speedy-trial-act
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-7127 | Gabriel L'Ambiance Ingram v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-04-01 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause consecutive-convictions due-process sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act wiretap-evidence | 1. Whether multiple consecutive convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) may be imposed when the government failed to identify distinct predicate offense… |
| 25-6905 | Markhel D'John Harris-Franklin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2026-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review continuances criminal-procedure ends-of-justice federal-courts speedy-trial-act | Whether ends-of-justice continuances granted under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), may be open-ended. |
| 25-6814 | Tony Minh Le v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | continuance district-court fourth-circuit judicial-review procedural-fairness speedy-trial-act | Whether the district court and Fourth Circuit made a fair and lawful Speedy Trial Act ruling denying relief, without properly assessing the timing of … |
| 25-6440 | Juan Guajardo-Martinez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process federal-law-enforcement immigration-authorities indictment-delay speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | Whether this Court should recognize the "ruse exception" to the Speedy Trial Act when federal law enforcement and immigration authorities work togethe… |
| 25-6293 | Melvin Leon Myrick v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure federal-procedure judicial-timing pretrial-hearing speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | Whether a final ruling at a pretrial hearing stops the Speedy Trial Act clock from running, consistent with the dictates of 18 U.S.C. § 3161. |
| 25A644 | Markhel D'John Harris-Franklin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split continuance criminal-procedure ends-of-justice reasonableness speedy-trial-act | Whether ends-of-justice continuances granted under the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7), may be open-ended. | |
| 25-6259 | Sam Boyd v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | continuance criminal-procedure judicial-discretion speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-court-procedure | When a trial court grants an "ends of justice" continuance pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), is it required to make specific factual findings bey… |
| 25-6156 | Thomas J. Zajac v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure speedy-trial-act trial-continuance | Speedy Trial Act A. In contradiction of Supreme Court Rule 10, was the appellate court's avoidance of, through modifications to appellant's facts and… |
| 25-6119 | Charvez Brooks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure ends-of-justice judicial-continuance speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | Whether the Speedy Trial Act's "ends of justice" provision, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), permits open-ended continuances that lack a definite terminatio… |
| 25-262 | Aleksandr Pikus v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-09-08 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review legislative-compromise presumptive-prejudice prosecutorial-neglect sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act | Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory power to correct the Second Circuit's failure "to ensure that the purposes of the [Speedy Trial] Ac… |
| 24A1083 | Thomas J. Zajac v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-05-08 | Presumed Complete | 70-day-period judicial-discretion mistrial speedy-trial-act time-exclusion trial-delay | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6796 | Steven Nicholson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | covid-19-test district-court ninth-circuit sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act summary-reversal | Whether this Court should summarily reverse the Ninth Circuit, which itself summarily reversed the district court's order dismissing petitioner's indi… |
| 24-6634 | Robert Andrew Wolter v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split competency-evaluation criminal-procedure speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation transportation-delay | When a criminal defendant is transported to another facility to undergo a competency evaluation, does the time between the date of the order for trans… |
| 24-5691 | Antoine Edwards v. Bradley Scott, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-02 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act | 1) What is the remedy for Speedy Trial Act violation; Deprivation 18 U.S.C.A § 3161 et seq.; 6 Amendment U.S. Constitutional Eight? 2) Is Barker v. W… |
| 24-5678 | Reginald L. Hopkins v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-10-01 | Denied | IFP | federal-prosecution ruse-exception speedy-trial-act state-arrest statutory-interpretation third-circuit | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred as a matter of statutory interpretation in rejecting a "Ruse Exception" to the Speedy Trial A… |
| 24-5204 | Gavin Blake Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act | Is a decision regarding an 18 U.S.C. § 3164 Motion for Pretrial Release immediately appealable interlocutory (e.g. 28 U.S.C. § 1291; collateral order … |
| 24-5088 | In Re Gavin B. Davis | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-split circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | (1) Is a decision regarding an 18 U.S.C. § 3164 Motion for Pretrial Release immediately appealable interlocutory (e.g. 28 U.S.C. § 1291; collateral or… | |
| 24-5085 | Philip Layfield, aka Philip Samuel Pesin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3161 70-day-trial-clock custodial-defendant out-of-district-arrest speedy-trial-act statutory-remedy transportation-delay trial-clock | Whether the Speedy Trial Act provides a remedy for a custodial defendant arrested out-of-district and ordered removed, but whose transportation back t… |
