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25-6647 Emanuel Johnson, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus postconviction-review 1. Under the threshold certificate of appealability standard, could reasonable jurists debate a district court's refusal to consolidate inextricably i…
25-6512 Aubrey C. Trail v. Nebraska Nebraska 2026-01-07 Pending IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process indigent-rights ineffective-assistance post-conviction 1. Does a state violate this Court's precedent and the Due Process clause when it penalizes the request for the appointment of conflict-free counsel? …
25-6347 Jim Lundi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest direct-appeal ineffective-assistance plea-colloquy waiver-of-counsel 1.) Whether Nu appointment of Coun Se | who labors \wh eres \S o bust ok. Aescrehiow 2 ——Aypetlate Counsels fale ' 2.)\whedher \ mdi' Dlea colloquy e…
25-674 George Sachs v. Ricardo Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-10 Pending Response Waived client-representation conflict-of-interest defense-strategy legal-dismissal multi-defendant-case statute-of-limitations 1. When can or cannot a statute of limitations be raised in order to immediately dismiss and prevent a case from moving forward, even one having po…
25-6013 Kimberly Lee Kessler v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-03 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process habeas-corpus kangaroo-court prosecutorial-misconduct witness-tampering OR. tteARb me EVER. 8§Ft V41THCUT habbas Corpus )(3^JUSST<6M 3 KANGAROO CSURT Ktspr JUR.y OUT OP TRtlAL <»ouRTROCi/n FbR ftNTiRlT TRiAL— JUR.y NevgR …
25-5975 Thiago de Sousa Prado v. United States First Circuit 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-disqualification conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process professional-conduct prosecutorial-ethics Does the Due Process Clause permit a United States Attorney's Office to prosecute a criminal defendant when the Acting U.S. Attorney previously served…
25-5871 Isaiah Stacy Alstad v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance summary-dismissal QUESTON NUMBER ONE: Whether the district court abused its discretion by Summarily Dismissing Ground One, Conflict of Interest claim and did the Eight…
25-5855 In Re Caleb McGillvary 2025-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3rd-circuit conflict-of-interest habeas-corpus judicial-ethics judicial-recusal mandamus 1. Should the writ of mandamus issue to require Circuit Judge Michael A. Chagares to recuse himself from the instant habeas corpus proceedings, when e…
25-5818 Clyde Wendell Smith v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-10-07 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest effective-assistance-counsel postconviction-relief procedural-bar simultaneous-representation state-court-jurisdiction Petitioner and his brother were adversely situated codefendants in two separate felony cases over which the same judge presided. That judge appointed …
25-371 Clark's Barber Lounge, LLC, et al. v. Destin Health and Fitness, LLC Florida 2025-09-29 Denied Response Waived attorney-representation conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-ethics per-curiam 1. Whether a conflict of interest exists for an attorney who gave advice to one client and then represented another client on the same matter, and whe…
25-5703 In Re Steven Ray Wycoff 2025-09-23 Denied IFP aedpa-restrictions conflict-of-interest due-process habeas-corpus innocence-claim prosecutorial-misconduct 1. Whether upon.a court of appeals' denial of leave to file a second federal habeas application AEDPA's § 2244(b) (3) (E) prohibits any party from see…
25-5574 In Re Paul Patrick Jolivette 2025-09-08 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation habeas-corpus judicial-disqualification jurisdictional-defect magistrate-judge-authority L Did the united states fnagistrate ju^e dennis M. Cota abuse and usurp his authority and. jurisdiction wen he denied Petitioner' Motion to Disqualif…
25-101 J. M. F. v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2025-07-25 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant effective-counsel legal-malpractice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the threat of a civil action by a criminal defendant against his attorney is a per se denial of the right to the effective of counsel guarante…
25-5145 Nicholas Bernard Acklin v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-07-18 Denied IFP attorney-ethics conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel This is a death penalty case from Alabama in which the following occurred: (1) the defense attorney was being paid in substantial part by the defenda…
24-7437 Kaveh L. Afrasiabi v. President and Fellows of Harvard College Massachusetts 2025-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest due-process harvard-university judicial-ethics judicial-recusal procedural-fairness 1. Whether a presiding justice presiding over a case involving Harvard University as a defendant should have recused himself from the case due to the …
24-7416 Courtney B. Mathews v. Tennessee Tennessee 2025-06-13 Denied IFP attorney-client-privilege conflict-of-interest criminal-defense due-process ethical-burden trial-errors 1) Does a criminal defense attorney becoming a witness against their own client due to that attorney's intentional and deliberate waiver of attorney c…
24-7395 In Re Isaac Gray 2025-06-10 Denied IFP brady-violation conflict-of-interest ineffective-assistance peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel 1. Did the State court erred in denying trial counsel was ineffective in failing to suggest how cross-examination might have been beneficial concernin…
24A1168 Richard W. Gannett v. Board of Bar Overseers Massachusetts 2025-05-30 Presumed Complete bar-discipline conflict-of-interest disbarment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Question not identified.
24-7236 Benjamin Ritchie v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest counsel-replacement habeas-corpus rule-60(b) substantial-likelihood time-limitation "Were we to adopt the district court's logic, Rule 60(b) would never be available to petitioners with conflicted counsel, so long as the conflict last…
24-1166 Luis Iram Miranda v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-05-14 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel-representation criminal-procedure due-process sixth-amendment District courts and parties in criminal cases do not have a standard way to address conflicts of interest when a defendant's attorney has previously r…
24-7181 Robert Carl Sharp v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split conflict-of-interest ineffective-assistance-counsel post-conviction-relief sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Does the standard in Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980), which requires only a showing that a conflict of interest adversely affected counsel's p…
24-954 Anthony Vetri v. United States Third Circuit 2025-03-05 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest criminal-defense cronic-standard effective-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard 1. To show a violation of the right to conflict-free counsel when represented by multiple attorneys, only some of whom are conflicted, must a defendan…
24-944 Cellspin Soft, Inc. v. Fitbit LLC, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-03-04 Denied Relisted (2) conflict-of-interest due-process investment-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-recusal statutory-interpretation 28 U.S.C. § 455 outlines the grounds for disqual ification of judges and magistrates due to potential biases or conflicts of interest. This Honorable …
24-763 In Re Bo Zou 2025-01-17 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review conflict-of-interest court-jurisdiction judicial-recusal legal-ethics procedural-irregularity 1. Whether district judge John D. Russell may hear his Client's Case after he left his former law firm only one month. 2. Whether the panel of the Te…
24-707 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. International Business Machines Corporation, et al. Federal Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest due-process impartiality judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics right-to-appeal Preamble: The Federal Circuit affirmed the District Court's Order, overlooking the significant fact that the presiding judge was disqualified due to a…
24A562 Ikechukwu Okorie v. University Mall, LLC Fifth Circuit 2024-12-09 Presumed Complete conflict-of-interest judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality mandamus-petition procedural-irregularity writ-of-possession Question not identified.
24A491 Stephen C. Stanko v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-11-18 Presumed Complete conflict-of-interest expert-services habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-counsel waiver Question not identified.
24-281 Kishna S. Minor v. Anne M. Heishman, Commissioner of Accounts Virginia 2024-09-12 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest due-process fiduciary-oversight judicial-impartiality quasi-judicial-officer state-court-procedure It is a well-established maxim " aliquis non debet esse iudex in "—no one should be a judge in their own cause. The Commonwealth of Virginia, howeve…
24-5483 Spyros Panos v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-ethics conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard In Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980), this Court held that a defendant alleging ineffective assistance of counsel based on a lawyer's conflict o…
24-5310 Paul Wagner v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-investigation due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-attorney Whether it gave rise to disqualifying conflict of interest, in violation of Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to counsel, that his trial attorney kne…
24A29 Rosalind Holmes v. United States, et al. Ohio 2024-07-11 Presumed Complete conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights federal-defendants injunctive-relief pro-se-litigation sixth-circuit Question not identified.
23-7798 Evan C. Wilhelm v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP christeson-v-roper conflict-of-interest counsel-performance cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics prejudice-presumption presumption-of-prejudice professional-reputation professional-responsibility Whether prejudice should be presumed when a conflict of interest forces Counsel to choose between denigrating their own performance on behalf of their…
23-1318 Arthur Lopez v. MUFG Holding Corporation, et al. California 2024-06-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process emotional-distress judicial-recusal recusal self-representation standing 1.) Should Due Process of Law as mandated by the United States Constitution Fourteenth Amendment be afforded to self-represented litigant Plaintiff re…
23-1315 Maxwell Jones v. United States Federal Circuit 2024-06-17 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure arbitrary-and-capricious arbitrary-capricious conflict-of-interest dfas-denial forged-documents judicial-immunity military-pay military-records records-correction wrongful-discharge I. Whether, in a military pay and records correction case, when the Secretary of the Army publishes a final decision by directive following their inve…
23-7569 Raymond Woodley v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance multiple-representation sixth-amendment strickland-prejudice strickland-standard sullivan-standard trial-court When counsel alerts the trial court to a conflict of interest not involving multiple representation, and the trial court fails to resolve the conflict…
23-1241 Jeffrey Fay Pike v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest counsel-of-choice disqualification due-process ex-parte ex-parte-proceeding fifth-amendment prosecution-witness right-to-counsel sixth-amendment I. Does it deny a defendant due process of law to disqualify trial counsel based on a purported conflict of interest following the ex parte considerat…
23-7464 Michael Grady v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-split conflict-of-interest constitutional-right constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice disqualification-of-counsel eighth-circuit Whether the Eighth Circuit's decision to uphold the disqualification of Petitioner's counsel of choice despite Petitioner's willingness to knowingly a…
23-7425 Orlando Bell v. United States District of Columbia 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1) Was counsel ineffective in not using compulsory process for obtaining witnesses, identified by the United States Park Police and the AUSA in the mo…
23-7403 Alex A. Campbell v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals conflict-of-interest court-appointed-counsel due-process fraud-on-court government-interference habeas-petition habeas-petitions judicial-conflict-of-interest procedural-due-process sitting-judges 1). Whether procedural due process, due process rights, or the provision due process clause is violated/and or an conflict of interest, when an court …
23-7306 Ronnie Y. Conrad v. Rob St. Andre, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity sixth-amendment Whether the presumption of prejudice applies to conflict-of-counsel claims when the defense attorney is being prosecuted by the same agency prosecutin…
23A901 Carl Gordon v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-09 Presumed Complete california-constitution conflict-of-interest constitutional-authority false-claims-act gubernatorial-recall void-ab-initio Question not identified.
