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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-858 | Charlotte Chemuti v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2026-01-20 | Pending | ancillary-proceeding criminal-defendant evidence-production law-enforcement-videos pennsylvania-v-ritchie trial-procedure | 1) WHETHER THE A STATE MAY PROHIBIT A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT FROM COMPELLING THE PRODUCTION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT VIDEOS TO THE DEFENDANT'S TRIAL WHERE THE S… | |
| 25-6530 | Terry Lee Gammage v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | as-applied-challenge constitutional-law criminal-defendant gun-rights second-amendment statutory-interpretation | (1) Whether after New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) and United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024), a criminal d… |
| 25-642 | Lorenzo Garod Pierre v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-03 | Denied | Response Waived | as-applied-challenge constitutional-law criminal-defendant firearms-regulation second-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1). |
| 25-6268 | Arnold Conyers v. New York | New York | 2025-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant felon-disarmament legal-precedent second-amendment state-split | I. Whether, and under what circumstances, a state can invoke state standing law to bar a criminal defendant from invoking the Second Amendment as a de… |
| 25-6109 | Dion Marsh v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defendant due-process fifth-amendment remorselessness self-incrimination sentencing | Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits a sentencing court from inferring remorselessness from a criminal defendant's silence. |
| 25A369 | Israel Alberto Rivas-Gomez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-defendant en-banc ninth-circuit | Whether the Ninth Circuit's denial of en banc review improperly limited a criminal defendant's constitutional right to appellate review | |
| 25A338 | Earl Howard v. New York | New York | 2025-09-24 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process leave-to-appeal state-court | Whether a state appellate court's summary denial of leave to appeal without a substantive opinion violates a criminal defendant's due process rights t… | |
| 25-5528 | Arthur L. Vitasek v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arguable-claims criminal-defendant habeas-relief judicial-jurisdiction magistrate-determination ninth-circuit-procedure | Whether the Magistrate, District Court Judge, and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lost jurisdiction after determining an arguable issue existed without… |
| 25-5385 | Eric Deon Rollins v. Texas | Texas | 2025-08-15 | Denied | IFP | affirmative-defense constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process jury-instruction state-trial-court | Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of constitutional rights when a state trial court refuses to instruct the jury on the affirmative defenses of… |
| 25-101 | J. M. F. v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction | Connecticut | 2025-07-25 | Denied | Response Waived | conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant effective-counsel legal-malpractice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether the threat of a civil action by a criminal defendant against his attorney is a per se denial of the right to effective counsel guaranteed by t… |
| 24-7185 | Wayne Johnson v. First District Appellate Project, et al. | California | 2025-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-fiduciary-duty confidential-communications criminal-defendant fourteenth-amendment public-defender sixth-amendment | Whether an attorney appointed at public expense has a fiduciary duty to a criminal defendant to not disclose confidential communications in an environ… |
| 24-1152 | Gregory Garcia v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2025-05-09 | Denied | Response Waived | affidavit criminal-defendant franks-hearing government-agent legal-defenses search-warrant | Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to a Franks hearing when he presents specific and concrete evidence that the government agent who presented t… |
| 24-7030 | Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Texas | Texas | 2025-04-18 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-law trial-counsel | Whether a criminal defendant has a right to effective habeas counsel to assert a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel where, by operation … |
| 24-6630 | Amado De La Mora Cardenas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-waiver criminal-defendant district-court legal-error plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | Whether a criminal defendant may prospectively waive the right to appeal the District Court's legal errors in applying the Use of a Minor Specific Off… |
| 24-6390 | William Logsdon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process criminal-defendant fifth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Whether a district court must conduct a particularized inquiry into a witness's Fifth Amendment privilege before accepting a blanket assertion of self… |
| 24-6363 | Edwin Cortorreal v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defendant extradition-decree international-law judicial-promise prudential-standing rule-of-specialty | Whether a criminal defendant has prudential standing to enforce an extradition decree that is issued for his own benefit where the government concedes… |
| 24A705 | Angelo Graham v. Illinois | Illinois | 2025-01-17 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-defendant due-process legal-resources pro-se supreme-court-access | Whether a pro se criminal defendant's inability to obtain legal assistance or adequate legal resources constitutes a violation of due process or the r… | |
| 24A695 | Earl Casperson Meggison v. Florida | Florida | 2025-01-15 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process florida-law post-conviction | Whether a state appellate court's denial of post-conviction relief violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right to due process | |
| 24A570 | Chanel Wiley v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-11 | Presumed Complete | ankle-monitor constitutional-rights criminal-defendant fair-trial jury-perception presumption-of-innocence | Whether the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the use of a visibly and audibly beeping electronic ankle monitor during a criminal trial… | |
| 24A561 | Lola Shalewa Barbara Kasali v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-09 | Presumed Complete | criminal-defendant discretionary-appeal extension-of-time in-forma-pauperis incarceration pro-se | Whether a pro se criminal defendant's motion for extension of time to file a discretionary appeal should be granted when the defendant lacks counsel a… | |
| 24-6003 | Sydni Frazier v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defendant first-degree-murder jury-trial predicate-offense sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | Whether a criminal defendant's right to a jury trial under the Sixth Amendment is violated when the trial judge does not instruct the jury that it mus… |
