structural-error
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6778 | Jasim Mohammed Hassi Ramadon v. Colorado | Colorado | 2026-02-11 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-rights counsel-coercion defendant-testimony effective-assistance structural-error trial-procedure | When a defendant is prevented from testifying due to counsels' coercive actions, does structural error occur? Was Mr. Ramadon's constitutional right t… |
| 25A803 | Henry Wade v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Application | constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error | Whether structural constitutional errors in a criminal prosecution that fundamentally undermine the integrity of the trial process require vacatur of … | |
| 25-6485 | Michelle Renee Morton v. Iowa | Iowa | 2026-01-06 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-proceedings due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-defect structural-error void-ab-initio | Whether a conviction initiated by a warrant issued by a magistrate who is later adjudicated constitutes a structural jurisdictional defect rendering t… |
| 25-6442 | Michael Hinds v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure harmless-error prior-offenses sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error | Does the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) require a different inquiry for determining structural errors in sentencing, involving a detailed analysis o… |
| 25-6126 | Nathaniel Durham v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acca criminal-law multi-factor-analysis prior-offenses sentencing-enhancement structural-error | Does the ACCA occasions-different determination, requiring a multi-factored analysis of the factual circumstances involving at least three prior quali… |
| 25-6090 | Derrick Lorenzo Casey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal charging-error fifth-amendment guilty-plea harmless-error structural-error | Whether a Fifth Amendment charging error for an aggravated offense is structural error and how harmless error review should be applied in the guilty p… |
| 25-5998 | Shadon Demetric Edwards v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | firearms-offense guilty-plea harmless-error plain-error statutory-interpretation structural-error | Whether errors under Erlinger v. United States are structural errors or subject to harmless/plain error review, and if plain error review applies, how… |
| 25-5991 | Jairo Arnaldo Jacome v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction structural-error | Does a district court's failure to instruct a jury in open court result in structural error, automatically producing a violation of a defendant's subs… |
| 25-524 | Cedric Ray Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-30 | Pending | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions structural-error | Does a district court's failure to instruct a jury in open court result in structural error, automatically producing a violation of a defendant's subs… | |
| 25-5932 | Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota | South Dakota | 2025-10-22 | Denied | IFP | choice-of-counsel coram-nobis equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment structural-error | Is a Sixth Amendment 'erroneous deprivation of choice of counsel' structural error properly before the court as a coram nobis claim, and does the Sout… |
| 25-5851 | Christopher Lynn Johnson v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2025-10-09 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance structural-error | Does an attorney's failure to object to unconstitutional instructions that relieve the Commonwealth of its burden of disproving an accused's defense b… |
| 25A386 | Trendell Walker v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defects structural-error venue-challenge warrant-forgery | Whether a criminal prosecution must be dismissed when jurisdictional defects are alleged, including forged warrants and improper venue establishment | |
| 25-385 | Charles Ray Crawford v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2025-10-02 | Denied | capital-trial criminal-procedure retroactivity sixth-amendment structural-error teague-rule | Whether McCoy v. Louisiana's holding regarding a defendant's right to prevent counsel from conceding guilt applies retroactively under Teague v. Lane | |
| 25-5743 | Rico Lorodge Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi-doctrine charging-error criminal-sentencing harmless-error judicial-factfinding structural-error | Does sentencing a criminal defendant for an uncharged and untried offense qualify as structural error under Supreme Court precedent, and if harmless-e… |
| 25-5608 | Gary Jordan v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | collateral-review government-misconduct guilty-plea ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment structural-error | Can a defendant collaterally attack his guilty plea via 28 U.S.C. § 2255 as unconstitutional based on surreptitious pre-plea government misconduct wit… |
| 25-5560 | Yancey J. Myers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias jury-misconduct structural-error trial-procedure | Whether a disqualified trial judge's recusal due to substantial prejudice constitutes a structural error when the judge previously presided as both ac… |
| 25-5449 | John Todd Williams v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | article-three due-process judicial-designation jurisdictional-defect separation-of-powers structural-error | Whether a federal judge elevated to an appellate court can lawfully preside over district court proceedings without proper statutory designation |
| 25-5281 | Tony Lamons Gooch, III v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2025-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance structural-error | When a State court judgment shows counsel of record was ineffective during all three phases of litigation, and a defendant is permanently-barred from … |
| 25-5224 | Kelechi Collins Umeh v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction defendant-rights jury-trial structural-error trial-court waiver | Is it structural error for a trial court to enter a conviction against a defendant who did not expressly waive his right to a jury trial? |
| 24-7477 | Arnold Wayne McCartney v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bifurcated-trial certificate-of-appealability counsel ineffective-assistance mercy-phase structural-error | Did the Court of Appeals err in denying the Petitioner a certificate of appealability on his constitutional claim related to structural error and/or i… |
| 24-7382 | Issac Jermale Fisher v. Missouri | Missouri | 2025-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-significance courtroom-closure public-access structural-error trial-court-standards waller-v-georgia | When do intentional actions designed to restrict the public's entry to the courtroom constitute a closure of constitutional significance that, unless … |
| 24A1181 | Mark William Sain v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-06-02 | Presumed Complete | armed-career-criminal-act double-jeopardy harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether a district court's failure to charge and have a jury find the 'occasions different' fact under the Armed Career Criminal Act constitutes struc… | |
| 24-7309 | Brandi Abts v. Cynthia Arnold-Abts | Nevada | 2025-05-28 | Denied | IFP | due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness judicial-misconduct structural-error | Whether a District Court Judge committed structural error by abandoning judicial neutrality and violating fundamental fairness during an evidentiary h… |
| 24-7093 | Alfred Velazquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-review presentence-report sentencing-error structural-error | Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci… |
| 24-6968 | Willie Rodriquez Jones v. Texas | Texas | 2025-04-10 | Denied | IFP | due-process jury-trial professional-misconduct structural-error trial-counsel trial-jurisdiction | Whether the trial court lacked jurisdiction due to structural error when it failed to address professional misconduct of trial counsel before or durin… |
| 24-6942 | John Sexton v. Florida | Florida | 2025-04-08 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment court-witness harmless-error mitigation-specialist sixth-amendment structural-error | Did the state trial court commit structural error by violating the Defendant's Sixth Amendment-secured right to autonomy in his capital penalty procee… |
| 24-6871 | Diego J. Jimenez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2025-03-27 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process judicial-bias jury-instructions structural-error | Whether a bias and partial Judge that was recused before trial created a Structural Error when presiding over a criminal defendant's case, whether fra… |
| 24-6658 | Donald Conelious Voltz v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-career-criminal-act harmless-error-review judicial-finding preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-error structural-error | Where a district court has erred in sentencing a defendant under the Armed Career Criminal Act based on a judicial finding by a preponderance of the e… |
| 24-6495 | Billy Joe Taylor v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice guilty-plea sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether a defendant who is erroneously denied his Counsel of Choice in Violation of the Sixth Amendment, which is structural error, waives his right t… |
| 24-819 | Larry E. Parrish v. Supreme Court of Tennessee | Tennessee | 2025-02-03 | Denied | due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias recusal structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether Rule 10B of the Tennessee Supreme Court Rules constitutes a structural constitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clau… | |
| 24-6317 | James Anthony Gray v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2025-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternative-perpetrator due-process fourteenth-amendment kentucky-constitution structural-error supreme-court-rule | Did the failure by the Kentucky Supreme Court to adjudicate the claims of error challenging the two murder convictions deny Anthony of his right to a … |
| 24-5947 | Ismail Salaam v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-08 | Denied | IFP | courtroom-closure judicial-review plain-error sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure | Whether a structural error during trial automatically warrants reversal even without a contemporaneous objection under plain error review |
| 24-5591 | Guy Benjamin Bowman v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-bias structural-error trial-procedure voir-dire | Whether the trial court's refusal to ask voir dire questions on racial bias, deprivation of venire information, and usurpation of peremptory strikes c… |
