trial-court-error
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6809 | Michael Wayne Keller v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-13 | Pending | IFP | commonwealth-instruction heat-of-passion jury-instruction legal-standard malice-definition trial-court-error | 1) Was the definition of malice given to the jury a proper Virginia model jury instruction defining heat of passion? 2) Did counsel for appellant req… |
| 25-6621 | Lamar Reese v. Ohio | Ohio | 2026-01-20 | Pending | IFP | legal-procedure ohio-revised-code petition-denial post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation trial-court-error | Did the State trial Court err in denying Petitioner's Post Conviction Petition that was filed under Ohio Revised Code 2953.23(A)(1)? |
| 24-7322 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. A. Rodriguez | Florida | 2025-05-29 | Dismissed | IFP | color-of-law fourth-amendment injunction procedural-due-process rights-deprivation trial-court-error | Did the trial court commit reversible error 's dismissing the petition for an injunction to prevent Respondent from stalking? Did the court violate th… |
| 24-6957 | Henry Pratt v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2025-04-11 | Denied | IFP | civil-suit evidence-suppression judicial-misconduct procedural-irregularity trial-court-error witness-testimony | (1)"Where the Trial Court erred by precluding Addie Brice,Civil Suit statement and making that statement not to be part of the evidence in this case. … |
| 24-6770 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Michael Valdez | Florida | 2025-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process notice-and-hearing stalking-injunction trial-court-error | Did the trial court commit reversible error dismissing the petition for an injunction to prevent Respondent from stalking when it denied Petitioner re… |
| 24-6557 | Steve Rosado v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attempted-enticement criminal-statute government-overreach motion-to-dismiss statutory-interpretation trial-court-error | WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT COMMITTED CLEAR ERROR DENYING THE MOTTON TO DISMISS THE INDICTMENT DUE TO LACK OF PERSUASION FOR THE ATTEMPTED ENTICEMENT? WH… |
| 24-650 | Robert Lee Webb v. Virginia | Virginia | 2024-12-16 | Denied | circumstantial-evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction meaningful-defense sixth-amendment trial-court-error | 1. The Trial Court's error in refusing to give the Virginia Model Jury Instruction on Circumstantial Evidence violated the Appellant's 6th and 14th … | |
| 24-5616 | Craig Bernard Kerry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | competency-examination ineffective-assistance mental-health-issues petition-timeliness trial-court-error | 1. Whether the trial court erred by determining that Mr. Kerry's petition was untimely? 2. Whether the trial court erred in determining that trial co… |
| 24-5047 | Pedro Terrazas v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-counsel constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-prejudice jury-selection plain-error rule-431b trial-court-error | Was Defendant 'Prejudiced' And Denied His Constitutional Right To The Effective Assistance Of Appellate Counsel On [Direct-Appeal] For Failing To Rais… |
| 23-6657 | Erick Cruz v. New York | New York | 2024-02-02 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof due-process evidence-authentication fair-trial opening-statements powerpoint-presentation presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-error | Q1: During opening statements, the trial court, over defense counsel's objections, allowed the prosecution to use a Powerpoint presentation. This Powe… |
| 23-6211 | Bernard Antoine Hardrick v. Michigan | Michigan | 2023-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adjudication civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-enterprise due-process evidence-sufficiency exclusion jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden prosecutorial-misconduct self-representation trial-court-error | I. Did The Trial Court Violate Petitioner's Right To Be Present Right To Counsel, And Right To Self-Representation When It Improperly Excluded Petitio… |
| 23-5624 | Charles M. Porter v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances judicial-discretion law-enforcement probable-cause trial-court-error warrantless-arrest | The sole point of this petition is the fact that Petitioner was arrested without probable cause. Hence, therefore, the warrantless arrest was unlawful… |
| 22-6861 | Jairo Francisco Solano v. Texas | Texas | 2023-02-24 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay judicial-procedure trial-court-error | DID THE TRIAL COURT ERRED BY ADMITTING HEARSAY TESTIMONY OVER THE OBJECTION OF MR. SOLANO? WAS THIS EVIDENCE ADMITTED IN VIOLATION OF THE CONFRONTATI… |
| 22-6077 | William Donnell, III v. Eddie Caley, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2022-11-16 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-evidence impeachment lead-detective right-to-present-defense trial-court-error trial-error witness-impeachment | 1. Did the trial court, by prohibiting me from impeaching the lead detective with extrinsic evidence specifically contradicting his testimony on direc… |
| 22-5541 | Edwin Pawlowski v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review compulsory-process due-process harmless-error judicial-process re-cross-examination sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-error | Did the Trial Court error by improperly restricting the examination in light of newDefendant's right to re-cross and evidence presented by the Prosecu… |
