intervening-cause

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-7267 William Roy Thietje v. Ken Clark, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied IFP due-process harmless-error intervening-cause jury-instructions malice malice-aforethought provocative-act-murder sixth-amendment 1. Where petitioner received a conviction based on erroneous jury instructions, were such petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to Due …
19-8807 Cassandra Cean v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP circuit-split criminal-liability eighth-amendment intervening-cause mandatory-victims-restitution-act proximate-cause sixth-amendment Even after Robers v. United States, 134 S.Ct. 1854 (2014), the circuits remain dangerously divided over what method to apply when determining proximat…