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25-6538 In Re Jeffery Greene 2026-01-09 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights court-officers due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct malicious-discrimination 1) Whether all officers of the court maliciously and deliberately discriminated against (Mr. Greene) to false imprison him. 2) Whether all officers …
25-6470 Jose Ferrer-Sosa v. United States First Circuit 2026-01-02 Pending Response WaivedIFP apprendi-violation fair-trial mental-health-evidence prosecutorial-disclosure sentencing witness-competency 1. Whether the right to a fair trial is violated when a judge tells the jury that the only witness to a conspiracy was competent, after the witness ha…
25-6257 Eric L. Ramos v. Nebraska Nebraska 2025-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-amendment due-process evidence-disclosure fair-trial supreme-court-review Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court has decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by the United States Sup…
25-6249 Robert Bell v. Administrator, East Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied IFP dna-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sexual-assault sixth-amendment I. IS THE RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL CLAUSE VIOLATED WHEN DEFENSE COUNSEL FAILS TO INVESTIGATE, AND SEEK TO OBTAIN AN EXPERT IN OBVIOUS …
25-6066 Rodney James Dilworth v. Texas Texas 2025-11-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights district-attorney due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct sexual-relationship 1. Was petitioner deprived of due process and his right to a fair trial in a fair tribunal, where the trial judge was in a undisclosed sexual relation…
25-6053 Marchello Moore v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-trial defendant-appearance fact-finder fair-trial precedential-case sixth-circuit (1) Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by prohibiting fact-finders in a criminal trial from considering the in-court appearance of the defendant as it co…
25-6004 Fillmore Wright v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-10-31 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment uncorroborated-confession Under the U.S. Constitution Amendment VI's right to a fair trial and the due process clause of U.S. Constitution Amendment XIV, can a conviction rest …
25-6001 Charles Chad Giese v. Edward Borla, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct I. Did Trial Counsel Render Ineffective Assistance by Failing to present Evidence About the Psychological and Physical Effects of Methamphetamine and …
25-5982 Bani Marcela Duarte v. Lavelle Parker, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-10-29 Denied IFP due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt second-degree-murder I. Did the Prosecution Fail to Prove the Second Degree Murder Charge Beyond a Reasonable Doubt; Did Appellate Counsel Render Ineffective Assistance? …
25-5940 Stephen Elliot Powers v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-10-22 Denied IFP brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct (1) Whether the State's suppression of exculpatory evidence of an alternate, original suspect with a nexus to the victim deprived Powers of his right …
25-5874 Bruce S. Myles v. New York New York 2025-10-14 Denied IFP competency due-process fair-trial ineffective-counsel prosecutor-testimony sixth-amendment 1. WHETHER THE COURT VIOLATED DUE PROCESS WHEN THE PROSECUTOR WAS ALLOWED TO ACT AS AN UNSWORN WITNESS? 2. WHETHER COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN VIOLATI…
25-358 Carl L. Collins, III v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-09-25 Denied Response Waived due-process evidence-rule-404b fair-trial internal-revenue-code napue-v-illinois tax-reporting 1. Whether the lower courts violated, Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264, 269 (1959), thus effectuating a constitutional violation below and establishing…
25-5653 Oren Lewis v. Brand Huffman, Superintendent, South Mississippi Correctional Institution Fifth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance juror-bias trial-counsel 1. If PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF A FAIR TRIAL BEFORE AN IMPARTIAL JURY BECAUSE A JUROR CONCEALED RELEVENT INFORMATION ABOUT HER RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE…
25-304 Kevin J. Koelemij v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights fair-trial judicial-misconduct state-trial-court Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability on his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 claim that he was denied his cons…
25-5500 Clarence C. Roland, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-admission fair-trial separate-sovereigns 1. Whether eliciting the fact and details of a defendant's conviction in a separate sovereign —including that it was for the same conduct and that the…
25-5426 Reginald Bertram Johnson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause constitutional-rights fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-court The following question stems from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' Published Opinion regarding claims asserted by Mr. Johnson. 1. Whether the U…
25-5266 In Re Kimberly Lee Kessler 2025-08-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel Question not identified.
25-5238 In Re Dennis Griffith 2025-07-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel fair-trial legal-access Does cl iHValiJ usurer ot Counsel hearing and no access to fke. Courts, don^ aJ+k etker ~ pcetrid violations o'? Conrhtutiond rigkts 5cJ Compulsory p…
25-5141 Dedric Mayfield v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial felony-conviction firearm-prohibition second-amendment sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Second Amendment lets the federal government prohibit people, including Mr. Mayfield, from possessing any firearms for life based only …
25-5122 Raheem Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment Is a criminal defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to testify and to receive a fair trial abridged where trial counsel announces to the ju…
25-5058 Jose Manuel Ayala-Alas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process fair-trial interpreter-rights sentencing-enhancement 1. Whether the district court violated Mr. Ayala-Alas's due process rights by requiring him to proceed to trial with only a Spanish interpreter despit…
24A1239 Robert Keith Woodall v. Kentucky Kentucky 2025-06-13 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty fair-trial sentencing supreme-court-review Whether the death sentence imposed on the petitioner violated his constitutional right to a fair and reliable sentencing proceeding in a capital case
24-7385 Luster Pernell Burns, Jr. v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fair-trial mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct Did the prosecutor engage in intentional misconduct in a previous trial which goaded the defense into moving for a mistrial, which barred retrial in t…
24-7162 Deshawn Whited v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-robbery district-court fair-trial right-to-counsel sixth-circuit uncharged-evidence Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the District Court was correct in permitting evidence of an uncharged attempted robbe…
24-7146 Anida Gilowski v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-proceedings due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment property-forfeiture sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights were violated by forfeiture of real properties purchased with her own litigation income
24-1075 Lecram Omari Sanders v. Virginia Virginia 2025-04-14 Denied Response Waived after-discovered-evidence due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in affirming the judgment of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, which denied the defendant's motion for a n…
24-6980 Redo Rolling v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the lower court's denial of habeas corpus relief constitutes a violation of due process and the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial based on…
24-6882 Michael C. Romig v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. Third Circuit 2025-03-27 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process equal-protection fair-trial procedural-default Was it constitutional for a court to procedurally default due to court-appointed counsel's action/inaction where constitutional rights were potentiall…
24-6865 Brian Alfaro v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP contract-violation criminal-offense due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment juror-information Does the timing of earned profits constitute a criminal offense without financial harm, and did the district court's denial of juror information reque…
24-984 Ross Horsey v. American Finance, LLC Delaware 2025-03-13 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-upon-court judicial-delay judicial-procedure Whether a 105-day delay by a judge in responding to a court letter constitutes a failure of due process
24-6739 Christopher L. Smith v. Ohio Ohio 2025-03-11 Denied IFP batson-challenge due-process expert-witness-testimony fair-trial jury-discrimination prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Ohio trial court clearly erred in not conducting the Batson three-step analysis for jury selection and in failing to address alleged discr…
24-6749 Foster Lee Scott v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation expert-testimony fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence intent-determination mens-rea Whether the testimony of Sergeant Helms establishes the required mens rea and violates evidentiary rules and constitutional standards
24-6717 Allaquan Jackson, aka Khalif Jackson, aka Kailif Jackson v. New Jersey New Jersey 2025-03-07 Denied IFP alibi-witness due-process fair-trial judicial-bias recusal sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial is violated by a trial judge with personal knowledge of an alibi witness who did not testify due to …
24-6641 Chad Adam Cheever v. Oregon Oregon 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial law-enforcement-misconduct Whether law enforcement officials can systematically violate an individual's constitutional rights with impunity and whether a defendant retains funda…
24-6574 Mark A. Marchetti v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance exculpatory-evidence fair-trial trial-procedure Whether a trial court's failure to introduce available exculpatory evidence violates a defendant's constitutional rights to a fair trial and effective…
24-6457 Darrell Blount v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison Third Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-testimony fair-trial show-up-identification Whether the admission of an unreliable show-up identification violated the petitioner's due process rights and whether the exclusion of an eyewitness …
24-6231 Emmanuel Zleh Totaye, Jr. v. Iowa Iowa 2025-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-verdict reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does an inconsistent verdict in a criminal case violate a defendant's right to a fair trial under the Sixth Amendment and their right to be found guil…
24A570 Chanel Wiley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-11 Presumed Complete ankle-monitor constitutional-rights criminal-defendant fair-trial jury-perception presumption-of-innocence Whether the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the use of a visibly and audibly beeping electronic ankle monitor during a criminal trial…
24-627 Scuderia Development, LLC, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied Response Waived court-procedure ethnic-discrimination fair-trial jury-selection racial-bias voir-dire Whether the district court's refusal to ask defense-requested voir dire questions about potential anti-Asian and Chinese bias denied Petitioners a fai…
24-6049 Mario Ray Childs v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense Whether petitioner was denied his constitutional right to a fair trial and effective assistance of counsel due to trial counsel's inactions and failur…
24-572 Reginald Pittman, By and Through His Guardian and Next Friend, Robin M. Hamilton, v. Madison County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction pre-trial-detainee Did the Circuit Court improperly impair the plaintiff's due process right to a fair trial by sustaining the jury's verdict and failing to order a new …
24A490 Reginald Keith Clark v. Colorado Colorado 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-bias Whether the denial of a defendant's challenge for cause to a prospective juror who openly expresses racial bias against the defendant constitutes stru…
24-5840 David R. Schachtner v. Chris Brewer, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure fair-trial impeachment-evidence motion-to-suppress prior-bad-acts trial-court-discretion Whether a trial court abused its discretion by denying a motion to suppress impeachment evidence and admitting prior bad acts evidence that prejudicia…
24-5842 Dallas Staden v. Marcus Myers, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied IFP fair-trial hybrid-counsel ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation sixth-amendment standby-counsel Whether a pro se defendant's hybrid representation and standby counsel's participation violate the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel and fa…
24-457 Bindya H. S. B. Singh v. Santa Clara County, California California 2024-10-23 Denied constitutional-rights fair-trial hipaa-violation race-discrimination securities-exchange whistleblower-rights Does a Citizen Whistleblower lose the Constitutional right to a fair trial under Whistleblower claim that reports multiple concerns of illegal activit…
24-324 Christina Paylan v. Florida Florida 2024-09-20 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure constitutional-infirmity due-process fair-trial judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics Whether Florida's lack of rules governing appellate judicial disqualification violates due process rights of litigants
24A279 John Esposito v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Georgia 2024-09-19 Presumed Complete death-penalty due-process fair-trial juror-misconduct outside-influences voir-dire Whether a juror's undisclosed consultation with a pastor about biblical views on the death penalty during jury selection constitutes a violation of th…
24-5382 Michael Dale Iervolino v. Alabama Alabama 2024-08-23 Denied Relisted (3)IFP capital-case change-of-venue constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial media-prejudice Whether the Alabama courts' refusal to change venue in a capital case involving the District Attorney's son and extensive prejudicial media coverage v…
24-5239 John C. Coleman v. Michael Swartz, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-review brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-standard fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-procedure Why was COLEMAN denied equal protection of law?
24-5220 Christopher L. Smith v. Ohio Ohio 2024-08-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure-joinder confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial prejudicial-joinder probable-cause rules-of-evidence search-warrant sufficiency-of-evidence Whether prejudicial joinder of unrelated counts violates the right to a fair trial,
24-5207 E. C. v. Q. T. Texas 2024-08-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-liberties constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-review legal-procedure witnesses Whether the petitioner was denied due process when the trial court failed to allow him to present witnesses and evidence in his defense, thereby depri…
24-5171 Jeffrey Wayne Ross v. Edward Bickham, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights defense-witnesses due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-homicide-case self-defense sixth-amendment Whether the trial court and Fifth Circuit erred in finding no ineffective assistance of counsel
24-5162 Johnny Ho v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-selection peremptory-challenges sixth-amendment voir-dire Defendant's right to a fair trial by impartial jury
24A86 Shyne V. Anderson v. Cynthia Davis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-25 Presumed Complete bench-trial criminal-joinder due-process fair-trial multiple-offenses victim-testimony Whether the joinder of multiple criminal cases for trial violated the defendant's due process rights and right to a fair trial when the cases involved…
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 Whether petitioner was denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and fair trial
24-5100 Elmer Dean Baker v. Indiana Indiana 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fair-trial Fifth-Amendment-due-process Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process juror-misconduct jury-bias pre-trial-publicity sixth-amendment voir-dire Sixth-Amendment-right-to-fair-trial
24A56 Troy Thomas York v. Arizona Arizona 2024-07-17 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance jury-finding prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights were violated by ineffective assistance of counsel, prosecutorial misconduct, and failure to prov…
24-5075 DeTron L. Perry v. Jacob L. Streittmatter Nebraska 2024-07-16 Denied IFP affirmative-defense civil-procedure contradictory-testimony due-process evidence fair-trial Question not identified
24-5086 Isaias Delgado v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial federal-law federal-sentencing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel self-incrimination Whether the government violated Mr. Delgado's right to due process and a fair trial by withholding evidence
24-5079 John W. Patton v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence confrontation constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial grand-jury impartial-judge judicial-interference perjury pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment stand-by-counsel transcript Due-process
24-1 In Re Yehoram Uziel 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judicial-misconduct mandamus self-represented-litigant Whether Petitioner is entitled to an Extraordinary Writ of Mandamus to litigate his FEDERAL Court cases against the State of California
23-7789 In Re Glenn A. Holder 2024-06-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process due-process-violations fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard structural-error Wrongful-conviction
23-7724 In Re Shomas T. Winston 2024-06-14 Denied IFP evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether a petitioner should be denied an evidentiary hearing to question a juror who failed to disclose information
23-7640 Devin Fischer v. North Dakota North Dakota 2024-06-05 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process due-process-clause fair-trial guilty-plea judicial-discretion legal-standards Is a defendant denied due process when the court ignores legal standards and relies solely on their discretion?
23-7615 Randall Crater v. United States First Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure fair-trial sixth-amendment structural-error touhy-regulations trial-subpoenas witness-testimony Whether the district court's decision to quash three trial subpoenas because defendant did not comply with Touhy regulations violated defendant's Sixt…
23-7620 Donald Kie, Jr. v. Garrett, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit plea-bargaining sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence sufficient-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability
23-1249 Timothy Patrick Guilfoy v. Brandon Watwood, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus jury-misconduct right-to-confront testimonial-evidence Whether a DVD recording containing testimonial evidence of the accusers, admitted as an exhibit, but never played during the trial, may be viewed by t…
23-7559 Nickholas Knight, Sr. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2024-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process fair-trial government-coercion redress-grievances standing Whether the 'initiation' standard for coercion by US Government officials applies when an American citizen has previously provoked their right to redr…
23-7528 Aaron Matthew Rentfrow v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence fair-trial juror-misconduct jury-misconduct prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-testimony Whether the district court erred in failing to grant a mistrial
23-7509 Thomas J. Moore v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied IFP burden-of-proof capital-case criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct religious-arguments testimonial-evidence trial-counsel Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
23-7514 Christopher E. Glass v. Illinois Illinois 2024-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial government-misconduct ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights trial-counsel Whether the Court should allow into evidence, over Petitioner's objection, statements made by Petitioner during interrogation by police, where Petitio…
23-1219 Colton Matthews v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-05-16 Denied chambers-precedent chambers-v-mississippi constitutional-rights due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial gun-evidence right-to-present-defense self-defense Constitutional right to present a defense
23-7491 Caesar V. Vaca v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-introduction fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-attorney Whether trial attorney's error resulted in the introduction of evidence under Federal Rules of Evidence 404(b) that led to an unfair conviction
23-7485 William Glenn Chunn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP assistance-of-counsel constitutional-violations continuance continuance-denial discovery discovery-review due-process fair-trial right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion Whether a defendant's right to assistance of counsel and due process are upheld when he has no right to review discovery or confer with his attorney, …
23-7488 Jose Eliso Zavala v. Texas Texas 2024-05-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-bias constitutional-rights fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-bias prejudice sixth-amendment structural-error Whether the petitioner was deprived of his constitutional rights to a fair and impartial trial
23-7448 Gabriel Paul Hall v. Texas Texas 2024-05-10 Denied IFP capital-murder due-process fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel When a state habeas applicant makes a prima facie case that the state knowingly presented false and material testimony in the punishment phase of his …
23-7427 Alton Pelichet v. Fredeane Artis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's rights to a fair trial, due process, and equal protection were violated
23-7409 Fernando Ramirez v. New York New York 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure demeanor-observation due-process fair-trial impartiality jury-selection right-to-counsel sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the Constitution requires that a defendant have a simultaneous, unobstructed view of a prospective juror's facial expression to observe their …
23-1186 Rodney Thomas Ternovsky v. Florida Florida 2024-05-02 Denied Response Waived consent due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial Fourteenth-Amendment irrelevant-evidence jury-prejudice prejudicial-evidence trial-procedure Whether the Petitioner's Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process-right-to-a-fair-trial-was-violated
23-7296 George E. Lacey v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance joinder right-to-counsel status-charges Whether the joinder of status charges with non-status charges denies criminal defendants the right to a fair trial
23-7271 Arthur Lomax v. Colorado Colorado 2024-04-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial felony-prosecution grand-jury indictment preliminary-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a state's 'Bill of Rights' requiring felony prosecution only by indictment is consistent with the state's 'uniformity of laws clause' and the …
23-7230 In Re Alissa M. Peterson 2024-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process fair-trial gideon-v-wainwright judicial-misconduct legal-representation Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the Attorney Grievance Commission and Judicial Tenure Commission to remand the case issue to the low…
23-7142 Elizabeth A. Ramsey v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-04-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-review legal-rights presumption-of-innocence standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the court's refusal to allow him to present evidence and witnesses in his defense
23-7136 Michael Dewayne Smith v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-04-04 Denied IFP confession confession-corroboration constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial false-testimony murder-conviction perjured-testimony Whether Mr. Smith's first degree murder convictions and sentence of death are unreliable and in violation of his constitutional rights to due process …
23-7057 Sammy Tinnin v. Indiana Indiana 2024-03-22 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the admission of evidence that is not supported by the record deprives a defendant of their Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to a fair tri…
23-7059 Alissa Peterson v. Jackson County Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Michigan 2024-03-22 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process edwards-v-arizona fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gideon-v-wainwright res-judicata screws-v-united-states sixth-amendment Where CPS investigators and Judge Diane Rappleye violate the rules announced in Doe v. Doe, where Prosecution and Appointed legal counsel of Ms Peters…
23-7051 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Joe Schmidt, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections, et al. Alaska 2024-03-21 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias sixth-amendment state-court-of-appeals structural-error systemic-bias Does a systemic appearance of bias from a State court of appeals create structural error to a defendant's Sixth Amendment guarantee to a fair trial?
23-7019 Quindell Montrae Kirby v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence fair-trial jurisdiction venue Whether the Court of the County of Chesterfield, Commonwealth of Virginia was allowed to prosecute this case when precedent supports the Petitioner's …
23-7031 Bryan Lee Gregory v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plea-waiver procedural-fairness standing Was judge bias in raising affirmative defense
23-6905 Paul Harris v. Oran Schachter, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process fair-trial interpreter interpreter-assistance legal-representation procedural-due-process standing Does Petitioner have a Constitutional Right to a Fair Trial including the help of an Interpreter-or someone who can speak on behalf of the Petitioner …
23-6885 Joseph Rendon v. Beth Skinner, Director, Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-03-04 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealibility circuit-split due-process expert-testimony fair-trial law-enforcement police-expert pro-se pro-se-petitioner Whether the Sixth Circuit or the Eighth Circuit made the correct ruling regarding denial of due process and fair trial concerning the use of a police …
23-6857 Lamar Gibson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance lower-courts post-conviction-relief statutory-violation trial-testimony Whether the petitioner's due process, fair trial, and 6th amendment rights were violated when the lower courts omitted, manipulated, and altered trial…
23-6843 Joseph A. Crenshaw v. Florida Florida 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process expert-witness fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment trial-procedure Does a trial court's 'tender and accept' procedure of an expert witness in front of a jury violative of a Defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a fair …
23-6825 Jmarreon Mack v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial judicial-integrity prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness Question not identified
23-6758 Frank Bernard Johnson v. Virginia Virginia 2024-02-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure mental-health mental-health-competency pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel Is compulsory pro se representation lawful in criminal trials?
