appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
18-7405 Gary Lee Beason v. Indiana Indiana 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness appellate-review child-molestation collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias state-action trial-counsel trial-counsel-ineffectiveness I. Beason's trial judge made an election campaign promise to put more child molesters in jail before presiding over Beason's trial on child molestatio…
18-5531 Kelly E. Culver v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied IFP appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness cause-and-prejudice due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-standard The questions presented are whether trial counsel's failure to offer a contemporaneous objection during trial compromised Culver's Sixth Amendment rig…