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25-6050 David Wood v. Rachel Patton, Assistant Attorney General of Texas Fifth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied IFP criminal-appeals dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review state-court Does the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' fifteen-year, twenty-three case unbroken string of denying DNA testing appeals create a plausible claim that…
25A305 Ernest Edward Gaines v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-09-17 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
24-1268 Rodney Reed v. Bryan Goertz, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney of Bastrop County, Texas Fifth Circuit 2025-06-12 Pending Amici (1)Relisted (13) criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence-law innocence-claim postconviction-relief In 2023, th e Court reversed the Fifth Circuit's holding that Rodney Reed's DNA -testing suit was untimely and rejected District Attorney Bryan Goertz…
24-6680 Victor Charles Rogers v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-02-28 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights constructive-denial-of-counsel dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus 1. Is it right for a Circuit Court to deny a COA on a procedural default when filing actual innocence? 2. Is it right also to not look at the merits …
24-6152 Josh Pompey v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-testing equitable-tolling false-confession habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence 1. HAVING OBTAINED FAVORABLE NEW DNA RESULTS VIA POSTCONVICTION DNA TESTING, IS PETITIONER ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE TOLLING UNDER HOLLAND V. FLORIDA, 560…
24-5493 Francisco Jose Lopez v. California California 2024-09-09 Denied IFP actual-innocence collateral-estoppel dna-testing due-process judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief There has NEVER been a case where two different persons were convicted in two separate trials -- with inconsistant evidence -- of both pulling the s…
24-5470 Larry Jerome Grady v. Kevin White, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure dna-testing post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
24-5346 In Re Jeremy Dewayne Foster 2024-08-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence post-conviction-relief Question not identified.
23-942 Sherman Campbell, Warden v. Stephen J. Kares Sixth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied dna-testing federal-tolling habeas habeas-corpus judicial-reexamination judicial-review post-conviction-relief properly-filed state-postconviction-review statute-of-limitations Does Michigan's statute allowing a prisoner to request DNA testing call for a "judicial reexamination" of the defendant's conviction under § 2244(d)(2…
23-6322 Ohio, ex rel. Ricardo Dodson v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et al. Ohio 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-testing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parole parole-hearing paternity paternity-determination rape 1. WHETHER PETITION WAS DENIED HIS FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT DUE PROCESS RIGHT TO A FAIR PAROLE HEARING WHERE THE PAROLE BOARD, DURING PAROLE CONSIDERATION…
23-6173 Akosua Aaebo Akhan v. Kwesi Akhan District of Columbia 2023-12-06 Denied IFP anti-stalking-order civil-rights dna-testing forced-agreement human-trafficking legal-standing necessity-defense power-of-attorney restitution standing 1. Was/is Petitioner legally bound by the AQ;ti,-Stalking Order entered in Superior Court of the District of Columbia Case No. 2021 ASO 000504 if Peti…
23-6064 Anthony Kimbrough v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-11-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-bias dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment material-false-testimony oklahoma-criminal-procedure post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-relief retroactive-application sixth-amendment 1. Whether Escobar vs. Texas, 143 S.ct 557 (January 9th 2023] The use of "material false testimony" to jurors by its States forensic fingerprint exper…
23-5549 Hope White v. Kentucky Kentucky 2023-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence dna-testing due-process forensic-evidence fourteenth-amendment post-conviction post-conviction-dna-testing procedural-due-process state-created-right 1. Does barring a petitioner's access to biological and forensic evidence that can be submitted for DNA testing to prove innocence—when a state-create…
23A216 Brett Kimberlin v. Department of Justice, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-09-06 Presumed Complete civil-rights-action declaratory-relief DNA-testing heck-bar innocence-claim section-1983 Question not identified.
23-5284 John Wesley Lee, Jr. v. Maryland Maryland 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery discovery-violation dna-evidence dna-testing due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigant video-recording 1. Whether an Indigent Pro Se Petitioner Entitled to counsel; where DNA Testing Results and Video Recording exist; but, never given to the trial attor…
22-7724 Juan Andrade-Moreno, aka Juan A. Moreno v. Isaac Kwarting, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence ada-coverage civil-rights constitutional-rights disability dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment physical-injury post-conviction reasonable-accommodation standing Question not identified.
