right-to-be-present

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23-5977 Sean Overstreet v. United States Second Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process right-to-be-present sentencing supervised-release waiver May counsel waive a criminal defendant's right to be present during the portion of his sentence in which special conditions of supervised release are …
22-5462 Wilbur Irick v. New York New York 2022-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP courtroom-removal criminal-proceedings defendant-rights disruptive-conduct due-process fair-administration-of-justice illinois-v-allen right-to-be-present Under the "explicit" holding of Illinois v. Allen, 397 U.S. 337, 343 (1970), does a court violate the defendant's right to be present during criminal …
21-1273 Frank D. Lazzerini v. Ohio Ohio 2022-03-21 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error right-to-be-present structural-error trial-proceedings voir-dire Over objection that it violated his constitutional right to be present at all critical stages of his trial on two hundred seventy-two felony charges, …
21-7189 Deimeyon Xavier Allen v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal certificate-of-probable-cause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-be-present subpoena Is the Petitioner afforded due process when filing his Application For Certificate Of Probable Cause? Is the Georgia Supreme Court required to ensure…
21-306 Troy Seales v. California California 2021-08-31 Denied counsel-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte-hearing ineffective-assistance right-to-be-present right-to-counsel trial-fairness 1. Did the Supreme Court err in failing to rule that the exclusion of Petitioner and his counsel from an ex parte hearing violated Petitioner's rights…
21-5427 Kushawn Miles-El v. Connie Horton, Warden Michigan 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment capital-case civil-rights competency competency-hearing due-process fourteenth-amendment right-to-be-present right-to-counsel sixth-amendment I. WHETHER THE STATE COURT HAS DENIED PETITIONER KUSHAWN MILES-EL ANY RIGHT, PRIVILEGE OR IMMUNITY GUARANTEED HIM BY THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE …
20-1660 In Re Garvester Bracken 2021-05-28 Denied article-iii criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction probable-cause right-to-be-present right-to-counsel trial-jurisdiction DID THE TRIAL COURT HAVE JURISDICTION TO PROCEED AND ENTER JUDGMENT AS A MATTER OF LAW? WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT HAD POSSESSED JURIDICTION IN ABSENCE …
20-6893 Patrick Wallace v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-court habeas-corpus recusal right-to-be-present section-2255 The United States District Court for the Central District of Ilinois and the Seventh Circuit Court should have issued a COA to review the denials of t…
20-5468 Corey Manning v. Michigan Michigan 2020-08-24 Denied IFP competency-hearing competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stages due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure right-to-be-present supreme-court-precedent trial-presence 1.) WHETHER DEFENDANT-APPELLANT WAS DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO BE PRESENT AT ALL CRITICAL STAGES OF TRIAL WHERE HE WAS INTENTIONALLY NOT SUMMO…
19-7911 Thomas William Cornelius, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion 28-usc-2255 appeal criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus physical-presence right-to-be-present sentencing With respect to a defendant who does not waive his right to be physically present during a re-sentencing hearing, held pursuant to a stipulated resolu…
19-7587 Lannon Lavar Burdunice v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal batson bias character-evidence circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process evidence incomplete-jury-verdict insufficient-evidence intent-to-kill judicial-error judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-verdict prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-be-present right-to-present-defense second-degree-murder weight-of-evidence 1. MUST MV CONVICTION FOR SECOND DEGREE INTENTIONAL MURDER BE VACATED AND A JUDGEMENT OF ACQUITTAL ENTERED INSTEAD WHERE THE JURY'S GUILTY VERDICT GOE…
19-7467 Frankie Beqiraj v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-presence due-process jury-selection peremptory-challenges right-to-be-present waiver 1. Whether a defendant has a constitutional right to be present during a conference at which the parties exercise their peremptory challenges to strik…
19-6068 Michael S. Sites v. West Virginia West Virginia 2019-09-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure critical-proceedings due-process harmless-error jury-deliberations right-to-be-present Did the West Virginia Supreme Court violate the Petitioner's Constitutional Rights to be Present at ALL Critical proceedings, including the answering …
19-5934 Bruce Randol Merryman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence AEDPA-statute-of-limitation constitutional-claim equitable-tolling evidence-insufficiency evidence-sufficiency federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence right-to-be-present statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals Fyrfth Civeultr erred w affir ming the lewer tribunals ruling and denied petitroner 4 gateway tlaim ef a…