23-6730 Bryant Calloway v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether the fundamental fairness of the criminal trial was violated by the district court's denial of the petitioner's motion to dismiss the indictmen…
23-6741 Gerardo Ortiz v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-confront witness-testimony Did the Ninth Circuit err in refusing to apply clearly established Confrontation Clause precedent and assess whether the prosecutor's affirmative misa…
23-6722 Jeffrey Holland v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP crack-cocaine criminal-sentencing due-process fair-trial first-step-act jury-trial sentence-enhancement sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancements trial-transcript Whether a district court can refuse to review intervening changes in facts that contradict and undermine presentence report findings used to apply a s…
23-6664 Robert Edward Sindaco v. Florida Florida 2024-02-05 Denied IFP appellate-review bias constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial due to bias, prejudice, and ineffective assistance of counsel
23-6657 Erick Cruz v. New York New York 2024-02-02 Denied IFP burden-of-proof due-process evidence-authentication fair-trial opening-statements powerpoint-presentation presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-error Question not identified
23-6648 Anthony Christopher Mendonca v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment jury-selection plain-error-review public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment structural-error Does the plainly erroneous exclusion of the public from jury selection in a criminal trial seriously affect the fairness, integrity, and public reputa…
23-6611 Morice Ervin v. Indiana Indiana 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony expert-witness-testimony fair-trial favorable-evidence fourteenth-amendment lack-of-evidence post-autopsy prejudicial-questioning whether-petitioner's-due-process-rights-were-violated
23-808 Eurho Joe v. Supreme Court of California Ninth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct legal-remedy liberty procedural-due-process procedural-steps state-court-jurisdiction state-courts state-laws How can a person's right and liberty to pursue happiness be maintained or recovered when severely damaged by the decisions made by the state courts no…
23-6540 Jennifer Agnes Lopez v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-immunity state-actors statute-of-limitations Whether the State actors can deprive the individual of a fair treatment which violates the guarantees of the Fifth Fourteenth Amendment
23-6547 Billy J. Seabolt v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-instructions jury-trial legal-interpretation prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial speedy-trial Is it a fair trial when the jury is clearly in a distressed situation during a long trial and they contradict themselves on finding guilty and not gui…
23-6508 Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-01-18 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP capital-crime civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury standing state-courts systemic-bias trial-bias Whether the state trial courts' failure to address and dispose of the Tumey biased trial judges issue constituted an error of law and an abuse of disc…
23A657 Pedro Rodriguez v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2024-01-17 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial post-conviction sentencing-claim Whether the lower court's denial of a post-conviction relief claim involving alleged constitutional violations in the petitioner's criminal trial and …
23A654 Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Christe Quick, Acting Warden, Oklahoma State Penitentiary Tenth Circuit 2024-01-16 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-error death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-trial sentencing-review Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the imposition of a death sentence that may involve constitutional error warranting further judicial review
23-6475 Darrius Decnan Redd v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause credibility cross-examination due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sex-trafficking Whether the district court violated the Defendant's Due Process and Confrontation rights by excluding video evidence
23-6481 Ashley Nichole Kolhoff v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied IFP child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-law due-process fair-trial intent lascivious-exhibition statutory-interpretation Did the courts below impermissibly expand the scope of the federal child pornography statutes in contravention of this Court's precedents and the plai…
23-6450 Alfred Correa Dizon v. Vectrus Systems Corporation Fifth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Relisted (5)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fair-trial judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Whether the lower court and defense counsel violated federal rules of civil procedure, due process, and the appellant's constitutional rights
23A627 Byron James Shepard v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-01-08 Presumed Complete continuing-threat death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sentencing-hearing Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit the imposition of a death sentence based on vague and overly broad continuing threat testimony tha…
23A613 Michael Jonathon Carlson v. Arizona Arizona 2024-01-03 Presumed Complete capital-case constitutional-error criminal-procedure fair-trial postconviction-relief supreme-court-review Whether the Arizona Supreme Court's denial of postconviction relief violated the defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial in a capital case
23-6363 Matthew Reid Hinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP competent-counsel due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does an attorney's failure to investigate, interview witnesses, and discuss defenses before advising a guilty plea violate the Sixth Amendment's right…
23A589 Rian Waters v. Aidan Kearney Massachusetts 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution fair-trial first-amendment witness-intimidation Whether a private citizen has Article III standing to seek criminal prosecution for witness intimidation when the alleged harassment threatens the cit…
23-6344 Michael Broomer v. Delaware Delaware 2023-12-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment trial-counsel Questions Presented
23-6333 Nora Gilda Guevara Triana v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence-rule fair-trial rule-of-completeness special-verdict standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent u.s.-v.-griffin Whether the Eighth Circuit Court's failure to follow precedent violated the petitioner's right to a fair trial
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-rights-to-due-process-and-fair-trial
23-6154 Jennifer Lynn Dees v. Colorado Colorado 2023-12-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-tampering sixth-amendment trial-integrity Whether a trial's verdict validity is impacted by a judge's jury tampering
23-6128 Julia Ann Poff v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony fair-trial indigent-defense plea-bargaining right-to-counsel Question not identified
23-6109 Tou Thao v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-242 civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deprivation-of-rights due-process fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct specific-intent willfulness Was the evidence at trial sufficient to establish the willfulness of the petitioner?
23-6028 Delroy T. Booth v. Georgia Georgia 2023-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the prosecution's misconduct, including reversing the burden of proof, violating the defendant's due process rights, and denying the defendant…
23-469 Andrew P. Witt v. United States Armed Forces 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness judicial-ethics military-justice military-sentencing prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Did the prosecutor's misconduct deprive Senior Airman Witt of due process protections and render the sentencing fundamentally unfair?
23-5938 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska Alaska 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment juror-testimony sixth-amendment structural-error Does the Sixth Amendment guarantee to a 'fair trial' implicitly require that the trial be free of structural error?
23-5926 Jahvaris Lamoun Springfield v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-misconduct no-impeachment-rule sixth-amendment Whether there is a constitutional exception to the no-impeachment rule codified in Federal Rule of Evidence 606(b) for instances where there is eviden…
23-5813 Medghyne Calonge, aka Sealed Defendant 1 v. United States Second Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-fraud computer-fraud-and-abuse-act constitutional-interpretation criminal-venue data-access due-process fair-trial government-abuse statutory-construction venue venue-requirements vicinage Whether the Second Circuit correctly held that the evidence of venue was legally sufficient under the Venue and Vicinage Clauses of the United States …
23-5731 Rebekah Panzlau v. Adams County Housing Authority, dba Maiker Housing Partners Colorado 2023-10-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias jury-trial relocation-act seventh-amendment uniform-relocation-act Did Ms. Panzlau receive a fair and unbiased trial free from even the appearance of Impropriety in her case?
23-5724 Taylor Scott Meece v. Wyoming Wyoming 2023-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment supreme-court-procedure Did the Wyoming Supreme Court abuse its discretion in affirming the conviction and sentence?
23-5712 Gerald Vaughn Gwen v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied Relisted (3)IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights direct-review due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-fairness writ-of-appeal Whether the petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial due to the state court's failure to hold an evidentiary hearing on his claim of actual …
23-281 Steven C. Fustolo v. The Patriot Group, LLC, et al. First Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review bankruptcy-court bias-in-fact circuit-split civil-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-recusal recusal standard-of-review Should the national standard of review for a denial of a motion to recuse be abuse of discretion or de novo?
23-5577 Brent Allen Morris v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-09-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-appeal due-process fair-trial federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct post-conviction standing Whether the petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial due to judicial bias and misconduct
23-5571 Deon Jefferson Johnson v. Mike Brown, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus habitual-offender jury-trial sentencing-guidelines Whether the petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to a fair and impartial jury trial, due process of law, and to be free from cruel and unus…
23-5557 Millard E. Price v. Centurion of Delaware, LLC, et al. Delaware 2023-09-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fair-trial indigent ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief prisoner When a state court of last resort denies a prisoner's attempt to obtain discovery and other hypotheses from evasive defendants, does the prisoner's in…
23-5500 Le'Troy D. Merritt v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rules fair-trial federal-appeal habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process state-action Can a state's evidentiary rules violate the Constitution's due process clause by depriving a defendant of a fair trial?
23A163 Jason Green v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-23 Presumed Complete certiorari due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires reversal of a conviction when prosecutorial misconduct deprives a defendant of a f…
23-5371 Judith Tompson v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP body-camera-evidence due-process fair-trial harmless-error legal-licensing police-misconduct police-prosecution privacy-rights rsa-105-d:2 statutory-violation whether-nh-supreme-court-should-allow-nh-district-court-judge-to-prosecute-cases
23-5319 Antoine L. Riggins v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brecht-exception brecht-v-abrahamson co-defendant-confession fair-trial fourteenth-amendment joint-trial sixth-amendment Is there an urgent need to further discuss the exception mentioned in Brecht v. Abrahamson 507 U.S. 619 (1993) where defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth …
23-5281 Morris Scott Holmes v. Tommy Bowen, Warden Georgia 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by successive prosecutions for the same conduct, defective indictments, improper case ass…
23-5230 Steven Poppo v. Illinois Illinois 2023-07-28 Denied IFP assistance-of-counsel attempted-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-intent deadly-force due-process equal-protection fair-trial homicide self-defense use-of-force Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to a fair trial, due process, and assistance of counsel were violated
23-5225 Leonard Sapp v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure district-court due-process fair-trial government-misconduct imminent-danger Was Leonard Sapp afforded a fair trial when the Government shifted the burden of proof to the Defense during trial?
23-5227 Luis Roman v. Illinois Illinois 2023-07-27 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel Why were the defendant indicted and tried at a bench trial in violation of 725 ILCS 5/109-3?
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 Did Carpenter have a fair trial, the right to confront witness on prior acts when there's only a he say she say trial on credibility of both the compl…
23-5193 Bradley Ross Fairbourn v. Neicole Morden, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus impliedly-biased-juror juror-bias strickland-standard strickland-v-washington structural-error weaver-v-massachusetts Whether the Strickland actual-prejudice standard applies to a structural error in the form of an impliedly-biased juror
23-5100 Vassil Marinov v. FCA US LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process fair-trial pro-se religious-freedom standing Is it constitutional for a court to dismiss a case seeking to restore constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom due to procedural issues with the …
23A27 Ranson Long Pumpkin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-13 Presumed Complete carjacking confrontation-clause crime-of-violence fair-trial firearm-discharge sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause was violated in petitioner's trial for carjacking resulting in serious bodily injury and firearm di…
23-5083 James Calfee v. Texas Texas 2023-07-12 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence fair-trial government-powers judicial-discretion Did Potttoner cits to due Process of the Courkeentn Wendt wf We ducted stude's Const. Wo lated
23A28 Moses Crowe v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-12 Presumed Complete carjacking confrontation-clause eighth-circuit fair-trial firearm-possession sixth-amendment Whether the Eighth Circuit violated the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment and denied Mr. Crowe his constitutional right to a fair trial in h…
23-5023 Kirby R. Thomas v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-07-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-trial due-process equal-protection fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection petit-venire racial-discrimination Whether Louisiana deprived Mr. Thomas of his right to an impartial jury trial before his peers
22-7905 Tikisha Upshaw v. California California 2023-06-29 Denied IFP cell-phone-location co-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility expert-witness fair-trial jury-instructions police-testimony scientific-reliability witness-testimony Can a court allow unsupported opinion evidence from a police officer, who does not hold a higher science-engineering degree, about a novel cell phone …
22-7820 Annamalai Annamalai v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion due-process fair-trial impartiality judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-recusal recusal sentencing Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to recuse itself due to the appearance of impartiality
22-7793 Nedeltcho Vladimirov v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause covid-19-restrictions criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial less-restrictive-alternatives sixth-amendment speedy-trial witness-testimony Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment is violated by requiring all trial witnesses to testify with masks
22-7788 Deandre J. Baskerville v. Tim McConahay, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense Was Petitioner's due process and equal protection rights violated by the trial court's self-defense jury instruction?
22-1177 Lindsay L. Lee v. New York New York 2023-06-05 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-process constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct mistrial retrial Did the unwarranted declaration of a mistrial deprive the petitioner of her constitutional right to a fair trial?
22-7672 Marcus D. Winston v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-05-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct racial-rhetoric Whether the Nebraska Court of Appeals has decided an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by the United States …
22-7663 Aaron David Waldon v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-05-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission fair-trial horn-v-state prejudicial probative propensity-evidence sexual-assault trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court abused its discretion by allowing the admission of evidence of a recording believed to be the petitioner and an unknown male a…
22-7642 Julio Angel Torrez, Jr. v. California California 2023-05-25 Denied Relisted (3)IFP doyle-v-ohio due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence-admission fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial people-v-medina right-to-silence sixth-amendment Whether the rule of Doyle v. Ohio applies to private conversations and selective silence
22-7557 Germaine Coulter, Sr., aka Slim v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial hearsay-testimony juror-coercion jury-coercion jury-deliberation jury-deliberations prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Coulter's Sixth Amendment rights were violated
22-7536 Mark D. Sievers v. Florida Florida 2023-05-12 Denied IFP closing-argument due-process fair-trial jury-instruction plea-agreement polygraph prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Whether a state judge violates a defendant's due process right to a fair trial by giving an impromptu jury instruction regarding the credibility of th…
22-7491 Orlando Ocasio v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witness fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence trial-strategy Was Mr.Ocasio deprived of his constitutional rights to effective assistance of counsel?
22-7496 Akkeli Frederick v. California California 2023-05-09 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment illegal-interrogation involuntary-confession ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Whether the admission of an involuntary confession derived from an illegal interrogation violates the accused's Fifth Amendment right against self-inc…
22-7486 TyJuan Keith v. Illinois Illinois 2023-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court upheld the prosecutor's conduct during trial
22-7406 Shawn Henry v. Florida Florida 2023-04-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial false-evidence fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct state-action state-court-discrimination Whether petitioner was denied substantial equality and fair process
22-7345 Ali F. Elmezayen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure domestic-abuse due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether a district court may refuse to inform the venire during jury selection about key emotional issues in the case, such as allegations of domestic…
22-7329 Robert Wayne Gillman v. Florida Florida 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest fair-trial fraud judicial-abuse-of-discretion judicial-discretion manifest-injustice prosecutorial-misconduct structural-defect Is it manifest injustice when conflict-of-interest, prosecutorial-misconduct, judicial-abuse-of-discretion, and fraud deprive defendant of a fair tria…
22-7214 Miguel Angel Bacilio v. Texas Texas 2023-04-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-discretion jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the trial court was legally convened and constituted with the provisions of the constitution and statute to remain a 'Court of Competent Juris…
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 Did the North Carolina State Superior Court deny this Petitioner actual justice in the face of established 'State laws allowing the filing of a second…
22-7174 James R. Householder, Jr. v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied IFP cross-examination due-process Fair-trial Fourteenth-Amendment Impeachment Inconsistent-testimony ineffective-assistance Ineffective-counsel Sixth-Amendment witness-testimony Due-process
22-7187 Jody Lynn Ward v. South Carolina South Carolina 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment certiorari-denial due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct juror-bias juror-impartiality remmer-hearing Was petitioner prejudiced when the South Carolina Supreme Court denied his writ of certiorari on oral arguments
22-7155 Kalid Koron Ocean-Avent v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-errors fair-trial firearm firearm-possession jury reasonable-doubt Whether the Government proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. OceanAvent possessed a firearm
22-7085 Rodolfo Godinez v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure-miranda due-process fair-trial gang-evidence gang-expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence media-exposure miranda-rights sixth-amendment Whether the Appellant's Pre-Miranda Statements was obtained in violation of Miranda v. Arizona
22-7090 Frank Gallardo v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion expert-testimony fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence speedy-trial Whether the district court abused its discretion in admitting Tonkel's testimony under FRE 807(b)
22-7078 Rick Lee Searcy v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 12b6-dismissal civil-rights due-process fair-trial federal-rules-evidence first-amendment judicial-bias judicial-misconduct motion-to-recuse recusal standing Question not identified
22-7083 Rick Lee Searcy v. United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 12b-6-dismissal 1st-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial first-amendment judicial-bias judicial-misconduct motion-to-recuse standing Whether the petitioner received a fair and impartial proceeding that led to the 12(b)(6) dismissal of his civil rights complaint
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 Does the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution still guarantee a criminal defendant the right to effective assistance of counsel, to prote…
22-6987 Dennis J. Brookshire v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel out-of-court-identification post-conviction-review Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to move to suppress the out-of-court identifications and did such identifications deny the petitioner a fair…
22-6924 Gerald Drummond v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel reasonable-doubt reasonable-doubt-instruction state-courts structural-error trial-procedure Is the Pennsylvania courts inappropriately denying the United States constitutional protections of the petitioner rights in their denial of relief to …
22-6870 Victor Rodriquez Kessel v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-issues fair-trial fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-tampering language-barrier miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct Did the unethical and arbitrary act/action of the US Attorney of passing out candy in the midst of the petitioner's trial to the empaneled jury comple…
22-6821 James Mammone v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied IFP change-of-venue fair-trial habeas-corpus prejudice-presumption presumption-of-prejudice pretrial-publicity rideau-v-louisiana sixth-amendment In determining whether to presume prejudice under Rideau and Skilling, are courts permitted to consider (1) the defendant's role in creating the pretr…
22-6801 DeSean Alexander Bruce v. Arizona Arizona 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-evidence due-process eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony fair-appeal fair-postconviction-proceedings fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness Was Petitioner denied due process, a fair trial, a fair appeal, and fair postconviction proceedings
22-6747 Jimmy Wayne Guinard v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing vouching Did the Trial Judge's labeling petitioner as a sex offender to the jury when he had never been charged with such offenses and was charged with drug of…
22-6753 Andrew Mark Lamar v. Colorado Colorado 2023-02-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment juror-misconduct mistrial sixth-amendment Whether petitioner's right to a fair and impartial trial was violated due to juror misconduct
22-749 Andre Dow v. Nevada Nevada 2023-02-09 Denied 6th-amendment attorney-client-privilege counsel-of-choice due-process fair-trial first-amendment prejudice sixth-amendment us-v-gonzalez-lopez Whether Mr. Dow's Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice was violated
22-6711 Antonio Walton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19 district-court due-process fair-trial national-emergency whether-mr-walton-was-denied-his-constitutional-rights-to-a-fair-trial-and-due-process-of-law
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 Was Jimmy Ray Lacy Jr. denied a fair trial under the fourteenth amendment
22-6645 Kimberlee Szewczyk v. Florida Florida 2023-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does the standard for assessing ineffective assistance of counsel claims, announced in Strickland v. Washington, fail to protect the Sixth Amendment r…
22-6647 Randal T. Young v. Leon Hill, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prior-bad-acts Was petitioner deprived of his Constitutional right to a fair trial?
22-6642 Leihinahina Sullivan v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-26 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to jury selection proceedings
22-6615 Robert Jim v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-presentation fair-trial improper-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing trial-fairness Whether the court violated Jim's constitutional rights to due process and a fair trial by allowing improper evidence and preventing him from presentin…
22-6546 Arty Marcel v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error fair-trial improper-amendment-of-bill-of-information ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense other-crimes-evidence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington whether-mr-marcel-was-denied-right-to-fair-trial
22-6550 Alla Zorikova v. Julie Pyle, et al. Nevada 2023-01-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-order dismissal-with-prejudice due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure recusal standing whether-zorikova-was-denied-due-process-and-fair-trial
22-6513 Jeremy Dale Bartram v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule fair-trial presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-discretion rule-404(b) uncharged-misconduct Does the prosecution's use of 'uncharged misconduct' under Rule 404(b) strip a criminal defendant of the presumption of innocence?
22-6437 Alan Singleton v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial hearsay hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel Did counsel provide ineffective assistance?
22-6404 Paul Rivera v. United States Second Circuit 2022-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency constitutional-rights fair-trial indiana-v-edwards mental-illness pro-se-representation self-representation trial-competency Whether a defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial imposes upon trial courts a duty of inquiry to determine whether a defendant is competent t…
22-6393 Xavier Milton Earquhart v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review mandate-rule motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the court have an obligation to determine whether subject matter jurisdiction exists as a preliminary matter?
22-6365 Ronald E. Cook v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial jurisdiction right-to-present-defense When can a criminal indictment be changed without due process
22-6368 Christopher J. Cox v. Illinois Illinois 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fabricated-evidence fair-trial false-witnesses fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process state-circuit-court Whether a defendant's procedural due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment have been violated
22-6353 Furlonzo R. Moran v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial juror-disqualification jury-selection social-media-evidence trial-court-discretion Is it unconstitutional to disqualify a juror from service without just cause?
