criminal-justice-act
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24A1182 | Ayana Saunders v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-06-02 | Presumed Complete | constructive-variance criminal-justice-act money-laundering sixth-circuit venue wire-fraud | Whether a constructive variance or improper venue can serve as grounds for overturning a federal criminal conviction for wire fraud and money launderi… | |
| 24A707 | Carlsel Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-17 | Presumed Complete | appointed-counsel criminal-justice-act deadline-extension federal-public-defender in-forma-pauperis petition-for-certiorari | Whether a criminal defendant represented by appointed counsel under the Criminal Justice Act may seek an extension of time to file a petition for cert… | |
| 24-6001 | Keith Brian Hunter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appointed-counsel criminal-justice-act escrow-account fifth-amendment sixth-circuit-court trust-account | Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly expanded the definition of a client escrow/trust account and violated the Petitioner's Fifth Ame… |
| 24A321 | Jawan Fortia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-02 | Presumed Complete | appointed-counsel criminal-justice-act federal-criminal-procedure indigent-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether the Criminal Justice Act's provisions for appointed counsel in federal criminal proceedings adequately protect an indigent defendant's right t… | |
| 24A119 | Adam Owen Grady v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-08-01 | Presumed Complete | criminal-justice-act eighth-circuit in-forma-pauperis prisoner-rights pro-se writ-of-certiorari | Whether the pro se prisoner's motion for in forma pauperis status and extension of time to file a petition for certiorari should be granted given the … | |
| 23A1176 | Sadick Edusei Kissi v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-02 | Presumed Complete | appellate-counsel criminal-justice-act petition-for-certiorari solo-practitioner time-extension workload-constraints | Whether a Criminal Justice Act appointed attorney may be granted an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari due to professional workload c… | |
| 23A1170 | Bryant D. Aron v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-01 | Presumed Complete | criminal-conviction criminal-justice-act federal-case sentencing seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's criminal conviction and sentence under federal law | |
| 23A860 | Jeffrey Batio v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-03-25 | Presumed Complete | appointed-counsel certiorari criminal-justice-act petition-requirements seventh-circuit supreme-court | Whether the Criminal Justice Act requires appointed appellate counsel to file a certiorari petition when counsel determines there are reasonable groun… | |
| 21-6744 | Jose D. Resto-Figueroa v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule first-circuit in-forma-pauperis pro-se-petition probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained from a warrantless search of his vehicle |
| 20-7254 | Juan Valenzuela v. L. Small, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 9th-circuit brady-violation criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit-review police-misconduct writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Ninth Circuit unreasonably applied SCOTUS precedent in concluding that petitioner's Brady-claim failed for lack of prejudice |
| 20-7189 | Bernard Thomas v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | brief-filing counsel-assignment criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-defenders fourth-amendment harmless-error local-rule search-and-seizure standing | Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 20-6009 | Lamar Thornton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appointed-counsel criminal-justice-act due-process in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-leave-to-proceed-in-forma-pauperis petition-for-writ-of-certiorari pro-se-filing sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari | Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions |
| 20-5530 | Tony Gordon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice-act due-process expert-services independent-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment | Whether a trial court violates the Sixth Amendment right to independent counsel in denying a defense application for necessary expert services pursuan… |
| 19-8908 | Preston Pope v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice-act criminal-justice-act-1964 davis-decision direct-appeal first-step-act griffith-v-kentucky ineffective-assistance notice-to-client rule-28(j)-letter writ-of-certiorari | Does the Criminal Justice Act of 1964 require notice to client for writ of certiorari? |
| 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 | Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's denial of Ms. McClaflin's motion to dismiss the indictment on the b… |
| 19-6547 | Kevin Sterling v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affirmance appeal appointed-counsel cja-18-usc-3006 criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-44 federal-rules-criminal-procedure gideon-v-wainwright inability-to-pay legal-representation right-to-counsel writ-of-certiorari | Whether defendant should have been appointed counsel |
| 19-5374 | Benson Coriolant v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abandoned-claims actual-appeal actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-rules | Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that the pro se litigant has abandoned any claim(s) not raised in an application for a certificate of appealabilit… |
| 18-9180 | Cesar Arce-Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure garza-v-idaho indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining pretrial-proceedings right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Does a Sixth Amendment claim of ineffectiveness of assistance of counsel during pretrial proceedings survive a general waiver of the right to appeal i… |
| 18-8316 | Ricardo Guerrero v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-materials criminal-justice-act evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-hearings expert-services habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-rights rule-5(b) section-3500(b) trial-counsel | Whether the habeas corpus statute at Rule 5(b) mandates the government to address the petitioner's allegations, allowing the district court to circumv… |
| 18-8262 | Christian Dior Womack v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-misconduct court-appointed-attorney court-appointment criminal-justice-act due-process ethical-standards fee-violation indigent-client judicial-discretion professional-conduct professional-misconduct referral | Whether the District Court abused its discretion in declining to refer the court-appointed attorney's misconduct to the Chief Judge for an order to sh… |
| 18-7707 | Antonio Anguiano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice-act defense-counsel defense-function due-process independent-counsel judicial-control sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether, in upholding structural error flowing from judicial control over the defense function under the Criminal Justice Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3006A, the … |
| 18-7531 | John Paul Galbraith v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-23 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-3006a 28-usc-2254-rule-8 appeal appointment-of-counsel circuit-justice criminal-justice-act criminal-justice-act-of-1964 due-process evidentiary-hearing indigent-prisoner right-to-counsel | Whether a circuit justice has discretion to deny appointment of counsel for an indigent prisoner granted appeal |