| 21-7380 | Frank Henderson Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-15 | Denied | IFP | appeal civil-rights closing-arguments due-process evidence-rules ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-court-error | A. Total Court erred B) By allowing veto AHO frsSecoriwl te argue FeetS nor mM ey LAence . B. the Prosewre erved 6). by agus fattS not (na evidence … |
| 21-7242 | Michael Wayne Kelly v. Texas | Texas | 2022-03-01 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-defense evidence evidence-exclusion right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment trial-court-error witness-testimony | Did ths Court of Appeals err when it held that the trial court didnot commit error in excluding evidence that deprived Petitioner of his Sixth Amendme… |
| 21-6999 | Sharoc Richardson v. Sherman Campbell, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure defense-witnesses due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial trial-court-error witness-cross-examination | QUESTION ONE: DID THE TRIAL COURT ERR IN FAILING TO INSTRUCT THE JURY ON INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER IN THIS CASE? QUESTION TWO: WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFF… |
| 21-6607 | In Re Andrew Thomas Burns, Sr. | 2021-12-14 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-error waiver-inquiry | 1. DID THE TRIAL COURT'S FAILURE TO CONDUCT AN AFFIRMATIVE WAIVER INQUIRY PRIOR TO ORDERING PETITIONER TO PROCEED PRO SE AT TRIAL, DENY PETITIONER OF … | |
| 21-6492 | Jaime Galvez v. William Muniz, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-02 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure defendant-rights directed-verdict due-process federal-law harmless-error insanity-defense right-to-remain-silent trial-court-error | 1. Is it clearly established federal law within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) that a trial court's error, of forcing a criminal defendant to t… |
| 21-5202 | Esteban Figueroa-Larrea v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | contested-element criminal-procedure district-court jury-charge jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-scope plain-error standard-of-review trial-court-error trial-procedure | Whether the district court plainly erred by misadvising the jury about the legal scope of the sole contested element at trial. |
| 20-7641 | Brian Hawkins v. Tim Shoop, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights credibility-analysis criminal-procedure due-process lovasco-standard pre-indictment-delay prosecutorial-discretion trial-court-error united-states-v-lovasco | Has the trial court erred by adding a credibility analysis to an unjustifiable pre-indictment delay test of Due Process prescribed by United States v.… |
| 20-5934 | Thomas Holden v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure conflict-with-supreme-court constitutional-review due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance premeditated-intent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard trial-court-error | WHETHER A UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS HAS DECIDED AN IMPORTANT QUESTION OF FEDERAL LAW THAT CONFLICTS WITH RELEVANT DECISIONS OF THIS COURT, WHERE … |
| 20-5629 | Lester Waller v. Vance Laughlin, Warden | Georgia | 2020-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process expert-witness-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-error waiver-of-counsel | Did the Trial Court err when it determined Defendant's waiver of counsel was valid thus violating his Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and his Fourtee… |
| 19-8923 | Bryant Okeff Leggett v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-activity drug-house evidence judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines trial-court-error | I. The district court applied a two-level enhancement for maintaining a drug house. This was applied despite no evidence being presented that Mr. Legg… |
| 19-7973 | Quincy Chisolm v. Maryland | Maryland | 2020-03-12 | Denied | IFP | appeal civil-rights conspiracy conviction criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder judicial-discretion mitigating-circumstances murder sentencing trial-court-error | in s4/'6'cx-f -fAc_ -fhoAaf £&n 5p*ro-ci>j -fo nouirMr ^ 6>/n/nf4- murder ir\ */Ae fiirs^ deyrc-e, ' cm^Un -b •lUyJ WWe./* -/-Ac- dnio.1 ^oo>rt err //… |
| 19-7124 | Derwin Lee Butler v. California | California | 2019-12-31 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions post-trial-hearing right-to-call-witnesses stipulation trial-court-error trial-error trial-procedure witness-testimony | 1. Does' a criminal defendant become deprived of his constitutional rights when the trial court fails to read an agreed upon stipulation and instructi… |
| 19-629 | Tracy L. Stewart, et al. v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society | Pennsylvania | 2019-11-15 | Denied | civil-procedure due-process foreclosure judicial-procedure mortgage mortgage-standing property-law real-estate sheriff-sale standing trial-court-error | 1. WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN NOT SETTING ASIDE THE SHERIFF'S SALE BECAUSE THE MORTGAGE COMPANY LACKED STANDING? | |