22-6254 Aaron Michael Murray v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartiality-standard judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal media-bias media-coverage recusal Whether a criminal defendant's due process right to a fair trial is violated when numerous media reports raise reasonable questions about a district c…
22-515 Herbert Traver v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct Did the prosecutor engage in intentional misconduct by employing a known falsehood, thereby depriving the Petitioner of a fair trial in violation of h…
22-6224 Ali Shahrokhi v. Kizzy J. S. Burrow Nevada 2022-12-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias procedural-due-process recusal subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the trial judge's refusal to recuse himself from presiding over the 3-day bench trial—while being an adverse party litigating against Shahrokhi— v…
22-6208 Jason Ross Gilley v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process evidence-standards fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Question not identified.
22-6183 James Bauhaus v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied IFP brady-v-md brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial false-conviction habeas-corpus innocence judicial-review Does congress illegally nullify the Due Process amendment and the Fair Trial Guarantee of the Supreme Law of this Land
22-6187 Demetrio Lifrieri v. James Stinson Second Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied IFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fair-trial fourth-amendment murder-prosecution police-search unlawful-evidence unlawful-search Was petitioner's right to a fair trial compromised by the admission of the unlawfully obtained evidence?
22-6189 Jessie Jackson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process fair-trial hypoglycemia medical-condition mental-competence Whether the onset of Diabetic Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) in a criminal defendant constitutes incompetence and violates due process, when the defen…
22-6155 Ryan McGuire v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-trial cross-examination due-process fair-trial impeachment impeachment-evidence law-enforcement Does a trial court's ruling excluding evidence at trial violate a criminal defendant's right to due process, including the rights to confront and exam…
22-6136 Juan Martin Figueroa v. W. L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation compulsory-process due-process ethical-standards fair-trial habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony whether-the-prosecutor-deprived-figueroa-of-due-process-compulsory-process-and-a-fair-trial
22-6037 Spencer Jean v. United States Second Circuit 2022-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c 6th-amendment criminal-procedure disclosure-requirements due-process expert-witness fair-trial government-misconduct rule-16-disclosure sixth-amendment whether-the-jury-verdict-was-metaphysically-impossible
22-5997 Tarence Kirkland v. New York New York 2022-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-verdict cross-examination due-process evidence fair-trial identification legal-sufficiency second-degree-offense weight-of-evidence Was the trial court's decision on Rodriguez's identification and use of other crimes and bad acts on cross-examination result in the denial of a fair …
22-5974 Draco Aurum Rat v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-issues fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether a prosecutor who misrepresents witness testimony, asks false leading questions, and solicits false testimony has committed a fundamental error…
22-5980 Arius Hopkins v. United States Second Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence grand-jury rule-404(b) trial-fairness Whether the admission of evidence of prior alleged conduct similar to the crime on trial and dismissed by a grand jury, which was noticed for one purp…
22-5931 Anthony Michael D'Amico v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial juror juror-observation sixth-amendment witness witness-arrest Whether a person's Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial is violated when a juror witnesses a critical defense witness arrested outside the courtroom …
22-5916 Randy Lee Lassiter, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2022-10-26 Denied IFP brady-disclosure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial Whether the government's failure to disclose exculpatory evidence violated the petitioner's due process rights and right to a fair trial
22-5917 In Re John David Stahlman 2022-10-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence habeas-corpus harmless-error Did the court of appeals violate the petitioner's rights to a fair trial, due process, and discovery?
22-5870 Rodney Marshall v. Brian Williams, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial ninth-circuit sentencing Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by denying a certificate of appealability on the question of whether Mr. Marshall's right to be free from double jeopa…
22-5863 Arlandis Shy v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment apprendi-v-new-jersey due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment jury-instruction probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment unreasonable-search Whether the district court clearly erred by failing to properly instruct the jury, in violation of Apprendi v. New Jersey, and by admitting Defendant …
22-5849 David Keith Wills v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process conflict-of-interest defense-witness dual-sovereignty due-process fair-trial federal-prosecutors perjury prosecutorial-misconduct witness-intimidation whether-federal-prosecutors-can-threaten-defense-witnesses
22-5839 Daniel Mason v. Colorado Colorado 2022-10-14 Denied IFP batson-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in finding no Equal Protection violation when the prosecution impermissibly used race as a reason for the per…
22-5733 Robert Brown, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial evidence fair-trial jury jury-bias perjury perjury-evidence rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment Whether the District Court's denial of admission of evidence regarding a Government cooperating witness committing perjury was error and affected the …
22-5735 Thomas A. Scott v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-review manifest-injustice sixth-amendment Does the judgement of sentence represent a manifest injustice warranting the supervisory powers of this honorable court as it shakes societys confiden…
22-279 Norine Cave v. Suvidha Sachdeva, et al. Georgia 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment daubert daubert-standard directed-verdict discovery discovery-requirements due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment Whether a litigant's fundamental right to a fair trial is unjustly deprived by a directed verdict preceding discovery and Daubert requirements
22-5550 Corey Bailey v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting confrontation-clause confrontation-rights fair-trial jury-impartiality racketeering-enterprise rico-conspiracy vicar-convictions warrant-exception Did the government prove the existence of a racketeering enterprise?
22-5519 Kareem J. Stansbury v. Michael Courley, Acting Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-system fair-trial federal-constitutional-rights habeas-corpus pro-se-defendant procedural-default sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether and to what extent the criminal justice system tolerates criminal convictions based off cumulative violations of a pro se defendant's federal …
22-5500 James R. LaPoint v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appellate-record constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process fair-trial Hardy-v-United-States incomplete-record Mayer-v-City-of-Chicago sentencing-review Do the State courts violate a defendant's 14th-Amendment-right-to-due-process-and-to-a-fair-and-complete-direct-appeal-when-they-become-aware-of-a-mat…
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 Whether the petitioner was deprived of his rights to a fair trial
22-5431 Davante Turner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protections courtroom-closure due-process fair-trial government-agent public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error Whether it is structural error and a violation of Petitioner's constitutional protections to a fair and public trial under the Sixth Amendment
22-5410 Claud R. Koerber v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-factors barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial government-misconduct issue-preclusion sixth-amendment speedy-trial statute-of-limitations speedy-trial
22-158 Jeremiah D. Edwards v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response Waived courtroom-conduct due-process fair-trial government-witness judicial-discretion judicial-procedure jury-consideration legal-standard witness-behavior Is a Government witness' inappropriate behavior in the courtroom gallery an improper consideration for a juror?
22-5402 Ronnie Jones v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-error sentencing standing Whether the Court's imposition of a sentence or judgment lacks constitutional safeguards
22-132 Carlos Ruben Ruiz v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-08-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure demeanor-evidence due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid judges (or prosecutors) from instructing (or inviting) the jury to take into account a non-testifyi…
22-5199 Israel Manuel Rios v. Texas Texas 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidence-rule-403 extraneous-offense extraneous-offenses fair-trial prejudicial-effect probative-value rule-403 sexual-misconduct Whether the purpose of Rule 403 is to exclude relevant but substantially prejudicial evidence that outweighs the probative value of extraneous sexual …
22-5164 Oscar Lenton, Sr. v. Warden, FCI Edgefield Fourth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation confrontation-clause due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial government-misconduct habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the Appeals Court ruling deprived petitioner of his right under Brady v. Maryland, where the Government had violated its obligation to turn ov…
22-5150 Julio Cesar Gomez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied IFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence-admissibility fair-trial inadmissible-evidence judicial-discretion preemptive-rebuttal Whether a district court errs when it permits the government to introduce highly inflammatory, and otherwise inadmissible, evidence to preemptively re…
22-5123 Kevin Brazelton v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment courtroom-decorum due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment sixth-amendment stun-belt Were the Petitioner's federal due process rights violated when the trial court denied a mistrial after the Petitioner was electrically shocked in fron…
22-5131 Terry Gillard v. California California 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment witness-impeachment Whether the California court's refusal to allow a witness to be impeached with his federal bank robbery conviction violated petitioner's clearly estab…
22-5114 Jasmaine H. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2022-07-15 Denied IFP child-welfare civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process fair-trial family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights Did the Arizona Department of Child Safety violate Mother's Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process and deprive her of her fundamental right to pare…
22-5083 William Wellington Hooper, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sentencing Were Mr. Hooper's cell phones seized in violation of his Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure?
21-8236 Edward Toliver v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appeal-waivers circuit-split criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fairness-doctrine plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines Are plea agreement appeal waivers that forfeit a criminal defendant's right to challenge errors in the district court's interpretation and application…
21-1584 Martin Louis Ballard v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response Waived drug-conspiracy due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial murder-for-hire sixth-amendment Is the right of Martin Ballard to due process of law under the Fifth Amendment and the right to a fair and impartial fact finder in his trial under th…
21-1581 Tong Park v. California California 2022-06-22 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment extrinsic-fraud fair-trial faretta-rights in-personam-jurisdiction prima-facie-guilt subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-error-coram-nobis whether-the-court-should-intervene-to-bring-lower-state-courts-in-line-with-established-us-constitutional-laws
21-8176 Marice Nalls v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-06-17 Denied IFP aggravated-rape armed-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial prescribed-charge prescription simultaneous-trial Whether Petitioner's Constitutional right to a fair trial was violated
21-1504 Jason Wayne Carlile v. Texas Texas 2022-06-01 Denied Response Waived adversarial-testing criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a defense attorney's complete failure to subject the State's case to adversarial testing during a trial deprives a criminal defendant of the e…
21-7981 Jeffrey Ray Sundwall v. Florida Florida 2022-05-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights credibility criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartiality judicial-misconduct legal-ethics public-trust Whether a trial-induced conviction can be valid when brought by uncredible persons who are guilty of misconduct, both in the instant case (specific, D…
21-7927 Lamar Reese v. Richard Bowen, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied IFP citizenship-misrepresentation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence fair-trial plain-error polygraph polygraph-evidence Whether the failure to object to the admission of a polygraph examination that contained obvious errors deprived the defendant of a fair trial
21-1452 Matthew David Cwik v. Georgia Georgia 2022-05-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial military-testimony military-uniform victim-testimony witness-appearance Were Petitioner's due process and fair trial rights violated when the victim was allowed to testify in a military uniform?
21-7879 Stanley Cookston v. Florida Florida 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial retrospective-determination trial-court trial-court-procedure Was Cookston's Constitutional Rights to due-process and fair-trial violated by the trial court making a retrospective determination of competency a ye…
21-7842 Tommy Dean Bullcoming v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment access-to-evidence constitutional-rights crime-scene-access criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-gathering fair-trial property-rights Does an accused have a constitutional right to access a private crime scene?
21-7827 Stephen Luis Haro v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process evidence-rule fair-trial government-negligence material-witness sixth-amendment trial-court Whether the trial court deprived Haro of his Sixth Amendment right to confrontation when it admitted at trial the unconfronted, out-of-court testimony…
21-1424 Marjana Hoti v. City of Warren, Michigan Michigan 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) due-process external-influence fair-trial judicial-ethics jury-misconduct jury-tampering prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure Is it an external influence on the jury when the prosecutor and one of the sitting jurors had prior secret contacts before the trial starts?
21-7757 Mark Stinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-provisions due-process fair-trial judicial-inquiry right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a Judge inquire into the propriety of the issue?
21-7749 Samba Sarr v. Brian Cook, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence kidnapping sexual-assault sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Counsel for Defendant was ineffective as trial counsel
21-7732 Oji Konata Markham v. Vicki Janssen, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied IFP brady-violation court-of-appeals due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance prejudice probable-cause sixth-amendment warrantless-arrest Whether the court of appeals properly assessed prejudice when it considered the Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) violation
21-7667 Daniel Irving v. California California 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflicting-rulings constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial innocence-evidence judicial-discretion presumption-of-innocence publication-of-decisions unpublished-decisions Shouldn't it be illegal to suppress evidence?
21-7647 Lloyd Brice v. California California 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest due-process fair-trial first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial Did the Supreme Court err in failing to rule that the denial of the Motion for New Trial due to trial counsel's conflict of interest violated Petition…
21-1339 Carlton Richard Nebergall v. Florida Florida 2022-04-08 Denied Response Waived closing-arguments covid-19 covid-19-context deliberation-pressure due-process fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-instruction jury-coercion Did the trial court violate Petitioner's constitutional right to a fair and impartial jury?
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 Whether the trial court's failure to allow the defendant to present evidence and argument that was crucial to her defense violated her constitutional …
21-7566 Andrew James Johnston v. John Devries Seventh Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to voir dire proceedings
21-7540 In Re Rufus Paul Harris 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right fair-trial in-absentia pro-se-defendant pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment stand-by-counsel trial-court Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a trial court to permit existing stand-by counsel to assume representation for an 'in absentia' pro-se defendant?
21-7542 Carman Deck v. Paul Blair, Warden Missouri 2022-04-05 Denied IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-rights delay-in-sentencing due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness mitigation-evidence right-to-present-evidence sentencing-delay Whether the inordinate delay between the defendant's conviction and capital sentencing proceedings prejudiced the defendant's ability to present mitig…
21-7506 Curtis Carr v. Illinois Illinois 2022-03-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-techniques videotaped-evidence Does the admissibility of videotaped interrogations in which the interrogating officers inject their conclusions about the suspect's guilt violate the…
21-7496 John O. Williams v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-30 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing Whether the United States District Court and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in concluding that the Petitioner's claims of ineffective ass…
21-7419 Gilberto Mulgado v. Florida Florida 2022-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-hearsay child-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-evidence custodial-offense due-process fair-trial hearsay sexual-battery Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional due process right to a fair trial is violated by the admission at trial of needlessly cumulative child h…
21-7370 Dante Leon Milon v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-counsel judicial-misconduct jury-misconduct mistrial recusal trial-errors witness-testimony Question not identified
21-7338 Chandler Saxton v. Georgia Georgia 2022-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction cumulative-error due-process fair-trial judicial-review medical-issues procedural-error trial-court Whether the cumulative errors in the lower court proceedings, including the failure to properly consider medical issues, resulted in a denial of the p…
21-7300 LeMaricus Davidson v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-03-08 Denied IFP actual-prejudice death-penalty fair-trial fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection post-conviction prejudice-presumption structural-error Should prejudice in an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel case be presumed where the deficient performance of counsel resulted in a structural-error co…
21-7289 Katrina Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-argument criminal-procedure fair-trial judicial-error motion-for-severance prejudice right-to-counsel severance standby-counsel whether-the-district-court-committed-error-by-ordering-the-defendant-to-go-forward-with-closing-argument-without-standby-counsel
21-7263 Michael Halford v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination spousal-privilege Whether the denial of Petitioner's Spousal Privilege to exclude testimony at trial violated his rights against self-incrimination, due process, equal …
21-7225 Milton Lattimore v. Illinois Illinois 2022-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial guilty-plea judicial-discretion mental-competency special-conditions trial-fitness Whether a person who is fit to stand trial only with special conditions is denied due process when the trial court accepts a guilty plea entered witho…
21-1094 Jacques Jean Kabongo v. Michigan Michigan 2022-02-07 Denied appellate-review batson-challenge due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection structural-error supreme-court-review Whether the Michigan Supreme Court's application of Batson was objectively unreasonable
21-7048 Christopher Gerken v. Illinois Illinois 2022-02-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights courtroom-procedure due-process emotional-display fair-trial free-press motion-in-limine prejudicial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Was Christopher Gecen's constitutional right to a fair trial violated when a pre-read newspaper article containing information barred from trial had a…
21-7043 Ada Maria Benson v. Allstate Insurance Co. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-clause deprivation-of-rights due-process fair-trial interlocutory-decision procedural-due-process public-confidence standing Does the judiciary's failure to provide a fair trial and hearing violate due process and erode public confidence in the courts?
21-7025 Derrick Garrell Samuels v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-rights due-process equal-protection expert-testimony fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-composition jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether Samuel's Fifth Amendment rights were violated when he was forced to proceed to trial as the only black person in the courtroom
21-7040 Harshadkumar Nanjibhai Jadav v. J. Woodson, Warden Virginia 2022-02-01 Denied IFP closing-argument constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial false-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Does the prosecutor's deliberate use of known false evidence during closing argument violate the accused's Constitutional rights?
21-1035 Joshua Harris v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied Response Waived brady-doctrine civil-procedure constitutional-rights discovery discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial in-limine tax-court Whether the U.S Tax Court and the Second Circuit conflicts with the United States Constitution, Amendment 6 and the Fourteenth Amendment to a fair and…
21-6930 Juan Rivera-George, aka Tio v. United States First Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation cross-examination-limitation fair-trial hearsay-admission impartial-jury impeachment-evidence jury-bias jury-impartiality sentencing sentencing-disparity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right Whether Juan Rivera-George was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial by an impartial jury
21-1004 Leon Cody, et ux. v. Superior Court of California, Trinity County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment injunctive-relief section-1983 state-law Whether a State has an Eleventh Amendment right to arbitrarily enforce or not enforce a State Law having significant interest to federal Fourteenth Am…
21-993 Willard Anthony v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-01-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10) confrontation-clause confrontation-right due-process fair-trial harmless-error presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-testimony structural-error witness-credibility Whether the presumption of innocence, the right to confrontation, and the right to a fair trial permit a court to allow the grand jury prosecutor to 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 Is judicial reviewability of a trial attorney's failure to impeach a key prosecution witness with regard to the most critical and material aspect of t…
21-6742 Raudel Salgado-Rodriguez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility-of-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence-credibility fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions theory-of-defense Whether it violates an accused's right to a fundamentally fair trial to have a judge refuse a theory-of-defense jury instruction because the judge per…
21-6721 Tyrone Anderson v. Delaware Delaware 2021-12-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction standard-of-review trial-counsel Does it constitute ineffective assistance of counsel to fail to object to a state's chief witness's testimony that a non-testifying declarant stated t…
21-6701 Nakyia D. Parker v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights constructive-possession criminal-evidence due-process fair-trial jury-instructions motion-to-suppress sentencing-error sufficiency-of-evidence Whether Parker was denied a fair and impartial trial due to several major constitutional and due process right violations
21-6651 Laqunn Gary v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial federal-constitutional-rights federal-issues federal-treaties ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief state-procedural-bar state-procedural-bars Whether Miss. Code Ann. 99-39-21 was unreasonably used to bar the petitioner's fundamental issues of severe importance that revolve around federal tre…
21-6612 Brian Cavitt v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-integrity due-process fair-trial forensic-evidence misleading-jury perjury quality-assurance trial-procedure Where an incomplete DNA profile allegedly from a knife handle is falsely or scientifically concluded to be a 'match' to a victim's complete DNA profil…
21-6522 Mithun Banerjee v. Bank of America, N.A. Maryland 2021-12-06 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest due-process fair-trial judicial-corruption judicial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-recusal recusal Will the US Supreme Court provide a fair trial to the Plaintiff where the Circuit Court Judges have conflicts of interest?
21-6490 Earl McCoy v. United States Second Circuit 2021-12-02 GVR Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review crime-of-violence fair-trial hobbs-act impartial-jury juror-bias jury-impartiality mcdonough-standard new-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Court of Appeals erred in analyzing the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to trial by a fair and impartial jury
21-6327 Frank Paul Ferrara v. Virginia Virginia 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission expert-testimony fair-trial free-exercise standing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure Should the petitioner's matter have been allowed to progress to a court-ordered trial since the respondent was incarcerated for exercising his constit…
21-6307 Donald James Smith v. Florida Florida 2021-11-17 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial penalty-phase prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment victim-impact Was petitioner's right to a fair 'penalty phase' trial violated when the prosecutor told the jurors, during closing arguments in the guilt phase, that…
21-6236 L. B. Joseph v. Illinois Illinois 2021-11-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief reasonable-doubt testimony Was the defendant given a fair trial?
