No. 25-6805

Antonio Prophet v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2026-02-13
Status: Pending
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: appellate-procedure criminal-conspiracy federal-question fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus procedural-default
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus CriminalProcedure Securities
Latest Conference: 2026-03-06
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. When a federal criminal conspiracy initiated in the State court is then carried over into 2254 federal habeas corpus proceedings by a State Respondent's deliberate failure to include in its "Answer and Exhibits" court-filed documents required by Rule 5 to be included therein — court-filed documents which were suppressed and secreted in the State court specifically because said documents were the only ones in the entire State court record that timely and precisely raised the "federal question"—do such actions constitute a fraud on the federal court?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a state respondent's deliberate failure to include required court-filed documents in federal habeas corpus proceedings, which documents were suppressed in state court and raised federal questions, constitutes fraud on the federal court

Docket Entries

2026-02-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/6/2026.
2026-02-17
Waiver of right of respondent Jonathan Frame to respond filed.
2026-01-26
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 16, 2026)

Attorneys

Antonio Prophet
Antonio Prophet — Petitioner
Jonathan Frame
Michael Ray WilliamsOffice of the West Virginia Attorney General, Respondent