| 25A150 |
Maurice Cruz-Webster v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5005 |
Tawsif Tajwar v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cumulative-error evidence-suppression jury-instructions mental-state sixth-amendment trial-court |
Whether a determinative response by the trial court to a jury question posed during deliberation regarding a question of fact results in prejudice to … |
| 24-5344 |
Jose Adolpho Castillo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel strickland-standard van-arsdall-factors |
1. Whether this Court's holding in Strickland v. Washington ,
466 U.S. 668 (1984), requires reviewing courts to consider
the cumulative effect of cou… |
| 24-5180 |
Lemuel S. Whiteside v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa criminal-procedure cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-review strategic-decision-making strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
WHETHER THE ARKANSAS COURTS APPLIED AN INCORRECT STANDARD FOR RESOLVING PETITIONER WHITESIDE'S CLAIMS OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL IN SENTENCI… |
| 23-7765 |
Leon Davis, Jr. v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment cumulative-error death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion strickland-prejudice strickland-standard |
Counsel failed to object to the capital trial court's multiple misleading and inappropriate comments during jury selection about the uniquely gruesome… |
| 23-6573 |
Brenda Evers Andrew v. Tamika White, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
GVR |
Amici (3)Relisted (23)IFP |
criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process gender-presentation gender-stereotyping miranda-rights miranda-violation motherhood prosecutorial-misconduct sex-based-stereotypes sexual-discrimination sexual-history |
1. Whether clearly established federal law as determined by this Court forbids
the prosecution's use of a woman's plainly irrelevant sexual history, g… |
| 23-6106 |
Damion Edward Cruz-Benavente v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-standard constitutional-error criminal-procedure criminal-trial cumulative-error cumulative-errors due-process harmless-error judicial-review procedural-fairness standard-of-review verdict-influence |
To determine whether a criminal trial was unfair because of cumulative errors, does a court review whether the aggregate errors—both preserved and for… |
| 23-5038 |
Kurt Michaels v. Ron Davis, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (13)IFP |
aggravating-evidence appellate-review capital-case confession confession-evidence cumulative-error harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-deliberation jury-deliberations ninth-circuit-review |
Whether a court reviewing a cold record in a capital case may determine that the effect of an erroneously admitted confession and other improper aggra… |
| 22-989 |
Rodney Lynn Dalton v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-04-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial cumulative-error due-process prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review |
What is the appropriate standard for determining cumulative prosecutorial misconduct in a criminal trial? |
| 22-6534 |
Terry Lynn King v. Tony Mays, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-trial constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-error due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment harmless-error judicial-review |
(1) Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
requires that courts consider the aggregate effect of multiple legal errors, as the Fir… |
| 22-613 |
Robert S. Schwartzberg v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-client-privilege cumulative-error cumulative-error-doctrine ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington work-product-doctrine |
This case arises from a domestic dispute involving Petitioner, Robert S. Schwartzberg. The alleged victim claimed that he attacked and sexually assaul… |
| 22-5718 |
Amos Westmoreland, Jr. v. Aimee Smith, Warden |
Georgia |
2022-09-29 |
Granted |
IFP |
conflict-free-assistance-of-counsel cumulative-error due-process equal-protection federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Question One:
Prior iu February iu, 2020, Georgia [Supreme Court] Iiau repeatedly held iliai
although the combined effects of trial counsel's errors … |
| 22-5331 |
Mark Anthony Williams v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-sexual-conduct cross-examination cumulative-error due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
I. THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT TRIAL WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT THE CONVICTION OF CSC 1st DEGREE WHERE THERE WAS NO PROOF OF PENETRATION AS REQUIRED BY… |
| 22-5165 |
Daniel Boos v. Jermaine White, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-prejudice due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-errors |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5109 |
Teddy Brian Sanchez v. Ronald Broomfield, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-error brain-dysfunction capital-sentencing capital-trial circuit-split cumulative-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit penalty-phase prejudice-standard |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when it found that Petitioner's "organic" brain dysfunction was not enough of a red flag to trigger a duty for trial coun… |
| 21-7853 |
Gregory Spiros Demetrulius v. Ron Broomfield, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-claim cumulative-error due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus harmless-error ninth-circuit state-concessions state-court-error state-court-findings |
In 1995, a California state-court jury sentenced petitioner Gregory
Demetrulias to death after finding him guilty of first-degree murder and finding
t… |
| 21-7338 |
Chandler Saxton v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction cumulative-error due-process fair-trial judicial-review medical-issues procedural-error trial-court |
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It UIUL REUERSE >» Gm/uiCTiort UHE/V W nG&… |
| 21-7306 |
Jonathan Mota v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellant-standard appellate-review circuit-conflict civil-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error district-court due-process judicial-error legal-prejudice prejudice |
What degree of error and of prejudice must an appellant show
with respect to individuals errors of the district court before those
errors may be consi… |
| 21-6588 |
Amy Bishop Anderson v. Deidra Wright, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability claim-exhaustion cumulative-error effective-assistance-of-counsel exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-determination voluntariness-of-plea voluntary-plea |
Charged and convicted of capital murder, sentenced to Life Without Parole
Question 1: Whether the 11th Circuit Court used a merits determination to d… |
| 21-5971 |
Adrian Torres v. Warren Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-trial cumulative-error doyle-error due-process evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct ptsd right-to-present-defense |
I. Did Trial Counsel Render Ineffective Assistance by Failing to Investigate and Present a PTSD Expert?; Was an Evidentiary Hearing Was Required?
