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25-6744 C. Holmes, aka Cynthia Elaine Collie v. James Kevin Holmes South Carolina 2026-02-06 Pending IFP case-law constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction procedural-rights trial-court I. Jurisdiction Can be Raised at Any Time and Cannot Be Waived II. The Trial Court Stay Should Be Sustained Pending Resolution of Jurisdiction and De…
25-6544 Louis Olivarria v. California California 2026-01-12 Pending IFP appellate-review deliberations impartial-jury juror-dismissal sixth-amendment trial-court What standard applies when appellate courts review a trial court's dismissal of a juror during deliberations to determine whether the dismissal was ba…
25-6191 Duane E. Adams v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP charging-document constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-court WAS ADAMS ' CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS VIOLATED WHEN THE TRIAL COURT CONDUCTED A TRIAL AND ENTERED A JUDGMENT, WITHOUT HAVING SUBJECT MATTE…
25-6158 John Nock v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-11-19 Pending IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court APPOINT SUBSTITUTE 10 TCOnN <S?T'S REFUS AL to nock's SIXTH AMENDMENT URSTrmt VI0LATED MR. representation ? DMENT RIGHT To effective ■noc™sR fifth a…
25-5426 Reginald Bertram Johnson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause constitutional-rights fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-court The following question stems from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' Published Opinion regarding claims asserted by Mr. Johnson. 1. Whether the U…
25-5454 Marquis Luis Rosado v. Florida Florida 2025-08-22 Denied IFP constitutional-violation controlled-substance criminal-law fentanyl-distribution jury-instruction trial-court WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT VIOLATED TO UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY DEVIATING FROM FLORIDA 'S STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTION ON DEATH BY UNLAWFUL DISTRIBUTIO…
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?
25-5094 Awad Mustafa v. HTS Services, Inc., et al. Texas 2025-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-claims jurisdiction supremacy-clause trial-court 1- Whether the state 's trial court has jurisdiction to hear this case with its federal claims, and whether the trial court 's final judgment to dism…
25-5005 Tawsif Tajwar v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP cumulative-error evidence-suppression jury-instructions mental-state sixth-amendment trial-court Whether a determinative response by the trial court to a jury question posed during deliberation regarding a question of fact results in prejudice to …
24-7344 Sheterria Lanelle Jackson v. Florida Florida 2025-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment trial-court Did the trial court err when it denied petitioner's claim that counsel was ineffective for failing to challenge evidence and for failing to file a mot…
24-1091 Christopher Kiely, et al. v. Sherene Fagon, Administrator of the Estate of Zoe Dowdell Second Circuit 2025-04-18 Denied Response Waived interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction qualified-immunity second-circuit trial-court undisputed-facts Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in declining to exercise jurisdiction over Defendants' interlocutory appeal of the trial court's den…
24-6970 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. Nevada 2025-04-11 Denied IFP appellate-authority constitutional-duty federal-jurisdiction manifest-injustice supremacy-clause trial-court Whether the Supremacy Clause justifies a stay once the trial court had been provected and whether a state court of last resort maintains a constitutio…
24-6915 George Valentino Sloan v. Washington Washington 2025-04-02 Denied IFP constitutional-rights continuance due-process judicial-discretion speedy-trial trial-court Did the Trial Court violate the Petitioner's Constitutional right to a speedy trial by denying continuance motions over ten months before trial?
24-6855 Eric Rogers v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP curative-instructions due-process fourteenth-amendment pretrial-conduct trial-court witness-identification Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require a new trial when a witness's in-court identification of the defendant is tainted by su…
24-6332 Andrew Jason Peterson v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2025-01-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP colloquy counsel-denial defendant-rights sequestration-order sixth-amendment trial-court Under the Sixth Amendment, does a defendant forfeit the right to directly challenge the court's order appeal on the grounds of complete actual or cons…
24-6325 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Natasha Katherina Smith Florida 2025-01-16 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process notice-and-opportunity stay-away-order trial-court Did the trial court violate the Petitioner's fundamental right to due process notice and opportunity to be heard, as guaranteed by the 5th and 14th Am…
24-6173 James Louis Lange, II v. Texas Texas 2024-12-18 Denied IFP competency-hearing court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process mental-competency trial-court Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in denying Applicant's contention that the trial court did not conduct a proper competency inquiry, thereb…
24A533 Adeena Weiss-Ortiz v. Carolina Weiss, et al. Florida 2024-12-03 Presumed Complete due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment independent-judgment proposed-judgment trial-court Whether a trial court's verbatim adoption of a proposed judgment submitted by one party, without independent analysis or addressing contrary evidence,…
24-557 David Asa Villarreal v. Texas Texas 2024-11-18 Granted Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court Whether a trial court abridges the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel by prohibiting the defendant and his counsel from discussing the defen…
24-5855 Andrew Fields v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Second Circuit 2024-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-appeal ineffective-counsel legal-procedure trial-court Question not identified.
