Brecht-v-Abrahamson

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-5319 Antoine L. Riggins v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brecht-exception brecht-v-abrahamson co-defendant-confession fair-trial fourteenth-amendment joint-trial sixth-amendment 1. IS THERE AN URGENT NEED TO FURTHER DISCUSS THE EXCEPTION MENTIONED IN BRECHT V. ABRAHAMS ON 507 U.S. 619 (1993). WHERE DEFENDANT'S SIXTH AND FOURTE…
22-7029 Roger Keeling v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-procedure harmless-error kotteakos-v-united-states ninth-circuit non-constitutional-error standard-of-review weighty-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that a non-constitutional error was harmless when it found "ample," rather than "weighty," evidence of guilt c…
21-6138 Armando B. Cortinas, Jr. v. Jo Gentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied IFP Brecht-v-Abrahamson confession constitutional-error federal-habeas federal-review felony-murder habeas-corpus harmless-error premeditation-and-deliberation section-2254 state-court-decision Should the Court hold this petition pending disposition of Brown v. Davenport, No. 20-826, which will likely address how 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) and Brecht…
20-8101 Joseph Weldon Smith v. Perry Russell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied IFP brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson capital-sentencing harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment stromberg-error stromberg-v-california In applying harmless error review under Brecht, may a federal court disregard the prejudice resulting from Stromberg error, i.e., the jury's considera…
20-1605 Justin Terrell Atkins v. Timothy Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) aedpa brecht-v-abrahamson confrontation-clause habeas habeas-corpus harmless-error harmlessness preservation-rule sufficiency-of-evidence Whether, as concluded by every circuit that has considered the issue, the preservation rule applies to the State's forfeiture of harmlessness in AEDPA…
19-8581 Marlon Deon Harmon v. Tommy Sharp, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson confession confession-evidence constitutional-error death-penalty habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence sentencing Should this Court provide uniform guidance to federal courts in their analyses under Brecht v. Abrahamson when the harm caused in the admission of an …
19-1307 Edward Thomas, Warden v. William Leroy Barnes Fourth Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied actual-prejudice brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury jury-contact precedent-interpretation substantial-effect Did the Fourth Circuit misapply this Court's precedents by granting habeas relief where there was no evidence that a juror's contact with a third part…
19-573 Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson closing-arguments constitutional-error fifth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct substantial-defense Under Brecht v. Abrahamson, a federal court cannot grant habeas relief unless a constitutional error had a "substantial and injurious effect or influe…