cumulative-prejudice

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7190 Danny Lee Jones v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2025-05-13 Dismissed IFP cumulative-prejudice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a court reviewing an ineffective assistance-of-counsel claim to consider the cumulative prejudice stemming from t…
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 Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to multiple errors by trial counsel, which cumulati…
19-7407 Paula Bennett v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP closeness-of-case constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns cumulative-errors cumulative-prejudice ineffective-assistance prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-likelihood sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard strickland-v-washington sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-counsel Whether a court may conduct a prejudice analysis that focuses solely on the sufficiency of the evidence presented, or must instead consider the closen…
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 Does the Constitution require a cumulative assessment of multiple constitutional errors at a criminal trial?
18-5868 William David Cannon v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cumulative-prejudice due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the cumulative effect of multiple constitutional violations, including ineffective assistance of counsel, deprived the defendant of a fair 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 Whether the Constitution requires a court on habeas review in a capital case to assess cumulatively the prejudice caused by multiple constitutional er…