sixth-amendment-rights

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1272 William F. Kaetz v. United States Third Circuit 2025-06-13 Denied Response Waived constitutional-violations first-amendment-retaliation judicial-immunity self-representation separation-of-powers sixth-amendment-rights Whether the lower court's actions constitute a violation of First Amendment retaliation, Sixth Amendment right to self-representation, and separation …
24-5349 Ryan Monroe Allen v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-08-20 Denied IFP criminal-procedure faretta-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation sixth-amendment-rights trial-court-discretion Whether the Tennessee Criminal Court of Appeals violated federal law by denying a criminal defendant's right to proceed pro se and failing to promptly…
23-5353 Chandra Modugumudi v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel language-barrier plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment-rights Whether the defendant's constitutional rights were violated due to lack of counsel, language barrier, prosecutorial misconduct, and other errors resul…
23-5328 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-08-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination due-process evidence-withholding retaliation security-clearance sixth-amendment-rights standing Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213
23-5330 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-08-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination due-process employment-discrimination evidence-withholding impartiality judicial-recusal retaliation sixth-amendment-rights Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213 (DC. 3443-22-0386-I-1)
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…
19-6174 David Anthony Lee v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights state-court-proceedings Whether Mr. Lee's conviction was obtained in violation of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights
18-9737 Laquan L. Kellam v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights procedural-error search-and-seizure sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights statutory-interpretation warrantless-arrest Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretionary, broadly-based authority of interpretation, thus, violating petit…
18-7719 Cesar Gomez v. Texas Texas 2019-02-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment-rights standing texas-penal-code Whether Texas Penal Code § 21.02, is Constitutional under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution?
18-6015 Gustavo Torres-Medel v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination defense-presentation discovery expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights trial-counsel Whether the defendant's Sixth Amendment rights were violated when trial counsel failed to utilize an expert witness, failed to present defense witness…
18-5786 Donell A. Thomas v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2255-motion certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loss-calculation rule-59(e)-motion rule-59e section-2255-motion sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Petitioner prove his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel and satisfy the Strickland test?