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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6354 Shelben T. Curtis v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP ineffective-assistance jury-instruction retroactive-application sixth-amendment sudden-heat voluntary-manslaughter Whether the lower courts unreasonably applied Brantley retroactively when deciding if counsel's ineffectiveness denied Sixth Amendment rights due to i…
18-9825 Shepell Orr v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 14th-amendment-equal-protection 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-seizure 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-due-process 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-fair-trial 8th-amendment-cruel-punishment circuit-court-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sudden-heat Whether the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision conflicts with another circuit court decision and a state court decision, and whether the petitione…