24-5749 Noel Vincent Thomas v. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-10-11 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appellate-review failure-to-state-claim federal-rules res-judicata sovereign-immunity trial-court Whether the trial court erred in affirming the lower court decision based on failure to state a claim, failure to comply with federal rules, sovereign…
24-5514 Christopher Jensen v. Illinois Illinois 2024-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-law jury-instructions sentencing trial-court Question not identified.
24-253 Avery Curry Archuleta, aka Avery Archuleta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure jury-instruction legal-standard self-defense trial-court unanimity Whether trial courts must instruct juries that self-defense decisions require unanimity
24-5063 Bruce Rowan v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail-conditions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment lower-court trial-court Does a conviction for breach of bail conditions-set by lower court-violate the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, where trial court set bail c…
23-7569 Raymond Woodley v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance multiple-representation sixth-amendment strickland-prejudice strickland-standard sullivan-standard trial-court When counsel alerts the trial court to a conflict of interest not involving multiple representation, and the trial court fails to resolve the conflict…
23-7484 Lorenzo M. Wilson, et ux. v. Ford Motor Company, et al. Alabama 2024-05-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arbitration civil-procedure constitutional-requirement due-process finding-of-fact finding-of-law findings-of-fact findings-of-law motion-to-compel trial-court Does the United States Constitution require the trial court to make a finding of fact and law in the granting or denying a motion to compel arbitratio…
23-6975 D'Amantae Graham v. Ohio Ohio 2024-03-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment sovereign-citizen trial-court Can a trial court deny a criminal defendant the right to self-representation solely because he was designated a sovereign citizen?
23-6903 Glenn Albright v. Will Roberts, Volusia County Tax Collector, et al. Florida 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-law criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto financial-penalty former-offenders judicial-review statutory-interpretation statutory-requirement takings trial-court Whether the trial court erred by finding that a statutory requirement that former offenders must pay $31.25 did not constitute an ex post facto violat…
23-937 Joshua James Duggar v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied alternative-perpetrator complete-defense constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion trial-court trial-court-discretion Does the exclusion of relevant evidence of an alternative perpetrator based on a trial court's conclusion it is too speculative violate a criminal def…
23-6307 Veronica McCluskey v. William Hendricks, et al. California 2023-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure cross-examination due-process fair-hearing jury-trial legal-conduct reversible-error standing trial-court witness-testimony whether-the-trial-court-committed-reversible-error-in-not-granting-respondent-a-jury-trial
23-6293 Shallon Hawkins v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court Did the United States District Court err by denying my claims for procedural default relief under Schlup, Glenn, fundamental fairness, newly discovere…
23-452 Michigan v. Anthony Joseph Veach Michigan 2023-10-30 Denied 6th-amendment child-rape child-victim courtroom-closure public-trial sixth-amendment technicality trial-court trial-procedure victim waller-standard Does the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial require subjecting the child rape victim to an automatic retrial based on a technicality when there a…
23-5882 Walter Lee Merritte v. Circuit Court of Illinois, LaSalle County Illinois 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP case-number civil-procedure criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-authority order-validity procedural-challenge standing trial-court Whether the state trial court's October 29, 1990 order was issued without authority and is void for want of jurisdiction?
23-5702 Ian A. Milaski v. Florida Florida 2023-10-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP arbitrary-and-unreasonable continuance counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court Whether the trial court's arbitrary and unreasonable denial of a continuance violated the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights
23-5505 Jacques Lamar Walker v. Virginia Virginia 2023-08-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment trial-court witness-identification Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in refusing to reverse petitioner Jacques Lamar Walker's convictions
23-5349 Elbert Johnson v. Florida Florida 2023-08-14 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process illegal-sentence judicial-bias judicial-conflict legal-error manifest-injustice sentencing trial-court witness-testimony Whether a circuit court judge's dual role as a witness and sentencer in the same case creates a conflict and reversible error when the judge imposes a…
22-7829 James Platte, Jr. v. Sarah Schroeder, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process hybrid-representation judicial-discretion self-representation standing trial-court Did the trial court's substitution of hybrid representation over self-representation violate petitioners' constitutional rights?
