plea-voluntariness

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6023 Worldly Dieago Holstick v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims ineffective-assistance miller-el-precedent plea-voluntariness sentencing-guidelines threshold-inquiry Whether the lower courts violated this Court's precedent in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2003), by collapsing the certificate-of-appealability…
24-6635 Jory Leedy v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus plea-voluntariness speedy-trial-clause 1) Does the Sixth Circuit's holding in Ramos v. Rogers, 170 F.3d 560 (6th Cir.1999) making a plea unasailable "so long as the judge follows the proper…
21-6832 Douglas D. True v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Arkansas 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-mandate due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-voluntariness supreme-court-review 1) Has the Supreme Court overruled Boykin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 holding that there was reversible error where the record did not disclose that the …
20-8247 Marcus Darwyn Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misrepresentation sentencing-consequences sorna waiver 1. Whether reliance on a prosecutor's legal misstatements regarding the consequences of a guilty plea renders that plea involuntary and unknowing. 2.…
20-8068 Stephen Mark McDaniel v. Edward Philbin, Warden Georgia 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-probable-cause constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-voluntariness weatherford-v-bursey This case presents several issues of fundamental importance to the legitimacy of the United States' court system and the right of its citizens to be h…
20-7870 Scott Raymond Tignor v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense guilty-plea plea-voluntariness rehaif-v-united-states standard-of-review united-states-v-gary When a defendant argues for the first time on appeal that his guilty plea was not knowing and voluntary because he was not informed of the elements of…
20-6162 Frank Trujillo v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense federal-courts guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness rehaif-v-united-states standard-of-review When a defendant argues for the first time on appeal that his guilty plea was not knowing and voluntary because he was not informed of the elements of…
20-5489 Rodney Lavalais v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 2k2.1(b)(4)(a) appellate-review due-process guilty-plea plain-error-review plea-voluntariness prejudice sentencing-guidelines stolen structural-error 1. When it is undisputed that a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause, is automatic reversa…
20-5317 Jeremiah Rodgers v. Florida Florida 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure diagnostic-uncertainty due-process gender-dysphoria medical-evidence mental-health plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness post-conviction-relief procedural-bar 1. Whether the newly discovered evidence of a criminal defendant's medical condition, including gender dysphoria, may implicate the voluntariness of a…
19-6767 Douglas D. True v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness standard-of-review 1) Was the Eighth Circuit's summary denial of Mr. True's application for a certificate of appealability based upon an adjudication of the underlying m…
19-6346 Paul Malone v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment aedpa aedpa-deference attorney-perjury due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disorders perjury plea-voluntariness strickland-v-washington trial-attorney-perjury 1. Does deference provided from AEDPA and Strickland v Washington, 466 US 668 (1984) apply when there is evidence of trial attorney perjury before the…
18-9084 Edward JoRodge Gladney v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure diminished-capacity due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness sentencing sentencing-mitigation I. Whether the district court erred or abused its discretion by failing to hold an evidentiary hearing after grant of COA on contested factual allegat…
18-7078 Joseph O'Shaughnessy, aka Joseph D. O'Shaughnessy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-waiver criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea judicial-review ninth-circuit-procedure plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness voluntariness waiver The petitioner (criminal defendant below) claimed that his plea was involuntary, so therefore his appellate waiver was involuntary. The District Court…
18-5705 George Easterly v. Florida Florida 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness postconviction-relief probable-cause probable-cause-affidavit search-and-seizure search-warrant voluntariness-of-plea Question #1: Whether the Florida Court of Appeals unreasonably applied this Courts precedent when it upheld summary denial of a postconviction claim a…
18-66 Regis Blake Ross v. Arizona Arizona 2018-07-12 Denied constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-review-standards ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness post-conviction-relief standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent This Court has jurisdiction to determine federal constitutional issues that have been incorrectly decided by State courts of last resort. Mr. Ross rai…
18-5156 D'Angelo Battis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness pro-se pro-se-brief pro-se-representation sentencing standard-of-review unconstitutional-sentence Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it ignored Petitioner's pro se brief, in its entirety. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of…