| 25-6520 |
Steven George Morgan v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-08 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fifth-amendment interrogation involuntary-statements miranda-rights police-deception |
1. Whether police deception that explicitly disavows the interrogative nature of
questioning—specifically, an officer's false promise that she is not … |
| 25-5499 |
Timothy Alexander v. New York |
New York |
2025-08-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment inevitable-discovery interrogation police-misconduct |
1. Can inevitable discovery, as set forth by This Court in
Nix V. Williams, be proven through the testimony of a
detective not actively involved in … |
| 24-7020 |
Rosalio Alejandro Gonzalez-Silva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process interrogation miranda-custody two-step-test |
Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is "in custody" for Miranda purposes. |
| 24-5717 |
David Devaney, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation right-to-counsel self-incrimination |
Whether the statement of "I have to get a lawyer, I have to shut the interview down" constitutes an unambiguous request for counsel, and can a defenda… |
| 24-60 |
Jimmie L. Bowen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
coercive-questioning fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-violation interrogation interrogation-tactics juvenile-suspect miranda-rights secret-recording unreasonable-application |
Whether, under Rhode Island v. Innis and J.D.B. v. North Carolina, a detective's act of placing a juvenile suspect in an interview room with a juvenil… |
| 23A1089 |
Jimmie L. Bowen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-rights police-interview self-incrimination suspect-confession |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6932 |
Tremond Thomas v. Tim Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
coerced-waiver confession-suppression due-process-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation involuntary-confession juvenile-interrogation juvenile-rights police-questioning right-to-counsel right-to-cut-off-questioning |
During an interrogation, Thomas, fifteen-years-old at the time, began to make inculpatory statements. After hearing the statements, Thomas' mother tri… |
| 23-6742 |
Alexander D. Pennington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 5th-amendment-rights 5th-circuit criminal-investigation criminal-procedure custody fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-rights search-warrant |
Under the Fifth Amendment, is a suspect in a criminal investigation "in custody" when he is ordered out of his residence by armed agents who broke dow… |
| 23-6348 |
Danial Leanos v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confession confidentiality constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation interrogation-tactics miranda-rights suspect-waiver totality-of-circumstances |
Should an interrogator's promise of confidentiality invalidate a suspect's Miranda waiver only if it immediately induces them to confess, or should it… |
| 23A492 |
George Willie Rios v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-11-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure interrogation miranda-warning right-to-counsel suppression-of-evidence |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5916 |
Steven Richard Taylor v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process expert-testimony frye-standard frye-test ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation right-to-counsel |
1. Was Petitioner prejudiced by trial counsel's failure to move for adversarial testing of the State's novel DNA testing and statistics under Frye v. … |
| 23-5597 |
Rodolfo Alvarez Medrano v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (11)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confession-coercion custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona state-court-review |
II. Whether under all the circumstances, including an officer's knowing and
deliberate deployment of Petitioner's wife to elicit statements from
Petit… |
| 22-7679 |
Frederic Gabriel v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment interrogation miranda miranda-rights police-interrogation right-to-silence self-incrimination |
1. DID THE ACTIONS OF POLICE VIOLATE THE PETITIONER 'S FIFTH
AMENDMENT RIGHT WHEN THE PETITIONER INVOKED HIS RIGHT TO
SILENCE BY UNAMBIGUOUSLY STATI… |
| 22-6652 |
In Re Walter Drummond |
|
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment habeas-corpus interrogation miranda-rights state-criminal-procedure |
1. There is COURT RECORD that in bebveenxt the dime of 2001 (WEST & WEISS ecest year, please See to West v. State of Florida, 876 So. 2d G14 (Fla. AFH… |
| 22-6304 |
Lanny Marvin Bush v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation constitutional-rights custody custody-interrogation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation law-enforcement-procedure right-to-counsel |
1. Was petitioner "IN Custody',* when (focus of investigation) (in presence of armed Officers)behind Locked doors)fnterragated for Hours)and Told"NOT"… |
| 22-405 |
Michael Leon Grubb v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment confession confessions due-process fifth-amendment interrogation law-enforcement miranda-rights self-incrimination supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Supreme Court's 1987 decision in Mauro effectively abdicated its 1980 holding in Innis by creating an analytical escape hatch related to t… |
