sentencing-consequences

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6221 Hugo Chavez Valdivias v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights jury-nullification jury-trial sentencing-consequences sixth-amendment verdict-power Does the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial guarantee a jury informed of its power to return a verdict against the law and the facts? Does the Six…
24-842 Adam Cole Shryock v. Colorado, ex rel. Philip J. Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado Colorado 2025-02-07 Denied Response Waived contempt-proceedings due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance prior-restraint sentencing-consequences Whether the permanent injunction issued against Petitioner violated his First Amendment rights by constituting an unconstitutional prior restraint on …
22-5742 Reggie D. Caswell v. Steven Racetti Second Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-appeals due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-appeal sentencing-consequences trial-exhibits Whether a state that permits pro se criminal appeals must provide a complete and sufficient record for the appeal, as required by the Due Process and …
20-8247 Marcus Darwyn Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misrepresentation sentencing-consequences sorna waiver Whether reliance on a prosecutor's legal misstatements regarding the consequences of a guilty plea renders that plea involuntary and unknowing
20-5128 Vernon Chapman v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing-consequences Whether the defendant was denied effective assistance of counsel when the attorney did not follow the advice of several experts advising him on how to…
19-8098 Juan Carlos Rodriguez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentences due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance motion-to-vacate plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-consequences Was the petitioner entitled to an evidentiary hearing on his motion to vacate his plea?
19-104 Flavio Tamez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appeal-waiver appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability collateral-attack constitutional-effectiveness criminal-defendant-waiver due-process immigration-consequences ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jae-lee-v-united-states sentencing-consequences waiver-of-rights Whether a criminal defendant's generic waiver of right to appeal or collateral attack can waive ineffective assistance of counsel claim
18-8301 Michael Daniel Cuero v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review court-of-appeals court-of-appeals-interpretation district-court due-process judicial-review mandate plea-agreement remand rule-21 sentencing sentencing-consequences state-court supreme-court-mandate writ-of-mandamus What was the import of the Court's prior decision?