indigent-defendants

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-1096 William Allen Davis v. Colorado Colorado 2024-04-09 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) affluent-defendants appointed-counsel constitutional-rights continuity-of-representation criminal-procedure indigent-defendant indigent-defendants lower-court-split right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether indigent defendants have the same Sixth Amendment right to continuity of counsel as affluent defendants
23-7138 Luis Alexis Briceno v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights due-process expert-assistance federal-due-process indigent-defendants indigent-defense judicial-review procedural-fairness tennessee-court-of-appeals Whether Tennessee's procedure for denying indigent defendants funding for expert assistance at trial violates due process
23-6642 David Wayne Poydras v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-02-01 Denied IFP constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-standard factual-innocence indigent-defendants judicial-review jurisdictional-issue legal-procedure post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation Did La. Code Criminal Procedure, Article 142.3(B), Allow the Court's in Louisiana to deny destitute inmates the right to prove they are Factually Inno…
23-5890 Jerry Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2023-10-26 Denied IFP ake-v-oklahoma capital-punishment capital-trials due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendants indigent-defense jury-selection mitigation-experts racial-discrimination Whether Ake v. Oklahoma and the Fourteenth Amendment's due process guarantee require courts to provide funds for prison mitigation experts to indigent…
23-5695 Stephen Michael Michuda v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-10-03 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendants indigent-rights ineffective-assistance procedural-bar public-defender public-defenders time-bar Is it unconstitutional for the State of Minnesota to block all avenues for indigent defendants against public defenders?
22-6608 Arthur Torlucci v. California California 2023-01-23 Denied IFP due-process imprisonment indigent-defendants misdemeanor right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires the government to provide counsel to indigent defendants in misdemeanor cases wher…
20-6731 Kevin Francis v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-screening court-procedure criminal-procedure indigent-defendants judicial-error legal-waiver precedent public-defender sixth-amendment waiver Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court erred when it held that a public defender case screener who did not represent the defendant waived th…
19-7537 Donald Alexander Spice v. Michigan Michigan 2020-02-05 Denied IFP appeal court-access due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant indigent-defendants transcript transcript-access transcripts Whether MOR 5.433(c)(3) is unconstitutional as it violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the mandates of…
18-8648 Undraneckio Brassfield v. Ron King, Superintendent, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility Fifth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis indigent-defendants standing Whether indigent petitioners have a constitutional right to access the courts by way of being granted in forma pauperis status as a matter of law?
18-5265 In Re Brandon Lee 2018-07-18 Denied IFP consent consent-requirements criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indictment-procedure indictments indigent-defendants judicial-standard prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-jury-trial standard Whether the state can rely on true bill of indictments that meet the clearly erroneous standard without verbal and/or written consent of indigent defe…