indigent-prisoner

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A554 Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-05 Presumed Complete criminal-forfeiture cryptocurrency digital-property indigent-prisoner pro-se rule-41g Whether digital cryptocurrency can constitute property subject to criminal forfeiture and what constitutes sufficient notice for return of property un…
21-6134 Victor Rosales v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-proceedings collateral-review constitutional-right constitutional-rights direct-appeal douglas-v-california due-process evitts-v-lucey indigent-prisoner ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Does a Texas prisoner have a constitutional right to appointment of effective assistance of counsel in collateral proceedings
20-6522 Ricky Vincent Pendleton v. Terry C. Hamrick, et al. West Virginia 2020-12-03 Denied IFP access-to-courts appeal appeal-preparation constitutional-rights court-reporter due-process grand-jury grand-jury-transcripts indigent-prisoner transcripts Whether indigent prisoner's constitutional rights were violated by court reporter's denying him access to the grand jury transcripts requested to prep…
20-5807 Geoffrey Graham v. Grady Perry, Warden, et al. Georgia 2020-09-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process indigent-prisoner judicial-discretion pro-se regulations standing state-court-procedure state-courts statutory-interpretation Is a pro se indigent prisoner held to a higher standard than state courts?
18A1338 Robert Chester v. West Virginia West Virginia 2019-06-19 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights indigent-prisoner legal-research prison-law-library pro-se-litigation Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights are violated when restricted access to a prison law library substantially impedes preparation of …
18-8000 Allister Freeman v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts aedpa-limitations aedpa-time-limitations circuit-court-precedent civil-rights diligence due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-test indigent-prisoner law-library law-library-access prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals precedent in Dodds v. United States and Atkins v. United States, denying equitable tolling to a pro-se i…
18-7531 John Paul Galbraith v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied IFP 18-usc-3006a 28-usc-2254-rule-8 appeal appointment-of-counsel circuit-justice criminal-justice-act criminal-justice-act-of-1964 due-process evidentiary-hearing indigent-prisoner right-to-counsel Whether a circuit justice has discretion to deny appointment of counsel for an indigent prisoner granted appeal
18-5697 James R. Reece v. L. Ray Whitley, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings critical-stage indigent-prisoner new-trial post-trial pre-appeal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a post-trial pre-appeal motion for new trial is a critical stage of state criminal proceedings protected by right-to-counsel