| 25-6247 |
Jackie Lee Brooks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance proffer-agreement slack-v-mcdaniel |
1. Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner who alleges
constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel for faling to
object to the Government's Due… |
| 25-5824 |
Luis Marrot Caceres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 automatic-reversal district-court habeas-corpus judicial-error motion-denial |
Whether the district court's misunderstanding of the record as evidenced in its order denying Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion was so fundamental … |
| 25A361 |
Michael Rene Garrett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right federal-prisoner post-judgment-motion pro-se |
Question not identified. |
| 25A122 |
Muhamed Pathe Bah v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
28-usc-2255 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-prisoner habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7114 |
Daniel Flint v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split coram-nobis custody-status procedural-bar statutory-remedy |
1. Whether the writ of error coram nobis is
procedurally barred if a petitioner is "in custody,"
even though no other statutory remedy is available
… |
| 24-6896 |
In Re Nicholas Lee Blair |
|
2025-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent habeas-corpus rule-60b |
1. What is the proper statutory definition of the terms "lascivious exhibition",
"engaging in", and "sexually explicit", as written in 18 U.S.C. § 22… |
| 24-6215 |
Liston Watson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-conviction plea-agreement post-conviction-relief |
Whether the right to effective assistance of counsel attaches during a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding when counsel is communicating a plea agreement to t… |
| 24-5615 |
Merl Simpson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-judgment federal-procedure limitations-period restitution-obligations |
Where a criminal judgment is amended to impose restitution obligations that were generically imposed but left undetermined in the original judgment, d… |
| 23-7806 |
Arthur Seale v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court-remedy federal-prisoner-appeal postconviction-relief |
1. Whether a federal prisoner is required to obtain a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) to appeal a district court's choice of re… |
| 23-7649 |
Rodolfo Ortiz v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus harmless-error johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default section-2255 vagueness-challenge |
1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent precludes issuance of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. §… |
| 23-1258 |
Royce Wade Lander v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-to-vacate standard-of-review threshold-showing |
This Court has held a certificate of appealability ("COA") should issue where the petitioner has made a threshold showing that jurists of reason could… |
| 23-7436 |
Eagles Denashu Begay v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 appeal criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance pro-se-claim right-to-counsel |
If an indigent, incarcerated federal defendant, for the first time on direct appeal, raises a colorable claim of ineffective assistance by his distric… |
| 23-7344 |
Richard Arlee Champion v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate plea-bargaining pleading-timing pre-indictment-delay statute-of-limitations |
I. WHEN DETERMINGING THE TIMLINESS OF A MOTION TO VACATE PURSUANT TO
28 USC 2255, WHAT PLEADING DETERMINES THE RELEVANT PLEADING WHEN
MAKING THAT DETE… |
| 23-7199 |
In Re Joseph R. Dickey |
|
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence federal-prisoners habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Does 28 U.S.C. 2241(b)(1)'s requirement that "a claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application under 2254 [28 U.S.C. 2254] that w… |
| 23-1015 |
Norman Seabrook v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 habeas-corpus habeas-law ineffective-assistance judicial-recusal light-most-favorable notice-and-hearing procedural-due-process sixth-amendment sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal |
1. Did the District Court's sua sponte denial
of Petitioner's habeas petition alleging
ineffectiveness of trial counsel filed pursuant
to 28 U.S.C.… |
| 23-6619 |
Edward Lee Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent guideline-commentary habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 total-exhaustion-rule |
I. Whether the "total exhaustion rule" applies to Motions under 28 U.S.C. §2255; and if so, was the district court in error to rule Smith's §2255 as u… |
| 23-6236 |
Joseph R. Dickey v. Warden, FCI Marianna |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-restrictions constitutional-challenge federal-prisoner felker-v-turpin habeas-corpus successive-petition |
In light of the plain language contained in 28 U.S.C. 2244(b)(1), which requires any claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus "applicat… |
| 23-6206 |
Ken Ejimofor Ezeah v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 custody habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review noncitizen-rights removal-order savings-clause statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
DOES THE DORMANT COMMERCE CLAUSE IN SECTION 12(C) ALLOW THE COURT JURISDICTION OVER A PERSON'S GOODS, PATENT, CUSTOM AUTHORITY, SINCE 22 U.S.C. SECTIO… |
| 23-6186 |
Guillermo Borboa, aka Omar Gabriel Borboa v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 abuse-of-power appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Was the District Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in error in dismissing a MOTION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DUE TO COURTS LACK OF SUBJECT-MAT… |
| 23-6011 |
Jacques H. Telcy v. Michael Breckon, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 28-usc-2255e armed-career-criminal-act habeas-corpus legal-innocence saving-clause sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
To the exception to the rule termed in 28 U.S.C. §2255(e), the "escape hatch" or "saving clause" - does it permit a federal prisoner to "file a habeas… |
| 23-5950 |
Kent Leroy Clark v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court-remedy federal-prisoner postconviction-relief |
1. Whether a federal prisoner is required to obtain a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) to appeal a district court's choice of re… |
| 23-5913 |
Julio Rolon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent circuit-split constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default vagueness-challenge |
1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit
precedent precludes issuance of a certificate of appealability in a 28 U.S.C. §… |
| 23-5256 |
Joseph Fenelon Cooper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 crime-of-violence criminal-procedure elements-clause firearm-conviction johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states section-2255 successive-petition united-states-v-taylor welch-v-united-states |
The question presented is whether a Petitioner in a properly filed successive petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging his conviction for pos… |
| 23A59 |
Ken Ejimofor Ezeah v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-07-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
28-usc-2255 anti-terrorism-act certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b-motion successive-habeas-petition |
Question not identified. |
| 23A36 |
Jerry J. Davis, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
28-USC-2255 effective-assistance-of-counsel franks-issue habeas-corpus motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7871 |
In Re Michael Bowe |
|
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (6)IFP |
28-usc-2244(b)(1) 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 district-court-procedure federal-habeas federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief second-or-successive-application statutory-interpretation |
Whether the bar in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to claims presented by federal prisoners in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. … |
| 22-7669 |
Larenzo Gabourel v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 collateral-relief factual-innocence federal-prisoner federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 |
May the collateral relief mechanism for Federal prisoners pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255, be used to promote a claim of factual innocence? |
| 22-7655 |
Benjamin Edward Bradley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 castro-v-united-states certiorari-review circuit-court-review civil-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-classification statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
1. Did the Court below err in determining that the petitioner's second-in-time §2255 motion was "second [or] successive?" |
| 22-7609 |
Akiaz Marqiez King v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reed-v-goertz sixth-amendment state-law-interpretation statute-of-limitations |
Should the Court grant a writ of certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand this case for the Ninth Circuit to consider this Court's intervenin… |
| 22-7354 |
Rafael L. Beier v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in summarily denying a certificate of appealabililty that would allow an appeal from an order denying a motion to vacate,… |
| 22-1021 |
John Jose Watford v. J. Ray Ormond, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-court-precedent circuit-decision collateral-review convicting-circuit-law federal-inmate habeas-corpus savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, a federal inmate can collaterally attack his sentence on any ground cognizable on collateral review, and in a "second or succe… |
| 22-7121 |
Christopher Barret v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure de-novo-resentencing de-novo-review direct-appeal resentencing sentencing sentencing-discretion vacatur |
1. Whether, following the vacatur of one or more counts, either pursuant to a direct appeal or a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, a district court must conduc… |
| 22-7032 |
Scott Lynn Fishbein v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability defense-counsel due-process false-information guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
Should a certificate of appealability have been issued by the court of appeals for review of an appeal of the denial of a 28 U.S.C. §2255 which presen… |
| 22-7023 |
Maria Orosco v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appointed-counsel civil-rights due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal procedural-default timely-filing |
Roe v. Glover v. Idaho, 126 S.Ct.
