effective-assistance-counsel

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6336 Joshua J. Lewandowski v. Jefferey Perkins, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights effective-assistance-counsel fetal-alcohol-syndrome guilty-plea mental-disability sixth-amendment A. Does the Sixth Amendment to the United State Constitution require Defense Counsel to ensure A mentally disabled defendants guilty plea tod of Congr…
25-5818 Clyde Wendell Smith v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-10-07 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest effective-assistance-counsel postconviction-relief procedural-bar simultaneous-representation state-court-jurisdiction Petitioner and his brother were adversely situated codefendants in two separate felony cases over which the same judge presided. That judge appointed …
24-7393 Walter Aceituno v. United States First Circuit 2025-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis effective-assistance-counsel immigration-consequences padilla-standard permanent-ban sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defense attorney is required to advise a client of a permanent immigration re-entry ban under Padilla v. Kentucky and the Sixth Ame…
24-6930 Demetris Sean Robinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court effective-assistance-counsel evidence-suppression fourth-circuit Whether the District Court erred by allowing evidence obtained in violation of petitioner's constitutional rights and whether the Fourth Circuit Court…
24-6905 Jonathon William-Durand Neuhard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP autism-representation criminal-defense diminished-capacity effective-assistance-counsel sentencing-mitigation sixth-amendment Whether a trial defense attorney representing an adult autistic criminal defendant provides effective assistance of counsel by concealing the defendan…
22-5577 Marvin Davis v. Kevin Genovese, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-interview child-witness confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-counsel forensic-interviewer hearsay hearsay-statements sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the trial court erred in allowing the child video interview and whether T.C.A. section 24-7-123 is unconstitutional?
19-7636 Gerald W. Eiland v. United States District of Columbia 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment auto-shop-business certificate-of-appealability effective-assistance-counsel expert-testimony franks-challenge ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informant pen-register section-2255 sixth-amendment wiretap-challenge wiretaps Did the district court abuse its discretion in denying Eiland's motion Pursuant to 28 USC Section 2255 without a hearing?
19-6373 Casey Dullea Peppin v. Washington Washington 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP art constitutional-interpretation copyright court-determination due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence file-sharing jurisdiction legal-error prejudice sexually-explicit-material source-code Did the Washington State Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Washington err by granting as fact that the defendant shared files with the public?
19-5234 Stephen P. Dowdney, Jr. v. Washington Washington 2019-07-18 Denied IFP anders-procedure anders-v-california appellate-review direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection mccoy-v-court-of-appeals Does Washington state use the Anders v. California procedure to circumvent a meaningful direct (first) appeal, effective assistance of counsel, due pr…
18-9771 Dennis William Robinson v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-suppression fair-trial iada-violation jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial suppression-of-evidence Did State Court violate Petitioner's constitutional rights?
18-7876 Jordie L. Callahan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competency mental-evaluation sixth-amendment Whether a Mentally Deficient Defendant is Entitled to a Competency Hearing or Mental Evaluation
18-5665 Orestes Cabrera v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP all-writs-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel immigration-consequences nolle-prosequi padilla-claim padilla-v-kentucky retroactivity Whether petitioner's rights under the due process clause and the effective assistance of counsel were violated