| 24-7076 |
Delowar Mohammed Hossain v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
classified-information criminal-defendant-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment sixth-amendment |
Whether a Fifth Amendment Due Process or Sixth Amendment effective assistance of counsel claim arises when security-cleared defense counsel are not gi… |
| 24-5106 |
Stoney Prior v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard-of-review circuit-split criminal-defendant-rights criminal-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt recognized-defenses third-party-culpability |
Is a criminal defendant entitled to a jury instruction on any recognized defense supported by the evidence? |
| 23-5977 |
Sean Overstreet v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process right-to-be-present sentencing supervised-release waiver |
May counsel waive a criminal defendant's right to be present during the portion of his sentence in which special conditions of supervised release are … |
| 23-5658 |
James Kevin Ball v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
covid-19 covid-19-delay criminal-defendant-rights district-court due-process ends-of-justice ends-of-justice-provision jury-trial-suspension jury-trials ninth-circuit-review speedy-trial |
Whether a district court may continue to rely on emergency circumstances to delay a trial under the ends-of-justice provision at 18 USC. § 3161(h)(7)(… |
| 23-5379 |
Everett Charles Wills, II v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actus-reus counsel-concession criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea retroactivity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy |
When guilt is the sole issue for the jury to decide, is it permissible for counsel to unilaterally concede the essential elements (actus reus and mens… |
| 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… |
| 22-6632 |
Michael A. Benanti v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-challenge counsel criminal-defendant-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure lower-court-decision standing |
whether the Court failed to obtain a hearing and telling cost of Counsel |
| 22-5749 |
Justin Jamal Warner v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-10-04 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification in-camera-hearing law-enforcement-procedure out-of-court-identification police-misconduct reliability-standard surveillance-video unreliable-evidence video-identification |
Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to an in camera hearing on the reliability of an out-of-court identification made through video technology un… |
| 21-7842 |
Tommy Dean Bullcoming v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment access-to-evidence constitutional-rights crime-scene-access criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-gathering fair-trial property-rights |
Does an accused have a constitutional right to access a private crime scene? |
| 21-7684 |
Ernest DeWayne Jones v. Ronald Broomfield, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
complete-defense constitutional-analysis constitutional-restriction criminal-defendant-rights criminal-defense due-process expert-testimony right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas |
Whether a criminal defendant's right to testify is violated when prevented from testifying to facts within his personal knowledge without expert testi… |
| 21-7567 |
Cornell Devore Rhymes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-confrontation credibility criminal-defendant-rights evidence-rule-412 federal-rule-of-evidence-412 prior-sexual-history sex-trafficking witness-testimony |
Does a court violate a defendant's constitutional right to confront witnesses against him when, the court relies on Federal Rule of Evidence 412 to pr… |
| 21-6849 |
Edwin Vaquiz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-relationship constitutional-rights criminal-defendant-rights criminal-defense due-process judicial-discretion right-to-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment trial-counsel-strategy witness-testimony |
Whether a trial attorney can prohibit or forbid, by coercion (threat to withdraw representation from defendant's criminal case), the defendant to resi… |
| 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… |
| 20-6624 |
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 |
| 19-1006 |
Facebook, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, et al. |
California |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
|
communication-contents constitutional-rights constitutional-subpoena contempt criminal-defendant-rights privacy privacy-protection service-provider-disclosure service-providers stored-communications-act subpoena |
Whether a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to subpoena service providers and force them to turn over the contents of their account holder… |
| 19-7004 |
Mario Torres v. Shawn Hatton, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blanket-policy brady-violations criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-withholding exculpatory-evidence federal-law ineffective-assistance plea-agreement policy right-to-counsel unreasonable-application |
Whether Contra.Costa County California's blanket policy of depriving a criminal defendant the facts and the evidence (exculpatory or otherwise), surro… |
| 18-1443 |
Nicholas Young v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-activity constitutional-rights criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense free-speech material-support predisposition predisposition-evidence prior-activity similar-crime terrorist-organization thought-crime white-nationalism |
Whether evidence of a criminal defendant's prior, constitutionally protected activity may be admitted to prove the predisposition element of the entra… |
| 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 |