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25-7054 Kriston Price v. Ohio Ohio 2026-03-18 Pending IFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-error jury-instructions self-defense sixth-amendment 1. Whether due process and the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of appellate counsel are violated where the state courts deny reopening u…
25A1006 Jason Diaz v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2026-03-13 Application effective-assistance-of-counsel formal-charging ineffective-assistance police-interview sixth-amendment strickland-standard Question not identified.
25-7000 Frank James Neal v. Michigan Michigan 2026-03-11 Pending IFP appellate-counsel due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection post-conviction-review sixth-amendment In Roe v Flores-Ortega, this Court said that the decision to appeal rests with the defendant, so counsel has a constitutionally-imposed duty to consul…
25-6996 Brandon Richard Wells v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2026-03-10 Pending IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel pennsylvania-constitution right-to-appeal sixth-amendment Was Petitioner's right to appeal as guaranteed by the Pa. Constitution, Articel V, § 9, denied when the Superior Court waived issues and affirmed the …
25-6969 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2026-03-06 Pending IFP access-to-courts due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process sixth-amendment Did the Florida Supreme Court wrongly dismiss the Petitioner's appeal after Petitioner was arrested without any legal basis or cause, and the lower co…
25-6914 Murray Lawrence v. Alabama Alabama 2026-02-26 Pending IFP batson-discrimination brady-violation coerced-testimony effective-assistance-of-counsel forensic-evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether the prosecution violated Brady v Maryland when it suppressed exculpatory forensic evidence concealed the absence of any Alabama autopsy and…
25-6890 Tiffany Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendant pro-se-representation procedural-default sixth-amendment 1. Whether Petitioner was denied effective assistance of appellate counsel when court-appointed counsel failed to file or consult Petitioner about fil…
25-6841 Philong Huynh v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. California 2026-02-18 Pending IFP collateral-order-doctrine disqualification effective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal irreparable-harm judicial-impartiality Do the right to effective counsel as denied by the trial court's refusal to hold hearing on substitution of counsel and the right to an impartial judg…
25-6692 Ana Rosenda Mancio v. Lavelle Parker, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2026-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus strickland-standard 1. In applying Berger v. United States, 295 U.S. 78 (1935) to a Habeas Corpus Claim based on the State's unreasonable application of "characterized mi…
25-6359 Travis Tuggle v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine sixth-amendment technological-advances unreasonable-search 1. Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel was infringed upon when counsel failed to argue that, in orde…
25-6094 Chimene Hamilton Onyeri v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing law-enforcement-testimony rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment trial-strategy I. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether a defendant is denied his Sixth Amendment right to conflict-free counsel where trial co…
25A206 Arthur Fayne v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-08-21 Presumed Complete effective-assistance-of-counsel material-misrepresentation non-victim-compensation pro-se-representation restitution right-to-defense 1. The Sixth Circuit issued its ruling in this case on May 21, 2025, just one day before this Court decided Kousisis v. United States, which directly …
25A68 Jacquel O'Neal v. Texas Texas 2025-07-17 Presumed Complete effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus jury-instruction sexual-assault-of-child sixth-amendment texas-penal-code Question not identified.
24-7132 Donovan Jacob Farr v. Texas Texas 2025-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea plea-agreement Did the state court disregard this Court's precedent by upholding the constitutional validity of Petitioner's guilty plea despite recognizing the tria…
24-7076 Delowar Mohammed Hossain v. United States Second Circuit 2025-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP classified-information criminal-defendant-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether a Fifth Amendment Due Process, or a Sixth Amendment effective assistance of counsel, claim arises when security-cleared defense counsel are no…
24-1100 Ashu Joshi v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment marital-relationship sexual-exploitation tenth-amendment 1. Whether the federal prosecution of Petitioner for sexual exploitation of a minor under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2251(a), 2423(a), and 2252A(a)(2) is unconstitu…
24-6991 Jessica L. Morris v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment IS CERTIORARI APPROPRIATE BECAUSE PETITIONER WAS DENIED HER RIGHT TO PRESENT A DEFENSE IN VIOLATION OF US CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS V, VI AND XIV? IS…
24-6513 Tavon Johnathon Magee v. Michigan Michigan 2025-02-10 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-standard habeas-relief sixth-amendment I. HAS PETITIONER MAGEE MADE A PROPER SHOWING OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE TO HAVE HIS CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIMS ADDRESSED ON THE MERITS? II. WHETHER THE SUPREME …
24-6215 Liston Watson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-conviction plea-agreement post-conviction-relief Whether the right to effective assistance of counsel attaches during a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding when counsel is communicating a plea agreement to t…
24-6105 Ryan Lewis Hilyard v. Wyoming Wyoming 2024-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-default strickland-standard I. DID THE WYOMING SUPREME COURT APPLY AND FOLLOW FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE CORRECTLY? II. WAS THE WYOMING SUPREME COURT'S DECISION ARBITRARY, CAPRIC…
24-6081 Christopher Zamarripa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing sixth-amendment WHETHER ZAMARRIPA WAS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL GUARANTEED BY THE SIXTH AMENDMENT AS A RESULT OF HIS COUNSEL'S ADVICE THAT HE ACCEPT THE …
24-5954 In Re Tony Gooch 2024-11-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel monell-liability section-1983 writ-of-mandamus I. "Whether a local government or Municipal Corporation could be held liable under 42 U.S.C.S. 1983, or held responsible under Monell Liability, for i…
24-5777 Daniel Loren Jenkins v. Erin Reyes, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2024-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege confidentiality constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Does clearly established Supreme Court precedent establish that defense counsel renders ineffective assistance of counsel by disclosing information pr…
24-5644 Jose Moreno v. Jim Robinson Ninth Circuit 2024-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa-statute constitutional-error effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus legal-innocence 1. Whether the actual-innocence exception to AEDPA's statute of limitations applies to someone who is legally or statutory innocent, in where an indiv…
24-271 Jerry Arnold Westrom v. Minnesota Minnesota 2024-09-10 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy shed-dna sixth-amendment A. Whether society is prepared to recognize a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment in an individual's shed DNA, as evidenced b…
24-5123 Angel Sanchez v. Teresa Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP calcrim-375 constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-acts sixth-amendment WheVW petitioner Was Denied His FiFtty 3/Xrh//Avui Fow+eetH AfoeYiWvif Right +0 Due process Av\H Ftxvo Tm\ Because ottt C0(avTS USe OF prior Acts In…
23-7799 Esther Martin v. Indiana Indiana 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-to-stand-trial counsel-performance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings sixth-amendment The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the trial of incompetent persons, and the Sixth Amendment entitles criminal defen…
23-7740 William H. Baker v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the procedural default creates a miscarriage of justice that denies Petitioner his fundamental rights to due process as guaranteed by the Fift…
23-1278 Tsai-Fen Lee v. Washington Washington 2024-06-06 Denied Response Waived appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea ineffective-assistance personal-restraint plea-bargaining right-to-counsel voluntariness-of-plea 1. Whether Trial Court erred in accepting defendant Tsai-Fen Lee to plead guilty when the plea was on its face equivocal. 2. Can Lee's guilty plea be…
23-1256 Donna Davis Javitz v. Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied civil-rights confrontation confrontation-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel first-amendment-retaliation free-speech judicial-misconduct mistrial trial-fairness 1. Whether the Petitioner was denied the constitutional right to a fair trial in a First Amendment retaliation case when the judge: (1) struck Petitio…
23-7460 William Burton v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied IFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-stipulation fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana plea-rights sixth-amendment strickland-standard Was Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel violated when his trial attorney stipulated to the prosecutio…
23-7425 Orlando Bell v. United States District of Columbia 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1) Was counsel ineffective in not using compulsory process for obtaining witnesses, identified by the United States Park Police and the AUSA in the mo…
23-7406 Bobby Rouse v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment 1. Is it a violation of appellant's Sixth Amendment constitutional rights for defense counsel to refuse to investigate the evidence and interview witn…
23-7302 In Re Michael A. Farrell 2024-04-24 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment full-and-fair-hearing reasonable-doubt state-court Did the U.S. District Court violate petitioners XIV Amendment right to due process, equal protection of the law and 28 U.S.C. 2254(d) by failing to ho…
23-7278 Kasheen Samuels v. United States Second Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment-modification jury-instructions sixth-amendment Did the Second Circuit err in failing to find that Kasheen Samuels' Fifth Amendment rights to an indictment by a Grand Jury and due process and his Si…
23-7231 Bryan Christopher O'Rourke v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-04-16 Denied IFP 18-usc-921a33b 18-usc-922g9 constitutional-rights domestic-violence effective-assistance-of-counsel firearms-prohibition ineffective-assistance misdemeanor-domestic-violence padilla-precedent padilla-v-kentucky second-amendment Whether, pursuant to Padilla, counsel is a fortiori constitutionally deficient for failing to notify a United States citizen of the direct and/or coll…
23-7084 Gregory S. Kudla v. Kenneth Black, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure arbitrary-enforcement constitutional-vagueness discriminatory-enforcement due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment vagueness Is the undefined/ non-specific/ ambiguous language used in Ohio's App.R.26(B) (2) .(c) that results in arbitrary/ incon sistent/ and discriminatory e…
23-7000 Jereme Lee Escobedo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias sex-crimes sixth-amendment QUESTION ONE: Does a criminal defendant charged with sex-crimes have the same Constitutional rights as a defendant charged with non-sex-crimes? QUES…
23-6999 Ronald Monique Best v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-effectiveness criminal-procedure defendant-representation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy L)W\ 3U\lV and punishment 'is 4he. sale, 'issue. Qor bhe. juri^'is i4 ever (ptrrms&ible 'vor cooesei bo motae. -Vine urn lateral decision 4o can eer…
23-953 Brandon Michael Council v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied Amici (3) circuit-split competency criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-death-penalty judicial-discretion mental-competence trial-competency In the middle of his federal death-penalty trial, Brandon Council had a delusional breakdown, asking his attorneys to "subpoena God." The District Cou…
23-951 Gordon Blake v. Martin Gamboa, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-03-01 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto notice statute-of-limitations substantial-sexual-conduct vagueness 1. Whether Ex Post Facto protections were denied by the extension of the state statute of limitations by an unforeseeable judicial interpretation of a…
23-6658 Ricky Johnson, aka Rodney Knuckles v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-02-02 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review ohio-supreme-court post-conviction procedural-rules revocation-hearing PV-ST-S l Ch hSfb\ £ /^~T (Of Ei^RqR. Loas de^hSicA fpfw- +o Pf\\rf KellQCjgj \/«.-Slna^nnAkp 4-C? F* 3d. £03? teVOCPftibti \)£&h/p <L)l\kJg.h, fHolr…
23-6536 Kidada Savage v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-conflict-of-interest conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice sixth-amendment trial-court-inquiry WHETHER THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY EXTENDED THIS COURT'S DECISION IN CUYLER V. SULLIVAN, 446 U.S. 335 (1980) BY HOLDING THAT EVEN WHERE A TRIAL COU…
23-6464 Michael Edward Aguilar v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-code due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-law statutory-ambiguity timeliness Question not identified.
