trial-in-absentia

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6644 Lola Shalewa Barbara Kasali v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-presence jury-selection legal-jurisdiction trial-in-absentia Whether the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 43, case law, and the United States Constitution permit the trial in absentia of a defendant who is no…
22-7022 LeAnthony T. Winston v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-prosecution trial-in-absentia Question not identified.
22-496 Jheshua Daniel Jackson v. Colorado Colorado 2022-11-28 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment in-absentia-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-in-absentia 1. Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution permit a court to deny a criminal defendant his request for appointment of…
20-5301 David L. Shanks, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-court fifth-amendment judicial-procedure sixth-amendment trial-commencement trial-in-absentia Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 43 and a criminal defendant's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights are violated when a Federal Judge appears at…
18-6685 Bruce Merryman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice right-to-be-present standing statute-of-limitations trial-in-absentia trial-rights Under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, Can and individual Overcome this limitation, Under the Miscarriage of Justice Exception, By S…