22-7641 Carl Dean Wyatt, Jr. v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery dna-testing due-process ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony #1. Is it proper for the prosecution to withhold the fact that a deal has been made with the witness for their testimony against a defendant. #2. Why…
22-7615 Willie Jerome Manning v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-05-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence evidence-testing habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-court state-courts After trying for many years, Willie Manning was finally given access to biological evidence, including hairs that were introduced at trial and used ag…
22-6486 Atiq Weston v. Michael Capra, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process extraordinary-relief false-evidence false-testimony guilty-plea new-trial newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction Question not identified.
21-7580 Amos Lamar Burch v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief qualified-immunity standing Question not identified.
21-7515 Paula Antonia Gordon v. Leslie Nelson Parker, et al. Louisiana 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP bench-warrant child-custody contempt dna-testing due-process equal-protection family-court human-trafficking judicial-misconduct order-of-appeal 1. Did the family court judge commit a "severe form of human trafficking " when he threatened the child 's mother that if she did not change her sworn…
21-7446 Kristopher Kyle Russell v. Texas Texas 2022-03-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief standing statutory-interpretation 1. The plain reading of the statute indicates that counsel must be appointed to learn if biological evidence exists, yet Texas courts have specificall…
21-7037 Robert Breest v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure dismissal dna-testing expert-testimony favorable-evidence forensic-evidence habeas-corpus new-hampshire retrial statutory-interpretation 1. Issue One: Whether the DNA tests were favorable under New Hampshire RSA 651-D-2, VI (b) and warrant dismissal of the charge because a different res…
21-6262 Guadalupe Padilla v. Texas Texas 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-review dna-mixture-analysis dna-testing due-process governmental-body governmental-immunity judicial-oversight post-conviction post-conviction-dna-testing statutory-requirements IS A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION, ID HO IS ACTING AS A GOVERNMENTAL BODY TO REVIEW CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS INVOLVING THE RE-CALCULATION, RE-ANALYSIS AND/OR RE…
21-5976 Jude Joseph David Lovchik v. Virginia Virginia 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-investigation criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing expectation-of-privacy forensic-evidence fourth-amendment search-and-seizure search-warrant The Fairfax County Police seized trash from in front of Jude Lovchik's home. The items seized were then submitted to the Virginia Department of Forens…
21-5756 Gettus Leroy Mintz v. Arizona Arizona 2021-09-22 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection false-testimony forensic-evidence grand-jury sixth-amendment witness-testimony Question not identified.
21-442 Rodney Reed v. Bryan Goertz Fifth Circuit 2021-09-22 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (8) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights dna-testing due-process postconviction-claim section-1983 state-court-litigation statute-of-limitations In Skinner v. Switzer, 562 U.S. 521, 524-25 (2011), this Court held that state prisoners may pursue postconviction claims for DNA testing of crime-sce…
21-5705 Lazaro Fernandez v. Jonathan W. Blodgett First Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence forensic-analysis post-conviction-relief saliva Whether it was error for the Court of Appeals to uphold the District Court in denying to order testing of the biology found at the crime scene, the al…
21-5424 Victor H. Canales v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings legal-counsel post-conviction-relief standing Whether prosecutors, courts, and state officials violated the Fourteenth Amendment and state law by conducting proceedings following arrests and charg…
21-5247 Wallace Hammerle v. Dylon Radtke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP change-of-venue constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocence judicial-review venue-change 1. why did the Eastern District Court and Seventh Circuit Court . overlook and deny my appeal on DNA testing that I have a Constitutional right to, t…
21-5083 Corbin J. Breitenbach v. Kansas Kansas 2021-07-12 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure discovery dna-testing due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-procedure i-o f}\A \W V)'\sVxcX GouA oWse \W c^2>oceV%<cXVer^0ack v5 vr\ DA VW Dv^Vrxd CaxA oAxse As &*cjce\\o^ \* Aexv^ ^cc\e^o£xA\s s<zx^K.t& %o( t\ouj aj^>d…
20-8270 Maurice A. Jackson v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure dna-testing evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-standard standard-of-review trial-counsel witness-impeachment 1. Did the third circuit court err in deferring to the Court of Common Pleas finding that Mr. Jackson was not prejudiced by trial counsel not having k…
20-8141 Paul Castonguay v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-05-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process federal-constitution fifth-amendment post-conviction-relief sexual-assault state-constitution statutory-rights I. WHETHER THE STATE COURTS ERRED AND ABUSED THEIR DISCRETION BY DEPRIVING AND DENYING THE DEFENDANT OF HIS STATUTORY RIGHTS TO DNA TESTING TO A CHARG…
20-7769 James Hightower v. Ladonna H. Thompson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech post-conviction-relief standing takings Question not identified.