| 24-5225 | Nidal M. Hasan v. United States | Armed Forces | 2024-08-05 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review automatic-reversal criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error public-trial structural-error waller-v-georgia weaver-v-massachusetts | Whether a court of appeals may afford no remedy for a public trial violation where the defendant objected to the closure at trial and raised the issue… |
| 24-5160 | Duane Leo Ehmer, Darryl William Thorn, and Jake Ryan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution ex-parte jury-selection jury-trial petty-offenses presley-v-georgia sixth-amendment structural-error sua-sponte | Whether the district court's sua sponte, ex parte, and case-specific excusal of trial jurors for cause constituted reversible structural error? |
| 23-7789 | In Re Glenn A. Holder | 2024-06-24 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process due-process-violations fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard structural-error | Wrongful-conviction | |
| 23-7625 | Henry Sowers v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ada-accessibility americans-with-disabilities-act criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection hearing-impairment judicial-accessibility pro-se pro-se-defendant structural-error voir-dire | Does the State violate the ADA and Equal Protection Clause by failing to provide accessibility accommodations for a hearing-impaired pro-se defendant … |
| 23-7615 | Randall Crater v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process criminal-procedure fair-trial sixth-amendment structural-error touhy-regulations trial-subpoenas witness-testimony | Whether the district court's decision to quash three trial subpoenas because defendant did not comply with Touhy regulations violated defendant's Sixt… |
| 23-7557 | Paul Henry Gibson v. Tim Shoop, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus hospital-records incapacitation judicial-bias procedural-error structural-error | Does the lower court's decision to bar petitioner, and deny equitable tolling for the period of time petitioner was incapacitated, violate due-process… |
| 23-7488 | Jose Eliso Zavala v. Texas | Texas | 2024-05-15 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-bias constitutional-rights fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-bias prejudice sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether the petitioner was deprived of his constitutional rights to a fair and impartial trial |
| 23-7051 | Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Joe Schmidt, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections, et al. | Alaska | 2024-03-21 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias sixth-amendment state-court-of-appeals structural-error systemic-bias | Does a systemic appearance of bias from a State court of appeals create structural error to a defendant's Sixth Amendment guarantee to a fair trial? |
| 23-6980 | Matthew Murphy v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea prosecutorial-bias recusal sixth-amendment structural-error | whether-this-court-should-grant-this-petition |
| 23-979 | Gerald D. Fields v. Jay Forshey, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Denied | Response Waived | faretta-colloquy fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing-procedure structural-error | When a state trial court fails to conduct a Faretta colloquy before sentencing a defendant without counsel, is appellate counsel ineffective for faili… |
| 23-6680 | Mark Mayo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error rule-52(b) structural-error | Does a clear or obvious structural error always, or at least ordinarily, require relief under the plain-error standard of Federal Rule of Criminal Pro… |
| 23-6648 | Anthony Christopher Mendonca v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-02-01 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment jury-selection plain-error-review public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment structural-error | Does the plainly erroneous exclusion of the public from jury selection in a criminal trial seriously affect the fairness, integrity, and public reputa… |
| 23-6557 | Frank R. Stevenson v. Lynn Lilley, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automatic-reversal constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error unwanted-defense | Whether the unconstitutionality of imposing an unwanted defense on the accused, over objection, has long been federally established and is a structura… |
| 23-6441 | Marc Hernandez v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure integrity-of-courts judicial-integrity plain-error structural-error substantial-rights | Should this Court's decision in United States v. Olano be overruled in part? |
| 23-663 | Gary Lynn McDuff v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-integrity judicial-procedure record-keeping structural-error violation-of-constitution | Is it a structural error and a violation of the Constitution for a district court clerk to verify receipt of exhibits submitted in support of a §2255 … |
| 23A558 | Gerald D. Fields v. Jay Forshey, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-12-18 | Presumed Complete | habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires trial courts to explicitly warn defendants of the dangers of self-representation before finding a knowing and vol… | |
| 23-650 | Laura Jordan and Mark Jordan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | alternative-theory appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions structural-error sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether an appellate court's harmless-error analysis must decline to find constitutional alternative theory error harmless |
| 23-6256 | Kenneth Ray Brabham v. Florida | Florida | 2023-12-14 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct structural-defect structural-error sua-sponte trial-procedure | Whether a trial judge's sua sponte actions create the appearance of partiality |
| 23-631 | Hollis Morrison Greenlaw, et al. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-12 | Denied | appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-to-defraud jury-instructions scheme-to-defraud structural-error | Whether harmless-error analysis of jury instructions that omitted or misdefined an element must decline to find that constitutional error harmless | |
| 23-6180 | Clifford Allen Follansbee v. Arizona | Arizona | 2023-12-06 | Denied | IFP | arizona-constitution constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process judicial-review procedural-fairness professional-norm structural-error united-states-constitution | Are Arizona judiciaries violating the Due Process Clause of the Arizona and United States Constitutions, by practicing a Professional Norm that is con… |
| 23-609 | Frander Salguero v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. | California | 2023-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-duty false-evidence habeas habeas-corpus mandamus prejudice-test prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error | Whether habeas is the sole remedy or remedy by mandamus is a permissible means to effectuate the constitutional duty to correct false evidence when a … |
| 23-5938 | Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska | Alaska | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment juror-testimony sixth-amendment structural-error | Does the Sixth Amendment guarantee to a 'fair trial' implicitly require that the trial be free of structural error? |
| 23-266 | Javaar Yavonnie Kalem Watkins v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-20 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-error conviction-reversal criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error | Was the reasonable doubt instruction constitutionally deficient thereby requiring reversal of Watkins' conviction? |
| 23A234 | Jerry Laza v. City of Palestine, Texas | Texas | 2023-09-12 | Presumed Complete | civil-to-criminal-conversion double-jeopardy due-process-protections quasi-criminal-proceedings reasonable-doubt structural-error | Whether a state court may convert a civil proceeding into a quasi-criminal or penal proceeding on appeal without affording the defendant fundamental c… | |
| 23-5538 | Noel Brown v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset | Pennsylvania | 2023-09-07 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-doctrine dismissal due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief reversal structural-error warden writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Supreme Court's holding in Weaver v. Massachusetts clarified the Constitutional Doctrine of Structural Error |
| 23-203 | Missouri Department of Corrections v. Jean Finney | Missouri | 2023-09-05 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (9) | batson-challenge civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection religious-beliefs religious-discrimination structural-error voir-dire | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits relying on stereotypes about religious views to strike jurors |
| 23A175 | Phillip Charles Gibbs v. Becky Carl, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-25 | Presumed Complete | courtroom-closure public-trial sixth-amendment strickland-prejudice structural-error voir-dire | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial is violated by a trial court's closure of the courtroom during voir dire, and whether such a viola… | |
| 23-5253 | Youssef Hoballah v. Virginia | Virginia | 2023-08-01 | Denied | IFP | appeal-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure | Whether the defendant's plea agreement was invalid, and the defendant's conviction should be vacated, due to the defendant being incarcerated on an un… |
| 23-5193 | Bradley Ross Fairbourn v. Neicole Morden, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus impliedly-biased-juror juror-bias strickland-standard strickland-v-washington structural-error weaver-v-massachusetts | Whether the Strickland actual-prejudice standard applies to a structural error in the form of an impliedly-biased juror |
| 23-5118 | In Re Dustin Ray Braddock | 2023-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court due-process expert-testimony jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court trial-error | Whether a dual-role jury instruction is required when law enforcement officers testify as both expert and percipient witnesses | |
| 23-5075 | Derek J. Petty v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-offense criminal-procedure due-process essential-element federal-felony federal-jurisdiction indictment indictment-defect judicial-review structural-error | Whether the omission of an essential element of a criminal offense from a federal felony indictment constitutes structural error |
