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25-7114 Brian Vasquez v. Colorado Colorado 2026-03-30 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain procedural-default sixth-amendment 1) When counsel provides erroneous advice which causes a defendant to accept a plea he otherwise wouldn't have, and such misadvice does not manifest i…
25A143 Justin Baggett v. Texas Texas 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance no-contest-plea plea-bargain prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
24-7122 Michael Samuel Dekelbaum v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-bargain sentencing 1. Should the U.S. Supreme Court recognize a "miscarriage of justice" exception to a waiver of appeal provision in a plea bargain for due process sent…
24-788 Jeremy Young Hutchinson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied Response Waived defendant-request federal-rule-criminal-procedure government-obligation legal-interpretation plea-bargain sentencing 1. Does the plain language of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(c)(1)(B) require that the government either to join in the defendant's sentencing …
24A602 Zackery Terrell v. Texas Texas 2024-12-18 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargain right-to-counsel sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
24-5614 Hussein Kadhim Abood Khalaf v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP deportation-consequences immigration-law ineffective-assistance moral-turpitude padilla-standard plea-bargain 1. When deportation consequences posed by a criminal charge are not clear, do attorneys render ineffective assistance by telling an indigent client th…
24-35 Sean Eamonn Waite v. Texas Texas 2024-07-12 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health plea-bargain plea-bargaining procedural-due-process Did the TCCA deny petitioner procedural due process by summarily rejecting his substantial constitutional claim without requiring the trial court to r…
24-5022 Angela J. Wells v. Illinois Illinois 2024-07-09 Denied IFP criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process plea-agreement plea-bargain post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation victim-rights 1. SHOULD THE PETITIONER BE ELIGIBLE FOR RELIEF SET FORTH IN 735 ILCS 5/2£-1401( (B-5) 2016 REGARDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIM EVEN IF SHE AGREES TO A…
23-7733 Thomas Richard Ward v. Virginia Virginia 2024-06-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights coram-vobis criminal-procedure criminal-record-expungement cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process plea-bargain plea-colloquy protection-order-violation Whether or not Petitioner's Due Process according to U.S. Amendments V, VI, & XIV was violated due to errors Coram Vobis committed in the plea colloqu…
23-7477 Joseph Ira Patterson, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-jurisdiction criminal-appeal criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-enhancement waiver waiver-of-rights Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars a defendant from appealing "any sentence of imprisonment" can be knowingly entered into well before…
23-7300 Juan Francisco Turcios v. Texas Texas 2024-04-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeals constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion plea-bargain sentencing (1). In accordance with Judicial Discretion ,once the trial Judge accepted and approved the plea bargain agreement for the maximum of the trial court …
23-6910 Jeffri Dávila-Reyes v. United States First Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied IFP 46-usc-70502 46-usc-70504 appellate-procedure constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-review felonies-clause plea-bargain plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction vessel-jurisdiction I. Does the United States jurisdiction over a vessel under 46 U.S.C. § 70504(a) present a question of subject matter jurisdiction? II. Do bedrock ple…
23-6902 Jeffrey Akard v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-error plea-bargain procedural-due-process retroactivity sentencing statutory-provisions L S/muiJ Q U, S. Cour-L ZTurlge. P/ifnrr.e n pi PA. Qk^rejeMPsAr appeal Id at j/gr /a Fe. i»jIap.a 4 ^ l$4'Cr £//] ZTo/y ^ A1tLcL&- £t/l error -fo 1/t…
23-6365 Rodney Adam Hurdsman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-27 Denied IFP critical-stage incarceration plea-bargain presumption-of-prejudice pretrial-period right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial I. Whether the pretrial period between the time the Sixth Amendment right to counsel attaches to the start of trial is a critical stage of the proceed…
23-6070 Eric V. Bartoli v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum Whether a guilty plea should be vacated when the underlying plea bargain contains an error of law (an illegal sentence) at its core.
