| 24-1273 |
Jonathan Phillips v. California |
California |
2025-06-13 |
Denied |
|
due-process equal-protection felony-false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment nolo-contendere plea-bargaining |
Does a felony false imprisonment conviction obtained by way of a nolo contendere plea violate due process protections where the defendant was not advi… |
| 22-1080 |
City of Stockton, California, et al. v. Francisco Duarte |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-05 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim criminal-procedure due-process heck-bar heck-v-humphrey nolo-contendere plea-bargaining plea-deal pretrial-diversion section-1983 |
Whether the 'Heck Bar' bars a 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 claim where the plaintiff pled nolo contendere as part of a plea deal |
| 21-5648 |
O. B. Davis, Jr. v. Johnny Sumlin, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel nolo-contendere prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-review witness-testimony |
Whether the Court's adjudication of this case ensue from a decision that was to, or involve an unreasonable application of, clearly established law as… |
| 19-5089 |
Clifford B. Gandy, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-violence divisible-offense divisible-statute modified-categorical-approach nolo-contendere physical-force plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines shepard-documents |
Where a divisible offense may be committed two ways, one of which satisfies the 'crime of violence' element of physical force, and one of which does n… |
| 18-9134 |
Joe Clopton v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
amending-indictment brady-violation burden-of-proof child-support cps-records criminal-procedure defense-strategy double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence false-allegations grand-jury ineffective-assistance lesser-included-offense medical-records nolo-contendere plain-error sixth-amendment social-worker-testimony |
Whether the medical records were improperly excluded from evidence |
| 18-1198 |
Westley A. Albright v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-defendant criminal-procedure diversion due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment nolo-contendere plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the Supreme Court of Tennessee erred when it held, as a matter of first impression, that due process rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Am… |