| 23-7709 | Percy Leroy Jacobs v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bradshaw-v-stumpf criminal-penalties due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act trial-counsel von-moltke-v-gillies waiver | I. Whether, for a waiver of the Sixth Amendment right to trial counsel to be effective, a defendant must understand the elements of the charged offens… |
| 23-7492 | Trezith Rashad Smart v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | federal-rules-of-evidence findings fourth-circuit-court judicial-error motion-to-dismiss prior-inconsistent-statement speedy-trial-act witness-impeachment zedner-v-united-states | Whether the Fourth Circuit Appellate Court commit clear or plain error, relying on findings made 6 days after Judge orally ruled on motion to dismiss… |
| 23-7496 | In Re Olamide O. Bello | 2024-05-16 | Denied | IFP | access-to-court access-to-courts constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act standing | Whether tre failure of tne Counsel to Pursue an appea\ Or Motion the Pebttonee wWourd hove Ofnerwise Puvsyed Wolate tne Sixth amendment Preyudice tn t… | |
| 23A993 | Gavin Blake Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Presumed Complete | appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split interlocutory-appeal pretrial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | (1) Is a decision regarding an 18 U.S.C. § 3164 Motion for Pretrial Release immediately appealable interlocutory (e.g. 28 U.S.C. § 1291; collateral or… | |
| 23-6965 | Armando Orozco-Barron v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | covid-19-pandemic criminal-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice due-process ends-of-justice individual-assessment judicial-discretion pandemic speedy-trial-act | (1) May a Chief Judge extend the STA's deadlines by general order, without individually evaluating defendants' interests in a speedy trial? (2) When … |
| 23-6716 | Tommy Lee Walker v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment criminal-procedure due-process firearm-interstate-commerce interstate-commerce jury-instruction jury-instructions sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act standing | 1. Where the firearm at issue was manufactured in California and found in a home in Califo rnia, did the district court err by refusing to give a requ… |
| 23-6434 | Pascal Gedeon v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | Third Circuit | 2024-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment judicial-discretion mandamus pretrial-motions speedy-trial-act vagueness | 1) Will delay resulting from pretrial motions be excluded under the Speedy Trial Act if a defendant can assert that the motion hearing was deliberatel… |
| 23-6083 | Chalmer Detling, II, aka Chuck Detling v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review due-process judicial-procedure notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard speedy-trial-act sua-sponte summary-reversal supervisory-power | Detling appealed the district court's denial of his Speedy Trial Act motion to dismiss, a three-judge panel rejected the Government's argument but the… |
| 23A441 | Trent Drexel Howard v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-16 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights detention government-delay pro-se-petition sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5322 | Tommie Doward Weathers, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fault-determination pretrial-confinement pretrial-detention release-from-confinement speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | This case concerns the meaning of the word "fault" in 18 U.S.C. § 3164(c), which says that if a defendant is not brought to trial within 90 days follo… |
| 23-5116 | Jeremy David Adams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bond-motion continuance continuance-exclusion party-presentation-principle plain-error-review pretrial-detention pretrial-release sixth-circuit-rule speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | (I). Is the Sixth Circuit's new rule, in opposition to 7 other Courts of Appeals - that the protections of Speedy Trial Act 18 USC § 3161(h)(l)(H)'s 3… |
| 22-7333 | David Jah, Sr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights commerce-clause criminal-procedure due-process interstate-commerce jury-instruction jury-instructions pro-se-representation sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act | 1) Will the theory of the government, assisted by their witnesses, known to be fabricated, asserted to be harmful and outreagous conduct, be enough t… |
| 22-944 | Lois Yankah v. Sgt. Moore, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure filing-deadline fugitive-disentitlement fugitive-disentitlement-doctrine speedy-trial speedy-trial-act | Whether an appellate court may dismiss an appeal which has been postmarked by United States Post Office before the filing deadline, filed by court cle… | |
| 22-7138 | Muzammil Ali v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure downward-variance due-process fifth-amendment jail-phone-calls motion-for-continuance sentencing sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act | 1. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN AFFIRMING THAT ALI'S FIFTH AND SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE NOT VIOLATED UNDER THE SPEEDY TRIAL ACT. 2. WHETH… |
| 22-7100 | Felipe Nevarez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process objection-timing speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit trial-delay waiver | Does the Speedy Trial Act require the accused to object to lack of speedy trial only after the time has lapsed, or can the accused assert this right p… |
| 22-6331 | Lance Green v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-confrontation confrontation-clause daubert dna-evidence due-process firearm-possession sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act | 1. Should the Supreme Court grant certiorari to consider whether Green's Sixth Amendment right of confrontation was violated by the procedures utilize… |