23A876 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2024-04-02 Denied capital-case conflict-of-interest effective-assistance flat-fee-contract ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment Whether, where appointed counsel in a capital case had a flat-fee contract and failed to investigate or challenge a capital murder charge to the clien…
23-7119 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2024-04-02 Denied IFP appointed-counsel capital-murder conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights cuyler-v-sullivan flat-fee-contract ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland When Brian Dorsey faced capital-murder charges, he was appointed counsel who were paid a very low flat fee of $12,000 each. Chris Slusher, having rece…
23-7031 Bryan Lee Gregory v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plea-waiver procedural-fairness standing (1). WAS JUDGE STEVEN BOUGH BIAS FOR RAJSIMG A AFFIREMTIVE DEFENSE FOR THE DEFENSE WHEN THE GOVERNMENT DIS NOT RAISE THIS DEFENSE OR IT DID NOT APPLY.…
23-6985 Susmita Nayak v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County, et al. California 2024-03-15 Denied IFP case-categorization cert-worthy civil-procedure conflict-of-interest court-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-standing lower-courts Whether there is a possibility of conflict of interest between the lower courts pertaining to the filed civil case categorization and corresponding co…
23-6983 Christopher James Michelotti v. Austin Knudsen, Attorney General of Montana Ninth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jury-trial prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment Within the case the district court abused its discretion by admitting evidence that the defendant is affiliated with a gang. Discredit by denying defe…
23A802 Raj G. Shekar v. Illinois Illinois 2024-02-29 Presumed Complete conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights discretionary-review fourth-amendment judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
23-6856 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process fraud-on-court government-fraud habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b sixth-amendment 1. IF I WERE DONALD TRUMP WOULD THIS COURT GRANT REVIEW OF THIS CASE TO DECIDE WHETHER THE SECOND CIRCUIT WRONGLY DENIED A COA IN THIS CASE GIVEN THAT…
23-6737 Anthony F. Wainwright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b 1. In determining whether a hearing related to equitable tolling is warranted, do the unsworn representations of an attorney —while that attorney is o…
23-6735 Fuhai Li v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability change-in-law conflict-of-interest fraudulent-conduct ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-recall new-evidence 1. Should the Court of appeals recall its mandate denying Petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability (COA) when Petitioner has demons…
23-823 Maurice J. Salem v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied appellate-review civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-ethics judicial-recusal judicial-system public-confidence rule-12b sanctions standing 1. Whether enforcing the statutory requirement of the appearance of conflict-of-interest, 28 U.S.C. § 455(a), will restore the public's recordlow conf…
23-816 In Re Shiva Akula 2024-01-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights conflict-of-interest district-court due-process financial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal recusal standing venue (1) Does the law demand that the district court judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana are obligated to disc…
23-6536 Kidada Savage v. United States Third Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-conflict-of-interest conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice sixth-amendment trial-court-inquiry WHETHER THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY EXTENDED THIS COURT'S DECISION IN CUYLER V. SULLIVAN, 446 U.S. 335 (1980) BY HOLDING THAT EVEN WHERE A TRIAL COU…
23-744 Arthur Lopez v. Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church California 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-recusal recusal right-to-appeal self-represented-litigant standing 1.) Should Due Process of Law as mandated by the United States Constitution Fourteenth Amendment be afforded to self-represented litigant Plaintiff re…
23-6284 David Pontier v. Joseph Dang, dba Law Office of Joseph Dang Ninth Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest fdcpa federal-interpleader federal-jurisdiction interpleader judicial-ethics standing statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Question I United States Supreme Court bears responsibility to exercise authority over United States District Court Judges and provide an outline of …
23-5905 Daniel Kristof Lak v. California California 2023-10-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady brady-disclosure conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process impeachment-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-witness prosecutorial-ethics witness When a law enforcement witness in a criminal trial, themselves, becomes the subject of an unrelated criminal investigation, the prosecution is faced w…
23-5892 Shane Woodgeard v. Timothy Heavlin, et al. Ohio 2023-10-26 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion bond-setting case-consolidation change-of-venue civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal venue-change Did a lower Court violate Rights in issuing an unheard of, $100,000 bond on a misdemeanor, when there was overwhelming evidence showing there was no c…
23-5541 Mark A. Hartle v. New York New York 2023-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-inquiry professional-ethics professional-responsibility prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel trial-strategy Is a criminal defendant denied their right to effective assistance of counsel when there are indications, of which the defendant was unaware, that tri…
23-5509 Vincent D. White, Jr. v. Michael Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-effect concurrent-conflict conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance 23-5508" mickens-standard post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment state-court trial-counsel Whether a state court's denial of post-conviction 1. Whether a criminal-defense attorney, under indictment on charges of rape, kidnapping, and sexual assault, has a conflict of interest when simultane…
23A191 Anthony Kinney v. Supreme Court of New Hampshire New Hampshire 2023-08-30 Presumed Complete appellate-review attorney's-fees caperton-standard conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-recusal Question not identified.
23-5359 James Thomas Burke v. Nick Deml, Commissioner, Vermont Department of Corrections, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment #1. Whether Americans are lawfully entitled to conflict free defense counsel? #2. Whether Americans are lawfully entitled to effective assistance of …
23-5349 Elbert Johnson v. Florida Florida 2023-08-14 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process illegal-sentence judicial-bias judicial-conflict legal-error manifest-injustice sentencing trial-court witness-testimony When a circuit court judge is called upon, to be a witness against a defendant in a case, and then later on, sentence the defendant in the same case r…
23-5330 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-08-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination due-process employment-discrimination evidence-withholding impartiality judicial-recusal retaliation sixth-amendment-rights Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213 (DC-3443-22-0386-1-1) which was about Mr. Waschull not recuesing himself from t…
23-5328 Charles D. Adams v. Merit Systems Protection Board Federal Circuit 2023-08-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination due-process evidence-withholding retaliation security-clearance sixth-amendment-rights standing Whether CAFC made an error in their decision to dismiss CAFC 2023-1213 (DC-3443-22-0386-1-1) which was about DIA not recuesing themselves from the cle…
23-5285 Asmerom Gebreselassie v. Gigi Matteson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest court-of-appeals docket-entry ninth-circuit procedural-history retained-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment unreasonable-determination-of-fact 1. Did The Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals Err In Failing To Grant A Certificate Of Appealability When It Denied Petitioner 's Motion For Certificate…
23-5259 Ryan Lewis Hilyard v. Wyoming Wyoming 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-decisions DID THE WYOMING SUPREME COURT APPLY AND FOLLOW FEDERAL RULES OF EVIDENCE CORRECTLY? II. IS THE WYOMING SUPREME COURTS DECISION ARBITRARY, CAPRICIOUS,…
23-5248 Nikolas Gacho v. Tyrone Baker, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-negotiations sixth-amendment 1) Should the 7Th Circuit Court of Appeals have issued a certificate of appe&libility to petitioner Nikolas Gacho where his ineffective assistance of …
23-86 Christopher Bayre Chamberlin v. Hartog, Baer & Hand, APC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts appellate-review attorney-malpractice civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process legal-ethics legal-malpractice pro-se-litigation 1. Whether HBH (concealing its family rela tionship with the adverse party in the underlying probate litigation) violated Petitioner's constitutiona…
23-17 Wisam R. Rizk v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response Waived bribery conflict-of-interest constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-jurisdiction honest-services statutory-interpretation undisclosed-self-dealing vagueness 1. This court has ruled that "conflict of interest " and "undisclosed self-dealing " by a private individual is not in the preview of §1346 (Percoco…
22-7901 Samuel Howard v. Renee Baker, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-inquiry legal-representation prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Is the Sixth Amendment violated when a defendant is forced to accept representation by lawyers who se supervisor have a longstanding social and fam…
22-1204 William Muhr v. Dawna Braswell Colorado 2023-06-13 Denied Relisted (2) child-custody conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-assignment judicial-bias judicial-disqualification parental-rights Question 1. Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process and equal protection were violated when Colorado allowed disqualified, pre…
22-7777 Saria Walker v. R. Castriotta, et al. South Carolina 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias rule-interpretation standing 1.) Why is the Constitution " Right To Due Process " NOT being Upheld ? 2.) Why is Rule 221(b) Not being Upheld in the South Carolina Court Of Appeal…
22-7776 Saria Walker v. South Carolina Department of Social Services South Carolina 2023-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-bias legal-remedy standing 1.) Why is the Constitution " Right To Due Process " NOT being Upheld ? 2.) Why is Rule 221(b) Not being Upheld in the South Carolina Court Of Appeals…
22-7749 Alen Dean O'Bryant v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-06-09 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-judge 1. Did former Judge Henderson 's secret extramarital affair with a prosecutor in the same county in which he presided as judge create an "unconstitut…
22-7688 Avery Smartt v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process human-trafficking ineffective-counsel judicial-misconduct speedy-trial standing X£^ aXBX^&mL^AL Law.eD to Drop off % Leave. A___ BMQkLL^„XU^Pmijn&nr_A lnor AT A Reslnenca^ 77>:AfecSaty XH pJ THe A&enT Sl&ieS fo Howe (roUen ARtPor…
22-7534 Charles Claude Ramsey v. Kimberly H. Runion, Director, Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation Fourth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied IFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit judicial-recusal self-incrimination standing state-law Question not identified.