23-6460 Richard C. Duerson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice newly-discovered-evidence pro-se rule-33 sixth-amendment supervisory-power 1. Given that Rule 33 of the Federal Criminal Rules of Procedure allows a court discretion to grant a new trial if the interest of justice require, …
23-6204 Angel Anthony Sanchez v. California California 2023-12-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-code fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-acts-instructions sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether petitioner was denied his Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and fair trial because of the court's use of prior acts …
23-6108 Bryan Scott Cavett v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-procedure Whether or not State violates an accused persons Due Process Rights when Texas High Court denies his State 11.07 Habeas Corpus, Without Written Order,…
23-564 Timothy Bing, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response Waived due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer pretrial-investigation pretrial-motions sixth-amendment state-attorney Whether a policy by the State Attorney's Office which punished the petitioner for engaging in a pretrial investigation of his case as well as filing p…
23-444 Steven Lee Moss v. Gary Miniard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment counsel-denial cronic-exception effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance prejudice sixth-amendment state-action strickland-standard strickland-v-washington united-states-v-cronic The question presented is whether, when counsel is physically present, state action is required before a court may find a complete denial of counsel u…
23-5695 Stephen Michael Michuda v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendants indigent-rights ineffective-assistance procedural-bar public-defender public-defenders time-bar 1. Is it unconstitutional for the State of Minnesota to block all avenues for indigent against public defenders? 2. Is it unconstitutional for the St…
23-5677 Rodtravion Woods v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights credibility credibility-challenge effective-assistance-of-counsel government-witness habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance prejudice sixth-amendment trial-counsel Was petitioner prejudicially denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel when his counsel failed to impeach a critical gove…
23-5574 Ramone L. Wright v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process notice-requirement self-representation sixth-amendment trial-preparation Question not identified.
23-5359 James Thomas Burke v. Nick Deml, Commissioner, Vermont Department of Corrections, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment #1. Whether Americans are lawfully entitled to conflict free defense counsel? #2. Whether Americans are lawfully entitled to effective assistance of …
23-5307 Curt Daniel Crowder v. Texas Texas 2023-08-09 Denied IFP appellate-process appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance remedy right-to-counsel right-to-present-witnesses trial-procedure trial-process When a citizen is deprived of the right to present witnesses in his defense, and effective assistance of counsel, in both the trial and appellate proc…
23-5296 Leonel Marin-Torres v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-justice-reform effective-assistance-of-counsel equitable-relief first-step-act guidelines-range ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment 1. Whether a district court, when deciding a First Step Act motion on the pleadings, complies with Concepcion v. United States, when it fails to calcu…
23-5206 Francisco J. Castaneda v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-convictions criminal-procedure detention-standards due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation-tactics law-enforcement police-questioning search-and-seizure Question not identified.
23-5203 Ronald Marion Carpenter v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-rights credibility criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health-records THIS PETITION PRESENTS NOVEL QUESTIONS OF LAW, THE RESOLUTION OF WHICH WILL DEVELOP THE LAW AND HAVE NATIONWIDE IMPACT, WHILE ESTABLISHING A NEEDED AN…
23A36 Jerry J. Davis, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-17 Presumed Complete 28-USC-2255 effective-assistance-of-counsel franks-issue habeas-corpus motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment Question not identified.
23-5003 Monty J. Banister v. Kansas Kansas 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure duty-to-consult effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance notice-of-appeal post-conviction-relief roe-v-flores-ortega sixth-amendment trial-counsel Does this Court's decision in Roe v. Flores-Ortega, 528 U.S. 470 (2000), establish at least a rebuttable presumption that trial counsel has a Sixth Am…
22-7895 Anthony James Merrick v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certiorari-appeal civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing l,, Whevs +V\e CooH cxtsc A-Yolo A c&oitset Kt\e**a AHc dltso-cX dew\«tf\cledi -W\e.vj re&jSedl Vvw\ -\V\oA 01^4 * ckcA +We Caor-V loCLve a_ cAlA^ *V…
22-7801 Immanuel Christian Price v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-claim counsel-performance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mixed-representation plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing Question not identified.
22-7809 Brandy Bain Jennings v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence postconviction-proceedings postconviction-relief sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Eleventh Circuit's analysis of ineffective assistance of counsel claims fails to protect the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance…
22-7652 Mark A. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights counsel-communication criminal-procedure deadline-extension effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Whether this Court's holding in Missouri v. Frye, 566 U.S. 134 (2012), that an attorney has a duty pursuant to the Sixth Amendment to communicate a fo…
22-7595 Arnoldo Navarette v. Vincent Horton, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial h |Q\fy| C'vV €:M*r %.tf b | be vaU^^* "7 "lo^ »7 ti> ■ c\ -Vm ILO' r 3C k\ ^ % t hr. * {0icC^\^ ^ S' ^ v| ^<&
22-1097 Don Fitzgerald Hancock v. United States District of Columbia 2023-05-10 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error religious-freedom religious-garment sixth-amendment witness-testimony Petitioner was convicted of second degree murder based largely on the testimony of the sole witness to the killing, who placed Petitioner at the scene…
22-7426 George Donald Hatt, Jr. v. Washington Washington 2023-05-01 Denied IFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent informed-decision mandatory-minimums offender-score plea-bargain plea-negotiations trial-strategy Does effective assistance of counsel in a plea bargain context require that counsel actually and substantially assist a client in deciding whether to …
22-7364 Matthew Caleb Ross v. Texas Texas 2023-04-25 Denied IFP civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance texas-court I. PETITIONER QUESTIONS THE LEGALITY OF THE COURT OF OKLAHOMA APPEALS OFFICER'S DISMISSAL OF A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS TO ENJOIN COMMUNITY SUPERVISION N…
22-7349 Thomas J. M. Goodin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit clearly exceeded its authority by failing to consider Mr. Goodin's Motion to Supplement in support of his claim that tria…
22-7326 Quandraiko Hayes v. Mike Brown, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto sentencing COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT THE U S UNREASONABLY DENIED PETITIONER, DUE PROCESS OF DUE PROCESS CLAUSE RIGHTS OF THE U.S. AMENDS V AND XIV…
22-7267 Lloyd Leslie Kindred v. T. Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance interest-of-justice outcome-determination prejudicial-error reasonable-probability sixth-amendment Brawnds(f), tas J deated the 6TH mend ment oF Heo VU, Lornctidubion: Ke oarebing Lown sed s Pray Mianee. Wa ad teas onobhy et&ti ve"and Hrat Here /5 a…
22-7256 Mickey Wahl v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit sixth-amendment uncertified-issues I. Whether Mr. Wahl Was Denied His Right To Effective Assistance Of Counsel In Violation Of The Guarantees Of The Sixth & Fourteenth Amendments? II. …
22-7173 Marty Tarell Gaston v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial motion-for-appropriate-relief state-court state-laws 1. Did the North Carolina State Superior Court deny this Petitioner actual justice in the face of established State laws allowing the filing of a se…
22-7122 Quintel West v. Fredeane Artis, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-testimony fourth-amendment probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct reckless-driving sixth-amendment warrantless-arrest I Detective Doyle testified that petitioner was arrested without a warrant for reckless driving. The reckless driving allegation is not supported by a…
22-7000 Nickless Whitson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment I- fj/l/l. UJHTrf^Aj Cd//r£/vX>5 '7'MA'T t/e /<l€C€i-v<~o 7A£Ff£errve. A5S7 s7AAC f o p CauAJsec Du/txbQ {~pzs 7^/to Afcode^cn&jci xA OJftecH Vep&z'…
22-850 Jacqueline Graham v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied Response Waived effective-assistance-of-counsel party-presentation-rule plea-bargaining sixth-amendment united-states-v-sineneng-smith waiver 1. Whether a defendant waives her Sixth Amendment claim by not asking the trial court to reinstate a plea offer that expired before her counsel convey…
22-6939 Francisco Flores v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-appeals federal-review habeas-corpus mailbox-rule procedural-default Can a Clerk of a federal appellate court refuse to file a pleading by a State habeas petitioner seeking a Panel Rehearing from the denial of an applic…
22-6874 Anael Sainfil v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP body-armor-enhancement due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence jackson-v-virginia miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona sixth-amendment 1. May this Court's decision in 99, S. Ct. 2781, 61 LED 2d 560 443 U.S. 3079 Jackson v. Virginia as to what constitutes insufficient evidence be app…
22-6781 Samuel Adkins v. Texas Texas 2023-02-14 Denied IFP attorney-client-relationship criminal-trial effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pre-trial-proceedings sexual-abuse sixth-amendment trial Did the state court err when it held that Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to the Effective assistance of counsel was not violated where Petitioner …
22-6670 Jimmy Ray Lacy, Jr. v. Chandler Cheeks Sixth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jailhouse-informant prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1. Was Jimmy Ray Lacy Jr. denied a fair trial under the fourteenth amendment when a key state witness misled the jury as to the benefits received an…
22-6680 Michael Stapleton v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP aiding-and-abetting alien-smuggling circuit-split defective-indictment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction pro-se-rights sixth-amendment No: 1 )Was the Court of Appeals wrong for failing to dismiss the defective indictment that created a split in circuits where the the Fifth and Ninth…
22-6592 James Stacey Harber v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing 1. Was Mr. Harber denied the effective assistance of counsel at the plea and sentencing phase of trial? 2. Did the district court err by denying Mr. …
22-6435 Willie Tyrone Shipley v. D. Holbrook Ninth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment witness-testimony 1.) Is a defendant deprived of his right to Confrontation and due Process within the meaning of the Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments Whea the District…
22-6436 Timothy D. Robertson v. Illinois Illinois 2022-12-30 Denied IFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-petition prior-conviction reversal sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment 1). Did Petitioner Robertson Establish and Show "Cause" for filing a Successive Post Conviction Petition by Advancing an Overwhelmingly Substantial "M…
22-6403 Marco D. Martin v. Fredeane Artis, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel electronic-monitoring ex-post-facto lifetime-electronic-monitoring plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment Whether the trial court denied Petitioner his Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights, where the state injected issues broader than the Petition…
22-6221 Oscar J. Martinez-Hernandez v. United States First Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment A. WHETHER FORMER PROSECUTOR WHO INSTITUTED THREE INDICTMENTS AGAINST A DEFENDANT AND 12 YEARS LATER DECIDES TO DEFEND HIM UNDER THE SAME THREE INDICT…
22-6180 Alvaro Noe Mendoza-Valencia v. Oregon Oregon 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-relationship criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance jury-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substitution-counsel 1. Can a state trial court deny a criminal defendant's request for substitution counsel without any reasonable inquiry into trial counsel's performanc…
22-6149 Edgar Arellano v. California California 2022-11-23 Denied IFP assistance-of-counsel constitutional-rights criminal-justice-reform effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment mitigating-evidence senate-bill-1333 sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment WEATHER A Re - SeuJTEAICIAI^ HEARING^ .UNDER THE MEVJ . .. LaVJ SeMaTE 2mL\_ - 13^3, JbMT.TLES ft DEFENDANT __ The Hi^hT. _io _effective S-ixth — AMD-…
22-5955 Christopher Wade v. Florida Florida 2022-11-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel-rights due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel petitioner-claims trial-court TVle PtfvfveyftPv /ip/Mtad His fct\/vM<liWKflT K\^VtT& To ew-wrtwii iass 'xstm^ of Mdiink uKitiam ukhtM srrtsTts oomst VW iom 3. ^ Wi^S 'VAt ^t~\\i\QU…
22-5846 Michael Pacelli v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance jurisdiction search-and-seizure statute-of-limitations warrantless-search 1. ) Can a law enforcement agency sieze evidence or record private phone calls without a warrant, and then use the gathered evidence against a defend…
22-5862 Gregory Ramos v. United States Second Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-circuit sixth-amendment Whether the Second Circuit's determination that Petitioner was not denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel consistent with the Sixth A…
22-5724 In Re Chad Small 2022-09-30 Denied IFP compliance-with-rules constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel knowingly-intelligently-voluntarily parties-to-proceeding sixth-amendment 1) WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL 2) WHETHER THE GUILTY PLEA WAS KNOWINGLY, INTELLIGENTLY…
22-5673 Juan Amaya Lozano v. Fredrick Entzel, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-09-26 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel interpreter-rights limited-english-proficiency sentencing sentencing-discretion sixth-amendment 1) Whether the District Court abused it's discretion after ruling that Juan Lozano, (a limited English Proficiency defendant), required a Spanish Inte…
22-5506 Kacey Lewis v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2022-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-discretion state-court-proceedings I. WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS' DEPRIVED OF HIS RIGHTS TO A FAIR ' TRIAL DURING HIS 2009 CRIMINAL TRIAL COURT PROCEEDINGS IN THE JUDICIAL'DISTRICT OF…
22-5356 Joseph Montrel Bourgeois v. Texas Texas 2022-08-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-review double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-court-precedent state-court-review successive-petition supreme-court-precedent Does Slock Burge # vs, united States^py u.s,^ CM33P DPPlt To my Cnss? Dou&is ieoPARoy DOES BzRCWFXELD CSJ CONCuRRETfRuLlNOS reply To roy CASE? Birckf…
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.
