trial-fairness

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24-6449 Belinda Jones v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment legal-conflict napue-standard trial-fairness Whether the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when lower courts' legal standard for false testimony claims conflicts with the Supreme Court's standard …
24-6021 Samuel Boima v. United States Second Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-competency due-process governmental-interests involuntary-medication mental-health trial-fairness How should district courts decide whether a crime is 'serious' within the meaning of Sell?
24-5961 James A. Bell v. Michele Dauzat, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness witness-vouching Whether a prosecutor's 'bolstering' of a witness's testimony constitutes an impermissible vouching exception and violates due process under the 14th A…
24-5927 William Dale Watson v. William Streeter, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility judicial-error jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness Did the Alabama Criminal Court of Appeals err in affirming Watson's conviction despite alleged jurisdictional defects, inadmissible evidence, and pros…
24-5792 Mark A. Whitworth v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure for-cause-strike judicial-discretion jury-selection trial-fairness venireperson-bias Should a criminal defendant be required to prove prejudice when a federal district court erroneously strikes a potential juror for cause based on her …
24-5618 Daramis Lee Sharkey v. James M. Holloway, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-misrepresentation jury-bias prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness Whether a prosecutor's misrepresentations of evidence can substantially impact a jury's perception and constitute a denial of due process when erroneo…
23-7739 Cary Joseph Heath v. Texas Texas 2024-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-intoxication new-trial trial-fairness witness-testimony Whether the petitioner is responsible for the deaths of the victims, given the testimony of the forensic psychologist that the petitioner was drugged …
23-1256 Donna Davis Javitz v. Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied civil-rights confrontation confrontation-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel first-amendment-retaliation free-speech judicial-misconduct mistrial trial-fairness Whether the Petitioner was denied the constitutional right to a fair trial in a First Amendment retaliation case
23-6825 Jmarreon Mack v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial judicial-integrity prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness Question not identified
23-5043 Coby Quinton Ceaser v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance jackson-standard jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense right-to-testify trial-fairness Can the Jackson standard be satisfied when relevant, material, and appreciable evidence is impermissibly kept from the jury?
22-7346 John G. Calhoun v. Florida Florida 2023-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process estelle-v-mcguire habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-precedent lisenba-v-california manslaughter trial-fairness Whether the inaccurate jury instruction on Manslaughter by Act so infused the trial with unfairness as to deny the Petitioner's right to Due Process o…
22-6952 Brian Duane Brookins v. Georgia Georgia 2023-03-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury jury-impartiality right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-fairness turner-v-louisiana witness-testimony Did the Sheriff's dual role as prosecution witness and custodian of the jury strip Brookins of his constitutional right to an impartial jury and relia…
22-6801 DeSean Alexander Bruce v. Arizona Arizona 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-evidence due-process eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony fair-appeal fair-postconviction-proceedings fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness Was Petitioner denied due process, a fair trial, a fair appeal, and fair postconviction proceedings
22-6615 Robert Jim v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-presentation fair-trial improper-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing trial-fairness Whether the court violated Jim's constitutional rights to due process and a fair trial by allowing improper evidence and preventing him from presentin…
22-5980 Arius Hopkins v. United States Second Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence grand-jury rule-404(b) trial-fairness Whether the admission of evidence of prior alleged conduct similar to the crime on trial and dismissed by a grand jury, which was noticed for one purp…
21-7253 Luis D. Sambolin-Robles v. Corrections Administration First Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard judicial-review legal-procedure standing trial-fairness Whether the federal government's prosecution of the petitioner violated the petitioner's constitutional rights
21-635 Larry Fields v. Cincinnati, Ohio Police Department, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure magistrate-judge standing trial-fairness Whether the magistrate judge intended violation of the federal rules of civil Procedure?
