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25-6520 Steven George Morgan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP constitutional-rights fifth-amendment interrogation involuntary-statements miranda-rights police-deception Whether police deception that explicitly disavows the interrogative nature of an officer's false promise renders a suspect's subsequent statements inv…
25-5499 Timothy Alexander v. New York New York 2025-08-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment inevitable-discovery interrogation police-misconduct Whether the exclusionary rule applies when police violate a suspect's Constitutional Rights multiple times during a continuous interrogation, and whet…
24-7020 Rosalio Alejandro Gonzalez-Silva v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process interrogation miranda-custody two-step-test Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is 'in custody' for Miranda purposes
24-5717 David Devaney, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation right-to-counsel self-incrimination Whether the statement 'I have to get a lawyer, I have to shut the interview down' constitutes an unambiguous request for counsel, and can a defendant'…
24-60 Jimmie L. Bowen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied Response Waived coercive-questioning fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-violation interrogation interrogation-tactics juvenile-suspect miranda-rights secret-recording unreasonable-application Whether a detective's act of placing a juvenile suspect in an interview room with a juvenile co-suspect while secretly monitoring and recording the co…
23A1089 Jimmie L. Bowen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-06 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-rights police-interview self-incrimination suspect-confession Whether the placement of a suspect in a police interview room with another suspect after invoking Miranda rights constitutes an interrogation that vio…
23-6932 Tremond Thomas v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-03-08 Denied IFP coerced-waiver confession-suppression due-process-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation involuntary-confession juvenile-interrogation juvenile-rights police-questioning right-to-counsel right-to-cut-off-questioning Whether a juvenile's right to stop an interrogation is violated when the interrogator refuses and insists that the questioning continues
23-6742 Alexander D. Pennington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-rights 5th-circuit criminal-investigation criminal-procedure custody fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-rights search-warrant Is a suspect in a criminal investigation 'in custody' when he is ordered out of his residence by armed agents who broke down his door to execute a sea…
23-6348 Danial Leanos v. Illinois Illinois 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession confidentiality constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation interrogation-tactics miranda-rights suspect-waiver totality-of-circumstances Should an interrogator's promise of confidentiality invalidate a suspect's Miranda waiver only if it immediately induces them to confess, or should it…
23A492 George Willie Rios v. Arizona Arizona 2023-11-30 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure interrogation miranda-warning right-to-counsel suppression-of-evidence Whether the Miranda warning must expressly state that the right to counsel continues during, and not just prior to, interrogation
23-5916 Steven Richard Taylor v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process expert-testimony frye-standard frye-test ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation right-to-counsel Was Petitioner prejudiced by trial counsel's failure to move for adversarial testing of the State's novel DNA testing and statistics under Frye v. Uni…
23-5597 Rodolfo Alvarez Medrano v. Texas Texas 2023-09-15 Denied Relisted (11)IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confession-coercion custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona state-court-review Whether the introduction of Petitioner's statement violated his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights under Miranda v. Arizona
22-7679 Frederic Gabriel v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment interrogation miranda miranda-rights police-interrogation right-to-silence self-incrimination Did the police violate the petitioner's Fifth Amendment right by continuing to interrogate him after he unambiguously invoked his right to silence?
22-6652 In Re Walter Drummond 2023-01-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment habeas-corpus interrogation miranda-rights state-criminal-procedure Whether the State of Florida violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by using an incomplete and deficient Miranda rights form that did not pro…
22-6304 Lanny Marvin Bush v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights custody custody-interrogation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation law-enforcement-procedure right-to-counsel Was petitioner in custody when interrogated?
22-405 Michael Leon Grubb v. Texas Texas 2022-11-01 Denied 5th-amendment confession confessions due-process fifth-amendment interrogation law-enforcement miranda-rights self-incrimination supreme-court-precedent whether-the-supreme-court's-1987-decision-in-mauro-effectively-abdicated-its-1980-holding-in-innis
22-5732 Richard Michael Arrington v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure interrogation jail-informant maine-v-moulton massiah-v-united-states recording-device right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-agent united-states-v-henry Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated when a jail informant recorded conversations with the accused about his pending case after b…
21-8172 Juan Manuel Contreras-Zamora v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-rights legal-communication miranda-rights re-initiation right-to-counsel self-incrimination suspect-invocation waiver Whether a suspect who states 'Look man, 'm going to tell you just like this; I need my lawyer' must have a lapse of time before being deemed to have r…
21-7506 Curtis Carr v. Illinois Illinois 2022-03-31 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-techniques videotaped-evidence Does the admissibility of videotaped interrogations in which the interrogating officers inject their conclusions about the suspect's guilt violate the…
21-7183 Ruth Diaz-Burgos v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment interrogation plea-bargaining plea-colloquy self-incrimination Whether Rule 11(b) requires advice of Fifth Amendment rights before plea colloquy interrogation
21-6967 Lemonta Markuis Maddox v. California California 2022-01-26 Denied IFP civil-rights coerced-confessions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law interrogation involuntary-statements plea-bargaining state-law Whether the use of coerced statements obtained through false promises of leniency violates federal and state constitutional rights to due process
21-6029 Daronnie Thompkins v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery coercion criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-enhancement interrogation interrogation-tactics involuntary-statements self-incrimination sentencing Whether Thompkins' incriminating statements were involuntary and should have been suppressed
20-7630 Scott Paul Madlock v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit's decision sanctioned a departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proc…
20-7275 Alvin Herron v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation prior-record sixth-amendment Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability
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 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, rende…
20-7088 Mohamad Jamal Khweis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fbi-procedure fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-violations interrogation interrogation-process miranda-rights missouri-v-seibert self-incrimination Did the intentional utilization by the F.B.I. of a two step interrogation process, without taking remedial measures as required by Missouri v. Seibert…
