murder-prosecution

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-5725 Edward Troup v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP antiracketeering-statute criminal-jurisdiction due-process federal-law federal-statute murder-prosecution predicate-offense racketeering state-law statute-of-limitations Does a federal antiracketeering statute reach murders committed outside a state's statute of limitations, for which the defendant could not be adjudic…
22-6187 Demetrio Lifrieri v. James Stinson Second Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied IFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fair-trial fourth-amendment murder-prosecution police-search unlawful-evidence unlawful-search Was petitioner's right to a fair trial compromised by the admission of the unlawfully obtained evidence?
21-6532 Mary Noel Kruppe v. California California 2021-12-06 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process homicide malice murder-prosecution recklessness retroactive-law Whether the Appellate court's dramatic expansion of the law of homicides in People v. Watson (1981) 30 Cal. 3d 240 violates the defendant's due proces…
20-5443 Christopher Rondeau v. Indiana Indiana 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-alien due-process federal-law foreign-national legal-status legally-dead murder-prosecution subject-matter-jurisdiction Were the Petitioner's 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights violated?
20-5196 David McConnell v. Florida Florida 2020-07-31 Denied IFP cooperation-with-state criminal-investigation criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel murder murder-prosecution prosecutorial-conflict sixth-amendment Does counsel under the Fourteenth and Sixth Amendment have an obligation to effectively assist a defendant's cooperation with the State in a murder pr…
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…