| 25A229 |
Allen Michael Sherrill v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2025-08-27 |
Presumed Complete |
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causation criminal-homicide due-process intent involuntary-manslaughter sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the defendant's conviction for involuntary manslaughter violated due process when the evidence was insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable d… |
| 21-5596 |
Carl William Frazier v. California |
California |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment criminal-negligence due-process involuntary-manslaughter jury-instructions knife-assault lesser-included-offense self-defense sua-sponte-instruction |
Whether a defendant's use of a knife for the purpose of unreasonable self-defense can support a jury instruction on the lesser-included offense of inv… |
| 20-7426 |
Rubin L. Williams v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
burrage-causation burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation criminal-law drug-related-death involuntary-manslaughter mixed-drug-overdose state-cases |
Can a conviction of involuntary manslaughter stand, when cause of death is a Mixed drug overdose and the accused is charged with only one of the contr… |
| 20-7270 |
Keith D. Barmore v. Sonja Nicklaus, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-manslaughter jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct |
Question not identified |
| 20-6926 |
Nestor Alegria Hernandez v. California |
California |
2021-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intoxicated-driving involuntary-manslaughter jury-instructions lesser-included-offense |
Whether California law violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause by requiring its courts to instruct on involuntary manslaughter as … |
| 19-62 |
Michelle Carter v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-07-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arbitrary-enforcement assisted-suicide common-law criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment free-speech involuntary-manslaughter suicide-encouragement |
Whether Carter's conviction for involuntary manslaughter, based on words alone, violated the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment |
| 19-5131 |
Steven L. Rackley v. Brigham Sloan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights dismissal due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-manslaughter notice post-indictment-delay probable-cause sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations |
statute-of-limitations |