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Elvert S. Briscoe, Jr. v. Ohio

IFP petition · Court of Appeals of Ohio, Cuyahoga County, No. 114667 · judgment January 9, 2025


Certiorari denied · February 23, 2026

Questions presented

  1. Has a pro se party received due process of notice and redress under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution if the final appealable judgment entry is sent to a non-party attorney and resulted in the loss of an appeal as of right?

  2. Did the State violate Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S. Ct. 1194, 10 L. Ed.2d 215 (1963) and Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150, 92 S. Ct. 763, 31 L. Ed.2d 104 (1972), if the State’s SANE expert withholds impeachment evidence of prior law suits of incompetent examinations and diagnoses?

  3. Did trial counsel deny the effective assistance of counsel by failing to discover impeachment evidence of the State’s SANE expert’s history of incompetent examinations and diagnoses?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Elvert S. Briscoe Jr.

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Feb 23 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jan 29 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/20/2026.
  3. Nov 24 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 14, 2026)