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25A831 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-21 Application 11th-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari prejudice supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25A753 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Natasha Katherina Smith Florida 2025-12-30 Application 11th-circuit extension-of-time petition-for-certiorari prejudice supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25-6149 Byron Jones v. Michigan Michigan 2025-11-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance prejudice speedy-trial trial-delay I. Did The Court Of Appeals Err When It Deteruined That Mr. Jones Constitutional Rights To A Speedy Trial Were Not Violated When Through No Fault Of …
24-7223 Torrence Belcher v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP corruption discrimination judicial-system justice prejudice supreme-court Question not identified.
24A439 John Xavier Portillo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-11-01 Presumed Complete appellate-counsel bureau-of-prisons constitutional-standard ineffective-assistance prejudice writ-of-certiorari Whether the standard for evaluating prejudice in claims of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel requires a showing of a reasonable probability …
24-5240 Bradley Dale Hull v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied IFP federal-rules-of-evidence intent intent-element lower-court-decisions other-act-evidence prejudice probative-value rule-403 rule-404(b) rule-404b unfair-prejudice whether-other-act-evidence-under-rule-404(b)-is-substantially-outweighed-by-unfair-prejudice-under-rule-403
24-5212 Clarence Wyatt Holland v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied IFP circuit-court due-process fundamental-justice harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-law Did the Circuit Court apply the correct harmless-error standard and properly consider the record evidence of prejudice?
24-5213 Gilbert Campa v. Ingrid Rosenquist, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied IFP appeals civil-action civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal holidays judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-review prejudice procedural-error time-limits Question not identified
24-5196 Nicholas Salfi v. Amy Robey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-duty effective-assistance habeas-corpus Lafler-v-Cooper martinez-exception plea-negotiations prejudice procedural-default sixth-circuit Effective-assistance-of-counsel
24-5014 Aweis Haji-Mohamed v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split due-process ineffective-assistance mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-error strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
23-7825 Eduardo Margarito Soto, aka Edwardo Margarito Soto v. Texas Texas 2024-06-28 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim counsel-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review prejudice record-development Whether the applicant was denied effective assistance of counsel in the appeal proceedings, due to the silent and undeveloped record that resulted the…
23-7764 Leon Davis, Jr. v. Florida, et al. Florida 2024-06-20 Denied IFP bad-acts ballistics-evidence capital-case criminal-evidence criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns ineffective-assistance other-crimes-evidence postconviction-review prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether the Strickland standard should be applied in favor of the defendant in a case with no direct evidence connecting the defendant to the crime ex…
23-7544 Rodolfo Morales-Cortez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof closing-argument criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process objection-standard prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct Does a defendant who timely objects to a prosecutor's misconduct during closing argument nevertheless bear the burden to show that it caused him preju…
23-7488 Jose Eliso Zavala v. Texas Texas 2024-05-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-bias constitutional-rights fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-bias prejudice sixth-amendment structural-error Whether the petitioner was deprived of his constitutional rights to a fair and impartial trial
23-7285 Sabrina Gibson v. Thomas F. Roupas, Jr., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion manifest-error prejudice procedural-standard standard-of-review Whether it was manifest error and significantly prejudicial for the District Court to apply a heightened standard under Federal Rule of Civil Procedur…
23-978 Loan Phuong v. Cong Van Nguyen Virginia 2024-03-07 Denied 6th-amendment bias due-process impartiality judicial-bias legal-procedure prejudice sixth-amendment supreme-court virginia-law virginia-supreme-court Whether the Virginia Supreme Court's decision caused the Petitioner to suffer damages when it refused to rehear her case against the Respondent in vio…
23-6888 Darrell Wayne Frederick v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-04 Denied IFP aspd brain-damage capital-punishment capital-sentencing ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice prejudice-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Tenth Circuit contravened Strickland v. Washington by not considering the totality of the mitigating evidence in its prejudice review
23-6809 Warren Lee Mackey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error judicial-precedent prejudice prejudice-standard trial-testimony witness-bolstering witness-testimony Whether this Court should adopt a test that vacates a conviction where there is a 'reasonable probability' that improper bolstering or vouching testim…
23-6738 Ellis Louis Mashburn, Jr. v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied IFP capital-murder capital-trial death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a death row inmate is precluded from establishing prejudice from his trial counsel's deficient performance during the penalty phase if his cou…
23-6664 Robert Edward Sindaco v. Florida Florida 2024-02-05 Denied IFP appellate-review bias constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial due to bias, prejudice, and ineffective assistance of counsel
23-6650 Pablo Guzman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-prejudice federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus jury-instruction lockhart-precedent lockhart-v-fretwell prejudice state-court-decision supreme-court-precedent Does Lockhart v. Fretwell prevent federal habeas corpus relief despite prejudice when Supreme Court precedent at trial was not clearly inconsistent wi…
23-6559 Marcus Johnson v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-deference confrontation-clause due-process expert-testimony expert-witness judicial-review prejudice prejudice-standard self-defense sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the District Court's finding that Mr. Johnson suffered no prejudice from the Confrontation violation that oc…
23-6536 Kidada Savage v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-conflict-of-interest conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice sixth-amendment trial-court-inquiry Whether the Third Circuit erroneously extended Cuyler v. Sullivan
23-6496 Irvin Harris Johnson v. United States District of Columbia 2024-01-17 Denied IFP attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure evidence-seizure prejudice pretrial-detention right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-evidence work-product-doctrine work-product-privilege Whether the government's seizure and use at trial of a pretrial detainee's notes reflecting his defense strategy for discussion with counsel violates …
23-6447 Samuel Sherman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-joinder criminal-procedure prejudice prejudicial-error rule-14 rule-14-procedure sixth-amendment zafiro-precedent zafiro-v-united-states Whether the lower courts misapplied this Court's holding in Zafiro v. United States
23-735 Stuart J. Shicks v. Indiana Department of Child Services, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) child-services civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-agency jurisdictional-dispute legal-persecution prejudice pro-se psychological-persecution state-agency Whether psychological persecution, deprivation of constitutional rights and prejudices against pro se litigants is allowed in any court of law or gove…
23-6271 Tyrone Maddox v. Illinois Illinois 2023-12-15 Denied IFP criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent intent-element judicial-discretion narcotics-charge prejudice prejudicial-evidence prior-conviction prior-convictions probative-value Whether the trial court erred in admitting Tyrone Maddox's 20-year-old prior conviction for delivery of narcotics on the issue of intent, where the pr…
23-607 Morris S. Glover v. Daniel E. Cohen, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied bias case-document court-filing due-process legal-document patent-infringement petition prejudice pro-se scotus summary-judgment Is this a case of patent infringement where judges are abusing Summary Judgment at the request of the law firm; which showed bias, and prejudice towar…
23-6137 In Re Ronald Boyajian 2023-11-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal-of-right constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process judicial-assignment judicial-recusal prejudice recusal three-judge-panel Did Respondents deny defendant-appellant's due-process rights by failing to provide a three-judge panel on appeal?
23-502 Noble U. Ezukanma v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response Waived counsel-advice criminal-procedure defendant-testimony due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice right-to-testify sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard How do the standards for judging ineffective-assistance-of-counsel apply to the question of what advice defense-counsel gives to a defendant concernin…
23-5973 Richard C. Duerson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage cronic-standard due-process due-process-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice strickland-test strickland-v-washington united-states-v-cronic Has the Supreme Court overruled United States v. Cronic, eliminating the presumption that an accused has suffered Constitutional error without the sho…
23-5956 Eriq R. McCorkle v. Norm Robinson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment barker-standard barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights material-witness pre-trial-delay prejudice sixth-amendment speedy-trial when-death-of-material-witness-occurs-during-pre-trial-delay
23-444 Steven Lee Moss v. Gary Miniard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment counsel-denial cronic-exception effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance prejudice sixth-amendment state-action strickland-standard strickland-v-washington united-states-v-cronic Whether, when counsel is physically present, state action is required before a court may find a complete denial of counsel under Cronic
23-5677 Rodtravion Woods v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights credibility credibility-challenge effective-assistance-of-counsel government-witness habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance prejudice sixth-amendment trial-counsel Was petitioner prejudicially denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel
23-5483 Dontavious Blake v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-prejudice ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing The Appellate Court erred in denying relief for IOC concerning the advice that petitioner would receive a life sentence after either a guilty plea or …
23-5440 Roman Andreyevich Glukhoy v. California California 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-instructions legal-theory prejudice prejudicial-error standard-of-review When a defendant is convicted after a trial court instructs a jury on two theories of guilt, one of which is legally correct and one legally incorrect…
23-5423 Andre Monteek Edwards v. Kim Cargor, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP accident accident-defense criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice prejudice-analysis second-degree-murder self-defense strickland-standard Does a second degree murder conviction preclude a showing of prejudice
23-5406 Kecia Porter v. USAA Casualty Insurance Company Seventh Circuit 2023-08-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-rights color-of-law cooperation-clause due-process equal-protection prejudice pro-se-litigant summary-judgment under-color-of-law Whether the 7th Circuit's decision is an error, contrary to well-settled law, finding respondent was 'substantially prejudiced' by petitioner's action…
23-5410 Sedrick D. Russell v. J. Denmark Fifth Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice pro-se-petition sixth-amendment standing Must a pro se petitioner alleging a complete denial of counsel specifically cite Cronic to exhaust his claim in the state court?
23-5391 Walter Raul Maguina v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence extrinsic-evidence harmless-error judicial-procedure prejudice prejudicial-evidence remand Whether a district court's failure to address the prejudicial nature of extrinsic evidence requires remand
23-5342 Roger Rachon Cooley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-test barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights four-factor-balancing-test judicial-review motion-to-dismiss negligence prejudice sixth-amendment speedy-trial Did the lower courts err in analyzing the four factor balancing test outlined in Barker v. Wingo, 407 U.S. 514, (1972) when they denied Mr. Cooley's m…
23-5332 Tamara Jeune, aka Tamara Voltaire v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied IFP circuit-court-split circuit-split evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-interpretation prejudice probative-value propensity-evidence rule-404(b) trial-procedure How are the courts to properly apply Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)?
