judicial-inquiry
19 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5955 | Jarred Javon Ford v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-protection criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-inquiry waiver-of-counsel | Whether the Court should prescribe more specific requirements to ensure consistency and that defendants' waivers are knowing, voluntary, and intellige… |
| 25-5042 | Deshawn Demarcus House v. Jeff Long, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-inquiry mental-health | Question not identified. |
| 23-5541 | Mark A. Hartle v. New York | New York | 2023-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conflict-of-interest criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-inquiry professional-ethics professional-responsibility prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel trial-strategy | Is a criminal defendant denied their right to effective assistance of counsel when there are indications, of which the defendant was unaware, that tri… |
| 22-7901 | Samuel Howard v. Renee Baker, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conflict-of-interest criminal-defense criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-inquiry legal-representation prejudice right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | 1. Is the Sixth Amendment violated when a defendant is forced to accept representation by lawyers who se supervisor have a longstanding social and fam… |
| 22-550 | Carlos Jackson v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2022-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | competency conviction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-inquiry retroactivity sentence state-courts void-conviction | I. WHETHER THE RETROACTIVITY RULE FOR CRIMINAL PROCEDURE APPLIES TO THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. II. WHETHER THE FAILURE TO MAKE A COMPETENCY INQUIRY WH… |
| 21-7757 | Mark Stinson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conflict-of-interest constitutional-provisions due-process fair-trial judicial-inquiry right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | 1. Whether a Judge inquire into the propriety of the issue? 2. Whether the mere possibility of a conflict of interest warrants the conclusion that th… |
| 21-1259 | Jay J. John v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | adversarial-system civil-procedure covid-19 covid-19-procedure district-court due-process judicial-inquiry judicial-neutrality legal-contention motion-standard standing | 1. Must a district court decide a motion based on those judicial inquiries framed by the movant and his adversaries by applying the legal contentions … | |
| 21-6409 | Stephen Harmer v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney automatic-reversal conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure defendant due-process holloway-doctrine ineffective-assistance judicial-inquiry sixth-amendment trial-judge | 1. Does Holloway demand automatic reversal when a trial judge fails to inquire into a known conflict that a defendant could not object to because his … |
| 21-5703 | Mark French v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-17 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-inquiry right-to-counsel trial-counsel trial-court-discretion | 1. IS IT A CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION WHEN A TRIAL COURT FAIL'S TO INQUIRY OR ADDRESS A DEFENDANT'S WRITTEN REQUEST ABOUT HIS CONCERNS ABOUT HIS TRIAL C… |
| 21-5488 | John Patrick Blackmon v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-inquiry prior-testimony right-to-testify testimony-waiver trial-procedure waiver | 1. Did events in the second trial establish additional process due the Defendant in any subsequent trial? 2. Was the trial judge's noting the Defenda… |
| 21-5383 | Mark Stinson v. John P. Yates, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conflict-of-interest constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process judicial-inquiry right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | 1. Whether a Judge must inquire into the propriety of the issue. 2. Whether the mere possibility of a conflict of interest warrants the conclusion th… |
| 20-7959 | Thomas J. Connerton v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process judicial-inquiry juror-discharge jury jury-selection reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment | 1. Should certiorari be granted where the District Court discharged a juror, without "good cause" under rule 23(b)(3) of the Federal Rules of Criminal… |
| 20-1145 | In Re Lakshmi Arunachalam | 2021-02-22 | Denied | appointments-clause constitutional-violations contract-clause due-process federal-circuit-court judicial-inquiry patent patent-rights separation-of-powers supreme-court-jurisdiction | 1. Whether Justice Barrett, as the last standing Justice with original jurisdiction, with the same duty and oath as the lower courts to enforce the … | ||
| 20-7070 | Jeremy S. v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-inquiry jury-polling jury-trial trial-court-procedure verdict-review | 1. Does the new syllabus point issued by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia permitting a trial court judge to make further inquiry of a ju… |
| 20-5177 | Rolando Felix-Carrazco v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency holdout-juror judicial-inquiry judicial-interference juror-dismissal jury-deliberation jury-deliberations scotus-guidance trial-court-discretion | Whether this Court should decide that the repeated questioning of jurors who have complained about one juror (who is obviously a holdout) is tantamoun… |
| 19-158 | Marcus Turner, Sr., et al. v. Alva C. Hines, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-08-02 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | church-dispute church-governance coercive-intrusion first-amendment judicial-inquiry neutral-principles neutral-principles-of-law religious-doctrine state-interference | This case presents two important questions concerning the First Amendment's protection of churches against the power of the state. A disaffected facti… |
| 18-9386 | Lakshmi Arunachalam v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitution constitutional-rights contract contract-law due-process judicial-bias judicial-inquiry patent-grant patent-rights standing unbiased-judge | Whether the lower courts denying a citizen due process - a Hearing and an unbiased Judge, voids their Orders and no preclusive effect attaches. Wheth… |
| 18-8427 | Malcolm Roy Evans v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion judicial-inquiry right-to-counsel right-to-testify self-representation | WHETHER A TRIAL COURT MAY SUMMARILY PROHIBIT AN ACCUSED FROM TESTIFYING IN HIS OWN DEFENSE IN A CRIMINAL TRIAL MERELY FOR STATING TO THE JURY HIS BELI… |
| 18-6510 | Frank Pruitt v. New York | New York | 2018-11-01 | Denied | IFP | 1st-amendment 6th-amendment courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-inquiry public-trial removal-from-trial right-to-attend-trial right-to-observe sixth-amendment | Was the right to a Public trial, and the right of the Public to attend trial, abrogated when the trial judge failed to conduct careful inquiry "before… |