| 24-6408 |
Clinton Folkes v. South Carolina, et al. |
South Carolina |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-preservation retroactivity state-court |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection is violated when a state court conditions the retroactivity of a new rule of criminal… |
| 21-6727 |
Zane Dickinson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
deficient-performance direct-appeal habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-preservation prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-probability trial-counsel |
Whether a federal habeas petitioner whose trial counsel performed deficiently by failing to preserve a meritorious issue for appeal satisfies the prej… |
| 18-7265 |
Rodney Scot Armstrong, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure closing-argument de-novo-review directed-verdict legal-preservation motion objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-issues prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review trial-procedure |
Is a motion for a directed verdict an objection that preserves an issue for and mandates de novo review? |