23-5333 Abussamaa Rasul Ramzidin v. Angelo J. Onofri, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Mercer County Prosecutor, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-error legal-standard prejudice procedural-prejudice standing third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey erred in their decisions which unfairly…
23-121 Patrick Shin v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied Response Waived coram-nobis criminal-case criminal-procedure defendant-decision-making ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining post-hoc-assertion prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington writ-of-error Whether a district court may require an additional showing of prejudice to grant a writ of coram-nobis
23-95 Philip Esformes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure disqualification forfeiture judicial-fact-finding prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant must show actual prejudice to establish a Sixth Amendment violation warranting dismissal of the indictment or disqualific…
23-5006 Robert Timothy Blake v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeal appellate-procedure case-consolidation consolidation due-process judicial-discretion prejudice procedural-fairness relevant-issues Whether a defendant may suffer prejudice when a court orders consolidation of cases where one case will lose its specific issues raised on appeal
22-7901 Samuel Howard v. Renee Baker, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-inquiry legal-representation prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Sixth-Amendment-violation
22-7859 Timothy Sumpter v. Kansas Tenth Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis state-post-conviction strickland strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence Is it contrary to the clearly established Strickland standard to assess the prejudice from trial counsel's ineffective assistance of counsel for her f…
22-7778 Kenneth Ueding v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-rights dismissal district-court-dismissal habeas-corpus prejudice procedural-remedy speedy-trial state-convictions Did Mr. Ueding hold the right to challenge his state convictions in a habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2254?
22-7706 Johnny Taylor v. Jeff Tanner, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-06-05 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP complete-denial-of-counsel critical-stage evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-circuit If an attorney's deficiency is grave enough, criminal defendants do not need to demonstrate prejudice to prove ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
22-7531 Chykeetra Maltbia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP briefing circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-error mens-rea miscarriage-of-justice plain-error prejudice regulatory-provisions Whether the Circuit Court erred in finding that the defendant had not established prejudice due to an omitted mens rea element
22-7482 Ralph Leroy Menzies v. Robert Powell, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-05-08 Denied IFP adequate-appeal appellate-review capital-case due-process prejudice prejudice-standard transcript transcript-reconstruction voir-dire Does the petitioner's Due Process right to an adequate and effective appeal in a capital case require a new trial where critical portions of the proce…
22-7405 Earl C. Handfield, II v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland counsel-performance due-process federal-courts legal-burden prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-v-washington Does Brady v Maryland law warrant clarification due to federal courts adding a 'counsel-performance' prong to the Brady analysis which confuses the la…
22-7407 Derrick D. Hayes v. Illinois Illinois 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance prejudice right-to-counsel trial-strategy Whether the petitioner's trial attorney rendered constitutionally ineffective assistance by pursuing a defense that was patently untenable and doomed …
22-1004 Kurt Garrison v. City of Ottawa, Kansas, et al. Kansas 2023-04-14 Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-bias prejudice procedural-due-process professional-engineering right-to-trial-by-jury standard-of-review substantive-due-process Whether substantive due process was denied
22-7158 Reginald Langston Luster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice right-to-testify stand-your-ground trial-counsel whether-petitioner-luster-is-entitled-to-a-certificate-of-appealability
22-7126 Andre Chandler, aka Mac Dre v. United States Second Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights due-process government-misconduct prejudice sixth-amendment trial-strategy witness-cooperation witness-debriefing Did the government violate Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights
22-866 John Franklin Bell, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied thus requiring a COA and plenary consideration by certificate-of-appealability dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice standard-of-review trial-counsel Are petitioner's due process and ineffective assistance of counsel claims debatable among reasonable jurists, thus requiring a COA and plenary conside…
22-6786 Cleveland Leroy Coaxum, Jr. v. Jeffrey Snoddy, Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-rules prosecutorial-misconduct trial-misconduct Did the courts make an error on Ruling Petitioner's Habeas Corpus, as un-timely filed petition despite it being filed on time in the lower courts?
22-749 Andre Dow v. Nevada Nevada 2023-02-09 Denied 6th-amendment attorney-client-privilege counsel-of-choice due-process fair-trial first-amendment prejudice sixth-amendment us-v-gonzalez-lopez Whether Mr. Dow's Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice was violated
22-6654 Roland Cummings v. Maine Maine 2023-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review prejudice sixth-amendment sua-sponte Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process are satisfied by an appellate court's summary conclusi…
22-6624 Daniel Ray Loyd v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder felony-murder-rule ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice right-to-counsel state-law-error Whether trial counsel was ineffective by conceding Mr. Loyd's guilt of all charges, including robbery in a felony murder case
22-6402 Jesse Johnson, III v. California California 2022-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-prong prima-facie-showing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a defendant's uncontradicted sworn statement that he would have accepted a plea offer but for his counsel's deficient performance is sufficien…
22-6399 Kerry Simpson v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process judicial-reasoning legal-standard manifest-weight prejudice prejudice-standard standard-of-review Did the Federal Appellate Court Apply the Correct Standard in the Determination of Prejudice?
22-6280 Jose Adolpho Castillo v. Texas Texas 2022-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance prejudice right-to-counsel standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas has made the standard articulated by this Court in Strickland v. Washington so malleable that Stricklan…
22-6192 Dennis Dean Neff v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review different-outcome judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instruction-error plain-error prejudice reasonable-probability trial trial-procedure unpreserved-claims Whether an appellant must show a 'reasonable probability' of a different outcome at trial to demonstrate prejudice from unpreserved claims of jury ins…
22-6161 Melvin Lavon Shields v. Kansas Kansas 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process government-delay lovasco-v-united-states marion-v-united-states pre-charging-delay prejudice state-v-shields Whether a criminal defendant who has established prejudice from the government's pre-charging delay must show that delay was the result of the governm…
22-6162 Donald Lee Scott v. Arizona Arizona 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process pre-accusation-delay prejudice prosecutorial-delay prosecutorial-discretion statute-of-limitations witness-testimony What is the proper standard for evaluating pre-accusation delay?
22-487 Douglas Tyrone Armstrong v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response Waived ABA-standards capital-murder constitutional-deficiency criminal-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prevailing-norms professional-competence Whether an incarcerated inmate's trial counsel provided constitutionally deficient representation
22-6061 Kyle Watkins v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2022-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights cumulative-effect due-process first-degree-murder habeas habeas-corpus law-enforcement law-enforcement-practices prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a Court can construe Brady's prejudice prong so strictly that it becomes, in effect, an automatic means of excusing unconstitutional law enfor…
22-5882 Allen Calligan v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure habitual-offender ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informal-plea-offer plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing sixth-amendment Was Mr. Calligan's attorney ineffective for failing to inform him of the informal plea offer from the prosecutor, which prejudiced Mr. Calligan by cau…
22-358 Ronald Blake Fears v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response Waived double-deference federal-deference habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review state-court-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) requires that a federal court apply 'double deference' to a state court's legal conclusion that a habeas petitioner was…
22-5840 Joseph Shook v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-admission evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection life-sentence prejudice prejudicial-testimony right-to-remain-silent Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied his constitutional rights
22-5711 Joshua Austin Kramer, aka Benjamin Franklin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-resources legal-innocence plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal prejudice withdrawal-of-plea Whether the district court erred by denying Petitioner's motion to withdraw his guilty plea
22-5612 Luis F. Gomez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment administrative-law constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct reversal statutory-interpretation witness-credibility Does a prosecutor's improper vouching for a witness unduly prejudice the defendant and require reversal under the 6th Amendment?
