| 25A645 |
Julius Jarreau Moore v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-12-03 |
Application |
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capital-murder due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard third-party-culpability |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5106 |
Stoney Prior v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard-of-review circuit-split criminal-defendant-rights criminal-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt recognized-defenses third-party-culpability |
1. Is a criminal defendant entitled to a jury instruction on any recognized defense supported by the evidence?
2. If the district court rejects a jur… |
| 23-6112 |
Derek Paul Smyer v. Bryan D. Phillips, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion ninth-circuit standing third-party-culpability |
I. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED WHEN IT FAILED OR REFUSED TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) ON ONE OR MO… |
| 21-8085 |
Frank Jarvis Atwood v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence material-evidence material-exculpatory-evidence materiality-analysis prosecutorial-misconduct third-party-culpability |
1. Did the State withhold material exculpatory evidence of a tip received by law enforcement independently linking a known third-party suspect to the … |
| 21-7780 |
Selvin Orlando Carranza v. California |
California |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 8th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct third-party-culpability |
Should an innocent man setting forth allegations of his actual innocence, a deprivation of due process rights guaranteed by the U.S. Federal Constitut… |
| 21-1072 |
Steven Carrol DeMocker v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-02-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-question implausible-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-strategy right-to-counsel third-party-culpability |
This petition presents the question whether offering
an implausible third-party culpability defense violates a defendant's right to the effective assi… |
| 21-6998 |
Robert Lars Pape v. California |
California |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion right-to-present-defense standard-of-review third-party-culpability |
1. Does the Constitution permit the exclusion of a defendant's presentation of substantial evidence of third-party culpability simply because the cour… |
| 20-8265 |
John Licausi v. New York |
New York |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
altered-evidence bias-conflict-of-interest civil-verdict collateral-proceeding due-process judicial-bias newly-discovered-evidence right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment third-party-culpability |
I. Whether a hearing in a collateral proceeding was required to determine trial Judge's "neutrality" when newly discovered evidence was presented on a… |
| 19-6151 |
Ahmed Ali v. Tammy Foss, Acting Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights due-process habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions third-party-culpability trial-court |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability on his claim that he was denied his right to present a defense by the tri… |
| 18-8993 |
Frederick R. Cote v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability false-evidence false-testimony habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance life-without-parole third-party-culpability |
1. Is the low threshold for a certificate of appealability ("COA") met on a freestanding claim of actual innocence when a habeas petitioner serving li… |
| 18-8403 |
Sergio Caballero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fifth-amendment habeas-corpus third-party-culpability |
Whether the district court violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights by failing to allow evidence of third-party culpability. |