| 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… |
| 22-7632 | Kristofer D. Garrett v. Ohio | Ohio | 2023-05-24 | Denied | IFP | capital-defendant plain-error-test public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error substantial-rights | Does a state court finding of structural error, based on a violation of a capital defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial, satisfy the pla… |
| 22-7575 | Larry Edmond v. Tommy Williams, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-bias racial-bias racial-discrimination structural-error trial-court | Whether district court trial abuse its discretion and violated the defendant's constitutional right to an impartial jury |
| 22-7519 | Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal sentencing-review standing statutory-interpretation structural-error | Whether it is a Structural Error for a District Judge to preside over proceedings that he has been directly recused from |
| 22-7284 | Herbert Bernard Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | amendment criminal-law criminal-procedure harmless-error indictment indictment-amendment interstate-commerce statutory-interpretation structural-error | Whether the statutory language of 18 U.S.C. §2252A(a)(5)(B)'s alternative interstate commerce elements constitute separate offenses or alternative mea… |
| 22-7239 | Edward Knight v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process felony hobbs-act in-person jury-trial public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether allowing a seated juror to appear virtually via Zoom in a federal felony trial is structural error violating the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rig… |
| 22-6924 | Gerald Drummond v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2023-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel reasonable-doubt reasonable-doubt-instruction state-courts structural-error trial-procedure | Is the Pennsylvania courts inappropriately denying the United States constitutional protections of the petitioner rights in their denial of relief to … |
| 22-6800 | Ronald Lee Sorenson v. Washington | Washington | 2023-02-16 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction mathews-factors reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment structural-error structural-error-doctrine venue | where-the-first-of-the-four-total-specific-alleged-acts-occurred-outside-the-state-of-washington |
| 22-6543 | Miguel Angel Mota v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 structural-error | Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflict with the Sixth Ci… |
| 22-6443 | Daquan Madrid Pridgen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process rule-of-lenity sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation structural-error | Whether the district court committed structural error by finding that the sentence for a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e) should be 10 years to life i… |
| 22-587 | Maurice Andrews v. District Attorney of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-12-27 | Denied | due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice-standard sixth-amendment structural-error trial-counsel | Whether a habeas petitioner who receives a jury instruction that does not contain any of the essential elements of the offense must show prejudice | |
| 22-6265 | Sachin Aji Bhaskar v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cares-act constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment remote-sentencing statutory-authority structural-error | What is required under the CARES Act for a remote sentencing to comport with a defendant's Fifth Amendment right to due process under the constitution… |
| 22-6203 | Peter Gakuba v. Rachel Dodd | Seventh Circuit | 2022-12-02 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus judicial-bias pro-se-petition structural-error | issues-being-raised |
| 22-464 | United States v. Saleem Hakim | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-16 | Denied | appellate-review automatic-vacatur criminal-procedure judicial-discretion pretrial-procedure right-to-counsel self-representation structural-error | Whether a defendant's erroneous pretrial self-representation categorically constitutes structural error | |
| 22-6058 | Justin David Martin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-of-record criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admission federal-prosecution procedural-error record search-warrant structural-error waiver | Whether the federal prosecution's reliance on a state search warrant without making it part of the formal record constitutes structural error |
| 22-6021 | George Guo v. Texas | Texas | 2022-11-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | capital-murder criminal-procedure delayed-death-homicide due-process ex-post-facto fair-warning jackson-standard statute-of-limitations structural-error | Question not identified |
| 22-418 | Gene Deveraux v. Montana | Montana | 2022-11-04 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | automatic-reversal biased-juror constitutional-right for-cause-challenge jury-bias sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-discretion trial-procedure | Whether a trial court commits structural error, requiring automatic reversal under the Sixth Amendment, when it seats a biased juror after erroneously… |
| 22-5541 | Edwin Pawlowski v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review compulsory-process due-process harmless-error judicial-process re-cross-examination sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-error | Did the Trial Court error by improperly restricting the Defendant's right to re-cross examination in light of new matter and evidence presented by the… |
| 22-5431 | Davante Turner v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-protections courtroom-closure due-process fair-trial government-agent public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether it is structural error and a violation of Petitioner's constitutional protections to a fair and public trial under the Sixth Amendment |
| 22-5327 | Lavone Ganithus Dixon, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-procedure court-record due-process evidence-admission federal-prosecution record-of-court search-warrant structural-error | Whether the federal prosecution's reliance on an unfiled state search warrant constitutes structural error |
| 22-5256 | In Re Daniel Patrick Sheehan | 2022-08-02 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief structural-error | Will the Honorable Supreme Court let this complete miscarriage of Justice Continue? | |
| 22-5218 | Reginald Dexter Carr, Jr. v. Kansas | Kansas | 2022-07-28 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment automatic-reversal due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment structural-error | Was the denial of Reginald Carr's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to testify structural constitutional error requiring automatic reversal… |
| 22-5154 | Myron Baker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-record criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-admission federal-prosecution record-of-court search-and-seizure search-warrant state-search-warrant structural-error | Whether the federal prosecution's reliance on a state search warrant without making it part of the formal record of the United States District Court c… |
| 21-8268 | Roger Acosta v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution indictment indictment-defect mens-rea rehaif-standard structural-error | Whether a federal prosecution is structural error when a grand jury indicts a defendant for conduct that is not a federal offense? |
| 21-8254 | Bryant Calloway v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process grand-jury guilty-verdict judicial-review material-perjury perjury petit-jury precedent structural-error | Whether material perjury before the grand jury should be considered structural error not cured by a guilty verdict |
| 21-8243 | Michael Shane Bargo v. Florida | Florida | 2022-06-28 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance plea-of-not-guilty presumption-of-innocence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error | Did Mr. Bargo show that a violation of his rights occurred, pursuant to McCoy, when he explicitly entered a plea of not guilty and maintained his inno… |
| 21-8141 | Christopher G. Poeschl v. Foundation Building Materials, LLC, et al. | Colorado | 2022-06-15 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency expert-testimony judicial-discretion legal-fraud perjury prejudice structural-error trial-procedure trial-procedures | Whether or not fraud solidified the Colorado Appeals Affirmation |
| 21-8138 | Lawrence J. Gerrans v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure first-amendment free-exercise religious-rights sixth-amendment structural-error trial-rights | May a district court prohibit a defendant from possessing and consulting a Bible during a criminal trial? |
| 21-7920 | Jimmy Lee Wheeler v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction government-misconduct habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard structural-error | Whether Thin Court Will Cobh, Hat 2 Mant Peet injudiiee. has heen Crrtumven%e d by The lower Courts and Also been diste garde d by The Appellate | Cou… |
| 21-7922 | Jason Michael Ehret v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus judicial-bias rule-11 standing structural-error uncounseled-counsel void-conviction | Does an uncounseled guilty plea constitute a structural error that can be raised at any time? |
| 21-7814 | Julia Ann Poff v. Warren Smith, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus standing structural-error trial-process | Was the complete deprivation of Ms. Poef's fundamental rights to determine how to protect her liberty related to structural error that violated multip… |
| 21-1273 | Frank D. Lazzerini v. Ohio | Ohio | 2022-03-21 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error right-to-be-present structural-error trial-proceedings voir-dire | Whether the exclusion of a criminal defendant from individual voir dire proceedings is a structural error requiring automatic reversal |
| 21-7300 | LeMaricus Davidson v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2022-03-08 | Denied | IFP | actual-prejudice death-penalty fair-trial fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection post-conviction prejudice-presumption structural-error | Should prejudice in an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel case be presumed where the deficient performance of counsel resulted in a structural-error co… |
| 21-7177 | Maurice O. Byrd, Jr. v. Raymond Byrd, Warden, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-02-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abandonment-of-appeal conflict-of-interest habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prejudice structural-error | Structural-error-on-appeal |