22-5602 Edward Ellis, III v. Missouri Missouri 2022-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-standard ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-argument missouri-law prejudice reasonable-strategy sixth-amendment trial-counsel witness-testimony Whether trial counsel can be held to have an objectively reasonable strategy in not making a legal argument when he never considered that legal argume…
22-235 Paul S. Morrissey, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. District of Columbia 2022-09-13 Denied Amici (2) appellate-circuit-split case-termination civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-standard federal-rules prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review statute-of-limitations willful-noncompliance Whether a discretionary dismissal without prejudice, which nevertheless functions as a dismissal with prejudice because it would end a case forever, i…
22-5547 Seneca Loyal Neal v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment body-camera-evidence constitutional-rights credibility-of-witnesses drug-conspiracy exclusionary-rule illegal-entry illegal-search-and-seizure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice section-2255-motion Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's denial of Mr. Neal's 28-USC-2255-claim
22-5476 John R. Wood v. Bryan Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied IFP capital-punishment fourth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis prison-conditions strickland-standard Wilson-v-Sellers Whether the state court unreasonably applied Strickland-v-Washington
22-5452 Cameron Paul Crockett v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa evidentiary-hearing fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice state-court Does AEDPA's 'unreasonable determination of the facts' clause contemplate that materially inadequate state court fact-finding processes can satisfy § …
22-5416 James Montell Chappell v. Nevada Nevada 2022-08-22 Denied IFP capital-case fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder ineffective-assistance-of-counsel organic-brain-damage prejudice prejudice-prong strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When trial counsel in a capital case presents anecdotal evidence of prenatal exposure to alcohol and evidence of learning disability but not expert te…
22-81 Nathaniel Lambert v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process griffith-standard jury-unanimity prejudice rehabilitation sentencing-delay What test applies to excessive sentencing delay claims under the Due Process Clause, including whether prejudice is required and what prejudice counts…
22-5153 Ramon A. Boyce v. Ohio Ohio 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-authentication prejudice pro-se-defendant self-representation trial-court trial-court-discretion Has a criminal Defendant's constitutional right to self-representation been violated by a trial court, if that court unreasonably delays the Defendant…
22-5058 Davel Chinn v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied Relisted (5)IFP aedpa brady-claim brady-v-maryland due-process evidence-suppression materiality materiality-standard prejudice sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Whether a petitioner who raises a claim under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), must establish that they were more likely than not prejudiced by …
22-24 Vincent Gabriel v. El Paso Combined Courts, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response Waived amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal due-process judicial-immunity motion-to-dismiss prejudice prosecutorial-immunity standing Is it appropriate for a trial court to dismiss a complaint with prejudice prior to allowing an individual at least one opportunity to amend the compla…
22-5036 Raleigh Figueras v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2106 circuit-court-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review objective-standard prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When a circuit court unambiguously and erroneously applies a subjective standard in assessing whether a habeas petitioner has established the prejudic…
21-1579 Stephen Alexander v. Georgia Georgia 2022-06-22 Denied Response Waived courtroom-closure fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When Defense Counsel errs by not objecting to an improper courtroom closure, should reviewing courts apply a 'fundamental unfairness' test, or the tra…
21-8141 Christopher G. Poeschl v. Foundation Building Materials, LLC, et al. Colorado 2022-06-15 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency expert-testimony judicial-discretion legal-fraud perjury prejudice structural-error trial-procedure trial-procedures Whether or not fraud solidified the Colorado Appeals Affirmation
21-8117 Xavier Jamaal Orange v. United States District of Columbia 2022-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-error criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether a defendant claiming ineffective assistance of counsel at sentencing can establish prejudice from a Sentencing Guidelines error despite the se…
21-8039 George Munoz, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-homicide criminal-procedure different-outcome evidence-limitation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions motion-for-new-trial prejudice reasonable-likelihood trial Whether a defendant is required to show a reasonable likelihood of a different outcome at trial to establish prejudice from ineffective assistance of …
21-7898 Emilio Evalio Arenas v. Nevada Nevada 2022-05-17 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process free-speech mistrial prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada erred when it concluded that the petitioner was not prejudiced by cumulative error after the district court abando…
21-7767 Michael Don Billups v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-opinions appellate-review district-court federal-sentencing judicial-discretion prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether courts of appeals evaluating the prejudicial effect of a Guideline error must accept a district court's claim that the Guidelines exerted no i…
21-7742 Marvel Jones v. John M. Carter, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-review criminal-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice federal-rules legal-ruling pleading prejudice res-judicata standing summary-judgment Whether a dismissal without prejudice resulted in a final disposition against the backdrop of a res judicata bar
21-7732 Oji Konata Markham v. Vicki Janssen, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied IFP brady-violation court-of-appeals due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance prejudice probable-cause sixth-amendment warrantless-arrest Whether the court of appeals properly assessed prejudice when it considered the Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) violation
21-7662 Michael Wayne Cook v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-opinions appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion federal-sentencing judicial-standard prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-guidelines Whether courts of appeals evaluating the prejudicial effect of a Guideline error must accept a district court's claim that the Guidelines exerted no i…
21-1359 Robert Corliss v. Crossroads Financing, LLC, et al. California 2022-04-19 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-waiver california-state-court contract-law contractual-rights court-inconsistency equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-standard waiver Whether prejudice is required to prove waiver of arbitration rights
21-7603 Glen S. Evans v. Bill Stange, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied IFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence motion-to-suppress prejudice reasonable-suspicion second-degree-murder sufficiency-of-evidence where-the-trial-court-has-erred-and-abused-its-discretion
21-7306 Jonathan Mota v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellant-standard appellate-review circuit-conflict civil-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error district-court due-process judicial-error legal-prejudice prejudice What degree of error and of prejudice must an appellant show with respect to individuals errors of the district court before those errors may be consi…
21-7289 Katrina Brown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-argument criminal-procedure fair-trial judicial-error motion-for-severance prejudice right-to-counsel severance standby-counsel whether-the-district-court-committed-error-by-ordering-the-defendant-to-go-forward-with-closing-argument-without-standby-counsel
21-7255 James Robert Hope v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence jurisdiction jury-instructions mistrial prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether the lower courts erred in finding that Mr. Hope was not prejudiced by mistrial counters due to his failure to object to the trial court's lack…
21-7181 Mary Ellen Samuels v. Janel Espinoza, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-supreme-court conflict-of-interest due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice performance prejudice prejudice-presumption supreme-court-precedent Did the California Supreme Court unreasonably fail to apply clearly established Supreme Court precedent that requires prejudice to be presumed where a…
21-7177 Maurice O. Byrd, Jr. v. Raymond Byrd, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandonment-of-appeal conflict-of-interest habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prejudice structural-error Structural-error-on-appeal
21-1157 Dennis Spencer v. Colorado Colorado 2022-02-22 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) attorney-performance conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation multiple-clients personal-conflicts prejudice prejudice-standard Does Sullivan's standard apply only when a defense lawyer represents multiple clients with conflicting interests, or does Sullivan apply to other conf…
21-7109 Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-14 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington due-process forensic-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice whether-trial-counsel-was-ineffective-for-failing-to-object-to-forensic-dna-evidence
21-7096 Daniel Lee Reed v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-bar sixth-amendment Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability
21-1080 Jacky Scott Garrett v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied capital-murder constitutional-review extraneous-offense-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudicial-error standard-of-review strategic-decision trial-strategy Whether trial counsel's inadvertent act was 'strategic'
21-6909 Mark Allen Geralds v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied IFP brady brady-materiality cumulative-analysis due-process giglio-violation materiality prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct strickland strickland-prejudice trial-confidence Whether the materiality inquiry for Brady and the prejudice analysis for Strickland require a cumulative analysis in determining whether confidence is…
21-6928 Dennis Lee Maxberry v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process honorable-discharge insider-trading military-discharge prejudice statutes-of-limitation veterans-affairs veterans-rights Isn't a questionable claim by the defendant's that the Discharged Peace-time Veteran who had been discharged to a soft landing usually is when the Sta…
21-6846 Juan Jose Reynoso v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-circuit supervisory-power tenth-circuit trial-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit has departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings
21-6822 James Edward Barber v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied IFP aggravating-evidence capital-sentencing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions mental-health-evidence mitigation-evidence prejudice prejudice-standard split-verdict What is the proper legal standard for assessing the prejudice resulting from deficient assistance of counsel in capital sentencing proceedings, partic…
21-6804 Timothy Wayne Kemp v. Arkansas Arkansas 2022-01-10 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation cone-v-bell criminal-procedure due-process materiality materiality-standard prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-precedent Whether the October 7, 2021 decision of the Arkansas Supreme Court, finding that Timothy Kemp was not prejudiced under Brady v. Maryland, was in confl…
21-6712 Jermar Jamie Fuller v. Texas Texas 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure disclosure disclosure-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence prejudice prejudice-inference speedy-trial speedy-trial-analysis Did the court of appeals err in determining that the delay caused by the State's failure to disclose exculpatory evidence did not weigh against the St…
21-6727 Zane Dickinson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP deficient-performance direct-appeal habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-preservation prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-probability trial-counsel Whether a federal habeas petitioner whose trial counsel performed deficiently by failing to preserve a meritorious issue for appeal satisfies the prej…
21-6688 Freddie McNeill, Jr. v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied IFP brady-claim brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland due-process evidence-suppression judicial-review materiality-standard prejudice prosecutorial-disclosure witness-credibility witness-reliability Whether a reviewing court considering a claim under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), must assess the reliability and credibility of the witnesse…
21-6481 General Grant Wilson v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2021-12-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice standing third-party-perpetrator wisconsin-law Whether the limitations that Wisconsin places on a criminal defendant seeking to introduce evidence are consistent with the Due Process Clause
21-6439 John Joseph Rushinsky, Jr. v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice strickland-standard May the state, consistent with Due Process, criminalize innocent behavior?
21-6460 Truman Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-discretion prejudice remand sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether the district court's refusal to accurately compute the extent of a Speedy-Trial-Act violation and to consider the government's district-wide i…
21-6390 Marcial Carrillo-Serna v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-error guidelines-calculation molina-martinez-v-united-states ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights When the district court fails to calculate the guideline range at sentencing, whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to sh…
21-6396 Tamara Jeune v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-23 Dismissed IFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-propensity evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence prejudice prior-bad-acts probative-value propensity-evidence How are the courts to properly apply Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)?
21-6310 Carlos Santos v. Christine Brannon-Dortch, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split extraneous-information habeas-corpus jury-deliberations prejudice remmer-hearing Whether the state is still required to bear the burden at a Remmer hearing when the issue is litigated in the context of a habeas corpus petition, whe…
21-6193 In Re Roy Allen Nichols 2021-11-04 Denied IFP commerce-clause constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-power habeas-corpus prejudice recurrent-issues sixth-circuit territorial-limits Whether the inferior district court and the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit prejudicially blocked the Petitioner's due-process rights due to th…
21-6074 Nikolas Gacho v. Illinois Illinois 2021-11-01 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-admonishment plea-negotiations prejudice sixth-amendment Does a plea admonishment cure all prejudice and preclude a defendant from challenging counsel's representation during the plea negotiations process?
21-6141 Kenneth Pettway, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest due-process government-delay judicial-appointments prejudice speedy-trial when-the-government-successively-supersedes-an-indictment
21-617 Christopher N. Payne v. Jahal Taslimi, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment inmate-privacy medical-confidentiality penological-interests prejudice privacy qualified-immunity Do inmates have a constitutional right to privacy in their HIV status?
