trial-continuance
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6156 | Thomas J. Zajac v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure speedy-trial-act trial-continuance | Speedy Trial Act A. In contradiction of Supreme Court Rule 10, was the appellate court's avoidance of, through modifications to appellant's facts and… |
| 25-5240 | Jason Shortridge v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography computer-evidence expert-witness-disclosure government-disclosure sixth-amendment trial-continuance | I. Whether a district court abuses its discretion by continuing a case following the Government's late disclosure of an expert witness whose testimony… |
| 24-7499 | Rodney Mesquias v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability counsel-preparation ineffective-assistance judicial-standard post-conviction trial-continuance | Did the lower courts err in applying the standard for determining whether a certificate of appealability should issue in a post-conviction proceeding,… |
| 24-213 | Willis Franklin v. California | California | 2024-08-27 | Denied | Response Waived | client-autonomy counsel-of-choice fourteenth-amendment mccoy-v-louisiana sixth-amendment trial-continuance | Was petitioner denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to retained counsel of choice when the trial court failed to continue the trial during… |
| 22-7761 | Aaron Keith v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss speedy-trial statutory-right trial-continuance waiver | Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that petitioner waived any speedy-trial objection |
| 21-7573 | Jean Lynn Lillie v. Iowa | Iowa | 2022-04-08 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-abuse judicial-discretion motion-to-continue standing takings trial-continuance witness-availability | Whether the state government's alleged deceptive or fraudulent practices to obtain monies from American citizens, including through the use of predato… |
| 21-7557 | Maria Andrea Gonzalez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3161 criminal-procedure due-process ends-of-justice federal-district-court findings-of-fact speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation trial-continuance | Does the Speedy Trial Act require specific findings of fact when excluding days from a criminal defendant's speedy trial clock? |
| 21-6126 | Jason A. Tobey v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion pretrial-hearing right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-continuance | When a federal criminal defendant's retained counsel has abandoned him, does a court abuse its discretion by prohibiting the defendant from dischargin… |
| 20-7608 | Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3161 diligent-preparation due-process government-motion speedy-trial-act trial-continuance | Whether the district court violated the Speedy Trial Act |
| 19-7416 | James P. Griffin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion calculation-error civil-procedure continuance criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment financial-penalties forfeiture medical-hardship medical-issues restitution restitution-calculation sentencing sixth-amendment trial-continuance trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether the amount of restitution and forfeiture w | Whether the trial court abused its discretion in denying a continuance due to medical problems |
| 19-5010 | Andrew Nelson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-28 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-924(c) appellate-review continuance criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-52a federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-error prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing substantial-rights trial-continuance vagueness-doctrine | Where the district court erroneously premises its denial of a meritorious, unopposed motion for continuance of the trial on a mistaken belief that the… |
| 18-8046 | Stephen L. Paulmier v. Hawaii | Hawaii | 2019-02-21 | Denied | IFP | bench-trial constitutional-rights due-process family-court family-court-procedure hawaii-family-court-rules jury-trial jury-trial-waiver trial-continuance | Whether the ICA gravely erred in failing to recognize Stephen Paulmier's constitutional rights to due-process,jury-trial |