| 21-1146 | Gary McClain v. Texas | Texas | 2022-02-17 | Denied | client-autonomy criminal-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel fundamental-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-strategy | Whether defense counsel's concession of guilt during the guilt phase of trial, without the client's permission, violates the client's Sixth Amendment … | |
| 21-7071 | Keaon Wilson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process juror-misconduct juror-numbers jury-selection mix-up sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure | Is it structural error in violation of the Sixth Amendment for a juror to sit on a jury when that juror was not actually selected to be on the jury du… |
| 21-1094 | Jacques Jean Kabongo v. Michigan | Michigan | 2022-02-07 | Denied | appellate-review batson-challenge due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection structural-error supreme-court-review | Whether the Michigan Supreme Court's application of Batson was objectively unreasonable | |
| 21-1082 | Tarresse Leonard v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-04 | Denied | criminal-procedure essential-element harmless-error indictment judicial-review motion-to-dismiss structural-error | Whether the erroneous denial of a timely raised motion to dismiss an indictment omitting an essential element is structural error requiring dismissal … | |
| 21-6931 | Tom Iles White, III v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify structural-error | Defendant's right to testify in habeas corpus proceeding |
| 21-993 | Willard Anthony v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2022-01-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10) | confrontation-clause confrontation-right due-process fair-trial harmless-error presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-testimony structural-error witness-credibility | Whether the presumption of innocence, the right to confrontation, and the right to a fair trial permit a court to allow the grand jury prosecutor to t… |
| 21-6772 | Jerry Lee Canfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-06 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-error due-process harmless-error jury-bias jury-impartiality jury-selection structural-error voir-dire | Whether the Fifth Circuit's newly created rule under the principle of 'interpretati logica' allowing rehabilitation of a biased juror is contrary to t… |
| 21-6607 | In Re Andrew Thomas Burns, Sr. | 2021-12-14 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-error waiver-inquiry | Did the trial court's failure to conduct an affirmative waiver inquiry prior to ordering petitioner to proceed pro se at trial, deny petitioner of his… | |
| 21-871 | Louisiana v. David H. Brown | Louisiana | 2021-12-13 | Denied | capital-case death-penalty faretta-right faretta-v-california mccoy-v-louisiana self-representation structural-error trial-counsel | Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court erred in vacating the three death sentences | |
| 21-6386 | Antjuan Sydnor v. California | California | 2021-11-23 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights counsel-absence criminal-prosecution critical-stage jury-deliberations right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error | In a criminal prosecution, if a trial court permits the prosecutor and counsel for a codefendant to present supplemental arguments to the jury during … |
| 21-714 | Judy Morrow Wright, et vir v. Matthew G. Buyer, et al. | Tennessee | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Response Waived | appearance-of-bias constitutional-rights due-process judicial-neutrality judicial-recusal recusal structural-error structural-right williams-precedent williams-v-pennsylvania | Whether the Tennessee Supreme Court's Rule 10B unconstitutionally impedes Petitioners' structural right to an impartial judge |
| 21-6123 | Antonio Rene Martinez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error presentence-report rule-32 sentencing structural-error | Whether the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's claim under Rule 32(i)(1)(A) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure conflicts with the Six… |
| 21-5991 | Ricky Allen Fackrell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-18 | Denied | IFP | administration-of-justice appellate-record capital-cases federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-10 right-to-appeal structural-error | Whether an unrecorded conference in chambers is a 'hearing or trial,' or 'proceeding,' under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 10(c) |
| 21-5826 | Armel Baxter v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-09-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt structural-error | Whether an erroneous reasonable-doubt instruction that would be structural error on direct appeal warrants a presumption of prejudice when raised in a… |
| 21-5614 | In Re James Williams | 2021-09-08 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether a pro se petitioner who is unable to afford professional legal representation can be denied the right to self-representation and have unwanted… | |
| 21-5566 | Razhden Shulaya v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights counsel-interference due-process judicial-bias jury-instruction jury-instructions right-to-counsel structural-error trial-procedure | Whether the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York provided a constitutionally flawed trial and committed structural error… |
| 21-5450 | Richard K. Cook v. Todd Wasmer, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | accomplice-instruction amendment-violation constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process evidence-planting ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error | Did the lower courts commit reversible error by refusing to order an evidentiary hearing surrounding a pattern of misconduct and evidence planting by … |
| 21-5327 | Mark Anthony Gonzalez v. Texas | Texas | 2021-08-09 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure juror-substitution jury-deliberation jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure unanimous-verdict | Whether a trial court's failure to instruct a reconstituted jury to deliberate anew after a juror substitution violates the Sixth Amendment right to a… |
| 21-5282 | Tyrius Green v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | IFP | due-process eyewitness-identification jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error sullivan-v-united-states trial-by-jury trial-procedure witness-identification | Whether giving a jury charge on eye witness identification that lacked a factual basis in the evidence produced at trial was contrary to clearly estab… |
| 20-8119 | Peter Anthony Ciraulo v. Oregon | Oregon | 2021-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error unanimous-verdict | Whether a trial court commits structural error for purposes of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, when the trial court instructs a… |
| 20-8126 | Charles Wesley Kincheloe v. Oregon | Oregon | 2021-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error unanimous-verdict | Does a trial court commit structural error for purposes of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, when the trial court instructs a jur… |
| 20-8105 | Daniel Littlepage v. First District Court of Appeals of Ohio | Ohio | 2021-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review due-process judicial-bias new-trial structural-error trial-procedure | Is a Petitioner Entitled to a New Trial when the 'Bias' and 'Partial' behavior of a Trial Judge exceeds the Requirement to prove 'Structural' Error? |
| 20-1523 | Rolando Cruz, Jr., Marc Hernandez, and Roscoe Villega v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-30 | Denied | constitutional-rights drug-conspiracy integrity-of-courts jury-selection plain-error-review public-interest sentencing structural-error substantial-rights | Whether a structural error that is both obvious and affects substantial rights can be excused on plain error review due to the potential costs of retr… | |
| 20-7889 | Anthony Sistrunk v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-29 | Denied | IFP | plain-error plain-error-review public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment structural-error sua-sponte-closure voir-dire waller-v-georgia | Whether the violation of the public trial provisions of the Sixth Amendment constitutes a structural error requiring automatic reversal under the plai… |
| 20-1512 | Gregory C. Dacanay v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-04-28 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury impartiality jury-selection law-enforcement sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether law enforcement officers can be fair and impartial jury members in a criminal trial |
| 20-7868 | Douglas Kelly v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | IFP | alleyne-precedent automatic-reversal direct-appeal drug-conspiracy jury-selection prejudice public-trial rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement structural-error | Whether, in the context of a structural error involving a public trial violation during jury selection where no trial objection was made but the error… |
| 20-7865 | Terry Lee Froman v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-04-27 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment constitutional-duty death-penalty fair-trial jury-selection racial-bias structural-error voir-dire | Does trial counsel have an obligation to conduct a meaningful and comprehensive voir dire as it relates to racial bias, explicit or implicit, of juror… |
| 20-7808 | James R. W. Mitchell v. California | California | 2021-04-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | client-autonomy mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment structural-error voluntary-manslaughter | Did defense counsel's alternative argument for voluntary manslaughter in defiance of petitioner's wishes violate petitioner's Sixth Amendment right of… |
| 20-7661 | Rodney Russell v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review due-process ex-parte-communication juror-bias juror-dishonesty jury-selection motive structural-error | Whether the district court violated due process by appointing the Federal Defender to represent a juror and inform the juror of the legitimacy of the … |
| 20-7573 | Merrickio D. Harris v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process fundamental-fairness judicial-review self-representation structural-error | Whether the Nebraska State Courts committed structural error and violated the Petitioner's Federal Constitutional Rights to Self-Representation and Du… |
