| 23A288 |
DeAndre Gordon v. Harold May, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Presumed Complete |
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certificate-of-appealability counsel-of-choice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joinder-of-cases sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel |
Whether a certificate of appealability must issue under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 when a state prisoner demonstrates that reasonable jurists could debate wheth… |
| 21-7113 |
Gerald Wayne Jako, Jr. v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
conflict-of-interest criminal-representation cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance inside-job-theory plea-bargain presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel staged-crime witness-unavailability |
Whether the standard enunciated in Cuyler v. Sullivan applies when a defendant objects to counsel's representation after a conflict is revealed |
| 19-7994 |
David Armondo Butler v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-conflict Confrontation-Clause criminal-procedure Due-Process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-preservation Evidentiary-Issues Fourteenth-Amendment ineffective-assistance prior-acts-of-violence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strategic-decision video-footage |
Was court-appointed counsel's decision not to seek video footage of alleged victim's prior acts of violence a violation of the Sixth Amendment right t… |
| 19-1045 |
Raminder Kaur v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defense-counsel privileged-communications prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel work-product work-product-doctrine |
Whether the Sixth Amendment prohibits trial of a criminal defendant by prosecutors with extensive knowledge of both her privileged communications with… |
| 19-5814 |
Luis Armando Mesta v. John Myrick |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-advocacy appellate-procedure constitutional-rights counsel-performance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel state-court-deference state-court-review strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's opinion deferred to the state court's finding that counsel was not ineffective under Strickland, despite counsel's failure… |
| 18-9358 |
Robert Joe Long v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process execution-witness fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-due-process first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-equal-protection religious-freedom sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel |
Whether the Florida Department of Correction's restrictions on Mr. Long's execution witness and refusing to allow him to have a non-clergyman as his s… |
| 18-8970 |
John William King v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel teague-analysis teague-v-lane watershed-rule |
Whether McCoy applies when a defendant's attorneys concede, against his wishes, his guilt to a lesser-included offense during final argument, and is a… |
| 18-8712 |
John Hummel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
character-and-record death-penalty future-dangerousness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence pretrial-incarceration sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
Whether a death penalty defendant received ineffective assistance of trial counsel for failing to investigate and present evidence of the defendant's … |
| 18-8655 |
Nicholas Ryan Holloway v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-attorney appellate-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strickland-standard trial-counsel |
Whether the U.S. District Court erred in deferring to the Arkansas State Courts' finding that Mr. Holloway was not prejudiced by both his trial and ap… |
| 18-8151 |
Loren Williamson, III v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254a 28-usc-2254d conflict-of-interest due-process due-process-equal-protection-disparity equal-protection parties-to-the-proceeding post-conviction post-conviction-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel |
Whether a Certificate of Appealability should issue |
| 18-7678 |
Alfonso Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
client-attorney-relationship client-autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel sixth-circuit speedy-trial-act trial-counsel |
Can a defense lawyer, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, contravene his client's wishes to object to a violation of the Speedy Trial Act? |
| 18-7023 |
Webster Douglas Williams, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection exclusionary-rule forced-entry fourth-amendment restitution ruse search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel third-party |
When police officers attempt to gain voluntary admittance to a residence by use of a ruse, which fails, and are peacably asked to present a search war… |
| 18-6949 |
Eric A. Klein v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
critical-stages federal-felony johnson-v-zerbst limited-appearance plea-negotiations pro-se right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel waiver-of-counsel |
Whether the district court should address the facts showing a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel post-arraignment and for critical stag… |