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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-5891 Luis Alonso Hidalgo, III v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joinder joint-trial sixth-amendment 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when Petitioner Hidalgo made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right as to the failure of counsel t…
23-5319 Antoine L. Riggins v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2023-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP brecht-exception brecht-v-abrahamson co-defendant-confession fair-trial fourteenth-amendment joint-trial sixth-amendment 1. IS THERE AN URGENT NEED TO FURTHER DISCUSS THE EXCEPTION MENTIONED IN BRECHT V. ABRAHAMS ON 507 U.S. 619 (1993). WHERE DEFENDANT'S SIXTH AND FOURTE…
22-6553 Esau Ferdinand v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-1962(d) criminal-procedure enterprise-affairs enterprise-liability federal-rule-criminal-procedure-14(a) joint-trial personal-participation prosecutorial-discretion rico-conspiracy severance I. For RICO conspiracy liability under 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d), must the defendant agree to personally further the enterprise's affairs, rather than merel…
22-5754 Jamal Laurent v. United States Second Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-conviction district-court insufficient-evidence joint-trial joint-trials missing-witness missing-witness-instruction rico-act rico-statute unavailable-witness warrantless-seizure witness-statement 1. Whether RICO is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)? 2. Whether the district court erred when it admitted Merritt's statements or alternat…
21-5541 Dan Kenny Delva v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joint-trial right-to-counsel severance sixth-amendment trial-severance Whether it is debatable Mr. Delva was denied a Sixth Amendment right under the United States Constitution to effective assistance of counsel when his…
20-6684 Daniel Todd Silveria v. California California 2020-12-22 Denied IFP 8th-amendment capital-case due-process joint-trial mitigating-evidence severance 1. May a court exclude significant mitigating evidence in a capital case by joining two codefendants in a single trial before a single jury? 2. When …
20-5035 Octavius McLendon and Henry Lee Bryant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting brady-violation constitutional-infirmity joint-trial new-trial-relief principal-conviction Where a Brady violation has rendered constitutionally infirm the conviction of a defendant who was alleged to be the principal in the commission of an…
18-1578 Pfizer Inc. v. Alida Adamyan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied Amici (2) cafa-removal civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act diversity-jurisdiction federal-court joint-trial mass-action products-liability removal state-court state-court-proposal This Petition presents an important, unsettled, and recurring question concerning the "mass action" provisions of the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA)…
18A980 Pfizer Inc. v. Alida Adamyan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-28 Presumed Complete CAFA class-action-fairness-act federal-question-jurisdiction joint-trial mass-action-removal products-liability Whether a state court's sua sponte proposal that claims brought by thousands of plaintiffs from around the country be "tried jointly" qualifies for "m…
18-6909 Albert Andrew Lucero v. Kim Holland, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-rule bruton-v-united-states co-defendant confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-rights crawford-analysis crawford-v-washington harmless-error joint-trial sixth-amendment testimonial-statement Was the California Court of Appeal's decision contrary to, or an unreasonable application of, this Court's jurisprudence holding that the Sixth Amendm…
18-421 Jose Luis Cepeda-Cortes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived co-defendant criminal-procedure extraneous-criminal-acts federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure joint-trial jury-reliability prejudice rule-14a severance spill-over-effect zafiro-v-united-states Does a fair and consistent application of Rule 14(a) require this Court to re-examine its decision in Zafiro and clarify the factors to be considered …