Should my writ Certiorari be granted inasmuch as my appointed attorney failed to file a timely Notice of Appeal for… |
| 22-6744 |
Michael Lee Gordon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sixth-circuit standing supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 22-746 |
Damion Kentrell White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus plea-agreement sentencing statutory-maximum |
Whether due process requires that a provision in a plea agreement waiving the right to file a motion to vacate sentence under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 be cons… |
| 22-6609 |
James D. Thomas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 brady-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
1) DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS VIOLATE PETITIONER'S
FIFTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHT BY DENYING PETITIONERS
28 USC § 2255 MOTION TO V… |
| 22-6416 |
Nicholas Lee Blair v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-without-prejudice federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus new-evidence rule-60(b) rule-60b time-bar |
Whether a Petitioner can utilize a motion under Rule 60(b) Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, or similar vehicle, to overcome a dismissal without preju… |
| 22-512 |
Mohamad Youssef Hammoud v. Serkou Ma’at, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-precedent circuit-split collateral-review federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statutory-interpretation |
Whether federal inmates who did not receive a meaningful opportunity to be heard on a substantial actual-innocence claim—because established circuit p… |
| 22-6128 |
Christopher Erwin v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split cooperation-agreement downward-departure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
1. Did the Circuit Court err in affirming the district court's decision to deny, without a hearing, Petitioner's motion pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 b… |
| 22-6041 |
David Williams, III v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 congressional-intent conviction-review eighth-amendment equitable-tolling fifth-amendment government-misconduct section-2255 |
Whether a defendant's conviction and sentence for nonexistent crimes: (1) violates the Fifth And Eighth Amendments, (2) constitute extraordinary and e… |
| 22-5782 |
Matthew Tassin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-court circuit-court-authority criminal-procedure district-court federal-prisoner ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel resentencing section-2255 sentencing-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Circuit Court can limit the authority of a district court to resentence a federal criminal defendant or correct a criminal sentence "as may … |
| 22-5750 |
Salvador Diaz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus second-circuit section-2255 standard-of-review |
Where the COA determination under § 2253(c) requires an overview of the claims in the habeas petition and a general assessment of their merits, did th… |
| 22-5756 |
Adelbert H. Warner, II v. K. Zook, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-exception equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-bars schlup-v-delo successive-application |
Does the Schlup v Delo/ 513 US 298 (1995)/ actual innocence exception to procedural bars to habeas corpus relief serve as a gateway through the pro ce… |
| 22-5549 |
Emmanuel Maxime v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924 28-usc-2255 cause-exception circuit-split constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause |
Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), establishes "cause"
to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predica… |
| 22-5515 |
Jose Agapito Salas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-prisoner findings-of-fact habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
At The Federal Level After The District Court Receives An Ordered Response From The Government To A Federal Prisoner's Petition For Habeas Corpus Reli… |
| 22-176 |
James Burkhart v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 adverse-effect conflict-of-interest counsel-conflict evidentiary-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment |
Under Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335 (1980), to establish a Sixth Amendment violation, a defendant must prove that his lawyer had an "actual conflic… |
| 22-5270 |
Joaquin Mendez-Hernandez v. Catricia Howard |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
What is "inadequate or ineffective" to file a Habeas Corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)'s Savings Clause? |
| 22-5194 |
Maxo Jean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appeals appellate-procedure criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction motion-to-vacate timeliness timely-filing |
WHETHER THE APPEALS COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY DIS
MISSING PETITIONER'S "NOTICE OF APPEAL" FROM THE DENIAL OF A
MOTION TO VACATE, FILED PURSUANT … |
| 22-5103 |
Chico Jermell Carraway v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion 28-usc-2255 evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 rule-11-procedure sentencing sentencing-hearing |
When a defendant alleges with supporting evidence that he pleaded guilty based on an unkept promise of counsel concerning sentencing, is he entitled t… |
| 21-8255 |
Christopher Alexander Reilly v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appeal appellate-rights certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress notice-of-appeal section-2255 |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT AND COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD HAVE GRANTED A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY, TO ALLOW DEFENDANT REILLY TO APPEAL THE DISTRICT C… |
| 21-8147 |
John P. Tomkins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-fees due-process federal-prisoners judicial-review section-2255-motion |
1. Have the lower courts imposed too high of a standard on federal prisoners who seek a certificate of appealability following the denial of a 28 U.S.… |
| 21-8007 |
In Re Michael David Hower |
|
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 aedpa criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-rules habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-v-united-states plea-withdrawal |
Has AEDPA created an unconstitutional barrier that has rendered the petitioners remedy under 28 U.S.C. §2255 inadequate or ineffective to test the leg… |
| 21-7928 |
Timothy Lindsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-enhanced-sentence acca-enhancement circuit-split gatekeeping-standard generic-burglary johnson-motion johnson-v-united-states reasonable-jurists subject-matter-jurisdiction successive-motion |
As required by 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), Mr. Lindsey secured prefiling authorization from the Fifth Circuit before filing a successive motion to vacate … |
| 21-7783 |
Reynaldo Aviles v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c3b 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split johnson-v-united-states procedural-default section-2255 vagueness-challenge |
1. Whether, given that there is a split in the circuits on the question, reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent preclud… |
| 21-7582 |
Francisco Abreu Tartabull v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by deny… |
| 21-7543 |
Gerardo Castillo-Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 constitutional-ruling district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction preponderance-of-evidence section-2255 standard-of-proof successive-motion successive-petitions |
1. Whether a district court is authorized to dismiss a successive § 2255 motion for lack of jurisdiction after a court of appeals has authorized the f… |
| 21-1318 |
Gregory Bogomol v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel knock-and-talk motion-to-suppress warrantless-search |
1. What is the proper standard for determining when a federal habeas petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255?
2. Does… |
| 21-1305 |
Melchor Munoz v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 citizenship-revocation criminal-conviction due-diligence government-notice plea-bargaining plea-proceeding section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Whether – in a case where (1) the revocation of a criminal defendant's citizenship is mandatory as a result of a plea to a criminal conviction but (2)… |
| 21-7420 |
Isiah Pierce v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-proceedings court-of-appeals direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-presumption post-trial-motion post-trial-motions right-to-counsel section-2255 |
Does the presumption of Massaro v. United States, 538 U.S. 500 (2003) that ineffective assistance of counsel claims should be litigated in collateral … |
| 21-7434 |
Darryl Williams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split crime-of-violence due-process equal-protection residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines |
This Court holds various residual clauses are unconstitutionally vague under the Due Process Clause, but has not yet addressed the residual clause in … |
| 21-7395 |
Konstantinos Zografidis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus second-circuit writ-of-habeas-corpus |
Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals en banc err in failing to reverse the District Court's ruling denying my Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus … |
| 21-7334 |
Gregory Todd Numann v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability child-pornography criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel password-protected-device plea-bargaining |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in denying Mr. Numann's motion for certificate of appealability of the denial of his 28 USC 2… |
| 21-7326 |
Edison Burgos-Montes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review prisoner-motion record-development summary-dismissal |
Whether a court of appeals may deny a certificate of appealability to a prisoner whose 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion is summarily denied even though the rec… |
| 21-7284 |
Jesus Ruiz v. Louis Williams, II, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence conviction federal-prisoner habeas-corpus section-2241 section-2255 sentence statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a new statutory interpretation from this Court allows a federal prisoner to redress the legality of his conviction or sentence pursuant to … |
| 21-6874 |
Joshua Britt v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 blackledge-v-allison counsel-misadvice dilang-dat-v-united-states due-process eighth-circuit-review evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief section-2255-motion |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the
Eighth Circuit erred in Affirming the conviction, where
the District Court, without an evidentiary… |
| 21-6750 |
Claude Jerome Wilson, II v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-rule habeas-corpus johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing-enhancement violent-felony |
In Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), this Court invalidated the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act, but left intact the two… |
| 21-857 |
Marcus Deangelo Jones v. Dewayne Hendrix, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent collateral-review federal-inmate habeas-corpus legal-innocence retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, federal inmates can collaterally challenge their convictions on any ground cognizable on collateral review, with successive at… |
| 21-6554 |
Frank L. Amodeo v. FCC Coleman - Low, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-conflict constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus legal-remedy procedural-review |
1. A Federal Court may only entertain a federal prisoner's habeas corpus petition when a "remedy by motion [to vacate] is inadequate or ineffective to… |
| 21-6538 |
In Re Kenny Blanc |
|
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 collateral-review constitutional-law federal-prisoners gatekeeping gatekeeping-requirements habeas-corpus merits prima-facie prima-facie-showing |
To satisfy the gatekeeping requirements of 28 U.S.C. §§ 2244(b)(3)(C) and 2255(h)(2), must federal prisoners make a prima facie showing that their 28 … |
| 21-6539 |
In Re Kenny Blanc |
|
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review federal-prisoners gatekeeping gatekeeping-requirements habeas-corpus merits prima-facie prima-facie-showing |
To satisfy the gatekeeping requirements of 28 U.S.C. §§ 2244(b)(3)(C) and 2255(h)(2), must federal prisoners make a prima facie showing that their 28 … |
| 21-763 |
John Forrest Ham, Jr. v. M. Breckon, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (4) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent federal-prisoner habeas-corpus retroactivity section-2241 section-2255 sentence-review sentencing |
Whether a district court has jurisdiction under section 2241 to review a claim that a federal prisoner's sentence is invalid in light of an intervenin… |
| 21-750 |
Jasper Knabb v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Where 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a prompt hearing unless the motion and the files and records of the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitl… |
| 21-6247 |
Andrew Cox v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-delay motion-to-vacate statutory-interpretation suspension-clause |
I. Does an inordinate delay of almost six years -- as a matter of law -- render a motion to vacate under 28 USC 2255 inadequate or ineffective to the … |
| 21-6099 |
Sandchase Cody v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review due-process federal-appellate-courts habeas-corpus remedy-selection section-2255 sentencing |
Whether an individual must obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the district court's choice of remedy following the grant of relief under 2… |
| 21-316 |
Lorenzo Williams v. Steve Kallis, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-conflict circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus mathis-decision mathis-v-united-states section-2241 section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
This Petition seeks to resolve a circuit conflict.
