| 23-7583 |
Shawn Hill v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure mental-health plea-bargaining remorse sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
1. Was petitioner improperly denied credit for acceptance of responsibility based on an incident in a Hartford jail that appeared to be a mental healt… |
| 21-7836 |
Bruce Edward Bingham, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof closing-arguments constitutional-ineffective-assistance criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process due-process-violation prosecutorial-misconduct remorse right-to-counsel |
Was the prosecutions remarks regarding the "conscience of the community" and "remorse" prosecutorial misconduct , or allowable argument?
Was trial cd… |
| 21-7611 |
John Charles Eichinger v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-trial certificate-of-appealability due-process homicide ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining remorse remorse-mitigation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
In upholding counsel's overall remorse-based strategy as reasonable, did the Third Circuit violate the rule of Hill v. Lockhart, 474 U.S. 52 (1985), a… |
| 20-5462 |
Smith Ellison, Jr. v. Robert Neuschmid, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure complete-defense constitutional-rights due-process evidence-preclusion motion-for-reconsideration remorse self-defense standing |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability to appeal a denial of the Motion for Reconsideration. |
| 18-9838 |
Cedric Floyd v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fifth-amendment remorse right-to-remain-silent |
1. In a capital case in which the defendant exercises his right not to testify, are the Fifth and Eighth Amendments violated when the State argues in … |
| 18-7944 |
Jerkeno Wallace v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence judicial-discretion non-testifying-defendant remorse remorse-consideration right-to-silence sentencing sentencing-error |
WHEN COURT CONSIDERED OBSERVATIONS OF
THE NON-TESTIFYING
DEFENDANT AS BASIS OF PROVING
NO REMORSE |