21-6245 Robin Moore v. James David Green, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Whether the (Court's) failure to specifically find that the prosecution had made a preliminary showing of racial discrimination when denying a crimina…
21-687 John Donnelly Sweeney, et al. v. San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, et al. California 2021-11-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-hearing agency-enforcement defendant-rights due-process enforcement-order fair-trial procedural-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct time-limit time-limitation Does an administrative hearing on an enforcement order comply with due process when the board limits the defendant's time to try his case to as little…
21-6164 Julia Lagunas-Hernandez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof cell-phone-search constitutional-rights defense-counsel fair-trial jury marital-communication marital-communications prosecutorial-misconduct trial-strategy Whether the United States committed prosecutorial misconduct, depriving Petitioner of a fair trial
21-6149 Domingo Palma v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Are the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments violated by a trial court's refusal to grant a mistrial where a prosecution witness injects groundless, irrele…
21-6159 Michael Skinner v. Florida Florida 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP evidentiary-hearing fair-trial guilty-verdict impartial-jury juror-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial before an impartial jury would require an evidentiary hearing, following the disposition of a trial …
21-6114 Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Florida Florida 2021-11-01 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment racial-discrimination standing systematic-exclusion Was Petitioner Racially Discriminated because he is Black?
21-6065 Michael Belcher v. Alabama Alabama 2021-10-26 Denied IFP capital-murder due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment post-mortem-photographs prejudice-analysis prejudicial-evidence Whether the admission, without an analysis of the risk of prejudice, of over 40 gruesome photographs of the victim's body, depicting post-mortem decom…
21-6042 Marques Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-hour criminal-procedure discovery discovery-review due-process fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-preparation Does the District of South Dakota's Standing Order 16-04 prohibit a defendant from independent review of discovery, denying their Sixth Amendment righ…
21-6041 Eric Benson Skeens v. Indiana Indiana 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-misconduct due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-procedure witness-testimony Whether the state courts erred when they allowed the state and its agents to tamper with, suppress, and withhold evidence favorable to the petitioner,…
21-6033 Larry Gene Francis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-20 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial material-facts parole-violation state-misconduct testimony Was petitioner subjected to Double Jeopardy?
21-5986 Kathleen C. Hampton v. PROF-2013-S3 Legal Title Trust, by U.S. Bank National Association, as Legal Title Trustee Virginia 2021-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fair-trial foreclosure foreclosure-law property-rights summary-judgment unlawful-detainer Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia's Opinion properly addressed the questions regarding the rules on granting summary judgment; or the constitution…
21-5889 Anibal Alejandro Hernandez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-12 Denied IFP closing-argument courtroom-security criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-statements shackling trial-shackling Was Petitioner denied the effective assistance of counsel when his trial counsel failed to object to Petitioner being ordered to be shackeled during t…
21-5923 Deonte Kinwan McCoy v. Michigan Michigan 2021-10-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance judicial-fact-finding jury-selection reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Was the evidence insufficient to convict Mr. McCoy of each offense, and should this court reverse his convictions pursuant to federal and state consti…
21-5925 Denworth Davidson v. Thomas Griffin, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner has shown a constitutional violation
21-5918 Susan Lloyd v. Joshua Thornsbery, et al. Ohio 2021-10-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct jury jury-integrity oath-of-office state-judges Are retired state judges constitutional?
21-5890 Christopher W. Terrell v. Arkansas Arkansas 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction due-process fair-trial impartiality jury-impartiality jury-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-fairness Is a criminal conviction unconstitutional and in violation of Due Process when a jury does not remain impartial on the question of guilt for the crime…
21-5851 Daniel Bryan Kelly, Jr. v. California California 2021-10-04 Denied IFP child-witness confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial gang-related-crime ineffective-counsel trial-rights witness Why wasn't I allowed to face my accuser and cross-examine at trial?
21-5862 Micah Lamb v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-04 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-on-the-court government-corruption ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying petitioner's claims of 'fraud on the court'…
21-5868 Ryan Russell Parks, aka Dinero v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment constitutional-rights constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial indictment ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief variance As the amended charge of 'SQ' (33) a constructive amendment?
21-5884 Carina Conerly v. Superior Court of California, Sacramento County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial first-amendment frivolous in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion moot recusal standing Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion
21-5803 Joseph Wayne Attaway, II v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-gang due-process fair-trial inflammatory-inference law-enforcement prejudice street-gangs witness-testimony Whether Petitioner was denied his due process right to a fair trial
21-5770 Arthur Perrault v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 403-balancing-test due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence jury-unanimity sexual-misconduct Does the uncertainty engendered by the lack of uniform application of Federal Rules of Evidence 413/414 and the 403 balancing test permit district cou…
21-5737 Elizabeth Maya v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company Florida 2021-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection equity equity-principle fair-trial legal-proceedings takings Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses have been violated
21-5711 Irving Alexander Ramirez v. California California 2021-09-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights courtroom-conduct courtroom-decorum due-process fair-trial jury-influence public-passion spectator-displays Whether spectator displays in a criminal jury trial should be prohibited as inherently prejudicial
21-5689 Harold V. Hoskins v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was the petitioner denied his Sixth Amendment right to be represented by counsel?
21-5668 Freddy Angel Trujillo v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang-evidence joinder joinder-of-charges prejudicial-evidence summary-reversal Did the Ninth Circuit's finding that Trujillo's Due Process rights were not violated by the joinder of unrelated charges so clearly misapply the law a…
21-5575 Frederick Arayatanon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial defendant-rights district-court due-process evidence evidentiary-admission fair-trial jail-telephone-calls presumption-of-innocence Did the District Court's admission of jail telephone calls by the defendant during trial undermine the defendant's presumption of innocence?
21-5576 Victor Shawn Brown v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Whether prosecutors can attack the credibility of the petitioner's witnesses by calling them 'liars' when the state's own witnesses lack credibility
21-5577 Terry Darnell Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split cumulative-error cumulative-error-doctrine fair-trial federal-habeas-corpus fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Does the cumulative error doctrine apply to ineffective assistance of counsel claims?
21-5555 Ross Allen Hartwell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial jurisdictional-limits jury legal-interpretation sixth-amendment standing state-court statutory-interpretation Does the Supreme Court's decision in Washington v. Deleon, 568 U.S. 068 (2014) allow lower courts to violate an individual's right to a fair and impar…
21-5556 Bret Davis v. Illinois Illinois 2021-09-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-bias media-influence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment unbiased-jury Were my Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to a fair trial by an unbiased jury and due process of the law violated?
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, fair-trial, right-again…
21-5542 Camilo Jose Arango Latorre v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico 2021-08-31 Denied IFP constitutional-rule discriminatory-act due-process fair-trial perjured-testimony reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Whether the nonretroactive application of the constitutional rule of Ramos v. Louisiana, in this case being substantive and/or discretionary for the s…
21-5517 Lonzie Wayne McQuirter v. Michigan Michigan 2021-08-30 Dismissed IFP 44th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process evidence-preservation fair-trial fourteenth-amendment innocence miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment whether-petitioner's-claims-should-be-heard-on-the-merits
21-5439 Michael Geoffrey Peters v. Bobby Lumpkin. Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP brady-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jury-selection trial-procedure Whether I am guilty on Count No.1 of the indictment
21-5278 Kevin T. Heard v. Illinois Illinois 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-testimony fair-trial sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the defendant's Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights were violated when his attorney was 'not functioning as counsel' d…
21-5273 Jerry L. Wheeler v. Randall Hepp, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-08-02 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-strategy due-process fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-notice trial-counsel witness-testimony Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
21-5247 Wallace Hammerle v. Dylon Radtke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP change-of-venue constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocence judicial-review venue-change Question not identified
21-5253 John David Wilson, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-29 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the imposition of an enhanced sentence under Florida's 10-20-life statute
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
21-5198 Dustin Trevino Lawrence v. Ohio Ohio 2021-07-27 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-judge judicial-bias manifest-weight manifest-weight-of-evidence proportionate-sentencing reasonable-doubt sentencing Appellant's right to due process of law
21-5225 Raymond Lumsden v. Texas Texas 2021-07-27 Denied IFP ake-v-oklahoma dna-evidence dna-expert due-process expert-witness-fees fair-trial indigent-funds ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Did the trial court deny Petitioner a fair trial by refusing indigent funds for a DNA expert to assist the defense and testify at trial under Ake v. O…
21-5208 Samuel W. Wani v. George Fox University, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion causation discovery discovery-violation expert-testimony fair-trial insurance-policy medical-malpractice medical-records standard-of-care Wani's failure to provide expert testimony regarding the standard of care and causation
21-5117 Christopher Allan Allred v. Washington Ninth Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial jurisdiction jury-selection standing Whether the Harless v. Calbeaia filing, Can rhebes, if they so choose, substitute a preliminary hearing for a grand jury, by determining whether prose…
21-5050 Kristopher Love v. Texas Texas 2021-07-09 Denied Relisted (12)IFP court-of-criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment Whether Texas' Court of Criminal Appeals has decided an important federal question concerning a racially biased juror being allowed on a capital death…
21-20 Jack Albert Chappell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response Waived brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure evidence-handling fair-trial government-witness prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether prosecutorial misconduct and mishandling of evidence constitutes a Brady violation when the government failed to disclose critical information…
21-5036 Mark McCune v. PHH Mortgage Corporation, et al. Arizona 2021-07-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial property-rights standing Whether the Arizona courts correctly denied a stay and injunction when there is no loan on the property at issue, and the petitioner's constitutional …
21-5037 Derrick Vaughn v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial in-court-identification prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether improper in-court identifications performed at the behest of the prosecution deprived Petitioner Derrick Vaughn of his right to a fair trial
21-5026 Kevin L. Martin v. Ashlynn Ledford Seventh Circuit 2021-07-07 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure procedural-rights statutory-interpretation Whether the district court abused its discretion by denying the petitioner's fundamental right to a fair trial
20-8435 Vladimir Eugene v. Florida Florida 2021-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment hearsay ineffective-assistance non-hearsay-purpose Whether otherwise inadmissible nontestimonial hearsay admitted for non-hearsay purpose and thereafter used for their truth as substantive evidence vio…
20-8421 Braulio Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 911-call armed-career-criminal body-camera body-camera-footage constitutional-rights'\n'Issue 4 criminal-history criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 2 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 3 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 4 enhancement evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment firearm fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statements statutory-interpretation witness witness-testimony Issue 1
20-8430 Samuel Gayden v. Illinois Illinois 2021-06-24 Denied IFP chain-of-custody criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lay-opinion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-identification Whether the State misused DNA evidence to link Petitioner to the weapon used in the offense, and to alleged threatening letters sent from the Cook Cou…
20-1777 Willard Hall v. Edward Bickham, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied 6th-amendment community-representation due-process effective-assistance fair-cross-section fair-trial fifth-circuit impartial-jury jury-composition probable-cause Whether the petitioner was deprived of his right to a fair and impartial trial due to his jury not representing a fair cross-section of his community
20-8331 Charlene Walker Rosa v. Michael J. Satz, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-17 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP attorney-client-confidentiality civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the state attorney's opening statement at the prosecution's closing argument violated the accused's right to due process and a fair trial
20-8314 Timothy Brewer v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability child-psychology constitutional-rights evidence fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in refusing to grant petitioner a COA to appeal from a judgment of the District Court, …
20-8244 Abdul S. Aziz v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19-impact due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel perjured-testimony plea-negotiations police-misconduct pro-se-brief Question not identified
20-8227 Trevor Anderson v. Lynn Lilley, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial implicit-bias prosecutorial-misconduct summation visual-presentation Can a prosecutor's display of visual presentation during summation activate implicit biases, and if so, does the activation of those biases deprive a …
20-1681 Shelton Barnes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response Waived criminal-intent due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit medicare-billing obstruction obstruction-statute rule-of-lenity sufficiency-of-evidence Does the Panel Decision conflict with its own authority and other circuit court decisions?
20-1669 Robert Gene Will, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Relisted (2) discovery fair-trial federal-habeas federal-law gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits procedural-default rule-60(b) Whether a habeas petitioner makes a valid Rule 60(b) motion by arguing that, due to an incorrect procedural-default ruling, the district court (1) onl…
20-8178 Heena Shim-Larkin v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Second Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-455 due-process equal-protection fair-trial good-faith-standard judicial-bias judicial-recusal mandamus-appeal objective-standard pro-se-litigant recusal Whether a judge must be disqualified under 28 U.S.C. § 455 if the judge makes rulings more restrictive against one party than the other in comparable …
20-8168 Ross Colby v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial juror-sympathy jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the statements of a prosecutor invoking juror sympathy and telling the jury that it has a duty to convict violate the defendant's Sixth Amendm…
20-8099 Joseph Reinwand v. Susan Novak, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals failed to apply the law on deceased out-of-court testimonial statements by a non-testifying witness, ther…
20-8086 Jack E. Allen v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-05-20 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process exoneration fair-trial false-imprisonment federal-crimes fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment wrongful-conviction Does the petitioner deserve another trial based upon constitutional rights violations?
20-8088 Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-05-20 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-v-washington Whether the lower court erred in denying appellant's motion
20-8095 Pasqual Lozano v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied IFP confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit petition-for-review prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Whether petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process and a fundamentally fair trial were denied
20-8054 Joseph Reinwand v. Susan Novak, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals failed to apply the law on deceased out-of-court testimonial statements by a non-testifying witness
20-1585 Donnahue George v. William Snyder, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial government-agency illegal-seizure pro-se-litigation property-rights standing Are pro-se-litigants entitled to the same-interpretation-and-protections
20-8000 Natalie Marie Keepers v. Virginia Virginia 2021-05-12 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-jury interrogation-tactics jury-selection miranda-warnings peremptory-challenges sixth-amendment Whether a trial court's refusal to remove a potential juror who admits she cannot be certain she can be fair violates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of…
20-7971 Derek A. Rivera v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions murder-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the defendant was denied a fair trial due to improper other-acts evidence
20-7992 Noah Drake Primeaux v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions non-unanimous-jury prosecutorial-misconduct ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment Whether reasonable jurists would determine that the holding in Ramos v. Louisiana applies to persons on direct appeal concerning the non-unanimous jur…
20-7930 Oscar Smith v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-05-05 Denied IFP death-penalty death-sentence due-process fair-trial fundamental-rights juror-bias juror-misconduct procedural-rules state-court-proceedings Whether a state court violates the federal due process rights of a death-sentenced prisoner who has asserted a colorable claim of juror bias and/or mi…
20-1543 Adam P. McNiece v. Town of Yankeetown, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied Response Waived bill-of-attainder constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment municipal-law notice redress-of-grievances self-representation statutory-reference Can a violation of law or code be charged and tried without any statutory reference of code chapter and section indicated?
20-7901 Chalin Merrihew v. Florida Florida 2021-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing statutory-interpretation Was Petitioner denied a fair trial?
20-7882 Taurean Potter v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to a fair trial and due process was violated when the government failed to correct false testimony…
20-7893 Anthony Edward Bridget v. California California 2021-04-29 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy Whether it is allowed for a judge to tell a jury who is biased to continue their belief in the defendant without a trial to defend against newly disco…
20-7865 Terry Lee Froman v. Ohio Ohio 2021-04-27 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-duty death-penalty fair-trial jury-selection racial-bias structural-error voir-dire Does trial counsel have an obligation to conduct a meaningful and comprehensive voir dire as it relates to racial bias, explicit or implicit, of juror…
20-7840 Thomas Robert Lane v. Alabama Alabama 2021-04-26 Denied IFP capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment expert-testimony fair-trial reliable-conviction reliable-sentence In a capital case, does the admission of expert testimony from a witness regarding a subject outside his area of expertise violate a defendant's Fifth…
20-7806 Zacharias Christopher Lee v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights discovery-manipulation due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment impartial-jury sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision finding reasonableness in the sentence imposed by the district court is contrary to the Fifth Amendment due proc…
20-1465 Chang Wang, et al. v. Terilyn Carter-Garrett, et al. California 2021-04-20 Denied civil-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias Whether the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated to deny Petitioners a fair trial due to the bias of the presiding…
20-7768 Byron L. Hagans v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment constitutional rights were violated when he was tried in absentia without being informed of th…
20-7735 DeAndre Harris v. Michigan Michigan 2021-04-14 Denied IFP advocacy-appearance constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-breach evidentiary-issues fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias judicial-impartiality prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court reversibly erred in admitting highly prejudicial and irrelevant evidence related to an alleged threat to Ms. Branson by Petiti…
20-7746 Miguel Angel Mendoza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process fair-trial mens-rea sentencing Whether 21 U.S.C. § 960 requires the defendant to know the type and quantity of the drug involved in the offense?
20-7755 Wilbert James Veasey, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-regulations constitutional-rights due-process evidence fact-finding fair-trial judicial-proceedings jury-instructions sixth-amendment Did the district court's jury instruction impermissibly impair and redirect the jury's considerations of the evidence by adding words from civil regul…
20-7758 Benjamin E. Vance v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied IFP batson-challenge constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Did the lower courts violate Petitioner's Constitutional rights under the 14th Amendment to Due Process, Equal Protection clause, and U.S. Amendment V…
20-7767 Zonta Tavarus Ellison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights due-process enactment-of-2255 fair-trial resentencing what-constitutes-a-fundamentally-just-resentencing-under-28-usc-2255
20-7713 Anthony Keenan Sharp v. Lawrence Long, Judge, Second Judicial Circuit Court of South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence fair-trial freedom-of-speech prosecutorial-misconduct unlawful-search-and-seizure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to due process, equal protection, freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, and freedom from unlawful …
20-7702 Covia Dzell Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-errors fair-trial fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance right-to-present-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether trial counsel's ineffective assistance deprived Mr. Smith of the right to offer evidence in his defense
20-7669 Moses Jackson v. Alabama Alabama 2021-04-06 Denied IFP alabama-supreme-court due-process fair-trial innocence newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the Alabama Supreme Court violated the Sixth Amendment's right to a fair trial and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by denyi…
20-7653 Jeffrey Denton v. John Davids, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-error due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence procedural-gateway prosecutorial-misconduct trial-confidence Whether petitioner can pass through the gateway to argue merits of underlying claims
20-7638 Cesar Gomez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied IFP constitutional-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial grand-jury harmless-error indictment-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the district court applied the harmless-error review in an 'objectively unreasonable' manner
20-7647 Gerti Muho v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process criminal-justice-system evidentiary-admissibility fair-trial fifth-amendment financial-disability pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment witness-subpoena Whether the deprivation of essential, singular witness testimony supporting an indigent defendant's theory of defense violates the right to compulsory…
20-7582 Lonzell Green v. California California 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-review fourteenth-amendment procedural-challenge standing state-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified
20-7564 Emem Ufot Udoh v. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief recantation witness-recantation Whether Honorable District Judge Paul A. Magnuson Failed To Consider Petitioner's Habeas Claim
20-1347 Selvin Eduardo Zecena-Valdez v. Nevada Nevada 2021-03-25 Denied confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial prior-bad-acts reverse-404(b) sexual-assault Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada's interpretation and application of Nevada Revised Statute (NRS) 48.045(2) deprived Mr. Zecena of his right to a f…
20-1308 Roger D. White v. Super Gasoline, Inc., et al. Virginia 2021-03-19 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection racial-discrimination voir-dire Does the trial court's actions in tainting the jury violate the defendant's right to a fair trial and an impartial jury?
20-7514 Aimee Johnson v. St. Louis County Public Health & Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias child-welfare civil-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-allegations ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias parental-rights recusal Can a judge preside over a case when he or she is biased? Or when they are friends with the parties involved? Can a person have a fair trial when they…
20-7462 Anthony Kirkland v. Ohio Ohio 2021-03-17 Denied IFP capital-defendant death-penalty fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Are a capital defendant's rights to a fair trial by an impartial jury denied when a juror believes the death penalty should be used in all cases of mu…
20-7325 Eric Todd v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cross-examination disclosure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment government-misconduct witness-testimony Did the timing and method of the Government's disclosure violate Todd's Fifth Amendment right to a fair trial
20-7270 Keith D. Barmore v. Sonja Nicklaus, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-manslaughter jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified
20-7273 Patrick Roger Brigaudin v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Whether a prosecutor's threats to a defendant that he would receive a harsher sentence if he did not accept a plea deal denied him his constitutional …
20-7249 Derrick Miles v. Illinois Illinois 2021-02-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-appeal due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-identification Whether the State of Illinois Appellate Court ruling denying petitioner's claim
20-7251 Eric Lyle Williams v. Texas Texas 2021-02-25 Denied Amici (1)IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fair-trial prosecutor-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal structural-error Does the participation of a conflicted and recused prosecutor in a death penalty trial violate due process?
20-7240 Joseph A. Hollahan v. Illinois Illinois 2021-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights courtroom-privacy due-process evidence-examination fair-trial jury-deliberations jury-room non-juror-presence public-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure Does the right to private and secret jury deliberations apply only in the jury room?
