alford-plea
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6341 | Zonta Tavaras Ellison aka Zonta Tavarus Ellison v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-01-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alford-plea career-offender circuit-court en-banc sixth-amendment trial-by-jury | 1. The Circuit Courts Three Judge panel created a conflict of grave importance warranting this court's discretionary judicial power when it denied pet… |
| 24A634 | Royhem Deeds v. Kevin Sprayberry, Warden | Georgia | 2024-12-27 | Presumed Complete | aggravated-assault alford-plea constitutional-challenge first-offender habeas-corpus post-conviction | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5378 | Mitchell Danyell Banks v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alford-plea drug-conspiracy due-process evidence-destruction expert-testimony fundamental-fairness | Is expert testimony as to drugs, which were destroyed pursuant to a Court order following the defendant's Alford Plea in a state case, a violation of … |
| 23-6919 | Raul Perez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility alford-plea criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing inter-circuit-split memory-defense memory-loss plea-bargaining sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines | Does a plea of guilty pursuant to North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S. 25 (1970), based on a complete loss of memory of the actions underlying the offen… |
| 23-5514 | Rodger William Dillard v. Wyoming | Wyoming | 2023-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion alford-plea appeal court-rules criminal-procedure due-process judicial-abuse judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentence-correction sentencing | 1. Did the District in and for Natrona County 7th Judicial Abuse its power when it accepted the Petitioner alford plea because the the statue reads as… |
| 22-5060 | Fred Auston Wortman, III v. Tennessee Board of Parole, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alford-plea civil-procedure complaint-dismissal due-process inferences judicial-procedure plea-agreement pleadings standard-of-review summary-dismissal summary-judgment | 1. Whether the District Court erred by summarily dismissing Petitioner's Complaint by failing to accept as true all of Petitioner's factual allegation… |
| 20-8073 | Damari Jennings v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alford-plea due-process equal-protection guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-defendant north-carolina-v-alford plea-bargaining sixth-amendment | Under the requirements of Boykin v. Alabama, was Jennings denied due process and equal protection when the trial court refused to allow him to withdra… |
| 19-1330 | Michigan v. Juan T. Walker | Michigan | 2020-06-01 | Denied | alford-plea collateral-attack criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper perjury plea-bargaining retroactivity | Respondent maintained his innocence before trial, and testified at the evidentiary hearing ordered by the Michigan Supreme Court on his collateral att… | |
| 19-7644 | George Jones v. Cindy Griffith, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion alford-plea appeal credibility direct-appeal expert-witness expert-witness-credibility ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-remedies prejudice sentencing-discrepancy trial-court-discretion | 1. Has prejudice been shown where defense counsel fails to investigate the credibility of the Defense's expert witness, causing said expert witness … |
| 19-696 | Dan Haendel v. Anne Reed, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response Waived | alford-plea due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey interception-act law-enforcement suppression-motion virginia virginia-interception-act | 1. Does Heck v. Humphrey bar Appellant's federal court review of the constitutionality of actions by local Virginia investigative and law enforcement … |
| 19-6246 | Shafia M. Jones v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2019-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | alford-plea bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-preemption state-jurisdiction supremacy-clause | 1. Whether state law that interferes with and conflicts with the Federal Bank Robbery Act and Federal Stat18 USCS § 2113, that was intended to ue comp… |
| 19-5230 | Stephen B. Wlodarz v. Shawn Phillips, Warden | Tennessee | 2019-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alford-plea criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence parole plea-bargaining sentencing | Whether Petitioner's Alford guilty plea resulting in a sentence length of life in prison without the possibility of parole judgment IS legal? |
| 18-8767 | Antonio Slaton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alford-plea criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-of-innocence federal-procedure federal-sentencing federal-supervised-release revocation-hearing supervised-release | Whether a state conviction entered via an Alford plea creates an irrebuttable presumption such that a defendant in a federal supervised release revoca… |
| 18-7881 | Zonta Tavarus Ellison v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alford-plea compulsory-process due-process fair-notice fifth-amendment motion-to-reopen-time rehearing-en-banc right-to-counsel rule-4(a)(6) sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari | DID THE APPEALS COURT INFRINGE UPON PETITIONER'S FIFTH AMENDMENT DUE PROCESS RIGHTS BY DENYING PETITIONER A FAIR NOTICE OF THE COURT's ORDER DENYING A… |