22-7668 Niki Hamidi v. Ike M. Iqbal, et al. California 2023-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights discovery-sanctions due-process pro-se pro-se-litigant trial-court Whether the 1st and 14th Amendment impose a duty on the trial court to inform and provide certain warnings and opportunities to pro se litigants prior…
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
22-1105 Carlo Giuseppe Civelli, et al. v. JPMorgan Chase Securities, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure fifth-circuit notice notice-requirement preservation sua-sponte summary-judgment trial-court Whether an appellate court may sua sponte raise grounds for summary judgment, which were not noticed or preserved in the trial court
22-7399 John Robert Murphy v. Texas Texas 2023-04-28 Denied IFP appellate-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel recusal trial-court Whether a habeas applicant is denied a fair trial in a fair tribunal
22-1012 Janet Austen v. Franklin Herman Maryland 2023-04-18 Denied alimony alimony-calculation appeals appellate-review family-law income-calculation income-determination judicial-discretion marital-dissolution permanent-alimony trial-court Was the appeals court correct in upholding the trial judge's alimony decision despite miscalculating the recipient's monthly income?
22-7225 Andrew Michael Gomez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-inquiry criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining presumption-of-innocence trial-court whether-trial-court-required-to-inquire-into-factual-basis-of-guilty-plea
22-7235 Adam Chism v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-04-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process illegal-sentence interest-of-justice plain-error sentencing trial-court Whether Chism was denied due process of law when plain error was committed by the trial court in imposing an illegal sentence as a matter of law and/o…
22-6714 Wilson Laboriel v. William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern New York Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-substitution due-process effective-assistance federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standard-of-review trial-court Whether the United States Court of Appeals can sanction the district court's recharacterization of a petitioner's claim after such claim has been libe…
22-6681 Shane Swindall Chambers v. Fredeane Artis, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actus-reus constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions mens-rea modus-operandi other-acts-evidence trial-court Whether petitioner was deprived of due process
22-6547 Kashai Jones v. Illinois Illinois 2023-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process illinois-supreme-court judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-selection legal-principles plain-error trial-court wainwright-v-witt Whether the Illinois Supreme Court's rule requiring trial courts to ensure that each juror understands the principles of People v. Zehr, 103 Ill. 2d 4…
22-5955 Christopher Wade v. Florida Florida 2022-11-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel-rights due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel petitioner-claims trial-court Did the petitioner's 14th Amendment rights to effective assistance of counsel under the U.S. Constitution and 6th Amendment due process rights under t…
22-5832 Robert Joseph Schmitt v. Texas Texas 2022-10-13 Denied IFP concurrent-sentences criminal-sentencing cumulation due-process legislative-intent sentence-cumulation statutory-interpretation texas-law texas-legislature trial-court Was respondent denied due process of law when the trial court cumulated respondent's two twenty year sentences when the law in effect enacted by the T…
22-5153 Ramon A. Boyce v. Ohio Ohio 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-authentication prejudice pro-se-defendant self-representation trial-court trial-court-discretion Has a criminal Defendant's constitutional right to self-representation been violated by a trial court, if that court unreasonably delays the Defendant…
21-7879 Stanley Cookston v. Florida Florida 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial retrospective-determination trial-court trial-court-procedure Was Cookston's Constitutional Rights to due-process and fair-trial violated by the trial court making a retrospective determination of competency a ye…
21-7827 Stephen Luis Haro v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process evidence-rule fair-trial government-negligence material-witness sixth-amendment trial-court Whether the trial court deprived Haro of his Sixth Amendment right to confrontation when it admitted at trial the unconfronted, out-of-court testimony…
21-1392 Abigail Simon v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied Response Waived actus-reus certiorari-review criminal-law criminal-sexual-conduct due-process jury-instructions legal-error sexual-assault standard-of-review trial-court Whether the state trial court judge gave erroneous jury instructions on the critical actus reus element of the crime of criminal sexual conduct
21-7729 William Gerard Wallace v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-27 Denied IFP civil-action civil-procedure criminal-charge criminal-procedure due-process florida-state-law judicial-error jurisdiction plea-bargaining standing trial-court Is the Florida State trial court at error when allowing the petitioner to plea out to a non-existing criminal charge that constitutes civil action?
21-7540 In Re Rufus Paul Harris 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right fair-trial in-absentia pro-se-defendant pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment stand-by-counsel trial-court Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a trial court to permit existing stand-by counsel to assume representation for an 'in absentia' pro-se defendant?