21-6011 Robert Leslie Stencil v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-defendant clean-energy criminal-procedure defendant-prejudice due-process fraud-intent prejudice severance trial-severance Whether due process is violated when a trial court denies a motion to sever the trial, resulting in prejudice to petitioner
21-5803 Joseph Wayne Attaway, II v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-gang due-process fair-trial inflammatory-inference law-enforcement prejudice street-gangs witness-testimony Whether Petitioner was denied his due process right to a fair trial
21-328 Robyn Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-01 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Relisted (2) arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle federal-courts litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-requirement state-courts waiver Does the arbitration-specific requirement that the proponent of a contractual waiver defense prove prejudice violate this Court's instruction that low…
21-5420 Naim Rasool Muhammad v. Texas Texas 2021-08-20 Denied IFP burden-of-proof capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice preponderance-of-the-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying Naim Rasool Muhammad's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Was…
21-5438 Noe Gerardo Morin v. Bobby Lumpkin. Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP brady-disclosure confrontation-clause crawford-standard crawford-v-washington fundamental-fairness hearsay hearsay-statement ineffective-counsel non-testimonial prejudice right-to-confront testimonial Would a reasonable jurist find error in the District Court's assessment that hearsay statement in the case at bar was 'non testimonial' according to t…
21-63 Terrance Miles v. Belinda Sanchez, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) evidence evidence-availability government-delay government-responsibility pre-trial-imprisonment prejudice rehabilitation sixth-amendment speedy-trial trial-postponement Whether the government's responsibility for delays in obtaining evidence weighs against the government in a Sixth Amendment speedy-trial analysis
21-41 James Allen Jackson v. Texas Texas 2021-07-13 Denied Response Waived closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-due-process racist-testimony right-to-silence trial-counsel wiccan-testimony Was petitioner denied effective-assistance-of-counsel,racist-testimony,wiccan-testimony,right-to-silence,closing-argument,prejudice
20-8462 Roderick Napoleon Harris v. Texas Texas 2021-06-30 Denied IFP -habeas-corpus -ineffective-assistance -prejudice-standard -professional-norms -sixth-amendment #NAME? capital-case mitigation-evidence prejudice professional-standards sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether a habeas court must articulate and apply prevailing professional norms to determine ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
20-8424 James Erik Godiksen v. United States Second Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure expert-testimony harmless-error judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-note prejudice trial-procedure Did the Court of Appeals improperly conclude that the District Court's mishandling of a jury note and replaying only a portion of the defense expert's…
20-8270 Maurice A. Jackson v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure dna-testing evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-standard standard-of-review trial-counsel witness-impeachment Did the third circuit court err in deferring to the Court of Common Pleas finding that Mr. Jackson was not prejudiced by trial counsel not having key …
20-8252 Timothy James Thompson v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP default habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion martinez-v-ryan prejudice prejudice-standard trial-counsel trial-judge Whether when assessing prejudice to determine if the default of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim should be excused under Martinez v. R…
20-8199 Isiah Lamonte Brown v. California California 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-remedy counsel-ineffectiveness counsel-violation criminal-procedure fundamental-autonomy prejudice prejudice-analysis right-to-testify standard-of-review waiver waiver-standard What standard of prejudice must be satisfied to reverse a conviction due to counsel's violation of the defendant's right to testify?
20-8098 Mohammad Sohail Saleem v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bias civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias partiality petition-for-rehearing prejudice Did the United States Court of Appeals, for the Third District err in denying Mr. Saleem's Petition for Re-Hearing
20-7952 Pablo Bastidas v. Matthew Atchley, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254(d) alibi-defense certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit prejudice Whether the Ninth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability on the petitioner's ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim is contrary to this C…
20-7868 Douglas Kelly v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP alleyne-precedent automatic-reversal direct-appeal drug-conspiracy jury-selection prejudice public-trial rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement structural-error Whether, in the context of a structural error involving a public trial violation during jury selection where no trial objection was made but the error…
20-7823 Alan Trowbridge v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review counsel-deficiency criminal-procedure federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decide an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with this Court's holding in Strickland v. …
20-1440 David Abram Anaya v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-deficiency due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-probability Whether a defendant can show prejudice from counsel's deficient performance in rejecting a plea offer where the record reveals no facts suggesting the…
20-7730 Fendi Brooks v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointments-clause attorney-general constitutional-law constitutional-violation federal-vacancies-reform-act prejudice standing statutory-interpretation structural-violation When colorably alleging a structural, constitutional violation, specifically, that an individual illegally exercised the powers of the office of the A…
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, …
20-7544 Demian Dominguez, aka Demain Dominguez v. Brian E. Williams, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-death certificate-of-appealability effective-counsel ninth-circuit prejudice procedural-default reasonable-jurists Whether the Ninth Circuit's order denying a certificate of appealability was clearly erroneous
20-1225 Jenean Elizabeth Winston, et al. v. Mark Anthony Walsh Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response Waived actual-notice affidavit civil-procedure hague-convention prejudice service-of-process Did the Court of Appeals err in affirming the District Court's dismissal of the case due to insufficient service of process?
20-1223 Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. Gail L. Ingham, et al. Missouri 2021-03-04 Denied Amici (10) civil-litigation civil-procedure consolidation due-process jury-consolidation jury-instructions plaintiffs prejudice trial-procedure Whether a court must assess if consolidating multiple plaintiffs for a single trial violates due process
20-7230 Stanley Joseph Thompson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions counsel-concession criminal-defense criminal-defense-counsel due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana prejudice sixth-amendment trial-strategy Whether the Sixth Amendment permits criminal-defense-counsel to unilaterally-concede-guilt,
20-7231 Troy Baker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP background-evidence circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility investigative-context jury-instructions out-of-court-statements prejudice Should the Court Grant the Petition to Resolve a Conflict Among the Circuit Courts Over the Propriety of Admitting Out-of-Court Statements That a Defe…
20-1134 John Myers v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with at least four other courts of appeals, that to establish prejudice under Strickland v. …
20-7082 Edward Bishop v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment 924(c)-prosecution constitutional-violation constructive-amendment deficient-performance drug-trafficking-crime due-process habeas-corpus indictment-defect ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice vagueness-challenge Whether Trial Counsel's performance was deficient and whether any errors were prejudicial?
20-7065 Anibal Canales, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (13)IFP capital-habeas capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence penalty-phase prejudice sixth-amendment Wiggins-v-Smith Whether Richter established a higher prejudice standard for penalty phase IAC violations than Wiggins
20-6891 Ronald Knight v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied IFP capital-defense capital-sentencing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigation-investigation postconviction-relief prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether trial counsel has an obligation to conduct a comprehensive mitigation investigation
20-6862 Montecarlos Gant v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-error due-process guilty-plea plain-error prejudice reversal substantial-rights Whether automatic reversal is required when a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause
20-6821 Matthew Jamal Jackson v. Texas Texas 2021-01-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudice pretrial-incarceration public-trial sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether petitioner was denied his Constitutional right to a Speedy Public Trial pursuant to the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
20-6782 Juan Carlos Guadron-Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP cellular-communication civil-procedure criminal-joinder extortion-conspiracy gang-related-crime interstate-facilities joinder prejudice severance travel-act Whether federal joinder laws permit the expansive joinder of two unrelated cases with no factual commonality apart from one defendant's involvement in…
20-6714 Jevonne Martell Coleman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-error due-process guilty-plea plain-error prejudice reversal substantial-rights When a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made, is automatic reversal required?
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 Whether the government's failure to dispute the factual manifestations of the Petitioner's government breach claim due to the plea contract's accounta…
20-6654 Gabino Romero v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment chain-of-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial jury-instructions prejudice search-and-seizure standing Whether the conduct of the United States in conducting research prior to deliberation on a trial judge's decision violated the 4th Amendment
20-793 Samir Rafic Khoury v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure indictment-dismissal mandamus mandamus-relief post-indictment-delay post-judgment-review prejudice speedy-trial Whether a Court of Appeals may review, on petition for a writ of mandamus, the denial of a criminal defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment on sp…
20-6584 Richard Olive v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington What do Missouri v. Frye and Lafler v. Cooper require to demonstrate prejudice from counsel's failure to advise on a plea offer?
20-781 United States, ex rel. Concilio de Salud Integral de Loíza, Inc., et al. v. J.C. Remodeling, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied Relisted (2) benefit-of-bargain benefit-of-the-bargain circuit-split damages damages-calculation false-claims-act intangible-benefits prejudice tainted-claim-theory treble-damages Whether courts should allow gross trebling or net trebling of damages under the False Claims Act
20-6516 Eric Dynell McGadney v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion molina-martinez per-se-rule prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-error sentencing-framework sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentencing court's statement that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guidelines creates a per se rule that a miscalcu…
20-6391 Timothy Ronald Hare v. Michigan Michigan 2020-11-20 Denied IFP constitutional-standard critical-stage effective-assistance ineffective-assistance lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel sixth-amendment united-states-v-cronic Does the requirement to prove prejudice under Lafler v Cooper place a burden on the accused that is deemed unnecessary in United States v Cronic
20-6387 Darrin B. Woodard v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (7)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-justification pre-indictment-delay preindictment-delay prejudice prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct tenth-circuit-standard Whether, as many courts have held, allowing a prosecution to continue after lengthy and demonstrably prejudicial delay in filing criminal charges offe…
20-692 Rosemary Webster, et al. v. Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., aka Fresenius Medical Care North America Sixth Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure bias civil-procedure due-process fundamental-rights impartial-tribunal judicial-bias prejudice standard-of-review tribunal-neutrality Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a judgment that violated the Petitioner's fundamental rights by supporting an opinion that (I) rep…
20-6352 G. N. W. v. New Jersey New Jersey 2020-11-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel speedy-trial Whether reasons for delay are relevant to both sides
20-6332 Cecil Salyers v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice sentencing-prejudice sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard Whether the Kentucky Court of Appeals correctly interpreted the Sixth Amendment in holding the petitioner cannot demonstrate prejudice under Stricklan…
20-6294 Richard L. Sealey v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied IFP capital-trial continuance continuance-motion due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence penalty-phase prejudice trial-court-discretion Whether the denial of a defense motion for a continuance during the penalty phase of a capital trial violates due process
20-646 Michael Tyler Baggott v. Florida Florida 2020-11-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice sex-offender-registration Whether the reasoning of Lee v. United States extends to defendants facing lifelong sex offender registration conditions
20-6268 Bryan Keith Roberts v. Texas Texas 2020-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-trial criminal-trial-prejudice due-process jury-charge law-enforcement law-enforcement-presence prejudice right-to-fair-trial spectators statutory-interpretation Is the presence of a large number of uniformed, undercover, and armed spectators identifiable as law enforcement on the final day of the guilt-innocen…
20-6169 Tykei Garner v. United States Third Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-conviction due-process evidence interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prejudice third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Decision
20-5961 Lemar Gant v. Brian Williams, Sr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-duty criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice state-court-review strickland-v-washington witness-investigation Whether the Ninth Circuit erroneously concluded Gant could not establish ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
20-5898 Roy Eugene Ussery v. Texas Texas 2020-10-02 Denied IFP barker-test barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights defense-theory extraneous-offense-evidence grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prejudice speedy-trial witness-prejudice When the deceased witness was erroneously considered a witness for the State, despite being a defense witness, did this affect the prejudice factor in…
20-5844 Horacio Santamaria, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights due-process grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the government's unavailing defense of the indefensible with respect to the indictment, inadequate jury instructions, prosecutorial misconduct…
20-401 Devan Pierson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights What test should be used to determine prejudice from a constructive amendment under Rule 52(b)?