21-8261 Elgin Z. Haynie v. Ohio Ohio 2022-06-29 Denied IFP appeal conviction due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation sentencing own faulty pro se representation.
21-8279 Randy William Gay v. Arkansas Arkansas 2022-06-29 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-jury fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire 1. Whether a capital defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments rights to a fair and impartial jury and to the effective assistance of counsel are vi…
21-8188 Joe Davis, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2022-06-21 Denied IFP client-advice constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel requires counsel to advise his client whether acceptance or rejection of a pl…
21-8174 Scott Svoboda v. Ohio Ohio 2022-06-17 Denied IFP attorney-client-privilege attorney-client-relationship confiscation criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy Whether a criminal defendant is denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel when the prosecutor purposely interferes with the attorney-cli…
21-1562 Jermel Leon Reed v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2022-06-14 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment A. Was Reed's right to a grand jury indictment secured by the Fourteenth and Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution was violated when Reed …
21-8023 Xingfei Luo v. California California 2022-06-01 Denied IFP content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions dating-relationship effective-assistance-of-counsel first-amendment fourteenth-amendment nude-photography nudity privacy privacy-expectation Where an individual does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in an image, the State's interest in protecting the individual's privacy interes…
21-7995 Joseph Kurz v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto fifth-circuit fourteenth-amendment reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment (1) Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana properly conclude …
21-7838 Leonardo Divinci Larck v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP communication-failure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lapsed-plea-offer plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel require counsel to communicate a client's inquiry/response to a formal plea offer? …
21-7825 Charles Wycuff v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the procedural default creates a miscarriage of justice that denies Petitioner his fundamental rights to due process as guaranteed by the Fift…
21-7797 Michael G. Peters v. Texas Medical Board Fifth Circuit 2022-05-06 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action breakdown-of-communication criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation substitute-counsel Question not identified.
21-7752 William Edward Gray v. Arkansas Arkansas 2022-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment The Arkansas law of justification, or self-defense, on the date of Petitioner William Gray's offense, recognized the right of an individual to use dea…
21-7743 Matthew J. Kidder v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing sixth-amendment state-court-jurisdiction Is ihe. 5^cde Coor-t re^c,;fed ie Keo^ c*/\ci rwxYe. o. cleAe.fi*' no. S'V+k. cxvdi ft)odee.r\Ui p£jM fs effective G S3'S^nce c? Cocosel cIcm S Tflue …
21-7731 Alonzo Bell v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-discretion proportionate-penalties sentencing Whether the Circuit Court erred in admitting Social Media evidence at trial. Whether Defendant was Denied His Constitutional right to the effective a…
21-7639 Elizabeth Carley v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Whether the 1) Fourth Amendment search and seizure issues, AND 2) Sixth Amendment effective assistance of counsel issues Herein were correctly interpr…
21-7607 Devunaire Damorea Sims v. Michigan Michigan 2022-04-13 Denied IFP appellate-counsel due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-hearing sixth-amendment I. Did the Michigan Supreme Court err in denying this issue when Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counse…
21-7572 Rebekah Rachell Shropshire v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-07 Denied IFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial right-to-present-a-defense I would like to Know wohy am I incarcerated and denied reliet from the state of Texas for the violation of my Constitutional rights after cessive dela…
21-7555 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Nevada Nevada 2022-04-05 Denied IFP double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel liberty-interest pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention reversed-conviction state-statute unlawful-restraint Whether the liberty interest created by state statute extends to prisoners whose convictions are reversed and remanded back to class of pretial detain…
21-7492 In Re Jonathan Manwell 2022-03-29 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel forensic-evidence impartial-tribunal DOES PETITIONER HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO LOCATED AND CONFISCATED EXCULPATORY FORENSIC EVIDENCE, TRANSCRIPTS AND DOCUMENTS NECESSARY FOR A MEANIN…
21-7456 Robert Earl Rowles v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing florida-law ineffective-assistance outcome-of-proceeding post-conviction reasonable-probability right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strategic-decision Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied his constitutional rights to counsel where counsel's r…
21-7401 Harold Edwards v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-sentence liberty-interest sixth-amendment state-court state-procedure 1. Did The State/ District Court Judge's Failure To Abide By Nevada's State Procedural Law Violate My Constitutionally Protected Liberty Interest Unde…
21-7249 Jacob Ivan Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-punishment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel self-defense sentencing-phase sixth-amendment Question not identified.
21-7218 Ryan Antonio Matthews v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit-court fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-certification precedent precedential-analysis standard-of-review Did Petitioner establish that jurists of reason could debate whether he was deprived of his right to the effective assistance of counsel at his juveni…
21-7189 Deimeyon Xavier Allen v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-probable-cause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-be-present subpoena Is the Petitioner afforded due process when filing his Application For Certificate Of Probable Cause? Is the Georgia Supreme Court required to ensure…
21-7117 Frederick Allen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-misrepresentation plagiarism witness-testimony WAS DUE PROCESS VIOLATED WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT PLAGIARIZED A 31-COUNT WORD-FOR-WORD/COMMA-FOR-COMMA MISREPRESENTATION ORIGINALLY ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE…
21-1072 Steven Carrol DeMocker v. Arizona Arizona 2022-02-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-question implausible-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-strategy right-to-counsel third-party-culpability This petition presents the question whether offering an implausible third-party culpability defense violates a defendant's right to the effective assi…
21-7026 Nehemias Samayoa v. United States District of Columbia 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-withdrawal civil-rights coercion dual-sovereignty due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-jurisdiction indigent-defendant standing state-court-judgment When a federal court enters a judgment without proper jurisdiction, does it reach an opinion that would justify a recall of mandate?
21-6895 Marshaun Boykin v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-18 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-interpretation discovery-violation double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel individual-rights judicial-review legal-standing lineup-identification statutory-construction Whether a sworn and verified criminal complaint can be commenced under Illinois law (Ill. Rev. Stat. ch. 38, Para. 109-3(C)) without violating the Fou…
21-6759 Darla Ray Jones v. D. K. Johnson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant criminal-threats drug-possession due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel forgery habeas-corpus prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct On de novo review, is a criminal defendant deprived of the effective assistance of counsel because of her lawyer's conflict of interest when, at the t…
21-6757 Dimitar Petlechkov v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-review judicial-reviewability perjury sixth-amendment Question 1: Is judicial reviewability of a trial attorney's failure to impeach a key prosecution witness with regard to the most critical and material…
21-6700 Tremaine Rashon Wray v. Dennis Bush, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-witness forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel at the PCR hearing, by trial Counsel's failure to object to…
21-6564 Anthony Cruz v. California California 2021-12-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conclusion constitutional-provisions due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction reasons-for-granting standing statement-of-case writ Was my request for motions acknowledge during my Proceeding's of court How was my 6th and 14th Amendments violated? Is there sufficient evidence for…
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…
21-6363 Diane Arellano v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-effect-of-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights sixth-amendment I. ft go against Krr USiCcKfr. Amend. \Z£rr'ght tc> 3. Speedy trial > that- 3-fi exiting d/>^ <Lcu t 8hi'm*?s t© r«^«ste>n£i v/iolafe h?c 7 0c« her re…
21-754 Travis Levi Parrott v. Murray Tatum, Warden Georgia 2021-11-22 Denied Response Waived appeal-denial certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-probable-cause constitutional-right effective-assistance-of-counsel extraneous-evidence georgia-supreme-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions procedural-default Whether the Georgia Supreme Court Erred in Denying Mr. Parrott's Application for Certificate of Probable Cause to Appeal the Denial of His Petition fo…
21-6227 Misael Cordero v. Jonathan Gramp, Administrator, East Jersey State Prison Third Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied IFP circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel false-testimony government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Which divided Courts of Appeals are correct: the Eleventh, Fifth and Second Circuits holding that a due process violation occurs when the governme…
21-6001 Terence Tramaine Andrus v. Texas Texas 2021-10-19 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (17)IFP capital-case criminal-procedure death-penalty effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment stare-decisis strickland-v-washington vertical-stare-decisis I. On remand, did the Texas court reject this Court's conclusions in Andrus v. Texas, 140 S.Ct. 1875 (2020), which were amply supported by the habeas …
21-500 Francis Finster v. New York New York 2021-10-05 Denied constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fraud-upon-the-court mode-of-proceedings-error waiver-of-indictment Under NY law the. trial court's failure to adhere to procedural requirements of the waiver of indictment process, constitutes a mode of proceedings …
21-431 Grant Lloyd Greenwood v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-09-21 Denied Response Waived due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment The question presented by this petition is whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of appellate counsel, and Fourteenth Am…
21-408 Gertrude Parker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived conspiracy-charge criminal-intent criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel general-verdict insufficient-evidence jury-verdict medicare medicare-statutes reasonable-interpretation sixth-amendment WHETHER PARKER WAS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL GUARANTEED BY THE SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AS A RESULT OF HER TRIAL…
21-5546 Fernando Rodriguez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest counsel-switching due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-ethics state-court state-legislature Mr. Rodriguez alleged that his appointed counsel for the offense in which he is currently incarceratedswitched sides and worked for the prosecution fo…
21-5539 James Takchuan Woo v. Colorado Colorado 2021-08-31 Denied IFP constitutional-rights continuance-request discovery-violation discovery-violations effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial harmless-error right-against-unlawful-search unlawful-search video-surveillance Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals erred in concluding that Woo's Constitutional rights to effective assistance of counsel and a fair trial were no…
21-5541 Dan Kenny Delva v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joint-trial right-to-counsel severance sixth-amendment trial-severance Whether it is debatable Mr. Delva was denied a Sixth Amendment right under the United States Constitution to effective assistance of counsel when his…
21-5377 Alexander Ascencio v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-16 Denied IFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence watson-v-state WHETHER THE LOWER COURT DENIED PETITIONER DUE PROCESS, WHEN THE COURT DID NOT CONSIDERED THE SUFFICIENCY OF THE EVIDENCE ON THIS CASE WHICH WAS A CRUC…
21-5257 Jermaine Latwone Haynes v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial ineffective-assistance self-defense sentencing-mitigation Was Petitioner Denied His Constitutional Right To The Effective Assistance Of Counsel and A Fair Trial Proceeding, Pursuant To U.S. Const., Amends Vi,…
21-5236 Manvester Evans, III v. Georgia Georgia 2021-07-28 Denied IFP abandonment-of-counsel appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance out-of-time-appeal right-to-appeal right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion 1. Is the Abanoclon men 7 of couse l Loe rhe cleberclqurp Atzek a plea heaaive CL Seurencingy Of Couszizuriaual Ellec rive Assisvauce ot Counsel ° . …
21-5093 Stephen Dale Barbee v. Texas Texas 2021-07-15 Denied IFP autonomy-right capital-defendant capital-punishment effective-assistance-of-counsel florida-v-nixon habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance mccoy-v-louisiana sixth-amendment trial-counsel 1) Whether the sate court's decision to foreclose habeas review of a capital defendant's claim under McCoy v. Louisiana contravenes federal law becaus…