23-5644 Robert Timothy Blake v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-09-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP coa-mandate constitutional-rights due-process government-witness ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargain record-evidence reversible-error strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Did Trial Counsel Fail to Adequately inform Defendant of the Consequences of Accepting the Plea Bargain? 2. Was the Strickland V. Washington stan…
23-162 Christian Winchel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure contemporaneous-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure plea-bargain plea-bargaining postconviction-review section-2255 standard-of-review I. Supreme Court Rule 10(a)—Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has departed from the accepted and usual course of postconviction proceedings u…
22-7808 Elroy Pedro Gomez v. William Joe Sullivan, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP California-Supreme-Court criminal-procedure Due-process Equal-protection Habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargain Sentencing-enhancements Sixth-Amendment 1. In the fi rst pl ace, was Peti tioner deni ed hi s Sixth Amendment right to the effecti ve assi stance of counsel when hi s court-appoi nted trial …
22-7561 In Re Christopher Vigliotti 2023-05-16 Denied IFP constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process multiple-punishment plea-bargain probation probation-violation sentencing sentencing-scheme statutory-authority Petitioner humbly calls upon this Court to test the legality of his present 15 year state prison sentence which stemmed from violating probation, a pr…
22-7426 George Donald Hatt, Jr. v. Washington Washington 2023-05-01 Denied IFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel informed-consent informed-decision mandatory-minimums offender-score plea-bargain plea-negotiations trial-strategy Does effective assistance of counsel in a plea bargain context require that counsel actually and substantially assist a client in deciding whether to …
22-6789 Juan Francisco Turcios v. Texas Texas 2023-02-15 Denied IFP compensation criminal-procedure due-process illegal-confinement judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-error (1) On A April 9,2012 after all parties approved and signed the plea bargain agreement documents ,and Hon.Judge Teresa Hawthorne approved and. accep…
22-6453 Mario Torres v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargain post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sentencing reneged on the plea bargain. Whether the District Court is bound by the original plea-agreement. Petitioner was resentenced. Whether a restitution h…
22-6227 Peter Corines v. New York New York 2022-12-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection false-testimony indictment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain state-action Was Petitioner denied due process and equal protection of the law in violation of Constitutional Amendments V and XIV when the State used known false …
22-5248 Douglas A. Hoglan v. Virginia Virginia 2022-08-02 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-fraud fifth-amendment miranda-rights plea-agreement plea-bargain procedural-safeguards right-to-counsel right-to-due-process Did the extrinsic fraud which deprived Hooper of knowing of the existence of, and effectively having access to, the recordings of his police interroga…
22-5047 Jermaine Blackwell v. Jeff Nines, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargain plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing trial-counsel trial-strategy 1. Did the lower .Court error in Not finding that the Petitioner Trial Counsel committed ineffective assistance of Counsel when trial counsel misadv…
21-7983 Allen James Harrison v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner was denied the due process of law under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, when retained counsel admitted the…
21-7113 Gerald Wayne Jako, Jr. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2022-02-15 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-representation cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance inside-job-theory plea-bargain presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel staged-crime witness-unavailability I. Attorney Panepinto made two separate "eleventh hour" disclosures before trial, with the latter discussing his prior representation and social relat…
21-750 Jasper Knabb v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines Where 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a prompt hearing unless the motion and the files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitl…
21-6152 Keith Arthur Vinson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance criminal-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain sixth-amendment 1. Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability over trial counsel's potential ineffectiveness in the plead-vs-trial decisio…
21-5572 Kamau Alan Israel v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense mental-illness plea-bargain sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Trial counsel in this case failed to investigate Mr. Israel's mental illness before his case was adjudicated. But Mr. Israel has been mentally ill for…
20-8218 George Verkler, aka Kenneth P. Goff, aka Neal T. Pearson, aka Neil T. Pearson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-case double-jeopardy plea-bargain presumption-of-innocence right-to-counsel unconstitutional-decision Does the presumption of innocence mean that if a judge will not read everything a defendant in a criminal case submits to the court that the judge mus…
20-7585 Charles D. Bowser v. Kansas Kansas 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias criminal-procedure due-process judicial-bias north-carolina-v-pearce plea-bargain prejudice sentencing Whether this Court should grant certiorari to resolve the issue if the Due Process Clause and North Carolina v. Pearce , 395 U.S. 711, 89 S. Ct. 2072,…
20-7053 Hector Manuel Torres v. Texas Texas 2021-02-05 Denied IFP effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance plea-bargain retroactivity sixth-amendment strickland-standard In Ghaidez V United kStages. 56B U . S . 342( 2023 ) this court decided that Padilla V Kentucky , dis not apply retroactive and announced a new rule…
20-7048 Roman Gabriel Gonzales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargain sentencing supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the significant increase of the base…
