language-barriers

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-5355 Jung Won Yun v. Chung Cha Kim, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied IFP civil-rights covid-19 due-process fee-waiver language-barriers legal-documents litigation pro-se standing supreme-court translation Question not identified.
20-7022 Amado Reyes Trujillo v. Mona D. Houston, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review language-barriers petition-for-relief pro-se standing WhEthEr ThE DisTriCT court Erred wheN dEniEd PETiTiONEr WRiT oF habEAS CorpUs, duE TO lack thE IAW, WhEN hE is NOT AN ENglish spEAKER? WhEthEr ThE Di…
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…
18-6968 Alejandro Quinones Leyva v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Fourth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel language-barriers notice-of-appeal plea-bargaining prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-rights sixth-amendment ALEJANDRO QUINONES-LEYVA, being duly sworn deposes as true; 1- I am the defendant herein, (2) In comection with pleading and sentencing I received ine…
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…