cronic-standard
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5073 | William Menter v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2025-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cronic-standard due-process illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance state-court-decision strickland-standard | 1. Whether the state court's decision on Appellant's Illegal Sentence claims contrary to State v. Yarbough, 100 N.J. 627 (1985) and whether the Appell… |
| 24-954 | Anthony Vetri v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-03-05 | Denied | Response Waived | conflict-of-interest criminal-defense cronic-standard effective-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard | 1. To show a violation of the right to conflict-free counsel when represented by multiple attorneys, only some of whom are conflicted, must a defendan… |
| 24-6676 | Louis Angel Mercado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | appellate-procedure brief-filing cronic-standard ineffective-assistance-counsel presumed-prejudice state-appeal | Should prejudice be presumed under United States v. Cronic when defense counsel fails to file an appellee's brief under a state initiated appeal? |
| 24-5504 | Javaid Perwaiz v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adversarial-process cronic-standard ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-testing sentencing-advocacy sixth-amendment | Whether sentencing counsel's failure to make any meaningful objections to the Presentence Investigation Report, failure to argue for any particular se… |
| 23-5973 | Richard C. Duerson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage cronic-standard due-process due-process-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice strickland-test strickland-v-washington united-states-v-cronic | 1.) Has the Supreme Court overruled United States v. Cronic, eliminating the presumption that an accused has suffered Constitutional error without the… |
| 23-5294 | Micky Don Wade v. Texas | Texas | 2023-08-07 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure cronic-standard due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard | 1. May a state court evaluate a Cronic claim under the more burdensome standard of Strickland? (Please see Memorandum Opinion below, Appendix Exhibit … |
| 22-841 | Christopher H. West v. Robert May, Warden, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-03-03 | Denied | Response Waived | 6th-amendment constitutional-rights cronic-standard due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sandin-v-conner sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel | 1. In denying petitioner's habeas certificate of appealability, where the 3d Circuit's review of the record entirely overlooked that the facts in tria… |
| 21-288 | Lancy White, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-26 | Denied | Response Waived | computer-forensics criminal-procedure cronic-standard e-mail-evidence email-manipulation expert-testimony federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missing-evidence strickland-standard | 1. Whether under the Strickland standards of deficient performance and prejudice, trial counsel was ineffective by failing to file a proper notice und… |
| 20-8091 | Steven Zapata v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2021-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | competency constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-procedure cronic-standard cronic-v-united-states guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | I. Does the constructive denial of counsel standard under Cronic v. United States or the ineffective assistance of counsel standard under Strickland v… |
| 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… |
| 19-7674 | Kyle K. Clark v. Kevin Lindsay, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-responsibility cronic-standard right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-action united-states-v-cronic | DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT DEPART FROM THIS COURT'S PRIOR DECISIONS AND CREATE A CONFLICT WITH ITS OWN PRECEDENT AND A SPLIT WITH OTHER CIRCUITS REQUIRING … |
| 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 | Petitioner alleged that his conviction and death sentence were caused by per se ineffective assistance under United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (19… |
| 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… |
| 18-7208 | Nicholas Maslonka v. Noah Nagy, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-02 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | constructive-denial critical-stage cronic-standard cronic-v-united-states habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-action | Is there a requirement that state action contribute to counsel's absence from a critical stage of the proceedings in order for there to be a construct… |