21-7338 Chandler Saxton v. Georgia Georgia 2022-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction cumulative-error due-process fair-trial judicial-review medical-issues procedural-error trial-court Whether the cumulative errors in the lower court proceedings, including the failure to properly consider medical issues, resulted in a denial of the p…
21-7244 Walter L. Merritte v. Illinois Illinois 2022-03-03 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-law criminal-information criminal-procedure due-process legal-procedure standing state-court trial-court Whether petitioner's due process rights were violated
21-1184 Joyce D. Hutton, et al. v. Hyundai Motor America, et al. Mississippi 2022-02-28 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict standard-of-review state-court-review supreme-court trial-court Did the Mississippi Supreme Court violate the due process rights of the Petitioners under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United S…
21-949 George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. v. Samuel Randolph Third Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied continuance continuances counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure forfeiture right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court waiver Whether a criminal defendant can forfeit or waive his or her Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice
21-6662 Bryant Christopher Watts v. Texas Texas 2021-12-17 Denied IFP affirmative-defense appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process reasonable-doubt self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court Did the court of appeals err in affirming the trial court where evidence is insufficient to rebut the affirmative defense of self-defense beyond a rea…
21-6505 Bryan Bostick v. United States District of Columbia 2021-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights juror-impartiality jury-bias remmer severance sixth-amendment trial-court voir-dire Was appellant deprived of a meaningful opportunity to demonstrate jury bias after his Sixth Amendment safeguards were violated when the trial court de…
21-6356 Felipe Nieves-Perez v. Texas Texas 2021-11-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment indictment life-sentence motion-to-quash right-to-due-process trial-court Did the trial court violate Mr. Nieves-Perez's right to due process by denying his motion to quash the indictment?
21-6260 Samuel Lee Murchison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review credibility-determination factual-findings findings-of-fact fourth-circuit judicial-procedure standard-of-review trial-court video-evidence Did the Fourth Circuit err by employing a 'particularly defer[entional]' standard of review to findings of fact by the trial court that did not involv…
21-6209 Angelo Cobbins v. Illinois Illinois 2021-11-05 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance evidence-suppression intellectual-capacity motion-to-suppress right-to-counsel trial-court waiver Whether the ruling on the Motion to Suppress was error as it was demonstrated the Petitioner did not possess the intellectual capacity to waive his Cu…
21-6083 James Osgood v. Alabama Alabama 2021-10-26 Denied IFP capital-punishment credibility-determinations death-penalty juror-challenge jury-selection sentencing-determination sixth-amendment trial-court witherspoon-v-illinois Can a reviewing court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, uphold a challenge for cause in a capital case on the basis of a potential juror's persona…
21-201 Nehad Abdelnabi v. Fatma Adel Sekik Tennessee 2021-08-12 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure counsel-withdrawal due-process ex-parte ex-parte-oral-arguments objection opposing-counsels oral-arguments tennessee-court-of-appeals trial-court Did the Tennessee Court of Appeals deny the petitioner's due-process rights when it allowed ex-parte-oral-arguments by opposing-counsels over the peti…
21-150 The Texas Brandon Corporation, Inc., et al. v. EOG Resources, Inc., et al. Texas 2021-08-03 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure corporate-dispute district-court due-process judicial-misconduct oil-and-gas-rights severance standing summary-judgment trespassing trial-court Does Russell Wilson, the judge of the 218th District Court of Karnes County, Texas, list the objections, stated by John R. Chiles IV, and Ronald Wilso…
20-1792 Patricia Earnest, et al. v. Joann Ellison, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied 14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review due-process due-process-clause issue-preservation legal-basis procedural-fairness trial-court Does a court of appeals deny a party due process under the 14th Amendment when it decides the case on a basis never litigated or passed on as a matter…
20-1772 Branden Edward Shumate v. California California 2021-06-22 Denied Response Waived attorney-client-relationship attorney-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure motion-for-new-trial post-conviction-proceedings right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-court whether-a-trial-court-deprives-a-defendant-of-his-right-to-counsel
20-8203 Dasheme Kareme Hosley v. Rick Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-argument due-process harmless-error judicial-ratification jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-misstatement prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court trial-procedure Should courts presume that the jury followed the trial court's correct instruction at the end of trial even if the trial judge expressly ratified a mi…
20-8134 Erik Jimenez v. Texas Texas 2021-05-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 404(b)-exception abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility evidentiary-ruling later-date texas-rule-of-evidence-404(b) texas-rules-of-evidence trial-court trial-procedure Whether the trial court's admissibility of evidence of a later date and not for what defendant was on trial was an abuse of discretion under Texas rul…
20-8109 Walter Crayton v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment assigned-counsel child-pornography civil-rights criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process free-speech legal-representation post-conviction search-and-seizure trial-court Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court erred in affirming the defendant's conviction for possession of child pornography, second offense, de…
20-7954 David Armando Butler v. Florida Florida 2021-05-07 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure direct-appeal due-process florida-district-court standing trial-court written-order Whether the Florida District Court of Appeal denied the petitioner due process in failing to grant him a direct appeal on the merits by virtue of the …
20-7837 Sam Bradford v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence miss-code-ann-47-314 murder plain-error sentencing trial-court Whether Petitioner's (Sam Bradford) due process rights were violated when the trial court committed plain error in imposing a natural life sentence fo…
20-7628 Daryl Fitzgerald Johnson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure standing supreme-court trial-court writ-of-certiorari Did the Supreme Court of Mississippi have jurisdiction to hear a direct appeal from the Court of Appeals where there are two duty members who refused …
20-7535 Gilberto Medina-Jasso v. Georgia Georgia 2021-03-23 Denied IFP child-molestation constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process lesser-included-offense sexual-battery trial-court Whether the trial court's failure to charge sexual battery as a lesser included offense of child molestation deprived Petitioner of a due process righ…
20-7291 John L. Harris v. Illinois Illinois 2021-03-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea non-consensual-reinstatement plea-bargaining plea-opportunity presumption-of-innocence sentencing trial-court Whether a trial court's non-consensual reinstatement of a defendant's guilty plea, without admonishments or the opportunity to plead anew, violates th…
20-7212 Kareem Davenport v. Illinois Illinois 2021-02-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-adequacy defendant-fitness due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency state-statute trial-court Can a defendant waive their right to file a motion to vacate due to being on the wrong medication that heavily sedates them?