22-1060 Haywood Jackson Mizell v. Citizens Bank, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-trustee conflict-of-interest fiduciary-duty procedural-violation promissory-note property-sale security-agreement standing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Is it a conflict of interest for the Respondent's attorney to be appointed a Bankruptcy Chapter 7 Trustee that, after appointment, uses a "perfecte…
22-7329 Robert Wayne Gillman v. Florida Florida 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest fair-trial fraud judicial-abuse-of-discretion judicial-discretion manifest-injustice prosecutorial-misconduct structural-defect 1. IS IT MANIFEST INJUSTICE WHEN CONFLICT OF INTEREST, PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT AND JUDICIAL ABUSE OF DISCRETION AND FRAUD DEPRIVES DEFENDANT OF A FAI…
22-854 David Archer v. Winn Dixie Stores, Inc., et al. Florida 2023-03-08 Denied civil-rights color-of-law conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct recusal standing (1) The trial and appellate court ruled against Petitioner on rehearing filed under Florida rules of civil procedures 1.540 and 1.530 and 28 U.S.C. …
22-6852 Marvin Charles Gabrion, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-23 Denied IFP adverse-witness attorney-client-privilege attorney-representation civil-procedure conflict-of-interest formal-appearance legal-ethics professional-conduct professional-responsibility standing Can an attorney who provides legal advice to counsel of record without filing a formal appearance in the case have a conflict of interest if the attor…
22-6811 A. B. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-02-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 conflict-of-interest criminal-justice-system cuyler-standard cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard strickland-test strickland-v-washington successive-conflict successive-representation Where a defendant's lawyer owed conflicting duties to her and a former client, should she receive a new trial if the actual conflict adversely affecte…
22-781 Fabio Ochoa v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Response Waived adverse-effect brady-violation conflict-of-interest cuyler-v-sullivan due-process giglio-material ineffective-assistance multiple-counsel plea-negotiations 1. On review of petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance based on counsel's conflict of interest in plea negotiations, the Eleventh Circuit conclu…
22-782 Carol Pulliam v. University of Southern California California 2023-02-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal standing takings Do state court trial judges, court of appeal justices and supreme court justices "war against the (United States) Constitution" by denying state litig…
22-6632 Michael A. Benanti v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-challenge counsel criminal-defendant-rights due-process judicial-review legal-procedure lower-court-decision standing /. VA£. Csh.<jlA: fcu.(-t£2- ~i~e o^A'A A fK^ecots-k j /i^S? IaJcuuUs cP CeuA isxL 2. 0jk<l4{\fo, iCc£ (3>cmJt fcJ-li £} 'k> MAIC&, 1\a1 /MCjj.u.txj …
22-6449 Carl Anthony Wilson v. Texas Texas 2023-01-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence blood-draw conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant unreasonable-search-and-seizure Oh may 03/2015 atio.xH mi cuus tape u to SfniTP County Tail in Ty/erjTexus at , on Floy^Q.od.6 1 my Blood uas dracon without a searChurarraot Or Count…
22-6433 Ricky Escobedo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege conflict-of-interest fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Ovtrogeovs Govecoment Mistoclutt where the goverocreat intrusion Of the alfoccey-Client pcvilaye violated Rotitioness "Ft Aroendnent acc Sixth Amnende…
22-6426 Delano Marco Medina v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-contract civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel plea-agreement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial strickland-standard The Right to Counsel. The Sixth Amendment guarantees criminal I. defendant 's the right to effective assistance of counsel. Medina 's counsel failed t…
22-6297 Kevin W. Malone v. Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics sixth-amendment trial-bias I. Does the trial counsel's fraudulent behavior and conflict of interest violate the Petitioner's 6" & 14" Amendment right to conflict free counsel? …
22-6251 Onofre Tommy Serrano v. California California 2022-12-07 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appointment-of-counsel civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review medical-treatment reasonable-time-to-consult right-to-counsel 1. Why did the Court of Appeal court issue a pro-forma component, 0902, in Appel v. National, that Appellant could not file a defendant's request-Auth…
22-6221 Oscar J. Martinez-Hernandez v. United States First Circuit 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment A. WHETHER FORMER PROSECUTOR WHO INSTITUTED THREE INDICTMENTS AGAINST A DEFENDANT AND 12 YEARS LATER DECIDES TO DEFEND HIM UNDER THE SAME THREE INDICT…
22-6181 Willie Speed v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-conflict conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment 1. WHETHER AN ATTORNEY'S CONFLICT OF INTEREST DEPRIVED PETITIONER OF HIS RIGHTS UNDER THE SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE AND …
22-6173 Steven D'Agostino v. Bunce Atkinson Third Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied IFP bankruptcy-trustee barton-doctrine chapter-7 chapter-7-bankruptcy conflict-of-interest prima-facie standing statutory-obligations trustee-handbook 1) What is the significance and/or importance of the United States Trustee Office's Handbook for Chapter 7 Trustees (hereinafter "the Handbook")? A) …
22-6123 Brian David Hill v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-blackmail judicial-independence judicial-misconduct special-master subpoena whistleblower Where the U.S. Court of Appeals did not properly and appropriately proceeded with two consolidated interlocutory appeals on the District Court's order…
22-6065 Samirkumar J. Shah v. United States Third Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-process conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure disqualification disqualification-motion due-process evidentiary-hearing prosecutorial-ethics prosecutorial-misconduct The situation in this case raises the question of whether the Petitioner, Samirkumar Shah, a practicing cardiologist whose former attorney, Tina Mille…
22-6070 Charles Rochester v. City of New York, New York, et al. New York 2022-11-16 Denied IFP aba-rules attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights disqualification due-process judicial-misconduct legal-ethics pro-se pro-se-litigation 1. Can the New York Supreme State Judge and the Opposing Attorney's join FORCER, to defeat pro-se, by being silent, on each one's Official Misconduct,…
22-5955 Christopher Wade v. Florida Florida 2022-11-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel-rights due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel petitioner-claims trial-court TVle PtfvfveyftPv /ip/Mtad His fct\/vM<liWKflT K\^VtT& To ew-wrtwii iass 'xstm^ of Mdiink uKitiam ukhtM srrtsTts oomst VW iom 3. ^ Wi^S 'VAt ^t~\\i\QU…
22-5899 Dave V. Merritt v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection griffin-v-illinois ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief ross-v-moffitt I.) WHETHER SHINN V RAMIREZ 'S HOLDING PETITIONER "AT FAULT " FOR POST CONVICTION COUNSEL 'S APPELLATE ERRORS GIVE INDIGENT POST-CONVICTION APPELL…
22-5849 David Keith Wills v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process conflict-of-interest defense-witness dual-sovereignty due-process fair-trial federal-prosecutors perjury prosecutorial-misconduct witness-intimidation QUESTION ONE: THIS COURT HAS LONG HELD THAT FOR A JUDGE TO THREATEN A DEFENSE WITNESS WITH PERJURY IF HE TESTIFIES FOR THE DEFENSE VIOLATES THE DEFEND…
22-341 Nebraska, ex rel. Timothy L. Ashford, P.C. L.L.O., et al. v. Donald Kleine, et al. Nebraska 2022-10-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-law due-process prosecutorial-recusal racial-discrimination standing Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court has decided an important question of constitutional law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court whi…
22-5643 Derek Lee Casey, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2022-09-21 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sentencing trial-counsel Question not identified.