| 22-419 | Cedric Chanu v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-11-04 | Denied | circuit-split commodities-exchange criminal-procedure ends-of-justice financial-misrepresentation financial-transaction implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act wire-fraud | (1) Whether the federal wire fraud statute criminalizes any "implied misrepresentation" that induces another to enter into a financial transaction, ev… | |
| 22-402 | James Vorley v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-10-31 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court ends-of-justice implied-misrepresentation speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | 1. Whether, as the Seventh and Ninth Circuits hold, a "scheme or artifice to defraud" under the wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, encompasses an "… | |
| 22-5316 | Antwan Criswell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3161 18-usc-3262 court-congestion dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-delay speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | Since the presimption of prejudice exists in a Speedy Trial Violation under 18 U.S.C. §3262, and the Sanction is Dismissal with Prejudice for said vio… |
| 21-8076 | Siva K. Durbesula v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure enhanced-punishment enhanced-punishments judicial-fact-finding jury sixth-amendment special-assessment speedy-trial-act supervised-release | 1) WHETHER THE SIXTH AMENDMENT REQUIRES A JURY RATHER THAN A JUDGE TO DETERMINE FACTS WHICH ARE USED TO APPLY ENHANCED PUNSIHMENTS INCLUDING THE PERIO… |
| 21-1336 | Jeffrey Olsen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-07 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | covid-pandemic criminal-procedure district-court district-court-authority due-process judicial-discretion jury-trial-suspension jury-trials pandemic prosecutorial-delay speedy-trial-act | I. Whether a District Court may dismiss an indictment under the Speedy Trial Act, where the District Court finds that it is possible to hold a jury tr… |
| 21-7557 | Maria Andrea Gonzalez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3161 criminal-procedure due-process ends-of-justice federal-district-court findings-of-fact speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-continuance | Does the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161, require federal district courts to make specific findings of fact from those factors enumerated in § 3161… |
| 21-1313 | Martin Gottesfeld v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-04-01 | Denied | appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal procedural-due-process speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | This case presents a clear and intractable conflict regarding an important statutory question under the Speedy Trial Act of 1974, 18 U.S.C. 3161 et se… | |
| 21-6960 | Jonathan C. Roush v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3161 18-usc-3164 court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court-order griggs-v-provident-consumer-discount-co retroactive-exclusion speedy-trial speedy-trial-act time-calculation zedner-v-united-states | Whether, in light of this Court's ruling in Zedner v. United States, 547 U.S. 489, 126 S. Ct. 1976, 164 L. Ed. 2D 749 (2006) and Griggs v. Provident C… |
| 21-6460 | Truman Jones v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-discretion prejudice remand sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the district court's refusal to accurately compute the extent of a Speedy Trial Act violation and to consider the government's district wid… |
| 21-6360 | Qian Williams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-procedure factual-findings federal-court federal-custody federal-jurisdiction grand-jury-indictment judicial-discretion search-warrant speedy-trial-act | This case presents three issues: Did the court of appeals properly affirm the trial court and hold that the trial court was free to disregard a factua… |
| 21-6034 | Clifton James Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-conduct criminal-procedure discovery-violations federal-jurisdiction government-agencies indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states speedy-trial-act | 1. After Jackson was charged with and convicted of unlawful firearm possession, this Court overturned near-unanimous circuit authority by holding the … |
| 20-7608 | Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3161 diligent-preparation due-process government-motion speedy-trial-act trial-continuance | Whether the district court violated the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161, et seq., when it granted the government's motion to continue the trial eve… |
| 20-7207 | Manuel de Jesus Gordillo-Escandon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | IFP | criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process interstate-agreement-detainers interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act judicial-procedure jurisdiction speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-timing | 1. Did the district court err when it failed to dismiss the indictment under the Speedy Trial Act ("STA"), 18 U.S.C. §§ 3161-3174, when the trial did … |
| 20-7015 | Sabina Leigh Burton v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-02-02 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure discovery-violations fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion rule-37 rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b speedy-trial-act | 1. Whether discovery violations can constitute the type of extraordinary circumstances which would justify relief on the basis of fraud on the court, … |
| 20-6394 | Michael A. Hagar v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-judicial-power criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction protective-order sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act venue venue-limitations | Do the Article 3, Section 2, Clause 3 provision, the "trial shall be held in the State where the said Crime shall have been committed" and the Sixth A… |
