| 25-6239 |
Elijah D. Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-testing circuit-split due-process evidence-standard fifth-amendment sentencing |
Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits a district court to base a sentencing determination on technical and factual assertions that … |
| 25-6082 |
Karl Roseboro v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-testing curative-instruction due-process ineffective-assistance jury-prejudice strickland-standard |
(1) When rumors that Petitioner was involved in the murder were twice put into evidence before the jury without counsel objecting or asking for a cura… |
| 21-8135 |
Zachary Chandler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-testing criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-sympathy sixth-amendment sympathy-defense trial-strategy |
I.
WHETHER COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE BECAUSE COUNSEL'S DEFENSE STRATEGY WAS TO HAVE CHANDLER WEAR PRISON ATTIRE IN ORDER TO GARNER THE JURY'S SYMPATHY?
… |
| 21-1504 |
Jason Wayne Carlile v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adversarial-testing criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
1. May a defense attorney completely fail to subject the State's case to adversarial testing during a trial, without thereby depriving a criminal defe… |
| 20-6588 |
Kenneth Scott Gordon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-testing appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-defense effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-adversarial-testing prosecutions-case sixth-amendment |
Should a certificate of appealability issue because reasonabl e jurists would debate whether a criminal defendant was deprived of the effective assist… |
| 20-5889 |
In Re Jesus Anaya |
|
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-testing certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel slack-standard standard-of-review |
WHETHER TRIAL AND APPELLATE COUNSEL(S)' S INADEQUATE REPRESENTATION OF JESUS ANAYA CONSTITUTED, AT BEST, CONSTRUCTIVE DENIAL OF COUNSEL, WHERE TRIAL C… |
| 19-8795 |
Jeremia Joseph Loper v. Nate Knutson, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
adversarial-testing appellate-counsel appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance procedural-default |
1. Was Mr. Loper denied the right to a fair trial and the effective assistance of counsel when his trial attorney failed to investigate readily availa… |
| 19-8736 |
Linda Renae Clark v. Washington |
Washington |
2020-06-17 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adversarial-testing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-evidence public-defender recusal sixth-amendment |
1. Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment rights are violated when a public defender fails to independently investigate the criminal charges a… |
| 19-5781 |
Yong S. Cha, aka Edward Cha v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-testing criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-waiver federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence plea-bargaining proffer-statements prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
I. When the Government has agreed not to use a defendant's statements except to refute a defense at trial, may the Government only use those proffer s… |
| 19-5504 |
In Re Joel Diaz-Hinirio |
|
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-testing conviction-integrity criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incarceration ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review right-to-counsel |
WHETHER DENIAL OF APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL TO PETITIONER BY THE SUPREME COURT IN THIS INSTANT CASE, WOULD BE TANTAMOUNT TO PETITIONER JOEL DIAZ HINIRIO,… |
| 18-7460 |
Clint Horvatt v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
adversarial-testing appeal change-of-venue civil-procedure competency-hearing criminal-acts criminal-procedure disciplinary-history due-process independent-act-doctrine ineffective-assistance involuntary-intoxication record standing trial-counsel trial-court |
In claim one and two, did the trial court fail to attach portions of the record.
In claim 3(A), did trial counsel fail to investigate criminal acts a… |
| 18-6075 |
Daniel Clate Acker v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
adversarial-testing capital-punishment criminal-justice-system-legitimacy criminal-liability death-penalty due-process fairness false-theory-of-liability miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-review |
This case weaves these threads together and asks whether due process requires a state post-conviction review process in those rare instances where a S… |