due-deference

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
25-5846	Elwood Lewis Thomas v. Virginia	Virginia	2025-10-09	Denied	IFP	appellate-review due-deference legal-issues miranda-waiver standard-of-review supreme-court	Whether a Miranda waiver was voluntary is a question that will always involve a mixture of fact and law on appellate review. All geographic Federal Ci…
19-7646	Davion Fitzgerald v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2020-02-19	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	categorical-approach criminal-law due-deference federalism federalism-principles judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-subjectivity sentencing-guidelines state-court-deference state-courts state-criminal-statutes state-statute statutory-interpretation	May a federal court dismiss state precedent interpreting the state's own criminal statute as an 'odd hypothetical' based on 'legal imagination' to sub…
18-380	Darrel Vannoy, Warden v. John David Floyd	Fifth Circuit	2018-09-24	Denied		actual-innocence appellate-procedure brady-violation due-deference due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-v-perkins schlup-v-delo standard-of-review supreme-court-review	Whether the court of appeals failed to apply due deference under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and (e)(1) to the ruling of the Louisiana Supreme Court