22-176 James Burkhart v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 adverse-effect conflict-of-interest counsel-conflict evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment Under Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980), to establish a Sixth Amendment violation, a defendant must prove that his lawyer had an "actual conflic…
22-5125 Mark A. Hill v. Ohio Ohio 2022-07-19 Denied IFP 26(B)-application appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense plain-error post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process transcript 1. Whether the 26(B) application for reopening proceeding was adequate and fundamentally fair in order to determine if appellate counsel was deficien…
21-1611 Robert Koger v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest criminal-defense criminal-investigation defense-counsel disclosure due-process reversal sixth-amendment witness witness-testimony 1. Whether a criminal defendant establishes an "actual " unwaiveable conflict of interest that adversely affects counsel 's representation when def…
21-8193 Robert D. Keith v. Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law conflict-of-interest due-process eleventh-amendment judicial-immunity state-court title-iv-d 1. Does a State Judges have authority to preside over a case when He/She has a conflict of interest Does absolute immunity apply when a judge has acte…
21-8153 Michael Tisius v. Paul Blair, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied IFP 8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest death-penalty eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation The Eighth Circuit redefined and amended Congress's lenient certificate of appealability (COA) standard found in 28 U.S.C.§ 2253 with a more restricti…
21-8068 John Burke v. United States Second Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rico-case right-to-testify withdrawal-defense witness-testimony 1. Did the Second Circuit err when it found that there was not an actual conflict without ordering a hearing in the District Court when defense counse…
21-8053 Ron Delano Kuntz v. United States Third Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-representation conflict-of-interest crime-of-violence critical-stages cuyler-v-sullivan district-court jury-trial sentence-enhancement sixth-amendment 1. Whether a conflict arises, thereby compelling federal courts to follow Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980), when trial counsel's concurrent rep…
21-7892 Abdul Samuels v. United States District of Columbia 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest court-of-appeals due-process ineffective-assistance remand representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Did the court of appeals err in denying Petitioner—whose trial counsel had a conflict of interest because his child was applying for a job at the U.S.…
21-7768 Jowell Travis LeGendre v. Virginia Virginia 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel inquiry pre-trial • Were my rights to due process of law under the Fifth Amendment and Section 1 of the Eighth Amendment prejudiced when the Circuit Court for the City …
21-7757 Mark Stinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-provisions due-process fair-trial judicial-inquiry right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether a Judge inquire into the propriety of the issue? 2. Whether the mere possibility of a conflict of interest warrants the conclusion that th…
21-1407 Symon Mandawala v. Northeast Baptist Hospital, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-interest conspiracy due-process judge judicial-bias lawyer section-1983 sixth-amendment The Petitioner was a student at the school owned by the Baptist churches in San Antonio named Baptist School of Health Professions run by TENET and wa…
21-7647 Lloyd Brice v. California California 2022-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest due-process fair-trial first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial 1. Did the Supreme Court err in failing to rule that the denial of the Motion for New Trial due to trial counsel's conflict of interest violated Petit…
21-7588 Gloria Marigny v. Centene Management Company LLC Seventh Circuit 2022-04-11 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-144 appellate-review bias civil-rights conflict-of-interest district-court document-admissibility due-process federal-procedure judicial-recusal standing summary-judgment #1. Why Judge Brett Ludwig Denied Motion for Recusal, (Bias and Conflict of Interest was questionable)? United States Eastern District Of Wisconsin, 2…
21-7579 Taqwa Siddeeq v. DeKalb County, Georgia Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest court-record due-process employee-response employee-rights government-counsel government-employment job-tenure loudermill-standard termination-intent Does due process for terminated employee exist under the Loudermill standard when government counsel withholds from the court record the employee's wr…
21-7561 Ana Duarte-Pineda v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel appellate-review conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance pro-se-response sixth-amendment sua-sponte-replacement If an indigent criminal defendant's pro se response to a brief filed under Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), alleges ineffective assistance o…
21-1257 Brian K. Evans, as Administrator of the Estate of Helen Marie Bousquet v. Ronald A. Marvin, et al. Massachusetts 2022-03-16 Denied appearance-of-impropriety conflict-of-interest due-process interests-of-justice judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct medical-malpractice recusal 1. Was it appropriate for a judge to conceal that he was married to a doctor admitted to practice in the very hospital Plaintiff was suing in a medica…
21-7374 William A. Noguera v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-right counsel-representation cuyler-v-sullivan holloway-v-arkansas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment successive-representation Did the Ninth Circuit's opinion create a conflict with relevant decisions of this Court in concluding that Sullivan's standard applies only when a def…
21-7181 Mary Ellen Samuels v. Janel Espinoza, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP california-supreme-court conflict-of-interest due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice performance prejudice prejudice-presumption supreme-court-precedent 1. Did the California Supreme Court unreasonably fail to apply clearly established Supreme Court precedent that requires prejudice to be presumed wher…
21-7177 Maurice O. Byrd, Jr. v. Raymond Byrd, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandonment-of-appeal conflict-of-interest habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prejudice structural-error Does grossly inadequate representation on appeal by appellate counsel, counsel acting after announcing an actual conflict of interest was the basis to…
21-1157 Dennis Spencer v. Colorado Colorado 2022-02-22 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) attorney-performance conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation multiple-clients personal-conflicts prejudice prejudice-standard In Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980), this Court held that a defendant alleging ineffective assistance of counsel based on a lawyer's conflict o…
21-7162 Jose Jaime Lopez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-intent due-process ex-parte-communications false-statement federal-agent judicial-bias knowingly-false materiality obstruction-of-justice public-confidence Whether it is Consistent with this Courts holding in CAPERTON v. A. MASSEY COAL CO., 556 U.S. 868, 129 S.Ct 2541 (2009) and the Imperatives of Due Pro…
21-7113 Gerald Wayne Jako, Jr. v. West Virginia West Virginia 2022-02-15 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-representation cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance inside-job-theory plea-bargain presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel staged-crime witness-unavailability I. Attorney Panepinto made two separate "eleventh hour" disclosures before trial, with the latter discussing his prior representation and social relat…
21-6982 Robert Stanley Gordon v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Ninth Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied IFP benefits-denial conflict-of-interest custody erisa evidence evidence-retention long-term-disability plan-concealment Whether ERISA long-term disability benefits can be denied after years of plan concealment. Whether a conflict of interest is acceptable when a defend…
21-6759 Darla Ray Jones v. D. K. Johnson, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant criminal-threats drug-possession due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel forgery habeas-corpus prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct On de novo review, is a criminal defendant deprived of the effective assistance of counsel because of her lawyer's conflict of interest when, at the t…
21-946 Michael Coscia v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-12-28 Denied Response Waived 28-U.S.C-2255 adversely-affected conflict-of-interest Cuyler-v-Sullivan-446-U.S-335-1980 evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance Machibroda-v-United-States-368-U.S-487-1962 section-2255 supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel Whether a petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to resolve his claim under Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980), …
21-6705 Robert Tracy Warterfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest contracts-clause district-court due-process final-judgment habeas-corpus interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction plea-agreement sixth-amendment 1) Does a United States.Court of Appeals have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1291 to deny a Motion for a Certificate of Appealability when the Di…
21-6691 Aaron Hicks v. United States Second Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct conflict-of-interest counsel-representation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy issue-preclusion joint-trials right-to-counsel severance 1. When a co-defendant is represented by counsel who previously represented the defendant, thereby creating an actual conflict of interest, may a cour…
21-859 The Montana State Legislature, et al. v. Beth McLaughlin Montana 2021-12-09 Denied Amici (1) conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal legislative-investigation legislative-oversight recusal separation-of-powers Whether the refusal by the Justices of the Montana Supreme Court to recuse from a case in which they harbored direct, substantial, and admittedly disq…
21-6522 Mithun Banerjee v. Bank of America, N.A. Maryland 2021-12-06 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest due-process fair-trial judicial-corruption judicial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-recusal recusal 1) Will the Justice be served by the US Supreme Court by providing a fair trial to Plaintiff where the Circuit Court Judges are Distance Cousin Brothe…
21-6409 Stephen Harmer v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney automatic-reversal conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure defendant due-process holloway-doctrine ineffective-assistance judicial-inquiry sixth-amendment trial-judge 1. Does Holloway demand automatic reversal when a trial judge fails to inquire into a known conflict that a defendant could not object to because his …
21-753 Trina L. Janura v. John J. Janura, Jr. West Virginia 2021-11-19 Denied 14th-amendment conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-conduct judicial-discipline judicial-ethics judicial-investigation judicial-misconduct recusal 1. Did the non-disclosure and non-recusal from either the circuit court or the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals both violate the petitioner's ri…
21-6230 In Re Billy John Roberson 2021-11-10 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment aggravated-assault conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency judicial-conflict jury-instructions penal-code texas-penal-code How could I receive an Guilty Verdict of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon at the time of this supposed incident, I, Billy John Rooerson, did no…
21-6156 Vilasini Ganesh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP calendar-management conflict-of-interest counsel-conflict counsel-substitution criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process sixth-amendment substitution trial-court-discretion A. Do Sixth Amendment safeguards require trial courts to inquire into existing conflicts between counsel and the defendant before a trial court may de…
21-6141 Kenneth Pettway, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest due-process government-delay judicial-appointments prejudice speedy-trial 1. When the government successively supersedes an indictment, fails to appoint Article III judges, does not run a thorough conflict check of a protect…
21-6133 Dean Rossi v. United States Third Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-withdrawal conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure judicial-discretion necessary-witness prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review 1) Is a prosecution's claim that a defendant's lawyer is "likely to be a necessary witness" at trial an "actual conflict" or "a serious potential conf…
21-5878 Linaker Charlemagne v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing newly-discovered-evidence self-defense service-of-process 1. Whether District Court, departed from essential requirements of law, by not perfecting service on Petitioner in a timely manner, which denied cons…
21-5742 Steven Wayne Isbel v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied IFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standing trial-counsel Question One: has Whether the 5th Circvit Court of Appeals that is in direct conflict with entered a decision the United States Supreme Court precede…
21-5750 Richard A. Waite v. Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility New Hampshire 2021-09-22 Denied IFP appellate-procedure bar-regulations civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process ethical-rules judicial-standards lawyer-conduct legal-ethics professional-responsibility standing Is conflicted cansel- Actual/Real conflict of intrest ineffective Counsel? And aviolation of Constitutional Rights? Do ABA (or state eQvivilent> ethi…
21-5719 Edward Zinner v. United States Third Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fraud-on-the-court government-failure-to-admit-or-deny habeas-corpus hazel-atlas prosecutorial-misconduct 1. When prosecutors conspire with known conflicted defense counsel pre-indictment, and devise a scheme to deprive two targets in a criminal investigat…
21-5621 In Re Patrick Disanto 2021-09-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-allegations child-custody civil-rights conflict-of-interest disability-rights due-process family-law judicial-bias judicial-hearing-officer parental-rights standing I. DOES THE JUDICIAL HEARING OFFICER POSSESS THE ABILITY TO VIEW THE COMPLICATED CASE FROM A NON BIASED PERSPECTIVE, WITHOUT EXPRESSING HIS OWN MISOGY…
21-5557 Chasmind David Miller v. Government Employees Insurance Company, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest court-conflict due-process judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment 1)Did the appellate court issue a decision that directly conflicted with an earlier decision in a case with the same issues. 2)Did the appellate cour…
21-5546 Fernando Rodriguez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest counsel-switching due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-ethics state-court state-legislature Mr. Rodriguez alleged that his appointed counsel for the offense in which he is currently incarceratedswitched sides and worked for the prosecution fo…
21-5459 Bernabe Encarnacion v. Anthony J. Annucci, Acting Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, et al. Second Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest double-jeopardy due-process final-decision jurisdiction pro-bono-counsel standing summary-judgment Question not identified.
21-5390 Jeanette S. R. Lipinski v. Yolanda Castaneda, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest court-administration due-process federal-procedure judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-disability judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct recusal Question not identified.