| 24-5984 | Jason Keith-David Manners v. Bryan Morrison, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-challenge court-relief criminal-defendant organizational-rights procedural-grounds | Whether a criminal defendant's organizational rights can be challenged when a court denies relief based on procedural grounds |
| 24-5437 | Carlos Demond Robinson v. Sean Janson, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant declaratory-relief judicial-review statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution | Whether a criminal defendant can seek judicial review of a criminal statute's constitutionality through declaratory relief without challenging a speci… |
| 24A229 | Nadege Auguste v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-03 | Presumed Complete | bail-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process liberty-interest pretrial-detention | Whether pretrial detention without a bail hearing violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right to due process and liberty interest | |
| 24-201 | Daniel S. Fitzgerald v. United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-22 | Denied | Response Waived | automatic-stay civil-claims civil-procedure criminal-defendant statutory-interpretation trafficking-victims-protection-act | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1595(b)(1) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act requires an automatic stay of all civil claims pending a crim… |
| 24-5113 | Steven Alexander Mantecon v. Florida | Florida | 2024-07-18 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense |
| 24-37 | Lorenzo Garod Pierre v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-16 | GVR | 2nd-amendment as-applied-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-laws federal-law second-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Whether a criminal defendant may raise an as-applied Second Amendment challenge to 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) | |
| 23A1096 | In Re Eric Drake | Texas | 2024-06-07 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review criminal-defendant emergency-relief mandamus procedural-stay state-court | Whether a state criminal defendant can seek emergency relief from the U.S. Supreme Court to stay state court proceedings before exhausting state appel… | |
| 23-6975 | D'Amantae Graham v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-03-13 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment sovereign-citizen trial-court | Can a trial court deny a criminal defendant the right to self-representation solely because he was designated a sovereign citizen? |
| 23A812 | Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. | California | 2024-03-04 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process post-conviction summary-denial | Whether a state appellate court's summary denial of a post-conviction relief application without a reasoned opinion violates a criminal defendant's du… | |
| 23-6616 | Fan Yang v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complete-defense criminal-defendant criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion federal-rules-of-evidence jury-trial right-to-present-defense rule-403 | Whether a court may exclude evidence under Fed. R. Evid. 403, where doing so would preclude a criminal defendant from presenting a complete defense to… |
| 23A584 | Tony Love v. Ron Neal, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2023-12-27 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant en-banc petition-for-rehearing seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights are violated when a federal appellate court denies a petition for rehearing en banc in a case inv… | |
| 23A554 | Joshua James Duggar v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-12-15 | Presumed Complete | complete-defense constitutional-right criminal-defendant due-process eighth-circuit federal-criminal | Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to present a complete defense was improperly restricted during trial proceedings | |
| 23-6086 | Luis Alberto Marcano-Godoy v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-defendant criminal-procedure government-defense opening-brief procedural-rule reply-brief | Whether a criminal defendant must raise the issue of an appeal waiver in his opening brief or whether it falls upon the government to raise the waiver… |
| 23A435 | Ilana Bangiyeva v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Presumed Complete | alter-ego circuit-split criminal-defendant nominee-interest property-forfeiture state-law-implications | Whether a third-party nominee of a criminal defendant can challenge property forfeiture based on the defendant's criminal conduct when the third party… | |
| 23-5925 | Isaac Johnson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 21-u.s.c.-§-851(c)(2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review predicate-offense prior-conviction rule-52(b) rule-52b sentencing-enhancement waiver | Does a criminal defendant waive Rule 52(b) plain error review pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 851(c)(2) by failing to argue before the trial court that a cons… |
| 23-5455 | John A. Crane v. Florida | Florida | 2023-08-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-charge fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5225 | Leonard Sapp v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure district-court due-process fair-trial government-misconduct imminent-danger | Was Leonard Sapp afforded a fair trial when the Government shifted the burden of proof to the Defense during trial? |
| 23-81 | Douglas D. McCall v. Florida | Florida | 2023-07-27 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights extrinsic-evidence fourteenth-amendment minor-victim prior-inconsistent-statement sixth-amendment | Whether a state evidentiary rule prohibiting the introduction of extrinsic evidence of an alleged minor victim's prior inconsistent statement must yie… |
| 22-7870 | Jayson Neil Sparks v. Texas | Texas | 2023-06-26 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts standing state-court-ruling statutory-interpretation | Whether the statutory duty to receive a petition for writ of certiorari precludes a court from dismissing such a petition for procedural defects |
| 22-7719 | Joseph J. Buttercase v. James Martin Davis, et al. | Nebraska | 2023-06-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence attorney-fees attorney-misconduct breach-of-contract civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment legal-malpractice standing | Whether it is unconstitutional to require a criminal defendant to prove actual innocence to recover funds paid to his former defense attorney who neve… |
| 22-7584 | Kahliq Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appeal-waivers circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement policy-concerns sentencing-errors | Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made sentencing errors as part of his pl… |
