professional-norms

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6894 Tyler A. Gonzales, fka Tyler A. Montour v. Cheryl Eplett, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel professional-norms state-court-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unreasonable-application unreasonable-determination-of-facts Did the Seventh Circuit err when it reviewed the merits of Gonzales's claim de novo, did not analyze the particular reasons the Wisconsin court provid…
23A577 Tyler Gonzales, fka Tyler A. Montour v. Cheryl Eplett, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-12-22 Presumed Complete attorney-performance constitutional-performance ineffective-assistance professional-norms sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether a reviewing court must assess an attorney's performance under the Sixth Amendment's ineffective assistance of counsel standard by objectively …
20-721 Katie Garding v. Montana Montana 2020-11-24 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment accident-reconstruction effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-testimony ineffective-assistance professional-norms sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether trial counsel's failure to consult and call an expert witness in the field of accident reconstruction was objectively unreasonable under preva…
20-6040 Charlie Bell Bullock v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied IFP capital-punishment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence professional-norms sentencing-phase sixth-amendment standard-of-review victim-rights Does the Confrontation Clause require a victim to be made available for cross-examination if pictures of them are submitted, and is counsel ineffectiv…
20-5369 Don Farmer v. Bernard Booker, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause court-procedure crawford-vs-washington due-process evidence-testimonial ineffective-assistance legal-standards professional-norms sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence verbal-testimony witness-testimony Whether the evidence supplied through verbal testimony of a witness is considered testimonial
19-1225 Paul Hunt v. Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (7) constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech off-campus-speech political-speech professional-conduct professional-norms public-university qualified-immunity student-speech university-policy Whether Respondents violated Mr. Hunt's clearly established rights as a private citizen under the First Amendment by punishing him for his off-campus,…
19-569 Carlos Manuel Ayestas v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied capital-case capital-case-mitigation-evidence ineffective-assistance mental-health mitigation-evidence mitigation-investigation professional-norms rompilla-v-beard sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington substance-abuse wiggins-v-smith Whether 'prevailing professional norms' required counsel in a capital case to investigate potential mitigation evidence, including red flags for menta…
18-9297 Jeremy Shane Hall v. John Myrick, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance professional-norms reasonableness-of-counsel record-evidence sixth-amendment state-post-conviction Whether a court can disregard record evidence of the prevailing professional norms in assessing the reasonableness of counsel's action or inaction und…