Persons convicted of a federal offense can file a petition to challenge their convictions pursuant … |
| 21-5395 |
In Re Christopher Burgess |
|
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mail-room-delay time-bar |
1. In the interest of justice, should a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 be entertained under less stringent conditions if it contains both "actial innocence " and in… |
| 21-5408 |
Bruce Allen Rutherford v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sixth-amendment |
Court states that, Movant claimes counsel failed to inform him of plea
offers and allowed them to expire was not in §2255. (see Appendix A)
This state… |
| 21-5318 |
Beatrice Munyenyezi v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 brecht-standard chapman-standard federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-instruction post-conviction-relief supreme-court-review |
When reviewing a habeas corpus claim under 28 U.S.C. §2255, where the court is considering for the first time whether an erroneous jury instruction on… |
| 21-5144 |
Tye Lanford Sarratt v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-motion retroactivity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Does a post-conviction motion asserting the following claim—that a sentence violates due process under Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015… |
| 20-8448 |
Henry Paul Richardson v. Christopher Gomez, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus procedural-opportunity saving-clause statutory-interpretation |
Does The Saving Clause Under Section 28 U.S.C. 2255(e), permit A Federal prisoner To Proceed in a Habeas petition Pursuant to Section 28 U.S.C. 2241, … |
| 20-8158 |
In Re Larry E. Starks |
|
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 collateral-attack collateral-review constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge jurisdictional-challenges subject-matter-jurisdiction suspension-clause |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8120 |
Gary Lee Willingham v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction merits-review post-conviction section-2255 standard-of-review summary-reversal |
After obtaining the prefiling authorization required by 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), Mr. Willingham moved to vacate his ACCA-enhanced sentence. The Governm… |
| 20-8024 |
Lisa Biron v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
non-promulgated procedural process 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-appellate-rules federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-due-process |
When there is ho requirement to file a notice of
appeal when applying for a certificate of appealability
("cot") from the circuitcourt and no process … |
| 20-7863 |
Martin G. Lewis v. DeWayne Hendrix, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 burrage-v-united-states detention-legality habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge merits-review procedural-bar retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government should be foreclosed from relying on prior litigation that it concedes incorrectly invoked a procedural bar to review on the me… |
| 20-7522 |
Joshua R. Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 20-1301 |
Kenneth Charles McNeil, aka Chip v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 all-writs-act coram-nobis equitable-relief federal-courts federal-equity judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation united-states-v-morgan writ-of-relief |
1.
Whether, and to what extent, United States v. Morgan, 346 U.S. 502 (1954) fashioned the writ of coram nobis to incorporate the former federal equit… |
| 20-7386 |
Andrew Chapnick v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation timeliness-provision |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker
… |
| 20-7395 |
Antonio E. Wills v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence career-offender certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement section-2255 statutory-maximum |
Did the appellate court err in denying a certificate of appealability on whether the district court erred or alternatively abuse its discretion by den… |
| 20-7333 |
Nolberto Martinez v. Warden, FCI Coleman - Low |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights habeas-corpus right-of-redress saving-clause statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holding in McCarthan v. Dir. of Goodwill Indus.-Suncoast, Inc., 851 F.3d 1076 (11th Cir. 2017)(en banc),… |
| 20-7137 |
Jerald Dean Godwin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review bank-robbery crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus meaningful-review section-2255 |
I. Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders —issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or succ… |
| 20-7030 |
Devaron Antoine Love v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence criminal-procedure federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review new-decision procedural-default section-2255 unlawful-conduct |
Whether a movant under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can show actual innocence to overcome a procedural default where he can show, based on a new decision from thi… |
| 20-911 |
Michael Jackson v. Don Hudson, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent federal-custody habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective overruled post-conviction-motion saving-clause section-2255 |
Whether Section 2255 is "inadequate or ineffective" when, at the time of petitioner's initial Section 2255 motion, circuit precedent foreclosed a pote… |
| 20-6766 |
Steven Justin Villalona v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 due-process evidentiary-hearing haines-v-kerner ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-recusal pro-se-pleadings recusal section-2255 |
(1) What rights under the Due Process clause do prisoners have during the course of 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceedings?
(A) For example, if the record, mot… |
| 20-865 |
In Re Todd Britton-Harr |
|
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split false-statement federal-prisoners habeas-corpus section-2244 section-2255 successive-petitions supervised-release |
Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) ("[a] claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application under section 2254 that was presented i… |
| 20-800 |
Tracy Alan Barnett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court district-court-jurisdiction federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-order habeas-corpus |
Are United States District Courts required to address and resolve all constitutional claims or issues raised in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 Motion to satisfy t… |
| 20-6571 |
Antonio W. Smith v. M. Brecken, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandatory-minimum miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court err by not hearing Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2241 petition on the merits where his misclassification as a career of… |
| 20-6448 |
Eugene Davis v. Herman Quay, Warden |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-split legal-remedy savings-clause section-2255 sentencing-enhancement |
The "savings clause" in Section 2255(e) of Title 28 permits a court to entertain a habeas corpus petition when the remedy under that section is inadeq… |
| 20-697 |
Orlando Cordia Hall v. T. J. Watson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 batson-claim batson-v-kentucky constitutional-error death-penalty federal-procedure habeas-corpus racial-discrimination |
When Petitioner, a Black man, was sentenced to death in a Texas federal courtroom after the prosecution struck four out of five Black prospective juro… |
| 20-6290 |
Orlando Sanchez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender constitutional-vagueness johnson-v-united-states postconviction-motion residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a postconviction motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, challenging a sentence imposed under the pre-2005 mandatory version of the Sentencing Guidelin… |
| 20-652 |
George Georgiou v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability counsel-waiver due-process napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct rule-8c witness-testimony |
Whether the order of the court of appeals denying a certificate of appealability should be reversed and remanded, because it is manifestly incorrect t… |
| 20-6221 |
Miguel Nunez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-challenge federal-law johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of the mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines is timely… |
| 20-447 |
Francisco Rodriguez-Castro v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice petition-for-certiorari post-conviction-relief procedural-error section-2255 sentence-enhancement |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that Rodriguez's erroneous sentence enhancement as a career offender, which increased his sentence from 135… |
| 20-5927 |
Gene Michael Diulio v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
I. Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motions filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), raising due process vagueness challenges to… |
| 20-5928 |
Rick Lee Archer v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
I. Are 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitions filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), raising due process vagueness challenges … |
| 20-5652 |
Daniel L. Lopez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states motion-to-vacate sentencing statute-of-limitations |
Whether Lopez's 28 USC Section 2255(a) Motion was timely filed under Johnson v United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) as there is a split between the 8… |
| 20-5587 |
Zachary Joseph Love v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 constitutional-rights evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus kaufman-v-united-states townsend-factors townsend-v-sain |
In a habeas corpus proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 originating from a federal district court, where facts have not been established on the record to… |
| 20-5510 |
Robert L. Pernell, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 direct-appeal equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus jurisdictional-requirements procedural-default supreme-court-precedent |
I. WHETHER THE GOVERNING PROVISIONS IN THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS PRECEDENT CASE LAW, IN RE GODDARD, 170 F.3d 43541999), HAS UNLAWFULLY CREAT… |
| 20-5496 |
Santosh Ram v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-violations evidentiary-standard judicial-review lower-court-analysis mcquiggin-v-perkins post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process schup-v-delo |
Question not identified. |
| 20-191 |
Patrick Ronald Silva v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell |
I. Whether the Fourth Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 was unreasonable and co… |
| 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… |
| 20-119 |
Louis Ruggiero v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing federal-charges ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining prejudice prejudice-standard section-2255 |
Should the court of appeals have granted a certificate of appealability on whether a district court may deny a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 evidentiary hearing on… |
| 20-5250 |
Oscar Armando Avila-Jaimes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 andrus-precedent evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Should a writ of certiorari be granted since the Fifth Circuit 's decision in not remanding to the lower court was contrary to precedent of this co… |
| 20-5155 |
Charles E. Coughlin v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 constitutional-right constitutional-rights district-court-discretion evidentiary-hearing expert-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-expert-witnesses strategic-decision unreasonable-determination |
1. Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel holding "appellant has not made a substantial… |
| 20-5032 |
