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24-6449 Belinda Jones v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-02-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment legal-conflict napue-standard trial-fairness Whether the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when the lower courts' legal standard as applied to false testimony claims conflicts with this Court's le…
24-6021 Samuel Boima v. United States Second Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-competency due-process governmental-interests involuntary-medication mental-health trial-fairness How should district courts decide whether a crime is "serious" within the meaning of Sell?
24-5961 James A. Bell v. Michele Dauzat, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness witness-vouching 1. WHETHER A PROSECUTOR'S "BOLSTERING" OF A WITNESS TO U.S. v. YOUNG'S WHERE THE "BOLSTERING" ATTESTING TO THE TESTIMONY IS A PERMISSIBLE EXCEPTION PR…
24-5927 William Dale Watson v. William Streeter, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility judicial-error jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness 1. Mr. Watson alleged the circuit court did not have the jurisdiction to try his case or sentence him, due to his Forged waiver of arraignment by an o…
24-5792 Mark A. Whitworth v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure for-cause-strike judicial-discretion jury-selection trial-fairness venireperson-bias Should a criminal defendant be required to prove prejudice when a federal district court erroneously strikes a potential juror for cause based on her …
24-5618 Daramis Lee Sharkey v. James M. Holloway, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-misrepresentation jury-bias prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness 1. Is it true that actions of prosecutor in misrepresenting in evidence can advance a substantial doing so have profoundly impress a jury making signi…
23-7739 Cary Joseph Heath v. Texas Texas 2024-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-intoxication new-trial trial-fairness witness-testimony Question not identified.
23-1256 Donna Davis Javitz v. Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied civil-rights confrontation confrontation-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel first-amendment-retaliation free-speech judicial-misconduct mistrial trial-fairness 1. Whether the Petitioner was denied the constitutional right to a fair trial in a First Amendment retaliation case when the judge: (1) struck Petitio…
23-6825 Jmarreon Mack v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial judicial-integrity prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness rtme Coufi -fo ufldc? my WlfoMgCitj CoNVicfioKj \y\ \oWer U.$, pis-Mcf CoukS n Circuit ^ Sravif me Release,5 i zs'K Ail of -fhe Unikd S+jf& Supreme …
23-5043 Coby Quinton Ceaser v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance jackson-standard jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense right-to-testify trial-fairness Can the Jackson standard be satisfied when relevant, material, and appreciable evidence is impermissibly kept from the juiy? Was Ceaser's trial rende…
22-7346 John G. Calhoun v. Florida Florida 2023-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process estelle-v-mcguire habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-precedent lisenba-v-california manslaughter trial-fairness Whether the inaccurate jury instruction on Manslaughter by Act so infused the trial with unfairness as to deny the Petitioner's right to Due Process o…
22-6952 Brian Duane Brookins v. Georgia Georgia 2023-03-07 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury jury-impartiality right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-fairness turner-v-louisiana witness-testimony In this Georgia death penalty case, the local Sheriff gave key testimony for the State, detailing his investigation of the crime and arrest of Petitio…
22-6801 DeSean Alexander Bruce v. Arizona Arizona 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-evidence due-process eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony fair-appeal fair-postconviction-proceedings fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness FIRST : Was Petitioner denied due process, a fair trial, a fair appeal, and fair post conviction proceedings, due to the following circumstances: 1. …
22-6615 Robert Jim v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-presentation fair-trial improper-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing trial-fairness I. Whether The Court Violated Jim's Constitutional Rights To Due Process & A Fair Trial By Allowing Improper Evidence & Preventing Him From Presenting…
22-5980 Arius Hopkins v. United States Second Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence grand-jury rule-404(b) trial-fairness Whether the admission of evidence of prior alleged conduct similar to the crime on trial and dismissed by a grand jury, which was noticed for one purp…
21-7253 Luis D. Sambolin-Robles v. Corrections Administration First Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied IFP 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-standard judicial-review legal-procedure standing trial-fairness Question not identified.
