presumed-prejudice
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6676 | Louis Angel Mercado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | appellate-procedure brief-filing cronic-standard ineffective-assistance-counsel presumed-prejudice state-appeal | Should prejudice be presumed under United States v. Cronic when defense counsel fails to file an appellee's brief under a state initiated appeal? |
| 23-416 | Derek Michael Chauvin v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2023-10-19 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | change-of-venue community-bias community-harm criminal-procedure juror-bias juror-prejudice presumed-prejudice sixth-amendment venue-change voir-dire | Although a slightly similar question was presented to this Court in Skilling v. U.S., 558 U.S. 945 (2009), questions remained unresolved regarding the… |
| 22-5760 | Philip Joseph Spear v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review breach-of-promise constitutional-violation due-process judicial-error presumed-prejudice | Did the appellate court err by overlooking a Constitutional wrong to the petitioner?, and by omission, fail to note, by the record, a breach of promis… |
| 22-5285 | Alifonso Eduardo Garcia v. Kansas | Kansas | 2022-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autopsy-evidence criminal-procedure due-process jury-questionnaire jury-selection lesser-included-offense presumed-prejudice skilling-factors standard-of-review venue venue-prejudice | 1. Whether the Kansas Supreme Court's presumed prejudice standard of review is in contrary to Skilling v. United States, 561 U.S. 358, 130 S.Ct. 2896,… |
| 21-53 | James Dale Holcombe v. Florida | Florida | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (12) | conflict-of-interest criminal-defendant ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joint-and-dual-representation joint-representation presumed-prejudice prosecution-witness prosecutorial-notice trial | 1. Whether a criminal defendant establishes an "actual" conflict of interest that adversely affects counsel's representation when the attorney engages… |
| 20-8093 | Martin James Kipp v. Ron Broomfield, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | IFP | bible-reading biblical-reference capital-punishment capital-trial constitutional-rights external-influence habeas-corpus jury-deliberation jury-deliberations mattox-v-united-states presumed-prejudice remmer-v-united-states | Whether clearly established federal law requires that a habeas petitioner's claim that his constitutional rights were violated because a juror read pa… |
| 20-7470 | Pablo Ramon Guerrero v. Nevada | Nevada | 2021-03-16 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence batson critical-stage cronic due-process fundamental-fairness mccollum presumed-prejudice strickland structural-error trial-procedure | 1.) Whether a Brady/Giglio prosecutorial misconduct violation exists as a structural error, and if so, whether petitioner was denied a fundamentally f… |
| 18-7083 | Sylvia Ogbenyeanu Walter-Eze, aka Sylvia O. Okam v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conflict-of-interest constitutional-standards constructive-denial-of-counsel counsel-conflict critical-stage fundamental-fairness ninth-circuit presumed-prejudice structural-error waiver | Whether, when the Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit, found that "both the threat of fees and the threat of potential sanctions created a conflict … |