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Candelario Cruz-Trujillo v. Indiana

IFP petition · Court of Appeals of Indiana, No. 24A-PC-00904 · judgment April 1, 2025


Certiorari denied · February 23, 2026

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

  1. Feb 23 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jan 22 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/20/2026.
  3. Jan 14 2026
    Waiver of right of respondent State of Indiana to respond filed.
  4. Nov 06 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 5, 2026)