right-to-silence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6491 Billy J. Wilkins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure judicial-fact-finding right-to-jury right-to-silence second-amendment sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling in United States v. Williams unconstitutionally allows judicial fact-determination that violates a defendant's righ…
25A651 Alabama v. Michael Anthony Powell Alabama 2025-12-03 Application closing-arguments constitutional-violation fifth-amendment harmless-error prosecutorial-comments right-to-silence Whether a prosecutor's comments during closing arguments that could be interpreted as referencing a defendant's decision not to testify violate the Fi…
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…
25-5618 Jamil Jones v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fifth-amendment mitchell-precedent right-to-silence self-incrimination sentencing Whether the failure to apologize or express remorse violates the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent at sentencing, a question left open by Mitchel…
23-1100 Albert Jones v. California California 2024-04-10 Denied Response Waived 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights doyle-v-ohio due-process miranda-warning post-miranda right-to-silence selective-invocation Do the protections of Doyle v. Ohio apply when a defendant selectively invokes his right to remain silent?
23-5996 Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied Relisted (9)IFP aedpa capital-sentencing constitutional-error death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance jury-argument jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-silence Whether the lower court was bound by Darden v. Wainwright under AEDPA
22-7679 Frederic Gabriel v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment interrogation miranda miranda-rights police-interrogation right-to-silence self-incrimination Did the police violate the petitioner's Fifth Amendment right by continuing to interrogate him after he unambiguously invoked his right to silence?
22-7642 Julio Angel Torrez, Jr. v. California California 2023-05-25 Denied Relisted (3)IFP doyle-v-ohio due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence-admission fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial people-v-medina right-to-silence sixth-amendment Whether the rule of Doyle v. Ohio applies to private conversations and selective silence
21-6996 Robert Stivers v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights coerced-confession confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation-procedure police-interrogation right-to-silence Whether the police violated a suspect's constitutional rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments when they ignored clear and unambiguous invoca…
21-5963 Norris Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment habeas-corpus investigation right-to-silence self-incrimination When does an investigation stop after a defendant says 'No'?
21-5635 Jamail D. Hairston v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error miranda-rights miscarriage-of-justice police-testimony right-to-remain-silent right-to-silence sufficiency-of-evidence Did the appeals court err in holding that no substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice resulted from officer Pagan's erroneous testimony about Hair…
21-41 James Allen Jackson v. Texas Texas 2021-07-13 Denied Response Waived closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-due-process racist-testimony right-to-silence trial-counsel wiccan-testimony Was petitioner denied effective-assistance-of-counsel,racist-testimony,wiccan-testimony,right-to-silence,closing-argument,prejudice
20-6215 Abrahan Garcia-Morales, aka Abraham Garcia-Morales v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process evidence-law fifth-amendment right-to-silence self-incrimination Whether the prosecutor's use of a defendant's 'partial silence' during a custodial interrogation violates the Fifth Amendment
19-7904 Jason Bonds v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment minnesota-v-murphy polygraph Polygraph-Examination Right-to-Remain-Silent right-to-silence self-incrimination supervised-release Whether a condition of supervised release requiring a defendant to participate in sex offender treatment that may include polygraph examinations viola…
19-7886 Dennis Mahon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-review custodial-interrogation district-court effective-assistance-of-counsel functional-equivalent-of-interrogation judicial-disagreement legal-standard magistrate-judge miranda-v-arizona right-to-silence substantial-showing Whether the lower courts erred in failing to find that a defendant made a substantial showing that jurists of reason could disagree on a constitutiona…
19-7759 Lyarron T. Emers v. Illinois Illinois 2020-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment aggravating-factor constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment pre-sentence-investigation right-to-remain-silent right-to-silence sentencing sentencing-discretion Question not identified
18-8120 Jerry Lynn Lofton v. Mississippi Mississippi 2019-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial defendant-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-comment prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-silence self-incrimination testimonial-privilege Whether a prosecutor who this Court has held may not comment to a jury concerning a defendant's failure to testify in a criminal trial may submit his …
18-7944 Jerkeno Wallace v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence judicial-discretion non-testifying-defendant remorse remorse-consideration right-to-silence sentencing sentencing-error Was there an error by the court at sentencing when court considered observations of the non-testifying defendant as basis of proving no remorse
18-7840 Tommie H. Telfair v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP dismissal-without-merits due-process miranda-v-arizona right-to-remain-silent wiggins-v-smith certificate-of-appealability due-process fundamental-rights judicial-discretion merits-review miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona right-to-remain-silent right-to-silence wiggins-v-smith Whether the lower courts abused their discretion in denying petitioner a certificate of appealability
18-839 Pablo Colon v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-03 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment miranda miranda-rights police-procedure right-to-silence self-incrimination Whether the Fifth Amendment's Miranda guarantee requires police to inform a custodial suspect of his right to stop questioning at any time?