trial-court-duty

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…