20-8444 Dustin Melvin Davison v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-06-29 Denied IFP autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy defense-counsel due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilt-concession right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy Is it unconstitutional to allow defense counsel to concede any aspect of guilt over defendant's unambiguously expressed desire to maintain actual inno…
20-8400 Daryl Wendell Barley v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP clear-and-convincing-evidence criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-standard first-step-act preponderance-of-evidence relevant-conduct sec-404 sentencing-reduction sixth-amendment 1. Whether the "clear and convincing evidence standard" should be used instead of the "preponderance of evidence standard" when determining the releva…
20-8207 Bernier Gerard Jackson v. Florida Florida 2021-06-02 Denied IFP best-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer professional-responsibility right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel requires counsel to advise his client to accept a plea offer which is clearly…
20-1649 Ronald Jeremy Hyatt v. California California 2021-05-26 Denied confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment witness-disclosure Whether the prosecution may refuse to disclose the names and address of the 23 victims and additional witnesses it intends to call at petitioner's pre…
20-8125 Raymundo Eusebio-Noriega v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-appointed-counsel due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus language-barrier miranda-rights motion-to-suppress self-incrimination voluntariness-of-statements 1. Where petitioner was denied Court appointed counsel by the District Court of Oregon, where such petitioner denied his Due Process of law, 1. where …
20-8068 Stephen Mark McDaniel v. Edward Philbin, Warden Georgia 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-probable-cause constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-voluntariness weatherford-v-bursey This case presents several issues of fundamental importance to the legitimacy of the United States' court system and the right of its citizens to be h…
20-8035 James W. Moore v. Ohio Ohio 2021-05-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment burden-of-proof castle-doctrine due-process duty-to-retreat effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions self-defense (1) Is Ohio's Castle Doctrine unconstitutional as it does not include one's entire property as the residence while a person acting in self-defense is …
20-8038 Shawn Grate v. Ohio Ohio 2021-05-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-punishment criminal-defendant criminal-defense death-penalty due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense mental-health mitigation 1. If a criminal defendant, charged with a death penalty-qualified offense, admit to murdering multiple women, and the only possible defense is a verd…
20-7801 Cody Lee Herman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP and sentencing stages plea constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-stage plea-stages pro-se-objections right-to-counsel sentence sentencing sentencing-stage A. Whether Petitioner's Right to the Effective Assistance of Counsel Was Violated During the Pretrial and Plea Stages of this Case Requiring That Peti…
20-7785 Kevino Graham v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel human-trafficking sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness (A.) "WHETHER PETITIONER GRAHAM WAS DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHEN COUNSEL FAILED TO CHALLENGE; "WHETHER 18 …
20-7739 Patrick J. Gage v. Reed A. Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel good-faith habeas-corpus reasonable-decision sixth-amendment state-criminal-defendants state-criminal-procedure Does habeas corpus exist for state criminal defendants? Does the Sixth Amendment Right to effective assistance of counsel exist for Gage? Is the sta…
20-7709 Alvin Henry v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material brady-v-maryland due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel giglio-disclosure giglio-v-united-states prejudice-standard reasonable-probability third-circuit trial-counsel trial-procedure Whether the Third Circuit's focus on trial counsel's effective use of Brady/Giglio material at trial is consistent with this Court's uniform precedent…
20-7616 Deshun Thomas v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied IFP constructive-denial cronic cronic-standard effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-strategy Is a defendant constructively denied the assistance of counsel under United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648 (1984), when trial counsel tells the jury t…
20-7583 Thomas Mark Hild v. Colorado Colorado 2021-03-26 Denied IFP 6th-amendment autonomous-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-justice defendant-rights due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel habitual-criminal plea-bargaining plea-negotiations prior-convictions 1) Given this Court has ruled that our criminal justice system is largely a system of pleas rather than trials, is there a constitutional requirement …
20-1314 Joshua Gregory Richardson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-22 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation legal-procedure paid-citation sixth-amendment traffic-stop unlawful-search Whether Counsel's decision not to suppress evidence unlawfully seized from a traffic stop because a traffic citation was paid, then relying on that pa…
20-1302 Casey A. McWhorter v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied 28-U.S.C-2254(d)(2) constitutional-rights criminal-defendant death-penalty-mitigation effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-review habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-bias McDonough-Power-Equipment-v-Greenwood mitigation-evidence This case presents important issues concerning a criminal defendant's constitutional rights to an impartial jury and to the effective assistance of co…
20-1236 Jason Avery Anderson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2021-03-08 Denied as-applied-challenge constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment va-code-18.2-361 va-code-18.2-366 A. Is Anderson is being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution because Va. C…
20-7350 Adam DeVore v. Ohio Ohio 2021-03-05 Denied IFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct indictment-misconduct manifest-miscarriage-of-justice sixth-amendment waiver-of-indictment The following questions presented involves a post-sentence withdraw of plea for government misconduct: 1) Is the service of a fake indictment ("warra…
20-7259 Juan Garcia v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 sixth-amendment 1. Was petitioner denied his Constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel during his trial, that is guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment of th…
20-7252 John Raymond Travis v. California California 2021-02-25 Denied IFP capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment jury-instructions mitigating-factors sixth-amendment 1. May a trial court, consistent with the requirements of the federal Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and/or Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of a fundamentally f…
20-7053 Hector Manuel Torres v. Texas Texas 2021-02-05 Denied IFP effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargain retroactivity sixth-amendment strickland-standard In Ghaidez V United kStages. 56B U . S . 342( 2023 ) this court decided that Padilla V Kentucky , dis not apply retroactive and announced a new rule…
20-7009 Mark Rudolph Arsenio Reed v. Robert Toole, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant motion-in-arrest sixth-amendment standing Georgia state law O.C.G.A. 17-9-61 provides the following: (a) When a judgement has been rendered, either party may move in arrest thereof for any def…
20-6856 Lavon Oden v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause cross-examination effective-assistance-of-counsel hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Was LaVon Oden's Sixth Amendment:.Confrontation Clause right to directly confront witnesses; the right to cross examine adverse witnesses violated, wh…
20-6711 Pat Dee Leatherman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment obstruction-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct standing Question not identified.
20-6705 Ian LaMonte Cormier v. James Comey, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied IFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Question not identified.
20-6686 Benjamon Ray Stewart v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied IFP appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus standing supreme-court-review Question not identified.
20-6619 Pedro Carrasco, Jr., aka Pedro Carrasco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-rights criminal-procedure dispositive-pretrial-motion effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining pretrial-motion right-to-appeal sixth-amendment Is a criminal defendant deprived effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment when counsel knowingly withholds from the trial …
20-6598 Stephen Frederick Baker, Jr. v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equitable-tolling guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner is entitled to step through the gateway of equitible tolling? 1. Whether state courts determinations of trial counsels effecti…
20-6597 John Aguilar v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP change-of-venue constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial guilt ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-bad-acts prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony I. Is a Defendant denied the constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel and ultimately a fundamentally fair trial as guaranteed by the Un…
20-6588 Kenneth Scott Gordon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-defense effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-adversarial-testing prosecutions-case sixth-amendment Should a certificate of appealability issue because reasonabl e jurists would debate whether a criminal defendant was deprived of the effective assist…
20-6498 Tony Barksdale v. Jefferson Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit misconstrue this Court's guidance in, inter alia, Buck v. Davis, 580 U.S. ___, 137 S. Ct. 759 (2017), when it denied Petit…
20-721 Katie Garding v. Montana Montana 2020-11-24 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment accident-reconstruction effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-testimony ineffective-assistance professional-norms sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether trial counsel's failure to consult and call an expert witness in the field of accident reconstruction was objectively unreasonable under preva…
20-6368 In Re Richard J. Ramsey 2020-11-18 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights court-martial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial military-justice plea-bargain separation-of-powers sixth-amendment ucmj I. Whether military plea-bargains procedures are unconstitutional creating a lack of jurisdiction over petitioners court-martial therefore, making unl…
20-6317 Robert Petty v. Indiana Indiana 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review closing-arguments constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-procedure 1. Whether the Indiana Courts erred denying Appellant was deprived effective assistance of trial counsel during closing arguments and sentencing viola…
20-6279 Bodhisattva Skandha v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex County, et al. Massachusetts 2020-11-12 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-discretion due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel full-faith-and-credit full-faith-credit ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-condition standing standing-doctrine WHETHER THE LOWER COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY DISMISSING THE COMPLAINT? WHETHER THE PLAINTIFF HAS STANDING ACCORDING TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME …
20-6262 Daniel Twian Brown v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel warrantless-arrest 1.) Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that Warrantless Arrest was not…
20-6245 Jovon C. Davis v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-selection sixth-amendment trial-counsel T. WHERE PETITIONER'S SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AS WELL AS MICHIGAN CONSTITUTION OF 1963, ART.I, §2…
20-547 Luis Xadiel Cruz Vazquez v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Response Waived brady-violation certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel mickens-v-taylor sixth-amendment united-states-v-decologero wheat-v-united-states 1. In refusing to issue a COA, did the First Circuit apply a novel, harsher standard requiring Petitioner to prove actual intent by conflicted counsel…
20-5988 Ziyad Yaghi v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel gvr plea-process sixth-amendment Whether this Court should GVR the lower court's decision denying a Certificate of Appealability in this case because its denial violates principles of…
20-5888 Burton Lee Smith v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied IFP 404(b)-jury-instructions bruton-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions mug-shot-identification severance-of-defendants sleeping-juror trial-procedure 1.) Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that was not Denied His State…
20-5897 Demetrice Williams v. Sandy McCain, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability COA criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution denial effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection federal-district-court fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment A. WHETHER THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT SHOULD NOT HAVE DENIED COA BASED ON THE SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DENIAL OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT GUARANTEES OF T…
20-5860 Miguel Antonio Wooten v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP county-of-riverside-v-mclaughlin criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause sixth-amendment 1. On habeas corpus revi ew of a state-court judgment under 28 U.S.C . § 2254, di d the Di strict Court fai l to uphol d peti tioner's Si xth Amendmen…
20-5768 RaySean D. Barber v. Todd Wasmer, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel factual-basis information motor-vehicle-operation plea-colloquy proximate-cause Was Appellant denied Due Process of Law and Effective Assistance of Counsel where the charging document (information) did not include within the state…
20-5821 Calvin Simpson v. Illinois Illinois 2020-09-28 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault Question not identified.
