remorse

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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