Daniel Lewis Lee v. T. J. Watson, Warden, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 brady-claim due-diligence federal-inmates habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel savings-clause sixth-amendment structural-bar |
1. The savings clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) provides a residual habeas forum for federal inmates in cases in which a § 2255 motion is "inadequate or … |
| 20-5030 |
Jimmy Lee Franklin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-provision acca-sentence burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge criminal-defendant federal-statutory-enhancement-provision retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing-relief statutory-enhancement |
Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statutory… |
| 19-8915 |
Robert Eugene Glassgow v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acquittal aedpa court-of-appeals criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief presumption-of-innocence sentencing |
Whether prose defendants since file under 18 U.S.C. § 2255 and are paid back costs by the Court Judge if in be the onus ce oy tt permission of the app… |
| 19-8770 |
Carl St. Preux v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 28-usc-2255 circuit-split drug-conviction federal-habeas-corpus federal-sentencing habeas-corpus mandatory-life-sentence post-conviction-relief prior-state-convictions sentencing-enhancement statute-of-limitations |
As such, the question presented here is whether 21 U.S.C. § 851(e), which clearly applies at and during federal sentencing proceedings, usurps and sup… |
| 19-1365 |
Ramon Hueso v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
28-usc-2255 circuit-law circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum post-conviction-relief retroactivity savings-clause sentence-enhancement sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Section 2255 of 28 U.S.C., which authorizes postconviction relief for federal prisoners, generally requires post-conviction motions be brought within … |
| 19-8597 |
Lewis McKenzie v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof gatekeeping-requirement johnson-claim 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… |
| 19-8585 |
Van Jackson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure due-process federal-prisoner post-conviction-relief procedural-law rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether a federal Prisoner has a Right to Present a argument based on a Change in Procedural law on his first motion under Title 28 U.S.C.S 2255 ?… |
| 19-1245 |
Samuel Kwushue v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit federal-appeals habeas-corpus section-2255 |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability (COA) to review the denial of Peti… |
| 19-1226 |
In Re Masoud Bamdad |
|
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 constitutional-rights constitutional-violation detention-review due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus inadequate-and-ineffective ineffective-assistance jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-remedy |
When the initial §2255 motion and its subsequent procedural remedies have demonstrated to be inadequate and ineffective to test the legality of the de… |
| 19-8199 |
Dwight Bullard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines career-offender collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing section-2255 sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a defendant erroneously sentenced as a career offender under the advisory Guidelines can collaterally attack his enhanced sentence under 28 U.… |
| 19-8190 |
George Lyle Cullett, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines pre-booker-sentencing residual-clause section-2255 timeliness timeliness-standard |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-8100 |
Jorge Rodriguez-Luca v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-8041 |
Stanley Edward Jamison, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-right timely-motion |
Whether Mr. Jamison's § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), claiming that Johnson invalidates the p… |
| 19-1133 |
Melvin Hodges, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines vague-laws vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson can assert a timely, valid claim that the residual clause of the mandatory Guidelin… |
| 19-7974 |
Jesse Moreno v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness-standard |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one
year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that
Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-
Booker… |
| 19-7976 |
Lonnie Victor Fleming v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-7933 |
Larry Donnell Bogard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-7947 |
Bobby Joe Floyd v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 timeliness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-7911 |
Thomas William Cornelius, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion 28-usc-2255 appeal criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus physical-presence right-to-be-present sentencing |
With respect to a defendant who does not waive his right to be physically present during a re-sentencing hearing, held pursuant to a stipulated resolu… |
| 19-7755 |
Scott Michael Patrick v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness |
Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the right initially recognized in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory G… |
| 19-7677 |
Sandchase Cody v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca district-court due-process resentencing resentencing-hearing sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether Mr. Cody was denied due process when after the removal of his unlawful ACCA sentencing enhancement, following a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion, the d… |
| 19-7640 |
Phillip Auston Carrier v. Billy Romero, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review congress-intent consent constitutional-law federal-appellate-court federal-prosecutor federal-prosecutor-consent gatekeeping-role gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255-motion prosecutorial-consent second-or-successive-petition second-petition section-2255 |
Whether "the remedy by motion " authorized by 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(2) is rendered
"inadequate or ineffective " under §2255(e) when a federal appellate … |
| 19-7616 |
Fred Blajos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline crime-of-violence elements-clause habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 timeliness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-7604 |
Richard Allen Lumpkin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-7492 |
Inger L. Jensen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-28-usc-2255 harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review |
A. 28 U.S.C. § 2255 states that "Unless the motion and the files and records of
the case conclusively show that the prisoner is entitled to no relief… |
| 19-934 |
In Re Todd Britton-Harr |
|
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-review second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation successive-petitions supervised-release |
Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) ("[a] claim presented in a second or successive habeas corpus application under section 2254 that was presented i… |
| 19-7412 |
Alford D. Embry, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender criminal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines vagueness void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the identical residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-7247 |
Mark Linnear Hays v. Randy L. Tews, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus saving-clause second-or-successive second-or-successive-motion statutory-interpretation |
A federal prisoner who seeks to challenge the legality of his conviction or sentence usually must do so in a motion under 28 U.S.C. §2255. Under the s… |
| 19-845 |
Charles Huggins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence perjury section-2255 sixth-amendment |
1. Whether Petitioner was deprived of due process by his continuing imprisonment who was convicted on insufficient evidence without being granted an e… |
| 19-7144 |
James Brandon Strouse v. Warden, USP Coleman II |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 conviction-challenge federal-prisoner habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective post-conviction-relief section-2241 section-2255 sentence-challenge sentencing |
CAN A FEDERAL PRISONER CHALLENGE THEIR SENTENCE
OR CONVICTION UNDER 28 U.S.C. SECT. 2241 MOTION
WHEN THEIR POST SECTION 2255 MOTION IS INADEQUATE
OR I… |
| 19-7131 |
Eric Hanna v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 aiding-and-abetting certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent crime-of-violence due-process hobbs-act-robbery second-or-successive-motion statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the decision below, and remand (GVR) this case with directions that the Eleventh Circuit grant Pe… |
| 19-6884 |
Glen B. Clay, aka Glenn B. Clay v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act district-court-review due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-motion |
Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's decision that it could not consider on the merits Mr. Clay's successive motion ba… |
| 19-6838 |
Joshua Smith v. Sandra Butler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review caselaw federal-procedure guideline-range habeas-corpus incorrect-guideline-range mandatory-guidelines savings-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Courts of Appeals have incorrectly interpreted the 'savings clause', found in 28 USC 2255(e), to require that a defendant be sentenced und… |
| 19-6842 |
Vivek Shah v. Marcus Holmes |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-court-of-conviction collateral-review extortion factual-innocence habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition plea-agreement retroactive-statutory-interpretation section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
(1) Whether a federal prisoner claiming factual innocence as a result of a
new, retroactively applicable statutory interpretation by the circuit
court… |
| 19-683 |
Jermaine Lenard Moss v. Kenny Atkinson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
|
retroactive change in the statutory rule that ori 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review conviction-challenge federal-prisoner federal-prisoners federal-prisoners-collateral-review inadequate-or-ineffective-remedy retroactive-effect retroactive-statutory-changes saving-clause statutory-rule |
Federal prisoners generally may challenge their convictions and sentences only by filing a direct appeal and, if unsuccessful there, one petition for … |
| 19-664 |
Eugene H. Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure destructive-devices firearms firearms-violations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea statutory-interpretation writ-of-coram-nobis |
1. Whether Petitioner is innocent of the charges resulting from a complete miscarriage of justice based upon the facts herein and is therefore qualifi… |
| 19-6686 |
Darren Kevin Hunter v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 bank-robbery career-offender career-offender-guideline due-process elements-clause habeas-corpus-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-standard |
Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker car… |
| 19-6689 |
Frank Fernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines pre-booker residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness timeliness-purposes |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-6658 |
Booker Terry Simmons v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing timeliness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-6670 |
Michael Bridge v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure brief-formatting career-offender constitutional-rights due-process johnson-v-united-states judicial-discretion mandatory-guidelines procedural-fairness residual-clause sentencing-guidelines timeliness Whether Pennsylvania Superior Court can dismiss an |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of
Johnson v. United States, claiming that Johnson
invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker … |
| 19-633 |
Edwin Arthur Avery v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
