waiver-of-counsel
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6347 | Jim Lundi v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest direct-appeal ineffective-assistance plea-colloquy waiver-of-counsel | 1.) Whether Nu appointment of Coun Se | who labors \wh eres \S o bust ok. Aescrehiow 2 ——Aypetlate Counsels fale ' 2.)\whedher \ mdi' Dlea colloquy e… |
| 25-5955 | Jarred Javon Ford v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-protection criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-inquiry waiver-of-counsel | Whether the Court should prescribe more specific requirements to ensure consistency and that defendants' waivers are knowing, voluntary, and intellige… |
| 24-6420 | Stephen C. Stanko v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-01-29 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment expert-services habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel traumatic-brain-injury waiver-of-counsel | 1. Does 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)(A) require a certificate of appealability for review of an order prematurely granting summary judgment against the peti… |
| 24-295 | Donald Herrington v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-16 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split criminal-procedure fifth-amendment right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with other circuits and a plurality opinion of this Court, that a criminal defendant can v… |
| 24-5485 | Onofre Serrano v. California | California | 2024-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | critical-stage due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel waiver-of-counsel | 1. Whether reasonable jurist could debate the state court of appeals conclusion that Petitioner's waiver of the right to counsel was voluntary, knowin… |
| 23A1145 | Percy L. Jacobs v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-24 | Presumed Complete | competency-to-proceed criminal-procedure faretta-hearing right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel | Whether, for a waiver of the Sixth Amendment right to trial counsel to be effective, a defendant must understand the elements of the charged offenses … | |
| 23-7663 | Sandra Denise Curl, aka Sandra Curl Jacobs, aka Sandra Curl-Jacobs El, aka Minister Sandra El v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process mental-health right-to-counsel sixth-amendment von-moltke-v-gillies waiver waiver-of-counsel | I. Whether, for a waiver of the Sixth Amendment right to trial counsel to be effective, a defendant must understand the elements of the charged offens… |
| 23-6706 | Ohio, ex rel. Lonnie Rarden v. Court of Common Pleas of Ohio, Butler County, et al. | Ohio | 2024-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure faretta-v-california fundamental-error johnson-v-zerbst law-of-the-case res-judicata right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-jurisdiction waiver-of-counsel | Does this Court no longer recognize this Court's long standing precedent in Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 U.S. 458, 58 S.Ct. 1019, 82 L.Ed. 1461 (1938), that… |
| 23-6187 | Jamar Green v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-07 | Rehearing | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | appellate-review constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sentencing waiver-of-counsel waiver-of-rights | 1. Whether an uncounseled felony guilty plea is Constitutionally valid when the defendant was not properly warned by the trial court of the perils of … |
| 22-7125 | Charles M. Torrence v. Hazel Peterson, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2023-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights critical-stage federal-law pro-se right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standby-counsel waiver-of-counsel | The Constitution requires that "any waiver of the right to counsel be knowing, voluntary, and intelligent." The question here is whether the Tenth Ci… |
| 22-6761 | Joshua David Lambert v. Washington | Washington | 2023-02-10 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure copyright-law criminal-procedure damages due-process jurisdiction legal-notice right-to-counsel sentencing statutory-interpretation waiver-of-counsel | I. Ca Coun\el 'ho 5ofN£ cbyrjgj- r\c>i ciU dk&iryes, (\V\\ ~vk^ U/a\v/e«r- 5+\\^K 0L, W ~VL<l cle/fr\d«iK-fK 1-5 ASf appr/tej 0f~ oA^ CKai/Ti eS Q^c… |
| 22-643 | Jason Devon Lenoir v. Lynn Guyer, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-11 | Denied | Response Waived | certificate-of-appealability faretta-hearing fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation psychological-evaluation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel | Is a criminal defendant entitled to a COA when he has demonstrated and made a substantial showing that his rights were denied under the Sixth and Four… |
