judicial-inquiry

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5955 Jarred Javon Ford v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-protection criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-inquiry waiver-of-counsel Whether the Court should prescribe more specific requirements to ensure consistency and that defendants' waivers are knowing, voluntary, and intellige…
25-5042 Deshawn Demarcus House v. Jeff Long, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-inquiry mental-health Whether a judge's failure to conduct a reasonable inquiry into a defendant's competency to stand trial violates due process when the defendant's menta…
23-5541 Mark A. Hartle v. New York New York 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-inquiry professional-ethics professional-responsibility prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel trial-strategy Is a criminal defendant denied their right to effective assistance of counsel when there are indications, of which the defendant was unaware, that tri…
22-7901 Samuel Howard v. Renee Baker, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-inquiry legal-representation prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Sixth-Amendment-violation
22-550 Carlos Jackson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) competency conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-inquiry retroactivity sentence state-courts void-conviction Whether the retroactivity rule for criminal procedure applies to the State of Mississippi
21-7757 Mark Stinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-provisions due-process fair-trial judicial-inquiry right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a Judge inquire into the propriety of the issue?
21-1259 Jay J. John v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied adversarial-system civil-procedure covid-19 covid-19-procedure district-court due-process judicial-inquiry judicial-neutrality legal-contention motion-standard standing Must a district court decide a motion based on those judicial inquiries framed by the movant and his adversaries by applying the legal contentions of …
21-6409 Stephen Harmer v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney automatic-reversal conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure defendant due-process holloway-doctrine ineffective-assistance judicial-inquiry sixth-amendment trial-judge Does Holloway demand automatic reversal when a trial judge fails to inquire into a known conflict that a defendant could not object to because his att…
21-5703 Mark French v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-inquiry right-to-counsel trial-counsel trial-court-discretion Is it a constitutional violation when a trial court fails to inquire or address a defendant's written request about his concerns about his trial couns…
21-5488 John Patrick Blackmon v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-inquiry prior-testimony right-to-testify testimony-waiver trial-procedure waiver Did events in the second trial establish additional process due the Defendant in any subsequent trial?
21-5383 Mark Stinson v. John P. Yates, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process judicial-inquiry right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a Judge must inquire into the propriety of the issue
20-7959 Thomas J. Connerton v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process judicial-inquiry juror-discharge jury jury-selection reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Should certiorari be granted where the District Court discharged a juror, without 'good cause' under rule 23(b)(3) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Pr…
20-1145 In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam 2021-02-22 Denied appointments-clause constitutional-violations contract-clause due-process federal-circuit-court judicial-inquiry patent patent-rights separation-of-powers supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether Justice Barrett must accept and grant this Emergency Petition for Writ of Mandamus
20-7070 Jeremy S. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-inquiry jury-polling jury-trial trial-court-procedure verdict-review Does the new syllabus point issued by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia permitting a trial court judge to make further inquiry of a juror …
20-5177 Rolando Felix-Carrazco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency holdout-juror judicial-inquiry judicial-interference juror-dismissal jury-deliberation jury-deliberations scotus-guidance trial-court-discretion Whether repeated questioning of jurors about a holdout juror violates Brasfield v. United States
19-158 Marcus Turner, Sr., et al. v. Alva C. Hines, et al. District of Columbia 2019-08-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) church-dispute church-governance coercive-intrusion first-amendment judicial-inquiry neutral-principles neutral-principles-of-law religious-doctrine state-interference Does the First Amendment require courts to consider whether a judicial inquiry intrudes coercively into church governance even when there is no religi…
18-9386 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights contract contract-law due-process judicial-bias judicial-inquiry patent-grant patent-rights standing unbiased-judge Whether the lower courts denying a citizen due process — a Hearing and an unbiased Judge, voids their Orders and no preclusive effect attaches
18-8427 Malcolm Roy Evans v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion judicial-inquiry right-to-counsel right-to-testify self-representation Whether a trial court may summarily prohibit an accused from testifying in his own defense
18-6510 Frank Pruitt v. New York New York 2018-11-01 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 6th-amendment courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-inquiry public-trial removal-from-trial right-to-attend-trial right-to-observe sixth-amendment Was the right to a Public trial, and the right of the Public to attend trial, abrogated when the trial judge failed to conduct careful inquiry 'before…