro se, should no issues conce…
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) S B B P B B B Y PS WHEN IT SUSTAINED THAT PETITIONER HAS NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO COUN…
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 1) Whether Petitioner was deprived her constitutional right affording her due process when the Virginia Supreme Court and the Virginia Court of Appeal…
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 such that certiorari should be granted, and this matter reversed and remanded.
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 Circcit Court of Appeals Compound the error, 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 The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments protect Americans from being having their liberty and property interests stripped from them unless they are afford…
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 Was Petitioner denied Due Process of law for trial by an impartial jury and for equal protection of the law when the Appellate Court applied an unreas…
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 allowing a Rage, Hansa h tlie Oe 2 a, MLN ae AoUurs. is a samt ot OSs stylte of Coupse/ Sok ALling to GQ …
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 Question not identified.
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 Can a defendant be stoped from Confronting his accusers and witnesses with o ther testimony when the sth Amendment to the li.s. Const. Provides for Du…
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 Question not identified.
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 "attached" or otherwise violated during this "adversarial" 29+ years of terrorism…
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 state criminal case who is prohibited by state law from raising on direct appeal any claim of ineffective assistance of trial…
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 MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT'S DECISIONS AND JUDGMENTS ARE FINAL UNDER 28 U.S.C. SECTION 1257. WHETHER CONSTRUCTIVE AMENDMENT OF THE INDICTM…
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 (1) Whether the District Court's "persuasive authority" test order this case to be trial by a jury trial on February 211 2017, and than less then rwo …