| 22-6133 | David Priester v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anders-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights right-to-counsel sentencing-mitigation voluntariness waiver-of-counsel | Battery or identify theft, where one pays inconsistent testimony battery, and the statute of grand theft? Is Does the petitioner have a due process r… |
| 21-7904 | Vladimir Duarte v. New York | New York | 2022-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process faretta-standard faretta-v-california self-representation sincerity sixth-amendment unequivocal-request waiver-of-counsel | When a defendant makes an "unequivocal" request for self-representation, the court must, under Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 835-836 (1975), pe… |
| 21-6667 | Thomas Orville Bastian v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-review constitutional-protections due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-rights procedural-default right-to-counsel shackling waiver-of-counsel | 1. State courts denied Bastian the constitutional protections due to him under the Fifth Amendment by finding that it was Bastian who had initiated a … |
| 21-5538 | Michael Joseph Edmondson v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus self-representation sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel | In this case, the United States Court of Appeals per curiam affirmed denial of Petitioner's appeal for habeas corpus relief. Petitioner contends that … |
| 20-7539 | Schenvisky James v. Sherman Campbell, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment brown-vs-board civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process faretta-warning free-speech right-to-counsel self-representation standing waiver-of-counsel | FOR A STATE PRISONER TO RAISE THE OCCURRENCE OF A JURISDICTIONAL I. IS IT PERMISSIBLE DURING HABEAS CORPUS S REVIEW IF THE PETITIONER COURT PROCEEDING… |
| 20-6916 | Stephen M. Patterson, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process edwards-standard indiana-v-edwards mental-competency self-representation sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel | 1. Whether Edwards' heightened competency standards apply when a court grants a borderline competent and mentally ill defendant's request to represent… |
| 20-5629 | Lester Waller v. Vance Laughlin, Warden | Georgia | 2020-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process expert-witness-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-error waiver-of-counsel | Did the Trial Court err when it determined Defendant's waiver of counsel was valid thus violating his Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and his Fourtee… |
| 19-7856 | Richard Kenneth Djerf v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel | In a state capital murder case, the state prosecutor and trial court recognized on the record that trial counsel were not properly investigating and p… |
| 19-6458 | Torrence E. Davis v. Arizona | Arizona | 2019-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conditional-demand constitutional-rights criminal-procedure equivocal-invocation equivocal-request faretta-right faretta-v-california judicial-discretion new-counsel pro-per right-to-counsel self-representation self-representation-right trial-court-advisement waiver-of-counsel | In Faretta v. California, this Court held that criminal defendants have the right to represent themselves in criminal prosecutions. Faretta v. Califor… |
| 18-9764 | Adnan Ibrahim Harun A. Hausa v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment circuit-court-conflict circuit-split faretta faretta-inquiry pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment waiver waiver-of-counsel | 1. Should a petition for writ of certiorari be granted to resolve a conflict between the Second and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal on whether a def… |
| 18-8387 | Delmart E. J. M. Vreeland, II v. David Zupan, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conflicting-rulings defendant-rights due-process forfeiture implied-waiver intelligent judicial-discretion knowing right-to-counsel trial-court-procedure voluntary waiver waiver-of-counsel | Whether a trial court violates this Court's requirement that any waiver of counsel be knowing, voluntary and intelligent when it forces a defendant to… |
| 18-7196 | Edward Allen McElroy v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process faretta-hearing faretta-v-california pro-se-representation self-representation sentencing supervised-release waiver-of-counsel | Where a defendant is charged in federal court with possession and production of child pornography, the maximum punishment for which carries a lifetime… |
| 18-6949 | Eric A. Klein v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | critical-stages federal-felony johnson-v-zerbst limited-appearance plea-negotiations pro-se right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel waiver-of-counsel | QUESTION I Whether in Federal Felony case because of the 6th Amendment of Bill of Rights where the Defense Arraigment Counsel made a "Limited Appeara… |
| 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… |