21-5383 Mark Stinson v. John P. Yates, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process judicial-inquiry right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Whether a Judge must inquire into the propriety of the issue. 2. Whether the mere possibility of a conflict of interest warrants the conclusion th…
21-5337 Garrett McElveen v. Illinois Illinois 2021-08-10 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics Wherein M. McElveen's original public defender became the lead State's Attorney, does not an appearance of impropriety exist? By extension, does not t…
21-5309 Zachary Cooper v. Virginia Virginia 2021-08-06 Denied IFP actual-bias conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause due-process fraud judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal standard-of-review state-judicial-conduct trial-procedure 1. Does the Due Process Clause require the recusal of a trial judge when a conflict of interest arises from their participation in an earlier proceedi…
21-5254 Baboucar Taal v. St. Mary's Bank, et al. New Hampshire 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal May a party who appears before a state judge who at the same time is donating to the political campaign of the defendant chairman be entitled to a new…
21-53 James Dale Holcombe v. Florida Florida 2021-07-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (12) conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joint-and-dual-representation joint-representation presumed-prejudice prosecution-witness prosecutorial-notice trial 1. Whether a criminal defendant establishes an "actual" conflict of interest that adversely affects counsel's representation when the attorney engages…
20-1762 Ross R. Caliguri v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association New York 2021-06-17 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment appellate-review conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-decision mortgage-foreclosure state-court (1) Whether the Court of Appeals of the State of New York was in a "conflict of interest" position when it issued its Memorandum Decision dated Decemb…
20-8248 Richard W. Williams v. Sherie Korneman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance fourteenth-amendment further-proceedings ineffective-assistance public-defender sixth-amendment 1) TOir S™ r?„!SK 'ed'JUr0 SS °3 a ^ P31"51' one °f-«Mch stated during d^nse ' Sixth 'ancHFourteent^Amendment 2)Does being deprived of conflict-free …
20-8219 Clark D. Young v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest counsel-failure criminal-history due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment (1) WAS the defendant deprived of his sixth, Fifth, and Fourteenth amendments , when Counsel fAiled to investigate his. Criminal history? (2) was the…
20-8149 Quinn Palacios Cruz, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure cuyler-test habeas-corpus individual-representation ineffective-assistance methodology-of-review multiple-representation supreme-court-review trial-counsel I. Whether the Cuyler test for ineffective assistance of counsel due to conflict of interest applies to individual cases of representation and not onl…
20-1567 Marshall Abbas Khan v. Clark County Enforcement, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied 11th-amendment administrative-capacity bill-of-attainder civil-rights color-of-law conflict-of-interest eleventh-amendment judicial-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction Does a County/State judges have authority to preside over a case when He/ She has a conflict of interest Does absolute immunity apply when a judge has…
20-7869 Wilfredo Torres v. The Blackstone Group Second Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-bias judicial-misconduct legal-mail standing —whether a federal Judge with a history of racism, bias, service to the Deep State, and conflict of interest involving her husband in this and other c…
20-1482 Cheri Lynne Melchione v. Timothy Temple Florida 2021-04-22 Denied civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights court-review district-court-power due-process judicial-jurisdiction judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing supreme-court supreme-court-access Did the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal's unchecked power to withhold or strip jurisdiction from the Florida Supreme Court to hear cases involv…
20-7782 Ronald W. Greer v. Sherie Korneman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights cuyler-v-sullivan doyle-v-ohio doyle-violation harmless-error ineffective-counsel miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona newly-discovered-evidence state-court-deference I. HAS A PETITIONER SUBSTANTIALLY SHOWN THE DENIAL OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT WARRANTING ISSUANCE OF A COA WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT AFFORDS DEFERENCE …
20-1356 Eduardo Lopez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied appellate-rights conflict-of-interest counsel-disqualification criminal-procedure disqualification guilty-plea sixth-amendment structural-defect wheat-v-united-states 1. Following Class v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 798 (2018), does a criminal defendant's guilty plea result in the automatic waiver of his right to app…
20-7515 Samuel Woody v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-03-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process false-allegations ineffective-assistance vindictive-behavior witness-testimony While the PCR court did not address the conflict of interest issue in it's decision, is counsel deemed ineffective for failing to investigate and call…
20-7337 Kevin Thurlow v. Michelle Edmark, Warden First Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation counsel-representation ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-conflict-free-clause strickland-standard witness-testimony Initially the Petitioner asserted two constitutional violation claims of his The first being that his counsel was ineffective for failing Sixth Amendm…
20-7340 Christopher Welshans v. United States Third Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process federal-prosecution oath-of-office positive-law standing 01.) Show cause that in light of the facts presented by Congressman of Ohio James Traficant to the joint session of congress on March 17, 1993, as re…
20-7264 Graham Jay Sonnenberg v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied IFP adverse-effect brady-material conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights cuyler-standard cuyler-v-sullivan indigent-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel Whether the prophylaxis of Cuyler should be extended to define the term "adverse affect" to establish a demonstration test involving actual conflicts …
20-7182 Anton Tuomi v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure conflict-of-interest faretta-rights faretta-v-california guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel waiver-of-rights Issue 1: Whether the appellate court erred in concluding that petitioner was not denied his right to counsel when the state court accepted petitioner'…
20-7085 Thomas Hoey, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harsher-punishment plain-text precedents sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines 1-Should lower courts be permitted to interpret the plain text and meaning of sentencing commission's provisions to inflict harsher punishment upon pe…
20-7063 Pablo Damiani-Melendez v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights constitutional-violations due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-challenge self-representation sixth-amendment supreme-court-review Question not identified.
20-1071 West Virginia, ex rel. June Yurish, et al. v. Laura V. Faircloth, Judge, Circuit Court of West Virginia, 23rd Judicial Circuit, et al. West Virginia 2021-02-05 Denied 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure due-process joint-representation sixth-amendment standing supremacy-clause Whether a state precedent which uses a state rule of procedure to disregard its own test for balancing the Constitutional interests implicated by a pr…
20-1011 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. D. Joshua Staub, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied appellate-review circuit-conflict conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-recusal whistleblower-protection younger-abstention 1. Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it refused to follow the unanimous holdings of the Sixth Circuit, Seventh Circuit, Eleventh Circuit…
20-954 Ohio, ex rel. Thomas E. Brinkman, Jr. v. Maureen O’Connor, et al. Ohio 2021-01-14 Denied civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal panel-composition procedural-fairness recusal standing I. Whether it constitutes a violation of the Due Process Clause when a majority of judges on a judicial panel are also named parties in a case before …
20-6894 Macho Joe Williams v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines DiD The Trial court Abuse Its Disctetion when He Denied Apellant's Motions To Sever a. Dig The Trial couwst commit Reversible Ervor when He faile To …
20-6749 Ricardo Morales v. Missouri, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied IFP 28-usc-1447c civil-procedure civil-procedure-violation conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection federal-removal judicial-misconduct I. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT WAS CLEARLY ERRONEOUS AND DENIED PETITIONER FEDERAL DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECT…
20-6615 Cornell McHenry v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-11 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review witness-testimony Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the State trial Counsel's conflict of Interest and failure to Call a witness who would have impeached the st…
20-777 In Re Darren Heyman 2020-12-08 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-455 conflict-of-interest due-process extrajudicial-relationship interlocutory-appeal judicial-recusal mandamus scope-of-employment This case provides this Court with multiple instances for it to ground the criteria by which presiding judges, with different active relationships wit…
20-766 David Archer v. Winn Dixie Stores, Inc., et al. Florida 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct oath-of-office recusal standing Can States Statues Judges or Attorneys violate that State's Constitution, the Federal Constitution and Federal laws, pertaining to conflict of interes…
20-722 Rodney Anton Williamson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massiah-v-united-states right-to-counsel rule-33-motion section-2255 sixth-amendment The right to counsel in this case was violated by the prosecution surreptitiously recording Petitioner after indictment and before arrest and arraignm…
20-6328 Christopher David Mayhall v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest discretionary-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remand sixth-amendment supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United State s Cour t of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–whi ch denied an ineffective assistance of counse…
20-547 Luis Xadiel Cruz Vazquez v. United States First Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Response Waived brady-violation certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel mickens-v-taylor sixth-amendment united-states-v-decologero wheat-v-united-states 1. In refusing to issue a COA, did the First Circuit apply a novel, harsher standard requiring Petitioner to prove actual intent by conflicted counsel…
20-5849 Uzoma Igbonwa v. Facebook, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied IFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process facebook free-speech immunity-provision ninth-circuit section-230 terms-of-service Whether Facebook was should be protected by the immunity provision of Section 230 of the Communication and Decency Act when they clearly violated it…
20-5840 James Robert Miller v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process ethical-violations federal-jurisdiction indictment-dismissal prosecutorial-misconduct recusal Should this Court grant the petition for writ of certiorari to resolve the important federal question of whether a prosecutor's initiation of an inves…
20-5788 Edward James Wilkins v. Washington Washington 2020-09-24 Denied IFP 6th-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
20-5729 Amos Westmoreland v. Glen Johnson, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-conflict-of-interest conflict-of-interest cuyler-v-sullivan due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-bar procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington QUESTION#!: Does the 11th Circuit decision conflicts with this Court's decision in Martinez v. Ryan . (2012), since it ignores that in Martinez v. Ry…
20-352 The Paine College v. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied accreditation administrative-procedure common-law common-law-due-process conflict-of-interest decision-making-body due-process federal-law higher-education procedural-rights quorum Whether under federal law a college's right of common law due process is violated in its accreditation removal proceeding when one-half of the members…
20-5635 Daniel Thomason Smith v. Warden, FCI Beaumont Fifth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP allocution brady-violation conflict-of-interest due-process exculpatory-evidence false-witness identity-theft judicial-misconduct medicare-fraud mens-rea savings-clause 1. Is it appropriate to convict me, Daniel Thomason Smith, when I was NEVER allowed to testify for what I had knowledge of and/or did not have knowl…
20-5569 Carlos Garcia-Toro v. Ohio Ohio 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-defense criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment homicide ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment of the federal Constitution guarantee the right to conflict free counsel if defense counsel represents multipl…
20-5521 Wilbert Williams, aka Serenity Izabel Williams v. Beverly Kelly, Assistant Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment gender-dysphoria medical-treatment prisoners-rights transgender transgender-rights 1) Whether this court "Decide Whether Gender dysphoria IS A SERIOUS MEDICAL CONDITION, AND, IF SO, TO ENTER A DECISION FOR THE COMPANY that THE 5TH CI…
20-5519 Richard Wanke v. Illinois Illinois 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arrest arrest-initiation conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process prosecution prosecutorial-delay public-defender speedy-trial APPELLATE DISTRICT COURTS IN ILLINOIS ARE SPLIT ON HOW AN ARREST INITIATES PROSECUTION OR WHETHER IT DOES AT ALL. ARE THERE CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE A PERS…
20-5304 Stephon Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-effect conflict-of-interest criminal-trial cross-examination effective-assistance-of-counsel eleventh-circuit right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent witness-representation Whether Mr. Williams' Sixth Amendment right to conflict-free counsel was violated when his trial counsel simultaneously represented a witness testifyi…