II.… |
| 21-5577 |
Terry Darnell Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split circuit-split cumulative-error cumulative-error-doctrine fair-trial federal-habeas-corpus fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
1. Does the cumulative error doctrine in the context of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim apply whereby individual errors, insufficient to ne… |
| 21-5166 |
Leobardo Valladares v. Craig Koenig, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidentiary-hearing first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Did the Prosecution Fail to Prove Beyond a
Reasonable Doubt That Valladares Committed First
Degree Murder?
II. Did Trial Counsel Render Ineffectiv… |
| 20-7605 |
Cody James Martinez v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-trial cumulative-error due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pecuniary-gain right-to-counsel statutory-aggravator strickland-standard trial-counsel |
I.Trial counsel only ever met with Mr. Martinez for a total of 1:08 in the 2-½ years preceding this capital trial.
II.Arizona used a flawed premedita… |
| 20-7086 |
Michael Fetherolf v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-interpretation cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus hearsay jackson-v-virginia sixth-circuit-review suspension-clause |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred when it applied a death penalty sentencing Strickland review, in a non death penalty case, raising an actual innocence… |
| 20-6411 |
Miguel A. Ramirez v. California |
California |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error defendant-rights due-process evidence-admissibility jury-instructions prejudicial-error sexual-abuse |
1. whetheR a juRy InstRuction in corractly Stating
That Continous Sexual abuse of a child is a
general intent cRime was PRejudiciael?
2. Whothek the … |
| 20-5425 |
Rasheen J. Gamble v. New York |
New York |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cumulative-error dna-evidence due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct |
I.
WAS DEFENSE COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR
CONSENTING TO THE PROSECUTOR'S EXTREMELY
UNTIMELY REQUEST FOR A DNA SAMPLE —A MOVE
THAT THE APPELLATE DIVISI… |
| 20-145 |
Carl Skidmore v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability cumulative-error de-novo-review district-court evidentiary-hearing fact-finding habeas-corpus post-conviction speculative |
I. Whether a certificate of appealability should have issued to address the question whether a district court may deny a habeas corpus petition as "sp… |
| 20-5221 |
Arthur James Martin v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation capital-trial criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis giglio-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief strickland-test trial-counsel |
1. Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and present evidence that significantly undermines the State's case is deficient performance that re… |
| 20-5086 |
Johnny Mack Sketo Calhoun v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis exculpatory-evidence giglio-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-test trial-counsel |
1. Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and present exculpatory evidence, which significantly undermines the State's evidence is deficient p… |
| 19-1338 |
Briley W. Piper v. Darrin Young, Warden |
South Dakota |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure cumulative-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial jury-trial-waiver plea-bargaining pre-plea-advisory prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-jury-trial waiver-of-jury-sentencing waiver-of-jury-trial |
The South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that Briley did not knowingly and intelligently waive his right to a jury trial. But the South Dakota Supreme… |
| 19-7746 |
William A. Runnels v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-of-parents cumulative-error due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parental-discipline parental-rights reasonable-discipline strict-scrutiny substitutable-discipline |
Whether the trial court could infringe on, and take away, a parent's constitutional right to reasonable discipline of their child absent strict scruti… |
| 19-6808 |
Phillip E. Smith v. Collins, First Name Unknown, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cumulative-error due-process fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit severance sixth-amendment slack-v-mcdaniel trial-severance video-evidence |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability to a petitioner who raised four substantial claims that his conviction was unconst… |
| 19-5232 |
Ricky Ray Malone v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis federal-law harmless-error harmlessness-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-component |
1. Where plain error review includes a built-in prejudice component, is subjecting an acknowledged plain error to a second round of harmlessness revie… |
| 18-9834 |
Carlos Alberto Ochoa-Orozco v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-error cumulative-error due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct rule-18 sentencing sixth-amendment venue venue-challenge |
1. Whether the district court violated Appellant's right to due process, and his Sixth Amendment right to affair trial, where' the district court 'lac… |
| 18-9409 |