21-6012 Michael Rimmer v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-10-20 Denied IFP capital-trial confrontation-clause criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness witness-unavailability whether-the-courts-below-erred-by-upholding-the-trial-court's-determination-that-the-only-witness-to-petitioner's-purported-jailhouse-confession-was-u…
21-5890 Christopher W. Terrell v. Arkansas Arkansas 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction due-process fair-trial impartiality jury-impartiality jury-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-fairness Is a criminal conviction unconstitutional and in violation of Due Process when a jury does not remain impartial on the question of guilt for the crime…
21-306 Troy Seales v. California California 2021-08-31 Denied counsel-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-hearing ineffective-assistance right-to-be-present right-to-counsel trial-fairness Did the Supreme Court err in failing to rule that the exclusion of Petitioner and his counsel from an ex parte hearing violated Petitioner's rights to…
20-7571 Hilliard A. Fulgham v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-agreement-on-detainers interstate-detainer judicial-discretion trial-fairness waiver Is an objection required before a court would have understanding that a detainee did not want to be tried after the time-line set in his involuntary r…
20-7066 William Echols v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP allied-offenses case-joinder confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence-sufficiency fair-trial joinder trial-fairness Whether Echols was denied a fair and impartial trial due to several major constitutional and due process violations that included an improper joiner o…
20-6799 Kosoul Chanthakoummane v. Texas Texas 2021-01-08 Denied IFP bitemark-identification criminal-procedure dna-analysis dna-evidence due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony forensic-evidence scientific-evidence trial-fairness Is Petitioner's conviction the product of a fundamentally unfair trial that was prejudiced by the admissibility of flawed forensic scientific evidence…
20-6800 Harry Miller v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule brady-v-maryland constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence favorable-evidence materiality prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness How does a court determine whether evidence that the prosecution did not share with the defense before trial is 'favorable' under the standard announc…
20-6146 Douglas Harrie Stewart v. Cathleen Stoddard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-death-penalty-act-of-1996 clearly-established-law due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence-prejudice fourteenth-amendment lisenba-v-people-of-state-of-california payne-v-tennessee trial-fairness Whether the rule of law espoused by Payne v. Tennessee, Lisenba v. People of State of California, and Estelle v. McGuire qualifies as 'clearly establi…
20-5613 Keith Bernard Smith v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing extraneous-contact fair-trial juror-misconduct jury remmer-v-united-states sixth-amendment trial-fairness Whether the trial court interfered with the petitioner's state and federal constitutional rights to a fair jury trial by refusing to hold an evidentia…
19-8706 Lester Thomas Butcher v. Texas Texas 2020-06-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial texas trial-fairness Will this Supreme Court permit Texas prosecutors' claims of 'mistake and inadvertence' to excuse the denial of substantial constitutional rights?
19-8650 Sebastian Albert Campbell v. Maryland Maryland 2020-06-09 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-tools due-process fair-trial legal-standard right-to-counsel self-representation trial-fairness Did the state of Maryland err by utilizing an improper legal standard in its determination that compelling Petitioner to relinquish his right to self-…
19-8125 Wendell Ray Thomas v. California California 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-fairness Whether Defense Counsel Craig Wormley's Mental Health Issues Had An Adverse Effect & Influence on the Outcome of the Trial
19-7868 Steven B. Turner v. Mike Kemna Eighth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-fairness Whether Missouri's rule conflicts with Lafler v. Cooper
19-7477 Raul Mejia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fourth-amendment franks-hearing search-and-seizure trial-fairness warrant warrant-validity Was petitioner's truck illegally searched due to an invalid warrant? Was petitioner improperly denied a Franks hearing? Did Officer Carbajal testify a…
19-7272 Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment trial-fairness Whether the petitioner received constitutionally effective assistance of counsel at trial
19-7227 Santos Reyes-Villatoro v. United States Third Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP consciousness-of-guilt due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial false-evidence giglio-v-united-states judicial-review napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial trial-fairness Whether a prosecutor's presentation of false or misleading evidence violates due process and requires vacating a conviction and remanding for a new tr…
19-6597 Thiodore Igorovich Galitsa v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility criminal-history criminal-procedure-due-process cross-examination dismissed-case dismissed-charges due-process fair-trial false-statements illegal-reentry prior-arrests prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness Was Mr. Galitsa denied his right to a fair trial?