20-1164 Donald E. Boyd v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fair-trial fair-trial-rights involuntary-medication psychotropic-drugs right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment xanax-dosage Whether the State of New Jersey's administration of unreasonably high doses of the controlled psychotropic drug Xanax violated the defendant's constit…
20-7203 Chiron Sharrol Francis v. Texas Texas 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP chambers-v-mississippi confrontation-clause crane-v-kentucky crime-scene-evidence due-process evidence-authentication evidence-preservation fair-trial right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment Did the police's bad-faith-handling-of-evidence deny the defendant due-process-and-fair-trial
20-7139 Chayce Aaron Anderson v. Colorado Colorado 2021-02-12 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel substitute-counsel Whether the trial Court abused its discretion in denying Mr. Anderson's request for the appointment of substitute counsel and defense counsel's motion…
20-7080 Jimmy Lloyd Alexander v. California California 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-seizure fair-trial judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to prosecutorial misconduct, judicial bias, and improper admission of evidence
20-7054 Paul E. Weber v. Amy Arnott Quinlan, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-U.S.C-§1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief postconviction-remedy section-1983 state-action Is the refusal of state officials to afford a defendant existing postconviction remedies actionable under 42-U.S.C-§1983?
20-7059 Glen Thomas Dotson v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment grand-jury prosecutorial-misconduct right-against-self-incrimination witness-testimony Was the petitioner deprived of a fair trial due to prosecutorial misconduct?
20-7066 William Echols v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP allied-offenses case-joinder confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence-sufficiency fair-trial joinder trial-fairness Whether Echols was denied a fair and impartial trial due to several major constitutional and due process violations that included an improper joiner o…
20-7031 Jose Diaz, aka Cano v. United States Second Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial juror-deliberations juror-misconduct jury jury-instructions jury-misconduct trial-court-inquiry trial-procedure Should a trial court conduct an inquiry when it learns that jurors have disregarded instructions and discussed the case outside the presence of other …
20-6981 Phillip Jay Walter, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2021-01-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment appellate-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-appeal pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment venue Is an Appellate Court duty bound to ensure that an Appellant - whether Represented or Pro Se - is afforded a full, fair, and meaningful appeal
20-6952 In Re Russell Adam Pelletier 2021-01-26 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct standing Does ignorance of the law bar petitioner from having right to be heard when a miscarriage of justice has occurred?
20-992 John Vigna v. Maryland Maryland 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-review character-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process fair-trial harmless-error Whether the denial of an accused request to introduce credible and relevant evidence that directly rebuts and contradicts the prior bad acts evidence …
20-6896 Phillip A. Benjamin v. Florida Florida 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment witness-testimony Did the Trial Court err when limiting the testimonies of the defense witness from testifying of vital information, therefore, hindering the Defendant …
20-6890 Chong Leng Lee v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2021-01-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-rights brady-violation court-reporter-act criminal-procedure dismissal due-process evidence-destruction fair-trial transcripts Is dismissal available to remedy a Brady violation and did Chong establish a Brady violation that warrants dismissal?
20-6892 Vashaun Williams v. Illinois Illinois 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment compelled-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions self-incrimination sixth-amendment Whether the State violated the Petitioner's rights under the 5th and 6th Amendments by compelling the testimony of a witness who invoked the 5th Amend…
20-6871 Angnem Green v. New York New York 2021-01-13 Denied IFP closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination Whether the New York Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department erred in finding Petitioner's Constitutional right to a fair trial was not violate…
20-6843 Cedryck Davis v. Illinois Illinois 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-murder criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial identity identity-evidence other-crimes-evidence reasonable-doubt witness-testimony Whether Cedryck Davis's convictions for the attempt murder of Naja Harrington and Shawn Harrington should be reversed
20-6844 Jose Angel Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay rule-of-completeness video-evidence Is a Defendant denied a Fair Trial when a District Court Finds that additional video evidence is admissible under the Rule of Completeness to prevent …
20-6796 Simon A. Sanchez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure deadly-weapon due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions Whether Trial Counsel failure to object a factual withholding with Guilty modifications in two (Pharenteticals) of Jury instructions, prevented Juror'…
20-6654 Gabino Romero v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment chain-of-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial jury-instructions prejudice search-and-seizure standing Whether the conduct of the United States in conducting research prior to deliberation on a trial judge's decision violated the 4th Amendment
20-6624 Aaron Michael Aguilera v. California California 2020-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights due-process fair-trial harmless-error jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence right-to-testify structural-error Right-to-testify
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 Is a Defendant denied the constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel and ultimately a fundamentally fair trial as guaranteed by the Unite…
20-6530 Jamel Mobley v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-preservation appellate-process constitutional-ineffectiveness fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial-standard right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether trial counsel can be constitutionally ineffective under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984) for failing to preserve an issue for pur…
20-6554 Jeffrey Fay Pike v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-anonymity jury-selection presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment Whether cloaking jurors in anonymity impermissibly impairs the presumption of innocence and the right of the accused to an impartial jury
20-6514 Jimmy Ray Weatherholt, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2020-12-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process fair-trial judicial-conduct recusal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether trial counsel's suspension and ultimate disbarment during the pendency of criminal charges deprived the defendant of his constitutional right …
20-6438 Hector D. Molina v. Robert W. Fox, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-liability due-process fair-trial gang-conspiracy habeas-corpus natural-and-probable-consequences premeditated-murder Whether conviction for premeditated murder committed by others while the defendant was incarcerated based on the natural and probable consequences of …
20-6367 Kissinger St. Fleur v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-18 Denied IFP appellate-review buyer-seller-transaction cocaine-distribution conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions Did the district court and the Eleventh Circuit deny Mr. St. Fleur a fair trial when it failed to give buyer-seller instructions to the jury?
20-6339 George B. Larsen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied IFP bad-faith-defense bank-fraud due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment Whether the district court's bank-fraud jury instructions that erroneously omitted a factually supported bad-faith defense violated the defendants' Fi…
20-6315 Darris Altony Newsome v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause sixth-amendment victim-testimony witness-testimony Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to trial counsel's conduct involving dishonesty tha…
20-6325 Krystal Megan Delima v. Walmart Stores Arkansas, LLC Eighth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct motion-for-new-trial preponderance-of-evidence transcript-irregularities Whether a Motion for a New Trial, FRCP Rule 59, should had been granted?
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 Denial of Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights
20-6254 Roberto Yoquigua Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confidentiality criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process duress-defense fair-trial fifth-amendment pre-trial-disclosure sixth-amendment testimonial-confidentiality Whether and to what extent the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit a defendant to keep all of the details of his duress confidential before trial, or wh…
20-6231 Mark Zavala v. Kim Holland, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang-enhancement sentence-enhancement street-terrorism-act unitary-proceeding Does the trial of a sentence enhancement allegation under California's Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act in a unitary proceeding with th…
20-6171 Kenneth Emanuel Baptiste v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-10-29 Dismissed IFP capital-murder capitol-murder constitutional-error due-process fair-trial jury-instruction jury-instructions reconsideration severance-motion stolen-property trial-procedure Was instructing the Jury with CALJIC No. 2.15 in error
20-6025 Steven McManus v. Mary Vann, Superintendent, Altona Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied IFP burden-of-proof emotional-appeals evidence-mischaracterization fair-trial inflammatory-statements prosecutorial-misconduct vouching witness-vouching Whether the cumulative effect of the prosecutor's actions deprived the petitioner of a fair trial?
20-6036 Torrey Washington v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the prosecution failed to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt?
20-5923 Charles Don Flores v. Texas Texas 2020-10-06 Denied Amici (2)IFP constitutional-fairness death-penalty due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial hypnosis investigative-hypnosis law-enforcement-procedure police-investigation Is the Constitution's guarantee of a fundamentally fair trial compromised when a conviction hinges on an in-court eyewitness identification obtained a…
20-5908 Mikel Clotaire v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit-precedent fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mug-shot-admission presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-precedent Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision to admit a mug shot in a criminal trial absent a need for the evidence splits with well-established Sixth Circ…
20-5921 Joseph J. Craig v. Kansas Kansas 2020-10-05 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-instruction kansas-supreme-court voluntary-intoxication Did the Kansas Supreme Court deny the defendants rights to a fair trial under the Due Process Clause when it should have ruled the defendant was entit…
20-5834 Jose Rufino Garcia-Chicol v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial foreign-national language-rights standing translation-services Whether the Second Amendment's protections of a 'well-regulated Militia' under the Framers, Constitution, and Statutes of the United States of America…
20-5782 Harold Warren v. Indiana Indiana 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong sixth-amendment standard-of-review stare-decisis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals' precedent has set the bar for the Strickland v. Washington prejudice prong too high
20-5707 Ruth Ellen Reeves v. Mark T. Esper, Secretary of Defense, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial institutional-abuse medical-ethics military-intervention patient-rights standing Is it legal for a court to render judgment on a case before the case is heard from the Plaintiff and/or the Defendants?
20-5698 Adrian Hernandez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection post-conviction procedural-default racial-bias standing state-court whether-a-petitioner-was-denied-a-fair-trial-when-a-juror-stated-she-could-not-be-impartial
20-5682 Simon F. Ranteesi v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-14 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony fair-trial ineffective-counsel jury-instructions medical-malpractice mental-state prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified
20-5644 Jonathan Limary v. Maine Maine 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights defense-of-others fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection self-defense sixth-amendment voir-dire Did the lower court deny Jonathan Limary the right to a fair and impartial jury under the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution, by denyin…
20-5613 Keith Bernard Smith v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing extraneous-contact fair-trial juror-misconduct jury remmer-v-united-states sixth-amendment trial-fairness Whether the trial court interfered with the petitioner's state and federal constitutional rights to a fair jury trial by refusing to hold an evidentia…
20-5619 James Allen Minyard v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP competency-hearing due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment harmless-error prejudice structural-error trial-rights Whether the trial court violated the petitioner's due process right to a fair trial by failing to hold a competency hearing despite a bona fide doubt …
20-5564 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP brown-opinion Brown-v-Board due-process Eleventh-Circuit fair-trial recusal recusal-statute resentencing sentencing Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision affirming the district court's refusal to conduct a full resentencing with the defendant present renders the p…
20-5520 Michael Williamson v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial hearsay hearsay-statements right-to-witnesses sixth-amendment witness-exclusion Was Michael Williamson afforded a fair trial and right to confront his accusers or right to witnesses in his favor
20-5468 Corey Manning v. Michigan Michigan 2020-08-24 Denied IFP competency-hearing competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stages due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure right-to-be-present supreme-court-precedent trial-presence Whether defendant-appellant was denied his constitutional right to be present at all critical stages of trial
20-5425 Rasheen J. Gamble v. New York New York 2020-08-20 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cumulative-error dna-evidence due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Was defense counsel ineffective for consenting to the prosecutor's extremely untimely request for a DNA sample?
20-5368 Usman Oyibo v. Huntington Hospital, et al. Second Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP biological-relationship civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial judicial-misconduct legal-standing standing takings Whether the defendants can be found anything but guilty given the parallels between the petitioner's case and the Tuskegee Experiment
20-5357 Anthony Collymore v. Connecticut Connecticut 2020-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process due-process fair-trial immunity prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination statutory-immunity witness-immunity Whether the petitioner's rights to due process of law, compulsory process and fair trial were violated
20-5324 In Re Jeremiah Ybarra 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial false-evidence false-statements false-testimony law-enforcement warrant-validity Was the petitioner innocent of the alleged offense?
20-5294 Byron Becton v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Did the prosecutor's misconduct deprive the petitioner of a fair trial that violated petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights against self-i…
20-129 Muhanad Elfatih M. A. Badawi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence foreign-terrorist-organization material-support old-chief old-chief-precedent rule-403 terrorism-evidence Whether graphic evidence of terrorism, admitted without the balancing test required by Fed. R. Evid. 403 and Old Chief v. United States, 519 U.S. 172,…
20-5282 Alla A. Zorikova v. Realvest, Inc. Missouri 2020-08-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial falsified-facts foreign-corporation judicial-discretion missouri-statutes usurious-interest weight-of-evidence Did the Circuit Court deny Petitioner's Constitutional right for fair Trial?
20-5257 Jimmy McLain Moore v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment law-enforcement right-to-confrontation sixth-amendment witness-communication Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals failed to decide an important Federal Question regarding the right of a Defendant to confront witnesses aga…
20-101 Lloyd Harris v. Maryland Maryland 2020-08-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14) actual-prejudice balancing-test constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial preindictment-delay prejudice-analysis prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-motive Where preindictment delay has caused actual prejudice to the accused's ability to defend himself, does the Due Process Clause require (1) the defendan…
20-5137 Antoine Dewayne Myles v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judicial-bias pre-sentencing pro-se-representation self-representation suppression suppression-of-evidence wire-tap-interception Whether the district court violated the defendants Due Process right to a fair in an impartial tribunal
20-5145 In Re Charles Talbert 2020-07-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion post-conviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the court erred in denying the petitioner's motion for a new trial based on the alleged constitutional violations in the conduct of the trial …
20-5116 Steven B. Anderson v. Thomas Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-trial demonstrative-evidence due-process fair-trial false-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the State of Michigan violated Petitioner's constitutional right to due process by presenting known false testimony and by using inconsistent …
20-5127 Thomas Eric Espinoza v. Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence confrontation-clause constitutional-error due-process expert-examination fair-trial habeas-corpus lab-evidence right-to-present-defense scientific-evidence witness-testimony Did the trial court deny Mr. Espinoza before trial his right to counsel, a fair process, confrontation, and the right to present a defense that would …
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 Whether this Court should issue a writ of certiorari
20-5038 Reza Olangian v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility due-process fair-trial government-informant government-witness trial-procedure truthfulness witness-availability witness-credibility witness-testimony Is a defendant deprived of a fair trial when government witnesses are invited to comment on his credibility and candor, and when he in turn is asked t…
20-5109 Ganaa Otgoo v. Illinois Illinois 2020-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-between-state-court-decisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-constitutional-rights legal-review reasonable-doubt state-court state-court-actions wrongful-conviction Whether State Court actions denied Petitioner's Federal Constitutional Rights, denied Petitioner Fair and Impartial Trial
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 Is a criminal defendant denied a fair trial and the effective assistance of counsel when defense counsel fails to request a jury instruction on self-d…
20-5050 Ezra Leslie v. New York New York 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct reversal sixth-amendment structural-error Whether the defendant was denied his Sixth Amendment right to choose his own defense and his due process right to a fair trial due to trial counsel's …
20-6 William Burke v. Progressive Gulf Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial insurance insurance-claim legal-manipulation maritime-jurisdiction maritime-law seventh-amendment summary-judgment Is an insurance company allowed to manipulate outdated, obsolete maritime laws in order to falsely claim that a vessel is located in navigable waters …
19-8909 Grant Ruffin Haze v. Katy Poole, Administrator, Scotland Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-presentation exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel witness-tampering Did the prosecution's intentional and repeated abuse of the witnesses and the selective theft of the petitioner's exculpatory legal materials, conceal…
19-8897 David Lee Smith v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-07-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge covid-prison-conditions due-process emergency-relief fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-petition sentencing sentencing-review Whether a pro se petitioner is entitled to a liberal construction of their court papers or fair amendment, when the prosecutor presented no evidence t…
19-8883 Nathan E. Gundy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial judicial-discretion standing trial-rights Whether the 8th Amendment of the United States Constitution bars are guaranteed to a fair trial in all criminal prosecutions or just when a judge deem…
19-8856 Jason L. Brown v. Lisa M. Brown Third Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process fair-trial free-speech judicial-management prosecutorial-misconduct standing Does a document have to be real to have standing? Has the lower court chosen its power?
19-8836 Bobby Ray Culpepper v. Texas Texas 2020-06-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias judicial-error legal-remedy prejudicial-error standing structural-error trial-procedure Was Petitioner Denied a Fair Trial, or was Petitioner's Trial a Result of Structural Errors of Due Process
19-8812 Alfonso Pineda-Hernandez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-question constitutional-rights court-interpretation criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process fair-trial interpretation translation translation-rights Under what circumstances does a live, in-court translation violate a criminal defendant's due process rights?
19-1405 Matthew Jacobson v. Butterfly Blaise, et al. New York 2020-06-23 Denied Response Waived confrontation-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fundamental-fairness privilege-and-immunities public-university student-disciplinary-proceeding student-discipline Whether the Due Process, Equal Protection and Privilege and Immunities Clauses require that an accused charged with what would otherwise be a criminal…
19-8772 Mario Torres v. Mike Hansen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 brady-violations civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment discovery discovery-deprivation due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial Whether Contra Costa County California's blanket policy of depriving a criminal defendant the facts and the evidence (exculpatory or otherwise), surro…
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 Was Mr. Loper denied the right to a fair trial and the effective-assistance-of-counsel
19-8769 Daryll Shumake v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-report jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court Whether the trial court erred in denying the petitioner's motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence
19-8696 Frank DiTomasso v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial free-speech ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing standing Whether there was a conviction of production of child pornography when nothing was ever asked for, such as pictures or video, and there was not even a…
19-8731 Edson Gelin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP buyer-seller criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence-law fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions theory-of-defense Whether the defense is entitled to a buyer-seller jury instruction when the instruction is part of the theory of defense and otherwise necessary for a…
19-1372 Angel M. Ayala-Vazquez v. United States First Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fifth-amendment judicial-proceedings perjured-testimony sixth-amendment standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari Whether the lower courts circumvented the standard of review for issuing a certificate of appealability
19-8657 Manoj Kumar Jha v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fair-tribunal judicial-bias post-conviction-collateral-motion post-conviction-relief section-2255-motion Can-the-District-Court-deny-a-28-U.S.C.-§-2255-motion-without-holding-an-evidentiary-hearing
19-8650 Sebastian Albert Campbell v. Maryland Maryland 2020-06-09 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-tools due-process fair-trial legal-standard right-to-counsel self-representation trial-fairness Did the state of Maryland err by utilizing an improper legal standard in its determination that compelling Petitioner to relinquish his right to self-…
19-8607 Derrick Thompson v. Patrick Griffin, Superintendent, Sullivan Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause fair-trial forensic-analysis forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment speedy-trial testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements Does the Confrontation Clause permit the introduction of testimonial identification statements of a non-testifying forensic analyst?
19-8542 Brian Lamar Brown v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial harmless-error jury-instructions legal-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the prosecutor committed prejudicial misconduct during closing arguments?
19-8547 Joseph D. Blueford v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied IFP appellate-review due-process fair-trial harmless-error impartial-tribunal judicial-discretion jury jury-competence sixth-amendment Does a petitioner have the right to a fair-and-impartial-trial when a juror does not hear-or-understand-the-evidence
19-8529 Darryl Cain v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance judicial-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Whether the prosecutor's remarks during rebuttal of injecting personal opinion and vouching for the credibility of a witness
19-8502 David Beverly v. Illinois Illinois 2020-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility criminal-procedure facebook facebook-evidence fair-trial other-crimes-evidence plain-error plain-error-doctrine prior-bad-acts prior-conviction rap-lyrics Whether petitioner was denied a fair trial
19-8479 Bernard J. Fleming v. United States District of Columbia 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial personal-opinion prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vouching vouching witness-credibility When do comments by a prosecutor in her final and rebuttal arguments to the jury in a criminal case that affirm the veracity of the government's chief…
19-8468 Janice M. Shufford v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-charges criminal-history due-process evidence evidentiary-exclusion fair-trial indictment-defects judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Did the court of appeals properly affirm the trial court's prohibition of the defense from adducing evidence of prosecution witnesses' criminal histor…
19-8425 Chayce Aaron Anderson v. Colorado Colorado 2020-05-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process fair-trial jailhouse-informant jury-trial prejudicial-evidence Whether the district court erred in limiting the scope of cross-examination of a jailhouse informant, denying the defendant's constitutional right to …
19-8407 Mauro Ramirez v. Florida Florida 2020-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection evidence fair-trial forensic-evidence scientific-reliability Whether the State must establish the reliability and accuracy of the lab instrumentation used for electrophoresis and other preliminary DNA analyses b…
19-8379 Herbert Burgess v. Illinois Illinois 2020-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial judicial-bias judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct trial-bias witness-credibility Whether the trial court's repeated displays of bias, hostility, and animosity toward Herbert Burgess violated the standard for prejudice and bias
19-1218 Marcus Lee Robinson v. Colorado Colorado 2020-04-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-trial plain-error prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-prejudice Whether a prosecutor's blatant appeals to racial prejudice constitute plain error, even if the defendant cannot show that they altered the jury's verd…
19-8264 Paul M. Gordon v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure legal-standard mental-competency mental-incompetency sentencing Is it a constitutional violation of due process to have been sentenced while mentally incompetent?
