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Candelario Cruz-Trujillo v. Indiana
IFP petition · Court of Appeals of Indiana, No. 24A-PC-00904 · judgment April 1, 2025
Question presented
I. Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals’ holding that Candelario Cruz-Trujillo waived his post-conviction claim because he failed to make specific citations to the Record in his petition for post-conviction relief and proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law represents such a significant departure from the usual course of judicial proceedings as to warrant Supreme Court jurisdiction? II. Whether Candelario Cruz-Trujillo received ineffective assistance of trial counsel due to his lawyer’s failure to object to prosecutorial misconduct?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Candelario Cruz-Trujillo
For respondent
James Allen Barta
Office of the Indiana Attorney General
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Feb 23 2026Petition DENIED.
- Jan 22 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/20/2026.
- Jan 14 2026Waiver of right of respondent State of Indiana to respond filed.
- Nov 06 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 5, 2026)