wheat-v-united-states

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-1356 Eduardo Lopez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied appellate-rights conflict-of-interest counsel-disqualification criminal-procedure disqualification guilty-plea sixth-amendment structural-defect wheat-v-united-states Does a guilty plea automatically waive a defendant's right to appeal a structural defect in the underlying proceedings?
20-547 Luis Xadiel Cruz Vazquez v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Response Waived brady-violation certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel mickens-v-taylor sixth-amendment united-states-v-decologero wheat-v-united-states Whether the First Circuit applied a novel, harsher standard for issuing a certificate of appealability, denying due process and effective assistance o…
18-6560 Wendell Weaver v. Walter Nicholson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure disqualification eyewitness-testimony ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-alternatives right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-court wheat-v-united-states Does Wheat v. United States clearly establish that trial courts must consider reasonable alternatives before disqualifying a criminal defendant's coun…