21-635 Larry Fields v. Cincinnati, Ohio Police Department, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure magistrate-judge standing trial-fairness 1. Whether the magistrate judge intended violation of the federal rules of civil Procedure? 2. Whether petitioner constitutional rights where viola…
21-6012 Michael Rimmer v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-10-20 Denied IFP capital-trial confrontation-clause criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness witness-unavailability 1. Whether the courts below erred by upholding the trial court's determination that the only witness to petitioner's purported jailhouse confession wa…
21-5890 Christopher W. Terrell v. Arkansas Arkansas 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction due-process fair-trial impartiality jury-impartiality jury-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-fairness 1. Is a criminal conviction unconstitutional and in violation of Due Process when a jury does not remain impartial on the question of guilt for the cr…
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…
20-7571 Hilliard A. Fulgham v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interstate-agreement-on-detainers interstate-detainer judicial-discretion trial-fairness waiver 1. Is an objection required before a court would have understanding that a detainee did not want to be tried after the time-line set in his involuntar…
20-7066 William Echols v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP allied-offenses case-joinder confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence-sufficiency fair-trial joinder trial-fairness WHETHER ECHOLS WAS DENIED A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL DUE TO SEVERAL MAJOR CONSTITUTIONAL AND DUE PROCESS VIOLATIONS THAT INCLUDED AN IMPROPER JOINER O…
20-6799 Kosoul Chanthakoummane v. Texas Texas 2021-01-08 Denied IFP bitemark-identification criminal-procedure dna-analysis dna-evidence due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony forensic-evidence scientific-evidence trial-fairness Is Petitioner's conviction the product of a fundamentally unfair trial that was prejudiced by the admissibility of flawed forensic scientific evidence…
20-6800 Harry Miller v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-rule brady-v-maryland constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence favorable-evidence materiality prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness How does a court determine whether evidence that the prosecution did not share with the defense before trial is "favorable" under the standard announc…
20-6146 Douglas Harrie Stewart v. Cathleen Stoddard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-death-penalty-act-of-1996 clearly-established-law due-process estelle-v-mcguire evidence-prejudice fourteenth-amendment lisenba-v-people-of-state-of-california payne-v-tennessee trial-fairness Whether the rule of law espoused by Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808 (1991), Lisenba v. People of State of California, 314 U.S. 219 (1941), and Estell…
20-5613 Keith Bernard Smith v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing extraneous-contact fair-trial juror-misconduct jury remmer-v-united-states sixth-amendment trial-fairness DID THE TRIAL COURT INTERFERE WITH PETITIONER'S STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO A FAIR JURY TRIAL WHEN SHE REFUSED TO HOLD AN EVIDENTIARY H…
19-8706 Lester Thomas Butcher v. Texas Texas 2020-06-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial texas trial-fairness Question 1. WILL THIS SUPREME COURT PERMIT TEXAS PROSECUTORS ' CLAIMS OF "MISTAKE AND INADVERTENCE ", MADE BY PROSECUTORS BENEFITING FROM SUCH CLAIMS,…
19-8650 Sebastian Albert Campbell v. Maryland Maryland 2020-06-09 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-tools due-process fair-trial legal-standard right-to-counsel self-representation trial-fairness Did the state of Maryland err by utilizing an improper legal standard in its determination that compelling Petitioner to relinquish his right to self-…
19-8125 Wendell Ray Thomas v. California California 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-a-fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-fairness I Whether Defense Counsel Craig Wormley's Mental Health Issues Had An Adverse Effect & Influence on the Outcome of the Trial Where the Principle Iss…
19-7868 Steven B. Turner v. Mike Kemna Eighth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-fairness In Missouri, it is an ensuing plea of guilty that implicates the constitution. A criminal defendant cannot succeed on a post-conviction claim of ineff…
19-7477 Raul Mejia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fourth-amendment franks-hearing search-and-seizure trial-fairness warrant warrant-validity Was petitioner's truck illegally searched due to an invalid warrant? Was petitioner improperly denied a Franks hearing? Did Officer Carbajal testify a…
19-7272 Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment trial-fairness 1. Did the petitioner receive Constitutional effective assistance of trial Court counsel at trial Court answers? YES Appellant answers: NO 2. Did the…
19-7227 Santos Reyes-Villatoro v. United States Third Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP consciousness-of-guilt due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial false-evidence giglio-v-united-states judicial-review napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial trial-fairness 1. In light of this Court's well established rulings in Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150 (1972) and Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959), as to…
19-6597 Thiodore Igorovich Galitsa v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility criminal-history criminal-procedure-due-process cross-examination dismissed-case dismissed-charges due-process fair-trial false-statements illegal-reentry prior-arrests prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness Was Mr. Galitsa denied his right to a fair trial by the government's repeated questioning about allegations from a case dismissed for lack of evidence…
19-6393 Jean-Paul Gamarra v. United States District of Columbia 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony involuntary-medication involuntary-treatment mental-health psychiatric-testimony trial-fairness In Sell v. United States, 539 U.S. 166, 179 (2003), this Court held that "the Constitution permits the Government involuntarily to administer antipsyc…
19-6017 Randy Matthew Cordero v. Nick A. Guzman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-instruction jury-trial personal-injury standing trial-fairness CIVIL CASE IN LIGHT OF THE LOWER COURTS DECISION CAN THE PLAINTIFF TO THE DISTRICT COURT TRY A CIVIL CASE OF CONSTITUTIONAL INJURY WITHOUT FIRST ALLOW…
19-5836 Dennis Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error plea-bargaining prejudice reasonable-performance reasonable-probability sixth-amendment standard-of-review strickland-v-washington trial-fairness trial-strategy Question not identified.
