ethics
4 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21-6608 | Wilfredo Torres v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | Second Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights cointelpro domestic-assassinations domestic-surveillance due-process ethics judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct standing | Whether U.S. Judge Edgardo Ramos and U.S. Magistrate-Judge Katharine Parker violated rules of ethics and my right to due process of law |
| 19-6814 | Issac Efren Jimenez v. California | California | 2019-12-03 | Denied | IFP | attorney-client-privilege attorney-ethics attorney-representation conflict-of-interest criminal-law criminal-procedure ethics former-client legal-ethics leniency prosecutorial-discretion witness-testimony | Whether an attorney in a criminal case may subsequently represent a client who seeks leniency in exchange for testimony in a pending case against that… |
| 19-5539 | Nicholas Gilbert Beattie v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | breach-of-contract contract-law criminal-procedure due-process ethics plea-agreement prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-recommendation | Whether the prosecutor's conduct in speaking out of both sides of his mouth with respect to a sentencing recommendation they had agreed to make is a b… |
| 18-238 | South Carolina v. Lamont Antonio Samuel | South Carolina | 2018-08-23 | Denied | court-of-appeals criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process ethics faretta-v-california judicial-conduct judicial-discretion judicial-integrity self-representation sixth-amendment unethical-conduct | Did the South Carolina Supreme Court err when it held — in conflict with many federal courts of appeals — that a trial court may not deny a criminal d… |