presumed-prejudice

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6676 Louis Angel Mercado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-procedure brief-filing cronic-standard ineffective-assistance-counsel presumed-prejudice state-appeal Whether prejudice should be presumed under United States v. Cronic when defense counsel fails to file an appellee's brief under a state-initiated appe…
23-416 Derek Michael Chauvin v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-10-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived change-of-venue community-bias community-harm criminal-procedure juror-bias juror-prejudice presumed-prejudice sixth-amendment venue-change voir-dire Whether community harm and threat of harm is a presumed community bias and must be considered as a singular inquiry as an extreme case creating circum…
22-5760 Philip Joseph Spear v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review breach-of-promise constitutional-violation due-process judicial-error presumed-prejudice Did the appellate court err by overlooking a 5th Amendment Constitutional wrong, and by omission, fail to note, by the record, a breach of promise res…
22-5285 Alifonso Eduardo Garcia v. Kansas Kansas 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy-evidence criminal-procedure due-process jury-questionnaire jury-selection lesser-included-offense presumed-prejudice skilling-factors standard-of-review venue venue-prejudice Whether the Kansas Supreme Court erred in finding no presumed prejudice in the venue of Rooks County
21-53 James Dale Holcombe v. Florida Florida 2021-07-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (12) conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joint-and-dual-representation joint-representation presumed-prejudice prosecution-witness prosecutorial-notice trial Whether a criminal defendant establishes an 'actual' conflict of interest that adversely affects counsel's representation
20-8093 Martin James Kipp v. Ron Broomfield, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied IFP bible-reading biblical-reference capital-punishment capital-trial constitutional-rights external-influence habeas-corpus jury-deliberation jury-deliberations mattox-v-united-states presumed-prejudice remmer-v-united-states Whether clearly established federal law requires that a habeas petitioner's claim that his constitutional rights were violated because a juror read pa…
20-7470 Pablo Ramon Guerrero v. Nevada Nevada 2021-03-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence batson critical-stage cronic due-process fundamental-fairness mccollum presumed-prejudice strickland structural-error trial-procedure Whether a Batson-McCollum proven violation qualifies as a structural error
18-7083 Sylvia Ogbenyeanu Walter-Eze, aka Sylvia O. Okam v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-standards constructive-denial-of-counsel counsel-conflict critical-stage fundamental-fairness ninth-circuit presumed-prejudice structural-error waiver Whether the Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit erred in not applying the per se presumed prejudice rule