| 22-7569 | Andrew Payton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-errors voluntary-forfeiture | Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made sentencing errors as part of his pl… |
| 22-1115 | Chris Noel Tagunicar v. California | California | 2023-05-15 | Denied | bill-of-rights courtroom-access covid-19 covid-19-restrictions criminal-defendant first-amendment media public-trial sixth-amendment | Does the Sixth Amendment public trial right mean that members of the public have a right to be physically present in the courtroom during the trial, i… | |
| 22-1070 | Stanford James Stelle, III v. California | California | 2023-05-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | competency competency-hearing criminal-defendant criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process fourteenth-amendment mental-competency mental-incompetence pate-v-robinson successive-review | Does California's heightened standard for a successive competency hearing violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 22-7404 | Tomas Jaramillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-rights attorney-client-communication attorney-consultation consultation-duty criminal-appeals criminal-defendant criminal-procedure flores-ortega-standard ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-appeal sentencing | Whether an attorney has failed to consult within the meaning of Roe v. Flores-Ortega |
| 22-7338 | Robert Lemke v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-04-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autonomy criminal-autonomy criminal-defendant defendant-rights due-process legal-representation liberty liberty-interests mental-health mental-health-considerations sentencing sentencing-procedure | Whether a criminal defendant's right to autonomy applies to his sentencing? |
| 22-7075 | Dennis Morgan Hicks v. Alabama | Alabama | 2023-03-22 | Denied | IFP | child-witnesses confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-defendant hearsay prior-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-statements witness-testimony | Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him |
| 22-6985 | Lisa Bergman v. Jeremy Howard, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witness prosecution-evidence right-to-counsel scientific-evidence scientific-expert | Whether the Due Process Clause requires an impoverished criminal defendant to be appointed a scientific expert that is essential to confront scientifi… |
| 22-6911 | In Re Bradley M. Cunningham | 2023-03-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-defendant due-process extraordinary-circumstances pretrial-detainee standing state-law void-judgment | Is the Petitioner entitled to benefit from existing state law and state supreme court decisions that all clearly provide for a finding of VOID JUDGMEN… | |
| 22-6864 | In Re Abdush S. DuBose | 2023-02-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-procedure criminal-defendant due-process grand-jury indictment judicial-discretion jurisdiction jury-selection standing trial-rights | Whether the U.S. District Court has personal or subject-matter jurisdiction over an indictment that was not filed in open court or voted on by a grand… | |
| 22-6702 | Jason Boyet v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver contract-law criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement sentencing-error sentencing-errors waiver-enforceability | Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily forfeit his right to appeal the district court's yet-to-be-made sentencing errors as part of his pl… |
| 22-6472 | Vincent Paul Melendrez v. Jason Bennett, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defense due-process fifth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment | Where the Trial Court's Ruling Compelling the Election of Rights had required a criminal Defendant to waive his Fifth Amendment Constitutional Rights … |
| 22-6424 | Trevis Thompson v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-defendant deliberation-misconduct external-information federal-rule-of-evidence-606(b) harmless-error jury-bias post-conviction-proceeding sixth-amendment unbiased-jury | Where deliberating jurors receive external information that a criminal defendant had committed prior bad acts, does the dissemination of such informat… |
| 22-6189 | Jessie Jackson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process fair-trial hypoglycemia medical-condition mental-competence | Whether the onset of Diabetic Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) in a criminal defendant constitutes incompetence and violates due process, when the defen… |
| 22-6161 | Melvin Lavon Shields v. Kansas | Kansas | 2022-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process government-delay lovasco-v-united-states marion-v-united-states pre-charging-delay prejudice state-v-shields | Whether a criminal defendant who has established prejudice from the government's pre-charging delay must show that delay was the result of the governm… |
| 22-6032 | Nicholas Sterling Little v. Ronald Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant other-suspect other-suspect-evidence person-a person-b post-conviction post-conviction-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct suppressed-evidence | Does a criminal defendant's constitutional rights violate if prosecutors use 'other-suspect' evidence to convict 'person-a' of a crime 'person-b' is a… |
| 22-5705 | Lateef Alagbada v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-order criminal-defendant criminal-procedure extradition final-judgment-rule habeas-corpus international-law pretrial-order repatriation | Whether a pretrial order denying a motion for repatriation of an incarcerated criminal defendant falls within the exception to the final judgment rule |
| 22-5694 | Jonathan Lopez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review judiciary public-confidence standing | Whether a criminal defendant is required to prove an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim on the face of the record? |
| 22-5546 | Jhon Albert Carrizales Pretell v. Florida | Florida | 2022-09-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense |
| 22-5458 | Kenneth Lainell Davis v. Florida | Florida | 2022-08-29 | Denied | IFP | criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eighth-amendment felony jury jury-composition juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense |
| 22-5448 | Roger C. Cassidy v. Florida | Florida | 2022-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-defendant due-process equal-protection judicial-fact-finding judicial-review mandatory-sentencing preponderance-of-evidence prior-conviction sentencing-exposure standing | Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 22-5119 | Christopher Paul Hasson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-defendant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process facial-challenge statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness | Whether a criminal defendant must show a statute is vague as applied to his own conduct to prevail on a facial void-for-vagueness challenge |