28-usc-2244(b)(1) 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 federal-custody federal-prisoners habeas-corpus jurisdictional-limitation post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief second-or-successive-motion state-custody statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to federal prisoners seeking relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. |
| 19-6643 |
John Forrest v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure descamps-v-united-states mathis-v-united-states retroactive-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-correction sentencing-review successive-motion supreme-court |
A successive motion to correct a sentence under 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(2) must contain a "new rule of constitutional law, made retroactive to cases on col… |
| 19-617 |
Nekebwe Superville v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aggravated-felony attorney-misadvice deportation Padilla-v-Kentucky plea-agreement will equivocal-warnings 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure deportation-consequences immigration ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-warning plea-agreement plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
When conducting an analysis under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f) and Strickland v. Washington, will equivocal warnings given by a judge pursuant to Fed. R. Crim.… |
| 19-6639 |
Anthony Andrews v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process habeas-corpus new-judgment one-year-time-period statute-of-limitations successive-motions |
Under 28 USC § 2255, can a petitioner file a Second or Successive 2255 motion where the basis for his claim did not arise until the district court den… |
| 19-6550 |
Christian James Gieseke v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C-2255 28-usc-2255 6th-amendment counsel-misfeasance defenses duty-to-mitigate evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction pretrial-detainee |
When a post-conviction movant proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 raises claims which, if true, would entitle him to relief, does the fact that movant d… |
| 19-6540 |
Howard Grant v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure civil-procedure clay-v-united-states criminal-procedure extraordinary-circumstances final-judgment-rule forgery habeas-corpus indictment standing |
QUESTION ONE:
Is a 28 USC SEC. 2255 MOTION premature if filed less than 90 days after the
appellate court enters its judgment in accordance with the … |
| 19-6505 |
Michael Ingram v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 21-usc-851-enhancement 28-usc-2255 28-usc-2255-f-4 federal-law federal-procedure federal-sentencing geographic-disparities geographic-disparity habeas-corpus sentencing-commission sentencing-commission-report statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-limit time-limitation |
Where the United States Sentencing Commission publishes a report summarizing the geographic disparities in the application of the 21 U.S.C. §851 enhan… |
| 19-6527 |
Ruben Patrick Valdes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim criminal-history evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sentencing-guidelines |
1. WAS TRIAL COUNSEL CONSTITUTIONALLY INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO INVESTIGATE, FACT-CHECK, AND OBJECT TO ERRONEOUS INCLUSION OF JUVENILE PRIORS DURING … |
| 19-6492 |
Tylan Tremaine Autrey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity section-2255 sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
Petitioner was convicted of federal kidnapping and sentenced as a career offender in 2000, under the then-mandatory Sentencing Guidelines, when the Gu… |
| 19-6389 |
Quincy Dennis v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 categorical-approach drug-offense federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief-28-usc-2241 intervening-change mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence presidential-commutation presidential-pardon retroactive-application retroactively-applicable-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
QUESTION # ONE: Whether petitioner Dennis is entitled to seek
federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the ground
that 28 U.S.C. § 225… |
| 19-6357 |
James Alton Turner, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process,criminal-procedure,sentencing,acca,joh elements-clause habeas-relief johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies |
(1)
Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner residual clause to determine that his prior offenses were violent felonies, be… |
| 19-498 |
Raymond L. Rogers v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution fifth-amendment habeas-corpus immediate-release sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether or not the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals [erred], when denying (1).
your Petitioner, a certificate of appealability (COA) pursuant to 28
U.S.… |
| 19-6287 |
Seferino Martinez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender criminal-sentencing-guidelines johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing-guidelines void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the analogous residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-6225 |
Marc Pierre Hall v. Warden Andrews |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 district-court fundamental-errors habeas-corpus judicial-review precedent-analysis retroactive-statutory-interpretation savings-clause-28-usc-2241 statutory-interpretation statutory-interpretation-28-usc-2255 subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Petitioner respectfully requests the Supreme Court's Supervision of uncommunicated Circuit Courts regarding Statutory Interpretation and applicatio… |
| 19-6109 |
James Abraham Mata v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 district-court-judgment federal-prisoner federal-statutory-provisions habeas-corpus record-silence retroactive-decision second-or-successive-motion statutory-provision successive-motion unconstitutional unconstitutional-provision unconstitutional-statute |
When seeking relief under a retroactive decision invalidating a federal statutory provision as unconstitutional, what must a federal prisoner show in … |
| 19-401 |
Lamont Dejuan Higgs v. Warden Wilson |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appeal appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether the saving clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) allows defendants to seek relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the grounds that a subsequent statutory in… |
| 19-5959 |
Loretta Fergerson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appeals clear-error clear-error-standard federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-to-vacate plain-error plain-error-standard post-conviction-relief standard-of-review |
Did the Appeals Court err in applying clear error rather than plain error standard when deciding District Court's denial of Petitioner's 2255? |
| 19-5911 |
Paul R. Butts v. Eric D. Wilson, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence congressional-intent congressional-interpretation federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause statutory-interpretation |
Does the "saving clause" of 28 U.S.C. §2255 provide an avenue of judicial review for a federal prisoner to claim his actual innocence due to a Congres… |
| 19-5661 |
David M. Robinson v. Warden, Fort Dix FCI, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence aedpa civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-writ jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect pro-se section-2255 standing |
1. WHETHER THERE EXIST A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE DECISION OF THE
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT IN THIS
CASE AND THE UNANIMOUS DE… |
| 19-5498 |
Qwindel Jerome Page v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-review sixth-circuit standard-of-review standards-of-review |
1. Whether The District Court And The Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals Erred When They Denied The Petitioner A Certificate Of Appealability ("COA") Wher… |
| 19-5515 |
Lester Leon Sanders v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-U.S.C-2255 28-usc-2255 circuit-conflict criminal-defendant district-court district-court-judgment federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutory-provision original-judgment retroactive-constitutional-decision second-successive-motion statutory-provision |
What standard governs a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, asserting relief pursuant to a retroactive c… |
| 19-5516 |
Rayshawn Roshard Robertson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-relief federal-procedure retroactive-application retroactive-constitutional-decision section-2255 sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
I. Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statut… |
| 19-5353 |
Frank Elroy Vennes, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 28-usc-section-2255 civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-rule-civil-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus integrity-of-proceedings judicial-integrity motion-to-reconsider rule-60(d)(3) |
Does a motion filed under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(d)(3) that does not attack the merits of a prior habeas decision, but alleges "some defec… |
| 19-5314 |
Aurora Barrera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-petition 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction over an appeal of the denial of a § 2255 Petition pursuant to § 1291 when the District Court fails to adju… |
| 19-5315 |
Raymond Aguilar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-U.S.C-§-2244 28-U.S.C-§-2255 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 court-of-appeals district-court habeas-corpus johnson-rule residual-clause section-2244 section-2255 successive-motion successive-petitions void-for-vagueness |
I. When a court of appeals grants authorization to file a successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), does 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(4) permit a distric… |
| 19-5316 |
Abelee Bronson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing-guidelines-mandatory habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sessions-v-dimaya void-for-vagueness |
I. Whether, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(f)(3), the new rule announced in Johnson applies to the analogous residual clause in the mandatory guidel… |
| 19-5294 |
Abraham Asley Augustin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-15a due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-notice federal-rules-civil-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus motion-to-amend pleading responsive-pleading section-2255 standing |
1. Whether the Fed. R as a matter of course' Responsive pleading is filed can be arbitrarily disregarded and denied?Cxim. P. 15(a) Motion 's right to … |
| 19-105 |
Joseph A. Caramadre v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance section-2255 strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Should a Writ of Habeas Corpus issue to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ("Court of Appeals") on the grounds that the showi… |
| 19-5255 |
Frank Lobacz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-error per-se-ineffectiveness procedural-default second-circuit section-2255 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
1. Whether it was error by the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, to affirm the lower court's denial of Petitioner's Petition pursuant to 28 U.S… |
| 19-5241 |
Zack Zafer Dyab v. Nicole English, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2241-petition 2255-motion 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion circuit-court-discretion circuit-split detention-challenge foreclosure habeas-corpus judicial-review saving-clause section-2241 section-2255 united-states-v-wheeler |
Does the Petitioner have to test the legality of his detention in the initial 2255 motion, even though the argument would have been rejected on the me… |
| 19-5219 |
Bobby G. Pullen v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing guidelines-interpretation habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-guidelines successive-habeas-petitions successive-motion vagueness-doctrine void-for-vagueness |
