No. 24-6880

Charles Christopher Wendell v. Florida

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2025-03-27
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-impeachment
Latest Conference: 2025-05-29
Question Presented (from Petition)

GROUND ONE:
WHETHER THE FAILURE TO ADEQUATELY IMPEACH A WITNESS, IN A WHOLLY
CREDIBILITY CASE, CONSTITUTES A VIOLATION OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT 'S
GUARANTEE OF COMPETENT REPRESENTATION OF COUNSEL AND A FAIR AND
IMPARTIAL TRIAL AS MADE OBLIGATORY UPON STATE COURTS BY THE FOUR
TEENTH AMENDMENT.

GROUND TWO:
WHETHER FAILING TO PROPERLY CHALLENGE THE STATE 'S INTRODUCION OF
EVIDENCE OF OTHER CRIMES, WRONGS, OR ACTS CONSTITUTES A VIOLATION
OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENTS GUARANTEE OF COMPETENT REPRESENTATION
OF COUNSEL AND A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL AS MADE APPLICABLE BY THE
DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT

GROUND THREE:
WHETHER FAILING TO INVESTIGATE, INTERVIEW, AND/OR CALL WITNESSES TO
TESTIFY AT TRIAL CONSTITUTES A VIOLATION OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENTS
GUARANTEE OF COMPETENT REPRESENTATION OF COUNSEL AND A FAIR AND
IMPARTIAL TRIALAS MADE APPLICABLE BY THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE
FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT

GROUND FOUR:
WHETHER FAILING TO REQUEST THE COURT TO ORDER THE ALLEGED VICTIM
TO UNDERGO A MEDICAL EXAMINATION CONSTITUTES A VIOLATION OF THE
SIXTH AMENDMENT'S GUARANTEE OF COMPETENT REPRESENTATION OF
COUNSEL AND A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL AS MADE APPLICABLE BY THE DUE
PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT

GROUND FIVE:
WHETHER FAILING TO OBJECT TO THE PROSECUTOR'S IMPROPER COMMENTS
DURING CLOSING ARGUMENT CONSTITUTES A VIOLATION OF THE SIXTH
AMENDMENT'S GUARANTEE OF COMPETENT REPRESENTATION OF COUNSEL
AND A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL AS MADE APPLICABLE BY THE DUE PROCESS
CLAUSE OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether failure to adequately impeach a witness, challenge other crimes evidence, investigate witnesses, request medical examination, and object to prosecutorial misconduct constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel violating the Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights

Docket Entries

2025-06-02
Petition DENIED.
2025-05-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/29/2025.
2025-01-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 28, 2025)

Attorneys

Charles Wendell
Charles C. Wendell — Petitioner