provocation
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6166 | Hector Arturo Campos v. Texas | Texas | 2024-12-17 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure deadly-weapon legal-standard provocation self-defense sudden-passion | Whether evidence of former provocation is material in a Sudden Passion case and whether the legal standard was correctly applied in the analysis of se… |
| 24-5652 | Tiffany Smith v. Shannon Olds, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-09-27 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-discretion provocation self-defense | Whether the appellate court violated due process by affirming a conviction without properly considering uncontradicted evidence of self-defense and pr… |
| 23-7716 | Donte Solomon v. Robert St. Andre, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alcohol-and-drugs constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process heat-of-passion jealousy judicial-review jury-instructions jury-selection legal-challenge mental-state provocation | Question not identified |
| 23-7443 | Irvin Thomas v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-05-09 | Denied | IFP | appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process excessive-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-errors provocation sentencing trial-procedure video-evidence | Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when several arguable issues apply to why the petitioner's sentence was excessive given the … |
| 20-7907 | Julio Solano v. California | California | 2021-05-03 | Denied | IFP | due-process heat-of-passion insufficient-evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct provocation second-degree-murder voluntary-manslaughter | Whether the California Courts' failure to adequately instruct the jury on provocation in the context of Second Degree Murder violated federal due proc… |
| 18-9541 | Darius Leigh Gilkey v. DeWayne Burton, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment adequate-provocation attorney-client-relations attorney-client-relationship consensual-sex criminal-law due-process felony-murder homicide provocation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Should this Court grant Certiorari to determine if consensual sex that later turned into a homicide, resulting from adequate provocation amounts to fe… |
| 18-6663 | Esau Escobar v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-11-13 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-instructions murder murder-conviction prior-acts provocation provocation-defense self-defense substantial-evidence | Whether the Appellate Court erred in rejecting the Petitioner's claim of provocation instruction due to the Petitioner's testimony that he acted out o… |