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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-7174 Antonio Lopez v. Texas Texas 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP coerced-confession confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process family-coercion family-member interrogation police-interrogation probable-cause truthful-statements 1. Whether a threat to arrest, or a promise not to arrest, a member of a suspect's family, depending only on his willingness to confess to a crime, re…
20-813 James Simmons v. UBS Financial Services, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied civil-rights employment-discrimination family-member person-aggrieved retaliation standing title-vii zone-of-interests 1. Whether a family member who is the intentional target of retaliatory actions by an employer is a "person aggrieved" for purposes of Title VII only …
20-5598 Gary Richardson v. Colorado Colorado 2020-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process family-member impartial-jury jury-selection sixth-amendment structural-error Whether a trial judge commits structural error violating a defendant's Sixth Amendment and due process rights to an impartial and independent jury by …
18-8145 Desmond Farmer v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-782 assault criminal-classification criminal-history drug-abuse drug-offense drug-offenses due-process equal-protection family-member judicial-discretion non-violent-offense sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction violent-offender Whether the court erred in deeming the petitioner as a 'violent offender' instead of a 'drug abuser' and using that as a reason to deny a sentence red…
18-6911 Adrian Pineda-Orozco v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility affirmative-defense criminal-conviction criminal-law criminal-law-procedure duress-defense family-member fifth-circuit miscarriage-of-justice sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion permitting Pineda-Orasco's conviction to stand resulted in a miscarriage of justice given the longs…