I. When a court of appeals grants authorization to file a successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), does 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(4) permit a distric… |
| 19-5154 |
James Wardell Quary v. N. C. English, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review circuit-precedent circuit-split detention-challenge erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief |
May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arugments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 19-5129 |
Kendell Lee Starks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 burden-of-proof criminal-defendant criminal-defendant-relief-28-usc-2255,retroactive- florida-conviction-resisting-with-violence,violent retroactive-constitutional-decision sentencing statutory-maximum Whether a Florida conviction for resisting with vi |
Whether a criminal defendant moving for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, based on a retroactive constitutional decision invalidating a federal statutory… |
| 19-5100 |
Matthew Karahalios v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2113(a) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(a) 28-usc-2255 armed-robbery bank-robbery categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-law due-process federal-law firearms-statute predicate-offense sentencing sentencing-correction statutory-interpretation |
1. Does unarmed bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) serve asa
predicate offense for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A) of using … |
| 19-52 |
Alfred J. Walker v. N. C. English, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-procedure federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 19-5080 |
Reyes Vega, aka Ray Vega v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1291 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review section-1291 section-2255 unadjudicated-claims |
Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction over an appeal of the denial of
a § 2255 Petition pursuant to § 1291 when the District Court fails to adj… |
| 18-9807 |
Robert Wilson, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-enumerated-offense-clause acca-statute criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony |
(1) Whether, where the record is unclear, a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner should be required to "affirmatively prove" that the sentencing court relied o… |
| 18-9781 |
Adam J. Winarske v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-enhancement armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states preponderance-of-the-evidence preponderance-standard residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Following the Supreme Court's decision in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), whether 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires a Johnson petitioner to … |
| 18-9653 |
Todd Ricks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th… |
| 18-9495 |
Jason Jones v. Martha Underwood, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-remedy intervening-decision mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence post-conviction-relief retroactive-application retroactivity sentencing statutory-construction |
Whether petitioner is entitled to seek federal habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the ground that 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is "inadequate or ineff… |
| 18-9506 |
Kenyon Raheen Gadsden v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
1. Whether a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, filed within one year of, Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) and claiming that Johnson inval… |
| 18-9336 |
Saul Elias Camilo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review district-court due-process fair-administration-of-justice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing-guidelines |
I Where a plea deal has opposing clauses, is such confusion sufficient
to reach the bar for appellate review in a §2255 process when
ineffective ass… |
| 18-9046 |
Richard Shusterman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-jurists standard-of-review |
1. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in deny-
ing issuance of a Certificate of Appealability of a
28 U.S.C.§ 2255 ruling when the District… |
| 18-9016 |
Henry Earl Miller v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 4th-circuit-court-of-appeals 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-equal-protection constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-law fourth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus procedural-due-process procedural-law wood-v-milyard |
Does The Fourth Circuit's Widespread Practice Of Issuing Virtually Indistinguishable Production-Line Manufactured Rubber Stamped Opinions Violate Mill… |
| 18-8910 |
Norris Lynn Fisher v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism fifth-circuit judicial-accountability judicial-review rule-60b6 standing supreme-court-precedent |
QUESTION ONE: WHY DO THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURTS CONTINUE TO IGNORE THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S AUTHORITATIVE PRECEDENT?
QUESTION TWO: WHY DO THE … |
| 18-1325 |
Dieter Charles Vogt v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court-order due-process habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurist right-to-counsel standard-of-review summary-denial |
Should the order of the court of appeals denying a certificate of appealability be reversed and remanded, because it is manifestly incorrect to sugges… |
| 18-8882 |
Kevin L. Donaldson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 access-to-courts certificate-of-appealability civil-rights clerk-of-court clerk-of-court-error district-court-procedure due-process first-amendment government-liability standing |
Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when it denied the Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability?
Did the Clerk of the U.S. … |
| 18-1276 |
Andrew Levert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
28-usc-2255 appellate-court-split constitutional-law criminal-defendant district-court-judgment due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutory-provision habeas-corpus record-silent retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactivity second-or-successive-2255-motion second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation |
Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is entitled to relief under a… |
| 18-8703 |
Alan Wade Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner legal-background procedural-review residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement silent-record successive-habeas-motion successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that, due to a silent record and the relevant legal background, the sentencing court may have relied on the Armed… |
| 18-8642 |
DeJuan Leshae Hill v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment-rights certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-jurisdiction firearm-offense habeas-corpus hobbs-act post-conviction-relief sentencing tenth-circuit unconstitutionality |
Whether The Tenth Circuit Erred In Failing To Address In Its Order Denying A Certificate Of Appealability, The Unconstitutionality Of Use And Carry Of… |
| 18-8604 |
Ivan Vazquez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 appeals criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel rule-35 sentence-modification sentencing statute-of-limitations |
I. May a district court's modification of sentence under Rule 35, Fed. R. Crim. P., be treated as resetting the one-year clock under 28 U.S.C. §2255(0… |
| 18-8556 |
Alimamy Barrie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 amendment-doctrine appellate-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mayle-v-felix relate-back-doctrine |
Whether the Relate Back doctrine announced in Mayle v. Felix, 545 U.S 644, 664 (2005) allow for an amended motion to relate back to an original claim … |
| 18-8485 |
In Re Michael David Hower |
|
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mandamus massaro-v-united-states plea-coercion prohibition |
1. Is the petitioner entitled to immediate relief, including mandamus or prohibition from this Court, to protect his constitutional and statutory righ… |
| 18-8496 |
Anthony Swatzie v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 constitutional-decision criminal-defendant criminal-procedure district-court-judgment due-process federal-statute federal-statutory-provision habeas-corpus retroactive-constitutional-decision retroactive-relief retroactivity section-2255 sentencing silent-record statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant pursuing a second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is entitled to relief under a… |
| 18-8277 |
Trevor Ransfer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 binding-precedent circuit-precedent crime-of-violence federal-appeals-court habeas-petition hobbs-act-robbery statutory-interpretation successive-petition |
Should a three—judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals of the Eleventh Circuit's Order Denying A Second Or Successive habeas petition for re… |
| 18-8234 |
Jeremy Snider v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines advisory-sentencing-guidelines circuit-court-decision circuit-split cognizable-claims criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 federal-law federal-statute non-constitutional-claims post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-constitutional claims for sentencing relief grounded on the advisory Sentencing Guidelines can ever be cognizable under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. |
| 18-8159 |
Phillip Camillo-Amisano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-crisis constitutional-violation due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice strickland-standard supreme-court |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly deny a Certificate of Appealability (COA), violating due process in a manner that conflicts … |
| 18-8125 |
Darrell D. Walker v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-court-split criminal-defendant district-court-judgment federal-criminal-procedure federal-statutory-provision original-judgment record-silent retroactive-constitutional-decision second-successive-motion statutory-provision |
Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant pursuing a
second or successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is entitled to relief under a… |
| 18-1103 |
Paul Ross Evans v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability choice-of-counsel civil-rights due-process effective-assistance habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel standing |
1. Ina proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, whether the right to choice of counsel or effective assistance is violated when counsel is appointed to repr… |
| 18-8115 |
Kenny Daniel Barrios v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment type-c-plea |
Whether the failure of counsel to object to inaccurate calculated Sentencing Guidelines is ineffective assistance of counsel, as provided under the Si… |
| 18-8042 |
Aaron Maurice Blaylock, aka Stephan Blaylock v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924(c)(3)(B) 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states motion-to-vacate residual-clause unconstitutional |
Should a certificate of appealability have issued after the district court denied as untimely a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate that sought to chall… |
| 18-8036 |
Edmund Boyle v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review perjury prosecutorial-misconduct |
WHETHER A COURT OF APPEALS SHOULD REMAND A HABEAS ACTION WHERE THE LOWER COURT FAILS TO FULLY ADJUDICATE THE UNDERLYING HABEAS CLAIMS ON THE MERITS AN… |
| 18-7989 |
Manuel Guerrero v. N. C. English, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 18-7943 |
Robert David Watson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability collateral-review luis-v-united-states new-rule retroactivity section-2255 supreme-court-rule teague-analysis teague-v-lane |
Whether Luis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1083 (2016) is retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review?