20-5764 Rodney Berryman, Sr. v. Robert K. Wong, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-23 Granted Relisted (2)IFP counsel-representation dna-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal judicial-error motion-denial new-trial ninth-circuit prejudice pro-se pro-se-motion Did the Ninth Circuit err in finding no basis for interlocutory appeal and refusing to allow the petitioner to show district court prejudice
20-363 Frederick R. Whatley v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (12) circuit-split federal-law habeas habeas-corpus holbrook-v-flynn ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice shackling strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does a state court unreasonably apply federal law when, in determining whether a person suffered prejudice as a result of ineffective assistance of co…
20-5712 Marcus Vernell Coleman v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance new-trial prejudice right-of-confrontation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal apply the correct legal standard in accordance to Strickland's prejudicial prong when petitioner(s) righ…
20-5721 Sheyna Douprea v. Janel Espinoza, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP battered-woman-syndrome ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health post-traumatic-stress-disorder prejudice prejudice-analysis self-defense strickland-standard strickland-v-washington was-douprea-required-to-establish-a-reasonable-probability-of-a-total-acquittal
20-5619 James Allen Minyard v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP competency-hearing due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment harmless-error prejudice structural-error trial-rights Whether the trial court violated the petitioner's due process right to a fair trial by failing to hold a competency hearing despite a bona fide doubt …
20-5489 Rodney Lavalais v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 2k2.1(b)(4)(a) appellate-review due-process guilty-plea plain-error-review plea-voluntariness prejudice sentencing-guidelines stolen structural-error When a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made, is automatic reversal required?
20-5452 Judy Thorpe v. Justin Swidler, et al. New Jersey 2020-08-21 Denied IFP appellate-division appellate-review certification-denial civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review manifest-error prejudice supreme-court-of-new-jersey trial-court Whether it was manifest error and significantly prejudicial for the Supreme Court of New Jersey to Deny Certification and Not Fairly and Equitably Rev…
20-119 Louis Ruggiero v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing federal-charges ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-standard section-2255 Should the court of appeals have granted a certificate of appealability
20-5235 Michael D. Bikundi, Sr. v. United States District of Columbia 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery district-court due-process federal-rule-criminal-procedure harmless-error legal-obligation material-violation prejudice prejudicial-error sanction sanctions Whether a district court has an obligation to impose a meaningful sanction for a material and highly prejudicial violation of Federal Rule of Criminal…
20-5217 David Kelsey Sparre v. Florida Florida 2020-07-30 Denied IFP adolescent-brain-development brain-development constitutional-rights first-degree-murder harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing prejudice trial-strategy Whether trial counsel's failure to investigate and execute the defense trial strategy results in prejudice?
19-1432 Charles Rainer Sinek v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-29 Denied Response Waived appeal criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jury-instructions prejudice rule-30 summation Whether a defendant must show an explicit, verbatim contradiction between arguments made in summation and a jury instruction delivered in violation of…
19-8833 Christopher Mann v. Maryland Maryland 2020-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel maryland-court-of-appeals prejudice strickland-prejudice strickland-test weaver-precedent weaver-v-massachusetts Has the Maryland Court of Appeals abused its discretion by applying Weaver v. Massachusetts to mandate looking at the strength of the prosecution's ca…
19-8835 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Texas Texas 2020-06-26 Denied IFP capital-murder constitutional-rights federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-default procedural-grounds state-court state-habeas-corpus wiggins-claim Whether in Mr. Wardlow's case to grant certiorari, vacate the decision of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, and remand for reconsideration in the m…
19-8757 George W. Gibbs v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP charge-severance child-sex-assault clearly-erroneous counsel-error criminal-procedure drug-counts ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit-review prejudice prejudicial-joinder severance Whether the Ninth Circuit's rejection of Gibbs's ineffective assistance of counsel claim was clearly erroneous
19-1362 Jason Laut v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied circuit-split constructive-amendment criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury-clause plain-error prejudice rule-52b substantial-rights What test should be used to determine whether a constructive amendment impacted a defendant's substantial rights?
19-8672 Terry Bridges v. Illinois Illinois 2020-06-11 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules murder-evidence prejudice prejudicial-testimony rehabilitation sentencing trial-court-discretion uncharged-crime Whether the trial court erred in permitting the State to introduce excessive evidence relating to the murder of Keith Sluggs of which Terry Bridges wa…
19-8584 Christopher Raynard Kidd v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense due-process evidence-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation legal-standards prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to review all the evidence with Mr. Kidd prior to trial?
19-8140 Benjamin Dennerlein v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct client-assault due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief pre-trial-conduct prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does Strickland v. Washington prejudice threshold condone the actions of Counsel when Counsel assaults his client pre-trial, covered up said assault d…
19-7971 William L. Lewis v. Illinois Illinois 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error prejudice prior-convictions reasonable-doubt robbery sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence Did the trial court and appellate court err in entering a finding of guilt on a single count robbery when the government did not prove petitioner's gu…
19-7912 Ali Mehdipour v. Keith Sweeney, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure court-filing dismissal erroneous-ruling fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree judicial-review legal-timeliness prejudice procedural-error review statute-of-limitations timeliness Does a fruit-of-a-poisonous-tree follow from an initial erroneous ruling on timeliness of filing the initial complaint follow through subsequent rulin…
19-7883 Tyrone Harris, Sr. v. Arkansas Eighth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-sentencing criminal-statute-conflict due-process habitual-offender judicial-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing statutory-interpretation Did the District Court err in deferring to the lower court's finding, that Mr. Harris was not prejudice during his guilty plea sentencing hearing
19-7817 Maria de Lourdes Acosta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court judicial-procedure plain-error pre-sentence-report prejudice procedural-error sentencing When the district court fails to either order a Pre-Sentence Report or make explicit on-the-record findings as to why a Pre-Sentence Report is unneces…
19-1054 Christa Gail Pike v. Gloria Gross, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Amici (1) cumulative-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a defendant who asserts that trial counsel failed to present key evidence is precluded from showing prejudice under Strickland v. Washington
19-7711 John Patrick Vescuso v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravating-factor apprendi apprendi-error circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment prejudice sentencing Whether a sentence greater than the maximum authorized by the charge in the indictment requires reversal without regard to the trial evidence
19-7644 George Jones v. Cindy Griffith, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion alford-plea appeal credibility direct-appeal expert-witness expert-witness-credibility ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-remedies prejudice sentencing-discrepancy trial-court-discretion Has prejudice been shown-where defense counsel fails to investigate the credibility of the Defense's expert witness
19-7530 Orando Ricardo Thompson v. Florida Florida 2020-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fairness fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-precedent outcome prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-review Whether Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), and its progeny adequately allows consideration of the fundamental unfairness of a trial absent…
19-7426 Joseph Njonge v. Margaret Gilbert, Superintendent Ninth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP courtroom-closure prejudice public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment trial-procedure triviality-exception voir-dire waller-v-georgia Whether the 'triviality exception' to the Sixth Amendment public-trial right comports with Waller v. Georgia
19-7407 Paula Bennett v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP closeness-of-case constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns cumulative-errors cumulative-prejudice ineffective-assistance prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-likelihood sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard strickland-v-washington sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-counsel Whether a court may conduct a prejudice analysis that focuses solely on the sufficiency of the evidence presented, or must instead consider the closen…
19-7371 Larry Bentley, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment narcotics-detection prejudice retroactive-application retroactivity search search-and-seizure Question not identified
19-7345 Roberto Sanchez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied IFP circuit-precedent civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-status judicial-conflict legal-interpretation precedent prejudice prejudicial-evidence procedural-review Did the Fifth Circuit's opinion conflict with its own precedent in Rojas v. Richardson regarding the prejudicial nature of a party's immigration statu…
19-7359 Danny Guzman-Correa v. United States First Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-consultant lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye prejudice public-trial public-trial-violation Whether reasonable jurist could find it debatable that Petitioner's public-trial violation warranted reversal at the minimum for an evidentiary hearin…
19-7329 Jamaar Jerome Williams v. Jo Gentry, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-witnesses habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review post-conviction-litigation post-conviction-relief prejudice prejudice-analysis Whether the Ninth Circuit erred when it concluded Williams had failed to establish prejudice under Martinez v. Ryan because the record clearly shows W…
19-7276 Ketut Pujayasa v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules due-process judicial-discretion prejudice prisoner prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-4a6 time-limitation timeliness Did the district court and appellate court err in concluding that the petitioner's Rule 4(a)(6) motion, which was sent on February 20, 2019, and recei…
19-7223 Erik Bilal Khan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP arraignment counsel-duty criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance lesser-crimes plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-probability right-to-counsel Whether counsel was ineffective in misadvising and interfering with the defendant's choice of plea at the arraignment
19-7138 Michael Blankenship v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP clean-water-act criminal-procedure environmental-law evidence evidence-admissibility eyewitness-testimony fecal-coliform intent prejudice rule-404(b) rule-404b witness-testimony Whether a chart showing consistently high fecal coliform levels in a creek was relevant to show other potential sources of odors testified to by witne…
19-7151 Erick David Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment free-speech ninth-circuit prejudice rap-poem sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the admission of a vile and obscenity-laced rap poem found inside the purse of a 16-year-old girl and not w…
19-7089 Jonathan Cruz-Ramirez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment first-amendment juvenile-evidence prejudice prejudicial-error sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the admission of a vile and obscenity-laced rap poem found inside the purse of a 16-year-old girl and not w…
19-7009 Daniel Rosario-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review case-disposition civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice district-court judicial-authority jurisdiction prejudice procedural-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a district court which had no jurisdiction over a case can dismiss it with prejudice
19-775 In Re Philippe Buhannic 2019-12-17 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appeal appeal-rights bias constitution constitutional-rights due-process due-process-clause-of-the-14th-amendment equal-protection federal-court foreign-litigant judicial-bias prejudice pro-se-litigant pro-se-representation Whether the Federal court has the right based on an obvious prejudice and bias to refuse due process to a foreign pro se litigant
19-6923 Adrian Alaniz v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-violation due-process harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence justifiable-homicide manslaughter prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment self-defense standard-of-review Whether the conceded admission of gang hearsay evidence in violation of the Confrontation Clause was prejudicial
19-6880 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-relief constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exceptional-circumstances habeas-corpus prejudice prejudice-standard speedy-trial Is an affirmative demonstration of prejudice to the accused's ability to defend himself essential to prove the denial of his right to a speedy trial?
