missouri-v-frye

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5588 Terry Willis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure judicial-involvement lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye plea-negotiations sentencing-exposure The district court participated in plea discussions, in violation of Federal Rule Criminal Procedure 11(c)(1), by discussing the merits of a plea offe…
23A970 Brandon Washington v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-30 Presumed Complete aedpa-standard capital-murder ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining Whether the Eleventh Circuit and state courts improperly applied the ineffective assistance of counsel standard under Missouri v. Frye by denying reli…
23-7196 Adam Carson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights first-impression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer sentencing-reduction sixth-amendment Whether the panel's opinion violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right by failing to accept the government's plea proposal
23-5959 Jason Claude Edwards v. Tristan Lemon, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP counsel-advice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye ninth-circuit plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudice-analysis prejudice-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Ninth Circuit majority unreasonably applied clearly established Supreme Court law
22-7652 Mark A. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights counsel-communication criminal-procedure deadline-extension effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment duty to communicate a plea offer extends to communicating a plea offer deadline extension
21-7154 John Walters v. Michael Martin, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Under the prejudice analysis in Missouri v. Frye and Strickland v. Washington, does the acceptance of a later, less favorable plea show prejudice even…
21-6606 Akil Tymes v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied IFP counsel-communication criminal-procedure duty-to-communicate favorable-plea-offer ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does counsel perform deficiently in failing to fully inform a defendant during the plea bargaining process?
20-5674 In Re James Ward 2020-09-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
19-8839 Clayton D. Morrow v. Florida Florida 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-material brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye newly-discovered-evidence plea-bargaining plea-offer public-records-request Does a public records request meet the criteria to establish a newly discovered evidence claim as Brady v. Maryland does; especially when the informat…
19-7359 Danny Guzman-Correa v. United States First Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-consultant lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye prejudice public-trial public-trial-violation Whether reasonable jurist could find it debatable that Petitioner's public-trial violation warranted reversal at the minimum for an evidentiary hearin…
18-9511 Christopher Stepp v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied IFP constitutional-claims federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye wilson-v-sellers Whether a federal habeas petitioner is entitled to § 2254 habeas relief
18-8495 Leroy Scott v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation conflict-of-interest death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel Whether counsel's ineffectiveness conflicts with the holding in Missouri v. Frye
18-7335 Alonzo Alexander McKay v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye supreme-court-precedent Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by denying a Certificate of Appealability (COA), due to its exceeding the scope of t…
18-6463 Jose Gilberto Portillo v. United States District of Columbia 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-obligations counsel-obligations-guilty-plea critical-stage due-process guilty-pleas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper language-barrier missouri-v-frye non-english-speaker plea-bargaining plea-negotiation sixth-amendment young-defendant Whether the DC Court of Appeals' decision conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on counsel's obligations to adequately counsel client regarding guilt…
18-6132 Marlon Oliver v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2011 plea offer not requiring cooperation and def criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether there is a reasonable probability that the court below would vacate petitioner's conviction, giving the opportunity to consider this Court's d…