| 19-6374 | Kim Moss v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-10-25 | Denied | IFP | appeal appeal-of-right appellate-procedure consolidation constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-to-appeal constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-delay right-to-appeal state-court-procedures state-procedures trial-court-error | This case arise where Petitioner lost his Appeal 0^ Right do to Ineffective Assistance of Appellate Counsel and once it was determine by the State Cou… |
| 19-6171 | Jorge Sanchez-Rodriguez v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-10-04 | Denied | IFP | appeal appellate-review child-interview criminal-procedure due-process evidence insufficient-evidence judicial-error standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court-error witness-testimony | 1. DID THE STATE APPELLATE COURT AND THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT ERR IN DENYING PETITIONER 'S APPEAL BECAUSE THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT TRIAL WAS INSUF… |
| 19-6000 | Kevin Kelley v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-09-20 | Denied | IFP | compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules propensity-evidence sixth-amendment trial-court-error witness-testimony | Whether the state trial court erred in admitting the testimony of two witnesses for the purpose of showing the defendant's propensity to commit the ch… |
| 19-5609 | Marlin Chin and Patrick E. Lee v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | decades-old-case evidentiary-presumption judicial-discretion missing-evidence motion-for-new-trial new-trial presumption-of-impropriety trial-court-error witness-fees witness-vouchers | Whether the trial court erred in denying a Motion for New Trial when witness vouchers issued for payment of witness fees in a decades old case could n… |
| 19-5389 | Mervin R. Barteaux v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-error habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default trial-counsel trial-court-error writ-of-certiorari | Whether where the procedural default of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim is excused under Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), that in… |
| 18-8135 | Jerry Lee Williams, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-26 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process standing state-court-error state-law statutory-interpretation transcript-request trial-court-error | 1. Was the clerk of court in error for not applying With LSA-R.S. 13:1885(A) andLSA-C.CR. P.Art.843? 2. Whether the clerkof court in error for not ad… |
| 18-8078 | Elbert Walker v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-to-vacate statutory-interpretation time-requirements trial-court-error void-judgment | WHETHER THE BENNETT AND PURSUANT TO GEORGIA LAW/ STATUTE O.C.G.A.817-9-4 50 SEe RI/EY V.GARRETT, 219 GA.345,133 S.E.2d 367 (1463 AND GUTIERMEZ V.STATE… |
| 18-7626 | Gregory Haynes v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial legal-standards miscarriage-of-justice second-degree-murder self-defense trial-court-error | Whether the Petitioner was denied his constitutional rights to due process and a fair trial when the trial court made multiple comments that reflected… |
| 18-7479 | Farrell Haycraft v. Indiana | Indiana | 2019-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-deliberation jury-instructions mistrial trial-court-error verdict verdict-modification | I. Did the Trial Court Err when it order the jurors to redeliberate after it reach a verdict of guilty and not guilty on all counts? |
| 18-6653 | Rolando Calderin v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-11-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-court-error appellate-review constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process inculpatory-statements miranda-rights right-to-counsel self-incrimination suppression-of-evidence trial-court-error | Whether Illinois Trial Court and Appellate Court erred when it failed to suppress' Petitioner's inculpatory statements that were obtained after petit… |
| 18-6358 | Alj Hilton v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | and Are Plain and Affect Petitioner's Substantial -and-Are-Plain-and-Affect-Petitioner's-Substantial 18-usc-3661 5th-amendment appeal-waiver appeal-waiver,sentencing-guidelines,criminal-histo criminal-history criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum plain-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights trial-court-error Whether the mandatory five-year minimum sentence u | Whether Petitioner's Appeal Waiver Is Inapplicable to Issues of Trial Court Error in Applying Sentencing Guidelines' Enhancements or in Calculating Cr… |
| 18-361 | Lael J. Alleyne v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-09-19 | Denied | appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions manslaughter self-defense supreme-court-pennsylvania trial-court-error voluntary-manslaughter | Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania erred in denying a Petition for Allowance of Appeal despite the trial court's improper exclusion of voluntar… | |
| 18-5943 | Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Kathy Hung Pham, et al. | Oregon | 2018-09-12 | Denied | IFP | attorney-fees civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence costs-and-fees due-process elder-care guardianship guardianship-petition medical-decision-making mental-health standing trial-court-error | Did the trial court err in ruling General Judgment of Dismissal the Guardianship Petition filed by Linh Thi Minh Tran with prejudice? Did the trial c… |