| 25-6488 |
Matthew Jones v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Should the Sixth Amendment right to counsel attach at the moment an accused is confronted by his expert adversary with a plea offer where the results … |
| 24-6687 |
Jason Jayavarman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure duplicitous-indictment ineffective-counsel plea-offer rule-8a |
Is an indictment duplicitous when it charges multiple offenses in a single count and does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 8(a) prohibit such chargi… |
| 23-7196 |
Adam Carson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights first-impression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer sentencing-reduction sixth-amendment |
Whether the panel's opinion violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right by failing to accept the government's plea proposal |
| 23-6695 |
Douglas W. Curtis v. Brian Eller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment novel-state-procedural-default plea-offer procedural-default standard-of-review state-procedural-default |
Whether Petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to the Due Process of Law |
| 23-6196 |
Boris Ward v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-representation cumulative-effect drug-transaction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-offer prior-convictions reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing-guidelines |
whether-trial-counsel-provided-constitutionally-deficient-representation |
| 23-564 |
Timothy Bing, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer pretrial-investigation pretrial-motions sixth-amendment state-attorney |
Whether a policy by the State Attorney's Office which punished the petitioner for engaging in a pretrial investigation of his case as well as filing p… |
| 23-5959 |
Jason Claude Edwards v. Tristan Lemon, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
counsel-advice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye ninth-circuit plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudice-analysis prejudice-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Ninth Circuit majority unreasonably applied clearly established Supreme Court law |
| 22-6403 |
Marco D. Martin v. Fredeane Artis, Acting Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel electronic-monitoring ex-post-facto lifetime-electronic-monitoring plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment |
whether-petitioner-was-denied-constitutional-rights |
| 22-5283 |
Gerald Funk v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consequences constitutional-rights guilty-plea guilty-plea-negotiation ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations plea-offer sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-strategy |
Whether trial counsel's Sixth Amendment duties require affirmative assistance in guilty-plea decision |
| 21-8188 |
Joe Davis, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
client-advice constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel requires counsel to advise his client whether acceptance or rejection of a pl… |
| 21-7838 |
Leonardo Divinci Larck v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
communication-failure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lapsed-plea-offer plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel require counsel to communicate a client's inquiry/response to a formal plea offer? |
| 21-7154 |
John Walters v. Michael Martin, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Under the prejudice analysis in Missouri v. Frye and Strickland v. Washington, does the acceptance of a later, less favorable plea show prejudice even… |
| 21-6817 |
Rufus B. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment stand-your-ground victim-deposition |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability |
| 21-5489 |
Jerris M. Blanks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence good-cause judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudicial-evidence pretrial-motion |
Whether a defendant can refile a pretrial motion after withdrawing it |
| 21-5294 |
Wilshaun King v. Mike Brown, Acting Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel for plea offers during jury deliberations |
| 20-8207 |
Bernier Gerard Jackson v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
best-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer professional-responsibility right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel requires counsel to advise his client to accept a plea offer which is clearly… |
| 20-7173 |
Venecia Depaula v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-offer privileged-communication waiver |
Was counsel's assistance rendered ineffective |
| 20-6140 |
Roger Jose Almanzar v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance due-process first-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment |
Did the First Circuit err in not granting a certificate of appealability on the merits of the claims of ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 19-8839 |
Clayton D. Morrow v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-material brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye newly-discovered-evidence plea-bargaining plea-offer public-records-request |
Does a public records request meet the criteria to establish a newly discovered evidence claim as Brady v. Maryland does; especially when the informat… |
| 19-6117 |
Jaime Ignacio Estrada v. Martin Biter, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer preponderance-of-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-counsel voluntary-manslaughter |
Whether petitioner established by a preponderance of evidence trial counsel's violation of the Sixth Amendment: failure to communicate a favorable ple… |
| 19-5290 |
Ryan Keith Mason v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review attorney-performance credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure deference deference-standard deference-to-trial-court evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-sufficiency plea-bargaining plea-offer standard-of-review |
Whether a court of appeals erred in finding that deference to a trial court's factual finding on an attorney's provision of a favorable plea offer was… |
| 18-9543 |
Lonnie Haney v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Lafler-v-Cooper plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel time-constraints |
Are the lower court rulings in direct conflict with the spirit of this Court's holding in Lafler v. Cooper? |
| 18-6132 |
Marlon Oliver v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2011 plea offer not requiring cooperation and def criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether there is a reasonable probability that the court below would vacate petitioner's conviction, giving the opportunity to consider this Court's d… |