sentencing-phase

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24-5725 Jose G. Barajas Gomez v. Daniel W. White, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex Ninth Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence sentencing-phase sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when counsel fails to investigate or present mitigating evidence duri…
23-7391 Markeith D. Loyd v. Florida Florida 2024-05-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment individual-responsibility jury-instructions sentencing-phase Where the court in a capital case allows the State to argue that the jury should, or must, try its best to reach a unanimous penalty phase verdict, is…
23-6425 Christopher Daniel Taylor v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-waiver criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings direct-appeal due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-phase whether-the-fifth-amendment's-due-process-clause-permits-courts-to-find-a-plea-agreement-waiver-that-is-silent-as-to-brady-v-maryland-constitutes-a-kn…
23-5034 Omar Francisco Orduno-Ramirez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied IFP attorney-client-privilege confidential-communications due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-phase sixth-amendment structural-error When prosecutors intentionally and without any legitimate law-enforcement justification access confidential attorney-client communications before sent…
22-6862 Benjamin Young v. Alabama Alabama 2023-02-24 Denied IFP capital-trial character-evidence criminal-procedure culpability-phase dawson-v-delaware first-amendment fourteenth-amendment gang-membership sentencing-phase Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendment prohibit the introduction of gang membership evidence in the culpability phase of a capital trial
22-6612 Teri Bernard Johnson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-murder civil-rights courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence public-trial right-to-counsel sentencing-phase Whether the trial court violated the defendant's right to a public trial by removing spectators from the courtroom?
22-5731 Jonathan D. Carr v. Kansas Kansas 2022-10-03 Denied IFP capital-trial confrontation-clause criminal-procedure eligibility-phase selection-phase sentencing-phase sixth-amendment witness-confrontation Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause secures an accused's right to confront witnesses against him throughout the sentencing phase of a c…
21-8073 Leihinahina Sullivan, aka Jen, aka Jennifer, aka Jennifer Sullivan, aka Lei Sullivan, aka Lei v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order-doctrine court-of-appeals criminal-procedure divestiture-rule final-judgment non-appealable-order pro-se pro-se-status sentencing-phase Can a criminal defendant immediately appeal the revocation of her pro se status by a district court judge sua sponte during the trial?
21-7249 Jacob Ivan Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-punishment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel self-defense sentencing-phase sixth-amendment Whether the failure of Tezai Covnser's to Jueoerm fys Cizenr Juwr He feces fh 'Menanrony' Lee Seusence Le He Cnwases To bo to Tarn) & hse, Nor fi elro…
20-7293 Willie Safford v. Florida Florida 2021-03-02 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation defense-counsel due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offense mitigating-evidence post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing-phase standard-of-review Whether the defendant has a right to a jury instruction on a lesser-included offense when requested by defense counsel at the end of the defendant's t…
20-6040 Charlie Bell Bullock v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied IFP capital-punishment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence professional-norms sentencing-phase sixth-amendment standard-of-review victim-rights Does the Confrontation Clause require a victim to be made available for cross-examination if pictures of them are submitted, and is counsel ineffectiv…
19-8361 Tyrone Price v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process firearms ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief racketeering sentencing sentencing-phase Does the elements clause of 18 U.S.C. 924(c) convictions support 'use of violence' physical force?
19-871 Raheem Chabezz Johnson v. Jeffery Kiser, Warden Virginia 2020-01-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ake-v-oklahoma due-process indigent-defendant mcwilliams-v-dunn mental-health mental-health-expert sentencing sentencing-phase Whether an indigent defendant who seeks the appointment of a mental conditions expert to assist in the sentencing phase of his trial is denied due pro…
19-5985 Leeroy Cesar Carballo v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit-review fundamental-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sentencing sentencing-phase Whether a criminal defendant's right to testify was violated when his trial counsel prevented him from testifying to his version of events during the …
18-9656 In Re Lexter K. Kossie 2019-06-17 Denied IFP character-evidence character-witness constitutional-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence mitigation right-to-testify sentencing sentencing-phase Can a trial counsel render constitutionally performance and not prejudice the defense
18-6708 Clifford D. Williams v. Ohio Ohio 2018-11-15 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sentencing-phase sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
18-6059 Cedric Carter v. Ohio Ohio 2018-09-20 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sentencing-phase sixth-amendment spaziano-v-florida Is Ohio's death penalty scheme unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?