| 19-8898 | Angelo Peter Efthimiatos v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-circuit-split calendar criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion jury-selection presentation-of-evidence speedy-trial-act trial-delay uniformity | Whether the Speedy Trial Act permits district courts to conduct jury selection within the time limits of the speedy trial clock but delay presentation… |
| 19-8000 | James Robert Peterson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-16 | Denied | IFP | courts-of-appeals-split criminal-procedure detainer-act federal-state-courts interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers-act motion-tolling speedy-trial-act time-to-trial tolling | Does a pending motion automatically toll the IADA's time-to-trial clock, to the same extent as under the STA? |
| 19-1020 | Florence Bikundi v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-02-14 | Denied | Response Waived | burden-of-proof continuance district-court-discretion due-process ends-of-justice ends-of-justice-continuance forfeiture fraud fraud-conduct restitution sentencing sentencing-guidelines speedy-trial-act | 1. Whether a district court granting an ends-ofjustice continuance under the Speedy Trial Act of 1974, 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), violates the require… |
| 19-7238 | Jerry Reginald Burkes v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure dismissal due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis indictment-dismissal mandatory-language money-laundering speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation tennessee-local-rule-10.03 tennessee-rules-of-criminal-procedure tennessee-rules-of-evidence trial-rights | 1. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT'S DENIAL OF A MOTION TO DISMISS AN INDICTMENT FOR A VIOLATION OF THE SPEEDY TRIAL ACT'S 70 DAY TIME LIMIT FOR BRINGING A DE… |
| 19-612 | Hassan Abpikar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court-conflict circuit-split conflict-with-other-circuits criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process original-indictment sentence-increase sentencing sentencing-enhancement speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation superseding-indictment | 1. Whether the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling on petitioner's claim to his Rights under the Speedy Trial Act is IN CONFLICT WITH OTHER CIRCUITS, … |
| 19-587 | Jimmie Eugene White, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-05 | Denied | continuance criminal-procedure district-court-discretion ends-of-justice on-the-record-findings speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation stipulation time-exclusion | Whether, notwithstanding the plain language of § 3161(h)(7) of the Speedy Trial Act and this Court's decision in Zedner, a district court may exclude … | |
| 19-5722 | Moses Shepard v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 30-70-day-clock circuit-split constructive-amendment due-process grand-jury-clause indictment-clause plain-error speedy-trial-act subsequent-indictment superseding-indictment | Whether (as the Eleventh Circuit holds), under § 3161(d)(1), a "subsequent replacement indictment " "restarts the clock regardless of how the prior in… |
| 19-5697 | Felipe Vinagre-Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure detention detention-motion federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure indictment judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-timing pretrial-motion speedy-trial-act | Whether a motion for detention filed before an indictment or information charging a person has been obtained is a pretrial motion within the meaning o… |
| 18-9292 | Timothy B. Fredrickson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal bail bail-appeal constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion mandamus pre-trial-detention pre-trial-release speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | What recourse is available to a defendant, when an appeal and mandamus enforcement of the ministerial and self-executing release on bail provision of … |
| 18-9150 | Peter Victor Ayika v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-speedy-trial effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act statutory-rights statutory-speedy-trial | [1]Whether a certificate of Appealability (COA) should issue to pursue the Sixth Amendment claim on appeal where petitioner's rights to Sixth Amendmen… |
| 18-8292 | Julius Greer v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split crime-of-violence criminal-procedure forfeiture judicial-review motion-to-dismiss plain-error-review speedy-trial-act standard-of-review waiver | What is the correct standard of review for a Speedy Trial Act violation where a motion to dismiss under the Act was filed, but the particular time per… |
| 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? Whether t… |
| 18-6806 | Eliana Sarmiento v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-speedy-trial-act dismissal harmless-error indictment-dismissal judicial-discretion prejudice speedy-trial-act statute-interpretation statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a district court's denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment for a violation of the Speedy Trial Act's 70 day time limit for bringing a d… |
| 18-6754 | Domonic McCarns v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-amendment criminal-procedure harmless-error indictment plain-error-review speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether Cryptic Letter, Number Codes are Sufficient to Satisfy the Speedy Trial Act Requirement that Reasons Justifying Delay of a Criminal Trial M… |
| 18-6285 | Mady Chan, aka Maddy, aka Mandy, aka Manny v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-right constitutional-rights counsel-advice criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-precedent padilla-v-kentucky sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act | Should the holding in Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010) that an attorney's failure to advise a criminal client of succinct, clear, and explicit… |
| 18-5155 | Omar Qazi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bail-reform bail-reform-act constitutional-rights dangerousness due-process pre-trial-detention pretrial-detention sentencing-guidelines speedy-trial speedy-trial-act | Question not identified. |