20-6737 Christian Alejandro Perez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process knowingly-and-voluntarily plea-bargain right-of-appeal waiver-of-appeal Was a dismissal of the appeal improper considering the court of appeals' reliance on a waiver of appeal pursuant to a plea bargain in which Mr. Perez …
20-6703 Roberto Antoine Darden, aka Dizz-e, aka Javon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court factual-dispute fourth-circuit government-breach hill-v-lockhart legal-interpretation plea-bargain plea-contract prejudice prejudice-standard If the government refused to dispute the factual manifestations of the I. Petitioner's government breach daim because clause three of the plea contrac…
20-6368 In Re Richard J. Ramsey 2020-11-18 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights court-martial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial military-justice plea-bargain separation-of-powers sixth-amendment ucmj I. Whether military plea-bargains procedures are unconstitutional creating a lack of jurisdiction over petitioners court-martial therefore, making unl…
20-5349 In Re Daryl L. Zimmer 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum plea-agreement plea-bargain sentencing-guidelines THE TRIAL COURT DENIED PETITIONER DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW RIGHTS WHEN THE TRIAL COURT HAVING FULL KNOWLEDGE THAT PETITIONER PLED G…
20-5292 Ashvinbhai Chaudhari v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-plea criminal-procedure downward-departure fifth-circuit involuntary-plea judicial-procedure plea-bargain plea-bargaining restitution supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Cireuit")-which held Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal…
19-8593 Damon Christopher Crim v. Ohio Ohio 2020-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance misunderstanding plea-bargain sixth-amendment I. When the record reveals that a criminal defendant misunderstands a key element of a plea bargain is his guilty plea void? II. When defense counsel…
19-7954 Steven M. Leonhart v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied IFP competent-counsel constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strategic-benefit Is defense counsel who makes a plea bargain that fails to give his client a substantial strategic benefit acting as competent and effective counsel as…
19-7850 Bobby Drew Autry v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-error due-process false-imprisonment final-judgment habeas-corpus plea-bargain statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction suspension-clause Does the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) of 1996; one year statute of limitations as quoted in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A) ".final…
19-7712 Luis Ray Jaramillo, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied IFP appeal appellate-counsel competence due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain probation probation-revocation prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel 1. Where Petitioner's state-trial court counsel did not pursue Petitioner's wishes, commands, and orders to file a second-perfected-appeal after Petit…
19-6183 Reginald Chatman v. Florida Florida 2019-10-07 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights contract-law criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection florida-law plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing state-prosecution 1. The Defend aat Reginald chatman entered into a negotiated agrerment uith the Florida State Attorneys office Ast Nathan Prince. for a ten Year D.oc.…
19-5636 Roger Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver due-process first-amendment overbreadth-doctrine plea-bargain procedural-bar special-condition special-conditions waiver-of-appeal 1. Does a waiver of appeal, included in a written plea bargain agreement, procedurally bar the Petitioner's appeal to the Fifth Circuit wherein he arg…
19-5344 Felix Adriano Chujoy, aka Felix Chujoy Alvarado v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP corrupt-intent criminal-procedure false-testimony grand-jury human-trafficking immigration-violations intent plea-bargain plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation witness-tampering witness-tampering-18-usc-1512(b)(1) Whether the evidence was sufficient to convict the Petitioner for witness tampering in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)(1) and two interrelated charge…
19-5085 Darren L. Lee v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure divisible-offense federal-sentencing full-faith-and-credit modified-categorical-approach physical-force plea-bargain sentencing shepard-documents united-states-v-horse-looking violent-felony Where a divisible offense may be committed two ways, one of which satisfies the "violent felony" element of physical force, and one of which does not,…
18-9847 Lawrence J. Petitta v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-limitations contract-clause contract-rights due-process federal-preemption federal-supremacy jurisdictional-conflict plea-bargain police-power sovereign-authority state-authority state-law supremacy-clause Is THERE A "CONFLIT BF LAW" WHEN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA MADE LAWS THAT UNCONSTITUTIONALLY VIOLATED THE STATUTORY PROHIBITIONS SET-FORTH IN ARTICLE 1 …
18-9336 Saul Elias Camilo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review district-court due-process fair-administration-of-justice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing-guidelines I Where a plea deal has opposing clauses, is such confusion sufficient to reach the bar for appellate review in a §2255 process when ineffective ass…
18-9172 Wendy Darlene Pitts v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflicting-information disaster-assistance due-process fema jurisdiction plea-bargain privacy privacy-act special-needs standing 1. Did Femd error in releasing funds without due process of the Privacy Act law on Femmd Form 009-0-3? 2. Did Femd error thinking Defendant's home wa…
18-8804 Carlos Antonio Raymond v. Martin Joseph Roy, et al. Texas 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion manifest-injustice plea-bargain standing trial-procedure waiver waiver-consent Did the District (Trial) Court err in Allowing trial to proceed without firstobtaining A written WAIVER consent from Pfitib ner,Plaintiff? Was the op…