| 22-5732 |
Richard Michael Arrington v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure interrogation jail-informant maine-v-moulton massiah-v-united-states recording-device right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-agent united-states-v-henry |
Whether, for purposes of determining if an accused's Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated, a jail informant is considered a state agent where… |
| 21-8172 |
Juan Manuel Contreras-Zamora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-rights legal-communication miranda-rights re-initiation right-to-counsel self-incrimination suspect-invocation waiver |
1. If, during a criminal interrogation, the suspect states, "Look man, I'm going to tell you just like this; I need my lawyer," must there be some lap… |
| 21-7506 |
Curtis Carr v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-techniques videotaped-evidence |
Does the admissibility of videotaped interrogations in which the interrogating officers inject their conclusions about the operator's guilt violate th… |
| 21-7183 |
Ruth Diaz-Burgos v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment interrogation plea-bargaining plea-colloquy self-incrimination |
The district court, in conducting a change of plea hearing, failed to advise Petitioner of her right to be free from compelled self-incrimination befo… |
| 21-6967 |
Lemonta Markuis Maddox v. California |
California |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights coerced-confessions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law interrogation involuntary-statements plea-bargaining state-law |
Is it rightly lawful for a detective to obtain involuntary statements by coercion and promises of leniency violating federal and state constitutional … |
| 21-6029 |
Daronnie Thompkins v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bank-robbery coercion criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-enhancement interrogation interrogation-tactics involuntary-statements self-incrimination sentencing |
Whether Thompkins' incriminating statements were involuntary and should have been suppressed, where the interrogating officer: suggested that Thompkin… |
| 20-7630 |
Scott Paul Madlock v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment |
Whetner Strongly believes that the United States Court of Appeals for The Fifth Circuit's decision sanctioned such a departure from accepted and usual… |
| 20-7275 |
Alvin Herron v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation prior-record sixth-amendment |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel r… |
| 20-7174 |
Antonio Lopez v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coerced-confession confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process family-coercion family-member interrogation police-interrogation probable-cause truthful-statements |
1. Whether a threat to arrest, or a promise not to arrest, a member of a suspect's family, depending only on his willingness to confess to a crime, re… |
| 20-7088 |
Mohamad Jamal Khweis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fbi-procedure fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-violations interrogation interrogation-process miranda-rights missouri-v-seibert self-incrimination |
Did the intentional utilization by the F.B.I. of a two step interrogation process, without taking remedial measures as required by Missouri v. Seibert… |
| 20-991 |
Stevie L. England v. DeEdra Hart, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-standard miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona objective-inquiry right-to-counsel subjective-factors |
Whether the "objective inquiry" required by Davis may be based on subjective factors. |
| 20-5121 |
Brayan Gutierrez-Diaz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-warning right-to-counsel self-incrimination |
Whether and to what extent a mistranslated Miranda warning, which does not reasonably convey the right to appointed counsel during interrogation, fail… |
| 19-7769 |
Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment competency competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation law-enforcement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct self-representation |
If yourrepresenting yourself
do you think I'm
Competent to Stand trial or Sign a plea If you had
Fecent Surgery of having Part of your Intestine remov… |
| 19-7734 |
Andre Dennis v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation miranda-rights sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence |
Did counsel render ineffective assistance by failing to seek suppression of
Mr. Dennis' statements to police because he was not re-Mirandized followin… |
| 19-7373 |
Sanjay Tyagi v. Marc D. Smith, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-abuse-registry child-seizure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment interrogation medical-self-defense parental-rights privacy search-and-seizure |
This case raises important issues of public interest and circuit splits that require guidance of Supreme Court of United States.
1. Does seizure, phy… |
| 19-7013 |
Kenneth M. Gray v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights confession criminal-procedure due-process false-confession false-promises ineffective-assistance interrogation no-merit-report parent-attorney post-conviction-counsel sentencing sentencing-error waiver waiver-petition |
Whether post-conviction counsel failed to file a "no-merit" report.