20-1020 Donald Chimaobi Okoro v. Texas Texas 2021-01-28 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process fact-finding findings-of-fact judicial-review legal-contradiction procedural-error standard-of-review trial-court trial-court-findings Does an Appellate Court fail to provide meaningful appellate review when it adopts a Trial Court's findings of fact when those findings contradict the…
20-6924 Auturo Beltran v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus plea-agreement sentencing trial-court Whether petitioner's claim that the court's abrupt and arbitrary rejection of his plea agreement deprived him of due process is cognizable in habeas
20-6895 Raheem Jefferson Brennerman v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review liberty second-circuit trial-court Whether the abuse of discretion standard is Constitutionally impermissible where a trial court deprived a criminal defendant of his Constitutional rig…
20-894 Barbara Andersen v. Village of Glenview, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure due-process motion-to-dismiss motion-to-strike standing summary-judgment trial-court Whether the trial court properly disregarded Andersen's Motion to Strike relative to the Motions to Dismiss filed by the Respondents
20-6770 Lelis Ezequiel Treminio-Tobar v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment affirmative-defense criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions trial-court Whether the Fifth Amendment Due Process right to present a defense requires the trial court to instruct the jury that it has a duty to acquit any defe…
20-6638 Raheem Jefferson Brennerman, aka Jefferson R. Brennerman, aka Ayodeji Soetan v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review liberty second-circuit trial-court Whether the abuse of discretion standard is Constitutionally impermissible where the trial court deprived a criminal defendant of his Constitutional r…
20-6338 James H. Smith v. Brian Cook, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-deference confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-charges deficient-performance federal-claim ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-misconstrue trial-court Can an attorney demonstrate deficient performance in representing a client while also facing serious criminal charges in the same court
20-5952 Patrick Muraca v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure jury-instructions jury-request operative-term trial-court Whether a trial court must provide a definition for a term of operative significance when it is requested by a deliberating jury?
20-5899 Bodhisattva Skandha v. William Bates Massachusetts 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion case-dismissal civil-procedure court-jurisdiction dismissal due-process judicial-procedure pure-land-buddhism religious-rights standing trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether The Trial Court Abused Its Discretion By Dismissing The Case?
20-5907 Joseph Peterson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights computer-seizure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech search-and-seizure trial-court written-materials Did the trial court violate Mr. Peterson's Due Process of Law when denying written materials seized from his computer when those materials were protec…
20-5916 Veronica Delph v. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law due-process issue-preservation legal-basis procedural-fairness trial-court Does a court of appeals deny a party due process under the 14th Amendment when it decides the case on a basis never litigated or passed on as a matter…
20-5748 Dacarius Holliday v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-09-17 Denied IFP constitutional-error criminal-intent criminal-negligence due-process eighth-amendment jury-instructions jury-sentencing specific-intent standard-of-proof trial-court Can convictions for crimes requiring specific intent create constitutional error where the trial court has ruled that the evidence supports criminal n…
20-5614 Derrick Anthony Felton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-activity defendant-status due-process judicial-determination leadership-role legal-error plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement trial-court vagueness Did the Trial Court error in finding that Mr. Felton was an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of the criminal activity?
