| 25A206 |
Arthur Fayne v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Presumed Complete |
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effective-assistance-of-counsel material-misrepresentation non-victim-compensation pro-se-representation restitution right-to-defense |
Whether a criminal defendant can seek post-conviction relief based on a supervening Supreme Court decision that undermines the legal theory supporting… |
| 23-6468 |
Omar A. Rahman v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence pennsylvania-superior-court right-to-counsel right-to-defense search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence unlawful-arrest witness-testimony |
Whether the Pennsylvania Superior Court's decision conflicts with the decisions of the United States Court of Appeals and other Pennsylvania Superior … |
| 22-5763 |
Benjamin Justin Brownlee v. New York |
Second Circuit |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-defense |
Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment due to a Brady violation |
| 21-7150 |
Michael Cameron v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification misidentification right-to-defense right-to-present-defense showup-lineup suggestive-lineup witness-identification |
Did the trial court err in allowing the uncorroborated showup identifications at Cameron's trial? |
| 21-5317 |
Mauricio Melendez v. Renee Baker, Warden |
Nevada |
2021-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-concession criminal-autonomy criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-defense stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the right to secured autonomy over one's defense requires express objection to an attorney's concession of guilt |
| 21-5095 |
Melissa Elizabeth Lucio v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
arbitrary-exclusion civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-standards expert-testimony false-confession right-to-defense right-to-present-defense |
Whether the exclusion of defense evidence that could have cast doubt on the defendant's false confession violated the defendant's clearly established … |
| 20-7843 |
Timothy Howard Johnson v. Renee Baker, Warden |
Nevada |
2021-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion retroactivity right-to-counsel right-to-defense right-to-jury-trial trial-court-discretion waiver witness-testimony |
Whether the state district court lost subject matter jurisdiction by rendering the judgment of conviction void when it failed to comply with the requi… |
| 20-7700 |
Robert Ibarra v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant-statements co-perpetrator-statements confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-exclusion first-degree-murder hearsay right-to-defense right-to-present-defense |
Does the exclusion of statements by a co-perpetrator that he was solely responsible for the charged murder and the defendant was innocent violate the … |
| 20-7644 |
Skip Hansen v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion fourteenth-amendment right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Did the Kentucky Court of Appeals allow Mr. Hansen's right to present a full and complete defense, which is protected by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amen… |
| 20-1240 |
Francisco Javier Palillero v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-procedure discovery-sanctions dna-evidence expert-testimony right-to-defense right-to-present-defense rule-16 sixth-amendment |
Whether precluding a criminal defendant's DNA rebuttal expert testimony as a Rule 16(d)(2) sanction for a non-willful violation is compatible with the… |
| 20-7341 |
James Coddington v. Jim Farris, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error material-evidence mens-rea right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment |
Can the suppression of material evidence helpful to the defense ever be harmless error, not least when the exclusion violated the Sixth Amendment's ri… |
| 20-1226 |
Tracy Will Vaughn v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confrontation-clause constitutional-right-to-present-defense counseling-records due-process evidentiary-privilege privilege right-to-defense sexual-assault testimonial-development |
Whether a state may declare a sexual assault accuser's counseling records absolutely privileged even when the counseling is used to develop the accuse… |
| 20-5884 |
Charles Chad Giese v. California |
California |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel right-to-defense self-defense self-incrimination |
Did Police Violate Giese's Miranda Rights by Interrogating Him While He was in Custody? |
| 19-7457 |
Rogelio Villarreal-Estebis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
complete-defense criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-exclusion federal-rule-of-evidence-403 right-to-defense rule-403 sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights vehicle-ownership |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's decision to affirm the trial court's refusal to admit the evidence was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable applicatio… |
| 19-6411 |
Tyler Joseph Barefield v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-perpetrator alternative-perpetrator-evidence constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence right-to-defense right-to-present-defense state-evidentiary-requirements state-evidentiary-rules |
To what extent may a State restrict the ability of a defendant to present evidence tending to establish that another person committed the offense? |
| 19-5779 |
Eduardo Rodriguez-Lopez v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy right-to-defense sixth-amendment strickland strickland-standard |
Whether the State may rely on a plea colloquy to adequately resolve a claim that counsel failed to advise the defendant of a particular defense, consi… |
| 19-5432 |
Kevin Michael-Dorman Beltowski v. Shawn Brewer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
credibility-determinations criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error due-process evidence-sufficiency harmless-error instructional-error judicial-review jury-instructions newly-discovered-evidence right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether instructional error occurred in a way that conflicts with the Supreme Court's clearly established harmless-error precedents |
| 18-1408 |
John Washek v. Vermont |
Vermont |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
complete-defense constitutional-rights criminal-behavior criminal-charge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-presentation fourth-amendment innocent-behavior probable-cause reasonable-suspicion right-to-defense terry-stop |
Whether Defendant/Petitioner John Washek's Fourth Amendment rights were violated because the police officer's Terry stop was based on observations muc… |
| 18-1202 |
Pedro Montalvo, Jr. v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-03-15 |
Denied |
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6th-amendment child-pornography computer-age constitutional-rights criminal-procedure doyle-violation due-process massiah-doctrine obscenity right-to-defense scienter sixth-amendment strict-liability |
Whether Ohio's strict liability for inadvertent child pornography dissemination violates due process, whether defendant's right to mount a defense was… |
| 18-6787 |
In Re William M. Bailey |
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2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure defense-preparation due-process formal-charges jurisdiction right-to-defense subject-matter void-judgment |
Was the circuit court deprived of jurisdiction over the subject matter, thereby rendering the judgment void, by failing to formally charge the petitio… |