| 25-6778 |
Jasim Mohammed Hassi Ramadon v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2026-02-11 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-coercion defendant-testimony effective-assistance structural-error trial-procedure |
1. When a defendant is prevented from testifying due to counsels' coercive
actions, does structural error occur?
2. Was Mr. Ramadon's constitutional… |
| 25-858 |
Charlotte Chemuti v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
|
ancillary-proceeding criminal-defendant evidence-production law-enforcement-videos pennsylvania-v-ritchie trial-procedure |
1) WHETHER THE A STATE MAY PROHIBIT A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT FROM COMPELLING THE PRODUCTION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT VIDEOS TO THE DEFENDANT'S TRIAL WHERE THE S… |
| 25-6162 |
Terrell Onterial Lobley v. Don Harris, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation ineffective-counsel judicial-review legal-interpretation state-law trial-procedure |
Are the Courts (state and otherwise) required to uphold Laws that are in violation of State and Federal Constitutions?
Is an individual, incarcerated… |
| 25-5843 |
Carlos Lorenzo Jackson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5679 |
Lewis Anderson v. California |
California |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights deadly-weapon due-process evidence-admission propensity-evidence trial-procedure |
A. SHOULD UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT GRANT CERTIORARI REVIEW ON ASSAULT WITH DEADLY WEAPON CHARGE AND VACATE STATE'S COURT'S CONVICTION ON PROPENSITY… |
| 25-5671 |
Mohamed Mohamed Mohamud, Issa Doreh, and Ahmed Nasir Taalil Mohamud v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-evidence due-process fisa-review government-surveillance ninth-circuit-standard trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5659 |
Ohio, ex rel. Ricardo Dodson v. Shelbie Smith, Warden |
Ohio |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
1. Can a trial court correct-Amend a jury's verdict that announced the wrong name upon reading the verdict, upon assenting to the verdict on polling, … |
| 25-5560 |
Yancey J. Myers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias jury-misconduct structural-error trial-procedure |
1) . Where a disqualified trial judge recuses himself due to substantial
prejudice/bias ; POSTCONVICTION! is there a structural error because said
j… |
| 25-5545 |
Miguel Angel Homedes v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review closing-argument due-process evidentiary-rules prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
Whether improper prosecutorial statements in closing argument are sufficiently flagrant to warrant reversal, where they inserted facts not directly in… |
| 25-5549 |
Vladislav Konstantin Aksenov v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment racial-bias trial-procedure |
Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government at trial from implicitly evoking stereotypes about a defendant's racial or ethnic backg… |
| 25-5537 |
Benito M. Valdez v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights courtroom-access judicial-discretion public-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Is the Sixth Amendment right to a "public trial" violated where the trial court—for the stated purpose of keeping the proceedings private rather than … |
| 25-5328 |
Ayana Saunders v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-amendment indictment sixth-circuit trial-procedure variance venue |
I. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the proof at trial did not result in a Constructive Amendment or Variance from the… |
| 25-5253 |
Steven Tuopeh v. South Dakota |
South Dakota |
2025-08-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8)IFP |
compulsory-process court-transport criminal-defense due-process trial-procedure witness-testimony |
I. In the present case, the Petitioner sought to transport a penitentiary inmate witness to testify at a murder trial via a transport order and subpoe… |
| 25A114 |
Scott Breimeister v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
double-jeopardy fifth-amendment governmental-misconduct mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5075 |
Mark Jabben v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
character-evidence confrontation-clause due-process expert-testimony sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
1. Should the Court of Criminal Appeal's overturn the verdict because there
was insufficent evidence of culpability ?
2. Did the State Court violate… |
| 24-7435 |
Antonio Nathaniel Davenport, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
criminal-law jury-instruction murder-statute north-carolina-law statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
Whether the Trial Court Erred by Failing to Give A Properly Requested Jury Instruction as to the North Carolina Crime of Murder in Violation of N.C. G… |
| 24-7422 |
In Re Jerome Eric Bivens |
|
2025-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process judicial-error jury-selection trial-procedure |
1. Can a Florida trial court void a State statute prohibiting a convicted felon from serving on a jury in violation of Florida trial court procedure?
… |
| 24-7329 |
Nicco-Kawon Pledger v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process expert-testimony hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-instructions trial-procedure |
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| 24-7199 |
Alcenios Martinez, aka Aucensio Lopez v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-right counsel-appointment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-review trial-procedure |
1. Is a defendant constitutionally entitled to the appointment of
counsel for the initial review of an ineffective assistance of
trial counsel claim… |
| 24-1159 |
Jeffrey Clyde Pitts v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-05-13 |
Judgment Issued |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) |
child-witness confrontation-clause constitutional-rights courtroom-screening criminal-procedure trial-procedure |
Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the use of a screen at trial that blocks a child witness's view of the defendant, without any individualized … |
| 24-7136 |
DeWayne Lee Waldrup v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel self-representation trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7050 |
Juan Carlos Sotelo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process judicial-discretion juror-dismissal jury-selection legal-standard trial-procedure |
Dismissal of a juror based on a purported unwillingness or inability to follow the law is impermissible when the impetus for the dismissal stems from … |
| 24-1084 |
Steven M. Hohn v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-04-17 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights legal-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Whether a prosecutor's intentional, unjustified intrusion into a defendant's attorney-client communications violates the Sixth Amendment without a sho… |
| 24-6995 |
Preston Alton Strong v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof due-process external-evidence judicial-error jury-misconduct trial-procedure |
Did the Arizona Supreme Court err when, like a substantial number of courts throughout the country, it violated the rule contained in Court's decision… |
| 24-6574 |
Mark A. Marchetti v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance exculpatory-evidence fair-trial trial-procedure |
WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO DUE PROCESS, A FAIR TRIAL, AND EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WERE VIOLATED BY TRIAL COUNSEL'S FAILURE … |
| 24-6117 |
Michael Eric Pennington v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-review criminal-appeals ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-precedent trial-procedure |
Is the Court of Criminal Appeals' decision contrary to clearly established Supreme Court precedent?
Was Trial Counsel Ineffective in conceding Pennin… |
| 24-6029 |
Glenna Duram v. Jeremy Howard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance trial-procedure |
I. Whether the trial court violated Glenna Mary Duram's constitutional protections of due process by admitting unfairly prejudicial hearsay evidence f… |
| 24-5963 |
Cameron Davon Wright v. James R. Schiebner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting brecht-standard constitutional-error jury-verdict sufficiency-of-evidence trial-procedure |
I.
DID THE LOWER - COURT CLEARLY MISAPPLY UNITED STATES
SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT IN A MANNER THAT DENIED
FUNDAMENTAL JUSTICE, WHEN IT USED A SUFFICIE… |
| 24-5947 |
Ismail Salaam v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
courtroom-closure judicial-review plain-error sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure |
At trial, the district court committed structural error by closing the courtroom in the middle of trial during the adult victim witness's testimony, w… |
| 24-5843 |
Jerome R. Sueing v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
I. Court violated Petitioner's right to due process — denied him his right to a fair trial by joining the unrelated cases of aggravated indecent expos… |
| 24-5591 |
Guy Benjamin Bowman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-bias structural-error trial-procedure voir-dire |
Whether the trial court's refusal to ask of the all-White venire defendant's voir dire questions on racial bias, deprivation of the defendant of the c… |
| 24-5320 |
Ahkemon J. Bardell v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment trial-procedure |
I. WAS THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT IN ERROR, FOR FAILING TO CORRECT THE APPELLATE COURTS FAILURE TO CORRECT A CONFRONTATIONAL VIOLATION THAT TRANSPIRE… |
| 24-5239 |
John C. Coleman v. Michael Swartz, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-standard fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5175 |
Kalamice Keson Piggee v. Gena Jones, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency competency-hearing due-process expert-testimony judicial-review mental-health-evaluation mental-illness retrospective-competency-determination trial-court-discretion trial-procedure |
Nearly two years after being restored to competency, Petitioner Kalamice Piggee's mental illness resurged and his trial counsel declared doubt as to h… |
| 24-5169 |
Jeremy David Spielbauer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
challenges-for-cause constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection media-coverage trial-procedure use-immunity venue |
(1) The trial court abused its discretion in denying challenges for cause to venire members Terry Freethy and Joseph Havlik; and the 7th Court of Appe… |
| 24-5113 |
Steven Alexander Mantecon v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense. |
| 23-7803 |
Michael Sean Graham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation confrontation-clause covid-19-restrictions due-process fifth-amendment public-interest sars-cov-2 sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
1. By denying relief, did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in holding that the masking of trial witnesses was not a violation of defendant's Fif… |
| 23-7778 |
Davonte Williams-Dorsey v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-jury-trial-evidence due-process duress-defense fifth-amendment judicial-precedent jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure united-states-v-contento-pancho united-states-v-paul |
Did the lower courts err in their preclusion of Petitioner's duress defense at trial, given the preexisting caselaw, wherein the Jury, not the Court, … |
| 23-7597 |
William Hill v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-court appellate-review california-v-champman constitutional-review conviction conviction-reversal due-process first-amendment harmless-error trial-procedure |
When an appellate court concludes that a conviction for one offense violated
the First Amendment, is the appellate court required to apply the harmles… |
| 23-7575 |
Oscar Dillon, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acquittal acquitted-conduct criminal-culpability double-jeopardy federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment rule-404(b) trial-procedure unrelated-charges |
The Eighth Circuit United States Court of Appeals determined that criminal culpability derived from verdicts of aquittals are admissible in separate t… |
| 23-7556 |
Nathan O. Beal v. Washington |
Washington |
2024-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trials daubert-standard due-process evidence-rule expert-testimony federal-evidence-rule firearm-ballistics frye-standard scientific-evidence trial-procedure |
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| 23-7528 |
Aaron Matthew Rentfrow v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence fair-trial juror-misconduct jury-misconduct prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-testimony |
The district court erred by failing to grant a mistrial. Error in the following
four respects, viewed in aggregate, deprived Mr. Rentfrow of his Sixth… |
| 23-7443 |
Irvin Thomas v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-rights due-process excessive-sentence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-errors provocation sentencing trial-procedure video-evidence |
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why wae, petiionee (luni Themis pose —gve… |
| 23A1001 |
Amadi Sosa v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2024-05-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
co-defendant confrontation-rights due-process perjury severance trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1186 |
Rodney Thomas Ternovsky v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
consent due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial Fourteenth-Amendment irrelevant-evidence jury-prejudice prejudicial-evidence trial-procedure |
Whether the Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process right to a fair trial was violated when the trial court allowed the State to inform the jury… |
| 23-7191 |
Jay Lin v. Aaron Sayers |
New Jersey |
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process forgery judicial-misconduct new-jersey-courts perjury perjury-allegation secret-law secretive-stipulation trial-procedure |
New Jersey State Courts allow the practice a secret law of "Secretive Stipulation'' to bind and against the underprivileged New Jersey citizen, a susp… |
| 23-6843 |
Joseph A. Crenshaw v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process expert-witness fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance post-conviction sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
1. Does a trial court's "tender and accept" procedure of an expert witness in front of a jury violative of a Defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a fa… |
| 23-908 |
Woojin Cho v. New York |
New York |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-error due-process harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-possibility standard-of-review trial-procedure witness-credibility |
I. Is it constitutional error for a prosecutor in summation to express her personal belief that the defendant lied on the stand?
II. In reviewing sum… |
| 23-815 |
Laurie Ann McRay, et al. v. Dow Golub Remels & Gilbreath PLLC |
Texas |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-client-relationship attorney-fees counterclaims due-process judicial-fairness legal-ethics legal-malpractice prosecutorial-fees substitute-counsel summary-judgment trial-procedure |
When a law firm sues its own clients, demanding an award for both alleged past-due attorney's fees and then attorney's fees for prosecuting the lawsui… |
| 23-6510 |
In Re Theodore C. Shove |
|
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-misconduct judicial-review legal-evidence oath-of-office standing trial-procedure |
1 Based upon Certified Trial Court Record No Legal Search or Arrest
Warrants, or Returns of Any Evidence Exists, How can there be an
Appealable Judg… |
| 23-6267 |
Jose Gonzalez, III v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-precedent right-to-counsel right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
1). Is McCoy v Louisiana a logical extension of Florida V Nixon at all when concession of Petitioner's guilt was never discussed prior to trial?
2). … |
| 23-6256 |
Kenneth Ray Brabham v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct structural-defect structural-error sua-sponte trial-procedure |
Whether a trial judge, giving the appearance of partiality by taking sua sponte actions in favor of the state, violates structural due process?
Is it… |
| 23-6204 |
Angel Anthony Sanchez v. California |
California |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-code fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-acts-instructions sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Whether petitioner was denied his Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and fair trial because of the court's use of prior acts … |
| 23-6108 |
Bryan Scott Cavett v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-procedure |
Whether or not State violates an accused persons Due Process Rights when Texas High Court denies his State 11.07 Habeas Corpus, Without Written Order,… |
| 23-6058 |
Liberty Anne Walden v. Jeremy Howard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony judicial-error misconduct plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-discretion trial-procedure witness-credibility |
I. Did the trial court plainly error by allowing Dr. Mohr to testify outside the realm of her expertise thereby providing testimony to the ultimate is… |
| 23-5992 |
In Re John Bailey |
|
2023-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habitual-offender judicial-discretion jury-selection legal-interpretation sentencing state-law trial-procedure unconstitutional |
Question not identified. |
| 23-452 |
Michigan v. Anthony Joseph Veach |
Michigan |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
|
6th-amendment child-rape child-victim courtroom-closure public-trial sixth-amendment technicality trial-court trial-procedure victim waller-standard |
Does the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial require subjecting the child rape victim to an automatic retrial based on a technicality when there a… |
| 23-5785 |
Joshua Aston v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions reopening-of-case right-to-present-defense right-to-testify sixth-amendment trial-procedure unanimous-jury |
Where a defendant wasn't afforded the opportunity to testify, did the trial court or defense counsel violate a defendant's right to testify and presen… |
| 23-5714 |
Cuhuatemoc Hinricky Peraita v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-10-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review evidence-rule juror-misconduct jury-misconduct mattox-v-united-states no-impeachment-rule parker-v-gladden prior-convictions sixth-amendment trial-procedure verdict-challenge |
During petitioner's trial for capital murder, the jury foreperson told the other jurors misleading and prejudicial information about petitioner's prio… |
| 23-5682 |
Dillion Gage Compton v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (10)IFP |
constitutional-law disparate-treatment equal-protection gender-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes side-by-side-analysis trial-procedure |
1. Whether a court's comparison of generalizations about all the female prospective jurors who were struck by the prosecution with generalizations abo… |
| 23-5618 |
Gustavo Tijerina Sandoval v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (10)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-empanelment jury-selection lower-court-split trial-procedure |
1. Given that jury selection is one of the most critical phases of a criminal trial, how should courts determine when jury empanelment begins for a pa… |
| 23-5594 |
Brim Bell v. New Hampshire |
New Hampshire |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure warrantless-search |
1. Whether trial-counsel erred by not filing a motion to
quash the indictments, despite the overwhelming-evidence
that proves the investigating offi… |
| 23-5362 |
Jerry Lee Beale, Jr. v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-murder civil-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-testimony intent jury-instructions officer-testimony trial-procedure |
A. Whether the indictment is defective for failure to allege what act Beale committed in furtherance of his attempt to kill the officers.
B. Whether … |
| 23-5372 |
Larry David Davis v. Amy Jackson Douglas, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-jurisdiction police-misconduct statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5332 |
Tamara Jeune, aka Tamara Voltaire v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court-split circuit-split evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-interpretation prejudice probative-value propensity-evidence rule-404(b) trial-procedure |
How are the courts to properly apply Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)? Should they apply the Third Circuit's more substantive approach which requires a close conn… |
| 23-5307 |
Curt Daniel Crowder v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-process appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance remedy right-to-counsel right-to-present-witnesses trial-procedure trial-process |
When a citizen is deprived of the right to present witnesses in his defense, and effective assistance of counsel, in both the trial and appellate proc… |
| 23-5253 |
Youssef Hoballah v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5247 |
In Re David Jackson |
|
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
and post-conviction proceedings trial 14th-amendment 4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief probable-cause retaliation search-and-seizure self-incrimination trial-procedure |
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| 23-5127 |
Edward R. Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-analysis dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus laboratory-evidence sentencing trial-procedure |
(1). Did the trial court Error based on false and misleading DNA Laboratory Analysis reports in the Petitioner's trial proceeding which violated the P… |
| 23-5033 |
Rick John Morales, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-diligence expert-witness government-action speedy-trial trial-procedure trial-scheduling witness-appearance |
Whether sending an email asking if there is a "better" date for an expert witness qualifies as the Government's requirement to act with "due diligence… |
| 22-7787 |
Noel K. Bango v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights discovery-violation dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rights police-misconduct police-reports sexual-battery speedy-trial tainted-evidence trial-procedure |
1. IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL 'S DNA BUCCAL SWABS
TAKEN IN NEW JERSEY, FEBRUARY 15, 2019, FEDERAL EXPRESSED TO
FLORIDA, AND FLORIDA, RECEI… |
| 22-7774 |
Duane E. Armstrong v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony fingerprint-analysis forensic-evidence trial-procedure |
Before the Supreme Court review during trial in front of a jury. Does the
court 's need a second analyst to testifies, to the first analyst opinion co… |
| 22-7542 |
Wilber Curtis Johnson v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-constitution sexual-assault texas-constitution trial-procedure witness-testimony |
Whether testimony can be sufficient to render harmless any error in admitting additional testimony in evidence, when trial counsel objected to testimo… |
| 22-7350 |
Emanuel Higuera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony judicial-discretion law-enforcement preliminary-proceedings trial-procedure witness-qualification |
Whether district courts should be required to hold some type of preliminary proceedings before allowing experienced-based law enforcement experts to t… |
| 22-7335 |
Enrique Holguin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standards expert-testimony judicial-discretion law-enforcement preliminary-hearing preliminary-proceedings trial-procedure |
Whether district courts should be required to hold some type of preliminary proceedings before allowing experienced-based law enforcement experts to t… |
| 22-1013 |
J. R. v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-04-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-judge judicial-bias judicial-impartiality liberty-interest north-carolina-law trial-judge trial-procedure |
Whether, when a person's liberty is at stake, the right to an impartial judge guaranteed by the Due Process Clause is violated where the trial judge a… |
| 22-7285 |
Susan Lloyd v. Thomas Pokorny, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-circuit civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct jury-trial sanctions standing trial-procedure |
1. ARE THE ORDERS FROM THE 6TH CIRCUIT VOID. SHOULD
2LLOYDS MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION BE DENIED.
2. IS A JUDGE IMMUNE FROM CIVIL LIABILITY WHEN HE H… |
| 22-7213 |
Brian Evan Roth v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-rights closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-introduction judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
1. Did thetrial Court Err in allowing
oncharged erimes
not containod in the in farmatuen, to he introduced and
sfotlighted as testimany? As well as be… |
| 22-7136 |
Terry Froman v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment capital-punishment due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-selection jury-impartiality racial-bias right-to-counsel trial-procedure |
Six members of Terry Froman's capital jury provided answers on their questionnaires that demonstrated that they harbored racial bias. None were meanin… |
| 22-7070 |
Kenneth Douglas Clark, III v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th and 8th Amendment rights by refusing to drop char and allowing a biased jury verdict excluding his self-defense claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-bias jury-exclusion prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-procedure |
1. Is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in violation of the Petitioner's 5th and 8th amendment by refusing not to drop all charges against the Petition… |
| 22-6935 |
William Ingram v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure legal-error standing trial-procedure |
Did the trial Court violate Petitioner's Right to Choice of Counsel and the Appellate Court Stipulate to re om?
Did the Texas Appellate Court Violate… |
| 22-844 |
Hamid Akhavan and Ruben Weigand v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
|
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination exceptional-circumstances remote-testimony sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment is violated by denying a criminal defendant the right to cross-examine a key prosecution witne… |
| 22-6924 |
Gerald Drummond v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel reasonable-doubt reasonable-doubt-instruction state-courts structural-error trial-procedure |
IS THE PENNSYLVANIA COURTS INAPPROPRIATELY DENYING THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS OF THE PETITIONER RIGHTS IN THEIR DENIAL OF RELIEF TO … |
| 22-6892 |
In Re Willie Thomas |
|
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-usurpation right-to-testify trial-procedure |
1. whether the District Court Approach to 2254 petition asserting a loss of a fundamental constitutional right to choose whether to testify in his own… |
| 22-6721 |
Jeffery T. Crystal v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto jury-determination jury-trial sixth-amendment supremacy-clause trial-procedure verdict-form |
Did the "verdict form " agreed upon by the jury failure to specify I.
"GUILTY " as to Count 1 violate 6th Amendment right to a jury
determination of G… |
| 22-6678 |
Cortez Watts v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraneous-evidence impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-bias jury-selection trial-procedure |
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4^6 4r&il Coof 4 AdchUo') .4^*4 … |
| 22-6528 |
Charles Jordan v. Trina Davidson Brooks, Sixteenth District Judicial Assistant District Attorney, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-error due-process habeas habeas-corpus misconduct post-trial-plea procedural-default state-misconduct trial-procedure |
1. Should the State be allowed to assert procedural default rules to preclude federal habeas review where their efforts of misconduct and
2.) Does th… |
| 22-6483 |
Eli Sloan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure impartial-jury jury-selection prejudicial sixth-amendment trial-procedure voir-dire |
1. Whether the voir dire selection was partial or prejudicial in violation of Petitioner. Eli Sloan's Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury. |
| 22-6192 |
Dennis Dean Neff v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review different-outcome judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instruction-error plain-error prejudice reasonable-probability trial trial-procedure unpreserved-claims |
In unpreserved claims of jury instruction error, what must an appellant show to demonstrate a "reasonable probability" of a different outcome at trial… |
| 22-6174 |
Porfirio Duarte-Herrera v. Brian Williams, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-defendant-severance constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-instructions ninth-circuit-review severance suppression-of-evidence trial-procedure |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when Mr. Duarte-Herrera made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right as to the inability to present… |
| 22-6016 |
Sheila Gray v. City of Detroit, Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure court-discretion judicial-error jury-verdict overturning-verdict standard-of-review substantial-evidence trial-evidence trial-procedure weight-of-evidence witness-testimony |
1. Whether Appellant presents substantial evidence that the
unanimous jury verdict goes against the great weight of
the evidence presented at trial … |
| 22-418 |
Gene Deveraux v. Montana |
Montana |
2022-11-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
automatic-reversal biased-juror constitutional-right for-cause-challenge jury-bias sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-discretion trial-procedure |
Whether a trial court commits structural error, requiring automatic reversal under the Sixth Amendment, when it seats a biased juror after erroneously… |
| 22-5992 |
Andre Jenkins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circumstantial-evidence criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process joint-defense motion-for-acquittal severance trial-procedure witness-credibility |
1. In a case where the proof against petitioner was wholly circumstantial and the eyewitnesses that were necessary to assign his conduct to those circ… |
| 22-5813 |
Katherine Elizabeth Langhorst v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining search-and-seizure trial-procedure |
Was the evidence seized in this cause/case "Fruits of The Poisonous Tree"?
Was this conviction obtained by way of illegal search and seizure?
Did Tr… |
| 22-5789 |
Rodney Donta Jackson v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juror-misconduct post-verdict-hearing post-verdict-hearings public-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
I. Does the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial extend to postverdict hearings investigating potential juror misconduct?
II. Is the remedy for a … |
| 22-5795 |
Kevin White, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission judicial-discretion jurisdiction trial-procedure venue |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5546 |
Jhon Albert Carrizales Pretell v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense. |
| 22-5453 |
Hugo F. Marquez v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interview-tapes right-to-confrontation sex-abuse-case sex-crimes trial-procedure |
1. Should the Ninth Circuit have denied Marquez's motion for a certificate of appealability on the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel, where t… |
| 21-8288 |
William Jack Parkerson v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-instructions court-of-appeals due-process federal-standard harmless-error oregon-court-of-appeals trial-evidence trial-procedure |
Did the Oregon court of appeals apply the correct federal harmless error standard violating Due Process, when viewing the evidence at trial when it de… |
| 21-8178 |
Jing Hua Wu v. Eric Arnold, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-fabrication habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-procedure |
I. Jury Misconduct
In applying 28 USC § 2254 (d)(1)(2.), both the state Courts' and Federal Courts' decisions were based on an unreasonable determinat… |
| 21-8141 |
Christopher G. Poeschl v. Foundation Building Materials, LLC, et al. |
Colorado |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency expert-testimony judicial-discretion legal-fraud perjury prejudice structural-error trial-procedure trial-procedures |
Whether or not fraud, solidified the Colorado Appeals Affirmation specific but not limited to, transcripts and the number of pages thereof; and Its fu… |
| 21-8091 |
Jermaine Jackson v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
Did our Third Circoit Court oF Appeal Make a
Mistake when a constitutinal rght was volated
and they did not grant a C.o.A.for Prosecutr
ue oia or Pant… |
| 21-1423 |
Anthony Hoti v. City of Warren, Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
arrest-authority civil-rights due-process jury-selection jury-tampering law-enforcement-discretion probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-procedure |
1. On 12/11/2017 the City of Warren attorney Caitlin Murphy and the sitting juror Susan Palombo had prior secret conversations before the jury trial s… |
| 21-1424 |
Marjana Hoti v. City of Warren, Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
due-process external-influence fair-trial judicial-ethics jury-misconduct jury-tampering prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Is it an external influence-on the jury when the prosecutor and one of the sitting jurors had prior , secret contacts before the trial starts?
Is it … |
| 21-7694 |
Jason Paul Maple v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error constitutional-trial-error due-process harmless-error pro-se-litigant standard-of-review supreme-court-standard third-circuit trial-procedure |
Whether the Third Circuit Appellate Court adhered to the terms of harmless-error review, judged by the standard set-forth by the United States Supreme… |
| 21-1376 |
Mary Alexandre v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA |
First Circuit |
2022-04-25 |
Denied |
|
accidental-death civil-procedure employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa insurance insurance-policy presumption state-of-mind suicide suicide-presumption trial-procedure |
I. A policy insuring against accidental death, covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, excludes coverage for the insured's sui… |
| 21-7683 |
Nelson Conto v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit interview-evidence judicial-error motion-in-limine standard-of-review trial-procedure |
1. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DISMISSING THE PETITIONER'S MERITORIOUS APPEAL OF THE DENIAL OF APPELLAN… |
| 21-7440 |
Norman Alan Kerr v. Christopher Gomez, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure document-suppression due-process evidence-rules government-misconduct judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7312 |
Daniel Viveiros v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
complaint-testimony due-process evidence evidence-admission expert-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault trial-error trial-procedure uncorroborated-allegations |
1. Whether the trial court erred be admitting, without'expert
medical testimony, evidence of the complainant's stomachaches
and bladder pain puporti… |
| 21-7248 |
John Garcia v. Melissa Robinson |
Arizona |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-custody constitutional-rights court-order due-process evidence judicial-bias judicial-determination parental-rights parenting-plan trial-procedure |
A. Does a Judas Pre DETER MATION ON THE RECORD Pao TO REVIEWING THE EVIDENCE ca AT TRA Milaate A CONSTITUTIONAL BAGH TO TED. DUE PROCESS
2 WHEN. AL P… |
| 21-7254 |
Stephen C. Hanf v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights COVID-19-pandemic criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus molestation-charges standing trial-procedure |
Whether the COVID-19 pandemic qualifies as an extraordinary circumstance for equitable tolling in the instant cases consistent with Carter v United St… |
| 21-7234 |
Dylann Storm Roof v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment capital-defendant constitutional-rights counsel counsel-authority defense-strategy due-process mental-health-mitigation mental-illness mitigating-evidence trial-procedure |
1. When a competent capital defendant and his counsel disagree on whether
to present mitigating evidence depicting him as mentally ill, who gets the
f… |
| 21-7071 |
Keaon Wilson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process juror-misconduct juror-numbers jury-selection mix-up sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure |
IS IT STRUCTURAL ERROR IN VIOLATION OF THE SIXTH
AMENDMENT FOR A JUROR TO SIT ON A JURY WHEN THAT
JUROR WAS NOT ACTUALLY SELECTED TO BE ON THE JURY
DU… |
| 21-7040 |
Harshadkumar Nanjibhai Jadav v. J. Woodson, Warden |
Virginia |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
closing-argument constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial false-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
A. Does the prosecutor's deliberate use of a known false evidence—which is also an outside evidence—during closing argument violate the accused's Cons… |
| 21-6851 |
Joel Quiles v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-conviction double-jeopardy due-process felony-murder fifth-amendment first-degree-murder trial-procedure |
Where the trial judge (1) stated that the defendant is "not guilty of felony murder;" (2) told
the jury that their answers to special questions on the… |
| 21-6855 |
Devin Andrich v. Jerome Francis Meyers, et al. |
Arizona |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure rebuttal-evidence time-limits trial-procedure trial-time-limits witness-examination |
1. Whether the court of appeals erred when deciding that a 2-hour trial "chess clock" did not violate Petitioner's due process rights, because Petitio… |
| 21-6612 |
Brian Cavitt v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-integrity due-process fair-trial forensic-evidence misleading-jury perjury quality-assurance trial-procedure |
1) Where an incomplete dvi prflle allegedly fom @ Knife handle ,is frlsely ~
scremkfreally cmduded to be a'match' bo a vickins complete DNA profile,
… |
| 21-764 |
Patrick Huff v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure first-amendment public-access sixth-amendment trial-procedure waller-analysis waller-v-georgia |
Whether, as the court below and two other states hold, trial courts may close a courtroom pursuant to a closure statute without undertaking the Waller… |
| 21-6327 |
Frank Paul Ferrara v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission expert-testimony fair-trial free-exercise standing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
1. Should this matter been allowed to progress to a civil commitment trial since the Respondent incarcerated the Petitioner for exercising his Constit… |
| 21-6264 |
Marion Katrell Campbell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court-discretion due-process evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b rule-702 trial-procedure |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT IMPROPERLY ALLOWED FEDERAL RULE OF EVIDENCE 404(b) & 702 IN PETITIONERS TRIAL |
| 21-6157 |
Christopher Coker, aka Christopher Forman v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
default-rule due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan pcra post-conviction-relief standing trial-procedure |
1. Did Trial Judge failed to rule on meritorious issues ?
2. Did.. PCRA Counsel l fail to raise a substantial claim of ineffective assistance of tria… |
| 21-6059 |
Terry Jonathan Phillips v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process felony felony-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense. |
| 21-6008 |
Keyaira Porter v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge comparative-juror-analysis criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination standard-of-review trial-procedure |
For over a decade now, Courts have found themselves intractably divided on two important issues regarding the enforcement of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U… |
| 21-5640 |
Todd Dalton v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-sexual-abuse child-sexual-abuse-accommodation-syndrome csaas-evidence due-process evidentiary-hearing hearsay in-absentia-trial ineffective-assistance taint-and-memory-expert trial-procedure |
I. Did the California Courts' Unreasonable Refusal to
Hold an Evidentiary Hearing Entitle Dalton to anEvidentiary Hearing?
II. Did Trial Counsel Rend… |
| 21-5566 |
Razhden Shulaya v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-interference due-process judicial-bias jury-instruction jury-instructions right-to-counsel structural-error trial-procedure |
1) Whether the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York provided a constitutionally flawed trial and committed structural er… |
| 21-5488 |
John Patrick Blackmon v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-inquiry prior-testimony right-to-testify testimony-waiver trial-procedure waiver |
1. Did events in the second trial establish additional process due the Defendant in any subsequent trial?
2. Was the trial judge's noting the Defenda… |
| 21-5439 |
Michael Geoffrey Peters v. Bobby Lumpkin. Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jury-selection trial-procedure |
1. Whether or not I am guilty on Count No.l of the indictment?
2. Whether or not I am guilty of Count No.3 of the indictment?
3. Whether of not the … |
| 21-5373 |
Bernard Hollomond v. Tracy Ray, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
confusion constitutional-rights due-process evidence-consideration jury-trial knowing-and-intelligent sentencing trial-procedure voluntariness waiver |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5338 |
Michael Vincent Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mistrial probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
PETTIONER'S INTERNET FALEBOOK PAGE AND SEEING HIS TAN AND WHITE OG WHEN THE PROSECUTOR RECEIVED THE DNA REPORT ON H/D/AOL ONE WEEK BEFORE FILING AFFID… |
| 21-5327 |
Mark Anthony Gonzalez v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure juror-substitution jury-deliberation jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure unanimous-verdict |
Petitioner Mark Gonzalez's penalty-phase jury was charged with deciding two issues that together would dictate his sentence. The jury had reached a ve… |
| 21-5303 |
William Pruitt v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allen-charge burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error judicial-instruction jury-coercion jury-deadlock jury-instructions retrial trial-procedure |
I. WHETHER THE APPEALS COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE USE OF ITS PATTERN MODIFIED "ALLEN" CHARGE WITH A DEADLOCKED JURY, EXPRESSLY REFERENCING THE TIME,… |
| 21-5309 |
Zachary Cooper v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-bias conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause due-process fraud judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal standard-of-review state-judicial-conduct trial-procedure |
1. Does the Due Process Clause require the recusal of a trial judge when a conflict of interest arises from their participation in an earlier proceedi… |
| 21-5282 |
Tyrius Green v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process eyewitness-identification jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error sullivan-v-united-states trial-by-jury trial-procedure witness-identification |
Tyrius Green was convicted of murder based solely upon witness identification testimony as there was no physical evidence presented at his trial that … |
| 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. |
| 21-5182 |
Pedro Ray Tejeda v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ammunition constitutional-rights criminal-possession criminal-procedure due-process firearm jury-instruction possession trial-procedure unanimous-verdict |
I. Must my conviction for Ineligible Person in Poss. of Ammo or firearm be reversed, remanded for new trial and or vacated based on Unanimous Verdict … |
| 21-5151 |
Kenan Ivery v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravated-murder criminal-conviction due-process essential-elements insufficient-evidence jury-removal murder reasonable-doubt trial-procedure |
IS A PETITIONER DENIED DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN HE IS CONVICTED FOR OFFENSES OF WHICH THERE WAS INSUFFICENT EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT TRIAL TO HAVE FOUND H… |
| 21-5135 |
Michael Ray Orr v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
closing-argument criminal-procedure defendant-rights demeanor fifth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination trial-procedure |
DID THE TRIAL COURT ERR BY DENYING MR. ORR'S OBJECTION TO IMPROPER CLOSING ARGUMENT BY THE PROSECUTOR? THIS IMPROPER ARGUMENT CONSISTED OF:
1) BY DEL… |
| 21-5094 |
Stanley Jalowiec v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-v-mississippi capital-case capital-punishment constitutional-error death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-responsibility jury-selection sentencing-responsibility trial-procedure |
Is telling the jury that their decision is only a mere recommendation unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida? |
| 21-5041 |
Kosoul Chanthakoummane v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Whether Mr. Chanthakoummane is entitled to a new trial because trial counsel ignored his unequivocal direction to challenge his guilt during the culpa… |
| 21-5004 |
Bo Daniel Shafer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel trial-procedure voir-dire witness-testimony |
1. DID THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY CONCLUDE THAT BO SHAFER'S IAC CLAIM REGARDING HIS TRIAL COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE DURING VOIR DIRE WAS WITHO… |
| 20-8449 |
Brian Keith Gorham v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias jury-selection procedural-default sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Gorham will present three brief statements with three concise questions for this Honorable Court's review.
Gorham alleged multiple Sixth Amendment ri… |
| 20-8424 |
James Erik Godiksen v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure expert-testimony harmless-error judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-note prejudice trial-procedure |
Did the Court of Appeals improperly conclude that the District Court's mishandling of a jury note and replaying only a portion of the defense expert's… |
| 20-8430 |
Samuel Gayden v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
chain-of-custody criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lay-opinion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-identification |
I
Whether the State misused DNA evidence to link Petitioner to the weapon used in the offense, and
to alleged threatening letters sent from the Cook C… |
| 20-8381 |
Christian Diaz v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confrontation counsel-obligations due-process evidence trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8387 |
Bruce Lee Felix v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-delay criminal-procedure judicial-discretion motion-resolution presumptive-prejudice pretrial-motion pretrial-motions speedy-trial tolling trial-procedure united-states-v-tinklenberg |
In Barker v. Wingo, 407 U.S. 514, 530, 92 S. Ct. 2182, 2192, 33 L. Ed. 2d 101 (1972), this Court held that a period of delay from indictment to trial,… |
| 20-1742 |
Akil Jahi, aka Preston Carter v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
|
capital-punishment capital-trial counsel-limitations criminal-defense defendant-autonomy ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mccoy-v-louisiana penalty-phase sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
1. Does the Sixth Amendment holding of McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct. 1500 (2018) apply to a penalty phase capital trial to protect a defendant's auto… |
| 20-8226 |
In Re Francis Boyd |
|
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-error jury-instruction jury-instructions miscarriage-of-justice murder murder-degrees third-degree-murder trial-procedure |
1). CAN A TRIAL JUDGE INSTRUCT A JURY DURING A JURY CHARGE , THAT THEY CANNOT FIND
PETITIONER GUILTY OF A CERTAIN DEGREE OF MURDER AFTER ENTERTAINING … |
| 20-8209 |
Dennis J. Edwards v. Kim Larson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-testimony |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8203 |
Dasheme Kareme Hosley v. Rick Hill, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
closing-argument due-process harmless-error judicial-ratification jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-misstatement prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court trial-procedure |
In a prosecutorial misconduct claim based upon a misstatement of law during closing argument, should courts presume that the jury followed the trial c… |
| 20-1663 |
Matthew D. Norwood v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2021-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule forensic-interview hearsay hearsay-exception jury-deliberation prior-consistent-statement repetition trial-procedure truth-effect witness-testimony |
Whether admission of a recorded hearsay statement as a physical exhibit, permitted to be reviewed during deliberations, is a fair application of the e… |
| 20-8134 |
Erik Jimenez v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
404(b)-exception abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility evidentiary-ruling later-date texas-rule-of-evidence-404(b) texas-rules-of-evidence trial-court trial-procedure |
1) Whether the trial court admissability of evidence of a later date and not for what defendant was on trial was an abuse of discretion under Texas ru… |
| 20-8105 |
Daniel Littlepage v. First District Court of Appeals of Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process judicial-bias new-trial structural-error trial-procedure |
1. Is a Petitioner Entitled to a New Trial when the "Bias" and
"Partial" behavior of a Trial Judge exceeds the Requirement
to prove "Structural" Err… |
| 20-8075 |
Damantae Graham v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error trial-procedure victim-impact victim-impact-testimony |
This Court ruled that, before a federal constitutional error can be deemed harmless, the prosecution must establish by proof beyond a reasonable doubt… |
| 20-8055 |
Julio Aviles, Sr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-system material-perjury perjury prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure trial-procedure |
1. Whether the entire affidavits of probable cause are based on completly Material Perjury?
2. Whether the government illegally searched, seizure and… |
| 20-7900 |
Monique A. Lozoya v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aircraft-crime airspace aviation constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-prosecution trial-procedure venue venue-statute |
1. Is the airspace above a State part of that State, and thus the federal district or
districts including that State, for purposes of the Constitution… |
| 20-7709 |
Alvin Henry v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-material brady-v-maryland due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel giglio-disclosure giglio-v-united-states prejudice-standard reasonable-probability third-circuit trial-counsel trial-procedure |
Whether the Third Circuit's focus on trial counsel's effective use of Brady/Giglio material at trial is consistent with this Court's uniform precedent… |
| 20-7631 |
Bradford Thompson v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. |
California |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
adversarial-system civil-procedure civil-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud judgement-annulment judgment-annulment judicial-misconduct legal-remedy standing trial-procedure |
1. Can a party prevail at court through misconduct and extrinsic fraud preventing his adversary from presenting an issue at trial.
2. Is extrinsic fr… |
| 20-7579 |
Donald Phillips v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct juror-misconduct jury prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
1. Is it proper or a violation of the 6th Amendment due process law for a defense attorney to discover that during testimony in trial one of the juror… |
| 20-7586 |
Phillip Blough v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-conduct due-process judicial-error jury jury-instructions legal-prejudice right-to-fair-trial trial-by-jury trial-procedure |
A common-sense extension of the right to a trial by jury is the right to a jury informed of relevant and non-confusing jury instructions. Here, the tr… |
| 20-7470 |
Pablo Ramon Guerrero v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2021-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence batson critical-stage cronic due-process fundamental-fairness mccollum presumed-prejudice strickland structural-error trial-procedure |
1.) Whether a Brady/Giglio prosecutorial misconduct violation exists as a structural error, and if so, whether petitioner was denied a fundamentally f… |
| 20-1223 |
Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. Gail L. Ingham, et al. |
Missouri |
2021-03-04 |
Denied |
Amici (10) |
civil-litigation civil-procedure consolidation due-process jury-consolidation jury-instructions plaintiffs prejudice trial-procedure |
1. Whether a court must assess if consolidating multiple plaintiffs for a single trial violates due process, or whether it can presume that jury instr… |
| 20-7248 |
Jonathan Lee Page v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law court-limitation criminal-procedure independent-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-objection primary-offense primary-offenses trial-procedure |
1. Whether counsel was ineffective when he failed to timely object to the lower court expressly limiting the independent act jury instruction to the p… |
| 20-7249 |
Derrick Miles v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-appeal due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-identification |
1). Whether the State of Illinois Appellate Court ruling denying petitioner's claim, where his murder conviction must be reversed, where his convictio… |
| 20-7240 |
Joseph A. Hollahan v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights courtroom-privacy due-process evidence-examination fair-trial jury-deliberations jury-room non-juror-presence public-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Does the right to private and secret jury deliberations apply only in the jury room? |
| 20-7031 |
Jose Diaz, aka Cano v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial juror-deliberations juror-misconduct jury jury-instructions jury-misconduct trial-court-inquiry trial-procedure |
Should this Court, in order to safeguard a defendant's rights to due process and a fair and impartial jury, clarify the extent to which a trial court … |
| 20-6761 |
Wayne Wells, Jr. v. Terrie Wallace, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rules sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure witness-testimony |
Does Module Code Ann. § 16-3-1055 (B)(c) has a constitutional requirement that a trial court must rule on the defendant's motion to suppress evidence … |
| 20-6718 |
Jason J. Johnson v. California |
California |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rule judicial-discretion legal-standard newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief standards-of-review trial-procedure |
1. Under the "newly discovered evidence rule" does not evidence discovered after conviction, such as
evidence the movant could not have possibly disc… |
| 20-6725 |
Larry Durant v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation cell-phone-data criminal-sexual-conduct digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-instruction jury-coercion privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
I. The jurors deliberating about Larry Durant's guilt or innocence informed the trial judge they were splint eight to convict, three to acquit, with o… |
| 20-6663 |
Benjamin Justin Brownlee v. New York |
New York |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation criminal-discovery criminal-procedure discovery due-process late-disclosure medical-evidence medical-records prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
Did the prosecution violate its duties under Brady v Maryland (373 US 83 [1963]) and its progeny by withholding the complainant's medical records unti… |
| 20-6621 |
Shauna Smith v. Brooks Benton, Warden |
Georgia |
2020-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review cell-phone-records criminal-procedure evidence-suppression habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel phone-records trial-procedure |
1) Ms. Smith alleged that her appellete course! was ineHectue —
Tor Failing 40 raise: on appeal that hertrial counsel wos deficient
For not moving to … |
| 20-6524 |
Joshua D. Myers v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof consent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sexual-assault sexual-battery standard-of-proof trial-court-discretion trial-procedure |
Whether the State proved the essential element of "without the consent" beyond a reasonable doubt.
Whether the trial court's refusal to charge the le… |
| 20-6471 |
Israel Washington v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure court-standard due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard standard-of-review testimony-readback trial-procedure |
WHETHER CERTIORARI SHOULD BE GRANTED CONCERNING THE DISTRICT COURT'S APPLICATION OF THE ABUSE OF DISCRETION STANDARD IN RELATION TO THE DENIAL OF A RE… |
| 20-6317 |
Robert Petty v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review closing-arguments constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
1. Whether the Indiana Courts erred denying Appellant was deprived effective assistance of trial counsel during closing arguments and sentencing viola… |
| 20-6232 |
Brian Dwight Peterson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement prosecutorial-misconduct right-against-self-incrimination right-to-counsel trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 20-6199 |
Jacob Townley Hernandez v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (11)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim counsel-communication gag-order habeas-corpus right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-order trial-procedure |
Before trial began, the trial court issued a concededly unjustified gag order that prohibited defense counsel from discussing with the defendant or an… |
| 20-6171 |
Kenneth Emanuel Baptiste v. Craig Koenig, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder capitol-murder constitutional-error due-process fair-trial jury-instruction jury-instructions reconsideration severance-motion stolen-property trial-procedure |
Was instructing the Jury with CALJIC No. 2.15 in error.and denied the Petit ioner "Due Process" of Federal Constitutional Demensions .Because he was b… |
| 20-6110 |
Samuel Hogans v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defendant pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-procedure trial-proceedings |
Under the Sixth Amendment, is it constitutional for a competent criminal defendant to be denied the fundamental right to self-representation when the … |
| 20-6069 |
Jeff Howell v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-rule civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-discretion due-process indiana-statute information-access juror-access juror-deliberation public-access trial-procedure trial-proceedings |
1. Whether the lower courts erred by denying Howell's right to access of information on jurors who deliberated at his trial
2. Whether the lower cour… |
| 20-5984 |
Ricardo Woods v. Brian Cook, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky confrontation-clause constitutional-law dying-declaration giles-v-california peremptory-challenge sixth-amendment testimonial-statement trial-procedure |
This case presents two critical questions of constitutional law, one related to the introduction of a suspect identification, made by a profoundly par… |
| 20-5888 |
Burton Lee Smith v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
404(b)-jury-instructions bruton-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions mug-shot-identification severance-of-defendants sleeping-juror trial-procedure |
1.) Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying
Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that
was not Denied His State… |
| 20-5896 |
In Re Douglas Weissert |
|
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination evidence-admissibility mental-health prescription-medication sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-testimony |
WHETHER STATE TRIAL COURT VIOLATED SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WHEN IT FORBADE CROSS EXAMINING ANGLE LEWIS ON MENTAL HEALTH HISTORY AND USE OF PRESCRIPTION… |
| 20-5780 |
D. W. v. California |
California |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment juvenile-court notice petition-amendment prosecutorial-discretion trial-procedure |
Did The Juvenile Court Violate A Minor's Right To Due Process Under The Fourteenth Amendment When It Granted The Prosecutor's Request To Amend A Petit… |
| 20-5714 |
Donald Joseph Koshmider, II v. Daniel Lesatz, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process medical-marijuana possession-immunity retroactivity standing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
Did the Sixth Circuit err when its opinion failed to analyze Petitioner's issues according to the Legislative directive that Public Act 283 is retroac… |
| 20-5693 |
In Re Terron Garhard Dizzley |
|
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-rights double-jeopardy fifth-amendment hung-jury jury mistrial trial-procedure unanimous-verdict |
1. Whether the judges ruling that the jury's failure
to reach a unanimus decision was not a failure on the jury's
part, (" That's actually a strong me… |
| 20-5582 |
In Re Karl-Heinz Dupuy |
|
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-hearing constitutional-rights deliberation-errors due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection trial-procedure |
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| 20-5463 |
Rowmoto Rogers v. Gregory Skipper, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
closing-arguments constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-credibility |
WHETHER THE PROSECUTOR WAS IMPROPERLY ALLOWED TO VOUCH FOR THE CREDIBILITY OF HIS STAR WITNESS DURING CLOSING ARGUMENTS, DENYING VARIOUS CONSTITUTIONA… |
| 20-5508 |
David P. Moran v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-preservation preservation-of-issues statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
1. Is Fla. Stat. 924.05l(l)(b) unconstitutional on it's face due to it's conflict with the due process clause of the U.S. Const. 14th Amend.?
2. Shou… |
| 20-5186 |
John Edward Butler v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-investigation dna-evidence due-process excessive-force law-enforcement trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5038 |
Reza Olangian v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
credibility due-process fair-trial government-informant government-witness trial-procedure truthfulness witness-availability witness-credibility witness-testimony |
1. Is a defendant deprived of a fair trial when government witnesses are invited to comment on his credibility and candor, and when he in turn is aske… |
| 20-5071 |
David P. Moran v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-preservation preservation-of-error standing trial-procedure |
1. Is Fla. Stat. 924.05l(l)(b) unconstitutional on it's face due to it's conflict with the due process clause of the U.S. Const. 14th Amend.?
2. Shou… |
| 19-1472 |
Phillip Antonio Davis v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
|
character-evidence conspiracy conspiracy-theory criminal-defense criminal-procedure-evidence-admissibility due-process evidence-exclusion excessive-force jackson-v-virginia judicial-review relevance right-to-present-defense standard-of-review trial-procedure |
1. Whether the exclusion of evidence deemed necessary by Petitioner to present a complete defense and to combat the State's theory of guilt could be r… |
| 19-8836 |
Bobby Ray Culpepper v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias judicial-error legal-remedy prejudicial-error standing structural-error trial-procedure |
1. Was Petitioner giving a Fair Trial, or was Petitioner's trial a total oxce because of Structural Error! and Petitioners Trial Counsel, betore Petit… |
| 19-1421 |
Michael Wilford LaFlamme v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
6th-amendment bias constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission expert-testimony judicial-discretion jury-selection jury-selection-bias law-enforcement law-enforcement-bias trial-procedure voir-dire |
1. ) Was Petitioner prejudiced When Several Prospective furors
Withheld Crucial Information Pertaining To Employment As Law
Enforcement When Asked D… |
| 19-8765 |
Tizazu F. Arega v. Lisa L. Sadler, Judge, et al. |
Ohio |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review jury-instructions jury-misconduct legal-sufficiency sexual-intercourse trial-procedure verdict-validity |
PFrTTrSSp^t™ nl intercourse and the jury returned verdict findingSS 1KHSMafaSy 0™88 SS-HH 1™ THE JUHY HAD MOT BHM |
| 19-8608 |
Kison Robertson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-evidence appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling judicial-misconduct standing trial-procedure |
1. How does the uis, court of Apperls upholds The District Count Decision to Letin Evidence thatwas not proven to have occurred in the trial Record? E… |
| 19-8419 |
Erik Wilhelm Traczyk v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals civil-rights constitutional-standards due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-impartiality jury-selection state-court-proceedings trial-procedure |
1) HOW CAN ANY PARTY OR MEMBER OF THE COURT, FROM A QUESTION OF HABEAS CORPUS (FEDERAL), UTILIZE WHEN STATE COURTS, NOT ALSO A CROWN IN A USTED, WHEN … |
| 19-8369 |
LaLangie Hoskins v. GE Aviation |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ada-title-i americans-with-disabilities-act disability disability-discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law protected-class standing trial-procedure wrongful-termination |
Whether the district court abused its discretion by relying on the erroneous legal premise that the Plaintiff is not part of the protected class of ci… |
| 19-8233 |
Reynaldo Alberto Cantu v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
bias constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-bias juror-misconduct remand trial-procedure |
Whether The Texas High Court Error, denying Petitioner the Right to a "fair and impartial trial" failing to Remand Case back to the trial court, after… |
| 19-8091 |
Vernon Wayne Officer v. Washington |
Washington |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process fair-trial ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion pro-se-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
D IS iT NOT TRUE ON OCT 12 2O1A, I WAS DENIED RE-ADONTMENT OF COUNSEL, DURING JURY TRIAL, NOT BECAUSE OF DELAY IN TRIAL? BOT BECAUSE I SIQNED RE-APPOI… |
| 19-1118 |
Jeffrey Todd Palumbo v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure criminal-testimony doyle-v-ohio due-process exculpatory-evidence first-time-account impeachment miranda-rights Miranda-warnings prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination trial-procedure uncharged-misconduct |
When a criminal defendant has been advised prior to trial of his rights under Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 346 (1966), and then testifies at trial to … |
| 19-7837 |
Francine Slavin v. Residential Rentals, Trustee |
New Hampshire |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process free-speech judicial-intervention judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings jurisdiction standing trial-procedure whistleblower |
1. Whether the New Hampshire supreme court unconstitutionally intervened in the low court's trial of this case by assigning one of its own justices to… |
| 19-7853 |
Jaime Monzon-Silva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling fugitive judicial-discretion jury-evidence jury-instructions legal-standard trial-procedure |
Did the district court abuse its discretion by permitting a jury to hear evidence that Petitioner believed he was a "wanted fugitive," evidence that d… |
| 19-7671 |
Daquan Ossie Bradley v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-law court-trial due-process judicial-review standard-of-review structural-error sullivan-v-louisiana trial-procedure |
Whether a court-trial verdict that is based on a constitutionally-deficient burden of proof is structural error under Sullivan v. Louisiana, 508 U.S. … |
| 19-7563 |
Terry Glynn Speed v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus new-trial perjury racial-bias trial-procedure |
Question one.
On remand claim by Petitioner under Petitioner v. for reasons of Potential racial Prejudice (D) Pled with Consisted Perjured x and confl… |
| 19-7585 |
Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hurst, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-standard post-conviction standard-of-review standing trial-procedure |
OTD THE UNITEO STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUZTEARORBYDEJIEING THE APDELANT MR(EUIS) A CERTIFICATE OF APDEAUABICZTY
2. OID THE UNTITEO S… |
| 19-7547 |
Phillip Boyd Cashion v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination trial-procedure |
Should the Petitioner's trial structure have been free from the fundamental unfairness of having the prosecutor tell the jury on two occasions that "y… |
| 19-7513 |
Omar Smith v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2020-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel preliminary-hearing severance suppression-of-evidence trial-procedure trial-severance virginia-supreme-court witness-testimony |
Did the Virginia Supreme Court err in deciding that counsel's failure to file a motion for a Bill of Particulars so that Petitioner could clearly unde… |
| 19-7484 |
Jose Candelario Perez-Cruz v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute jury-trial maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law mdlea pretrial-hearing stateless-vessel trial-procedure |
Whether the Court of Appeals clearly erred in upholding the District Court's conclusion that jurisdiction in a stateless vessel case under the MDLEA i… |
| 19-7426 |
Joseph Njonge v. Margaret Gilbert, Superintendent |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
courtroom-closure prejudice public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment trial-procedure triviality-exception voir-dire waller-v-georgia |
Whether the "triviality exception" to the Sixth Amendment public-trial right comports with Waller v. Georgia, 467 U.S. 39 (1984), which provides the s… |
| 19-7287 |
Joey Banks v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Whether Banks was denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel.
Whether Banks's trial was adversely affected in violation o… |
| 19-7176 |
David P. Moran v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion bias due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief recusal trial-procedure |
Should recusal of a judge be allowed during the post conviction relief phase if the prejudice and bias of the trial judge is apparent on the face of t… |
| 19-7108 |
Devell Moore v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection ninth-circuit peremptory-challenges purkett-v-elem trial-procedure |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability on Moore's claim he was denied equal protection of the law, and a fair trial… |
| 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… |
| 19-6914 |
Levi Rockefeller v. California |
California |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights collusion conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights counsel court-procedure due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-ethics sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6871 |
Justin Vazquez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-05 |
GVR |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission ineffective-assistance jury-selection professional-conduct sentencing speedy-trial trial-procedure |
Whether in-chief, ineffective of assistance in violation of 6th Amendment (U.S. Const.) is
Whether assigned counsel (M. Blagojevich) violated Code of… |
| 19-6754 |
Cesareo Vizcarra Medina v. California |
California |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
1. Trial Counsel was ineffective See Gailing to object to the prosecutorial misconduct and violated Defendant's rights to effective assistance of coun… |
| 19-6717 |
Jess Lee Green v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-proceedings trial trial-procedure trial-rights |
I. Is the right to due process at trial and/or during guilty plea process a fundamental constitutional right ? |
| 19-6422 |
Calvin Dunell Burns v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights competency constitutional-violations due-process evidence legal-procedure mental-competency mental-health standing trial-counsel trial-procedure |
1). why didn't the First District Court oF Appeals,
State of Florida, rule fairly in the Petitioner's Direct Appeal
on the merits of the issues in the… |
| 19-6294 |
Alexander Mattei v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk |
First Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence expert-testimony hearsay sixth-amendment surrogate-analyst testimonial-evidence testimonial-hearsay trial-procedure |
Whether there is ability to cross-examine a surrogate analyst at a jury trial who had used another's certified and testimonial DNA results ipse dixit,… |
| 19-6258 |
In Re Tiran R. Casteel |
|
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review competency district-court due-process eighth-circuit false-premise legal-competency mental-health restoration retroactive-determination trial trial-procedure |
Was the Petitioner restored Prior to the November 2009 Trial ?#1
Was the Petitioners Due Process of Law violated by being Tried in Noveirber 2009, wh… |
| 19-472 |
City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Charles Hunt, et al. |
Ohio |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion bifurcation civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-procedure-bifurcation discretion emergency-vehicle-immunity expert-witness-testimony juror-misconduct manifest-weight-of-evidence motion motion-to-bifurcate trial trial-court-discretion trial-procedure |
1. Whether the Trial Court abused its discretion when it denied Petitioners' Motion to Bifurcate the trial.
2. Whether the Trial Court abused its dis… |
| 19-6152 |
Marian Papacsi Owens v. Sue Mickens, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion mental-illness right-to-counsel right-to-testify trial-counsel trial-judge trial-procedure |
1. Did the Court of Appeals err below in denying Ms. Owens a COA as to whether Ms. Owens received effective assistance of counsel when the trial judge… |
| 19-5961 |
Mark Whitehead v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-due-process constitutional-law criminal-contempt due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal jury-trial recusal trial-procedure |
Whether a trial judge that has had a significant hand in the accusatory process of a criminal contempt jury trial should be recused from presiding ove… |
| 19-5937 |
Raymond Johnson v. Credit One Bank, et al. |
Maryland |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-admissibility free-speech judicial-discretion patent standing takings trial-procedure |
Did the trial court wrongfully deny Johnson's Fourth Amendment rights when the trial court failed to allow Johnson to present his motions to enforce S… |
| 19-5846 |
Joshua Eric Townley v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-principles criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion new-trial sua-sponte supremacy-clause trial-court trial-procedure |
Whether a trial judge violates the Supremacy and Double Jeopardy Clauses of the United States Constitution once he grants an Order on motion for New T… |
| 19-5442 |
Shanta G. Phillips-Berry v. Kenner Police Department, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-due-process due-process evidentiary-requirements fair-trial judicial-discretion jury jury-trial legal-standards standing trial-procedure |
1. What if district court abused its discretion by not relying on the erroneous legal premise that a citizen(s) of the state of Louisiana and this gre… |
| 19-5482 |
Joann Jefferson v. OneWest Bank, FSB |
New Jersey |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation discovery due-process equal-protection estate-rights fair-trial foreclosure foreclosure-proceeding pro-se-representation procedural-due-process property-rights standing trial-procedure |
1. Can Pro Se Legatees, Heirs, Executors, Estate Representatives, Devisees, successors,
in a foreclosure pendency, (a new defendant, in an ongoing lit… |
| 19-5379 |
Michael Boyd Crowley v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment miranda-warnings right-to-counsel self-incrimination self-incrimination,right-to-counsel,due-process,fi trial-procedure |
1- Was the information given by Dr.Dunham sufficient to warn the defendant of the danger of self incrimination ?
2. Did the prosecution violate the d… |
| 19-5334 |
Martel Valencia-Cortez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence eyewitness-identification jury-instruction jury-instructions reliability-factors standing trial-error trial-procedure witness-identification |
Whether a district court commits error in a federal criminal case by failing to provide a specific eyewitness identification instruction, which requir… |
| 19-5319 |
William J. Barnes Jr. v. New York |
New York |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review competency constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insanity-defense mental-capacity mental-competency structural-error trial-procedure |
ONE
Having Found That Significant Grounds Existed to
Believe That The Defendant Was an Incapacitated Person,
Did The County Court Deprive The Petitio… |
| 19-5177 |
James Alvin Chaney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment impartial-jury inter-circuit-split juror-allegation juror-misconduct jury sixth-amendment trial-court trial-procedure |
Is a criminal defendant's Fifth Amendment right of due process and Sixth Amendment right to a trial by an impartial jury violated when the trial court… |
| 19-75 |
James Joseph Garner v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification police-misconduct standing suggestive-identification suggestive-setting trial-procedure witness-testimony |
Whether the Due Process Clause imposes any check on an eyewitness's identification of a criminal defendant in the typically suggestive setting of tria… |
| 19-5079 |
Kenneth Blackwell v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review evidence issue-preservation judicial-discretion legal-sufficiency legal-theory prior-bad-acts prior-difficulties-evidence standard-of-review state-argument trial-court trial-court-discretion trial-procedure waiver |
This Court has not enunciated a general rule regarding what questions may be taken and resolved for the first time on appeal when a party fails to pre… |
| 18-9820 |
Jonathon Loyd Edick v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias legal-prejudice prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-procedure |
I petitioner entitled to relief where Wis constitutiove rights are were viclated by receivling Ineffertive Asststal of cousel at the trial court level… |
| 18-9614 |
Rick Allen Rhoades v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment capital-murder due-process jury-consideration jury-instructions mitigating-evidence punishment-phase structural-error trial-procedure |
Is the exclusion of relevant mitigating evidence during the punishment phase of a capital murder trial structural error, when the wrongfully excluded … |
| 18-9517 |
Kenneth R. Isom v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (7)IFP |
adversarial-history bias coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-procedure |
Sam Pope, as elected prosecutor for Arkansas's Tenth Judicial District, brought charges against Kenneth Isom three times in the span of 13 months. Iso… |
| 18-1424 |
Michael N. Thomas v. Raymond Anderson, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split government-inconvenience habeas-corpus importance-of-testimony inconvenience-to-government inmate-testimony judicial-discretion nonparty-inmate nonparty-witness seventh-circuit trial-procedure trial-testimony witness-testimony writ-of-habeas-corpus |
Whether the Seventh Circuit correctly held, in an acknowledged conflict with the Third Circuit, that a district court may deny a request for the issua… |
| 18-9202 |
Edilberto Maso Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-statements jury-instructions standard-of-review trial-procedure |
1) Did the Fifth Circuit err by affirming the district court admission of
hearsay statements made by an unindicted co-conspirator over the objection o… |
| 18-9038 |
Scott Peters v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ada appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights courtroom-access disability-accommodation disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion reasonable-accommodation standing trial-procedure |
Petitioner Questions the Trial Court's Failure Concerning Post 618, Property of Petitioner's Shoes as Qualified Moving and His Rights to be Handicappe… |
| 18-8804 |
Carlos Antonio Raymond v. Martin Joseph Roy, et al. |
Texas |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion manifest-injustice plea-bargain standing trial-procedure waiver waiver-consent |
Did the District (Trial) Court err in Allowing trial to proceed without firstobtaining A written WAIVER consent from Pfitib ner,Plaintiff?
Was the op… |
| 18-8577 |
Gerald W. Long v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury sixth-amendment trial trial-procedure |
I. Did the Trial Court err when it concluded that Gerald Long's Fourth Amendment right proscribing unreasonable searches and seizures was not violated… |
| 18-8550 |
Ernest M. Flowers v. Laura Uriarte, et al. |
Florida |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing trial-procedure |
WHETHER PETITIONER IS BEING UNLAWFULLY RETAINED IN THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS CONTRARY TO FLORIDA SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT AND HAS THEREFORE… |
| 18-8482 |
Lourdes Margarita Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brecht-standard constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage Cronic cronic-rule cronic-standard defense-counsel direct-appeal due-process eleventh-circuit hybrid-error prejudice structural-error trial-procedure |
The district court ordered the government, at a critical stage of the trial, to present inculpatory and disputed evidence in the absence of the defend… |
| 18-8443 |
James F. Oliveira v. Patricia A. Coyne-Fague, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction speedy-trial statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
Question presented being important to administration of Criminal Justice.
If the defendant James F. Oliveira had been granted his Speedy Trial, would… |
| 18-8325 |
Amaury Villa v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing sentencing-calculation sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-procedure u-s-sentencing-guidelines |
1. Whether appellant received the effective assistance of counsel?
2. Whether appellant's sentence was properly calculated? |
| 18-1158 |
Jarrod Taylor v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appeals brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-bias prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
(1) Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (the "Circuit Court" or "Eleventh Circuit") apply an incorrect standard for obtain… |
| 18-8232 |
Jesus Rosales v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment allen-charge coercion criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-deliberation jury-instruction jury-instructions trial-procedure |
AT WHAT POINT SHOULD A COURT GRANT DEFENSES REQUEST FOR AN ALLEN CHARGE, SO THAT THE LACK OF ONE, IN IT'S SELF DOES NOT BECOME COERCIVE? |
| 18-7835 |
Iouri Mikhel v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-judiciary hostage-taking judicial-discretion mental-health recusal standard-of-proof treaty-power trial-procedure |
1. Due process requires the trial court to order a competency hearing
whenever the uncontradicted evidence raises a doubt as to the defendant's
compet… |
| 18-7759 |
Travis Buckner v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
effective-representation fourteenth-amendment motion-to-continue right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion trial-procedure |
1. Whether the Defendant was denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment
Rights to assistance of counsel by the denial of his Motion to Continue his
tri… |
| 18-7698 |
Lawrence Andrew Ingram v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights contemporaneous-objection criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-evidence-waiver-contempo definitive-ruling evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-procedure waiver |
DOES TRIAL COUNSEL WAIVE A DEFENDANT'S RIGHT TO APPELLATE REVIEW OF AN ERRONEOUS RULING ON EVIDENCE IF COUNSEL CHOOSES NOT TO OBJECT TO THE RULING WHE… |
| 18-7590 |
Joshua Jacobs v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment bias constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-and-impartial-jury fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-selection trial-counsel trial-procedure voir-dire |
I. When trial-judge-imposed limitations on voir dire interfere with trial counsel's ability to identify veniremembers whom may be challengeable for ca… |
| 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|… |
| 18-7265 |
Rodney Scot Armstrong, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure closing-argument de-novo-review directed-verdict legal-preservation motion objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-issues prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review trial-procedure |
I.
Is a motion for a directed verdict an
objection that preserves an issue for and
mandates de novo
review?
Petitioner answers,
"Yes."
Respondent has … |
| 18-7025 |
Tyree Marquez Burt v. California |
California |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
coercion due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hung-jury judicial-instruction jury-coercion jury-instructions trial-procedure |
Under long standing precedent from this Court, although a trial judge may instruct a deadlocked jury about its duty to deliberate, it cannot coerce a … |
| 18-749 |
JoEllen Mary Crossett v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
|
conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges prejudice sixth-amendment state-and-federal-rights trial-procedure |
Was Petitioner denied her state and federal rights to the effective assistance of counsel, and did Michigan Court of Appeals err when it confirmed wit… |
| 18-6791 |
Benjamin Bland v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence evidence-admissibility government-evidence harmless-error hearsay sixth-amendment social-security-administration trial-procedure |
Whether petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him was violated where a spreadsheet (Government's Exhibit MD-313) created by… |
| 18-6714 |
Maikel Suarez Plasencia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion judicial-procedure sentencing trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 18-6651 |
Antonio Cobb v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness right-to-fair-trial statement-against-interest trial-procedure |
WHETHER FLORIDA ERRONEOUSLY DECIDED
THAT THE TRIAL JUDGE DID NOT DENY
PETITIONER A TRIAL IN ACCORD WITH
FUNDAMENTAL STANDARDS OF DUE
PROCESS, GUARANTE… |
| 18-6616 |
Maria I. Sanutti-Spencer v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-motive criminal-procedure decedent's-drug-addiction decedent's-drug-dealing decedent's-motive decedent's-physical-abuse defendant's-health-issues due-process evidence evidence-exclusion lay-opinion-testimony right-to-complete-defense right-to-present-defense trial-procedure witness-testimony |
Does excluding evidence of another's motive, of the decedent's drug addiction, drug dealing, his physical abuse of the defendant and the defendant's s… |
| 18-6591 |
Leslie Chin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process equal-protection federal-courts new-trial newly-discovered-evidence standard-of-review trial-procedure |
Whether the Equal Protections Clause is violated when there is a conflict amongst the federal circuit courts of appeal dealing with what a defendant i… |
| 18-6542 |
Mauricio Licea v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure dual-role due-process evidence expert-testimony expert-witness jury-instruction jury-instructions law-enforcement law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness trial-procedure |
Whether district courts must give a dual-purpose jury instruction after a law enforcement officer testifies as both an expert and a percipient witness… |
| 18-6558 |
Anthony James Merrick v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel evidence-exclusion false-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-testify trial-procedure |
1. Mr. Merrick alleged he was denied his constitutioncl right to testify in his trial in both the guilt and aggrauation phases. In the guilt phase, Mr… |
| 18-6466 |
Wilson C. Ortega v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assault criminal-enhancement criminal-street-gang criminal-threats false-imprisonment gang-evidence gang-related ineffective-assistance-of-counsel predicate-offenses prejudicial-evidence sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
In California, evidence of other gang members' commission of qualifying predicate offenses is relevant to prove criminal street gang enhancements, but… |
| 18-6415 |
Amalya Cherniavsky, aka Amalya Surenovna Yegiyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review sua-sponte sufficiency-of-evidence theory-of-defense trial-procedure |
Under what circumstances must a district court sua sponte instruct the jury on a theory of defense presented and relied upon at trial where the theory… |
| 18-6436 |
Jorge Cintron v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct newly-discovered-evidence standing trial-procedure |
ISSUE 1:
Did the Court of Appeals Erred in denying a Certificate of Appeahility and in evaluating the claims under Brady violation
ISSUE 2:
Should th… |
| 18-6270 |
Cornelius Lynch v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-protection criminal-procedure defendant-rights double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,criminal-procedure,constitutional- due-process mistrial retrial trial-procedure |
May a state, consistent with the protections of the Double Jeopardy Clause, try a defendant a second time when the first trial ended in a mistrial whi… |
| 18-5963 |
Steve Kassab v. S. Skinner, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process excessive-force law-enforcement-misconduct new-trial qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment trial-procedure |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S DISMISSAL OF ALL BUT 2 DEFENDANTS CAUSED PREJUDICE TO PETITIONER?
WHETHER THE JURY'S VERDICT IS CONTRARY TO THE CLEAR WE… |
| 18-5972 |
Assane Faye v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof fifth-amendment indictment jury-instruction jury-instructions non-statutory-element prosecutorial-discretion sufficiency-of-evidence trial-procedure |
Does the government heighten its burden of proof at trial by adding a non-statutory element to the indictment, pursuing its case to include that extra… |
| 18-5726 |
Ruben Cazares v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
accomplice-statements bruton-error bruton-evidence bruton-v-united-states confrontation-clause crawford crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility harmless-error prejudice prejudicial-evidence separate-trials special-prejudice trial-procedure |
Fifty years ago, this Court began the Bruton era by making two points perfectly clear. One, Bruton evidence is "devastating" to the accused. Bruton v.… |
| 18-5677 |
Robert Alan Loughner v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus,ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,du ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice negligence prejudice trial-outcome trial-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5679 |
William J. O'Brien, III v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court trial-procedure waiver waiver-of-counsel |
Was not William O'Brien, III denied his Sixth Amendment Right to counsel when the trial court refused to appoint a lawyer for him at the hearing at wh… |
| 18-200 |
Michigan v. Charles Damon Jones |
Michigan |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process inconsistent-verdicts judicial-discretion jury-confusion jury-instructions jury-nullification jury-verdict jury-verdicts legal-standard new-trial sufficiency-of-evidence trial-procedure verdict-inconsistency |
Irreconcilable jury verdicts are not grounds for relief, and courts are not to speculate as to why a jury returned an inconsistent verdict. Respondent… |
| 18-5490 |
Mark Madison Lowe v. Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion sixth-amendment stun-belt trial-procedure |
Whether the imposition of a RACC Stun belt with secret instructions to compel testimony, alter testimony, and remain silent during trial infringed upo… |
| 18-5301 |
Cahlan Clay v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination defendant-rights defense-strategy due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-trial trial-procedure witness-examination |
Whether a court may dictate the manner by which a defendant presents his case to the jury by forcing defense counsel to rely exclusively on the cross-… |