| 24-7497 |
Michael Marion Cotham v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process faretta-right ineffective-assistance self-representation |
I. Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals' decision was "contrary" to Faretta v. Arizona, 422 U.S. 806 (1975), within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)… |
| 24A1258 |
Willie Dennis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-06-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process faretta-right ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation procedural-standing right-to-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7029 |
DeNeal Lee Smith v. Jeff Howard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process faretta-right self-representation sixth-amendment |
Can a criminal defendant invoke his Sixth Amendment right to self-representation under Faretta after an equivocal request?
Did the United States Cour… |
| 24-5929 |
David Mark Fink v. California |
California |
2024-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
evidentiary-hearing faretta-right judicial-discretion pro-se-representation sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
(1. The People have no standing to interject between an accused and his right of self-representation . When the court permits them to do so, does it u… |
| 23A526 |
Jacob Smith v. Nethanjah Breitenbach, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-right criminal-procedure faretta-right preliminary-hearing self-representation sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6276 |
Lester S. Barney v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254d faretta-right faretta-v-california habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review pro-se-representation self-representation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether, because the state court unreasonably determined that Lester S. Barney ("Barney") did not clearly and unequivocally assert his right to pro… |
| 21-7844 |
James R. W. Mitchell v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-appointment court-discretion criminal-defendant criminal-procedure faretta-right faretta-v-california mccoy-v-louisiana right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation self-representation sixth-amendment |
In Faretta v. California , 422 U.S. 806 (1975), this Court held that a criminal defendant has a Sixth Amendment right to represent himself at trial. I… |
| 21-871 |
Louisiana v. David H. Brown |
Louisiana |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
|
capital-case death-penalty faretta-right faretta-v-california mccoy-v-louisiana self-representation structural-error trial-counsel |
Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court erred in vacating the three death sentences imposed on the respondent when the trial court granted respondent's re… |
| 20-6592 |
Edgar Gomez v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process faretta-right habeas-corpus right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment timeliness |
(1) Was Petitioner's denied his right to self-representation pursuant to Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975) when the trial court denied the re… |
| 19-6458 |
Torrence E. Davis v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conditional-demand constitutional-rights criminal-procedure equivocal-invocation equivocal-request faretta-right faretta-v-california judicial-discretion new-counsel pro-per right-to-counsel self-representation self-representation-right trial-court-advisement waiver-of-counsel |
In Faretta v. California, this Court held that criminal defendants have the right to represent themselves in criminal prosecutions. Faretta v. Califor… |
| 19-6266 |
Willie Jones, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-among-courts constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure dilatory-conduct dilatory-purpose dilatory-purposes faretta-right faretta-v-california federal-courts self-representation sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-self-representation state-courts |
Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's Faretta claim, which permitted the district court to deny it after determining that Petitioner had… |
| 18-6940 |
Dalray Kwane Andrews v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure dilatory faretta-right faretta-v-california habeas-corpus self-representation sixth-amendment timeliness trial-court |
(1) Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that Faretta "clearly established," for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), that a request for self-represent… |
| 18-6749 |
James Barnes v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure faretta-right faretta-v-california mitigation mitigation-investigation presentencing-investigation pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment special-counsel |
Whether Florida's use of "special counsel" to investigate and present mitigation and its requirement of a presentencing investigation report to provid… |