| 22-40 | Isiah Dozier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-07-14 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-usc-1791 criminal-defendant criminal-defense evidentiary-standard knowledge-requirement prohibited-object rock-v-arkansas rock-v-armenia sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Can a Trial Court prohibit a criminal Defendant from calling a witness in his own defense, by weighing the probative value of the expected witness tes… |
| 21-8236 | Edward Toliver v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appeal-waivers circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fairness-doctrine plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | Are plea agreement appeal waivers that forfeit a criminal defendant's right to challenge errors in the district court's interpretation and application… |
| 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 | Whether the state court unreasonably applied Faretta v. California by reading a timeliness requirement into the right to self-representation |
| 21-7636 | Ramon Lopez v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction | Connecticut | 2022-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence material-evidence material-favorable-evidence prosecuting-authority prosecutorial-evidence | Does the rule set forth in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), requiring that the government disclose material favorable evidence to a criminal def… |
| 21-7638 | Carlos Jimenez v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defendant criminal-law drug-offenses drug-quantity mandatory-minimums mens-rea scienter sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court | Whether the government can subject a criminal defendant to the escalating mandatory minimums and maximums under 18 U.S.C. § 841(b), without proving th… |
| 21-1341 | Wysingo Turner v. Christine Brannon-Dortch, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2022-04-11 | Denied | Response Waived | 2nd-amendment civil-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-law firearm-possession murder-trial self-defense standing state-court | Whether a state court's decision that a criminal defendant can be falsely accused during his state criminal murder trial of 'illegally' possessing out… |
| 21-7482 | Gregory Jean-Louis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-procedure circuit-split criminal-appeal criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-review sentencing waiver-exception | Whether the United States Supreme Court should grant certiorari to resolve the circuit split regarding the exception to a criminal defendant's valid w… |
| 21-1273 | Frank D. Lazzerini v. Ohio | Ohio | 2022-03-21 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error right-to-be-present structural-error trial-proceedings voir-dire | Whether the exclusion of a criminal defendant from individual voir dire proceedings is a structural error requiring automatic reversal |
| 21-7328 | Glen S. v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2022-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-canvassing probation-violation right-to-testify testimony-rights trial-court-duty waiver waiver-of-rights | Should an affirmative duty be imposed on trial courts to canvass criminal defendants about their right to testify? |
| 21-1214 | Oklahoma v. Emmitt G. Sam | Oklahoma | 2022-03-07 | Denied | Relisted (6) | 18-usc-1153 criminal-defendant federal-jurisdiction indian indian-status major-crimes-act statutory-interpretation tribal-law | What requirements must a criminal defendant satisfy to qualify as an 'Indian' under the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1153? |
| 21-6888 | Ryan Kenneth Richmond, aka Rich v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver appellate-review attempted-murder criminal-defendant criminal-procedure plea-agreement relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines | Does a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a within guideline's sentence bar appellate review where the district court used a cross ref… |
| 21-6770 | Dave Elysee v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-06 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-defendant criminal-defense due-process evidence legal-procedure police-investigation presumption-of-innocence suspect-identification trial-defense | Whether a criminal defendant may mount a defense at trial based on an inadequate police investigation into another suspect |
| 21-6759 | Darla Ray Jones v. D. K. Johnson, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant criminal-threats drug-possession due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel forgery habeas-corpus prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct | Is a criminal defendant deprived of the effective assistance of counsel due to her lawyer's conflict of interest? |
| 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 | |
| 21-6275 | David Wayne Dooley v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2021-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arizona-v-youngblood burden-of-proof civil-procedure confrontation-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-spoliation separation-of-witnesses state-action | Is Due Process violated when a criminal defendant must bear the burden of showing bad faith in order to be entitled to a missing evidence instruction,… |
| 21-6059 | Terry Jonathan Phillips v. Florida | Florida | 2021-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense |
| 21-5541 | Dan Kenny Delva v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joint-trial right-to-counsel severance sixth-amendment trial-severance | Whether Mr. Delva was denied effective assistance of counsel |
| 21-5133 | Michael Skillern v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari coa criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit geders-rule geders-v-united-states habeas-corpus right-to-counsel supreme-court trial-recess | Does the Eleventh Circuit's rule in Crutchfield v. Wainwright abrogate or modify the Supreme Court decision in Geders v. United States, and if not, is… |
| 21-53 | James Dale Holcombe v. Florida | Florida | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (12) | conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joint-and-dual-representation joint-representation presumed-prejudice prosecution-witness prosecutorial-notice trial | Whether a criminal defendant establishes an 'actual' conflict of interest that adversely affects counsel's representation |
| 20-1772 | Branden Edward Shumate v. California | California | 2021-06-22 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-client-relationship attorney-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure motion-for-new-trial post-conviction-proceedings right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-court | whether-a-trial-court-deprives-a-defendant-of-his-right-to-counsel |
| 20-8227 | Trevor Anderson v. Lynn Lilley, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2021-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial implicit-bias prosecutorial-misconduct summation visual-presentation | Can a prosecutor's display of visual presentation during summation activate implicit biases, and if so, does the activation of those biases deprive a … |
