brecht-standard
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-5963 | Cameron Davon Wright v. James R. Schiebner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting brecht-standard constitutional-error jury-verdict sufficiency-of-evidence trial-procedure | I. DID THE LOWER - COURT CLEARLY MISAPPLY UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT IN A MANNER THAT DENIED FUNDAMENTAL JUSTICE, WHEN IT USED A SUFFICIE… |
| 22-6835 | Deon'te Reed v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924c-conviction brecht-standard conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions robbery-conspiracy stromberg-error | In applying harmless error review under Brecht, may a federal court disregard the prejudice resulting from Stromberg error, i.e., the jury's considera… |
| 21-5318 | Beatrice Munyenyezi v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 brecht-standard chapman-standard federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instruction post-conviction-relief supreme-court-review | When reviewing a habeas corpus claim under 28 U.S.C. §2255, where the court is considering for the first time whether an erroneous jury instruction on… |
| 20-8101 | Joseph Weldon Smith v. Perry Russell, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-21 | Denied | IFP | brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson capital-sentencing harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment stromberg-error stromberg-v-california | In applying harmless error review under Brecht, may a federal court disregard the prejudice resulting from Stromberg error, i.e., the jury's considera… |
| 19-8581 | Marlon Deon Harmon v. Tommy Sharp, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2020-06-02 | Denied | IFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson confession confession-evidence constitutional-error death-penalty habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence sentencing | Should this Court provide uniform guidance to federal courts in their analyses under Brecht v. Abrahamson when the harm caused in the admission of an … |
| 19-7353 | Enamiden Celestine Okon v. Nate Knutson, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-23 | Denied | IFP | brecht-standard constitutional-error due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review magwood-v-patterson procedural-default sanders-v-united-states standing successive-petition successive-petitions | Whether Petitioner filed "a second or successive " application by re-raising a claim in his second habeas petition that was not fully addressed and/or… |
| 19-642 | Shawntele Cortez Jackson v. Kathy Litteral | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response Waived | brecht-standard chapman-standard esparza-standard habeas-corpus habeas-review harmless-error self-defense sixth-circuit | 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in applying the Esparza harmless error standard, instead of the Brecht harmless error standard on federal habeas re… |
| 19-573 | Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson closing-arguments constitutional-error fifth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct substantial-defense | Under Brecht v. Abrahamson, a federal court cannot grant habeas relief unless a constitutional error had a "substantial and injurious effect or influe… |
| 18-8482 | Lourdes Margarita Garcia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brecht-standard constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage Cronic cronic-rule cronic-standard defense-counsel direct-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit hybrid-error prejudice structural-error trial-procedure | The district court ordered the government, at a critical stage of the trial, to present inculpatory and disputed evidence in the absence of the defend… |