Whether detectives made false promises to illicit a confession during the interro… |
| 19-6655 |
Terrence Leonard Mathis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
certiorari criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights detention due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus interrogation rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand right-to-counsel |
1. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 189 S. Ct… |
| 19-5941 |
Roger Cha v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation law-enforcement miranda-rights miranda-waiver self-incrimination waiver |
Is a Miranda waiver invalidated when the law enforcement officer providing the advisal involves himself in the waiver process by asking the subject of… |
| 19-5546 |
Kevin Lyndell Yates v. Amy M. Harper |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights consent-to-search constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation inventory-of-seized-items miranda-warnings plea-agreement police-questioning search-warrant |
1. Does a defendant who has been handcuffed ,informed that there
is a indictment for his arrest ,questioned by the arresting
officer ,asked by the ar… |
| 19-5471 |
J. A. M. v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment ambiguous-request appellate-division appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation right-to-counsel |
1. Did the Appellate Division err by ignoring the fact that petitioner-defendant was denied his Fifth Amendment right to have counsel present during i… |
| 19-39 |
Quintin Antonio Bell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment categorical-match criminal-procedure custody due-process fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-interrogation miranda-v-arizona officer-subjective-test police-conduct sentencing-enhancement state-court-prosecution |
1. Whether the court of appeals correctly applied a subjective, officer-focused test to determine whether a suspect was interrogated for purposes of M… |
| 19-5048 |
Mark Anthony Dolph v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidentiary-standard interrogation legal-procedure miranda-warnings officer-testimony video-evidence |
Custody: 1.why des reasne opinions of jurist thoughout the federal system demonstrate that frirminded jurist can disagree As to whether the use of han… |
| 18-9728 |
Sung Ho Park v. Tammy Foss, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confession due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance interrogation involuntary-confession lesser-included-offense physical-incapacitation police-interrogation prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel |
I. Whether Park, Who Was Physically Incapacitated When The Police Interrogated Him, Could Not Make A Voluntary Statement; Whether Trial Counsel Render… |
| 18-8872 |
In Re Samuel Lewis Surles |
|
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation judicial-interpretation sixth-amendment |
I.
PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS UNALIENABLE RIGHT OF DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT FAILED TO RULE ON THE MERITS OF PETITIONER'S APP… |
| 18-8650 |
Ollisha Nicole Easley v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-search due-process fourth-amendment interrogation probable-cause race racial-profiling reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard search search-and-seizure |
When examining the totality of the objective circumstances, is a bus passenger's race a factor in understanding how a reasonable person in her positio… |
| 18-1006 |
Michael Kevin Adams v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment impoundment interrogation law-enforcement minor-offense probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search |
The warrantless impoundment of an arrested person's car must be in furtherance of "public safety" or "community caretaking functions." South Dakota v.… |
| 18-7600 |
Johnathan Holt v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-procedure custody custody-analysis interrogation law-enforcement-interrogation miranda-custody miranda-v-arizona objective-analysis personal-mobility sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-interpretation totality-of-circumstances |
Under the objective analysis criteria established by Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), and its progeny, must a court evaluate all of the circum… |
| 18-7047 |
Anthony Casanova v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure custodial-confession custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment interrogation involuntary-confession miranda-rights self-incrimination |
DID THE TRIAL COURT'S ADMISSION OF ANTHONY
CASANOVA'S CUSTODIAL CONFESSION DEPRIVE
HIM OF HIS FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHT AGAINST
COMPELLED SELF-INCRIMINATI… |
| 18-6836 |
Carlos Dagoberto Rivas v. Sherman Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-waiver miranda miranda-rights self-incrimination waiver |
Does the State meet its burdens of showing that it clearly informed a criminal defendant of his Miranda rights and that a defendant validly waived the… |
| 18-6811 |
Damaso Rivera Fonseca v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure custody due-process interrogation interrogation-limits miranda-rights rhode-island-v-innis right-to-counsel spontaneous-statement voluntariness |
IF AN INTERROGATOR FAILS TO REMAIN WITHIN THE BRIGHT-LINE AFTER THE SUSPECT INVOKE COUNSEL, CAN A SPONTANEOUS STATEMENT -WHICH IS MADE AFTER THE SUSPE… |
| 18-6432 |
Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confession confession-voluntariness consent-to-search due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment interrogation interrogation-circumstances involuntary law-enforcement-tactics totality-of-the-circumstances young-adult |
This petition presents the question of whether Due Process allows federal agents to obtain a confession and a consent to search from an immature, youn… |
| 18-5436 |
Ralph Deon Taylor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-circuit 3rd-circuit 9th-circuit criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process evidence-confrontation fifth-amendment incriminating-response interrogation miranda-rights miranda-warning police-interrogation police-questioning self-incrimination |
Does confronting a suspect with the mounting evidence against him fall outside the definition of interrogation because it is unlikely to elicit an inc… |