| 20-8028 | Ryan Jason Brannon v. Texas | Texas | 2021-05-14 | Denied | IFP | accuser available-to-testify confrontation-clause criminal-defendant cross-examination due-process right-to-confront sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Whether the plain language of the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause gives a defendant the literal right to confront and cross-examine their accus… |
| 20-8038 | Shawn Grate v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-05-14 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | capital-punishment criminal-defendant criminal-defense death-penalty due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense mental-health mitigation | Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of the constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel and due process if trial counsel withdraws an … |
| 20-7659 | Ilma Alexandra Soriano Nunez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bail-reform-act civil-detention criminal-defendant homeland-security pretrial-release statutory-interpretation statutory-time-period | Whether section 3142 (d)(2) of the Bail Reform Act (BRA), 18 U.S.C. § 3141 et seq. prevents the United States Department of Homeland Security from civ… |
| 20-1302 | Casey A. McWhorter v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-19 | Denied | 28-U.S.C-2254(d)(2) constitutional-rights criminal-defendant death-penalty-mitigation effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-review habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-bias McDonough-Power-Equipment-v-Greenwood mitigation-evidence | Whether a federal court violates 28-U.S.C-2254(d)(2) in determining state court's factual findings | |
| 20-7241 | Rene Gosselin v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defendant evidence-law fourth-amendment medical-records privacy privacy-rights standing third-party-doctrine | Does a criminal defendant have a Fourth Amendment right of privacy in his medical provider's records, such that the Third Party Doctrine does not appl… |
| 20-7083 | Jeremy Brown v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 5th-amendment burden-of-proof collateral-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process presumption-of-innocence rehau-v-united-states retroactive-application | Whether a criminal defendant has substantial due process rights under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution |
| 20-6895 | Raheem Jefferson Brennerman v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review liberty second-circuit trial-court | Whether the abuse of discretion standard is Constitutionally impermissible where a trial court deprived a criminal defendant of his Constitutional rig… |
| 20-6906 | Charles Hamilton v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa aedpa-restrictions counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights federal-law sixth-amendment state-court state-court-review | Whether a State Court's erroneous denial of a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment Right to be represented by counsel of choice resulted in a decision… |
| 20-929 | Neil J. Gillespie v. Florida | Florida | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response Waived | 6th-amendment constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california forced-counsel habeas-corpus right-to-self-representation self-representation state-proceedings | Can a writ of habeas corpus free a criminal defendant in state criminal proceedings from being restrained by forced appointment of counsel prohibited … |
| 20-6661 | Brian Keith Figge v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | IFP | criminal-defendant criminal-procedure deliberation-process due-process judicial-misconduct juror-dismissal jury-deliberations jury-selection jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-by-jury | Does a trial court violate a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury when it dismisses a defense holdout juror on the third day of… |
| 20-6638 | Raheem Jefferson Brennerman, aka Jefferson R. Brennerman, aka Ayodeji Soetan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review liberty second-circuit trial-court | Whether the abuse of discretion standard is Constitutionally impermissible where the trial court deprived a criminal defendant of his Constitutional r… |
| 20-6624 | Aaron Michael Aguilera v. California | California | 2020-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights due-process fair-trial harmless-error jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence right-to-testify structural-error | Right-to-testify |
| 20-793 | Samir Rafic Khoury v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-11 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure indictment-dismissal mandamus mandamus-relief post-indictment-delay post-judgment-review prejudice speedy-trial | Whether a Court of Appeals may review, on petition for a writ of mandamus, the denial of a criminal defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment on sp… |
| 20-6600 | Throne Thomas Smiley v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | collateral-review criminal-defendant due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness meaningful-review panel-order second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255 truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing | Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi… |
| 20-776 | Gregory Williams v. Leonta Jackson, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2020-12-07 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-defendant criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing-exposure strickland-standard strickland-test | When a criminal defendant is considering whether to accept a plea offer, is defense counsel's failure to advise the defendant of his or her sentencing… |
| 20-6509 | Milas Antwon Grant, III v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-review criminal-defendant due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness meaningful-review panel-order second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255-motion truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing | Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi… |
| 20-736 | Adam Frasch v. Florida | Florida | 2020-11-27 | Denied | Response Waived | appeals brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-defendant criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence evidence-disclosure evidentiary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to an evidentiary hearing to determine if a violation has occurred pursuant to Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83… |
| 20-6267 | In Re Graham Schiff | 2020-11-10 | Denied | IFP | bad-faith civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-violations criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process federal-intervention post-conviction-relief state-criminal-proceedings state-officials | Whether federal intervention in a state criminal proceeding is appropriate given the petitioner's showing of 'bad faith and harassment by state offici… | |
