prosecutorial-conduct

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6075 Derek Muñoz-Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2025-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract criminal-procedure guideline-range plea-agreement prosecutorial-conduct sentencing-enhancement Whether the prosecution breached the plea agreement by vigorously advocating, at sentencing, for the application of two enhancements, that the parties…
25-5953 Christopher Matthew Henderson v. Alabama Alabama 2025-10-24 Pending IFP adverse-inference capital-murder criminal-sentencing fifth-amendment prosecutorial-conduct right-to-silence In the sentencing phase of a capital trial, where the defendant exercises his right to remain silent and to plead not guilty, does the Fifth Amendment…
24-1231 Andrew Dowd v. United States Second Circuit 2025-06-03 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived due-process harmless-error judicial-impartiality prosecutorial-conduct recusal restitution Whether a district judge impermissibly blends judicial and prosecutorial roles by urging investigation and then presiding over the trial, whether an a…
23-7812 Akohomen Ighedoise v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553(a) abuse-of-discretion due-process judicial-discretion mitigating-factors plea-agreement post-sentencing-rehabilitation prosecutorial-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-departure substantive-rights Whether a Judge Abuses his/her discretion when there is a determination that post-sentencing rehabilitative efforts are evidence of an attempt to dece…
23-7528 Aaron Matthew Rentfrow v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence fair-trial juror-misconduct jury-misconduct prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-testimony Whether the district court erred in failing to grant a mistrial
23-6547 Billy J. Seabolt v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-instructions jury-trial legal-interpretation prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial speedy-trial Is it a fair trial when the jury is clearly in a distressed situation during a long trial and they contradict themselves on finding guilty and not gui…
22-6467 Louis Antonio Zayas v. United States Third Circuit 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-trial directed-verdict due-process evidence-disclosure harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-conduct Whether the erroneous jury instruction on knowledge requirement constituted harmless error
21-8047 Santiago Esquivel v. Gary Miniard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus miranda-rights post-arrest-silence prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit did-the-sixth-circuit-err-in-failing-to-find-the-district-court's-decision-on-the-prosecutor's-reference-to-petitioner's-silence-as-debatable-or-wrong
21-8002 Daniel Taylor v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process griffin-v-illinois innocence judicial-integrity jury-verdict miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction prosecutorial-conduct trial-transcript whether-the-failure-to-provide-a-trial-transcript-violates-due-process
21-7856 William Garrido v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct read-back-testimony right-to-fair-trial witness-testimony Whether a trial court violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right to due process of law by permitting a prosecutor to introduce previous unre…
20-6989 Rodney Louis Sims v. Kimberly A. Seibel, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data criminal-appeal due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence ninth-circuit privacy prosecutorial-conduct reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure witness-testimony Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sear…
20-5493 Tobias O. Reed v. Virginia Virginia 2020-08-25 Denied IFP constitutional-evidence criminal-investigation ex-parte-order exclusionary-rule good-faith-defense good-faith-exemption illinois-v-krull prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct Are prosecuting attorneys entitled to the same good faith exemption from the exclusionary rule as police officers?
19-5539 Nicholas Gilbert Beattie v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP breach-of-contract contract-law criminal-procedure due-process ethics plea-agreement prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-recommendation Whether the prosecutor's conduct in speaking out of both sides of his mouth with respect to a sentencing recommendation they had agreed to make is a b…
18-1413 Brandon D. Woodruff v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied ' 'habeas-corpus" ' 'prosecutorial-misconduct" ' 'right-to-confrontation" ' 'right-to-counsel" ' 'sixth-amendment" ' 'standard-of-review' certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jail-telephone-calls prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the denial of a certificate of appealability by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals constituted reversible error, given the prosecutor's violat…