plea-validity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7107 Brandon A. Dunkleberger v. Illinois Illinois 2025-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements guilty-plea judicial-precedent plea-validity Is Illinois bound by this Court's rule that a guilty plea is not valid when the defendant is not informed of the essential elements of the crime?
24-5312 Genaro Medina-Luna v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-argument criminal-procedure guilty-plea indictment-waiver jurisdictional-error plea-validity Is Petitioner's appellate argument that his waiver of Indictment was invalid a claim of jurisdictional error that is not waived by an unconditional gu…
21-6749 Matthew Sullivan v. Daniel Sproul, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-united-states criminal-procedure guilty-plea legal-clarification misinformation plea-validity post-conviction post-conviction-relief sentencing-enhancement statutory-penalty May a criminal defendant attack the validity of his guilty plea when a post conviction clarification in law reveals that he was misinformed regarding …
21-6602 Brandon Christian v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis habeas-corpus plea-bargaining plea-validity sentencing statutory-interpretation Whether the plea was not entered knowingly and voluntarily because the trial court failed to ensure a sufficient factual basis and advise the petition…
21-5462 James Michael Kerns v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-16 18-usc-924 constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence plea-bargaining plea-validity sentencing-challenge sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis Whether Count 3 conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924 is valid given the unconstitutionality of the predicate crime of violence in Count 2
20-5157 Denard Stokeling v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Relisted (3)IFP armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining plea-validity rehaif-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement violent-felony Whether a guilty plea entered without knowledge of the knowledge-of-status element is reversible error per se
19-7197 Darryl William Young v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery colloquy constitutional-law constitutional-question-of-procedural-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 criminal-procedure-rule-20 direct-appeal district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-of-statutory-law federal-rules-criminal-procedure jurisdictional-venue overbroad-interpretation plea-agreement plea-validity procedural-requirements sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-law venue waiver Whether the district court had jurisdictional venue to accept the petitioner's plea agreement and sentence when the requirements of Federal Rules of C…
18-5949 Charles Litton Morris v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254-d-1-2 appointment-of-counsel brady-strickland-constitutional-claims claims-ignored constitutional-violation district-court-failure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence judicial-bias personal-jurisdiction plea-validity subject-matter-jurisdiction supremacy-clause supremacy-clause-conflict-preemption issues being raised
18-5447 David V. Rock v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied IFP burden-of-proof constitutional-error due-process enhancement evidence habeas-corpus plea-bargaining plea-validity presumption-of-innocence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Whether the presumption of innocence and burden of proof requirements are unconstitutionally repealed in enhancement cases, requiring the defendant to…