| 20-6195 | Erlin Josue Torres Zuniga v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-adjudication administrative-agency-adjudication civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-defendant due-process immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement notice-to-appear removal-proceedings | Whether and under what circumstances the government may invoke collateral-estoppel against-a-criminal-defendant based-on-a-prior-administrative-agency… |
| 20-6110 | Samuel Hogans v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-procedure trial-proceedings | Whether a competent criminal defendant has a constitutional right to self-representation under the Sixth Amendment when the defendant invokes the righ… |
| 20-464 | James J. Rosemond v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-10-09 | Denied | actus-reus capital-cases concession-of-guilt criminal-defendant criminal-procedure right-to-autonomy sixth-amendment trial-counsel | Does an attorney violate a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to autonomy by admitting, over the defendant's objection, that the defendant ord… | |
| 20-5793 | Francisco Zendejas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-defendant disclosure disclosure-motion due-process-rights in-camera-hearing roviaro-standard roviaro-v-united-states threshold-showing | When a criminal defendant moves to disclose the identity of a confidential informant under Roviaro v. United States, 353 U.S. 58 (1957), and makes a t… |
| 20-221 | Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Response Waived | aircraft-transportation conscious-avoidance controlled-substances criminal-defendant criminal-intent deliberate-steps evidence jury-instruction knowledge sentencing-guidelines | Can a jury be instructed on conscious-avoidance,criminal-defendant,knowledge,evidence,deliberate-steps |
| 20-5286 | Tomas Rodriguez Infante v. Michael Martel, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process equal-protection impartial-jury jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-bias racial-discrimination | Whether a trial court violates the Equal Protection Clause by removing a Filipino juror over the objection of a Filipino criminal defendant because it… |
| 20-5117 | Jeremiah M. Rodgers v. Florida | Florida | 2020-07-21 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process equal-protection gender-dysphoria medical-condition voluntariness waiver-voluntariness waivers | Whether the newly discovered evidence of a criminal defendant's medical condition, including gender dysphoria, may implicate the voluntariness of prio… |
| 20-5030 | Jimmy Lee Franklin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 acca-provision acca-sentence burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant federal-statutory-enhancement-provision retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing-relief statutory-enhancement | Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can satisfy his burden of proof by showing that his sentence may have been based… |
| 19-1465 | Robert Marcelis v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2020-07-07 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-defendant criminal-procedure increased-sentence jury-finding jury-trial prior-convictions reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | Does the sixth amendment require a jury finding beyond a reasonable doubt that a criminal defendant has one or more prior convictions before an increa… |
| 19-8873 | Efrain Diaz, Jr. and Justin Smith v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2020-07-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | criminal-defendant criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment justiciability party-presentation procedural-due-process standing-doctrine | Does the requirement in Lujan v. Defs. of Wildlife apply to a motion filed by a defendant in a criminal case? |
| 19-1404 | Michael Lieberman v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-06-23 | Denied | Response Waived | all-writs-act amendment criminal-defendant district-court judicial-relief post-conviction-remedies relief restitution restitution-order sentencing statutory-interpretation | What relief is available to a criminal defendant under the All Writs Act? |
| 19-1357 | Robert Angel Perez v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-06-11 | Denied | Amici (2) | criminal-defendant criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment mental-health-records privilege sixth-amendment state-privilege | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee a criminal defendant the right to discover potentially exculpatory mental health records held by… |
| 19-8525 | Julio Gabriel Diaz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances conversion criminal-defendant drug-conversion due-process fifth-amendment lsd self-incrimination sentencing-guidelines | Whether a criminal defendant's Fifth Amendment rights are implicated by the conversion required by U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1 |
| 19-8528 | Melvin Russell v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-05-22 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split complainant complainant-testimony criminal-defendant evidence-proffering federal-rule-of-evidence-412 federal-rules-of-evidence rape-shield-rule sexual-behavior substantive-evidence | Whether a criminal defendant must proffer substantive evidence regarding a complainant's other sexual behavior under Federal Rule of Evidence 412 |
| 19-8497 | Christopher Lyman v. Kansas | Kansas | 2020-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-defendant due-process expert-testimony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment medical-expert religious-discrimination sixth-amendment | Whether a court can deny a criminal defendant his medical expert, who's expert testimony is critical to a material fact in dispute, and base this deni… |
| 19-8400 | Roy Allen Nichols v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process factfinding fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether a Court of Appeals violates a criminal defendant's right to Due Process |
| 19-1195 | Adalberto Frickson Palacios-Solis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-04-03 | Denied | case-in-chief criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-of-guilt fifth-amendment miranda miranda-rights pre-miranda-silence self-incrimination | Whether the prosecution violates the Fifth Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause when it uses a criminal defendant's post-arrest, pre-Miranda silence … | |
| 19-1060 | Victor Thomas v. New York | New York | 2020-02-26 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | appeal appellate-jurisdiction criminal-defendant criminal-procedure garza-v-idaho jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent waiver waiver-of-appeal | Whether a provision in a waiver of appeal that forbids a criminal defendant from filing a notice of appeal, and in so doing also strips superior court… |
| 19-1045 | Raminder Kaur v. Maryland | Maryland | 2020-02-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defense-counsel privileged-communications prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel work-product work-product-doctrine | Whether the Sixth Amendment prohibits trial of a criminal defendant by prosecutors with extensive knowledge of both her privileged communications with… |
