| 21-5535 |
Timothy Marcus Mayberry v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process cronic due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment |
Is the Indiana state appellate court's opinion that its trial court did not abuse its discretion when, over multiple objections, it permitted surprise… |
| 20-7616 |
Deshun Thomas v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
constructive-denial cronic cronic-standard effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-strategy |
Is a defendant constructively denied the assistance of counsel under United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (1984), when trial counsel tells the jury t… |
| 20-7470 |
Pablo Ramon Guerrero v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2021-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence batson critical-stage cronic due-process fundamental-fairness mccollum presumed-prejudice strickland structural-error trial-procedure |
Whether a Batson-McCollum proven violation qualifies as a structural error |
| 19-6562 |
Carlos J. Avena v. Kevin Chappell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability cronic cronic-standard death-penalty due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit per-se |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's refusal to address the uncertified Cronic claim despite a strong showing of per se ineffective assistance constituted an i… |
| 18-8482 |
Lourdes Margarita Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brecht-standard constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage Cronic cronic-rule cronic-standard defense-counsel direct-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit hybrid-error prejudice structural-error trial-procedure |
Did the Eleventh Circuit err by holding this 'startling, intentional' violation of the defendant's constitutional and statutory rights did not constit… |