| 20-7470 | Pablo Ramon Guerrero v. Nevada | Nevada | 2021-03-16 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence batson critical-stage cronic due-process fundamental-fairness mccollum presumed-prejudice strickland structural-error trial-procedure | Whether a Batson-McCollum proven violation qualifies as a structural error |
| 20-1256 | Malcolm A. French v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure impartial-jury juror-bias juror-mendacity mcdonongh-test right-to-jury standard-of-review structural-error | When a criminal defendant claims the structural error of deprivation of the right to trial by an impartial jury, is that claim appropriately reviewed … |
| 20-7394 | Joaquin Ramos De La Cruz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split divisibility felon-in-possession guilty-plea knowledge-requirement sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation structural-error | Is it structural error when a defendant pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon without being advised that one element is knowledge of his s… |
| 20-7330 | James Marcus Lloyd, III v. J. Hutchinson, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | IFP | 922(g) actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance rehaif right-to-trial structural-error | whether-petitioner's-constitutional-right-to-due-process-was-denied |
| 20-7339 | Kevin Antonio Watson v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-03-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-interpretation court-procedure critical-stage due-process federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-review right-to-counsel right-to-effective-assistance-of-counsel structural-error | Whether trial counsel's absence during the Commonwealth's witness direct examination constitutes a critical stage of the trial and a structural error |
| 20-7251 | Eric Lyle Williams v. Texas | Texas | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process fair-trial prosecutor-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal structural-error | Does the participation of a conflicted and recused prosecutor in a death penalty trial violate due process? |
| 20-7169 | Lawrence Nunley v. Richard Brown | Seventh Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-witness criminal-trial evidence-admission ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error prosecutor structural-error testimony trial-counsel witness-testimony | Was trial counsel ineffective for silently acquiescing to the structural error, allowing undue emphasis to be placed on the critical testimony, and gu… |
| 20-7036 | Emmanuel Ravell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-04 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | automatic-relief circuit-split criminal-law felon-in-possession firearm-possession guilty-plea plain-error rehaif structural-error | Whether a guilty plea to possessing a firearm as a felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) and 924(a) that was entered before Rehaif v. United State… |
| 20-6984 | Ralph Frank Esposito, Jr. v. Arizona | Arizona | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression structural-error witness-testimony | Whether the State of Arizona violated the Defendant's rights to due process under the 5th Amendment of the United States Constitution and under specif… |
| 20-6869 | Tavarius D. Radford v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | courtroom-closure direct-appeal ineffective-assistance partial-closure public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error waller-v-georgia weaver-v-massachusetts | whether-public-trial-right-violated |
| 20-6793 | Curtis Parks v. Willis Chapman, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus post-conviction procedural-default structural-error | Whether a petitioner in post-conviction proceedings asserting a procedurally defaulted structural error can demonstrate prejudice by showing that the … |
| 20-6802 | Noel Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | automatic-reversal constitutional-defect criminal-liability criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process guilty-plea sentencing-enhancement structural-error | If a criminal defendant pleading guilty to a drug conspiracy is required to admit to an enhancing drug quantity as part of his guilty plea but has bee… |
| 20-838 | Kim Blandino v. Nevada, et al. | Nevada | 2020-12-22 | Denied | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise impartial-judge judicial-impartiality structural-error | Whether a criminal defendant's right to an impartial judge under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments requires correction before trial or conviction | |
| 20-6624 | Aaron Michael Aguilera v. California | California | 2020-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-rights due-process fair-trial harmless-error jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence right-to-testify structural-error | Right-to-testify |
| 20-6603 | In Re Antonio Akel | 2020-12-10 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus mandamus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of mandamus to compel the court to provide the peti… | |
| 20-701 | James Calvert v. Texas | Texas | 2020-11-20 | Denied | Relisted (6) | capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment mental-competency right-to-counsel structural-error | Whether the Constitution prevents a State from allowing a defendant to represent himself in a capital case when the defendant is mentally competent to… |
| 20-6373 | Cordarrius Bonds v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession knowledge-of-status plain-error plea-bargaining sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-precedent structural-error | Whether a defendant who pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm is entitled to automatic plain-error reversal when the plea was neithe… |
| 20-6199 | Jacob Townley Hernandez v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-03 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (11)IFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim counsel-communication gag-order habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-order trial-procedure | Whether a trial court's unjustified gag order prohibiting defense counsel from discussing a critical witness's declaration with the defendant violates… |
| 20-6020 | Nasser Mohamad Bazzi v. Michigan | Michigan | 2020-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interpreter-rights interpreters sixth-amendment structural-error | Was the Arabic-speaking appellant denied effective assistance of counsel during critical stages of the proceedings, for which prejudice is presumed, w… |
| 20-5852 | Robert Louis Brandon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-30 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review automatic-reversal circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea prejudice-inquiry rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states structural-error | Is a district court's error under Rehaif v. United States a structural error that warrants automatic reversal of a guilty plea? |
| 20-5824 | Trenard Caldwell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-28 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit fourth-circuit guilty-plea plea-withdrawal rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation structural-error | Whether a defendant's guilty plea to a violation of 18 U.S.C. §922(g) is reversible error per se where the plea was neither knowing nor voluntary due … |
| 20-5773 | William C. McGee v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act criminal-procedure essential-element judicial-determination jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether omitting an essential element of the crime in both the indictment and jury instructions may be reviewed for harmlessness |
| 20-5775 | Natalie Angeles v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure harm-analysis judicial-coercion presentence-report sentencing structural-error | Does a district court coerce the Defendant to withdraw her objections to findings in the Presentence Report where the court informs the Defendant that… |
| 20-5619 | James Allen Minyard v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | competency-hearing due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment harmless-error prejudice structural-error trial-rights | Whether the trial court violated the petitioner's due process right to a fair trial by failing to hold a competency hearing despite a bona fide doubt … |
| 20-5598 | Gary Richardson v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process family-member impartial-jury jury-selection sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether a trial judge commits structural error violating a defendant's Sixth Amendment and due process rights to an impartial and independent jury by … |
| 20-5489 | Rodney Lavalais v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | 2k2.1(b)(4)(a) appellate-review due-process guilty-plea plain-error-review plea-voluntariness prejudice sentencing-guidelines stolen structural-error | When a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made, is automatic reversal required? |
| 20-171 | Isaac L. Hobbs v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-17 | Denied | Relisted (3) | 18-usc-922 constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea knowledge-of-status statutory-interpretation structural-error | Does a constitutionally invalid guilty plea resulting from the government's failure to inform a defendant of the knowledge-of-status element of 18 U.S… |
| 20-5269 | Amadeo Valls v. Florida | Florida | 2020-08-05 | Denied | IFP | acquittal burglary criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea structural-error | Whether due process prohibits Florida from excluding mens rea instruction from burglary charges or whether it is structural error for trial courts to … |
| 20-5173 | Juan Domingo Velazquez v. Texas | Texas | 2020-07-24 | Denied | IFP | court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial plea-of-not-guilty right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error | Was it structural error that violated Petitioner's Sixth Amendment autonomy rights when Petitioner's court-appointed counsel conceded his client's gui… |
| 20-5078 | Vagan Adzhemyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | contested-element contested-elements due-process federal-kidnapping-statute harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions kidnapping-statute sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether the Sixth Amendment allows a district court to refuse to instruct jurors on the only contested element of the federal kidnapping statute |
| 20-5050 | Ezra Leslie v. New York | New York | 2020-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct reversal sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether the defendant was denied his Sixth Amendment right to choose his own defense and his due process right to a fair trial due to trial counsel's … |
