pretrial-hearing

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6293 Melvin Leon Myrick v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-procedure judicial-timing pretrial-hearing speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation Whether a final ruling at a pretrial hearing stops the Speedy Trial Act clock from running, consistent with the dictates of 18 U.S.C. § 3161.
21-6126 Jason A. Tobey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion pretrial-hearing right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-continuance 1. When indisputable evidence shows a federal criminal defendant's retained counsel has abandoned him at a key pretrial hearing and is not prepared fo…
21-556 Alexander P. Bebris v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-hearings pretrial-hearing pretrial-hearings sixth-amendment witness-credibility Does the Sixth Amendment and Confrontation Clause apply to all pretrial evidentiary hearings implicating the credibility of a witness?
20-7336 Donovan Jonathan Tillman v. Florida Florida 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing pretrial-hearing public-trial-clause sixth-amendment state-court-decision witness-exclusion Did the state court, contrary to rulings of this Court and of the supreme and intermediate appellate courts of other states, violate the Public Trial …
19-7484 Jose Candelario Perez-Cruz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute jury-trial maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law mdlea pretrial-hearing stateless-vessel trial-procedure Whether the Court of Appeals clearly erred in upholding the District Court's conclusion that jurisdiction in a stateless vessel case under the MDLEA i…