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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
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, February 23, 2026 · Certiorari denied
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)