19-6393 Jean-Paul Gamarra v. United States District of Columbia 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony involuntary-medication involuntary-treatment mental-health psychiatric-testimony trial-fairness Whether the Constitution permits the government to satisfy the Sell requirements based on testimony from a prison psychiatrist who did not examine, or…
19-6017 Randy Matthew Cordero v. Nick A. Guzman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-instruction jury-trial personal-injury standing trial-fairness issue being raised
19-5836 Dennis Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error plea-bargaining prejudice reasonable-performance reasonable-probability sixth-amendment standard-of-review strickland-v-washington trial-fairness trial-strategy Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when his trial counsel failed to properly investigate a…
19-183 Mark Douglas Robison v. Texas Texas 2019-08-09 Denied Response Waived criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-fairness trial-outcome Whether a criminal-defense attorney's deficient performance under Strickland v. Washington affects the trial's outcome or renders the trial fundamenta…
19-5244 Larry David Davis v. Brian Daniel, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied IFP civil-rights confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection evidence-tampering habeas-corpus sentencing standing trial-fairness Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment
18-9638 Jose Luis Barboza, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-06-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-tampering free-speech gang-membership patent prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines standing trial-fairness Whether the defendant was improperly called a 'n****r lover' by the victim's attorney, resulting in a violation of due-process, free-speech, civil-rig…
18-8955 Gregory Butler v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions other-crimes-evidence sixth-amendment trial-fairness witness-confrontation Whether the district court and the third circuit erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability
18-8827 David McShan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP berger-standard berger-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-fabrication jury-bias nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing trial-fairness Where the government's case against a defendant is extremely weak, does the prosecutor's persistent misconduct during trial by making improper insinua…
18-8587 In Re Christopher Stegawski 2019-03-27 Denied IFP 21-cfr-1306.04 21-usc-802 21-usc-841 allocution chronic-pain-treatment cross-examination due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel medical-expert strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-fairness united-states-v-moore witness-testimony Was the trial fair when key defense witnesses were not investigated pretrial, court denied Defendant's request to cross examine government medical exp…
18-8207 Wayland Lynn Dilts v. Michigan Michigan 2019-03-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness new-trial public-trial secret-trial sixth-amendment trial-fairness Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial was violated
18-7858 Arif Majid v. Jeff Noble, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof closing-argument constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct religious-prejudice trial-fairness Whether a prosecutor's appeals to religious prejudice in closing argument and throughout trial to inflame the passions of the jury embody animus or of…
18-7758 Mary Cummins v. Amanda Lollar Texas 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judge-selection judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-selection texas-courts trial-fairness visiting-judge visiting-judges Is a trial by a visiting Judge according to Texas regulations a fair trial?
18-7299 Leon Tony Parker, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-01-10 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest counsel-of-choice counsel-withdrawal court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion motion-resolution motion-to-substitute motion-to-substitute-counsel motion-to-withdraw record-keeping right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion trial-fairness Does the highest state court's decision conflict with the United States Supreme Court's guarantee to be represented by counsel of one's own choice?
18-6700 Michael DePietro v. Allstate Insurance Co., et al. New Jersey 2018-11-14 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal case-law civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial judicial-bias legal-reconsideration motion-denial new-trial reconsideration standing trial-fairness Why is Judge Fuentes denying everything I brought in front of him, including caselaw?
18-5911 Manuel Lampon-Paz v. Department of Justice, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-redaction child-abuse child-abuse-neglect child-abuse-or-neglect court-of-appeals fair-trial federal-procedure minor-plaintiff minor-protection ongoing-case ongoing-federal-case plaintiff-rights redaction trial-fairness Whether a plaintiff can have his case redacted in accordance with laws and regulations about disclosure
18-5199 Keith Warren Lewis v. Rachelle Hadari New Jersey 2018-07-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights court-procedure custody custody-evaluation due-process fair-trial family-law medical-expert mental-health partisan-expert trial-fairness Whether a court can force one party to be evaluated by the opposing party's private medical expert in a custody case, which may violate the 14th Amend…
25A494 Tremane Wood v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied brady-violation capital-murder due-process prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness witness-cooperation Whether the prosecution's intentional concealment of a cooperation agreement with a key witness constitutes a Brady violation that undermines the fund…