19-6843 James Rice v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment barker-factors barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice sixth-amendment speedy-trial unreasonable-application Was Petitioner James Rice denied the right to a speedy trial?
19-645 Arizona v. Hector Sebastion Nunez-Diaz Arizona 2019-11-19 Denied Amici (1) criminal-procedure deportation immigration immigration-law lee-v-united-states legal-prejudice padilla-claim padilla-v-kentucky prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unauthorized-alien Whether unauthorized aliens can establish Strickland prejudice for Padilla/Lee claims
19-620 Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine v. Kevin C. Doyle, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure common-law copyright criminal-conviction damages prejudice prejudicial-evidence prior-criminal-conviction state-common-law statutory-damages visual-artists-rights-act Is a plaintiff prevented from collecting statutory damages under the Visual Artists Rights Act as well as under state common-law for damages to the sa…
19-6395 V. A. C. v. J. L. W. Texas 2019-10-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance parental-rights prejudice termination-of-parental-rights trial-court-discretion If it can be proven that the relied upon convictions in a Termination of Parental Rights action are unconstitutional and unreliable, does deference & …
19-6402 Omar Villarreal Silva v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-prejudice collateral-attack criminal-procedure customs-and-border-protection deportation due-process immigration immigration-law prejudice removal-proceedings Must a defendant show actual prejudice to collaterally attack a removal order?
19-6373 Casey Dullea Peppin v. Washington Washington 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP art constitutional-interpretation copyright court-determination due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence file-sharing jurisdiction legal-error prejudice sexually-explicit-material source-code Did the Washington State Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Washington err by granting as fact that the defendant shared files with the public?
19-6351 Geoffrey Elkington v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-standard state-court-deference trial-counsel Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the State Court finding that Petitioner was not prejudiced by Petitioner's trial attorney failing to enter i…
19-6252 Edinson Herrera Ramirez v. Maryland Maryland 2019-10-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review biased-jury criminal-procedure discretion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jury-selection legal-standard maryland-court-of-appeals peremptory-challenge peremptory-strike prejudice Whether the Maryland court erred in holding that petitioner received ineffective assistance of counsel but failed to prove prejudice
19-6256 Jason Simon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct due-process false-accusation habeas-corpus-relief judicial-discretion prejudice presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof statutory-maximum uncharged-conduct Did the lower courts err by relying on a false accusation listed in the PSR, that was verified as false, as the sole basis for not only imposing a sta…
19-6141 Donnie Ray Jose v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process judicial-discretion plea-negotiations prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions trial-strategy When a federal prosecutor concedes a serious discovery violation shortly before trial, should the district court's response take into account, among o…
19-6101 Raymond Eugene Johnson v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-09-30 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing death-penalty factfinder harm lockett-v-ohio mitigating-circumstances prejudice Should the Court recalibrate the frameworks for judging the prejudice or harm of capital sentencing errors in jurisdictions where the factfinder may d…
19-6023 Jeffrey Guy Ringle v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation confrontation-clause due-process false-testimony giglio-standard giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miranda-rights prejudice withholding-evidence Did the majority below err in applying this court's decision in Giglio v. United States to hold that Petitioner could not show prejudice, solely becau…
19-5980 In Re Sang Hing Wong, Jr. 2019-09-17 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct body-worn-camera case-file civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery due-process evidence-destruction fair-hearing fair-trial prejudice Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's request for an order compelling the respondent to authorize the release of the body-worn came…
19-336 Keith Chester Hill v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response Waived capital-sentencing discretionary-sentencing fifth-circuit glover-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-probability sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that, to demonstrate that counsel was ineffective at a state, non-capital, discretionary sentencing proc…
19-5874 David Kirkland v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-claim evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing-reduction sixth-circuit strickland-standard third-circuit trial Whether the petitioner's attorney was ineffective for withholding information
19-5836 Dennis Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error plea-bargaining prejudice reasonable-performance reasonable-probability sixth-amendment standard-of-review strickland-v-washington trial-fairness trial-strategy Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when his trial counsel failed to properly investigate a…
19-5786 Joshua George Nowland v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction barker-v-wingo civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction prejudice pretrial-detention speedy-trial Is oppressive pretrial incarceration still an important aspect of the Barker balancing test?
19-227 Adnan Syed v. Maryland Maryland 2019-08-21 Denied Amici (3) constitutional-review criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-disbelief jury-evaluation prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review state-case-presentation state-prosecution strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a court evaluating prejudice under Strickland v. Washington must take the State's case as it was presented to the jury or may hypothesize that…
19-5576 William Taylor v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion boone-county constitutional-rights hearsay hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-effective-counsel sentencing Whether the additional sixty (60) years Taylor received at trial when attorney Allen Lidy failed to communicate the Boone County twenty (20) year plea…
19-183 Mark Douglas Robison v. Texas Texas 2019-08-09 Denied Response Waived criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-fairness trial-outcome Whether a criminal-defense attorney's deficient performance under Strickland v. Washington affects the trial's outcome or renders the trial fundamenta…
19-5465 Isela Alejandra Campos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error guideline-range guidelines molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to show prejudice under plain error review
19-5354 Raheem Brown v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-ruling eyewitness-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice strickland strickland-standard strickland-v-washington subpoena Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err and abuse its discretion by refusing to grant Petitioner a Certificate of Appealabili…
19-5281 Ronald Wesley Jiles v. Michigan Michigan 2019-07-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-right jury-bias jury-instructions prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Whether a defendant's right to exercise his Fifth Amendment right was prejudiced by the prosecution's comments on it during closing arguments
19-5220 Hernardo Medina-Villegas v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims due-process prejudice reasonableness sixth-amendment constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-standard prejudice reasonableness-standard sixth-amendment standard-of-reasonableness Did the trial and appellate counsel's performance fall below an objective standard of reasonableness and prejudice the petitioner?
19-5232 Ricky Ray Malone v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied IFP chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis federal-law harmless-error harmlessness-review plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-component Where plain error review includes a built-in prejudice component, is subjecting an acknowledged plain error to a second round of harmlessness review p…
19-5072 Troy Lee Bridges v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel peremptory-strikes prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review voir-dire Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the Federal court finding that Mr. Bridges was not prejudiced by his trial counsel,findings and the prosecut…
19-5020 Khaleefa Lambert v. Darren Settles, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied IFP criminal-procedure felony-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel murder-conviction prejudice premeditated-murder reasonable-jury sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying Petitioner's claim that his trial counsel's performance was so deficient as to prejudice the outcome of the trial…
19-5009 Keon Anthony Nixon v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP balancing-test barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process post-indictment-delay prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-right Whether a defendant's 'failure to invoke the right to a speedy trial would be weighed heavily against him,' despite 'his lack of representation,' and …
19-5010 Andrew Nelson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied IFP 18-usc-924(c) appellate-review continuance criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-52a federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-error prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing substantial-rights trial-continuance vagueness-doctrine Where the district court erroneously premises its denial of a meritorious, unopposed motion for continuance of the trial on a mistaken belief that the…
18-9820 Jonathon Loyd Edick v. Michigan Michigan 2019-06-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias legal-prejudice prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-procedure Is petitioner entitled to relief where his constitutional rights are/were violated by receiving ineffective assistance of counsel at the trial court l…
18-9790 Alexander Monzoni v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-calculation guidelines judicial-review molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing sentencing-guidelines Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review for Guideline error as set ou…
18-9744 Landon Quinn v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2019-06-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-conviction due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-unanimous-verdict nonunanimous-verdict prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the fact that a criminal conviction was returned by a non-unanimous verdict is relevant to a court's consideration of the prejudice prong of S…
18-9754 Daniel Teitelbaum v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-violation dna dna-evidence due-process fbi-codis-database guilty-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-unanimity new-evidence prejudice procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct Did flaws in the FBI's CODIS DNA database prejudice the defendant and lead to a guilty verdict?
