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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-5369 Milton Lee Gardner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied IFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-charge juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice sentencing-enhancement Question not identified
21-6434 Robert Alan Fratta v. Texas Texas 2021-11-29 Denied IFP aiding-and-abetting constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indictment jury-charge jury-instructions law-of-parties Can a law of parties (or aiding and abetting) be added to a jury charge when a person is indicted as the only actor to commit an offense?
21-5202 Esteban Figueroa-Larrea v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP contested-element criminal-procedure district-court jury-charge jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-scope plain-error standard-of-review trial-court-error trial-procedure Whether the district court plainly erred by misadvising the jury about the legal scope of the sole contested element at trial
20-1819 Lawrence B. Hughes v. Georgia Georgia 2021-06-30 Denied 14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-clarity jury-charge jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense standard-of-review Is it a requirement for an indictment to be clear and precise?
20-8443 Jacobie A. Green v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-statement due-process evidence jury-charge jury-instructions motion-to-quash photographic-evidence right-to-counsel state-created-impediment trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court erred in admitting the defendant's statement, denying the motion to quash the superseding indictment, admitting speculative ph…
20-6268 Bryan Keith Roberts v. Texas Texas 2020-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-trial criminal-trial-prejudice due-process jury-charge law-enforcement law-enforcement-presence prejudice right-to-fair-trial spectators statutory-interpretation Is the presence of a large number of uniformed, undercover, and armed spectators identifiable as law enforcement on the final day of the guilt-innocen…
19-1032 Alphonso I. Waters, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-statute due-process government-burden-of-proof government-evidence intent-to-harm jury-charge target-deception wire-fraud Whether petitioner's due process rights were violated
19-7308 Jerry Lynn McGavitt v. Texas Texas 2020-01-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment criminal-law criminal-mental-state due-process jury-charge jury-instructions law-of-parties mens-rea murder murder-prosecution Whether the failure to limit the definitions, in the abstract portion of the jury charge, of 'Intentionally' and 'Knowingly' to the nature of the cond…
18-9350 Russell Rafael Whitehead v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-20 Denied IFP assault-battery constitutional-review court-procedure criminal-law deadly-weapon ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-charge jury-instructions legal-standard standard-of-review use-of-force Can a fist be considered a deadly weapon in and of itself?
18-7021 Juan Thomas v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-of-evidence due-process eighth-amendment equitable-tolling fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-charge martinez-v-ryan notice-of-appeal public-defender Whether the Circuit Court erred in failing to appropriately consider the 'Equitable Tolling' in conjunction with Ineffective Assistance of the Public …