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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 23-7136 | Michael Dewayne Smith v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2024-04-04 | Denied | IFP | confession confession-corroboration constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial false-testimony murder-conviction perjured-testimony | Whether Mr. Smith's first degree murder convictions and sentence of death are unreliable and in violation of his constitutional rights to due process … |
| 23A878 | Michael Dewayne Smith v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2024-04-03 | Denied | capital-murder confession corroboration due-process false-testimony post-conviction | 1. Whether Mr. Smith's first degree murder convictions and sentence of death are unreliable and in violation of his constitutional rights to due proce… | |
| 23-6348 | Danial Leanos v. Illinois | Illinois | 2023-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confession confidentiality constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation interrogation-tactics miranda-rights suspect-waiver totality-of-circumstances | Should an interrogator's promise of confidentiality invalidate a suspect's Miranda waiver only if it immediately induces them to confess, or should it… |
| 23-6030 | Gregory P. Burleson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confession corroborating-evidence defense-of-others excessive-force federal-law law-enforcement reasonable-doubt self-defense supreme-court | 1. Is a citizen entitled to act in self-defense or defense of others against law enforcement officers if he has a reasonable belief that there is an i… |
| 23-5071 | Bruce Allen Buckner v. Wilfredo Martell, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-12 | Denied | IFP | appeals civil-rights confession constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus police-procedure self-incrimination standing suspect-interrogation | Would a jurist of reason find the District Court Clerk made a procedural error by failing to issue and mail the November 15th, 2021 termination order … |
| 23-5038 | Kurt Michaels v. Ron Davis, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Relisted (13)IFP | aggravating-evidence appellate-review capital-case confession confession-evidence cumulative-error harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-deliberation jury-deliberations ninth-circuit-review | Whether a court reviewing a cold record in a capital case may determine that the effect of an erroneously admitted confession and other improper aggra… |
| 22-905 | Troy A. Gregory v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-03-17 | Denied | Response Waived | closing-argument confession due-process hypothetical identification prosecutorial-misconduct | Can a prosecutor act out a hypothetical confession by the defendant in closing argument when it is uncontested that the defendant did not confess? |
| 22-405 | Michael Leon Grubb v. Texas | Texas | 2022-11-01 | Denied | 5th-amendment confession confessions due-process fifth-amendment interrogation law-enforcement miranda-rights self-incrimination supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Supreme Court's 1987 decision in Mauro effectively abdicated its 1980 holding in Innis by creating an analytical escape hatch related to t… | |
| 21-6795 | Jerry White v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence civil-rights confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process freestanding-claim habeas-corpus new-evidence post-conviction-relief | Whether the constitution prohibits the continued incarceration of a person who proves, with new evidence in the form of a confession by the true perpe… |
| 21-945 | Wisconsin v. Manuel Garcia | Wisconsin | 2021-12-27 | Denied | confession criminal-confession criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-exclusion fifth-amendment miranda-warning miranda-warnings misleading-jury witness-testimony | Can a criminal defendant's cross-examination of a witness for the State, designed to mislead the jury, open the door to the introduction of the defend… | |
| 21-6138 | Armando B. Cortinas, Jr. v. Jo Gentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-01 | Denied | IFP | Brecht-v-Abrahamson confession constitutional-error federal-habeas federal-review felony-murder habeas-corpus harmless-error premeditation-and-deliberation section-2254 state-court-decision | Should the Court hold this petition pending disposition of Brown v. Davenport, No. 20-826, which will likely address how 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) and Brecht… |
| 21-5610 | Willie M. Hardy, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender confession crime-of-violence criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession jury-instructions malicious-wounding sentencing sentencing-factor sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Whether Virginia Code 18.2-51, malicious wounding, is a a crime of violence. 2. Whether acquitted conduct is a proper sentencing factor. 3. Wheth… |
| 21-190 | Carlos W. Santiago v. Josean Toucet, et al. | Puerto Rico | 2021-08-11 | Denied | Relisted (2) | appeal appellate-rights confession confession-suppression criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct trial-transparency | A = If due process of law is violated when a judge in a hidden trial disappears and erases from his judgment the confession obtained through strong cr… |
| 20-1766 | In Re John H. Todd | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights confession constitutional-safeguards criminal-investigation due-process evidence evidence-exclusion police-conduct search-warrant | Does Oregon's conflicting statutes on search warrants that exist between ORS 133.545(5) which requires a fully trained police officer and ORS 167.345 … | |
| 20-6708 | Tony Decloues v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confession confession-voluntariness due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment strickland-standard | Question No. 1: Whether The Court Of Appeal Should Have Granted Coa Where The District Court Employed A Constitutionally Impermissible Standard In Eva… |