18-9598 James W. Guy v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech jury-bias jury-selection prejudice religion religious-discrimination religious-freedom sixth-amendment Did the trial court violate a Muslim defendant's Constitutional Rights under the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitut…
18-9556 Charles R. Willard v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability inconsistent-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-illness prejudice prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-mitigation trial-counsel witness-credibility witness-impeachment Is the low threshold for a certificate of appealability (COA) met on a claim that trial counsel provided prejudicially deficient performance when coun…
18-1494 Michael Steven Beeman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response Waived counsel-performance criminal-procedure fourth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining pre-trial-motion pre-trial-motions prejudice reasonable-counsel reasonable-performance Whether jurists of reason could debate that a district court must evaluate the merits of a potential motion to suppress where the defendant pled guilt…
18-1453 Mitra Rangarajan v. Johns Hopkins University, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct attorney-responsibility circuit-split civil-procedure discovery discovery-violations dismissal federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure prejudice rule-37 sanctions warning When is it appropriate to dismiss an action for discovery violations under Fed. R. Civ. P. 37?
18-9151 Blake Joseph Sandlain v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-counsel capital-punishment criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice successive-petition Does the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel require a showing of prejudice to establish a claim that appellate counsel was ineff…
18-9120 Russell Frey v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault cumulative-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-issues fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial prejudice right-to-counsel Whether the defendant's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to counsel's overall health and performance
18-9026 Arrez Meliton-Salto v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guidelines-range molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error prejudice record-silence sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to show prejudice under plain error review when the record is silent as to what the…
18-9002 David Curtis Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa de-novo-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Petitioner was prejudiced under the Sixth Amendment due to trial counsel's failure to object to a concededly erroneous jury instruction an…
18-8912 Cirilo Flores v. United States Third Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining due-process guilty-plea hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement prejudice strickland-v-washington voluntary-and-intelligent-choice voluntary-plea Whether the guilty plea entered was legal when the petitioner did not fully understand, know or intelligently accept the voluntary guilty plea agreeme…
18-8855 Eric A. Hicks v. United States District of Columbia 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure guidelines molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice prejudice-standard procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the court of appeals' decision conflicts with this Court's decision in Molina-Martinez v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1338 (2016), in concluding…
18-8655 Nicholas Ryan Holloway v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-attorney appellate-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether the U.S. District Court erred in deferring to the Arkansas State Courts' finding that Mr. Holloway was not prejudiced by both his trial and ap…
18-8590 Harlin Argelio Ramos v. Utah Utah 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prejudice self-defense Did the Utah appellate court err in holding that the erroneous jury instruction, which impermissibly shifted the burden of proof onto Petitioner/Defen…
18-8570 Damien Preston v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-court-decisions confrontation-rights constitutional-claims constitutional-violation harmless-error ineffective-assistance jury-determination prejudice sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Third Circuit's precedential decision created a conflict among its conflicting decision in Bey v. Superintendent Greene, SCI 856 F3d 230; …
18-8547 Zachary Joseph Biggs v. Washington Washington 2019-03-25 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure diminished-capacity first-degree-rape ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea ninth-circuit prejudice Did the Washington State Appellate Court err in finding that Mr. Biggs was not prejudiced by his trial counsel's failure to raise the defense of dimin…
18-8490 Bernard Mitchell v. California California 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-street-gangs discretion due-process evidence gang-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-exposure jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-review Did the court abuse its discretion in permitting the jury to be exposed to the nicknames 'Crip' and ''Scrap,' which have been taken as a suggestion th…
18-8501 Mohammed Bah v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law deportation-consequences guilty-plea immigrant-rights immigration ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lee-v-united-states prejudice Does an analysis of prejudice in the context of ineffective assistance of counsel involving the guilty plea of an immigrant result in an unreasonable …
18-8516 John E. Drummond v. Ohio Ohio 2019-03-21 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-appeals collateral-review direct-appeal due-process forum judicial-procedure legal-remedy precedent prejudice records standing Is the state required to provide a defendant a forum to litigate a due-process claim
18-8482 Lourdes Margarita Garcia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brecht-standard constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage Cronic cronic-rule cronic-standard defense-counsel direct-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit hybrid-error prejudice structural-error trial-procedure Did the Eleventh Circuit err by holding this 'startling, intentional' violation of the defendant's constitutional and statutory rights did not constit…
18-8386 Michael Apelt v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing evidentiary-hearing fact-finding federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mental-impairment prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When determining if a capital defendant was prejudiced by counsel's deficient performance during state sentencing, whether the federal court may bypas…
18-8378 Garron T. Briggs v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceeding plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-prong reasonable-probability right-to-trial strickland-v-washington Whether the district court's ruling, which implies that when a petitioner successfully proves that his counsel was ineffective, that petitioner must t…
18-1169 John Stephen Thorne v. Union Pacific Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure declaratory-judgment equitable-defense equitable-defenses equity judicial-remedy laches legal-claims limitations-period prejudice property-rights statute-of-limitations stock-ownership texas-law Applicability of laches to legal claims within statute of limitations period
18-1156 Morgenthau Venture Partners, LLC, et al. v. Robert A. Kimmel Florida 2019-03-06 Denied appellate-review arbitration blanket-order circuit-split federal-arbitration-act kpmg-llp-v-cocchi motion-to-compel prejudice prejudice-standard standing waiver waiver-defense Whether the Florida court of appeal's one-word refusal to compel arbitration disregards this Court's decision in KPMG LLP v. Cocchi, 565 U.S. 18 (2011…
18-8291 Juanita Garcia v. Deborah Johnson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure evidence habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a habeas petitioner must show that absent the attorney's deficient performance, no other evidence supported the verdict
18-8238 Rafael Gomez Uranga v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-v-wingo circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process government-delay government-negligence governmental-negligence gross-negligence prejudice sixth-amendment speedy-trial united-states-v-doggett Whether a speedy trial delay caused exclusively by the gross negligence of the Government weighs heavily against the Government
18-8053 Malcolm Roland Allen v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3006a 6th-amendment career-offender due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel judicial-proceedings notice-of-appeal prejudice sentencing-guideline sentencing-guidelines Whether ineffective counsel failed to file a notice of appeal and object to career offender sentencing guideline
18-7868 Charles L. Burgett v. The General Store No. Two, Inc., dba Marsh's Sunfresh Market, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure discovery-order dismissal due-process judicial-discretion lesser-sanctions prejudice procedural-fairness sanctions Whether the district court is required to provide the sanctioned party with adequate due process before dismissing the lawsuit?
18-7732 James B. Curry v. Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process obstruction prejudice standing Was Weck's Constitutional Rights Violated
18-7713 Darnell Grimsley v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-default prosecution-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sequestration sequestration-order sufficiency-of-evidence trial-testimony violation-of-sequestration-order Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the district court's opinion that this issue was procedurally defaulted and finding that Mr. Grimsley was no…
18-7721 Laron Darrell Carter, aka Birdd, aka Gardena Pimpin Birdd, aka Garr Birdd, aka Pi Birdd, aka Pi Pimpin Birdd v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy dual-sovereignty-doctrine federal-prosecution prejudice prejudice-showing rule-48(b) rule-48b separate-sovereign-doctrine separate-sovereign-exception state-prosecution What type of prejudice showing is required to obtain dismissal under Fed. R. Crim. P. 48(b) for delayed federal prosecution after state conviction?
18-7544 Briand Williams v. California California 2019-01-24 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-record due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance plea-bargain prejudice statute-of-limitations strickland-standard Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-7497 Carl Burnie Wellborn v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP fair-cross-section fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness habeas-corpus prejudice procedural-default sixth-amendment structural-error Can reasonable jurists debate whether habeas petitioners asserting procedurally defaulted fair cross-section claims must show actual prejudice or that…
18-7452 Herminio Garcia-Carillo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process due-process,equal-protection,immigration,prejudice equal-protection fair-trial free-speech immigration immigration-bias impartiality jury-selection prejudice voir-dire Whether a judge must allow voir dire into prejudice against Mexican immigrants when a Mexican immigrant faces trial for illegal reentry after a presid…
18-7464 Carlton E. Gary v. Florida Florida 2019-01-16 Denied IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony expert-witness fundamental-error judicial-error prejudice violation witness-credibility witness-influence Whether the expert witness's report was improperly influenced by the witness's actions, resulting in a violation of due process
18-7434 Christopher Adin Graham v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability closing-argument counsel-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standard prejudice testimony Whether the court of appeals correctly denied petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. 2253(c) on his ineffective-assistance-of-couns…
18-7356 Jack Gossett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial-procedure defendant-rights due-process expert-testimony government-agent-testimony jury-influence prejudice reasonable-doubt reversible-error substantial-rights untendered-expert-testimony Did the testimony of a government agent, not tendered as an expert, influence the jury's decision on guilt beyond a reasonable doubt?
18-7292 Marco Whitley, Sr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege attorney-client-relationship crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process eighth-circuit prejudice second-degree-robbery sentencing sixth-amendment violent-crime Did the Eighth Circuit err by holding Missouri's Second Degree Robbery is always considered to necessarily be a crime of violence?
18-856 Serge Antonin v. Baltimore Police Department Maryland 2019-01-04 Denied Response Waived accardi-v-shaughnessy administrative-hearing administrative-law constitutional-law due-process evidence law-enforcement police-misconduct prejudice procedural-rights state-agency state-agency-regulations Whether United States ex rel. Accardi v. Shaughnessy, 347 U.S. 260 (1954) is constitutional law binding upon the State of Maryland?