19-8233 Reynaldo Alberto Cantu v. Texas Texas 2020-04-09 Denied IFP bias constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-bias juror-misconduct remand trial-procedure Whether the Texas High Court erred in denying Petitioner the right to a fair and impartial trial by failing to remand the case back to the trial court…
19-8213 Jesus Rodriguez v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied IFP collateral-review cullen-v-pinholster due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan pinholster-ruling sixth-amendment Whether receiving inadequate representation at a first collateral review proceeding triggers the exception of Martinez v. Ryan
19-8091 Vernon Wayne Officer v. Washington Washington 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process fair-trial ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion pro-se-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the denial of the defendant's request for re-appointment of counsel during his jury trial violated his Sixth Amendment right to counsel
19-8078 Brandon L. Banks v. Illinois Illinois 2020-03-23 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-safeguards counsel due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment impartial-jury sixth-amendment Whether petitioner was denied due process of law, a fair trial by an impartial jury, and equal protection of the laws
19-8021 Henry L. Jackson v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP destruction-of-evidence due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge vehicle Whether the state violated petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and a fair trial when it released petitioner's vehicle to the lienho…
19-7969 Embery J. McBride v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied IFP civil-rights conviction cruel-punishment due-process equal-protection fair-trial fraud fundamental-fairness indictment-challenge ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection presentment sentencing special-presentment standing Whether the Court should grant the writ of certiorari to review the lower court's decision
19-7992 Glenn Sinatra Davis v. Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, as Trustee for Specialty Underwriting and Residential Finance Trust, Series 2005-BC3 Alabama 2020-03-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights continuance court-motion discovery due-process equal-protection fair-trial fairness judicial-fairness justice legal-procedure notice notice-of-motions notice-of-rights Whether a Citizen of the United States have a right to 'Due Process' under the law
19-7960 Reginald Edward Green v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment prejudicial-evidence prison-garb shackles Is displaying a defendant shackled, handcuffed, in prison garb prejudicial?
19-7925 Ronald O'Rourke v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppressed-evidence trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court abused discretion in denying petitioner's request for counsel
19-7831 Jose Antonio Cortez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction standing statute-of-limitations Whether the abstention doctrine supports the district court's dismissal of the case while the case was under state court review
19-7868 Steven B. Turner v. Mike Kemna Eighth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-fairness Whether Missouri's rule conflicts with Lafler v. Cooper
19-7819 Shamsuddin Dost v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymous-testimony confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial sixth-amendment undercover-agents Is it a violation of the Sixth Amendment to allow undercover agents to testify anonymously during a criminal trial?
19-7795 Robert Alan Foster v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights discovery-violation due-process equal-protection fair-trial first-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance jury-instruction prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination school-desegregation sixth-amendment standing voting-rights Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause
19-7765 William Reyes v. Robert Ercole, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254 conviction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus perjury prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-likelihood section-2254 witness-testimony Is a defendant deprived of his right to due process of law when he would not have been convicted had perjury not been introduced at his trial?
19-7769 Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment competency competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation law-enforcement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct self-representation Whether the petitioner's 6th Amendment right to a fair trial was violated due to ineffective assistance of counsel, prosecutorial misconduct, and lack…
19-7690 Devell Short v. Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greensburg, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-rights castle-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct jury jury-contamination jury-misconduct Whether a miscarriage of justice occurred due to a mistake and breakdown in the judicial operation of the federal courts
19-7724 Byron R. Barker v. Texas Texas 2020-02-20 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rule-403 extraneous-offenses fair-trial texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-criminal-procedure texas-rules-of-evidence Does the introduction of extranseous offenses, pursuant to Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 38.37 violate the right to a fair trial and shift …
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?
19-7547 Phillip Boyd Cashion v. Texas Texas 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination trial-procedure Should the Petitioner's trial structure have been free from the fundamental unfairness of having the prosecutor tell the jury on two occasions that 'y…
19-7451 David Keith Rogers v. California California 2020-01-30 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-hearing constitutional-rights court-discretion discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial hearing judicial-procedure juror-misconduct legal-review When a court is presented with admissions of clear juror misconduct is it constitutionally compelled to conduct a hearing to determine the extent and …
19-7496 Garry Dean Stroner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights discrimination due-process effective-counsel fair-cross-section fair-trial impartial-jury intentional-exclusion jury-composition jury-selection presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct systematic-exclusion Whether the right to an impartial jury was violated by the systematic exclusion of male venirepersons
19-7477 Raul Mejia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fourth-amendment franks-hearing search-and-seizure trial-fairness warrant warrant-validity Was petitioner's truck illegally searched due to an invalid warrant? Was petitioner improperly denied a Franks hearing? Did Officer Carbajal testify a…
19-7487 Jonathan Blades v. United States District of Columbia 2020-01-29 Denied Amici (3)IFP courtroom-access courtroom-proceedings due-process fair-trial public-trial right-to-public-trial sixth-amendment standing trial-transparency voir-dire white-noise Does barring members of the public from hearing trial proceedings, without any special justification or findings, violate the right to a public trial …
19-7442 Andrew Lee Williams v. Texas Texas 2020-01-27 Denied IFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-article-38.41 due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment indefiniteness sixth-amendment vagueness Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' recent holdings regarding the construction and application of Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 38…
19-7349 Angel Osornio v. Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial impartial-tribunal judicial-review standing Whether the petitioner was unlawfully denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment when the state court proceedings failed to prov…
19-7272 Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment trial-fairness Whether the petitioner received constitutionally effective assistance of counsel at trial
19-7294 Mohammed Kwaning v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence fair-trial hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-error jury-trial material-evidence preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the Government officials conduct violated Petitioner's constitutional rights?
19-7227 Santos Reyes-Villatoro v. United States Third Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP consciousness-of-guilt due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial false-evidence giglio-v-united-states judicial-review napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial trial-fairness Whether a prosecutor's presentation of false or misleading evidence violates due process and requires vacating a conviction and remanding for a new tr…
19-7208 Gbenga Benson Ogundele v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP chapman-standard confrontation-clause due-process evidence fair-trial federal-rule-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence government-evidence sixth-amendment Whether voluminous amounts of substantive evidence containing prejudicial opinions of government agents held to be erroneously admitted under Federal …
19-7174 John H. Stewart v. William Honsal, as Public Administrator of Humboldt County, California, et al. California 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP domestic-violence due-process evidence-admission fair-trial hearsay judicial-notice property-rights Was Petitioner's federal constitutional right to due process of law violated by an unfair trial?
19-843 Daniel K. Holtzclaw v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-01-06 Denied defense-counsel-exclusion dna-evidence due-process ex-parte-hearing exculpatory-evidence expert-witness fair-trial forensic-expert in-camera-hearing materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct What is the standard of materiality applicable in assessing the prejudicial impact of potential exculpatory evidence relating to the State's chief for…
19-7166 Ann Karnofel v. Superior Waterproofing, Inc. Ohio 2020-01-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts age-discrimination civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial pro-se standing Were the petitioner's due process rights denied because she is a 47-year-old, female pro se litigant?
19-7108 Devell Moore v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection ninth-circuit peremptory-challenges purkett-v-elem trial-procedure Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability on Moore's claim he was denied equal protection of the law, and a fair trial…
19-7084 Andrew Haley Morcombe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defense criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process fair-trial international-kidnapping international-parental-kidnapping jury-instructions state-law state-law-definitions statutory-interpretation Whether the failure of 18 U.S.C. § 1204 to define 'domestic violence' violates due process and deprives defendants of a fair trial
19-7069 Lee Alvin Vincent v. Brian E. Williams, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment actual-bias co-defendant due-process evidence-presentation fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-jury implied-bias juror-bias jury-bias sexual-infatuation Whether a juror's love for an adverse party (co-defendant) constitutes actual or implied bias and thus violates the defendant's right to an impartial …
19-7026 James W. Guy v. Ohio Ohio 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material civil-procedure civil-rights continuance discovery-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial first-amendment free-speech self-representation self-representing-defendant standing untimely-discovery Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
19-7039 Kevin Lee Beam v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fetal-dna miranda-rights right-to-fair-trial self-incrimination sentencing-statute Does the misguided destruction of exculpatory fetal DNA tissue evidence constitute a Brady violation?
19-6971 Comfort Delando Roberts v. Texas Texas 2019-12-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
19-7012 Robert Eugene Hardesty v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process due-process-fair-trial,evidence,michigan-rule-of-e due-process,insufficient-evidence,5th-amendment,6t effective-assistance-of-counsel,fair-trial,6th-ame fair-trial insufficient-evidence michigan-constitution-1963-article-1-section-17 michigan-rule-of-evidence-404(b) us-constitution-amendments-v-xiv Is the admittance of irrelevant and prejudicial bad acts evidence under the guise of Michigan Rule of Evidence 404(b) a violation of due process and a…
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 Whether malicious and vindictive prosecution threatens the criminal justice system
19-786 Willie Kipyego Butia v. Virginia Virginia 2019-12-19 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-discretion jury jury-instructions statutory-interpretation Is due process violated where the trial judge instructs the jury using words not found in the statute and in such a way that clearly expands the statu…
19-7000 David Constance v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP crawford-v-washington fair-trial fourteenth-amendment hearsay-testimony impartial-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Constance was denied a fair and impartial trial due to the State Courts' denial of hearsay testimony
19-7005 Johnnie Lewis Wood v. Virginia Virginia 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment-due-process 6th-amendment-rights conviction fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment indictment jury-verdict material-misrepresentation sixth-amendment Was Petitioner's Sixth-Amendment-rights,Fourteenth-Amendment-rights,false-testimony,fair-trial,jury-verdict,conviction violated
19-6956 Thomas H. Outland v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-12-16 Denied IFP confrontation-clause credibility criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-impeachment due-process evidence evidence-rules fair-trial impeachment jury-instructions prior-convictions right-to-present-a-defense Did the New Jersey state court endorse the use of N.J.R.E. 806 to impeach non-testifying criminal defendants with their prior convictions
19-6957 Venise Metayer v. Florida Florida 2019-12-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-hearing Did the trial/lower court create a manifest injustice when it allowed the petitioner to plea to charges that violated double-jeopardy laws, when the t…
19-6844 Fabian Santiago v. Arthur F. Hill, Associate Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County Illinois 2019-12-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-adjudication ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-representation right-to-counsel Whether the refusal of the legal representative of the Petitioner to disclose a conflict of interest and the judge's failure to address this issue con…
19-6856 James W. Riley v. Delaware Delaware 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP capital-punishment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-considerations fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial sentencing sentencing-discretion Should Abns courct extend Ts Hucsh wv. Florida cubug
19-6831 In Re Fredrick Wroten 2019-12-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment judicial-obligation petition petition-for-redress redress unilateral-contract when-the-state-and-federal-appellate-courts-ignore-and-or-refuse-to-respond-to-a-denial-of-a-fair-trial-claim
19-696 Dan Haendel v. Anne Reed, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response Waived alford-plea due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey interception-act law-enforcement suppression-motion virginia virginia-interception-act Does Heck v. Humphrey bar Appellant's federal court review of the constitutionality of actions by local Virginia investigative and law enforcement off…
19-6660 Ronald Fay Schermerhorn, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause court-of-appeals due-process ex-post-facto fair-trial habeas-corpus statutory-law Question not identified.
19-6636 Gregory Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-reasonableness Whether the government violated Mr. Williams' constitutional right to a fair trial
19-6645 In Re Morgan Allen Armstrong 2019-11-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process fabrication-of-evidence fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing Did the state court fabricate the evidence used to convict the petitioner, violate his right to a fair trial, and deny him due process?
19-6592 Monir George v. Dana Metzger, Warden Third Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion for a new trial based on the defense counsel's failure to disclose exculpatory evidenc…
19-6595 Raymond Tavelle Holmes v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP cell-phone civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-636 due-process fair-trial florida-statute-934.23 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel inevitable-discovery magistrate-judge objection procedural-error report-and-recommendation search-and-seizure severance similar-fact-evidence sixth-amendment standing third-party warrantless-search Whether the failure to sever counts deprived the P Whether the warrantless search and seizure of text williams-rule Whether the Magistrate Judge failed to file a report and recommendation as required, depriving the Petitioner the opportunity to file a written object…
19-6597 Thiodore Igorovich Galitsa v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility criminal-history criminal-procedure-due-process cross-examination dismissed-case dismissed-charges due-process fair-trial false-statements illegal-reentry prior-arrests prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness Was Mr. Galitsa denied his right to a fair trial?
19-6608 Steve Romero v. Mike McDonald, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP de-novo-review fair-trial habeas habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias procedural-history sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does the Ninth Circuit's decision contravene Strickland and this Court's Sixth Amendment jurisprudence?
19-6591 In Re Kenneth Uncapher 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury jury-bias jury-misconduct mistrial newly-discovered-evidence victim Was the Petitioner denied a fair trial?
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 Whether the Due Process Clause and the Constitutional Guarantees of a Fundamentally Fair Trial permit a criminal trial to be presided over by a judge …
19-6567 Danny Lee Hill v. Ohio Ohio 2019-11-08 Denied IFP bite-mark-evidence constitutional-rights conviction death-penalty death-sentence due-process expert-testimony fair-trial habeas-corpus scientific-evidence Whether a murder conviction and death sentence based on now recognized debunked unscientific evidence violates a petitioner's constitutional rights to…
19-6535 Clarence Fry v. Ohio Ohio 2019-11-06 Denied IFP constitutional-right criminal-defendant due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas self-representation sixth-amendment trial-counsel Is it unconstitutional for any Court to deny the Constitutional right to testify in one's own defense by placing the burden of making such desire know…
19-6463 Michael A. Albert v. New York New York 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment outrageous-conduct police-agent right-to-present-defense sexual-inducement voluntariness Whether the promise and delivery of sex by a police agent is sufficient inducement to trigger 5th and/or 14th Amendment protections
19-6380 Emerson L. Beverly v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fair-trial-14th-amendment fair-trial-6th-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct red-herring sentencing-review sixth-amendment Did the prosecutor's repeated reference to petitioner's defense as a 'red hearing' constitute misconduct thereby denying petitioner a fair trial in vi…
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 Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to a fair trial and effective assistance of counsel were violated
19-6322 Kelvin Miles v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne alleyne-vs-united-states apprendi confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial hearsay sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors did-the-pre-trial-destruction-of-evidence-by-the-state-deny-the-petitioner-his-right-to-due-process-and-a-fair-trial
19-6330 Vicki Corona v. Mariyam Gasparyan California 2019-10-22 Denied IFP 1st-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial first-amendment judicial-misconduct legal-remedy malice petition-clause remedy standing Where actors of a Superior Court, including the Judge, defense attorney, and clerks, violate the rule of law as announced in the Due Process Clause, a…
19-6283 Daryl Scott v. United States District of Columbia 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process fair-trial government-misconduct judicial-integrity mesarosh-v-united-states military-justice post-conviction-relief post-trial-discovery witness-credibility Is the widespread fabrication and destruction of false DNA evidence by a government chemist for use at trial against U.S. servicemembers, and the fail…
19-6257 Lamar Lovett v. Texas Texas 2019-10-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial jurisdiction public-trial sixth-amendment standing takings Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to voir dire proceedings
19-6237 Terry G. Watson v. Chantay Godert, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-10-10 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred in not granting a certificate of appealability on the petitioner's claims of prosecutor…
19-6180 Dannie Joe Farnum v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied IFP child-competency confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial hearsay prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-confrontation right-to-fair-trial Whether the trial court violated a defendant's right to due process by admitting the prior statements of a 4 year old child without any inquiry into t…
19-449 In Re Arthur Edward Ezor 2019-10-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment writ-of-mandate Was it a denial of procedural and substantive due process for the lower Court to not order dismissal of the subject criminal case with prejudice again…
19-6145 Anthony Mark Smith, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2019-10-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial hearsay precedent standard-of-proof victim-testimony Whether the Virginia Supreme Court and Court of Appeals erred in refusing to set aside the petitioner's conviction and sentence, which violated his ri…
19-6091 James L. Toney v. Heath Dickson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review cover-up discovery due-process evidence fair-trial federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance marshals ncic procedural-default standing state-court-review Whether the exposure of cheating by the State of Arkansas and the concomitant collusion to cover up cheating evidence violates due process and the rig…
19-6070 Malcom McClenon v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review sufficiency-of-evidence Is Recier DUE. To fr ConvicTioN 1 Devoid OF THE RUD MENTARY DEmAwos of FAIR Pacegouns ?
19-394 Sergio Mejia-Duarte v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process extradition-treaty fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence fre-403 fre-404(b) hearsay-evidence international-extradition international-law treaty unrelated-murder Whether a crucial mandate of the international extradition treaty was violated
19-6052 Rafie A. Lee v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial federal-court fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus judicial-review state-court state-court-proceedings Whether Petitioner was denied 'Fundamental Fairness' in the State Court Proceedings?
19-5967 Cameron Thomas v. Nevada Nevada 2019-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness sixth-amendment trial-court-narrative Whether the Nevada Supreme Court committed error when it failed to address Thomas' contention that his right to fundamental fairness was violated when…
19-5980 In Re Sang Hing Wong, Jr. 2019-09-17 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct body-worn-camera case-file civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidence-destruction fair-hearing fair-trial prejudice Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's request for an order compelling the respondent to authorize the release of the body-worn came…
19-5947 Michael Patrick Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement perception-of-guilt substantial-guilt trial-defense witness-tampering If defense counsel omits the necessary trial defense and thereby sustains a perception of substantial guilt so that the substantial guilt was dependen…
19-330 Harshad Shah v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bribery-trial civil-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury plain-error-review racial-animus sixth-amendment structural-error trial-by-jury Is the use of racial animus by the government in a bribery trial a structural error and a denial of the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury?
19-303 Arthur Rodriguez Bautista v. Texas Texas 2019-09-05 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-judge ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the trial judge's repeated improper comments throughout the trial demonstrated his bias in favor of the prosecution and denied Petitioner due …
19-5780 Marvin Robinson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution?
19-5716 Karl Heinz Dupuy v. Unknown Fourth Circuit 2019-08-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence expert-opinion fair-trial innocence medical-records mental-state post-conviction-discovery self-defense standing Whether the life of my pregnant companion & fetus was not being protected from imminent danger from real threat by two young men with burglary tools i…
19-5712 Ivan Lee Vasquez v. California California 2019-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-rights content-based-messaging fair-trial fourteenth-amendment inherently-prejudicial sixth-amendment trial-spectator-conduct May trial spectator conduct, in the form of content-based messaging, be 'so inherently prejudicial as to pose an unacceptable threat' to the fair-tria…
19-5605 Stephen Alan Macomber v. Kansas Kansas 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment state-action use-of-force Did the trial courts fail to give a specific use-of-force presumption, thereby lowering the burden of proof for the state and violating the defendant'…
19-5655 Chadwick N. Barner v. Illinois Illinois 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial illinois-supreme-court-rule-431(b) impartial-jury jury-selection post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the trial court violated the defendant's constitutional rights by failing to properly administer the jury selection process under Illinois Sup…
19-5639 Kirby D. Crawford v. Georgia Georgia 2019-08-19 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure deprivation-of-rights due-process evidence-of-proof evidentiary-standards fair-trial grand-jury indictment judicial-error legal-procedure petitioner standing trial-court Whether the trial court erred in charging my client with crimes not assessed by the grand jury prior to the trial
19-5442 Shanta G. Phillips-Berry v. Kenner Police Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process due-process evidentiary-requirements fair-trial judicial-discretion jury jury-trial legal-standards standing trial-procedure What if district court abused its discretion by not relying on the erroneous legal premise that a citizen(s) of the state of Louisiana and this great …
19-5449 Richard Shelley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-strike sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-fair-trial Whether the district court erred in finding that Shelley failed to object to the government's use of a peremptory strike, thereby causing a 5th Amendm…
19-5468 Tara Glass v. United States Third Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-communication ex-parte-communications fair-trial judicial-complaint judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct liberty-interest liberty-interests right-to-marry supervised-release Whether a Chief Circuit Judge should be required to notify a criminal Defendant once a non-party submits a pre-trial judicial misconduct complaint as …
19-5482 Joann Jefferson v. OneWest Bank, FSB New Jersey 2019-08-06 Denied IFP constitutional-violation discovery due-process equal-protection estate-rights fair-trial foreclosure foreclosure-proceeding pro-se-representation procedural-due-process property-rights standing trial-procedure Can Pro Se Legatees, Heirs, Executors, Estate Representatives, Devisees, successors be denied the procedural due process right to discovery and still …
19-5459 Edward Lee Carter v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-judge judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant is constitutionally entitled to a fair trial from an impartial judge who is not corrupt to preside and rule over his tria…
19-126 Gary A. Oram, Jr. v. City of Dillon, Montana, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1985 civil-procedure civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial judicial-resolution liability magistrate-jurisdiction private-citizen section-1985 standing Are the Courts able to find a judicial resolution in a §1985(3) claim against one private citizen, after all other individuals in the action are relea…
19-5352 Hal Bernard Black v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland civil-rights,due-process,standing,civil-procedure, compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial government-liability notice-requirement procedural-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the lower courts erred in holding that there is no 'fair trial' at all when a defendant is denied the right to present a complete defense by t…
19-5317 Alonzo Vernon v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial harmless-error jones-v-stinson sixth-amendment Whether the Second Circuit's decision in the instant case created a conflict with the Court's decision in Chapman, supra?
