plea-deal

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6803 Vincent Giattino v. United States Second Circuit 2025-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP cruel-unusual-punishment due-process plea-deal sentencing-relief sixth-amendment trial-penalty Whether the lower courts erred in not finding an 'extraordinary reason' for sentencing relief under 18 U.S.C. Section 3582 based on an alleged unconst…
24-5206 Ronny Lee Thomas v. Tony R. Moore, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied IFP compromise contract criminal-procedure negotiate plea-bargaining plea-deal Question not identified.
23-5735 Michael James French v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview Third Circuit 2023-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aggravated-assault constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process exculpatory-evidence plea-bargaining plea-deal probable-cause sentencing serious-bodily-injury wrongful-conviction What constitutes the violent felony of the first degree (Aggravated Assault With Serious Bodily Injury) under 18 Pa. C.S. §2702(a)(1)?
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
21-7305 Steven Bryant v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Georgia 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure false-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-deal prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-testimony Where the state's only eyewitness and linchpin of its case, the co-defendant, struck a deal whereby she would plead to a lesser offense and testify ag…
20-1702 Jimmy Cobb v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-deal sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation undercover-operation Does a District Court have the have Jurisdiction to punish and convict conduct that does not fall within a Federal Statute of 18 U.S.C 2422(b) and 18 …
18-6027 Hayden Beaulieu v. Arizona Arizona 2018-09-18 Denied IFP 8th-amendment cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment extradition juvenile-justice plea-deal prosecutorial-discretion sentencing transfer-hearing Is it permissible under the 8th amendment to impose an adult sentence on a minor for a non-dangerous, non-repetitive offense?