material-witnesses

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-5367 Roger Everett Smith, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP alien-transporting alienage confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deposition-testimony good-faith-effort material-witnesses sixth-amendment witness-procurement Whether the mailing of form letters addressed to three material witnesses in three small villages in Mexico approximately two weeks before trial amoun…
20-8305 Gersu Guisao v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights collateral-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceeding martinez-v-ryan material-witnesses new-evidence newly-discovered-evidence procedural-standard Did the initial review collateral counsel breach his fiduciary duty by waiving three of four claims that included critical expert and material witness…
19-6111 Hafiz Muhammad Sher Ali Khan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights district-court-orders due-process exculpatory-evidence extraterritorial-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-witnesses out-of-country-witnesses strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-testimony Does the failure of defense trial counsel to follow specific orders from the District Court constitute ineffective assistance of counsel?