| 25-6485 |
Michelle Renee Morton v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-proceedings due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-defect structural-error void-ab-initio |
1. Whether a conviction initiated by a warrant issued by a magistrate who is later adjudicated not neutral and detached, constitutes a structural juri… |
| 24-7146 |
Anida Gilowski v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-proceedings due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment property-forfeiture sixth-amendment |
I . WHETHER THE PETITIONER 'S FIFTH AMENDMENT
RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AND HER SIXTH AMENDMENT
RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL OR PROCEEDINGS WERE
VIOLATED WHEN … |
| 23-6551 |
Steven McGauley v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings critical-stage due-process effective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing |
Whether the trial court erred where the trial court denied McGauley's defense motion without weighing the potential for prejudice by other testimony o… |
| 23-6425 |
Christopher Daniel Taylor v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings direct-appeal due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-phase |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits courts to find a plea agreement waiver that is silent as to Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1… |
| 22-766 |
Edward Pinkney v. Berrien County, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights criminal-proceedings due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause section-1983 unlawful-prosecution |
Petitioner was charged, subjected to pretrial proceedings, tried, convicted, and incarcerated for an act that the law does not make criminal. Petition… |
| 22-6278 |
Daniel Patrick Degoto v. William S. Bohrer, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-challenge legal-representation lower-court-decision prison-conditions standing supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
Should this Sonora Court's Opinion to affirm Judge Holt's dismissal of Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Sugar) in a Criminal defov civil Cause, inconsistent, a… |
| 22-5462 |
Wilbur Irick v. New York |
New York |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
courtroom-removal criminal-proceedings defendant-rights disruptive-conduct due-process fair-administration-of-justice illinois-v-allen right-to-be-present |
Under the "explicit" holding of Illinois v. Allen, 397 U.S. 337, 343 (1970), does a court violate the defendant's right to be present during criminal … |
| 21-7488 |
Maria Andrea Gonzalez, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2241(a) aggravated-sexual-abuse criminal-proceedings detention-facility federal-inmates federal-jurisdiction judicial-custody judicial-officer non-federal-detention-facility statutory-interpretation |
Is federal jurisdiction established under the first jurisdictional prong in § 2241(a) when an aggravated sexual abuse offense is allegedly committed i… |
| 21-6957 |
David Kent Thacker, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment-due-process civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process exclusionary-rule federal-intervention investigation-scope miranda-rights pecuniary-interest self-incrimination |
in this particular scenario (pretrial assertions must it have been asserted by way of the 4th Amendments EXCLUSIONARY RULE, to suppress State Statemen… |
| 20-1660 |
In Re Garvester Bracken |
|
2021-05-28 |
Denied |
|
article-iii criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction probable-cause right-to-be-present right-to-counsel trial-jurisdiction |
DID THE TRIAL COURT HAVE JURISDICTION TO PROCEED AND ENTER JUDGMENT AS A MATTER OF LAW?
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT HAD POSSESSED JURIDICTION IN ABSENCE … |
| 20-7573 |
Merrickio D. Harris v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process fundamental-fairness judicial-review self-representation structural-error |
1) Whether the Nebraska State Courts committed structural error and violated the Petitioner's Federal Constitutional Rights to Self Representation and… |
| 20-7551 |
Dennis Roger Bolze v. Warden, FCI Coleman |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
counsel-deprivation criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice right-to-counsel state-law subject-matter-jurisdiction |
QUESTION ONE:
When a State intentionally abandons State law and deprives an individual of counsel
during a critical stage in the criminal proceedings… |
| 19-8784 |
Chester Brown v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lower-court motion-denial standard-of-review |
DID THE LOWER COURT ERROR WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY? |
| 18-8522 |
Edwin Fernandez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Arizona-v-Gant criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings critical-stages ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Montejo-v-Louisiana presentence-investigation presentence-investigation-report right-to-counsel search-and-seizure search-doctrine Strickland-v-Washington |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted to address the shortcomings of counsel in light of Strickland-and-Montejo? |
| 18-8433 |
Emond Durea Logan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-proceedings effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-negotiations sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington totality-of-circumstances |
Whether a defendant may be entitled to relief for an attorney's ineffective assistance, even if another attorney offered reasonable advice |
| 18-1186 |
Anthony Johnson v. Edward Winstead, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment heck-v-humphrey inculpatory-statement section-1983 statute-of-limitations unconstitutional-evidence unconstitutional-statement |
Whether the statute of limitations for a Section 1983 claim based on the use of an unconstitutional inculpatory statement begins to run when criminal … |
| 18-8015 |
In Re Michael Ojegba Agbonifo |
|
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal constitutional-rights criminal-detention criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings detention due-process indefinite-detention judicial-misconduct legal-representation not-guilty right-to-counsel right-to-trial trial |
Is it Constitutional for a District Court Judge to Hold an accused in an alleged criminal proceedings indefinitely in detention without TRIAL when the… |
| 18-7876 |
Jordie L. Callahan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competency mental-evaluation sixth-amendment |
Whether a Mentally Deficient Defendant is Entitled to a Competency Hearing or Mental Evaluation |
| 18-884 |
Brenda Jeffrey v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment animal-law animal-seizure civil-forfeiture criminal-proceedings due-process fourteenth-amendment matthews-test property-rights sentell-vs-new-orleans |
whether, under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, a state can seize and later permanently deprive a defendant of her property, an animal i… |
| 18-485 |
Edward G. McDonough v. Youel Smith, Individually and as Special District Attorney for the County of Rensselaer, New York, aka Trey Smith |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (14)Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-proceedings due-process fabrication-of-evidence section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
When does the statute of limitations begin to run on a Section 1983 claim based on fabrication of evidence in criminal proceedings? |
| 18-5697 |
James R. Reece v. L. Ray Whitley, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings critical-stage indigent-prisoner new-trial post-trial pre-appeal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a post-trial pre-appeal motion for new trial is a critical stage of state criminal proceedings protected by right-to-counsel |