fundamental-error
22 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6315 | Jasper Phillip Rushing v. Arizona | Arizona | 2025-12-08 | Pending | IFP | capital-punishment constitutional-claim due-process fundamental-error preservation-doctrine shackling | 1. Did the Arizona Supreme Court err in concluding that Mr. Rushing failed to preserve below? 2. If the claim was unpreserved, did the unjustified vi… |
| 24-6074 | Corey Rogers v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2024-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | due-process fundamental-error grand-jury-indictment judicial-discretion per-curiam-decision unlawful-detention | Did the Supreme Court of Florida abuse its discretion by issuing a per curiam decision without reviewing the merits of Corey Rogers' case, and did the… |
| 24-5891 | Kimberly Cannon v. Florida | Florida | 2024-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-error judicial-discretion probation-violation sentencing-discretion | Whether a trial court commits fundamental error by considering a subsequent offense without arrest or conviction when sentencing a probation violation… |
| 24-5252 | Vaughn Alexander Cropper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction extraordinary-review fundamental-error habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default | Whether a procedurally defaulted habeas petition challenging a criminal conviction raises a fundamental miscarriage of justice that warrants extraordi… |
| 24A16 | Jay Sandon Cooper v. Texas | Texas | 2024-07-09 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-error judicial-duty supreme-court-review | Whether the judicial duty to identify and protect fundamental constitutional rights in criminal cases applies equally to state criminal proceedings as… | |
| 23-7262 | Eric D. Sweet v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-19 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appeal conviction-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process florida-supreme-court fundamental-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-timeliness post-conviction-relief standard-of-review statutory-time-limit | whether-the-tolling-statute-for-filing-a-timely-post-conviction-review-was-properly-applied |
| 23-6706 | Ohio, ex rel. Lonnie Rarden v. Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Butler County, et al. | Ohio | 2024-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure faretta-v-california fundamental-error johnson-v-zerbst law-of-the-case res-judicata right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-jurisdiction waiver-of-counsel | Does this Court no longer recognize the right to counsel under Johnson v. Zerbst? |
| 23-761 | Kionn Alls v. Florida Department of Revenue, on Behalf of Sharita Denise Gosa | Florida | 2024-01-16 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection fundamental-error judicial-duty jurisdiction jurisdictional-error procedural-due-process standing | Do our state court of appeals have an unrenunciable judicial duty to correct jurisdictional or fundamental errors that were preserved at trial, were r… |
| 23A557 | William Newkirk v. Florida | Florida | 2023-12-15 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-error life-sentence sentencing-hearing | Whether a trial court's failure to conduct a sentencing hearing and permit allocution violates a defendant's constitutional due process rights when im… | |
| 21-6802 | Tarvis Wilson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attorney-representation constitutional-error due-process fraud-practice fraud-upon-court fundamental-error judicial-misconduct manifest-injustice misrepresentation plea-change show-cause-order | Is it fraud practice upon the Court when an Assistant State Attorney misrepresents the facts of a Petitioner's Motion in their Response to a show caus… |
| 21-6633 | Hamid Michael Hejazi v. White Bird Clinic | Oregon | 2021-12-16 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure claim-payment due-process fundamental-error judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge poverty procedural-dismissal standing waiver | Whether an appellate court can dismiss a case for lack of payment of an 'undertaking' on appeal when the undertaking was not allowed in the first plac… |
| 21-6043 | Vedrick Lamonte Symonette v. Florida | Florida | 2021-10-25 | Denied | IFP | brady-v-maryland constitutional-violations criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-error fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice judicial-procedure jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice vague-indistinct-indefinite | Whether the information provided to the defendant was so vague, indistinct, and indefinite that it resulted in a due process violation, a Brady v. Mar… |
| 20-8255 | Kenneth Darnell Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence constitutional-claims fundamental-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel more-usual-remedy procedural-bar writ-of-error-coram-nobis | Whether a claim of actual innocence is cognizable on a writ of error coram nobis |
| 20-5505 | Keith O. Johnson v. Florida | Florida | 2020-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-error mental-health | Whether a defendant can be proceeded against in a criminal proceeding where a question of the defendant's competency has been raised and recognized by… |
| 19-5857 | Jonathan P. Flom v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquittance civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-violation deliberation due-process fundamental-error government-misconduct material-disclosure sentence-enhancement vacatur | Whether the Sense of Remized Plea Bargaining Acceptance provides exclusive Sixth Amendment right, requiring VACATUR |
| 18-9783 | Nasser Ghelichkhani v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-validity coram-nobis criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-error fundamental-rights guilty-plea immigration immigration-consequences plea-bargaining | Whether a conviction, with tremendous adverse consequences, is constitutionally valid, when it is obtained through a plea (that does not waive appeali… |
| 18-9232 | Ikemefula Charles Ibeabuchi v. Officer Banicki, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-10 | Dismissed | IFP | abuse-of-discretion administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-error judicial-remedy standing | Whether the court below committed reversible error in dismissing the pro se appellant's complaint for failure to state a claim |
| 18-7464 | Carlton E. Gary v. Florida | Florida | 2019-01-16 | Denied | IFP | competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony expert-witness fundamental-error judicial-error prejudice violation witness-credibility witness-influence | Whether the expert witness's report was improperly influenced by the witness's actions, resulting in a violation of due process |
| 18-5637 | Afelix Desir v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-17 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-statute due-process fundamental-error information-charging jury-instructions minor minor-protection sexual-activity sexual-offense | Does a trial court commit fundamental error when it instructs a jury regarding both 'Penile/Vaginal intercourse' unlawful sexual activity with specifi… |
| 18-5510 | Quincy Andre Jones v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | allocution appeal-waiver direct-appeal due-process fundamental-error fundamental-errors mandatory-guidelines plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines | Whether an appeal waiver in a plea agreement can prohibit a defendant from challenging on direct appeal unforeseeable fundamental errors committed by … |
| 18-5326 | Mario Howard Lloyd v. Scott Moats, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2018-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights counsel counsel-recruitment district-court-discretion due-process eighth-amendment fundamental-error intercircuit-conflict jury-trial medical-care standing summary-judgment | Whether the District Court's 'persuasive authority' test order this case to be trial by a jury trial on February 27, 2017, and than less then two mont… |
| 18-5029 | Stephen Patrick Black v. Texas | Texas | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights directed-verdict directed-verdicts due-process fundamental-error jury-trial liberty reasonable-doubt | Are directed verdicts constitutional in civil trials relating to indefinite civil commitment? |