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