19-5266 Clarence E. Scott, Jr. v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the district court ruling that Petitioner was not denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel, due process of the law and right to…
19-5281 Ronald Wesley Jiles v. Michigan Michigan 2019-07-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-right jury-bias jury-instructions prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Whether a defendant's right to exercise his Fifth Amendment right was prejudiced by the prosecution's comments on it during closing arguments
19-5231 James D. Thomas, Jr., aka Wayne Thomas v. New York New York 2019-07-18 Denied IFP appeal burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial jury-instructions prejudicial-error prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court Whether the People failed to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that Jones Thomas Knowingly Possessed the Cocaine?
19-5224 Lee Chang v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation due-process evidence evidence-translation evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement sixth-amendment Was recorded evidence by law enforcement and presented by the prosecutor given in a timely manner as well as can it be considered a Brady violation du…
19-5172 Jesus Hilario-Bello v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence due-process economic-loss fair-trial hobbs-act intangible-asset judicial-intervention physical-force statutory-interpretation Whether Hobbs Act robbery is not a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. §924(c) because it can be committed without using physical force, by causing the …
19-5146 Isiah Edward Gilliam v. Michigan Michigan 2019-07-11 Denied IFP discovery discovery-violation due-process fair-trial habitual-offender ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions mistrial prior-convictions prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense Was Mr. Gilliam denied due process and a fair trial
19-5053 Brandon M. Hicks v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct plea-bargaining sentencing separation-of-powers sixth-amendment Whether the judge's extra language in the judgment of conviction, in context with his conduct at sentencing, is a violation of the Separation of Power…
19-5017 Shanta Phillips-Berry v. Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeals civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process equal-protection evidence-presentation fair-trial judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-procedure standing Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying the petitioner a fair trial by jury and the opportunity to present evidence against the re…
19-5022 Brian K. Banks v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b)-evidence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-error louisiana-supreme-court prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err in allowing the Fifth Circuit to contradict its own prior rulings by overruling the District Court's decision to n…
18-9828 Dylan Magluilo v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflicting-decisions constitutional-law due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review public-interest reasonable-doubt Did Louisiana Courts err in denying Dylan Magluilo right to a fair trial and subsequent review when rejecting claims involving, Conflicting Decisions …
18-9834 Carlos Alberto Ochoa-Orozco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error cumulative-error due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct rule-18 sentencing sixth-amendment venue venue-challenge Whether the district court violated Appellant's right to due process and his Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial
18A1366 Julio Mario Haro-Verdugo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Presumed Complete conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when an undisclosed romantic relationship exists b…
18-9820 Jonathon Loyd Edick v. Michigan Michigan 2019-06-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias legal-prejudice prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-procedure Is petitioner entitled to relief where his constitutional rights are/were violated by receiving ineffective assistance of counsel at the trial court l…
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?
18A1350 Yuzef Abramov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-21 Presumed Complete counsel-of-choice fair-trial gonzalez-lopez retained-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice is violated when a district court denies a timely request to substitute retained coun…
18-9746 Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2019-06-20 Denied IFP capital-case criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial intent jury-instructions prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct standing Are due process and the Eighth Amendment violated when a prosecutor knowingly argues falsehoods about the defendant's culpable acts in order to incite…
18-9748 George Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-procedure discovery due-process fair-trial guilty-plea informant plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-disclosure withdrawal-of-plea Does the 'fair and just reason' standard for withdrawal of a guilty plea properly encompass the post-plea, pre-sentence acquisition of information abo…
18-9711 David Meyers v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-06-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fail-to-strike-testimony fair-trial false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intrinsic-fraud perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Did attorney Paul Roskins violate due-process, fail-to-strike-testimony, false-testimony, compulsory-process, ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-9706 Scott Peters v. Illinois Illinois 2019-06-19 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-concealment evidence-disclosure fair-trial judicial-access judicial-procedure mandamus material-facts rules-and-regulations standing state-procedure transparency Whether the state violated the Constitution and deprived petitioner of due process rights by concealing exculpatory evidence and witness statements fr…
18-9716 Andrew J. Hunter, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure defense-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel subpoena-power Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's favoritism toward the victim, denial of the defense's right to subpo…
18-9728 Sung Ho Park v. Tammy Foss, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance interrogation involuntary-confession lesser-included-offense physical-incapacitation police-interrogation prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel whether-park-could-make-a-voluntary-statement
18A1332 Norge Manduley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-19 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial lesser-included-offense post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines Whether the trial court's failure to offer a lesser included offense and departure from sentencing guidelines violated the defendant's constitutional …
18-9605 Don Ferguson v. Florida Florida 2019-06-11 Denied IFP 7th-amendment compelled-speech content-neutrality criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial first-amendment free-speech government-regulation jury-instructions private-entities Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from requiring private entities to host speech they disagree with
18-9625 Lawton Frederick Tyson v. Texas Texas 2019-06-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial grand-jury habeas-corpus jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct Were petitioner's due process & equal protection rights violated when trial court lacked proper jurisdiction?
18-9566 Jason Brady Sain v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-06 Denied IFP closing-arguments credibility due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment theory-of-the-case witness-credibility Was petitioner's sixth and fourteenth amendment rights to a fair trial violated?
18-1506 Julian Martin v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence fair-trial hearsay reliability-of-evidence right-to-confront-witnesses sixth-amendment Whether the District Court's express reliance on an out-of-court statement of a non-testifying co-defendant as a basis for finding the defendant guilt…
18-9519 Michael Wesley v. New York New York 2019-06-03 Denied IFP alvarez-v-united-states constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-witness-perjury griffin-v-united-states petitioner's right to have newly-discovered-eviden sixth-amendment united-states-v-biberfeld washington-v-texas witness witness-perjury Does a petitioner have a right to have a witness in their favor protected by the Due Process Clause and the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments?
18-9504 Rahmat Jevon Barrett v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protection criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,due-process,sixt post-conviction-relief To what extent does the Constitution prohibit conviction and punishment of an accused whereby trial counsel failed to raise exculpatory evidence durin…
18-9509 Robert Lehmann v. Scott Kernan, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-v-youngblood bad-faith-exception brady-v-maryland due-process evidence evidence-preservation fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct scientific-evidence scientific-testing strickland-v-washington With the advancement of scientific testing methods of biological evidence, is the 'bad faith' exception to the failure to preserve evidence carved out…
18-9397 Miguel Angel Barron v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fair-trial fourth-amendment jury-instructions probable-cause relevance search-and-seizure self-defense warrantless-search Whether a state trial court's jury instruction that reduces the burden of proof or violates a principle of fairness contained in the due process claus…
18-9310 Roberto Nieto Cruz v. Texas Texas 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process extraneous-evidence extraneous-offense-testimony fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the Court of Appeals erred in misapplying the Strickland standard and depriving the Appellant of his constitutional rights to due process and …
18-9261 Calmer Cottier v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP constitutional-rights cooperating-witness due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-deliberation prosecutor-stipulation prosecutorial-misconduct stipulation truthfulness witness-credibility witness-testimony Does the use of a prosecutor's stipulation that a cooperating witness is testifying truthfully violate the constitutional guarantees of a fair trial, …
18-9214 Jessie Livell Phillips v. Alabama Alabama 2019-05-09 Denied IFP autopsy-photograph capital-murder capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment reliable-conviction reliable-sentence Whether the admission of a gruesome and unnecessary internal autopsy photograph, lacking probative value and showing post-crime mutilation by the medi…
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 Whether the defendant's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to counsel's overall health and performance
18-1379 Jeremy J. Godwin v. David Davey, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment certificate-of-appeal constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus prior-bad-acts prior-conviction profile-evidence propensity-evidence Was the decision of the Ninth Circuit to deny a Certificate of Appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) under the standards set forth in Miller-El v. Co…
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?
18-8972 Wardell Nelson Joiner, Jr. v. John Sutton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-error due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial false-evidence forensic-evidence habeas-corpus schlup-standard schlup-v-delo time-of-death wrongful-conviction Did the courts below err in applying Schlup v. Delo to hold that Petitioner's compelling new evidence was insufficient to establish reasonable doubt?
18-1313 Michael Moran v. California Ninth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights cumulative-effect cumulative-error due-process fair-trial in-custody-statements miranda miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel right-to-present-a-defense Could a jurist of reason find that the state court unreasonably applied clearly established federal law in determining that admission of petitioner's …
18-8825 Timeiki Hedspeth v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial federal-sentencing-guidelines offense-level reasonable-doubt restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines Did the District Court use an incorrect criminal history category to sentence Ms. Hedspeth?
18-8800 Stephen R. Winn v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-expert-testimony due-process evidence expert-witness fair-trial judicial-discretion testimony Whether the court erred in allowing the expert witness to testify without her notes and denying the defendant the right to review the notes as part of…
18-8732 Leonoris Miller v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-victim criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus jury jury-deliberations video-evidence video-interview Whether permitting the jury to review child victim's video interview during deliberations denied Petitioner his right to a fair trial and due process
18-8776 Tam Le v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP constitutional-rights daubert-standard due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-unanimous-jury sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Le was convicted by a non-unanimous jury in violation of his rights under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments
18-8715 Quillie Merle Spray v. Kelly A. Ryan, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Shirley First Circuit 2019-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure effective-counsel fair-trial insanity-defense mental-evaluation sixth-amendment Whether the Court of Appeals correctly decided an important question of constitutional law: that the Petitioner was denied his right to effective coun…
18-8678 Mizell Campbell, Jr. v. The Florida Bar Florida 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights disbarment disciplinary-proceedings due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal fair-trial fair-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-misconduct marshall-v-jerrico racial-bias racial-discrimination Whether an African-American lawyer facing disciplinary proceedings was deprived of his rights to Due Process and a Fair and Impartial Tribunal
18-8644 Emanuel L. Finch, Sr. v. Bradley Graham, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-clause,compulsory-process,miranda-ri consent-to-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial materiality-of-false-testimony miranda-rights sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence weight-of-evidence Whether the conduct complained of is a question of law
18-8651 Robert Butrim v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence Whether the District Court's failure to address all the issues presented in the Habeas Corpus Petition deprived the Movant of a full review by the Cir…
18-8652 Ammar Asimfaruq Harris v. Nevada Nevada 2019-04-01 Denied IFP 5th-amendment capital-case constitutional-error due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Harris' rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth amendments to a fair trial by jury were violated
18-8638 Michael Bennefield v. Georgia Georgia 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial guilt-determination jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect plea-bargaining plea-proceedings procedural-validity standing structural-defects When Structural Jurisdictional defects prevent a fair proceeding, can any reliable determination of guilt or innocence be deemed fair?
18-8573 Early A. Atterberry v. John Varga, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied IFP appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure-rule-52b due-process equal-protection fair-trial harmless-error jury-prejudice new-trial other-crimes-evidence rule-52b standing Whether the Court erred in properly applying Rule 52(b) to the issue of Harmless Error raised by the petitioner during the numerous appeals pursued
18-8587 In Re Christopher Stegawski 2019-03-27 Denied IFP 21-cfr-1306.04 21-usc-802 21-usc-841 allocution chronic-pain-treatment cross-examination due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel medical-expert strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-fairness united-states-v-moore witness-testimony Was the trial fair when key defense witnesses were not investigated pretrial, court denied Defendant's request to cross examine government medical exp…
18-8544 Keith J. Myles v. Florida Florida 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial impartial-jury jury standing Was the petitioner's constitutional rights violated?
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 Whether the trial court erred in convicting the petitioner despite the lack of testimony from a key witness and the prosecutor's misconduct in handlin…
18-8571 Javier Pellecer v. California California 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cumulative-error due-process fair-trial gang-evidence impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Whether the cumulative effect of the errors discussed above deprived petitioner of due process of law and a fair trial by an impartial jury and requir…
18-8574 William Burton v. Delaware Delaware 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-of-not-guilty prosecutorial-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Did petitioner's attorney provide ineffective assistance of counsel?
18-8527 Rene Rivera v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial foreign-born-national intellectual-disability language-barrier miller-el-v-cockrell post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review Whether the courts applied the correct standard of review in denying petitioner's application for certificate of appealability
18-8499 Nestor David Vasquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-fairness courtroom-prejudice courtroom-security defendant-rights defendant-specific-security fair-trial fair-trial-rights inherent-prejudice inherently-prejudicial judicial-procedure ninth-circuit-review prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancements trial-security Whether the Ninth Circuit contravened the Supreme Court's holding in Holbrook v. Flynn by finding that the defendant-specific security measures employ…
18-8462 William James Truesdale v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence fabricated-evidence fabrication-of-evidence fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-error Whether the erroneously admitted evidence reviewed objectively in light of the entire record before the jury was sufficiently material to provide the …
18-8470 Tommy Lee Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial judicial-conduct sentencing Has the District Court denied Mr. Jones a fair trial by allowing unsustained and unproven testimony into evidence
18-8374 Naykima Tinee Hill v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial findings-of-fact habeas-corpus harmless-error identification-expert ineffective-assistance right-to-present-defense strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Michigan Supreme Court was objectively unreasonable in application of harmless-error-analysis
18-8319 Jason Ray Flick v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-07 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion change-of-venue fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-impartiality presumption-of-prejudice pretrial-publicity sixth-amendment Was petitioner denied a fair trial due to the trial court's abuse of discretion?
18-8276 Derek Sample v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison Third Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process due-process,fair-trial,impartial-jury,lesser-inclu fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offense right-to-be-present trial-rights Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability
18-8207 Wayland Lynn Dilts v. Michigan Michigan 2019-03-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness new-trial public-trial secret-trial sixth-amendment trial-fairness Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial was violated
18-8217 Marvin Johnson v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process enterprise enterprise-membership fair-trial jury-instructions racketeering racketeering-act violent-crime Whether evidence supporting a conviction of violent crime in aid of racketeering must demonstrate the defendant was a member of the alleged enterprise
18-8149 Michael Achilles Fries v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial free-speech fundamental-fairness judicial-review legal-precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court's order denying the petitioner's request for a fair review of court and jury proceedings violated the petitioner's constitutio…
18-8154 Deondre D. Romero v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied IFP and whether ineffective assistance of counsel dep due-process fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment victim-credibility witness-credibility Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to a fair and impartial trial was violated
18-8118 Alvin Davis, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment witness-tampering Was the Petitioner, Alvin Davis, Jr. denied a fair trial
18-8074 Javonte T. Morgan v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP challenge-for-cause civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-proceedings jury-selection peremptory-challenges standard-of-review standing sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the lower court erred in denying the petitioner's challenge for cause and finding the evidence sufficient to support the conviction
18-8054 Michael Kenneth Young v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment crack-cocaine-seizure criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-joinder fair-trial firearm-seizure fourth-amendment joinder motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure severance traffic-stop Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in upholding the denial of Petitioner Michael Young's motion to sever his unrelated charges arising out of…
18-7904 Spassky Alcequiecz v. Kelly A. Ryan, Warden First Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manslaughter manslaughter-instruction sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner was denied his constitutional right to a fair trial, due to ineffective assistance of counsel
18-7873 Troy Sierra v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial false-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel right-to-counsel rights-advisement sixth-amendment Why were Petitioner's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights violated?
18-7877 Lester Roger Decker v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-performance constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Was defendant's attorney's role to fulfill his advisory position to his client ineffective, thus violating client's right to Due Process?
18-7884 Paula Villalva-Patricio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pertinent-information right-to-testify sixth-amendment testify translation-of-proceedings Whether the Defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel when Appellant wished to testify or otherwise introduce pertinent information and her…
18-7858 Arif Majid v. Jeff Noble, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof closing-argument constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct religious-prejudice trial-fairness Whether a prosecutor's appeals to religious prejudice in closing argument and throughout trial to inflame the passions of the jury embody animus or of…
18-1029 Sujit Ghosh v. DISH Network L.L.C. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-process arbitration-rights civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial non-party non-party-participation party personal-guaranty standing Can a 'Non-Party' of an Arbitration Process get equal Privileges and Rights like a 'Party' as per the laws of the United States and its Constitution, …
18-7825 Trevonte Jenkins v. Ohio Ohio 2019-02-07 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial flawed-process identification in-court-identification state-witness witness-testimony Is a petitioner denied due process of law and a fair trial when identification was at issue at trial and there was a flawed process related to a first…
18-7834 Brent William Bogseth v. Michigan Michigan 2019-02-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deliberation due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment murder premeditation prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Whether the lack of evidence to show the defendant actually committed the offense of murder means premeditation and deliberation cannot exist, or if t…
18-7843 Patrick K. Gibson v. Jeri Boe, Superintendent, Clallam Bay Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review ninth-circuit sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals error in denying a Certificate of Appealability?
18-7796 Domineque Ray v. Alabama Alabama 2019-02-06 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-evidence brady-v-maryland due-process fair-trial incarceration incarceration-records institutional-files mental-health-records postconviction-relief star-witness statute-of-limitations Does Brady v. Maryland require the State to obtain and produce to the defense all available prison or other incarceration or institutional files compr…
18-7758 Mary Cummins v. Amanda Lollar Texas 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judge-selection judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-selection texas-courts trial-fairness visiting-judge visiting-judges Is a trial by a visiting Judge according to Texas regulations a fair trial?
18-7771 Tommy Wayne Brotherton v. Jay Cassady, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment suppression-hearing videotaped-statements Whether petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial when the state court overruled his motion to suppress statements and allowed videotaped sta…
18-7757 William Davenport v. James Falk, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna dna-evidence dna-testing due-process evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel res-gestae witness-identification Whether trial court erred in admitting evidence of DNA testing from mixed samples
18-7626 Gregory Haynes v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial legal-standards miscarriage-of-justice second-degree-murder self-defense trial-court-error Whether the Petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to due process and a fair trial
18-7634 Lincoln E. Fox v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-error fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel victim-testimony witness-testimony Whether the trial court's admission of a videotaped statement of the victim violated the defendant's right to a fair trial
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 Whether Mr. Hol was denied effective assistance of counsel required by the Federal constitution's Sixth Amendment
18-7651 Eric Steve Anderson v. California California 2019-01-29 Denied IFP antagonistic-defenses conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fair-trial jury jury-trial severance severance-motion Did this trial court's denial of petitioner's severance motion as to co-defendant and its subsequent acquittal of co-defendant on the conspiracy charg…
18-7653 Lonzo Bonner v. Michigan Michigan 2019-01-29 Denied IFP brady-material due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjured-testimony probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct Whether petitioner was deprived of his state and federal constitutional right to a fair trial and due process of law
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 When trial-judge-imposed limitations on voir dire interfere with trial counsel's ability to identify veniremembers whom may be challengeable for cause…
18-7582 Ralph Nicholas Canete v. Chuck Keeton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the destruction of material evidence by the government violates the right to due process
18-7455 Josue Israel Sanchez v. California California 2019-01-17 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial government-misconduct presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct wrongful-conviction Whether the wrongful prosecution, conviction, and appeal of an innocent person is legally permissible despite the government's and society's unwilling…
18-7469 David Valenzuela Arzate v. James Robertson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process fair-trial gang-evidence insufficient-evidence judicial-review legal-interpretation statutory-provisions Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals abuse discretion or err in denying petitioner's certificate of appealability?
