harmless-error-analysis

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6587 Jett Garriott Adams v. Dan Shannon, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ake-v-oklahoma harmless-error-analysis indigent-defendant psychiatric-assistance sanity-defense sixth-amendment 1. When this Court held in Ake v. Oklahoma that an indigent defendant must make a threshold showing that their sanity would be a significant factor at…
23-5038 Kurt Michaels v. Ron Davis, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Relisted (13)IFP aggravating-evidence appellate-review capital-case confession confession-evidence cumulative-error harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-deliberation jury-deliberations ninth-circuit-review Whether a court reviewing a cold record in a capital case may determine that the effect of an erroneously admitted confession and other improper aggra…
19-7238 Jerry Reginald Burkes v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dismissal due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis indictment-dismissal mandatory-language money-laundering speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation tennessee-local-rule-10.03 tennessee-rules-of-criminal-procedure tennessee-rules-of-evidence trial-rights 1. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT'S DENIAL OF A MOTION TO DISMISS AN INDICTMENT FOR A VIOLATION OF THE SPEEDY TRIAL ACT'S 70 DAY TIME LIMIT FOR BRINGING A DE…
19-6715 Brandon Lashon Ingram v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does Title 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b) automatically require an evidentiary hearing when an affidavit presented by a defendant alleging a breakdown in communi…
19-6445 Lewellyn Charles Cox, IV, aka Sho, aka Showtime, aka Showtyme v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment guilty-plea harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance right-to-self-representation self-representation self-representation-at-sentencing sentencing structural-error (1) Whether denial of a right to self-representation during sentencing is subject to harmless error analysis as held by the Ninth Circuit, or subject …
18-1528 Jake Paul Heiney v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-10 Denied Response Waived criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-finding-of-guilt jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error sullivan-v-louisiana winship This Court has held that Due Process in criminal cases requires that a State prove every element of an alleged crime beyond a reasonable doubt. In Re …
18-7427 Abdirahman Yasin Daud v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment specific-intent Whether the Court of Appeals' application of "harmless error" analysis to an erroneous jury instruction regarding the critical, specific intent elemen…