counsel-representation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A814 Joshua White v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-13 Application certiorari counsel-representation in-forma-pauperis procedural-extension sixth-circuit supreme-court Question not identified.
25-6225 Alejandro Peña Salvador v. Washington Washington 2025-11-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-representation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance The faal JisnsqarJ fa dew &via&>ce of /rre£^Ci|^bl£cpnB' c' b^+^eeAOe^dMi amd hfc Mr Pe?Ks> rtaH4 o reDfesen^-Von a'fn'idcA.i Coothci or &4«c3-!/e > q…
25-5164 Pierre Alexander Amerson v. Leslie Cooley Dismukes, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-representation due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-intervention plea-negotiations Whether A post-conviction attorney should have been stopped from proceeding with ex parte exploratory and ask a disproportionate, the subsequent given…
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…
24-565 Linnea W. v. Matthew P. New York 2024-11-20 Denied constitutional-rights counsel-representation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-fees state-court-procedure 1. May a state court elect to contravene its own state laws, which explicitly require the award of legal fees and representation of counsel, in violat…
24A305 RSBCO v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-30 Presumed Complete certiorari-petition counsel-representation fifth-circuit legal-procedure supreme-court-rules time-extension Question not identified.
23-1092 Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-04-08 Denied Response Waived civil-rights counsel counsel-representation direct-appeal due-process hobsons-choice nunc-pro-tunc post-conviction post-conviction-relief unitary-review Does Pennsylvania's allowance of unitary review require a grant of relief nunc pro tunc to individuals whose counsel wrongly imposed a Hobson's choice…
22-7144 In Re David Priester 2023-03-29 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights conviction counsel-representation due-process extraordinary-writ federal-constitutional ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial Does the Sixth Amendment require the Assistance of and from counsel be appointed? A Federal and Constitutional matter effecting five trial(s). And see…
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…
21-1226 Michael Washington v. Florida Department of Transportation Florida 2022-03-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-waiver counsel-representation due-process forfeiture fundamental-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-rights waiver Whether the reasoning in Olano applies in a civil context where the failure of a party's counsel to object to closing argument due to misconduct or ne…
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…
20-8367 Kiera Shanice Graham v. Brooks Benton, Warden Georgia 2021-06-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights counsel-representation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sentencing voluntary-decision Is ifa vfokthon of dun proc.&& for & defwda nb -b pkad AUi'I'ly b a \ fo SinDmoi tohjin informed hj Counsel +inaf Umm pm\fo (mos biwj aujhi, ba+ ujos…
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…
20-7196 Kristy Renee Rasnick v. Dickenson County Department of Social Services Virginia 2021-02-23 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protection counsel counsel-representation due-process parental-rights state-court state-court-appeal statutory-interpretation 1) Whether Petitioner was deprived her constitutional right affording her due process when the Virginia Supreme Court and the Virginia Court of Appeal…
20-6208 Ira L. Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-due-process counsel-representation district-court-writ due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-errors standing 1) whether the Elevant Cirarit was in error wheni+ failed to grant a certificate of Appeala bility based on the District Court's Clisby'Error. 2) whe…
20-5764 Rodney Berryman, Sr. v. Robert K. Wong, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-23 Granted IFP counsel-representation dna-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interlocutory-appeal judicial-error motion-denial new-trial ninth-circuit prejudice pro-se pro-se-motion Did the Ninth Circuit error by finding no basis for Interlocutory Appeal, (at 9th Cir. No. 02-80106) And after judgment refusing to allow petitioner t…
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…
19-8804 A. M. v. Indiana Indiana 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment counsel-representation due-process fair-proceedings fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-delinquency liberty-interest right-to-counsel 1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide children a right to counsel at all proceedings where their liberty is at stake? 2.…
19-6001 Gregory Leroy Packer v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-duty counsel-representation court-docket court-procedure diligence diligence-appeal due-process legal-diligence pennsylvania-statute prejudicial-delay related-case-law standing statutory-interpretation unprecedent-case 1. WERE THE APPELLATE COURTS RULINGS UNPRECEDENT FOR THIS CASE? 2. DID THE COURTS DISREGARD PETITIONER'S COURT DOCKET IN THEIR RULING? 3. DID THE CO…
18-8024 Alex Rodriguez v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-02-19 Denied Relisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights counsel-representation criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea new-jersey-constitution plea-bargaining pre-trial-preparation pretrial-preparation right-to-counsel sexual-offense sixth-amendment THE DEFENDANT WAS DENIED THE RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF TRIAL COUNSEL AS GUARANTEED BY THE SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AND…
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…