20-5452 Judy Thorpe v. Justin Swidler, et al. New Jersey 2020-08-21 Denied IFP appellate-division appellate-review certification-denial civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review manifest-error prejudice supreme-court-of-new-jersey trial-court Whether it was manifest error and significantly prejudicial for the Supreme Court of New Jersey to Deny Certification and Not Fairly and Equitably Rev…
20-5212 In Re Allen Fitzgerald Calton 2020-07-29 Dismissed IFP 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-law due-process fact-finding factual-findings habeas-corpus judicial-discretion trial-court Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and individual judges thereof acted as the ultimate fact-finders (a Texas habeas corpus proceeding) by den…
19-8769 Daryll Shumake v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-report jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court Whether the trial court erred in denying the petitioner's motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence
19-8746 Scott A. Group v. Ohio Ohio 2020-06-18 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-evidence new-trial trial-court Whether a state court deprives a capital defendant due process by denying a request to present new evidence to challenge the conviction without consid…
19-8625 Dedric Davis v. Florida Florida 2020-06-05 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judgment-of-acquittal legal-standard motion petitioner standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court Whether the trial court erred in not granting petitioner's motion for judgment of acquittal
19-8487 Jerrell Berger v. Robert Adams, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection multiple-charges murder-charge sentencing sentencing-decision sixth-amendment trial-court Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the trial court's denial of his motion to dismiss the charges against him
19-8389 Edward Yarbrough, Jr. v. J. Sullivan, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-error federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct remarks-authentication reversible-error trial-court Whether a prosecutor's uninvited inflammatory remarks made in summation, absent a timely explicit curative instruction, so infected the trial with unf…
19-8266 James Heard v. Illinois Illinois 2020-04-15 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-court-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation trial-court Whether the trial court erred in denying Somes Heard's pre-trial motion to proceed pro se
19-8247 John Wilson v. Florida Florida 2020-04-13 Denied IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-procedure mental-competency self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court was obligated to determine the mental competency of a defendant before granting him the right to represent himself at trial if…
19-8164 Eric T. Tolen v. Jeff Norman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-04-02 Denied IFP brady-claim disbarment exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure manifest-error prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel trial-court withheld-evidence Whether the Lower Court committed a manifest error of law
19-1037 Sok Bun v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied circuit-split criminal-procedure detainers due-process interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers legal-interpretation motion motions standing trial trial-court trial-motion Whether a defendant is 'unable to stand trial' within the meaning of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers, 18 U.S.C. App. 2, § 2, art. VI(a), when he…
19-7697 Rebecca Leigh Lovell v. Children's Corner Daycare Sixth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alternative-dispute-resolution civil-procedure coercion constitutional-rights court-discretion due-process duress evidentiary-hearing settlement-dispute settlements trial-court Did the Court of Appeals err in finding the trial court did not abuse its discretion by enforcing settlements that were disputed by a party without ho…
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
19-7383 Parnell May v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-conduct legal-procedure motion-for-new-trial motion-procedure standing trial-court Question not identified
19-7391 Larry David Davis v. Larry Tegley, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law appellate-standard civil-procedure civil-rights due-process insufficient-evidence judicial-review legal-sufficiency patent record-review standing takings trial-court Whether the PEMCE [5 in. (em) 12 support the petitioner's claims
19-7237 Christopher L. Croom v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP admonishment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant judicial-admonishment jury-bias right-to-counsel trial-court trial-court-admonishment waiver Does a defendant knowingly waive the right to conflict-free counsel when the trial court merely admonishes the defendant that a conflict exists, witho…
19-6912 David Abara v. Jack Palmer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal competency competency-exam criminal-procedure faretta-canvass irreconcilable-conflict right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court Whether a trial court violates the Sixth Amendment right to counsel by forcing a defendant into self-representation when the defendant and his appoint…
19-6770 Vinca S. Chiu v. First Group America, et al. Oregon 2019-11-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure claim-dismissal due-process judicial-order legal-remedy motion-practice scope-of-relief standing strict-liability summary-judgment trial-court trial-court-authority ultrahazardous-activities Is a trial court authorized to expand the scope of a legal remedy that was not requested in a motion for summary judgment before the court?
19-6742 Jorge Prieto v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2019-11-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process finality judicial-discretion jurisdiction sentencing subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-court Did the state trial court have jurisdiction to vacate petitioner's sentence and re-impose a life sentence, violating double jeopardy?
19-6452 David P. Moran v. Florida Florida 2019-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery mandamus pro-se pro-se-litigant records standing subpoena subpoena-enforcement trial-court writ-of-court Should a writ of mandamus be automatically granted when the defendant has adequately shown an entity violated an earlier subpoena for records?