| 19-7705 | Michael Roman Burghardt v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-waiver direct-appeal element-of-offense elements-of-offense indictment plain-error-review plea-colloquy rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement supreme-court-precedent waiver | Whether a criminal defendant has waived a claim that the indictment failed to charge an element of the offense |
| 19-952 | Michael David Goodwin v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-client-relationship change-of-plea criminal-defendant criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance local-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether an attorney's presence as local counsel, for a criminal defendant's re-arraignment and change of plea, yet having no attorney-client relations… |
| 19-7376 | Alice C. Trappler v. New York | New York | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture hearsay hearsay-exception legal-insufficiency sixth-amendment waiver | Whether the automatic waiver and permanent forfeiture of legal insufficiency claims due to trial counsel's failure to move to dismiss on those grounds… |
| 19-6956 | Thomas H. Outland v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2019-12-16 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause credibility criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-impeachment due-process evidence evidence-rules fair-trial impeachment jury-instructions prior-convictions right-to-present-a-defense | Did the New Jersey state court endorse the use of N.J.R.E. 806 to impeach non-testifying criminal defendants with their prior convictions |
| 19-6535 | Clarence Fry v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-11-06 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-right criminal-defendant due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas self-representation sixth-amendment trial-counsel | Is it unconstitutional for any Court to deny the Constitutional right to testify in one's own defense by placing the burden of making such desire know… |
| 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… | |
| 19-392 | Martin A. Armstrong v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | asset-forfeiture asset-freezing civil-enforcement constitutional-right-to-counsel counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process parallel-civil-enforcement parallel-proceedings personal-property property-rights right-to-counsel | Whether the constitutional right to counsel of choice extends to cases where a criminal defendant's assets are frozen as part of a parallel civil enfo… |
| 19-5515 | Lester Leon Sanders v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-U.S.C-2255 28-usc-2255 circuit-conflict criminal-defendant district-court district-court-judgment federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutory-provision original-judgment retroactive-constitutional-decision second-successive-motion statutory-provision | What standard governs a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28-U.S.C-2255, asserting relief pursuant to a retroactive-cons… |
| 19-5516 | Rayshawn Roshard Robertson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-relief federal-procedure retroactive-application retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum | Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can satisfy his burden of proof by showing his sentence may have been based on a… |
| 19-5391 | Dan Carmichael McCarthan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | IFP | acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process notice-of-predicate-convictions retroactive-constitutional-decisions retroactivity section-2255 sentencing statutory-maximum | Whether a criminal defendant can satisfy burden of proof for 28 U.S.C. § 2255 relief based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a fed… |
| 19-5286 | Adam Patton v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2019-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver | Whether a criminal defendant, who has not knowingly and intelligently waived his Sixth Amendment right to counsel and who clearly requests the assista… |
| 19-5197 | Eric T. Roden v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal article-iii-judge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines waiver | Whether a criminal defendant can ever waive a correctly calculated guidelines range for use at a federal sentencing hearing |
| 19-75 | James Joseph Garner v. Colorado | Colorado | 2019-07-15 | Denied | Amici (2) | criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification police-misconduct standing suggestive-identification suggestive-setting trial-procedure witness-testimony | Whether the Due Process Clause imposes any check on an eyewitness's identification of a criminal defendant in the typically suggestive setting of tria… |
| 19-5129 | Kendell Lee Starks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-relief-28-usc-2255,retroactive- florida-conviction-resisting-with-violence,violent retroactive-constitutional-decision sentencing statutory-maximum Whether a Florida conviction for resisting with vi | Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can satisfy his burden of proof by showing his sentence may have been based on a… |
| 18-1548 | Miguel Alcantar v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response Waived | third parties for the pretrial production of rele compulsory-process criminal-defendant documentary-evidence documentary-production pretrial-evidence sixth-amendment subpoena-duces-tecum subpoenas-duces-tecum third-parties | Whether the Compulsory Process Clause of the Sixth Amendment guarantees to a criminal defendant the right to issue subpoenas duces tecum to private, t… |
| 18A1249 | Maxcium Herring v. L. S. McEwen, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-03 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process federal-review habeas-corpus state-court | Whether a state court's summary denial of a habeas corpus petition without a full evidentiary hearing violates a criminal defendant's constitutional r… | |
| 18-8810 | Pedro Martinez-Negrete v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guideline-range clear-error criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defendant-appellant government-response plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines | Where a criminal defendant shows that the district court made a clear legal error when applying the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, but the government res… |
| 18-8739 | Armando Lopez v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | ammunition burden-of-proof burden-shifting constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process firearm firearm-possession unauthorized-possession | Does the Due Process Clause permit the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to shift the burden to criminal defendants charged with unauthorized possession o… |