20-5296 A. I. v. M. A. New Jersey 2020-08-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process expert-reliability judicial-bias judicial-system legal-fees standing trial-reversal 1. Should a litigant reversing a trial still be fully responsible for all the legal and expert fees of an entirely reversed trial, when the experts we…
20-5207 William Joe Long v. George Jaime, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection legislative-discretion prison-overcrowding separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation 1. When the Legislation oasses enactments pertaining to all its citizens does not the (14th.Amendment ) Equal Protection apply to all it's citizens ? …
20-5162 Joseph Shane Terry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-process attorney-ineffective conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel-representation due-process ineffective-assistance plea-agreement witness-testimony Is an attorney ineffective and engaging in a conflict of interest by making negative statements about his client to the court, informing the court tha…
20-2 Hector L. Valentin v. City of Rochester, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response Waived brady-rule civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-bias due-process judicial-conflict judicial-ethics pro-se-litigation suppression-of-evidence FIRST QUESTION PRESENTED. Should the Brady Rule versus a self-decided Judicial ethical issue by a seriously conflicted Federal Judge and involving the…
19-8903 William Clyde Gibson, III v. Indiana Indiana 2020-07-06 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-claim criminal-appeal culyer-v-sullivan due-process ineffective-assistance-counsel post-conviction-proceedings public-defender strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Indiana Supreme Court erred in determining Gibson's conflict of interest claim should be analyzed under Strickland v. Washington rather th…
19-8760 Stefan Stewart v. Florida Florida 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion witness witness-representation A) When the defense attorney previously represented the states key witness who now has conflicting interests with the defendant, does this amount to a…
19-8730 Westley Kennedy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment adversarial-process conflict-of-interest guilty-plea right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error The Sixth Amendment guaranteed Westley Kennedy the right to counsel with undivided loyalties. The government knew that Kennedy's court-appointed lawye…
19-8671 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Federal Circuit 2020-06-11 Dismissed IFP chief-justice-roberts conflict-of-interest constitutional-redress government-issued-patents judicial-misconduct knights-of-malta patent-rights supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents 1. Whether it is "misprision of treason " that eight Justices remained silent of Chief Justice Roberts ' conflict of interest against inventors as a …
19-8499 Ryan James Hoyt v. California California 2020-05-19 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-defendant compulsory-process conflict-of-interest due-process materiality-review state-bar Petitioner's attorney resigned from the California State Bar before Petitioner's sentencing date, and records indicate that during Petitioner's trial …
19-8396 Robert R. Hill v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct trial-judge Whether the district court and the third circuit erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability when it determined the Conflict of Interest…
19-8029 Lakshmi Arunachalam v. Lyft, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-18 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-emergency contract-clause corporate-infringement due-process government-contracts judicial-misconduct mutiny national-security patent patent-rights sedition separation-of-powers supreme-court supreme-court-precedent takings 1. Whether it is Sedition that Chief Justice Roberts engaged in conflict of interest against inventors as a member of the Knights of Malta with fealty…
19-7993 Thomas Victor Sway v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability conclusory-order conflict-of-interest discretionary-review due-process equitable-tolling precedent procedural-due-process standard-of-review strickland-standard When denial of COA was made in conlusory order without any precendent to rely on and there exists no sufficient basis for appellant court to review,…
19-1083 Jeffrey A. Clouser v. Kim Doherty, et al. Delaware 2020-03-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection official-misconduct qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity state-tort-claims state-tort-claims-act whistleblower-protection I. A Delaware Department of Education official, sued in his official and individual-capacities, knowingly disregarded available results of a State Pol…
19-984 Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman, LLC v. Common Benefit Fee and Cost Committee Fourth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied common-benefit-fund conflict-of-interest court-appointed-committee due-process fee-allocation multidistrict-litigation self-dealing Whether federal courts must implement a process that comports with due process to determine the fee and expense allocation of common-benefit funds in …
19-7424 Christine Ham v. Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County, et al. California 2020-01-27 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality judicial-bias judicial-disclosure judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-independence judicial-recusal public-confidence Does an intolerable conflict exist when the Supreme Court of California and the Ninth Circuit squarely address whether the appearance of partiality su…
19-7396 Julio Mario Haro-Verdugo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP cronic due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment strickland conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fifth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether the District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's rejection of Petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claim(s) …
19-7377 Gerald Adger v. New York New York 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-argument procedural-error right-to-counsel trial-counsel weight-of-evidence 1. WAS THE APPELLATE ATTORNEY DAVID R. JUERGENS INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL FOR NOT RAISING ANY LEGAL ARGUMENT AGAINST THE WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE? …
19-7371 Larry Bentley, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment narcotics-detection prejudice retroactive-application retroactivity search search-and-seizure First, this court has held that the use of a detection device by law enforcement on a citizens person, places, or things without a warrant, which reve…
19-7237 Christopher L. Croom v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP admonishment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant judicial-admonishment jury-bias right-to-counsel trial-court trial-court-admonishment waiver Does a defendant knowingly waive the right to conflict free counsel when the trial court merely admonishes the defendant that a conflict exists, witho…
19-7184 Stanley Brewer v. Robert F. Cunningham, Superintendent, Fishkill Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment conflict-of-interest due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-misconduct miller-el-standard prosecutorial-misconduct (1) Did the United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit misapplied the ruling in Miller-El v. Cockrell, in denial of petitioner 's claims? Using con…
19-822 Laurie A. White, Judge, Section A of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, et al. v. Alana Cain, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response Waived conflict-of-interest constitutional-conflict criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fines-and-fees judicial-disqualification judicial-impartiality state-court-funding state-court-jurisdiction Does the federal court have jurisdiction to disqualify state criminal court judges from adjudicating matters, over which they have exclusive jurisdict…
19-7093 Oscar Ibarra v. Nick Ludwick, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance murder right-to-counsel sixth-amendment I. Does the Sixth Amendment permit an office to represent an indigent defendant in a First Degree Murder case if the office previously represented bot…
19-6998 Patrick Kofalt v. United States Third Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion conflict-of-interest due-process plea-agreement fourth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure judicial-shell-game nix-v-whiteside plea-agreement sixth-amendment I. Does controlling authority from the Supreme Court in Nix v. Whiteside, 475 US 157 (1986), hold that all ineffective assistance of counsel waivers a…
19-6974 Wilfredo Torres v. Bellevue South Associates LLP, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest due-process federal-judiciary judicial-conflicts-of-interest judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-independence judicial-misconduct judicial-oversight judicial-recusal statutory-interpretation In her short tenure as U.S. District Judge of the Southern District of New York, the Honorable Ronnie Abrams has presided over a number of cases that …
19-6914 Levi Rockefeller v. California California 2019-12-11 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights collusion conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-ethics sixth-amendment trial-procedure Question not identified.
19-6856 James W. Riley v. Delaware Delaware 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP capital-punishment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-considerations fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-review right-to-counsel right-to-fair-trial sentencing sentencing-discretion Should this court extend Its Hurst v. Florida ruling to the pre-trial and trial stages of capital murder case where it is shown that the Judge's sente…
19-6871 Justin Vazquez v. United States Second Circuit 2019-12-05 GVR IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission ineffective-assistance jury-selection professional-conduct sentencing speedy-trial trial-procedure Whether in-chief, ineffective of assistance in violation of 6th Amendment (U.S. Const.) is Whether assigned counsel (M. Blagojevich) violated Code of…
19-6844 Fabian Santiago v. Arthur F. Hill, Associate Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County Illinois 2019-12-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-adjudication ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-representation right-to-counsel A.) The Petitioner presents the inquiry into the U.S.Ct, whether the refusal of the legftl rep resentative (sic) of the ftetitioner durirg arraignment…
19-709 Mako One Corporation, et al. v. Cedar Rapids Bank and Trust Company Eighth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-remedy remand reversal structural-error 1. When a Circuit Court finds opposing counsel has an actual and serious conflict of interest in a civil case, should the Court view the conflict as a…
19-6814 Issac Efren Jimenez v. California California 2019-12-03 Denied IFP attorney-client-privilege attorney-ethics attorney-representation conflict-of-interest criminal-law criminal-procedure ethics former-client legal-ethics leniency prosecutorial-discretion witness-testimony Whether an attorney in a criminal case may subsequently represent a client who seeks leniency in exchange for testimony in a pending case against that…
19-690 Tina Neville v. Janet Dhillon, Chair, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-11-29 Denied Relisted (2) 32-U.S.C.-§-709 civil-rights conflict-of-interest dual-status-technician due-process eeoc EEOC-access feres-doctrine incident-to-service military-civilian-employment military-function national-guard title-vii workplace workplace-discrimination 1. Contrary to Congress' clear intent, does the Feres Doctrine invalidate all remedies under Title VII for workplace discrimination experienced by a d…
19-6750 Ronnie R. Ceasar v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-power civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection prosecutorial-misconduct protected-class racial-animus Public Issue Timely prosecution of cases by local district attorney. Lay and affect cause able cause No Preparation harm law-abiding citizens Appellan…
19-6698 Amon Rweyemamu Mtaza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-consent plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment venue-defense wire-fraud 1. Whether jurists of reasonable mind would debate that counsel was ineffetive in violation of Sixth amendment for failure to investigate and litigat…
19-6568 Kenisha S. Boyd v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice Fifth Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied IFP acceptance attorney-authority bona-fide-settlement conflict-of-interest contingent-contract contract-formation contract-rejection judicial-discretion mediation mediation-procedure rejection settlement-agreement 1. Whether a bona fide settlement between the parties exists when the agreement is contingent in nature, and one party has the right to reject the off…
19-6534 Saad Bahoda v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure Bunkley-v-Florida conflict-of-interest effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing forged-affidavits ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions michigan-law People-v-Triplett plain-error self-defense sixth-amendment witness-conflict I. Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment Right to the effective assistance of counsel at trial due to counsel's failure to request a self-defense …
19-6366 Spencer Kerry Curtiss v. North Dakota North Dakota 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel standing statutory-interpretation As Truth is fundamental: Can a state's duty to provide guarantee of counsel in a criminal action be duly fulfilled when supplied representation is in …
19-515 Baldassare Amato v. United States Second Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied adverse-effect automatic-reversal conflict-of-interest cuyler-v-sullivan evidentiary-hearing holloway-v-arkansas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Under what circumstances is the automatic reversal rule from the decision in Holloway U. Arkansas, 435 U.S. 475, 484 (1978) triggered after Mickels…
19-6314 Ralph Willard Savoie v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process haymond-v-united-states parole plea-agreement precedent sentencing statutory-interpretation suborned-perjury supervised-release supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-watts waiver-of-appeal [1] Can United States v. Watts stand in light of recent holdings in Haymond v. United States? [2] Does a waiver of appeal, in light of Garza v. Idaho…