19-6325 Dewayne Barnes v. Sentry Management, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest discovery dismissal-order due-process in-forma-pauperis res-judicata speedy-trial standing trial-court Can defendants the St. Regis Apartments claim res-judicata
19-6151 Ahmed Ali v. Tammy Foss, Acting Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights due-process habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions third-party-culpability trial-court Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability on his claim that he was denied his right to present a defense
19-375 Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert W. York, as Personal Representative, et al. Indiana 2019-09-20 Denied Response Waived administrative-expense administrative-expenses administrative-law appeal appeal-on-merits civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights due-process estate-administration fourteenth-amendment standing trial-court Whether the refusal of the trial court to hear Newman's administrative expense motions violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and othe…
19-5846 Joshua Eric Townley v. Texas Texas 2019-09-06 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-principles criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion new-trial sua-sponte supremacy-clause trial-court trial-procedure whether a trial judge violates the Supremacy and Double Jeopardy Clauses of the United States Constitution
19-5639 Kirby D. Crawford v. Georgia Georgia 2019-08-19 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure deprivation-of-rights due-process evidence-of-proof evidentiary-standards fair-trial grand-jury indictment judicial-error legal-procedure petitioner standing trial-court Whether the trial court erred in charging my client with crimes not assessed by the grand jury prior to the trial
19-5537 Benjamin Escobedo v. Texas Texas 2019-08-09 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects-indictment due-process indictment jurisdiction motion-to-close motion-to-quash sixth-amendment trial-court Did the Trial Court err when it overruled Appellants Motion to Quash the Amended Indictment?
19-138 First State Community Action Agency v. Tamra N. Robinson Third Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure invited-error jury-instructions plain-error trial-court waiver Whether a party that first raises an issue on appeal has per se waived plain error review
19-5231 James D. Thomas, Jr., aka Wayne Thomas v. New York New York 2019-07-18 Denied IFP appeal burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial jury-instructions prejudicial-error prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court Whether the People failed to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that Jones Thomas Knowingly Possessed the Cocaine?
19-78 John Doe, aka Cheyenne Moody Davis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appellate-review conflict-among-courts constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-proof trial-court Whether a trial court in criminal proceedings must, upon request from the jury, explain the meaning of the 'beyond a reasonable doubt' standard to the…
19-5177 James Alvin Chaney v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment impartial-jury inter-circuit-split juror-allegation juror-misconduct jury sixth-amendment trial-court trial-procedure Is a criminal defendant's Fifth Amendment right of due process and Sixth Amendment right to a trial by an impartial jury violated when the trial court…
19-5079 Kenneth Blackwell v. Georgia Georgia 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review evidence issue-preservation judicial-discretion legal-sufficiency legal-theory prior-bad-acts prior-difficulties-evidence standard-of-review state-argument trial-court trial-court-discretion trial-procedure waiver Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred when it held that the trial court admitted Petitioner's sexual acts in Ohio as prior difficulties evidence …
19-32 Gordon Scott Stroh v. Saturna Capital Corporation Ninth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived cause-of-action civil-procedure dismissal evidence evidence-dismissal motion-in-limine standard-of-review summary-judgment trial-court What is the appropriate standard of review when a trial court improperly grants a motion in limine that has the practical effect of dismissing an enti…
18-9484 Paris Taylor v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment state-constitution trial-court Whether Petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to due process of law guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States C…
18-9235 Richard McMillan, III v. Florida Florida 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence inconsistent-evidence inconsistent-testimony judicial-discretion motion-for-acquittal motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal petitioner-defense state-evidence trial trial-court trial-court-evidence Can the Trial Court forbid Submission of Evidence at trial that supports Petitioner's Defense, when in fact, there's a dispute?
18-1284 Jennifer L. Wilson v. SunTrust Bank, et al. North Carolina 2019-04-09 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure court-hearing due-process judge judicial-discretion judicial-procedure jurisdiction north-carolina-constitution north-carolina-general-statutes procedural-rules standing statutory-interpretation trial-court venue Did the Trial Court hearing of August 15, 2016, Judge Gregory R. Hayes presiding, violate Article VI Section 11 of the North Carolina Constitution; N.…
18-8736 Juan Espinoza, et al. v. San Benito Consolidated Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied IFP 5th-circuit civil-procedure due-process fair-labor-standards-act genuine-dispute-of-material-fact inferences-in-favor-of-non-moving-party standard-of-review summary-judgment trial-court wage-violations Whether the 5th Circuit erred in affirming the trial court's grant of summary judgment on FLSA-wage-and-hour-violations
18-8585 Zhordrack Bloodywone v. Joseph Bellnier, Superintendent, Marcy Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process privacy right-to-counsel 6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel trial-court Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the prosecution's misconduct and the trial court's denial of his request for appointment …
18-8222 Desi A. Lewis v. Virginia Virginia 2019-03-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-court virginia-code Was the trial court in error in finding it lacked jurisdiction to resentence or modify the defendant's sentence based on due process rights?
