meaningful-defense

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-650 Robert Lee Webb v. Virginia Virginia 2024-12-16 Denied circumstantial-evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction meaningful-defense sixth-amendment trial-court-error Whether the trial court's refusal to give a Virginia Model Jury Instruction on Circumstantial Evidence violated the appellant's Sixth and Fourteenth A…
22-5867 Monica McCarrick v. Janelle Espinoza, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence first-degree-murder meaningful-defense mental-health paranoid-delusions premeditation trial-court-evidence Does an objectively unreasonable violation of the Constitutional right to present a meaningful defense occur when a trial court prevents a defendant f…
20-7353 Fivea Sharipoff v. Rob Persson, Superintendent, Coffee Creek Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence habeas-corpus jury meaningful-defense non-unanimous-jury retroactivity sixth-amendment Whether the trial court violated the petitioner's right to present a complete defense
18-5660 Todd Jesse Garton v. California California 2018-08-20 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial defendant-attire due-process guilt-determination meaningful-defense penalty-phase presumption-of-innocence right-to-fair-trial right-to-present-defense right-to-reliable-verdict right-to-wear-civilian-attire Whether refusing to permit an in-custody defendant charged with murdering his wife and unborn child to wear his wedding ring during trial violates his…