prejudicial-error

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5355 Darius Leigh Gilkey v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-communication due-process ineffective-assistance prejudicial-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment I. Should this Court grant Certiorari to determin e whether evidence supports homicide or sexual assault? II. Should this Court grant Certiorari to d…
23-6447 Samuel Sherman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-joinder criminal-procedure prejudice prejudicial-error rule-14 rule-14-procedure sixth-amendment zafiro-precedent zafiro-v-united-states Whether the lower courts misapplie d this Court's holding in Zafiro v. Unit ed States, 506 U.S. 534, 113 S.Ct. 933 (1993), and the require ments of Ru…
23-5440 Roman Andreyevich Glukhoy v. California California 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-instructions legal-theory prejudice prejudicial-error standard-of-review 1. When a defendant is convicted after a trial court instructs a jury on two theories of guilt, one of which is legally correct and one legally incorr…
22-7499 Judy Thorpe v. Rosemarie Cipparulo, et al. New Jersey 2023-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-certification due-process equitable-review judicial-review legal-review manifest-error prejudicial-error trial-court-decision Whether it was manifest error and significantly prejudicial for the Supreme Court of New Jersey to Deny Certification and Not Fairly and Equitably Rev…
22-7267 Lloyd Leslie Kindred v. T. Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance interest-of-justice outcome-determination prejudicial-error reasonable-probability sixth-amendment Brawnds(f), tas J deated the 6TH mend ment oF Heo VU, Lornctidubion: Ke oarebing Lown sed s Pray Mianee. Wa ad teas onobhy et&ti ve"and Hrat Here /5 a…
22-6807 Antonio McGhee v. Maryland Maryland 2023-02-16 Denied IFP appellate-standard civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance juvenile-justice post-conviction prejudicial-error retroactivity sentencing Question not identified.
21-7767 Michael Don Billups v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-opinions appellate-review district-court federal-sentencing judicial-discretion prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review Whether courts of appeals evaluating the prejudicial effect of a Guideline error must accept a district court's claim that the Guidelines exerted no i…
21-7662 Michael Wayne Cook v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-opinions appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion federal-sentencing judicial-standard prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-guidelines Whether courts of appeals evaluating the prejudicial effect of a Guideline error must accept a district court's claim that the Guidelines exerted no i…
21-1080 Jacky Scott Garrett v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-04 Denied capital-murder constitutional-review extraneous-offense-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudicial-error standard-of-review strategic-decision trial-strategy 1. Petitioner's trial counsel accidentally opened the door to devastating extraneous offense evidence. Could reasonable jurists disagree with the dist…
21-6259 Shelly Margaret Arndt v. Deborah Jo Wofford, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center for Women Ninth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-provisions discretionary-power due-process internet-research judicial-discretion juror-misconduct prejudicial-error remmer statutory-provisions verdict-integrity In this case, juror misconduct was proven by the lower court after a juror researched an element of the crime on the internet (Wikipedia) during delib…
20-8051 Lucas Kenneth Sabatino v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity prejudicial-error sixth-amendment trial-strategy Whether defense counsel committed prejudicial ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to raise issues relating to defendant's mental capacity at …
20-1190 Richard D. Simmons v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2021-02-26 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived administrative-law agency-action agency-deference article-1-legislative-power chenery-doctrine chenery-rule constitutional-delegation due-process judicial-review prejudicial-error Must a court, when taking due account of the rule of prejudicial error on review of agency action, comport with Chenery?
20-6516 Eric Dynell McGadney v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion molina-martinez per-se-rule prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-error sentencing-framework sentencing-guidelines Whether a sentencing court's statement that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guidelines creates a per se rule that a miscalcu…
20-6411 Miguel A. Ramirez v. California California 2020-11-24 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error defendant-rights due-process evidence-admissibility jury-instructions prejudicial-error sexual-abuse 1. whetheR a juRy InstRuction in corractly Stating That Continous Sexual abuse of a child is a general intent cRime was PRejudiciael? 2. Whothek the …
20-6157 Pedro Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process motion-to-dismiss prejudicial-error sixth-amendment Did the district court prejudicially err denying petitioner's motion to dismiss based on Sixth Amendment violations?
20-5235 Michael D. Bikundi, Sr. v. United States District of Columbia 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure discovery district-court due-process federal-rule-criminal-procedure harmless-error legal-obligation material-violation prejudice prejudicial-error sanction sanctions Whether a district court has an obligation to impose a meaningful sanction for a material and highly prejudicial violation of Federal Rule of Criminal…
19-8836 Bobby Ray Culpepper v. Texas Texas 2020-06-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias judicial-error legal-remedy prejudicial-error standing structural-error trial-procedure 1. Was Petitioner giving a Fair Trial, or was Petitioner's trial a total oxce because of Structural Error! and Petitioners Trial Counsel, betore Petit…
19-7367 Adalberto Magana-Gonzalez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP border-patrol confrontation-clause drug-smuggling expert-testimony hearsay prejudicial-error sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the district court committed prejudicial error under the Sixth Amendment when it permitted a DEA agent to tell the jury what a Border Patrol a…
19-7089 Jonathan Cruz-Ramirez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment first-amendment juvenile-evidence prejudice prejudicial-error sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the admission of a vile and obscenity-laced rap poem found inside the purse of a 16-year-old girl and not w…
19-6456 Geoffrey Baggett v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confession-suppression custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-rights police-interrogation police-tactics prejudicial-error prejudicial-evidence right-to-counsel self-incrimination PETITIONERS CONFESSION SHOULD HAVE BEEN EXCLUDED FROM EVIDENCE BECAUSE PETITIONER WAS THE VICTIM. OF MISLEADING TACTICS LEADING UP TO BEING ADVISED OF…
19-5231 James D. Thomas, Jr., aka Wayne Thomas v. New York New York 2019-07-18 Denied IFP appeal burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial jury-instructions prejudicial-error prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court .Should this court vacate the conviction where the petitioner failed to preserve the issue and the trial court denied defendant's Motion to set aside …
18-7056 David Leonard Johnson v. California California 2018-12-14 Denied IFP california-law criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-lesser-included-offense descamps-standard due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense prejudicial-error prior-convictions receiving-stolen-property robbery I. IS THE CRIME OF RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY A LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE OF ROBBERY, AND IF SO, WAS THE TRIAL COURT'S FAILURE. TO INSTRUCT ON RECEIV…
18-6593 Sigifredo Molina-Varela v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-severance prejudice prejudicial-error right-to-counsel severance sixth-amendment DID THE DEFENSE COUNSEL'S FAILURE TO FILE A MOTION FOR SEVERANCE CREATE A SIGNIFICANT PREJUDICE AGAINST THE PETITIONER THEREBY CONSTITUTING INEFFECTIV…
18-5427 Monclaire Saint Louis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure curative-instruction curative-instructions due-process evidence jury-bias jury-instructions kidnapping prejudice prejudicial-error rape witness-testimony 1. Whether witness testimony, on more than one occasion, reveals that a rape was committed during a kidnapping, by someone other than the defendant, c…