trial-preparation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6636 Kerbet Dixon v. New York New York 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adversarial-process pro-se-defendant prosecutorial-tactics self-representation sixth-amendment trial-preparation In Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 818 (1975), this Court found that the Sixth Amendment "constitutionalizes" a pro se defendant's right "in an a…
24-6044 Antonio Shropshire v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure government-seizure sixth-amendment testimonial-autonomy trial-preparation Were Shropshire's Sixth Amendment rights violated by the government's seizure of his trial preparation documents? Did the government violate Shropshi…
23-6836 Ruixue Shi, aka Serena Shi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea plea-bargaining right-to-counsel trial-preparation voluntariness Whether Petitioner's guilty plea was involuntary because she decided to plead guilty based upon her attorney's advice that it was in her interest to d…
23-6192 David Lewis Holland v. Texas Texas 2023-12-07 Denied IFP appellate-procedure appellate-review case-law constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process right-to-counsel speedy-trial trial-preparation QUESTION 1: Whether the new Speedy Trial requirement created by the Texas 7th Court of Appeals in the instant case is in conflict with current case l…
23-5574 Ramone L. Wright v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process notice-requirement self-representation sixth-amendment trial-preparation Question not identified.
21-7358 Joseph Elliott v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause ineffective-assistance jury-selection out-of-court-statements right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-preparation 1. Whether, in accordance with Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 327 (2003), Petitioner made a showing that reasonable jurists would debate whether…
21-7194 Mainor Canales v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance investigation post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment trial-preparation witness-investigation 1. INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL? a. COUNSEL DID NOT PROVIDE CONSTITUTIONALLY EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE WHEN HE FAILED TO CONDUCT REASONABLE INVESTIGAT…
21-6042 Marques Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-hour criminal-procedure discovery discovery-review due-process fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-preparation (1) Does the District of South Dakota's Standing Order 16-04, which prohibits a defendant from independent review their discovery, deny defendants of …