20-991 Stevie L. England v. DeEdra Hart, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-standard miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona objective-inquiry right-to-counsel subjective-factors Whether the 'objective inquiry' required by Davis may be based on subjective factors
20-5121 Brayan Gutierrez-Diaz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-warning right-to-counsel self-incrimination Whether and to what extent a mistranslated Miranda warning, which does not reasonably convey the right to appointed counsel during interrogation, fail…
19-7769 Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment competency competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation law-enforcement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct self-representation Whether the petitioner's 6th Amendment right to a fair trial was violated due to ineffective assistance of counsel, prosecutorial misconduct, and lack…
19-7734 Andre Dennis v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation miranda-rights sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence Did counsel render ineffective assistance by failing to seek suppression of Mr. Dennis' statements to police because he was not re-Mirandized followin…
19-7373 Sanjay Tyagi v. Marc D. Smith, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-abuse-registry child-seizure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment interrogation medical-self-defense parental-rights privacy search-and-seizure Does seizure, physical examination, privacy and interrogation of minor children at public school without parental consent, exigency, or court order vi…
19-7013 Kenneth M. Gray v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confession criminal-procedure due-process false-confession false-promises ineffective-assistance interrogation no-merit-report parent-attorney post-conviction-counsel sentencing sentencing-error waiver waiver-petition Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to ineffective assistance of post-conviction counsel, false promises by detectives du…
19-6655 Terrence Leonard Mathis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied IFP certiorari criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights detention due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus interrogation rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand right-to-counsel Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 189 S. Ct. 2…
19-5941 Roger Cha v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation law-enforcement miranda-rights miranda-waiver self-incrimination waiver Is a Miranda waiver invalidated when the law enforcement officer providing the advisal involves himself in the waiver process by asking the subject of…
19-5546 Kevin Lyndell Yates v. Amy M. Harper Fourth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied IFP civil-rights consent-to-search constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation inventory-of-seized-items miranda-warnings plea-agreement police-questioning search-warrant Does a defendant have a constitutional right to be read Miranda warnings?
19-5471 J. A. M. v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-08-06 Denied IFP 5th-amendment ambiguous-request appellate-division appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation right-to-counsel Did the Appellate Division err by ignoring the fact that petitioner-defendant was denied his Fifth Amendment right to have counsel present during inte…
19-39 Quintin Antonio Bell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment categorical-match criminal-procedure custody due-process fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-interrogation miranda-v-arizona officer-subjective-test police-conduct sentencing-enhancement state-court-prosecution Whether the court of appeals correctly applied a subjective, officer-focused test to determine whether a suspect was interrogated for purposes of Mira…
19-5048 Mark Anthony Dolph v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidentiary-standard interrogation legal-procedure miranda-warnings officer-testimony video-evidence Why does Geasoned Opinions of _jprist Thou out the federal system demonstrate that freminded ytist can disagree AS +o Whether the use of handtudfs jtu…
18-9728 Sung Ho Park v. Tammy Foss, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance interrogation involuntary-confession lesser-included-offense physical-incapacitation police-interrogation prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel whether-park-could-make-a-voluntary-statement
18-8872 In Re Samuel Lewis Surles 2019-04-17 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation judicial-interpretation sixth-amendment Whether petitioner was denied his unwaivable constitutional right of due process of law when the Michigan Supreme Court failed to rule on the merits o…
18-8650 Ollisha Nicole Easley v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-search due-process fourth-amendment interrogation probable-cause race racial-profiling reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard search search-and-seizure When examining the totality of the objective circumstances, is a bus passenger's race a factor in understanding how a reasonable person in her positio…
18-1006 Michael Kevin Adams v. Texas Texas 2019-02-01 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment impoundment interrogation law-enforcement minor-offense probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search Michael-Kevin-Adams
18-7600 Johnathan Holt v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-procedure custody custody-analysis interrogation law-enforcement-interrogation miranda-custody miranda-v-arizona objective-analysis personal-mobility sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-interpretation totality-of-circumstances Whether a court must evaluate all of the circumstances surrounding the interrogation, including a lack of personal mobility, when deciding whether a p…
18-7047 Anthony Casanova v. Michigan Michigan 2018-12-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure custodial-confession custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment interrogation involuntary-confession miranda-rights self-incrimination Did the trial court's admission of Anthony Casanova's custodial confession deprive him of his Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incriminati…
18-6836 Carlos Dagoberto Rivas v. Sherman Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-waiver miranda miranda-rights self-incrimination waiver Does the State meet its burdens of showing that it clearly informed a criminal defendant of his Miranda rights and that a defendant validly waived the…
18-6811 Damaso Rivera Fonseca v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure custody due-process interrogation interrogation-limits miranda-rights rhode-island-v-innis right-to-counsel spontaneous-statement voluntariness Whether a spontaneous statement made by a suspect after invoking his right to counsel and seeing his girlfriend being transported to jail is voluntary…
18-6432 Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP confession confession-voluntariness consent-to-search due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment interrogation interrogation-circumstances involuntary law-enforcement-tactics totality-of-the-circumstances young-adult Whether Due Process allows federal agents to obtain a confession and a consent to search from an immature, young adult that has been startled awake by…
18-5436 Ralph Deon Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-circuit 3rd-circuit 9th-circuit criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process evidence-confrontation fifth-amendment incriminating-response interrogation miranda-rights miranda-warning police-interrogation police-questioning self-incrimination Does confronting a suspect with the mounting evidence against him constitute interrogation under Miranda?