18-8289 Kwame Asafo-Adjei v. Maryland Maryland 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure mandatory-disclosure maryland-rule-4-342(d) maryland-rules plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing void-sentence Is the failure of the Maryland Court of Appeals to enforce the Maryland Rule 4-342(d) a denial of a citizen's equal protection right under the Fourtee…
18-7545 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection plea-bargain right-to-counsel statute-of-limitations 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargain record statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When the Appointed Counsel on Direct appeal is a thorn to the perfection of that appeal and falls below the standard of Strickland vs. Washington (198…
18-7544 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-record due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargain prejudice statute-of-limitations strickland-standard When the Appointed Counsel on Direct appeal is a thorn to the perfection of that appeal and falls below the standard of Strickland vs. Washington (198…
18-7419 Fausto Becerra v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP accountability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process maximum-punishment plea-agreement plea-bargain prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines Because the stipulation in the plea bargain which limited the amount and type of drugs was not followed or advocated by the Government, Mr. Becerra wa…
18-7362 Roy O. Daniels v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP focusing on the core legal dispute I cannot identify a clear legal issue being raise I cannot provide a meaningful set of key terms. M in order to receive a more helpful response. As p making it difficult to extract a concise statemen the 'Question(s) Presented' section does not prov civil-rights collateral-attack due-process finality jurisdiction plea-bargain 1) DO the PRINCIPLES OF FINALITY COUNT any mORE'ESPECICLLY IN a CASE WHERE HE FOUNDATZONAL TERMS of a"SPECZFICALLY AGREED APON NEGOTZATED FOR CUSTOM P…
18-7278 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel due-process equal-protection plea-bargain record-on-appeal statute-of-limitations appellate-counsel appellate-record due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations strickland-standard When the Appointed Counsel on Direct appeal is a thorn to the perfection of that appeal and falls below the standard of Strickland vs. Washington (198…
18-7247 In Re Dennis Roger Bolze 2019-01-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review money-laundering plea-bargain plea-bargaining Question not identified.
18-6704 Aaron Jonathon Zemke v. Michigan Michigan 2018-11-14 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion bias criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-discretion motion-to-withdraw plea-bargain plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal prejudice prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion Mr. Zemke received ineffective assistance under the Sixth Amendment when counsel misrepresented Mr. Zemke's case to induce a plea bargain, prejudiced …
18-6544 Robert Joe McNemar v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment competency competency-evaluation criminal-defendant due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-bargain plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Does due process under the Constitution's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require a State trial court to make an EXPRESS independent competency determ…
18-6416 Briand Williams v. California California 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-record due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargain registration-requirements sentencing transcripts Is a Plea Agreement considered to be terminated or full-filled fifteen (15) years later upon the destruction or lost of the actual sentencing plea agr…
18-6338 Briand Williams v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel contract contract-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge plea-bargain statute-of-limitations Is a Plea Bargain Agreement in essence a contract between the defendant and the prosecutor on behalf of the StateRWA And if so, can the defendant be r…
18-5498 Willie Beasley Curtis v. Michigan Michigan 2018-08-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights direct-appeal due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus habitual-offender plea-bargain plea-bargain-standards retroactive-sentencing standing sua-sponte unprecedented-error Question # 1. MY CLAIM OF ERROR IS UNPRECEDENTED IN ANY U.S. COURT TO DATE. IS IT NOT THE SUPREME COURT'S DUTY TO CONSIDER UNPRECEDENTED ERRORS THAT A…
18-5493 Maceo Gant v. Thomas Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court district-court-decision due-process federal-jurisdiction final-judgment habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-bargain plea-conviction sixth-circuit state-court-conviction unresolved-claims Whether the sixth circuit had warrant to assume jurisdiction and consider petitioner's unresolved challenges to his state court plea conviction, where…
18-5413 Clarence D. Lewis v. Johnny Hedgemon, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-bargain self-incrimination voluntary-plea Is A PLEA BARGAIN, VOLUNTARY OR INVOLUNTARY, IF A PETITIONER INVOKES HIS FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHT AGAINST SELF-INCRIMINATION BEFORE THE PLEA IS INDUCED? …
18-5242 Kenneth Martin, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fifth-circuit-law plea-bargain sentencing testimony witness-credibility Whether the Fifth Circuit's law that allows a conviction based solely on the uncorroborated testimony of a co-conspirator should be abandoned, or at l…
18-20 Arkadiy Bangiyev v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability counsel-stipulation criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari In McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct. 1500 (2018), this Court held that trial counsel may not concede the defendant's guilt over the defendant's objection.…
18-14 Carlos Donjuan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) coram-nobis criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining due-process equal-protection false-document-employment humanitarian-exception immigration-deportation immigration-removal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargain strickland-ineffective-assistance strickland-v-washington vagueness The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in review, sustained the Federal District Court Judge's (FDDJ) denial of Petitioner's Petition for Wr…