pro-se-defendant
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6854 | Lonny Slade Glover v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2026-02-19 | Pending | IFP | ex-parte-communication fourteenth-amendment pro-se-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error | 1. Whether an unrecorded ex-parte communication between a trial judge and a deadlocked jury where the physical note of the communication was subsequen… |
| 25-5621 | Ja'Kroi Allen Banks v. Texas | Texas | 2025-09-12 | Denied | IFP | critical-stage due-process ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment | Ja'Krai Banks filed an 11.07 on August 23, 2019. Banks received an affidavit from Private Investigator James McKay in March of 2020. Banks used McKay'… |
| 24-6767 | Brandon Green v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment | 1. Whether a federal district judge's refusal to recuse himself after making statements prejudging the merits of ineffective assistance claims, displa… |
| 24-6636 | Kerbet Dixon v. New York | New York | 2025-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | adversarial-process pro-se-defendant prosecutorial-tactics self-representation sixth-amendment trial-preparation | In Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 818 (1975), this Court found that the Sixth Amendment "constitutionalizes" a pro se defendant's right "in an a… |
| 24-5079 | John W. Patton v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence confrontation constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial grand-jury impartial-judge judicial-interference perjury pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment stand-by-counsel transcript | 1. What defense tools are Louisiana pro-se defendants entitled to when they choose to represent themselves pro-se at trial? a. Does it Violate Due Pro… |
| 23-7625 | Henry Sowers v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ada-accessibility americans-with-disabilities-act criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection hearing-impairment judicial-accessibility pro-se pro-se-defendant structural-error voir-dire | 1. Does the State violate the American Disabilities Act by failing to provide "Program Accessibility " to a hearing impaired Defendant (pro-se) in a … |
| 23A1076 | Jason Wade Grant v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-31 | Presumed Complete | anders-review appellate-procedure criminal-appeal fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance pro-se-defendant | Question not identified. | |
| 22-7799 | Gregory Smith v. Patricia Thompson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-06-15 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disability mental-illness pro-se pro-se-defendant | SHOULD A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ISSUE TO DEBATE THE MATTER OF COUNSEL BEING APPOINTED TO AID A PRO SE DEFENDANT SUFFERING FROM RETARDATION AND M… |
| 22-6383 | James T. Woo v. Colorado | Colorado | 2022-12-22 | Denied | IFP | case-files civil-rights discovery discovery-access due-process judicial-discretion post-conviction post-conviction-claims pro-se pro-se-defendant protective-order | whether The district court improperly misused a projective order to deprive Woo, a pro se defendant of access to terabytes of discovery in his case fi… |
| 22-5519 | Kareem J. Stansbury v. Michael Courley, Acting Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-system fair-trial federal-constitutional-rights habeas-corpus pro-se-defendant procedural-default sixth-amendment speedy-trial | conviction and habeas corpus proceedings raises Kareem Stansbury's pressing issues of national importance; Whether, and to what extent the criminal ju… |
| 22-5153 | Ramon A. Boyce v. Ohio | Ohio | 2022-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-authentication prejudice pro-se-defendant self-representation trial-court trial-court-discretion | 1.) Has a criminal Defendant's constitutional right to self-representation been violated by a trial court, if that court unreasonably delays the Defen… |
| 21-7793 | Leihinahina Sullivan v. United States District Court for the District of Hawaii | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-client-privilege civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech grand-jury-procedure pro-se-defendant prosecutorial-misconduct standing subpoena-abuse | Due to the lack of vesources while pretvia\ inca rcevatca at Honolulu Fedeval Detention Cenky C'F De") L apologize for using recytled paper. Pencil, a… |
| 21-7540 | In Re Rufus Paul Harris | 2022-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-right fair-trial in-absentia pro-se-defendant pro-se-representation self-representation sixth-amendment stand-by-counsel trial-court | The question presented by this case has never been addressed to permit existing stand-by counsel to assume representation for an 'in absentia' pro-se … | |
| 21-6073 | John Ray Falk, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2021-10-27 | Denied | IFP | accomplice-liability capital-murder capital-punishment criminal-liability due-process guilty-plea law-of-parties notice plea-bargaining pro-se pro-se-defendant | (1) Given that Due Process requires that a guilty plea be "knowing and intelligent," when a pro se defendant seeks to plead guilty to a death-eligible… |
| 21-5126 | Kevin Tyrell Beach v. Florida | Florida | 2021-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process irreparable-harm mistrial pro-se pro-se-defendant right-to-counsel sanctions | Does it constitute "bad faith conduct " of "abuse of discretion ' when a judge denies a defendant 's numerous pre-trial requests for "stand-by " couns… |
| 20-7647 | Gerti Muho v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process criminal-justice-system evidentiary-admissibility fair-trial fifth-amendment financial-disability pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment witness-subpoena | Because the deprivation of essential, singular witness testimony supporting an indigent defendant's theory of defense violates the right to compulsory… |
| 20-7236 | Vincent E. Boyd v. Dylon Radtke, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-02-24 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability court-procedure due-process legal-representation pro-se-defendant self-representation sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right standby-counsel | Should courts have to clearly define, on the record, the proper role of standby counsel in the proceedings? In other words, should courts engage in a … |
| 20-6103 | Curtis Lee Dale v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery document-discovery due-process pro-se-defendant search-warrant search-warrants sentencing standing | - Is a prose litigant due a merits determination or adjudication on every claim he presents in his 28usc.f22ssMotion? -Is a defendant to be provided … |
| 20-5379 | Keith Adair Davis v. Washington | Washington | 2020-08-17 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | adversarial-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel due-process pro-se-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment unsettled-law | Where a pro se defendant is absent from a criminal trial, whether due to misconduct or voluntary choice, is the trial court constitutionally required … |
| 19-8091 | Vernon Wayne Officer v. Washington | Washington | 2020-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process fair-trial ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion pro-se-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure | D IS iT NOT TRUE ON OCT 12 2O1A, I WAS DENIED RE-ADONTMENT OF COUNSEL, DURING JURY TRIAL, NOT BECAUSE OF DELAY IN TRIAL? BOT BECAUSE I SIQNED RE-APPOI… |
| 19-6460 | Daniel Paul Copple v. Pelicia Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-standards discovery discovery-limitations dismissal-standards due-process evidence-preservation evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus institutional-mental-health-records judicial-discretion mental-competency pro-se-defendant state-records | I. When a defendant claims mental impairments had prevented him from timely filing his habeas petition, under Schrire v. Landrigan, should the distric… |
| 18-6837 | Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-27 | Denied | IFP | anders-brief appellate-review collateral-attack due-process extraordinary-writ federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment state-court-review | If the merits of an appeal exist and are not evaluated by a State or Federal Court of review, should a Federal court address Inaffective Assistance of… |
| 18-6749 | James Barnes v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-violation criminal-procedure faretta-right faretta-v-california mitigation mitigation-investigation presentencing-investigation pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment special-counsel | Whether Florida's use of "special counsel" to investigate and present mitigation and its requirement of a presentencing investigation report to provid… |
| 18-6718 | Timothy Edwards v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-abandonment due-process excusable-neglect pro-se pro-se-defendant rule-4(b) rule-4b sixth-amendment | The Appellate Court violated Mr. Edwards Sixth Amendment Due Process Rights and Supreme Court precedent by the strict application of Rule 4(b). Where … |
| 18-5790 | Uiki Teaupa v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2255 5th-amendment 6th-amendment discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment government-misconduct pro-se pro-se-defendant section-2255 sixth-amendment | Does the Fifth and Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution entitle A Pro Se Defendant the right to have (1) discovery conducted on his claims of gove… |