18-7879 Clayton D. Colkley v. Maryland Maryland 2019-02-11 Denied IFP 5th-amendment appeal appeals appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss trial-court trial-court-jurisdiction Did the court of special appeals of maryland err in affirming trial court's denial of defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground of double-jeopardy?
18-7558 Brandon Lamar Hawkins v. Florida Florida 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-competency criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-competency mental-health resentencing sentencing trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether petitioner is entitled to discharge, new trial, and/or resentencing based on the trial court failing to conduct a competency hearing
18-7460 Clint Horvatt v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied IFP adversarial-testing appeal change-of-venue civil-procedure competency-hearing criminal-acts criminal-procedure disciplinary-history due-process independent-act-doctrine ineffective-assistance involuntary-intoxication record standing trial-counsel trial-court Did the trial court fail to attach portions of the record?
18-7190 Zachary Q. Wicks v. Jon H. Radnothy, et al. Florida 2018-12-27 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-rights due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure medical-malpractice statute-of-limitations testimony trial-court Did the trial court deny Petitioner's due-process rights when it refused to allow testimony or review evidence presented in support of Petitioner's as…
18-6940 Dalray Kwane Andrews v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure dilatory faretta-right faretta-v-california habeas-corpus self-representation sixth-amendment timeliness trial-court Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that Faretta clearly established a requirement that a request for self-representation must be made at least…
18-6772 Donovan Grant v. United States First Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied IFP appeals appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process financial-transaction guilty-plea money-laundering plain-error plain-error-doctrine specified-unlawful-activity trial-court Whether the plain-error doctrine permits an appeals court to affirm a conviction based on a potential crime that it identifies in the record that was …
18-6560 Wendell Weaver v. Walter Nicholson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure disqualification eyewitness-testimony ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-alternatives right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-court wheat-v-united-states Does Wheat v. United States clearly establish that trial courts must consider reasonable alternatives before disqualifying a criminal defendant's coun…
18-490 Jael Watts v. Michael K. Allen Virginia 2018-10-17 Denied civil-procedure court-rules due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights hearing-rights notice procedural-notice state-law state-procedure trial-court virginia-court-rules virginia-supreme-court Whether the trial court's failure to provide advance written hearing notices, as required by state procedural rules, constitutes a denial of the Petit…
18-455 Aaron Joseph Emineth v. Oregon Oregon 2018-10-11 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment photo-radar standard-of-proof state-court-proceedings traffic-enforcement trial-court Did the state trial court violate Petitioner's constitutional right to Due Process under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution by…
18-6251 Lonnie James Pebley v. Colorado Colorado 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct reprosecution supervisory-authority trial-court Whether the federal double jeopardy protection barring reprosecution as a result of prosecutorial misconduct intended to provoke a mistrial was not sh…
18-6001 Demario Carman v. Georgia Georgia 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment manifest-necessity mistrial-exception reasonableness trial-court trial-court-discretion Whether the protection against Double Jeopardy contained in the Fifth Amendment is an empty promise
18-5910 Curtis Dee Packard v. Barry Goodrich, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment assistance-of-counsel confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation public-defender right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court withdrawal-of-counsel Whether both the trial court and the State's Public Defender''s Office invited error and erroneously denied the Petitioner his 6th Amendment rights to…
18-5894 Lawrence Eugene Shaw v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1344 bank-fraud jury jury-instructions legal-interest legal-property-interest mixed-question mixed-question-of-law-and-fact property trial-court In Shaw, the Court held that the bank must have a legal interest in the property targeted by a §1344(1) scheme to defraud; is that interest a mixed qu…
18-5897 Arthur Braddy v. Florida Florida 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-court deprivation deprivation-of-rights due-process florida-statutes legal-procedure minimum-mandatory-sentence sentencing trial-court Did the State of Florida violate petitioner's right to due process by failing to correct the trial court's imposition of a minimum mandatory sentence …
18-5857 Jeffrey Latimore v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel state-attorney-office state-court state-courts trial-court WHETHER TRIAL COURT ABUSED THEIR AUTHORITY BY DENYING PETITIONER LATIMORE A COMPETENCY HEARING BEFORE A PLEA AGREEMENT
18-5679 William J. O'Brien, III v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court trial-procedure waiver waiver-of-counsel Was William O'Brien, III denied his Sixth Amendment right to counsel?
18-5395 Wayne Clyde Mezzles v. John N. Katavich, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied IFP criminal-procedure-forfeiture defense-counsel due-process federal-claims forfeiture-bar jury-admonitions jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-proportionality state-procedural-bar trial-court Does the state's application of a forfeiture bar for failure to request additional admonitions discriminate against federal claims?