§-2255-motion

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23A872 Emanuel Mois v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-04-01 Denied §-2255-motion covid-19 extraordinary-circumstances legal-access pandemic-limitations procedural-ruling Question not identified.
20-5377 Brandon Ray Buckles v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion 28-usc-2255 due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-prisoner fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel Is it improper for a district court to summarily deny a federal prisoner's motion to vacate, set aside or correct a sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2…
19-7145 Carlos E. Rodriguez-Milian v. United States First Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion 2255-appeal appeals-court-discretion certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-motions procedural-default procedural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-response 1. A court of appeals lacks subject-matter jurisdiction to decide a § 2255 the district court's procedural error-that the movant defaulted an ineffect…
19-5918 Brandon Kyle Thomas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion appellate-rights certificate-of-appealability criminal-appeal idaho-v-garza ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-rule prejudice-standard presumption-of-prejudice roe-v-flores-ortega sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington After trial and again after sentencing, Brandon Thomas requested that his attorney appeal the criminal judgment. Counsel's advice consisted of "if you…
18-9277 Melvin Scott Morman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP §-2255-motion armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure enumerated-offenses-clause johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement violent-felony In Johnson v. United States, this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two remaining definition…
18-9064 Adonijah Lindsay v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP §-2255-motion §-924(c)-conviction 18-usc-924c 18-usc-924c3b certificate-of-appealability supreme-court-rule-10 third-circuit vagueness writ-of-certiorari Does the Supreme Court's grant of writ of certiorari on the same question of law establish a per se ground for obtaining a certificate of appealabilit…
18-7760 Geoffrey A. Gish v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-assessment plea-bargaining procedural-default statute-constitutionality subject-matter-jurisdiction Question 1 This Court held that a court of appeals exceeds its subject-matter jurisdiction when the appellate court bypasses the certificate of appea…