19-6325 Dewayne Barnes v. Sentry Management, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest discovery dismissal-order due-process in-forma-pauperis res-judicata speedy-trial standing trial-court titlevll of civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 0.sC, because they do though they meet the nomber ofempbyees Rolegeven give andhad soe hirig ndt 2.Cantwo co…
19-6127 Steven Justin Villalona v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest counsel-concession ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-proceedings law-of-the-case mootness plain-error presumption-of-prejudice substantial-rights (1) What effect, if any, does a concession made by the U.S. on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim have on the court's ability to ajudicate the…
19-6077 Ruben Moreno Herrera v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied IFP civil-rights compulsory-process conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-exclusion fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Fs c on my be half, as the relevant testimont of my First EYewitness of the facts of my case,Ruhen Machado R. x of te BNA R wasSu RTN S R Ma SAN 884…
19-6032 Earnest Lee Langston v. Missouri Board of Probation and Parole Missouri 2019-09-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law administrative-review collateral-estoppel conflict-of-interest constitutional constitutional-law due-process ex-post-facto parole parole-regulation res-judicata state-regulation statute-of-limitations WHETHER THE EX POST FACTO CLAUSE OF THE CONSTITUTION, Art. 1, Sec. 9, cl. 3, IS VIOLATED WHEN A NEWLY MODIFIED STATE PAROLE REGULATION IS APPLIED. II…
19-5880 Andrew Joseph Larson v. Michael Pacheco, Warden Wyoming 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction name-change personal-jurisdiction presumption-of-guilt presumption-of-innocence standing state-department subject-matter trial-jurisdiction Q1) What are the necessary components for the trial court to be complete and hold jurisdiction over a case and was Avitabile's trial court complete? …
19-290 Jay Nolan Renobato v. Bureau of the Fiscal Service Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response Waived antitrust antitrust-law authority-under-section-636-rule-72 bill-of-rights-excessive-government-power civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitution-application-judicial-proceedings-prop constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction government-power judicial-procedure judicial-transgressions-conflicts-miscarriages rule-12b1-subject-matter-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction treasury-regulations 1. Legal Issues. Whether Acts of Congress and the Constitution require their corrected application to judicial proceedings, property ownership, and in…
19-5792 Randall Turner v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-09-03 Denied IFP bias-adjudicator capital-adversary-procedures conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations structural-defect term-1 term-2 term-3 term-4 term-5 term-6 (1) Whether the appellate court appeal process was fundamentally unfair and a denial of due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amend…
19-5725 Charles Rochester v. The Fortune Society Second Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP anti-injunction-act civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest document-tampering due-process eeoc-review equal-employment fraud-upon-the-court jurisdictional-challenge obstruction-of-justice professional-responsibility retaliation tampering-with-documents whistleblower 1. Did the United State District Court as well as the United States Second Circuit of Appeals erred for not doing their duty to hold a hearing on juri…
19-5628 Charles Rochester v. New York State Division of Human Rights, et al. New York 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion abuse-of-power administrative-law anti-injunction-act civil-rights conflict-of-interest discrimination-claims due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction investigative-misconduct state-court-proceedings tampering-with-evidence I. Does the United State District Court as well as the United States Second Circuit of Appeals have a duty to protect jurisdiction and join, a State c…
19-212 Hanh Thai Williams v. Succession of Fred Langford Houston Louisiana 2019-08-19 Denied Response Waived attorney-witness campaign-contributions civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-ethics procedural-fairness recusal standing 1. Whether Armand Roos ' participation as Plaintiff 's attorney and primary witness was procedurally and evidentiary concern a violation of Due Pro …
19-5588 Luis Ordonez-Vega v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-counsel civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process inadequate-representation-of-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merit-review section-2255 waive waiver DID CONFLICT OF INTEREST ARISE WHEN APPELLATE COUNSEL'S FAILED TO RAISE NON-FRIVOLOUS MERIT(S) "INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL" ON DEFENDANT'S FIRS…
19-5199 Billy John Roberson v. Rowlett Police Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment-rights absence-from-crime-scene aggravated-assault-elements assault-elements burden-of-proof conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence penal-code second-amendment sentencing-issues standing texas texas-penal-code 1. How could I receive an Guilty Verdict of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon at the time of this supposed incident, I, Billy John Roberson, di…
19-5002 Jared Len Cruse v. Texas Texas 2019-06-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment cell-phone-evidence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-sentence search-and-seizure warrantless-search QUESTION 1: Whether the cell phone evidence was the product of a warrantless search and seizure and/or an illegal detention; and thus/ whether this …
18A1366 Julio Mario Haro-Verdugo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-27 Presumed Complete conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation fair-trial ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Question not identified.
18-9669 Floyd M. Chodosh, et al. v. Palm Beach Park Association California 2019-06-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP adr-employment appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal standing The Justices of the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Div. 3 refused to recuse themselves from the appeal of a judgment against Petitioners…
18-1503 Nagel Rice, LLP, et al. v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response Waived attorneys-fees circuit-split class-action class-action-litigation class-action-settlement conflict-of-interest constitutional-infirmity counsel-fees due-process equal-protection lead-counsel pre-appointment-work unequal-plaintiff-classes This Court has never addressed two important questions in class action litigation. First, whether nonclass counsel is entitled to an award of counsel …
18-9241 Sealed Appellant v. Sealed Appellee Fifth Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-client-privilege attorney-representation civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-investigation criminal-procedure cuyler-v-sullivan due-process prosecutorial-ethics right-to-counsel strickland-v-washington structural-error Should lower courts review the conflict under Cuyler v. Sullivan or Strickland v. Washington?
18-8952 Boris Murphy v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion 6th-amendment conflict-of-interest deficient-performance direct-appeal due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Did the Fourth Circuit review the District Courts error in denying petitioners 28 U.S.C. 2255 claim de novo that was based on conflict of interest and…
18-8818 Cornell D. Reynolds v. Randall Hepp, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP appeal appellate-rights appointed-counsel attorney-client attorney-compensation conflict-of-interest due-process indigent-defendant indigent-defense statutory-provisions Should the conflict of interest doctrine be extended to include financial conflicts between attorney and client; and/or Whether a state creates a fat…
18-8750 Alex A. Campbell v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-144-455 conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation due-process ex-parte-communication fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct pro-se recusal Must a judge who had a improper ex parte communication with the prosecuting team off-docket, with no in camera review, and directed the prosecuting to…
18-8495 Leroy Scott v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation conflict-of-interest death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel WHETHER COUNSEL'S INEFFECTIVENESS CONFLICTS WITH THE HOLDING IN MISSOURI v FRYE, FOR FAILING TO ADVISE PETITIONER OF THE MEANS TO SET FORTH IN THE DEA…
18-1215 Alvin S. Kanofsky v. City of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-03-19 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-power civil-rights code-enforcement conflict-of-interest conservatorship due-process government-corruption government-misconduct judicial-misconduct municipal-liability property-rights trespass Was the city responsible for the so-called violations? Was the City fraudulently citing him numerous times for violations that they caused? Did City…
18-8370 Lonnie Eugene Lillard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure discretion due-process federal-procedure ninth-circuit self-representation What procedural safeguards are afforded to federal criminal defendants when an Appellate Court panel exercises its discretion in deciding whether or n…
18-8273 Cecilio Cuero Payan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP conflict-free-attorney conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver Whether, under the sixth amendment, a criminal defendant may waive his right to raise a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel as part of a plea-a…
18-8240 Howard Anthony Moniz v. Michigan Michigan 2019-03-06 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-impartiality post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal recusal-standard I, Should the State Circuit Court Judge be disqualified from ruling on a collateral appeal for relief from judgmint where he personally opposed post-c…
18-8247 Patrick Joseph Kofalt v. United States Third Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel-waiver due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waivers Are all ineffective assistance of counsel waivers per se invalid because they violate the Sixth Amendment's right to conflict-free representation? Di…
18-8208 In Re Donivan Diaz 2019-03-01 Denied IFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process fair-notice fourteenth-amendment mandamus mandamus-petition professional-conduct state-bar-act 1.) THE PETITIONER HEREBY AVENS THAT THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION AND/OR COMMITS PLAIN ERROR IN FLOUTING THE STATE BAR ACT, RULE…
18-8198 Brandon Lisi v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure curcio-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-challenge Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit committed reversible error by denying Petitioner's timely filed Petition for Reheari…
18-8172 Corinthian Bostic v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-withdrawal conflict-of-interest due-process fifth-amendment indigent indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance motion-to-withdraw pre-trial-hearing pre-trial-motion right-to-appeal Did the pre-trial judge abuse its discretion by denying Bostic's appointed attorney's motion to withdraw where Bostic and his trial counsel had a conf…
18-8151 Loren Williamson, III v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254a 28-usc-2254d conflict-of-interest due-process due-process-equal-protection-disparity equal-protection parties-to-the-proceeding post-conviction post-conviction-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel Whether a Certificate of Appealability should issule below to allowthe Ninth Circuit to determine whether. Lowrence v.Florida, 549 0.5.3.27, 33y(2007,…
18-8060 Glenn S. Solberg v. First National Bank and Trust Co. of Williston, et al. North Dakota 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 7th-amendment amendment-violation civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discrimination jury-trial standing Whether I should have been granted a jury trial after petitioning the ND Supreme Court three times abiding by the law in the 7th amendment. Whether i…
18-1076 In Re Robert K. Hudnall 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction secret-hearing service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction May a State Supreme Court that is granted only appellate jurisdiction as a matter of law by the state constitution: Exercise personal jurisdiction wi…
18-7937 Jaques J. Sullivan v. Scott Lewis, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dementia due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice sixth-amendment standing Thfl the Lower courts erred in judgment by dismissing Petitioner 'Actual Conflict in dual-representation" when trial counsel's dementia was cause for …
18-7901 Darrius DaJuan Cohee v. James Yates, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-appeal Was Petitioner's Counsel Ineffective For Failing To File Petitioner's Motion To Withdraw Guilty Plea After Petitioner Specifically Requested For Couns…
18-7898 Latwang Janell Reid El Bey v. North Carolina, et al. North Carolina 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion right-to-be-heard standing temporary-restraining-order 1) Did Judge MILTON F. FITCH, TR. err by denying the petitioner the right to a hearing and the opportunity to be heard when the petitioner filed for a…
18-7885 Christopher VanGuilder v. Daniel Martuscello, Superintendent, Coxsackie Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process entrapment-defense grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudicial-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supplemental-instructions supplemental-jury-instructions QUESTION (1) Whether United States District Second Circuit Court Of Appeals and or said Lower Court's Erred in Failing to grant Petitioner's Ineffecti…
18-1020 Veeramuthu P. Gounder v. Communicar, Inc., et al. New York 2019-02-06 Denied case-consolidation civil-procedure Conflict-of-interest consolidation Discovery due-process Examination-before-trial judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-review pro-se-litigation standing subpoena Subpoena-Duces-Tecum Three cases bearing individual case index numbers, CV-092419-1IJQU, CV-027168-12/QU, CV-032361-12/QU, court fees paid, different filing dates, grandfa…
18-7644 Carlos Benitez v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas habeas-corpus legal-claim right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-appealability standard-of-review Did trial counsel have a conplict of interest by simulttanecusly representing Me. Benitez and a defense witness, violating Mir. Benitez's Sixth Amendm…
18-7477 Ja'Juan Williams v. Dean Minor, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR NOT RAISING ISSUE OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE? DID COUNSEL LABOR UNDER A CONFLICT OF INTEREST?