20-7397 William Randolph King v. Thomas Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP 8th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment evidence-suppression prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct Could reasonable jurists debate whether the prosecution committed a Brady violation when it failed to disclose the prior victim's pubic hair found dur…
20-48 Stacey Eugene Johnson v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-07-20 Denied Relisted (5) access-to-courts actual-innocence criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies Does the Arkansas DNA testing statute, as construed by the Arkansas Supreme Court, prevent Petitioner from meaningfully accessing the State's post-con…
19-8519 James E. Myers v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-05-21 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause dna-testing due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus substantive-due-process writ-of-certiorari (1). Whether Procedual Due Process, Substantive Due Process, Equal Protection, and Confrontational Clause have been violated by state concluding pri…
19-8429 Tariq Maqbool v. Marcus O. Hicks, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2020-05-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance miranda-rights sixth-amendment 1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, the District Court, and the New Jersey state courts' ruling, denying Petitioner's ineffective assistanc…
19-8407 Mauro Ramirez v. Florida Florida 2020-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection evidence fair-trial forensic-evidence scientific-reliability I. Whether the State must establish the reliability and accuracy of the ki liastruwtffefiirn used for electrophoresis and ether preliminocry pN/A anal…
19-8323 William George Coodey v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-04-21 Denied IFP consent criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process factual-innocence jackson-v-virginia rape sixth-amendment 1. Whether DNA testing that would undermine an alleged rape victim's testimony denying consent to sexual intercourse would create sufficient uncertain…
19-1190 Samuel H. Sloan v. Creighton W. Sloan, et al. South Carolina 2020-04-01 Denied adoption adoption-status asset-confiscation biological-son dna-testing due-process estate estate-distribution estate-inheritance familial-rights judicial-review probate-court probate-jurisdiction standing 1. Upon discovering through DNA testing that the presumed son of the deceased was in no way a child or a relative of the deceased but had been unoffic…
19-7946 Dirk Greineder v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause dna-evidence dna-testing expert-testimony laboratory-analysis scientific-evidence sixth-amendment substitute-analyst substitute-analysts targeted-accusation Does the Confrontation Clause prohibit an expert prosecution witness from testifying at a jury trial to the results of DNA tests comparing the petitio…
19-7875 Byron Gay v. Scott Daffenbach, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-procedure dna-testing evidence evidentiary-rules judicial-admission judicial-admissions legal-standards scientific-evidence standards 1. THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HAS NOT ESTABLISHED IN THE FEDERAL COURTS OR THE STATE COURTS ANY CASE LAW INSTRUCTING JUDGES THAT THEY MUST EMPH…
19-7578 Ray Edward Barry v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion binding-over brady-violation circuit-court criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel lost-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct quash-information Did The District Court Abused Its Discretion In Binding Over To Circuit Court And The Circuit Court Erred In Refusing To Quash The Information? Did T…
19-922 Donnie Cleveland Lance v. Georgia Georgia 2020-01-23 Denied capital-punishment dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection extraordinary-motion fourteenth-amendment innocence-claim new-trial 1. Was petitioner denied due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment by the state courts' imposition of extra-statutory requiremen…
19-6833 Gregory Alan Rowe v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa aedpa-limitations dna-testing due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-relief state-court-interpretation state-federal-conflict If the highest court of a State, such a Pennsylvania's Supreme Court, holds that the State's post-conviction DNA testing provision constitutes a "post…
19-6570 Ray Jefferson Cromartie v. Bradfield Shealy, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus procedural-history section-1983 standing state-statute stay-of-execution In Skinner v. Switzer, 562 U.S. 521 (2011), this Court held that a prisoner who has been denied access to DNA testing under a state statute may bring …
19-5912 Jesus Oscar Meraz Leon v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence arizona-courts arizona-law civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-relief standing WHETHER THE STATE COURTS REFUSAL TO GRANT LEONS REQUEST FOR D.N.A, TESTiNG, BECAUSE DENIAL VIOLATES HISRIgHTTO DUE-PROCESS ANd EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE…
19-5802 Travis Wade Matthews v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process identification jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia mccoy-v-louisiana victim-identification witness-identification I. In a case where the identity of the person who brandished a gun is central to the case, is the choice of whether to ask for DNA testing of the gun,…
19-5189 Michael Tyler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied IFP appeal civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence guidelines liberty post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers sentencing standing statutory-interpretation takings ISSUe ONE whether the u.s. supreme cart should great certiorcc to cesdve the Circuit Canflict, whether schlup gateway lnquir require neusly Presented …