20-5813 Glenn Young v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment jury-conviction jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment Is the State's evidence sufficient to sustain Young's non-unanimous conviction? Was Young entitled to a unanimous jury verdict under the Sixth and Fo…
20-5676 Leon Venegas, Jr. v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence faretta-inquiry ineffective-assistance jury-selection self-representation timely-request I. DOES A STATE TRIAL COURT DEPRIVE A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT OF HIS/HER CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO SELF REPRESENTION WHEN THEY DENY THE DEFENDANTS UNEQUIVOCA…
20-5605 In Re Eric Wallace Koehl 2020-09-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial racial-bias sixth-amendment # 1.2) Does Not A CRIMiNAl defend any have A Const TvTien AL RIGHT 9 A Poblic RAR VRAL UNDER GTR AMEND MONT To THe Wwiten STaTes Constitvhen % # Q) a…
20-5524 Ranau D. Johnson v. Ohio Ohio 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ohio-appellate-rule sixth-amendment unit-of-prosecution Can the State Court deprive the Appellant the fundamental right to effective assistance of Appellate Counsel by denying an Appellant/Defendant the opp…
20-5483 Dion Black v. Norm Robinson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights cross-examination double-inference-rule effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sufficiency-of-evidence Should the petitioner have been granted a certificate of appealability where the State courtS/U.S. District Court and Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals d…
20-5448 Antonio Williams v. William J. Pollard, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-standards antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance interest-of-justice newly-discovered-evidence 1. Whether federal courts should or must consider the restrictive standards for granting habaes relief under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death P…
20-5427 Josiah Daniel Porter v. Illinois Illinois 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-cure plea-bargaining plea-stage sixth-amendment Whether a but-for causal relationship between the defendant's guilty plea and his counsel's deficiency is nullified by judicial plea admonitions addre…
20-5411 Kwame Anderson v. United States Second Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-law presentence-report resentencing sentencing-procedure sentencing-proceeding 1. Whether the Court must settle an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, regarding Petitioner's resentence that was imp…
20-189 Robert Barnes v. Bill Stange, Warden Missouri 2020-08-19 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence constitutional-claim cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel gateway-claim habeas Did the Missouri courts err in failing to find that Petitioner had established a gate-way claim of actual innocence so that his defaulted constitution…
20-5325 Maurice Woodard v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law continuance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Where the State postconviction courts assessment of Petitioner's Ineffective Assistance of counsel claim was "I guess the only potential issue would b…
20-5322 Patrick H. Torrence v. Alaska Alaska 2020-08-11 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection search-and-seizure self-incrimination unreasonable-searches-and-seizures 1) The decision of the State of Alaska, and the Alaska Court of Appeals are inconsistent with the United States Fourteenth Amendment rights to fair an…
20-5304 Stephon Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-effect conflict-of-interest criminal-trial cross-examination effective-assistance-of-counsel eleventh-circuit right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent witness-representation Whether Mr. Williams' Sixth Amendment right to conflict-free counsel was violated when his trial counsel simultaneously represented a witness testifyi…
20-5281 Steven Robinson, aka Michael Moore v. United States District of Columbia 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech self-incrimination sixth-amendment standing I. WAS PETITIONER'S FIFTH AMENDMENT COMPULSORY SELF INCRIMINATION WAS VIOLATED BECAUSE THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS GLENN KIRSCHNER AND NIHAR MOHANTY TH…
20-120 Alfredo Juarez v. Colorado Colorado 2020-08-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure deportation effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea immigration immigration-consequences padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky sixth-amendment When there is no dispute that a guilty plea will trigger mandatory deportation pursuant to federal law, must defense counsel advise a noncitizen-defen…
20-5196 David McConnell v. Florida Florida 2020-07-31 Denied IFP cooperation-with-state criminal-investigation criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel murder murder-prosecution prosecutorial-conflict sixth-amendment 1. Does counsel under the Fourteenth and Sixth Amendment have an obligation to effectively assist a defendants cooperation with the State in a murder…
20-5171 Cedric Watkins v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights credibility-of-witnesses due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment witness-credibility This case presents two important nationwide issues. The first issue concerns an inappropriate application of a U.S. Supreme Court precedent and whethe…
20-5129 David Aziel Sheer v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment I. WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD ISSUE A WRIT OF CERTIORARI IN ORDER TO CORRECT THE SIXTH CIRCUITS DECISION IN DENYING PETITIONER A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALA…
20-5105 David Scott Temple v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea louisiana-constitution plea-bargaining sixth-amendment standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that Mr. Temple was denied effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the United St…
20-34 Anthony Thomas Grimes v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-07-16 Denied Response Waived criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel parole-eligibility plea-bargaining plea-negotiation prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-information sexual-offender-registration sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the Kentucky Court of Appeals has diminished and violated the federal constitutional guarantee of effective assistance of counsel in the pretr…
20-5025 Eddie Matthew Amos v. Tommy Bowen Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP convicted-felon criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial felon-in-possession firearm-possession ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense (Ground One): Is a criminal defendant, who is also a previously convicted felon, denied a fair trial and the effective assistance of counsel when de…
19-8861 Fikri Aptiliasimov v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-06-30 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT JUDGE"S, A FORMER PROSECUTOR OF APPELLANT'S PRIOR CRIMINAL TRIAL, REFUSAL TO RECUSE HIMSELF AND HIS SUBSEQUENT JUDICIAL PART…
19-8795 Jeremia Joseph Loper v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied IFP adversarial-testing appellate-counsel appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance procedural-default 1. Was Mr. Loper denied the right to a fair trial and the effective assistance of counsel when his trial attorney failed to investigate readily availa…
19-8715 Timothy Robert Treffinger v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP curtilage effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement privacy-expectation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Question 1: Do law enforcement officers have an implied license to cross the clearly marked and defined curtilage of a home to conduct a "knock and …
19-8593 Damon Christopher Crim v. Ohio Ohio 2020-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance misunderstanding plea-bargain sixth-amendment I. When the record reveals that a criminal defendant misunderstands a key element of a plea bargain is his guilty plea void? II. When defense counsel…
19-8470 Raymond K. Walker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-right counsel-refusal court-order due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance judicial-review procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Refusal of Price Counsel to Comply TUS XC.5 Continual request asad Couch orders bo file aaa tbiduvik telttiag ollesabtons of imeQte ecdiveness c…
19-8442 Erica J. Walker v. Florida Florida 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-proceeding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance insanity mental-health mental-health-evaluation I. Was the Petitioner's right to a fair proceeding, effective assistance of counsel and Due Process of law violated when trial counsel LeRonnie Mason …
19-8324 James William Hornsby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied IFP adversarial-process brain-injury constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington (1) Whether the district courts denial of relief and determination of whether a breakdown in the adversarial process was created by the trial courts …
19-8297 Leif O'Connell v. Dushan Zatecky Seventh Circuit 2020-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance insanity-defense plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment (Issue added by the State Attorney General on Appeal not heard in post conviction court used to affirm appeal failing to address the claims below). Th…
19-8220 Jorge Macli v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-trial sixth-amendment trial-choice 1. Whether the Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel where the record was clearly established that defens…
19-1159 Michael Bouchard v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment brady-giglio-jencks brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto false-statements false-statements-statute ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mortgage-lending retroactivity sixth-amendment I. Under the "false statements statute", 18 U.S.C. §1014, it is a crime to knowingly make "any false statement or report ... for the purpose of influe…
19-7994 David Armondo Butler v. Florida Florida 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-conflict Confrontation-Clause criminal-procedure Due-Process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-preservation Evidentiary-Issues Fourteenth-Amendment ineffective-assistance prior-acts-of-violence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strategic-decision video-footage Did court-appointed counsel deprive Petitioner of the Sixth Amendment guarantee obtain the video footage were being made create an adversarial conflic…
19-7939 Robert James Pope, Jr. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-03-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-rights constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel forfeiture ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-prejudice pro-se pro-se-appeal right-to-appeal sixth-amendment trial-counsel Where trial counsel's ineffectiveness in failing to initiate an appeal results in a defendant's loss of appellate rights, can the constitutional right…
19-7890 Kevin Michael-Ferdinand Richards v. Michigan Michigan 2020-03-06 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-coercion plea-understanding plea-withdrawal trial-court-discretion I. Did The TriAl Court Abuse It's Discretion When It Denied Pla WithdrAwal Under MCR 6.3IOcB); Mr. RicHaRds HAs A Due Process Right To PleA Withdrawal…
19-7886 Dennis Mahon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-review custodial-interrogation district-court effective-assistance-of-counsel functional-equivalent-of-interrogation judicial-disagreement legal-standard magistrate-judge miranda-v-arizona right-to-silence substantial-showing The question presented, then, is whether the lower courts err in failing to find that a defendant made a substantial showing that jurists of reason co…
19-7743 Robert Paul Langley, Jr. v. Oregon Oregon 2020-02-24 Granted IFP appointment-of-counsel attorney criminal-procedure marion-county-circuit-court oregon-supreme-court state-court-procedure breakdown-in-communication criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Question not identified.
19-7621 Allanah Benton v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel DID THE STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS VIOLATE MS. BENTON'S RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF TRIAL AND APPELLATE COUNSELS IN VIOLATION OF U.S. CONSTITUTIONA…
19-7611 D'Marlo Levonne Faulk Johnson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-02-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appeal-process appellate-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal post-conviction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment Right To Counsel extend to the Appellate process? Whether the effective assistance of Counsel when Petitioner are to they re…
19-7601 Craig K. Garrett v. Joseph Madder, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure digital-privacy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct public-defender right-to-counsel search-and-seizure state-attorney Question not identified.
