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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-1193 | Favion Lara v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2024-05-06 | Denied | Response Waived | breach-of-agreement criminal-procedure due-process government-breach plea-agreement police prosecutor prosecutorial-promise sentencing | Where a plea agreement includes the prosecutor's promise that the State will recommend a particular sentence, does a police officer's recommendation o… |
| 22-7749 | Alen Dean O'Bryant v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2023-06-09 | Denied | IFP | conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-judge | 1. Did former Judge Henderson 's secret extramarital affair with a prosecutor in the same county in which he presided as judge create an "unconstitut… |
| 22-6216 | Jonny Shineflew v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure guideline-offense integrated-agreement plea-agreement prosecutor prosecutorial-discretion sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Whether an integrated plea agreement that specifically identifies Guideline offense levels and specific offense characteristics on which the parties a… |
| 22-6154 | In Re Lyle R. Harrison | 2022-11-28 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process illinois-supreme-court judge judicial-misconduct police-reports prosecutor speedy-trial | 1. Whether due process allows the Denial of Speedy Trial by; Prosecutor Charles Zalar, Illinois Attorney Kwame Raoul, Judge Richard L. Broch, Judge … | |
| 20-1401 | James Dennis v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-04-06 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct | A. Does any Court have the authority to extinguish a defendant's due process rights via the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment by allowing the prosecutor … |
| 20-7169 | Lawrence Nunley v. Richard Brown | Seventh Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-witness criminal-trial evidence-admission ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error prosecutor structural-error testimony trial-counsel witness-testimony | During the criminal trial, the prosecutor orchestrated a stunt to have a child witness write down the most critical portion of her testimony while on … |
| 20-5838 | Daryl Dude Nelson v. Mike Brown, Acting Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-09-29 | Denied | IFP | circuit-court-review district-court due-process ex-parte-proceeding fact-finding fraud-on-the-court judicial-oversight legal-authority prosecutor prosecutorial-fraud relief-from-judgment | Did the Circuit Court commit a reversible error and grossly violate petitioner's Due Process when it (1) overlooked the district court's fact-finding … |
| 19-8682 | Charles Ray Fulmer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review plea-agreement prosecutor prosecutorial-discretion sentencing upward-departure variance | Whether due process requires remand for specific performance of a plea agreement or, in the alternative, remand for determination of the full terms of… |
| 19-8396 | Robert R. Hill v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-05-05 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct trial-judge | Whether the district court and the third circuit erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability when it determined the Conflict of Interest… |
| 19-8335 | Mitchell Willoughby v. Deedra Hart, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-22 | Denied | IFP | caldwell-precedent capital-sentencing closing-argument death-penalty jury jury-instructions prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit state-law voir-dire | "The uncorrected suggestion that the responsibility for any ultimate determination of death will rest with others presents an intolerable danger that … |
| 18-6316 | Willie Gene Wilks, Jr. v. Ohio | Ohio | 2018-10-15 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof due-process false-testimony grand-jury indictment jury-instructions plain-error-review prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error | 1. Is a defendant denied due process when a prosecutor presents and relies upon false testimony in order to secure an indictment in grand jury proceed… |
| 18-440 | Edward Michael Nero, et al. v. Marilyn J. Mosby | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-05 | Denied | Response Waived | absolute-immunity advocacy-function civil-procedure civil-rights due-process investigation investigatory-materials law-enforcement legal-advice probable-cause prosecutor prosecutor-investigation prosecutorial-immunity standing | Whether a prosecutor is acting as an "advocate" and is entitled to absolute immunity when the prosecutor performs an investigation and provides those … |