competent-counsel
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-6554 | Darlene Feiste v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights competent-counsel constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process employment-discrimination freedom law-enforcement-misconduct liberty privacy | Competency of the Petitioner. Clear error. Incompetent Court Appointed Counsel. Liberty and Freedom. Due Process. Privacy. Right to the assistance of … |
| 23-6363 | Matthew Reid Hinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | competent-counsel due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | DOES AN ATTORNEY ADVISING HIS CLIENT TO ENTER A GUILTY PLEA WITHOUT FIRST INVESTIGATING THE CASE AND/OR INTERVIEWING WITNESSES THEN DISCUSSING VIABLE … |
| 21-5561 | Tyrone Cade v. Texas | Texas | 2021-09-01 | Denied | IFP | capital-habeas capital-punishment competent-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment state-responsibilities | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to provide capital habeas petitioners one opportunity to present Sixth Amendmen… |
| 19-7954 | Steven M. Leonhart v. Tim Shoop, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-11 | Denied | IFP | competent-counsel constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sixth-amendment strategic-benefit | Is defense counsel who makes a plea bargain that fails to give his client a substantial strategic benefit acting as competent and effective counsel as… |
| 19-5715 | Billy Jack Crutsinger v. Texas | Texas | 2019-08-27 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts competent-counsel constitutional-rights due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel state-post-conviction | Whether the appointment by a convicting court of a lawyer, who was not competent to represent the indigent, death-sentenced prisoner at any stage of t… |