19-5446 Michael Thomas Balint v. Kelly Santoro, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instructions ninth-circuit right-to-be-present right-to-counsel During deliberations, the jury issued a compound question as to the elements of Balint's trial defense, duress, as well as the defense of necessity. T…
19-5159 Quinetta Grant v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP should this Court vacate and remand for reconside was Ms Grant denied her rights under U.S.S.G. § 1 binding-authority criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-sentencing-right-to criminal-procedure-supervisory-power-conviction-se due-process judicial-discretion mail-fraud plain-error right-to-be-present sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-relevant-conduct-scope-of-cr sentencing-procedure Where Ms Grant's sentence was enhanced by attribut Where multiple additional errors affected petition 1) Where the Court of Appeals failed to consider binding authority holding that a defendant's absence from a material sentencing proceeding constitute…
19-5006 Peter J. Rosato v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure deposition deposition-testimony depositions due-process knowingly-intelligent-waiver right-to-be-present video-deposition waiver DOES A WAIVER OF A CITIZENS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT HAVE TO APPEAR ON THE RECORD EITHER WRITTEN OR ORALLY IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH A KNOWNING, INTELLIGENT, …
18-8946 Willie Peterson v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process duncan-v-louisiana illinois-v-allen lewis-v-united-states right-to-be-present third-circuit-court Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that the State Court Violated the U…
18-8514 Jonathan Leroy Homedew v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion co-defendant co-defendants criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion plea-arrangement plea-bargaining procedural-rights right-to-be-present speedy-trial waiver Whether Petitioner waived Speedy Trial Rights based on Co-defendants Plea arrangements Whether Petitioner had rights to be present at all tribunal pr…
18-8510 Travis Thaniel v. Maryland Maryland 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity right-to-be-present right-to-presence state-law trial-counsel weaver-retroactivity weaver-v-massachusetts 1. DOES THE FEDERAL' L'AW OF WEAVER V. MASSACHUSETTS, 137 S.Ct. 1899 (2017); HAVE RETROACTIVE APPLICATION IN THE STATE OF MARYL'AND? 2. DOES A TRIAL!…
18-8276 Derek Sample v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison Third Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process due-process,fair-trial,impartial-jury,lesser-inclu fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offense right-to-be-present trial-rights Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that the State Court Violated the U…
18-7556 Michael James Horton v. Clark E. Ducart, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-trial-stages due-process pro-se-representation right-to-be-present right-to-counsel self-representation standing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure FX ONS _JUSTiCe so eloQuent ly pot Veo "Lest We SEHe WWISTI Ch ONL DAT TR AROUND ) Sttouks THE UNE@ViVOCA RLGKT TO RENRESENT ONES SEIF OR HAVE COUNSe|…
18-6685 Bruce Merryman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice right-to-be-present standing statute-of-limitations trial-in-absentia trial-rights Under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, Can and individual Overcome this limitation, Under the Miscarriage of Justice Exception, By S…
18-6629 William Randolph Harloff v. Craig Koenig, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP chapman-harmless-error confrontation-clause constitutional-rights courtroom-presence criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error prejudice right-to-be-present witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether the state court applied Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 (1967) in an objectively unreasonable manner or made an unreasonable determination …
18-6377 Rashad Woodside v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights counsel-presence criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process limited-remand open-court resentencing right-to-be-present right-to-counsel sentencing Whether a defendant has the right to be present with counsel at a resentencing hearing where the reasons for the sentence are stated in open court aft…
18-5979 Malik Derry v. United States Third Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment law-of-case right-to-be-present right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence A. Whether the Fifth or Sixth Amendments, or Rules 43 and 44 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, are violated when neither a criminal defendan…
18-5183 Christopher M. Holmes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-security-officer due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining right-to-be-present right-to-confrontation right-to-counsel solitary-confinement standing testimony MEt, IF CURT -AppoatEd TRIAL CWNSEl ADMITTS ThAT ShE D NEyleCtEC To woNfeR nith client ABout Peremptory staikes befire oR durins peremptory Strike ses…