involuntary-manslaughter
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A229 | Allen Michael Sherrill v. Michigan | Michigan | 2025-08-27 | Presumed Complete | causation criminal-homicide due-process intent involuntary-manslaughter sufficiency-of-evidence | Question not identified. | |
| 21-5596 | Carl William Frazier v. California | California | 2021-09-08 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment criminal-negligence due-process involuntary-manslaughter jury-instructions knife-assault lesser-included-offense self-defense sua-sponte-instruction | In a murder case, may a defendant's inherently assaultive felonious conduct - ie, the use of a knife for the purpose of unreasonagle self-defense - af… |
| 20-7426 | Rubin L. Williams v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-03-11 | Denied | IFP | burrage-causation burrage-v-united-states but-for-causation criminal-law drug-related-death involuntary-manslaughter mixed-drug-overdose state-cases | Can a conviction of involuntary manslaughter stand, when cause of death is a Mixed drug overdose and the accused is charged with only one of the contr… |
| 20-7270 | Keith D. Barmore v. Sonja Nicklaus, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-degree-murder ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-manslaughter jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether Petitioner was deprived of his due-process of law, and a fair trial, where the trial court never orally read the jury instructions to the jury… |
| 20-6926 | Nestor Alegria Hernandez v. California | California | 2021-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment intoxicated-driving involuntary-manslaughter jury-instructions lesser-included-offense | I. CALIFORNIA LAW VIOLATES THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT'S EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE BY REQUIRING ITS COURTS TO INSTRUCT ON INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AS A LES… |
| 19-62 | Michelle Carter v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2019-07-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | arbitrary-enforcement assisted-suicide common-law criminal-conviction due-process first-amendment free-speech involuntary-manslaughter suicide-encouragement | Michelle Carter's conviction for involuntary manslaughter in connection with Conrad Roy III's suicide is unprecedented. Massachusetts is the only stat… |
| 19-5131 | Steven L. Rackley v. Brigham Sloan, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence constitutional-rights dismissal due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-manslaughter notice post-indictment-delay probable-cause sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations | The question of whether the District Court properly applied the statue of limitations to Rackley's habeas petition in Respondent's first order by th… |