| 25-6321 |
Wenlasombo Ilboudo v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process language-barrier rule-11-colloquy sentencing-rights waiver-of-appeal |
Whether a defendant who speaks no English may properly be determined to have waived his right to appeal a substantively unreasonable sentence without … |
| 23A549 |
Omero Nino-Guerrero v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-access-to-courts court-appointed-counsel federal-prisoner language-barrier petition-for-certiorari pro-se-litigant |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5353 |
Chandra Modugumudi v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel language-barrier plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment-rights |
Relief under appeal, the jurisdiction is ready for appeal as she applied for appeal within 14 days of sentencing she was sentenced on 06-24-2022. It i… |
| 22-6870 |
Victor Rodriquez Kessel v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-issues fair-trial fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-tampering language-barrier miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. Did the unethical and arbitrary act/action of the US Attorney of passing out candy in the midst of the petitioner's trial to the empaneled jury com… |
| 21-8173 |
Vincent Raymond Rios v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel language-barrier language-rights plea-bargaining |
Should the Ninth Circuit have vacated Mr. Rios's guilty plea for lack of a knowing and voluntary waiver of his constitutional rights, for these reason… |
| 20-8442 |
Luckner Pierre v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-court certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process language-assistance language-barrier mental-competency miranda-rights procedural-due-process standing waiver-of-rights |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeal for the 11th Circuit denied the Petitioner his Procedural Due Process Right and access to Court when it declined to g… |
| 20-8125 |
Raymundo Eusebio-Noriega v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-appointed-counsel due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus language-barrier miranda-rights motion-to-suppress self-incrimination voluntariness-of-statements |
1. Where petitioner was denied Court appointed counsel by the District Court of Oregon, where such petitioner denied his Due Process of law, 1. where … |
| 20-5556 |
Genaro Edgar Espinosa Dorantes v. Kevin Genovese, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
§2254-case civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling extradition extradition-treaty habeas-corpus language-barrier mexican-national |
Did the District Court Err Or Abuse Its Discretion in a § 2254 case When It Denied Equitable Tolling To A Mexican National, Unable To Speak Or Underst… |
| 19-7194 |
Juan Carlos Vazquez v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea language-barrier sixth-amendment voluntary-plea |
DOES THE EVIDENCE IN THE RECORD THAT PETITIONER DOES NOT
UNDERSTAND ENGLISH PLAINLY SHOWS THAT ANY ADMISSION AT THE
GUILTY PLEA HEARING COULD NOT RE… |
| 19-6781 |
Donato Luna-Quintero v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2019-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance effective-assistance-of-counsel foreign-defendant jury-trial language-barrier language-barriers limited-english-proficiency right-to-counsel waiver |
Is a defendant's constitutional right to a jury trial properly waived, and is counsel providing effective assistance, when the defendant, a foreign ci… |
| 18-9242 |
Joel Hayden v. Maine |
Maine |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ethnicity fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-selection-process language-barrier race-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire |
"WHEN A PARTY MOVES TO STRIKE A PROSPECTIVE JUROR FOR CAUSE BECAUSE OF A 'LANGUAGE BARRIER' WHAT SORT OF RECORD MUST THE COURT MAKE IN ORDER TO ENSURE… |
| 18-8527 |
Rene Rivera v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial foreign-born-national intellectual-disability language-barrier miller-el-v-cockrell post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida apply an inc… |
| 18-6463 |
Jose Gilberto Portillo v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-obligations counsel-obligations-guilty-plea critical-stage due-process guilty-pleas ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper language-barrier missouri-v-frye non-english-speaker plea-bargaining plea-negotiation sixth-amendment young-defendant |
Whether the DC Court of Appeals' decision directly conflicts with and seriously undermines controlling authority of the Supreme Court on counsel's fun… |
| 18-5721 |
Carlos Levy v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access diligence due-process habeas-corpus language-barrier language-barriers prisoner-rights spanish-speaking tolling |
To get tolling of the one-year deadline for filing a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, a state prisoner must prove, inter alia, that he h… |
| 18-5071 |
Juan Carlos Vazquez v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
deportation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea knowing-and-voluntary language-barrier prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
WAS PETITIONER DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHERE THE EVIDENCE IN THE RECORD PLAINLY SHOWS IN ENGLISH THAT … |