duty-to-investigate

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7238 Richard Lee Devito v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court duty-to-investigate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el miller-el-standard panel-rehearing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-law strickland strickland-ineffective-assistance Did the Circuit Court exceed the threshold inquiry as prescribed in Miller-El?
22-5994 Kevin Leon Lucien v. Texas Texas 2022-11-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure duty-to-investigate ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mitigating-evidence punishment standard-of-review trial-counsel voluntary-intoxication Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to investigate and present evidence of voluntary intoxication as mitigating evidence at punishment?
20-5476 Derek Tyler Horton v. Alabama Alabama 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights duty-to-investigate fourth-amendment law-enforcement lawful-arrest pretext pretextual-arrest probable-cause warrant-validity Whether a police officer's reason for acting should factor into the Fourth Amendment inquiry