automatic-reversal
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5824 | Luis Marrot Caceres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 automatic-reversal district-court habeas-corpus judicial-error motion-denial | Whether the district court's misunderstanding of the record as evidenced in its order denying Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion was so fundamental … |
| 24-5225 | Nidal M. Hasan v. United States | Armed Forces | 2024-08-05 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review automatic-reversal criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error public-trial structural-error waller-v-georgia weaver-v-massachusetts | A violation of the public trial guarantee is structural error, defying harmless error review. Weaver v. Massachusetts, 582 U.S. 286, 299 (2017). In Wa… |
| 23-6557 | Frank R. Stevenson v. Lynn Lilley, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automatic-reversal constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error unwanted-defense | Whether the unconstitutionality of imposing an unwanted defense on the accused, over objection, has long been federally established and is a structura… |
| 23-5886 | Phillip Charles Gibbs v. Becky Carl, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review automatic-reversal constitutional-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment state-practice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unconstitutional-state-practice | Whether prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), is shown by an attorney's failure to preserve a claim that would result in an a… |
| 22-418 | Gene Deveraux v. Montana | Montana | 2022-11-04 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | automatic-reversal biased-juror constitutional-right for-cause-challenge jury-bias sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-discretion trial-procedure | Whether a trial court commits structural error, requiring automatic reversal under the Sixth Amendment, when it seats a biased juror after erroneously… |
| 22-5218 | Reginald Dexter Carr, Jr. v. Kansas | Kansas | 2022-07-28 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment automatic-reversal due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment structural-error | 1. Was the denial of Reginald Carr's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to testify structural constitutional error requiring automatic rever… |
| 21-6409 | Stephen Harmer v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney automatic-reversal conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure defendant due-process holloway-doctrine ineffective-assistance judicial-inquiry sixth-amendment trial-judge | 1. Does Holloway demand automatic reversal when a trial judge fails to inquire into a known conflict that a defendant could not object to because his … |
| 21-603 | Ohio v. George Brinkman | Ohio | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Amici (1) | automatic-reversal boykin-advisement boykin-v-alabama constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea plea-review presumption-of-prejudice standard-of-review | 1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibit review of the entire record to determine whether… |
| 20-7868 | Douglas Kelly v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | IFP | alleyne-precedent automatic-reversal direct-appeal drug-conspiracy jury-selection prejudice public-trial rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement structural-error | I. In the context of a structural error involving a public trial violation during jury selection, where no trial objection was made but the error was … |
| 20-6802 | Noel Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | automatic-reversal constitutional-defect criminal-liability criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantity due-process guilty-plea sentencing-enhancement structural-error | (1) If a criminal defendant pleading guilty to a drug conspiracy is required to admit to an enhancing drug quantity as part of his guilty plea but has… |
| 20-5852 | Robert Louis Brandon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-30 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | appellate-review automatic-reversal circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea prejudice-inquiry rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states structural-error | 1. Is a district court's error under Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), a structural error that warrants automatic reversal of a guilty … |
| 19-8516 | Craig Mrazek v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-05-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | automatic-reversal brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-assistance sixth-amendment | A. WHETHER COURT'S DISREGARD OF PETITIONER'S ASSERTION A BRADY CLAIM, SPECIFICALLY PER SE CONFLICT WHERE PROSECUTOR AS CURRENTLY IS A STATE PROSECUTOR… |
| 19-515 | Baldassare Amato v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | adverse-effect automatic-reversal conflict-of-interest cuyler-v-sullivan evidentiary-hearing holloway-v-arkansas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment | 1. Under what circumstances is the automatic reversal rule from the decision in Holloway U. Arkansas, 435 U.S. 475, 484 (1978) triggered after Mickels… | |
| 18-1571 | Steve Kelly Moyer v. Kansas | Kansas | 2019-06-24 | Denied | Response Waived | automatic-reversal chapman-v-california constitutional-error constitutional-errors credibility-assessment due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel neder-v-united-states overwhelming-evidence stare-decisis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Whether the Kansas Supreme Court Who Affirmed the Remand Court's Analysis and Findings on Moyer'sCounsel's Effectiveness under Strickland v. Washingto… |
| 18-8564 | Kelvin Wayne Heath v. Melinda K. Braman, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automatic-reversal compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct uniform-act-on-production-of-out-of-state-witnesse witness-tampering | Did trial court abuse discretion by allowing text messages that's erased? Was Trial Counsel ineffective? Was 6th Amendment violated specifically Con… |
| 18-8199 | Michael DeVaughn Johnson v. Arizona | Arizona | 2019-02-28 | Denied | IFP | automatic-reversal constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure critical-stage critical-stages due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel | Was The ARIZONA STATE COURTS ceCISION that the abSeNCe Of the retitioner's trial counsel during two complet critical Stages" of the trial did not requ… |
| 18-7254 | Alvin E. Thomas v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment actual-prejudice automatic-reversal collateral-review counsel-of-choice fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error | In Weaver v. Massachusetts, 137 S. Ct. 1899, 1911-12 (2017), this Court left open the question of whether a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel… |
| 18-7210 | Gordon Prailow v. Maryland | Maryland | 2019-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automatic-reversal collateral-review constitutional-deficiency criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-instructions jury-verdict reasonable-doubt retroactivity sixth-amendment watershed-rule | Whether state collateral review courts must retroactively apply the watershed/bedrock procedural rule of automatic reversal to jury findings that were… |