criminal-plea

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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 Does the First Amendment for a Journalist or member of the press forbid the taking and publishing pictures of an extorted ex-girlfriend?
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 Whether a §1983 claim is barred under Heck when the plaintiff must disprove part of the factual basis for his criminal conviction to succeed
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 Did the State of Oregon violate the Petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel guaranteed him by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of the …
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 Whether coercion from a non-state actor can render a plea involuntary and therefore invalidate it under the Fifth Amendment?
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 Is a defendant's open plea of guilty to murder valid when the plea colloquy reflects the defendant does not remember the conduct, or is it no longer r…
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 has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial pr…
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 Whether Tennessee's burglary statutes are generic