Fermin Guerrero v. Martin Biter, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-errors criminal-trial-errors cumulative-error cumulative-prejudice due-process eyewitness-testimony habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informant-testimony strickland strickland-standard strickland-violation |
1. Does the Constitution require a court on habeas review to assess cumulatively the prejudice caused by multiple constitutional errors at a criminal … |
| 18-9202 |
Edilberto Maso Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-statements jury-instructions standard-of-review trial-procedure |
1) Did the Fifth Circuit err by affirming the district court admission of
hearsay statements made by an unindicted co-conspirator over the objection o… |
| 18-9120 |
Russell Frey v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault cumulative-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-issues fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial prejudice right-to-counsel |
1.)Does the defendant Russel' Frey deserve a new trial or conviction vacated based on counsels overall health and his performance overall violated def… |
| 18-1313 |
Michael Moran v. California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights cumulative-effect cumulative-error due-process fair-trial in-custody-statements miranda miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel right-to-present-a-defense |
Could a jurist of reason find that the state court unreasonably applied clearly established federal law in determining that admission of petitioner's … |
| 18-8571 |
Javier Pellecer v. California |
California |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cumulative-error due-process fair-trial gang-evidence impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
I.
WHETHER THE SPECAL CIRCUMSTANCE AND GANG EVIDENCE ARE
UNSUPPORTED BY SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE, DENYING PETITIONER
DUE PROCESS OF LAW.
II.
WHETHER THE … |
| 18-7888 |
Furn-Lee Salomon v. Patrick Nogan, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel passport-fraud pre-trial-investigation prejudicial-testimony pretrial-investigation strategic-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel witness-testimony |
WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO CONDUCT ANY PRETRIAL INVESTIGATIONS TO AT LEAST INTERVIEW POTENTIAL WITNESSES THAT COULD HAVE SUPPORTED P… |
| 18-7703 |
Nathan Smith III v. Sherry Pennywell, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
2254(d)(2) cumulative-error de-novo-review deference due-process fact-finding fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standard-of-review unreasonable-determination |
1)
DID THE CCA SO STRETCH THE FACTS IN THIS CASE SO
UNREASONABLY THAT NO DEFERENCE COULD BE POSSIBLE
TO ITS INTERPETATION OF WHAT OCCURRED IN THE TACO… |
| 18-7406 |
Benjamin James Boatman v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure cumulative-error drug-induced-psychosis due-process heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel |
Mr. Boatman alleged that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to conduct, develop, and present readily available evidence of a drug-induced psych… |
| 18-742 |
Brandon Washington v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-review cumulative-effect cumulative-error due-process ineffective-assistance performance prejudice prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel trial-counsel-errors |
Whether, under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a court assessing the prejudice resulting from trial counsel's errors should consider ea… |
| 18-6762 |
Edward Louis Thomas v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus harrington-v-richter hinton-v-alabama ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
DID THE TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS APPLY THE WRONG STANDARD OF REVIEW IN ANALYZING THE CLAIM OF DEFICIENT PERFORMANCE BY TRIAL COUNSEL?
DID THE … |
| 18-6486 |
In Re Steve G. Hernandez |
|
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-material brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence-suppression impeachment ineffective-assistance perjury witness-impeachment |
(A) WHAT IS CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHEN:
Trial counsel Quintino did not Investigate and Properly examine the FR… |
| 18-6344 |
Brandon Eugene Lacy v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health neuropsychological-evaluation neuropsychological-testing Sixth-Amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington |
1. Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court misapplied this Court's ruling in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 688 (1984) by finding it reasonable for tri… |
| 18-50 |
Linda Carty v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
brady-violation brady-violations capital-case capital-murder constitutional-error constitutional-errors cumulative-error cumulative-prejudice due-process habeas-review heightened-scrutiny strickland-standard strickland-violation |
1. Whether the Constitution requires a court on habeas review in a capital case to assess cumulatively the prejudice caused by multiple constitutional… |
| 18-5090 |
Quonshay Douglas-Ricardo Mason v. DeWayne Burton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aedpa cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct offutt-v-united-states sixth-circuit standard-of-review state-court-adjudication ungar-v-sarafite |
WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT, IN LIGHT OF THE CLEARLY ESTABLISHED HOLDINGS OF OFFUTT V. UNITED STATES, 348 U.S. 11, 13 (1954), AND UNGAR V. SARAFITE, 376… |