legal-preservation
3 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6408 | Clinton Folkes v. South Carolina, et al. | South Carolina | 2025-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-preservation retroactivity state-court | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of Equal Protection is violated when a state court conditions the retroactivity of a new rule of criminal… |
| 21-6727 | Zane Dickinson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | deficient-performance direct-appeal habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-preservation prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-probability trial-counsel | Whether a federal habeas petitioner whose trial counsel performed deficiently by failing to preserve a meritorious issue for appeal satisfies the prej… |
| 18-7265 | Rodney Scot Armstrong, Jr. v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-01-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure closing-argument de-novo-review directed-verdict legal-preservation motion objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-issues prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review trial-procedure | I. Is a motion for a directed verdict an objection that preserves an issue for and mandates de novo review? Petitioner answers, "Yes." Respondent has … |