| 25-6701 |
Eskender Getachew v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant-presence jury-verdict sixth-amendment trial-court-duty |
Both the Constitution (through the Fifth and Sixth Amendments) and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (Rule 43) provide that a defendant "must be… |
| 23-7090 |
Ambrose C. Mendes v. Kirshenbaum & Kirshenbaum, Attorneys at Law, Inc. |
Rhode Island |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
accounting civil-procedure due-process ethical-obligations judicial-precedent pro-se-representation probate probate-law settlement-terms standing trial-by-jury trial-court-duty |
Whether the Trial court held a duty to obey the State supreme court holdings |
| 21-7328 |
Glen S. v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process judicial-canvassing probation-violation right-to-testify testimony-rights trial-court-duty waiver waiver-of-rights |
Should an affirmative duty be imposed on trial courts to canvass criminal defendants about their right to testify? |
| 21-5375 |
Douglas Coley v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
collateral-review counsel-abandonment death-penalty death-row-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review right-to-counsel trial-court-duty trial-court-management |
Can a state provide a rational basis to deny a death row prisoner his right to the state's first collateral, conviction, review process, where the pri… |
| 18-5479 |
Tadareous Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-performance due-process evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-standard federal-court-review findings-of-fact habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference legal-findings procedural-fairness state-court-findings state-court-proceedings trial-court-duty |
Whether a state court's failure to make findings on controverted and unresolved issues requires a federal court to find counsel ineffective without fi… |