duty-to-investigate

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
23-7238	Richard Lee Devito v. United States	Sixth Circuit	2024-04-16	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	certificate-of-appealability circuit-court duty-to-investigate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el miller-el-standard panel-rehearing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-law strickland strickland-ineffective-assistance	Did the Circuit Court, initially composed of one judge, err by exceeding the "threshold inquiry" as prescribed by this Court in Miller-El? Did the Ci…
22-5994	Kevin Leon Lucien v. Texas	Texas	2022-11-04	Denied	IFP	criminal-procedure duty-to-investigate ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mitigating-evidence punishment standard-of-review trial-counsel voluntary-intoxication	1. Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to investigate and present evidence of voluntary intoxication as mitigating evidence at punishment? 2. W…
20-5476	Derek Tyler Horton v. Alabama	Alabama	2020-08-25	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights duty-to-investigate fourth-amendment law-enforcement lawful-arrest pretext pretextual-arrest probable-cause warrant-validity	1.) Whether a police officer's reason for acting , in at least some circumstances , should factor into the Fourth Amendment inquiry?* 2.) Whether t…