| 18-1276 | Andrew Levert v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 28-usc-2255 appellate-court-split constitutional-law criminal-defendant district-court-judgment due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutory-provision habeas-corpus record-silent retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactivity second-or-successive-2255-motion second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation | Whether a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is entitled to relief under a retroactive constitutional de… |
| 18-8496 | Anthony Swatzie v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 constitutional-decision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure district-court-judgment due-process federal-statute federal-statutory-provision habeas-corpus retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactive-relief retroactivity section-2255 sentencing silent-record statutory-interpretation successive-motion | Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to relief under a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statutory provision |
| 18-1198 | Westley A. Albright v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2019-03-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-defendant criminal-procedure diversion due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment nolo-contendere plea-bargaining sentencing | Whether the Supreme Court of Tennessee erred when it held, as a matter of first impression, that due process rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Am… |
| 18-8273 | Cecilio Cuero Payan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | IFP | conflict-free-attorney conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver | Whether, under the sixth amendment, a criminal defendant may waive his right to raise a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel as part of a plea-a… |
| 18-8125 | Darrell D. Walker v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-25 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 circuit-court-split criminal-defendant district-court-judgment federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutory-provision original-judgment record-silent retroactive-constitutional-decision second-successive-motion statutory-provision | Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to relief under a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statutory provision, where the r… |
| 18-7967 | James Dalton Smith v. Texas | Texas | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process facial-challenge penal-statute standing statutory-interpretation | Whether a criminal defendant may raise for the first time on direct appeal the constitutionality of the statute creating and defining the crime for wh… |
| 18-854 | George Alvarez v. City of Brownsville, Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence monell-liability municipal-liability plea-agreement plea-bargaining united-states-v-ruiz | Whether due process requires the government to disclose exculpatory evidence before entering a plea agreement with a criminal defendant |
| 18-7123 | Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-19 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | criminal-defendant criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-possession firearms legal-knowledge mens-rea second-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-offense | Whether 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g) and 924 require the government to prove a criminal defendant's mens rea as to each substantive element of the enumerated s… |
| 18-7082 | Juan Bautista Rosas Cuellar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure collateral-estoppel criminal-defendant due-process intervening-change-in-law intervening-law-change issue-preclusion legal-doctrine offensive-preclusion summary-reversal | May collateral estoppel be applied offensively against a criminal defendant? |
| 18-697 | Tony Von Carruthers v. Tony Mays, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-27 | Denied | argersinger-v-hamlin capital-case capital-punishment criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver | Does depriving a criminal defendant of trial counsel against his will, without at least the warnings and voluntary waiver required by Faretta, violate… | |
| 18-6764 | Kenneth Ray Borders v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal presumption-of-prejudice roe-v-flores-ortega sixth-amendment trial-counsel | Does the 'presumption of prejudice' recognized in Roe v. Flores-Ortega, 528 U.S. 470 (2000), apply where a criminal defendant instructs his trial coun… |
| 18-6544 | Robert Joe McNemar v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-05 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment competency competency-evaluation criminal-defendant due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-bargain plea-bargaining sixth-amendment | Does due process require an express competency determination? |
| 18-6570 | Timothy J. Kaprelian v. Lizzie Tegels, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel no-contest plea-agreement plea-bargaining | Is a criminal defendant who pleads no contest entitled to exculpatory evidence that the state concealed and suppressed |
| 18-6504 | James D. Russian v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defendant criminal-procedure federal-court habeas-corpus haines-v-kerner liberal-construction liberal-construction-rule pro-se pro-se-filings pro-se-pleadings right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substitution-of-counsel | When a criminal defendant's pro se filings can be stated as a valid basis for substitution of counsel, must a federal court read those filings in such… |
| 18-6493 | Steven D. Burke v. Neil Turner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-30 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection standard-of-proof state-court | Does changing the standard of proof in the state court deny a criminal defendant's due process and equal protection of law? |
| 18-6396 | Guillermo Solorio, Jr. v. William Muniz, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2244(b)(2) brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-defendant criminal-procedure evidence-suppression federal-statute habeas-corpus hidden-evidence second-or-successive-petition | Whether a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus based on Brady v. Maryland Evidence That Was Hidden from a Criminal Defendant — Until After Appeal and … |
| 18-6138 | Lance Fox v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines beckles-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability criminal-defendant due-process misinformation sentencing sentencing-guidelines townsend-v-burke void-for-vagueness | whether due process precludes relying on misinformation when sentencing a criminal defendant |
| 18-5027 | Mark O. Wright v. Virginia | Virginia | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-defendant criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judgment-enforcement legal-procedure lesser-included-offense sentencing sixth-amendment state-supreme-court void-ab-initio void-judgment | Can a state Supreme Court enforce a judgment against a criminal defendant for an offense that was never charged and which was not a lesser included of… |