| 19-8836 | Bobby Ray Culpepper v. Texas | Texas | 2020-06-26 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias judicial-error legal-remedy prejudicial-error standing structural-error trial-procedure | Was Petitioner Denied a Fair Trial, or was Petitioner's Trial a Result of Structural Errors of Due Process |
| 19-8816 | Willie Edward Blackshire v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-25 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | circuit-split constitutional-validity due-process guilty-plea henderson-v-morgan rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states structural-error | Whether a guilty plea is structural error? |
| 19-8724 | Michael Garry v. Trane Company | Wisconsin | 2020-06-17 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure court-procedure evidence-review federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-procedures mandate-rules mootness newly-discovered-evidence procedural-error structural-error | whether-the-wisconsin-supreme-court-contravened-appellate-procedure |
| 19-8730 | Westley Kennedy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment adversarial-process conflict-of-interest guilty-plea right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error | Did the denial of Westley Kennedy's right to conflict-free counsel constitute a structural error or a breakdown of the adversarial process that requir… |
| 19-8690 | Jimmy Lee Wheeler v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-review sentencing statutory-interpretation structural-error | Whether due process was circumvented |
| 19-8555 | James Troiano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states structural-error | Whether Rehaif error is structural and requires automatic reversal, or is subject to harmless error review |
| 19-8522 | Richard Felton v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2020-05-22 | Denied | IFP | common-law due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-waiver retroactive-application rogers-v-tennessee structural-error | Did the Massachusetts Appeals Court deny a defendant due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-8411 | Charles Burton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether mailing a verdict to a criminal defendant through his counsel in violation of the Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment and Federal Criminal Rule o… |
| 19-8275 | Robert L. Swinton v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automatic-exclusion complex-motion due-process pretrial-detention prior-conviction selective-prosecution sixth-amendment speedy-trial structural-error | Was there error in the U.S. Sixth Amendment Speedy Trial and Speedy Trial Act assessment of this case? |
| 19-8176 | Homer Lawrence Lane v. Alabama | Alabama | 2020-04-02 | Denied | IFP | appellate-procedure constitutional-claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas legal-preclusion procedural-bar state-law state-rule structural-error | Whether the State of Alabama may impose a state procedural bar rule to preclude a structural error claim |
| 19-8082 | Altius Willix v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concurrent-sentence concurrent-sentence-doctrine criminal-procedure double-jeopardy duplicitous-indictment fifth-amendment multiplicious-charges sixth-amendment structural-error | Is an indictment considered duplicitous or multiplicious when it charges 2 counts occurring out of the same sequence or events that led to one episode… |
| 19-8033 | In Re Jonathan A. Hampton | 2020-03-18 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instructions lesser-included-offense prosecutorial-appeal state-law structural-error | Does the California Supreme Court's holding in People v. Breverman (1998) inadvertently impose an unlawful state of ambiguity when faced with the fede… | |
| 19-7943 | J. H. v. E. R. S. | Colorado | 2020-03-11 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review child-custody constitutional-facts constitutional-liberty de-novo-review due-process equal-protection parental-rights plain-error structural-error termination termination-of-parental-rights | Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses require application of the plain error doctrine and independent de novo review of constitutional … |
| 19-7964 | Varis R. Aizupitis v. Delaware | Delaware | 2020-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-client-privilege confidential-materials constitutional-authority criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defect criminal-process defense-counsel due-process federal-judiciary federal-jurisdiction ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strategic-intentions structural-defect structural-error | Whether the release of confidential materials by defense counsel creates a structural defect in a criminal process where the release is contrary to th… |
| 19-7789 | Steven Klein v. California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-26 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof cage-v-louisiana criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error sullivan-v-louisiana | Whether the trial court erred by overruling Klein's objection to prosecution's misstated of the burden of proof during closing arguments |
| 19-7792 | In Re David Lopez | 2020-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-3231 actual-innocence cause-and-effect-doctrine constitutional-violation criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the government's defense, jury instructions, and denial of counsel were prejudicial to the defendant | |
| 19-7770 | In Re Marcus Williams | 2020-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation constitutional-violations deception-by-counsel due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea plea-agreement pre-trial-acts-and-omissions pre-trial-counsel structural-error | Whether the pre-trial acts and omissions made by Marcus Williams' counsel constituted ineffective assistance of counsel | |
| 19-7671 | Daquan Ossie Bradley v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2020-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-law court-trial due-process judicial-review standard-of-review structural-error sullivan-v-louisiana trial-procedure | Whether a court-trial verdict that is based on a constitutionally-deficient burden of proof is structural error under Sullivan v. Louisiana, 508 U.S. … |
| 19-7625 | Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2020-02-12 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether sentencing errors were corrected by appeals court on direct appeal without defense counsel, and whether there was a constitutional denial of c… |
| 19-7018 | Scott Ray Bishop v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-12-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony personal-knowledge structural-error technical-element testimony | Whether the exclusion of a defendant's testimony based on first-hand, personal knowledge of a technical element of the offense charged is structural e… |
| 19-6907 | Robert Hendricks v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error criminal-trial due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-admission harmless-error racial-bias structural-error | Isn't the erroneous admission of racially charged prejudicial evidence a structural error requiring automatic reversal or, at a minimum, one that requ… |
| 19-6860 | In Re Lee Hall | 2019-12-04 | Denied | IFP | biased-juror capital-case capital-punishment due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas habeas-corpus habeas-review juror-bias original-jurisdiction structural-error | Whether the structural error of service of by biased juror in a capital case, discovered on the eve of execution, presents extraordinary circumstances… | |
| 19-709 | Mako One Corporation, et al. v. Cedar Rapids Bank and Trust Company | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-remedy remand reversal structural-error | When a Circuit Court finds opposing counsel has an actual and serious conflict of interest in a civil case, should the Court view the conflict as a 's… |
| 19-6659 | In Re Arturo Rodriguez Ornalez | 2019-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations rule-11 sentencing structural-error | Whether Constitution and statutory provisions and Rule 11 violations may have rendered Arturo Rodriguez Ornalez's sentence and conviction constitution… | |
| 19-6543 | Peter Gakuba v. Michelle Neese | Seventh Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing structural-error structural-errors | Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's denial of habeas corpus relief, involving issues of due-process, equ… |
| 19-6445 | Lewellyn Charles Cox, IV, aka Sho, aka Showtime, aka Showtyme v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance right-to-self-representation self-representation self-representation-at-sentencing sentencing structural-error | Whether denial of a right to self-representation during sentencing is subject to harmless error analysis or structural error |
| 19-6189 | Lewis Brown v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure clear-error due-process judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation sixth-circuit standing structural-error | Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when it committed clear error of judgment, by relying on clearly erroneous findings of fac… |
| 19-6123 | Castor Quintaires Gonzales v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence appellate-review court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment mandate-recall presumption-of-innocence structural-error | Does the Fifth Amendment compel a court of appeals to remedy its inadvertent affirmance of unrecognized structural error that was apparent from the re… |
| 19-6096 | Jerry Simmons v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | biased-judge constructive-denial constructive-denial-of-assistance-of-counsel criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-bias right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense right-to-self-representation self-representation sixth-amendment structural-error structural-error-doctrine | Whether the decision by the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals contrary to, or involve an unreasonable application of, clearly established F… |
| 19-6080 | Marcus H. v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2019-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent indigent-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-discretion | Was the indigent petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to have appointed counsel represent him at his criminal jury trial violated when the trial court f… |
