involuntary-statements

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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 1. Whether police deception that explicitly disavows the interrogative nature of questioning—specifically, an officer's false promise that she is not …
23-5656 Stephen M. Cooke, Jr. v. Allen Gang, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment involuntary-statements post-indictment-statements right-to-counsel sixth-amendment undercover-agent Was Cooke's Sixth Amendment right to counsel violated?
23A271 Atif Ahmad Rafay v. Eric Jackson Ninth Circuit 2023-09-27 Presumed Complete AEDPA coerced-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary-statements undercover-police-techniques Whether a state court violates the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act by applying a legal standard different from that required by the Fift…
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
21-5791 Cesar Santana v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied IFP due-process fifth-amendment involuntary-statements miranda-warnings police-assurances police-interrogation self-incrimination Whether the Fifth Amendment is violated, and a defendant's statements are involuntary, when police assure a suspect that his statements will not be us…
18-7270 Antonio Bryant v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process in-re-winship ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-confessions involuntary-statements people-v-bryant standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Illinois Appellate Court's decision in People v. Bryant is contradictory to this Court's decisions in In re Winship, Jackson v. Denno, and…
18-7167 Cornelius Tyrone Kirsh v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-flight burden-of-proof criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habitual-offender insufficient-evidence involuntary-statements reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether reasonable jurist would debate that the State failed to meet its burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Kirsh is guilt
18-6975 Roy Arlen Van Nortrick v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process duress duress-inducements-promises involuntary-statements judicial-error jury-instructions reasonable-doubt Whether reasonable jurist would debate that the State failed to meet its burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Van Nortrick is guilty
18-6646 John Edward Davis v. Florida Florida 2018-11-08 Denied IFP autopsy-photographs coercion constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-confession involuntary-statements juvenile-offender juvenile-offender-rights juvenile-rights motion-to-suppress right-to-testify self-incrimination Whether the Florida Court of Appeals unreasonably applied this Court's precedent