homicide
15 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-7050 | Taaj Qaadir Blan v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2026-03-18 | Pending | IFP | co-defendants homicide jury-instructions self-defense state-of-mind trial-severance | A. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED AND ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY NOT SEVERING THE TRIAL OF BLAN FROM THAT OF HIS CO-DEFENDANTS WHERE BLAN WAS CHARGED WIT… |
| 25-5460 | Joseph Thompson, Sr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | common-law federal-prosecution homicide self-defense stand-ground violent-felony | In Beard v. United States, 158 U.S. 550 (1895) and Brown v. United States, 256 U.S. 335 (1921), this Court recognized the common law right to stand on… |
| 23-5230 | Steven Poppo v. Illinois | Illinois | 2023-07-28 | Denied | IFP | assistance-of-counsel attempted-robbery constitutional-rights criminal-intent deadly-force due-process equal-protection fair-trial homicide self-defense use-of-force | Question not identified. |
| 21-7611 | John Charles Eichinger v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-04-13 | Denied | IFP | capital-trial certificate-of-appealability due-process homicide ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining remorse remorse-mitigation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | In upholding counsel's overall remorse-based strategy as reasonable, did the Third Circuit violate the rule of Hill v. Lockhart, 474 U.S. 52 (1985), a… |
| 21-6532 | Mary Noel Kruppe v. California | California | 2021-12-06 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process homicide malice murder-prosecution recklessness retroactive-law | An People v. Watson(1481)30 Cal. 3d 240,4he Appellate covurt IAvamatically exoanded du law of homicides a dafendait Whost Joonductwould once hove WC n… |
| 21-5371 | James Roland Henderson v. California | California | 2021-08-13 | Denied | IFP | criminal-intent criminal-procedure evidence-exclusion familial-violence first-degree-murder homicide imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions parental-relationship religious-beliefs self-defense special-circumstances | Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 20-5430 | Anthony G. Meyers v. Cathy Jess, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2020-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law duty-to-retreat first-degree-reckless-homicide homicide ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense utter-disregard | 1. Was there sufficient evidence of utter "utter disregard for human life" to support a first degree reckless homicide conviction? 2. Should addition… |
| 20-5280 | Rahim Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court error federal-jurisdiction homicide sentencing-guidelines u-s-sentencing-commission u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(c)(1)(b) | Whether the district court erred by applying the Sentencing Guidelines cross reference under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(c)(1)(B). |
| 19-7343 | Anthony Tawon Williams v. Hilton Hall, Warden | Georgia | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process felony-murder homicide homicide-rule sentencing underlying-felony voluntary-manslaughter | CAN VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER OR ANY OTHER HOMICIDE BE USED AS AN UNDERLYING FELONY TO SUPPORT FELONY MURDER? IS THE HIGHEST STATE COURT OBLIGATED TO HO… |
| 19-6391 | Robert Chin v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-intent criminal-law due-process homicide malicious-act mens-rea third-degree-murder unintended-consequence unintentional-act | 1. Is the due process clause offended where a criminal defendant is found guilty of conspiracy to commit third degree murder, which is a homicide that… |
| 18-9541 | Darius Leigh Gilkey v. DeWayne Burton, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment adequate-provocation attorney-client-relations attorney-client-relationship consensual-sex criminal-law due-process felony-murder homicide provocation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Should this Court grant Certiorari to determine if consensual sex that later turned into a homicide, resulting from adequate provocation amounts to fe… |
| 18-9146 | Kenan Ivery v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-05-06 | Denied | IFP | criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection heat-of-passion homicide state-judiciary sudden-provocation | IS A PETTIONER DENIED DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW WHEN A STATE JUDICIARY REFUSES-AGAINST COMMON SENSE, REASON, LEGISLATIVE INTENT AND … |
| 18-7803 | Dennis Hegstrom v. Florida | Florida | 2019-02-07 | Denied | IFP | eighth-amendment homicide late-adolescent late-adolescent-offender mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama neuroscience-evidence parole parole-eligibility sentencing | Is It Time to Extend the Eighth Amendment Protections Enunciated in Miller v. Alabama to Late Adolescent Homicide Offenders Like Hegstrom (i.e., 18 to… |
| 18-5467 | Virginia Denise Wyche v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | and whether jury instructions misstating self-def 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment homicide homicide-statute second-amendment self-defense statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether the First District's expansion of the scope of Florida's homicide statute could be used to affirm Wyche's conviction and sentence in light … |