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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5642 Tonnerrious Jamarcus McGee v. Texas Texas 2025-09-16 Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment government-code judicial-appointment misdemeanor-sentencing trial-judge 1. Whether the Trial Court 122nd District Court (Galveston County) Texas use of a visiting trial judge who was not properly appointed nor noted on the…
23-6356 Mohammad Sharifi v. Alabama Alabama 2023-12-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocent armed-evidence constitutional-search criminal-procedure direct-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility forensic-evidence fourth-amendment police-misconduct reasonable-doubt trial-judge Question not identified
22-7749 Alen Dean O'Bryant v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-09 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-judge Did former Judge Henderson's secret extramarital affair create an unconstitutional potential for bias?
22-1013 J. R. v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-04-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-judge judicial-bias judicial-impartiality liberty-interest north-carolina-law trial-judge trial-procedure Whether the right to an impartial judge is violated when the trial judge also performs the role of the advocate for incarceration
21-6409 Stephen Harmer v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney automatic-reversal conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure defendant due-process holloway-doctrine ineffective-assistance judicial-inquiry sixth-amendment trial-judge Does Holloway demand automatic reversal when a trial judge fails to inquire into a known conflict that a defendant could not object to because his att…
20-8252 Timothy James Thompson v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP default habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion martinez-v-ryan prejudice prejudice-standard trial-counsel trial-judge Whether when assessing prejudice to determine if the default of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim should be excused under Martinez v. R…
20-7581 Michael Hernandez v. Florida Florida 2021-03-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights fact-finding first-amendment judicial-discretion juvenile-sentencing life-sentence mandatory-minimum sentencing-factors sixth-amendment trial-judge Whether Florida's juvenile sentencing statute violates the Sixth Amendment
20-1186 Dynasty Group, Inc. v. Stephen Smith, Trustee for Bankruptcy Estate of Heritage Real Estate Investment Corporation Alabama 2021-02-25 Denied criminal-procedure jury-selection prejudicial-statements reversible-error trial-judge voir-dire Whether the Trial Judge Committed Reversible Error When He Refused to Strike the Jury Venire Due to the Taint of Prejudicial Statements Made During Vo…
19-8396 Robert R. Hill v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct trial-judge Whether the district court and the third circuit erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability
19-6173 In Re Karl David Kretser, Jr. 2019-10-04 Denied IFP civil-commitment competent-tribunal constitutional-rights due-process judicial-incompetence mental-illness tanner-v-united-states trial-judge wernicke-korsakoff-syndrome Can a conviction stand when the trial judge was civilly committed and later determined to be suffering from Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome?
19-6152 Marian Papacsi Owens v. Sue Mickens, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mental-illness right-to-counsel right-to-testify trial-counsel trial-judge trial-procedure Whether the trial court's refusal to allow the defendant to testify by narrative violated her right to effective assistance of counsel
18-9260 Frederick E. Braxton v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause eyewitness perjury trial-judge witness-credibility Is Due Process and/or Equal Protection Clauses of the XIVth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution violated when the sole eyewitness to a crime is the vic…
18-9100 Corry Mency v. Florida Florida 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey blakely-v-washington blakey-v-washington constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure due-process judicial-factfinding jury-trial jury-trial-right sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum trial-judge Whether the First District erred in deferring to the Circuit Court's finding that section 775.084 is not unconstitutional as applied to the facts of M…