19-992 Greg Skipper, Warden v. Curtis Jerome Byrd Sixth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Amici (1) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial hypothetical-plea-offer lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining sixth-amendment trial-rights Does the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel include the right to a plea offer that was never made?
19-7545 Willie Palmer v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment abandonment effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions postconviction-relief rule-3.850 sixth-amendment unreasonable-determination-of-facts Whether the courts below decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of this Honorable Court when they d…
19-7485 Michael J. Aguon v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-crawford-v-washington crawford-v-washington due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel gang-expert ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings police-investigation police-officer-gang-expert prosecutorial-misconduct testimonial-hearsay IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT THE PROSECUTION'S GANG EXPERT IS AND WAS AT ALL TIMES A POLICE OFFICER ENGAGED IN INVESTIGATING CRIMES WHEN INTERVIEWING ALL…
19-7303 Michael W. Smith v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-16 Denied IFP civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency plea-agreement plea-bargaining sexually-violent-person sixth-amendment Does the Petitioner have a Legal right by the U.S. Constitution and the Illinois Constitution, State law to be admonished about indefinite involuntary…
19-7168 Tracy Eugene Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-03 Denied IFP burglary constitutional-rights Direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel Failure-to-prove-essential-elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process Post-trial-motion reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Sixth-Amendment-right-to-effective-assistance-of-c 1.) WHEATHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF APPELLATE COUSEL FAILURE TO RAISE THE VALID…
19-7120 Gilbert Sanchez v. Texas Texas 2019-12-31 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus in-re-winship jury-trial right-to-trial-by-jury sixth-amendment texas-constitution 1. Is the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution violated when the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denies an Applicant habeas relief b…
19-7090 Warren Evans, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure attorneys-fees copyright-law copyright-registration effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure flores-ortega 19-708" ineffective-assistance-of-counsel infringement notice-of-appeal publication-status registration-accuracy right-to-counsel roe-v-flores-ortega sixth-amendment Whether a court can invalidate a copyright registr 1. Whether application of the deadline for filing a Notice of Appeal under the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure violates the appellant's right to …
19-7087 Anthony May v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances ineffective-assistance low-iq manifest-injustice mental-retardation 1) WHETHER PETITIONER'S "MENTAL RETARDATION" AND "LOW IQ" "EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES" IN WHICH "EQUITABLE TOLLING" SHOULD BE APPLIED TO AVOID A MANI…
19-7066 Evaristo Toscano v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-26 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-tampering harmless-error judicial-bias prejudice-comments redacted-statement right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment Whether a violation of petitioner's right granted by the Confrontation Clause of the United States Constitution was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt…
19-7025 Michael Feliciano v. George Miller, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Waymart, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP carrier due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eyewitness eyewitness-testimony in-re-winship ineffective-assistance investigation jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard 1. Is the State court of last resort and U.S. Court of Appeals decision which denied petitioner's claim that he was deprived of his Sixth Amendment ri…
19-7024 Germira Lamar Carter v. Michigan Michigan 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-test WHERE THE STATE COURTS OF MICHIGAN HAS CONVICTED A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT IN VIOLATION OF HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, IS…
19-7015 In Re Michael F. Harris 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial judicial-misconduct malicious-prosecution presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-jury state-actors witness-tampering (1). Whether, in fairness to judicial proceedings, can an attorney of record brazenly ignore his client's instructions during the Direct Appeal proces…
19-6970 Monty Dwayne Sullivan v. Wyoming Wyoming 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment access-to-courts brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Was Sullivan deprived of his Rights by all the lower Courts? These questions have been asked and not resolved by the lower Courts. 2. Was Sullivan…
19-6846 James W. Riley v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-as-of-right constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing state-court statutory-analysis third-circuit-court Where the tril judge failed to revew evidence of trial coursel's gross misconduct of Fraud identical to the issues addressed in this Court's decision …
19-6781 Donato Luna-Quintero v. Indiana Indiana 2019-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel foreign-defendant jury-trial language-barrier language-barriers limited-english-proficiency right-to-counsel waiver Is a defendant's constitutional right to a jury trial properly waived, and is counsel providing effective assistance, when the defendant, a foreign ci…
19-6573 Garron Gonzalez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probation probation-search search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence unreasonable-search Whether the Fourth Amendment required suppression of evidence found during Warrantless interception of Cell phone? Did the Probationer's search condi…
19-602 Chesley Eugene Saunders v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Response Waived attorney-client-relationship confidential-information criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fundamental-fairness judicial-bias judicial-recusal professional-misconduct recusal sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution and the Constitutional Guarantees of a Fundamentally Fair Trial permit a criminal …
19-6534 Saad Bahoda v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure Bunkley-v-Florida conflict-of-interest effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing forged-affidavits ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions michigan-law People-v-Triplett plain-error self-defense sixth-amendment witness-conflict I. Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment Right to the effective assistance of counsel at trial due to counsel's failure to request a self-defense …
19-6454 Corey Morris v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel extended-sentences federal-review multiple-indictments plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether defendants have a Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of Counsel when Contemplating Plea offers. Morris was charged at multiple indi…
19-6408 Adam Strege v. United States First Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access discovery discovery-motion due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mandamus mandamus-request pro-se-representation For Review of Mandamus For Recusal of the Judge and Public Defender both Maliciousley Prosecuting me because i sent a 200 Page Email to 40 Million Peo…
19-6395 V. A. C. v. J. L. W. Texas 2019-10-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance parental-rights prejudice termination-of-parental-rights trial-court-discretion 1) If it can be proven, leaving absolutely 'No-Doubt', that the relied upon convi ctions, in regard to a Termination of Parental Rights action, is un…
19-6377 Jerome Gaskin v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial trial-rights DOES A DEFENDANT'S RIGHT TO THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL DURING PLEA BARGAINING INCLUDE BEING ACCURATELY ADVISED BY COUNSEL OF THE POTENTIAL FO…
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 1. Did The Washington State Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Washington Error by granting as fact that the defendant shared files with the Pu…
19-6381 Anthony Tyrone Brown v. Michigan Michigan 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence evidence-suppression fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-activity-evidence witness-testimony I. DID THE TRIAL JUDGE VIOLATE THE PETTIONER'S DUE PROCESS RIGHTS TO A FAIR TRIAL AND IMPARTIAL JUDCE. TO NSURE DUE PROCESS, AND FOR THE JUDGE TO AVOI…
19-6367 James Eugene Keiser v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing trial-errors 1. Whether the 4th Circuit exceeded the limited scope of the COA analysis which was an error, albeit Petitioner met the requirement showing of denia…
19-6321 Michael J. Prance v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-withdrawal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether there is a Sixth Amendment right to counsel during plea withdrawal proceedings?
19-525 Steve Cooley, et al. v. National Abortion Federation Ninth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights contempt contempt-sanction criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel effective-counsel preliminary-injunction sanctions sixth-amendment younger-abstention How can a state court criminal defendant enjoy his Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel when his state court criminal counsel have been held in …
19-6213 Marcus Bartholomew Booker v. Texas Texas 2019-10-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-habeas post-conviction-habeas-corpus right-to-access state-court-proceedings trial-ineffectiveness trial-records Does an indigent defendant have a right to access to a free Clerk's and Reporter's Records in a state post-conviction habeas corpus proceeding when th…
19-6152 Marian Papacsi Owens v. Sue Mickens, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mental-illness right-to-counsel right-to-testify trial-counsel trial-judge trial-procedure 1. Did the Court of Appeals err below in denying Ms. Owens a COA as to whether Ms. Owens received effective assistance of counsel when the trial judge…
19-6045 Scott H. Summerhays v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-counsel change-of-plea criminal-procedure critical-stage effective-assistance-of-counsel faretta faretta-waiver ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver 1. Does a criminal defendant have a right under the Sixth Amendment to reassert his right to counsel at a critical stage (a change of plea hearing) af…
19-5897 Carlos German Lema Nogales v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-circuit-precedent 6th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-violations criminal-informant due-process eavesdrop effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance multiple-conspiracies search-and-seizure warrant warrant-reliability WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL BECAUSE TRIAL COUNSEL FAILED TO ARGUE 4th CIRCUIT PRECEDENT REGARDING THE MEANING OF C…
19-5917 Matthew A. Castro v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fact-finding federal-courts fifth-amendment habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standard-of-review 1). Whether the United States Court of Appeal for the Eleventh Circuit erred by unreasonably determining the facts based on a misreading of the state …
19-5836 Dennis Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error plea-bargaining prejudice reasonable-performance reasonable-probability sixth-amendment standard-of-review strickland-v-washington trial-fairness trial-strategy Question not identified.
19-5703 Eric Massey v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-effectiveness critical-stage effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington AFTER PETITIONER MADE A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF A DENIAL OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT; WAS GRANTED BY THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEAL, FIFTH CIRCUIT, A …
19-5607 Felix Summers v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment DENIAL OF SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT OF CONFRONTATION. THE FEDERAL CONFRONTATION CLAUSE (6TH AMEND.)(was violated). DENIAL OF SIXTH AMENDMENT. RIGHT TO EFF…
19-5546 Kevin Lyndell Yates v. Amy M. Harper Fourth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied IFP civil-rights consent-to-search constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation inventory-of-seized-items miranda-warnings plea-agreement police-questioning search-warrant 1. Does a defendant who has been handcuffed ,informed that there is a indictment for his arrest ,questioned by the arresting officer ,asked by the ar…
19-5545 Todd Allen Wheeler v. Michigan Michigan 2019-08-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error severance sixth-amendment trial-joinder WHETHER MR. WHEELER WAS DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS UNDER THE 14TH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY THE TRIAL COURT'S…
19-5505 Jose Hernandez-Carbajal v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment I. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Rights to the Effective Assistance of Counsel Was Violated in the Follow? a) When Counsel Failed to file a Not…
19-5464 Mark A. Ciavarella, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP effective-assistance-of-counsel honest-services-mail-fraud ineffective-assistance jury-instructions mail-fraud mcdonnell-v-united-states official-act procedural-default statute-of-limitations I. Whether Petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel as a result of the deprivation of a viable statute of limitations defense with respec…
19-5431 DeAndre Cherry v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search (1)- WAS THE PETITIONER 'S FOURTH AMENEDMENT RIGHT INFRINGED UPON WHEN THE OFFICIERS CONDUCTED AN ILLEGAL SEARCH OF HIS VEHICLE ABSENT PROBABLE CAUS…
19-5390 In Re Francisco Narvaez 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-representation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel legal-representation procedural-error professional-conduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial Therefore, my concerns or questins it's plenty, first of all I am a poor man without schooled in any Laws, then I even had much school in Spanish nor …
19-5366 Robert Curry v. Illinois Illinois 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 35-usc-101 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogatory patent post-conviction standing Question not identified.
