client-autonomy
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-213 | Willis Franklin v. California | California | 2024-08-27 | Denied | Response Waived | client-autonomy counsel-of-choice fourteenth-amendment mccoy-v-louisiana sixth-amendment trial-continuance | Was petitioner denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to retained counsel of choice when the trial court failed to continue the trial during… |
| 21-1146 | Gary McClain v. Texas | Texas | 2022-02-17 | Denied | client-autonomy criminal-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel fundamental-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-strategy | This Court held in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct. 1500 (2018), that defense counsel may not concede his client's guilt in the guilt phase of trial if … | |
| 21-5363 | Christopher Cope v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | client-autonomy constitutional-right criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-strategy | 1. Whether petitioner was denied his constitutional right to have effective assistance of counsel when trial counsel admitted petitioner's guilt at tr… |
| 20-7808 | James R. W. Mitchell v. California | California | 2021-04-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | client-autonomy mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment structural-error voluntary-manslaughter | In McCoy v. Louisiana (2018) 138 S.Ct. 1500, this Court held that a criminal defendant has a right of autonomy under the Sixth Amendment to dictate th… |
| 18-8113 | Troy Arnaud v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-client client-autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel right-to-testify self-representation sixth-amendment trial-counsel | Whether Arnaud was denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel. Whether Arnaud's trial counsel violated client autonomy. … |
| 18-7678 | Alfonso Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | client-attorney-relationship client-autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel sixth-circuit speedy-trial-act trial-counsel | Can a defense lawyer, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, contravene his client's wishes to object to a violation of the Speedy Trial Act? Whether t… |
| 18-6701 | Roger Dale Epperson v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2018-11-14 | Denied | IFP | client-autonomy closing-argument concession-of-guilt criminal-procedure defense-strategy ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-control-defense right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Is a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel, and the right to control the objective of the defense, violated, under the Court's recent decision … |
| 18-5289 | Stephen Dale Barbee v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | IFP | client-autonomy ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana post-conviction prejudice prejudice-standard sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington structural-error | 1. Did the Fifth Circuit impose an improper ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard, which required him to show prejudice, to Barbee's claim that h… |