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Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
25-5879	Michael Allen v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Warden	Ninth Circuit	2025-10-15	Dismissed	Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP	constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process liberty-interest penal-code racial-justice-act	(1) Lower Courts violated United States Constitution 14th Amendment Due Process Right To State Created Liberty Interest To newly enacted 2020 Californ…
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	1. Is a defendant constitutionally entitled to the appointment of counsel for the initial review of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim…
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	1. Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruling that an omitted claim implicating an excited utterance, an exception to the hearsay rule, is…
23-6491	Peyton John Wesley Hopson v. Deborah S. Hunt	Sixth Circuit	2024-01-18	Denied	IFP	certificate-of-good-cause certificate-of-good-faith circuit-court counsel-appointment district-court due-process jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit	Did the Sixth Circuit lose jurisdiction to proceed to review where the Sixth Circuit failed to comply with the Sixth Amendment requirement to appoint …
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	Where the initial review collateral proceeding is the first designated proceeding for a prisoner to raise a claim of infective assistance of counsel a…
22-7169	Scott Teevan v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2023-03-31	Denied	IFP	actual-innocence appointment-of-counsel circuit-split counsel-appointment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance perjury standard-of-review	Will, this court resolve a circuit split regarding the Standard of Review used for actual innocence? Should this court grant habeas litigants the abi…
22-6498	Joseph T. Shine-Johnson v. David W. Gray, Warden	Sixth Circuit	2023-01-09	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	agency counsel-appointment discretionary-review due-process federal-appellate-review habeas-corpus indigent-counsel sixth-amendment state-government	1. Whether due process extends to the State government opting to assign an indigent petitioner appointed counsel on discretionary Review and if due pr…
22-6113	Guillermo Garcia v. James Hill, Warden	Ninth Circuit	2022-11-21	Denied	IFP	appeal appeal-denial civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-appointment district-court due-process legal-error motion-to-appeal petition petition-review standing	1. WHETER THE LOowER cOvRT MADE A LECAL ERROR . 5 AFL WHEW DENYEW C HIS DPPEAL , WAE A OF? PETLZIOW SHARE CORE OF OF EGRATAOVE AYIETS DN COMMON WUT FH…
21-7844	James R. W. Mitchell v. Raymond Madden, Warden	Ninth Circuit	2022-05-11	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	counsel-appointment court-discretion criminal-defendant criminal-procedure faretta-right faretta-v-california mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation self-representation sixth-amendment	In Faretta v. California , 422 U.S. 806 (1975), this Court held that a criminal defendant has a Sixth Amendment right to represent himself at trial. I…
21-7798	Francisco Manuel Padilla v. California	California	2022-05-06	Denied	IFP	constitutional-rights counsel-appointment criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal right-to-counsel standard-of-review	1. DID THE COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION, AND THEREBY VIOLATE APPELLANT'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, WHEN IT DENIED HIS MOTION TO WITHDRAW HIS PLEAS? 2. DID…
21-7493	Thomas Carl Bruni v. Craig Apple, Sheriff, Albany County, New York	Second Circuit	2022-03-29	Denied	IFP	appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights counsel-appointment due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing	Question not identified.
21-6716	Fernando Romero v. Neil McDowell, Warden	Ninth Circuit	2021-12-23	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	abuse-of-discretion counsel-appointment district-court-discretion expert-opinion ineffective-assistance investigation pro-se right-to-counsel state-court-claim	Whether the district court abused its discretion by denying petitioner's motion to appoint counsel when petitioner presented a substantial claim of in…
21-5170	Patricia A. McColm v. California, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2021-07-22	Dismissed	IFP	appointment-of-counsel civil-rights counsel-appointment court-procedure disability-accommodation dismissal-with-prejudice due-process exceptional-circumstances judicial-discretion medically-verified-limitations ninth-circuit standing	1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in not finding an appropriate issue for appeal, where the magistrate judge failed to find that medically verified permane…
21-5067	Lonnie Ray Wiseman v. Patti Wachtendorf, Warden, et al.	Eighth Circuit	2021-07-09	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	circuit-court-procedure complex-legal-issues counsel-appointment custody-transfer federal-custody habeas-corpus legal-representation primary-jurisdiction writ-of-custody writ-of-habeas-corpus	(1) Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in refusing to order the government to produce a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum —as the Tenth Circuit did …
20-6700	Melissa Calabrese v. California, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2020-12-23	Denied	IFP	28-usc-1915 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights civil-rights 20-66" collateral-order-doctrine counsel-appointment district-court-order due-process in-forma-pauperis moral-rights property-development recognized-stature standing statutory-damages visual-artists-rights-act Whether the Due Process Clause permits imposing st	Whether the collateral order doctrine permits the immediate appeal of a district court order denying appointment of counsel under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(…
20-6686	Benjamon Ray Stewart v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2020-12-22	Denied	IFP	appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus standing supreme-court-review	Question not identified.
20-549	John Farrow, et al. v. Contra Costa County, California	Ninth Circuit	2020-10-26	Denied	Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)	bail circuit-split counsel-appointment criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equal-protection indigent-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment	Is a detainee's first appearance in court a "critical stage" of the proceedings, when bail is set and statutory liberty interests are adjudicated, as …
19-8067	Abdul Mohammed v. DuPage Legal Assistance Foundation, et al.	Seventh Circuit	2020-03-24	Denied	Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP	ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights counsel-appointment disability-rights due-process judicial-procedure medical-records mental-health reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act standing	1) whether a Plaintiff with physical and mental disabilities in an Americans with Disabilities Act action need to reveal all his/her medical and menta…
19-7136	Karen Lynn McClaflin v. United States	Tenth Circuit	2019-12-31	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	affidavit appeal appellate-procedure cja-appointment counsel-appointment criminal-justice-act criminal-justice-act-1964 criminal-procedure due-process fee-waiver in-forma-pauperis prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari	Question not identified.
19-5784	Michael Villecco v. Daniel W. Stark, et al.	Tenth Circuit	2019-09-03	Denied	IFP	appellate-procedure appointed-counsel appointment-of-counsel civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine counsel-appointment district-court-order due-process interlocutory-appeal standing	Whether the collateral order doctrine permits the immediate appeal of a district court order denying the appointment of counsel in civil cases.
19-5254	Jose Arroyo v. Illinois	Illinois	2019-07-19	Denied	IFP	corpus-delicti counsel-appointment criminal-procedure discovery dna-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sexual-conduct witness-statement	Did the State fail to prove the corpus delicti of charges alleging penetration and sexual conduct with Jose Arroyo's mouth where the only proof of tho…
18-9362	Timothy Stuart Ring v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al.	Ninth Circuit	2019-05-21	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability counsel-appointment federal-habeas-proceeding habeas-corpus motion-for-counsel motion-for-discovery ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-petition	Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in construing a pro se petitioner's appeal
18-7373	Warren Ray Patton v. Texas	Texas	2019-01-11	Denied	IFP	actual-innocence counsel-appointment dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest postconviction-proceedings postconviction-relief	Whether the State's substantive procedures for obtaining appointment of counsel and DNA testing in postconviction proceedings create a protected due p…
18-7275	Thomas Powers v. Jennifer Block, et al.	Seventh Circuit	2019-01-07	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-detainee civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-health-treatment retaliation standing treatment-program	Whether the Supreme Court should define the elements of the Constitution's adequate civil detainee treatment program
18-5419	Kevin Griffin v. Thomas DiNapoli	Second Circuit	2018-07-31	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	14th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal-dismissal appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis sixth-amendment standing	Was petitioner erroneously denied in forma pauperis, appointment of counsel, and appeal dismissal?