prejudice-prong

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A903 Nima Moradi v. Florida Florida 2026-02-09 Application deadly-force ineffective-assistance jury-instructions prejudice-prong self-defense strickland-standard Question not identified.
24A776 Michael Fimbres v. O'Brian Bailey, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete gang-expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a finding of prejudice under Strickland v. Washington when assessing ineffective assistance of counsel claims in …
24-5794 Juan Daniel Sierra-Jimenez v. United States First Circuit 2024-10-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP breach-of-agreement circuit-split plain-error-rule plea-agreement prejudice-prong sentencing-review Whether a Circuit Split exists related to how lower courts examine Defendants' compliance with the third prong of the plain error rule in cases involv…
23-1194 Erik Hentzen v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-06 Denied Response Waived appeal appellate-review child-pornography harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Can Strickland v. Washington's 'prejudice prong' be satisfied by a showing that constitutionally inadequate representation at the trial-court level ac…
23-5829 Luis Rios v. Patrick Covello, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations chain-of-custody factual-predicate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong statute-of-limitations When determining the one-year limitations period under 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(1)(D) of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) for an in…
23A134 William Glenn Rogers v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-08-15 Presumed Complete capital-habeas death-penalty forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong strickland-standard Whether a state court unreasonably applies Strickland v. Washington when it imposes a prejudice standard requiring a defendant to 'eliminate or comple…
22-7310 Antonio Minnis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure enhanced-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-prong sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the court's prejudice prong in Strickland v. Washington is satisfied when an attorney admits to ineffective assistance and the defendant rejec…
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…
22-5416 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…
22-5024 Jerod Rodriguez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure guilty-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell mistrial postconviction-relief prejudice-prong reasonable-jurists sixth-amendment strickland-standard whether-strickland-prejudice-prong-established
20-6275 William Ford v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied IFP burden-of-proof ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-counsel prejudice-prong procedural-default self-defense sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-counsel Would jurist of reason disagree and find debatable the correctness of the Sixth and District Courts' finding of effective assistance of counsel
20-5782 Harold Warren v. Indiana Indiana 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong sixth-amendment standard-of-review stare-decisis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals' precedent has set the bar for the Strickland v. Washington prejudice prong too high
19-5298 Kendrick Antonio Simpson v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-review certificate-of-appealability double-deference federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-deference prejudice-prong standard-of-review strickland-analysis strickland-standard Does the AEDPA require federal courts to apply a doubly-deferential standard of review to the prejudice prong of the Strickland analysis?
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…
18-9002 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…
18-8378 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…
18-8291 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
18-8226 James Craig Bird v. Colorado Colorado 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole plea-bargaining prejudice-prong strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the State improperly determined the prejudice prong underlying the test set-forth in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1964) as to erron…
18-6621 Aloeng Kelly Vang v. Tom Roy, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections Eighth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel effective-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice-prong sixth-amendment state-law straight-plea straight-pleas trial-rights ultimate-authority Where offers of straight pleas to the district court is permitted under state law, does state criminal defendants receive their Sixth Amendment right …
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…
18-6078 Carlton B. Springer v. Ohio Ohio 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel outcome-determinative prejudice-prong sixth-amendment standing Do Ohio Courts err when they insist that the prejudice prong of an ineffective assistance of counsel claim requires proof that counsel's deficient per…
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 …