19-183 Mark Douglas Robison v. Texas Texas 2019-08-09 Denied Response Waived criminal-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-fairness trial-outcome In considering whether a criminal-defense attorney's deficient performance was prejudicial under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), is all…
19-5244 Larry David Davis v. Brian Daniel, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied IFP civil-rights confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection evidence-tampering habeas-corpus sentencing standing trial-fairness Does the Prosecutor assessment of Probable cause Standing alone meet the requirements of the Fourth Amendment and is it enough to Justify Pending tria…
18-9638 Jose Luis Barboza, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-06-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-tampering free-speech gang-membership patent prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines standing trial-fairness for a new judge in the trial do to the fact that there was no proff ot that Statment from defendant. also defendant was charged in a dubble jeopardy …
18-8955 Gregory Butler v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions other-crimes-evidence sixth-amendment trial-fairness witness-confrontation Whether the district court and the third circuit erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability when it determined the admission of the oth…
18-8827 David McShan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP berger-standard berger-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-fabrication jury-bias nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing trial-fairness I. Where the government's case against a defendant is extremely weak, does the prosecutor's persistent misconduct during trial by making improper insi…
18-8587 In Re Christopher Stegawski 2019-03-27 Denied IFP 21-cfr-1306.04 21-usc-802 21-usc-841 allocution chronic-pain-treatment cross-examination due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel medical-expert strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-fairness united-states-v-moore witness-testimony Was the trial fair when: - prosecution took 5 days of testimonies and defense none - key defense witnesses were not investigated pretrial - court deni…
18-8207 Wayland Lynn Dilts v. Michigan Michigan 2019-03-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness new-trial public-trial secret-trial sixth-amendment trial-fairness During Petitioner's jury trial, in state court, the prosecutor requested that the trial court "close the courtroom For that reason, the trial court th…
18-7858 Arif Majid v. Jeff Noble, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof closing-argument constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct religious-prejudice trial-fairness Whether a prosecutor's appeals to religious prejudice in closing argument and throughout trial to inflame the passions of the jury embody animus or of…
18-7758 Mary Cummins v. Amanda Lollar Texas 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-tribunal judge-selection judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-selection texas-courts trial-fairness visiting-judge visiting-judges Is a trial by a visiting Judge according to Texas regulations a fair trial? Has Mary Cummins been deprived of due process by use of a retired Texas v…
18-7299 Leon Tony Parker, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-01-10 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest counsel-of-choice counsel-withdrawal court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion motion-resolution motion-to-substitute motion-to-substitute-counsel motion-to-withdraw record-keeping right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion trial-fairness The Petitioner sought to withdraw counsel because of a legitimate conflict in counsel's representation; and then, two months later, sought to substitu…
18-6700 Michael DePietro v. Allstate Insurance Co., et al. New Jersey 2018-11-14 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal case-law civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial judicial-bias legal-reconsideration motion-denial new-trial reconsideration standing trial-fairness Judge Jose Fuentes his opinions of my case are all denials. The first one on October 26, 2015 he denied me case law. Then on October 20, 2017 he denie…
18-5911 Manuel Lampon-Paz v. Department of Justice, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-redaction child-abuse child-abuse-neglect child-abuse-or-neglect court-of-appeals fair-trial federal-procedure minor-plaintiff minor-protection ongoing-case ongoing-federal-case plaintiff-rights redaction trial-fairness 1) Whether a plaintiff can have his case redacted in accordance with laws and regulations about disclosure if; it contains information about a minor t…
18-5199 Keith Warren Lewis v. Rachelle Hadari New Jersey 2018-07-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights court-procedure custody custody-evaluation due-process fair-trial family-law medical-expert mental-health partisan-expert trial-fairness Whether in custody cases a court can force one party to be evaluated by the opposing party's private medical expert. Is this an unconstitutional abuse…
25A494 Tremane Wood v. Oklahoma Oklahoma Denied brady-violation capital-murder due-process prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness witness-cooperation Whether the prosecution's concealment of a cooperation agreement promising a 35-year sentence to the key witness against petitioner, combined with fal…