| 25-6488 |
Matthew Jones v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
The first question presented is :
Should the Sixth Amendment right to counsel attach at the moment
an accused is confronted by his expert adversary w… |
| 24-6687 |
Jason Jayavarman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure duplicitous-indictment ineffective-counsel plea-offer rule-8a |
1. Is indictment duplicitous when it charges two or more offenses in a single count?
2. Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 8(a) prohibit the cha… |
| 23-7196 |
Adam Carson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights first-impression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer sentencing-reduction sixth-amendment |
I. If the court holds a hearing to put a PLEA PROPOSAL on the record, and the Government OFFERS a 3 point deduction for acceptance of responsibility i… |
| 23-6695 |
Douglas W. Curtis v. Brian Eller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment novel-state-procedural-default plea-offer procedural-default standard-of-review state-procedural-default |
1) Whether Petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to
the Due Process of Law when the Sixth Circuit Appellate Court denied
relief without… |
| 23-6196 |
Boris Ward v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-representation cumulative-effect drug-transaction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-offer prior-convictions reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing-guidelines |
1) Whether trial counsel provided constitutionally deficient representation to Mr. Ward.
2) Whether the district court erred by failing to vary from … |
| 23-564 |
Timothy Bing, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer pretrial-investigation pretrial-motions sixth-amendment state-attorney |
Whether a policy by the State Attorney's Office
which punished the petitioner for engaging in a pretrial investigation of his case as well as filing p… |
| 23-5959 |
Jason Claude Edwards v. Tristan Lemon, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
counsel-advice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye ninth-circuit plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudice-analysis prejudice-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit majority unreasonably applied clearly established Supreme Court law by approving as reasonable a state court prejudice an… |
| 22-6403 |
Marco D. Martin v. Fredeane Artis, Acting Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel electronic-monitoring ex-post-facto lifetime-electronic-monitoring plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment |
Whether the trial court denied Petitioner his Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights, where the state injected issues broader than the Petition… |
| 22-5283 |
Gerald Funk v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consequences constitutional-rights guilty-plea guilty-plea-negotiation ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations plea-offer sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-strategy |
1. Whether trial counsel's Sixth Amendment duties to a client during the
guilty-plea negotiation stages require him to affirmatively assist a
client i… |
| 21-8188 |
Joe Davis, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
client-advice constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel requires counsel to advise his client whether acceptance or rejection of a pl… |
| 21-7838 |
Leonardo Divinci Larck v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
communication-failure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lapsed-plea-offer plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment |
Does the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel require counsel to communicate a client's inquiry/response to a formal plea offer?
… |
| 21-7154 |
John Walters v. Michael Martin, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudice-analysis right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Mr. Walters lost an opportunity for a favorable plea because his counsel failed to tell him about it. As a result, Mr. Walters entered a guilty plea t… |
| 21-6817 |
Rufus B. Jones v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment stand-your-ground victim-deposition |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel r… |
| 21-5489 |
Jerris M. Blanks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence good-cause judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudicial-evidence pretrial-motion |
1. Whether, in direct conflict with decisions of other circuits, the Eighth Circuit correctly held that under Fed. R. Crim. P. 12(c), a defendant who … |
| 21-5294 |
Wilshaun King v. Mike Brown, Acting Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
I. PETITIONER'S TRIAL COUNSEL WAS APPROACHED AT THE TIME THE JURY RETIRED FOR
DELIBEARITONS BY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY SCOTT EHLFELDT TENDERING A PLEA O… |
| 20-8207 |
Bernier Gerard Jackson v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
best-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer professional-responsibility right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel requires counsel to advise his client to accept a plea offer which is clearly… |
| 20-7173 |
Venecia Depaula v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-offer privileged-communication waiver |
I. WAS COUNSEL'S ASSISTANCE RENDERED INEFFECTIVE BY HIM ALLOWING PETITIONER TO REJECT A FAVORABLE PLEA OFFER WHERE COUNSEL POSSESSED KNOWLEDGE THAT PE… |
| 20-6140 |
Roger Jose Almanzar v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance due-process first-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment |
Did the First Circuit err in not granting a certificate of appealability on the merits of the claims of ineffective assistance of counsel when it addr… |
| 19-8839 |
Clayton D. Morrow v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-material brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye newly-discovered-evidence plea-bargaining plea-offer public-records-request |
Does a public records request meet the criteria to establish a newly discovered evidence claim as Brady v. Maryland 1, does; especially when the infor… |
| 19-6117 |
Jaime Ignacio Estrada v. Martin Biter, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer preponderance-of-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-counsel voluntary-manslaughter |
1. Whether petitioner established by a preponderance of evidence trial counsel's violation of the Sixth Amendment: failure to communicate a favorable … |
| 19-5290 |
Ryan Keith Mason v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review attorney-performance credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure deference deference-standard deference-to-trial-court evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-sufficiency plea-bargaining plea-offer standard-of-review |
Where deference is the only issue singled out by a Court of Appeals as the only question as to debatability, and that specific deference goes directly… |
| 18-9543 |
Lonnie Haney v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Lafler-v-Cooper plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel time-constraints |
ARE THE LOWER COURT RULINGS IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH THE SPIRIT OF THIS COURT'S HOLDING IN LAFLER V. COOPER, WHERE DUE TO EXTERNAL FACTORS, DEFENSE COU… |
| 18-6132 |
Marlon Oliver v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2011 plea offer not requiring cooperation and def criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-v-frye plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
1. WHETHER THERE IS A REASONABLE PROBABILITY THAT THE COURT BELOW WOULD VACATE PETITIONER'S CONVICTION, GIVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONSIDER THIS COURT'… |