Whether under Slack v. McDaniel, 529… |
| 18-7869 |
Samuel Deorio v. Vic Flournoy, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 acca-predicate-offenses constitutional-law court-of-appeals habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241-2255 new-rule-of-constitutional-law retroactivity savings-clause second-or-successive-petition sentencing-enhancement successive-petitions unconstitutional-sentence |
Whether 28 U.S.C. §2255(e) may serve as a failsafe mechanism opening the
protal to use 28 U.S.C. §2241, to test the legality of an unconstitutional
se… |
| 18-7723 |
Randy Dempsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-prisoner residual-clause section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was a basis for enhancing his sentence, but fails to show th… |
| 18-7570 |
Anthony Eugene Hardeman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split federal-prisoner habeas-corpus residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful basis to enhance his sentence, but fails… |
| 18-7581 |
Brandon Erwin v. FCI Coleman - Low, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence circuit-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-jurisdiction jurisdictional-restriction retroactive-change section-2241 section-2255 |
Question 1
The majority of the federal appeallate circuits conclude that § 2255 is inadequate or ineffective to adjudicte a claim of actual innocence… |
| 18-7587 |
Biven Hudson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability district-court eleventh-circuit magistrate-court mandatory-minimum minimum-mandatory-enhancement reasonable-jurists sentencing-enhancement sentencing-review |
Whether the appellate court erred in denying Mr. Hudson's motion for certificate of appealability as to the denial by the district court of his motion… |
| 18-7495 |
Willie E. Boyd v. Francisco J. Quintana, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
even though the federal prisoner has demonstrated under Brady and shows new evidence that undermine 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence brady-claim brady-rule constitutional-rights due-process federal-prisoner fifth-amendment habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation |
Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit is in conflict with United States v. Hayman, 342 U.S. 205 (1952), were the Appellate Court has made 28 U.S.C… |
| 18-7507 |
In Re Dwight Carter |
|
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Did the 11th Circuit adopt a "divergent" interpretation of the "gatekeeping standard" contrary to Congress' plain language in 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(3)(C)… |
| 18-7426 |
Terry Lamell Ezell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 aedpa armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review constitutional-vagueness johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states procedural-burden retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states |
Where (1) the sentencing record is silent or does not clearly establish if the district court
relied on the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual claus… |
| 18-7444 |
Chad Talada v. David V. Cole, Sheriff, Steuben County Jail |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence administrative-procedure binding-precedent collateral-review criminal-procedure district-court habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective retroactivity saving-clause |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, a prisoner seeking to collaterally attack the legality of his sentence is required to do so in the district where the prisoner… |
| 18-7449 |
Joel Darnell Patton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure finality-of-judgment gonzalez-standard habeas-corpus post-judgment-motion post-judgment-motions reconsideration rule-59-motion successive-motions successive-petition |
Does a district court have the authority to reconsider the merits of a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 action in response to a prisoner's timely post-judgment motion… |
| 18-7421 |
Torrence Allen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-provision certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines mandatory-sentencing-guidelines retroactivity retroactivity-of-supreme-court-decisions sentencing sentencing-guidelines vagueness |
I. Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), applies retroactively to a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion attacking a sentence imposed under man… |
| 18-7379 |
Edward Bruno Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 acca-sentence armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 |
In Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) (Johnson), this Court declared unconstitutional the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal A… |
| 18-7300 |
Michael L. Millis v. Stephen Kallis, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-USC-2241 28-usc-2255 custodian custody due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue prisoner-petition savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 transfer-of-venue |
1. What is the correct interpretation of the savings clause in 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)?
2. Based on the correct interpretation of section 2255(e), is Mil… |
| 18-7252 |
Eddie Ray Wiese, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act federal-prisoner fifth-circuit johnson-claim residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation successive-motion |
When a federal prisoner demonstrates that the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause was the only lawful substantive basis to enhance his sentenc… |
| 18-7238 |
Antron Edwards v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof civil-rights collateral-review due-process johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-burden-of-proof statutory-interpretation welch-v-united-states |
In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-7212 |
Anthony Ray Dailey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 castro-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability collateral-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review panetti-v-quarterman procedural-due-process retroactivity second-and-successive-petitions section-2255 supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-mathis |
WHETHER OR NOT THE U.S. DISTRICT AND APPELLATE COURTS VIOLATED CASTRO V. UNITED STATES, 124 S.CT., BY REFUSING TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY… |
| 18-7098 |
Amos Junior Scott v. Heriberto H. Tellez, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 federal-habeas-corpus federal-statute habeas-corpus inadequate-or-ineffective ineffective-assistance ineffective-remedy mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence nonexistent-prior-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement |
Whether Petitioner is Entitled to Seek Federal Habeas Corpus Relief Under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, From an Erroneous Mandatory Minimum Sentence, That Was Bas… |
| 18-7132 |
James R. Bright v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender circuit-split filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
Section 2255(f)(3) of Title 28 of the United States Code tolls the one-year filing period for a § 2255 motion until "the date on which the right asser… |
| 18-7115 |
Richard Clark v. D. J. Harmon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appointments-clause article-iii constitutional-delegation due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255-2241 ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conference separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
This Court's Article III inferiors are in turmoil over the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e)'s phrase "inadequate or ineffective." Congress has not defin… |
| 18-6984 |
Benjamin Tillman v. J. A. Barnhart, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 collateral-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcfadden-case mcfadden-v-us retroactivity savings-clause statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER PETITIONER WAS ENTITLED TO FILE AN APPLI-' CATION FOR HABEAS CORPUS UNDER 28 U.S.C. §2241 AND/OR 28 U..S.C. 2255(e) IN LIGHT OF McFADDEN v. U.… |
| 18-6952 |
Ortino Garcia Licon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 28-usc-2255h2 acca-residual-clause federal-prisoner generic-burglary habeas-corpus historical-fact sentencing-enhancement successive-motion |
Where a federal prisoner demonstrates that ACCA's residual clause was the only lawful substantive basis to enhance his sentence, but fails to show as … |
| 18-6923 |
Donatos Sarras v. Unknown Party |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus second-motion suspension-clause |
I. IN A CASE INVOLVING two jury trials, a habeas record with multiple forensic and medical reports, and newly discovered evidence which in light of al… |
| 18-6915 |
Carlton Robinson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender career-offender-guideline collateral-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law-procedure johnson-precedent residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing supreme-court-retroactivity vagueness |
1. Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker career offender g… |
| 18-6812 |
Jack Ferranti v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines good-time-credits life-expectancy post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b sentencing |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT IMPOSED A DEF'AC']X) LIFE SENTENCE THAT WAS NOT AUTHORIZED BY THE STATUTE OF CONVICTION BY CALCULATING THE DEFENDANT'S LIFE… |
| 18-6783 |
Gino Velez Scott v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence brady-giglio brady-violation due-process gatekeeping-requirements giglio-violation government-misconduct habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief second-or-successive second-or-successive-motion second-successive-motion |
Where a numerically-second § 2255 motion raises an actionable Brady/Giglio violation that (a) the government suppressed until after the conclusion of … |
| 18-6753 |
Jesse Mendez v. Gary Swarthout, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 district-court federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-petition harrington-v-richter judicial-deference reasoned-decision state-appellate-court state-court state-court-decision statutory-interpretation |
When a state court denied a habeas claim without a reasoned decision, in assessing whether "there was no reasonable basis for the state court to deny … |
| 18-6765 |
Bernard J. Bagdis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certiorari-review circuit-split due-process federal-procedure finality habeas-corpus rehearing statute-of-limitations timeliness |
Should the Supreme Court grant certiorari to resolve the differences in treatment among the various circuits and to clearly establish when a judgment … |
| 18-6733 |
Laura Shauger v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 aba-standards-for-criminal-justice certificate-of-appealability circuit-courts-of-appeals district-court district-court-ruling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-jurists section-2255 sentencing-counsel supreme-court-of-idaho third-circuit |
This case raises a pressing issue of national importance: In applying for a certificate of appealability (COA) to appeal from the denial of a motion u… |
| 18-6623 |
Carlos Cosme v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw plea-agreement plea-bargaining sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Did the District Court Commit Error in Applying the Standard of review for Motions to Withdraw a Plea Agreement as to an Issue of a Question of the Ef… |
| 18-6581 |
Larry Hailey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-enhancement crimes-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines virginia-prior-convictions |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Appeal from Denial of His Motion Under 28 US.C. § 2255 Wherein Petitioner… |
| 18-6534 |
John Taylor Tyler v. Eric Wilson, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act factual-innocence federal-habeas habeas-corpus savings-clause statute-of-limitations |
When a prisoner has made a substantial showing of factual innocence -as in this case where the firearms Petitioner purportedly possessed in the furthe… |
| 18-6548 |
Salvatore Leone v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactive-effect retroactivity sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-habeas-motion welch-v-united-states |
Are federal courts precluded from granting a federal prisoner's successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate an illegal sentence based on Johnson wher… |
| 18-6430 |
Kinzie Decarlos Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 alibi-defense appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel off-the-record off-the-record-facts procedural-default section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Federal statute and this Court's rulings provide that a district court must grant an evidentiary hearing when material facts are contested, and those … |
