prosecutor-misconduct

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-609 Frander Salguero v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-duty false-evidence habeas habeas-corpus mandamus prejudice-test prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error Whether habeas is the sole remedy or remedy by mandamus is a permissible means to effectuate the constitutional duty to correct false evidence when a …
22-68 Perry Adron McCullough v. David F. Levi, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response Waived accardi-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-authority standing tort-claim Whether a prosecutor can legally escape answering the 'Accardi Doctrine' by dismissing a case as 'frivolous' or 'meritless' without a substantive basi…
21-1026 Camille A. Walters v. Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation, et al. Wisconsin 2022-01-21 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-tampering judicial-ethics procedural-irregularity prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct recusal recusal-requirement standing Was it illegal that the Wisconsin Supreme Court disregarded their own rules of internal operating procedures
20-8390 Gary L. Workman v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct prosecutor-misconduct right-to-counsel witness-subpoena Was Petitioner denied his right to compel witnesses
20-8247 Marcus Darwyn Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misrepresentation sentencing-consequences sorna waiver Whether reliance on a prosecutor's legal misstatements regarding the consequences of a guilty plea renders that plea involuntary and unknowing
20-292 John Pinder v. Scott Crowther, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction due-process false-testimony federal-courts judicial-review prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct state-courts Whether Due Process is violated when a prosecutor relies on false testimony to secure a conviction but did not know that the testimony was false until…
19-1218 Marcus Lee Robinson v. Colorado Colorado 2020-04-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-trial plain-error prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-prejudice Whether a prosecutor's blatant appeals to racial prejudice constitute plain error, even if the defendant cannot show that they altered the jury's verd…
19-7354 Lawrence Martin v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-court capital-murder constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearing jurisdiction perjury prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct standing Whether state court violated A.C.A. 5-10-202
19-14 In Re Thomas F. Williams 2019-07-01 Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default prosecutor-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-by-jury trial-court-issues Whether the federal district & circuit court and the Florida State courts violated the Petitioner's 6th-&-14th-Amendment-rights
18-9746 Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2019-06-20 Denied IFP capital-case criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial intent jury-instructions prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct standing Are due process and the Eighth Amendment violated when a prosecutor knowingly argues falsehoods about the defendant's culpable acts in order to incite…
18-6353 Michael Joseph Bien v. Texas Texas 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process legal-precedent prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court supreme-court-jurisprudence supreme-court-precedent texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Whether a prosecutor who violates the Double Jeopardy Clause should have exclusive power to determine which of his unconstitutionally obtained convict…
18-5776 Carlos Placeres-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract circuit-split criminal-procedure duty-of-candor judicial-interpretation plea-agreement prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion sentencing-recommendation Where some courts hold that a prosecutor commits an implicit breach of a plea agreement by proffering statements undermining the agreed, sentencing re…