trial-errors

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-455 Thanh C. Tran v. Liberty Mutual Group Inc., et al. Massachusetts 2025-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-clause trial-errors Whether a state appellate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by deeming properly preserved trial errors waived without meani…
24-7416 Courtney B. Mathews v. Tennessee Tennessee 2025-06-13 Denied IFP attorney-client-privilege conflict-of-interest criminal-defense due-process ethical-burden trial-errors Does a criminal defense attorney becoming a witness against their own client due to intentional waiver of attorney-client privilege, creating divergen…
23-6226 Carmen A. Zammiello v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process ex-post-facto-law federal-law federal-review federalism habeas-corpus state-court-misconduct state-law trial-errors When will a state's 'substantive law' be applied in a federal court?
22-5165 Daniel Boos v. Jermaine White, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-prejudice due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-errors Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to multiple errors by trial counsel, which cumulati…
21-7370 Dante Leon Milon v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-counsel judicial-misconduct jury-misconduct mistrial recusal trial-errors witness-testimony Question not identified
21-6452 Donnell Murray v. United States Second Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting conviction count-one criminal-procedure davis insufficient-evidence jury-instruction predicate-acts racketeering trial-errors Whether Murray's conviction on Count One should be reversed due to insufficient evidence
20-8060 Julia Ann Poff v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus standing trial-errors Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's habeas corpus petition on the ground that he failed to exhaust state court remedies, in vi…
20-6628 Rodane Lamb v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-charges criminal-procedure dea-testimony due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-selection trial-errors Was counsel ineffective for not challenging issues
19-1167 Bradley William Kennedy v. Stephen Morris, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied 14th-amendment 8th-amendment AEDPA anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act-of- cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-trial-errors due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence statute-of-limitations trial-errors Whether Bradley Kennedy's petition for a writ of habeas corpus is time barred under the one-year statute of limitations set forth in the anti-terroris…
19-7767 Octavio Torres Ortega v. Florida Attorney General, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-record ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review new-trial reversible-errors standing trial-counsel trial-errors Should any of the reviewing court's have reversed for an evidentiary hearing to develop an accurate factual record
19-6367 James Eugene Keiser v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing trial-errors Whether the 4th Circuit exceeded the limited scope of the COA analysis
19-6216 Maxcium Herring v. L. S. McEwen, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission jury-instructions jury-misconduct sentencing standard-of-review trial-errors waiver Whether the trial court erred in allowing the defendant to take the witness stand in his own defense
18-7683 Deandre Anderson v. Daniel Lesatz, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment miranda-rights new-evidence post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief probable-cause standing statute-of-limitations trial-errors wrongful-conviction Does the cases stated apply to this case?
18-7502 Edjuan Payne v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-24 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights competency criminal-procedure due-process mental-fitness mental-health right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel sentencing trial-errors Whether the defendant's due process rights were violated by the trial court's failure to conduct a competency hearing despite evidence of the defendan…
18-6029 Debra Ann Aquilina v. Sarah Davis, Administrator, Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-death constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-opinion expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner right-to-counsel right-to-effective-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-errors trial-proceedings Did the petitioner's trial counsel provide constitutionally ineffective assistance, violated petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel, be…