18-7051 Jacqueline Lenorlia Taylor v. CVS Caremark Corporation Fourth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act civil-rights-defense dismissal due-process equal-access failure-to-prosecute prejudice public-accommodations standing title-ii Did the General District Court, Fourth Circuit, err in dismissing the plaintiff's case for failure to prosecute and an impending unfavorable judgment,…
18-7028 Jameel Simpson v. James Erkerd, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice sixth-amendment wrongful-conviction Petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel due to conflict of interest
18-6968 Alejandro Quinones Leyva v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel language-barriers notice-of-appeal plea-bargaining prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-rights sixth-amendment Whether the defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel due to counsel's failure to file a notice of appeal
18-742 Brandon Washington v. Alabama Alabama 2018-12-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-review cumulative-effect cumulative-error due-process ineffective-assistance performance prejudice prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel trial-counsel-errors Whether, under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), a court assessing the prejudice resulting from trial counsel's errors should consider ea…
18-749 JoEllen Mary Crossett v. Michigan Michigan 2018-12-11 Denied conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges prejudice sixth-amendment state-and-federal-rights trial-procedure Was Petitioner denied her state and federal rights to the effective assistance of counsel, and did Michigan Court of Appeals err when it confirmed wit…
18-6847 Sergio Antonio Haro v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing government-agent-reports impeachment impeachment-of-credibility magistrate-judge magistrate-judge-plea-negotiations plea-negotiations prejudice pro-se pro-se-habeas sixth-amendment Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-6806 Eliana Sarmiento v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-speedy-trial-act dismissal harmless-error indictment-dismissal judicial-discretion prejudice speedy-trial-act statute-interpretation statutory-interpretation Whether a district court's denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment for a violation of the Speedy Trial Act's 70 day time limit for bringing a defe…
18-6778 DeAngelo Horn v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability deficient-performance eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice reasonable-jurists standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Did the Eleventh Circuit reach beyond the threshold inquiry for a certificate of appealability and deny a COA based on the merits of the appeal?
18-6762 Edward Louis Thomas v. Texas Texas 2018-11-20 Denied IFP criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus harrington-v-richter hinton-v-alabama ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals applied the wrong standard of review in analyzing the claims of deficient performance and prejudice by tri…
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 Whether Mr. Zemke received ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment
18-605 Mitchell J. Stein v. California California 2018-11-08 Denied Response Waived civil-litigation civil-procedure constitutional-law declaratory-relief due-process due-process-clause harmless-error judicial-review prejudice structural-error When a fundamental structural error results in an invalid judgment against a civil litigant in violation of the Due Process Clause, is the error per s…
18-6629 William Randolph Harloff v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP chapman-harmless-error confrontation-clause constitutional-rights courtroom-presence criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error prejudice right-to-be-present witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether the state court applied Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 (1967) in an objectively unreasonable manner or made an unreasonable determination …
18-6593 Sigifredo Molina-Varela v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-severance prejudice prejudicial-error right-to-counsel severance sixth-amendment Did the defense counsel's failure to file a motion for severance create a significant prejudice against the petitioner thereby constituting ineffectiv…
18-574 Joseph Rachal v. United States First Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment bifurcated-trial bifurcation criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prejudicial-evidence Is it unduly prejudicial for a jury to be exposed to the toxic evidence that the defendant is a convicted felon before even determining whether the de…
18-6550 Anthony Thomas v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP affidavit costs court-fees declaration effective-assistance-of-counsel financial-disclosure habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis income-declaration ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-indigency poverty prejudice procedural-default redress sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires a new trial when counsel's deficient performance prejudiced the defendan…
18-572 Dorsey Ron McCall v. Aptim Corporation Fifth Circuit 2018-11-01 Dismissed abstention arbitration-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure federal-court-abstention federal-courts federal-state-jurisdiction forum-shopping litigation-conduct prejudice state-court-proceedings Must a party opposing arbitration on the ground of waiver by litigation conduct prove that it was prejudiced by the other party's waiver?
18-6441 Roderick McKissick v. Nathan Deal, Governor of Georgia, et al. Georgia 2018-10-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus prejudice retaliation standing Whether prior inconsistencies in testimony should be counted as lies which is a clear unlawful deprivation and deep denial of proper determination
18-6265 Samuel Silva v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidence-prejudice federal-firearms federal-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence felon-in-possession felon-possession firearm-possession jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice prejudicial-evidence probative-value rule-403 Whether the practice of telling juries in a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prosecution that the defendant is a previously-convicted felon should be excluded un…
18-421 Jose Luis Cepeda-Cortes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived co-defendant criminal-procedure extraneous-criminal-acts federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure joint-trial jury-reliability prejudice rule-14a severance spill-over-effect zafiro-v-united-states Does a fair and consistent application of Rule 14(a) require this Court to re-examine its decision in Zafiro and clarify the factors to be considered …
18-6173 Carlos Tiznado-Valenzuela v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split federal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-interpretation molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard plain-error-review prejudice prejudice-prong sentencing-guidelines Should the Court address the division of circuit authority over the Court's application of the prejudice prong of plain-error review in Molina-Martine…
18-6139 Julia Monique Frias v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights government-delay judicial-review prejudice pretrial-incarceration reduced-sentence sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-sentence tenth-circuit Whether a defendant's lost opportunity to seek a reduced state sentence under state law can constitute prejudice under Barker?
18-5982 Todd F. Britton-Harr v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lee-v-united-states prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-person sixth-amendment Does the Court's decision in Lee v. United States, 137 S.Ct. 1958 (2017) allow lower courts to require a showing that a 'reasonable person' would have…
18-5918 Jose Guerrero Lozano, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure delay due-process florida-court ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-delay prejudice speedy-trial Whether the State of Florida Court or the Petitioner is more to blame for the delay. Whether, in due course, and petitioner asserted a claim of ineffe…
18-5758 Annamalai Annamalai v. Parvathi Sivanadiyan Fifth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-68 dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice federal-rule-68 federal-rule-civil-procedure federal-rules frivolous frivolous-complaint judgment-offer mailbox-rule offer-and-acceptance offer-of-judgment prejudice prison-mailbox-rule prisoner-filing Whether a district court can dismiss a complaint filed under 9 U.S.C.4 as frivolous and can dismiss with prejudice, after the mailing of an unconditio…
18-5726 Ruben Cazares v. Texas Texas 2018-08-23 Denied IFP accomplice-statements bruton-error bruton-evidence bruton-v-united-states confrontation-clause crawford crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility harmless-error prejudice prejudicial-evidence separate-trials special-prejudice trial-procedure Whether lower courts correctly evaluate the harmfulness of Bruton error without accounting for the devastating 'special prejudice' to the accused that…
18-5677 Robert Alan Loughner v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus,ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,du ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice negligence prejudice trial-outcome trial-procedure Whether the state court erred in denying petitioner's writ of habeas corpus alleging ineffective-assistance-of-counsel where petitioner's attorney was…
18-5631 Steven M. Jacob v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas habeas-corpus jury-selection prejudice presumption-of-impartiality standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent voir-dire Was the Petitioner's demonstration sufficient to require de novo review under the Panetti v. Quarterman standard or the Johnson v. Williams standard, …
18-5550 Mario Lopez-Pacheco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process executive-power immigration immigration-review judicial-discretion mendoza-lopez-standard noncitizen-rights prejudice standing statutory-interpretation Whether a noncitizen who is not afforded the opportunity to apply for available relief has suffered prejudice
18-5527 Jesus Alejandro Chavez, aka Chuy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation case-severance criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit-review joinder materiality materiality-standard new-trial prejudice severance substantial-defense Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that the alleged Brady violation was not material
18-5488 Eddie Allen Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-construction liberal-construction lower-court motion plea-bargaining prejudice pro-se pro-se-pleadings section-2255 standard-of-review Does the lower court violate this Court's directive to liberally construe documents filed pro se when they construe assertion in a §2255 Motion as mer…
18-5427 Monclaire Saint Louis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure curative-instruction curative-instructions due-process evidence jury-bias jury-instructions kidnapping prejudice prejudicial-error rape witness-testimony Whether witness testimony about a rape committed by someone other than the defendant during a kidnapping creates prejudice that cannot be overcome by …
18-5397 Alejandro Parra-Ramos v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-prejudice due-process government-misconduct judicial-discretion plain-error plea-agreement plea-agreement-breach prejudice prosecutorial-breach sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-recommendation sentencing-variance upward-variance whether a defendant suffers prejudice when the government breaches a plea agreement by calling its agreed-upon recommendation irrational, and the cour…
18-5348 Gary Clack v. Kentucky Kentucky 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kentucky-court-of-appeals post-conviction-relief prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-testimony Whether the Kentucky Court of Appeals properly applied the Strickland prejudice prong when it held that trial counsel provided ineffective assistance …
18-5289 Stephen Dale Barbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied IFP client-autonomy ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana post-conviction prejudice prejudice-standard sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington structural-error Did the Fifth Circuit impose an improper ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard, which required him to show prejudice, to Barbee's claim that his …
18-5212 Markentz Blanc v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-flight-instructions district-court due-process elements flight-instructions prejudice prior-decisions sufficiency-of-evidence wiretap wiretap-evidence Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's rulings on the flight instructions, the necessity requirement for the wiretap, an…
18-5141 Taylor Don Frederiksen v. Texas Texas 2018-07-05 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure collateral-consequences court-standards criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-review legal-argument prejudice procedural-rules right-to-appeal right-to-counsel state-court-procedures state-court-rules Whether Mr. Frederiksen should continue to suffer prejudice and collateral legal consequences from his uncounseled conviction when the lower state cou…