18-7452 Herminio Garcia-Carillo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process due-process,equal-protection,immigration,prejudice equal-protection fair-trial free-speech immigration immigration-bias impartiality jury-selection prejudice voir-dire Whether a judge must allow voir dire into prejudice against Mexican immigrants when a Mexican immigrant faces trial for illegal reentry after a presid…
18-7318 Jesus Gomez v. California California 2019-01-09 Denied IFP burglary criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment uncharged-burglaries Whether admission of evidence of uncharged burglaries violated petitioner's rights to a fair trial and due process
18-7231 Mark J. Avery v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial good-faith good-faith-defense money-laundering specific-intent trust trustee-liability wire-fraud Where the defendant, trustee of a private trust charged with wire fraud and money laundering based on his non-disclosure and misspending involving tru…
18-7224 Jose Alejandro Acuna Valenzuela v. Arizona Arizona 2019-01-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fair-trial heightened-reliability impartial-jury juror-bias jury-selection motion-to-vacate prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the trial court violated Mr. Acuna's constitutional rights to a fair and impartial jury, to due process, to heightened reliability, and to be …
18-7189 George Leslie Manlove v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights credibility due-process fact-finding fair-trial jury-role leading-questions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-jury witness-credibility Was petitioner denied his constitutional rights, including his right to a fair trial, because the prosecutor's calculated, sustained, and improper use…
18-7100 Brian Simmons v. Michael Capra, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-on-the-court ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Whether petitioner's justification defense was lost amongst the volume of prosecutors' use of false or perjured testimonies that went uncorrected
18-7145 William Sadowski v. Randy Grounds, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-impartiality police-presence Whether the presence of uniformed police officers during a trial involving the death of a police officer violates a criminal defendant's right to due …
18-7021 Juan Thomas v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-of-evidence due-process eighth-amendment equitable-tolling fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-charge martinez-v-ryan notice-of-appeal public-defender Whether the Circuit Court erred in failing to appropriately consider the 'Equitable Tolling' in conjunction with Ineffective Assistance of the Public …
18-7025 Tyree Marquez Burt v. California California 2018-12-13 Denied IFP coercion due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hung-jury judicial-instruction jury-coercion jury-instructions trial-procedure Was the trial court's admonition to a deadlocked jury coercive, implicating the petitioner's due process rights to a fair trial?
18-753 Robert Stephen Couturier v. Presiding Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied arrest-warrant bench-trial certificate-of-appealability due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance judicial-impartiality Did the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals error when it denied The Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability?
18-6815 Micheal Jerrial Ibenyenwa v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining procedural-default right-to-counsel sentencing Whether a petitioner deserves encouragement to proceed further when trial counsel instructs him to reject a favorable plea offer at trial colloquy thr…
18-6742 Albert Uriah Mathis v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct Can a judge order a mistrial in a case simply, so he may attend a Dr. appointment?
18-6743 Robert J. Kulick v. Leisure Village Association, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial free-speech hoa-governance legal-malpractice perjury rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Is the Rooker-Feldman doctrine constitutional when it fails to protect individual rights under the Constitution and the purpose of the U.S. Supreme Co…
18-6752 David McGuire v. Ohio Ohio 2018-11-20 Denied IFP brady-violation brady-violations criminal-procedure discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process evidence-disclosure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment police-misconduct remedies When a discovery violation is discovered mid-trial, does a remedy that fails to order the disclosure of the withheld evidence violate the Due Process …
18-6724 Roger Lee Ozier v. Shirlee Harry, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review armed-robbery bank-robbery confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination eyewitness-testimony fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence probable-cause sixth-amendment Was the evidence sufficient to sustain Mr. Ozier's conviction for armed robbery and bank robbery?
18-6683 Cody Sakoman v. California California 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jury jury-deliberation readback sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether a defendant was denied his rights to a fair trial and to due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-6691 Delilah McCurtis v. Maggie Burke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prior-consistent-statements prior-inconsistent-statements witness-testimony Where petitioner was denied a fair trial due to the introduction of prior inconsistent statements
18-6700 Michael DePietro v. Allstate Insurance Co., et al. New Jersey 2018-11-14 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal case-law civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial judicial-bias legal-reconsideration motion-denial new-trial reconsideration standing trial-fairness Why is Judge Fuentes denying everything I brought in front of him, including caselaw?
18-6656 Timothy Kyle Prince v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment suggestive-identification suggestive-procedures unreliable-identification witness-identification Whether petitioner was denied of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to a fair trial, due process
18-607 Jon Roozbeh Vazeen, aka Hassan Vazin v. Michelle Smith Vazin Tennessee 2018-11-08 Denied asset-dissipation civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial free-speech galileo-style-prosecution national-science-foundation patent property-rights scientific-prosecution standing takings trial-court-overreach Does a trial court have the right to prosecute a scientist for forward-thinking science?
18-6610 Mark Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence actual-perpetrator coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusion-of-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution successive-petition Whether the petitioner should be allowed to present newly discovered evidence of actual innocence in a successive post-conviction petition, despite th…
18-6636 James Edward Griffin v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fourteenth-amendment gang jury-instructions misconduct motorcycle-gang prosecutorial-misconduct Was appellant deprived of a fair trial and due process of law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the trial court al…
18-6538 Steven Bernard Sydnor v. Kevin Hampton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fair-trial jackson-v-virginia miranda-rights miranda-warning sufficiency-of-evidence Whether defendant's Constitution 5th and 14th Amendment rights were violated
18-564 Rosemary L. Decosimo v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-10-31 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment forensic-science fourteenth-amendment impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment standing Whether the right to a fair trial and due process were violated by a Tennessee law awarding the state forensic lab $250 per conviction-related test
18-6516 Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Happy Valley Municipal Court, Oregon Oregon 2018-10-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-error jurisdiction municipal-court sentencing zoning-violation Was the trial court's judgment unconstitutionally cruel and unusual?
18-6524 Brian Thomas, aka O'Brian A. Thomas, aka Thomas A. O'Brian v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard berger-standard berger-v-united-states berger-v-us due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-review jury-bias jury-misconduct procedural-violation prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Whether the Fifth Circuit courts violated Berger v US after it conceded that the violations had occurred but deciding that it was 'implausible that it…
18-6485 Richard Elliott Cain v. Washington Washington 2018-10-29 Denied IFP 6th-amendment character-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence due-process evidence fair-trial jury-instruction jury-instructions propensity-evidence search-warrant Whether the trial court erred in failing to give the jury a limiting instruction after permitting character and propensity evidence
18-6361 Bob Lee Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial harmless-error hearsay hearsay-exception involuntary-intoxication judicial-bias judicial-ethics present-sense-impression specific-intent standard-of-review Whether the District Court's demonstration of bias against the defense impeded the defendant's right to a fair trial
18-6362 Edwin Darrell Lett v. Mississippi Mississippi 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights continuance counsel criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel sixth-amendment state-procedure trial Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial was violated when the Mississippi Supreme Court failed to properly review the trial cou…
18-6351 Raymond Baker v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-testimony corroboration corroboration-of-accomplice-testimony due-process due-process-rights fair-trial impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-misconduct post-verdict post-verdict-inquiry Whether a district court must permit inquiry into alleged juror misconduct
18-6326 Terry Alfred Coxe v. Daniel White, Superintendent, Washington State Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-rights counsel-abandonment due-process equitable-tolling fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel pro-se-litigant sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Whether the lower courts' rulings directly conflict with the holdings in (1) McQuiggin v. Perkins; (2) Cronic v. United States, and (3) Cuyler v. Sull…
18-6309 Warren Justin Hardy v. California California 2018-10-12 Denied IFP comparative-analysis equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination racial-overtones sixth-amendment Whether the California Supreme Court's refusal to conduct a meaningful comparative analysis or infer a likelihood of discriminatory purpose violates t…
18-6273 Antoine Davis v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fair-trial fifth-amendment government-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sixth-amendment Whether the Lower Court Misapprehended its Abuse of discretion when the lower court excluded evidence of the Government witness, which evidence was pu…
18-6197 Juan Francisco Medina Ortiz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protections due-process exhaustion fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus labeling state-courts Whether a claim made in the habeus corpus petition that is substantially the same and invokes the same constitutional protections, but labeled differe…
18-6182 Randolph Moore v. Nevada, et al. Nevada 2018-10-02 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland capital-murder capital-punishment crucial-evidence due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus outcome-of-trial prosecutorial-misconduct withheld-evidence witness-tampering Whether the Brady v. Maryland standard requires a defendant to prove that withheld evidence is crucial, would affect the outcome, or affirmatively und…
18-6186 Alvin Gaitan Benitez, aka Pesadilla, aka Lil Pesadilla, aka Lil Tuner, aka Tooner, aka Lil Tunnel v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP antagonistic-defense antagonistic-defenses codefendant criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial interstate-commerce jurisdiction jurisdictional-element motion-for-severance severance Whether the circuit court erred in affirming the denial of a motion for severance
18-6152 M. E. D. v. New Jersey New Jersey 2018-10-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-endangerment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law fair-trial jury-instruction jury-instructions other-wrongs-evidence second-degree-child-endangerment victim-testimony witness-testimony Did the trial court violate petitioner's right under the due process clause to a fair trial when the court failed to instruct the jury properly on a k…
18-6124 Sherman Washington, aka Sherman Lance Washington v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fair-trial fair-trial-denial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mre-404b other-bad-acts other-bad-acts-testimony res-gestae sixth-amendment Whether petitioner was denied a fair trial by the admission of irrelevant other bad acts testimony
18-6058 Donald Lee Reeves, III v. California California 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fair-trial felony-murder insufficient-evidence intent robbery special-circumstance Whether petitioner's due process right to a fair trial was violated
18-372 Ryan Joe Coddington v. Nevada Nevada 2018-09-21 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality prosecutor-conflict prosecutorial-conflict prosecutorial-misconduct recusal Is a criminal defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial before a fair and impartial tribunal denied when the tribunal is linked by marriage to …
18-6020 Stefan Rodgers v. Darrell Miller, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure consideration due-process fair-trial judicial-review legal-standards rule-10 standing supreme-court-procedure tribunal-fairness tribunals Did each of the tribunals rule fairly within the Consideration of Rule 10 (a), (b), (c) of the Supreme Court?
18-5983 Louis Charlton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process fair-opportunity fair-trial impartial-jury present-defense sixth-amendment trial-by-jury trial-rights Was Petitioner denied the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a trial by an impartial jury when he was not allowed a fair opportunity to present his defense …
18-335 Nathaniel Teamer v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-bias jury-instructions south-carolina state-court supreme-court truth-seeking Does the South Carolina Supreme Court's acceptance of judges instructing the jury that its 'sole objective is to simply reach the truth of the matter'…
18-5980 Shelton Denoria Jones v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C-2254(e)(2) 28-usc-2254 diligence evidentiary-hearing factual-basis fair-trial federal-court federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment state-court state-court-review Whether a habeas applicant has 'failed to develop the factual basis' of a claim under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2) when the state court did not hold an evid…
18-5911 Manuel Lampon-Paz v. Department of Justice, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-redaction child-abuse child-abuse-neglect child-abuse-or-neglect court-of-appeals fair-trial federal-procedure minor-plaintiff minor-protection ongoing-case ongoing-federal-case plaintiff-rights redaction trial-fairness Whether a plaintiff can have his case redacted in accordance with laws and regulations about disclosure
18-5912 Robert Kimmell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-disclosure drug-offense due-process fair-trial informant informant-disclosure jury-instructions lesser-included-offense relevance verdict-form witness-disclosure Did Kimmell establish that disclosure of the informant was relevant and helpful to his defense, or essential to a fair determination of his cause?
18-291 Gul Jaisinghani v. Anil Sharma, et al. California 2018-09-07 Denied Response Waived bank-fraud constitutional-rights due-process duplicative-damages fair-trial joint-venture substantive-due-process supremacy-clause witness-exclusion Whether a state court's enforcement of an agreement to violate federal banking law violates the Supremacy Clause, whether the state court's exclusion …
18-5905 Cortez Moore v. Illinois Illinois 2018-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-bias officer-testimony opening-argument prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment testifying-officers witness-credibility Whether the State of Illinois deprived Cortez Moore of a fair trial where during opening argument it repeatedly characterized the testifying officers …
18-5863 Corey E. Johnson v. Butler Law Firm Fourth Circuit 2018-09-04 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation court-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-error statute-of-limitations Whether a petitioner and others similarly situated should be granted habeas corpus relief despite being denied due to no fault of their own, abandoned…
18-5868 William David Cannon v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cumulative-prejudice due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the cumulative effect of multiple constitutional violations, including ineffective assistance of counsel, deprived the defendant of a fair tri…
18-5824 James Eugene Larive, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery due-process entrapment evidence fair-trial fourth-amendment parallel-construction search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the government's use of 'parallel construction' to conceal the true source of evidence violates the defendant's right to a fair trial
18-255 George Briscoe v. Texas Texas 2018-08-28 Denied criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process fair-trial indictment indictment-amendment indictment-modification jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-procedure vagueness Can a defendant receive a fair trial when the plain language of a statute is ignored to allow the government to change the indictment after a jury has…
18-5751 William Burke v. Georgia Georgia 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-process constitutional-fairness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-review fair-trial judicial-review jury-instructions post-conviction-review prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-strategy At what point does it become fundamentally unfair to 'adjust the charges to the evidence'?
18-5676 Ernest Morris v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied IFP cell-phone-records cell-phone-tower-records constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy duress-defense fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standing suppression trial-counsel unqualified-counsel Did counsel provide ineffective assistance of counsel?
18-5700 Jerry Docaj v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-instructions manslaughter miranda-rights passion-provocation sixth-amendment Whether the jury instruction on passion/provocation manslaughter misstated the law
18-5653 Pamela Lynn Bravebull v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination due-process evidence-rules expert-witness fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment sixth-amendment structural-error venireperson Whether the prosecutor's elicitation of evidence through a colloquy with a venireperson violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to cross-examin…
18-5657 Terence Passmore v. Dan O'Fallon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-fair-trial Whether the presence of a juror who has expressed a belief that the petitioner is guilty rendered his trial unfair and in violation of the Sixth Amend…
18-5659 David Edward Cavalieri v. Virginia Virginia 2018-08-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP cumulative-review evitts-v-lucey first-amendment-right-of-appeal mathews-v-eldridge procedural-due-process strickland-v-washington adversarial-trial cumulative-review evitts-v-lucey fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington Whether a state habeas court has a constitutional obligation to adjudicate an ineffective assistance of counsel claim based on a cumulative review of …
18-5562 Albert Norman Pierre, Sr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied IFP circuit-court-split circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial innocence perjured-testimony prosecutorial-knowledge prosecutorial-misconduct recantation victim-recantation Whether petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial due to victim's false testimony and post-trial recantation
18-5524 Farrell Rochelle v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying C.O.A. to trial counsel being ineffective for failing to file a motion for continuance to pr…
18-5556 Joseph D. Barnes v. Jeff Landry, Attorney General of Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-acts bad-acts-evidence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel other-crimes-evidence quadruple-offender speedy-trial state-court-discretion statute-of-limitations Whether reasonable jurists would have found that the district court denied Mr. Barnes a fair trial when it allowed other crimes evidence and/or bad ac…
18-5558 Joseph William Atwell v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the state deprived petitioner of his guaranteed right to a fair trial
18-5570 Ilich Vargas v. Superior Court of California, San Bernardino County California 2018-08-13 Denied IFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-informants due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether district attorneys/prosecutors have a free-standing obligation to investigate and inquire into the backgrounds of criminal jailhouse informant…
18-5491 Glen Hughie Lovin, Jr. v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-evidence sentencing Whether the trial court erred in admitting prejudicial evidence of the defendant's prior criminal history, resulting in an unfair trial and requiring …
18-5513 My Van Tran v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fair-trial interpreter jury language-access manifest-weight-of-evidence other-acts-evidence Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to vacate the district court's judgment due to the state's failure to timely provide repla…
18-5514 Robert Allen Wilkins v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure counsel due-process evidence sanctions standing due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated by the court's errors, including failure to strike testimony, failure to …
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 the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments
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 Whether the district court erred in denying a certificate of appealability on petitioner's constitutional challenges to his state court conviction
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 Was the petitioner denied her right to a fair trial and effective assistance of counsel?
18-133 Teddy Moore v. Christopher Bramwell, et al. New York 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial false-arrest impartial-judiciary judicial-misconduct jury-trial malicious-prosecution state-court-jurisdiction state-court-review Whether the State Supreme Court of King County NY, The Supreme court appellate division second NY, and the Court of Appeal of the state of New York, v…
18-143 Sandra Lee Bart v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-conviction due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial government-witness juror-misconduct jury-misconduct precedent sixth-amendment substantial-evidence Did the Eighth Circuit fail to follow its own precedent and rule contrary to other Appellate Circuits and the United States Supreme Court when it appr…
18-5394 Casey Peebles v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP coconspirator-statements confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment Whether Inadi and Bourjaily adequately protect an accused's Fifth Amendment due process right to a fair trial and his Sixth Amendment right to confron…
18-5403 Leroy Dean Dennis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-07-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment capital-case constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial false-testimony jurisdiction oklahoma-constitution-article-2-section-20 reasonable-doubt title-18-usc-section-3432 witness-endorsement Whether a defendant's constitutional rights are violated when the prosecution fails to endorse trial witnesses as required by state law
18-5379 Marilyn Kaye Freeman v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied IFP appellate-counsel california-supreme-court due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-disqualification precedent state-court-proceedings supreme-court-review trial-counsel Whether the reinstatement of a previously disqualified judge deprived the appellant of due process and a fair trial
18-5360 Curtis L. Clinton v. Ohio Ohio 2018-07-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure eighth-amendment equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment racial-stereotype racial-stereotypes racial-stereotyping sixth-amendment Whether a defendant's rights to the effective assistance of counsel, a fair and impartial jury, to be free from cruel and unusual punishment, and to t…
18-5301 Cahlan Clay v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination defendant-rights defense-strategy due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-trial trial-procedure witness-examination Whether a court may dictate the manner by which a defendant presents his case to the jury by forcing defense counsel to rely exclusively on the cross-…
18-5199 Keith Warren Lewis v. Rachelle Hadari New Jersey 2018-07-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights court-procedure custody custody-evaluation due-process fair-trial family-law medical-expert mental-health partisan-expert trial-fairness Whether a court can force one party to be evaluated by the opposing party's private medical expert in a custody case, which may violate the 14th Amend…
18-53 Lance Dillard, aka Double v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response Waived constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial internet-access internet-publicity judicial-controls juror-misconduct jury-instructions prejudicial-publicity sixth-amendment fair-trial
18-5118 Shane K. Floyd v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fairness jury-deliberations jury-selection presumption-of-innocence racial-bias sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether racial bias can infect a jury's deliberations and decisions, violating the right to a fair trial
18-5125 Kenneth Lee Foster v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 civil-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60(b) Whether Petitioner was deprived of a fair opportunity to seek relief through 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and whether Rule 60(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Pro…
18-5128 In Re Gigi Fairchild-Littlefield 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process due-process,fair-trial,false-evidence,directed-ver equal-protection fair-trial false-evidence judicial-misconduct jury-verdict prosecutorial-misconduct trial-manipulation Is the deliberate manufacturing of false evidence and manipulation of trial transcripts, and court documents, including the jury verdicts, to support …
18-5132 Jonathan Arn Bryant v. Florida Florida 2018-07-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury right-to-counsel self-incrimination self-incrimination-rights sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the State of Florida's use of Bryant's custodial statements against him violated his Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights
18-5007 David Lemoe Tua v. California California 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial gang-enhancement insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct severance sufficiency-of-evidence trial-severance Whether the state court's refusal to sever petitioner's trial from that of his codefendant and refusal to sever the gang enhancement allegations viola…
18-5005 Lawrence Dawkins v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation conflict-between-circuits due-process fair-trial material-evidence napue-giglio napue-violation Napue/Giglio-violation suppression-of-evidence Is there a reasonable probability that had the Brady and Napue/Giglio violation been disclosed, the outcome of the trial would have been different?