plea-negotiation
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6852 | Eric William Diaz v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2025-03-26 | Denied | IFP | double-jeopardy legal-counsel plea-negotiation sentencing sexual-offense sixth-amendment | 1. - Whether the Pennsylvania State Courts violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment by sentencing the Petitioner in accordance with… |
| 24-6815 | Tanner Lance King v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | §2255-claim appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error ineffective-assistance plea-negotiation | Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by denying… |
| 22-6978 | Dechaun Toliver v. Jay Forshey, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction due-process enterprise ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining plea-colloquy plea-negotiation rico rico-laws | 1. Under the RICO Laws, can a conviction stand without the existence of a "Enterprise", a group of people associated in fact? Or without corrupt acts … |
| 22-6616 | Brian Cota v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process notice plea-bargaining plea-negotiation sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release | Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Mr. Cota can be subject to a life time of supervised release, and thereby a lifetime of revocati… |
| 20-8366 | Larry Dean Garrett, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coercion confrontation-clause criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule false-statements fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-bias plea-negotiation search-and-seizure sixth-amendment | Question not identified. |
| 20-34 | Anthony Thomas Grimes v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2020-07-16 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel parole-eligibility plea-bargaining plea-negotiation prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-information sexual-offender-registration sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington | Whether the Kentucky Court of Appeals has diminished and violated the federal constitutional guarantee of effective assistance of counsel in the pretr… |
| 19-7695 | Arturo Delacruz v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brandishing criminal-procedure group-one-robbery ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel otherwise-used plea-negotiation robbery-offense sentencing-guidelines weapon-enhancement | Because Petitioner did not explicitly admit to facts that would support an "otherwise used" weapon enhancement, as opposed to a "brandishing" weapon e… |
| 18-6519 | Mariano Alvarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion life-sentence mistrial plea-bargaining plea-negotiation recusal sentencing-guidelines | Can doubts in granting a Certificate of Appealability (cOA) be resolved in favor of the appellant when considering the severity of his life sentence? … |
| 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 directly conflicts with and seriously undermines controlling authority of the Supreme Court on counsel's fun… |