| 20-6144 | David Allen Kuntz v. California | California | 2020-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure coercion confession constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miranda-rights personal-autonomy psychological-evaluation trial-counsel | 1. ClfMint's _ ri&tf VnJ&/ rtir<Mck V. c ~h^i c* F~) ■%'bk <ind *Hi Airi& /idw7€-h'j 'S ^<4.^ ^ov/'^ anj V6lvni'<zry wk&hC' d-&fe'Of->v r& VS&J O^crre… |
| 20-5048 | Josh L. Bowman v. Bert Boyd, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 5th-amendment batson-challenge confession confession-suppression constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection police-misconduct police-threats suppression | 1. Whether Mr. Bowman's confession should have been suppressed due to treats by police? 2. Whether Mr. Bowman's federal constitutional rights under B… |
| 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 … |
| 19-7847 | Lee D. Watts v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2020-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confession confession-suppression criminal-interrogation criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance police-interrogation police-questioning right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppression voluntariness | Question #1: Whether petitioner's Original trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of U.S. Const. Amn. 6 when counsel fa… |
| 19-7278 | Terrance Cobb v. Florida | Florida | 2020-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confession criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief | Whether, the Florida Courts have violated Mr. Cobb's right to Due Process, under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, in denying him post-conviction r… |
| 19-7112 | Gabriel Galindo-Serrano v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | IFP | confession confession-suppression court-of-appeals criminal-procedure delay magistrate-judge motion-to-suppress plain-error standard-of-review waiver | Whether the standard of review on appeal of an untimely motion to suppress a confession, based upon the failure to bring the defendant before a magist… |
| 19-7013 | Kenneth M. Gray v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights confession criminal-procedure due-process false-confession false-promises ineffective-assistance interrogation no-merit-report parent-attorney post-conviction-counsel sentencing sentencing-error waiver waiver-petition | Whether post-conviction counsel failed to file a "no-merit" report. Whether detectives made false promises to illicit a confession during the interro… |
| 18-9728 | Sung Ho Park v. Tammy Foss, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confession due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance interrogation involuntary-confession lesser-included-offense physical-incapacitation police-interrogation prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel | I. Whether Park, Who Was Physically Incapacitated When The Police Interrogated Him, Could Not Make A Voluntary Statement; Whether Trial Counsel Render… |
| 18-1488 | John S. Cammalleri v. Florida | Florida | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response Waived | confession confession-involuntariness criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary involuntary-confession law-enforcement leniency | Whether a "specific" and "direct" promise of leniency by a law enforcement official renders a defendant's confession involuntary pursuant to the Fifth… |
| 18-7553 | Elmos D. Hopkins v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury jury-instructions right-to-counsel witness | Can a defendant be convicted where two witnesses (owners of the home) who observed two males from 15 feet in broad daylight come out of their house an… |
| 18-7089 | Esau Milliner v. Kathy Litteral, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-waiver closing-argument confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-burglary ineffective-assistance-of-counsel initial-aggressor procedural-bar right-to-appeal right-to-testify self-defense trial-counsel | Whether Petitioner was denied the effective assistance of counsel to which he was constitutionally entitled when trial counsel failed to present readi… |
| 18-6750 | Rita Pultro v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | codefendant codefendant-confession confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay redaction sixth-amendment | Should a court look beyond the four corners of a nontestifying codefendant's confession to determine if introduction of the confession violates the Co… |
| 18-6667 | Khaled Elbeblawy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confession criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence impeachment impeachment-use-waiver medicare-fraud plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 substantive-evidence united-states-v-mezzanatto | Does the impeachment-use waiver doctrine established by the Court in United States v. Mezzanatto, 513 U.S. 196, for plea-related discussions permit th… |
| 18-6432 | Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confession confession-voluntariness consent-to-search due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment interrogation interrogation-circumstances involuntary law-enforcement-tactics totality-of-the-circumstances young-adult | This petition presents the question of whether Due Process allows federal agents to obtain a confession and a consent to search from an immature, youn… |
| 18-6258 | Steven Lazar v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aedpa aedpa-standard confession confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-adjudication reliability standard-of-review third-circuit-review voluntariness | Did not the Pennsylvania state courts and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals convolute the difference between a confession's voluntariness and its rel… |