criminal-plea
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-105 | Boris Kotlyarsky v. Department of Justice, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-rights conviction criminal-plea criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review procedural-safeguards | In the context of habeas corpus, would it constitute a breach of due process to convict a defendant in a criminal proceeding, despite clear evidence d… |
| 22-7613 | Khawaja Muhammad Farooq v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-plea due-process extortion first-amendment press press-rights voluntary-plea | 1. Does the First Amendment for a Journalist or member of the press forbid the taking and publishing pictures of an extorted ex girlfriend? 2. Would … |
| 22-183 | Bryan Cowan, et al. v. Masa Nathaniel Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 1983-action civil-rights criminal-plea excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-estoppel qualified-immunity section-1983 | 1. Plaintiff pled no contest to California Penal Code §69 prior to bringing this §1983 action against all three officers who were involved in his arre… |
| 21-5419 | Dilang Dat v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defense criminal-plea deportation deportation-consequences due-process-advice immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-standard padilla-v-united-states strickland-test | Does trial counsel advising a criminal defendant that he "could" be deported for entering a guilty plea breach trial counsel's duty to give "clear and… |
| 21-166 | Leonel Cervantes-Meraz v. Oregon | Oregon | 2021-08-05 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-defense criminal-plea fourteenth-amendment immigration immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance padilla padilla-precedent sixth-amendment | (I) Did the State of Oregon violate the Petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel guaranteed him by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of … |
| 20-8401 | Tyler Landon Thornton v. Florida | Florida | 2021-06-23 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split civil-rights coercion constitutional-rights criminal-plea due-process fifth-amendment involuntary-confession non-state-actor plea-bargaining plea-involuntariness | I. THIS CASE PRESENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RESOLVE A CIRCUIT SPLIT ON THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: WHETHER COERCION FROM A NON-STATE ACTOR CAN RENDER A PLEA I… |
| 20-6706 | Roberto Degollado v. Texas | Texas | 2020-12-23 | Denied | IFP | and whether due process requires affirmative show 14th-amendment criminal-plea criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea intentional-conduct memory memory-defense murder plea-bargaining | 1. Is a defendant's open plea of guilty to engaging in the knowing or intentional conduct required to prove a murder charge valid when the plea colloq… |
| 20-5292 | Ashvinbhai Chaudhari v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-plea criminal-procedure downward-departure fifth-circuit involuntary-plea judicial-procedure plea-bargain plea-bargaining restitution supervisory-powers | Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal… |
| 19-7271 | Eric Hall v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-burglary burglary burglary-statute burglary-statutes categorical-approach conviction conviction-requirements criminal-plea entry entry-element firearm-possession generic-crime generic-crimes instrument plea-withdrawal rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement | 1. Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic where the State can obtain a conviction by proving only attempted burglary because the element of… |