| 19-6073 | Glen T. Jones, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-interpretation plain-error structural-error | Whether the state court's harmlessness determination is subject to habeas corpus review under Brecht v. Abrahamson |
| 19-5998 | Eric Matthew Frein v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-09-19 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure harmless-error police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-integrity | When the Sixth Amendment right to counsel has attached, do efforts by police and prosecutors to physically prevent counsel from intervening in his cli… |
| 19-330 | Harshad Shah v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bribery-trial civil-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury plain-error-review racial-animus sixth-amendment structural-error trial-by-jury | Is the use of racial animus by the government in a bribery trial a structural error and a denial of the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury? |
| 19-5890 | Fernando Cabral-Varela v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights courtroom-access courtroom-closure criminal-procedure due-process public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error witness-intimidation | Did the judge deprive the Petitioner of his right to a public trial under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? |
| 19-5535 | Julius Omar Robinson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-12 | Denied | IFP | capital-indictment circuit-split death-penalty death-penalty-cases due-process juror-interview juror-interviews post-conviction-relief post-verdict racial-bias structural-error | Whether district courts may validly prohibit death-sentenced inmates from interviewing their trial jurors post-verdict concerning racial bias during d… |
| 19-5319 | William J. Barnes Jr. v. New York | New York | 2019-07-24 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review competency constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insanity-defense mental-capacity mental-competency structural-error trial-procedure | Did the county court deprive the petitioner of his due process and constitutional right to a full and fair impartial determination of his mental capac… |
| 19-5058 | In Re Artur Tchibassa | 2019-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-violation extradition habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-discretion jurisprudence savings-clause statutory-interpretation structural-error | Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by refusing to apply the Reyes-Requena savings clause jurisprudence | |
| 18-9845 | Bradley Joseph Vanzant v. Keith Yordy, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error | Did petitioner make an involuntarily unknown and unintelligent plea through ineffective assistance of counsel and violations of his 6th Amendment righ… |
| 18A1350 | Yuzef Abramov v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-21 | Presumed Complete | counsel-of-choice fair-trial gonzalez-lopez retained-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice is violated when a district court denies a timely request to substitute retained coun… | |
| 18-9691 | Dwayne Lee Stallings v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-32-violations criminal-rule false-statement false-statements federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure obstruction-of-justice plain-error plain-error-analysis sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure standard-of-review structural-error | Whether the Court's plain error analysis is properly applied to violations of Fed. R. Crim. P. 32(i)(1)(A), and, if so, whether such violations are st… |
| 18-9614 | Rick Allen Rhoades v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-12 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment capital-murder due-process jury-consideration jury-instructions mitigating-evidence punishment-phase structural-error trial-procedure | Is the exclusion of relevant mitigating evidence during the punishment phase of a capital murder trial structural error, when the wrongfully excluded … |
| 18-1528 | Jake Paul Heiney v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-06-10 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-finding-of-guilt jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error sullivan-v-louisiana winship | Improper-jury-instruction-on-element-of-offense |
| 18-9554 | In Re Billie J. Allen | 2019-06-05 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | alabama-v-shelton arizona-v-fulminante capital-case capital-punishment due-process gideon-v-wainwright habeas-corpus mccoy-v-louisiana non-capital-case right-to-counsel structural-error | Whether McCoy V Louisiana, 136 S. Ct. 1500 (2018) is a new 'watershed rule | |
| 18-9335 | Francisco Illarramendi v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bail bail-standard civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal standard-of-review structural-error summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton | Whether lower courts should follow the Supreme Court's mandate in Tolan v. Cotton when ruling on a motion for summary affirmance |
| 18-9241 | Sealed Appellant v. Sealed Appellee | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attorney-client-privilege attorney-representation civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-investigation criminal-procedure cuyler-v-sullivan due-process prosecutorial-ethics right-to-counsel strickland-v-washington structural-error | When a lawyer is named as a suspect in the same criminal investigation as his client, should lower courts review the conflict under Cuyler v. Sullivan… |
| 18-1393 | William T. Walters v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-05-07 | Denied | criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing grand-jury-secrecy presumption-of-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct rule-6(e) rule-6e-violation structural-error | Whether systematic and pervasive government misconduct that violates Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e) is structural error giving rise to a pres… | |
| 18-9028 | Lochild Reed v. James Flood, Jr., Acting Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation constitutional-violations due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-relief structural-error structural-errors | Did the District Court err by not granting an evidentiary hearing to address Constitutional Violations |
| 18-8984 | Nathan Caetano v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa burden-of-proof civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-incompetence ninth-circuit-precedent ninth-circuit-test retrospective-competency-determination retrospective-determination state-action structural-error | Whether a retrospective competency determination where mental incompetence is the impediment is permissible under AEDPA(4)(B) |
| 18-1306 | Fred Anderson, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Amici (3) | advisory-jury capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty florida-supreme-court harmless-error hurst-v-florida judge-sentencing jury-trial jury-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether a judge-imposed death sentence that violates Hurst is a structural error requiring reversal of the sentence |
| 18-8482 | Lourdes Margarita Garcia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brecht-standard constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage Cronic cronic-rule cronic-standard defense-counsel direct-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit hybrid-error prejudice structural-error trial-procedure | Did the Eleventh Circuit err by holding this 'startling, intentional' violation of the defendant's constitutional and statutory rights did not constit… |
| 18-8453 | Dusty Ray Spencer v. Florida | Florida | 2019-03-19 | Denied | IFP | binding-precedent capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process federal-constitutional-rights jury-instructions jury-responsibility jury-verdict sentencing-process structural-error unanimous-verdict | Whether structural error occurs when the jury fails to return a verdict as to multiple critical elements necessary to impose the death penalty |
| 18-8381 | Christopher D. Schneider v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | censorship courthouse-access due-process Equal-access first-amendment hobsons-choice jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge jurisdiction-over-individual prior-restraint standing Structural-error | Did the Ninth Circuit Court and Tax Court lack jurisdiction over Christopher David Schneider? |
| 18-8300 | Paul Glen Everett v. Florida | Florida | 2019-03-06 | Denied | IFP | capital-case capital-punishment constitutional-defect harmless-error harmless-error-review hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-error structural-defect structural-error trial-mechanism | Whether the Sixth Amendment error identified by this Court in Hurst v. Florida is a structural defect that infects the entire constitutionality of the… |
| 18-8252 | Freddie Taylor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence constitutional-rights conviction due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions mistrial structural-error | Whether the United States District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the petitioner relief pursuant to the issues raised in a petiti… |
| 18-7701 | Christopher D. Schneider v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | conspiracy courthouse-access discrimination due-process falsification first-amendment seventh-amendment structural-error transcript trial | Is it a denial of fundamental due process, petitioner's First and Seventh Amendment rights, and a 'structural error' for federal Judge John A. Mendez … |
| 18-7707 | Antonio Anguiano v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-justice-act defense-counsel defense-function due-process independent-counsel judicial-control sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether, in upholding structural error flowing from judicial control over the defense function under the Criminal Justice Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3006A, the … |
| 18-7497 | Carl Burnie Wellborn v. Shane Jackson, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fair-cross-section fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness habeas-corpus prejudice procedural-default sixth-amendment structural-error | Can reasonable jurists debate whether habeas petitioners asserting procedurally defaulted fair cross-section claims must show actual prejudice or that… |
