voluntary-manslaughter
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A788 | Kriston Price v. Ohio | Ohio | 2026-01-08 | Application | fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment home-invasion self-defense sixth-amendment voluntary-manslaughter | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6404 | JT Myore v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-18 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-jury-instructions due-process homicide-prosecution lesser-included-offense voluntary-manslaughter | Under federal law, murder is defined as "the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought." 18 U.S.C. § 1. Voluntary manslaughter is def… |
| 25-6388 | James W. VanDivner, Jr. v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-12-16 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus heat-of-passion ineffective-assistance-counsel suppressed-evidence voluntary-manslaughter | Should a certificate of appealability have issued, where the suppressed evidence, considered cumulatively, would have placed a burden on the Commonwea… |
| 24-6354 | Shelben T. Curtis v. Ron Neal, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2025-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ineffective-assistance jury-instruction retroactive-application sixth-amendment sudden-heat voluntary-manslaughter | QUESTION I: Whether the lower courts unreasonably applied Brantley retroactively when it decided that the petitioner was not denied his Sixth Amendmen… |
| 24-5294 | Tommy J. May v. Kansas | Kansas | 2024-08-09 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder jury-instruction lesser-included-offense voluntary-manslaughter | Whether Tommy T. May was entitled to a jury instruction on the lesser offense of attempted voluntary manslaughter on the attempted first-degree murder… |
| 23-5994 | James Jordan McClain v. Tammy Campbell, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation equitable-tolling first-degree-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct second-degree-murder self-defense voluntary-manslaughter | 1. In assessing whether extraordinary circumstances stood in a petitioner's path for equitable-tolling purposes, do those circumstances need to make e… |
| 23A398 | Jeriah Scott Budder v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-01 | Presumed Complete | bureau-of-prisons criminal-appeal sentencing standard-of-review tenth-circuit voluntary-manslaughter | Question not identified. | |
| 21-5658 | Elias G. Montalvo v. Isidro Baca, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-search criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-instructions lesser-included-offense motion-to-suppress open-murder voluntary-manslaughter | Question not identified. |
| 20-7907 | Julio Solano v. California | California | 2021-05-03 | Denied | IFP | due-process heat-of-passion insufficient-evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct provocation second-degree-murder voluntary-manslaughter | 1. Whether the California Courts failure to adequately instruct the jury on provocation in the context of Second Degree Murder violated federal due pr… |
| 20-7808 | James R. W. Mitchell v. California | California | 2021-04-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | client-autonomy mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment structural-error voluntary-manslaughter | In McCoy v. Louisiana (2018) 138 S.Ct. 1500, this Court held that a criminal defendant has a right of autonomy under the Sixth Amendment to dictate th… |
| 20-6788 | Brian Gene McCoy v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c criminal-law federal-crime-of-violence felony-definition firearm-statute person-of-another prenatal-conduct reckless-conduct statutory-interpretation voluntary-manslaughter | 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A) prohibits the use of a firearm during and in relation to a federal "crime of violence." "Crime of violence" is defined in § 9… |
| 19-8727 | Felton Ladell Humphries, Jr. v. S. Sherman, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder jury-instruction self-defense voluntary-manslaughter | DOES HUMPHRIES HAVE A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT GUARANTEED BY THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO A PROPERLY INSTRUCTED JURY DETERMINING THAT ALL E… |
| 19-7343 | Anthony Tawon Williams v. Hilton Hall, Warden | Georgia | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process felony-murder homicide homicide-rule sentencing underlying-felony voluntary-manslaughter | CAN VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER OR ANY OTHER HOMICIDE BE USED AS AN UNDERLYING FELONY TO SUPPORT FELONY MURDER? IS THE HIGHEST STATE COURT OBLIGATED TO HO… |
| 19-6776 | William Dawson v. Bryan K. Wells | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force good-faith habeas-corpus jurisdiction police-misconduct qualified-immunity sentencing voluntary-manslaughter writ | IF XKWESTX&AT OF^ XMTEMTXQMRLLV X MV ES TX & ft TBS, LO^AUUhl T/\1HERE. FLElEiM& VX&TXAA XLQLLAPAt/SSS ft klh &ZB£ AS dRSMBL SEEM EL - XAlST EA b QF… |
| 19-6621 | Jaquan Walters v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 9th-circuit criminal-law deadly-force due-process federal-common-law imperfect-self-defense manslaughter murder murder-mitigation self-defense unreasonable-belief voluntary-manslaughter | Does "imperfect self-defense," which mitigates murder to voluntary manslaughter where the defendant "intend[ed] to use deadly force in the unreasonabl… |
| 19-6117 | Jaime Ignacio Estrada v. Martin Biter, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer preponderance-of-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-counsel voluntary-manslaughter | 1. Whether petitioner established by a preponderance of evidence trial counsel's violation of the Sixth Amendment: failure to communicate a favorable … |
| 18-9032 | Michael Slager v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights credibility-of-witness criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony legal-standard officer-involved-shooting police-misconduct police-use-of-force second-degree-murder use-of-force voluntary-manslaughter | Did the district court deny Petitioner's right to due process when it found that the underlying conduct at issue here——Officer Michael Slager's shooti… |
| 18-8727 | Corey Wiggins v. Stanley Payne, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-08 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure failure-to-investigate habeas-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-degree-murder sixth-amendment voluntary-manslaughter | WHETHER THE BELOW COURT, EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN WHETHER THE BELOW COURT, EIGHTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, ERRED IN REFUSING TO GRANT… |
| 18-361 | Lael J. Alleyne v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-09-19 | Denied | appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions manslaughter self-defense supreme-court-pennsylvania trial-court-error voluntary-manslaughter | Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania erred in denying a Petition for Allowance of Appeal despite the trial court's improper exclusion of voluntar… | |
| 18-5625 | Arrion Lee Crew, Jr. v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-16 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offense self-defense voluntary-manslaughter | DID THE TRIAL COURT PREJUDICIALLY ERR BY FAILING TO INSTRUCT THE JURY ON THE LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE OF SUDDEN QUARREL/HEAT OF PASSION VOLUNTARY MANSL… |