19-5293 Frank Le'Dell Owens v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offense pardon-power plea-bargaining right-to-counsel The following federal Questions presented below are Certified Questions of Great Public Importance, of facts and law that falls under the Jurisdiction…
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 1. DOES WASHINGTON STATE USE THE ANDERS v. CALIFORNIA (386 U.S. 738) PROCEDURE TO CIRCUMVENT A MEANINGFUL DIRECT (FIRST) APPEAL, EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE …
19-5014 Ricardo Donate-Cardona v. United States Third Circuit 2019-07-01 GVR IFP affidavit appointed-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review court-filing defendant-dissatisfaction due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel in-forma-pauperis indigent-status legal-redress poverty-affidavit sixth-amendment standing substitute-counsel Question not identified.
18-9839 Robert E. King v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-27 Denied IFP appeal-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-justice post-conviction-relief racial-discrimination Did Oklahoma 's Appellate Court "The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals " deprive Robert E. King the right to equal protection of the law afforded to …
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 to due process, to a fair and impartial trial, and to effective assistance of counsel, in t…
18-1551 Joseph Q. Mirarchi v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel Pennsylvania 2019-06-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-disbarment constitutional-rights disbarment due-process due-process-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-witness-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence mitigation-evidence neuropsychological-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the state supreme court order for attorney disbarment is inconsistent with the standards set forth in Selling v. Radford, 243 U.S. 46, 50-51 (…
18-9487 Willie Lee Johnson v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation jury-selection legal-ethics oregon-state-bar presumption-of-innocence QUESTION No. 1: Did the Ore. State Bar and the Ore. Supreme Court's Chief Justice's approved adoption of the Bar American Association's Model Rules of…
18-9239 Dale Shoop v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel preliminary-hearing right-to-testify sixth-amendment victim-testimony witness-impeachment witness-presence witness-testimony 1. Was the Petitioner's Constitutional Sixth Amendment Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel violated when Counsel; (1) Failed to Admit the Victim'…
18-9151 Blake Joseph Sandlain v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-counsel capital-punishment criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice successive-petition Question not identified.
18-9150 Peter Victor Ayika v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-speedy-trial effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act statutory-rights statutory-speedy-trial [1]Whether a certificate of Appealability (COA) should issue to pursue the Sixth Amendment claim on appeal where petitioner's rights to Sixth Amendmen…
18-9134 Joe Clopton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP amending-indictment brady-violation burden-of-proof child-support cps-records criminal-procedure defense-strategy double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence false-allegations grand-jury ineffective-assistance lesser-included-offense medical-records nolo-contendere plain-error sixth-amendment social-worker-testimony I. WHY WAS THE MEDICAL RECORDS NEVER INTRODUCED INTO EVIDENCE? 2. WHY WAS PETITIONER DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSIST. OF COUNSEL? A VIOLATION OF SIXTH AMENDM…
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…
18-9093 James M. Ferguson v. Pelicia E. Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied IFP amendment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel indictment notice preliminary-hearing right-to-notice-of-charges right-to-prepare-defense C Cout Appoint pue cefender, ak fr continace FOR Client. After client inform AtorNey he Would Not sign Wavier of preliminaly, Because he wanted to vav…
18-9045 Kevin Robinson v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison Third Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-impartiality self-incrimination sixth-amendment Are trial attorneys obligated to protect every fundamental right entitled to defendants under the United States Constitutional Amendments? If so, did …
18-8969 Ronald Lunsford, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana 2019-04-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea indiana-constitution ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment Whether the State of Indiana erred in denying Appellant was deprived of effective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amend…
18-8876 Nickie R. Logan v. District Attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel Question not identified.
18-8786 Stephen Krell v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights controlling-legal-principles deficient-advice effective-assistance-of-counsel legal-principles misapprehension-of-case plea-bargaining sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-counsel-incompetence Whether the Sixth Amendment's right to the effective assistance to counsel during the plea bargaining stages of the proceeding is implicated when tria…
18-8707 Wallace G. Carlyle v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment history-of-abuse ineffective-assistance mental-retardation plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment DID TRIAL COUNSEL'S FAILURE TO ADEQUATELY CONSIDER MR. CARLYLE'S MENTAL RETARDATION AND HISTORY OF ABUSE, AND OTHER VARIOUS ACTS, DEPRIVE DEFENDANT OF…
18-8620 Joel M. Hicklin v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel 1. Whether the Virginia Supreme Court erred for Not finding the Petitioner's failure to investigate Showing Comprehensive? 2. Whether the effective a…
18-8564 Kelvin Wayne Heath v. Melinda K. Braman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP automatic-reversal compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct uniform-act-on-production-of-out-of-state-witnesse witness-tampering Did trial court abuse discretion by allowing text messages that's erased? Was Trial Counsel ineffective? Was 6th Amendment violated specifically Con…
18-8484 Gregory Donzell Bailey v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied IFP 6th-amendment caseload caseload-management civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance public-defender public-defenders right-to-counsel In Maryland Courts for Indigent Inmates with Felony Cases, using the office of the Public Defenders; Should the Defendant's representation and resourc…
18-8433 Emond Durea Logan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-proceedings effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-negotiations sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington totality-of-circumstances Whether a defendant may be entitled, at least under some circumstances, to relief as a result of an attorney's ineffective assistance, even if another…
18-8450 Randall Alan Carder v. California California 2019-03-18 Denied IFP assault assault-with-deadly-weapon constitutional-rights counter-attack criminal-procedure deadly-weapon due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense Did the trial court violate petitioner's due process rights by failing to sua sponte instruct the jury on self-defense to a charge of assault with a d…
18-8410 Marshall Ray Miller v. Joseph L. McFadden, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement-statements personal-jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability where Petitioner demonstrated a substantial showing of a con…
18-8371 Martin E. Grant v. Michigan Michigan 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection first-degree-murder life-imprisonment motion-for-relief-from-judgment plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner has been denied the effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by the 6th Amendment to the United States Constitution, during the p…
18-8340 Victor Roblero v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied IFP constitutes a violation of the Sixth Amendment ri specifically the failure to investigate and prese appeal capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mental-health sixth-amendment Question not identified.
18-8331 Jeffrey Bowers v. Frank Lawrence, Acting Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-separation plain-error Whether a conflict exists between the holding of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Appellate Court in case at bar where jury separation after d…
18-8295 Raymond Lumsden v. Texas Texas 2019-03-06 Denied IFP ake ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-error-doctrine dna-expert due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Did the Court of Appeals commit err by affirming the trialcourt's erroneous denial of additional funds for the defenses DNA Expert to testify at trial…
18-8242 Jody Ford McCreary v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment standing state-court strickland-standards substantive-claim Did The United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit abuse its discretion in Denying Certificate of Appealability of the denial of the Amendment of th…
18-8171 Omar Alarcon Fuentes, aka Omar Fuentes Alarcon, aka Omar Ramales Quintero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel false-testimony grand-jury grand-jury-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial right-to-counsel uncorroborated-admission uncorroborated-extrajudicial-admission WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WAS VIOLATED BY HIS TRIAL ATTORNEY'S FAILURE TO MOVE THE DISTRICT COURT T…
18-8147 Jerry Allen Horn v. Kansas Kansas 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights county-of-riverside-v-mclaughlin due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment gerstein-hearing investigative-delay res-judicata sixth-amendment state-habeas-corpus supremacy-clause warrantless-arrest Under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as codified by County of Riverside v. McLaughlin, 500 U.S. 44 (1991), may law enforcemen…
18-8057 Duane Allen Short v. Ohio Ohio 2019-02-21 Denied IFP capital-defense capital-punishment death-penalty death-row effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation mitigation-evidence plea-bargaining sixth-amendment 1. Is a capital defendant's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel violated where, but for counsel's intervention and unfounded …
18-8037 Jerry Anthony Brandon, aka Jerry L. Brandon v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-02-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance involuntary-absence medical-emergency new-trial sixth-amendment trial-absence voluntary-absence Was the Petitioner's 5th 6th & 14th amendment rights, to the Constitution of the United States violated when? ONE. Petitioner's defense counsel faile…
18-8021 Charles R. Baker v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied IFP anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act anti-terrorism-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel first-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether thenewly discovered evidence presented to the lower Court's was sufficient to toll the one year statute of limitation set-forth in title 28 u.…
18-7968 Joseph Ragland v. North Carolina North Carolina 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection postconviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment state-statute WHETHER A STATE STATUTE THAT GIVES SENTENCING JUDGES UNLIMITED, UNCHALLENGEABLE AND UNREVIEWABLE DISCRETION TO IMPOSE CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES, VIOLATE T…
18-7895 Jerry Anderson, II v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP coercion criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-trial sixth-amendment WAS DEFENDANT DENIED HIS STATE AND FEDERAL CONSOITUTIONAL RFGHTS TO EFRECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHEN HIS ATTORIVEY PAILED TO PREPARED FOR TRIAL AN…
18-7947 Tyrone Garden v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure dispositive-motion effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pretrial-motion pretrial-motions sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Where trial counsel failed to update his research on a dispositive pretrial motion to dismiss before the defendant pleaded guilty did Garden have t…
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 to Determine if the Defendant is in Fact Capable of As…
18-7849 Jesus Pacheco Estudillo v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights direct-appeal effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing facts procedural-due-process relevant-facts sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment Right To The Effective Assistance was Violated When Counsel Failed to File A Direct Areal. Whether The COurt Err…
18-7780 Joseph Lemoine v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof burden-of-proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt constitutional-rights daubert-standard due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel essential-elements-of-offense expert-witness fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether reasonable jurists could argue that the State failed to meet its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, every essential element of the off…
18-7657 Devi Smith v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel defense-witnesses direct-review effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial WAS THE PETITIONER DEPRIVED OF HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AT TRIAL WHERE DEFENSE COUNSEL FAILED TO CALL CRITICAL…
18-7635 Harold Hall v. Alabama Alabama 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adversarial-process due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment united-states-v-cronic 1) Whether Mr. Hall was denied effective assistance of counsel required by the federal constitution' sixth Amendment when his trialcounsel refused o p…
18-7614 Michael Jacoby v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment circuit-court-review circuit-split due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit reasonable-jurist reasonable-jurist-standard sixth-amendment strickland-standard undermining-of-confidence-in-verdict The 10th Circuit's application of a reasonable Jurist Standard as a full denial of Jadby's §2255 under the Strickland standard is in conflict with the…
18-7590 Joshua Jacobs v. Texas Texas 2019-01-28 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment bias constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-and-impartial-jury fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-selection trial-counsel trial-procedure voir-dire I. When trial-judge-imposed limitations on voir dire interfere with trial counsel's ability to identify veniremembers whom may be challengeable for ca…
18-7540 David Dewayne Riley v. Alabama Alabama 2019-01-24 Denied IFP capital-post-conviction-proceedings capital-proceedings collateral-review death-penalty death-sentence effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan murray-v-giarratano post-conviction-counsel precedent state-court David Riley filed a pro se state post-conviction petition because, unlike every other state, Alabama does not provide counsel to death-sentenced inmat…