| 18-7436 | Jeffrey Nicholas Aase v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest criminal-defense cuyler-v-sullivan federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-integrity prosecutorial-ethics right-to-counsel structural-error | Did the Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit err in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-7344 | Tony Dickinson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment criminal-defense entrapment fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pre-indictment-delay sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether the 6th Amendment permits the introduction of a criminal defendant's pre-indictment delay caused by the government as substantive evidence of … |
| 18-7254 | Alvin E. Thomas v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment actual-prejudice automatic-reversal collateral-review counsel-of-choice fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error | Is automatic reversal required where a defendant was denied counsel of choice due to the ineffective assistance of counsel? |
| 18-7130 | Matthew G. Alden, Jr. v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-charges criminal-charges-text-messages criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt reasonable-doubt right-to-acquittal structural-error text-message-evidence text-messages | Whether the government's use of a preponderance-of-the-evidence standard to prove that the defendant sent text messages violates the defendant's right… |
| 18-7083 | Sylvia Ogbenyeanu Walter-Eze, aka Sylvia O. Okam v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conflict-of-interest constitutional-standards constructive-denial-of-counsel counsel-conflict critical-stage fundamental-fairness ninth-circuit presumed-prejudice structural-error waiver | Whether the Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit erred in not applying the per se presumed prejudice rule |
| 18-6899 | John Uranga, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | IFP | certiorari circuit-split circuit-splits constitutional-error constitutional-violations de-minimis federal-courts federal-law implied-bias intra-circuit-split juror-bias structural-error structural-errors | Whether the implied bias doctrine constitutes clearly established federal law |
| 18-6775 | Edward Joseph Kehoe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment harmless-error impartial-judge judicial-error racial-bias racial-discrimination reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure structural-error warrantless-search | Whether the clearly improper use of a person's race by a judge to support a finding of reasonable suspicion justifying a warrantless search and seizur… |
| 18-6723 | Robert Noel v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-bias racial-discrimination recusal structural-error | when-the-district-judge-has-a-direct-personal-substantial-pecuniary-interest-in-the-outcome |
| 18-605 | Mitchell J. Stein v. California | California | 2018-11-08 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-litigation civil-procedure constitutional-law declaratory-relief due-process due-process-clause harmless-error judicial-review prejudice structural-error | When a fundamental structural error results in an invalid judgment against a civil litigant in violation of the Due Process Clause, is the error per s… |
| 18-6557 | Casey O'Dell v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rule-11 due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure plea-bargaining plea-colloquy structural-error united-states-v-gonzalez-lopez | Whether the Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(b)(1)(N) rule was violated by the inadequacy of the change of plea colloquy? |
| 18-6503 | Thomas P. Richard, Sr. v. District Attorney of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-10-31 | Dismissed | IFP | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus prohibited-punishment section-1983 standing structural-error | Did the Courts below commit structural error by usurping Law to improperly re-characterize a Class Action §1983 Complaint as Habeas Corpus |
| 18-6520 | Jesus L. Arnett v. Patrick Covello, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-31 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process false-conviction forged-bills ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause sentencing speedy-trial speedy-trial-rights structural-error | Should Petitioner be granted a Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-6316 | Willie Gene Wilks, Jr. v. Ohio | Ohio | 2018-10-15 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof due-process false-testimony grand-jury indictment jury-instructions plain-error-review prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error | Is a defendant denied due process when a prosecutor presents and relies upon false testimony in order to secure an indictment in grand jury proceeding… |
| 18-6305 | Igor Polshyn v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence reversal right-to-testify structural-error testimony | Whether preventing a defendant from testifying on the sole disputed element of an offense, his subjective intent, amounts to structural constitutional… |
| 18-6283 | Brent Douglas Cole v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-safeguards fifth-amendment grand-jury individual-rights liberty prosecutorial-interference prosecutorial-misconduct separation-of-powers structural-error structural-protections | Whether the indictment in this case should have been dismissed because the structural protections of the grand jury designed to safeguard individual r… |
| 18-6190 | Simone Swenson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | berger-v-united-states brady-v-maryland brady-violation deference-to-district-court due-process fifth-circuit-review indictment-dismissal judicial-deference judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error supervisory-powers | Did the Fifth Circuit err in reinstating the indictment despite the district court's finding that the prosecutor's misconduct destroyed the integrity … |
| 18-6070 | Carlos Cornwell v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2018-09-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bracy-v-gramley expert-testimony forensic-evidence hinton-v-alabama ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington structural-error | Whether trial counsel provided ineffective assistance in a case dependent on forensic evidence |
| 18-360 | Ronald Bergrin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response Waived | competency-test conflicts-of-interest counsel-conflict criminal-investigation due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,competency,conflict dusky-standard dusky-v-united-states right-to-counsel stand-trial standard-of-review structural-error | Does the competency test established in Dusky v. United States permit a finding of incompetency based on the accused's unwillingness to assist counsel… |
| 18-6046 | Michael Skillern v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | access-to-counsel constitutional-error due-process extraterritorial-effect geders-v-united-states harmless-error mail-fraud perry-v-leeke sixth-amendment structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-recess wire-fraud | did-the-district-court-violate-the-sixth-amendment |
| 18-6044 | Richard James Beasley v. Ohio | Ohio | 2018-09-19 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review attorney-general due-process familial-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal structural-error williams-v-pennsylvania | Does the right to due process require a finding of structural error where one member of the reviewing court is the son of the elected attorney general… |
| 18-5807 | Peter R. Rubens v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | IFP | brady brady-violation cross-examination due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment structural-error witness-intimidation | Does Webb v. Texas apply when it is the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office who systematically threatens, coerces, intimidates, and actually off… |
| 18-239 | Arick Justin Rinaldo v. Bryan Mahan, et al. | Colorado | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights colorado-supreme-court-rules court-access due-process equal-protection filing-system pro-se pro-se-litigant structural-error | Whether the deprivation of access to Colorado's ICCES filing system for pro se litigants caused reversible structural error and discriminated against … |
| 18-5653 | Pamela Lynn Bravebull v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cross-examination due-process evidence-rules expert-witness fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment sixth-amendment structural-error venireperson | Whether the prosecutor's elicitation of evidence through a colloquy with a venireperson violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to cross-examin… |
| 18-5603 | In Re Mark Kilmartin | 2018-08-16 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-trial sentencing structural-error | Whether a criminal defendant can be convicted and sentenced to life for a separate, new and distinct crime without a jury trial | |
| 18-5289 | Stephen Dale Barbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | IFP | client-autonomy ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana post-conviction prejudice prejudice-standard sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington structural-error | Did the Fifth Circuit impose an improper ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard, which required him to show prejudice, to Barbee's claim that his … |
| 18-5181 | Michael Gordon Reynolds v. Florida | Florida | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment hurst-error jury-instructions ring-v-arizona structural-error | Whether the Florida Supreme Court's plurality decision rejecting Mr. Reynolds' Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320 (1985) claim is error. The jury w… |
| 18-5081 | Alvin Leroy Morton v. Florida | Florida | 2018-07-03 | Denied | IFP | binding-precedent capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing federal-constitutional-rights judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-responsibility jury-role sentencing-procedure structural-error unanimous-verdict | Whether structural error occurs when the jury fails to return a verdict as to multiple critical elements necessary to impose the death penalty |
| 18-5053 | Andres A. Lopez-Martinez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-right criminal-procedure defense-presentation due-process harmless-error judicial-review police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense structural-error | Whether the denial of a defendant's constitutional right to present a defense should be considered structural error that is not subject to harmless er… |
| 18-5020 | In Re Lewis Brown | 2018-06-28 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-violation due-process harmless-error judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal standard-of-review structural-error | Whether a judge who is named as an adverse party opponent is prohibited from presiding over the proceedings in which he is a defendant, and whether th… |