counsel-abandonment
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5933 | Willie Dennis v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure counsel-abandonment court-of-appeals-inaction deadline-extension pro-se-petition record-access | 1. Whether the combined effect of (a) appointed appellate counsel's abandonment and refusal to provide the case file and (b) the court of appeals' fa… |
| 23-7641 | Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-05 | Denied | IFP | counsel-abandonment federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-defect rule-60b | Whether there is any remedy under Rule 60(b) for functional abandonment by counsel in a federal habeas proceeding, or whether there is no remedy for e… |
| 23-7450 | Jihad A. Spann v. Missouri | Missouri | 2024-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights counsel-abandonment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-interest post-conviction-proceeding post-conviction-relief rule-29.15 state-court state-court-procedure state-law | May the due process clause require the State Courts to provide a full and fair post-conviction proceeding, if authorized by state law and as such cons… |
| 22-7300 | James D. Sullivan v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability counsel-abandonment counsel-misconduct federal-bench habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct miscarriage-of-justice plea-withdrawal pro-se pro-se-representation standing | Will this Court remand with a certificate of appealability in a case where a district court perverted the habeas-corpus-process, counsel-misconduct, f… |
| 21-5375 | Douglas Coley v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-08-13 | Denied | IFP | collateral-review counsel-abandonment death-penalty death-row-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review right-to-counsel trial-court-duty trial-court-management | Can a state provide a rational basis to deny a death row prisoner his right to the state's first collateral, conviction, review process, where the pri… |
| 18-6326 | Terry Alfred Coxe v. Daniel White, Superintendent, Washington State Corrections Center | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-rights counsel-abandonment due-process equitable-tolling fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations | Whether the lower courts' rulings directly conflict with the holdings in (1) McQuiggin v. Perkins; (2) Cronic v. United States, and (3) Cuyler v. Sull… |