| 18-6370 |
Charles Harper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof collateral-review due-process elements-clause enumerated-crimes-clause johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states |
In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-6328 |
Carlton Roland Hunter v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof circuit-split collateral-review johnson-rule johnson-v-united-states post-sentencing-case-law residual-clause retroactivity sentencing-enhancement welch-v-united-states |
In Johnson v. United States, this Court held that the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutional. In Welch v. United States,… |
| 18-6249 |
Markos Pappas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure-60(b) habeas-corpus rosales-mireles rule-60b section-2255 standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Does the certificate of appealability ("COA") requirement of 228 U.S.C. § 2253(c) that explicitly applies to motions under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, also appl… |
| 18-420 |
United States v. Gerald Adrian Wheeler |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent collateral-review federal-prisoner habeas-corpus retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation statutory-minimum |
The question presented is whether a prisoner whose Section 2255 motion challenging the applicability of a statutory minimum was denied based on circui… |
| 18-6201 |
Nicholas DeAngelis v. Bruce Plumley, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-habeas federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars time-limits |
The criteria in 28 U.S.C.S. §2244(d)(1) is identical to 28 U.S.C.S. §2255(f). The former per this courts holding in MóQuiggin v. Perkins, 569 U.S. 383… |
| 18-6146 |
Charles Neuman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split federal-custody habeas-corpus mathis savings-clause section-2255 |
Whether a claim of actual innocence of Armed Career Criminal status, based on this Court's decision in Mathis is cognizable under the savings clause, … |
| 18-6163 |
Randy A. Jones v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 cell-site-simulator electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment pen-register search-and-seizure surveillance-log unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure |
Did the Eighth Circuit Court Of Appeals, by affirming the lower Court's denial of this Petitioner's 28 USC 2255 Motion, fail to preserve his Fourth Am… |
| 18-6095 |
Jose Luis Buenrostro v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 habeas-corpus magwood-rule magwood-v-patterson motion-to-vacate new-judgment presidential-commutation sentence-reduction successive-motion |
Whether a prisoner whose sentence has been reduced from life
to 30 years imprisonment through a presidential commutation
may file a new motion to vaca… |
| 18-6096 |
Michael Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-U.S.C.-2255 28-usc-2255 acca armed-career-criminal-act case-law evidentiary-record johnson johnson-ruling predicate-conviction residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
I. May a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition challenging his sentence under Johnson when the evidentiary record is silent as to whether the pe… |
| 18-6099 |
In Re Terry Margheim |
|
2018-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 due-process judicial-administration judicial-integrity judicial-process stare-decisis supervisory-authority |
When the courts below violate due process by denying a meaningful opportunity to be heard in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding, will the United States Sup… |
| 18-6087 |
Samuel Raphael Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§2255-motion 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-default successive-petitions |
I. DOES ASKING THE DISTRICT COURT TO REOPEN THE HABEAS PROCEEDING TO CONSIDER ALL ISSUES PRESENTED CONSTITUTE A SECOND OR SUCCESSIVE §2255 MOTION? |
| 18-5989 |
Gary Dan Bilbo, Sr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation 28-usc-2255 appeals district-court habeas-corpus motion-to-reopen standard-of-review |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5939 |
Gary Michael Allen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-guideline constitutional-vagueness due-process johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states mandatory-career-offender-guideline mandatory-guidelines residual-clause section-2255 timely-filing vagueness |
1. Whether a motion for relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 filed within one year of Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. _, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), and asser… |
| 18-292 |
Detric Lewis v. Nicole English, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (5) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 circuit-precedent circuit-split erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-prisoner habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation unlawful-detention |
May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 in order to raise arguments that were foreclosed by binding (but erron… |
| 18-5914 |
Jeffrey Scott Finney v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 acca acca-sentencing armed-career-criminal-act criminal-history criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-decision johnson-v-united-states post-conviction-relief sentencing violent-felony |
Whether the District Court erred in denying Jeffrey Finney's post-Johnson motion for relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 18-5895 |
Justin Lyle Izatt v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 constitutional-law court-of-appeals due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-question gross-disproportionality habeas-corpus judicial-review petition-for-writ-of-certiorari post-conviction-relief sentencing |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals committed error by denying the Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. §2255 petition ? |
| 18-5876 |
Steven Sanford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split collateral-review johnson-v-united-states residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson when the sentencing judge never specified - an… |
| 18-5785 |
In Re Clifford Winkles |
|
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge post-conviction-relief pro-se-petition saving-clause standing |
WHETHER FEDERAL RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 22 IS APPLICABLE TO FEDERAL PRISONERS WHO ARE PROCEEDING UNDER STATUTES 28 U.S.C. § 2241 AND 28 U.S.C. § … |
| 18-5790 |
Uiki Teaupa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 5th-amendment 6th-amendment discovery due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment government-misconduct pro-se pro-se-defendant section-2255 sixth-amendment |
Does the Fifth and Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution entitle A Pro Se Defendant the right to have (1) discovery conducted on his claims of gove… |
| 18-229 |
Ralph Curry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split johnson-v-united-states judicial-review post-sentencing-caselaw residual-clause section-2255-motion sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-28-usc-2255-motion |
Where a sentencing record is silent as to the basis for an enhancement under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA), may a District Court grant a succes… |
| 18-5692 |
Melvin Jordan, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability enumerated-clause habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 sentencing violent-felony |
(1) Whether a § 2255 petitioner seeking relief under Johnson must affirmatively prove that he was sentenced under the residual clause of the ACCA.
(2… |
| 18-5683 |
In Re Todd Britton-Harr |
|
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure federal-sentencing habeas-corpus judicial-review mortgage-fraud newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief section-2255 successive-motion successive-motions |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner's application seeking an order authorizing the district court to consider a second or su… |
| 18-5549 |
Phillip Anthony Kenner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review due-process filing-period habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states retroactive-application retroactivity section-2255 statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation supreme-court supreme-court-recognition |
Section 2255(f)(3) of Title 28 of the United States Code tolls the one-year filing period for a § 2255 motion until "the date on which the right asser… |
| 18-5515 |
Louie Anthony Salemi v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion boiler-plate-language certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus-review-2255-claims ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel machibroda-v-united-states off-the-record-advice reasoned-opinion section-2255 summary-order |
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied Mr. Salemi a certificate of appealability with a summary order using boiler plate language. Did the Eleve… |
| 18-5449 |
In Re Michael D. Smith |
|
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appeals civil-procedure confrontation criminal-procedure district-court-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus indictment motion-to-vacate post-conviction-relief self-incrimination sentencing speedy-trial standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5392 |
Quitman Carter v. B. E. Blackmon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act foreclosed-claims habeas-corpus johnson-retroactivity johnson-v-united-states jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing |
The underlying issue presented in this § 2241 case is whether Mr. Carter is entitled to resentencing under this Court's holdings in Johnson v. United … |
| 18-5398 |
Kenneth Floyd Prutting v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 2nd-amendment armed-career-criminal armed-career-criminal-act burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states residual-clause samuel-johnson section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
In 1993, Mr. Prutting was convicted of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act ("ACCA") to 264 mon… |
| 18-5293 |
George Anthony Autobee v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 armed-bank-robbery constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence felony-force-clause johnson-v-united-states residual-clause section-2255 statutory-interpretation timeliness |
1. Whether Mr. Autobee's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion challenging the
constitutionality of the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) was
timely because it … |
| 18-5268 |
Jeremiah T. Sailor v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2255 acca burden-of-proof collateral-review johnson johnson-v-united-states record residual-clause sentencing |
1.) Whether a court may grant a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition collaterally challenging a sentence under Johnson when the sentencing judge never specified … |
| 18-5147 |
Edward Nathan Wing v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-924(c) 18-usc-924c 28-usc-2255 crime-of-violence habeas-corpus-review johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity timeliness |
1. Whether Mr. Wing's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion challenging the constitutionality of the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) was timely because it was… |
| 18-5125 |
Kenneth Lee Foster v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 civil-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-remedy procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct rule-60(b) |
Whether Petitioner was deprived of a fair opportunity to seek relief through 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and whether Rule 60(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Pro… |
| 18-20 |
Arkadiy Bangiyev v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability counsel-stipulation criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment writ-of-certiorari |
In McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S.Ct. 1500 (2018), this Court held that trial counsel may not concede the defendant's guilt over the defendant's objection.… |
| 18-5100 |
Ras Rahim v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1651 28-usc-2255 all-writs-act armed-career-criminal-act collateral-attack consecutive-sentencing coram-nobis due-process elements-clause postconviction-remedy residual-clause sentencing-scheme |
Is Heflin, 358U.S. 415, 3 L. Ed. 2d. 407, 79 S. Ct. 451 (1959), still the controlling precedent? Herein, this court held that the text of 28 U.S.C. 22… |