prosecutorial-ethics

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6525 Bryant Calloway v. United States Third Circuit 2026-01-08 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure legal-ethics model-rules professional-conduct prosecutorial-ethics sanctions Whether sanctions are applicable against a prosecutor for violating the Model Rules of Professional Conduct in criminal proceedings
25-5975 Thiago de Sousa Prado v. United States First Circuit 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-disqualification conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process professional-conduct prosecutorial-ethics Does the Due Process Clause permit a United States Attorney's Office to prosecute a criminal defendant when the Acting U.S. Attorney previously served…
25-5177 Aaron Edward Meier v. Aaron Williams, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-ethics supremacy-clause Does a state judge's refusal to follow federal law and a prosecutor's claim that 'the Republic is dead' violate due process and the Supremacy Clause?
23-5905 Daniel Kristof Lak v. California California 2023-10-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady brady-disclosure conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process impeachment-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-witness prosecutorial-ethics witness Whether a prosecutor's duty to disclose exculpatory and impeachment information under Brady should be extended to include mandating the disclosure of …
23-66 Norbert A. King, II v. United States Armed Forces 2023-07-24 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure child-sex-crimes due-process federal-appellate-practice judicial-impartiality military-judge military-justice prosecutorial-ethics record-on-appeal record-supplementation statutory-interpretation Does the lower court's decision to allow the government to supplement the record mid-appeal demonstrate a misapplication of statutory canons and affec…
22-6065 Samirkumar J. Shah v. United States Third Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-process conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure disqualification disqualification-motion due-process evidentiary-hearing prosecutorial-ethics prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Petitioner was afforded a meaningful and fair adversarial process when the district court denied his motion to disqualify the United State…
21-5546 Fernando Rodriguez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest counsel-switching due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-ethics state-court state-legislature Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in deferring to the state court's ruling that Mr. Rodriguez was not prejudiced by his counsel switching sides in the s…
18-9241 Sealed Appellant v. Sealed Appellee Fifth Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-client-privilege attorney-representation civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-investigation criminal-procedure cuyler-v-sullivan due-process prosecutorial-ethics right-to-counsel strickland-v-washington structural-error When a lawyer is named as a suspect in the same criminal investigation as his client, should lower courts review the conflict under Cuyler v. Sullivan…
18-8576 Yusef Allen v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-requirements brady-violation constitutional-rights conviction conviction-integrity criminal-conviction criminal-justice-system due-process integrity integrity-of-justice judicial-review prosecutorial-ethics prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the gross actions of prosecutorial misconduct were so egregious as to render the defendant's conviction unconstitutional
18-7436 Jeffrey Nicholas Aase v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections Eighth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest criminal-defense cuyler-v-sullivan federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-integrity prosecutorial-ethics right-to-counsel structural-error Did the Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit err in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability?