trial-severance

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-6011 Robert Leslie Stencil v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-defendant clean-energy criminal-procedure defendant-prejudice due-process fraud-intent prejudice severance trial-severance Whether due process is violated when a trial court denies a motion to sever the trial, resulting in prejudice to petitioner because an adversarial def…
21-5541 Dan Kenny Delva v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joint-trial right-to-counsel severance sixth-amendment trial-severance Whether it is debatable Mr. Delva was denied a Sixth Amendment right under the United States Constitution to effective assistance of counsel when his…
19-8222 Steven Mason v. United States District of Columbia 2020-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process exculpatory exculpatory-evidence impeachment jury-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct severance trial-severance I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine whether the lower courts erred in finding that the Government's very late disclosure of ext…
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…
19-6808 Phillip E. Smith v. Collins, First Name Unknown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cumulative-error due-process fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit severance sixth-amendment slack-v-mcdaniel trial-severance video-evidence Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability to a petitioner who raised four substantial claims that his conviction was unconst…
18-6313 Lacoya Washington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal conviction criminal-evidence criminal-law due-process evidence judicial-discretion sentencing sex-trafficking trial trial-severance Whether there was sufficient evidence presented at trial to convict Lacoya Washington of the sex trafficking crime. Whether the Honorable Trial Court…
18-5007 David Lemoe Tua v. California California 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial gang-enhancement insufficient-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct severance sufficiency-of-evidence trial-severance Whether the state court's refusal to sever Petitioner's trial from that of his codefendant and refusal to sever the gang enhancement allegations viola…