18-9745 Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Georgia Georgia 2019-06-20 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment dna-testing due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection forensic-evidence procedural-issues procedural-safeguards 1. Was Petitioner denied due process by the state court's refusal to provide a hearing that was mandated by Georgia's DNA statute, particularly given …
18-9000 Johnnie Sterling, Jr. v. Ronda Pash, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1257 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process post-conviction-relief skinner-v-switzer subject-matter-jurisdiction should the United states Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals have granted the Certificate of Appealability in case no. 11-2511, where no reasonable jurist…
18-8569 Melvin Bonnell v. Ohio Ohio 2019-03-26 Denied IFP appellate-review capital-punishment dna-evidence dna-testing due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct In 1988, before DNA was widely available as a forensic tool, Melvin Bonnell was convicted and sentenced to death. Trial testimony established that blo…
18-1193 Brandon Lee Moon v. County of El Paso, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response Waived absolute-immunity brady-violation circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process imbler-v-pachtman judicial-proceedings post-conviction post-conviction-DNA-testing prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct Whether absolute immunity shields a prosecutor's unconstitutional handling of post-conviction DNA testing under Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409 (1976…
18-7786 Roy Shotwell v. Kevin Genovese, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage dna-analysis dna-evidence dna-testing due-process effective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing warrantless-seizure Did The lower Courts abuse their discretion in denying Petitioner relief on the grounds that evidence was suppressed from his home and person be frivo…
18-7757 William Davenport v. James Falk, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna dna-evidence dna-testing due-process evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel res-gestae witness-identification I. Whether trial court erred in admitting evidence of DNA testing from mixed samples. II. Whether trial courts abuse of discretion violated Applicant…
18-7373 Warren Ray Patton v. Texas Texas 2019-01-11 Denied IFP actual-innocence counsel-appointment dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus liberty-interest postconviction-proceedings postconviction-relief 1. Whether the State's substantive procedures for obtaining appointment of counsel and DNA testing in postconviction proceedings create a protected du…
18-619 Gamada A. Hussein v. Matthew G. Whitaker, Acting Attorney General, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response Waived bodily-integrity civil-rights dna-testing due-process faith-based-discrimination false-imprisonment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,false-imprisonment,due-process,wa sovereign-immunity surveillance warrantless-monitoring Whether implanting chips in Petitioner's body and monitoring the Petitioner and Petitioner's family life activities for a decade without warrant and d…
18-6673 Tracy Lebron Vick v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-testing due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment plea-bargaining post-conviction post-conviction-review wrongful-conviction WHETHER, AS HERE, TENNESSEE'S REFUSAL TO EXTEND DNA POSTCONVICTION PROTECTIONS TO THOSE WHO PLED GUILTY VIOLATES THE EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW AS PR…
18-6438 Oscar Kenneth Moreno v. Alana Butler California 2018-10-26 Denied IFP confrontation-clause dna-evidence dna-testing due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment remand scientific-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment Question 1. The Trial Presentation Violated My Sixth and fourteenth Amendment Rights to Confront and Cross-Examine His Accussers. Scientific Evidence …
18-6419 William L. Whipple v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation civil-rights dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct skinner-v-switzer Question not identified.
18-5312 Gregory Alan Rowe v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied IFP aedpa-limitations aedpa-tolling circuit-court-split circuit-split dna-testing due-process equal-protection equitable-tolling federal-habeas-review finality habeas-corpus post-conviction-dna post-conviction-dna-testing post-conviction-review statutory-tolling Does a properly filed application for post-conviction DNA testing constitute "a properly filed application for state post-conviction or other collater…
18-5252 Ricky Lee Earp v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied IFP credibility-of-prosecution discovery discovery-rights dna-testing due-process federal-court-proceedings federal-habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct spoliation-of-evidence 1. When, if ever, can a petitioner be denied the discovery necessary to learn the circumstances of counsel for respondent's spoliation of potentially …
18A1345 Marion Wilson, Jr. v. Georgia Georgia Denied clemency constitutional-rights death-penalty dna-testing execution-stay forensic-evidence Question not identified.
23A1160 Ruben Gutierrez v. Luis Saenz, et al. Fifth Circuit Granted article-iii-standing death-penalty dna-testing due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief Whether the Fifth Circuit panel majority's analysis of Article III standing conflicts with this Court's decision in Reed v. Goertz, 598 U.S. 230 (2023…