18-7440 Christopher Whitman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appeal appellate-procedure conflict-of-interest disqualification due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion juror-bribery plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines standing Question One The Constitution guarantees a person the effective assistance of counsel for a first appeal of right. Effective counsel necessarily cont…
18-7436 Jeffrey Nicholas Aase v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections Eighth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest criminal-defense cuyler-v-sullivan federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-integrity prosecutorial-ethics right-to-counsel structural-error Petitioner's private practice defense counsel', whose practice was struggling financially, created a personal conflict of interest before the start of…
18-7299 Leon Tony Parker, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-01-10 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest counsel-of-choice counsel-withdrawal court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion motion-resolution motion-to-substitute motion-to-substitute-counsel motion-to-withdraw record-keeping right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion trial-fairness The Petitioner sought to withdraw counsel because of a legitimate conflict in counsel's representation; and then, two months later, sought to substitu…
18-800 Linda Shao v. McManis Faulkner, LLP California 2018-12-21 Denied Relisted (2) appeal appeal-dismissal california-rules-of-court conflict-of-interest court-procedure dismissal due-process fraud insufficient-records judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct notice procedural-deception The questions presented in this case are: 1. Does due process require reversal of the dismissal of appealbased on the fact that the California 6th Di…
18-7099 Richard Allen Ratushny v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied IFP Brady-v-Maryland brady-violation conflict-of-interest crimen-falsi due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment welfare-fraud WAS THE PETITIONER DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO COUNSEL WHERE DEFENSE COUNSEL THAT REPRESENTED PETITIONER SIMULTANEOUSLY AND A POTENTIAL DEFENS…
18-7083 Sylvia Ogbenyeanu Walter-Eze, aka Sylvia O. Okam v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-standards constructive-denial-of-counsel counsel-conflict critical-stage fundamental-fairness ninth-circuit presumed-prejudice structural-error waiver Whether, when the Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit, found that "both the threat of fees and the threat of potential sanctions created a conflict …
18-762 Jaime Valente Pina, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Relisted (2) conflict-of-interest criminal-indictment federal-prosecution plea-bargaining pre-indictment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-charges state-prosecution Petitioner Jaime V. Pina, Jr., and his younger brother Angel were charged in state court with possession with intent to deliver cocaine. An attorney h…
18-7030 S. R. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. West Virginia 2018-12-14 Denied IFP child-custody civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process family-law judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal procedural-fairness recusal standing Question not identified.
18-7028 Jameel Simpson v. James Erkerd, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice sixth-amendment wrongful-conviction PETITIONER JAMEEL SIMPSON WAS DENIED HIS RIGHTS UNDER THE SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE …
18-669 Shane M. Gates v. Walter Reed, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process hobbs-act insurance-interference malicious-prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct substantive-due-process 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred by failing to recognize that a District Attorney, who in his private law practice represented, and received hund…
18-640 Nicholas Bernard Acklin v. Alabama Alabama 2018-11-16 Denied Amici (2) attorney-client-relationship conflict-of-interest criminal-defense death-penalty fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment third-party-payment Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to conflict-free counsel when his lawyer is paid by a third part…
18-6680 Roberto Moreno Ramos v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied IFP calderon-v-thompson circuit-court conflict-of-interest counsel-conflict death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice standard-of-review Given that Petitioner Moreno Ramos requested the circuit court recall its mandate solely to address a defect in the integrity of his habeas proceeding…
18-6649 Thelma R. Davis v. Brown & Dortch LLC, et al. Maryland 2018-11-13 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-representation civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process indigent-rights judicial-impartiality partiality standing state-court-corruption unfair-treatment This case involves corruption within the state court system, injustice, conflict of interest, partiality, unfair treatment of Petitioner; the denial o…
18-577 David Netzer v. Shell Oil Co., et al. Federal Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appearance-of-impropriety civil-procedure conflict-of-interest disclosure due-process judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality procedural-fairness recusal res-judicata Premise of the Question: A Federal Judge is a Board member and Board advisor of a major social organization. The defendant in a case being heard by th…
18-553 Juliet Yackel v. South Dakota, et al. South Dakota 2018-10-29 Denied atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia conflict-of-interest counsel-representation death-penalty death-penalty-appeal eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability moore-v-texas 1. Was Rodney Berget arbitrarily deprived of his entitlement to conflict free counsel in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment when his counsel determ…
18-6423 Marlan McRae v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process fiduciary-conflict fiduciary-conflict-of-interest fiduciary-duty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics manifest-necessity sixth-amendment vague-precedent Can the unconscionable and illegal actions of an attorney, in addition to a fiduciary conflict of interest between an attorney and his client, amount …
18-6383 Robert J. Kulick v. Steven Rein Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP ada-accommodation attorney-client attorney-client-rights civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process legal-ethics legal-malpractice legal-representation pro-per-status pro-se standing state-bar-bias Why the CA State Bar denied an investigation against Steven Rein, Esq. for his blackmail against me, & :-;why attorneys allowed to be relieved as an a…
18-6247 Roy Parker v. Burl Cain, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied IFP 6th-amendment competency conflict-of-interest constitutional-provisions due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment 1). Did Petitioner receive the effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed by the Amendment to the United States Co,wtithl.ion 4ien trial counsel al…
18-344 Linda Shao v. McManis Faulkner, LLP California 2018-09-17 Denied Relisted (2) access-to-courts american-inns-of-court attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest court-of-appeal due-process judge-disclosure judicial-ethics recusal right-to-appeal social-relationship Does due process require reversal of the dismissals as Presiding Justice Mary J. Greenwood failed to recuse or disclose her conflicts of interests? I…
18-5736 Joshua Moses v. United States Third Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiplicitous-indictment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel Whether the Prosecutor's conduct in charging petitioner with a multiplicitous indictment to gain a tactical advantage so infected the trial with unfai…
18-5619 Ralph Raul Contreras v. Hunter Anglea, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP attorney-client-relationship attorney-fees california-rules-of-professional-conduct conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights professional-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-created-rights Petitioner contends that a criminal defendant is entitlE to counsel at all crucial stages of the proceeding. United states Constitution, Sixth Amendme…
18-5592 Oscar Madrid v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress state-court sufficiency-of-evidence Question 1: Whether The Court Erred Finding Claim One - Three where not Exhausted To The State's Highest Court In Violation Of The Fourteenth Questio…
18-201 Parviz Montazer v. Parvin R. Montazer California 2018-08-15 Denied appellate-counsel appellate-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-protections criminal-contempt criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant indigent-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias right-to-counsel sixth-amendment transcript-costs 1. Is not an appellate court required to appoint counsel to an indigent in a criminal case? if so, is not an indigent appellant entitled to the cost o…
18-5570 Ilich Vargas v. Superior Court of California, San Bernardino County California 2018-08-13 Denied IFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-informants due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment (4) District attorneys/prosecutors have a free standing obligation to investigate and inquire into backgrounds of criminal jailhouse informants, inclu…
18-5369 Baboucar B. Taal v. St. Mary's Bank, et al. First Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-455 appeal conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest due-process equal-protection fair-adjudication federal-claims judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal May a party who is denied Fair and Impartial adjudication of his (federal) claims, deprived of his basic due process and equal protection rights, in a…
18-5209 Michael Barrett v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-procedure attorney-client-relationship conflict-of-interest constructive-denial-of-counsel impermissible-risk ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion professional-ethics professional-responsibility right-to-counsel standard-of-review Does it create a conflict of interest for a lawyer to have to argue on appeal that the trial court should have replaced him? Can this create an imperm…
24A1109 Benjamin Ritchie v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit Denied conflict-of-interest federal-habeas-relief habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b stay-of-execution Question not identified.