autonomy-right
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6793 | Roman Flores v. Texas | Texas | 2026-02-11 | Pending | IFP | autonomy-right capital-murder criminal-defense guilt-concession law-of-parties sixth-amendment | 1. Whether McCoy v. Louisiana prohibits only explicit admissions of guilt, or also bars functional concessions — such as conceding elements, condition… |
| 24-5910 | Robert Ward Frazier v. California | California | 2024-11-05 | Denied | IFP | autonomy-right capital-defendant counsel-objection fundamental-objectives mitigation-defense sixth-amendment | Is a capital defendant deprived of their Sixth Amendment autonomy right to determine the fundamental objectives of their defense, as recognized by thi… |
| 22-7046 | Valdamir Fred Morelos v. California | California | 2023-03-21 | Dismissed | IFP | autonomy-right capital-defendant capital-defendants counsel-consent due-process guilty-plea mccoy-v-louisiana penal-code penal-code-section-1018 right-to-autonomy sixth-amendment | Does California's Penal Code Section 1018, which bars a capital defendant from pleading guilty without the consent of his counsel, violate capital def… |
| 21-653 | Harold Lee Harvey, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2021-11-03 | Denied | Relisted (2) | autonomy-right counsel-override criminal-defense criminal-procedure defendant-autonomy due-process first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana sixth-amendment | Is the Sixth Amendment autonomy right established in McCoy violated where counsel overrode an express agreement with the defendant to not concede guil… |
| 21-5093 | Stephen Dale Barbee v. Texas | Texas | 2021-07-15 | Denied | IFP | autonomy-right capital-defendant capital-punishment effective-assistance-of-counsel florida-v-nixon habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance mccoy-v-louisiana sixth-amendment trial-counsel | 1) Whether the sate court's decision to foreclose habeas review of a capital defendant's claim under McCoy v. Louisiana contravenes federal law becaus… |