18-7494 Richard Dernard Bozell, Jr. v. Greg Skipper, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP blackledge-v-allison blackledge-v-perry class-v-united-states constitutional-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-court-jurisdiction guilty-plea-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining procedural-cognizability supreme-court-precedent Whether it can be presumed given the fact that (1) the USSC in Blackledge clearly stated that guilty plea cases were cognizable for federal review?; W…
18-7440 Christopher Whitman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure conflict-of-interest disqualification due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion juror-bribery plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines standing Question One The Constitution guarantees a person the effective assistance of counsel for a first appeal of right. Effective counsel necessarily cont…
18-7230 Antwain D. Ashley v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel open-plea plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment Whether Ashley Was Denied His Sixth Amendment Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel Where Counsel Advised Ashley that if He Made an Open Plea to th…
18-7170 Jonathan Yancey v. Alabama Alabama 2018-12-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection exculpatory-evidence first-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing takings THIS APPEAL IS SUCH IMPORTANCE TO THE PUBLIL CITIZEN'S THAT ARE X SEX OFFENIDERS UNDER (ASORCNA) AS TO JUSTIFY DEVIATION FROM NORMAL APPELLATE PRACTIC…
18-798 Joanna Joy Blauch v. Colorado Colorado 2018-12-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-error evidentiary-standards exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington waiver-of-rights There is a growing sinkhole-sized need for some things to be simply clearer. Does ruliltg the substantive nature of materially relevant documentary e…
18-7107 Naeem-Lateef Odums v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment-due-process,6th-amendment-right-to-c 5th-amendment-due-process,sentencing-discretion,me 6th-amendment attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intentional-deception mental-health-evaluation sentencing sixth-amendment Does it violate the 6th Amendment Constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel when a defendant's lawyer intentionally, willfully and knowi…
18-7066 Raymond Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel en-banc-review jurisdiction petition-for-rehearing rehearing rule-60b6 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction wilkins-precedent WHETHER THE JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF APPEALS IS INVALID BECAUSE THE DISTRICT COURT LACKED SUBJECT-MATTER JURISDICTION TO ADJUDICATE RULE 60(b)(6) MOTI…
18-7028 Jameel Simpson v. James Erkerd, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice sixth-amendment wrongful-conviction PETITIONER JAMEEL SIMPSON WAS DENIED HIS RIGHTS UNDER THE SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE …
18-7023 Webster Douglas Williams, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection exclusionary-rule forced-entry fourth-amendment restitution ruse search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel third-party When police officers attempt to gain voluntary admittance to a residence by use of a ruse, which fails, and are peacably asked to present a search war…
18-749 JoEllen Mary Crossett v. Michigan Michigan 2018-12-11 Denied conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges prejudice sixth-amendment state-and-federal-rights trial-procedure Was Petitioner denied her state and federal rights to the effective assistance of counsel, and did Michigan Court of Appeals err when it confirmed wit…
18-744 Mark Unger v. David Bergh, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel junk-science sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment guarantee of effective assistance of counsel is violated when counsel fails to expose junk science that sends his client t…
18-6847 Sergio Antonio Haro v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing government-agent-reports impeachment impeachment-of-credibility magistrate-judge magistrate-judge-plea-negotiations plea-negotiations prejudice pro-se pro-se-habeas sixth-amendment I Was the petitioner denied his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel based on trial counsel's failure to effectively use gover…
18-6828 Gregg Thomas v. Maryland Maryland 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel Was the evidence sufficient to sustain Petitioner's convictions, and was Petitioner denied his Sixth Amendment Right under the United States Constitut…
18-6699 James Tyrell Drane v. Michigan Michigan 2018-11-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sixth-amendment I. DOES PETITIONER DRANE HAVE A DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO PLEA WITHDRAWAL OR AT MINIMUM A GINTHER HEARING WHERE HIS PLEA WAS UNKNOWING AND INVOLUNTARY, RES…
18-6676 Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment wire-fraud 1) WHETHER, MR. WILMORE'S RIGHT TO BE TRIED ON CHARGES ACCEPTED BY A GRAND JURY, AND MR. WILMORE'S RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, WERE VIOL…
18-6623 Carlos Cosme v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw plea-agreement plea-bargaining sixth-amendment standard-of-review Did the District Court Commit Error in Applying the Standard of review for Motions to Withdraw a Plea Agreement as to an Issue of a Question of the Ef…
18-6637 Harold E. Grist, Jr. v. Terema Carlin, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause credibility due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel juror-misconduct jury-trial self-incrimination truthfulness Whether the Petitioner had a constitutional right to confront his accusers at trial and impeach them before a jury to challenge their credibility and …
18-6621 Aloeng Kelly Vang v. Tom Roy, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections Eighth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel effective-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-prong sixth-amendment state-law straight-plea straight-pleas trial-rights ultimate-authority Where offers of straight pleas to the district court is permitted under state law, does state criminal defendants receive their Sixth Amendment right …
18-6550 Anthony Thomas v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP affidavit costs court-fees declaration effective-assistance-of-counsel financial-disclosure habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis income-declaration ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-indigency poverty prejudice procedural-default redress sixth-amendment Question not identified.
18-6497 Dexter Watson v. Raymond Byrd, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing factual-disputes intent reversible-error Did the pury reasonably, logically and legally infer from the evid1. ence presented, that petitioner was guilty of violating the statue beyond a reaso…
18-6457 Abel Puente v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendant retained-attorney right-to-discharge-counsel sixth-amendment WHETHER THE SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AND TO COUNSEL OF CHOICE, WHICH ALSO PROVIDED THE RIGHT TO DISCHARGE COUNSEL, WIL…
18-6290 Damon John White Bird Solgado v. Colby Braun, Warden Eighth Circuit 2018-10-12 Rehearing IFP 4th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment insufficient-evidence privacy search-and-seizure Whether a_violation of-Petitioner's 4th_Amendment Constituti= onal Right to Prvacy occorred when Police illegally Searched bonk records, in the absenc…
18-6143 Oscar Rodriguez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-retardation ninth-circuit summary-denial Should certiorari be granted to decide how much detail the order denying a COA should contain in order to ensure that the Circuit Court has complied w…
18-6017 William Robey v. Washington Washington 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act conspiracy-against-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-mandate void-ab-initio Is the KING COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT mandated to obey the Washington State Supreme court ruling of 1988- CrR 3.1(b)(2)? Is violation of Washington State…
18-5946 William A. Parrish, Jr. v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rights court-of-appeals due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel grand-jury-selection indigent indigent-defendant indigent-litigant judicial-discretion perjured-testimony pro-se right-to-appeal right-to-counsel self-representation speedy-trial transcript trial-transcript Did the State Court of Appeals have the authority to deny a pro se indigent litigant a copy of his trial transcript because he choose to represent him…
18-313 Albon C. Diamond, III v. Florida Florida 2018-09-11 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence medical-testimony sixth-amendment strategic-decisions strickland strickland-standard Whether the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of effective attorney representation in a criminal felony prosecution (applicable against the State of Florida…
18-5855 Derrick Knight v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure brady-violation constitutional-rights effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal motion-for-new-trial withholding-evidence Was Petitioner denied his constitutional right to effective assistance of appellate counsel when his appellate counsel failed to raise an issue of tri…
18-5753 James Pello v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdicts Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, along with the Indiana State Court of last resort, have entered a decision in conf…
18-5716 Richard Blake Ray v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP 5th-circuit buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit habeas-corpus reasonable-legal-argument supreme-court-law Ray had a claim that was "reasonably debatable" by "jurists of reason Sineee a reasonable legal argument could have been made. The district court and …
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 WHERE BOTH OF THE LOWER COURTS ERRED IN…
18-5616 Robert Earl Clayborne, Jr. v. Nebraska Eighth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights competency competency-hearing criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disability mental-health prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Why Petitioner entitled to a Certificate of Appealability on the issue of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel based on Incompetence? Was the Petitioner…
18-5545 Carlos David Lopez v. California California 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health-records plea-bargaining right-to-compulsory-process right-to-confrontation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does a trial court's refusal to review privileged mental health records of the complaining witness during plea negotiations violate the Sixth Amendmen…
18-5446 Allan Latoi Story v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied IFP brady-violation civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the State violated Story's Fourth, and Fourteenth, Amendment Constitutional rights, When the Waco Police lied on a Affidavit for Arrest Warran…
18-5459 Zachary David Warnell v. Texas Texas 2018-08-03 Denied IFP appeal appeals appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure douglas-v-california due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection evitts-v-lucey ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation right-to-counsel CAN A STATE, SUCH AS THE STATE OF TEXAS, WHICH HAS AN ESTABLISHED SYSTEM OF APPEAL WITH THE CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEE OF APPELLATE COUNSEL WITH AN ADEQ…
18-5458 Kevin Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice comity compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Taylor's Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine his accusers was violated when he was denied Compulsory Process. Whether Mr.…
18-154 Roderic Rooks v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment franks-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-available-evidence pretrial-motion prosecutorial-misconduct I. WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI BECAUSE THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE ERRED IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO PERMIT…
18-5433 Helen Atkins v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-argument constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-testify sixth-amendment speedy-trial 1. WAS THE PETITIONER DENIED HER RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL WHEN THE TRIAL COURT OVERRULED HER OBJECTION TO PROSECUTOR'S CLOSING ARGUMENT AND WAS THE PETIT…
18-5339 Tyron James v. Paul Snyder, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining retroactive-application sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the Strickland doctrine, as applied by the Tenth Circuit, requires retroactive application to convictions that became final before Strickland …
18-5336 Ventron Vaneke Lott v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion michigan-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment DID THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN SENTENCING PETITIONER UNDER THE RESRICTIONS OF OV-1 AND OV-2 [OF THE MICHIGAN SENTENCING GUIDELINES] IN VIOLATION OF HIS …
18-5333 Scott Leslie Carmell v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment standing Question not identified.
18-5297 Allen Jamel Robinson v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment Question not identified.
18-66 Regis Blake Ross v. Arizona Arizona 2018-07-12 Denied constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-review-standards ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness post-conviction-relief standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent This Court has jurisdiction to determine federal constitutional issues that have been incorrectly decided by State courts of last resort. Mr. Ross rai…
18-5216 Johnny Allen Martin v. Gregory McLaughlin, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law constitutional-violation counsel-right criminal-appeal direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection ineffective-assistance statutory-provisions threshold-determination DOES THE PETITIONER HAVE A NONWAIVABLE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF THE LAW? DIRECT APPEAL FROM HIS OR HER CONVICTION, AND ON THE MERIT OF H…
18-5085 Teon Jamell Williams v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-privacy collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure sixth-amendment state-law warrantless-search WAS THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO AFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL IN HIS FIRST DIRECT APPEAL OF RIGHT VIOLATED WHEN COUNSEL REFUSED TO BRIEF HIS FOURTH AM…
18-5071 Juan Carlos Vazquez v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-07-02 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP deportation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea knowing-and-voluntary language-barrier prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment WAS PETITIONER DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHERE THE EVIDENCE IN THE RECORD PLAINLY SHOWS IN ENGLISH THAT …
25A964 Charles L. Burton, Jr. v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit Dismissed certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-federal-law due-process-equal-protection effective-assistance-of-counsel en-banc-review federal-habeas-corpus Question not identified.