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… |